After saying that, Wu Tinghan ran out of the yard, and I quickly followed.
But as soon as I crossed the threshold, Wu Tinghan stretched out her hand to stop me. She asked, "What are you doing?"
Didn't I ask you and us to follow you and take a look? Why are you rake it up?
I wanted to ask Mr. Wang to come out and join the team, but when I turned around to look, I found that Mr. Wang not only didn't move a step, but actually sat down on the chair, looking carefree and content.
I immediately realized that Wu Tinghan was questioning Mr. Wang!
So I shouted into the yard, what are you doing sitting there? Leave quickly!
After I finished speaking, I looked at Wu Tinghan as if she was taking credit, only to find that she looked me up and down, and then looked at me like an idiot, making me think there was something dirty on my face.
I asked, why are you looking at me like that?
She said, do you know what talking to oneself is?
Of course I know this, it’s an idiom I learned in elementary school, how could I not...
No, you mean, what you just said were all you talking to yourself?
Wu Tinghan said, what else do you think? Take you up the mountain with me? Do you think it will be safer than me going up the mountain by myself?
I shook my head, then turned back to the yard with an embarrassed look on my face, and saw Mr. Wang sitting on the chair with a silly smile on his face.
No wonder he sat down, he knew it from the beginning!
Let me tell you, you already knew this, why didn't you remind me?
He said, you have no memory, why do you blame me?
memory? When did you remind...?
Before I finished speaking, I realized that Mr. Wang had indeed reminded me, and he had just returned to the village yesterday - no, it was already past twelve o'clock, it should have been that he had just returned to the village the day before yesterday. After coming out, Mr. Wang said that if I followed Wu Tinghan, I would only cause trouble for her, and it would be better to just stay at home.
But what she just said, I really thought she wanted us to follow her.
I didn't dwell on this issue, but asked Mr. Wang, what should we do now, just wait?
Mr. Wang thought for a while and said, go and light the sky lanterns. If everything goes well, I can have a peaceful sleep tonight.
I know what Mr. Wang means by having a peaceful sleep, which means that you don’t have to go and refill the incense of the Hidden Sword God every hour. And what he said was smooth probably meant that Chen Guzi's portrait no longer shed tears.
Seeing the tired look on Mr. Wang's face, I felt sad for no reason. How could I not be moved by the fact that a person I had no connection with, who was much older himself, still protected me like this?
I followed Mr. Wang to Chen Guzi's house. As soon as I opened the door, I was shocked because I saw the color in his main room changed!
Originally, when the sky lantern was on, it would emit bursts of blue light, filling the whole hall with a layer of faint blue light. But now at a glance, only the dim kerosene light remains.
I immediately shouted to Mr. Wang, "No, the sky lantern is out!"
After shouting, I ran into the main room without saying a word, then looked up and found that the sky lantern was indeed out!
So I shouted into the yard, Mr. Wang, the sky lanterns are really out! It's over, it's over, what should we do now? -----No, Mr. Wang, the lights are out, why are you still so slow?
Yes, at such a critical moment, Mr. Wang still had a calm expression on his face and walked slowly and leisurely towards the main room.
After hearing what I said, he not only did not rush into the main room, but bowed deeply to the two door panels on the steps, and then even plucked out all the fragrance from under the door panels!
That's not all. After pulling out the incense, he directly held a door panel in one hand and walked into the main room in a swagger-this old guy actually removed the hidden knife door god!
I shouted anxiously, Mr. Wang, what are you doing? ! Even if the lights go out, you shouldn't break the jar!
Mr. Wang looked at me angrily and said, "Now that you've grown your head, can you please change it a little bit? It's not just about matching, okay?"
As he spoke, he installed the two door panels on the door frame of the room, and pulled them back and forth to make sure they were in place.
I said, why am I compatible? I am thinking of a solution!
Mr. Wang glanced at me sideways and said, "The matter has been solved. How can you come up with a solution?" Want to make a fool of yourself?
I didn't care about Mr. Wang's ridicule, but was shocked by his first words, so I hurriedly asked, has the matter been resolved? The lights are all out, how can the matter be solved?
Mr. Wang said, there is no oil in your kerosene lamp, will it continue to light up?
