I am drawing cards in Liaozhai

This Yixi Village looks a bit desolate and dilapidated from the outside, but since many places are now affected by natural disasters, it is not unexpected.

But if Jiang Xun always wanted to come to this small and dilapidated village, Wang Sheng felt something was wrong.

He couldn't help but turn around to confirm with the other party, but saw Jiang Xun was staring at the distance not far away with serious eyes, his face was very dignified.

Ever since Jiang Xun lost his memory, Wang Sheng had never seen him show such an expression, and before he had time to speak, he saw him walk in.

Wang Sheng had no choice but to keep up, who would have thought that the two of them ran into a few villagers who were carrying coffins just after taking two steps.

The strange thing is that those people were clearly carrying the coffin, but their expressions were not solemn, let alone sad.They looked indifferent, as if they were just carrying two meaningless planks.

When the villagers saw them, their faces changed for some reason, they didn't speak, they threw the coffin at the door of a family in a panic, and ran away quickly.

In such a situation, it seems that someone is chasing after him.

Wang Sheng looked at the back with a complicated expression, and took two steps in, and found that many people in the village had a coffin at the door.

The two of them walked no more than five hundred meters, and they saw at least four or five households.

No matter what time it is, it is important to be buried in the ground for peace, and it is the first time he has seen the coffin thrown outside the house like this.

Looking at the pitch-black coffins, Wang Sheng couldn't help touching his arms, feeling a little cold in his heart.

At this moment, he suddenly heard an old voice coming from his ear: "I don't know what's the matter with you two coming to my Yixi Village?"

Wang Cheng froze for a moment, then turned his head to look, but saw an old man with gray hair and a stooped back standing not far away looking at them.

The other party's face was wrinkled, his back was arched, and his eye sockets were deeply sunken.I don't know if it's his own psychological effect, Wang Sheng always feels that there is a chill in the other party's eyes.

His thoughts changed sharply, so he simply decided to plan, and opened his mouth and said: "My friend and I happened to come across your place on the way to find relatives. I wonder if the old man can tell me where I can stay?"

The old man coughed twice, glanced up and down at them covertly, and then said: "I am the village head of Yixi Village, come with me."

Wang Sheng didn't expect it to be so smooth. When he came up, he ran into the village chief. Thinking of the coffin bearers who had just left in a hurry, he pretended to ask unintentionally: "What's the matter with these coffins? If someone dies, it should be done as soon as possible It's the burial."

The village chief who was leading the way kept walking, coughed a few more times, and said, "It's just an empty coffin. Our village is in this business. If some families can't fit it, they will put it outside the house. Everyone in the village got used to."

fart.

In his heart, Wang Sheng scolded the other party for talking nonsense, how many people die on average every day around this Yixi village, and it takes an entire village to do this business of dead people.

Realizing that the other party took him for a fool, Wang Sheng immediately wanted to ask something, but saw the old man in front of him suddenly paused, and said sideways: "This is it, this house has been vacant for a long time, you can stay here for now. "

Wang Sheng looked up and found that they had walked to the other side of the village unknowingly. The house looked nothing special, but it happened to be next to a small stream.

This stream runs through almost the entire Yixi Village, so the village must be named after this stream.

The village chief led them here, his expression relaxed for some reason, and he turned around to leave.

Seeing his expression, Wang Sheng felt a little uneasy about falling into a trap for some reason, and quickly said: "My body is weak, and it is not suitable to live too close to the water, and the humidity is too heavy. I wonder if I can live in another place? "

The village chief's expression changed, and he said harshly, "Only here is free."

After speaking, he seemed to be afraid that Wang Sheng and the others would turn their heads and leave, and softened his tone: "The nearby villages are not as easy to talk to as we are about covering up a few more quilts at night. Young people can't be so delicate."

Wang Sheng tried out the attitude of the other party, so he took the opportunity to get off the donkey and said with a smile: "That's true, it's not a big problem if you think about it overnight."

The village chief didn't answer any more, and left in a hurry after making a couple of ambiguous remarks.

After he left, Wang Sheng frowned deeply.He had paid attention to the village chief's expression when he was speaking just now, and found that when he was talking all night, the other party's brows couldn't help twitching.

Did he not intend to let himself go at all?But Wang Sheng looked carefully with his yin and yang eyes before, and the village chief is indeed an ordinary person, and there is no trace of evil spirit on his body.

He couldn't help but look sideways at Jiang Xun. After entering Yixi Village, the other party became very taciturn for some reason, and he didn't say a word the whole time.

Wang Sheng was about to ask him, but found that Jiang Xun was staring at the stream beside him.

"There's a problem here."

Wang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and asked, "You mean the stream or the village."

Jiang Xun said softly: "I'm talking about the stream, but the previous village chief didn't mean well either, he let us live here on purpose."

"But it doesn't matter, it's just convenient for us to investigate."

