Chapter 9 Chapter Eight: Keeping the Spirit (Part 1)

The black figure held a wooden stick in his hand and slammed it towards Li Nuoyi's head.When I saw the shadow on the ground, I quickly grabbed her hand and pulled it towards me. The stick narrowly brushed against Li Nuoyi's shoulder and hit the ground, splashing the soil all over the ground. I think it took a lot of strength. how big. It was all about killing her. I was annoyed in my heart, how much hatred did I have to sneak up on a weak girl from behind. Taking advantage of the situation, he draped the man's arm, and some fighting skills honed from Yang Junfei and Lin Zhiyan finally had some effect.I grabbed his arm, threw the man to the ground with an over-the-shoulder throw, knelt down on my knees, slammed into his soft abdomen, and kicked him hard at last.

At this moment, Li Nuoyi recovered from the shock, she saw clearly the person who wanted to attack her, she covered her mouth in surprise, "Cousin." I observed the guy who collapsed on the ground. It was a man, about twenty-eight years old, with a very decadent appearance and very decadent clothes.Because of my counterattack, the guy who was attacked by cousin Li Nuoyi was rolling on the ridge of the field, foaming at the mouth. Not far away came two more men, in their thirties, wearing black suits, sunglasses, and dressed as bodyguards.The actual identities are probably the man's bodyguards. They lowered their bodies to check the situation of their master, and then looked at me with gloomy faces.

Li Nuoyi tugged at my sleeve, "That man is my cousin, uncle's son. His name is Li Jia." "The same relatives who sent you to that crazy delinquent correctional center where the old woman framed you?" I asked. "Well, that's them." Li Nuoyi nodded. It's no wonder, since her parents were thrown into prison, Li Jia really had reason to hate her to the bone. "Forget it, let's go." Li Nuoyi felt that she was in no mood, "He was very kind to me when I was young, and he was also a very nice person. I used to argue that I would marry him when I grew up. After getting rich, their family changed. Become sinister and greedy, become beyond my recognition."

Her tone was very sad, and I also sighed secretly in my heart.The two turned and prepared to leave in the opposite direction. "You bastard, you want to run away when you hit someone!" Li Jia struggled to stand up with the support of a bodyguard, and he looked at us with resentment in his eyes. "Beat someone? Who did it first? You have to be serious about that attack. I'm afraid Li Nuoyi will become a vegetable if he doesn't die." I snorted coldly. "So what, this is a family matter of the Li family, don't interrupt the little boy who eats soft food."

Li Jia's voice was very gloomy, and he ordered his bodyguard: "Go, beat them to death." "What are you afraid of? The murder case in Liluo Village is not a matter of my words. When the time comes, throw the body into the ravine, no one will spread the word, and outsiders will not know." Li Jia looked at us and gritted his teeth and said, "When we go back, is a million dollars enough for one life?" The two bodyguards who seemed to have poor morals and professional ethics were obviously moved. expression, approaching us. Li Nuoyi didn't panic at all, she looked at her cousin coldly, completely disappointed in her family affection.

"A Ye, it's really embarrassing this time, you've seen all the ugliness." She imitated my habit of touching her nose and smiled wryly. "Humans are such creatures, and I'm used to them. Stand behind me and leave the rest to me." I shrugged my shoulders with a relaxed expression on my face, but my heart was already raging with anger.I really can't deal with two well-trained bodyguards, but now is the era when you don't need physical contact to defeat a person. The two bodyguards rubbed their fists and took out the dagger from the hidden place on their waists.I stretched, took out the gun Yang Junfei gave me from my pocket, and casually pointed it at them with a black muzzle. The three people on the opposite side were all stunned. On a little boy.

"You're bluffing me, which street bought the toy gun, right?" The bodyguard on the right was the first to react. "Then come over and try." I lightly moved the muzzle to his head. The guy shivered, smiled and dared not move. "How can the government's order not to allow private individuals to carry guns be true?" The bodyguard on the left boldly said, "Even if it's a real gun, he wouldn't dare to kill someone just because of his handsome face." "you try." I laughed, still the same sentence, the smile was full of sarcasm.

"Damn, I have no guts at all." Li Jia suddenly snatched the bodyguard's dagger and rushed towards us in resentment. I pointed in the direction and pulled the trigger. The barrel of the gun without a silencer cracked, and the loud sound of gunfire echoed in the valley for a long time. Li Jia was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, his whole body was dumbfounded, the dagger in his hand fell from his hand, and his eyes were full of fear.The bullet hit less than five centimeters away from him, piercing a deep hole in the black ground. His two bodyguards were even more unbearable. When they heard the gunshot, they left their master and fled far away.

