After Wang Liqing finished speaking, he didn't wait for me to reply, turned around and left.

I looked at his back and had mixed feelings.

When I got back to my room and lay in bed, countless questions were like countless flies, haunting my ears.

I was so disturbed by the confusion of my thoughts that I had to take a bitter candy in my mouth before falling asleep.

In my dream, I got on a bus.

Buses are speeding along country roads, and the surrounding scenery is becoming stranger and more desolate.

An owl stood on a tree, its eyes glowing green, and it tilted its head and looked curiously at the moving bus.

I was alone on the bus, and an old lady with a basket.

The old lady accosted me warmly: "Young man, where are you going?" ”

I looked at her carefully for a moment, and found that her hair was meticulously combed, the wrinkles on her face were like furrows, and her eyelids drooped down, so that she could not see the original shape of her eyes.

She was dressed in a coarse linen dress, a pair of black cloth shoes, and carried a bamboo basket in her hand.

Somewhat familiar, I'm sure, I've seen her.

I lowered my head and looked at the ground, it was empty, and there was no shadow of this old lady.

I wasn't afraid, but showed a playful expression, looked at her fixedly and said, "I'm going to the same place as you." ”

The old lady was stunned for a moment, as if she didn't expect me to talk like this.

She lifted her eyelids with her hands, and the big eyeballs bulged outward, as if they could pop out of their sockets at any moment.

She said gloomily, "Young man, look at what I have in this basket?" ”

She lifted a corner of the white cloth wrapped in the bamboo basket, revealing the paper money and incense candles inside.

I walked up to her, took out the incense candle inside, put it in my mouth, chewed it and ate it, and then smiled.

"It tastes almost meaningful, put some fruit in it next time."

The old lady was completely stunned, she stretched out a hand and pointed at me, and was speechless for a long time.

I smiled brighter and brighter, and I looked at her stunned and disgusted expression, and finally remembered where I had seen her.

In Wangjia Village, she presided over the joint burial ceremony of Wang Heshen and Zheng Huaer.

At that time, she was leading a blind donkey, and the donkey gave me a strange smile.

She was the mediator of the time.

Unexpectedly, she would appear here.

Could it be that Guan Hua snatched the steering wheel and killed a carload of people has something to do with her?

I said quietly: "Someone once told me that he met an old lady without a shadow on the bus, and the old lady was uneasy and kind, and killed a carload of people......"

"Nonsense!" The old lady had a gloomy face, and it was obvious that she understood what I was saying.

She sneered and said, "He shouldn't have gotten on that train at that time, so I kindly gave him a dream and persuaded him to get off the bus quickly." Who knew that after he woke up, he shouted loudly, and a conflict broke out with the driver, snatching the steering wheel, and finally causing the car to be destroyed and killed. ”

But I immediately grasped the loophole in her words: "What if you didn't give him that dream?" ”

“……”

"You're reversing cause and effect. Guan Hua didn't have a nightmare, so he wouldn't get out of the car in a hurry, and he wouldn't snatch the steering wheel. The dream you gave was not kindness, but a talisman. ”

“……”

The old lady looked at me carefully, frowned, thought for a moment, and whispered, "It turned out to be you." You can't protect yourself, and you still have to be nosy? ”

I couldn't help laughing: "I slept well, and I didn't provoke you, when did I take care of your business?" ”

The old lady paused for a moment, said that she couldn't help me, and angrily took out a palm-sized paper doll from the basket and threw it on the ground.

The paper doll floated in the air, and when it saw the wind, it grew, and the paper on its body was white, but in a moment it turned into a little doll with a head tied to the sky.

The paper baby's face was pale, and the cheeks were painted with a round flush, like a boy and girl burning in the mourning hall, ghostly.

As soon as the paper doll was formed, the eyeballs turned back and forth, one looking out the window, the other looking at me, the crooked eyes like a toddler's stick figure.

The old lady shouted in a low voice: "Don't kill him, capture him alive!" ”

The paper baby nodded, jumped into the air, and pounced on me.

It opened its mouth wide, it was more than half a man tall, and it was empty, not to mention its tongue and teeth, and it didn't even have mucous membranes.

"Hoo ————!" It made a strange cry from its mouth.

I'm quick with my eyes and hands, and I'm easy to dodge.

The paper baby was faster, floating in mid-air, quickly approaching me, and biting me on the arm.

My arm was numb in an instant, I didn't feel anything, and I couldn't pull it out.

The old lady laughed happily, she slowly sat on the chair, and folded the white cloth on the bamboo basket: "Zhao Rui, I originally had no grudge against you, but you took too much care of it." Zheng Hua'er's corpse has become a corpse, but you have made her resentment disappear.

Do you know how hard it took me to find such a suitable Yin corpse? If you die today, I will give you a ride in this ghost car, lest you sink into the Yellow Spring and find your way. ”

I kept shaking my arm, trying to throw the paper baby out, but it seemed to be connected to a black hole in its body, with a strong suction, trying to suck my whole body in.

I opened my mouth and mocked: "Zheng Hua'er's deception of the corpse turned out to be planned by you, and you turned her into a yin corpse. Zheng Hua'er was obviously just out of the village, but she died inexplicably, could it be your hand? ”

The old lady was stunned for a moment, her face became more and more gloomy, she turned her head, and the silver hairpin in her head flashed with sharp light.

"If you talk nonsense, I will directly send you to the hell of tongue pulling, and let you suffer the pain of tongue pulling out every day!"

I laughed: "What a big breath! Smoke gives me a headache! Those who don't know think that the underworld is opened by your family, and you are the daughter of the king of Yama! You can do whatever you want?! ”

The old lady's eyes were strange and contemptuous, and after arranging the white cloth, she said slowly: "Sharp teeth and sharp mouth." I really thought you could get through the yin, but I didn't even know the legends and the real situation, and I dared to speak out here. Tiny, don't wait, don't suck him in yet! ”

The paper baby's eyes were red, as if they were about to drip blood, and the suction on my arm suddenly increased.

I couldn't help but snort, my body turned in a weird arc, and the whole body was wrapped around the paper baby, and then I bit down.

I just felt that it was so hard, harder than rocks, that my gums hurt and my teeth were almost broken.

The old lady looked at me mockingly: "Don't struggle, Xiaoxiao is made by me with the soul of a living person, half human, half ghost and half monster, jumping out of the Three Realms, not in the Five Elements, not something you can compare......"