Chapter 7 Chapter 5 Endgame

The shocked villagers regrouped tremblingly.Everyone's hearts were beating non-stop, and everyone's faces were blue and yellow. There was a deathly silence in the courtyard of the ancestral hall, without any sound. Zhang Ziheng and a few foolish boys carefully approached the gate of the ancestral hall, and peeked into the courtyard through the thin crack of the door. A few villagers who were overly frightened relaxed at this moment, and lay down straight in the firewood pile on the dam. Master Zhang Yao, who had already stabilized his mind, said to Zhang Ziheng: "Send some people to the back mountain to have a look."

Zhang Ziheng ignored Mr. Zhang Yao, but carefully pushed open the two heavy doors of the ancestral hall. Everyone became tense again, and the few people who had just been lying in the pile of firewood turned over and stood up, staring at the slowly opening door without blinking. There was a long, dull creaking sound from the hinges of the door, which would have snapped one's nerves had it happened at night! The door was finally pushed open, and the courtyard was in a mess, with snow, rubble and branches of Podocarpus pine all over the ground, and there were bloodstains on the snow...

Panicked, shocking... Zhang Ziheng and the few stunned young people around him looked at each other, and they were all timid, and no one dared to take the lead in raising their legs towards the threshold. Zhang Ziheng gritted his teeth, and cursed at the stunned young boys: "I'm running away, I'm afraid of a bird!" After speaking, he took the lead in stepping into the gate of the ancestral hall. Everyone stared at Zhang Ziheng who walked into the gate with their necks stretched. Zhang Ziheng didn't dare to enter the courtyard rashly, but took a step to look at it, walked to look at it for a while, and approached the courtyard step by step.

A few stunned youths also bravely followed Zhang Ziheng closely. Suddenly, there was another sound of rubble falling to the ground, and Zhang Ziheng and those stunned youths turned around and jumped out like a conditioned reflex, running faster than a rabbit. Afterwards, the courtyard returned to calm. It turned out to be the sound of loose rubble falling.False alarm!Zhang Ziheng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He stabilized his mind and yelled at the stunned youths who were running after him: "Run away!" A stunned youth said, "You run faster than us." Zhang Ziheng felt wronged, and led the way into the gate again.

The roof of Xiangtang is covered with thick snow, and the trace of a giant python crawling over is very clear. Obviously, the giant python has climbed over the roof of Xiangtang and fled to the back mountain behind the ancestral hall. It's just that the traces of the giant python crawling on the roof are stained with blood. Could it be Master Tuo's blood? Everyone no longer cared about analyzing whose blood it was. They patrolled vigilantly around to see if there was any danger lurking in any dark corner. The yard was in a mess, and Zhang Ziyin, who had been spit out by the giant python, was completely unrecognizable, and his whole body was covered with a layer of viscous liquid with a foul smell.

The fishy smell was so strong that everyone who walked into the patio could not help but frown and tightly covered their noses with their hands... The crisis was over, Zhang Yaoye, who had been overly tense, relaxed at this moment, and collapsed, standing on the steps of the ancestral hall, slipping unsteadily and falling to the ground.Fortunately, there were a few young people standing beside him, who reached out to help him up. Master Zhang Yao didn't care about his own inability to do what he wanted, so he said to the stunned boy who was supporting him, "Help me in quickly!"

The stupid boy helped Master Zhang Yao into the courtyard. Zhang Ziheng was clutching his nose and wandering around in the courtyard, Zhang Yaoye shouted to Zhang Ziheng: "Hurry up and find that distant relative of mine!" Only then did everyone think of that brave and ugly dwarf just now! I searched around the courtyard, but there was no sign of Master Tuo. Just wondering, a man pointed to the east wing and said, "It's on the roof." Looking in the direction of the man's finger, he saw the snowdrifts on the roof moving. Zhang Yaoye shouted anxiously to Zhang Ziheng: "Get the ladder quickly."