"Tch, these guys must not be invited from a formal security company." I commented. Li Nuoyi looked contemptuously at her cousin who was so incontinent that she almost frightened her incontinence. "Let's go. If Grandpa hadn't passed away, I really don't want to stay here." We both turned around and were about to leave again, only to be blocked by a group of people rushing over again. Today is indeed very lively. The people who came were Li Nuoyi's uncles and aunts. This group of relatives "quacked" like a group of ducks, asking about the situation around their frightened nephew.

His second uncle yelled at Li Nuoyi with a gloomy face: "What did you do to him? Isn't it enough for you to put the boss and his wife in jail? Now you want to kill their only child, the heir of the Li family? After the death of the Li family, all the shares in Liluo Village will fall into your hands. Bah, a girl with a wicked heart is indeed as virtuous as your parents." Li Nuoyi was so scolded that her whole body trembled, her hands were clenched into fists. The third aunt then echoed: "At the beginning, I thought this girl was a bit evil, and she was a scourge. When her mother kills her, the Li family will definitely not have as many things as now."

"Enough!" It was me who couldn't help it first, and I yelled angrily.I've never been so angry before. If my reason hadn't stopped me, I'd have been so angry that I would have raised my gun and killed all the villains in front of me. The people present were stunned for a moment, and then the second uncle said to me contemptuously: "What are you, we are here to teach our juniors, and it is not your turn to intervene." I laughed back angrily, and silently revealed the gun in my hand. The metal gun body reflected a cold luster. This group of people noticed what was in my hand, and suddenly fell silent. "Take a fake gun to scare people, low-quality people." The second uncle said disdainfully. The little aunt tugged on his clothes lightly, "The sound just now, when I think about it now, it really sounded like a gunshot." Uncle Li Nuoyi's face suddenly turned pale, and he didn't dare to speak nonsense anymore.Frightened by the threat of the gun, everyone took a few steps back secretly, fearing that I would be angered by running away, but they didn't know what to do in panic. "Speak up, what you just said was very lively, why don't you speak now?" I sneered, "Are you scared?" "Be careful, this is a society ruled by law." One of them asked: "Do you still dare to kill people?" "Society ruled by law? Do you know what a society ruled by law is?" My tone was full of sarcasm, "There are twenty-three bullets in the gun, and one was used just now. My marksmanship is very accurate and I often practice abroad." My eyes slowly slid across everyone's face, and everyone who came into contact with my gaze lowered their heads in fear. "I came back with Li Nuoyi just to see her grandpa. Now, I just want to organize her grandpa's funeral smoothly and see her grandpa's body buried in the ground. I don't care what you want to do, head How many dirty thoughts are there, put them down now, and hold a satisfactory funeral. Otherwise..." I lightly tossed the gun into the air, and then caught it, "Of course, you can also go to the police. But unfortunately, I have a valid gun certificate, and I have enough backing and excuses to keep me from going to jail. Even if I If you have money, you won’t be able to win me in a lawsuit. Of course, that must be under the condition that you still have your life to fight the lawsuit.” Looking at the group of people with warning eyes again, I concluded: "That's it, even if it's hypocritical, I hope we can cooperate happily in the remaining five and a half days of the funeral." After seeing everyone nodding numbly, I signaled them to get out.Just standing there will affect the mood and pollute the environment. After they walked away, Li Nuoyi laughed with a "puchi", "This time, my good relatives were scared enough by you." "They're all villains who have no guts. You can bear these people. You really admire them." I was still furious, "The whole funeral, you were excluded like an outsider, it was enough to make people angry." "A Ye, are you caring about me?" Li Nuoyi suddenly realized something, and said happily, "Bringing you to my hometown and watching me make a fool of myself is really worth it. A Ye has started to care about me, so happy , was so happy that I wanted to cry." While talking, she didn't know whether it was because of the grievance just now, or because she was really excited, but she just started crying like that. For a moment, I was so dizzy that I didn't know how to comfort her. Women are fickle, no matter how knowledgeable they are, they are still at a loss. "It's okay, you don't need to comfort me. I'm just happy, just cry. I used to love Aye so hard, but now it finally pays off. I'm so happy!" She cried while crying said vaguely. I froze, feeling complicated.My own feelings, I will feel hard.Li Nuoyi, the guardian girl, I don't know when, where, and why they followed me, and they were suddenly dragged down to death by me.He didn't want to drag them into their dangerous lives.So I kept my distance from them. The inability to choose one of the two is also based on this reason. Perhaps, even if I choose one of them, the other will stay by my side with a stern face and won't leave.To choose or not to choose is not so important.It's just that I don't want them to be in danger because of me. "Cry well." The two of us worked on the ridge for a while, one crying and the other in a daze, each thinking