Renew

Chen Lin's daughter-in-law.

Isn't it the one that the butcher said yesterday and gave him a dead pig?

Rong Li sat up, feeling more and more that something was wrong with the blind girl, she said that it was going to rain, and the night rain really came, and the one who died happened to be the daughter-in-law of the Chen family that the butcher was talking about.

The rain had stopped outside the house, but it was muddy outside, and the roads in the village had not been repaired much. When it rained, mud splashed everywhere.

Hua Su stood by the door, looked at the passing villagers and said, "Go and have a look."

Rong Li went out and walked towards the house where the person died last night, and saw a lot of people around the house, but none of them dared to look in, they were about ten steps away from the door, as if they were afraid get involved.

Someone whispered, "What did Chen Lin's daughter-in-law do? How could it be her turn? It's a good thing she hasn't died for a while."

"Chen Lin's daughter-in-law is pretty safe, she hasn't done anything harmful, and she went to wash clothes by the river with me yesterday morning."

"Safe? Is she considered safe? This Chen is honest and diligent in hunting, but he married a daughter-in-law who cares about every detail and is treacherous and slippery. The meat that this girl brings to my house is always short of catties! "

"You mean, she deserves to die?"

"I didn't say that, it's just that the ghost is quite good at seeing people. Otherwise, why didn't he kill Chen Lin, but only her when he was in the same room? Let me see, even ghosts can't see well!"

"You are not afraid that it will be your turn next."

"What am I afraid of? I haven't done anything wrong, so I'm not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door."

Several people talked for a while with guns and sticks. It sounded that the relationship in this village was not very harmonious. Maybe it was because of the haunting, and they rarely communicated with each other, so the relationship was estranged.

Standing behind the people, Rong Li wanted to go up the mountain again to see what the butcher and his blind wife were doing.

Chen Lin, whose wife had just died, came out of the house with a grim expression, "What are you looking at, she is already dead, and you are still burying her here."

Several people couldn't help but fell silent, looking at each other.

One asked in a low voice, "Where are you going to bury your daughter-in-law?"

"She is going to enter our ancestral grave." Chen Lin looked mournful, and seemed a little scared amidst his resentment, "I promised her."

A cry came from the crowd, "No way, your daughter-in-law was killed by a ghost, not to mention whether she is qualified enough to enter the ancestral grave, you are not afraid of embarrassing your ancestors!"

Chen Lin looked gloomy, "What's the matter?"

"Isn't this forcing the ancestors to make enemies with the ghosts?"

Chen Lin: "That's not very good. I happened to capture Li Gui, or are you afraid that your ancestors won't be able to fight Li Gui?"

The man stopped talking.

Chen Lin snorted, "Thinking about it, I really can't beat it. If the ancestors who worshiped the ancestral hall for so long were of some use, my wife wouldn't have to die. It's not like you haven't worshiped before. Even the temples in the village can't protect us. , not to mention ancestors, I often went to the temple in the village a few years ago, but have the gods manifested their spirits?"

Everyone was speechless. If the temple was useful, they wouldn't be so angry that they smashed it, but the ancestral graves are ancestral graves after all.

Chen Lin raised his red eyes, glanced at the people standing outside the door, raised his hand and pointed at the crowd, "Your family also died, and you also worshiped the ancestral hall, but the ancestors didn't help you? Your daughter-in-law Not dead yet."

The person pointed at stared straight, hesitating and speechless.

Chen Lin pointed at another person: "Your man was also killed by that ghost, and the memorial tablet was still entered in the ancestral hall. Do you think the ancestors were angry?"

"So what if I let my daughter-in-law enter the ancestral grave? The ancestors are useless. If I want to bury my daughter-in-law, they will stop me." He said again.

He wanted to point at another person, but he paused with his raised hand, and suddenly saw the woman standing behind the crowd.

The light yellow dress, the cuffs are sewn with soft fox fur. The jacket looks thick, but her body still looks very thin.

Chen Lin's pupils shrank, his mouth was slightly opened, and he couldn't say a word.

Everyone noticed that something was wrong with Chen Lin, they quickly turned their heads and followed his gaze, all eyes fell on Rongli, an outsider.

Rong Li seemed to be alone, but in fact there was a ghost standing beside him.

An old woman said in astonishment: "When I was sitting at the entrance of the village yesterday, I saw this girl enter the village."

The other person showed horror, but seeing Rongli's composure, he asked in a trembling voice, "Why did you die in the night when you just came here? Could it be that you are that ghost!"

Chen Lin said hoarsely, "You, you..."

