Chapter 16 Chapter Seven: Underworld Division, black and white impermanence!
"If I let him go, can you really spare me?" The snake spirit looked at Liu Laoshi, who had already fainted in his arms, and then at Granny Fan, who had a strange face. After pondering for a moment, he finally uttered a sentence He spoke, but it sounded a little hesitant, and the changes between his brows were extremely unnatural, obviously he still had doubts and hesitation about the very seductive remarks made by Granny Fan just now.
After all, in the cognition of the snake spirit, it is still unknown what kind of character this ugly old woman is, and no one can guarantee how much her words can count.
Now Liu Laoshi is the meat shield in his hands, and the only bargaining chip that can be used for negotiation. The ugly old woman has always been cautious and dare not make a move. Most of the reasons are because of this hostage.If I let him go now, if the old lady suddenly turns her face and refuses to recognize anyone, I will be completely lost.
"Of course, in these villages, who doesn't know that I, Fan Xiangu, have always been one-sided people?" A few bean-sized beads of sweat dripped from Grandma Fan's forehead, her jaw was tight, and it seemed that she was in severe pain. .Granny Fan thought to herself, shit, this time it was really a miscalculation. If I had known that even the magic attack would not be able to deal with this monster, I wouldn't have had to do those useless efforts just now. Fortunately, the fox didn't catch it, and I got into trouble all over the place. .Thinking of this, he raised his sleeves and wiped the sweat off his face, and kept yelling why the weather was so hot, and he was so bored that he could do his exercises.
"But... what if you go back on your word?" Thinking that Granny Fan was about to make a move, the snake spirit finally expressed her worries. After speaking, her eyes fixed on Granny Fan.
It seems that this guy should believe his words 90% now, alas, his old life can be regarded as saved.Granny Fan let out a long breath, but still suppressed her joy, she just coughed twice on purpose, with her hands behind her back, looking like a fairy.
"So that's why you are here?" She shook her shoulders and chuckled twice, "Don't worry, I will not only let you go, but I will also send some incense to your habitat and tell the nearby villagers to be careful." , don’t go there to disturb your cultivation in the future. I swear to the sky, how about it?” After finishing speaking, Granny Fan really raised her right hand, made a gesture of swearing, and murmured to the top of her head in a serious manner. He began to speak, and then everyone in the room could hear the voice shout: "If you break this oath, there will be thunder and lightning, and you will die a hard time!"
"Okay, old woman, I believe you today." The snake spirit smiled, and it naturally knew that people who eat yin and yang, such as gods, witches, gods, Taoists, monks and nuns, know some feng shui and numerology, and also understand some celestial law and numerology.Because of this, they take oaths very seriously, especially poisonous oaths. Generally speaking, even if a major accident happens, they will not violate their oaths.So when Granny Fan solemnly swore to the sky in front of everyone, the snake actuary believed her sincerity 100%.
"Yes." Granny Fan nodded appreciatively: "I still have some brains to know how to advance and retreat. I don't want to fight and kill when I'm in this line of work. I just want everyone to sit together and talk. Talk about any difficulties and what are the problems?" Ask to talk, how nice it is to have peace with each other, right?"
"I was wrong. I don't know Taishan with my eyes. I seldom come out. I don't know your ability. If I knew, hehe, I wouldn't dare to fight you with a hundred courage!" The snake spirit also smiled. She said good things and echoed, although Granny Fan knew the ten words of Jingwei, nine of them were false.But these words were soft and warm, and when I heard them in my heart, I was really a little elated.
"Just know it, let's stop nagging, let's get on with our own work!" Granny Fan waved her patched sleeves triumphantly: "Let him go, you go!"
"Please fairy, don't forget that the place where I practice is in the Lingguan Temple, and I just go there to send incense." The snake spirit narrowed her eyes greedily.
Hmph, all the spirits in the world really have the same temperament!Bullying and fearing the hard, greedy by nature.Granny Fan scolded in her heart, but the current situation is very unfavorable to her. In order to stabilize the fruits of victory, Granny Fan naturally patted her chest and said repeatedly, isn't it just a little incense?Be a bird, send it tomorrow, and promise not to delay.As expected, the snake spirit was overjoyed, thanked her again and again, and withdrew her long tongue, and let Liu Laoshi go as promised.
"Father!" First Young Master Liu threw away the oil bottle in his hand, and stepped forward to hug the crumbling Liu Laoshi. His expression was sincere, and there was a bit of crying in his tone. Obviously, he cared about Liu Laoshi to the extreme. It seems that this Although the old man usually has a long bastard and a short bastard, and there are quite a few people who swear, but in the heart of Young Master Liu, his father's status will never be shaken.At this moment, Liu Laoshi slowly opened his lead-filled eyelids, and with trembling hands, he touched First Young Master Liu's face. After that, the face that was white due to lack of oxygen was stunned and dazed. He asked, "Where's the bastard?"
"Father, take a look, the bastard is right next to you, you must not have any accidents! What should I do if something happens!" Young Master Liu couldn't restrain himself any longer, He threw himself into Liu Laoshi's arms and burst into tears.
"Don't worry, my father's life is cheap, even Lord Yan doesn't bother to ask for it. Look, won't this be dragged back for my precious son?" Liu Laoshi comforted with a smile, but then coughed twice violently, Liu The young master hurriedly took his pulse, and after a while, his solemn expression relaxed: "Father, don't talk, let's wait until you recover, and rest first! Your pulse is not stable, but it's okay! "
"Okay, Dad listens to you." Liu honestly nodded.
While the strong father-son relationship was still unfolding over there, Granny Fan frowned tightly, looked at the snake spirit who was about to come out of Mr. Tian's body, and asked, "Snake Daxian, what is the matter with this Lingguan Temple?" What's going on? I remember that this temple was quite effective back then, and it was popular for a long time, but how did it become like this now? Moreover, I can clearly feel that Xiushan Village and Xiushui Village have not been very peaceful these days. The strangeness here is definitely not that simple."
The snake spirit's face changed, and he shook his head for a while: "I don't know much about it, but as you expected, Xiangu, a strange thing happened recently. I don't understand it either."
"Oh?" Granny Fan's eyes froze, and her voice lengthened a little. She knew that it would be extraordinary for this snake spirit, one of the five folk immortals, to think about it.
"Hehe..." The snake spirit twisted her waist: "I didn't plan to tell you, but since you are going to give me incense, I will reveal it to you! Since last month, since your province The Laoshizi scientific research team opened a dam nearby and dug a lot of things. Those of us who have practiced here for generations found that the hostility in a radius of tens of miles was ten times or even a hundred times greater than usual. Because of this, many hidden monsters and ghosts have revived one by one, and I suspect that there may be something coming out of the ground."
"What?!" Granny Fan's eyes were wide open, disbelief was written all over her face, and the expression of fear was palpable.
