Raising Ghosts Records

Chapter 39
The fire at the root of the tree continued to burn for more than an hour under the continuous addition of firewood and grass by the old man raising ghosts. Suddenly, all the leaves of the old locust tree fell off at the same time.Countless fallen leaves fluttered down the tree, the scene was too shocking, such a big tree, the leaves do not know how many, all fell to the ground and spread a thick layer, piled up to reach the Several people's knees.

After a while, the root fire started to spread, and the fallen leaves also caught fire. Uncle and the old man raising ghosts had to retreat to the open space outside.

I still had no choice but to hide in the tree. At this time, the bare old locust tree had no leaves, and it looked very strange.There was a sea of ​​flames around the roots of the trees on the ground, and the tail of fire and smoke rushed up the trees. I was so smoked that I couldn't breathe, coughed non-stop, and my eyes were tearful.

In the end, the fire grew bigger and bigger, and all the fallen leaves were caught on fire. With the tree roots as the center, the diameter of this sea of ​​flames was at least 50 meters.This is really miserable, even if I can go down, can I run dozens of meters in the raging flames?I'm afraid that as soon as I jumped down, my whole body would be on fire and I would give my life here.

After all, the fallen leaves are thin and light. Even if there are enough leaves, the burning time is only 10 minutes at most, but the hateful thing is that the smaller branches start to fall again at this time.It was as if countless transparent people kept breaking off the branches and throwing them into the sea of ​​flames under the tree. In the end, all the branches smaller than the arms were broken and fell under the tree, so the fire not only did not go out, but grew bigger.

During this period, I was afraid that the branch I was standing on would break off suddenly, so I kept going down. Now my position is already at the limit, and if I go down, I will be burned to the bottom of my feet by the tail of the fire.At this time, I was standing about three floors higher, and the fire was at least one floor higher, and the temperature around me was at least 60 degrees. Fortunately, it was February, and the wild forest like this The temperature at night is less than ten degrees.And Tongtong would blow cold air on my face from time to time, otherwise I would have fainted from the heat, and then fell into the sea of ​​fire under the tree, becoming a roasted acquaintance.

After that, the larger branches did not fall, and the fire started to go out after half an hour, but the crisis did not pass, but became more critical.I saw that the root of the tree itself was on fire. Although the root of this old pagoda tree could not be hugged by several adults, it had been burned by the fire for nearly two hours. It is estimated that the water had already been dried. Before long, the whole tree will burn to become a fire tree.

Now there are wolves in the front and tigers in the back, the old man raising ghosts and the others are standing in the open space without fire, and the roots of the tree are already on fire, and they have burned to the fork. Even if I want to go down from the raging fire, the roots of the tree can't climb up.

But I can't just stay on the tree and wait for the fire to burn me to death. I found a relatively short branch, and there were a few vines knocked down there, but the height of these vines from the ground was nearly two floors, and the short ones were all burned by the fire. Gone.

But I can’t care about that much anymore, I won’t die if I jump off a two-story building, besides, there is thick gray carbon under the tree, and I hold the end of the vine, and the actual height from the bottom of my feet to the ground has to be reduced by two meters, because I He is 1.6 meters tall, and his hands are almost two meters high.Calculated in this way, the actual height from the bottom of the feet to the ground is only about 4 meters. If I can fall to my death at such a height, I will accept my fate, and there is a thick layer of charcoal as a buffer.

I caught a strong dracaena vine, these vines have been smoked by the fire for a long time, their roots have been burned, now it is an ordinary vine, it will not suddenly bind me.After the flytrap that can be seen usually has no grass roots, it will no longer move to catch insects. It is estimated that this is a plant of the same nature.

I grabbed this vine and slid to the end. Although I knew it was at most four meters high, the visual height was still very high, nearly six meters. After all, the eyes grow on the head.

After catching Fujiko, I still dare not let go, and finally couldn't hold on any longer, so I asked Tongtong not to come down first, then I closed my eyes and let go, and just as I experienced the incontinence of falling, I reached the ground.

When people are unlucky, they can choke to death when they drink water. I jumped down and touched my chin with my knees. Stars flashed in my eyes, as if my upper and lower rows of teeth had been smashed. When I reached the charcoal that was still extinguished, it was so hot that I screamed in pain like killing a pig and jumped up again.

The reason why I jumped down was firstly because the tree would not last long, and secondly because I wanted to jump down and run, but I didn’t expect to be knocked unconscious by my own knee.I had wasted nearly ten seconds of the best time to escape, and I had no chance to escape. At this time, the old man raising ghosts and the others had already rushed in front of me, and the four of them surrounded me.

In the end, I still fell into the hands of the old man raising ghosts. It's life or death!
The old ghost-raiser walked two steps up to me, and said, "What a brave young man, Lao Chen, I appreciate you from the bottom of my heart, what a pity, what a pity!" The old ghost-raiser stretched out his hand in front of me while saying Come.

