Chapter 4 Chapter Three

Still, I couldn't quite believe my eyes.Although I also gradually believe that there are phenomena that cannot be explained by science in this world, I still can't understand why this kind of thing will come out blatantly. Is it really like what the old Taoist said, my black energy is gathered at the top, and my yang energy is weak? ? When Qiu Han wanted to persuade me further, I immediately had a new understanding of the old blue warning sign. I took Qiu Han's hand and said seriously: "Brother, I think we will It is not appropriate to act, I just saw a white shadow drifting through the forest below the mountain."

"So arrogant." Hearing what I said, Qiu Han's attitude changed again, "We are unarmed, and we can't save people! Then listen to you, let's go back and make preparations before saving people." Just when the two of us were going to return down the mountain along the original road, we heard a burst of singing around us.This song was sung by a woman, and the singing voice was not melodious, but it was extraordinarily mellow and desolate, which made Qiu Han and I feel creepy. "I didn't expect Yan Yu and Wei to come here to sing!" Qiu Han tried to use his humor to ease the tense atmosphere, but I saw fear in his eyes.

"I think we'd better not go anywhere, just stay here honestly, if we are caught by a female ghost while running in the bushes, we two will be waiting for people to have a midnight snack today." I was also very nervous Said. "Brother, why are you so cowardly? Even if we are killed by ghosts, we can take revenge after we die. What are you afraid of! No, why is the singing getting louder?" Qiu Han looked around. "It's not all because of your nonsense, you brat, who attracted people here." I also felt that the singing was getting closer. "Brother, do you think the female ghost will make us the ghost king of the village?"

"Think beautifully." "But they are already here, look." I looked in the direction Qiu Han pointed, and saw a beautiful woman in ancient costume standing on the top of a big tree about 20 meters away, waving her sleeves and singing and dancing. Seeing such a scene, I felt dizzy and couldn't stand still.On the other hand, Qiu Han was still staring at the woman in ancient costume on the treetop, fascinated.I want to remind Qiu Han to find a way to leave quickly, but I feel a huge boulder slowly pressing against my chest. At the same time, my limbs seem to be caught by someone, and I can't move at all.Realizing that I couldn't move my body, the fear in my heart suddenly doubled, and all the strength in my body burst out. After struggling for a second or two, I staggered forward as if breaking through my mind, and my body senses recovered immediately. perception.

After recovering my physical senses, I hastily dragged Qiu Han along the way I came and fled in embarrassment.But Qiu Han seemed to have lost consciousness, gurgling words that I couldn't understand. I pulled Qiu Han and quickly got into the woods we passed by.But the forest in front of us doesn't seem to be the forest we walked in, and we can't even see the dilapidated warning sign we saw before.However, this is not the worst thing. The worst thing is that the singing sound is always in my ears, as if coming from the headphones, and I can't get rid of it no matter what. The more this happened, the more nervous I was and the faster I ran.But the more this happened, the more I felt that the voice appeared in my ears.Just as I was running wildly, I felt Qiu Han's hands getting colder and colder.I looked back, but behind me was not Qiu Han, but a woman in a light blue ancient costume.This woman has long hair tied in a bun, white teeth and red lips, and a face like gold paper.

Seeing this scene, my heart was once again hit hard.Although Qiu Han made a grunting sound from his mouth like an evil spirit before, but he stood behind me as a person after all.Right now, I can't tell whether it's Qiu Han I'm pulling. I inevitably have a fear of loneliness in my heart, and this fear is based on the objective environment where I can't see people in this barren mountain night. Just when I was in a daze, this woman in ancient costume with sunken eye sockets but plump face opened her red lips as if she had just eaten a dead man, revealing her neat teeth.Unlike the ones seen on TV, this female ghost does not have particularly long teeth, on the contrary, they are very neat.However, she didn't bite, just smiled at me as if friendly.

