Chapter 69 Wugu Village 12
"In that case, the apology in the love letter was most likely said because Dr. He was unable to take her away?" Lin Xiang said.
"Also, Doctor He made Xue Ligu angry because he wanted to open a clinic in Wugu Village!" Jing Yan said, "Xue Ligu has always wanted to leave Wugu Village, but she can't leave. Doctor He actually wants to stay here and open a clinic. How can Xue Ligu not be angry?"
"Doctor He didn't know why Xue Ligu was angry, and thought he was being abrupt." Jing Yan found the love letter, "Later, Doctor He found out about it, so he said, 'I know, I'll take you away.'"
This is the speculation that is currently widely accepted.
Fu Yuqing, who had just concluded that Dr. He was a scumbag, said, "Does this prove that Dr. He is not a scumbag? If Dr. He is not a scumbag and is a capable and good doctor, then a new question arises: who planted the poisonous insect in Mr. Liu's body?"
Lin Xiang still said: "I don't think Dr. He is a scumbag."
"Why are you so sure that Dr. He is not a scumbag?" Fu Yuqing was really curious, "Is it because of the empathy between men, because of the sensitivity of your purification skills, or because of your experience?"
"It's an experience." Lin Xiang said, "In a game I played, the doctor who was going to open a clinic in the countryside was a very good doctor. Those who went to the countryside to provide support, to dangerous places to provide support, were all good doctors with great hearts. Scumbag doctors would not go there."
Xia Bai glanced at him and said nothing.
Qiao Youlin said, "Isn't this the point? We should find out more about Xue Ligu now. Why can't she leave Wugu Village? What experiences has she had?"
Tao Baobao asked: "How do we dig?"
Jing Yan raised his chin towards the outside, "Aren't there villagers waiting in line outside for the talisman? They trust us now and want the talisman. If we use the excuse of drawing the talisman to ask them, they will definitely tell us. Anyway, the villagers who have the talisman have already told us."
Fu Yuqing nodded, "I'll ask."
She pushed open the window, and the five villagers who were sitting on the ground outside immediately stood up and asked, "Doctor, is the talisman finished so quickly?"
"Not yet, just a little bit more." Fu Yuqing said, "In order to ensure that the talisman I give you is as effective as theirs, I still need to know some information about Xue Ligu. You didn't tell them about the harm Xue Ligu did to you, so I'll just tell you some basic information about her horoscope."
They also need the eight characters of birth to tell fortunes accurately, but they don’t know this.
One villager said, "Doctor, we don't know."
Fu Yuqing: "If you don't know, you can ask her family."
"Alas, Uncle Liu has passed away, and the village chief may not even know about it." Another villager said embarrassedly.
Fu Yuqing grasped the key point, "Liu Bohe and the village chief are Xue Ligu's family members? Then I have to be careful when drawing the talisman."
Three hours had passed, and when it came to this crucial issue, Jing Yan immediately looked at the five villagers' inner thoughts.
"certainly!"
"Xue Ligu is Liu Bo's daughter."
"Xue Ligu is the girl that Uncle Liu picked up."
Jing Yan was stunned.
The five villagers did not lie to them. One of them said, "Xue Ligu was adopted by Uncle Liu. When Uncle Liu adopted her, she should have been about six or seven years old. Even he should not know Xue Ligu's exact date of birth."
"Oh, what a heartless person! She was in very poor health when she was young and had many illnesses. It was probably because of these illnesses that she was abandoned by her family. Uncle Liu raised her carefully and taught her to read and write. But she killed Uncle Liu and harmed so many people in our village. How have we ever let her down?"
Fu Yuqing interrupted his complaints and asked, "What about age? You should know your age, right?"
Another villager said: "It should be the twenty-sixth or twenty-seventh."
So, Xue Ligu is actually the village chief’s sister.
Fu Yuqing asked again: "I see the village chief's house is quite big, why doesn't she live there but move here?"
"Because she wants to raise Gu without telling the village chief's family. It's been ten years since she moved out of the village chief's house. I don't know how many harmful things she has raised inside with the door closed every day!"