I raised my head and glanced at him, the old man raising ghosts under the firelight. From such a close distance, I can see that his age is about 60 years old instead of 50 years old as previously estimated.This person has a mustache that is half black and half white, and looks a bit like the late famous actor Mr. Wu Ma.

The old man raising ghosts stretched out his hand in front of me, just wanting me to hand over the things obediently, lest he grab it by himself.This shows an attitude. If I take the initiative to return the little ghost to him, it will be regarded as a kind of surrender and a kind of respect. He may not kill me.But in that case, even if he let me go, what about Tongtong? I turned my head to look at Tongtong who was still on the tree, and then at the outstretched hand of the old ghost raiser.

In the end, instead of surrendering and handing over the little ghost boy, I spit into the palm of the old man raising ghosts, then pushed down the only woman on the right hand side, stepped on her and fled.

It's a pity that I was caught by the shoulder after I ran less than five steps. I turned my head and saw that it was my uncle.This is a moment of life and death, and the person who caught me turned out to be my uncle. In a hurry, I called him, saying that I am brother, don't you recognize me?Let me go!
Uncle was not surprised when he heard that, but just whispered to run!Immediately let go of me, and then I saw him jumping up with his arms around his feet, pretending to be scalded by unextinguished charcoal.

But although my uncle let go of me, I didn't have a chance to take a step, so I was caught by the old ghost raiser, and then two other people took out ropes from their bodies and tied me firmly, and finally hung me on a small locust tree Up, the height of one finger from the heel to the ground.

At this time, the fire of the old locust tree has spread to the whole tree, and it has become a tree of fire. The whole mountain depression is illuminated very brightly, and the Tongtong on the tree has long since disappeared.

After I was hung up, I saw my uncle's anxious face, and the old man who raised ghosts wiped the phlegm I spit on his palm back into my mouth, and then slapped me a dozen times.

After more than a dozen slaps, my ears were buzzing, and I couldn't hear anything else. I felt the nosebleeds flowed out, and the salty taste flowed into my mouth, and my face was hot and painful. Got a pig's head.

After the ghost raising old man finished slapping my face, he tore off the bag on my shoulder and dumped everything on the ground.In addition to the black baby's body, these things also included a bronze knife, a willow wood figurine, some money, and a piece of yellow cloth covered with strange characters.The flashlight and the phoenix bone needle fell to the ground just now, and I don't know where they fell. After being burned on the ground for so long, they must have turned into ashes.

What surprised me was that the old ghost-raiser bent down and didn't pick up the black baby's body, nor my magical bronze knife, but picked up the yellow cloth full of strange words and looked at it for a long time.

This piece of yellow cloth was obtained by digging gold by the Babuhe River last time. When I went back to dig up the gold, it was gone. Only this piece of yellow cloth was left. Tongtong put it in a bag and I never noticed it.

The old ghost raiser asked the woman to put the bronze knife on the ground, the black baby's corpse and other things into a gossip bag, then turned her head to look at me.

Just listen to him say word by word: "I, Old Chen, don't like listening to lies the most. If you tell me where you got this yellow cloth, I will let you go once and give you a lot of money!" Calm, but staring at me sharply, as if if I said no, he would eat me on the spot.

"Why should I believe what you said! It will not end well!" I struggled to squeeze out a few words.

At this time, my uncle walked up to the old man with ghosts, whispered a few words to him, the old man with ghosts nodded, and then my uncle walked in front of me, while the old man with ghosts and the others backed away for a certain distance.

When my uncle came over, he cut the rope that hung me with a knife, and I fell to the ground, but he didn't untie the rope on my body.He gave me some food and put it in my mouth. He said that I had grown so tall and my voice had changed so that I couldn't recognize it. Then he asked me how I came here.This Chen Erye is not an easy person to mess with!Why did you offend him? Fortunately, he is now giving you a chance to let you go if you tell me where you got that piece of yellow cloth from.

After I swallowed the food, I felt a lot more comfortable in my stomach. I didn't know that I was so hungry before.I didn't answer my uncle's question, but instead asked him why he got mixed up with these people, and told him that I came to Guigang to look for you because of my grandmother's entrustment.

Grandma has passed away for more than nine years. When my uncle heard me say that grandma asked me to come to him, he thought my brain was broken, and said with disgust that your grandma has been dead for nine years.

Grandma fucked my aunt and told me that you killed Chen Dapao from the next village. I turned Chen Dapao's body into a pile of bones in the cave and destroyed the evidence. Grandma hopes that you can go home and live a good life.

As soon as the uncle heard Chen Dapao's face swipe, he turned pale, and then returned to normal, saying that Chen Dapao did not kill him.

(End of this chapter)