☆、Chapter 5 Dry Well

The snow was so heavy that it was almost impossible to walk on the narrow mountain road.

Lin Qiushi was worried that Ruan Baijie's body could not stand it, and he protected her all the way. Xiao Ke said casually beside you that your relationship is really good.

"Girls." Lin Qiushi said, "You should take more care of yourself."

Ruan Baijie leaned against Lin Qiushi weakly and glanced at Xiao Ke, showing a pitiful expression.

Xiao Ke looked away expressionlessly, looking like he didn't like her very much.

When they finally got to the place where the tree was cut, everyone started to act again. This time, everyone chose two trees that were not so thick, and planned to cut them down in one go today. Although the weather was very cold, his body felt a little hot after cutting down the tree for a while. Lin Qiushi reached out and unbuttoned his coat and stood and rested for a while.

Ruan Baijie leaned against the tree next to her and looked at Lin Qiushi thoughtfully.

Lin Qiushi glanced at her: "What are you looking at?"

Ruan Baijie: "The butt is quite warped..."

Lin Qiushi almost didn't get kicked by the axe in his hand, he turned his head and stared at Ruan Baijie: "What did you say?"

Ruan Baijie: "I didn't say anything, you heard it wrong."

Lin Qiushi looked suspicious.

Ruan Baijie: "Otherwise you repeat what I just said?"

Lin Qiushi: "..." This thing is accurate, he is embarrassed, right?

The two fell trees while chatting, and occasionally took turns resting with the other men in the team. Before it was completely dark, they felled two trees.

It was all right when the tree was chopped down, but handling it became a demon in the hearts of everyone.

The two teammates who were crushed to death by a tree yesterday were buried in thick snow, but even if the bodies were no longer visible, their miserable appearance was still vivid in my mind.

"Don't carry it." Xiong Qi said, "Put a rope on it and drag it away."

"Then who will drag it?" Zhang Zishuang asked.

Xiong Qi said: "The men are divided into two groups, and they both drag."

This method is very fair, everyone is doing the same thing, then if you die, your life is simply not good, no one can blame others.

Lin Qiushi didn't say much, reached out and took the rope in Xiong Qi's hand, followed by another teammate who hadn't spoken much, and began to drag the heavy wood hard. It is more difficult than a bar to drag the wood on the narrow mountain road, but it is safe to avoid the accident like before.

With the lessons learned, everyone was very vigilant along the way, and they were relieved until they left the mountain road and arrived at the door of the carpenter's house.

"Old man." Xiong Qi called, "We brought the wood."

The sound of crunching the wood in the door stopped, and after a while, an old face full of wrinkles emerged from the crack of the door. The carpenter slowly pushed the door out and motioned them to send the wood in.

"Old man." Xiong Qi reached out and wiped the white snow on his face, "We brought the wood, and then we went to the temple to worship, do I need to bring anything??"

The old man took a breath from the long cigarette stick in his hand, exhaled thick white smoke, and said vaguely, "Just take someone with you."

Xiong Qi frowned.

"You have to go at night," the old man said. "After dark, enter the temple one by one, and come out after worshiping."

When Ruan Baijie heard this request, her expression changed slightly. Lin Qiushi thought she would say something, but in the end she didn't say anything, just smiled subtly.

"Do you have to go in one by one?" Xiong Qi seemed to think this requirement was a bit strange, "Can't we go in together?"

"Go in together?" The old man sneered, "You can try."

"Thank you." Xiong Qi didn't ask any more, turned to greet everyone and left the carpenter's house.

Lin Qiushi always thought this person was weird, he said, "Aren't the people in the village going to lie to us?"

"Some will." Xiong Qi said, "but the key people generally don't lie. If the key clues they gave us are wrong, then what else can we do."

Just wait to die.

Lin Qiushi sighed.

After the people sent the wood to the carpenter, they went back to their residence, raised a fire and started to warm up and discussed what happened next.

Ruan Baijie said halfway through that she wanted to go to the toilet and went out, but she didn't come back for a long time.

Lin Qiushi waited for a while, and was really worried about her, so he ran out, but he didn't see anyone in the toilet. After looking around the house, he saw Ruan Baijie sitting by the wellhead alone.

She seemed to have been sitting on the edge of the well for a while, and there was a layer of white snow on her head. Lin Qiushi tentatively called her name, but Ruan Baijie didn't seem to hear her and didn't even look back.

"Ruan Baijie?" Lin Qiushi walked in her direction, "What are you doing, it's so cold outside."

"Don't move." Ruan Baijie said suddenly.

Lin Qiushi stopped at his feet.

Ruan Baijie said, "Don't come near me." Her tone was extremely cold, and she lost her usual gentleness. "Stay away from me."

Lin Qiushi said, "What happened?" He was keenly aware that the sudden change in Ruan Baijie's attitude had a lot to do with the well beside her.

Ruan Baijie shook her head and did not answer.

Lin Qiushi dared to take two more steps towards Ruan Baijie, reaching the distance where he could see the wellhead more clearly. It’s okay not to look at it. After reading it, Lin Qiushi had a layer of goose bumps all over his body. He saw that the inside of the well was covered with a layer of black things. At first Lin Qiushi thought it was water, but later found that those things were slowly squirming. Only then did I confirm that I had read it right—the wellhead was full of black hair.

Ruan Baijie's feet seemed to be entangled in these hairs, and her body could not move at all.

"Don't come here, Lin Qiushi." Ruan Baijie said, "You will be pulled down together."

"It's okay." Lin Qiushi's voice was soft, he was afraid that he would be too loud and would disturb the black hair, "It's okay, don't be afraid, I'm here to help you."