"Why, Xiangu, are you scared?" The snake spirit seemed to be very satisfied with Granny Fan's performance, and then laughed out loudly: "Let me give you a piece of advice before I leave! As you said, one must know how to advance and retreat. , You can’t afford to mess with this thing at all!” As soon as the last word came out, Granny Fan felt a blur in front of her eyes, and Village Chief Tian also collapsed on the ground at the same time, her facial expression was no longer as crooked as before. It can be seen from this that the snake spirit has indeed left, but Granny Fan still kept an eye out, knelt down and pressed two fingers firmly on Chief Tian's left middle finger until the other party let out a cry of pain , hearing that it was a male voice, Granny Fan sat on the ground and gasped for breath in relief, the expression on her face that she had tried to keep calm before all faded away at this moment, her complexion was sallow and sallow, with countless beads of sweat It flowed down like a stream, messing up that old face, and a large area of his back was already soaked.
"Why, Xiangu, are you scared?"
The snake spirit seemed to be very satisfied with Granny Fan's performance, and she laughed out loud again: "Let me give you a piece of advice before I leave! As you said, one must know how to advance and retreat, this thing, let alone you , even if there are ten of you, I can't afford to offend you!"
As soon as the last word was out of her mouth, Granny Fan felt a blur in front of her eyes, and Village Chief Tian also collapsed on the ground at this moment, her facial expression was no longer as slanted as before. gone.However, Granny Fan kept an eye out, knelt down and pressed two fingers firmly on Chief Tian's left middle finger, until the other party let out a cry of pain, and it was recognized that it was a male voice, Granny Fan felt relieved Sitting on the ground, he gasped for breath, the expression on his face that he had tried to maintain his composure before all faded away at this moment, his complexion was sallow and sallow, countless beads of sweat dripped down like streams, making that old face into a mess Unbearable, the coat stuck to the back, and the boss was wet.
Looking at the house again, it was cleaned up properly at first, but now it is in a mess. There are tables standing upright on one side, chairs lying on the other side, the incense burner is rolling all over the place, pillows and quilts are flying all over the sky, just like after the house was attacked by thieves. The black blind man and the wild wolf writhed hand in hand.At this moment, Liu Laoshi has been settled on the bed steadily by the filial Young Master Liu, and he found a quilt to cover him.Seeing Granny Fan's collapsed appearance, I felt sorry, so I prepared to find a kettle to pour a cup of water for her old man to replenish, but after searching for a long time, I didn't find the kettle in the house. After all the fighting in the dark and dark, the kettle had already been knocked down to the ground, and one corner was deflated, and the boiling water flowed out from the mouth of the kettle, forming a small puddle, which seemed to be missing.Fortunately, although the cups in the bedroom were all broken, there were still a few leftovers in the living room.There was no other way, Young Master Liu had no choice but to pick up a cup casually, went to the yard, put down the well wheel, fetched a bucket of water from the old well that was still clear, poured some water, and passed it to Granny Fan when he went back to the house.
"Mother-in-law, I see you are exhausted too, drink some water!" First Young Master Liu handed over the teacup.It's okay not to be reminded, but once reminded, Granny Fan suddenly felt that the fire in her throat was about to smoke, and her mouth and lips were extremely dry, and there was not much saliva left.She was about to reach out for it, but found that she couldn't lift her hand at all, even trying to move a little finger, it was extremely difficult.well!It seems that the battle just now, whether it was physical or mental exhaustion, has already overdrawn this old man who is over sixty years old.
"Son, grandma can't move. Please come here and feed grandma some water!" After Granny Fan struggled to say a word, the colic in her lower abdomen immediately came to the door again, her smile stopped, and she was blown by the wind just now The dry vest had another rain.
"I see, mother-in-law, don't move." First Young Master Liu had some knowledge of medicine, and seeing Granny Fan's reaction like this, he naturally understood the general idea.So he held her waist in three steps at a time, picked up the teacup with the other hand and handed it to her mouth, and poured it down for her one mouthful at a time. It can be seen that this Granny Fan is really thirsty. As soon as I imported it, I immediately gobbled it up, as if I had never seen water in my previous life.It's just that the well water in this village has not been filtered or inspected, so it naturally contains a lot of salt and alkali. I didn't feel it at first when I drank it in my mouth. The mother-in-law frowned again and again.
"Just drink it! The kettle in the house was overturned, and there was no spare. So I fetched water from the well, otherwise, after boiling the water, I guess you would be thirsty and vent your breath instead of breathing in it." That's it." Young Master Liu said.
"It's okay." Granny Fan nodded and thanked her by the way.
"Don't thank me. It stands to reason that you, Grandma Fan, saved the lives of all the people in our house. We should thank you!" Young Master Liu smiled, but he blinked his eyes and became puzzled, huh?I remember calling back and forth just now, except for my father and Village Chief Tian who got hurt, Goudan's father and Xiao Mazi's mother didn't seem to touch each other?Where did you go now?
Ah, why is there a smell of urine coming out of such a nice house?Young Master Liu was interrupted from thinking suddenly, sniffling and cursing, the ventilation in this room is not as good as ours, and the raw smell is still strong and extraordinary, like the extra thick milk shown in the advertisement, Even a person like Young Master Liu who is born with antibodies can't help retching, let alone other people, I saw those blue blowflies that came here in pairs, and the bombers of the fucking Japanese devils Seemingly, buzzing and circling.Following the position of the fly, Young Master Liu found out that Goudan's father and Xiao Mazi's mother were huddled in a big cabinet by the side of the room, half-opened, looking at Goudan's father's dastardly cowardice As well as the wet pants underneath, this smell is naturally his masterpiece.
"You...you?" First Young Master Liu pointed at Goudan's father, speechless for a moment.
"Ghost! Ghost wow! Monsters are eating people!" Goudan's father's nerves have not fully recovered yet, when he heard a voice coming towards him, he thought it was the snake spirit who had eaten up the outsider's belts and bones. Even the scum was swallowed, and now I started thinking about myself.Is this okay?Goudan's father really wished that he was a little smaller, and shrank into the cabinet desperately, but the cabinet area was only that big at best, and the little pockmarked mother who was also screaming was also slammed into the corner with a bang, look Those who don't know what they look like think that this man and woman are hiding there to make trouble.
"Uncle, it's me! Eldest Young Master!" Eldest Young Master Liu couldn't help but hold down his father who was shivering in the cabinet, his face was smelled of urine, his facial features were dislocated, and he was extremely embarrassed.
"Don't... don't kill me, eat her first! Eat the one next to me..." Goudan's father yelled loudly.
"Ahem..." Eldest Young Master Liu was speechless at this moment. He also knew that Goudan's father was timid, and he was just a simple and honest person who had never seen the world.But I really didn't expect that a big old man, who is so timid, would be so small, which is really rare in ancient and modern times.