The man's reaction was too bizarre, he seemed to have seen it before, and he said again: "You, why are you here again..."

Some people standing close to Rongli backed away, fearing that she was transformed by a ghost.

Rong Li said softly, "I went to the village yesterday, and even went up the mountain. I just went to the village to find two pieces of tiger skins for the town's lord."

She spoke vaguely, which stunned the villagers.

The old woman turned around and asked, "Tiger skin, did you come here last night to buy tiger skin from Chen Lin?"

The man neither nodded nor shook his head, and was sweating continuously. His face, which was originally flushed with anger, turned pale. He turned around and wanted to hide in the house.

Seeing this, the old woman grabbed his arm, "You should say something, let's not talk about your daughter-in-law, did this girl come to you yesterday?"

"Mother, don't ask me!" Chen Lin raised his voice.

It turned out that this old woman was actually the man's mother, maybe this village is all of the same clan.

Chen Lin didn't even dare to look at Rongli more, but he couldn't shake the old woman away, so he stood still, and then his cock got wet, and he was so scared that he lost control.

Just now, he could say a few harsh words for his daughter-in-law, but now he seems to be listless.

There were still so many pairs of eyes watching from here, Chen Lin felt ashamed and scared, and his expression became very distorted.

Hua Su said coldly: "If you don't clarify, these people will really regard you as a murderous ghost."

Rong Li said slowly: "Brother, when did you see me yesterday, just say it."

As soon as these words came out, Chen Lin became even more frightened, "Last night, last night my daughter-in-law pinched my neck, I, I..." He lowered his hands to protect his crotch, and even the legs of his trousers were slightly soaked.

The old woman hastily took off her jacket and put it around his waist, "Just say it."

Chen Lin clutched the old woman's jacket, and said in a trembling voice: "I dare not take a step forward, the black shadow wanted to catch my daughter-in-law and forced her to a corner, my daughter-in-law shouted loudly, but I, I was also afraid ah."

He pursed his dry lips, and said again: "Later, the black shadow covered my daughter-in-law's back, grabbed her hands, and made her pinch her own neck. My daughter-in-law struggled endlessly and twisted into twists on the ground..."

Everyone stared, not daring to breathe.

Chen Lin cried: "My daughter-in-law died just like that, and the black shadow was like water, flowing away against the ground."

The old woman also cried, "My poor daughter-in-law."

Chen Lin raised his hand to wipe away his tears, "Then this, this girl came, saying that she heard voices and wanted to take a look, but she, she, she was not afraid, she stood beside my wife without any fear."

Rong Li coughed, "I'm not in good health. I'm a dying person. I'm going to become a ghost sooner or later. Why should I be afraid of that ghost taking my life?"

Her complexion is whiter than plain, she has a slender neck and waist, so thin that she seems to be blown away by the wind, she is really not the appearance of longevity.

Chen Lin didn't believe it, "But, but you still ask me..."

Rong Li raised his eyes, "When I heard the shouting, I thought someone would come to rescue me. I didn't want to shout for so long without stopping, as if no one had ever looked at me. I thought I couldn't just stand by, so I braved the rain and searched for it. The road was desolately quiet, and no one came out. Unexpectedly, it was already late when we arrived."

Hua Su snorted coldly.

Rong Li said in a low voice, "You guys from the same village heard the yelling and didn't help, but I was the only one who rushed over, I was obviously well-meaning, but I was treated as a weird person, shouldn't it be you. "

The villagers were speechless.

Rong Li said again: "Forget it, I don't want this tiger skin anymore, if I stay in this village for a long time, wouldn't you have to peel off my skin?"

Hua Su said coldly, "If they have the guts, I'll cut off their hands."

The old woman considered her words, and said in surprise: "You said earlier that you went up the mountain specially to find the tiger skin, but the one on the east side?"

Rong Li nodded, he didn't know what was so strange about that mountain, but only the butcher's family lived on the mountain.

The old woman was surprised: "What are you doing up the mountain?"

Rong Li hesitated for a moment, and said simply: "Looking for someone, I heard that the best hunter in this village lives on the mountain."

The old woman looked strange, "Although the grandson is good at hunting, I have never seen him catch anything good, but every time he went back to town, he would get something out of it, and I don't know where he got it from." here."

She leaned towards Chen Lin, "Do you think so?"

Chen Lin blushed, his neck was thick, and his crotch and legs felt very uncomfortable. He tightened his grip on the jacket around his waist and said, "Yes, if you want to chat, why don't you go somewhere else, my wife..." His wife's body was still in the house.