What does my kerosene lamp have to do with this green lantern... No, you mean, the 'oil' in the sky lantern, that is, the tears have been burned dry? !
Mr. Wang looked at me angrily and said, "Why don't I dismantle the door god and seek death?"
Hearing this, I couldn't help but let out a long breath, and finally put down the knife hanging over my head.
Now just waiting for Wu Tinghan to find a way to break the Nine Corpse Statue, all dangers in our village will be lifted. As for the fact that I am blessed with luck and am regarded as a great tonic by craftsmen and Yin people, I actually don’t have much thought about it. I just leave it to fate whether it’s life or death.
Mr. Wang asked me to help him, and then he took down the sky lanterns and planned to remove the four wells. Then he also got rid of the sinister man who possessed the portrait, so that Chen Guzi could be in peace.
However, when Mr. Wang took off the photo frame, both of us were dumbfounded when we looked at the photo frame! -----The photo frame is still the same one as before, but it is empty inside. There is no photo of Chen Guzi at all!
I asked Mr. Wang, what is going on?
He said, you ask me, which one should I ask? ! Evil people, your village is so damn evil!
After he finished speaking, he impatiently made seals with his hands and took out four copper coins. At this time, through the kerosene light, I saw that the 'well' was indeed empty, and there were no tears at all!
At this time, Mr. Wang took out another yellow talisman from his pocket and threw it towards the yellow scroll wick that was still in the 'well'. Then a green flame burned instantly, burning the yellow scroll wick and the dark wood. It was burned to the ground.
After finishing the treatment of the gastrodia rope and oil lamp, I looked at the photo frame on the Eight Immortals table and asked Mr. Wang, what should I do with these things?
He said, don't ask me, I don't know either.
I asked again, then leave it here like this?
Mr. Wang said that he didn’t even have any photos of his body, so what if he left them in the main room? Let’s just leave them in the house.
As soon as we finished speaking, Mr. Wang and I were stunned at the same time. We both looked at each other with wide eyes, and our faces were full of shock. Only then did we realize that the last photo of the deceased in the village had disappeared. Got it!
Does that mean that the photos of the deceased in the village were actually placed in the main hall at first, but in the end those photos disappeared inexplicably, and then they were thrown away or put away by the villagers as useless photo frames?
If this is really the case, it would be too terrifying!
My voice was already trembling with fear, so I asked another extremely stupid question, why is this happening?
Mr. Wang said, I told you not to ask me, but you asked me again. If I knew, I would have solved it long ago. Why don't you wait until you ask?
I asked, what now?
Mr. Wang thought for a while and said, go back first, because this is a normal situation when lighting a sky lantern.
I nodded and said, it was possible, maybe the lamp oil had burned out and the photos inside were burned as well.
My statement sounds very ridiculous. After all, there is a layer of glass in the middle. No matter how much it is burned, the photos inside will not be burned.
But this time, for the first time, Mr. Wang did not try to bully me. Instead, he looked at me and nodded, saying, "That's it. I will tell you when Senior Wu comes back and asks me."
After finishing speaking, I saw Mr. Wang pick up the photo frame, let me go in front, and walked towards my home.
Wu Tinghan hadn't come back yet, so we waited for a while. When Mr. Wang saw me yawning profusely, he said that he should go back to the room and go to bed first, there was no need to waste time here. If she finds a way to work all night, won't we be waiting in vain? She also said that it would not be too late to ask about the portrait when she comes back.
I originally planned to continue waiting, but thinking that Mr. Wang didn't sleep last night, I felt embarrassed to disobey him. And he is already asleep. If I sit in the yard by myself, if something happens, won't it just cause trouble for him?
After having this awareness, I went back to the room with him very obediently, and then lay down on my medium-sized bed to sleep.
I don't know how long I slept, I just know that when I was in a daze, there was an intermittent 'bang bang' sound suddenly coming from the yard.
I didn't take it seriously at first. After all, the sound was very soft. It might have been the sound of a mouse hitting a wooden board.
Thinking of this, I turned over and prepared to continue sleeping, but before I could find a suitable position, I suddenly woke up. This sound sounded like a knock on the door! ? And it's very rhythmic, not like the noises made by mice at all.
