It was nearly half past five when they returned to the Li family's ancestral house, and there was still more than an hour before meeting Li Yougui. They decided not to go out, so as not to cause unnecessary disturbances again.

This was the case on the way back just now. Although the villagers were no longer afraid to meet people as before, most of them avoided the three of them and took a detour.

"Can he be here?" Ji Duan opened the doors that they had never opened before. There was nothing behind those doors except a lot of dust and broken cobwebs in the dust. He turned back and turned in another direction Shout, "I don't have it here."

"I'm here too..." Xie Jin poked his head out from the room in the northwest corner, but judging from his expression, he had nothing to gain here, "A Nian didn't come back either, so where did he go?"

It wasn't until Wen Liang's voice came from the room where they slept last night that the two ran in that direction.

The door that should have hung there was now in a miserable shape against the wall, and the doorknob was full of signs of vandalism. Wen Liang squatted on the ground, their luggage was scattered at his feet.

"It seems that the group of people didn't intend to hide it from us at all, and this time they just made it clear." Wen Liang picked up the dented stainless steel bowl and snorted coldly, "It seems that the old thief Zhao Dong Very angry."

Luggage was thrown everywhere on the ground, and the wooden doors were dismantled. It was obvious that someone, or a group of people, had entered here through violent means during their departure.

Because before they left, Wen Liang specially locked the door with a thickened chain, but that chain is nowhere to be seen now, maybe it is being pressed under the luggage.

"Did the Zhao family do it?" Ji Duan squatted down not far from Wen Liang, and together with him picked up the supplies and equipment on the ground, "I saw that it looked like their handwriting, that guy Zhao Dong is a vengeful master."

Wen Liang pulled out the iron chain that was originally used to lock the wooden door from under his backpack, and the iron chain that was as thick as an adult's finger had been cut.

The half he pulled out was just for the lock. Wen Liang threw the disused half of the chain to the corner of the room. Instead of being angry, he smiled, "In addition to the smell of snakes, I also smell foxes. It's Zhao. What the Gao family did was probably just to take the opportunity to find out about us."

Continuing to pack the equipment that will not delay the use in the backpack, Wen Liang asked without raising his head, "How is it? He Nian should not be here."

"No, Ji Duan and I searched the house and didn't find him." Xie Jin held the familiar cloth bag in his hand, and he handed the bag to Wen Liang, "Here, I found it on the table in the main hall that A Nian used to hold origami paper. bag."

"He didn't take this away?" Wen Liang stopped his hands and turned his head to look at the cloth bag he used to hold tobacco. He Nian often hugged it, even after eating the chocolate, he still couldn't put it down, so the bag The cloth bag turned into a container for his sugar-coated origami.

Xie Jin nodded, "Apart from this cloth bag, there is nothing else on the table. A Nian doesn't have many things. He seems to like this cloth bag the most, but he didn't take it with him."

Seeing Wen Liang take the bag to confirm the contents, Xie Jin hesitated whether to express his worries.

Accidentally glanced to the side, he saw Ji Duan's eyes were flat but firm, as if to encourage him to say, "That, Wen Liang."

Xie Jin lowered his head, he was very unconfident about his sixth sense, but this time he was in panic, a voice in the dark was influencing his thoughts, constantly instilling an uneasy thought in him.

"I always feel that if we don't find He Nian as soon as possible, something bad may happen next."

"Yeah, he suddenly left us to play and disappear. What the hell is he doing?" Wen Liang put the cloth bag into his backpack. It should not be a coincidence that He Nianka left at this time, but what made him willing Wen Liang will not know about his departure.

Li Yougui didn't come at the agreed time, he didn't show up until after seven o'clock when the sky was getting dark, this time he didn't bring anything in his hand, he still walked through the window.

But he seemed anxious and angry, and his slit-like eyes were wide open, and they could see shock and anger in them.

"What did you do!" Li Yougui uttered the first sentence after the meeting, "I didn't have a chance to talk to you at all, so why did I just go to Zhao's house! You know Mr. Zhao... Do you know who Zhao Dong is?"

"It seems that you know." Wen Liang glanced at him indifferently, took out the dented stainless steel bowl, and poured Li Yougui a bowl of freshly dried tea.

"I..." Li Yougui's anger suddenly faltered, he glared at Wen Liang resentfully, picked up the bowl and drank the tea, "Of course I know, the Li and Zhao families have been fighting openly and secretly for so many years, no matter how I know But who is Zhao Dong?"