"Okay, thank you." Fu Yuqing said, "I will go draw the talisman now, and it should be available to you soon."
Amid the villagers' grateful voices, Fu Yuqing closed the window.
Jing Yan said: "They didn't lie. Xue Ligu is really the village chief's sister and Liu Bo's adopted daughter."
"Oh, this." Lin Xiang said, "It's really hard to imagine. Seeing how the villagers treated Xue Ligu, who would have thought that she was Liu Bo's adopted daughter and the village chief's sister."
"Maybe it's because she was adopted that the villagers treated her like this. If her biological parents were here, would the villagers dare to treat her so recklessly?" Tao Baobao said angrily: "Of course, the village chief must have acquiesced in this. He is really not a good guy!"
"Indeed, it seems that the village chief and his family are not very kind to Xue Ligu." Lin Xiang said.
"Wait a minute." Fu Yuqing said, "Xue Ligu is so beautiful. Uncle Liu didn't adopt her as a child bride for the village chief. The villagers said that she moved out ten years ago. She was just 16 or 17 years old at that time. Is that the age to get married in the village?"
Tao Baobao said: "That makes sense! There are many people like this in the village who raise child brides."
"No." Ling Changye said: "If the villagers raise a child bride, they should raise one who they think is easy to give birth to. The villagers said that Xue Ligu was sick when she was a child."
"Yeah." Tao Baobao nodded, "That's right. Could it be that Uncle Liu really adopted Xue Ligu out of kindness? According to my understanding of the game, if Xue Ligu was really a harmful grass ghost, it would be very likely. However, Xue Ligu was slandered by the villagers and killed by their ignorance. She should not have been adopted by Uncle Liu out of kindness."
"Uncle Liu is a good man and adopted her out of kindness, but the village chief is a bad man, so Uncle Liu let her move out. This makes sense." Lin Xiang still thinks the village chief is a bad man. "Uncle Liu stopped the village chief from doing bad things to Xue Ligu. With Uncle Liu around, the village chief couldn't do anything to Xue Ligu, so the village chief harmed Uncle Liu."
Jing Yan said excitedly: "That makes sense!"
Ling Changye said: "We don't have much time. Instead of guessing here, we should find more substantial evidence."
"Yes, yes!" Tao Baobao said, "Let's hurry up. If we are any later, someone else might get sick with a strange disease soon."
Xia Bai raised his hand actively, "I can go to the dark building to look for clues."
"Okay." Ling Changye said, "We will split into two groups. One group will continue to look for clues in this stilt house, while holding the villagers outside to provide cover for the other group. One group will secretly go to the dark building to investigate."
Fu Yuqing said: "Then it seems that I have to stay here, after all, I am the one who draws the talisman. Is Jing Yan also suitable to stay here to get information?"
Xia Bai: "I can control corpses, I must go to the dark building."
Ling Changye: "The dark building may be more dangerous than here, and it is not suitable for many people to go there. It is easy to be discovered. I will bring Erwa with me."
It’s settled.
Fu Yuqing opened the window again and asked the villagers a few questions. Xia Bai and Ling Changye took the second child and took the opportunity to jump out of the back window. They quietly left here under the cover of night.
Tonight, the villagers of Wugu Village did not go to bed early as usual. Fortunately, there were many trees in Wugu Village. Under the cover of lush trees, they arrived smoothly outside the dark building.
Anlou is the only four-story stilt house in the village. It is surrounded by a circle of trees and separated from the stilt houses of the villagers outside. One end of the trees is connected to the village chief's house.
At this time, the dark building stood surrounded by trees. As its name suggests, the windows of the room were closed and no light could penetrate.
They have to be careful, otherwise they might be noticed by the village chief's family.
The village chief said that the dark building is a place to temporarily store ashes and corpses, but in fact, the climate in Wugu Village is hot, and corpses cannot be stored for a long time. They will be cremated quickly or buried directly in the back mountain. There are fewer people in Wugu Village in the past two years, so there are very few corpses and ashes stored here now, and most of them are for worship.
