Mystery Leaks

Chapter 34
After thinking about it, I ran to the vegetable market and bought a piece of fish and a few catties of pork, then rode to my aunt's house.

My aunt and third uncle saw me and welcomed me in with a smile. My aunt was still wearing a thick padded jacket in summer.

Thinking of a half-living, half-evil thing lying on my aunt's back at the moment, I felt hairy, wishing I could knock it off now, but when I looked at her back, I couldn't see anything.

"You child, why are you shopping again?" After entering the house, my aunt saw what I was carrying, and slightly blamed her; her eyesight was not good after she was sick.

I scratched my head, made up a lie and said, "I want to eat braised pork made by my aunt."

In fact, it’s not a lie. When my grandfather was alive, he was very good in other aspects, but the food he cooked was not delicious. When I was young, I often went to my aunt’s house to eat. To me, my aunt’s craftsmanship is a delicacy deep in my memory.

Auntie's face immediately beamed with joy, "Don't be hungry, okay, Auntie will get it for you right now, and have a good meal tonight."

"Okay." I responded with a smile, and handed her the fish and pork.

The third uncle was also very happy to see me, took me to sit down, and said: "It's just in time for you to come. I went to the Xu family in the afternoon. The Xu family has already let go and promised to reduce the additional dowry to [-]. What do you think?" So, if money is tight, I will talk about it, and I should be able to reduce it a little bit."

Even though I was irritable when I heard about the Xu family, it was obvious that the third uncle was so caring and couldn't harden his heart, so he nodded, "Okay, let's let the third uncle worry about [-] yuan."

In fact, Xu Jiaojiao wanted an extra [-] dowry, but I either couldn't afford it, or she was mad at me and took me for a fool.Now I don't want my third uncle to go to Xu's house to see other people's faces, so I panic.

"Then I'll call back to the Xu family and tell you that you agree, but don't rush to pay the money, lest they make further demands." The third uncle said.

I nodded, it was still the third uncle who was thoughtful, after that he chatted with me a few more words and went to the kitchen to help my aunt cook.

I turned around and went out to pick peach branches at my grandfather's cemetery.

When I arrived at the Peach Blossom Forest, looking at the messy and empty graves, I gritted my teeth in hatred for Feng Qiang. There were many footprints on the ground, and there were definitely more than six people.

The tomb robber didn't lie, it was the Feng family who dug it up, and their behavior ignited a secret battle over grandpa's coffin, otherwise things wouldn't have developed like this all at once.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and I didn't dare to stay longer. I chose a peach branch that grew straight to the sky and walked back quickly, and placed it next to the stone pier at the door.

There was more than an hour left, I had nothing to do and was a little nervous, so I went to see Meng Shuisheng, who was watching cartoons in his room with great interest.

"Brother Leizi." Meng Shuisheng called out when he saw me.

I walked over and touched his head, "Have you finished your summer homework?"

"I finished writing it a long time ago. It's too simple and meaningless." Meng Shuisheng said shaking his head.

I smiled, this kid is a top student, I have never seen him study hard, and a group of naughty boys in the village fished and caught shrimp. The walls are plastered with his awards.

When my grandfather was alive, he said that this boy inherited the Meng family's bones and would be a high-ranking official in the future. This evaluation is much higher than mine.

"It's too simple, okay, go to my place tomorrow, I still have my high school textbooks." I smiled, this kid is on the third day of the second half of the year, and will take the senior high school entrance examination next year. dropped.

"Wow." Meng Shuisheng became interested immediately.

Immediately I envied this kid a little bit, people are really incomparable, talent is brought out from the womb, if you have it, you have it, if you don't, you don't have it, there is no place to reason.

If my grades were so good at the beginning, I wouldn't drop out of school and go home, because the key high schools in the county provide free tuition and food subsidies for top students.

If that's the case, can I avoid these messy things?
……

I chatted with Meng Shuisheng one after another, paying close attention to the time, wading past eight o'clock, approaching nine o'clock, and Haishi.