about our own thoughts. Li Nuoyi wiped away her tears and took my arm, "Let's go, I'll take you around again. Tonight it's my generation's turn to watch the night, and it will be very busy." "Forget it, we've had enough shopping today. Let's go back to the tent and have a rest and have something to eat." I felt uninterested and asked to go back. "Also." Li Nuoyi restrained herself from crying, and rubbed her swollen bags under her eyes. "I must be ugly now, go back and touch up some makeup, so that I don't dare to see people." I was held by her forcibly, and I walked slowly into the Li family compound, and returned to the tent not far from the off-road vehicle. There is nothing to gain today, but since Li Nuoyi returned to her hometown, she has never disappeared suddenly or fallen into a strange space, as if the curse attached to her body has healed without medicine. This should have been something to be happy about, but we both couldn't be happier, just like the calm before the storm, who knows if she will be lucky enough to escape next time it happens again. But Li Nuoyi didn't show any expression of fear, she didn't even mention that matter.I know very well that even if she is scared to death, she still doesn't want me to worry. After reading the books in the tent for a while, I still felt that I was very concerned, so I dug out the historical materials about Liluo Village that I found in front of Li Nuoyi's hometown again, and looked through them. The history of this small village is actually not as long as imagined. It should be in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. Due to successive years of disasters, the disadvantaged groups in the area around Wuhan today were forced to leave their long-lived homes and migrated thousands of miles. this mountainous area. Li Nuoyi's ancestors found this perfect place for self-cultivation and recuperation in the barren mountains. There is a large area of ​​sloping land for cultivation and clean water, which is enough for people to survive. The most important thing is , away from wars and natural disasters. So they lived there until now.The vicissitudes of life have passed, and the villagers have never communicated with the outside world, and the outside world does not know the existence of this village.Time passed to 1963, a group of geological survey team came here by chance, and they were surprised to find this quiet small village in the mountains. Later, the government built a dirt road for him, so that the villagers finally got in touch with the outside world and had exchanges, and Li Nuoyi's parents were the first batch of students who went out at that time. Liluo Village is very barren and has no special products, except Liluo. The above is all the information about the village that I can find out and grasp.And Li Nuoyi obviously doesn't know much about his hometown.According to experience, ancient villages, especially villages with their own customs and habits, always have some strange and mysterious places. Could it be that the inexplicable, groundless curse that appeared on Li Nuoyi also involved her because it touched a nerve of some kind of mysterious taboo in the village?This is the answer I need to find out. Just when I had no idea, suddenly there was a noise outside the gate of Li's house, because the distance was far away, I could only vaguely hear who was shouting. The door opened, and a man dressed as a villager ran towards the inside like crazy, with panic all over his face, "The second son of the fox has been found, the second son of the Fox family has finally been found." "The Fox family?" I was stunned, then turned to ask Li Nuoyi, "Why do you still have foreign surnames in your village?" "Of course there are, but the Li surname has the largest population, followed by the Fox family. That family is considered Liluo The second most common surname in the village is also my mother's natal family." As she explained, she turned her head and muttered: "The second son of the Fox family? Who is that?" I was a little puzzled, "Why didn't you ever mention going back to your mother's house?" "My relationship with the Fox family It's not very good, we haven't met since childhood." Li Nuoyi smiled wryly and said, "The Fox family also owns a lot of land, which is really a headache." Following the shout of the villager, the Li family quickly came out.They all hurried out of the house under the leadership of the visitor.Looks like something very unusual! "Come on, let's go and see." I said with interest. "Ok." Li Nuoyi nodded, followed behind me, and walked out with the crowd. The visitor's expression was very tense, and there was an indescribable fear lingering around, which infected everyone's expression unnaturally. After walking out the door and following the main road to another huge courtyard, everyone's footsteps slowed down. "This is the Fox family's mansion." Li Nuoyi said. This house is located on the shady side of the hillside and is not easy to be found, so I have never noticed it.It didn't take long to build, and it looked almost like the Li family's house.Not far from the gate of Hu's house, there were already crowds of people, including plainly dressed villagers and richly dressed dignitaries of Liluo village. "Why? Where is the second son?" The second uncle of the Li family walked over and asked loudly. The original head of Liluo Village was Li Nuoyi's grandfather who had just died, but the entire Li family, the elder uncle and his wife went to prison, and Nuoyi's parents died in a car accident, so the second uncle had vague ambitions to be the next village head. and