There is a white bone spirit in the village

Chapter 27

There are more and more gophers, swarming from the door, overlapping and squeezing each other in the narrow earth temple.

"Get out, I don't want to stay here!"

Lin Jiao hung on Yang Jingxuan and screamed in horror.Yang Jingxuan kicked away the ones that climbed up his legs, and ran to the entrance of the temple stepping on the screaming gophers. Lin Jiao took a look, and her scalp became numb.Seeing the small soil slope exposed to the water under the moonlight, there are densely packed gophers everywhere, and more gophers are still rushing up from the water, layer upon layer, twisting and twisting. This scene is simply terrifying. .

Yang Jingxuan lowered his head and smiled wryly at Lin Jiao: "The outside is also full." Looking back at the confession, he drove away the rats and came to the front, swept away the offerings and the rats that had already climbed up, and said to the land He said "If the Land Lord forgives you", he jumped up, took an empty candlestick, and drove away the gophers who could not keep climbing up.

Lin Jiao watched as he flicked the candlestick left and right to drive away the gophers climbing up. They were thrown out one by one with the sound of creaking, fast and accurate, and none of the rats that slipped through the net approached her. After watching for a moment, she felt a sense of fear. They disappeared slowly, and hurriedly held a candlestick to drive them away together. Gradually, there were probably no more new ones joining, and the rats finally calmed down a little, and fewer crawled on the altar table.

"Leave it to me, you must be tired. If you can sleep, just sleep, and it will be dawn."

Yang Jingxuan said to Lin Jiao.

Lin Jiao sighed: "I'm very tired, but I don't want to sleep. Let's talk, so the sky will dawn soon."

Yang Jingxuan looked at her and smiled slightly.

This man is really good-looking when he smiles, much more pleasing to the eye than when he had a calm face.Encouraged, Lin Jiao started gossiping immediately: "I heard that you used to go to war, tell me about your war."

As soon as Lin Jiao finished asking, she regretted it.The smile on his face disappeared in a blink of an eye, and he said, "Why don't you talk about this?"

Lin Jiao originally wanted him to start with the past, and then slowly turn the topic to what he is doing now, trying to find out as much information as possible.Seeing that he doesn't want to mention the past now, he immediately smiled and said: "Okay. Then let's start with you."

Yang Jingxuan glanced at her and saw that after she got on the altar, although she didn't hang her neck anymore, she just sat close to him all the time.Under such a situation, he didn't feel it was inappropriate, on the contrary, he was very upset, and he didn't want to push her away to keep a distance.Hearing her change, she thought for a while and asked, "I heard that it was your mother-in-law who had a dream, so you went to inform everyone?"

Lin Jiao was startled, and quickly glanced at him, seeing that he was staring at her with a strange meaning in his eyes, she immediately smiled and said, "Yes. Or else? What do you mean by looking at me like that? Don't you believe in ghosts and gods?"

Yang Jingxuan smiled, and said: "The way of ghosts and gods is to keep a respectful distance. Since you say that, it must be true."

Now it was Lin Jiao's turn not to talk about this topic, so she hurriedly said, "What about Chun Xing? Can you let her go quietly after you go back?"

Yang Jingxuan stared at her, noncommittal, and suddenly asked: "Why did you take such a big risk to go back and save her?"

Lin Jiao said: "I have a good relationship with her. I used to be in the same village, and now I am in the same village, and they both lost a man. Just because of this, why do you think I have the heart to see her drown like this?"

Seeing her earnest expression, Yang Jingxuan was slightly moved, stared at her for a moment, and finally sighed: "You have such a heart, I respect it very much. It's just that this kind of behavior is too reckless after all. Fortunately..."

He seemed to have eyes in the back of his head, and without turning his head, he swept away a gopher that had climbed up, and kept silent.

Seeing that he really believed her, Lin Jiao suppressed the guilt in her heart and asked, "What about you? Why did you come to save us?"

Yang Jingxuan was startled.

He encountered such a torrential rain outside, and after turning back to the city halfway, he remembered the low-lying terrain of Taohua Village, so he rushed over overnight without worry.At that time, I saw that the half-moon slope was full of villagers who had taken refuge, and the village below had become Zeguo.After asking a few words, I knew that it was Lin Jiao who released the news, but before I could breathe a sigh of relief, I heard that she was going to the village alone, and before she left, she scolded Mrs. Yang's son and daughter-in-law. Chun Xing, who was imprisoned in the ancestral hall for adultery, immediately became heartbroken. While searching for boats, he heard a villager who lived at the entrance of the village say that he had a sampan at home, and he carried it into the river for fishing during slack. Shrimp, usually afraid of being stolen, covered the back of the house and hung it on the roof of the cowshed with a hemp rope. Maybe it was still there, so I immediately went into the water and searched for it from memory. Sure enough, I saw the sampan stuck in two trees nearby. In between, I turned over and picked up a bamboo pole that can be seen everywhere, and drove to the ancestral hall.

He was very glad that he came in time, picked up the woman in front of him, and could still sit next to her in this earth temple at this moment, if it was later...

"Why did you come to save me? We don't have much friendship. Although I call you uncle, you are still an uncle who can't be beaten..."

Seeing that he didn't answer, Lin Jiao pressed to ask, just to see how embarrassed he was.Sure enough, seeing him avoiding his gaze, he was vaguely unwilling to speak.I was very happy in my heart, but my mouth was not forgiving.As he was asking, his eyes suddenly went dark, and the end of the incense candle burned out and collapsed.The gophers below started to stir again, and Lin Jiao heard another rustling at the foot of the table, as if another mouse was about to climb up.She was incapable of rushing in the dark, so she was so frightened that she squeezed towards Yang Jingxuan again.

