Home is the last harbor in a person's heart. No matter what happens outside, you can get spiritual comfort and shelter when you return home.

But now,

She's coming home!

Li Zhuiyuan really couldn't wake Cui Guiying up, so he could only run to the back room, where his brothers and sisters were sleeping on the floor.

"Brother Pan Zi, wake up!"

"Brother Lei Zi, wake up quickly!"

"Sister Yingzi, wake up!"

Li Zhuiyuan ran between brothers and sisters one after another, pushing and calling each one, but like Cui Guiying in the kitchen, they couldn't wake up.

"Tick tock...tick tock...tick tock..."

Li Zhuiyuan raised his head and looked at the door between the back room and the kitchen. Little Huangying did not appear there.

"call……"

I breathed a sigh of relief, but the next moment I found a pool of water under my feet. It gathered more and more, and began to overflow and flow along the uneven ground.

"Tick tock...tick tock...tick tock..."

Water droplets kept falling on his body, soaking his clothes, making them sticky and clammy.

On both sides of his sight, a pair of hands appeared.

finally,

Cold hands grabbed his neck.

Li Zhuiyuan's body trembled, and he felt a strong sense of suffocation.

But soon, the feeling of suffocation gradually subsided, because the hands did not stay on the neck for too long and began to slowly slide down.

A shadow appeared from above, and Li Zhuiyuan raised his head with some difficulty.

The person above also slowly lowered his head at this time, and his long wet hair kept falling down, sticking to the boy's face, and like a huge black mouth, covering the boy's head bit by bit,

until...

engulf.

…

"Marquis Han, please slow down, slow down, your butt hurts, hiss...it hurts!"

Li Sanjiang put one hand around Li Weihan's waist and used the other hand to lift his buttocks up as much as possible.

"Uncle, don't move. If you move again, you will fall!"

"Bah, you are riding so fast, how can I not move!"

After picking up Li Sanjiang at his wedding banquet, Li Weihan kept riding his bicycle home.

The paths in the fields are narrow and have many potholes, which is really a hardship for those who ride in the car. Moreover, Li Sanjiang is too old and cannot withstand such troubles.

Li Weihan had no choice but to slow down the car when he saw that the road ahead was very close to his home and the path he took to take a shortcut became increasingly difficult.

"Ouch..." Li Sanjiang breathed a sigh of relief. He touched the cigarette case in his trouser pocket and said, "Hanhou, stop and let's have a cigarette."

"We're almost home, uncle. I'll smoke when I get home."

"Hey, why are you so anxious? Didn't you already call Blind Man Liu to see him? I guess your Xiao Yuanhou is now able to eat and run around at home."

"Is Blind Liu really useful?"

Li Weihan didn't have much faith in Liu Jinxia's ability. He had seen the mother and daughter in their most difficult time. If he really had the ability to connect yin and yang, how could he have ended up in such a miserable situation?

Comparatively speaking, he believed in Li Sanjiang more. After all, he was a man who specialized in robbing people to death, and he had always lived a happy life in his childhood.

"How should I put it? Blind Liu was a money swindler in her early years. Later, she figured out some tricks of her own. Isn't there an old saying that tells you to cut the hemp rope at the thinnest place? She will just put it wherever it is.

Cut off her first, and if you cut off too many, you will lose experience."

"What do you mean, uncle, I don't understand."

"Forget it if you don't understand. The worst-case scenario for your Xiao Yuanhou is to be possessed. She, Blind Liu, is really capable of handling this kind of thing, considering your past friendship."

"I'm just worried about you, I'd rather worry about myself."

"You, the Marquis of Han, are really partial. You used to favor the little girl a long time ago, but now you favor your grandson. But that's right, your little girl also strives for success. These two-eight bars are what your little girl bought for you in the early years."

?

But ah, this evil spirit is not too much suffering. I can say that it is quite enjoyable. Just like the hanged man, before the rope is put around his neck, what he can see through the ring is

Something that fascinates me.”

"Uncle, does this sound like a good thing to you?"

"Of course, we can't talk about good things. Just treat it as a graveyard syndrome. In any village that doesn't have these naughty and unlucky people, it's just a minor illness."

"By the way, uncle, how do you plan to deal with death?"