The braised pork needs to be stewed slowly, which takes a lot of time. At 55:[-], I went to the kitchen to find my aunt, and I wanted to talk to her, but my aunt didn't think much of it, so she came to the door with me.

I took out a fire peach pit and asked her to look at it for me. Since my aunt was ill, her eyesight and hearing were not good. She took it and looked at it by the light, and instinctively bent down.

At this moment, she saw her shadow projected on the ground by the light, and a dark thing suddenly appeared.

It's now!

I picked up the peach branch like lightning and swept it against my aunt's back.

"Snapped!"

"squeak!!"

The mahogany branch seemed to have drawn a kitten, and the black shadow was blown away, making a scream similar to that of a mouse being injured.

Become!

I immediately stood behind my aunt, holding on to the peach tree branches and the fire peach core, for fear that the thing would come back again.I vaguely seem to still hear its voice, but it is so weak that I can hardly hear it.

After that, I quickly let my aunt in, closed the door, and put two fire peach pits behind the door just in case.

My aunt was baffled by me and said, "Isn't this a peach pit?" She didn't know anything about my actions just now.

"Ah... this." I was in a hurry and didn't think of a reason, so I had to use my wits and said, "This is a medicine that my business friend asked for far away. It looks like a peach pit, but it's not, yes. Your illness will help."

"Oh." My aunt nodded, and then asked me how to use it, and I said to break it open and take out the medicine kernels inside and boil it with plain water.Anyway, peach kernel is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine, and it will be fine if you eat it.

My aunt didn't doubt that it was there, so she asked me to thank that friend, and went back to the kitchen.

I was on my guard behind the door for a long time, but I didn't find anything unusual, so I gradually felt relieved.

The effect of knocking down the mandrill was immediate. When I was eating, I found that my aunt had already taken off the thick padded jacket, and my appetite was better than usual.

After dinner, I went to sleep at my third uncle's house, because I was worried that the mandrill would come back again.

But this night I hardly fell asleep, and I could always hear the faint cry of the mandrill, but it disappeared when I listened carefully. I almost thought I was hallucinating.

After suffering so much until dawn, I got up and opened the door to go out to look for it. At this time, I heard another sound, and I couldn't help but be surprised when I walked over to follow the sound.

The mandrill really didn't leave, it was curled up in a chicken coop, it had six arms and legs, its head was as long as the skull of a dead monkey, it was dry and thin, and it was quite the same as the one that Chen Laogen knocked off my back last time. Just about the same.

"Damn!" I hurried back to the door and grabbed the peach branch in my hand, then carefully poked the chicken coop.

The mandrill slowly opened its eyes, the eyes were different from the last one, they were silver with vertical pupils, looking very scary.

When it saw me, it struggled in fear and wanted to run away, but the strange thing was that the hole in the chicken coop was bigger than its body, but it couldn't get out.

Moreover, this playing method also hurt it. It screamed in pain, black smoke was "sizzling" from its body, and it fell down again after a while, paralyzed inside it weakly.

I kinda get it, this chicken coop traps it!

Chicken coops and kennels are very yang, especially the ones where big roosters and black dogs have stayed.

It was restrained by Yang Qi and couldn't get out!

I was a little speechless for a while, how lucky I was to sweep it into the chicken coop.

But at the same time, it also produces a difficult result, how to deal with it?
After thinking about it carefully, I thought it would be better to ask Huang Mao for advice, so I picked up the chicken coop with mahogany branches and hung it in front of the motorcycle. Call Huangmao.

As a result, Huang Mao's phone was simply disconnected.

I ran around in a hurry, but there was nothing I could do. It was not the case to wait, so I went back to the shop first.

And for a whole day after that, I couldn't get in touch with him.

I had nothing to do during the day, so I simply took a nap and slept until the afternoon.

In the afternoon, Meng Shuisheng came to me to get his high school textbooks, and said that after taking my "medicine", the effect of my aunt was very good, her illness was much better, she didn't feel cold anymore, and she was much more energetic. My aunt said thank you, and thank you for giving it to me. drug friend.

