While Uncle Chu and his family were busy putting out the fire in the backyard, Chu Yi and Zhao Cheng quickly dug out the robe made of white cloth in the shop, quickly restored the shop to its original state, and turned over Uncle Chu's house again. Courtyard wall, leave calmly.
The Wang family and others worked hard for almost half an hour before they finally put out the fire in the backyard. As Chu A'nai walked back, she cursed breathlessly: "Throwing firewood into someone's backyard in broad daylight will never happen again." I have seen such a wicked person, and I am not afraid of retribution for my family!"
Mrs. Wang also said: "It's a good thing it was discovered earlier, otherwise it would have burned to the front yard! It must have been done by some arrogant little brat from around here!"
Uncle Chu felt especially sorry for the semi-finished coffins and wood in the backyard. He had made them bit by bit, but now they were all destroyed by a fire: "What the hell! All the coffin wood was burned. You didn't watch." ? Don’t let me know which bastard he is, or I’ll have to skin him all over!”
Just as Wang was about to reply, she was interrupted by Chu Ren: "It's obvious that someone is deliberately targeting our family. There are other people on the left and right of our family. If it's really someone's child, why would they specifically choose a middle yard, Dad? Mom, have you caused any trouble outside recently?"
Uncle Chu was already angry. When he heard that Chu Ren's son actually educated him, he didn't have the usual good temper towards Chu Ren: "How can you talk! Is this what the teacher in the private school taught you? At home? If something goes wrong, let me first ask you if I am in trouble!"
Seeing this, Mrs. Li hurriedly persuaded in a low voice: "Mr. sir, if you have something to say, please speak up. Mr. father, he was a little anxious just now!"
Mrs. Wang also pulled Uncle Chu's arm and complained: "Why are you yelling at your son! Ah Ren, you are not at home these days. You don't know what is going on at home. What trouble can your father and I cause?"
It was a good thing that Mr. Wang didn't speak, but when he opened his mouth, it seemed as if he was carefully explaining something to Chu Ren. Uncle Chu became even more angry: "I am his father, I can't even say a word to him!"
Mr. Chu has been working for a long time with an hungry stomach. He also knows in his heart that someone has deliberately messed up his family today. He is already tired and angry. Now that he has finally put out the fire, his family is in trouble again. He threw the bucket in his hand and said angrily: "Okay! Isn't that embarrassing enough?"
The old man got angry, and the whole family fell silent. The women hurriedly hid in the kitchen to prepare a late lunch, while the men sulked and went back to their houses. No one noticed their yard or shop at all. Someone came in. ..
Uncle Chu's family had an extremely quiet and eerie lunch today. After the meal, Mrs. Wang and others were just about to go back to their room to rest when they heard a knock on the door again: "Is anyone here? Is Mrs. Chu's family here?"
Mrs. Wang frowned, rubbed her sore head, glanced at Ms. Li, and asked her to open the door and take a look, while she stood on the dean's side and looked out.
Mrs. Li opened the door of her courtyard and realized that the person outside was knocking on the door of her coffin shop. She hurriedly walked out and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lu Jin turned around and saw someone from Uncle Chu's family coming out of the yard. He bowed hurriedly and said, "Sister-in-law of the Chu family, I live in the Lu family near your home. My family is going to visit the graves of our ancestors in the cemetery in front. I forgot to bring the fire seal. Dad asked me to go home and get it. It’s snowing so hard that I’m too lazy to walk back, so I thought of borrowing a fire dumpling from your house. I’d like to trouble my sister-in-law to make it easier!”
Li looked in the direction of Lu Jin's finger, and sure enough, she saw three men and two women waiting there not far away, carrying things for visiting the tomb. She looked down again, and saw Lu Jin who was borrowing the money from the fire. He was carrying a bunch of paper ingots strung up with hemp rope!
"With such heavy snow, why are you going to visit the grave at this time?" Mrs. Li looked at the heavy snow in the sky and asked tentatively.
As if he had finally found someone to complain to, Lu Jin muttered in a low voice: "Hey, sister-in-law of the Chu family, you also think that it should be lying at home today, because you know that my father and mother have to go there today. Going to the grave, I have to decide whether to change it or not, but I don’t know what I think. Sister-in-law of the Chu family, you’d better lend me a piece of fire insurance as soon as possible. I’ll go as soon as possible and get home as soon as possible!”
"Okay, wait here for a while!"
Seeing that Mrs. Li hadn't closed the door, Mrs. Wang walked back to the yard by herself. She hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "I'm watching."
It seems to be the youngest son of the Lu family. What is he here for? "
Mrs. Li glanced behind her and said, "Their family didn't bring any fire certificates when they went to visit the graves. They came here to borrow them, but they burned paper ingots!"
Mrs. Wang immediately understood what her daughter-in-law meant. She just happened to be unhappy today and had no place to vent her anger. She immediately said, "If I go to the grave today, my head will be filled with water! If you don't believe in evil, let them see you today!" "
"Then I'll get him a fire certificate!"
Mrs. Li quickly took a fire certificate and handed it to Lu Jin. She watched the Lu family walk all the way into the depths of the cemetery, then closed the courtyard door and returned to the courtyard.
Mrs. Wang has not had enough rest recently. There was a big fuss at home at noon, and now she has a headache. Seeing Mr. Li come back, she said her plan: "It's snowing today. There is no one in this shop in the morning. In the afternoon I guess it won’t be much better. I still have something to do in the evening. I have to go back to the house to catch up on my sleep in the afternoon, so I won’t go to the shop!”
