The thread-shaped rice array I had placed earlier, with the addition of incense candles, seemed to the ghost to look like a bait, and they would naturally approach. However, the purpose of the formation itself is to confuse and restrain the enemy so that they are under my control. If the candle goes out, the bell falls to the ground, and the spark brightens, if these three situations occur alone, they may be caused by other external forces, but if they occur at the same time, it must be affected by ghosts.

However, when I said that I had caught it, it was not true, it was still free to move, but I had already caught its tracks, and I would be able to find out where it was going from now on. After all, I still have some unanswered questions, one is who the little boy is, and the other is why they are at the end of the road outside the door.

I know that although I can't see it at the moment, in Tian Xiaofang's eyes, the ghosts of the landlord and the little boy are standing outside the window now. So I reached out and took out a small bronze mirror from my bag, and unlike the usual gossip mirror, this mirror was not recessed, but a flat mirror. Except that the material is copper, there is no difference from ordinary mirrors in other places. I placed the mirror facing the outdoors and on the edge of the window.

This mirror is similar to the folk "demon mirror". In many parts of the countryside, it is customary for people to hang a small mirror on the door or window of their home to prevent the lonely ghosts passing by from entering the house. Because the existence of ghosts themselves is a kind of pathos, they are afraid of death, but they are dead, so what they absolutely do not want to see is what they will look like after death. The purpose of the mirror is to let them see what they look like at the moment, and scare themselves away.

My purpose in doing this is the same, plus my bronze mirror was originally given to me by my master, and some special treatment has been done, so that the deterrence of ghosts will be stronger. But just as I thought it would scare the two ghosts away so I could track them, I suddenly felt a violent feeling of suffocation. It's like you've just washed your face, and before the water on your face has dried, a strong wind blows in on you, which not only instantly dries the water on your face, but also causes a sudden tightening sensation on your skin. At that moment, I couldn't even breathe.

I knew something wasn't right, and instead of scaring the ghost away, I seemed to anger it. In a hurry, I quickly squatted down and quickly recited the golden light mantra in my heart, but before I could finish it, a force came to me, and I was squatting, so I was immediately overthrown to the ground by this force.

When I fell to the ground, I felt someone strangled my neck, I instinctively reached out to touch my neck, but I didn't touch anything, the force gradually increased, my throat became very uncomfortable, and the light I saw in my eyes gradually became a little dark and blurry, as if someone was stuck in my neck, and I couldn't breathe and then caused a lack of oxygen to my brain, so that the blood congestion of my eyes affected my vision. I was very scared at the time, but my mind was so flustered that I couldn't concentrate, and in addition to the frightened screams of the little daughter of the Tian family, there was also a "click" sound in my ears.

The sound sounded like it came out of my mouth, like the sound that a dog kept whispering and clenching its teeth when it was angry, and I knew that if I didn't escape, maybe my life would say goodbye to the world, so I held my breath, closed my eyes, and quickly finished the golden light mantra.

After the first pass, the pressure was much less, so I read it twice in a row, and the feeling of pressure in my body suddenly disappeared, and I felt as if a wind was leaving my body and heading towards the window, and when I passed by the window, the bronze mirror I was standing on the edge of the window fell down.

As the stress wore off, my sight and hearing began to return to normal. But because it was too thrilling before, even though the little daughter of the Tian family was still screaming in horror beside me at this moment, I could still clearly feel my strong and fast heartbeat. At this time, Tian Deping and his wife also rushed into the house, and his wife hugged his little daughter, and Tian Deping reached out to help me who fell to the ground.

All this happened, from beginning to end, it only took about a dozen seconds, and the speed was so fast that I was still in a trance. The youngest daughter of the Tian family probably saw the scene of me falling to the ground, so she was so frightened that she screamed. Tian Xiaofang, on the other hand, had already fallen asleep during this period, unaffected by my movements, just like an opium smoker who fell asleep contentedly.

After Tian Deping helped me up, he anxiously asked me what happened when I fell to the ground, and I said that I had encountered resistance, but it was no big problem, but I fell a little. As soon as the words came out, I realized that my voice was hoarse. It must have been caused by the feeling of suffocation just now, thinking that this landlord hanged himself, so the feeling I was stuck in my neck just now should be the feeling when he hanged himself.