In fact, at this time, I can take out the Xingxiu knife from the bottom of the boots and strike the woman in ancient costume behind me.But people tend to lose their minds when they are overly nervous. I continued to run like a marathon runner without knowing how to stop. The singing still didn't stop, and continued to surround my ears.I thought about loosening the hand that was holding Qiu Han tightly, but I was also worried that once I let go, Qiu Han might die. Perhaps, what I see now is just an illusion. Maybe it was too nervous, even though I saw something strange happened behind me, I still didn't let go.However, the situation got worse and worse. I found myself walking in a mountain circle, and it seemed that I would never get out.At the same time, there were laughter that didn't fit the rhythm from the mountain, and the laughter became louder and louder, shocking the valley, and I felt my head getting more and more dizzy.

Just when I couldn't hold on any longer, a few gongs sounded from the distant mountains.This sound hit every two seconds, and the sound was not too loud at first, but later, it was shocking to the eardrums, as if it came from outside the sky, it could pierce the clouds and reach my nerves.Even so, the voice sounded comfortable, and I felt that my feet were not as heavy as before, as if I had been lowered from a cross. When the sound of the gong slowly overwhelmed the laughter of the forest, I saw the eye sockets of the woman in ancient costume behind me become deeper and darker.Her originally pale face seemed to have been smeared with lime, and the thick folds on her forehead seemed to express that she was suffering pain, and the laughter on the surrounding mountains gradually became quieter, and then became A wail of pain.

I watched this scene in amazement, and I finally realized that I should stop.At this moment, I didn't know how many laps I ran, and the place I was standing on was the bare hill where I was just now with Qiu Han.I have already forgotten my fear. Originally, after the adventure experience of the Bo people's hanging coffins, I have already possessed a good psychological quality. It's just that the scene in front of me came too suddenly, which made me too nervous. By the way, after I stood still, I saw a painful look on the face of the woman in ancient costume behind me. She even stretched out her hands to grab me. It was only when a gong sounded from behind that she had to cover her chest with her hands. chest.Two seconds later, the loud gong sound came again, and the woman in ancient costume behind me finally floated away from me while screaming in pain, leaving only Qiu Han standing on the ground.At this moment, his legs are weak, his eyes are dull, and he can no longer recognize me.

Based on my experience, Qiu Han is possessed by a female ghost. It's no wonder that since we returned home, all the ancient jade we wear have been replaced by fired fake jade.The original piece of glazed dragon and phoenix jade on us is an ancient jade handed down from our ancestors, which has a very good protective effect. In order to prevent Chen Daohe and others from stealing our ancient jade, our ancient jade and gold medals have all been made fake.But the fake jade does not have the function of protecting the body, and we have just come out of the Bo people's tomb, and the masculinity of our bodies has been greatly weakened, so we were attacked by the evil spirits on the mountain.