Li Yougui's expression looked distorted. He was indeed very angry. He even gritted his teeth when he mentioned Zhao Dong's name, "In order to be the head of the five clans, Zhao Dong used all despicable and indecent means to kill my Li family. My family was ruined, if I hadn't persevered in the end, there would be no place for my Li family in Badong Village!"

"What did the Zhao family do to the Li family back then?" Wen Liang exchanged glances with Xie Jinjiduan. It seemed that Li Yougui had more resentment towards Badong Village and the Zhao family than they thought.

Li Yougui snorted coldly. He looked at the three outsiders in front of him coldly, wondering whether they wanted to see a joke or were they simply curious about the truth behind this matter.

"So what if we know? The whole family of the Li family, including me, does not exceed twenty people. You have all seen how magnificent this old house used to be. Do you know where we live now? One in the sky and the other in the ground.”

"So where do you live now, is there a coffin?" Ji Duan interrupted him without warning. Li Yougui didn't expect to be interrupted. He looked at the young man who had hardly communicated with him, and asked. Picking up sparse eyebrows.

"What do you mean by that?"

"Don't pretend, we've all heard the rumors of Badong Village." Ji Duan pointed to the grass outside the main hall, "there is a rectangular trace there, and only there is no grass, it must be a heavy object pressing on it all the year round. As a result, after going to Zhao's house, we can be sure of the authenticity of the rumor."

Looking at Li Yougui's silent face, Ji Duan didn't give him a chance to speak, "In this village, what is the use of the coffins placed in every household in this village?"

"Badong Village, also known as Ling Coffin Village, before I came here, I was curious about the use of the coffin. How long have you been outside to see it, do you know how evil the rumors of Badong Village are outside?"

Wen Liang leaned back and lit his long stick of dry smoke. The night became more and more drowsy. The windbreak lamp placed on the table was not as bright as before because it was maliciously smashed today.

Looking at Wen Liang's plain face in the shadows, Li Yougui gritted his teeth and no longer hesitated, as if making a compromise, he told the secret of the coffin, "It was used to ask the immortals to cure illnesses and disasters."

"In our Badong, if you suffer from intractable diseases or some unusual curses, you can basically get rid of the disease if you lie in the coffin and ask the fairy to go up to the body. If it is good, we can only wait until the day of the sacrifice to worship the Shaman."

After Li Yougui finished speaking, he found that the three people had different expressions, and he couldn't help being a little annoyed. At the same time, he also felt that his beliefs in history had been insulted by these outsiders who didn't understand anything.

"Why, you don't believe it? You obviously have to ask me, but I don't believe it when I tell the truth?"

Annoyed and annoyed, Li Yougui didn't dare to make a real fuss, not to mention that they were on the same front now, just because of the white-haired Taoist priest on the opposite side who only cared about smoking, he didn't dare to act indiscriminately.

"According to what you mean, don't I have to lie down in the coffin when the time comes to sacrifice?" Ji Duan's face was a little embarrassed. Even though he had been a ghost for so long, the coffin always had a stereotyped impression on him.

That should be the final belonging of the dead, not the props used by the living to break the curse.

"If you don't want to die, you have to overcome the barrier in your heart and lie down." Wen Liang exhaled in the direction of Ji Duan, "I guess the coffin is a medium between humans and gods, if ordinary people are possessed There's not necessarily the kind of animalization that they have."

Seeing that Ji Duan was choking on the smoke and trying to get angry, Wen Liang consciously ducked back and grinned without sincerity, "Don't mind, it's just lying there until the sacrifice is over, I'm not asking you to lie down a few times. moon."

"I'm afraid it will vary from person to person. There was an old lady in our village who had a sudden illness. She lay in the coffin for seven days before she saved her life." Li Yougui frowned, and it took a long time to think about it. , "Wait, listen to what you mean, is the shaman agreeing to your request?"

"If we don't agree, can we talk to you here now?" Wen Liang asked him back, "How much time is wasting us to see a shaman, do you think we can come back before we get an answer from our brains?"

Li Yougui was silent for a while, but Wen Liang was right. The three tried every means to enter the village, and they finally saw Grandma Yang, how could they be willing to return empty-handed.

"So what are you calling me here for? You can't just tell me this news." He didn't know what agreement the three of them had reached with the shaman. Even in the village, Grandma Yang and her adopted The granddaughter also only appears on the day of the sacrifice.

"Because of He Nian." Wen Liang kept tapping the cigarette stick with his fingertips. He looked at Li Yougui's unremarkable face, and said solemnly, "After the separation at the entrance of your ancestral house, we will no longer be able to contact He Nian. ."

Ji Duan: Uncle Xie (in a coquettish tone) I don't want to lie down