Tan Li showed neither surprise nor joy at their arrival, as if they had always been there and had never left, or the reappearance of two insignificant people was nothing to her. significance.She wasn't even surprised or curious about why three people went out and only two came back.

Lin Nuozhi looked past her and looked into the side hall. The food was already hot on the table. He didn't see Li Jing and the child Meng Lin who delivered the food in the morning.Lin Nuozhi looked at the old lady who was leaning on the door and looking towards the door, and smiled at Tan Li: "Miss Tan, this is the Granny Meng you mentioned."

Tan Li nodded, with a perfect smile on the corner of her mouth, looking kind and gentle: "Yes, the meals at the shrine are prepared by Granny Meng, and the breakfast this morning was also made by Granny Meng."

"So that's how it is. Granny Meng's skills are really good," Lin Nuozhi smiled at Granny Meng, but the other party just stared at the front obsessively, ignoring him. Lin Nuozhi's goal was not her, so he just continued to ask, " Why didn't that kid come over in the morning? And Mr. Li? It doesn't seem to be outside the door."

Sadness flashed across Tan Li's eyes for a moment. If Lin Nuozhi hadn't been staring into her eyes, he might have missed it: "Lin Zi didn't know where to go after delivering breakfast today, so Granny Meng delivered the food herself. , I wonder if you saw him when you went out?" Seeing Lin Nuozhi shaking her head, she sighed and said, "Mr. Li is in the backyard wing, and he should come over for dinner later. Since you are back, do you want to eat?" Together……"

Before Tan Li finished speaking, she was interrupted by Shui Huakong. When he heard that Meng Lin had disappeared, his mind was full of conflicts between his wife and that brat in the morning, and he was very excited: "It must be that brat! He is following behind Behind us, and then killed Xiaoyue without paying attention, it must be that Meng Lin, it must be! It's too scary! I want to call the police!"

Granny Meng, who hadn't reacted just now, suddenly made a gesture to fetch water and Huakong, and yelled indistinctly: "Hey, come on, little brat, I'll hit you! Hit you!" He had no strength and was short. When he got angry, he wanted to kick Shui Huakong, but was pulled by one of Lin Nuo's hooks, and then thrown again, Shui Huakong fell into the yard.

"Calm down!" Lin Nuo was sullen.

"What's killing or not? Who's dead?" Liang Liang's words sounded, it was Li Jing.He just turned around from the backyard and just listened to it. He looked indifferently, looked around indifferently, and raised his eyebrows again, "Hey, is that annoying woman dead? It's really gratifying!"

Shui Huakong's eyes were red: "What did you say?! Say it again!"

Lin Nuozhi said in a deep voice at the side: "Ms. Jing is indeed dead. When we went up the mountain, she wanted to make things convenient for her, but she didn't show up for a long time. When we went to look for her, we found that she was hacked to death behind a big tree."

Li Jing's pupils shrank. He was only joking just now, but he didn't expect that someone would actually die. Suspicion and panic flashed in his eyes.

The smile on Tan Li's always smiling face faded away, and a sad look flashed in her eyes, then she closed her eyes, clasped her hands and nodded, muttering silently.

As for Granny Meng, she had been staring at Shui Huakong with her small eyes just after she was held by Tan Li, and it was the same now, I don't know if she didn't hear clearly.

Shui Huakong covered his face and sobbed. His nerves had been tense since he found out that his wife had died, and now he finally couldn't hold back and began to cry bitterly.

Lin Nuo could see everyone's expressions.

For a lunch, everyone was tasteless.Shui Huakong didn't eat at all, and squatted in the yard, not knowing what he was thinking.Tan Li sent Granny Meng home, and when she came back, Lin Nuozhi stopped her: "Miss Tan, why did you let me stay for a few more days when I was leaving? You also said that Miss Jing died before No surprises. Don't you think we should have an explanation?"

Shui Huakong didn't know about this, and raised his head to stare at them upon hearing this.

"What!" Before Tan Li could speak, Li Jing laughed, that kind of sneering and contemptuous smile, "You were the ones who said the person was dead, and you were the ones who saw the corpse, but you went to Miss Tan to ask for an explanation. Are you insane? Anyway, what do you want to say, who knows if the woman is dead?"

"You can go to see the corpse with us," Lin Nuozhi said.

Li Jing waved his hand: "I'm not interested, and who knows if the two of you had an adulterous affair, and then killed the unsightly original partner, ha! It really sounds like a plot in a detective novel. If this is the case, I What if I went to see you and found something, and I was silenced, what should I do?" Li Jing seemed to think that his thoughts were quite logical, and Li Jing sneered again and again.

"Also, I'm not interested in the dead or not at all, so don't bother me! If you have trouble finding the police, why do you come back?" Li Jing's expression was like seeing a group of flies, and he hurried out, walking coldly Hmph, "Looks like I can't stay at the door anymore, I'll paint in another place."

"Of course we thought about calling the police, but something strange happened to the road up the mountain. No matter how we walked, we couldn't get on the road." Lin Nuozhi said, staring at Li Jing.

"Ha!" Li Jing sneered again, and opened the door with one hand, "Is there another ghost story after the murder? Unfortunately, I have no interest at all. You better not get too close to me, or I will think you are plotting something wrong!"

Shui Huakong watched Li Jing leave with a gloomy expression, his eyes seemed to poke a hole in the opponent's back.

"What about you, Ms. Tan? Don't you think we're lying too?" Li Jing's departure didn't affect Lin Nuozhi, he turned to Tan Li and continued.