As for why the evil energy invaded Qiu Han but not me directly, I guess it was because of the Xingxiu knife placed on my lap. After the evil energy broke through, Qiu Han slowly fell to the ground. Now, apart from his pulse beating, there was no sign of him being alive.He has the temperature that a human being should have, but it's a little bit beyond the standard, and his forehead can even bake a hard-boiled egg.He rolled his eyes, no matter how I called his name, he didn't respond in any way. At this moment, I blamed myself a hundred times in my heart, regretting that I didn't hold him back, and didn't follow those two women.Now, the two women didn't catch up, and even took the brother in. I looked at my watch, it was almost 9 o'clock.After the sound of the gong just broke through the evil energy on the mountain, the sound of the gong could no longer be heard.Now I can only carry Qiu Han down the mountain, find a place to live, and take a rest.Of course, it is best to go to the Tianshi mansion below to find that old Taoist priest, maybe he can save Qiu Han. After making up my mind, I carried Qiu Han by heart.If you say that Qiu Han lost weight successfully, I believe it. He is at least not as fat as he was in his third year of high school.But his current weight can still overwhelm my body.I carried him on my back and swayed left and right on the mountain road, but found that I couldn't find the way I came here.It turned out that I didn't just lose my way because of evil spirits, but I really lost my way. I walked on the mountain with Qiu Han on my back for more than half an hour, and I didn't know where I was, when I suddenly found some lights in front of me.These lights are distributed in dots and gathered under the mountain in front, which looks like a village. Seeing this, I couldn't help becoming vigilant again. How could there be such a village in such a barren mountain? Could it be the base camp of those female ghosts just now? Just as he was thinking, a light cloud blew over from the sky, quickly covering the moon.After the moon was covered, the sky didn't get darker much, but the lights in the thin mist at the foot of the mountain in the distance became brighter. I said, you must not go to this place, otherwise you will never expect to see your parents in this life.At the moment, I walked in the opposite direction of the light.Fortunately, since then, the mountain road has become easier to walk, and Qiu Han can occasionally say a few words. After walking like this for a while, I suddenly heard someone coughing.I looked back and saw an old man on the side of the road smoking a cigarette with his head bowed.I wondered why I didn't see such a person squatting on the side of the road when I walked over just now?Although it was strange in my heart, but thinking that there was a big living person after all, the nervousness just now slipped a lot after all. The old man saw us coming and said, "Where did you come from? Why are you still not home so late?" "We are here to travel and got lost. My younger brother fell on the mountain and was injured." I quickly explained. "This little boy is seriously injured. There is a village near here, and there are doctors there." After the old man finished speaking, he knocked the ashes from his pipe on his shoe shell. I knew in my heart that even if I found a doctor, my younger brother's "injury" would not be healed.But if I don't go, I can't keep walking in the mountains.So I asked, "Master, how can I get to this village?" The old man poured another pipe into the pipe in a blink of an eye. After he took a puff, he said, "I just came back from my daughter and I'm on my way to the village. Come with me." I heard the old man After saying that, I felt happy for a while, thinking that I finally had a place to stay tonight, so I agreed. The old man seldom spoke all the way, and he just smoked on the way. Later, I felt that the atmosphere was not good. I always felt that the old man appeared too weird, so I found a word and asked the old man why he came home so late.When the old man told me again that he had just returned from his daughter's house, I realized that I was too nervous. In order to relieve the tense atmosphere, I asked some innocuous questions. It was not until I saw a family in their village that the tension in my heart eased again. People in this village are already asleep, but strangely, the door lights of each of their houses are still on. The architectural style of Jiangxi is very different from our hometown, but the bricks on these buildings are the same.Houses in the countryside are not like houses in the city, and the walls have to be painted and whitewashed, but the bricks are directly exposed.When I saw these red bricks, the strong sense of familiarity made my heart feel at ease.Of course, this cannot completely relax our vigilance.My fourth uncle once taught me that sometimes the clearer what I see, the more likely it is fake. Walking in step with the old man, after a few minutes, I finally saw a few people standing in the window of my house.When those people saw us, they had very strange expressions, as if they were very surprised by us two uninvited guests. I said to the old man: "Master, why are these people not very welcome when they see us!" The old man chuckled, but didn't speak. However, when we walked by, the windows of the two houses were quickly closed.I even heard a "bang" as the windows closed too eagerly. After walking for a while, we saw a strange family.The house was brightly lit, bright inside and out, and dozens of people gathered at the door.What is even more eye-catching is that there are white cloths hanging on the door of this house, white window grilles on the walls, white banners hanging on the door, and a coffin shed. It looks like someone is going out for a funeral. The person in charge saw me and Qiu Han and rushed to greet us, knowing that we had missed Sutou, so he arranged a place for us to live.The person in charge asked us to live with the trumpet-playing troupe, and hired a doctor for us.The trumpet class’s residence is actually a few straw mats. The weather in Jiangxi was very hot at that time. Spread a straw mat on the concrete floor and cover it with a quilt at night. Not only will you not feel too cold, on the contrary, you will feel very cold cool. After I put Qiu Han on the ground, I hurried out.In order to verify that I didn't walk into a haunted house, I touched the house seriously. I