"Who's the old pipe?" Xu Ye said curiously.

"It's the second uncle who made trouble in the ancestral temple, the only papermaker in the village." Wang Xiaoou said.

"He knows yin-yang?"

"It's not a good idea, because he is the only papermaker in the village, so he is a little bit Dong, and because he is older, the people in the village call him the second uncle. He is also living in poverty, so everyone likes to visit him for some happy events, which can be regarded as taking care of his business.

After the accident in the ancestral tomb that day, the second uncle came to the ancestral tomb and said that there were unclean things here to target the people in the village, and everyone couldn't run. ”

"Something unclean?" Xu Ye looked back at the tombs behind him again, as if he really saw something.

But at this moment, an old woman suddenly shouted in a terrible voice: "Help! Help me! Help me! ”

The old woman shouted loudly, and her sharp voice instantly attracted the attention of the people around her, and Xu Ye and Wang Xiaoou ran in the direction of the old woman's shouting as soon as they heard the voice.

After coming to the scene, Xu Ye saw that someone had fallen into the water.

At this moment, the small pond was already full of people, and several men were desperately dragging a young woman in the pond towards the shore.

It's not uncommon to fall overboard, especially now that it's summer, and it's almost a common occurrence.

But Xu Ye noticed that the woman in front of her didn't seem to be as simple as falling into the water, because Xu Ye saw that there was a pair of black handprints on her neck.

At this moment, the young woman had been dragged to the shore, her face was pale, and she was trembling and gasping constantly, although she was lucky not to be drowned, but her consciousness was not very clear.

Xu Ye walked towards the pond behind the crowd, crouched down and stared carefully at the pond that was already overgrown with algae and emitted a foul smell.

The pond is very dirty, because it is close to the ancestral tomb, and it is rare for people to come here to fetch water or wash things, so why did the young woman come here and stumble into it.

And what is the black handprint on the back of her neck?

Xu Ye squatted on the edge of the pond and lit a cigarette, frowning and thinking while smoking slowly.

After the young woman was rescued, with the help of the village chief Li Laoba and several young men, she carried the person back.

The other villagers gathered together in twos and threes, whispering something, and without thinking about it, Xu Ye could roughly guess that they must have connected this incident with the ancestral tomb and the recent events in the village.

Xu Ye didn't want to explain too much to these villagers, because people's cognition is limited, and sometimes too much explanation is not necessarily a good thing.

At this moment, a middle-aged man in sloppy clothes and a scruffy beard from the side of the ancestral temple walked over all the way, and the surrounding villagers all got out of the way when they saw it, and their faces were full of horror and rejection.

I didn't know anyone who came, but Wang Xiaoou was familiar with it, it was the old pipe that was at the gate of the ancestral temple before, clamoring to burn the ancestral temple.

The old cigarette stick seems to be really crazy, completely devoid of the respectable and capable elder demeanor on weekdays, and what is alive is a realistic version of Mr. Tree's image, unkempt and sloppy.

The old cigarette stick looked like he had drunk too much, and after stumbling into the crowd, he directly pointed to the noses of the villagers standing in two rows on the side of the road, and began to scold.

What ungrateful, white-eyed wolf, and the vicious words of thunder and thunder were all scolded, and they scolded all the way through the crowd.

And those villagers who were scolded by him were bloody, although most of them had very unhappy expressions on their faces, but they all bowed their heads silently, and none of them dared to say a word of rebuttal.

After all, everyone knows that the old pipe is crazy, who would go to meet a madman, not to mention that he is still his own elder.

At this moment, Xu Ye was standing under an old locust tree by the pond with great interest, with a cigarette in his mouth, looking at everything in front of him with an outsider attitude.

He didn't think the old pipe was crazy, but he thought that the scolding old man was a little interesting, and even felt that the old man's feet off the ground and the way he jumped up and scolded seemed to be a little cute.

After all, he didn't scold himself.

But the next second.

Xu Ye didn't think so anymore, because the old pipe saw himself standing under the locust tree, and after carefully looking at him, he walked straight towards him.

Seeing the old pipe that walked in front of him and stared at him with wide eyes, Xu Ye did not continue the uninhibited style just now, but threw away the cigarette butt in his hand, looked at the old pipe and shouted respectfully: "Hello, uncle." ”

After all, the old man in front of him is at least in his sixties, and he doesn't suffer at all by calling him uncle.

But the old pipe didn't pay attention to Xu Ye, but continued to stare at Xu Ye's back, as if there was something terrible behind Xu Ye's back.

Xu Ye, who looked at him like that, felt furious in his heart, and couldn't help but shout again: "Uncle, what are you looking at?" ”

The old pipe still ignored Xu Ye, his pupils continued to dilate, his face showed a look of horror, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Xu Ye's shoulder and screamed: "Ghost, ghost, there is a ghost behind you!" ”

The words of the old pipe made the spirit of the villagers of Wuzi Village, who was already like a frightened bird, tense up again, and Xu Ye clearly felt that dozens of pairs of eyes were looking at his back at the same time.

Seeing this, Xu Ye slowly turned around and looked behind him, but let alone the ghost, he didn't even see a fly, and there was nothing behind him except for the pond with seaweed.

"Uncle, are you okay, what did you see behind me just now?"

"Hell, hell, hell......."

The old cigarette stick seemed to have been stimulated by something, and at this time he looked insane, and kept repeating one word in his mouth: "Ghost!"

"What's the situation, could it be that there are really ghosts in this place?" Just when Xu Ye was surprised in his heart, a teenage girl suddenly ran out of nowhere.

The little girl looked very cute, tied a ponytail, looked at Xu Ye timidly and said: "Big brother, I'm sorry, my father is a little confused, don't be like him." ”

Looking at the pretty little girl in front of her with a guilty look, Xu Ye smiled and said softly, "It's okay." ”

But the old pipe suddenly rushed up at this time, and with a 'snap' slap, he slapped Xu Ye directly in the face, and at the same time stared at Xu Ye, and said in a threatening and warning tone: "You should die, damn!" ”