Chapter 21 Chapter Twenty

Before I came back to my senses, I suddenly heard Erya yelling in panic outside, I was startled, I didn't know what happened, so I ran out.I saw that Er Ya had just walked to the gate of my yard. Since one side of the fence was demolished, looking at it in the dim twilight now, it looked like a big hole, with protruding bricks like staggered canine teeth. Erya looked terrified, seeing me running over in a hurry, throwing her head into my arms, I asked anxiously, "What's wrong?" "A black shadow... It disappeared after such a flash!" Erya grabbed my arm tightly, her face turned pale with fright, and said tremblingly, "Doctor Xu, could it be a ghost?"

"Nonsense!" I yelled, "Where is there a ghost in this world? Probably someone walked by. It was getting late and you didn't see clearly!" "I watched him walk into the wall!" Er Ya stammered to distinguish. Go inside the wall?When I was told by her, not only did I feel a little chilled, but I still insisted and said: "It's okay, I'll go and have a look." After saying that, I walked towards the wall.But there was nothing around the wall, except for the messy bricks and soil, everything was fine. Outside, a big moon quietly rose in the sky, covering the originally dark ground with a layer of clear light.

"It's okay, you must be delusional!" I comforted Erya. Erya raised her head and looked at me pitifully: "Doctor Xu, I dare not go back..." I was stunned, afraid to go back?My grandma has passed away, and I am the only one left here. If she dares not go back, if she stays, I'm afraid there will be a lot of inconvenience. "I'll take you back, it's not that far anyway." I sighed, and I will send the Buddha to the West after doing good things to the end.As I said that, I turned around to get the flashlight, locked the door with my backhand, and sent Erya back.When passing by the entrance of the village, he suddenly remembered that Wang Laidi had hanged himself on the ginkgo tree. Thinking of this, he immediately shuddered, his back was icy cold, and the night wind blew his whole body chilly.

Immediately, he quickened his pace and walked towards the house.Because the moonlight was relatively bright, although I brought a flashlight, I didn’t turn it on to save electricity. I just walked to the door of the house and saw a person standing at the door in a daze. He shouted, "Who?" At the same time, I was busy taking out the flashlight and shining it—— The moment the beam of light came on, I clearly saw a black figure submerged in the enclosure.I rubbed my eyes vigorously, held up the flashlight and looked around, but there was nothing. Are you blind?I thought to myself, but my back was chilly, and my clothes were drenched in cold sweat again.I don’t know if it’s a psychological effect, but when I took out the key to open the door, I always felt something was staring at me in the dark, which made my hair stand on end.

I looked around, and a wisp of cloud drifted across the sky, covering most of the moon. Under the pale moonlight, there was a faint black shadow standing quietly beside the hole in the wall... I took a deep breath, suppressed the panic in my heart, said I was not afraid, that would be a lie, no matter if it is a person, a ghost or a thief, I am very afraid now.I took the flashlight and held it tightly in my hand. This time I didn't turn on the flashlight again. I just want to see—what the hell is this? Master once said before that if you don't do anything wrong with your heart, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door in the middle of the night.I have always behaved dignifiedly, cured illnesses and saved lives, and thought I was worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth. Naturally, I am not afraid of such petty crimes, but since the fence is demolished, I am even more afraid of thieves.

I walked step by step towards the corner of the fence, and the pale moonlight came in vaguely. Where the wind passed by, the black shadow seemed to move, which made me even more frightened. "Who?" I asked with a guilty conscience. The figure in the corner stood quietly without saying a word. I walked forward again, but unexpectedly tripped, my center of gravity suddenly became unstable, and I fell forward heavily. There was a sharp pain in my knee, as if I had hit a brick. Then I remembered that the courtyard wall was demolished in a mess during the day , I was groping over in this way, and if I didn't pay attention, I tripped over a brick.