Could it be another ghost knocking on the door in the middle of the night?
How can this be? Didn't Mr. Wang say that the matter has been resolved? Why does this still happen?
After last night's experience, I immediately wanted to wake Mr. Wang up, but when I lowered my head to look, I found that besides me, was there anyone else on the bed? !
Where was Mr. Wang in the middle of the night?
I got up quietly, fearing that if I made any noise, it would become a 'response' to the knock on the door outside.
The banging sound was still coming, and after I got up, I found that the sound didn't seem to be coming from outside the courtyard, but from the main room.
Thinking that Mr. Wang was not in the bed, and that the Yin person could not enter the house without permission, I felt relieved. I thought it was Mr. Wang who was making something in the main room, which was why the sound was made.
When I opened the door, I didn't see Mr. Wang except the dark coffin.
At this moment, the 'bang bang' sound came again, inside the main room, blocked by the coffin.
I tiptoed over and asked as I walked, Mr. Wang, why are you up here so late at night?
As soon as I finished speaking, I happened to walk to the end of the coffin, and then I saw Mr. Wang standing under the shrine, holding something in both hands, and bowing to the shrine.
Because he was too close to the wall inside the main room, before he could bend down, his head hit the wall, and then he made banging sounds one after another.
Mr. Wang didn’t reply to me, he still stood there and continued to bend over. I tried calling several times and even patted him on the shoulder, but he still didn't respond.
Could it be that he was sleepwalking?
So I walked forward to see if his eyes were closed.
But when I looked sideways under the faint light of the sky, Mr. Wang happened to turn his head to look at me, but... what appeared in front of me was not Mr. Wang's face at all, but a man covered in mud, A paper figurine that is dilapidated from top to bottom and has a smile on its face!
Under the bright moonlight, I could clearly see that its head and left leg had obviously been violently torn off, and the torn wounds were twisted and twisted, as disgusting and ugly as earthworms!
But the weirdest thing is that these wounds were sewn up with needles and threads by someone unknown. Those crooked stitches look particularly eerie against the pale smiling face of the paper man!
Not only that, I also saw that its hands were clasped in front of its abdomen, and there was a tablet standing on the palms, with six big blood-red characters written on it - Chen Siqing's spiritual tablet! !
Paper man sends a message to the soul!
It’s really a paper man sending a message to the soul!
But didn't Mr. Wang say that the paper man's matter has been resolved? Why does this ghost thing still appear? And he still showed up at my house! How could it enter my house if no one opened the door for it?
The most important thing is that I should be the first person to see it, so why does the spiritual tablet in its hand still have my name written on it?
What the fuck is going on here? !
At this moment, the thing turned around, raised the spiritual tablet in its hand with a smile on its face, and was about to hit me!
I don't know where I got the courage at that time, I just raised my foot and kicked the paper man to the ground, and then like crazy, I stepped on the paper man under the shrine, three times, five times, five times two times. Just crush it completely.
But even so, when I looked over, the paper man's hands were still holding the spiritual tablet tightly, and its eyes were staring at me sideways from beginning to end.
When I saw the shape of its eyes clearly, my scalp instantly became numb—isn't this the paper man that Mr. Wang used as a stand-in for me?
The reason why I am so sure is because I clicked on its eyes myself!
However, hasn't it been buried by Mr. Wang?
No wonder there is so much mud all over its body, and no wonder its head and left leg have marks of being violently torn off. It turns out this thing is my former stand-in!
I finally understand why it can enter my house. After all, in a sense, it is me, so it is no problem to enter my house!
However, it has been buried, how did it come out? Did it crawl out of the ground on its own?
I don't know, I don't know anything!
Just as I was stunned, the courtyard door was suddenly pushed open, and Mr. Wang rushed in hurriedly. Seeing me standing in the main room, he asked me anxiously, what are you doing standing here... Where did the paper man come from?
Let me tell you, that substitute you gave me is back!
I saw Mr. Wang's face was obviously startled, but he soon regained his previous anxiety. He said, don't worry about this paper man for now. Those craftsmen couldn't wait for the Baili Corpse Monument and started jumping over the wall. Something happened to Wu Tinghan!