The crowd didn't want to see more, so they had to leave.

Rong Li stood outside the door, watching the old woman enter the house, after a while, the old woman and the man who changed his pants carried the dead body wrapped in a straw mat out.

Chen Lin simply picked up the straw mat and said, "Mom, go back first, I'll take her there."

The old woman paused and nodded: "You go."

A fluffy head protruded from Rongli's skirt, she raised her hand and pushed the pendant back.

Seeing that she was still there, the old woman was very surprised, "Girl, why don't you leave? Outsiders have not been welcomed in the village for a long time. You'd better leave earlier. If you want to buy some tiger skins, after a while, someone will come to you." Send it to town."

"What happened in this village, really...are there ghosts?" Rong Li asked cautiously.

The old woman was silent for a while, then simply said: "You follow me."

Hua Su followed, and snorted slightly: "Anyone dares to follow, and I'm not afraid that this old woman will sell you."

Rong Li knew that the ghost was worried about her, so he secretly raised the corner of his mouth, followed the old woman for a while, and entered the house.

The charcoal was burning in the room, and it was very warm. A child was lying on the quilt and playing with his feet. It should be the child left by the beautiful woman.

The old woman walked to the bed, wrapped the child in the quilt, sat down and said, "We never tell outsiders about the affairs of this village, but you just happened to bump into it, so it's okay to talk about it. If you don't make it clear, you I’m afraid you’re going to think wildly, but if you say it, you’ll be even more afraid.”

Hua Su folded her arms, and when she turned her head, her braids swayed slightly behind her back, "The villagers took this as a haunting, but in reality it was a haunting."

Rong Li shook his head at the old woman, "I'm not afraid."

The old woman said: "I didn't expect it to be my daughter-in-law's turn this time. Chen Lin married her in her forties. He got a son when he was old, but his wife died at a young age."

She continued: "This matter started a long time ago, when I was still young, I heard from my elders that this haunting started more than a hundred years ago, and every once in a while, there would be people in the village To be killed by a ghost, at first no one could have guessed that it was a ghost, because the person who died would either kill himself or hang himself, and the death was... all kinds of strange, it seemed that he was going to take his own life."

"What happened next?" Rong Li asked.

The old woman: "Later, that ghost became even more unscrupulous. He didn't deliberately avoid other people, and in front of other people..."

"As he said just now..." Rong Li said.

The old woman nodded, frowning tightly: "Yes, I also... witnessed that the one who died was my second son, and he was only seven years old at that time. Although he was a bit naughty, he was not guilty of death. The ghost actually entangled him, causing him to jump into the well and drowned..."

At first, Rongli thought that this haunting had something to do with the butcher and the blind girl on the mountain, but after thinking about it, when the old woman's son was seven years old, it must have been decades ago, decades ago, the butcher and the blind girl The blind girl might not have been born yet.

She thought for a while, then asked: "Your second son, have you... Where have you been and who have you met?"

The old woman shook her head: "He was naughty at that time, he would run outside from time to time, and he liked to tease people. I don't know who he met, but they were all in the village. After all, there are mountain roads outside. He is a child, and he can't Run to the city on two legs."

Rong Li said softly: "Could it be that you watched him fall into the well, he..."

The old woman sighed, "I saw a black shadow covering his back, the shadow was five feet high, and then he jumped in. I shouted for a long time, but no one helped me, so I grabbed the hemp rope and jumped. I went in, but there was water in the well, and I was not good at water, so I got stuck in it for a while and then had to come up, after a long time, he floated up, but he was already dead."

Hua Su listened for a while, and said to himself: "Mo is afraid of water. Last night, the rain fell so coincidentally that it covered up the fragrance of ink. It can be said that you killed one thousand enemies and lost eight hundred."

"What's wrong in the well?" Rong Li asked immediately.

The old woman raised her hand and rubbed the center of her brows, "It's too dark down the well, I can't see anything clearly. When I touched the second son, I cried and cried for a long time before someone pulled me up. Apart from that, there was nothing else."

Rong Li frowned, "The rest of the people in the village who were killed by the ghost just suddenly..."

The old woman lamented, "But the daughter-in-law of the Wang family said that she smelled a scent of ink. There is not even a teacher in this village. Most of the people can't even read, let alone the inkstone, and they haven't even held a pen a few times. , the smell of ink is strange, I don't know if she smelled it wrong."

Rong Li said yes, it was Yao Lingmo, but he didn't know why this Yao Lingmo wanted to harm people in this village, how many years have passed, and he still hasn't stopped.