"Deal with it?" Li Sanjiang's mood suddenly fluctuated, and his tone became stern, "I feel that my life is too comfortable, so I have to rush to deal with the kind of dead body that can walk in water?"

When Li Weihan heard this, his heart tightened and his speed increased again.

"Hey, hey, hey! Slow down, slow down! Marquis Han, why are you so crazy? No matter how powerful your death is, if you run away anyway, it won't be a big deal. Is it possible that she can still chase you to your home?

go?"

"arrive!"

When the 28-bar went to the dam, Li Weihan immediately got down and supported the car.

Li Sanjiang jumped out of the back seat and stretched out his hand to rub his buttocks.

Li Weihan: "Guiying, Guiying!"

"It's coming, it's coming, keep your voice down, don't make any noise, the children are asleep." Cui Guiying walked out and greeted Li Sanjiang first, "Uncle, you are here."

"Hey, here we come." Li Sanjiang waved his sleeves inward without writing, "Let's go, let's see Yao'er first."

Arriving at the door panel, Li Sanjiang knelt down and checked Li Zhuiyuan's condition.

"Should I wake up the child?" Cui Guiying asked.

"No, the child is fine. There's nothing wrong with him. Has Blind Man Liu been here?"

"I've been here." Cui Guiying recounted what happened in the afternoon.

Li Sanjiang nodded after hearing this: "Guiying, you used to be kind and generous, and you were willing to let the Marquis of Han go to help their mother and daughter. That's why we are today, and your good deeds have been repaid to your children and grandchildren."

"Look, uncle, what you said doesn't mean anything."

"It's nothing. If it were someone else, do you think Blind Liu would be willing to take action?

That is to say, this is a debt of gratitude. No matter how unwilling she is, she has no choice but to hold her nose and admit it. She is afraid that she will be wronged and regretful, and now she is probably wiping her tears at home and moaning about her misery."

"Uncle, sit down." Li Weihan handed a small stool under Li Sanjiang's butt, took out a cigarette and lit it for him, and then said to his wife, "Guiying, bring some food to satisfy your hunger."

As he said that, he glanced at the locked cabinet.

Cui Guiying opened the lock with the key, took out chicken cakes, biscuits, etc., spread them in front of the two of them, and said apologetically to Li Sanjiang: "Uncle, I will cut the meat tomorrow, and then I will invite you to my house for a good drink."

"Hey, what are you doing with all this? Put it all away. How can I steal the food from you children?"

Li Weihan opened a biscuit box with his hands, picked up the biscuits and handed them to Li Sanjiang. He picked up the iron box and looked at it, and said: "Guiying, when you finish eating the biscuits, remember to put the box away and use it to put sewing buttons."

suitable."

"know."

Li Sanjiang ate the biscuit in a few mouthfuls. When Li Weihan gave it to him again, he pushed it away and patted his trouser legs: "Okay, you're fine. I'm going home."

"I'll take you back on my bike, uncle."

"Don't, don't, don't take the car anymore."

"Then I won't ride the bike. I'll walk back with you. Guiying, bring me the flashlight."

At this moment, Li Zhuiyuan, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly twitched, his breathing became heavier, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.

Li Sanjiang immediately sat back and checked on the child.

Li Weihan said anxiously: "Uncle, this is..."

"It's nothing. It's probably a nightmare. It's normal. When I was haunted at first, I thought the dirty thing was very beautiful and fascinating. Only when I realized it later did I realize that I was afraid. It doesn't matter, just play with me for a while.

God has forgotten about this."

Li Weihan and Cui Guiying nodded. Of course they hoped their child would be fine.

"ah!"

Li Zhuiyuan shouted, sat up from the door panel, and gasped for air.

"Marquis Xiaoyuan, Marquis Xiaoyuan." Cui Guiying stepped forward, hugged Li Zhuiyuan, and patted his back, "It's okay, you're not afraid, my baby is here, my baby is here."

Li Zhuiyuan first looked at Cui Guiying, then at Li Weihan, and finally, his eyes fell on the face of Li Sanjiang, whom he saw for the first time.

Li Sanjiang pointed to his rosacea and said with a smile: "Xiao Yuanhou, I am your grandfather."

Li Zhuiyuan blinked, and then he seemed to think of his previous experience in the dream. He immediately turned to look at the back door, pointed his finger and said: "Little Huangying, little Huangying, she is coming home!"