Under the severe pain, I calmed down instead, got up quickly, and touched the flashlight. Unexpectedly, the flashlight didn’t light up for some reason.I looked into the corner and took a photo. Where is there any figure?It's just a piece of wood as tall as a person, supporting the courtyard wall that is about to collapse. I don't know that it was the careless ghost who left the clothes and gowns on me, and just hung on the wood. When I looked at it in the dark, I really thought it was a piece of wood. individually! I shook my head, there are no ghosts in this world, they are just mediocrity.Scaring myself, I really thought it was a ghost?

A piece of floating cloud in the sky dissipated, and a large piece of clear light poured down like mercury, with an indescribable tranquility and elegance.I took a deep breath and turned back to the house. Because of a bump on my knee, I took a picture with a flashlight, and there was some blood stains on the trousers. Reaching out to turn on the light, I walked straight to my room, but the moment I passed the table in the main room, my whole body felt cold, and goose bumps suddenly spread all over my body—— On the table of my house, there are two small coffins placed upright. If I read correctly, these two small coffins should be dismantled by Zhang Tiehan from the wall and roof ridge of my house during the day. I clearly remember, I have already buried them, how could they appear on my table again?

Although I have always been conceited and bold, I was really frightened a lot today, and now seeing such weird things at my own home, it is even more creepy, and my whole body feels cold. It took a full three or four minutes before I came back to my senses, calmed down, reached out to touch the coffin, and opened it with trembling fingers.Inside the coffin, two naked female puppets stared at me with wide-eyed eyes! It was only then that I noticed that the facial expressions of this puppet were carved very vividly, but the expressions of the two were completely different, one was laughing, the other was frowning, as if crying...

However, no matter whether you are laughing or crying, people always feel unspeakable discomfort just by looking at her. "Damn, this must be a prank by those boys!" I cursed in my heart, and immediately took out the shovel from the corner of the wall, took the two small coffins, went outside, found a sunny place, and dug a hole Buried again... I still thought to myself, probably that kid who demolished the wall today was wicked and deliberately made it up to scare me.But when I think about it, I don’t know it—ordinary jokes are jokes, but this kind of feng shui is bad, and the mountain villages are all superstitious. No one will make jokes about such things...

