Chapter 5 She is here

On the third night after Hong Yan's death, I followed the village custom to summon her spirit.

I inserted the soul-inducing incense in the four corners of the villa in the southeast, northwest and southeast. Hong Xin and Hong Wei burned paper at the gate, and then filled the altar table with exquisite dishes. This was the last meal for the soul of the dead in the world, and it was a bit decapitated. The meaning of rice is to eat and go on your way.

At 11:45, the soul-inducing incense in the west went out. Everyone held their breath and did not dare to make any sound. Although I couldn't see it, I could feel the sudden gloominess around me. Hong Yan's soul was back?

It takes about half an hour for the deceased souls to dine. During this period, no one is allowed to easily break into the mourning hall and disturb the deceased. The filial children will kneel outside, while the unfilial ones will use their mobile phones outside. Hong Wei and Hong Xin obviously belong to the latter group. He kept mumbling that he would be buried tomorrow and asked me to find a geomantic treasure place for burial.

It can be seen that if it were not for the "corpse transformation", how could the Hong family's children be honest and watch the funeral? It is really sad to say that the mother understands her children and threatens them with nightmares to "fulfill their filial piety".

While waiting, I felt a little urgent to urinate. As a "master", I must not allow others to see me peeing anywhere, so I went around to the back door of the villa to release super nutritious minerals.

There was a floor-to-ceiling window at the back door of the villa. The curtains were not drawn tightly, and the mourning hall inside could be seen through the gap. When I was halfway through the ceremony, I accidentally glanced in and saw a dark shadow passing by.

"Is there anyone in there?" I forced myself to stop peeing, took a few steps forward, and stretched my face to the window to get a closer look.

"Boom!"

A muffled sound exploded in my ears, and a black palm unexpectedly hit the inner glass. My little heart was so frightened that I almost shouted.

"Shua~"

The curtains were closed, and I couldn't see anything. I quickly walked back to the main entrance. Hong Wei and Hong Xin were still at the same place. Seeing my abnormal look, they asked me what was wrong. I told them what happened just now, and they said They were always guarding the door, making it impossible for anyone to get in. Er Mazi was also under their noses, so they had no time or reason to run around and cause trouble.

"Is there a thief?" Hong Wei suddenly remembered that there were many valuable gold and silver jewelry in the house, which were Hong Yan's relics. They were originally intended to be used as burial objects, but it would be bad if they were stolen by thieves.

"Go in and take a look." I secretly touched the retractable electric baton hidden in my waist. I always felt that things were not that simple.

The mourning hall is so big that you can see everything at a glance. There is not even a shadow of a ghost, but the curtains are indeed closed.

"Is he hiding? Let's look for him separately."

"Wait a minute." I stopped Hong Wei and winked at him. He glanced at the altar table and said nothing.

The bowls and chopsticks on the table had obviously been touched, and there were still some sparse fish bones in them. It was impossible for a thief to come and eat the fish.

"Maybe it's a wild cat." Er Mazi comforted himself, but I couldn't help but feel uneasy. Maybe the cat raised by Hong Yan had become a spirit. If I make a bold guess, the cat that became a spirit might have become a spirit. "Sojourning" in Hong Yan's belly!

Damn, it’s a little scary!

I turned my attention to the body on the coffin bed. Hong Yan was lying there quietly. She had been dead for three days and had no obvious changes. She even gave people the illusion that she was just asleep.

"Okay, stop thinking about it. It's almost time. It's time to send Auntie off." I looked at my watch and saw that nearly an hour had passed. I didn't sleep well during the day and I was already sleepy. Let Hong Wei and Hong He burned the paper and knelt down to worship, then took the incense burner outside the door, kowtowed to the west and bowed, sending it away wherever it came from.

After it was over, I was going to ask Er Mazi to take me back. After searching for a long time, I saw him slowly walking out of the mourning hall. I asked him what he was doing, but he didn't say anything. He held his head and rubbed his temples, saying that he was very tired. , I wanted to take a rest, but I murmured in my heart, this guy was so lively just now, and now he is exhausted, and I am afraid he needs to drink some Mrs. Oral Liquid.

Er Mazi's car was a second-hand minibus, which had poor performance, and the potholes on the rural roads made my butt sore.

It was shaking so hard that I almost fell asleep.

Honggang Village is only ten minutes away from Qingyun Town, but he obviously drove more than that. I yawned and squinted and looked outside. It was deserted, and I realized something was wrong, "You're driving to the wrong place, where are you going?" ?”

Seeing that he didn't reply, I was a little angry. I straightened my waist and stretched forward. I was about to pull his head with my hands, but I saw a strange scene first.

In the rearview mirror, Er Mazi's eyelids were closed and his face was numb.

"I fell asleep while driving, are you fucking mistaken?" Seeing that he was taking his life for granted, I became furious and slapped him on the head with my hand. Unexpectedly, he suddenly stretched out his right hand and grabbed it quickly. My wrist is incredibly fast. I have never heard of this guy practicing kung fu.

