Fairy Tea Temple Notes

He Qing poured a glass of iced lemonade for He Yan, and He Yan moistened her throat, holding the cold transparent water glass, looking out the window at the river view.She still has a clear memory of the encounter in elementary school, because what happened that year is really puzzling.

From the cousin's narration, He Qing can roughly guess that there must be ghosts in Kengnei Village, and Ke Shicheng probably followed the past to catch ghosts.But my cousin and friends, except for the boy named Liu Qinggui who saw a female ghost, no one else saw a ghost.

"Sister, the two missing classmates, were they found later?"

Seeing He Yan put the water glass on the coffee table, He Qing began to ask.

He Yan took out a tissue to wipe off the water stains on her hands, and she continued to talk to He Qing's expectant face.

Almost at the same time that He Yan and the others were found by their family members, workers from a brick factory found Zhong Kangfu and Lin who were wandering in the woods facing each other, and found them in the cemetery.The two children said they were trapped in the cemetery and could not find their way out.It's very strange, the cemetery is not big, and Zhong Kangfu of the forest often goes to play, and he is very familiar with it, but he will get lost in it.

As for why Zhong Kangfu’s shoes were left by the puddle, according to Lin Dianxiang, he went to ask Zhong Kangfu to go to school early in the morning.Because he was about to be late, Lin confronted Zhong Kangfu and told him not to swim because it was too late for school.Not wanting Zhong Kangfu to get rid of him, he ran barefoot into the woods, and Lin Zhuo chased after him. The two entered the woods together and were trapped in it for a day.

"We asked Ah Fu, and Ah Fu said he didn't remember why he ran into the woods, but he said he saw a person and kept asking him to play with him. Ah Fu called him Brother Po, and they were in the same village."

"Brother Po is the boy who drowned in the puddle of Kengnei Village before. Ah Fu and him often play together. So everyone said that it was Brother Po who was looking for a substitute for the dead ghost, and Ah Fu."

He Yan doesn't really believe in these things, but she has indeed experienced very strange things.

"My lord also said that we were in the ancestral hall and read out the names of the spirit cards against each other, which might have brought out the ghosts, so we couldn't get out of Kengnei Village. But I can't see whether there are ghosts or not."

He Yan stroked the hair by her ears. She was curious when she was a child, and once wanted to see what the ghosts looked like. After the incident in Kengnei Village, she never wanted to provoke these things again.

"The disappearance of a group of us was a sensation at the time, and reporters came to the school to interview. It was just three or four days before the end of the ghost month. Later, on the last day of the end of the ghost month, nearby villagers appeared For money, many Taoist priests were invited to Kengnei Village to do things.”

He Yan still remembers the grand scene at that time, but even though the ritual was performed and the ghosts were saved, the adults still did not let the children go to Kengnei Village, and He Yan never went there again.After graduating from elementary school, He Yan moved to X City with her family, so she doesn't know what Kengnei Village looks like now.

"Sister, are the villagers in Kengnei Village really killed by meteorites?"

There is always a reason for the village to be abandoned, and the name of the village "Kengnei" is also very unique.

"No."

He Yan shook her head. She was also curious about the past in Kengnei Village, so she asked some local elders.

"Five or 60 years ago, during the ghost month, a big typhoon blew up and flooded the village in the middle of the night. Our He Village was also flooded at that time, but the position of Kengnei Village was the lowest, like a bowl, and the villagers lived at the bottom of the bowl. Many people were drowned."

"It turned out to be the flood caused by the typhoon."

He Qing was very surprised, it must be a terrible typhoon.Typhoons come to the local area every year. The villagers are very familiar with typhoons, and such a tragedy will happen.

"I heard from my grandfather that when he was very young, he suddenly felt someone shaking him in the middle of the night and woke him up. After waking up, he found that there was a flood of water and the bed cabinet floated up."

The terrain of He Village is relatively high in the local area, so one can imagine the disaster situation in Kengnei Village at that time.

"After the flood, most of the surviving villagers fell ill and moved out of Kengnei Village because they were worried about another typhoon. Zhong Kangfu and others who opened the brick factory came from other villages, not from Kengnei Village, but from Kengnei Village. The surname stays."

"Hey, my sister's classmate named Liu Qinggui, could he be from Kengnei Village?"

He Qing listened to the story very carefully, so he remembered all the small details.

"Qinggui, he is."

"Didn't Qinggui see a female ghost upstairs in Yongsheng?"

He Yan picked up the water glass, took a sip of water, and then continued:

"The old people said that Yongsheng Building is the ancestral home of Qinggui's family. Qinggui's aunt lived in it and died very early. Therefore, it was his aunt who gave Qinggui the directions. The local people are superstitious, and they just say it."

There are other ghost stories about the old house in Kengnei Village, which are quite scary.

"Sister, what did Shi Cheng want to do when he went with you at that time?"

He Qing felt that Ke Shicheng was trying to save his sister and the others, but from what his sister said, it sounded like Ke Shicheng was up to something, such as finding He Yaya in the coffin.

"He was going to save us. If he hadn't followed, my friends and I probably wouldn't have been able to come back. But he's like a boring gourd, and he won't say a word when you ask him. Ah Qing, you can see what he saw. You will understand why he did that, why you know that Yaya is in the coffin, so you are not afraid of him."

When He Yan was young, she was full of curiosity about the magical world that ordinary people couldn't see. The incident in Kengnei Village was a watershed. Since then, she has avoided going close to these weird places.

"He's nothing to be afraid of, he's a nice guy."

He Qing felt that Daoist Ke was simply gentle and amiable.