"Open your eyes and see if it's okay? I'm Young Master Liu! Your son's friend, the goblin, was driven away by Granny Fan long ago!" Young Master Liu explained.
"I won't open it, I won't open it, you will eat me as soon as I open it..." Goudan's father waved his hands vigorously, trying to break free from First Young Master Liu's hand.
"Okay!" First Young Master Liu is not a good-tempered person, and there is a limit to patience. This time and again, the mud bodhisattva will stare.At that moment, he kicked on the big cabinet, shaking the two people in the cabinet. They were stunned for a while, and the crying stopped.
"Masters and aunts, hurry up and come out! The goblin has indeed left. It's so fucking disturbing!" Young Master Liu rolled his eyes, left a word and then ignored the two of them, and walked straight to the bed, thinking that After beating that goblin away, Tian Guoqiang and his three will get better, and even recover immediately, but it is a pity that at this time, the black cloud on their faces still has not receded, and they tried their pulse. But it was much weaker. If I hadn't been careful, I almost didn't feel that this was a living person.
Young Master Liu's complexion changed drastically: "Grandma Fan, come and see! Didn't the goblin have already been beaten away by you? Why did Guoqiang and the others get sick, but it got worse and worse instead?"
"Hmph, superstition is just superstition, pretending to be superstitious, playing tricks, is it exposed now?" Mr. Tian Cun did not know when he woke up, looking at him, he seemed to be in good shape, and he should have almost recovered.It's just that as soon as he woke up, he didn't ask anything else, and he never forgot his job when he opened his mouth. He sneered at Granny Fan who "endangered the unity and stability of socialism". It's not like fainting from fright at the sight of the snake spirit.At this moment, with his hands behind his back, he stepped in front of Granny Fan, and said earnestly: "I have already said that my children are suffering from acute illnesses, and if they are not dealt with, they may be food poisoning. You still don't believe me! You must come to her , Isn't this delaying the illness? With this time, contact the tractor of the old man Hu in the neighboring village, and it is estimated that he will be sent to the town hospital for treatment."
Facing Mr. Tian's scolding, Granny Fan once again showed her thick-skinned specialty, but she was just crossing her old legs and recuperating her injuries. She simply ignored his words and turned a deaf ear to them.It wasn't until First Young Master Liu opened his mouth that he wiped off his sweat, opened his tired eyes and said, "Young Master, go and see if this child Guoqiang has a black seal?"
"Oh? Let me see!" First Young Master Liu lay down on the bed, and carefully looked at the faces of Tian Guoqiang and the others. Oh, it's true, as Granny Fan said, there is a piece in the middle of each of them's seals. The print, the size of a copper coin, is black all over, with a darker center and lighter surroundings, and the closer to the edge, the lighter the color, just like a drop of ink on rice paper.First Young Master Liu tried to wipe it off with his hand, but after a long time of wiping, even the dirt in Tian Guoqiang's pores gave him a small ball, but the mark still couldn't be removed, so he had no choice but to give up. Shaohe Tian Guoqiang and others have known each other since they were young and get along with each other every day. When they met for the first time, they really thought it was an innate birthmark.
"That's right, it's not just Qiangzi, Goudan, Xiao Mazi's face is also like this." First Young Master Liu described truthfully.
"Let me take a closer look, is that black mark deep or light?"
"Let me take a closer look, is that black mark deep or light?"
Young Master Liu's inspection was very careful just now, and now he didn't need to look any further and blurted out: "It's not too deep, and it's not too shallow, but I can see a characteristic, the black mark gets darker the closer it is to the inside."
"Hmm!" Granny Fan pondered for a while when she heard the words, and then she stretched her face stretched into old bark, and said to herself: "Fortunately, it was discovered early, the evil energy just entered the body, and it didn't hurt the heart and lungs. It will be troublesome if you are one step later."
"Mother-in-law, what's the matter with this mark? When I took care of Guoqiang and the others, I didn't notice it? Could it be that it just grew?" First Young Master Liu took a towel from the bedside shelf and gave the three unconscious The child wiped the sticky sweat from his face and asked curiously.
Facing Young Master Liu's barrage of questions, Granny Fan, who had no cultural background, really couldn't answer for a while, so she turned her head and recalled the dictation of those seniors, and then she spoke eloquently. : "We Mr. Yin and Yang generally call this kind of mark a soul spot."
"Soul spots?" First Young Master Liu was puzzled when he heard this term for the first time.And the village chief Tian who was circling around seemed to be indifferent to Granny Fan, but his ears were also pricked up. It seems that he also had a lot of dissatisfaction with this strange phenomenon that appeared on his own child. untie.
"That's right, the old Daoist in the village used to be a government official in the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, people died every day in the prison, starved to death, beaten to death, and committed suicide. In addition, the environment was so bad. It's terrible, it's dark all day long, and the air doesn't circulate, which leads to the accumulation of Yin Qi, so strange things happen again and again, such as shouting and crying at night in the single room where no one lives. The guards The instrument of torture placed on the bench flew into the air for no apparent reason, and then fell to the ground with a thud. The old Daoist also learned some folk Taoism with another yamen expert at that time, and returned to his hometown after resigning. He lived in our village until his death. According to him, after this person died, because his heart stopped beating, his blood qi sank and settled into his flesh. Within ten minutes at least, or several hours at most, a large area of corpse would appear on his skin. Madara, this is also called "the common way". But at the same time, besides the well-known "normal way", there is another "evil way" recorded by the writers, that is the soul spot, and the corpse spot is It is caused by coagulation of blood, and soul spots, as the name suggests, are caused by various accidents that cause the human soul to leave the body in advance, so that Yin Qi takes advantage of the emptiness and condenses in the human body's acupoints without dispersing. of."
"Usually speaking, to distinguish the severity of soul spots is to start with the color. This is why I asked you to check the color of their seals just now. The darker the color, the worse the situation is, and the difficulty of saving it is also greater." The larger the color, the lighter the color, it means that they were just fascinated by the mountain spirit and lost their souls, and they will come back after summoning the soul. The darker color means that the soul has been lost, and even Da Luo Zhenxian can't save it. The overlapping colors indicate that they have lost the three souls and five souls, and only one soul remains in the body. Although they feel alive, they have breathing and pulse, but if they are not taken back by the Taoist priest in person within the specified time With those three souls and five souls, this person is dead."
"Why is there no live head?" First Young Master Liu said.
"Hmph, didn't you see that?" Granny Fan smiled wryly and said, "In their current situation, even if they can be saved, it's okay to send them to the hospital. The best result is a vegetative state."
"Vegetable? What is a vegetable?"
"This..." Granny Fan actually didn't know what this very fashionable word meant. She only knew that the educated teachers in the town described a person who couldn't move or speak as a vegetable.Just as he was about to pick out a few sentences to explain to First Young Master Liu, the village chief Tian said, "My little nephew, thanks to your education and medical education, you are a vegetative, which means that people have turned into plants. , is called a vegetable."