"My dear, you were having a nightmare. It's okay now. She has been beaten away by your mother. She doesn't dare to come to my dear again."

Li Zhuiyuan looked at Cui Guiying with some doubts: "Really, grandma?"

Li Weihan breathed a sigh of relief: "It seems that You'er was really frightened by the dream, haha."

Seeing that things are developing according to what Li Sanjiang said, Li Weihan and his wife felt completely at ease.

Only Li Sanjiang looked toward the back door in the direction of Li Zhuiyuan's finger, and his expression gradually became serious.

"Marquis Han, give me the flashlight."

Li Weihan didn't give it, but said: "Uncle, I told you to take you home."

"Give me!"

Li Sanjiang snatched the flashlight over.

"Uncle, I will take you back. You drank and walked at night..."

"Get out of the way!"

Li Sanjiang pushed Li Weihan away and walked straight to the back door.

"Uncle?" Li Weihan looked at his grandson and immediately followed him.

Li Sanjiang stepped over the threshold and came to the river directly opposite the back door, shining his flashlight downwards.

"Uncle, is there something else?"

Li Sanjiang spat on the ground and lowered his voice: "It's normal for you to have other dreams, but it's scary to dream that you are dead and come home."

"What, are you really here with your family?"

Li Sanjiang raised his hand to signal Li Weihan to be quiet, and then continued to use his flashlight to shine on the boat and the nearby river, but after searching several times, he still found nothing.

Li Weihan asked in a low voice: "Uncle, there is nothing."

"Shh, Marquis Han, did you hear the sound?"

Li Weihan listened carefully and shook his head: "Uncle, is there any sound? I didn't hear it."

"Ha." Li Sanjiang rubbed his nose with his hand, "On a summer night, by the river, where can it be so quiet?"

Li Weihan understood instantly, yes, it seems too quiet here in his house. On weekdays, the cicadas chirp and the frogs chirp, it's like a meeting every night, but today there is no movement at all, it's like death.

silence.

At this time, looking at the calm lake surface and the weeds in front of him, Li Weihan felt terrible in his heart. The dead man might be hiding somewhere.

Li Sanjiang turned around and walked back into the house and said to Cui Guiying: "Guiying, give me a bowl of rice wine."

"Ah, then I can fry some peanuts and eggs for uncle?"

"Go get the wine and don't talk too much!" Li Weihan urged. Of course he knew that Li Sanjiang didn't want to drink here.

Cui Guiying brought a bowl of rice wine over. Li Sanjiang took it and squatted down in front of Li Zhuiyuan. He said with a smile: "Xiao Yuanhou, it will hurt a little later. Don't scream. Bear with it. Do you understand?"

Li Zhuiyuan looked up at Li Weihan and Cui Guiying, then nodded to Li Sanjiang.

"Yeah, be good."

Li Sanjiang poured rice wine on Li Zhuiyuan's neck. The child was so aroused that he instinctively shrank, but Li Sanjiang immediately grabbed his arm with his left hand and rubbed his neck and shoulders with his right hand.

The old man's hands were covered with calluses and were very rough, like sandpaper scraping his skin. Li Zhuiyuan was in pain, but he just pursed his lips hard as he was told.

After wiping Ya'er's neck and shoulders until they were all red, Li Sanjiang moved his face closer to his and inhaled hard through his nose.

After he finished sucking, Li Sanjiang's eyes widened, he gently pushed Yao'er away and fell to the ground.

"Uncle, uncle?" Li Weihan immediately came over to help him.

Cui Guiying went to check Li Zhuiyuan's neck. She felt very distressed, but she knew that things seemed to have changed again, so she didn't dare to say anything and just touched the child's head silently.

"Yan, Hanhou, give me cigarettes."

"Why."

Li Weihan immediately helped order it.

Li Sanjiang took a deep breath and sprayed it out from his nose.

Li Weihan noticed that Li Sanjiang's hand holding the cigarette was shaking.

"Guiying, bring Yao'er in." Li Sanjiang pointed to the inner room, "Close the door."

"What's going on?" Cui Guiying couldn't help it.

"Just do whatever you ask me to do." Li Weihan hurriedly waved his hand to urge him.

Cui Guiying took a deep breath, picked up Li Zhuiyuan, walked into the back room, and closed the door.

