winter, winter, winter

A strange knocking sound came from outside.

"Sister Xiaorou~ Are you here? I am Xiaomeng. Xiaomeng came to play with you..."

The tender voice of a child jumped from the high wall outside into the courtyard. Lin Qian stretched out his arms to hug the strange bride and let her sit in his arms.

The wind in the yard was a bit cold, which took away a lot of the heat from the food.

The old man drank wine and looked at Lin Qian, but did not speak immediately.

The electric lights under the eaves were buzzing, and the light was a little dim.

"A red umbrella with only the cover is what I'm looking for. It's a supernatural item."

"I don't know if you've seen it before."

Lin Qian held the bride's skirt and looked at the old man. The umbrella cover was very special and conspicuous.

The bloody umbrella has strange abilities. If the old man had never seen it before, he would be in trouble.

As a Luohua Cave girl who is still alive, she should have a lot of experience, so there is a high probability that she has seen her before.

Red umbrella?

The old man lowered his head and thought, with some doubts in his eyes, but suddenly his eyes shrank slightly and he looked at Lin Qian.

The sounds outside the door were a little annoying, and the weird shouts were getting hollower and hollower.

The old man looked at the girl's room, as if he had made up his mind, he sighed and said slowly:

"I've seen that thing you mentioned, it's in Lin He's corpse cave."

"I believe you should have felt that there is something in the river."

The old man stared at Lin Qian and the Cunning Bride, her eyes a little blurry. She didn't expect that Lin Qian said she was looking for that thing.

If she had known, she might not have asked.

"Is it in there?" Lin Qian's eyes flashed slightly; "If it's in there, it would be a bit troublesome."

He can't enter the corpse cave now because he has scruples and can't force his way in. He can only wait for it to appear on its own.

The umbrella cover was very fragile and he was afraid it would be eaten...

Lin Qian was a little silent when he thought of those weird little bugs. Those things were not eating ghosts, but more like chasing them away.

"If you want to find that thing, you have to take Xiaorou with you. She did not completely become the Luohua Cave Girl, partly because of me, and partly because of it. That thing covered the Gu God's sight, making Xiaorou

Rou cannot be sheltered." The old man continued.

Hearing this, Lin Qian looked at Xiaorou's room and felt a little confused, Gu God? Is that thing a god?

Haha... stop being funny, it's just a ghost.

"Tell me, what's going on with you Luohua Cave Girl?" Lin Qian was very interested in Luohua Cave Girl. The existence of this taboo made people curious.

The old man in front of her had many secrets. From the moment she revealed that she was the still alive Luohua Cave girl, Lin Qian guessed part of the truth.

The birth of the next Luohua Cave Girl must be based on the death of the previous one.

This kind of thing is normal, it is recorded in the classics, and the reason why Xiaorou did not completely become the girl from the Luohua Cave is probably because of this reason.

This is most likely what old people did when they were young.

The dim light was reflected in the courtyard, and the old man's eyes were slightly cloudy. She was looking at Lin Qian, or maybe she was looking at the Cunning Bride.

"The Luohua Cave Girl is actually very simple. She was selected by the Gu God, became the mistress of Xiangxi, and then died at the age of 20."

"It's so simple. Every most beautiful girl will become a Luohua Cave girl. She changes every 20 years. It's been her destiny since she was a child."

"I am like this, and Xiaorou is like this too."

The old man let out a long sigh. She felt very guilty and distressed for Xiaorou, her granddaughter.

The old man looked at Lin Qian and continued:

"According to what you people say outside, the Luohua Cave girls are people who have been cursed by evil spirits. There is a evil ghost living in their bodies."

"The killing pattern of this evil ghost is very strange. It wakes up once every 20 years. After satisfying its killing pattern, it will sleep again for 20 years, and the cycle repeats like this, endlessly."

"Every time the evil ghost wakes up, it is when the Luohua Cave Girl dies. The existence of the Luohua Cave Girl is to satisfy the evil ghost's killing pattern, so that it will fall into its next deep sleep."

"And every time you fall asleep, a new Luohua Cave Girl will be born..."

"This is the origin and meaning of the Luohua Cave Girl. As long as the Luohua Cave Girl exists, all the Gu insects in western Hunan will continuously chase away corpses, that is, chase away ghosts."

"This is also one of the reasons why there have been no supernatural incidents in western Hunan."

