I quit my job after working part-time at the Demon Management Bureau

bang bang bang ---

Zhou Liping slammed the gate of the courtyard loudly, Chi Mu and Hu Zili got out of the car slowly, and did not approach, they stood beside the car and waited, Chi Mu leisurely leaned against the door and looked at the crumbling courtyard door for a while , The courtyard door creaked open, and an old man who looked a little listless walked out from inside.

Zhou Liping rushed to meet him, Chi Mu opened the trunk, and there was a box in the corner full of food.

Hu Zili saw a pile of food and drink behind him, and was very speechless: "Why didn't you tell me if there was food in the car?"

"You didn't ask me." Chi Mu was so innocent, he put the camouflage camera bag on Hu Zili's shoulder, "You are my assistant now, so you have to carry your things."

"..." Hu Zili sighed, "You're pretty well prepared."

He closed the trunk with a snap, and his handsome profile face under the sun was full of pride and complacency: "It's not the first time, although it's been so many years, but I have experience anyway, acting, how can I do it if I don't do a full set?" ?”

As the saying goes, once you are born and you are familiar with each other, the place Chi Mu is going to come to this time is still a closed village, if you don't find a good excuse and identity, it will be very difficult to move forward.

Fortunately, he had nothing but a lot of money, and he happened to meet someone who could solve problems with money, which made their trip a lot easier.

After negotiating with the village chief over there, Zhou Liping waved to the two of them. After she passed, she said, "This is the village chief of Shuming Village, surnamed Qian. You are staying at the village chief's house these few days. Don't go around when you have nothing to do." Run around, remember to ask Xiaohua to take you to the temple to familiarize yourself with the route."

"Okay, thank you." Chi Mu nodded slightly and took out his phone, "I don't have any cash with me, can I give you a red envelope through WeChat?"

Zhou Liping grinned from ear to ear: "Yes, yes, of course. By the way, let me remind you that staying at the village head's place, board and lodging are not free."

Chi Mu transferred two thousand to her and smiled: "We will never live and eat for free, we will give money to the village chief."

After collecting the money, Zhou Liping handed the two of them to the village chief and left. Standing at the gate of the courtyard, the village chief looked at the two of them quietly with cloudy eyes for a while, then opened the concealed door behind him, and walked away slightly staggeringly. go in.

Under the eaves, the little boy with the bucket just now stood behind the heavily peeled pillars under the eaves, quietly watching the two of them, not daring to go forward.

After Chi Mu entered the yard, he pretended to be shocked: "Village chief, why are there coffins in your yard? It's so scary."

This flamboyant yet undistorted acting made Hu Zili glance at him, thinking to be some domineering president, the entertainment industry is obviously more suitable for you.

"If you know it's scary, don't wander around at night. Shuming Village doesn't like outsiders. You live here, don't walk around if you have nothing to do. Tomorrow I will ask my grandson Xiaohua to take you to the temple. You can leave as soon as possible after the filming." Village Chief Walking in front, his voice was hoarse as if he had been torn apart, and his slightly bent back made him look a lot shorter.

Bringing the two of them to an empty room, the village chief said: "Only this room is empty, so you can live in it. If you want to eat, you have to pay for it. Just give me the board and lodging on the day you leave."

"Okay, thank you village chief." Chi Mu stood at the door, smiling and watching the village chief return to the lobby.

The door of this room is facing the yard. Once you open it, you can see the coffins lined up in the yard. The windows are the very old bolted lattice windows, and the glass in the bottom right corner is missing more than half. Hurrah poured in the wind.

The room is not too big, and the barely painted white paint has already become yellowish and dull over time. Because of the humidity, pieces are peeling off from the wall, and the floor is everywhere. The room even emits heavy dust that can't live for a long time. Taste and mustiness.

A bed, an old desk, and a fan that creaked when turned on were all the possessions in this room.

Hu Zili pulled the dirty curtains, and the thick dust moved crazily in the sunlight that barely came in. He held his nose and took a few steps back: "It's bad, it can't be pulled."

"If you can't pull it up, you can't pull it up." Chi Mu stood by the window and pulled the plug to try to push the window open, but it couldn't be pushed open. He touched his chin and said with great interest, "The coffin that stayed all night yesterday ’, I can’t draw the curtains today just to change my mood.”