There were only two men left in the kitchen.

"Uncle?"

"Marquis of Han, things are in trouble.

In the afternoon, Blind Man Liu must have cleaned away the evil spirits from Xiao Yuanhou's body. Since she did it, there was no way she wouldn't clean it up.

But just now, my nose smelled the smell of corpses from the child's neck again. I fished for it all my life and fell to death. Let me tell you, the smell of corpses soaked in the water is different from the smell of dead people in other places. I

You can never go wrong with this nose.”

Li Sanjiang said, turned to look at Li Weihan, and said seriously: "Then you're dead, I'm really chasing after you."

When Li Weihan heard this, he immediately stood up and took down the ax for chopping firewood from the cupboard. There were many children in the house, so such items could only be placed high.

"Fuck you, I'll fight that thing!"

Li Sanjiang narrowed his eyes, took another puff of cigarette, and said slowly: "What if she doesn't come out?"

"What?" Li Weihan didn't understand. "Isn't it good if you don't come out?"

"She is staying next to your house. If you can't find her, she will keep an eye on your house for one day, two days, three days... First Xiaoyuanhou, then Xiaopanhou, Xiaoleihou, Xiaohuhou...

To Guiying, then to you.

If other people's homes offer gods and Buddhas for blessing, your home is equivalent to offering something evil.

Before long, people will get sick, have bad luck, and... families will be broken up."

Li Weihan asked in a daze: "What should I do? I... I don't live here anymore. I want to go live with my son's house?"

"She can come with her once, but she can't come with her a second time?"

"Uncle, is there any other way?"

"There is a way." The cigarette butt on Li Sanjiang's lips flickered.

"Uncle, you have to help me." Li Weihan squatted down next to Li Sanjiang. If anyone else said these words to him, he would wonder if that person was deliberately scaring him for other purposes, but Li Sanjiang would never do that.

"He is a dead man who walks in the water, has a lot of resentment, and is not easy to deal with. But this is the first time in our lives that your uncle and I have seen this kind of person come with the family. He is simply a very evil person."

"But uncle, there is always a wrongdoer and a debtor. What does this have to do with my Xiaoyuan Hou?"

"Ha." Li Sanjiang sneered, rubbed his fingers, and put out the cigarette butt in his hand, "I guess she wants to find the right person for every grievance, but if she can't find an enemy, she can only catch the first one she encounters.

People won’t let go.”

Li Weihan seemed to have thought of something, his eyes showed hesitation and thinking.

Li Sanjiang continued: "This is the girl who danced and sang at the party with the bearded man yesterday, right? You told me on the way when you picked me up, what is your name, Little Huangying?"

"Marquis Lei said he saw it. I didn't go to Big Beard's house yesterday, so I'm not sure."

"It's Little Yellow Warbler. Maybe Lei Hou got it wrong, but Xiao Yuanhou didn't. It was Little Yellow Warbler he called when he just woke up from a dream."

"Well, that's true."

"Didn't you say that the villagers saw Xiao Huangying and the youngest son of Big Beard's family going into the forest last night? During the day, people from the white-collar team went to Big Beard's house to cause trouble, and Big Beard paid to settle the matter.

This is something I have in my heart..."

Li Sanjiang suppressed the word "ghost" forcefully. At this moment, he still had to pay attention to some taboos.

"...This is because he has something on his mind and is acting weak. Hehe, his family is so cool. If he really has nothing dirty, how can he be so soft?

The big beard is the same as the beard in the Northeast before liberation. He looks like a fucking bandit, and he has done so many crimes."

Having said this, Li Sanjiang paused for a moment, then he reached out and took out another biscuit from the iron box in front of him, took a bite, and said with a smile: "This biscuit is very fragrant and milky. I'm afraid it's not cheap. Your little girl sent it to me."

Right?"

Li Weihan took out a cigarette, lit it for himself, and then took several quick puffs. Finally, he wiped his forehead and eyes with his hands. When he looked at Li Sanjiang again, bloodshot eyes appeared:

"Uncle, can't you trust my character as Marquis of Han?"

Li Sanjiang picked up another biscuit and continued eating without answering.

Li Weihan continued:

"Uncle, in the early years, it was really difficult for me to find wives for my four sons.

