"So... then I have my husband." Liang Jiunan smiled and cupped his hands and said, "I don't know my husband's name yet."
The strong man nodded stiffly:
"Just call me A Niu."
"We poor people have a nickname and are easy to feed."
"Mr. Sir, madam, please come with me."
A Niu led the two of them through the tenant farmers' houses.
At this time, it was just in time for the snow to fall.
The two of them looked around and saw that there were very few candles lit in these tenant farmers' houses, and most of them were dark, as if they were uninhabited.
Suddenly, Yu Langya seemed to find something wrong and frowned.
Liang Jiunan focused on A Niu and obtained some basic information through dialogue.
This Aniu has been a tenant farmer of the Yang family since his grandfather's generation. It can be said that three generations have lived here.
However, about half a year ago, his grandfather and parents died in an accident, so he is now alone.
Liang Jiunan tentatively wanted to ask about the cause of death, but A Niu was a little vague and only said that an accident happened while working.
The hint of guilt and fear in his eyebrows made Liang Jiunan suspicious.
As for the news that Yang returned to the villa, A Niu said it was about half a month ago.
This point is no different from the information investigated by the Demon-Conquering Division.
But when asked about his impression and reputation of the host family, Aniu just shook his head and said nothing.
In this way, after about a cup of tea, they finally arrived at A Niu's residence.
A small house with two rooms in total.
The whole house is already a little remote in the tenant farmer's home.
Looking around, apart from the farmland, there are three graves next to the house.
In front of the tomb, a palm-sized stone was pressed with some paper money and ingots, as if they had just been enshrined and were not soaked by the snow.
"You two will rest here for a while. I'll prepare some food." After A Niu vacated the west room, he nodded slightly and turned to leave.
In the room, Yu Langya immediately closed the window and closed the door.
Liang Jiunan rolled his eyes and sat shamelessly in front of the bed, showing a very exaggerated smile: "Sister Langya, what are you going to do? I'm calling someone!"
"Get lost!" Yu Langya gouged out Liang Jiunan and said angrily: "Don't you see the problem?"
Liang Jiunan curled his lips:
"There is indeed something weird about A Niu. In other words, the tenant farmers here are quite weird."
"It looks lifeless, as if... the energy and spirit in the body have been extracted."
"Something's not quite right."
Yu Langya grabbed a chair and sat down:
"That's not what I meant."
"My lineage of lion dancers is to practice the art of Feng Shui in the home."
"Just now, I took a look at the layout of the tenant farm here. The houses here are very strange!"
"The arrangement of houses is too regular, and there is an obvious distance between every twenty houses."
"If twenty households are regarded as an area, then there seem to be differences between areas."
"I think that in such a relatively rugged environment under the villa, the arrangement of the house like this is definitely not an unintentional move!"
"It's more likely... that it coincides with the Feng Shui formation!"
Liang Jiunan frowned: "Sister Langya, you mean... the tenant farmers here are so skinny and lack vitality, it is probably related to Feng Shui?"
Yu Langya nodded:
"For now, I can't see the whole picture."
"My suggestion is... wait until this Aniu rests, and then we sneak out to see what's going on."
While talking, the door was pushed open violently.
Yu Langya turned around and subconsciously touched the talisman on her sleeve, but Liang Jiunan calmly held her wrist down.
At the door, A Niu was stunned, still in a weak state:
"Oh, sorry."
"This door is a bit old. Once closed, it will get stuck easily."
"It takes a lot of effort to push it away, which may scare you two."
"The food is ready, come."
With that said, Aniu placed a plate of Biluo in the room.
"I won't disturb you two." A Niu walked to the door, seemed to think of something, and turned around little by little: "Oh, I forgot to remind you two. Please be sure to close the windows when you go to bed."
Liang Jiunan's eyebrows moved: "Oh? Why is this?"
A Niu was silent for a moment and shook his head: "Anyway, just close the window."
After saying that, A Niu turned and left.
But the moment he stepped out of the room, Liang Jiunan noticed a flash of fear in A Niu's eyes.
"Could it be that...there's something weird at night?" Liang Jiunan frowned: "Or maybe the death of his family is related to what happened at night?"
Yu Langya stepped forward and closed the door again, this time simply locking it.
Neither of them ate the biluo prepared by A Niu.
As a demon-conquering guard who puts his head on his belt, he has long been accustomed to minimizing all risks.
They took some dry food from their luggage and ate it casually.
Looking at the increasingly heavy wind and snow outside, Yu Langya murmured: "I'm afraid it won't be peaceful tonight."
Here...is there something weird at night?
After Liang Jiunan and Yu Langya tidied up briefly, they locked the doors and windows.
Outside, perhaps because it had just snowed, there was only a biting cold wind under the white snow.
…
After confirming that the doors and windows were locked, Liang Jiunan let Yu Langya lie on the bed to rest while he sat aside and took a nap.
I don’t know how long it took, but there was a whistling sound in my ears.
Liang Jiunan opened his eyes suddenly.
The sound is not far from the window!
Is it the sound of footsteps?
But extremely light!
Liang Jiunan slightly poked the window paper and looked out through the finger-sized hole.
Perhaps it was due to the heavy wind and snow, coupled with the darkness of the lights, that although some shadows could be seen vaguely, it was difficult to distinguish their specific shapes.
On the other side, Yu Langya also woke up: "Jiu Nan, is there any movement?"
"Yes!" Liang Jiunan nodded: "Sister Langya, come here and take a look!"
Yu Langya stood at the window and used the aura technique to explore the surroundings. His face darkened: "There's something wrong with this aura. It doesn't look like a living person, it doesn't look like an evil ghost, and it doesn't look like a demon. I guess... it has something to do with the feng shui of this place. Involved!"
Liang Jiunan nodded and took out a copper coin from his arms: "Then give them a try!"
As he spoke, he flicked his fingers, and a copper coin fell through the hole in the window paper into the snow not far away.
As if they heard some movement, the shadows around them let out a low and weird chuckle.
Then, they walked little by little towards the place where the copper coins landed!
Under the dim moonlight, when the shadow came into the light, the scene that caught their eyes made both of them stunned.
"This... this is..." Yu Langya's eyes widened: "How could it be a confetti man!"
In front of me, all the people walking in the snow are, without exception, paper figures!
These pale paper figures have a string of talismans densely hung around them.
Moreover, the eyes of these paper figures have a hint of dark red.
"Blood-colored eyes!" Yu Langya's eyebrows sank:
"The lineage of Zhacai people is a very famous sect in the side sect."
"It is said... that the cultivation method of their lineage is to use inner energy and various materials to make colorful puppets for their own use."
"But... there are rules in the door, no matter what you do, you can't light your eyes!"
"Dotting the eyes...is equivalent to giving the confetti maker a touch of intelligence."
"Over time, the paper man will lose control!"
"Could it be that these colorful dolls are what make A Niu and other villagers so scared that they become emaciated?"
Liang Jiunan said in a deep voice:
“There must be a color tie maker near the colorful dolls!”
"And... I'm even more curious about the charms on these confetti figures! Don't you think... the aura from this charm is somewhat similar to the charms used by Mr. Pei?"
Yu Langya's expression changed.
The two looked at each other, quickly opened the window and jumped out.
Just when the window was closed, people surrounding the colored paper trembled.
Then, with the sound of twisting bamboo canes, pairs of blood-colored eyes stared at him!
