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As the sun was setting, the aunt who was sitting on the side of the street peeling potatoes saw the back door of the family restaurant opened, and the little boss and his new husband came out from the back door together.

"The young couple is going to buy vegetables." The auntie greeted He Chen cheerfully, "Today's potatoes are quite fresh." Then she looked at Si Buhui and praised him, "Our Chenzi's fried green peppers are delicious." Potato shreds are a must, you must try them.”

Seeing that Si Buhui's eyes lit up again, He Chen quickly tugged at his sleeve and reminded in a low voice, "Go to Grandpa Gu first, I can make you potato shreds anytime you want." He looked at it helplessly. Looking at the crane cloak that he put on again, "Are you really going to change another clothes before going out?"

"There will be danger outside," Si Buhui resolutely said, "This body is convenient for protecting you."

He Chen thought to himself that I've lived in Huaicheng for more than 20 years and I'm very safe, so I won't encounter any danger.

Having lived in the town for more than 20 years, He Chen was very familiar with every street and alley in Huaicheng, so he took Si Buhui to a few turns and came to a secluded small alley.

It was dusk, and every household in the one-story house was lit with tungsten lamps. The light shone slightly from the glass windows of the wooden frame and sprinkled on the wall, turning the coldness in the alley into a warm yellow.

Walking to the end of the alley, He Chen stopped in front of the door on the left, raised his hand and knocked on the knocker lightly a few times, and shouted into the door, "Grandpa Gu, are you home?"

After a few minutes, there were a few coughs from the door, and after a burst of slow footsteps, the door opened slightly, revealing a pair of cloudy eyes.The old man squinted his eyes and carefully looked at the appearance of the person who came, and saw clearly that the person standing outside the door was He Chen, so he opened the door with confidence and welcomed the person in.

The door was a bit short, Si Buhui had to arch his body slightly when entering the door so as not to knock his head on the door frame.He followed He Chen into the door, only to realize that the light in this room seemed to be dimmer than the houses next to it. The light from the tungsten lamp was extremely weak, and it jumped up and down, as if the next second To plunge the room into absolute darkness.

Si Buhui narrowed his eyes slightly, years of dark training allowed him to observe every corner of the room as easily as daylight in the dark.He observed that this is a house full of sundries, except for the small square wooden table in the center, there are all kinds of wood carvings piled up in every corner, big and small, and the common feature is exquisiteness .

He Chen turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone, carefully avoiding a small carved wooden box at his feet, skillfully reached out and pulled Si Buhui who was standing behind him, and shook the small stool beside the wooden table with the flashlight , whispered to Si Buhui, "Sit down."

Gu Ruisheng came out with a teapot, only to realize that He Chen was followed by an unfamiliar young man, he was taken aback, and asked He Chen, "Xiao Chen, who is this?"

Gu Ruisheng would occasionally pick a day a month to set up a stall in the ghost market. He lived in seclusion on weekdays and knew nothing about the news that "the boy from the He family got married" that was spread in the small town of Huaicheng.He Chen smiled awkwardly, and said to Gu Ruisheng, "Grandpa Gu, this is a relative who lives in my house temporarily, you can just call him Xiao Si."

As soon as the breath of the people around him changed, He Chen knew that he was going to explain nonsense again, so he quickly raised his hand to cover his mouth instinctively, and reminded him in a low voice, "Pay attention to the key points of our visit today, and you don't need to explain other things." Darkness In the process, he felt the lips he covered move, and the temperature on the palm of his hand was a little hot, and He Chen felt that his ears were starting to heat up.

Hearing that they are relatives of the He family, Gu Ruisheng said meaningfully "Oh", "It's relatives from Xiaoning's side."

Xiao Ning is He Chen's mother, Ning Xue. She and He Chen's father, He Shuofeng, died in a car accident shortly after He Chen was born, but the old people in Huai City still remember this sweet-looking foreign daughter-in-law.

He Chen didn't even think about how to arrange an identity for Si Buhui, and when he heard Gu Ruisheng's question, he answered vaguely.

"What's the matter, you come looking for me, old man?" Gu Ruisheng poured a cup of tea for each of them, and they took it politely, and thanked the old man.

Si Buhui touched the slightly cool body of the glass, and held it for a while, feeling that the glass was starting to get hot, so he quietly switched his own glass with He Chen's.

He Chen was unaware of all this, he took out the map from his pocket, unfolded it carefully and handed it to Gu Ruisheng, "Grandpa Gu, do you still remember this map?"

Gu Ruisheng took the map, turned around and took a hat with a headlight to take a photo, raised his head and said with a smile, "Remember, I bought this map from my booth, just a few days ago."

"Grandpa Gu, where did you get this map?" He Chen asked after hearing something interesting.

Gu Ruisheng is a woodcarver, of course he didn't draw the map, he smiled and said, "I picked up the map when I was tidying up the house a few days ago. I think this map is old, and it's useless to keep it for myself. It's better to Put it on the booth and find someone who is destined to make good use of it."

