My very cool daughter-in-law

"Sun... Family Ancestral Hall?" Sheng Xun squinted his eyes in the dark, and whispered out a plaque hanging at an oblique corner of his vision.

He and Lin Lang had successfully climbed into the three-meter-high courtyard wall.

Lin Lang was still shocked that Sheng Xun was able to climb the three-meter wall by himself, but he was shocked and knew to keep quiet. He followed Sheng Xun lightly with a shocked face, and his eyes might not only be Sheng Xun, who has an eight-fold mirror and infrared night vision function, led him along the way miraculously, and groped along the wall to the oblique rear of the main building in the courtyard.

"It turns out that all the ghosts in this village are surnamed Sun." Lin Lang muttered next to Sheng Xun.

He also tried his best to look there a few times from the same angle of view, but he only felt that the words on the plaque were like ghostly drawn symbols. Even if he was asked to go around and look directly in front, he might not be able to understand what was written.

He said to Sheng Xun sincerely: "You are so amazing, you can understand this."

"It's a book." Sheng Xun's eyes still fell on the front, "When I was a child, the old man spent more time with me. He loved to teach me to read and practice calligraphy when I was free. There was everything in the old man's bookcase, which made me recognize miscellaneous things in the end. Not good at another one."

Lin Lang felt that Sheng Xun was being humble.

"It's already very powerful." He said with emotion, "You still remember it now, and you can still use it——When I was a child, I gave it to my grandparents every holiday, but I didn't learn anything, and I was not good at anything. I gain ten catties during the holidays."

The phrase "ten catties fat" vaguely carries the resentment of a little chubby back then. Even if he has grown into a tall and well-proportioned adult, the memory of being violently fed back then is still sympathetic.

Sheng Xun was originally observing the situation ahead, and he deduced the complete terrain of this area in his heart. When he heard Lin Lang's words, he felt amused, but the smile suddenly appeared and disappeared.

Thinking of what he found, he couldn't stop laughing after all.

"This is a courtyard with four entrances." Sheng Xun said, and he changed the subject directly.

The moment he first entered the courtyard, even though he only paused on the wall for a few seconds, the gap between the pauses was enough for Sheng Xun to quickly look down and scan the entire courtyard.

The overall structure here is a bit like a quadrangle, with a symmetrical design on the axis. The main material of the building is wood-concrete bricks, which are neatly divided into four parts: the gate, the Yimen, the Xiangtang and the dormitory. It strictly follows the structure that a clan ancestral hall should have. .

At the back of the dormitory—that is, where Sheng Xun and Lin Lang are, this is the back courtyard connecting the dormitory, and there is also a small shrine, and offerings are also placed in the courtyard.

The inside of the shrine was dark, and it was hard to see what was enshrined in it.

Sheng Xun had a good impression of it, but Lin Lang seemed to retreat from it involuntarily.

"The dormitory is the place where the ancestral memorial tablets are enshrined. I know a little about this, and the hall of enjoyment is the main hall. They also host all kinds of weddings, weddings and New Year's sacrifices in the hall." Lin Lang followed Sheng Xun's observation of the yard and said As he spoke, he couldn't help but glanced at the shrine, and crossed his arms.

"But what is that shrine used for?" He unconsciously showed a trace of resistance, "I panic when I look at it, and I always feel weird."

Sheng Xun looked back at him.

"Maybe it's the offering land or the Baojiaxian." Sheng Xun said and stretched out his hand.

From Lin Lang's point of view, he felt that Sheng Xun was about to raise his hand to press his shoulder or head directly, and wanted to tell him not to look there any more and concentrate on business.

But strangely, Sheng Xun seemed to be worried about something, and finally the hand turned around halfway, missed him, and only knocked on the shovel in his hand.

"Don't look at it." Sheng Xun said, "We came here uninvited and trespassed on other people's ancestral halls. It's normal for Baojiaxian not to give us a good face."

Lin Lang thought that what Sheng Xun said was very reasonable. He took Sheng Xun's stop in the middle as a sign that the other party was being polite, thinking that the two had just met and were not that familiar, so it was inconvenient for them to get started directly.

Lin Lang was a little familiar, and felt that Sheng Xun was a little strange. He quickly agreed, and was about to raise his hand to hook Sheng Xun's shoulders, indicating that the two of them were already good brothers who were going to fight side by side today.

As a result, as soon as the hand was raised, the arm was not straightened.

Sheng Xun suddenly took two steps forward.

Lin Lang: "Hey..."

"The villagers in the front corridor went to the front hall." Sheng Xun said, who was just out of Lin Lang's arm, "The preparations for welcoming the newcomers have already begun over there. Let's walk around the dormitory first, from the back to the front."

On the village road outside the front gate, the sound of gongs and drums was indeed loud at the end of the street, and they began to slowly lead the dressed newcomers to the ancestral hall, which was bustling.

"Understood." Lin Lang hurriedly put away the confusion that he hadn't felt in a blink of an eye, and didn't put Sheng Xun in his heart properly, let alone think about it.

