They had to wait until the evening to act.

Xialing and Fulong Township are too far apart to be worth tossing back and forth, so they stay nearby during the day.

There happens to be an official road that crosses the Xiamaling leading to the township, and there are tea stalls on the official road serving sorghum noodles and bamboo roast meat.

The three of them ate here at noon and still eat here at night.

Bamboo roast meat is a good thing, it is eaten with fine bamboo through the chicken, no condiments are needed, sprinkled with a little salt and it is fragrant.

The three of them ate very happily, and Wang Qilin sighed: "I didn't expect there to be such delicacies in this rural place." ”

Du Cao looked at the thin bamboo and said: "Delicious is delicious, but this store also saves a little, the bamboo sticks for skewering meat are reused, right? I'm afraid it's still stained with the saliva of the diners in front of me." ”

Xu Da smiled proudly: "So I broke all the bamboos after eating at noon, haha, how about it, uncle, I'm smart, right?"

"You are really a clever little ghost," Wang Qilin admired, "but if you don't break it, you may eat your own saliva, if you break all the food you have eaten, then you can only eat other people's saliva." ”

Suddenly, the little clever ghost had many question marks.

The Xiangjiang River is at the level of March and spring, and the full moon and wind are suitable for night travel.

Today is the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar, the moon is very bright, and the moonlight is very white.

The bright moonlight sprinkled on the ground like snow, but when it was sprinkled into the mountains and forests, it seemed to be swallowed.

The black and swarthy Xiamaling in the night is continuous, as if the candle nine yin lying in the North Pole day and night in the flood era.

Zhong's village was lit up with some trance lights, they were so dim that they were hidden in the mountains like ghost fires.

Not only can people not be bright, but they will be stunned.

The three of them were walking on a country road, and because of the rain that had fallen two days before, their boots made a clattering sound on the mud.

The sound is a bit messy, more than six feet on the ground!

Wang Qilin listened carefully, and felt like there were people behind him.

He couldn't help but turn back, and Du Cao's voice sounded in front of him: "If you are in a hurry at night, just go by yourself." ”

The three of them reached the foot of the mountain, and looked up in the shadows at the stone houses scattered on the mountain.

Finally, a child's terrible cry rang out.

Then the screams of a young woman were blown down by the night wind: "Help! Little rock hits ghost, little rock hits ghost!"

Another elderly man shouted: "Find the patriarch, no, find the second master!"

Soon there were more fires in Zhong's village, and someone was going out with torches and oil lamps.

For a moment, the figure was longing.

Weirdly.

In the village, every family has a dog, but there is no sound of a dog barking.

Du Cao pointed to a corner at the foot of the mountain and said, "The Zhong dungeon is there, follow me!"

It is said to be a dungeon, but in fact it is a dungeon, deep underground.

Hearing the noise coming from the mountain, the dungeon door was pushed open, and a man hurriedly ran up the mountain.

The dungeon is very simple, down the stairs is a basement, which is divided into two parts by a wooden fence, one part is open to the exit with tables and chairs for the guards to live in, and the other part is used to lock people, Zhong Erniu and an old man in ragged clothes are huddled in the two corners.

Zhong Erniu was stunned when he saw Du Cao coming in, and then knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Lord Qingtian, Lord Qingtian!"

The fence was chained, and Du Cao didn't cut it with a knife.

Xu Da went up and kicked, and all the wooden sticks with the thickness of his arm were kicked and broken.

Wang Qilin exclaimed: Good livestock!

There was still a commotion on the mountain, and this time the children's cries were even louder, and when they walked up the mountain, they heard a dog barking, but not a fierce dog barking, but a low whimper—

What are these dogs afraid of.

Du Cao asked Zhong Erniu, "Take me to your house to see your daughter-in-law first." ”

The tenants lived at the outermost end of the house, so that if a foreign enemy attacked the village, they would be the first to suffer.

Zhong Erniu hurriedly ran to a thatched hut with stone walls in the courtyard, the wooden door of the house was closed, he went up and knocked on the door and shouted: "Open the door, mother, open the door for me." ”

There was no sound in the room.

Xu Da said: "Let the uncle open the door for you!"

Zhong Erniu hurriedly shook his head: "Uncle, you can do well, let go of my door." ”

At this time, the door was opened with a creak, and a thin old woman with unkempt hair exclaimed, "Niuzi, why did you come out?"