Not only did you give me your land to plant, but every time I did some work for you, you also gave me some labor fees. Guiying came to help you tie paper and apply paste. Her craftsmanship was so rough that I didn’t even dare to look at it. That’s all.

, uncle, you should also calculate her wages.

Later, after the most difficult days passed, I stopped planting your fields because I knew you could collect more grain rent by renting them to others. As for Guiying, I was too embarrassed to let her go anymore for fear of her.

It's the same as before when I was in the brigade.

I am really embarrassed to continue to take advantage of you, but I, Li Weihan, will always remember your kindness in my heart.

I have said it before, when one day your legs and feet become weak, I, Li Weihan, will be here to take care of you and provide for you until the end of your life.

Uncle, you have to believe in my character as Marquis of Han."

Li Sanjiang nodded.

"Haha." Li Weihan smiled twice and reached out to get the biscuits. He hadn't eaten anything until now in the afternoon, so he was really hungry.

"Crack!"

The back of my hand was slapped, and the cookie I just picked up fell back.

Li Sanjiang stood up and said, "Eat your ass, save some to put on the plate as an offering."

Li Weihan was stunned for a moment, and then realized that he had helped Li Sanjiang for a period of time in the past.

When she opened the door to the back room, she saw Cui Guiying standing there leaning forward with her arms in her arms.

After the door was opened, Cui Guiying hurriedly arranged her hair around her earlobes with her hands and asked, "Are you done talking?"

Li Weihan: "Guiying, come out and help set up the altar table. Marquis Xiaoyuan will go to bed first."

At this time, Li Sanjiang's voice came from behind: "Marquis Xiaoyuan, please stay here for now."

Li Weihan turned to look at Li Sanjiang, his brows furrowed, but after hesitation, he seemed to have made some kind of determination and motioned to his wife to bring Yao'er out.

Li Zhuiyuan had slept since afternoon, so he was not sleepy, so he sat obediently on a small bench and watched the adults busy.

"You're out of your mind!" Li Sanjiang pointed at the altar table that Li Weihan had moved outside the back door and cursed, "Do you want everyone outside to see it? Move it in and place it here!"

This is a plain countryside, with no mountains, no ditches, and no buildings to block it. The view is excellent. If you light candles and burn paper money outside, you can see it from a distance if someone comes out to urinate at night, and then the matter will be spread quickly.

open.

After all, which normal person would offer sacrifices in the middle of the night?

Li Weihan immediately moved the table he had just moved out and placed it against the wall in the room, very close to the back door.

Cui Guiying began to place the offerings. Four plates were filled with biscuits, chicken cakes, and peanuts. The other one was empty.

"Uncle, there is no meat at home." Cui Guiying looked at Li Sanjiang, "The bacon is gone."

There were more than a dozen children living at home, so there was no way there would be leftover food for the night. Even the pickle jar was bottoming out quickly, but there was no food left.

Li Sanjiang pointed to the locked cabinet where snacks were kept: "Is there any meat floss?"

"Yes." Cui Guiying nodded immediately, "Is that okay?"

"It's meat anyway, just make it up."

"good."

Finally, a plate of meat floss was put on the plate and the food was ready.

A rough iron bucket was carried in by Li Weihan from the dam outside the house. This time, he put the iron bucket in the corner of the kitchen without any reminder.

Ming notes were still a rarity at this time, and you had to buy them from Ming shops in the town. People in the village were reluctant to use them when making small sacrifices, but almost every household had yellow paper and ingots in stock.

Gold and silver ingots are usually folded by women themselves. As for the yellow paper, they can be put in the basket next to the toilet and used as toilet paper.

Li Sanjiang first lit two candles on the altar table, then used the candlelight to light a few pieces of yellow paper. Then he quickly waved it in front of the altar table and muttered something. Then he ran back to the corner and threw the half-burned yellow paper into the altar table.

The iron bucket was used as fire, and Cui Guiying immediately put other yellow paper and ingots into it and burned it.

Li Weihan used a thin wooden stick to stir up the paper inside. After confirming that it was fully burned, he moved the iron bucket outside the house and dumped the paper ashes.

When he came back, he saw Li Sanjiang taking out a bell from his pocket and digging into it with his gray-black nails, and finally got out the cotton ball stuck inside.

"Ding ding ding..."

Shake it gently and the sound will be crisp.

