At that moment, I yelled and grabbed Kuang Haige behind me. He thought something had happened and became nervous. At the same time, Li Fusheng also heard the sound inside and took three steps at a time towards me.
Running outside the door, three people gathered together, and I became a little braver.
Looking at the child in white clothes squatting on the tree branch, I immediately thought of the little paper man I stepped on before. The little paper man was crumpled into a ball by me and thrown away somewhere.
I felt my hands were shaking a little, so I pointed to the tree for them both.
It was very strange. In my mind, the child on the tree branch could not be a living thing. Maybe I had inadvertently violated some funeral taboos. But after Li Fusheng came out, under the gaze of the three of us,
Next, the child in white clothes was still looking straight at me, without disappearing or leaving. At this time, the air seemed to have solidified, and Li Fusheng looked at the tree without saying a word.
"What is this?" Kuang Haige asked him.
"Is there anything you can do?" I also asked, thinking it would be great if Duoji was here. He is the best at dealing with such messy things.
"I don't know what's going on." Li Fusheng looked at it for a long time and shook his head. I have always suspected that he is Jia Su, but even if he is really Jia Su, he is probably not good at these things. Jia Su is an alchemist, and what he does most is alchemy.
, or study things like Qimen Bagua.
For two minutes, we confronted the child on the tree. It didn't seem to have much hostility, but it was unbearable to look at me with such a ghostly look. Kuang Haige bent down and picked up a stone.
He threw it over there and drank at the same time.
But it was no use. The child on the branch seemed to know that there was nothing we could do about it, so it just squatted there, motionless.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
At this time, Zheng Shitou finally dug out a lantern full of holes from the old house, ran out with it, and stood next to us. He found that we were all looking at the tree, and he followed suit, but he
His eyes were clearly in trouble. He squinted and looked, but couldn't see clearly what it was.
Li Fusheng was very courageous. If someone is not even afraid of death, what else would he be afraid of? So he casually took out the flashlight and shined it towards the branch of the tree. The light became clearer and I saw that the child was wearing a
The clothes were cut out of white paper, the hair was neatly combed, but the pale face was a bit frightening. But the light was much brighter, but Zheng Shitou still couldn't see clearly. Li Fusheng told him that Zheng Shitou was an old man.
The people in the village didn't know if he understood what was going on.
"What? A little man in white paper clothes? Crouching on a tree branch and looking here?" Zheng Shitou's eyebrows twitched slightly and he asked Li Fusheng again.
"I don't know where it came from. We saw it as soon as we went out. We squatted on the tree and watched motionlessly. We couldn't drive it away. It didn't seem to be afraid of us." I added a few words, thought about it, and then continued.
Zheng Shitou said: "During the funeral in the morning, you scattered paper money, paper people, and paper horses. Maybe I didn't pay attention and stepped on one under my feet. I didn't find it until I got to the door, but I had already taken off the paper people..."
Before he finished speaking, Zheng Shitou shivered, his voice was a little trembling, he grabbed my arm and said, "Did you step on it during the funeral?"
"Yeah." Looking at Zheng Shitou's expression, I felt flustered again and nodded hurriedly.
"I know what's going on, I know what's going on..." Zheng Shitou handed the lantern in his hand to Kuang Haige and swayed. It could be seen that he was a little scared, but he still walked towards the big tree step by step. Walked over there: "Don't follow, don't follow..."
I thought Zheng Shitou had some special abilities, but after he walked a few steps, he suddenly knelt down to the child in white clothes on the big tree, kowtowed and said, "Madman, why are you back here again?" , I have sent you away well, why are you coming back..."
I was already nervous enough, but Zheng Shitou's kneeling and nagging made me even more uneasy. From what he meant, did I really commit some kind of funeral taboo and bring "the person" back?
Zheng Shitou chattered for a long time, but the child on the tree branch remained motionless. People who didn't understand this kind of thing would have absolutely nothing to do with it. Zheng Shitou saw that it didn't move or move, and he kowtowed as if it were something. garlic.
"Crazy man, uncle." Zheng Shitou, who was probably frightened enough, said in a tearful voice, "I don't feel sorry for you at all. Just leave. Go back. If anything happens, just give me a dream. Why bother to come back in person? "
Hearing what he said, I felt a little calmer. The three of us are outsiders. We just came here today. This "person" refused to rest in peace. Maybe he was dissatisfied with the people in the village? So he came back in the middle of the night? Is this the same? We shouldn't have much to do with each other. Thinking about it this way, I began to sympathize with Zheng Shitou.
Zheng Shitou didn't care whether the child on the tree could hear him or not. He kept talking anyway, and we just stood there and watched. For about ten minutes, I saw the child on the tree wave to Zheng Shitou. At that moment , my sympathy for Zheng Shitou reached its peak. Seeing that he was an honest man, I turned around and patted Li Fusheng gently, asking him if there was anything he could do. Li Fusheng shook his head and continued to read without saying a word.