Gu Ruisheng glanced at the map again, and then he noticed the five large seal characters of "Huaicheng Hundred Demons Map" on his head, he understood somewhat, and suddenly said, "Oh, it fell from that book. "

"Which book?" He Chen caught a sensitive piece of information and hurriedly asked.

Gu Ruisheng turned around, picked up a book with curled pages that had turned dark yellow from a pile of wood carvings, patted the dust on it, and handed the book to He Chen, "Here, this is our book. When I was a child, I read the book, and I don’t know which former scholar in the town wrote it to coax the children. At that time, the parents tricked the children to sleep, and they had to say that if they didn’t sleep, they would be taken away by the hunchback.”

He Chen took the book, took a photo with the flashlight, and found that the legend of Huaicheng Hundred Monsters was impressively written on the cover of the book.

Well, it's a local fairy tale book.

Gu Ruisheng kind of misses it, "The storytelling at that time really had an atmosphere, as long as the lights were not turned on, it would be gloomy, and every household would encounter such evil things, and the name of our town also got an interesting ghost town in the woods, Do you think there are not a few monsters hiding in our crowd?"

He Chen glanced at the silent Si Buhui without any trace, and remembered the "monster catching family" that this person talked about in his self-introduction.

It's a pity that the map is extremely dirty, many places are covered with dust and dead insects, and Gu Ruisheng can't distinguish them completely. He casually pointed out a few places and introduced them to He Chen, "This street was called Yungui Street when we were young. Well, it was changed to Yungui Street because it thought the name was ugly, how could the mayor from outside know that our cloud ghost is a ghost?"

Hearing "Soul Street", Si Buhui, who had been showing his mind wandering in the sky, his eyes lit up, and he fixed on the place Gu Ruisheng pointed to.

"At that time, it was rumored that a child was missing in Soul Street, so there was an unwritten rule in Huaicheng, that is, children could not go to Soul Street," Gu Ruisheng said with nostalgia on his face, "but children, after all, tend to travel to Hushan , we have to take a detour to that street if we play any adventures and test our courage."

"So did any children really go missing on that street?" Si Buhui asked unexpectedly.

Gu Ruisheng shook his head, "I haven't heard of it. It's probably because the current situation was turbulent at that time. The adults were afraid that the children would wander around, so they said it to scare the children. Those who went on an adventure would dare to go around the outside. As for what's inside Son, I didn’t know before, I didn’t dare to go in until the name of the street was changed.”

He Chen also knew about Yungui Street, but since he could remember, that street had been renamed, and no one had told the story about the missing children on the street, but he remembered that the old lady who sold tea eggs at the street often He would also secretly stuff him with snacks.

Si Buhui flipped through the Legend of the Hundred Demons of Huai City, and found the chapter in the table of contents that read "The Demon of Soul Street". On the title page was a picture of a kind-looking old woman with a hunchback and a benevolent look. Below her was a line of small letters, It says "humpbacked woman".

The hunchback is a common monster, most of those who use her name to cure children who cry at night have never seen a real hunchback.Unlike most evil monsters who are willing to play tricks on children, she is like a kind old lady, often passing by a child's room where the doors and windows are not closed, she will quietly help the child close the window, and send the child a sweet dream by the way.

Si Buhui saw a hunchbacked woman in Si's house before. When my younger sister Si Zui was up at night and tried to climb down to the second floor to play, it was the hunchbacked woman who took her back to the room and gave the loose window to her. Close it tightly.

But for those villains who abused children, the hunchback would blow disease-causing powder into their ears while they were fast asleep, making them itchy and festering to death. He Chen, who was concentrating on drinking tea and chatting, was taken aback, "Si Buhui, what are you doing?"

Si Buhui said to He Chen in a serious tone, "Although I don't know the exact location of the antidote yet, I have to go to Soul Street right now."

Hearing that He Musheng was saved, He Chen hurriedly said goodbye to Gu Ruisheng, and hurriedly dragged Si Buhui out, not forgetting to put the Legend of Huaicheng Hundred Monsters in his cloth bag.

Stepping outside, He Chen asked Si Buhui, "The antidote is in Soul Street"

Si Buhui frowned, "I'm not sure yet, but I probably know who did it."

"Who?" He Chen asked.

Si Buhui thought for a while and said, "Humpbacked girl."

"Ah, that monster." When Si Buhui was reading a book just now, He Chen followed suit, "Then you mean that He Musheng is a bad person who abuses children."

"But I think Boss He looks kind and friendly, he really doesn't look like that kind of person." He Chen still remembered He Musheng's praise of the high nutritional value of wild vegetables in Huaicheng, "Could you be mistaken?"

Si Buhui didn't see much evil in He Musheng's eyes either, "So all this will not be clear until we go to Soul Street."