The bumpy dirt road almost made my stomach churn out.
Both hands tightly grasped the clothes around the second uncle's waist.
Finally, the motorcycle arrived at the crossroads entering the village from the south. The second uncle suddenly made a loud noise, kicked his feet violently a few times, and twisted the motorcycle to avoid the oncoming crowd.
When the motorcycle stopped, I saw the person coming from the other side.
The leader is a middle-aged man with triangular eyes, a long face, and a diamond-shaped mouth. He is wearing mourning clothes and raising paper money into the sky with his eyes wide open as he walks.
Behind him were eight people, four of whom carried a coffin.
"Li Long is here." My mother's voice sounded from the back of my head.
I turned around and asked my mother: "Who is Li Long?"
"Your Uncle Li's brother."
oh.
Uncle Li's younger brother, no wonder he looks so similar to Grandma Li, especially the eyes are exactly the same.
The only difference is that Grandma Li's eyes are full of bitterness, while Uncle Li's eyes are full of ferocity.
Uncle Li seemed to have not seen us. He walked in the middle of the road. He knelt down in the middle of the intersection, took the porcelain basin handed to him by the person behind him, and smashed it to the ground.
Immediately afterwards, Uncle Li's cry, as loud as a bell, sounded.
"Mom! Brother! Get on your way! Woohoo!"
As soon as he cried, the coffin bearers behind him also started crying, and the whining was mixed with the sound of the wind, which made me rub the goosebumps on my arms.
Uncle Li stood up and said again leisurely: "Mom, don't worry, whoever harms you, I will make him die a hard death."
As he spoke, his triangular eyes narrowed, and the muscles under his eyes seemed to be hooked by a wire, twitching a few times unconsciously.
He tilted his head slightly toward us, wondering if he was looking at us.
Then, he waved his hand back: "Let's go."
Two black coffins passed one after another right in front of our eyes.
The white paper money with round square holes was still floating in the air. Suddenly, a piece of paper money was blown by the wind on the second uncle's face, and the second uncle quickly pulled it down.
"Bah, bah, bah."
The second uncle spat on the ground, pedaled the motorcycle onto the road, and rode to my house.
When we arrived at the door of our house, before my second uncle and I got out of the car, my mother had already grabbed the yellow cloth bag and went to the backyard without even entering the house.
My father came out of the house with Nier in his arms. As he walked forward, he turned to look back at my mother's hurried back.
"What's going on? You're so angry."
"It's still about Sister-in-law Li. Let's go into the house and talk to you." My second uncle and my dad entered the house one after another.
I stood in the yard, listening to the sad music that was still playing in Uncle Li's house, and couldn't help but put my little hands behind my back, shake my head and sigh.
Now I am beginning to wonder if our village is really guilty of something evil like Aunt Lu and the others said.
My mother hasn't had time to treat my eyes yet, and the incident in Beicun has scheduled my mother's time again, and Aunt Li has become half ghost and half devil.
What on earth is a half-ghost, half-demon?
Could it be that half of the body is a ghost and half of the body is a demon?
No, I have to go and hear what it is.
I tiptoed to the outside of the altar in the backyard, opened the window and looked in.
My mother was sitting in front of the altar table. There were three incense sticks on the table. The booklet stood behind the incense burner. The page that was unfolded was the unshaven and pot-bellied Grand Judge of the Northeast, Lu Qi.
I curled my lips and wondered who drew this picture album. They made Judge Lu Qi look so ugly, but he actually looks pretty!
I was holding my mouth shut.
A black shadow suddenly appeared next to my mother. The black shadow became more solid and solid, and finally turned into a person.
Ah! Lu Qi is here!
My eyes widened, and I saw Lu Qi lazily yawning, and then he sat unsteadily on the Taishi chair on the side. His left hand was slightly clenched into a fist and he was leaning on the side of his face. His eyes were half closed and his legs were crossed, and his eyes were sleepy.
of.
Even his voice was hoarse: "Feng Guizhi, I just got off work. You can't talk about anything at night. I have to be jet-lagged when I get back."
Hearing Lu Qi's voice, my mother opened her eyes and walked a few steps in front of Lu Qi. Sweat broke out from her nervous forehead: "We have a person named Zhao Chunlan here. I will go to her grave before dawn today."
I summoned the spirit, but it didn’t come out. I want you to see where she is and whether she has become a demon!"
"Zhao Chunlan?" Lu Qi tilted his head and tapped his smooth chin with the index finger of his other hand, "Do you remember that fierce ghost who protected your daughter last time?"
"That's her!"
"If this ghost is not very good, how could he become a demon?"
"You don't know." My mother told her about Aunt Li again.
Lu Qi didn't know what was going on. It sounded interesting and he didn't feel sleepy anymore. Are they all so boring when they are ghosts?
Curious about everything?
"I know, I know." Lu Qi waved his hand and slowly took out the booklet from his pocket, "Zhao Chunlan..."
Lu Qi flipped through a few pages, and his eyes suddenly focused on a piece of paper. His whole body...oh no, his whole body sat up straight!
"Good boy." His eyes almost popped out of his head, and even my mother and me outside the window began to get nervous.
"What's going on?" my mother asked.
Lu Qi frowned again, took a breath and said: "Some time ago, the ghosts in Lotus City were always missing, and even the records in the Book of Life and Death disappeared. During this time, I was mainly tracking down things in Lotus City.
, I didn’t expect this to be the case here.”
"What? You said Sister-in-law Li can't even be traced in the book of life and death?"
"Sister-in-law Li?" Lu Qi raised his head in confusion, like a confused little lamb.
My mother rubbed her face and explained, "That's Zhao Chunlan."
"Well, someone is probably causing trouble. You don't need to worry about this matter. It has already fallen into the scope of the underworld's work. I will record it in my work."
Does he mean that Aunt Li disappeared out of thin air?
Aunt Li said she was hiding, but really even my mother and the Grand Judge couldn’t be found?
Aunt Li is so awesome!
I took a deep breath.
Maybe it was because I breathed too loudly, but Lu Qi's eyes suddenly stared at me.
Oops! I was caught peeking at him! So shy!
But his eyes were still strangely gentle, like spring lake water. He was obviously an official from the underworld, and was nothing like the scary-looking black and white Wuchang.
He curved the corners of his lips, raised his hand and waved to me: "Child, come here."
My face suddenly became hot and must have turned red.
My mother looked towards the window, smiled and waved: "Nuan Ting, come in and thank your benefactor."
I went in with a big red face and a hunched back, and stood in front of Lu Qi, embarrassingly fidgeting with the buttons on my clothes with both hands.
Whispered: "Thank you, brother."
"Brother?" His smiling voice was crisper than wind chimes and more beautiful than singing.
My mother hit me lightly on the back with a pestle, causing me to stagger and almost fall on Lu Qi.