Zhong Erniu asked, "Mother, where is Cui'er?"

The old woman's face was flustered and helpless, Zhong Erniu said: "Mother, don't be afraid, I brought the eldest master who listened to the heavenly prison, and they will definitely be able to save Cui'er." ”

"You are doing this, but, but the ancestors are ......" The old woman was not relieved when she heard his words, but even more panicked.

Du Cao pushed her away and walked to the shed set up on the west side of the yard, where a sheep was tethered, and a dirty, foul-smelling woman was holding a leg of sheep and sucking goat's milk desperately.

Seeing this, he frowned and asked, "Didn't I give you a talisman?"

"Yes," said the old woman, stumbling, "my daughter-in-law was fine yesterday and earlier today, but after noon she was guilty again." ”

Xu Da said firmly: "I'll pinch my fingers, are you the talisman you put on her at noon yesterday?"

The old woman looked at him in awe and said, "The master is right. ”

Du Cao glanced at the young woman who was biting the goat's milk tightly, turned around and said, "It's entangled by the baby spirit, I'll get rid of it first." ”

He took off his clothes as he spoke, the light was not good at night, Wang Qilin vaguely saw something flash behind Du Cao, and then the young woman fell to the ground softly.

Putting on his clothes back, Du Cao asked again: "Has your daughter-in-law fallen into a doll?"

Zhong Erniu picked up his wife and shook his head, "No." ”

Du Cao asked, "Then what unusual places and unusual things did she go to before she was haunted by ghosts?"

The old woman said, "No, Cui'er only stays at home and only takes care of the housework......

"Cui'er went to the house to get embroidery thread and came back like this. Zhong Erniu shouted.

The old woman said, "Don't dare to talk nonsense! Who hasn't been to the mansion? What kind of unusual place is this?"

Zhong Erniu insisted: "According to the ancestral teachings, the patriarch cannot enter the upper house within seven days of his death. We have never entered the mansion at this special time, Cui'er has been married for a short time, I don't know this rule, and then I went to the mansion at a special time, and then something happened!"

"Go to the house, there are ghosts!"

After a while, the young woman woke up, and then she smiled stupidly: "A lot of dolls, a lot of dolls, Erniu, I'm going to be a mother, I have a lot of dolls......"

Du Cao said: "Go to the house!"

At night, the card between the upper and lower houses was still guarded, and a man who saw the three of them coming and said loudly: "The one who came ......"

"Fuck off!"

"You're ...... guts"

"Listen to the heavenly supervisor to handle the case, and the idle people avoid it. ”

Du Cao pulled out a wooden sign the size of a child's palm.

Under the flickering firelight, there was a blood-red light dancing on the wooden card.

Dahan trembled in his heart and hurriedly opened the wooden door.

Listen to the heavenly supervisor to handle the case, and if there is any obstruction, it will be dealt with according to the evil spirit.

The New Han Dynasty has always been to kill demons first and then report them!

Du Cao led the way, and the three of them went straight to the ancestral hall.

Zhong's ancestral hall is a big stone house, push open the gate in front of a two-person high stone carved Buddha, according to the custom of the Buddha should be placed under the tablet, but this ancestral hall has a unique style, in front of the Buddha is an incense burner and tribute, there is no tablet.

Instead, there was a large red lacquered coffin on a stool in the room, and a delicate paper bridge was placed between the doorway and the coffin.

This is called the Ascension Bridge, which connects two ends, one end of the coffin in the yang world and the other end of the yellow spring in the underworld.

When a person dies, he builds a bridge to the heavens, and the yin cha will come from the underworld to cross the bridge and take away the ghosts.

At the end of the Ascension Bridge is the mouth of the coffin, and between the two is a bronze bell with an old shape and a simple temperament.

This is the soul bell, wait until the first seven souls, the soul bell can recall the soul of the deceased, cross the ascension bridge and then return to the yang world to have a look.

There was a young woman with a slightly bulging lower abdomen who was playing with the lantern, and was startled when she saw the three of them suddenly pushing the door in: "Who are you? This is the important place of my Zhong family, and outsiders are not allowed to trespass!"

Xu Dadao: "Then you treat us as insiders, can't we trespass?"