But there may be a dead body inside.
Xue Ligu.
The villagers were afraid that Xue Ligu would curse them, so they didn't burn down her house. Perhaps they also didn't do anything to her body because they were afraid that she would curse them, so they kept it in this dark building where their ancestors were suppressed.
They squatted behind the bushes. Xia Bai looked at Ling Changye beside him, asking him with his eyes if he wanted to go in.
Ling Changye shook his head.
Xia Bai looked confused. Aren't they going to the dark building to look for clues? Why didn't they go in? Are they afraid that the village chief will hear the noise, so they wait until the village chief and the others fall asleep before going in?
Ling Changye opened his mouth silently and said something to him. Xia Bai only saw his lips moving but couldn't hear what he said.
He shook his head blankly.
Ling Changye lowered his eyes and looked at him for a few seconds, then reached out and grabbed the three middle fingers of his right hand that was resting on his knees.
Xia Bai was stunned and let him pull his hand over.
Ling Changye pressed his three fingers into his palm with his long thumb, and wrote on his palm with the index finger of his other hand.
A little itchy.
Xia Bai looked up at Ling Changye and found that under the moonlight, Ling Changye's nose bridge was particularly high, and a long shadow of the nose fell on the side, making his facial features look more three-dimensional. His eyelashes were also very long, and when they moved slightly, they looked like they were scratching.
The corpse is beautiful, and it is also beautiful when it moves.
After writing the two words, Xia Bai immediately withdrew his hand, put it behind his back, and rubbed it.
Maybe it was the smell of sea water and grass on him.
Ling Changye stared at him, waiting for his reaction.
Xia Bai nodded, indicating that he understood. Ling Changye wrote two words on his palm: "Cat Ghost", which indicated that they had discovered the Cat Ghost on the first day, and that the Cat Ghost was in the dark building.
Maybe the cat ghost will come out every night and make a villager and the player sick.
The cat ghost is the key. Catching the cat ghost can force out the owner behind it.
If they go in rashly, they might alert the enemy and not be able to find the cat ghost, so it would be better for them to wait here.
Xia Bai nodded and looked away, and saw Erwa squatting between them, looking at them with his hands on his knees, and a small white flower blooming on his ear.
“…”
What flowers are you blooming?
The cat ghost should come out in the second half of the night, which is still a long time.
Ling Changye waited for a while, then took out an invisibility prop, a big red umbrella, and covered them all.
He said, “You can talk now.”
Xia Bai: "Oh."
Xia Bai: "Captain, are we just going to wait like this?"
Ling Changye: “Yeah.”
Waited for a while.
Xia Bai turned to look at him: "Captain, next time you want to tell me something, can you please not write on my palm?"
Ling Changye turned to look at him, his eyes dark and blue, "Why?"
Xia Bai said honestly: "Itchy, very itchy."
Ling Changye laughed again, "Okay."
Looking at his smile, pink earthworm arms grew on Xia Bai's arms and began to burrow into the ground behind his back.
Ling Changye's smile grew even bigger, and he asked him, "What are you doing?"
Xia Bai's face looked even more dumbfounded, "Dig a hole in the ground."
Ling Changye: "Dig a hole in the ground? Are you going to dig a tunnel into the dark building?"
Xia Bai: "It's not impossible."
The pink earthworm lowered its head and drilled down faster.
After Xia Bai and the others left, the people in the stilt house immediately started searching for clues inside.
Lin Xiang said: "They went to the dark building and faced danger. We can't just sit there and do nothing. Otherwise, we would be too sorry for them."
However, the stilt house where Xue Ligu lived was not very big. They had already searched it thoroughly before, and they did not find any useful clues even after searching it again.
Jing Yan said, "I have searched through everything, and there is nothing left."
"Have you searched all of them?" Lin Xiang said, "You haven't searched the bottom floor yet, right?"
"Isn't the bottom layer obvious? What else could it be?" said Tao Baobao.