Li Sanjiang untied the bell rope and walked up to Li Zhuiyuan: "Come on, Xiao Yuanhou, raise your right hand."

Li Zhuiyuan obeyed and did as he was told, watching Li Sanjiang tie the bell on his wrist.

Immediately afterwards, Li Sanjiang picked up the incense burner on the altar table, thought for a moment, cut off a large section of the three incense sticks, leaving only a small end, and reinserted it into the incense burner.

"Xiao Yuanhou, take this."

Li Zhuiyuan stood up and held the incense burner.

Only then did Cui Guiying finally understand what was happening. She instinctively wanted to move forward, but Li Weihan grabbed her wrist and pulled her back hard.

"How could you let Xiao Yuanhou..."

Li Weihan glared hard at his wife.

Li Sanjiang reached out and covered Li Zhuiyuan's ears, then raised his head, looked at the couple, and asked casually: "I'm asking you for the last time, do you want to do it or not."

"Do it!" Li Weihan replied immediately.

"If something happens to Marquis Xiao Yuan..." Cui Guiying shook her arms in an attempt to break free from her wife's restraints.

Li Weihan said in a deep voice: "If there is no such thing, nothing will happen. If there is such a thing, if you don't do it, Xiao Yuanhou will also have trouble, and that thing will be staring at our Xiao Yuanhou!"

When Cui Guiying heard this, she stopped struggling and lowered her arms.

Li Sanjiang smiled and said, "Marquis Han, I have really thought about it clearly. If the matter leaks out, it will be difficult for us to get along with each other in this village in the future."

Even if you are not dead at all and everything is a nonsense joke made by everyone, but you make such a scene at home and perform such a ritual on others, if others find out, this big feud will be forged.

!

"Ha." Li Weihan also snorted, "Uncle, I'm not afraid of the bearded family. I also have four sons."

In rural areas, whose family has more adult sons has more confidence.

Although his four sons, Li Weihan, are not model filial sons, and there are a lot of discords between their daughters-in-law, but if something happens to the old Li family from outside and they need to support the family, these four sons must stand up.

Consistent with the outside world.

"Okay, do it!" Li Sanjiang let go of the hand covering Li Zhuiyuan's ear, squatted down to Yao'er's ear, and said, "Xiao Yuanhou, my master will go ahead later. As for you, follow behind, slowly.

Walk slowly and don't scatter the incense burner, do you understand?"

"Yes, I understand."

"Good boy, be good."

Li Sanjiang led Li Zhuiyuan out of the back door, turned around, looked at Li Weihan and Cui Guiying who were following them, and said, "Wait at home and don't follow them. If there are too many people, it will be easy for others to see them, and we are afraid of shocking her."

"Well, uncle, please."

"Every door in the house is closed."

"Okay, uncle."

Li Weihan pulled his wife back into the house and closed the doors and windows.

Outside at night, by the river, only Li Sanjiang and Li Zhuiyuan were left.

"Wait for me for a while, Marquis Xiaoyuan."

Li Sanjiang said hello and went down the bluestone steps to the river alone. He squatted down and said something in a low voice while paddling the water with his hands.

It was a bit far away and the voice was deliberately kept low, so Li Zhuiyuan couldn't hear clearly what was being said.

As he spoke, Li Sanjiang began to lean back and made several gestures to run, as if something underwater might come out and pounce on him at any time.

Finally, Li Sanjiang finished speaking and ran up quickly, still breathing heavily.

"Okay, Xiao Yuanhou, I'll go in front and you should follow behind. Remember, no matter what happens next or what sound you hear, you must hold this incense burner and never look back.

, do you understand?”

"Understood."

"Yeah, be good."

Li Sanjiang walked forward and opened a distance of about twenty meters. He turned back and waved to Li Zhuiyuan, indicating that Yao'er could follow him.

However, Li Zhuiyuan stopped where he was and did not move.

"Come, follow me, Xiaoyuanhou."

"But..." Li Zhuiyuan wanted to turn his head, but he remembered Li Sanjiang's instructions and just held the extinguished incense burner in one hand and pointed the other hand towards the river, "Don't you wait for her?"

"Who are you waiting for?"

"She, little Huangying."

"Little Huangying, what's wrong?"

"She didn't follow."

