The old lady said with a mixture of surprise and joy: "Old man, you are better now, aren't you? Xiaoning, Duck, come in quickly, your father is better." The old lady was so excited that she forgot that Duck was not her son and just called him father.
Gu Xiaoning and Yazi all rushed in, gathered around the kang, and chattered non-stop with the old man. Damn, no one paid attention to Shen Bing and me. After a while, they remembered me. Gu Xiaoning knelt on the ground and kowtowed to me, and Yazi followed suit.
I quickly grabbed them and said, "I can't bear this. Get up quickly. It's just a simple task to save someone. There's no need to do such a big thing."
I had pulled Gu Xiaoning up, but Shen Bing coughed twice in the back. Suddenly I realized that I was holding Gu Xiaoning's hand, so I let go. Gu Xiaoning fell to her knees again. It was as if I was teasing her on purpose.
I asked them to force the old man to drink a bowl of cleansing water, and soon he recovered completely. He stood up from the kang, turned around on the ground, and everything was normal. The old man happily asked us to sit down, asked his daughter to make tea, and asked Yazi to go to the store to buy some snacks to go with the wine. The old man took out the homemade red sorghum that he had treasured for 18 years from the cellar. It was the wedding wine for his son's wedding, and now he opened a large jar to treat us.
Saving people is a joy, especially seeing them treat me like a god, I was so happy. I couldn't refuse their kindness, so I sat at the banquet and drank with the old man and Duck. Although there were not many good dishes in the mountains, the best was a roasted pheasant, and the rest were expired enoki mushrooms in bags and two bottles of expired canned fruits. But they tasted very fragrant, and the wine was especially delicious. The old man told me to take two large jars with me when I left.
I would like to, but if I were asked to carry two large jars of wine on this kind of mountain road, wouldn't I be exhausted like a dead dog
Just as we were drinking, I heard Shen Bing exclaim, and I thought she was jealous again. But Gu Xiaoning was not at the table, she was taking care of her mother. Except for him, there were only a bunch of men at the table, and if I had to be jealous, I would be the one to do it. Seeing you and the man smiling and drinking, I wanted to smash the wine glass on her head.
But I noticed that she was looking behind me, and I thought to myself that Gu Xiaoning wouldn't be standing behind me. Then I saw everyone's mouths opened wide, and they all looked behind me, and I felt something was wrong. I turned around and saw that the bloody words on the west wall had changed.
The shape of the font was slowly distorting, and the dried blood began to flow down, turning the entire wall into blood red!
I stood up in shock, and everyone else stood up too. At this moment, the blood on the wall changed again, slowly twisting into a ghost face, which was very similar to the Yaksha on the jade ornament of the goblin. Staring with a pair of ferocious eyes, with a long tongue sticking out from the fangs, it looked particularly terrifying!
Finally, the blood flowed to the bottom of the wall, forming a few large characters: "Everyone must die!"
A few timid ones screamed in fear and fled the house in a hurry. The table fell to the ground, and the dishes, water bowls and wine glasses were smashed all over the floor. Gu Xiaoning and her mother also screamed a few times, and the two of them huddled on the kang with their heads in their hands, trembling all over. Gu Laozhong and Yazi sat on the ground with their mouths wide open, unable to say a word.