After getting in the car, Al watched us leave, leaving me confused.
Zhou Cheng patted me on the shoulder from behind: "What did she say to you?"
"She said thank you to us."
"Ah? Didn't you thank me yesterday?"
"Yeah, I feel weird too."
Shen Zhaoshan patted my other shoulder: "Shh, Aunt Yun is asleep."
My mother is indeed very tired. She is older and not as energetic as us. Even after staying up all night, I feel a little unbearable. My brain is swollen and painful, let alone my mother.
"Uncle Qian, let's take a nap first."
"Okay, you guys go to sleep."
I looked up and saw a stiff smile on Uncle Qian's face in the rearview mirror.
I wanted to ask Uncle Qian if something had happened, but sleep overwhelmed me like a mountain. As soon as I closed my eyes, I fell asleep.
In my sleep, I saw the big snake again. It was playing in the lake. Its pitch-black snake scales were distinct and looked like gems in the sunlight.
I stared at it quietly for a while, and then I woke up.
I rubbed my eyes and Uncle Qian parked the car at the entrance of the village on the east side. The big trees on both sides of the village were covered with shiny tree hangings, which were silvery white and very beautiful.
But as I looked at it, I felt something was wrong. There was a hint of red in the snowdrift under the tree.
It looks like blood.
Moreover, there was no one on the streets of the village, and it was lifeless.
The Chinese New Year is approaching, and it should be a time for every household to walk around the streets. Why is it so unusual today?
"Did something happen in Uncle Qian's village?" I opened the car window and looked out.
Uncle Qian was stunned for a moment, then turned to me in surprise: "Girl Yun, are your eyes healed again?"
"...Uncle Qian, this is all the way."
"Oh, Uncle Qian was thinking about something just now and didn't notice."
I frowned, something had indeed happened.
"What happened in the village?"
Uncle Qian lit a cigarette melancholy and looked at the village timidly and deeply: "There are zombies in the village."
"Zombies again?" Is there any indissoluble bond between our village and zombies?
"When did it happen?" My mother suddenly woke up.
Uncle Qian rubbed his face: "I'm not sure either. In the middle of the night last night, Lao Sun suddenly ran to my house and said he saw a zombie."
"No one was hurt?" my mother asked.
Uncle Qian shook his head: "No, only Lao Sun saw it. I'm not sure if he did, so I went to pick you up early. Your eldest brother asked Lulu to pick up first."
"Lulu..." The corner of my mouth twitched.
After Uncle Qian finished smoking, he drove slowly into the village. When passing by the small square of the village, Uncle Qian stopped the car again.
When I saw the people in the small square, I couldn't help but twitch the corner of my mouth a few times.
Almost all the villagers gathered in the small square, old, young and old, on three floors inside and outside, looking eagerly at the stands set up in the square.
The stand is more than two meters high, and there is a table on it. On the table are incense burners, tributes, and mahogany swords.
The main thing is the mahogany sword. It looks like it has just been made. There are wooden spikes on it, and it has not even been starched.
A woman wearing an old yellow Taoist robe picked up a mahogany sword and made gestures in the air. Although her posture was stiff, the procedures were correct. That person... was Lulu.
Isn't that the second uncle's Taoist robe?
Lulu couldn't help but snicker while gesturing.
Zhaoting stood next to her very seriously, handing over a talisman at one moment and taking out a handful of glutinous rice from under the table. Anyway, judging from his attitude, he was much more rigorous than Lulu.
Zhou Cheng suddenly shouted behind me: "What are you doing! Who is cheating here!"
Uncle Qian smiled helplessly: "There is really nothing we can do. We were discussing this morning whether we could bring you back. Brother Yun said that we should let Lulu take over first. At least the villagers can feel at ease."
Shen Zhaoshan also woke up, his face turned red from suppressing his emotions, and he did not laugh.
My mother couldn't help laughing from her chest: "Come on, Lulu is a three-legged cat. Don't arouse the passing ghosts."
After my mother finished speaking, she got off the car and walked towards the square.
On the outskirts closest to us, Grandpa Sun saw my mother and immediately shouted in surprise: "Oh! Guizhi and the others are back! They are back!"
The whole village was agitated.
My mother hurriedly waved her hands: "Don't worry, everyone, go home first. I've heard about the zombies. Let's take a look in the village tonight. Every household worships the door god, and each family cooks several pots of glutinous rice and spreads it all over the house and yard.
, to prevent zombies from entering your home.”
"Okay, okay! We will be saved when Guizhi comes back!"
Uncle Qian also beamed: "It's already noon! Hurry up and go!"
"Go back! Go back now! There will be a solution when Guizhi comes back!"
The villagers hurried home to fry glutinous rice.
Lulu and Zhaoting came down from the high platform and ran towards us.
"Nuan Ting! How come your eyes are healed again!" Lulu came to me and raised a big smile, her heroic eyebrows arched in laughter.
I was so moved by her that I started to laugh: "I met a god. He said that I was successful in defeating Tong Tong and gave me a pair of eyes."
"That's great!"
Just as Lulu was about to hug me, Zhao Ting suddenly kicked her in the side, and Zhao Ting threw herself on me. I hugged him in a hurry.
"Sister! Sister Lulu is too much. She even laughs when she does something!"
I pinched Zhaoting's nose and said, "It's your first time, Lulu, too. Don't be too strict with her."
Lulu shrugged her nose at Ting very proudly, and Zhao Ting was so angry that she put her head on my neck and gasped.
My dad also came over and said with a smile: "Look, after I have a sister, my parents are no longer happy."
My mother glared at my father angrily: "Don't keep joking with your children. Come on, the village chief will take your eldest brother and I to the town to buy some things. You two will go home first and cook."
"OK."
Just like that, we split into two ways.
On the way back, Lulu told us what happened this morning: "Grandpa Sun said that the zombie looked familiar, but it was covered in white hair, so you couldn't tell who it was."
I walked home with Zhao Ting in my arms and was stunned for a moment: "Mao Zhan?"
"Yeah, it's the same as the one we saw when we were kids... It should be, I guess."
Zhou Cheng stretched out his head curiously: "Have you ever encountered zombies? You also know about Gu. Why do you know so much?"
Lulu crossed her arms: "That's right, we have lived a wonderful life in the past ten years or so. Don't be envious. You can't be envious."
Zhaoting grabbed my collar and looked at me with two big watery eyes in surprise: "Sister, I know, you told me!"
Shen Zhaoshan couldn't help laughing, took Zhao Ting over, turned to ask Lulu: "Is there no movement in Tian Weiyu these days?"
Lulu touched her nose and thought carefully: "It shouldn't be there. If there is any movement, I won't be able to detect it."
I paused and turned to ask Shen Zhaoshan: "Do you suspect that zombie is Chengda?"
Shen Zhaoshan nodded: "Didn't Qian Dabao use peach wood nails to nail Chengda's coffin before? Tian Weiyu is a fierce ghost who can make Tian Weiyu unable to resist. Maybe Chengda is more powerful than Tian Weiyu. I couldn't figure it out before.
, but what if Qian Dabao used the land of Huiyin to turn Chengda into a zombie? Then he used peach wood nails to suppress Chengda, that would make sense."
"Then we can look for a place that gathers yin nearby!" Zhou Cheng said.
Lulu and I looked at each other. We knew where that was. We had been there when our second uncle was dealing with the corpse mother when we were children.