It's a celestial master, not a Taoist priest

Opening the door, there stood Liang Xingcheng, who was smiling treacherously, Lan Xiang, who was sneaking around behind him, and Yi Bai, who was full of indifference.Liang Xingcheng squeezed in through the open door with two people, rubbed his hands, and said to Feng Quan and Shang Yang:

"Tonight, Master Uncle will take you to explore the truth."

Feng Quan asked back, "The truth?"

Liang Xingcheng said: "There must be a problem between Ms. Duan and her son. Before we go back, let's find out what's going on with the mother and son tonight."

Feng Quan was a little surprised, "We watch out to do death-saving rituals, and we still care about this?"

Liang Xingcheng said: "Li Er taught us to meddle in our own business and have a heart to discover the truth."

Until Feng Quan followed Liang Xingcheng out of the small hotel, he didn't think that Li Er, who admired the reason for nothing, had a word to tell people to meddle in their own business.

It was already nine o'clock in the evening, and rural people generally went to bed early, and there were not even old people on the street to enjoy the cool air.Fortunately, the light in the bathing center downstairs was still on, and the owner looked up at the TV on the wall while mopping the floor.

It was reporting: "We are honored to invite Officer Li from the SWAT team to explain the situation to us..."

Liang Xingcheng greeted people very familiarly:

"Hi, boss. Some young people are not used to going to bed early. Are there any lively places around here at night? Barbecue stalls, Internet cafes and the like."

The boss put down the mop, and said "Hi", "There's no such thing as a busy place. Cha Huanhuan checked, and he didn't dare to start a small business. Our place has just developed, and we won't be able to eat right now."

Bringing a plate of sunflower seeds, he greeted the five of them to sit down, and the boss asked:

"Hey, what do you do, the economy is bad?"

Liang Xingcheng said: "It's okay, open the Taoist temple."

Boss: "Hey! That's fine. It turns out that it's the Taoist priests who are disrespectful and disrespectful. But there are no Taoist temples in our county. How did you come to this small place?"

Liang Xingcheng: "It's a lady named Duan Qin from your village who invited us to do something for her son."

The boss frowned instantly when he heard the name Duan Qin, and said with contempt:

"It's so embarrassing to invite someone to come to your door! The embarrassment is thrown outside the village!"

Liang Xingcheng turned his head and looked at the others, then turned around and asked:

"How to say?"

The boss said: "You are all Taoists, not meddlesome people, and you were invited by the old Fang's family, so it's okay to chat with you. ——That child Xiao Fang was killed by his mother !"

Liang Xingcheng's surprise this time was not fake, "How could it be? A mother can kill her son?"

"That's not true." The boss said, "That bitch is just confused. I've said that the hospital staff are not good people. How can there be a good hospital to ask someone to see a doctor. If someone says a few words, the bitch will believe it." .Send your child there, see, it’s gone. What a wonderful child.”

So the six people gathered in a circle and listened to the boss talk about Ms. Duan's family affairs starting with "it's a long story".

Duan Qin is a native-born woman who has never been out of this small village adjacent to Nanxing Mountain in her whole life.I don't have any academic qualifications, but after graduating from elementary school, I helped the family with work.Later, she found her husband's family in the village and got married, and gave birth to a son named Fang Tong the next year.

It's a pity that Duan Qin's married life is not happy. Her mother-in-law passed away when she was just married. Her husband has no skills, so he just planted a kind of fruit tree in this village. , this woman became the pillar of the family.This may also be the reason. She has a very tough personality, and she especially doesn't like her family members to disobey her.

Five years ago, his husband died unexpectedly, leaving only Duan Qin and Fang Tong mother and son in the whole family.

Fang Tong is a very sensible and promising child. Although he has never been out of the county before high school, and the school he attended was not a famous school, he got No. 3 in the province in the college entrance examination.It is more than enough grades to be able to go to a big city to study, but he only took an ordinary one in Nancheng City, in order not to be too far away from his mother.

But his mother pushed him into the abyss.

Just in the spring of this year, Fang Tong caught wind and cold because he traveled back and forth between school and home for a period of time after school started, and later developed pneumonia.Originally, he was being diagnosed and treated in the clinic, and his condition was about to recover. At this time, someone from a large hospital came from outside.

"Duan Qin has been very superstitious since she was a child. She has always wanted to be strong, and she doesn't play with her peers very much. Later, when their family conditions improved, she didn't see her surfing the Internet. In short, she was very feudal. People said that Xiao Fang's illness was She believed in the disaster, and she said that she would transfer the person away for treatment, and said that to get rid of the sins, the diseased part should be cut off—it is nonsense! If the lungs are cut, can the person still live? Duan Qin said I don't understand, so I sent my son over there after he fainted from the medicine....Now I still believe that Xiao Fang went to Bliss to make amends, and the family is getting better and better because of Xiao Fang's atonement.... Poor little Fang!"

Liang Xingcheng asked: "Then that child never came back?"

"Dead!" The boss was heartbroken, "Duan Qin happily picked up the corpse, sent it with her own hands, and saw the cremation with her own eyes. Duan Qin also asked Duan Qin to scatter the ashes on the mountain with her own hands."

