I looked outside the courtyard door and saw a man in his fifties standing at the door with a lantern in his hand and stretching his neck to look into the courtyard.
I walked out of the courtyard, looked at the unshaven face of the visitor by the light of the lantern, and said excitedly:
"Liu Laoguai!"
Liu Laoguai is the village chief of Liujia Village. He is nicknamed Laoguai because of some problems with his legs and feet.
Although he is usually stern, he is very kind to every family in the village. No matter who has a big or small problem, they cannot do without his help.
When my mother brought me here, I was orphaned and widowed, and as a migrant, I was indispensable for his care. I became familiar with him as soon as we went back and forth. I was the only one among the young people in the village who dared to call him Liu Laoguai.
Liu Laoguai was stunned when I called him. He took a few steps forward, raised the lantern and shone it over and over on my face. A smile gradually appeared on his serious face.
"Xiaoyu...is it really you? Aren't you in Jiangcheng? Why did you come back suddenly?"
I didn’t have time to explain to him, so I asked directly:
"Laoguai, where are my mother and Aunt Liu? Why are they missing?"
As soon as he heard me ask this question, the smile that appeared on Liu Laoguai's face immediately disappeared and he sighed:
"Xiao Yu, to be honest, even if you didn't come back, I was planning to contact you. Your mother and Aunt Liu... they are missing..."
My whole body trembled when I heard it,
"What does missing... mean? Missing? Or..."
Liu Laoguai looked around nervously, then pushed me into the small courtyard of my house. After closing the courtyard door, he was about to open his mouth to say something to me, when he suddenly saw Yan Shiting standing behind me, and immediately
Closed his mouth.
When Yan Shiting saw this, she turned around to avoid it. I grabbed her and said to Liu Laoguai:
"This is my friend. He will leave tomorrow. If you have anything to do, just tell him."
Liu Laoguai hesitated for a moment and whispered:
"How should I put it? You know that our village is located in a remote place. Everyone has been living peacefully for so many years. I know the situation of every household. They are all simple farmers. I have never heard of anyone having enemies.
Yes, I don’t know what’s going on. Strange things have been happening since a month ago..."
"What's weird?" I looked at him nervously.
"A month ago, people suddenly began to disappear in the village, and no one was alive or dead, but no bodies were found..."
"You can't see people alive, but you can't see dead bodies? So you mean my mother and Aunt Liu also disappeared like this?"
"That's right, I've been missing for seven or eight days now. I can't find him anywhere I look."
"Then...how many people are missing in the village now?"
Liu Laoguai rolled his eyes and thought for a long time before saying:
"Including your Uncle Liu, who disappeared a few days ago, there are already more than twenty people in total!"
"Liu...Liu Sanbo?! He is also missing?"
I subconsciously looked back at Yan Shiting, and she was looking at me in surprise. We must both have thought of the same question. If Liu Sanbo is missing, who is the Liu Sanbo we saw when we entered the village just now?
?
Liu Laoguai looked at my expression, as if he had guessed something, and asked hurriedly:
"What? Is something wrong?"
I didn’t want to hide it from him, so I told Liu Laoguai about my previous meeting with Liu Sanbo. After hearing this, Liu Laoguai shook his body three times, shook his head and sighed:
"I'm back... or I'm back..."
"Laoguai, what do you mean? What's back?"
I was confused and confused and didn't understand what he meant.
Liu Laokai waved his hand and said:
"I can't tell clearly. You'll know tomorrow...tomorrow. Don't go out this late at night. Just stay at home. If you really want to find your mother, you'd better wait until dawn, otherwise it's not safe.
…”
Liu Laokai patted me on the shoulder, then slowly left with a lantern in hand. When he was leaving the hospital, he didn't forget to turn around and remind me,
"Remember to lock the door and never go out."
After seeing off Liu Laoguai, we returned to the house. At this time, Lao Yu climbed onto my shoulder again.
"I heard everything you just said. This village is very weird. It's not as simple as Liu Laoguai said."
I nodded and said:
"Yes, apart from Liu Sanbo, the strangest thing to me is that we saw a group of half-length figures entering the village when we entered the village before, but after we returned to the village, except for meeting Liu Laoguai and Liu Sanbo, we didn't find any at all.
These halflings, this is what I can't figure out."
"Xiaoyu, I think we should go to the village at night to see what we want to see. Usually we can only see what we want to see at night."
Lao Yutou suggested.
"Well, that's what I mean too, but before that I have to do something first!"
After saying that, I dug out a piece of my mother's clothes from the bedside wardrobe. When I came to the yard, I placed an incense burner on the ground. I lit three sticks of incense in the incense burner, and then used a cinnabar pen to draw on the ground in front of the incense burner.
Draw a soul circle.
Fold mom's clothes and put them in the soul-fixing circle...
When Lao Yutou saw this, he hurriedly reminded me,
"Although the matter is urgent, if you summon the soul of a living person... have you ever thought about the consequences? Even if you don't care about Yin De, if your mother is still alive and well, it will not do her any good if you summon her soul. I'm afraid she won't be able to bear it.
.”
"Of course I know, don't worry, I only search for souls, not summon them. I just want to know what my mother is..."
I didn't finish the second half of the sentence, and Lao Yutou sighed and said nothing more.
I took out a magic talisman and wrote my mother's birthday on it with my eyes closed. This is a tradition in our hometown. Except for certain days, children are not allowed to mention their parents' birthday casually, otherwise it will be unlucky, so
I can only write with my eyes closed...
Although I know there is no basis for this statement, at this moment, I will not do anything that is detrimental to my mother...
After writing the birth date, I lit an incense candle and used it to slowly burn the clothes in the soul circle. When I saw that it was almost done, I threw the magic talisman in my hand into the fire, formed a sword with one hand and pointed it at the center of my eyebrows, and said in my mouth
Read:
"The heavens and the earth fall apart, the Dharma comes naturally, the lost soul returns, the possessed body returns, the soul Mu Ling quickly appears in my altar!"
After reciting the incantation, the incense heads of the three incense sticks in the incense burner suddenly lit up, and then burned down quickly...