Generally, villagers in Wugu Village would raise livestock on the ground floor. Xue Ligu only has a cat and raises silkworms on the third floor. There are only a few baskets on the ground floor and some flowers planted around them.
Lin Xiang thought about it carefully, "No, it seems nothing on the surface, but actually there is. Didn't Xiao Qian say that Xue Ligu buried the Bodhi tree underneath? Should we dig it up and have a look?"
"But there is nothing suspicious about Bodhi's death. Wasn't it accidentally killed when it was kicked into the pot when Xiao Qian's parents were fighting?" said Qiao Youlin.
"But, if we dig a little deeper, we can verify what Xiao Qian said, and that Bodhi might be the daughter of the cat ghost. It might be useful to dig it out, or we can find other clues?" Lin Xiang couldn't explain it clearly. "Anyway, we can't just sit there doing nothing. They are taking risks, but we are just sitting there doing nothing. Wouldn't we feel guilty?"
Xia Bai, Ling Changye and Erwa had been sitting under the red umbrella for nearly two hours, and had picked a lot of little white flowers all over the ground.
Finally, Erwa stopped blooming and suddenly raised his head and looked towards the dark building.
The two of them were startled and looked over immediately.
A black cat with green eyes appeared on the stairs of the dark building. Its eyes were like green tourmaline, strange and beautiful in the moonlight, and the luster of every hair was as bright as if coated with a layer of moonlight.
It looked forward and walked down the wooden stairs slowly and in a very human manner.
The cat's footsteps were very light, but Xia Bai still heard a subtle sound when it approached and stepped on the grass.
Xia Bai was stunned for a moment. This cat ghost was real.
Yes, on the first night he opened the window and saw movement in the woods on the left. That means that if the cat ghost was running in that direction and the noise in the woods was made by the cat, it should be real.
He has never carefully analyzed a question: why cat ghosts have physical bodies.
Xia Bai also looked up information before entering Wugu Village. In fact, there was no need to look it up again, as he had heard many strange stories from his grandfather before, and witchcraft was the most interesting one.
Rumor has it that there are two ways to raise a cat ghost. One is to kill the cat and turn it into a cat ghost. In other words, a cat ghost is literally in a ghost state.
The other type is that the ghost is attached to the cat, and the cat ghost actually has a physical body.
This cat ghost has a physical body, so it is no longer the rosary, but a ghost attached to the corpse of the rosary.
This ghost is...
Xia Bai's heart skipped a beat. Ling Changye had already raised the red umbrella and covered the cat ghost with it.
Logically, such a large umbrella should be able to cover the cat ghost that was right in front of it, but it suddenly disappeared and reappeared on the stairs of the dark building at an eerie speed, running into the woods in the next second.
Without wasting a second, Xia Bai chased after the cat with several corpses around him. At the same time, a long pink earthworm quickly grew out of his hand and flew towards the black cat.
The dark night is the best protective color for a black cat. It ran along the grass until it could no longer see its shadow. It dodged the earthworms again and again. Just as it was about to get into another bush, Xia Bai and Ling Changye spoke at the same time: "Xue Ligu!"
The black cat seemed to be frozen.
It stood stiffly there for a few seconds, then slowly turned its head. Its clear green eyes seemed to be filled with tears in the moonlight.
In the stilt house, Lin Xiang led everyone to dig almost all over the bottom floor of Xue Ligu's stilt house. Finally, they dug up Bodhi's bones under a bunch of wild flowers, and also found a rag doll next to it.
"Why is there a doll?" Jing Yan picked up the somewhat rotten doll in surprise, "It's a doll in the image of a girl."
Tao Baobao: "Xue Ligu sewed a cloth doll for Xiao Qian as a Bodhi to accompany Xiao Qian. Did she also sew one for herself to accompany the Bodhi?"
"No, if that was the case, she should have sewed a small coin to accompany the Bodhi. And the rag doll and the Bodhi were not placed next to each other, they were buried separately." Fu Yuqing said.
Lin Xiang seemed to have realized something and continued to dig up the entire area of the flower bush. He dug out several more rag dolls.