"We're here." Er Mazi parked the car aside, turned his head, and suddenly opened his eyes.

The slightly convex eyeballs are bloodshot, round and bulging, sharp and filled with evil energy. These... these are not Er Mazi's eyes at all!

These eyes perfectly match Hong Yan’s eyes when she was still staring at death!

Niang Xipi, the ghost didn’t send him away at all. This idiot Er Mazi was possessed by a ghost!

"You...I need to pee. Let's go out first." My body was a little weak and my confidence was quite weak. I tried to open the door while speaking. Grandma was a bear and the car door was locked.

"Don't worry, I have no intention of harming you." Er Mazi's accent became sinister, "I have no problem with you cheating my children out of their money, but you have to do two things for me."

"Uncle...Sister Hong, my little brother is at your disposal." "I have been bold since I was a child. Although I will not be scared to death, I am not much better."

"Er Mazi" nodded and pointed to the hilltop not far away. I know this place. It's called Dead Man Bao. It was originally a place where little devils buried their corpses during the Anti-Japanese War. It is said that this mountain is where thousands of bones are piled up. Every late at night, women's wails and children's sobs can be heard. Local villagers say that the mountains are full of ghosts, and you must not go in after dark, otherwise you will be unlucky for three months even if you don't die.

Due to the strong aura of evil spirits, in modern times, this place was used to bury some corpses who did not want to be cremated.

Hong Yan's first request was to let me bury her body east of the grave, and plant locust trees on both sides of the grave. This was not difficult, but her second request made me stand on end. There is a mechanism on the coffin lid that can be opened from the inside. In this way, nailing nails on the coffin lid becomes a formality. What is the purpose of her doing this? Is it possible that she still wants to get out from inside?

I didn't ask any more questions, and nodded in agreement like a chicken pecking at rice. Seeing that Hong Yan didn't mean to embarrass me, I didn't suppress the curiosity in my heart and asked her weakly, "Sister Hong, I'd like to take the liberty to ask, who are you talking to?" What’s the deal with the white cat?”

"Haha, it and I are actually... someone is coming!" Before Hong Yan finished speaking, Er Mazi's eyelids drooped, and he leaned weakly to the side. After a few seconds, he bared his teeth and shook his head. Naibaozi looked at me blankly and asked me how I got here. Seeing that his eyes returned to normal, I guessed that Hong Yan had left.

I hesitated for a moment, but still didn't tell Er Mazi what happened just now, not out of concern, but because I was such a big talker. If everyone knew about it, I'm afraid it would anger Hong Yan.

He found an excuse to prevaricate Er Mazi. When he was reversing the car, an old face covered with grooves was pressed tightly against the door glass. Under the dim light, it looked extremely eerie.

"Damn it, isn't this the village chief? What are you doing here at night? You didn't say a word and scared the shit out of me." Er Mazi recognized the person at a glance. He was the village chief of Honggang Village. Chang, his surname is Hong, his name is also very down-to-earth, his name is Datou, he looks quite ugly, he is an old man who can act in ghost movies as he is without makeup, but he has a good heart and has a good reputation in and outside the village.

"It's the Wang family's little baby." Village Chief Hong greeted Er Mazi. He said that a few sheep were lost in the village at night, so he followed several villagers to find this place along the traces. He pointed to the village not far away. The light showed that there was still someone there.

"Isn't this the old Zhang family boy?" Village Chief Hong looked stunned. Hearing that I was working for the Hong family, he advised me not to continue working in this industry, saying that if there is no blessing, there may be disaster.

I don't know why, but I always feel that something is wrong with the village chief, but I can't tell what is wrong. When he gets close, I can smell a faint fragrance, but it is very unpleasant, a bit like the smell of flower wax.

Er Mazi said he was sleepy and had gone off the road, so he offered to give him a ride but was declined. Village Chief Hong said the place was not peaceful and asked us not to come here again.

Exhausted both physically and mentally, I fell asleep after returning home. Perhaps too many strange things happened in the past few days, which caused me to have a rare nightmare. In the dream, I was in a dark basement with a mahogany coffin next to me. , the sound of a baby crying came from inside.

I couldn't hold back my curiosity, so I opened the coffin and vaguely saw a well-preserved corpse. I took a closer look, wasn't this Hong Yan?

The difference is that Hong Yan's belly is no longer round and bulging, it has become as deflated as an ordinary person. Just when I was wondering where the sound came from, my head sank, and something seemed to fall on it. I stretched out my hand to grab it and touched something that looked like pork belly. When I tore it hard, I felt severe pain in my scalp, as if something like a hook was piercing into my skull. I pulled hard, but unexpectedly a piece of blood was spit out. Zira's flesh was pulled off, and when I looked up, I saw a twisted cat's face, which looked at me sinisterly with a pair of blood-colored vertical pupils.

Before I could take any further action, it suddenly opened its mouth, stuck out a rotten tongue covered with barbs and pierced it into my eyeball...