If you find it, leave. If you can't find it, of course you should stay. As for how long I will stay, that is a test of my friendship with Chen Xiaoqiu and my conscience, and outsiders cannot predict it. Even if I leave, I can come back every now and then.
If this were an ordinary person, what I said would certainly not be considered a threat. But as a "foreigner", this is a threat.
According to what the security guard said, someone like me, who has some skills in catching ghosts and exorcising evil spirits, will always make a big fuss in Huixiang, causing the people of Huixiang to be implicated, and some people will be killed or injured as a result.
I don’t know if it’s true or not, I just know that people in Huixiang believe this. The security guards, Xiangzi, and the people in the hospital will all be afraid when they see me now. There shouldn't be many outliers like Chen Zian in Huixiang.
My somewhat straightforward words made the old man stunned.
He looked at me carefully for a long time before letting out a long sigh.
The boss didn't come back. He put his hand on the table and knocked on it. After thinking about it for a long time, he said: "I know, young man, if you can hear that cry, he should be a capable person, at least he has learned two skills." Yes. If you stay in Huixiang for a while, you should hear what people here say about people like you."
This beginning makes me not very satisfied.
But the conversation must have a beginning before it can continue.
The old man seemed to have a lot of tangles in his heart. After saying such nonsense, he shook his head helplessly.
"Have you heard the story about the village next door? The story about Wai Neck Village." The old man looked at me this time, and looked at me without looking away.
I was a little surprised and nodded, "I've heard a little bit."
I roughly told the story that the old security guard told me.
The old man nodded and shook his head from time to time. After I finished speaking, he said: "That is a story from the middle of Wainneck Village. The story I heard when I was a child is the story before Waistneck Village."
His choice of words was not that precise, but the story he told later was logically clear.
The story he told, simply put, is "the origin of Crooked Neck Village".
According to what the old man said, those were all stories from the previous dynasty. It was also a "stranger" who arrived in Huixiang and passed by Wainneck Village. The man was chased by his enemies and fled here. He hid in the village for several days before his enemies came to visit him. In a few days, that man's eloquent tongue fooled everyone in the village into believing that he was a good man. He was framed by traitors and hunted down by powerful and tyrannical people. He had a tragic experience. The villagers were blinded by him and helped him hide his whereabouts. He was placed in a cave on a hill behind the village by the villagers. The cave was a naturally formed cave with no other living creatures except bats. The people in the village helped him lure away the people who were chasing him, allowing him to stay in the village with peace of mind and spend the rest of his life. He righteously refused, saying that he wanted to clear his grievances.
"...After that man left, things were pretty peaceful in the village. Then I thought, when there was a disaster somewhere, some victims fled to Huixiang. The people in Huixiang themselves didn't have enough to eat and couldn't help these victims. These victims wanted to go The place they live in is not Huixiang, but a prosperous big city. When they were leaving Huixiang, some people rushed to Huixiang to buy some servants for wealthy families and select some boys and girls with good foundation. , they were going to be sent to that kind of place to engage in flesh and blood business. There was a little girl who was attracted by Ren Yazi. Her parents were reluctant, and she herself was not willing. Ren Yazi was going to kidnap her by force. Her parents There were other children and family members, so there was nothing we could do. The little girl was smart and clever, and escaped when Ren Yazi wasn't paying attention. Wai Neck Village... It wasn't called Wai Neck Village at that time, and I don't know what it was called. Name. The people in the village saw that the little girl was pitiful, so they placed her in the cave and let her hide. Ren Yazi spent money to buy the girl. If she ran away like this, she would definitely not agree, so she looked everywhere People. They were also very cruel, and they were willing to pay money to anyone who wanted to hand over the person."
The old man rambled on and said with some emotion, "It was a coincidence that the outsider was among the victims. He originally told lies when he left, but now he is down and doesn't want to see the villagers. Just listen to people's opinions. So, thinking of the reward, he became obsessed and went to the village to inquire about it. He deceived all the people in the village, who believed his lies and told him that the girl was hiding in the cave. He ran away He went to the cave to take a look. After confirming that the person was inside, he took Ren Yazi's people there and arrested the person. The girl was stubborn and saw that she couldn't escape, so she killed herself in the cave. This The people became ghosts, full of resentment, trapped in the cave, making it impossible for the people in the cave to get out. They were scared, and the people in the village knew about it and rushed over to help. As soon as they broke in , that man came up with a crooked idea. He ordered his teeth to chop off the heads of several villagers who came in, and used their blood to calm their grievances. The heads of those people were nailed to the cave, and their bodies were thrown to the ground. It flowed all over the ground. After doing this, the resentment was indeed suppressed. After they escaped, the cave became evil, and the village was also infected with evil. The children born after that will grow up. The neck becomes crooked, as if the head is about to be chopped off.”
It sounds like this is not only related to Wainneck Village, but also seems to have something to do with the rules of Huixiang ghosts killing outsiders and strangers.
Could it be that the guide was an innocent ghost who died in the cave? And the missing people were all brought to that cave
I felt a little excited.
"The story you heard is what happened later. The Taoist priest died in the village. It is said that he died in the cave." The old man continued, "However, no one dares to go and take a look in the cave. That place, No one goes, no one dares to go, and if you go, you may not be able to come back.”
Seeing that the story told by the old man seemed to have come to an end, Zhuang Huai asked aloud: "According to what you said, this is the first and middle part of the story of Waigou Village. What about the last part?"
The old man pondered for a while, "I heard about the last part from my daughter-in-law. She also heard hearsay about what happened in the past few years. She said that all the people in Waigou Village had moved away, and some lonely ghosts took over. That village. If you go there and see, those houses are all empty. In fact, ghosts live in them, and sometimes you can still hear ghosts."
He said, shaking his head, "I only went to see it once a few months ago, and I didn't hear any ghosts."
This old man obviously has some abilities. He can hear the cries of ghosts, and maybe he has yin and yang eyes. He is very confident.
He didn't quite agree with this story about Wai Neck Village.
However, he immediately changed the subject.
"The first time I heard my daughter-in-law say this was when there was a change in the Weeping Cemetery next to me. You also heard the sound of mourning. Originally, you could hear that sound only two or three days a year. Regularly, it is a day to sweep the tomb. At other times, the cry of rhombus is occasionally heard. But from that time on, the sound of mourning can be heard every now and then. The ghosts here seem to have suddenly become..." The old man suddenly became confused. Can't think of a suitable word.
"Becoming active." I said in a daze.
The old man said "active" twice and nodded, "That's right."
My heart sank.