"What's going on? Guapi can hear it, but we can't hear it?"
Yan Yan and Qing Xuan could hear the sounds of yin and yang, but they couldn't hear the screams Guapi mentioned.
"Could it be that Guapi is lying?" Qingxuan said in a deep voice.
Yan Yan looked at Guapi, who was still closing his eyes and listening carefully to the screams that he didn't know existed.
"I feel like Guapi is not a lying child."
Qingxuan nodded.
He found that Yan Yan listened to the words of children, just like Master Qi. He knew that Master Qi was not a child.
But in Yan Yan's eyes, Bai Zhu is just a child, but every time Bai Zhu says something, Yan Yan will remember it in his heart and take it seriously.
After Guapi opened his eyes, he continued peeling the roasted chestnuts and asked Yan Yan if he wanted to eat them.
"I've eaten it. Do you know where the sound came from?"
"In the coffin."
"But there's no coffin here."
It is estimated that there are no coffins in the entire Xinghua Village.
The dead were either in the old man's well or buried directly.
If I had enough money to buy a coffin, there wouldn't be an old man's well in this village.
Guapi paused while peeling roasted chestnuts and said angrily, "Even if there is, there are obviously shouts, why can't you hear them?"
"..." Yan Yan said, "We are old and our ears don't work well."
"But my friends in the village can't hear it either."
Yan Yan scratched his forehead and was speechless for a moment.
"What kind of sound is it that Guapi can hear but we can't?!" Yan Yan was so angry that he kicked the pebbles in front of his shoes away.
The stones that hit the tree trunk made a hole in the tree trunk.
"I, the ghost king of the ten directions, can't hear me. Do you think I should be asked to invite the divine king in the sky?!" Yan Yan gritted his teeth.
"How about asking Master Qi?" Qingxuan suggested.
Master Qi once said that Yan Yu is so strong that she doesn't need to be wary of her surroundings, let alone worry about being plotted, which makes her not good at twisty things.
Yan Yan was unusually silent.
Qingxuan just wanted to give him a mouthful of words.
Although he knew clearly that there was a conflict between the two of them, he still wanted to mention Qi Ye at this time.
"Since Guapi said the sound came from the coffin, let's look for that coffin."
"good!"
As soon as Qing Xuan finished speaking, Yan Yu responded quickly.
"Auntie, do you have a coffin in your village?" Yan Yan asked directly when he happened to meet Guapiniang.
"People in our village can't afford a coffin." Guapiniang asked, "Why does the girl need a coffin?"
"For sleeping." Yan Yan was used to making nonsense, so he subconsciously blurted out.
Qingxuan, Guapiniang, "..."
"Oh no, the first time I met Guapi and his grandfather, they happened to be holding a funeral for the old man of the Qiu family. I thought the old man's coffin looked quite good-looking." Yan Yan quickly made another excuse.
Qingxuan, Guapiniang: "..." It looks so good that you plan to buy it for yourself?
"That's the coffin shop in Heishui County that Mr. Qiu found. There are no coffin shops in the villages around us."
"Then the dead people in your village are buried directly?" Yan Yan said bluntly.
Guapiniang thought about the silver ingot given by Yan Yu, and she resisted not wanting to talk to Yan Yu.
"Yes."
"Is it true that no one secretly builds coffins?" Yan Yan looked disappointed.
Guapiniang said angrily, "No one is dead, are you looking for bad luck by building a coffin?!"
Saying that, she really didn't want to hear Yan Yan say any unlucky words again, so Guapiniang turned around and left.
"I'll go find other people to ask. Sir, you'd better ask the children in the village." Qingxuan said helplessly.
Together with Yan Yan again, he estimated that the villagers should drive them out.
Yan Yan nodded.
——It’s better to be a child.
"We are also looking for a coffin." Three or five children were nibbling on the meatloaf given by Yan Yan.
"I haven't seen what a coffin looks like," said a child with braids that skyrocketed.