Ruan Baijie turned her head to look at Lin Qiushi, her eyes lost the tenderness like water before, and now it turned into a bottomless lake, so dark that people were inexplicably frightened, she said, "Why?"

Lin Qiushi said, "Wait for me for a while and hold on." He remembered something and ran towards the house.

Xiong Qi, who was sitting in the living room, saw Lin Qiushi running wild, and asked him what was wrong, but Lin Qiushi ignored him and went straight to the kitchen.

When he got to the kitchen, he picked up some firewood, quickly lit it with flint, then turned and ran outside the house.

In just a few minutes, it seemed like centuries had passed. Lin Qiushi couldn't stop shaking when he set fire to the fire. He was afraid that when he returned to the edge of the well, there was only an empty well left.

Fortunately, when he came back with the torch, Ruan Baijie was still sitting there.

"I'm back." Lin Qiushi panted, "I'll come over later and throw the fire into the well. You grab my hand... don't let go."

Ruan Baijie: "Aren't you afraid?"

Lin Qiushi was taken aback: "What are you afraid of?"

Ruan Baijie said, "Of course I'm afraid of death."

Lin Qiushi smiled: "Who is not afraid of death? But there is always something scarier than death." Although he still had some doubts about the world, he could still feel that Ruan Baijie had saved him several times. If it wasn't for Ruan Baijie, he might have been one of the bloody corpses on the first night.

"Okay, I'm coming." Lin Qiushi was afraid that the delay would be too long and Ruan Baijie was exhausted. He moved slowly and walked towards Ruan Baijie.

When he was close enough, he grabbed Ruan Baijie's hand, and then threw the torch in his hand into the tumbling hair.

"Ah" A shrill scream, a woman's voice came from the well, and those hairs were ignited by the fire and wriggled violently. In a trance, Lin Qiushi actually saw a pale face in the well. Although it was only for a moment, Lin Qiushi still recognized this face he had seen in the house before, the appearance of the female ghost disguised as Ruan Baijie's voice that night.

"Run!!" As soon as the hair on Ruan Baijie's feet broke, Lin Qiushi pulled her and started running wildly.

Ruan Baijie didn't resist, following Lin Qiushi's actions, the two rushed into the room, panting frantically.

"What's wrong?" Everyone in the room was surprised.

"There is something in the well..." Lin Qiushi gasped, "Everyone stay away from the well, Bai Jie was almost pulled down just now." After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Bai Jie and asked if she was injured.

"No." Ruan Baijie said, "I'm fine."

Lin Qiushi heard the words and turned his eyes to her feet, but he saw that Ruan Baijie's ankle was wrapped with a circle of blood red marks, and the blood was still dripping slowly, he said: "Is this all right? You hurry up and sit down. Come on, I'll wrap it up for you."

Ruan Baijie seemed to realize that she was injured only after realizing it, she tilted her head, and finally listened to Lin Qiushi's words, sat obediently on the chair,

Lin Qiushi found the wound medicine in the house, half-kneeled in front of Ruan Baijie, put her foot on his knee, and began to slowly treat the wound. His movements were light and serious, as if he was worried about hurting Ruan Baijie.

"Are you so careful with girls?" Ruan Baijie asked suddenly.

"What does this have to do with girls." Lin Qiushi replied casually, "Even if you are a man, could it be that I have been rough with you?"

Ruan Baijie: "Well..."

Lin Qiushi said casually: "You can't really be a man, you are so tall and your chest is so flat." But Ruan Baijie is indeed beautiful, at least Lin Qiushi doesn't believe that there are men like this in the world.

"Yeah." Ruan Baijie sighed, "Your chest is not as big as yours."

Lin Qiushi: "..."

Ruan Baijie added: "You don't have your butt up."

Lin Qiushi: "...Why do you talk so much."

Ruan Baijie giggled.

Lin Qiushi helped Ruan Baijie deal with the wound, and then told Xiong Qi and the others what happened just now. The other people's reactions were okay, but Xiong Qi and Xiao Ke's faces were not very good, obviously they remembered the last step the old man told them about making a coffin - filling a well.

What does the coffin have to do with the well? Is it a custom unique to this village or a trap that the carpenter laid for them.

Ruan Baijie seemed to know what Xiong Qi was thinking. She smiled and said, "You don't need to think so much. What to do and how to do it, things like life are all set."

Xiong Qi sighed slightly: "We plan to go to the temple tonight, do you want to come together?"

"Me?" Ruan Baijie said, "I hurt my foot and can't walk, Qiu Shi, carry me."

Lin Qiushi nodded.

Xiao Ke said beside him, "Why can't you walk with such a little injury?"

Ruan Baijie didn't get angry when she heard the words, she just smiled sweetly and said, Miss Sister, please bear with me. I'm a spoiled child at home, so I'm naturally a little more squeamish when I come out.

Xiao Ke said: "Just keep tossing with Lin Qiushi's good temper. No one in this world knows who it is, why should you be used to you."

"Oh, I thought you and Xiong Qi knew each other," Ruan Baijie said casually.

Who knew that as soon as these words came out, the expressions of Xiaoke and Xiong Qi changed, and vigilance appeared in their eyes.

Lin Qiushi instantly felt the change in the atmosphere.

"What do you mean by that?" Xiao Ke asked.

"It doesn't make any sense." Ruan Baijie said, "I just think the two of you have a good relationship... don't you really know each other?"

"How is that possible." Xiao Ke looked very uncomfortable.

Ruan Baijie smiled, but did not continue the topic.

Of course, Xiao Ke didn't hold Ruan Baijie away, she didn't stop Ruan Baijie from letting Lin Qiushi carry her to the temple, and turned away with a heavy expression.

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