Chapter 16: Zhong Kui Temple
The gate of Yizhuang creaked shut.
The big guy was so frightened that he shrunk his neck.
"Take care of things and leave, don't look around."
The old janitor held a candlestick, his cap covering most of his face, revealing his thin jaw, muttered, and turned away.
Zhou Lao Wu pointed to a room for me.
"Xiaolu, look at how it is over there."
I looked down where Uncle Friday was pointing.
There's a case board there, and I don't know what it usually does.
I took a look at it, and it was okay.
Then he nodded hurriedly.
"Right here."
Uncle Friday and I carried the body out and put it on the board.
I cleaned up the mess around me, put on my oilcoat and gloves, shook off my tools and started sewing.
I was only halfway through the sewing and I stopped.
Uncle Friday saw that my expression was wrong, so he came over curiously.
"What's wrong?"
The middle-aged man with glasses who was facing away from the door tilted his head slightly, obviously curious.
"The body didn't look like it had been impacted, it looked like it had been cut open with a sharp knife."
My words made Uncle Friday's eyes widen.
The bespectacled man's complexion outside the door changed a few times, and then returned to nature.
Uncle Friday's eyes were complicated, and he sighed in his heart.
"You stitch the body together first, we don't care about the rest."
I still want to say more, Uncle Friday shook his head at me with a serious face, I knew that he didn't want to cause more trouble, sighed in his heart, and hurriedly continued to move in his hands.
Yizhuang is easy to make people think more, but at this moment, the moonlight is hidden, and the sky is full of dark clouds.
A demonic wind hit the courtyard, and the white lanterns under the eaves danced in the wind, and the dark candles danced inside.
The surrounding houses swayed with the shadows.
From time to time, the old wooden door "creak, creak." The strange sound, the black and red coffins in the room, even more gloomy.
I patiently mended the corpse, but I didn't feel anything wrong.
But the people waiting outside didn't think so, their eyes were glued to the tips of their shoes, their heads seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and they couldn't lift them, so they could only hang down on their chests all the time.
I'm afraid that when I look up, I will see something I shouldn't see.
The man with glasses looked at his surroundings, his heart was weak, and a layer of dense sweat appeared in his palms.
Although he knew nothing, as soon as he closed his eyes, the open belly, the winding field, and the bright red heart were all circling in his mind.
As the minutes passed, the dark clouds in the sky receded, and the suffocating feeling that weighed on my heart disappeared.
"Squeak"
The door behind you opens.
Zhou Lao Wu poked his head out.
"Come in! It's already good. ”
Zhou Laowu's voice landed, like redemption, and the group breathed a sigh of relief.
This place has to go around during the day, and now in the middle of the night, it is also for the ocean, otherwise whoever comes here will be unlucky.
The man in glasses hesitated for a moment and walked in, and at a glance he saw the body lying on the board.
The corpse returned to its original appearance, but its face was pale, its eyeballs were spitting out, and its body was densely covered with lines, but the overall appearance was still not a big problem.
"Thank you both, this is thanks to you, please accept it."
After the glasses man finished speaking, he gave Uncle Friday a package, and Uncle Friday checked it, thinking that he didn't dare to lack two pounds or two.
"Okay, if there's a problem coming to us, let's leave."
After Uncle Friday finished speaking, he led me out of here in a hurry.
I saw Uncle Friday's footprints in a hurry, and hurriedly followed.
"Fifth uncle, what are you running, slow down."
Uncle Friday stopped and glanced behind me.
"This place is worse than us, and you can't stay longer in the middle of the night, and you can't run faster."
Uncle Friday's words made me not know what to say for a while, so I sighed helplessly.
When I saw him standing next to me just now, I thought he was trying to help, but I didn't think that maybe people were afraid.
After Uncle Friday finished speaking, I also felt a little hairy in my heart.
The two didn't dare to stay longer, so they walked down the small road and went out for a long time, and Uncle Friday slowed down.
"Fifth uncle, why didn't you let me say it just now."
I saw that there was nothing around at this moment, so I asked.
"You kid is still too young, these things have nothing to do with us, it's better to leave them alone, otherwise it's easy to provoke right and wrong, some people are more scary than evil and fierce."
I nodded hurriedly, thinking that the people in the village were indeed more terrifying than the evil.
"It's so late, don't go back, I'll take you to a good place."
After Uncle Friday finished speaking, he raised his feet and walked forward, I was curious, and hurriedly followed.
I thought it was a good place that Uncle Friday said, but it was really a good place, but I didn't think it was a broken temple.
I hesitated.
"Uncle Friday, this is a good place."
Uncle Friday didn't look back, and walked inside.
I looked at the dilapidated environment around me, under the moonlight, those trees looked like monsters with teeth and claws, and I was hairy on my back, and I didn't dare to stay longer, and I followed with numbness.
When I entered the inside, the small yard had long been surrounded by dead grass more than one person high, and I had long been unable to see its original face, so I didn't dare to look at it more, for fear that something would come out of the grass, and I walked forward with my scalp stuffy.
Uncle Friday saw me like this, "poof"
laughed.
"This is Zhong Kui Temple, but there are no evil people who dare to break in, you can rest assured."
Uncle Friday's words fell, and I knew that this is a good place, where is the good, and this place is indeed good.
"Get some firewood, and I'll bake you bread to eat."
Tossed all night, I didn't feel anything at first, but now Uncle Friday said that I was indeed a little hungry.
Ma Yu put down the burden on his body, picked up the machete and went to cut the grass in the yard.
The grass grew deep, and it didn't take long to be a pile, and when I came back with it, I put some silver dollars in my baggage, and when I looked at it, there were more than a dozen.
"Uncle Friday gave too much."
Zhou Lao Wu's eyes were half-dilated, and he looked at me lazily.
"Don't talk too much nonsense, just let you hold it."
I was stunned, knowing that Uncle Friday was helping me in disguise, I felt in my heart, but I also remembered this friendship.
The two of them casually ate something to cushion their stomachs and left.
When I came out, I looked back, in the dilapidated temple, Zhong Kui's big eyes like copper bells, looking down on everything around me, I felt a little scary when I looked at it, not to mention the evil.
When I got back to the village, it was almost noon.
I walked towards the village with my head down, and I walked through the village before I got home, and the door of the house was still the same as when I left, and no one had touched it, and I was relieved.
When I got home, I ran to the stove room, moved the water tank, pulled out the bottom turn, and filled up the silver dollars I earned this time, as long as I filled a small clay pot, I could go to the Taoist priest, and then my father would be reincarnated with peace of mind.
At noon, when I was tidying up the yard, I saw Li Dakuan passing by the door outside the courtyard wall, I glanced at him lightly and didn't care, but when I retracted my gaze, my eyes widened, and the sweat flowed from the door, so frightened that the things in my hands almost fell to the ground.