Under the strong twisting impact, Hu Ma obediently followed the little girl in red clothes home for dinner.
Mu Ran's brain could only make the simplest decision at this moment. Compared with this weird and terrifying thing, it seemed that the gloomy mother-in-law and little girl in that room were safer...
It was already dark, an oil lamp was lit in the hut, and his mother-in-law was waiting for him at the Eight Immortals table.
The meal in this simple hut was actually very rich.
Hu Ma was out of breath when she ran away just now, and because she was frightened by those ghosts, she was in a daze. She didn't know how long she had been running away. She just saw a plate of pickles and two pickles on the Eight Immortals table. A bowl of porridge and a plate of meat cut into squares.
So Hu Ma sat obediently on the left side of the Eight Immortals table, and her mother-in-law sat at the top.
Xiao Hongtang was now squatting on the beam, stretching her head and looking down.
The lights flickered, people were scattered, and there seemed to be something always peeking in from the shadows outside the house.
The mother-in-law didn't speak, she just ate the meal in silence. She only touched the pickles on the plate.
Xiao Hongtang on the beam didn't say anything, just blinked and looked at Hu Ma who was sitting next to the Eight Immortals table.
The atmosphere was strange and depressing. Hu Ma finally couldn't bear it anymore and carefully broke the silence:
"Then...what are those things?"
"..."
Both his mother-in-law and Xiao Hongtang, who was playing on the beam, turned to look at him. The atmosphere in the room seemed to be even more depressing.
"Evil."
In the silence, the mother-in-law slowly spoke: "As soon as it gets dark, all those things come out."
"You were injured so badly that you forgot the rule about not going out at night."
"..."
"I……"
It was okay not to listen to this answer, but she felt even more furious in her heart. Hu Ma whispered a word, but she didn't know what to ask.
"Don't be so afraid."
The mother-in-law glanced at him and said slowly: "You are just fine. Your body is weak. It is normal to encounter evil spirits."
"As long as you listen to your mother-in-law and eat more meat, you will slowly get better.
"..."
"Eat meat?"
Hu Ma had no choice but to look at the square piece of meat on the plate.
The original piece was eaten by Xiao Hongtang, but now this piece looks like it was newly cooked.
But even if it is freshly cooked, it still has a cold temperament. The oil has solidified, and it glows strangely white under the oil lamp. It is placed on the plate coldly.
He had been force-fed many times before, but he still couldn't taste what kind of meat it was.
You can be sure that it is not pork, nor beef, and certainly not human flesh, nor any kind that I have ever eaten.
In addition, the shape of the meat always reminded him of the meat used to commemorate the dead in his previous life.
The conflict in his heart made it difficult for him to pick up the pair of chopsticks, but the mother-in-law stopped the chopsticks in her hand and looked at him faintly:
"You don't believe my mother-in-law?"
Hu Ma met her eyes, feeling slightly startled.
"letter!"
He took a deep breath, stretched out his hand and pulled the plate in front of him, lowered his head and started to nibble on it.
Just love him as much as you want!
Could it be that my situation could be worse?
Even though it was poisonous, I just ate it now, not to mention that it had been force-fed several times in the past few days.
The greasy meat was chewed up by himself and swallowed hard into his stomach. His already very hungry body gradually felt full.
I don’t know if it was an hallucination, but when this piece of meat entered my stomach, it seemed to start digesting immediately.
It seemed that the meat came to life after entering his stomach.
They squirmed in his body, seeped into his organs and blood, and repaired his body.
The strange feeling cheered him up, and the wounds on both shoulders seemed to feel lighter.
This was the first time Hu Ma had eaten this kind of meat soberly, and he was also wondering in his heart:
Normal meat cannot be digested so quickly, so is this an illusion?
…
The mother-in-law watched him eat the piece of meat cleanly, and her expression seemed to soften slightly.
The expression of resistance and forbearance on Huma's face, although she tried her best to control it, seemed to be caught in her eyes.
After Hu Mahjong had eaten all the meat, he slowly said: "Good boy, after eating, go back to the house to rest early."
"Pure against the wall when you get up at night. Don't go out or look outside. Those things are still there!"
"Tomorrow, my mother-in-law will take you to Laohuotangzi and pay homage to your ancestors. It will be fine."
"..."
"thing?"
Hu Ma actually still has many questions to ask.
But when I saw my mother-in-law's face hidden in the shadow of the oil lamp, I subconsciously shrank in my heart and didn't ask.
I just took a sneak peek outside the door and saw that it was completely dark outside, without even a hint of moonlight. It was so dark that I couldn't even see my fingers.
Together with this, it seemed as if the light of the oil lamp in the room had been squeezed to a dim level. There seemed to be countless weird things hidden in the sticky night, staring at a pair of strange and sinister eyes, staring at me. Unknowingly, My back was soaked with sweat.