Yang Jingxuan felt that the woman next to him seemed to wish she could get into his arms, her soft body pressed against him, and a small sweetness suddenly surged in his heart, and instead of avoiding her snuggle, he comforted him softly: "Don't be afraid, I can't see them now, but I can hear them. I won't let them come up."

He really wasn't talking big.None of the gophers that climbed up could approach Lin Jiao, and all of them were swept down.After a while, the group of gophers finally quieted down again.

Lin Jiao let out a long breath, and turned her head, but her lips brushed against something, causing a slight tingling and itching.Dazed for a moment, he already understood that it must have accidentally brushed his cheek.The tingling and itching feeling just now should be caused by the scratching of the stubble on his face.

In the darkness, Lin Jiao noticed that the breathing of the man beside her became rough and uneven, and she also felt that something was wrong, so she quickly moved away.

No one spoke in the Earth Temple, only the breathing of the two of them and the occasional biting sound of the gophers trampling on each other.

Lin Jiao secretly looked sideways, and vaguely saw the outline of the man beside her, who was motionless like a statue, competing with the landowner behind him.

She suddenly remembered something. If she didn't talk about it at this opportunity, she would really be unable to speak in the future, so she said softly: "There is something I want to tell you. When I borrowed money from you last time, you Didn’t you see me and Shi Qingshan on the slope? Don’t get me wrong, he and I are really not what you think. I just treat him as a brother..."

After Lin Jiao finished speaking, she felt that he was still motionless, and suddenly felt a trace of frustrated frustration. She sighed and said, "It's fine if you don't believe me. Anyway, I have nothing to do with him, that's all." After a while, her body suddenly felt warm, and her shoulders A piece of clothing had already been put on him, and he seemed to turn his back, saying: "My clothes are dry, you change your wet clothes and wear mine. There is still one or two hours before dawn, you lie down and sleep Just a while. Don't be afraid of the gophers coming up, I will help you guard."

Lin Jiao touched the clothes on her shoulders that were still warm from him, changed her coat silently, groped and bent her body, and slowly lay down on the long and narrow altar, she actually fell asleep. Eyes, the first time I saw the top of the temple that was blackened by fireworks, I was at a loss for a moment, then suddenly remembered what happened last night, got up and looked at the ground, the crowded gophers from last night were gone, and so was Yang Jingxuan , the only one left beside him was Land Gong, who looked at him smiling kindly, and hurriedly shouted, and immediately heard a man's voice: "I'm looking to see if there are any boats passing by!"

Lin Jiao groaned, looked down and saw that the clothes she took off last night were stacked on the corner of the altar table, and felt that they were already dry, then she remembered that she was still wearing his clothes, she quickly took them off and changed them back, and shouted outside: " I have changed my clothes!"

Yang Jingxuan soon appeared topless.It is common for men in the country to be shirtless when they are working in the fields in hot weather, and it is not a big deal at all.Seeing him, Lin Jiao seemed a little unnatural, quickly put on her clothes, said "you wait here, call me if there is a mouse" and went out.

Lin Jiao's leg couldn't walk, and the wound looked a lot more swollen than last night, so naturally she wouldn't walk bravely.Looking out through the temple gate boredly, I saw mice still scurrying around on the dirt slope, but not much inside the temple.Probably the gophers didn't like the smell of fireworks inside, so they went out one after another at dawn.They waited like this until almost noon, when they suddenly heard Yang Jingxuan shouting, "Boater—"

Lin Jiao cheered up, she sat up quickly and waited eagerly, and after a while, she saw him striding in, hugged herself and went out.

A small boat was parked by the water, and there were seven or eight people in a panic. The boatman was Liu Datong from the county government.

Lin Jiao was carried into the boat by Yang Jingxuan and sat down while the people on the boat were watching. After listening to him talking with Liu Datong, she realized that the flood last night had flooded more than a dozen villages near Xiayanlaipi in Qinghe County.Taohua Village and several nearby villages were the most severely affected due to the lowest terrain, and the rest of the area was flooded to varying degrees.It can be seen that the summer wheat that is about to be harvested is soaked, and the news that is worse than the harvest is the casualties of people and animals.

"Master Yang, our brothers were sent by Master Li early in the morning to adjust the boat to rescue people. When I came all the way, I met another brother who said that apart from your village, there are a few places... I bumped into floating corpses from time to time... ..."

Liu Datong had a look of unbearable expression. Some of the rescued people on the same boat fell to the ground and wept bitterly.

Seeing Yang Jingxuan's serious face, Lin Jiao looked around and sighed secretly.

The boat went all the way, and after saving several people along the way, it finally landed on a high ground in Huangtang Village along the current.Lin Jiao saw that Yang Jingxuan whispered a few words to Liu Datong, Liu Datong looked at her and nodded and went ashore and left. After a while, an ox cart arrived, and Yang Jingxuan leaned over to pick her up and put her on the cart. Said: "Brother Liu will send you into the city to see the doctor, and you will stay at my sister's house. I will go to see you when I am free." After speaking, he turned and left.

Lin Jiao sighed, and hurriedly said: "A Wu! When you see A Wu, tell him, I'm afraid he will be worried! And you have to be careful!"

Yang Jingxuan stopped in his tracks and looked back, seeing her staring at him with wide-open eyes, her eyes moved down slightly, and landed on her slightly parted lips, and immediately remembered that when she hid in her arms to avoid rats last night, it was these lips I brushed my face unintentionally, and I still seem to be able to feel that strange and unfamiliar tenderness.Suppressing the tide that was slowly swelling in his chest, he squeezed his fist hard and nodded to her.

(End of this chapter)