Wang Sheng raised his eyebrows, yes, the village chief obviously took them for a fool, but in fact it is not certain who cheated whom.

Thinking of this, his tense nerves relaxed a little.

The house that the village chief arranged for them to live in looked old, but it was surprisingly clean.

All kinds of furniture and utensils inside are considered complete. Wang Sheng reached out to pick up a rough porcelain bowl on the table and looked at it carefully: "People should have lived here, not long ago."

Jiang Xun just glanced at the furnishings in the house carelessly, then stood by the window and stared at the outside of the house in a daze.

Recently, Wang Sheng has gradually gotten used to his habit of being distracted at every turn. He walked to the window very naturally, and was about to speak, but found that the other party pulled out a uniquely shaped blade of grass from an unknown corner and pinched it in his hand.

The words that had already come to his lips could not help but pause.

Wang Sheng couldn't help but leaned over to take a closer look, and found that it was a plant that he had never seen before. The shape looked a bit like a lentil, but it was purple, which looked a little weird.

"what is this?"

Jiang Xun lowered his head and looked at it for a while, then shook his head in confusion: "I don't remember."

The meaning in these words was that he should have seen this thing before, and Wang Sheng felt relieved after hearing this.

The other party's reaction is clearly because they have been here before, so they have relevant impressions.It doesn't matter whether you remember or not, at least it means that they didn't come to the wrong place.

It seemed that this unknown plant evoked his memory, Jiang Xun silently stared at the purple lentils in his hand for a long time.

Wang Sheng didn't want to disturb him, so he told him to stay here and not run around. He planned to check the situation first. After all, the scene he saw when he first entered the village made him feel uncomfortable.

"Creak." This is the sound of the old wooden door being closed.

Jiang Xun's eyebrows and eyes moved, and his eyes barely moved away from the blade of grass.He was about to put down the strange plant and go to the back of the house to have a look when he suddenly heard a strange sound.

"...here...here..."

His originally clear eyes gradually became hollow, his hands hung loosely, and the purple blade of grass fell to the ground without a sound, and was crushed by one foot.

Jiang Xun stepped over the wreckage and walked straight to the stream.

The stream in early spring was still freezing cold, but he stepped into it as if he didn't feel the heat or cold at all.

As he walked deeper and deeper, a pair of pale and swollen arms soaked in water suddenly stretched out from the stream, and they were about to grab Jiang Xun!

Click.

It sounded like something was being broken.

The arm he accidentally stepped on seemed to have suffered some serious damage, and he hurriedly hid underwater.

Jiang Xun didn't notice it, when he stepped on those arms, it was no different from stepping on underwater pebbles.

The few remaining pale fingers behind him twisted and twisted strangely a few times, and then reluctantly retracted into the water.

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Wang Sheng walked around the village alone, originally wanting to ask someone to inquire about it, to see if he could find any clues.

But he didn't go far, but found that things were not as simple as he imagined.

It is clearly daytime now, but every household here is closed.

The narrow dirt road was half-occupied by sparse black coffins. In some places, Wang Sheng even had to turn sideways to barely pass.

He noticed that the houses on both sides were not empty.On the contrary, the villagers all hid behind the dark doors or windows, staring at him steadfastly.

Wang Sheng was already considered relatively calm, but he still felt his back go numb.

What made him even more creepy was that the eyes of those people were very strange, and they didn't see the vigilance of the foreigners.

Instead, there was some strange excitement, if I had to describe it, it was like waiting for a good show that was about to start.

Wang Sheng felt uncomfortable from these blunt gazes, and because he was a newcomer and hadn't figured out the situation yet, he couldn't act rashly.

After thinking about it, he decided to go home first.

Who would have thought that as soon as he turned around, he saw the village chief who had left before standing behind him at some point.

Wang Sheng trembled in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face, and even forced a polite smile.

The village head still looked gloomy, holding a crudely made bamboo basket in his hand.

Seeing that Wang Sheng had discovered him, he pulled a shriveled smile on his face, but because of the wrinkles on his face, he looked a little ferocious: "I happened to be delivering food to you, and I didn't expect to see you halfway."

The kindness came out of nowhere, and Wang Sheng's heart was full of alarm bells, but there was still a grateful expression on his face: "Thank you very much."

The village head glanced behind him vaguely, and asked casually, "Where is there another young man?"

Wang Sheng pretended not to care, and said with a smile, "He's resting in the house, I'll come out for a walk."

The village head laughed twice, and said: "Our village here is not as good as the outside, and the scenery is not very beautiful. Only the stream is clean and the water quality is sweet. You can go there and have a look."

There was indeed a problem with the stream.

Wang Sheng had already blacklisted the creek next to the house, but he still had a smile on his face: "I see, thank you village chief."

The two looked at each other with their own ulterior motives, and the village chief put the bamboo basket containing the meals into Wang Sheng's hand, and left first.