Chapter 28: Plague Village 4
"..."
This kind of operation really made Yu Xiao look stupid, never thought that this ghost would be so hardworking.
In fact, Yu Xiao didn't intend to kill this ghost. She originally thought that it would be difficult to find clues from the villagers, so she might as well catch the ghost and ask. Who knew that this ghost would be so strong and unyielding.
Yu Xiao only had time to throw a talisman into the cesspit, and when the first lightning bolt appeared, she knew something was wrong, and hurriedly escaped from the latrine, only to hear a loud noise behind her.
Yu Xiao's head buzzed, and he suddenly opened his eyes.
Her eyes widened in horror, the eyes were dim, and the faint moonlight shone in from the window. She scratched randomly, and caught the quilt and bed sheet.
She woke up from her own bed, was everything just a dream?
Yu Xiao was about to sit up when he suddenly felt a pain in his right arm. Rolling up his sleeves and squinting his eyes for a while, he found that it was a tooth mark. She was not dreaming, she really encountered a ghost just now.
After she figured it out, she quickly got out of bed, and was just about to try again to see if she could wake everyone up, when she smelled a very slight smell. Yu Xiao sniffled, squatted down, and found a half-burned incense stick under her bed.
She took the incense in her hand, and then went to look around under the other beds. In the whole room, there was only incense under her bed.
Looking around, everyone was breathing steadily, but the only reason why she met a ghost was because there was incense under the bed? Yu Xiao was a little angry, if it wasn't for her talisman, she would have been eaten by that ghost just now.
Yu Xiao was furious in her heart. If a ghost wanted to eat people, it would definitely not be so ritualistic. The person burning incense under her bed must be a villager. She didn't intend to call anyone anymore, she put on her shoes and walked out alone.
The outside is similar to the previous situation, Yu Xiao followed the route in memory and found her the previous hut. The hut was torn apart at this time, and the strange thing is that there should be a lot of movement when the hut was bombed, but there was no one in the quiet place.
Yu Xiao suppressed the doubts in his heart and walked towards the ancestral hall. Zhang Feng said before that she saw the death list in the village in the ancestral hall, and she wanted to see it too.
The ancestral hall is one of the brick houses in the village. When Yu Xiao was about to enter, he heard voices talking inside. She hurriedly hid in a dark corner, thought for a while, took out her sunglasses from her pocket and put them on.
Through the wall, you can see the bright lights in the ancestral hall. There are several unpainted coffins in the house next to it, and several men are holding tools around the coffins.
Just when Yu Xiao wondered if it was because too many people died too fast in the village, so they had to work overtime overnight to make the coffin, she heard those people talking.
"The village chief said that sacrificing outsiders can calm the anger of the gods. Is this really true?"
"Hey, how do I know if it's okay? But sacrificing outsiders is better than sacrificing us."
"makes sense."
"I hope this works, too many people have died in the village..."
While talking, an old man walked in from the outside. The old man's hair was combed, and his clothes were more elegant, which was obviously different from other villagers.
Several men who were painting the coffin saw it and stood up quickly.
"Village Chief, you are here!"
Good guy, it turns out that this old man is the black-hearted village chief. Yu Xiao glared at the village chief through the wall, then turned around and walked away quietly. Before, she thought those coffins were made for the villagers, but she counted just now, and there were exactly nine coffins.
No wonder the people in the village held a meeting as soon as they entered the village today. It turned out that they had no good intentions.
They want to sacrifice outsiders, Yu Xiao is a little worried, how can he turn himself Xiaozhen and Sister Lan into insiders?
While thinking, he walked outside the wall of the village chief's house.
When she was looking for the ancient tree during the day, she had already figured out where the village head's house was. She took out her sunglasses again and observed outside the village chief's house for a while. Seeing a person sleeping in a room, suddenly that person coughed heart-rendingly on the bed. The person in the other room got up quickly when he heard the voice, it was the wife of the village chief.
The village chief's wife entered the room with her clothes on, and poured a glass of water for the person on the bed to drink. While feeding the water, he patted the man's back distressedly, and murmured: "Good boy, good baby, mother's darling cut his flesh..."
Yu Xiao took this opportunity to sneak into the village chief's room, relit the half-burned incense stick, and stuffed it under the village chief's bed.
She didn't stop after that, and quickly returned to the place where she lived to wake everyone up.
Everyone was in a deep sleep, and strangely enough, they weren't such careless people.
Although they were woken up, none of them had any objections, especially Zhang Feng, who didn't even snort.
Zhao Lan straightened her hat and said sleepily, "Smile, what's the matter?"
Yu Xiao said in a low voice, "A ghost visited our room just now."
"what?!"
Everyone was shocked and woke up instantly. Lu Xun was particularly shocked, "Really? Why didn't I feel it at all?"
Yu Xiao didn't say anything, she rolled up her sleeves to show everyone the tooth marks on her arms.
"The ghost bit me." Yu smiled and said, "I got up and called you, but you didn't respond. So I chased them out alone..."
"Wait." The fat on Wang Yang's face trembled, "You mean you chased ghosts out?"
"Yeah." Yu Xiao seemed to be talking about a very common thing, "I think it's not easy to find clues from the villagers, so why not catch a ghost and ask."