Hua Su said coldly: "It really is, I don't know where it is hidden in the village, but it is well hidden."

The old woman thought for a while and said: "The child of the Wang family died half a year ago. He was only eight years old and had a very arrogant temper. I heard that he went up the mountain alone that day. I didn't know what happened, so I hurried back home. In less than half a day, he poked his head under the stove, alive...burning his own head into charcoal."

Rong Li paused for breath, and patted her back twice with a cold hand.

Hua Su caressed her back: "Be brave, don't be afraid."

Rong Li came over slowly, frowned and asked, "He went up the mountain?"

The old woman sighed: "Yes, it was a terrible death, and I don't know what he did before."

After thinking about it, Rongli still felt that the butcher and the blind girl on the mountain were very suspicious, so he asked: "I met two people when I went up the mountain. Are they the only two people living on the mountain in this village? When did they move to live on the mountain?" Yes, why do you want to move?"

The old woman groaned, "I almost lost my mind."

Rong Li looked apologetic.

The old woman sighed again, "The butcher who lives on the mountain is also surnamed Chen. According to his seniority, he still has to call me Liupo. He has always been impatient, and he always wants to take shortcuts. Hua went out in the town, and the clan gave him a good lesson, and once he heard what his wife said, he moved to the mountains, wishing he could stay as far away as possible."

Rong Li pondered for a while, "Is his wife also from the village?"

The old woman shook her head and said: "He brought that blind girl back from the town, and said she had a poor background. I don't think she is blind, but she is blind. Knowing that she has taken a fancy to such a brash man."

It sounds like the butcher is very unpopular.

The old woman said again: "The blind girl has been here for four years, but she has not given birth to a child. I don't know why. It is not easy for us to see her on weekdays. After all, she is blind, and it is difficult to come down the mountain."

Rong Li remembered that when the blind girl went to wash clothes by the river yesterday, her steps were really steady, she didn't seem to be invisible at all.

The old woman tucked in the blanket for her grandson again, "There seems to be nothing else to say, girl, let's go early, so as not to get into trouble."

Hua Su snorted: "My heart is not bad."

But Rong Li asked: "This ghost has been haunting for so long, why don't you move to another place?"

The old woman had a bitter face, "This is the root of our Chen family. How can we move as soon as we say, and...a young man moved to the town before, and he died. It took a long time before the village knew about it." He died strangely, he should have been killed by a ghost."

Rong Li was startled, "What happened to him before he moved?"

The old woman shook her head: "It's nothing special, but I had a fight with someone before moving in."

"With whom?" Rong Li asked.

The old woman said: "The one who lived on the mountain, he came down to buy medicine, and ran into the dead one, who spoke rudely and made fun of the blind girl on the mountain."

Hua Su looked down at the incantations embroidered on her clothes, it was much lighter than before, but the lines could still be seen. "Go up the mountain and have a look, there is something wrong with that blind girl."

Rong Li said softly, "Thank you for letting me know."

The old woman urged: "Leave earlier, don't come again!"

Rong Li nodded: "Then I'll leave now, mother-in-law, you should also be more careful."

That being said, in fact Rongli did not leave, but went up the mountain.

Hua Su said casually: "I never thought that pouring ink would become like this."

Rong Li was still pondering over what the old woman said, he was out of his mind when going up the mountain, and almost tripped, but fortunately Hua Su held him up.She leaned back and leaned against Hua Su suddenly.

Women are like nephrite, even their bodies are fragrant.

Rongli came back to his senses, turned around with lingering fear, and simply grabbed Hua Su's cuff.

Hua Su pushed her hand away, "If you can't walk well, you'll treat yourself as a ghost before you're in the ground, as if you're floating away?"

Rong Li was not annoyed, he grabbed it back again, his almond eyes stared innocently, "If you don't carry me behind my back, forget it."

Hua Su snorted coldly, "You are not afraid of being seen by others."

Rong Li leaned against her, "There's nothing to be afraid of, other people should be afraid if they see it."

It makes sense, but Hua Su couldn't refute it for a while.

Rong Li just likes to see her obviously angry, but seems to be gagged, and can only stare with a cold face.

She raised her chin, as if she was going to bring her lips forward, but she stopped suddenly.

Hua Su simply wrapped his arms around Rongli's waist, as if accepting his fate, and uttered a very soft word: "Annoyance."

Suddenly there was the sound of rustling footsteps on the mountain, and each step was extremely slow, as if every step had to be tested first.

It was the blind girl who went down the mountain.

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