Hearing this, Mrs. Li naturally understood that Mrs. Wang was going to take a rest. Instead, she told herself to go and look at the shop in the afternoon. She smiled and deliberately pretended not to understand: "My wife, thank you, mother-in-law." Now, I'm feeling tired. Since grandma said the shop won't be open in the afternoon, I don't have to worry about it. My daughter-in-law is going back to the house to rest, so grandma should go back quickly!"
After Mrs. Li finished speaking, she completely ignored Mrs. Wang's reaction, turned around and entered the room of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Yuan, where she was staying recently, and closed the door with a "bang" with her backhand!
Madam Wang was so angry that she jumped on the spot, feeling her head hurt even more. She thought that when this matter was over, she would set rules for Madam Li, so that she knew who was in charge in this family!
The whole afternoon, Uncle Chu's house was in an extremely quiet atmosphere. Not to mention gathering in the main room to drink tea and chat as usual, they didn't even leave the house. They all stayed in their own rooms and didn't know. He was doing something, so he knew nothing about what was happening in the village outside.
In one afternoon, except for those who were close friends with Uncle Chu's family, Chu Yi and the others knocked on the doors of almost everyone in Kaoshan Village, first the village chief, the clan chief, and then those who had been haunted by ghosts in recent days. Others, and finally those elders and neighbors who have some reputation in the village.
Chu Yi and others didn't talk much when they entered the yard. They only said: "Don't make any noise, take your family to catch ghosts tonight, and just go out when you hear the knock on the door at night!"
Naturally, there are also people who are puzzled by the sudden and inexplicable words, such as Village Chief Wu at this moment: "Chu family boy, what are you talking about? Is this, catching ghosts? What kind of ghost are you catching?"
Chu Yi said: "There have been several ghost incidents in the village recently. Doesn't the village chief want to find out what's behind this?"
Of course, Village Chief Wu, as the head of the backing village, had heard about such a big matter, but looking at Chu Yi, who was the character in the rumor, he was a little more worried: "Chu Yi, ah , Village Chief, I know your family is a little aggrieved and wants to prove their innocence. You listen to me on this matter. It won’t be long before everyone forgets about it. You don’t have to keep it in your heart. Don’t be confused for a moment. What big deal are you doing for me during the Chinese New Year!"
"Don't worry, village chief. After tonight, the village can really live a good and peaceful year. Otherwise, it will be troubled by hauntings all the time, and the people in the village will not feel at ease."
Of course, Village Chief Wu also hopes that this haunting incident will end soon, otherwise the whole village will be panicked, and something will happen sooner or later. But with this situation now, I feel really unsure. I always feel like Chu Yi is like this, tonight It seemed like something big was going to happen. If I didn't follow suit, something big would happen, which would be even more troublesome. I could only compromise: "Okay, you can call me when the time comes!"
There were also some villagers who had been severely frightened before. When they heard this, they waved their hands repeatedly: "You are crazy. You have to climb up the pole and deliver it to your door without seeing the ghost!"
Chu Ping approached me mysteriously and said, "Are you so sure that the person who scared you that night was really a ghost?"
When the man heard this, he immediately became energetic: "What are you talking about? Boy from the Chu family, do you know anything? Tell me quickly, which bastard is pretending to be a ghost to scare my family!"
At this time, Chu Ping said calmly: "I didn't say anything! You will know if he is a human or a ghost tonight if you go and take a look.
Besides, there are so many of us here, what are you afraid of! "
The heavy snowfall on the 26th of the twelfth lunar month lasted until dusk. The dark clouds dispersed and no pedestrians were seen on the village road. The white snow on the ground reflected the red light of the setting sun, and the whole village was shrouded in red. Quiet and eerie.
According to Wang's and Li's past habits, they usually wait until midnight, when the village has fallen asleep, before taking action. Chu Yi and others calculated the time, left the house half an hour in advance, and headed to the village separately. Everywhere, knocking on doors door to door.
Before leaving, Chu Yi specifically took care of Shen Luzhu, who should have rested long ago, to lie down: "Don't worry, A-Zhu, it will be fine. I'll be back as soon as I go."
Shen Luzhu was indeed a little worried, but it was mostly because she couldn't go with him. She was still very confident in Chu Yi: "I'm not worried. Chu Yi, you are so smart, what good can I do?" What I’m worried about is that I can’t see some people being caught red-handed, which is a bit regretful.”
After saying that, he deliberately showed a look of regret. Chu Yi helped his wife pull down the quilt and continued: "You go to sleep first. When you wake up tomorrow morning, I will teach you what happened tonight. I guarantee that it will be the same as what you saw with your own eyes." .”
"Okay, then you should be careful."
"Don't worry. If anything happens, just call someone. Third uncle, Xiuxiu, and Ali are all at home."
"Um!"
As she talked, Shen Luzhu did feel a little tired. In the past, she had already played chess with Duke Zhou at this time, so she waved to Chu Yi, closed her eyes, and fell asleep quietly.
Since they had been told what was going to happen tonight in advance, the villagers who were gearing up to avenge the previous scare and were eager to eat a big melon with them tonight were all ready and waiting at their homes when there was a knock on the door. When there was a sound, he quickly opened the courtyard door quietly and followed behind him towards the Lu family.
After a while, most of the people in the village gathered near the Lu family. The village chief, clan chief and some older villagers were even invited to the Lu family house to escape the cold. However, everything was done quietly and secluded, not to mention the torches. Even the Lu family's house had not even lit a candle. Fortunately, it snowed heavily all day during the day, and at night the snow on the ground reflected the starlight and moonlight, making it much brighter than usual.
At midnight, two figures sneaked out of Uncle Chu's shop. The thinner one held a white cloth robe in his arms, and the other, shorter and fatter, held a candlestick. The two quietly closed the door of the shop, turned down the steps and walked towards the Lu family.