When the child on the tree branch waved, Zheng Shitou's face turned as green as a cucumber. He was probably trying desperately to recall whether he had ever offended the person who was sent away by the funeral procession today. In such a situation, ordinary people would He would be scared to death. It didn’t matter if he went or not. Zheng Shitou knelt on the ground and shivered for a long time, but he still stood up and walked towards the old tree step by step. He knew that it would definitely not work if he didn’t go. If there was anything, he could solve it at once , if you turn around and run away now and get entangled by that thing, you will be in even greater trouble.
"Damn it." I looked at the scene in front of me and felt that it was a pity that Duoji's little mallet was not there, otherwise the child would have been "sent back" with one strike.
Zheng Shitou walked until he was under the old tree and raised his head to look at the child on the branch. We didn't dare to get close to him, so we still stood there and watched. After a long time, Zheng Shitou walked back tremblingly. His expression was very unnatural. When he walked in front of us, Gudong swallowed, and all the wrinkles on his face were knitted together. He couldn't tell whether he was crying or laughing.
"Are you okay?" I asked Zheng Shitou.
"I'm fine, but..." Zheng Shitou looked back at the old tree, then at me, and said, "You seem to be in trouble."
"Huh?" I looked at Zheng Shitou in confusion. At this time, he would definitely not be joking, but what did he mean?
"It's looking for you." Zheng Shitou lowered his voice and said to me, "It's looking for you!"
"Stop talking nonsense!" I was immediately startled and felt uncomfortable all over. I was still sympathizing with Zheng Shitou, but I didn't expect that in just one sentence, the target of the attack was pointed at me again.
"Really, I'm not lying to you, I'm really looking for you." Zheng Shitou was serious. After he was released from prison and returned to the village, he vaguely recalled the business run by his father, who had been presiding over the affairs of the villagers.
After doing this job for a long time, there are some side effects that ordinary people cannot imagine. Zheng Shitou can probably communicate with the children in the old tree.
"Looking for me?" I suppressed the panic in my heart and came up with a reason. During the funeral, the person in the coffin probably died not long ago. I stood at the entrance of the village and watched the funeral procession pass by. Was it the person in the coffin?
Did the deceased notice something wrong with my eyes? I clearly remember that at that time, there was a half-year-old child who drowned at Po Huang's house, and she asked Po Huang to ask me about it.
If that's the case, it doesn't matter. I nodded to Zheng Shitou, and when he saw me gradually calming down, he showed an expression of admiration on his face.
"Come on." Zheng Shitou waved to me and motioned to follow him. As soon as I moved, Li Fusheng and Kuang Haige followed behind. Li Fusheng was fine, but Kuang Haige was very nervous, afraid that something would happen to me.
I followed Zheng Shitou to the foot of the old tree. The distance was so close that the child in the white paper clothes became clearer.
"Uncle." Zheng Shitou raised his head and said, "Don't scare him. If anything happens, just ask. After asking, go back quickly. From now on, I will give you more money during the Qingming Festival and so on."
After Zheng Shitou said these words, the child on the tree branch did not respond at all, nor did it speak. However, Zheng Shitou turned his head and said to me: "Uncle, I want to ask you, what are you doing here."
"Come here to play." I said without thinking, but I felt strange in my heart. Didn't this child ask me about my eyes?
"Uncle, he is from outside the mountains. He comes here to play. He has nothing else to do. Don't ask any more questions. I'll take you back while it's still early." Zheng Shitou raised his head and said a few more words.
This time, the child still didn't speak, but Zheng Shitou kept saying kindness and nodding under the tree, as if he could understand what the other person wanted to express. I don't have this ability, so I don't know what they were communicating specifically.
Then, Zheng Shitou turned to me again and said: "Uncle said, it's windy and cold in the mountains, and your eyes are hurting. Why are you running around blindly? Pack your things and go home as soon as possible tomorrow."
I was stunned immediately, what are these words?
"Everything uncle said is good. Don't disobey me. Uncle doesn't say that much to everyone..." Zheng Shitou kept saying to me, winking at the same time, as if he wanted me to nod in agreement first.
I suddenly couldn't figure out what was going on, so I nodded blindly, thinking about it secretly. When Zheng Shitou saw me nodding, he quickly raised his head and said to the child on the branch: "Uncle,
Seeing that he nodded, he will leave tomorrow. You also go back first, and I will send you back..."
As he said this, Zheng Shitou asked us to go inside first. As soon as we turned around, the child on the tree branch had disappeared. Zheng Shitou held a lantern and slowly left the village, as if he really wanted to send it back.