"People turned into plants?" First Young Master Liu widened his eyes.
"That's right. I heard that a vegetable grows like a Chinese cabbage, and its hands and feet have turned into leaves." Village head Tian didn't know it, but wanted to show off his education level in front of Granny Fan, so he pointed at Liu. The head of the young master said with hatred for iron.
"Ah? It turned into Chinese cabbage leaves, so Qiangzi also has to turn into cabbage, right?" First Young Master Liu turned pale with fright, Goudan's father and Xiao Mazi's mother also covered their mouths and yelled out, if his son If it becomes a vegetable, how can this company handle it?Alas, the point is that the people of that era were too simple-minded.So many decades later, every time First Young Master Liu thought of this scene, he would immediately fall back and forth laughing.
"Young master, don't listen to his nonsense, grandma has grown up so big, I haven't seen anyone turned into a Chinese cabbage yet!" Granny Fan snorted.
"What do you mean? Why can't people turn into cabbages? Then what do you mean by being a vegetable? Tell me!" Hearing that Granny Fan's tone was clearly mocking himself, Village Head Tian became anxious.
Granny Fan just gave him a blank look, raised her eyebrows, and said to First Young Master Liu: "Please go to their chests and listen to everyone's heartbeat to see if it is heavy and slow, and every minute The heart rate is less than half of that of ordinary people."
"Less than half of ordinary people?" Hearing this sentence, Young Master Liu's thick eyebrows were almost drawn together: "Grandma Fan, are you joking? The heart is the foundation of a person, even if a person is sick again, He is terminally ill and on his deathbed. His heartbeat can't be half that of a normal person's! Unless Qiangzi and the others have already..." At this point, Young Master Liu bit his tongue in time and didn't continue.
"I understand what you mean, but I want you to confirm it." Granny Fan said.
"Fan Xidou! Things have come to this point, why are you still obsessed and demagogic! Do you know what you are doing? You are pushing three successors who are about to contribute to the glorious future of the party into the pit of fire, Moreover, I have repeatedly instigated children and encouraged them to promote feudal superstition for you and stand on the opposite side of socialism. Bah! Believe it or not, I can report to the organization based on any of these things. You down!" Tian Cun said solemnly, at this time, he was burning with raging fire, as if he was Li Dazhao who scolded the Kuomintang, or Liu Hulan and Liu sister who were about to go to the execution ground.
"Mr. Tian, you don't understand! This time, I am not trying to harm you, but I am sincerely trying to save you! Now, all of us have no way out. For the lives of our three children, I have to risk everything." Take my life and gamble with Lord Yan!" After finishing speaking, Granny Fan's face became more and more resolute, she ignored Mr. Tian who was jumping up and down, turned her head, waved her hand, and gave First Young Master Liu a look.First Young Master Liu weighed it up, and decided to ignore Mr. Tian for the time being, and take care of what Granny Fan had arranged for him first.He went to the cabinet, picked up the pocket watch, and counted the heart beats of the three people. At first, First Young Master Liu measured them with a nonchalant attitude, but after the third second from his ear to Tian Guoqiang's chest, he That expression of doubt completely transformed into surprise, abruptness, and disbelief.
Bang——bang—bang—this heartbeat is really heavy, like a sack full of sand, the feeling of being thrown from a high place to a low place, and the heart rate is even more in line with Granny Fan's description was exactly the same, Young Master Liu's own heart beats more than 70 times per minute, while Tian Guoqiang's heart only beats more than 20 times per minute.First Young Master Liu once thought that he had made a mistake in his calculation, but after trying several times, he reluctantly accepted the reality.At this moment, he really felt that this Granny Fan had some kind of supernatural power.
"How...how is it possible?" The pocket watch fell from his hand with a snap, and Young Master Liu was speechless.
"Young Master, Young Master?" Granny Fan shouted several times before waking up First Young Master Liu who was in a daze.
"Oh... oh..." Liu Dashao regained his sanity, nodded immediately, and said, "It's true, as my mother-in-law said, the heartbeat is very heavy. As for the heartbeat, it's less than thirty beats per minute."
Grandma Fan had expected Young Master Liu's words, but after listening to it, she still sighed in compassion: "Oh, it really is gone."
"Grandma Fan, what should we do now?" First Young Master Liu had heard Granny Fan explain the soul spot in detail before, now that the three souls and five souls have been removed, what else is there?Isn't it the living dead?He became brothers with Tian Guoqiang and others since he was a child, and he loves brothers and sisters.Naturally, he didn't want them to turn into Chinese cabbage or the living dead, so he quickly knelt on the ground and pulled Granny Fan's trouser legs, crying, "No matter what, you have to save Guoqiang and the three! You have become a cow and a horse."
"Ah!" Granny Fan, after the massaging and sitting meditation just now, coupled with the supplement of water, her loose skin has improved a little bit, and the blackness on her face has gradually dissipated, returning to the original sallow. He could barely move his hands and feet, and picked up the cup to drink water, but judging by the movements, he was still able to force it out, somewhat strenuous. "The person who tied the bell needs to be untied!" She shook her head: "The temple of the Five Manifesting Officials was originally a blessed place for our two villages. It has faded away, and few people go there. As a result, it has been abandoned for several years, and it was destroyed by lightning. In addition, there is an unexplained natural phenomenon here, and the hostility has greatly increased. This has completely reduced the Lingguan Temple to a dwelling place for demons, ghosts, and ghosts. The village has already warned you, but you still go there to play in the middle of the night, after all, disaster is imminent!"
"A disaster is imminent, oh my god! Granny Fan, if I had known this would happen, you would have broken my leg and forced me to go, and I wouldn't have run there!" Young Master Liu saw the slightest The three of Tian Guoqiang, who hadn't improved, couldn't help but regret it again and again.Suddenly, his eyes lit up, as if he had caught a life-saving straw, he turned to Granny Fan and said with a smile: "Grandma, I know you are very powerful, why don't you trouble yourself again and single-handedly kill all those monsters!" Get rid of it, and our village will be peaceful from now on."
"Cough...cough cough..." As soon as First Young Master Liu heard these words, Granny Fan's face immediately turned purple, she kept beating her chest, and coughed violently.How many catties and taels does she have, is she still unclear?Even in the round just now, it was just luck. Fortunately, the snake spirit was suspicious by nature and was tricked by me. Otherwise, how could I survive?This kid said it well, and he was single-handedly, and he also took the monsters and goblins in one pot, unless he was an old birthday star who hanged himself, and he was almost impatient.
"Mother-in-law, what's the matter with you? Could it be bronchitis? This kind of disease is popular in this cold weather! Come, let me show you." Young Master Liu stepped forward, giving Granny Fan a hand. Patting on the back, he said courteously.As the saying goes, if you have nothing to do, you can be courteous, and you are either rape or steal.His tune really made Granny Fan's hair stand on end, she quickly stepped back, trying to avoid it.