"..."
Except for Zhao Lan and Zhou Xiaozhen, everyone looked at Yu Xiao with complicated eyes.
Yu Xiao touched his face, "What's wrong?"
"...It's nothing." Lu Xun said, "You continue."
Yu Xiao: "After I chased it... I lost it, and then I woke up suddenly and found myself still in bed. I thought I was dreaming, but when I found the tooth marks on my arm, I knew I was not dreaming. I I found half a stick of burning incense under my bed, and I think it might have something to do with the ghost only biting me after it appeared."
"Does it still hurt?" Zhou Xiaozhen held Yu Xiao's arm distressedly.
"A little more." Yu Xiao remembered that she had another kind of talisman, she took out a talisman from her pocket, and stuck it on her arm. The talisman burned automatically and quickly turned to ashes. And the tooth marks on Yu Xiao's arm also disappeared, turning back into a smooth and white arm.
Everyone watching all this silently: "..."
Such a shallow row of tooth marks, as for a talisman with ten points and one piece? Can't you let it grow by itself? Just a day or two.
Yu Xiao continued: "I speculated that this was done by the villagers, so I went out quietly and saw them rushing to make nine coffins overnight in the ancestral hall. From their discussions, the villagers thought that they offended the gods and made the coffins." The plague will come down. Today they gathered in the afternoon, and the village chief said that they would sacrifice to outsiders and pray to the gods to calm their anger."
"Grass!"
Everyone was angry, but luckily Yu Xiao discovered the village's plan. Otherwise, they would just be on guard against ghosts, and they would not know when they were accidentally plotted against by the villagers.
Everyone chattered and took turns expressing their feelings with swear words.
Lu Xun thought of something, and smiled at Yu: "By the way, what about the half incense? Bring it to me."
"I've already used it up." Yu said with a smile.
Lu Xun was a little confused, "How did you use it?"
Yu Xiao smiled mysteriously and said, "I lit the incense again and threw it under the village chief's bed."
Everyone: "..."
Zhou Xiaozhen stared at her eyes in admiration, "Sister Xiao, it's wonderful, Sister Xiao."
For a while, everyone didn't know what to say, until Sun Yun asked weakly, "Then... what should we do next?"
Yu Xiao took it for granted and said, "Of course I'm sleeping, I've been tossing around for half the night, I'm so sleepy."
After that, she lifted the quilt and lay on the bed, closing her eyes under everyone's gaze.
Half a minute later, Yu smiled: "zzzZ"
Everyone: "..."
The next morning, Yu Xiao was woken up by the noise. She sat up from the bed, and there was a very noisy sound outside, as if countless people gathered together to make noise, and there was faint crying.
She was the only one left in the room at the moment, and she went out to find everyone gathered at the door looking out.
"What happened?" Yu Xiao walked over.
Everyone looked back at him with complicated expressions.
Lu Xun said: "The village chief is dead."
"Ah." Yu Xiao hurriedly walked to the door, and saw many people gathered outside, the wife of the village chief in a colorful gown crying and crying.
Yu Xiao watched silently for a while, then turned around and asked, "Have you figured out the cause of the village chief's death?"
"It's not clear." Lu Xun said: "We found out that the village chief died a terrible death, and even the body was mutilated. I suspect that he was killed by a ghost, but the strange thing is that everyone in the village firmly believes that the village chief was descended by the plague god. Sin. The reason they gave was also very strange, because the village chief's room had a strong stench."
Zhou Xiaozhen asked, "What kind of smell?"
Lu Xun's expression was intriguing, and after a while he described it: "It's the smell of excrement."
After speaking, he was very puzzled and said: "It's strange, do ghosts also have a smell? What ghost can smell like feces?"
Yu Xiao lowered his head silently, looking at his toes with concentration.
"Later, we plan to go to the home of the first person who died of illness in the whole village to look for clues." Lu Xun asked Yu Xiao, "What about you? Do you want to go together?"
"Oh, I believe you will find useful clues." Yu Xiao said politely, "We won't go, we're going to find the ancient tree."
Lu Xun was silent for a while, then asked, "Ask if he has a wife?"
"No need for that, he already answered me." Yu smiled and said, "We're going to ask him other questions this time."
…
Strolling along the country road like a stroll, Zhou Xiaozhen asked curiously, "What question do you want to ask the ancient tree this time? And you brought us with you."
Apparently Zhao Lan was also very curious about this, staring at Yu Xiao.
Yu Xiao didn't answer, she asked the two to wait at the gate of Gu Shu's house, and she went in alone and knocked on the door.
After knocking for three full minutes, Gu Shu finally opened the door, "Is there something wrong?"
"I have something to do." Yu smiled and said, "I have a question to ask you."
"..." Gu Shu's cheeks twitched at the words of deja vu, "Is it still the same problem as last time?"
"no."
"That's good." Gu Shu unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, "You can ask."
Yu Xiao looked up at Gu Shu's handsome and elegant face, and asked solemnly: "Doctor Gu Shu, are you willing to marry me?"
Ancient tree: "..."
Zhao Lan at the door: "..."
Zhou Xiaozhen was excited and angry at the same time, "Sister Xiao lied, she said she only likes living people."