When I got home, I locked the door and looked at the time. It was already past eleven o’clock in the evening after all this trouble. I hurriedly washed, found some healing herbs, and applied them to the wound on my knee. I was about to sleep, but suddenly my heart One move, my house - something seems to be missing. But I was thinking about it, but I couldn't think of it all at once, and immediately fell on the bed, closing my eyes and going to sleep, obviously very sleepy, but I couldn't fall asleep. I don't know how long I've been tossing and turning on the bed. In a trance, in the darkness, a woman with snake scales and an ugly face, like a ghost, rushed towards me viciously. I yelled, woke up from the dream, reached out and turned on the light, panting heavily.An ordinary shirt on my body was soaked with sweat. I finally understood what was missing from my house—the peeled skin from Erya’s face was gone... Someone came to my house and took away Erya's face, but dug out the small coffins that I had already buried and put them on the table. Thinking about it this way, there was a sudden "whoosh" in my heart, and an evil fire burst out, who is this person, and why did he do this?Is it just to scare people? However, if it was just to scare people, why did he take away Erya's face?What's the use of that?I lay on the bed again, but didn't dare to turn off the light, and kept my eyes open until the east turned white. The mountain village is simple and simple, let alone stealing things, even if you find something, as long as the owner comes to the door, most of them are willing to return it.Who is this man?Why did you sneak into my house and do such mischief?And took away Erya's face by taking away? Waiting for the day to dawn, I started to pack things again. I roughly tidied them up. Apart from Er Ya’s face, nothing else was missing from my house. There is no less money in it, and there is no trace of flipping at home. Village head Zhang said that my house cannot live, and I was about to go to the town to look for the old beggar and seek medical advice.So the next day, I gave away some of the heavy stuff in the house to the neighbors, and then, after lunch, I headed for town with my simple luggage - and I probably won't be back . Therefore, it is natural to take the broken volume of Qingsang Sutra for mending surgery, as well as some manuscripts of strange prescriptions of the master, all hidden close to the body, and some prepared herbs, etc., carried in a medicine basket, including The money-dropping golden toad that has been processed and air-dried. Unexpectedly, as soon as I walked to the entrance of the village, I suddenly bumped into a jeep—— "Doctor Xu, where are you going?" Niu Zhenhua asked loudly when he saw me with a dusty face. "I'm going to town, where are you going?" I asked in surprise. "That's great!" Niu Zhenhua said anxiously, hurriedly opened the car door, and pulled me into the car. At the same time, he pulled the car in a dangerous way, and said anxiously, "Let's talk while walking." "What's wrong?" I asked sitting next to him. "My grandfather's illness—" Niu Zhenhua said anxiously. "Is your father back?" I asked. Niu Zhenhua shook his head and said, "When I came to pick you up, I told him to come back quickly. It's not a matter!" "What's the matter?" I frowned and sighed, "Actually, to put it mildly, your grandfather is already getting old, so even if there was a mistake, it would be considered a happy loss!" "It's not this!" Niu Zhenhua said, "At first my grandfather was paralyzed in bed and couldn't move at all, but at noon today, the old man got out of bed by himself..." "Okay?" I was stunned, this is impossible, isn't it? "If it's all right, why am I still running here to find you?" Niu Zhenhua said with a sad face, "We were eating at noon today, but the old man jumped out of bed suddenly, shouting something that no one could understand. Crazy talk, I was in a hurry, busy comforting the old man, but he stretched out his hand and strangled my neck—look!" He raised his head while talking. I saw the bruised fingerprints on his neck, and I couldn't help asking in surprise, "Is this your grandfather who pinched you? This...will kill you?" "Isn't it?" Niu Zhenhua sighed, "I don't know where the old man got his strength, and he almost strangled me. Fortunately, he was paralyzed in bed for many days, and his bones were weak after all. I broke free and ran away, but he ran to the kitchen , He came out with a knife, he was going to kill dogs and chickens, and he would kill people when he saw someone! I found a few people, and finally took his knife away. Now, I am tying him up at home with a rope... ..." "Ah!" I was shocked when I heard this, and asked, "How could this be?" "The doctors in the town said my grandpa suffered from insanity!" Niu Zhenhua patted the steering wheel of the jeep fiercely and said angrily, "If they say my grandpa has Alzheimer's, I will admit it, but he has already After being paralyzed in bed for so many days, how could he be insane? Even if he is crazy, where did he get the strength to run away?" I was silent when I heard the words, the appearance of the old man of the Niu family, as people in the village often say-bewitched! But the problem is, this old man has been paralyzed for many days, and he doesn't go out, how could he be bewitched?It is absolutely impossible to be insane. Although Niu Zhenhua doesn't know medical skills, there is a saying that is true, where does the old man get his strength? "Doctor Xu, do you think my grandfather...is he bewitched?" Niu Zhenhua asked. "It's really like what you said! But, wait until I go and have a look!" I shook my head. "That's right!" Niu Zhenhua asked while driving, "Doctor Xu, what are you doing in town?" "My grandma passed away, and I plan to go to the city to find my parents in a few days." I said casually. "Oh?" Niu Zhenhua was silent for a moment, and then said, "Doctor Xu, can I trouble you to live in the town for a while before leaving? As for the house, you don't have to worry, I will arrange it for you." I was stunned for a moment, and then I understood, and hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will cure your grandfather, or wait for his old man to return to the mountain!" When Niu Zhenhua heard the words, he smiled embarrassingly, and didn't say anything. Niu Zhenhua was driving very fast, blazing lamas and rampaging along the way, and soon arrived at the small town, stopped the car in front of his house, dragged me into it, and ran into the mayor of Niu head-on. "Father, you are finally back! How is grandpa?" Niu Zhenhua asked anxiously. Mayor Niu also looked anxious, looked at me, hesitated to speak, and made a gesture of invitation: "Let's ask Dr. Xu to take a look!"