death gap

Chapter 20 Hanging
Eat it!
At worst, you can just order some portions after eating and treat them as meal money.

After thinking about this, Su Chen felt at ease, raised his chopsticks and started to eat happily.

The flowing water banquet in the countryside may not be very delicious, but the portion is definitely sufficient. There are enough big fish and meat tubes, so you can fill your belly no matter how big the meal is.

And the dishes continue to be served.

There was an iron stove set up next to the courtyard gate. The black stove was cylindrical, about 1.3 meters high, and the furnace was filled with red-hot carbon blocks and firewood.

Lots of firepower!

A large iron pot was placed on the iron stove. Next to it was a bald man in an apron, who was cooking in the iron pot; pale white smoke rose with the sound of cooking, exuding an alluring aroma of meat.

It must be said that the sound of cooking stir-fries is very tempting, and Su Chen swallowed several pieces of braised pork in a blink of an eye.

Not to mention Hong Shisan and others, they just ate vegetables as if they were reincarnated by starving ghosts.

After eating a little full, Su Chen found that the other guests didn't seem to have such a strong appetite as they did; instead, they were chatting while eating, and all of them had their brows furrowed, as if they were all worried.

Out of curiosity, he began to listen.

"What a sin. Mrs. Wu has suffered a lot. She can't live without death. She has been tormented over and over again."

"This is too weird. Last month, she suddenly hanged herself. Her son was sent away in a glorious manner. Why did he die again yesterday?"

"It's just a fake corpse, what other reason could there be?"

"Then tell me, are you going to cheat again tonight? If it is true, then will we..."

"Stop saying a few words and eat, eat. Why can't you stop your mouths with so many dishes?"

Because of those friends who had met Gu Yanchi before, Su Chen was extremely sensitive to the word hanging, and the words of the guests made his hair stand on end.

The old lady Wu who hanged herself according to the guests had the same fate as Gu Yanchi's friends.

This may be her hometown.

If this is really Gu Yanchi's hometown, then Weird must be hiding somewhere in the village in order to protect the gap.

Considering this, Su Chen immediately put down his bowls and chopsticks and deliberately sighed softly to the elderly guests beside him:

"There have been more and more strange things happening around here recently. They really don't stop."

"It's okay here, Taoxiang next door is really non-stop." After being provoked like this, the old man really started chatting:

"Old Mrs. Wu hanged herself from a willow tree when she was visiting relatives next door. It's been very evil over there lately."

"How evil is that?" Su Chen looked surprised.

"How is the rice growing in our fields here?" the old man asked.

"Okay, the growth is great, we will definitely have a good harvest." Su Chen expressed his feelings along the way.

"That's right." The old man stroked his beard and said with a mysterious face: "But Taoxiang next door is like a drought. Not many seedlings have survived, and the land is now abandoned."

"I've never heard of it before." Su Chen was really shocked this time.

"What just happened." The old man looked at him solemnly:
"Didn't it rain heavily in the morning? After the heavy rain, all the seedlings over there died! People in the countryside say that they have offended the land grandfather, otherwise how come we are fine here?"

"The land is not so stingy. There must be evil spirits at work." Su Chen said firmly.

According to the old man in front of him, the strangeness was caused in Taoxiang next door, and Mrs. Wu was just unfortunate enough to be affected.

And her current state is very likely to be a corpse. "What you said makes sense." The old man poured himself a glass of rice wine, drank it in one breath and shook his head:
"But everyone doesn't want to believe it. If it's an evil heretic, it's likely to affect us."

"If the evil does not suppress the good, it will be solved." When Su Chen said this, he thought of the two professionals.

When I talked to myself in the afternoon, the two men spoke and acted with confidence, and they should be able to handle this weirdo with ease.

"Well said, come on! My old man gives you a drink." The old man said and poured rice wine into his cup.

Since the rice wine had a low alcohol content and a hint of sour and sweet taste, Su Chen did not refuse.

He drank the rice wine in one breath and continued to ask the other party:
"I just heard someone say that Mrs. Wu faked a corpse once. Is she completely dead this time?"

"No." The old man said, looking around cautiously, and then said softly:

"Actually, Mrs. Wu who faked the corpse was not caught at all. The coffin is empty now. What her son did was deceiving himself."

"How do you know?" Su Chen looked at him doubtfully.

"I helped transport the coffin, how could I not know?" The old man glanced at the coffin and continued to whisper:

"I saw with my own eyes that he nailed the coffin lid. At that time, there was only a set of clothes belonging to Mrs. Wu in the coffin, and the body was definitely not in it."

"So that's what happened." Su Chen nodded understandingly.

As he expected, it was impossible for ordinary people to catch the corpse, because the thing was not physical at all.

……

After finishing the meal, the master and apprentice quietly left together with the guests. Su Chen felt regretful before leaving and left a banknote under the door of the main room.

It's considered his own meal money.

A few people were walking on the country road again, and Lu Feng suddenly asked:
"Xiaochen, what did you and that old man talk about just now?"

"He said that the old lady hanged herself and then swindled her body after her death."

"Elaborate." Hong Shisan and Lu Feng said in unison.

Not only the two of them, but also Xu Yucheng on the side also aroused curiosity and quietly pricked up his ears to listen.

"There seems to be something evil happening in Taoxiang next door. Mrs. Wu ran into her when she was visiting relatives..." Su Chen didn't want to waste any more words and kept his story short:

"So he was hanged from a willow tree somewhere in Taoxiang for no apparent reason, and even after he died, he faked his body. Then he was never found, and now the coffin is empty... It was just a trick played by her son to deceive himself and others."

"Evil sect." Lu Feng commented.

"It's indeed weird." Xu Yucheng frowned, then smiled deliberately:
"The strange things in the countryside are not trustworthy, so there is no need to worry too much."

"..." Hong Shisan did not comment, but fell silent with a solemn expression.

At this moment, a bright full moon hangs high in the night sky, and the moonlight shines like mercury in the village, illuminating the large huts as if they were covered with a veil.

The shadows under everyone were also projected by the moonlight, clearly sticking to the ground.

There was no one on the dirt road in the countryside, and there were only scattered sounds of cats barking and dogs barking around, and shadows were drawn long behind them.

In such a beautiful night, lifeless hemp ropes hung from the sky and followed them silently.

　Thanks to Lingle Shen and reader 20210209190404788075037 for the reward

　　
　
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