"What's the matter with you?" First Young Master Liu finally noticed the strange expression on Granny Fan's expression, put down his hands, and frowned.
"Hehe." Granny Fan smiled wryly: "My child, if you cut the weeds and don't remove the roots, you will be born again when the spring breeze blows. Granny understands that she also wants to completely solve this gang of scourges, so that our village chief can live in peace for a long time. But mother-in-law hates me! I hate myself My mana is low, I really don't have this ability!" Speaking of this, her face turned red with embarrassment.
"The magic power is low, who said that your magic power is low, just now, mother-in-law, you drove away the female ghost with your own hands, me, my father, and Mr. Tian, and everyone else is there for all to see!" Young Master Liu pointing fingers, move in front of the crowd.
"Fart, the village chief didn't see it." Village chief Tian turned his head angrily.
"Maybe you don't know yet! Anyway, paper can't cover fire, mother-in-law will tell you clearly now!" At that moment, mother-in-law Fan gave the scene of how she tricked the snake spirit, how she put on airs, and how she forged the killer's trump card. Young Master Liu analyzed it all over.First Young Master Liu is also a smart person. After what she said, combined with what she saw and heard at the time, as well as some loopholes in language and movement, she immediately slapped her head and suddenly realized that the first sentence she uttered was: "High! Really! It's high!"
"Mother-in-law, I really didn't expect you to be able to do this. I didn't see it at the time! You look too much like a fairy." Young Master Liu laughed heartily, but with a smile, the vest was He was sweating profusely, of course he knew how many dangers and undercurrents were hidden in it, as long as Granny Fan was caught by the snake spirit at that time, even if the snake spirit was not convinced and wanted to fight with the exhausted Granny Fan, then Granny Fan really fell down and died, and she and others couldn't escape the bad luck of being killed.
"Unfortunately, the old man was quick-witted at the time, and it was just a moment of luck." Granny Fan shook her head.
"But mother-in-law, I still have a question that I can't figure out."
"Ask!" Granny Fan nodded.
"At that time, I remembered that you were relying on a magic weapon in your pocket to scare the female ghost and snake spirit away. I also saw with my own eyes that you put your hand in the cloth pocket, it was bulging, it looked like something powerful " First Young Master Liu asked many questions that he had hidden, but then he continued: "If this thing involves your secret, it is not convenient for you to say it, so just pretend I didn't ask it."