He immediately put away his dishes and chopsticks obediently and got into the side room next to him.
The room was narrow, with only a wooden bed and a quilt that should have been freshly made, thick and cold.
He didn't dare to sleep, so he hid in the dark and narrow side room, his ears pricked up, and his mind was on the main room.
Outside the house, the sound of my mother-in-law chanting sutras could be heard, faintly visible, mysterious and obscure.
"Creak, creak, creak..."
Besides the sound of sutras, there was also a strange sound mixed in. I stretched my head and looked through the crack in the door. It was Xiao Hongtang holding an unknown bone and grinding her teeth.
The uneasiness in Hu Ma's heart reached the extreme. He hugged the quilt and silently hit his head.
"Am I reborn in the body of this boy also named Hu Ma?"
"Why are there so many irrational and weird things in this world?"
"Is that sinister mother-in-law really a relative of mine in this body, or is this just another lie?"
"What is that cold, greasy meat that she keeps forcing me to eat?"
"..."
My head was a little clearer than the past few days, but it was filled with endless questions and suspicions.
I have a strong desire to understand these things, but I don't even have the courage to raise my head and look out the window.
It was as if I was imprisoned by the night on this small wooden bed.
In such a world, Hu Ma didn't dare to sleep at first, but she didn't know whether it was because she dragged her weak body around for so long today, her mind was tired, or whether it was the sound of her mother-in-law chanting sutras and Xiao Hongtang's teeth grinding outside that made her feel so different. Strangely hypnotic effect.
Not long after he was alert, he became drowsy and fell asleep without realizing it.
In a daze, it seemed that we had come to a dark and deep place, surrounded by dark red mist.
His body quietly pushed through the fog and walked forward, suddenly his steps paused slightly.
In front, there was a dilapidated stand with a broken incense burner on it, and behind it was a large area of darkness.
You can vaguely see that there seems to be a shadow of a certain god in the darkness, but you can't see it clearly.
Hu Ma subconsciously took a few steps forward, unable to hear her own footsteps.
After approaching the stage in front, he found that it looked like an incense table in a temple. Even the entire space looked like an abandoned temple, but it was dilapidated. There had been no incense for who knows how many years. There were several tributes placed on the incense table. The plates were all empty.
And inside that incense burner, only half of the burner was filled with ashes, it was cold and silent, and no incense had been seen for an unknown period of time.
But the strange thing is that next to the incense burner, half a piece of red incense stick as long as the little finger is placed upside down.
It looked brand new and had a familiar aura to him.
Hu Ma stood fixedly in front of the incense burner for an unknown amount of time. His heart moved slightly. Out of some unknown psychology, he subconsciously picked up the half of the red incense stick and put it in gently. into the incense burner, and then slowly withdrew his hand.
"laugh……"
After putting the incense stick into the incense burner, it suddenly lit up inexplicably.
That bit of dark red light seemed to make the entire desolate and dilapidated space a little more alive.
The wisps of smoke drifted away, like a slender and illusory little snake, gliding lightly into the empty space around it.
Hu Ma realized something and held her breath slightly.
He quietly watched the smoke drift away, as if he had a feeling what would happen.
But the fact is that the incense stick has been burning quietly, and the burning speed seems to be faster than ordinary incense.
He waited until the half stick of incense was almost burned out, but nothing happened.
However, just when he breathed a sigh of relief and felt that there seemed to be no reason for his nervousness at this moment, he suddenly saw that the scattered and floating incense sticks suddenly stretched straight as if they were real objects, extending towards Deep in the dark red mist.
This obviously unreasonable phenomenon made Hu Ma's breathing disappear at this moment.
The next moment, a voice suddenly sounded: "The codename Erguotou is calling for reincarnation in Laoyin Mountain, does anyone hear it?"
"..."
"this……"
The unexpected words shocked Hu Ma's mind, staggered back, and her body trembled.
He looked in the direction of the voice in surprise and forgot to answer for a moment.
At this moment, my ankle suddenly felt cold.
A strange feeling surged through his body. Hu Ma woke up immediately and saw that he was sleeping on a narrow wooden bed. The little girl in red clothes was grabbing her ankle with her cold little hands, her eyes bright. Normal, just stare at yourself.
As if he was electrocuted, he reacted and retracted his ankle violently:
"what you do?"
"..."
"How cowardly."
Xiao Hongtang glanced at him and said with a smile: "Brother Huma is up, my mother-in-law is taking us to Laohuotangzi!"
"Lao Huotangzi?"
Hu Ma turned her head in confusion and found that the skylight came through the small window above her head.
It's daybreak.