The hanged ghost, known as the "hanged ghost" in ancient China, is hideous and terrifying. I didn't see this ghost in my eyes when I fell to the ground just now, otherwise I would not be able to survive the visual shock and physical oppression. Although it can be suppressed by my three-stage golden light spell, according to the ability of this ghost, if you want to kill a weak woman like Tian Xiaofang, it should be easy, but why for so long, it has only scared Tian Xiaofang and not taken her life? Could it be that it was because the hatred was too deep to let Tian Xiaofang die, but to slowly destroy and torture her to death?

I reached out and touched my neck, and I felt like I had swallowed something but didn't swallow it. So I went outside the house, picked up the bell that had been knocked over on the ground, and plucked out the three sticks of incense, which were already burning for almost half of it. I inserted these three sticks of incense in the corner of the wall outside Tian Xiaofang's room, and began to invite soldiers and horses.

This time, the soldiers and horses were divided into two ways, and they stayed in the room all the way to protect Tian Xiaofang, although I don't know if my soldiers and horses are capable of dealing with the ghost of this landlord. On the other hand, he took me to find the traces of the landlord's ghost at this moment.

I originally thought that it would stay nearby, but who knows, I walked for a long time, so long that I even changed three sticks of incense halfway. Tian Deping has always been with me, and as the director of the commune in the village, being by my side can save me a lot of trouble. After all, the people in this mountain village suddenly saw a strange young man walking on the road with three sticks of incense, and it would definitely be rumored, and when other things were not done, I would be arrested again as a cow ghost and snake god, and that would not be worth it.

As this road went farther and farther, Tian Deping told me that it seemed that this road was the way to the old mansion of the landlord's family. I asked him if the old house was still there? He said that it was demolished after liberation, and now there is farmland nearby, and he is not impressed by the location of the specific old house, after all, it has been 20 years. I felt a little strange in my heart, what did this hanged ghost do when he took revenge and went back to the old mansion, but at the moment I couldn't think of more results, so I could only follow all the way.

Eventually, the smoke stopped, and when I looked around, I saw several graves, large and small, nearby. Tian Deping told me that this time it must be right, the landlord's old house he also came to when he was young, and on the hillside behind the house, is the cemetery of their family, which is said to have been passed down for several generations, and if the patriarch and descendants of the family die, they will be buried here, with their ancestors. Tian Deping pointed to the direction we went up the mountain and said, that place is the old house of the landlord's family, and that house was magnificent.

I looked in the direction he pointed and found that it was ordinary farmland, and after more than ten years, if the landlord had really buried something here, it would have been taken away by the people who had cultivated the land in the first place. Why does the ghost of the landlord linger here? Is it because he is also a descendant of the family, and although he died in the pigsty, he also hopes to be able to return here for burial?

I began to take a closer look at these tombs, the way the tombs were built was still very different from the ordinary tombs of other common people I saw along the way, these tombs all had carved tomb doors, the workmanship was more exquisite, and the size was relatively large, and it was still different from the ordinary people who built a dirt bag casually. Judging by the state of the weeds around the tomb, it has been many years since anyone came to worship here.

Tian Deping said that this place used to be fine, after the landlord left, the people here feel that others are still good, knowing that he came back to a lot of inconvenience, the villagers who farm the land in this vicinity spontaneously help sweep the tomb every year, it is not accurate to say that it is to sweep the tomb, after all, no one will burn incense to the ancestors of the landlord's family for no reason, at most just see the weeds grow taller, blocking the tombstone, so they will help clean it up. This is a custom in the countryside, they think that the tomb door is the door of the dead, and the tomb is also called the "yin house" in metaphysics, if the door is blocked by weeds, this will make the ghost unable to find a way home, wandering around will harm others.

However, in the corner of these seven or eight tombs, I found a small tomb, there was no tombstone, no door, and even no carvings on the side of the tomb. Generally speaking, the tombs of the large families in the old society are basically more concentrated, just like the tombs in front of them, the largest is the patriarch, the big one is the elder or the male in the family, and the small one is the aunt and wife, etc., but the size of this tomb is much smaller than the others, and it seems that it is not a woman's grave, but a child's.

Could it be the child led by the landlord? I pushed aside the weeds and got a little closer, and suddenly found that there were small sticks of burnt incense and candles in front of the tomb, and some paper money on the ground that had been blown away by the wind and rain and had long since rotted.