"Hehe... my child, do you think that the mother-in-law is really hiding some treasure?" Granny Fan smiled: "If I really have a treasure, I would have made a move a long time ago. Why bother to lie to that female ghost. I know you want to know What is in the pocket of the old man, well, let me show you!" After finishing speaking, Granny Fan untied the yellow cloth pocket hanging from her waist, and threw it directly to Young Master Liu, Young Master Liu He hurriedly untied it, and after taking out the bulging thing inside, he smacked his lips and looked helplessly at Granny Fan who was also showing helplessness.
Where is the magic weapon? It's clearly just a red apple.
"I like to eat apples, so I keep one in my pocket every day, but I didn't expect that it would come in handy at a critical moment." Granny Fan picked the yellow teeth in her mouth and smiled embarrassedly. .Fortunately, the snake spirit left. If she heard the conversation between the old and the young, and understood what the so-called trump card was, she would probably vomit three liters of blood and hit the ground with her head.
"So that's how it is." First Young Master Liu looked gloomy, and suddenly fell to the bottom of the valley.
"Son, don't be discouraged, you have no fighting spirit!" Granny Fan understood what Young Master Liu was thinking at the moment, so she could only comfort her: "Although Granny is not very capable, she is still sure to save these three dolls."
"Really?" First Young Master Liu suddenly raised his head and asked excitedly.
"Ok."
"But I need someone to do me a favor! Whether it's big or small."
"Can I?" Young Master Liu pointed to himself.
Granny Fan's narrowed eyes hesitated for a moment before uttering a word from her shriveled mouth: "OK!"
"Fan Xidou, what fancy ideas are you thinking of?" Tian Village Chief sneered.
范婆婆嘴角翘了翘：“三个娃娃的魂是从灵官庙那头开始丢了，自然就要从那里开始下手。为今之计，只有托人再去一趟灵官庙，用我的灵符将他们落下的一道魂再给带回来，让事主魂魄初具，才能保证下一步的招魂的顺利进行。”
“再——再——再去一趟灵官庙？”一提到灵官庙，刘大少先前的壮志凌云一下子就飘到了九霄云外，小脸吓得煞白，再次恢复了胆怯的神色，连说话都结结巴巴起来。
“没错！”范婆婆斩钉截铁的说道：“本来老身想自己去的，但可惜力不从心，这身子骨给那蛇精一摔，也散的七荤不素的了，所以只能委屈一个人，替我完成这桩事。”
“婆婆，咱不去灵官庙成不？要不再想想别的法子吧？我知道您智商高，法子也多。”刘大少苦着脸道。
“不成！”范婆婆彻底打消了刘大少最后一层希望：“这是目前来说，最好的，也是唯一一个办法了，如果不尽快找回这道魂灵，再去阴曹地府拉回他们剩余的魂魄，七天之后，这三个娃娃就会彻底气绝，那时候，我也没辙了。”
看了看自己的兄弟们，刘大少只得一咬牙，一跺脚，答应了下来：“草，老子答应了，不就是跑个路吗？我就不信还能吃了我不成。”
“好，有胆量！”范婆婆微笑着点点头，然后缓缓起身，从地上被扔得乱七八糟的东西堆里摸出了一张黄纸，三下五除二就叠成了一只栩栩如生的小纸鹤，接着拿起狼毫毛笔，点了一点朱砂在这纸鹤两只眼睛的位置上，吹了吹，随后又同样叠好了另外两只纸鹤，和着一道批龙画凤的黄符，一并交给了刘大少。
“记住，到了庙里，先给神像们烧一些纸钱，安顿安顿庙里的孤魂野鬼，避免它们出来闹事，破坏了场子。纸钱我没有，你自己去准备。烧完了纸，再点上这道符，记住，一定要等到这道符完全烧成灰烬后，再放出三只纸鹤，这时候，纸鹤就会带着你们往回走了，千万别弄丢了，因为出了庙，纸鹤里载着的，就是国强他们的魂灵了。”范婆婆叮嘱道。
“嗯，我全记得了。”刘大少点头。
“虽然现在还是白天，可我还是有些放不下心来，要不找个大人陪你一块去吧！”范婆婆道。
“不用，我一个人就成了。”刘大少说道。
“本来指望你爹的，他能干，又实在，但可惜现在卧在床上，是没指望的了。狗蛋他爹胆儿本来就小，现在更是被吓唬成这样，也是不成的了。那我该找谁陪你一道呢？”说到这，范婆婆故意把眼睛有意无意的朝田村长的方向瞥了瞥。
田村长冷笑道：“不就是进个庙，有什么大不了的，我陪咱大侄子去就行了。”
“你？”范婆婆愕然，随即连连摆手：“不行，不行，你不行！”
田村长不知道她在用激将法，还以为范婆婆瞧不起自己，立即两眼一翻：“我为啥就不行了？”
范婆婆做出为难之色：“您是一村之长，又不像刘老实粗中有细，办事让人舒心。再说了，这灵官庙阴气重重，凶险万分。要是万一有个三长两短，叫我怎么跟你家人交代？”
“什么？你说我不如刘老实？我哪点不如他了？啊！”田村长眼珠子瞪的滚圆，就跟三国演义里那莽张飞似地：“论文化水平，我是正正规规的大学生，长过世面的人，他就是个泥腿子，大字都不识几个。论办事能力，这三年来我把村子治理的井井有条的，他行不？估计给他带个庄稼队，都能给我把人弄散掉！”田村长叉着腰，恼羞成怒道。刘老实是谁？刘大少他亲爹阿！一个外人在儿子面前这么数落自己老子，别说是急性子，就算是如来佛祖也不高兴了。末了，刘大少实在是听不下去了，只得憋着火，连续咳了好几下，才间接迫使我们的田大村长打歇了自己的宏篇伟论。
“那个，我也不说了，当着小家伙的面，说太多，影响不好。范希斗，反正我丑化给你说在前头，今天你是让我陪着去也得去，不让我陪着去还得陪！咱也正好去逛逛那个什么庙，查探查探，看看是不是你故意弄出来的把戏，要是给我逮到尾巴了，哼哼，没你的好果子吃！”