Li Sanjiang was stunned for a moment, then came back, looked down at Li Zhuiyuan seriously, and asked: "Xiao Yuanhou, do you know what we are going to do?"

Li Zhuiyuan shook his head and nodded again.

Li Sanjiang looked at Li Zhuiyuan with some surprise and muttered: "You idiot, just be as smart as your mother."

Immediately, Li Sanjiang seemed to have thought of something, stared into Li Zhuiyuan's eyes, and asked, "Can you feel her?"

"Um."

"Where...is she now?"

Li Zhuiyuan opened his mouth but said nothing, as if he was thinking or waiting. Then, he opened his mouth and said:

"Here she comes."

"Where is it?" Li Sanjiang was shocked.

"I was in the water just now..."

"Huh..." Li Sanjiang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Behind me now."

Li Sanjiang: "..."

Li Sanjiang subconsciously wanted to move his gaze away from Li Zhuiyuan's head and look behind him, but he restrained this impulse.

However, even though he didn't look, he could smell a strong corpse smell in his nose. This smell was all too familiar to him.

She is really here.

Li Sanjiang swallowed nervously. He wanted to stop, but when he thought of the consequences of stopping... Damn it, why should the Hanhou family bear the blame for the sins caused by others!

"Xiao Yuanhou, remember what the master just said."

"Um."

Li Sanjiang closed his eyes, raised his hands, and slowly stood up. The smell of corpses became even stronger.

He turned around, opened his eyes, and walked forward a certain distance. This distance was the observation distance when he faced those who were dead when he was punting.

After taking a deep breath, he opened his eyes and looked back.

Xiao Yuanhou stood there holding the incense burner. Behind him was a darkness that the moonlight could not penetrate.

"Xiao Yuanhou, follow me."

"Um."

"Um."

Li Sanjiang started to walk forward, and there was a "ding-ding-ding" sound behind him.

He did not take the village road, but deliberately walked along the river or into the woods. Even if there were no pedestrians late at night, he had to be as careful as possible and never let outsiders know.

Halfway through the journey, Li Sanjiang stopped, and the ringing of the bells behind him also stopped.

Li Sanjiang turned around, and Li Zhuiyuan was still standing there more than twenty meters away. Behind Yao'er, he vaguely saw a figure, very close to him.

"Xiao Yuanhou, keep following up, we are almost there."

"Um."

"Um."

Li Sanjiang continued to lead the way. He stopped and walked, and the bell behind him also rang.

Finally, after going around another fish pond, we can reach the door of Big Beard's house. This fish pond actually belongs to his family.

This time, Li Sanjiang did not stop, but continued to march along the edge of the fish pond. But during the march, he slowly turned back and looked behind him:

Under the pale moonlight, Li Zhuiyuan hugged the incense burner and looked at the master leading the way from time to time. From time to time, he lowered his head to check the road under his feet.

The road was not easy to walk, and children could easily slip and fall, so he walked carefully and carefully, but he still could not avoid shaking his body.

Behind him, followed a woman wearing a cheongsam with long wet hair.

A woman is like a blind person who cannot see the road ahead.

Blind people usually hold on to each other when someone is leading the way, so the woman grabbed her hands on the boy's shoulders and followed the little boy as she walked, one step deeper than the other, swaying constantly.

Li Sanjiang swallowed his saliva. When he was walking backwards, his foot slipped and he almost fell down, but after a while of swaying, he still stabilized his balance.

Li Zhui was about to stop when he saw the situation.

Li Sanjiang said anxiously: "Xiao Yuanhou, don't stop, keep walking, hold on, we're almost there."

"Um."

"Um."

Finally, after bypassing the fish pond, Li Sanjiang arrived in front of Big Beard's house.

It was already late at night, and not only the lights at Big Beard's house were turned off, but the lights of the nearby houses were also turned off, and there was no sign of anyone in sight.

Li Sanjiang turned sideways, squatted down, spread his left hand towards the bearded man's house, and spread his right hand towards the direction where Xiao Yuanhou was standing, and said:

"I will give you an offering today, and I will give you a sacrifice next year. Are you still satisfied with this kind of favor?"

Regardless of yin or yang, everything must be reasonable!

When there is injustice, go to revenge, and when there is hatred, go to revenge. Everyone in the world has a miserable life, so you must not cause trouble."