"Then your mood change is quite exciting, and you are with the coffin." Hu Zili took out the camera to take a look, and found that Chi Mu was quite reliable, at least the battery was fully charged.

Chi Mu took out the cigarettes she bought yesterday, and without lighting it, she put one in her mouth for a show: "After lunch, let's take the camera and go out for a walk."

Hu Zili looked at him, and saw a specious smile on the corner of his lips: "I'm here, of course I have to do what I was entrusted with."

This smile looked like he was going to make trouble, Hu Zili couldn't help but stroked his forehead, feeling tired.

The little boy named Xiao Hua came to ask the two of them to eat lunch, Chi Mu followed him and asked him: "My child, do you have a friend who runs a grocery store at home?"

"Do you know Jiajia?" Hearing the familiar partner's name, Xiaohua, who was a little afraid of strangers just now, almost jumped up happily, "Recently something happened in the village, I haven't seen her for many days, I'm so sorry miss her."

Hu Zili quickly asked, "What happened in the village?"

"A lot of people died in the village. Grandpa said that they were all scared to death by dirty things, so he told me not to run around, to go shopping at the grocery store, or to go to school." Xiaohua said sadly .

Chi Mu and Hu Zili looked at each other, and Chi Mu asked, "Why did your grandfather say that he was scared to death by dirty things?"

"I heard from adults that it seems to be Chinese New Year before——"

"Xiao Hua!" the village chief yelled, full of anger, he glanced over Chi Mu and the two of them with cloudy eyes and turned back, looked at the joke and said sternly, "I asked you to call the guests over for dinner, but I didn't ask you to talk too much!"

Xiaohua was frightened by the village head, and after oh, she closed her mouth and started eating.

Chi Mu didn't care at all, but the village chief looked at the two of them carefully during the meal, and then said: "After dinner, I will ask Xiaohua to take you to the temple, and you should leave early after the filming. "

His tone was mixed with inadvertent exhaustion. After saying this, he lowered his eyebrows and stopped talking, and ate his meal in silence.

Eating at the table was very simple, and Chi Mu and Hu Zili didn't dislike it, but Hu Zili didn't eat much. After the meal, the two went back to the room to get the camera, and then followed Xiaohua to the temple.

Along the way, Chi Mu teased Xiao Hua, asking him to finish what he hadn't finished before, but he still couldn't pry his mouth open, even Hu Zili couldn't do anything.

It seems that the village chief's warning is still very deterrent.

As Chi Mu thought about it, her footsteps stopped, and Hu Zili followed his line of sight: "The proprietress of the hotel?"

I saw Zhou Liping, who had already left, was walking quickly towards a house, and disappeared in an instant.

"Why don't you leave?" Xiao Hua stood five meters away from the two of them, holding a wooden stick she picked up and tapping on the ground.

Chi Mu waved her hand and asked him: "Xiao Hua, are you familiar with the proprietress of the hotel?"

"You mean Aunt Zhou?"

Chi Mu nodded, and pointed to the house not far away: "I saw her go in just now, so I asked."

Xiaohua didn't think there was anything wrong with this sentence: "That's Uncle Zhang's home, Aunt Zhou seemed to be officiated at the wedding in the past."

"Wedding?" Hu Zili raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is there going to be a wedding in the village recently?"

Xiao Hua, who knew everything just now, didn't answer again. He hung his head and tapped the ground with a wooden stick: "Let's go, I'll take you to the temple."

Chi Mu withdrew her gaze, looked at the little carrot in front of her, and smiled meaningfully: "Okay."

The road that Xiaohua took the two of them was relatively sideways, and they hardly met anyone along the way, and they were not very close to the houses of those villagers. Instead, they passed a forest, and Chi Mu saw many graves inside.Different from the tombs that are covered with weeds, there are many tombs that look like they have just been newly built, and there is not even a single grass on them.

The growing trees seem to be strangely shaped giants with shoulders and backs, occupying a piece of land. Their dense leaves block the sunlight tightly. In the two worlds, there is such a tiny ray of light struggling to shine in, but it still cannot dispel the overflowing coolness inside.

Chi Mu was observing carefully when suddenly a bride in a wedding dress appeared in her sight. She was standing in front of a new grave with her back to him, motionless.

Chi Mu stopped in his tracks, Hu Zili who was following him bumped into him, frowned and looked in the direction Chi Mu was looking at, this time he saw the woman from before.