“唉，我也呦不过你，你爱怎样就怎样吧！但记得路上得小心点，遇到情况不要只记得跑，得镇静。”范婆婆见目的达到，乐得做了个顺水人情。
“不用你虚情假意的，我是党员，有五角星照着，打倒一切牛鬼蛇神！”田村长毫不在乎的说道：“你就给我等着吧！待到文青下乡的时候，有你哭的！”撂下这句狠话后，田村长再不计较，直接回家张罗些必需的纸钱不提，留下哭笑不得的刘大少和范婆婆，相对无言。
“孩子，过来。”冷场片刻，范婆婆将刘大少拉了过来，牵着他的手，掰开手掌，也不知道要干什么。
“婆婆？你这是？”刘大少下意识的要缩手。
“别动，五指张开，放松。对，就是这样，婆婆现在送你一道护身符，万一待会出了事，也好有个保障。”说完，范婆婆粗糙的手在刘大少的掌纹上拂过，耗子般细密的眼神打量了一阵，娓娓道来。
“哦，好的！”刘大少这下没有再挣扎，但见范婆婆用刚才沾了朱砂，还未完全风干的毛笔头在舌尖捋了捋唾沫，咬破中指，挤出几滴血滴在刘大少的掌心正中，然后立即下笔，自那摊血迹为头，飞快的开始了一场惟妙惟肖的涂鸦，一分钟后，一串蝌蚪文便在他的手心产生。说来也怪，这东西刚刚写完，就仿佛具备了某种神采，字字透体而出，飘逸非凡。
“这叫掌心雷，据说是茅山派的，婆婆也不大清楚，都是跟老道公学的。”范婆婆搁下笔，重重的喘了口气道，刚才的那番书画貌似花费了她很大的精力，以至于现在又有些不支了。
“掌心雷，听名字蛮霸道了，不知道画了这个，能不能像小画书里那样，挥掌就虎虎生风，拍在石头上，都能打成碾粉。”刘大少幻想起来。
“哈哈，你呀！”范婆婆被他逗的一笑，用手指点了点刘大少的额头：“这可不是功夫，而是一种便捷的符咒，仅仅对鬼怪有效罢了。好处是只要画的正确，用的得当，不会阴阳术的人都能用的游刃有余，但坏处也有，这符咒的法力都是靠这些凝结的血液和朱砂来蕴存的，用个两三次，也就失灵了。”
“那该怎么用呢？直接用掌去拍妖怪？”
“不对不对。”范婆婆赶忙纠正道：“在使用前，一定要搭配咒语，才能发挥它的作用，咒语就是'临，兵，斗，者，皆，阵，列，前，行'”
“来，跟我念一遍！”
“临-兵-斗-者-皆……皆什么来着？”刘大少抓抓头。
“笨蛋，皆阵列前行！”范婆婆撇了撇嘴。
“哦，对对对，阵列前行，阵列前行。”刘大少在范婆婆提醒了好几遍后，终于将这句挺拗口的怪话朗朗上口，烂熟于心。
笔者在这里说一句，算是题外话。因为好多人因看过一部叫《我和僵尸有个约会》的香港僵尸连续剧，都以为里面马小玲驱魔时说的临，兵，斗，者，皆，阵，列，在，前是对的，孰不知这片子是根据西藏密宗教的玄学背景拍摄的，而当初正是日本密宗教抄袭道家九字真言《抱朴子》时翻译错误，把最后的前行两字翻译成在前。可笑的是，居然还为每个字念的时候配合了什么手印。要知道，咒语驱魔的原理是，人读一句咒语的时候，因为嘴巴发音形成的一些特殊的气场，可以击退邪灵，但是字错了，气场流动组合错误，就等于没用。
这时候，田村长已经收拾好了东西，站在门外，敲了敲木门，示意刘大少该走了。看他那提篮子的手，乖乖个隆地洞，还真弄了不少纸钱来，这份儿要是搁清明，给五家子上坟都有多余的。
“婆婆，那我先去了！”
“去吧！乘着天没黑，早去早回！”范婆婆笑道，然后揉了揉自己那双酸痛的老腿，自言自语道：“时间不等人，我也该准备准备了。”当下颤巍巍的找个根竹竿子做拐杖，回自己家筹备开了一应用品。
Two flowers bloom, each representing a branch.却说这田村长领着刘大少，迎着夕阳的日头，快步朝着灵官庙所在的山洼子走去，山路陡峭，但好歹先辈们一劳永逸，为后来人铺就了一排排青石台阶，这样就好走得多，虽显得略为狭窄，但也聊胜于无。
灵官庙一如既往，殿前翘起的屋檐和横栏上都缠满了密密麻麻的蜘蛛网，门口镇守的哼哈二将缺胳膊少腿的，显得极其破败。柱子上提写的诗文，字迹也错落不清，而横匾的木料经过常年的风吹雨淋，也已经现出黑褐色，还顺着木质纹理崩炸出几条指许宽的裂缝，衬托的那'五显灵官庙'几个血红色大字，愈发的狰狞凶怖。进了庙，只见得白色的细条子幡布左右乱飞，稍有不慎就可能会被罩住脑袋。黑黝黝的大殿里只在五个灵官塑像的脚前燃着一盏小油灯，豆粒大的昏黄忽明忽暗，映得大殿里黑影幢幢。殿前的一棵老槐树上，几只乌鸦嘎嘎嘎的叫唤，凄惨无比，仿佛它们的老婆都背着自己跟别的公乌鸦私奔了似地。
啪啦一下将装有纸钱的篮子摔在地上，田村长对着手心呵了口暖气，都到血脉都流淌的顺溜了，这才喋喋不休的骂道：“这鬼天气，昨天还好转了，怎么今天又恢复如常了。山头上就是冷，冻的人尿尿都结冰。”
“田叔叔，还别说，真是这么回事。”刘大少恋恋不舍的将揣在口袋里的双手掏了出来，蹲下身子开始整理着那些个纸钱，说到整理，却也简单，上过坟的都会，右手捏成拳头将一把纸按在左手手掌上，再那么顺时针一旋，就旋出个花来了。这样烧起来方便，都能沾着火儿，避免了一半点着一半熄灭的窘态。说到这烧纸，在野史上却还有个小故事，这里不妨说说。
相传，东汉时期的蔡伦改良造纸术后，生意兴隆，为他赚了不少钱。他的哥哥蔡莫、嫂嫂慧娘看了非常羡慕。慧娘就要蔡莫也去和蔡伦学造纸。但是蔡莫的恒心不够，工夫还没到家就急急忙忙的自己开了家造纸店。结果造出来的纸品质低劣，乏人问津，两夫妻就对着一屋子的纸张发愁。
最后，慧娘想出了一条妙计，便附在蔡莫的耳边，如此这般的教了一遍。到了这天晚上，邻居们忽然听到蔡莫家传出了嚎啕大哭的声音。大家赶过来一问，才知道慧娘昨天晚上暴毙死了。次日清晨，蔡莫当着邻居的面，在慧娘的棺前哭得死去活来。一边哭诉，一边烧纸。
烧着烧着，忽然听到棺材里有响声。过了一会儿，又听到慧娘的声音在里面叫着：“开门，快开门，我回来了。”众人都呆了，最后终于鼓起勇气打开棺盖。慧娘就跳了出来，告诉邻居，她死后到了阴间，阎王让她推磨受苦。因为蔡莫烧给她很多纸钱，所以小鬼们都争着为她推磨。她又把钱交给阎王，阎王就放她回来了。
蔡莫故意的问：“我没有给你送钱啊？”慧娘就指着燃烧的火堆说：“那就是钱啊！阴间是以纸当钱的”。蔡莫一听，马上就去抱了两大捆的纸来烧，说是让阴间的爹娘少受点苦。邻居见状，发觉纸钱有这么大的用处，于是个个都掏钱来买蔡莫造的纸。消息传开后，不到几天，蔡莫家的纸全都卖光了。由于慧娘还阳的这天是农历七月十五日，因此每逢这一天，人们都会给祖先焚香烧纸。这习俗一直流传至今。
蔡莫故意的问：“我没有给你送钱啊？”慧娘就指着燃烧的火堆说：“那就是钱啊！阴间是以纸当钱的”。蔡莫一听，马上就去抱了两大捆的纸来烧，说是让阴间的爹娘少受点苦。邻居见状，发觉纸钱有这么大的用处，于是个个都掏钱来买蔡莫造的纸。消息传开后，不到几天，蔡莫家的纸全都卖光了。由于慧娘还阳的这天是农历七月十五日，因此每逢这一天，人们都会给祖先焚香烧纸。这习俗一直流传至今。
此刻，庙里除了刘大少和田村长，其他的一个人也没有。庙里庙外可真称得上是冰火两重天了。来到五显灵官的神像面前，刘大少将纸钱等物搁在庙里专供祭祀的香火盆子里，自己则跪在神像前的草垫上。田村长就站在那里看着，也不上前帮忙，只是偶尔被这些神像怪异的面部表情所吸引，一会儿摸摸这，一会儿看看那，很是无聊。