After Li Sanjiang finished reading, he secretly glanced in the direction of Li Zhuiyuan and found that there were still two figures, one large and one small, standing there, very quiet.

"Marquis Xiaoyuan, kneel down."

Li Zhuiyuan did not kneel down, but still stood holding the incense burner.

"Marquis Xiaoyuan?" Li Sanjiang urged in a low voice.

"Master...I can't kneel down."

Li Zhuiyuan wanted to kneel down, but something strong held him up on his shoulders, preventing him from getting off.

Li Sanjiang took a deep breath and immediately read:

"You're still young, you're not sensible, you don't owe you anything, I'll show you the way, give you guidance from the door, do you really want to ignore me?"

After finishing speaking, there were still two figures over there, one large and one small.

Anger appeared in Li Sanjiang's eyes. He took back his hands that were originally spread out to "build a bridge" and pierced his fingers into the ground. A large amount of black mud was embedded in his nails.

"You walk underwater, and I float on water. I give you affection but you don't want it, and I try to reason with you but you don't listen. That's fine. You force me to turn over the table and let's go to see the Dragon King for comment!"

Li Sanjiang's whole temperament became solemn. He had never wanted to nor dared to face that person head-on, but when things had developed to this point, he was no longer able to control it. He couldn't bring this person back home again.

.

However, at this moment, there was only a "squeak" sound, and the big iron door of Beard's house was opened.

Li Sanjiang looked over and found two people standing behind the door, the bearded man and his youngest son. Both of them were only wearing big pants, bare upper body and bare feet.

For a moment, Li Sanjiang felt a little scared. He was doing this secretly. If someone discovered it in person, it would not end well afterwards.

But soon, Li Sanjiang discovered something was wrong.

I saw the bearded man and his son. Neither of them looked at themselves standing outside the door, but walked straight towards the fish pond in a daze.

When passing in front of Li Sanjiang, Li Sanjiang found that both of them were walking on tiptoes with their heels off the ground.

The father and son walked side by side like this, swaying but never falling. They did not stop when they reached the fish pond, but continued walking down.

I stepped into the water and continued to move forward. The water reached my knees, my waist, my shoulders, and finally... my head.

"Plop!"

Li Zhuiyuan felt his body loosen up and sat directly on the ground. Upon seeing this, Li Sanjiang immediately ran over to protect the child.

"Yo'er, are you okay?"

Li Zhuiyuan did not answer, but raised his hand blankly and pointed forward.

In front of her was the figure of the little yellow warbler. She stretched her arms forward and opened her hands, as if she was groping. Although she walked very slowly, she arrived at the fish pond, and then walked into the water.

As if sensing the water beneath her, she slowly lowered her arms and walked more and more steadily.

She began to twist her waist, as if she was dancing again yesterday on the dam facing the fish pond.

Her dancing was still very unprofessional, and now her joints were stiff, so her dancing was naturally even less standard, but she danced with great devotion.

Her figure sometimes disappeared in the night, sometimes suddenly, appearing and disappearing.

Every time she appeared, the water flooded her a little more.

Gradually, the legs under the slits of her cheongsam were no longer visible, her twisting hips were no longer visible, and her breasts, which were not very tall but were hardened by the clothes, were no longer visible.

The water reached her neck and spread her hair. She raised her hands and faced the night sky, still performing.

Soon, her head did not enter the water. On the water, only her arms were left, and gradually her wrists were left, and then her hands...

When his hands slowly disappeared into the water, only a group of black water plants remained.

In the end, with the last ripple,

everything,

All gone.

Li Sanjiang picked up Li Zhuiyuan on his back, hunched over and trotted away. After running out for a long time, he put the child down and took out his cigarette case while beating his waist.

Seeing the child standing there in a daze, he explained: "Listen to what the master said, just treat it as a dream. When you wake up tomorrow, you will forget everything."

Li Zhuiyuan nodded obediently, but he felt that he might not be able to forget the scene just now, and it would always be fixed in his memory.

After shaking off the cigarette ashes and seeing that Yao'er was still in a low mood, Li Sanjiang teased:

"Xiao Yuanhou, you can think of something that will make people happy right away."

"Happy thing?"

Li Sanjiang pointed in the direction of the bearded man's house with the finger holding the cigarette and replied:
Chapter completed!