Zhang Ziheng said: "There is a long ladder in the storage room of the west wing, I will send someone to fetch it immediately." But when Zhang Ziheng sent people to get the ladder, all the people hid behind, fearing that they would call him.Now, everyone only dares to hang around in the courtyard, and no one dares to enter the house of the ancestral hall. The whole room of the ancestral hall looks gloomy at this time, and there is a strange atmosphere faintly revealed inside... Zhang Ziheng stomped his feet, and said to Brother Xi and the other boy beside him, "Let's go, let's go together."

As soon as the words were finished, Master Tuo on the roof slowly got up from the snowdrift that buried him, stood up straight, and looked wobbly and precarious. Zhang Yaoye in the courtyard was anxious and shouted to Master Tuo on the roof: "Don't fall! Don't fall!" Before Zhang Yaoye could finish yelling, Master Tuo staggered and fell into the snowdrift on the roof, and Gu Lulu rolled down from the roof. Everyone hurriedly went up to see that Master Tuo had been thrown and passed out, with blood oozing from the corner of his mouth... Zhang Yaoye said repeatedly: "How can this be fixed? How can this be fixed?"

Zhang Ziheng was also in a hurry to call for someone to carry Master Tuo into the enjoyment hall first.But now who dares to enter Xiangtang! Zhang Yaoye said: "Find a door panel and carry it to my house first. Lan Erniang happens to be at my house for a while, she is a barefoot doctor, let her take a look first. Good people have good rewards, Master Tuo will be fine. .” Then everyone went to fetch the door panel of the wing room of the ancestral hall, put Master Tuo flat on the door panel, and four foolish boys carried Master Tuo to Master Zhang Yao's home. Zhang Ziheng called for people to clean up the courtyard. Zhang Ziyin's body was placed under the arhat pine, and everyone walked away from it. No one was willing to clean up, so someone brought straw to cover Zhang Ziyin's body first.

When Zhang Yaoye was squatting on the steps of the courtyard and smoking, Zhang Ziheng came over and asked for Zhang Yaoye's opinion, "Yaoye, what do you think of Ziyin's corpse?" Master Zhang Yao said sadly: "Burn it, turn it into ashes and clean it up. Once it's done, it's the fault of being alive anyway. Today's criticizing tomorrow's fight." Zhang Ziheng said: "Then listen to you." He was about to walk away. At this time, Master Zhang Yao said to Zhang Ziheng: "Ziheng, the world is not good! It is said that the boa constrictor in winter will not come out to harm people. Sigh! The world is not good!" But Zhang Ziheng said: "Master Yao, there are some things you can't say indiscriminately. Now that the movement is so fierce, if people in the commune hear you say these words, I'm afraid you won't be able to get rid of them!" Zhang Yaoye said: "I'm just telling you. You just have to know. Now that this evildoer has come out, I'm afraid he won't let it go like this. Maybe he will come out again to harm the people in the village." Zhang Ziheng said, "Master Yao, do you want to report this to the commune?" Zhang Yaoye said: "We really can't let the people in the commune know about this. Now we are sweeping away demons and snakes. I'm afraid the people in the commune will say that you are spreading rumors to confuse the public. Then you, the captain, may also be brought into the study class." Go to hang ducks floating in the water! You will call the people in the village to hold a meeting in a while, tell the old and young men not to tell this matter, and seal everyone's mouth. Our own affairs in the village will be resolved by ourselves. If it gets out , the rumors and gossips will not be good for the people in our village." "Then I'll listen to you." Zhang Ziheng said. Zhang Yaoye was a little dissatisfied and said: "What do you mean you listen to me? You are the production team leader, and now you are the backbone of the villagers. You have to have a plan in your mind about this matter, and you have to come up with an idea." Zhang Ziheng said: "Master Yao, to tell you the truth, I can arrange a meeting with the production team. I really don't have any idea when this happens. You said that if you caught that damn thing just now, things will happen." It was solved, but the problem now is that the ghost has run away and hid, and everyone in the village is panicking, I really don't know what to do!" Seeing Zhang Ziheng's embarrassed expression, Zhang Yaoye knocked the cigarette stick on the bluestone steps and said, "Take someone to clean up the courtyard first, and I'll go back to see Master Tuo first. You can come back later." Come here, let's discuss a solution together!" Said Zhang Yaoye got up and walked outside...