刘大少点了根火柴，将香纸点燃，然后一沓沓的洒在盆子里，看着它们蜷曲成黑色的废料，嘴里嘀咕着说：“五位灵官大老爷，前些天夜里的事儿实在是不好意思，恕我们有眼不识泰山，一时冒昧打扰了各位的清净。希望各位老人家大人有大量，显显灵，放我们一马！小的刘大少在这给你们起誓磕头了。只要国强，狗蛋和小麻子病好了，咱肯定给各位烧一大车子黄纸元宝，再打扫好这间庙宇，让你们住着也舒坦。”
说完，果真一个劲儿的朝塑像磕起头来，撞在地上砰砰直响，额头都青紫了，显然不是作伪。
当磕下第三个头，刚好扬起脸的时候，刘大少眼神一动，竟发现正中间正对着自己的那尊塑像，居然又像上次那样龇牙咧嘴的冲着自己狞笑开来，那笑脸狰狞可怖，恨不得要将自己生吞活剥。这件事上，刘大少心里本就有了疙瘩，这么一吓那还得了？顿时照地上一滚，险些晕了过去。爬起来时，一张笑脸被吓的煞白煞白的。田村长此时也发现了问题，赶忙上前抱住了刘大少，连连问道发生了啥事，刘大少则赶紧闭了眼，缩在了田村长的背后，用手指着神像的方向，颤抖不已：“田叔叔，我们还是走吧！那个神像笑了，那个神像又笑了！”
“不会吧？”田村长抬头，目光定格在那个穿着蟒袍，红衣朝服的泥胚塑像之上，但看这灵官一张大黄脸，两条细长的胡子自腮边拖下，眼呈八字型，很是凶恶。
“这……我也没见着它笑呀？”田村长自言自语道，待观察了好几分钟不见动静之后，这才收住了已经有点酸痛的眼睛，不以为然的笑了笑：“小侄子别怕，别怕，是你看花眼了。”但刘大少却不为所动，仍然将头扎在田村长的怀间，不敢再直视那摄人心魄的诡异神像了。
无奈之下，田村长只得随便找个烧火棍，撩了撩盆里火焰的势头，将剩余的纸钱一并丢了进去，翻个个儿，也就燃烧的差不多了。
“行了。”田村长拍拍手，就要回去，却被刘大少一把拉住：“田叔叔，等等，还有这张符纸也得烧掉，还得烧干净了咱们才得走，范婆婆先前可是百般叮嘱的。”
“知道了，知道了，这老婆子就是事儿多，吃饱了撑的。”田村长不耐烦的从刘大少手中接过了那道符纸，也不多看，就直接丢到了火盆子里，看看粘上火苗了，便不再多想，拉着刘大少回去。
“田叔叔，符烧了不？”
“烧了，烧了。”田村长对范婆婆的东西一向没好感，随口应付道。
“烧干净了不？”刘大少拉了拉他的手，问道。
“都成焦炭了，能不干净吗？快走吧！不然天一黑，山路就不好走了，咱们没带煤油灯。”田村长说道。
“好！”既然田村长都说烧成焦炭了，那八成是彻底烧完了，刘大少顿时放下了心，他也知道这地方白天还好上那么一些，到了夜里可就更完蛋了，再联想起那对着自己莫名其妙怪笑的雕像，顿时脸一白，再不敢回头，快步赶上了已经跨步向前的田村长。
当刘大少和田村长刚走到庙宇的匾额下时，他明显感觉到田村长的身体猛烈的打了个冷颤。紧接着，田村长便转身扭头朝庙里望去。
“是谁在叫我？”田村长冲着庙里喊了一声。刘大少则一脸惊诧的望着他说：“村长，你在跟谁说话呀？”
“刚才我听见身后有人在叫我的名字，小侄子你听见没有？”田村长忽然问刘大少道。刘大少拼命的摇头，说没有听见。并安慰了一句道：“村长，可能是他听错了吧。”田村长没有回答他，刘大少清晰的看见他的脸色突然变得很难看，脚下的步伐也明显加快了。于是心里猜测：这回村长是真怕了。看来这灵官庙以后都不能来了，无论是白天夜里，都透着一股邪门劲儿。两个人的步程很快，不一会儿就走到了先前上山的那条青石板路，两人聊着天，踩着噗嗤噗嗤的野草，倒也惬意的很。不过再往前走上那么几十米，到了山腰处得时候，前面的刘大少的却傻了眼。
原来在拐弯的那片地段上，只剩下了一个长达两米的深坑，深坑下便是陡峭的石壁，石壁挨着悬崖，看的人心里没来由的一紧，两眼直冒金星。
“这……这路怎么变成这样了？”刘大少咋舌。
田村长一言不发的弯下腰在四周瞧了瞧，所幸现在太阳还挂在地平线上，夜幕还没有完全拉下来，所以周遭的精致还是能看清楚个大概的。田村长摸索了片刻后，摇摇头，叹了口气道：“唉！也怪我大意，这条青石板路十来年都没组织乡亲们翻修了，今天真不敢巧，大概是根基不稳，我们在庙里的那会儿，搭在这上面的两块台阶脱落，卷到山坡子下面去了。”
“那我们现在怎么办？难不成还要在庙里过夜？”
“我想想。”田村长揉了揉太阳穴，末了眼睛一亮道：“不用，咱们先打道回府吧！我记得从灵官庙下山有两条路，一条是这个，另一条是从乱坟岗那里岔下去，先到秀山村，然后再从秀山村走到咱村。”
“乱坟岗？”刘大少听着这个词儿，有些不大自在。
“怎么了，乱坟岗咋了，哪里又不死人？”田村长白了他一眼：“是你害怕了吧？”
“谁害怕呢！”刘大少嘴一撅，自尊心作祟之后，刚才的那股担忧立马被抛到了九霄云外。
“那就走吧！”田村长转身折返，又开始向上爬起了斜坡。
“走就走，谁害怕谁就是王八羔子！”刘大少嘀嘀咕咕的跟在后面，伸手入怀，将临行前范婆婆百般叮嘱的那三个纸鹤停在掌心。
夕阳下，三只纸鹤那被朱砂点过的眼睛血红血红的，宛若三对璀璨的宝石。但很可惜，它们只是一动不动的呆在那儿，并没有如范婆婆所说的自己扑着翅膀飞行。
“我就知道你不会飞！”刘大少对着纸鹤自言自语道：“一个纸折的东西，会飞才怪了，真当自己是鲁班呀！”
“小侄子，在干嘛呢？快点！”正说着，田村长的声音从庙门外响起。
“知道了，知道了，急什么！”刘大少重新将纸鹤塞进怀里：“也不晓得这里面装着国强他们的魂魄是真是假，不过放心就是，我会安安稳稳的把你们带回去的！”说完，他飞快追了上去。
就这样，两个人一步一步地来到了乱坟岗，四下里静悄悄的，一块块竖立在坟头的石碑就像是一具具站起来的尸体一样，面目狰狞地窥视着两人。给本来就恐怖的乱坟岗气氛增添了几分诡异的色彩。走着走着，走在前面带路的田村长开始有点害怕起来，便放慢了脚步和刘大少并排走，心说两个人挨着近点，也好有个照应。
“啊！”突然间不知道从什么地方传来一声凄沥的惨叫。
两个人当即七魂被吓掉五魄，下巴都差点被折腾的脱落下来。同时失声大叫道：“鬼啊！”
两个人惊魂未定，不远处又传来了一声凄厉的惨叫。
两个人都哆嗦地朝那发出声音的地方望去。
“不用怕，没有什么鬼，只不过是一只夜花子。”田村长长长地舒了一口气道，顺了顺起伏的胸膛：“哎呦，吓死我了，我还以为真的有鬼在喊呢！原来是那鬼东西在那树上叫。”说完便指着坟场里的一棵树。
刘大少循着他指去的方向看去，不由的也松了一口气。在那里，一只生着猫脸的大鸟正站在枝头上看着两人，目光锐利如刀。
解放年代的乡村里，猫头鹰都被叫做夜花子，夜猫子。有句俗话说，夜猫子进宅，无事不来。它们被视为不吉祥和不吉利的东西，和乌鸦，猪屎鸟（一种喜欢在猪屎里打滚的鸟）一同被看为报丧的凶鸟。在村子里只要听到有这三种鸟在叫的话，就会立刻去驱赶，谁也不想这些鸟在自家屋顶上叫个不停。
话说有一年，村里有一户人家的屋顶上站着一只猫头鹰在叫，那户人家起初也没有太在意，觉得也没有什么的。不就是一只鸟在叫嘛！还能够闹出什么样大的事情来？结果当天夜里那户人家里就发了一场大火，大火烧了一夜，烧红了整个天空，幸好他家里人跑得快才没有被葬身火海，大火把他的家烧了个精光，什么都没有给他留下，事后他才捶胸跺脚地说：“我知道呀，我知道要出事呀，鸟已经告诉我了呀！”
从那以后，秀水村的乡亲们只要听到猫头鹰在叫都会去把它吓走，因为它只能够给人带来灾难和不幸。
两个人都虚惊一场，抬头看了看快要落下的夕阳，继续朝前走。
“田叔叔，你信鬼吗？”走着走着，刘大少突然来了这么一句话。
走夜路的人最忌讳说的就是这个“鬼”字，虽然现在多少还有点阳光，但也仅仅是太阳垂死挣扎的余热罢了，山洼里的阴气，正以肉眼看不见得速度慢慢往上