Ever since he saw someone eating Li Damao's sacrifice at the bridge in Shitou Village that night, Gao Yongqiang had always felt like someone was staring at him from behind.
That night, Gao Yongqiang went home and went to bed. Not long after he fell asleep, he felt that there was a strange look in the room looking at him.
He subconsciously opened his eyes, but there was no one else in the room except his wife who was sleeping next to him.
Gao Yongqiang thought that he was too nervous and had an illusion, so he didn't pay attention.
In the next few days, the feeling of being stared at became more and more intense, and he did not dare to leave the eel cage.
Gao Yongqiang's face became more and more haggard. When he went to bed at night, he closed the doors and windows of his home. He searched every corner of the house and found no one, and then he went to sleep peacefully.
His wife saw that he was always nervous these days and asked her many times before he was willing to tell the truth. He said that he always felt like someone was watching him these days.
Hearing this, Gao Yongqiang's wife felt a little scared, "Old Gao, the Ghost Festival is approaching. Tell me if you have encountered something dirty. Do you want to see a master tomorrow?"
"Um!"
Gao Yongqiang also felt that he had indeed encountered something dirty.
That night, just as Gao Yongqiang fell asleep, the strange gaze of being stared at appeared again.
Gao Yongqiang looked up drowsily, and saw a dark figure standing beside the bed.
Under the moonlight shining in from the window, if you look closely, you can see that the figure is covered in blood. He looks middle-aged. Half of his face and head were smashed, and his brains and bones were exposed. A large amount of blood flowed down his neck, staining His clothes turned red.
His left hand and right foot were twisted, as if caused by an impact.
"ah!"
Gao Yongqiang's hair stood on end. He was so frightened that he screamed and jumped up from the bed.
When he came back to his senses, there was no figure beside the bed.
"Lao Gao!"
His wife was awakened by Gao Yongqiang's movements and asked, "What's wrong with you?"
Gao Yongqiang's body trembled and he said in a trembling voice: "I saw it, Li Damao. That gaze that has been staring at me was Li Damao. He just appeared next to my bedside."
The figure just now, Gao Yongqiang could clearly see half of the man's face, it was Li Damao.
"Li Damao!"
When Wu Xiaocui heard her husband say that he saw Li Damao, his hair stood on end. "How could he find you?"
"How would I know!"
Gao Yongqiang was now so frightened that he trembled: "Quickly...bring Ergouzi over quickly, don't let him sleep alone."
Wu Xiaocui stood up quickly, lit the oil lamp on the bedside, suppressed the fear in her heart, went out with the oil lamp, went to the next room, woke up her ten-year-old son, and brought her to their room.
Gao Yongqiang hung up the oil lamp, and the couple did not dare to sleep. They remained drowsy until dawn.
It's just dawn!
Bang bang bang! ! !
Gao Yongqiang's family ran to knock on the door of the village chief's house.
"Second uncle!"
"Who!"
An old woman's voice came from the room, and she slowly opened the door.
After the door opened, Li Fangping saw Gao Yongqiang's family, "It turns out to be Qiangzi and you guys. What can't happen if you come here so early?"
Gao Yongqiang said anxiously: "Second uncle, has the second uncle gotten up? I have something urgent to see him."
"You guys come in first and sit down."
Li Fangping saw the anxious look of the couple, fearing that something had happened, "I'll wake up the old man."
She entered the house and woke up her husband, "Old man, Qiangzi and his family are here. Seeing how anxious they are, something must have happened. Get up and have a look."
Not long after, an old man in his sixties came out with a cigarette rod in his hand and stuffed tobacco into it.
Gao Yongqiang and his wife quickly stood up and said respectfully: "Second uncle!"
After saying that, they also asked their son to call someone, "Ergou, call someone!"
Ergouzi also shouted quickly: "Great uncle!"
The second uncle's name is Gao Guoqiang, and he is the village chief. Although he is not the oldest in the village, he is the senior one in the village. Even the eighty-year-olds in the village have to call him uncle when they see him!
Gao Guoqiang waved his hand, sat down, and while striking the match, asked: "Qiangzi, come here early in the morning to see the old man. What do you want?"
Wu Xiaocui looked panicked, "Second uncle, Lao Gao has been entangled by Li Damao and has been following him these days."
Gao Guoqiang stiffened, and the match he had just lit dropped to the ground in fright.
His wife Li Fangping behind him was also frightened.
Some time ago, there was a lot of rumors that Li Damao from the next village was hit and killed by a car. The driver who caused the accident even paid a large sum of money to the Li family. All the nearby villages knew about it.
"How is this going!"
The old man had lived such a long life and had extensive knowledge. He quickly recovered and asked, "Did you ever offend Li Damao when he was alive?"
"No!"
Gao Yongqiang shook his head quickly, "I'm not familiar with him. When we met before, I only said hello to him at most. I never had a quarrel with him, let alone offended him."
Gao Guoqiang struck a match again, lit his tobacco, took a puff, exhaled a puff of white smoke, and frowned, "This is strange, how could Li Damao get involved with you for no reason."
As he said that, he also looked at Gao Yongqiang and his wife in confusion, "That's not right. What's the point of looking for the old man? The old man doesn't know how to catch ghosts."
"Second uncle, something happened to Brother Dajun some time ago. Didn't you find a master to come and see it?"
Wu Xiaocui said anxiously: "We came to see you, second uncle, because we want the contact information of the master."
"So that's what happened!"
Gao Guoqiang remembered, he stood up and said, "I'll give you an address. You go to the town to find Director Li."
He tore off a piece of calendar paper, picked up a pen and wrote the master's address on the paper, and handed it to Gao Yongqiang, "This is Daochang Li's address. Go find him. Remember, don't tell anyone else about this."
"yes!"
Gao Yongqiang took the paper, held it tightly in his hand as if he had found a life-saving straw, and said gratefully: "Thank you, second uncle!"
"Second uncle, let's take a step first."
The couple took the note and left the village with their children. They walked for half an hour to the intersection of Bacun Village and waited for the bus.
Rural areas are not as good as cities. The bus here has to wait three hours for each trip. The earliest bus is at 7 am and the second bus is at 10 am.
The bus only goes to Bacun Village and will not go into other rural areas.
At this time, there were already eight people waiting here, and Gao Yongqiang's family followed them in line.
After waiting for about twenty minutes, the bus finally arrived.
After the car turned around, everyone lined up to get on the car. Gao Yongqiang's family sat in the last row.
After the driver saw everyone gathered, he started the car and left.
The conductor of the bus began to collect money. Going to the town, it was 1 dime per person, and going to the county town was 2 cents per person.
Unlike big cities, where buses cost five cents per person, the prices in rural areas like these are much more expensive, and you have to wait for several hours for each bus.