posture. Of course, whether other people buy it or not is another question. "Little Erzi, who had been missing for more than ten days, was suddenly found lying on the field, but he had already lost his breath." A villager answered. I quietly squeezed through the crowd, stood on tiptoes to remove barriers, and finally saw the situation in the open space in the middle.There was a person lying there, no, it should be said to be a young male corpse.The corpse was already highly decomposed. He didn't know what he had experienced before he died, and the corpse was too miserable to bear. This person seemed to have been hacked into pieces. There were many cut marks on his body. When the rotten flesh came into contact with the air, some green, disgusting and viscous liquid would come out from time to time.There are even many fat and white maggots crawling in and out of the flesh full of holes from time to time. Li Nuoyi, who was following me, obviously also saw the situation in the open space, and immediately covered her mouth in disgust, almost vomited. The nearby villagers were talking about it one after another, and it was hard for me to get the general idea. It is said that this youngest son had disappeared more than ten days ago. Recently, the Hu family was not peaceful and many people died, but he disappeared at the funeral of Mr. Hu. Speaking of Mr. Hu, that is, Li Nuoyi's great-grandfather, he was definitely a long-lived person, and when he passed away at the age of 107, he was considered the oldest person in the history of Li Nuo Village. But since his funeral, everything has become weird. On the day before the burial, all the night watchmen died tragically in the peach house, only the second son, who was the owner of the corpse in front of him - Huhu, was not in the corpse house. He disappeared without a trace that day, and some villagers even suspected that it was Fox Lake who killed the rest of the people who were watching the night together in Peach House. Of course, this guess was groundless, and no motive could be found. The person who found the body was a nearby farmer, and he was not able to speak clearly. He was gesticulating and describing the situation to everyone: "I saw Fox Lake suddenly appear from the air and fell to the ground. I was still alive at that time." "How could it be possible to still be alive, the corpses have rotted like this!" Someone retorted. "But I saw with my own eyes that he was alive." With a face full of fear, he danced with his hands and feet: "Fox Lake 'hoo' popped up in the empty farmland for the first time, he shouted, while rolling on the ground in pain, he couldn't do it for a long time, and then his body seemed to be leaking The dead wilted, and the back swelled up like a tire was fully inflated, and finally began to rot rapidly, and the appearance was so terrible that it almost scared me to death!" Most people obviously didn't believe what he said. I fell silent.This farmer looks honest and stutters, he looks like a simple person, he can't tell lies, and he has no reason to tell lies. Besides, his description of Huhu's corpse is very vivid, and he didn't really see it with his own eyes. , It is difficult for an ordinary person with little knowledge to say so specifically. It can be said that Huhu appeared out of thin air, and was still alive more than ten minutes ago, which is really unbelievable.No matter how you look at the current corpse, it looks like it has been dead for more than ten days, and it has been exposed to high temperature. "What do you think of what that man said?" Li Nuoyi quietly tugged at the corner of my clothes. "Credibility is high." After pondering for a while, I said, "But the farmer's last sentence is very thought-provoking. His description of the decay of Fox Lake is like the violent chemical reaction that occurs after the mummies that have been placed in the tomb for hundreds of years suddenly encounter air. Ordinary In mountainous areas, farmers without much culture should not be able to make up such lies." "His body suddenly appeared. Tell me, will Huhu fall into a certain space like me?" Li Nuoyi asked again suspiciously. I trembled all over, that's right, if Huhu suffered from the same curse as Li Nuoyi, then the strange things the peasants saw could also be explained. The two of us looked at each other, and I smiled wryly, "It seems that your mother's family is not peaceful." "It's not just that it's not peaceful, I'm afraid it's almost dead." Li Nuoyi has been listening to the gossip of the people nearby, and has some understanding of the situation of another group of relatives. "Want to see it?" I asked. "Not today. I have a hunch that something big might happen in Liluo Village." Li Nuoyi's face was sullen, and there was an indescribable worry in his expression. "It's almost time for our night watch. I'll go back to Fox's house tomorrow to ask about the situation." "also." I nod. Someone from the village wrapped up Huhu's body and carried it away, and a group of villagers watching the fun gradually dispersed, but the faces of the Hu family and even the Li family were very ugly.It seems that there is indeed a hidden story, and it is a headache for them. I don't know if they can get some clues from the mouths of the night watchmen tonight. I glanced at the sky, and the sun was hidden in the thick clouds.The cloud cover is very low, which makes people feel extremely depressing, and gusts of cold wind blowing over this shallow hilly area, bringing a chill down the spine. Could it be that this village, like Li Nuoyi's sixth sense, is about to have a big accident?