The two continued to walk and hide, and successfully entered the dormitory where the memorial tablets of Sun's ancestors were enshrined.

In many feudal and old-fashioned places, clan ancestral halls are regarded as important places in villages and towns. Not only people with foreign surnames are not allowed to enter the places where ancestral tablets are enshrined, but even women and children in villages and towns are required to confine their feet. If you are punished because of the family rules, you will be served by the family rules.

And the place of execution is generally in front of the ancestral tablet, which is euphemistically called "declaring to the ancestors and asking for forgiveness".

The atmosphere of the entire hall is inexplicably oppressive and gloomy. The only lighting is a few candlesticks on the tablet table, with thick and long white candles burning inside.

There were several futons on the open space in front of the memorial table, and they looked dark brown in the light of white candles.

"What's the smell..." Lin Lang said when he walked near those futons.

Sheng Xun stretched out his hand and made a blocking gesture, signaling to stop and silence.

Lin Lang didn't know, so he did it.

Then, Sheng Xun silently pointed to one of the futons, Lin Lang followed the instructions, and he took a deep breath——

On the futon, which was clearly empty before, suddenly there were two figures in the blink of an eye.

Those were two people kneeling on the futon, their backs were deeply hunched, and they were almost huddled together in front of the tablet table.

Black blood continued to ooze from under the two of them.The lower limbs curled up under the body are extremely uncoordinated, as weird as being interrupted and crushed.

Blood dripped from them and seeped into the futon underneath.

What Lin Lang smelled was the stench from the futon soaked in blood.

"..." Lin Lang was so shocked by what he saw in front of him that he instinctively moved closer to Sheng Xun, wanting to get closer to him.

But after taking a step, the two people on the futon suddenly disappeared again.

He blinked again, and the foot that was about to walk towards Sheng Xun stopped in mid-air.

Because he saw that one of the people kneeling on the futon had already stood behind Sheng Xun.

The other party's legs may have been broken before, and even when he stood up, he described it as weird. Some couldn't straighten his body, and his bent upper body was bent forward.

Lin Lang hurriedly wanted to call Sheng Xun to get away quickly...but a strong fishy smell penetrated his nostrils.

The smell comes directly from behind.

Another person who had been kneeling on the futon was also standing behind him.

"you……"

The "person" standing behind Lin Lang spoke with a low and hoarse voice.

But unexpectedly, the other party's tone was actually kind, with a faint hint of confusion.

"...What?" Lin Lang couldn't help but said, and he responded to the other party.

The "person" behind paused for a moment, then spoke again in a rough voice, and said slowly, "You...why...are...back again?"

return?

Lin Lang was taken aback by the other party's words, and wanted to ask if you had admitted the wrong person.

On the other side, the one standing behind Sheng Xun said to Sheng Xun: "You... are here for the first time..."

"Yes." Sheng Xun seemed to have no fear of the things behind him, and turned around, facing the stooped person behind him.

The other party continued to ask: "Guest... what are you doing here...?"

"Come help." Sheng Xun replied.

It was difficult for the ghost dog to look at him with its arms around its body, and it lowered its face to the ground.

Sheng Xun took the initiative to bend down slightly, and his eyes fell on the face where a trace of the past could be vaguely discerned.

"I'm here to save people." Sheng Xun spoke softly and very clearly, "But there's more than one person to save."

The ghost with its head drooping seemed to be a little taken aback. She tried to raise her face up, wanting to take a closer look at the person in front of her.

The ghost behind Lin Lang also slowly turned around and looked over here.

At this time, Lin Lang was sure that although the two ghosts were scary but not malicious, he also took a deep breath and turned around to see the specific appearance of each other.

—It was two women.

Two young women whose youthful vigor can be seen immediately if the blood stains on their faces are wiped off and their limbs are intact and healthy.

"...Understood." The one with the hoarse voice said.

Her throat was decayed, and she could no longer hear the softness and slenderness that it should have.

She and her companions are both ghostly and terrifying.

But they said: "Guest... please hide..."

"In the... ancestral hall... we... can... help..."

The female ghost spoke a few words intermittently like a music box that had been in disrepair for a long time.

They seem to be different from the villagers who are preparing for the wedding outside.

They are former brides who have held yin kisses.

Because even if he became a ghost, he still resisted in his heart, and did not fulfill the wish of the ignorant. According to the expectations of the other party, "it will be fine when we get married", "it will be fine when things are done", "become our old x The people at home will be happy."

Therefore, those who entered the ghost village were imprisoned in the dormitory of the ancestral hall, received "family rules and services", and were required to face the clan tablet to reflect and save their sins.

The long time and closed environment will wear down the spirit, destroy the will, and make the ghosts gradually forget who they are and why they are here.

But as long as someone pushes the door of the ancestral hall, the other party rushes in with the freshness that does not belong to the ghost village and the will to save someone.

The will of the living will briefly awaken the souls of Chaos.

They can't go.

But you can also try to help others leave.

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