Chapter 214 The Dead

Early the next morning, the four of us almost got up from the kang at the same time. Although we were very sleepy, we were worried about our master. No one could sleep well. We drew a basin of ice-cold water from the deep well behind the house and wiped our faces with it. Only then did we barely wake up.

At this time, the villagers in the village had already gotten up one after another. We could see many people pushing carts and carrying sacks down the mountain. It was almost the end of the year, and we guessed that they were going to the nearby city to buy New Year's goods.

The aunt moved a small stool and stood guard outside the house, crackling melon seeds. Looking at her red hands from the cold, I don't know how long she has been guarding. If you don't know, you might think we are her prisoners.

Seeing us go out, the auntie stood up immediately, her frozen face trembling, her smile was particularly ferocious, just like Aunt Rong, she came up to us and asked if we wanted breakfast, shepherd's purse buns, twenty yuan each...

"This old vampire..."

Zhang Xinya cursed in a low voice and ignored her.

I asked her where Hu Wa's house was.

The auntie didn't respond, her eyes drifted into the distance, and she kept muttering, breakfast...

No!

This is probably another money-demanding thing.

Zhang Xinya sighed helplessly, glanced at Brother Yaozi, gritted her teeth and spent a hundred yuan to buy five cheating buns. The auntie smiled and pointed out the specific location for us.

In fact, this village is so small, with only a few families. Now it is daybreak. If we really want to find it, we can find it without this old vampire. But we are not really here for tourism after all, and there is a high possibility that there is a tomb in the mountain. We should keep a low profile and have less contact with irrelevant villagers. The villagers now are much smarter. In the era of information explosion, they are no longer as muddleheaded as before. We really can't treat them as fools. They are very sensitive to this aspect. Many tomb robbers were caught and imprisoned because of their careless words, which made the villagers guess one or two.

Soon, we came to Hu Wa's house.

This is a not very big farmyard, a large tile house, surrounded by a small yard with a wooden fence, and a few big geese.

A middle-aged woman was sitting on the steps peeling potatoes. If nothing unexpected happened, this should be Hu Wa's wife.

"Hello?"

Zhang Xinya asked at the gate: "Is Hu Wa at home? We have something to do with him."

The woman on the steps raised her head. At that moment, a trace of surprise flashed across her face, probably because there were few new faces in the village at this time of year.

However, not only was she surprised, but we also lost our minds for a moment after seeing her appearance.

How to say it, weird!!

Yes, it is weird!!

This woman looks very weird!

Her hair is dry and withered, her pupils are very small, about the size of soybeans, her eyeballs are severely sunken, her upper face is drooping, and her lower face is slightly lifted up, showing an irregular distortion. It is obviously the coldest time of the year, but she is wearing a thin single coat, and her hands holding the potatoes are shaking constantly.

Such a face is definitely not good-looking, and can even be said to be very ferocious. If you see it in the middle of the night, you will probably think you have seen a ghost. But her face is ruddy, her skin is healthy and white, and her complexion is very good, which forms a strong contrast with her appearance and is very shocking at first glance.

After a moment of staring at each other, the woman did not answer our questions directly, but stood up, looked us up and down, and then smiled and spoke, but her voice was hoarse, as if her vocal cords were suppressed: "What are you looking for him for?!"

No need to communicate, Lao Bai, the scumbag with the best appearance and the kindest look, immediately stood up: "Big sister, we are hikers who come here to play. We heard from a few friends that there are immortals in this mountain, so we hurried over. They all said that Hu Wa had seen immortals, and we wanted to listen to what he said about immortals."

"He is a farmer, how can he say anything..."

The woman shook her head and smiled. For some reason, I felt that she seemed to be greatly relieved, and then she asked: "It seems that you didn't just arrive. You didn't stay at Liu Ma's place? You were cheated by her a lot, right?"

Uh...

It seems that this Liu Ma's cheating father is really known to the world...

Lao Bai scratched his head and smiled awkwardly: "That's not the case, but we admit it. We brothers traveled all over the country just to find something new. Aunt Liu really told us a lot of interesting stories."

"Don't blame her!"

The woman said: "Actually Aunt Liu is a little crazy. She was not like this in the early years. She was also a warm-hearted person. She would rush to help any family that had problems. But one year when her son and his wife went down the mountain to help salvage a corpse, they didn't know why, but the corpse was infected with a strange disease. They went to the hospital and they said it was a bacterial infection. It had deteriorated very badly. The medical expenses were frighteningly high. Aunt Liu knelt on the side of the road and begged for help with the treatment, but no one paid attention. You have seen the situation in our village. Everyone can't get together to make up a few dollars. In the end, because she had no money to see a doctor, she watched her husband and son die.

Since then, she has been a little crazy. She told everyone that good people don't get good rewards, and evil will last for thousands of years. In this day and age, you can't stand firm unless you have a black heart. After she calmed down, she became like this. She cheated people for money. She didn't spend the money she cheated, but burned it for her son and husband.

We also advised her, but she said that the world owed her husband and son. If they hadn't blocked the mountain to retrieve the body, the body would have stank, and the people nearby would not have recovered. As a result, they got sick, and except for the people in the village, no one helped them. They were a bunch of conscienceless people who cheated them to death...

She actually couldn't stand the stimulation, so you should forgive her..."