"I believe you have seen some of those Gu insects. There are five kinds in total. They are hidden among the mountains and rivers. Some are hidden very deep. It is difficult for ordinary people to find them, even to see them."

Speaking of this, the old man was a little silent. She looked at Lin Qian and sighed and continued:

"When I was young, I met a man from outside the mountains. He was not a member of the country, but a folk ghost master."

"Because of her, I learned the truth about the Gu God, and it was also because of her that I came up with the idea of ​​controlling the Gu God."

The old man suddenly talked about her experiences when she was young. Lin Qian didn't know who she was talking about, but there was no doubt that she put the whole of Xiangxi in danger.

The old man felt helpless and sad when talking about the past. She looked at Lin Qian, thought for a while, shook her head and said:

"She is not as good as you, nor is she as good as your wife. She came here with a wedding dress and said she wanted to use the Gu God to accomplish something."

"I couldn't figure it out until I saw her."

The old man pointed at the bride, or rather at the wedding dress on the bride.

"Seeing this wedding dress, I probably know what she wants."

Lin Qian looked at the bride's wedding dress with a thoughtful look in her eyes.

Lin Qian didn't know who the old man was talking about, but he knew what this person wanted to do.

During the Republic of China, there was a guy who wanted to control the Cunning Bride, so he even made a set of mourning clothes that were exactly the same as the wedding dress in order to control the Cunning Bride.

It is said that the old man in the drug store said that she was well prepared, but unfortunately she still failed. The Bride was too scary, and she took great strides.

Thinking of this, Lin Qiantong shrank slightly. He looked at the old man, thought for a while and said:

"Did he bring the umbrella here?"

The old man did not deny it, nodded directly and said:

"It's her. She entered the corpse cave, and when she came out, the umbrella was not on her body. I asked her about it at the time, and she said that the umbrella was occupied by something and she couldn't take it away."

"And it was that time that she told me that the opportunity to control the Gu God had come and asked me if I wanted to give it a try."

"When I heard this, I was very happy because the strength she showed made me look at her with special attention, so... I agreed."

"Then, I failed. I didn't die, but the Gu God disappeared. Xiaorou became the new Luohua Cave Girl, the incomplete Luohua Cave Girl."

The old man was a little silent when he said this, and her eyes were a little lonely.

The food on the table was already cold. Lin Qian looked at the fish and was stroking the bride's wedding dress in her hand.

What the old man said was very concise and clear, and many things were mentioned in just one sentence.

It can be heard from just a few words that the old man trusted her very much when he was young.

Unfortunately……

Lin Qian gently pressed the bride's head and looked at the old man with a smile:

"The umbrella was occupied by something, which caused the evil ghost to be deceived in its killing pattern. This is also the reason why you did not die. Although I don't know what else you did, it is no longer important."

"There is only one important thing now. I will get the umbrella back, and you will die and Xiaorou will become a girl from the Luohua Cave."

"If what I think is correct, the Luohua Cave Girl's death has been advanced because of you."

Lin Qian pointed to the knocking on the door and the wailing dogs:

"It can be seen from this that the dogs felt it on the first day I came here, and I did not go through the formal channels before I came here."

Thinking of the situation when she got off the bus and entered the mountain, Lin Qian was certain that many of the corpses buried in the soil were from corpse caves.

They were not eaten by insects because of the old man and that guy.

Or it can be said that because the Luohua Cave Girl was not completely parasitized by the Gu God, most of the Gu insects in Xiangxi fell into silence or lost certain abilities.

For example, the ability to reproduce by eating corpses.

After hearing Lin Qian's words, the old man took out a breath, nodded and said:

"You are right. Xiaorou's death date has been brought forward. Because of her and me, once the Luohua Cave Girl dies this time, there will be no new Luohua Cave Girl."

"And by that time, the entire Danan City will face a tide of corpses and Gu insects."

"This is also the reason why I have been worried. I tried to go out and seek help, but I failed. The Luohua Cave Girl cannot leave the mountain. This is a taboo."

"I also tried to ask the villagers to go out to seek help, but the result was cruel. Without the promise of the Luohua Cave Girl, as long as they walked out of the mountain, there would be another corpse in the corpse cave."

"And Xiaorou can't promise this now. After all, she is not a complete Luohua Cave Girl. Over time, I gave up this idea."

"If you hadn't come here, within a month at most, I would have tried to enter the corpse cave and completely turn Xiaorou into a Luohua Cave girl."
To be continued...