The villager went on to say that he was the first person in the village to see a black-robed female ghost so closely, and he ran home and stayed by himself all night with the door closed, and he still couldn't figure out whether he had really hit the ghost or was hallucinating.

I didn't dare to tell anyone about it, and I didn't even tell my wife. But in the following days, people in the village encountered such things one after another, although the ways of encountering them were different, but the places were all near the grove, so this matter spread in the village, and I realized that it was not my own madness that I dared to speak out about it.

Master asked again, "Then I heard that something like this has never happened before, and it has appeared since the construction team from the Central Elementary School came, right?" The villagers nodded and said yes, and the people in the village said that the construction team released explosives to scare away the beasts in the mountains, and the black-robed female ghost was bitten to death by the beasts, and the beasts came out again. Master asked him, "Did anyone in that village who looked like a female ghost die before?"

The villager thought for a while and said, this village is so big, every family knows each other, if there is someone who looks like this, he will definitely remember it, but he has no such woman in his impression. Master probably felt that he couldn't get any more answers if he continued to ask, so he comforted the villager and left his house with me.

Master said to me, it seems that these strange things have something to do with the construction team that came to repair the school, but I don't understand why, could it be because the excavation and construction have damaged the feng shui of this place? From the oral accounts of these villagers, they can tell that this is indeed a ghost, and it is not a strange phenomenon.

But if it's a ghost, then it has to die first, in other words, either there is a person who died here, this person is a woman, tall and tall, and loved black hated robes when he was alive or was buried in this dress when he died; Or maybe the construction team came here with some strange things from outside, but this possibility is quite low, if this is a troublemaker, then the construction team has been turned upside down a long time ago?

I didn't speak, in fact, that's what bothered me, and it didn't make sense at all. Master thought for a while and said to me, you are young and fast-paced, you should go to Mr. Liu's house now and ask where the construction team is. So I quickly ran over. The village is very small, and it only takes seven or eight minutes to run from the head to the end of the village. After arriving at Mr. Liu's house, I conveyed Master's question, but Mr. Liu told me that the construction team had completed the construction half a month ago and left, and at the other end of the village, the school was rebuilt on the basis of the old house.

After thanking Mr. Liu, I quickly ran back to the master, and I knew that the next step for the master must be to go to the place where I had stayed in the construction team, regardless of whether the two are related or not, the master will not let go of any clues at this moment.

Master took me to the central elementary school, and I found out that it was a small Western-style building, and I was from the city, so I knew that the house must have been a church before it was converted into a primary school.

It looks like it's been a long time, but the construction team has just left, and it's not yet time to sign up for school, so it looks deserted. Master took me to the school, where a villager-like woman was cleaning the playground, which was actually a leveled earthen dam.

The master walked up to say hello, and then said to her, "Hello eldest sister, I am a friend invited by Mr. Liu, and I want to come to know more about the situation with you, are you from this village?" The eldest sister smiled and nodded, saying that she was the daughter-in-law of someone in the village, and the primary school in the village was about to open, not only the children in her own village would come here to go to school, but also the children from the neighboring villages, so she had to clean it in advance, so she was busy now.

The master probably saw that the other party was a woman, so he was embarrassed to cut to the topic, the second uncle asked around the corner, Mr. Liu also asked me to see how this place is, eldest sister, you have been here for a long time, is there anything here that is not perfect enough?

The eldest sister said, it's nothing, it's all good, the classroom is also beautiful, and a few balls will be sent over in two days, and the children can also play when they get out of class. Master asked, I saw that the house was rebuilt from the former foreigner's church, and what has been changed. The eldest sister said that she separated the former prayer hall and made a few classrooms and an office. There was no water and no electricity here before, and a while ago, a construction team came to demolish the partial houses that were about to collapse, and the cellar was also blown up and replaced with a septic tank.

Master and I glanced at each other, and this was probably what the villagers were referring to when they said that the construction team was blasting. However, the eldest sister suddenly said again, but although the current renovation is no problem, there are still some places that are not good enough, such as the open terrain around here, as long as the wind blows, the windows of the building are blown loudly. There is also the electric light does not seem to be in good contact, you don't need to turn on the light during the day, it is bright and dark at night, sometimes it is directly turned off, and the electric light is removed to check but it is good.