Our faces froze. We didn't expect that there was such a thing in the middle. For a while, we didn't hate each other so much, but felt that each other was a little pitiful.

"I understand, of course I understand."

Lao Bai smiled and said, "But you haven't told us where Hu Wa is. We came here just for this fairy tale. If we don't hear it, we'll feel like a cat scratching our hearts..."

The woman shook her head and smiled helplessly. After thinking for a while, she said, "Hu Wa went to the mountains to collect firewood. He went out early in the morning. Calculating the time, he should be back now. Otherwise, you go to the house and wait?"

We naturally agreed. The woman led us into the house, let us sit on the kang, and poured us some water for us to rest. Then she got up and went out to work. It can be seen that she is also a warm and kind woman.

As soon as the other party left, I took the lead in opening the conversation: "Don't you think she..."

"Strange?"

Brother Yaozi continued: "It feels like she is obviously terminally ill, but somehow she took some magic medicine and survived?"

"Yes, yes, that's the feeling!"

I hurriedly said: "I can't remember how to describe her condition, this time it's appropriate."

"Illness..."

Zhang Xinya muttered to herself, and suddenly said: "I also think she is not right, but I have never thought about it. Since you mentioned illness, don't you think she looks like she has a terminal illness? Thyroid cancer!! And it's in the late stage!!

I used to have a classmate whose mother had this disease. I went to the hospital with her and she looked very similar to her!

For example, pupil constriction, upper face drooping, lower face and upper body, this is a typical Horner syndrome, the full name is cervical sympathetic nerve paralysis syndrome!

There is also hoarseness, fear of heat and trembling hands, which are the most common manifestations of thyroid cancer.

Look at her, it means that it has become serious to a certain extent. My classmate's mother didn't have any lesions before she died, but she is so creepy. She should have died long ago, but her face is ruddy, how can she look like she has a serious disease! "

After saying this, we all fell silent.

Last night I said that Hu Wa was sent back by a woman and was safe and sound. I always felt that something was wrong. Could it be that my unfortunate prediction really came true?

Suddenly, Brother Yaozi looked at the window, frowned slightly, and relaxed after a moment, and smiled: "It's interesting, it seems that we have met people in the same industry!"

I followed his gaze and gradually saw some clues.

The window was just above the kang, and the kang fire was burning hot. The glass was full of water vapor. In the middle of the dense water droplets, there was a talisman imprinted, as if someone had drawn it with a finger.

I guess many people have done this before, writing with their fingers on rain-soaked glass.

The talisman on the glass gives people this feeling.

However, this talisman was not just written.

I immediately moved closer and touched the talisman. It felt slightly raised, but not obvious. The trace was basically completely transparent and integrated with the glass. I sniffed it and smelled a faint garlic smell.

"Ice talisman?"

I looked at Brother Yaozi and saw him nod, then I spread my hands and said, "It seems that I have met someone in the same field."

Ice talismans are a very advanced type of talisman. Ordinary talismans are written with cinnabar, but this type of talisman uses a lot of materials.

According to the Qingwei Neidan Shu, this kind of thing should be made of five raw materials: chicken throat, borneol, white tortoise shell, dog teeth, and hawksbill turtle. The proportions cannot be wrong at all. After mixing them together, grind them into powder, and finally mix them with rice washing water and garlic juice to form something that is almost waxy. The written talisman cannot be seen at all, so it is called ice talisman. It is very effective and is mainly used to ward off evil spirits and protect the house. Not only ordinary ghosts dare not approach, but even ghost messengers have to retreat. Therefore, ice talismans are also called life-extending talismans. If there are people in the family whose life span has come to an end but whose souls have not been taken away, writing this kind of talisman can avoid the ghost messenger from coming to the door.

Of course, this can only delay for a while. If you escape for a long time, the people below will get angry and send ghost soldiers and ghost generals, and then it will be too late to save the situation.

This kind of talisman is not easy to make. Most materials are easy to find, but the white tortoise shell is the most rare. This white tortoise shell is not a white tortoise shell, but a thing called crocodile. The crocodile has long been extinct. It used to appear above the snow line. It looked like a snake with a raised bone wing on it. This white tortoise shell is that bone wing. Now it is basically unavailable. Only in some noble tombs of the Shang Dynasty can we occasionally see decorations made of this thing.

This ice talisman appeared here, naturally to protect the woman outside the door. Zhang Xinya said it well. This woman may really be in the late stage of thyroid cancer. It should have died long ago. Living to this day, this ice talisman should have played a certain role, and there may be many means we don't know. If it weren't for the ice talisman not being able to touch water, we wouldn't have discovered such a thing in this place.

"Hu Wa is just a farmer, how can he know how to make this ice talisman? Where did he get the white tortoise shell?"

I sighed softly: "I guess it has something to do with the woman who sent him back?"

At this time, a man's voice suddenly came from the yard.

I looked through the window and saw a kind and honest man carrying firewood just entered the yard. He was about 1.7 meters tall.

Needless to say, this person should be Hu Wa.

"Let's go, go out and meet this person, don't alarm the snake first."

I gave Brother Yaozi and the others a look, and immediately went out to meet him.

However, just as we stepped out of the door, before we even had time to say a word, Hu Wa screamed and saw us as if he had seen the King of Hell. Without saying a word, he turned around and ran away.