Naturally, I was overjoyed that the "root of the disease" that had tortured my aunt for several years was finally eliminated.

After this incident, my affection for Chen Laogen increased greatly.

……

At around eleven o'clock the next night, Chen Laogen came by appointment. Finally, he put away the black umbrella and hung it behind his shoulder. He asked me to go with him without saying anything.

I hurriedly followed up and thanked him, saying that my aunt's illness was much better.

He said that it was hard to find, but once found, it would be easy to deal with. As for the mandrill, leave it alone.

I said yes, and then I realized that he was heading in the direction of my old house, walking in a hurry.

Not long after, he really took me to the gate of the old house. Through the gate of the old house, I found that there was a fire inside.

I was taken aback. The old house was where my grandfather and I lived since we were young. Since my grandfather passed away, seeing things and thinking about others, and it was inconvenient to go back and forth to do business, I lived in the shop by myself and seldom came back here.

Only my third uncle and I have the key to the gate, and the lock is obviously hung on the gate, so how can there be light inside?
"Open the door." Chen Laogen said to me.

I said yes, took out the key to unlock the door, and Chen Laogen pushed the door.

"Squeak...ah..." The door slowly opened with a tooth-piercing friction sound.

I saw a dim oil lamp burning on the table inside, the light was weak and yellowish, but it was not it that attracted my attention, but a square thing in the middle of the hall.

coffin!

Taking a closer look, I opened my mouth in shock, Grandpa's coffin!

I was stunned, grandpa's coffin was not taken away by the skinning ghost, how could it be in my old house?
And it's only less than 100 meters away from grandpa's peach blossom cemetery!

what is this? !

The coffin obviously went to the forest ranger's hut in the forest farm, why did it turn around and almost return to the original point?

I instinctively looked at Chen Laogen, he didn't explain, but said: "Open the coffin."

"Open the coffin?" I was taken aback, and immediately shook my head.

But before I could say my refusal, Chen Laogen said: "Your grandfather left some things for you in the coffin, which is also the ultimate goal of those who snatch the coffin and the ghosts. If you don't open it, you and you Grandpa will never be at peace, and this is also his dying will."

"A will?" I was stunned. Grandpa actually left something for me in the coffin?
why?If there is something, just give it to me, why should it be put in the coffin?Since ancient times, opening the coffin has been regarded as unfilial, and it is a very taboo thing.

"The reason why your grandfather didn't tell you his real identity was because he wanted you to stay away from Fashixing and become an ordinary person, so he brought things into the coffin, but now, you are getting farther and farther away from the life of ordinary people. The things inside will help you." Seeing me in a daze, Chen Laogen explained.

I hesitated immediately. On the one hand, I didn't want to disturb Grandpa. He was already restless, and now he had to open the coffin... But Chen Laogen had to listen to him. Grandpa's funeral was his way.

"Go ahead, it will be too late if you miss the hour, don't disappoint your grandpa's hard work." Chen Laogen's speech speed suddenly accelerated a bit, sounding a little anxious.

After he finished speaking, he picked up a crowbar that had been prepared a long time ago and gave it to me. It was densely covered with fine lines, and it looked like something that had been blessed by the law firm.

I nodded, took the crowbar and walked to the side of the coffin, knelt down and kowtowed nine times to my grandfather, then wedged the crowbar under the coffin cover and pressed down hard.

The coffin nails suddenly made a chirping sound, and went up little by little.

At this moment, the mobile phone in my pocket vibrated suddenly, I hurriedly stopped and took it out to have a look, and the words "Chen Laogen" were written on it.

Chen Laogen is calling!

In an instant, I just felt a chill from the soles of my feet to my forehead.

The call is from Chen Laogen, so who is this Chen Laogen in front of you? !

I twisted my neck stiffly, just in time to see "Chen Laogen" with his hands behind his back, slowly closing the door. He stared at me with an extremely sinister smile on his lips.

I suddenly fell into an ice cave, something bad happened!

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(End of this chapter)