Chapter 6: Fighting Ghouls
"Ah......h
I was so shocked that the soup on my plate spilled.
"Is your uncle eating?" Liu Ruxiang asked again.
A good plate of hot food can't get cold for no reason, and I've guessed what is going on.
Immediately replied: "The dish is cold, it seems to have been really eaten." ”
Liu Ruxiang nodded slightly, took out a ball of white cotton thread, tied one end to the wooden stake, let us follow, and then she slowly walked to her uncle's house.
"Liu Mancang, follow closely, I'll take you home-"
"Don't speak, don't look back, follow Shigong forward-"
At this time, it was completely dark, and according to the request, my aunt walked beside us with a candlestick.
The faint orange light stretched the figures of us infinitely, swaying and twisting on the ground.
One-step, two-step, three-step...... Liu Ruxiang had already walked out dozens of meters away, and I couldn't see the wooden stake in the distance when I looked back.
But at this moment, the thin cotton thread tightly in Liu Ruxiang's hand suddenly tightened, and then with a "snap", it was broken into two!
A cool breeze blew in our faces, and the candlelight flickered wildly, as if there was a big mouth in the invisible darkness slowly exhaling at us.
"Wild ghosts get in the way." Liu Ruxiang stopped, fine sweat broke out between her eyebrows, and she re-rolled the cotton thread on the ground.
"Can't delay, try again."
Returning to the position of the stake and untying the broken thread, Liu Ruxiang handed me the ball of cotton thread and asked me to take off my pants.
"What?" I was confused, thinking to myself which one is this play, can the second child still scare the ghost?
"Don't rub it in, pee in that basin and soak the cotton thread," Liu Ruxiang explained slowly, "The boy has a lot of yang energy, if you don't want to, it's better to use blood." ”
Seeing that the rice cooker was about to draw a knife, I put down the chicken stewed vermicelli and hurriedly turned my back and unbuttoned my pants. The yellow soup fell into the basin, shaking loudly, and a faint commotion drifted with the wind.
The cotton thread was soaked and handed to her, and seeing her frowning, she gritted her silver teeth, looked at her with disgust, and tied it back to the stake.
This time it was surprisingly smooth, and when I walked to the position where the thread had just been broken, the cotton thread was stretched and not broken, and Liu Ruxiang sang in her mouth: "Sanyuan Zhenjun gave me a treasure, and I was merciless under the whip of evil spirits." Lonely ghosts get out of the way, don't get in the way—"
The cotton thread gradually relaxed, and the tense muscles on Liu Ruxiang's face relaxed.
When we walked near my uncle's house, we saw a tall black dog covered with sores and pus on its face, and it got up and walked towards us step by step.
The dog has a black sarcoma on its head, and it opens its mouth and sticks out its scarlet tongue to exhale continuously.
My aunt was taken aback and hurriedly took a few steps back.
Liu Ruxiang pulled out a short iron sword and said, "Good dog, don't get in the way, get out!" ”
The black dog did not have a trace of timidity, but leaned closer.
"Don't blame me for hurting your life, brute."
Liu Ruxiang pulled out a short bronze sword glowing with golden light, her beautiful eyes were round, and she rushed forward with an arrow step, and took the dog's head with its mouth and tongue sticking out.
The dog dodged and dodged, but ran to the foot of an elm tree on the side, and learned from King Qin's circumambulation of the pillar.
"Dog thing!"
The next action of the big black dog directly shocked our jaws.
Like a cat, it climbed up the old elm tree.
"W-woo-woo-"
The dog stood in the tree staring at us, sitting cross-legged with a sinister smile on his face.
Liu Ruxiang also noticed that something was wrong, slowly retreated, pulled the cotton thread in my hand again, gritted her teeth and said, "Regardless of it, let's go first." ”
"Wow-woo-woo-"
Suddenly, a thin mist rose in front of us, and a cool feeling came over us.
"This ...... This ...... "I held my breath and my heart pounded violently.
This scene is very similar to when I was at my grandmother's funeral, I stared closely at the grass and bushes on both sides, for fear that something would pop out of it.
Quietly turned around, the old elm tree was no longer visible behind him, and the barking of the dog could still be faintly heard, where had we gone?
I consciously took Liu Ruxiang's warm and smooth hand, held it tightly, and from time to time I came out with a hand.
"Little rascal, let go."
Seeing Liu Ruxiang glaring at me, I let go of my hand and pinched her sleeve, and subconsciously got closer to her.
Behind him, my aunt looked unafraid, looking around from time to time, which was quite abnormal.
Liu Ruxiang suddenly stopped.
"Little bastard, do you know what that black dog was just now?"
I shook my head, knowing that Liu Ruxiang was about to talk about new knowledge, so I quickly pricked up my ears and listened carefully.
"When a man dies, he is buried, and he is buried in the earth. Those wild dogs in the wild often fight the idea of these things because they don't have anything to eat. ”
"These dogs will train themselves with the trees in the woods, get the sap of the trees on their heads, and then hit and rub them repeatedly, so that the heads will form a hard shell, and they will dig graves with their paws, and when they see the coffin, they will hit their heads with their heads, scratch them with their paws, and the coffin will be picked up and the corpse will be eaten."
So at that time, there was a saying that filial piety guarded the tomb, which was specially to prevent ghouls from stealing corpses. Then some ghouls have no corpses to eat, they will go to eat living people, and wild dogs eat too many people in the famine years. ”
"When some ghouls eat the corpse of a resentful death, they will incorporate the resentful soul into their body to drive evil, and act for the 'tiger'."
I was stunned when I listened, but I didn't expect that there were so many doorways in that seemingly ordinary wild dog.
"Hmph." Liu Ruxiang turned around at this time and turned her head to look at my aunt.
My aunt burst out laughing.
"Cluck-"
She covered her mouth and asked, "Child, do you think I look like your aunt?" ”
As soon as she said this, a voice came out of my heart.
Resemble! Resemble! Resemble! Resemble!
It was as if there were countless mouths shouting in my stomach, and I opened my mouth in a daze, my tongue between the roof of my mouth and about to relax my muscles and make a sound.
"Ahh My waist was twisted hard by a hand, and I howled in pain.
After that, I woke up instantly, and when I looked closely, there was no aunt in front of me, only the broken tail with the thickness of a finger on the ground, pitch black, hairy, and the blood stains at the broken mouth were still extending into the distance.
"Look at what, I haven't seen a dog's tail. Do you really think that brute is your aunt? Liu Ruxiang shook off the blood on the short sword and couldn't help sneering.
I shook my head, and then I was dragged by Liu Ruxiang to find my real aunt.
She slept in a muddy ditch on the side of the road, smelling all over her body, and her face was bitten by mosquitoes, and I shook it for a long time before I woke up.
"If you bring someone into the mountains in the future, you will definitely crush that beast and scatter the ashes!" Liu Ruxiang comforted and helped her up, and our group re-sorted the cotton thread and slowly returned to the door of my uncle's house.
This time the wind was calm, and finally there were no bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods coming out.
The cotton thread went around the gate, and we walked to the table where my uncle was placed in the hall.
"Little bastard, go and tie the thread to your uncle's wrist."
Fortunately, my uncle was fine, and the ghoul dog didn't come in, otherwise it would be finished if I ate my uncle's body and attracted my soul.