The scream was choked in their throats, and when everyone realized it again, everything in front of them disappeared, leaving only sticky black and red blood on the ground.
tick tock —
The sound of liquid dripping came from nowhere again.
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the next day.
The village, which had been quiet for nearly twenty years, once again caused waves. For a while, everyone was discussing and thinking about what happened twenty years ago, and people panicked.
Lu Chu and Song Gui were called to the village head to find out the situation.
In the guest room of the village chief's house, Lu Chu's thoughts were empty, and his mind was full of wriggling snakes, cut and broken, intact, all bleeding without exception, hideous and terrifying, and the blood snaked and spread to the soles of his feet little by little.
I heard that the blood from a snake is only about one and a half cups, so how many snakes are there in the ankle-deep blood.
The village head sighed, and said with a sad face: "I don't agree with you when you go during the day, I didn't expect you to dare to run there at night... Sister-in-law Lu didn't stop you?!"
As soon as the village chief mentioned Grandma Lu, he heard the noise outside, and then Grandma Lu opened the door and walked in.
"Good grandson, grandma's good grandson!" When the old man saw Lu Chu, his tears couldn't stop falling, and he pulled him to turn around to check his body, and muttered, "Amitabha, Amitabha, Lu Chu The ancestors of my family, bless my good grandson from disasters... My old Lu family ancestors have never done bad things in generations, and this generation is just such a descendant, bless my good grandson, bless my good grandson... I was I should have stopped you, why did you agree so easily, I am an old fool..."
Grandma Lu's mood was extremely unstable. Lu Chu quickly helped her to sit on a chair beside her, patted her back and comforted her constantly: "Grandma, I'm fine."
Seeing Lu's grandma like this, the village chief frowned even deeper.
On the other side, among the four people who had remained silent, Li Jiapeng was the first to collapse. He kept biting his right hand, trembling all over, and sobbed softly. He Mingde's eyes were also red, Song Gui stood aside with a gloomy face, and Qi Li lowered his head and couldn't see his expression clearly.
The village chief took a deep breath, calmed down his emotions, and said, "It's been twenty years, and nothing like this has happened to us again. You young people are really courageous, and you caused a lot of trouble!"
Song Gui's eyes were red, as if holding back tears, Lu Chu had to applaud his acting skills.
Song Gui choked up and asked, "What happened twenty years ago? Has something similar happened before?"
The village chief took a look at him, and then narrated what happened 20 years ago. The general content is almost the same as what Lu's grandma said, but the details are more detailed.
After Song Gui and the others heard this, they fell silent. After a long while, Li Jiapeng stood up and said, "Anyway, Chengzi has gone, and even the body can't be found. We are his brothers, and this justice must be won for him."
"Fairness? Where do you go to find justice in the matter of gods and ghosts," the village chief interrupted him, "Besides, you are the ones who disturbed the things below, who knows if it will happen again, if the next time the target is our villagers How to do?"
Li Jiapeng disagreed. Thinking of his brother who died inexplicably, he unconsciously raised the volume of his speech: "The Chengzi incident is clearly an unwarranted disaster! What happened in your village more than 20 years ago, why should we blame it now?!"
"Hmph, young people don't understand anything. Gods and ghosts want to harm people. How can they care if you are a good person or a bad person?"
He Mingde said: "Jiapeng, don't tell him, it's too remote here and the mobile phone signal is very weak, let's go back to the city to call the police, and let Uncle Yang and Aunt Yang hide it first."
Li Jiapeng sneered: "There's nothing to hide, they don't care about Chengzi. Anyway, Chengzi was adopted by them, and later they had a biological child, so it's fine if they don't raise him, and Chengzi has become a cash machine, a squeezed labor force."
He Mingde said rationally: "It's even more important to hide it. Before Chengzi had some money in his hand, the Yang family had always wanted to go there. When this incident happened, they didn't know what they would do. Don't let Chengzi die. .”
After hearing their conversation, the village chief immediately interjected, "No, that's right, none of you can leave the village! Not to mention calling the police!"
