"It's hard to say now," he glanced at the window and said to me and Xiaoxuan Douzi:
"The three of you are my disciples. Please remember every word I say carefully."
"If something happens during this period, you guys don't want to look for me and leave here overnight."
"Go to Yongzhou Huatian Hotel. I'll ask Wen Bin to wait for you there. After you meet up, wait for my news there."
"If it takes more than a week, don't wait any longer. Leave Yongzhou, go wherever you want, and never come back."
"What do you mean by that?" It sounded a little scary to me.
"Don't ask. I'm waiting for my friend's reply to confirm. I hope I'm unnecessary this time. You can go to sleep. I'm going back to the West Room."
After leaving with my head in the dark, Xiaoxuan Douzi and I lay on the bed.
Dou Sprout Zai said: "This village is very haunted. There are always dead people and crazy people, so we should leave."
"I heard that this place is not far from Jishou. How about we go find Xiaomi? See how she is doing."
Xiaoxuan pushed Douyazai and said, "You are just a coward. Don't go to Xiaomi. Xiaomi hasn't cured the disease yet. Didn't Master Zhao say it would take a year or two?"
"Fuck, I'm not a coward. Didn't you hear what the leader said?"
"Who knows what weird things will happen here. I said it was wrong to leave here? You have been eating dynamite in the past two days. Are you experiencing early menopause? You are about to go through menopause."
"I'll strangle you to death!"
I lay on one side, resting my hands on my hands and looking at the dark roof. I thought a lot. I thought about everyone I had come into contact with since that day at Laedian Guangdong.
Thinking about it, Douyazai snored in the middle of the night, and Xiaoxuan was very quiet even under the quilt.
I really couldn't sleep, so I sat up from the bed and smoked.
"call....."
I blew smoke into the glass.
Is smoking.
I suddenly saw a big white face slowly rising outside the window.
This man's face was disheveled, his right eye was swollen, and he looked like a wooden man. He tilted his head and looked at me motionless.
"Fuck!"
I was so frightened that I screamed, and the cigarette butt in my hand fell onto Xiaoxuan's hair.
Standing outside the window is Tang Gui’s wife!
Seeing me like this, Tang Gui's wife looked up, down, left, and right. She reached out to pick out her nose and left the window.
Suddenly I saw a big white face on the window in the middle of the night, which would scare anyone. Only then did I smell a mushy smell.
....
In the morning, Xiaoxuan kept looking at me with a dark face because her hair was a little burned.
"Who did it...?"
I shook my head and said I don't know, maybe it burned when you were warming up the fire, haha.
"I have something else to do and I'm going out now. You can eat."
After I finished speaking, I stood up and left, turning my profile picture as if I had forgotten what he said yesterday. He was in a good mood and was laughing and chatting with Uncle Xue.
"Yunfeng, have you finished eating?"
"After I've finished eating, I'll go to Xiao Tang's house to charge the battery. My phone is almost out of battery. Uncle Xue, do you want to help charge it?"
"I don't need it, you can go ahead."
When we arrived at Xiao Tang's house, Xiao Tang's grandma was feeding chickens in the yard, but Xiao Tang didn't seem to be there.
"Grandma is feeding the chickens, I'll turn off the power."
Grandma Xiao Tang finished scattering a handful of grains and said, "Go ahead, there is a flap in the house."
After charging my cell phone, I came out to the hospital and asked, "Grandma, I have something to ask you. Don't be angry."
"Haha, young man, I am already so old, how can I still be angry? What are you asking?"
"Then...Grandma, I heard people say that you were the last temple maid in the village?"
The old lady didn't shy away. She nodded and admitted, "Yes, it used to be. It has been passed down to others for several years. Now I am old, my legs and feet are bad, I can't walk anymore, and I can't burn incense for others."
"Oh... well, I heard someone said that every temple girl has a yellow talisman drawn by a Taoist priest from the Qing Dynasty?"
"Who did you listen to?"
I said Tang Gui’s wife.
Grandma Xiao Tang frowned and said, "That's a crazy woman. She doesn't say a word of truth. There is no such thing. Don't listen to her nonsense."
"Grandma, grandma, I'm back."
While we were talking, Xiao Tang came back.
"Grandma, Sister Xiaoyun is back from taking leave. I will bring some food to her house."
"There is bacon in the house, and I'm giving them half a bag of rice."
I helped carry the rice. The sister Xiaoyun mentioned by Xiao Tang was Yapa's granddaughter who was studying in another place. She knew that her grandma was injured and came back specially on leave.
Yabo's head was broken and injured, and her head was covered with a tourniquet. She was sometimes conscious and sometimes confused. She refused to see a doctor and kept saying that she should be punished.
"Little sister, who is this...?"
"Sister Xiaoyun, this is Brother Xiang. He came from a big city and temporarily lived in our village. Grandma asked me to come over and deliver rice. Brother Xiang helped me."
"Thank you then."
"Hey, you're welcome."
Xiaoyun and Xiaotang have been on good terms since they were little. Xiaotang is now in the second year of high school and Xiaoyun is in the freshman year. I see that this girl is dressed plainly and cleanly. The down jackets and trousers on her body are all of the older style. It is cold underfoot in the winter.
I wore a pair of breathable travel shoes for summer, probably because my economic conditions were not very good.
Looking at Grandma Na who was lying on the bed in pain, Xiaoyun's eyes were slightly red, and she gritted her teeth and said, "I must find out who did it, and I want to seek justice for Grandma."
"Yes!" Xiao Tang nodded repeatedly: "It must be someone from our village. I just don't know who threw the stone. This person is so bad! We must arrest him!"
"Grandma, open your eyes and look at me. Do you know who it is? Tell me."
Yapo closed her eyes, panted, and kept repeating one sentence.
"God, it's God, Zaizai God."
On the way back together, Xiao Tang told me that her sister, Xiao Yun, was both good in character and academics. She had been receiving scholarships since high school and was recommended to a key university because of her excellent grades. She majored in business administration and would definitely be able to find a job after graduation.
A very good job.
I said that I could see that she was an educated girl.
Nothing happened that day.
One night, something happened.
The hunchbacked toothpa's granddaughter, this girl who just came back for a day...
died.
I just heard the news and couldn’t believe it. He’s dead? How is that possible? He was a fine person yesterday!
I hurriedly ran to my grandmother's house to see her, and there were already a lot of people gathered in front of her house.
When you enter the courtyard, you can see that this girl, wearing a down jacket and sneakers, fell headfirst into the water tank at home, motionless, and drowned.
The crowd was talking a lot.
"What do you think I'm talking about?"
"This is the number..." A woman onlookers said with a look of fear on her face: "I will go back to my parents' house tomorrow, and the temple sacrifice has not been completed. This is all retribution. Our village has suffered retribution, and the clay statue has suffered retribution."
I can no longer control the devil."
"Sister Xiaoyun, sister Xiaoyun, wake up, wuwu..."
The villagers took the person out of the water tank, placed him on the ground and covered him with a sheet, while Xiao Tang kept wiping his tears and crying.
Ya Po seemed to feel something. She lay on the bed in the room and kept shouting: "Where are the clouds, where are the clouds, where are the clouds?"
How could someone as big as Yapa's granddaughter suddenly drown in a water tank after not seeing her overnight?
Could it be...
Is it really like what I said? Is there really an invisible Zaizai God in this village?
I do not believe.
There must be someone who had a grudge against Yapo's family. He knew her granddaughter was back, so he killed her overnight.