Feng Quan thought to himself, it was because of this that the ghost named Fang Tong was able to go to Nanxing Mountain and Changyiguan.

Listening to the boss's narration, everyone felt a chill run down their spines.

What kind of mother would "happily" take back her son's body and cremate it with her own hands?

Is it just because of superstition?

At this time, Feng Quan asked casually, "Does Ms. Duan Qin only have one child?"

The boss nodded, "Yes, Fang Tong is the only child. ——When Lao Fang went there five years ago, Duan Qin was pregnant with a child, but after Lao Fang left, she was injured too much and lost her child. In the past few years, she We have always been with Xiao Fang's mother and son."

Feng Quan nodded and thought to himself: If that's the case, then who is that little girl next to Duan Qin?

Or... is she human?

Night had fallen for a long time, Duan Qin finished dinner alone in the empty living room, packed up the dishes, and went outside the door.

She stood alone in the hot midsummer wind, until the temperature gradually dropped, complete darkness covered her eyes, there was no noise in her ears, and everyone went home.

She just went in the door.

There were no lights on inside, and it was pitch black.She has been through it many times.I went to the kitchen and took out a bowl of steamed eggs that had just been steamed and was still steaming. Holding it carefully, I walked up the stairs to the second floor and came to the bedroom.

The bedroom is very simple, just a bed, a wardrobe and a small bedside table.She was the only one in the big family, so there was no need for complicated things.

Her eyes were in the dark, and she had adapted to the light through the dim streetlights outside the window.She walked into the room quietly and closed the door behind her.

A short figure suddenly appeared behind him, and beyond the darkness was a corner of a pink skirt.

The figure laughed "giggling", echoing like a silver bell, but Duan Qin didn't realize it.

With a kind expression on her face, she walked to the bedside table with the small bowl for children, and squatted down slowly.Then opened the cabinet.

Under the faint light of the street lamp coming in from the window, there was a glass jar at the height of an adult's knee.The glass jar was filled with blue-black turbid water, with a dark red bloated piece of meat suspended in the center, which was obscured and could not be seen completely.

But Duan Qin's eyes suddenly burst into eager brilliance.

The girl in the pink skirt suddenly came behind Duan Qin, her face half hidden in the darkness, she lowered her head and quietly looked at the squatting Duan Qin's back.

Duan Qin has carefully moved out the glass jar.

"I bought another pink skirt for Tiantian. Mom likes this color, so you must too."

She took a dress from under the pillow and put it in a ceramic basin, took out the lighter, and lit the beautiful pink dress.

The light of the fire shone on Duan Qin's slightly plump face, and the shadow was reflected on the wall, showing teeth and claws.

After a while, the fire went out, and she gently unscrewed the lid of the glass jar, picked up the heavy glass jar, and walked towards the bathroom with difficulty.As she walked, she spoke kindly:

"It's okay, mom isn't tired."

"Mom is going to clean your bedroom, ah, good boy."

"Tiantian is so good, not heavy, mom is not tired."

An empty formalin container was thrown from the bathroom.

When it came out, the glass jar had been replaced with a new transparent liquid, and the rotten and moldy things soaked in it were no longer there, and what was revealed was a curled up fetus with fuzzy facial features floating quietly, its limbs were small, and its two eyeballs were abnormally large. , as if looking at someone outside the glass jar.

Returning to the bed, Duan Qin carefully put the glass jar away, took the steamed eggs on the ground, and "feed" them into the jar spoonful by spoonful.She moved patiently, with a gentle and kind smile on her face, and said in a low voice:

"It's bedtime story time.

Long, long ago, there lived a plain man with a blue beard.Bluebeard married several wives, but their whereabouts are unknown.

On this day, Bluebeard fell in love with another girl, so the girl became his wife and let the girl live in his castle.

One day, when Blue Beard went out, the girl took out the key that Blue Beard had hidden because of curiosity.She opened the door that Bluebeard had ordered not to open, not to enter.

The moment the door opened, the girl was stunned.Behind the door hung the bloody limbs and heads of Bluebeard's former wives.

The girl closed the door in panic.But when the blue beard came back, he found that the girl had gone through the door, so he became so angry that he picked up the knife and wanted to kill the girl.

Fortunately, the girl's brother arrived in time, killed Bluebeard, and successfully rescued the girl. "

Duan Qin closed a book of Grimm's fairy tales beside her, and gently stroked the surface of the glass jar with her hands:

"After listening to the story, it's time to go to bed."

She gently kissed the cold glass, as if kissing the fetus inside through a layer of glass.

"Goodnight kiss."

The dark red fetus inside was staring at her.

The fresh steamed eggs floating in the surrounding formalin are rapidly losing their hot temperature.

After finishing all this, Duan Qin put the glass jar on the bedside table next to the bed, and then lay down on the bed herself.

"Going to sleep." She looked at the glass jar with deep love in her eyes.

The girl in a pink dress stood in front of Duan Qin's window, together with the stillborn baby in the glass jar on the bedside table, quietly watching her face.