Several people said at the same time: "Why?!"
"You have made such a mess, and you don't know what to do next. What if it's just the beginning... What will the people in our village do if you leave? And this time, it's the ghosts from below, so what's the use of calling the police? , Can you catch ghosts or exorcise evil spirits? I don’t know what you will do after an accident in your city, but you must not call the police about this matter. In short, you stay in the village until you guarantee that there will be no more cases Well, and Lu Chu too, don't go out indiscriminately."
Li Jiapeng wanted to refute, but was stopped by Song Gui, who said, "The village chief wants to imprison us?"
The village head shook his head: "There is no prison or not, just for peace of mind. Of course, we will find an unoccupied yard for you to live in first, and isolate yourself from other people. Lu Chu boy is also together. Pass the bad luck to your grandma."
Before Lu Chu heard the words, Grandma Lu said emotionally: "This is our good grandson of the old Lu family, how can he live outside because of this matter?! No, no, good grandson come home with me, other A few young people are also together, grandma is old, half of her body is in the coffin, she is not afraid of these monsters and ghosts!"
Lu Chu was in a dilemma: "Grandma..."
In all fairness, if this kind of bad luck really spread, Lu Chu was really unwilling to bring it to the old man.
Grandma Lu insisted: "My good grandson, you don't need to talk about it, just go home with grandma now, grandma will make you a delicious surprise, we are not afraid, we are not afraid."
Lu Chu still wanted to say something, but Qi Li, who was behind the crowd, looked at him and nodded calmly, which was to agree with the matter of going home with Grandma Lu.
Lu Chu silently chose to trust the man.
Lu's grandma lives alone. Since she doesn't mind this kind of thing and is willing to keep these few people, the village head doesn't care about them anymore, as long as they don't leave the village.
On the way back to Grandma Lu's house, I met a few scattered people pointing at them and whispering something.
After arriving home, Li Jiapeng slumped in a chair, covering his face with his hands: "I feel like I'm dreaming, and Chengzi is fine."
He Mingde took a deep breath: "Me too."
Song Gui and Qi Li remained silent.
Grandma Lu pulled Lu Chu into the inner room, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find a pile of old amulets to hang on for Lu Chu, and muttered: "My good grandson has always been the happiest, and it will definitely be fine. Come on, these are old amulets. The talisman that has been left for a lifetime, you hang it up, hang it up, we'll be fine..."
Half of the long and tormented day passed in a state of mental tension for everyone.
In the afternoon, Grandma Lu couldn't sit still, so she dragged Lu Chu and Song Gui to Wang Po's residence again.
It was still a closed space, and the dim orange candlelight left blurred light and shadow on the hanging yellow silk. A woman who looked like a skeleton was sitting in front of a table with three sticks of incense in her hand. She was not at all surprised when she saw a few people.
Wang Po continued her actions, stood up, put the incense in the small incense burner at the back, and then turned around and sat down to look at the few people.
Wang Po said to Lu Chu: "Go and help Po Po get the stack of talisman papers over there."
Lu Chu did as he did, and took the talisman paper and handed it to Po Wang.
Wang Po turned to push the paper and brush dipped in cinnabar to Song Gui, and said, "Write down the names of five people from your city."
Song Gui was not used to using a brush, so he wrote the names of the five people with a little slowness—
[Song Gui
Qi Li
Li Jiapeng
He Mingde
Yang Cheng]
Wang Po took the talisman paper, checked it repeatedly, and after confirming it, took the chicken blood in a small bowl beside it, and put the talisman paper into the chicken blood. After a while, the chicken blood started to burn, but the flame didn't have the slightest heat, it was blue and cold, like a will-o'-the-wisp.
Wang Po made a gesture, closed her eyes, and muttered something.
After a long time, Wang Po suddenly opened her eyes, they brightened, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of her mouth.
"Song Gui, Qi Li, Li Jiapeng, He Mingde, Yang Cheng."
"Outside the village, four people came."
The author has something to say:
Wang Po's method is the author's nonsense, don't take it seriously