Ma Youyi and I left the deserted house and hurried back to the village in Daliang Mountain.
When we arrived at the village, it was already midnight.
At this moment, everything in the village was dark, not a single light could be seen, and the whole village was extremely quiet.
I took Ma Youyi around the village, and for a while I didn’t even know where to stay.
It's the autumn season now, and it's still quite cold at night in this mountain, so cold that people really can't stand it.
So I simply went to a house and knocked on the door.
This time I actually knocked and a young man soon opened the door.
The young man was obviously a little surprised when he saw me playing games with horses.
Maybe he thought it was someone from the village knocking on the door, but when he opened the door, he found two strangers.
However, the people in this mountain are relatively simple, and he did not occasionally show much vigilance. He quickly asked us where we came from and what happened?
"We are coming from Yong'an County. I would like to ask, did a Feng Shui master come to your village to do business three days ago?"
I quickly explained my purpose of coming and asked about Liu Yuheng.
"Mr. Feng Shui? It seems that he does exist, but he lives in the village chief's house."
The young man thought for a while and said.
"Are you still living in the village chief's house now?"
I quickly asked.
"probably?"
The young man touched the back of his head and said with some uncertainty: "The village has been uneasy before. The Feng Shui master whom the village chief and others specially invited from Yong'an has not done anything yet. He should still be there."
"Then could you please take us to the village chief's house? We are here to see that Feng Shui master. We have something important to talk to him about."
I thought for a while and said, I deliberately didn't say that I was Master Liu Yuheng, so that others wouldn't misunderstand us and think we were liars.
After all, with the age difference between me and Liu Yuheng, no one would believe it under normal circumstances if he said that I was his master.
"Okay, wait a minute, I'll get some clothes."
The young man said that he quickly went back to the house to put on a coat, and then came out quickly with a flashlight.
He took us directly to the village chief's house, which was not far away, and he arrived not long after.
At this time, in the middle of the night, I knocked on the door for a long time before finally calling someone.
The person who opened the door this time was a middle-aged man in his fifties, wearing a big coat. It seemed that he should be the so-called village chief of the young man.
"What are you doing, Awen? It's midnight, I'm dreaming, and you keep knocking."
The middle-aged man was obviously a little unhappy because his dream was disturbed, and he complained a few words.
"Village chief, they said they are here to find that Feng Shui master."
Awen said and quickly pointed at Ma Game and me.
Only then did the village chief notice Ma Youyi and I, looked at us, and then frowned and said, "Are you guys coming to see Mr. Liu too? The matter in our village hasn't been resolved yet. Just wait."
"No, we are not here to do business with Mr. Liu, we are...his apprentices."
I thought about it and simply lied.
At least it's more reasonable to say it this way, and it's easier for others to accept it.
"So he's Mr. Liu's apprentice? I thought you were here to ask him to do something, so come in."
The village chief said and quickly gave way to the door.
Awen was probably a little curious. After bringing us here, he didn't go back to sleep. Instead, he followed us into the village chief's house.
The village chief took us directly to the main room, and then woke up an old man who was sleeping on the kang.
"Mr. Liu, your apprentice is here to see you."
When the old man came along, Ma Game and I were both dumbfounded.
This is not Liu Yuheng at all? Instead, he was an old man in his sixties, with hair that was a little white.
"When...when did I accept a disciple?"
The old man looked at Ma Game and me, also looking confused.
"We made a mistake, we are not looking for Mr. Liu."
I quickly explained, then looked at the village chief and said, "Apart from this Mr. Liu, did your village invite any other Feng Shui masters to come over in the past few days? That gentleman's name is Liu Yuheng, from the old town of Yong'an County."
"Are you talking about Mr. Liu?"
When the village chief heard this, his face became very ugly and he stopped talking.
"Yes, where are the others?"
I asked quickly.
"That Mr. Liu is missing."
The village chief spread his hands and said with an embarrassed look on his face.
"What do you mean missing? Be clear."
As soon as I heard this, I frowned.
"Just a few days ago, on the night we invited him over, he was originally going to perform a ritual, but as soon as he was halfway through the ritual, he suddenly ran away. We didn't know what happened at the time. It didn't take long for him to react, and when he came back to his senses, he had already run into the old forest behind the village."
The village chief said with a very troubled expression on his face.
"Run away? Then did you look for it?"
I asked quickly.
The old forest behind the village he was talking about was obviously the old forest where Ma Yiyi and I went tonight.
That place was very evil. Liu Yuheng ran there inexplicably, and he was halfway through the ritual. Does this mean he is on the right track?
"We also looked for it, but the old forest was close to the Blood Ridge. We didn't dare to go too deep, and we didn't find it. I thought he might have just left, so I didn't care, and hurried to Gangu again. I invited Mr. Liu to come over."
The village chief said with some guilt.
"Don't think about it. I must have felt that the problem in your village was not easy to solve, so I just ran away. This is normal. There are so many charlatans nowadays, but few of them are really capable."
The old man on the kang lit a pot of dry smoke and said with a chuckle.
"Old sir, Liu Yuheng's ability is indeed not that great, but he is definitely not a charlatan. We are all people in this industry. If you keep saying this, you are probably going too far, right?"
I looked at the old man and said with an unhappy expression.
"You young people are easily deceived. With your abilities, you still accept disciples. Can you teach them? Have you ever been taught your true abilities?"
The old man shook his head disdainfully, then took a puff of cigarette and said, "In my opinion, he is just a charlatan. He feels that people in the mountains are easy to fool, so he came here to swindle money. You have been deceiving gods and ghosts every day, but this time something really evil happens, so you have no choice but to run away, right?"