This afternoon, He Yan and He Qing chatted about the past more than ten years ago.After telling the story of the past, He Qing accompanied He Yan to the He family's old house to put luggage.He Yan planned to stay in the He family's old house for two nights before leaving the day after tomorrow.

In the evening, Ke Shicheng came to He Qing's house as usual, and seeing that He Qing was alone in the house, he rarely asked where He Yan was going?He Qing said that the cousin would live in the old house and would call her over for dinner later.

He Qing was busy in the kitchen, and Ke Shicheng was standing at the dining table tearing green beans.Xiao Hui wandered around the dining table, pecking at an unriped kidney bean for Ke Shicheng from time to time, obediently helping.

"So nice."

He Qing came over and rubbed Xiao Hui's head, he put the torn green beans into the sieve basin, took them away and washed them.

"He Qing, is there anything else I can help you with?"

Ke Shicheng poked his head into the kitchen, looking at the back of He Qing cleaning the string beans.

"one thing."

He Qing put the green beans aside to drain, and he turned to look at Ke Shicheng.

"Shi Cheng, my cousin told me at noon that when you were in elementary school, you got lost in Kengnei Village."

"Oh."

Ke Shicheng looked very indifferent.

"I want to ask you, how do you know that the missing He Yaya is in the coffin?"

He Qing felt that the most bizarre part of the whole thing was here.

"She was entangled by a coffin demon."

"what?"

He Qing didn't hear what it was for a while.

"A long time ago, the old people here felt that they had lived enough and wanted to accumulate blessings for their children and grandchildren, so they would order a coffin."

"Oh, so that's the case. No wonder there are empty coffins in many old villages."

"The coffin will be placed in the ancestral hall, or in the main hall of the home. It cannot be placed horizontally, but must be erected."

"What will happen if it is placed horizontally?"

"Placing it horizontally, someone in the family is dead and needs to use it."

"However, the empty coffins in some villages have not been used for decades and have been placed there."

"That's the person who ordered the coffin and was buried separately for some reason."

Ke Shicheng looked at the vegetables in the basket. There were two shallots. He picked them up and peeled them.

"Some utensils will grow strange if left for a long time."

The empty coffin in the ancestral hall of Kengnei Village is strange. It has been erected for many years and has been forgotten by people.However, from the day it was born, it has been a container, the purpose of which is to carry the dead and lead humans into the place of death.

He Qing thought, so there are such things as coffin monsters, who would snatch people into coffins.

"Teacher Cheng."

"Ok?"

"Do you want garlic green beans, or stir-fried green beans with sliced ​​meat?"

"like it all."

Ke Shicheng laughed, He Qing's dishes are all delicious.

In the evening, when the meals were ready, He Qing called his cousin He Yan, who was surprised on the phone and said: "Xiaoqing, you can cook." He Qing said with a smile: "Yes, when I was young, my mother To go to work, I cook every day."

He Yan said that her younger brother is really virtuous, and happily came to He Qing's house for dinner.

Of course, she didn't expect Ke Shicheng to be there, and she was still surprised to see Ke Shicheng head on.

"Shicheng and I are lonely, and it's not easy to cook alone, so we eat together."

He Qing brought the rice bowl to the table, and Ke Shicheng placed the spoons and chopsticks. He was silent, but the atmosphere between him and He Qing was extremely harmonious.

He Yan glanced at Ke Shicheng, and suddenly felt that this kid was really handsome, with perfect facial features, and a first-class figure. It wasn't that He Yan was suddenly crazy about Ke Shicheng, she felt that there was something wrong.

Putting aside a weird idea, He Yan looked at the sumptuous dishes on the table. She was about to praise He Qing when she suddenly saw Xiao Qing take out a small teacup and a saucer. Then, Ke Shicheng filled the small teacup. Soup, sauces and sauces piled with rice and meat.

He Yan's eyes were straightened, she felt that the sauce plate seemed to move, as if it had been moved by someone, in the blink of an eye, drink!A piece of pork belly was missing from the sauce plate!

"Xiaoqing, are you raising something?"

He Yan was dumbfounded. She saw Ke Shicheng add a piece of pork belly to the sauce plate.

"Sister, that's a little bird raised by Shi Cheng. It's very cute."

He Qing was accustomed to Xiao Hui, and He Qing warmly greeted his cousin for dinner.

When Xiao Hui heard someone praise it, it jumped its claws on the sauce dish and accidentally knocked over a piece of pork belly and some rice.

He Yan saw the piece of pork belly beating by herself, and looked at Ke Shicheng domineeringly, as if asking what the hell Ke Shicheng was?

"Small gray."

Ke Shicheng sipped the soup leisurely and answered blankly.

"This thing is not harmful to people, is it?"

He Yan was worried about her brother. Although He Qing was an adult and would take good care of herself, she always felt that he and Ke Shicheng got too close. If she also became such a weird and indifferent person like Ke Shicheng in the future, she would lose a lovely brother.

"No."

Ke Shicheng spoke briefly.

"Sister, don't worry, I know Xiaohui very well."

He Qing thinks it's fortunate that Xiao Huang is still sleeping and didn't run out. If his sister finds out that he also has a wind lion at home, it will be troublesome.

Knowing that there was a mysterious bird on the table accompanying them to eat together, He Yan felt weird in her heart, but the dishes and soup made by He Qing were so delicious, He Yan almost forgot about it after eating and drinking.Until she suddenly glanced at the small teacup and saw a yellow-brown bird drinking water. The bird raised its head, noticed He Yan, and gave He Yan a rebellious little look.He Yan whispered, ah, I don't want to see it, disappear soon.

In the blink of an eye, the bird was no longer on the table.He Yan thought, it really was an illusion.