This caught Master's attention, and when I was studying at Master's house before, he told me that if a ghost appears, everything around it will be affected to a greater or lesser extent, such as electric lights, such as the sound of the radio, and even the way the flame on the candle swings. So when the eldest sister said that there might be something wrong with the circuit, it seemed to give the master a slightly clear signal: if the circuit is not faulty here, then there must be something strange.

In this way, the church-converted primary school and the haunting of the village grove seem to coincide in time, which also shows that the two are at least somewhat related, no matter how big or small.

So the master immediately asked the eldest sister if this place had been empty until it was converted into a primary school, or if it had some other purpose. Because in those days, many churches left temporarily due to the war in the early days of liberation, so it is very likely that the days before this place were idle. Sure enough, the eldest sister said that this place has been empty, and there is not even a door.

I heard that it was built during the Qing Dynasty, and the old people in the village said that they had never seen missionaries here, and it had been abandoned for many years. Now the playground of this school is a vegetable field opened up by the villagers in the past, and there is nothing in the house except a pile of broken things, and the cellar is a brick door, and no one has ever pried it open, so I don't know what is inside.

I thought to myself, if the people of this church are gone, there is no reason to seal the cellar alone, and this cellar was blown up by the construction team, and then a series of strange things appeared, and in a way, the bombed cellar should be a place worth investigating. Sure enough, the master said to the eldest sister, "Then please take us to the cellar to have a look." The eldest sister said that the backfill had been blown up, and now there was only a cellar lid left, and the master said it was okay, take me to see the cellar cover.

So the eldest sister took Master and I to the entrance of the cellar, which looked almost half the size of a door, and said that you should take your time and see, and then go on with your own work.

When the eldest sister was far away, I asked Master in a low voice, "Why don't you just ask her about the haunting in the village, so that she can still know what we are here for?" Master also lowered his voice and said to me, silly boy, you remember, sometimes we have to do this in this industry, when you express your intentions, many things will be skewed in judgment due to human relationships, this method is of course the most useful for those who have experienced those events, but not necessarily for this kind of eldest sister. Let's shoot and shoot, inquire from some seemingly unrelated places, and we have the answer in our hearts, but this eldest sister doesn't know what we are going to do. It is precisely because she doesn't understand our true intentions that she will say whatever she knows, and it's all the truth!

I secretly admired in my heart, if Master wasn't a Taoist priest, he would be able to make a fortune by being a liar. So I asked the master, what should I do now, although I found the mouth of this cellar, but I know that behind this is the septic tank, and the explosion has been blown up completely, how can I check, even if I know that there is a problem here, I can't get in, who will have nothing to do to drill into the septic tank.

Master glared at me and said, you know a fart, you don't have to go to the deepest part to check things, especially now that there is no way to get in at all, as long as you find something related, you can check it with a bowl of water.

Do you remember when I told you before I left the house that I was going to start teaching you spells? This is the most basic one, a water method. Don't worry, watch me do it first, and I'll teach you when this thing is over.

I stopped talking, I watched intently, Master took out a porcelain bowl from his bag, and asked me to ask the eldest sister to ask for a bowl of water, and the eldest sister poured me a full bowl very enthusiastically, and when I brought it back to Master, I was half poured out by Master, and he told me that if I didn't have so much, it would be enough, and then he lit a pre-drawn charm, and while burning it, he drew a large circle in front of him, and his mouth was accompanied by the chanting of the mantra.

When the spell was about to burn, the charm with the burned paper ash was thrown into the bowl, and the fire was extinguished at once, leaving a small section of the thumb that was not burned out, but most of the ashes melted into the water, and it was strange to say that the ash did not muddy the water when it met the water, but slowly sank into the bottom of the bowl, and then slowly dispersed, leaving only a layer of translucent gray-white halo on the edge of the ash. It's like bouncing something from your fingers into a bowl. At this time, something even stranger happened, the black charm ash at the bottom of the bowl slowly gathered together and turned into the shape of a person who seemed to be standing.

Seeing my surprised expression, Master was a little proud. He asked me, "Do you look at the image in this bowl, does it look like the female ghost in the black robe?"