"My parents said there were no coffins in the village, and Guapi said he heard sounds coming from the coffins." A sturdy child was unconvinced, "I don't believe he alone can hear it, but we can't."
Yan Yan nodded in agreement.
——She thinks so too.
"But what does the coffin look like? My parents won't tell us."
Yan Yan gestured, "It's like a box, tight and solid, but some are big and some are small, some are made of wood and some are made of stone."
"How big is the largest one, and how small is the smallest one?" the child with braids asked, smearing the debris on his hand on the wall.
"As big as you think it is." She didn't know the specific size of the coffin.
"Isn't that just a box?"
"No, the coffin is bigger at one end and smaller at the other." Yan Yan picked up a branch and drew a coffin on the snow.
She was clumsy, so she drew a long trapezoid.
Several other children stood or sat thinking, and the child with braids pointing to the inside of the coffin said, "I have been to a place before, and it looks like this. I don't know if it is a coffin, and I can't tell from the outside."
"Have you been there?" Before Yan Yan could speak, several children asked first.
They have been together since they were young, so they should have seen each other when they saw Tongtian Braid.
"You've been there too," Tongtian braid said, "Isn't it the cellar in the unoccupied yard behind the village?"
"Yes, it does look like the coffin you mentioned, sister." The sturdy child thought about it and nodded.
Several children led Yan Yan outside the unoccupied courtyard at the back of the village.
The boy with braids said, "Go down from the well to the coffin. The well is not deep and there are vine branches on the wall. Sister, you can go down by holding on to the vine branches."
Yan Yan nodded, and then asked, "Aren't you going?"
"The well will eat children. When we went there... the fat man was eaten." The sturdy child looked at Yan Yan's snowy hair, "Sister, you are so old, the well will definitely not eat you."
Yan Yan said, "...I'm not that old either." She's only over a thousand years old, but she's still a young girl!
"Then why does my sister have white hair?"
"Born." Yan Yan said perfunctorily, "How could a fat man be eaten by a well?"
"We went down to play when we first discovered the well. Big Fatty was the first to go into the well, but when we went down, we didn't see Big Fatty."
"So you think he was eaten?"
"We called the parents. People in the village said that this well would eat children. The fat ones were eaten by the well."
"Then did anything happen to you after you got out of the well?" Yan Yan asked.
Several children looked at each other, "Does having nightmares count?"
"What nightmare?"
When Yan Yan asked, several children remembered the nightmare they had after coming out of the well, and that feeling of fear reappeared.
One child had already left the yard, and several others ran away as well.
The kid with braids was more courageous and whispered, "I dreamed that we were eaten by things in the well."
The sound was so subtle that I was afraid that it would disturb the things in the well and be eaten like in my dream.
"Sister, you'd better not go." The child with braids grabbed Yan Yan's sleeves.
Yan Yan patted the child's head comfortingly, "It's okay, sister is more powerful than the thing in the well, let me go and destroy it!"
After all the children left, Yan Yan entered the yard.
There was indeed no one living in this courtyard. There was a thick layer of ash on the table, and there were spider webs in every corner.
It was a small courtyard that could be seen at a glance, but Yan Yan did not see a well.
"No way, I was deceived by a child?"
Yan Yu went to the restaurant first.
Water wells are usually outside the restaurant. If there is no water well outside, it must be inside, right?
There was no cooking room, and there were a lot of insect shells on the ground.
She went in and looked at the side room, the kitchen, and even the hut.
Standing in front of the locked door of the main room, Yan Yan pursed his lips.
She didn't believe that someone would really dig a well in the main house, and the door was locked. How could a child get in?
But she searched the entire yard, and only the main house was left.
When the door to the main room opened, light came in.
In the middle of the house, there is a well.
The well looks like something you see in Ghost Wall, with a fence surrounding it.
"It turns out to be here."
Yan Yan crossed the fence, wondering if the old man's body would appear in the well.