"Dead end?"
"What's the meaning?"
"It's hard to say now," he glanced at the window and said to me and Xiaoxuan Douyazai:
"You three are all my disciples. Please remember every word I say carefully."
"If something happens during this period, you guys don't come looking for me and leave here overnight."
"Go to Yongzhou Huatian Hotel. I'll ask Wen Bin to wait for you there. After you meet up, wait for my news there."
"If it takes more than a week, don't wait any longer. Leave Yongzhou, go wherever you want, and never come back."
"What do you mean by that?" I sounded a little scared.
"Don't ask. I'm waiting for my friend's reply to confirm. I hope I'm unnecessary this time. You can go to sleep. I'm going back to the West Room."
After leaving with my head in the dark, Xiaoxuan Douzi and I lay on the bed.
Douyazai said: "This village is very haunted. There are always dead people and crazy people, so we should leave."
"I heard that this place is not far from Jishou. How about we go find Xiaomi? See how she is doing."
Xiaoxuan pushed Douyazai and said, "You are just a coward. Don't go to Xiaomi. Xiaomi hasn't cured the disease yet. Didn't Master Zhao say it would take a year or two?"
"Fuck, I'm not a coward. Didn't you hear what the leader said?"
"Who knows what weird things will happen here. I said it was wrong to leave here? You have been eating explosives in the past two days. Are you experiencing early menopause? You are about to undergo menopause."
"I'll strangle you to death!"
I lay on one side, resting my hands on my hands and looking at the dark roof. I thought a lot. I thought about every person I had come into contact with since that day at Raidenguangdong.
Thinking about the latter half of the night, Douyazai snored, and Xiaoxuan was very quiet even under the quilt.
I really couldn't sleep, so I sat up from the bed and smoked.
"call....."
I blew smoke into the glass.
Smoking.
I suddenly saw a big white face slowly rising outside the window.
This man's face was disheveled and his right eye was swollen, like a wooden man. He tilted his head and looked at me motionless.
"Fuck!"
I was so frightened that I screamed, and the cigarette butt in my hand fell on Xiaoxuan's hair.
The person standing outside the window is Tang Gui’s wife!
Seeing me like this, Tang Gui's wife looked up and down, took out her nose, and left the window.
Suddenly I saw a big white face on the window in the middle of the night, which would frighten anyone. Only then did I smell a mushy smell.
....
In the morning, Xiaoxuan kept looking at me with a dark face because her hair was a little burned.
"Who did it...?"
I shook my head and said I don't know, maybe it burned while you were warming up the fire, haha.
"I have something else to do. I'm going out now. You can eat."
After I finished speaking, I stood up and left, turning my profile picture as if I had forgotten what he said yesterday. He was in a good mood and was laughing and chatting with Uncle Xue.
"Yunfeng, have you finished eating?"
"After eating, I'll go to Xiao Tang's house to charge the battery. The phone is almost out of battery. Uncle Xue, do you want to help charge the battery?"
"I don't have to, you go ahead."
When we arrived at Xiao Tang's house, Xiao Tang's grandma was feeding chickens in the yard, but Xiao Tang didn't seem to be there.
"Grandma is feeding the chickens. I'll turn off the power."
Grandma Xiao Tang finished scattering a handful of grains and said, "Go ahead, there is a plugboard in the house."
After charging my phone, I came out to the courtyard and asked, "Grandma, I have something to ask you. Don't be angry."
"Haha, young man, I am already so old, how can I still be angry? What are you asking?"
"Then...Grandma, I heard people say that you were the last temple maid in the village?"
The old lady didn't shy away. She nodded and admitted: "Yes, it used to be, and it has been passed down to others for several years. Now I am old, my legs and feet are bad, I can't walk anymore, and I can't burn incense for others."
"Oh... So, I heard someone said that every temple girl has a yellow talisman drawn by that Taoist priest from the Qing Dynasty?"
"Who did you listen to?"
I said Tang Gui’s wife.
Grandma Xiao Tang frowned and said: "That's a crazy woman. She doesn't say a word of truth. There is no such thing. Don't listen to her nonsense."
"Grandma, grandma, I'm back."
Just as he was talking, Xiao Tang came back.
"Grandma, Sister Xiaoyun is back from leave. I'll bring some food to her house."
"There is bacon in the house, and I'm giving them half a bag of rice."
I helped carry the rice. The sister Xiaoyun mentioned by Xiao Tang was Yapa's granddaughter who was studying in another city. She knew that her grandma was injured and came back specially on leave.
Yabo's head was broken and injured, and her head was covered with a tourniquet. She was sometimes conscious and sometimes confused. She refused to see a doctor and kept saying that she should be punished.
"Little sister, who is this...?"
"Sister Xiaoyun, this is Brother Xiang. He comes from a big city and lives in our village temporarily. Grandma asked me to come over and deliver rice. Brother Xiang helped me."
"Thank you then."
"Hey, you're welcome."
Xiaoyun and Xiaotang have been on good terms since they were little. Xiaotang is now in his second year of high school and Xiaoyun is in his freshman year. I see that this girl is dressed plainly and cleanly. The down jackets and trousers she wears are all of the older style. It is very cold in the winter. I wore a pair of breathable travel shoes for summer, probably because my economic conditions were not very good.
Looking at Nama lying in bed with a painful expression, Xiaoyun's eyes were slightly red, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I must find out who did it, and I want to seek justice for grandma."
"Yes!" Xiao Tang nodded repeatedly: "It must be someone from our village, but I don't know who threw the stone. This person is so bad! We must arrest him!"
"Grandma, open your eyes and look at me. Do you know who it is? Tell me."
Yapo closed her eyes, panted, and kept repeating one sentence.
"God, yes God, Zaizai God."
On the way back together, Xiao Tang told me that her sister, Xiao Yun, was both good in character and academics. She had been receiving scholarships since high school. Because of her excellent grades, she was recommended to a key university. She majored in business administration. When she graduates, she would definitely be able to find a job. A very good job.
I said I could see it, she was an educated girl.
Nothing happened that day.
One night, something happened.
The hunchbacked toothpa's granddaughter, this girl who just came back for a day...
died.
I just heard the news and couldn’t believe it. He’s dead? How can it be! I was a fine person yesterday!
I hurriedly ran to my grandmother's house to see her. There were already many people gathered in front of her house.
When you enter the courtyard, you can see that the girl, wearing a down jacket and sneakers, fell headfirst into her own water tank, motionless and drowned.
The crowd was buzzing.
"What do you think I'm talking about?"
"This is the number..." A woman onlookers said with a look of fear on her face: "I will go back to my parents' house tomorrow. The temple sacrifices are not completed. This is all retribution. Our village has suffered retribution. The clay statue I can’t control the ghost kid anymore.”
"Sister Xiaoyun, sister Xiaoyun, wake up, woo woo..."
The villagers took the person out of the water tank, placed him on the ground and covered him with a sheet, while Xiao Tang kept wiping his tears and crying.
Yapo seemed to feel something. She lay on the bed in the room and kept shouting: "Where are the clouds, where are the clouds, where are the clouds?"
How could someone as big as Yapa's granddaughter suddenly drown in a water tank after not seeing her overnight?
Could it be...
Is it really like what I said? Is there really an invisible Zaizai God in this village?
I do not believe.
There must be someone who had a grudge against Yapo's family. He knew her granddaughter was back, so he killed her overnight.
So vicious.
Who is it...
Could this person be right next to us?