"she……"

"Hush." ​​Chi Mu put his index finger on his lips, turned his head slightly, and whispered to Hu Zili, "Keep quiet."

Hu Zili hummed, and looked over again, the woman had disappeared.

The two silently followed Xiao Hua and continued to walk forward, as if nothing had happened just now. Occasionally, there was the sound of Xiao Hua waving the surrounding weeds with a stick in front of her.

After a while, the three of them arrived at their destination. The so-called temple was dilapidated, and there was no sign of people worshiping it. Even the so-called Buddha's body had fallen off the high platform, broken in several sections, and covered with dust and moss.A lot of sunlight shines on the top of the dilapidated tile-roofed house, so that Chi Mu can barely see the situation inside.

Chi Mu turned on the camera, pretended to take a lot of photos, and finally returned to the village chief's house under the pretext that he had no inspiration today and would come back tomorrow.

The two returned to the room, closed the door, Chi Mu looked down at the phone messages, and suddenly heard Hu Zili's low cry.

He raised his head suddenly: "What's wrong?"

"It's nothing." Hu Zili breathed a sigh of relief, pointing to the wall, "You can see for yourself."

I saw several bloody handprints printed on the mottled and yellowed wall, and a finger that seemed to have cut a blood vessel was slowly writing on the wall.

Chi Mu knew without guessing that it was the woman who was writing. She wrote very slowly, taking a while to finish a sentence.

She wrote: Please mix me and Liu Le's ashes together, thank you.

It was obviously a very simple sentence, but Chi Mu and Hu Zili saw something else in it.

The bloodstains on the wall were slowly disappearing, and Hu Zili suddenly said, "Are all the people who died in this village related to you?"

There was silence and no answer.

Chi Mu looked thoughtfully at the writing on the wall that had almost disappeared, and said to Hu Zili, "I'm afraid this time it won't be as easy as before."

"Now that you know, just don't look for trouble." Hu Zili said, "I don't want to be entangled by them for no reason. I'm very busy."

Chi Mu smirked: "It's okay, if you faint this time, I'll carry you on the back."

Hu Zili rolled his eyes at him: "Crazy!"

Throughout the day, Chi Mu and Hu Zili didn't have any specific gains. At night, Chi Mu sat by the window and stared at the coffins in the yard. Under the moonlight, they looked particularly gloomy, like corpses inside. Will lift the coffin board and sit up at any time.

Hu Zili leaned against the window and also looked out: "It's been a whole day, what are you looking at?"

Chi Mu smiled mysteriously: "I was wondering how many of these coffins contained corpses, and by the way, I was thinking about whether I should open one at night to see the expression of the scared people inside."

Hu Zili: "..."

He looked at Chi Mu speechlessly, and warned again: "Don't be a fuss."

"Look, it's not a loss." Chi Mu stood up and rubbed his hands, looking eager to try.

Seeing him like this, Hu Zili knew that he couldn't stop him, so he sighed: "You can see it, but not now, it's still early, wait until midnight."

Chi Mu raised her eyebrows slightly, and joked, "As expected of my fox, you are so accommodating to me."

The eyebrows in the beard twitched slightly, and he said coldly: "Get lost."

At midnight, everything is silent.

After the moon wandered half-hidden in the dark clouds, the coffin under the moonlight pulled a ghostly slender shadow in the night, and the frogs chirping outside the house seemed to be singing a gloomy song.

Chi Mu sat up from the bed, the bed board creaked, he was gearing up, and when he was about to go out, Hu Zili grabbed his arm: "Listen."

"What?" Chi Mu turned to look at him, "You don't want to regret not letting me go, do you?"

"No." Hu Zili frowned slightly, "Calm down and listen carefully, someone is singing and there is also the sound of suona."

The faint sound of wind playing sounded in the middle of the night, accompanied by the shrill singing from a distance, as if penetrating the time and space of Yin and Yang. In this village where dozens of people died, there were bursts of chills for no reason.

And in the inauthentic singing voice, the words sang were the songs that the woman sang to the two of them in the elevator.

"On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, lift up the sedan chair, my son, why don't you go back, marry that young man, and bury his bones together."

"Marry that young man, hidden in the coffin, dragon and phoenix paste, gold treasure."

"Young man, young man, do you think this girl is happy?"