There was a look of sadness on Tan Lixiuya's face, she lowered her eyes and smiled wryly: "No... I believe you, because for us in Baishan Village, this is really... too common." The person felt chills down his spine, "Worshiping the mountain village, worshiping the mountain god, the mountain god was angry, and there was no way out...We haven't been out of the village for a long time."

Shui Huakong is like listening to the Arabian Nights: "Are you kidding? You won't tell me that Xiaoyue's death is because of offending the mountain god? We only stayed here for one night!"

"This is the rule of our Baishan Village. When outsiders come, they must stay for four days and three nights. After that, they can leave if they have nothing to do... This is why I let you stay for a few more days." The last sentence Tan Li told Lin Nuozhi.

"What if something happens?"

"Heh... there are more than three feet of weeds on the graves, and there are only dozens of families in our village. Do you think that the graves all over the Zushan Mountain belong to our village?"

Listening to Tan Li telling the history of the village, Lin Nuozhi had a better understanding of the village.Originally, this village was not called Baishan Village, but Lingxi Village. It got its name from the stream flowing down from the Lingshan Mountain on the left. The mountain god was offended, and the child was turned into a colorful pottery figurine, and the curse came.

The more Shui Huakong listened, the more ridiculous he felt. After asking which mountain road was the only exit from the village, he left angrily. He decided to look for it by himself. Maybe it was because he believed that Meng Lin killed his wife, and the murderer was a child. I have confidence in my heart.

"The statue of the mountain god in the worship mountain shrine is based on this. As long as the pottery figurine falls from the mouth of the mountain god, it represents its forgiveness..." Watching Shui Huakong leave, Tan Li continued.After the curse began, the villagers of Lingxi Village could no longer leave the village at will. Once they violated it, they would get lost and return, or die violently in the forest.The most important thing in the ancestral hall meeting is that the village elders calculate who can leave this year, and how many days they can leave in total. This is why Lingxi Village can continue to develop, and those who leave and never return often cannot escape death. one way.

Over time, Lingxi Village was renamed Baishan Village, and the Baishan Shrine was established accordingly. Tan Li is the No. 18 witch, and Granny Meng is the previous one. Their mission is to pray for the liberation of the six-color pottery figurines.

"You have passed the first night, and you can leave after three days and two nights... You are already much luckier than us." Tan Li smiled wryly, her eyes were a little confused.

It's really a superstitious story, but Lin Nuozhi didn't immediately refuse to believe the weird ghost hitting the wall.

"Then why don't you dissuade Jing Yue?"

"Miss Jing has already run into a mountain god. Her crime is unforgivable. She is dead anyway. She doesn't know anything, so she can die more easily." Tan Li's tone was compassionate, as if she had saved a life instead of just watching leading people to die.

"What did that kid do to offend the mountain god?" Lin Nuozhi asked, but Tan Li didn't tell him, she just shook her head slightly, without saying a word.

"The ancestral hall is at Zushan? Is it over there?" Lin Nuozhi asked her, pointing to a direction, Tan Li's eyes flashed with vigilance, "What do you want to do? Outsiders are not allowed to enter the ancestral hall, they will disturb the village elder's ceremony , and will greatly offend the mountain god, and you will be the next to die!"

Lin Nuozhi spread his hands needlessly, noncommittal.

"How many people are there in your village now? Where are the children? Children also live in the ancestral hall? There are no rice fields, and chickens, ducks and pigs are not raised... Where does your food come from?"

Tan Li's expression became much colder, "This is all about our village and has nothing to do with you. I see you are kind, so I will tell you everything I need to tell you. Don't speak disrespectfully to the mountain god. The banyan tree sign outside the door and For the ancestral hall, don’t touch one and don’t get close to the other, and take care of the rest.”

She knelt down in front of the stone statue with a dignified and elegant posture, and became a pious priestess again, keeping her ears shut.

Lin Nuo had no choice but to go back to the original room and put down the backpack, but he pinned the knives inside in his waist pocket.

Sure enough, Li Jing outside the door was no longer here, only the easel and stool were still there.He looked up at the banyan tree. Why did Tan Li raise the wooden sign on purpose?He walked in, feeling nothing but the coldness that never dissipated.The wooden signs were hung very high. Standing under the tree, he could only vaguely see that there were engraved characters on them, each piece was there, and they were not consistent, but he couldn't see clearly what the specific characters were.

"Huh?" Lin Nuozhi suddenly saw a length of red rope on the ground, and when he picked it up, he noticed that the red rope was the same as the rope tied with a wooden sign on his head... Has anyone ever taken the wooden sign?

His eyes flickered, but he still restrained his curiosity. He was going to find the ancestral hall first. If this is really a supernatural and terrifying world, it would be bad to set the death flag too early.

I don't know where Li Jing and Shui Huakong went. Lin Nuozhi walked and watched, but he didn't see them.Before going to the ancestral hall, he saw Granny Meng's residence, which was just behind the shrine, and he had to go around another street. The straight-line distance was very short, but the actual distance was about 50 meters.

Granny Meng's residence has a hen and a few chicks. There is also a well-maintained vegetable field inside, and there is a well on the flat ground outside the yard.When Lin Nuozhi saw it, the other party was walking back and forth outside the yard. When Lin Nuozhi went to talk to her, tears welled up in her cloudy eyes, and she kept shouting something, probably calling for her son and grandson, Lin Nuozhi had no choice but to comfort her and left quickly.

He had learned from Tan Lina that Granny Meng's son had disappeared two days ago, and her grandson was also missing today... In Baishan Village, missing means death.

It was only when I walked to the innermost part of the village that I noticed that the village had been built on a high ground. When I reached the innermost house, the terrain was already one floor higher than the outside.But the village is not built on the mountain, the village and the mountain form a depression, and the ancestral hall is built here.

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