even found the toilet, and only returned to the house when I was sure it was smelly. After staying in the room for more than ten minutes, a man of medium build and wearing a white coat with "farm feed" embroidered on it came in.Through the introduction of the person in charge, I learned that this is the only doctor in the village.The doctor’s attire really made me laugh. The twisted leather shoes hadn’t been oiled and cleaned for a long time. The dark wrinkles on his face and the smell of sweat on his body clearly showed his identity, and the white coat was even more unmistakable. I know when he bought it from a feed factory. I didn't expect him to provide me with effective treatment information, because I knew what caused Qiu Han's illness.However, this doctor is not an ordinary person. After watching, smelling, asking, and carefully probing the condition for more than ten minutes, he finally came up with a conclusion of being possessed by evil spirits. I was very surprised by this conclusion, because I never thought that there could be such an expert in such a village.But when the village doctor left, the person in charge told me that the barefoot doctor was talking nonsense.In some villages, there are always some doctors who, when they are helpless, tell the patient’s family members that it is caused by evil spirits, and then ask the family members to take the patient to Daomazi (village wizard) to show that they are not incompetent in medicine. common name). The barefoot doctor told me that the Daomazi was a Taoist temple on the mountain. He said that there was a very good Taoist priest there, who specialized in exorcising evil spirits and other diseases. After sending off the barefoot doctor, I chatted with the person in charge again.Through chatting, I learned that this family died seven days ago, and today happened to be the first seven days.According to the custom, on the day of the first seven days, the dead will come back to visit their relatives, but the customs are different in different places, and the way to deal with the first seven is also different.In some places, the whole family needs to sleep on the night of the first seven days; in some places, a ladder needs to be burned to let the dead ascend to heaven; . Our hometown pays more attention to "May 7th". On the day of "May 7th", all relatives and friends must be present to worship.However, I didn't expect this village to make the first seven days so grand. Obviously, they have combined the first seven days with the funeral.If my guess is correct, they will be buried the next day after their first seven days. At this time, I saw that the ground was covered with incense ash, and these incense ashes were scattered from the intersection to the main house of this family.Along the sides of the incense ash, candles are inserted.The person in charge looked at the time, lit the candles, and then came to the coffin. "Dear relatives and friends, the time has come, take your place." The person in charge finished speaking, and the family members of the relatives who hadn't been seen just now burst into tears. They came from all directions, and all stood in front of the coffin.First the older son, followed by the eldest daughter-in-law, then the second son, and the second son's daughter-in-law, they entered the spiritual shed where the coffin was placed in order.After the son knelt down, it was the grandson. After three kowtows, they entered the coffin shed one by one. After the relatives bowed down, they all knelt down on both sides of the coffin, ready to thank relatives and friends. When the relatives are seated, the person in charge immediately arranges relatives to kowtow, commemorate, and make offerings according to the order of closeness. This is a complicated procedure that lasts at least two hours. Many relatives kneel for half an hour, and often need relatives in the same family to help them up again and again before they can get up and enter the next procedure. But according to this procedure, there must be a prerequisite, that is, the dead must come back on time.According to their customs, Zishi is the time for relatives and friends to worship, that is to say, between the two hours of 11:00 pm and 1:00 am, the soul of the deceased must return home.If the soul does not come back, everyone is equivalent to prostrating to the dead body. So will the dead return? I have no idea. I thought of the old man I met on the road. This old man brought me here, and I am very grateful to him, but I haven't had time to say thank you yet. When I put Qiu Hanan in the house just now, I saw him squatting under a big tree smoking a cigarette, and now I went to see him again, he was gone. It doesn't matter if he's gone, the old man always looks weird. I want to get close to the coffin to join in the fun and see the customs of this place. But when I walked into the coffin, I found a terrible thing, the portrait of the deceased was very similar to the old man just now.Although I didn't see the specific appearance of the old man clearly, I still remember the general outline of the old man.No wonder the old man appeared alone on the mountain road late at night, no wonder people were surprised and panicked when I talked to the old man.I finally understood why no one greeted the old man when he came back, because now I am the only one who can see him! Could it be that the old man coughing on the side of the road is just testing whether I can hear him?Where has the old man gone now, is this village real?The more I thought about it, the more terrifying it became, and I couldn't help but get goosebumps on my back. Will this village only appear at night? If so, will I find myself sleeping in a coffin when I wake up? run away! Thinking of this, I quietly sneaked back to the house, and while everyone was whistling and crying, I quickly ran away with Qiu Han on my back. Fortunately, the lights in this village are bright, and the doors of every house are closed tightly, so no one was found along the way. I carried Qiu Han on my back and ran all the way up the mountain along the original road.Such galloping is still relatively fast, but it is also very tiring.When I left the village completely, standing on the cliff, I suddenly saw the little lights again.I took a long breath, looked at the densely lit place under the mountain, thought of the family that paid homage to the deceased just now, and realized that this was the village I just went to.