Looking at the row of colorful dolls lying on the ground, several people felt a chill in their hearts.
"What, what does that mean?" said Tao Baobao, rubbing his arms.
Fu Yuqing took the doll directly from Jing Yan's hand and ripped open its belly with a knife. The cat doll Xue Ligu gave to Xiao Qian had Bodhi's hair in it, and she wanted to see if there was hair in these dolls as well.
It really does.
Every doll has it in its belly.
From the hair color, length, and curliness, you can tell that they don't belong to the same person.
"Are these all dead girls?" Qiao Youlin said in astonishment, "Xue Ligu likes to sew a stuffed animal or human toy to keep them company after they die. These are dead girls she knew. She sewed them to keep her company. I don't know why she buried them again?"
Ling Changye suddenly picked up the umbrella to catch the cat, and Xia Bai followed closely behind him to catch the cat. Erwa was so scared that he fell down on his butt.
He found that he did not fall firmly to the ground, but rolled down several times.
After finally stopping, he sat on the ground in a daze for more than ten seconds before he realized that he was in the tunnel dug out by Xia Bai's earthworm arm.
It’s so high, I can’t climb up.
Erwa had no choice but to continue walking forward with his back bent, trembling and crying, hoping that there was an exit ahead.
There is no exit in front, only a dirt wall.
Erwa leaned against the wall and started crying. He froze after crying for just two seconds. He stood up, patted the wall, and dug the wet soil with his hands. After only a few digs, he dug a hole in the thin wall.
This place is connected to the underground of the dark building, and Xia Bai almost got through.
Erwa dug a hole big enough for him to fit into and crawled into the basement.
This was a small, dark basement with a foul smell. Erwa took out a small flashlight from his pocket and saw a row of bones and black jars.
“Ah! Ahhhh! Ahhhhhh!—”
After a short standoff, Xia Bai looked at the black cat in front of him and said with certainty: "You were sunburned to death and attached to the rosary."
The black cat whose name was called stopped running and slowly lowered its head.
Their guess was correct, but if that was the case, then the rosary should indeed be raised as a poisonous cat. Could it be that Xue Ligu was really a grass ghost?
Ling Changye looked at the black cat in front of him and was about to say something when he heard Fu Yuqing's voice, "Erwa is trapped in the basement of the dark building! Also, a lot of girl dolls were dug out in Xue Ligu's yard. Many girls may have died in Wugu Village!"
Fu Yuqing's skill, as they guessed, is the physical skill of clairaudience, which allows him to hear sounds within a radius of three kilometers.
When she saw the strange dolls that were dug out, she hurried over to listen to Xia Bai and Ling Changye's voices, wanting to see what they had discovered. When she heard Xia Bai and Ling Changye calling Xue Ligu, as well as Erwa's cry, she realized that they were getting close to the truth, and rushed over directly.
Before Xia Bai saw her, he only heard her voice, and the earthworm arm immediately drilled into the ground. Along the hole he had just drilled, he lifted up large pieces of wet soil and chiseled out a large doorway for the basement.
Erwa immediately hugged the soft pink earthworm arm and started crying, his tears wet the dirt on the earthworm arm. Xia Bai took back the earthworm arm and held him in his arms to comfort him, while the others had already been shocked by the scene inside.
The moonlight poured down, dispelling the darkness underground and allowing everything inside to reappear obliquely into the world.
There were many corpses in varying degrees of decay. Some were already just bones, while others still had a layer of rotten flesh with many insects of varying sizes clinging to them, some dead or alive. From the clothes on the corpses, it could be seen that they were all girls.
"It's... them! It's them!" Fu Yuqing ran over and said breathlessly: "The rag dolls dug out from under Xue Ligu's stilt house should be sewn according to their style, and there is even their hair inside! Xue Ligu knows them!"
In addition to the corpses, there are many strange black jars of various sizes, fallen snake skins, dead black beetles, and messy hair...
Under the moonlight, Xia Bai seemed to have inadvertently opened a corner of hell. The darkness without sunlight appeared only in gray tones under the moonlight.
Needless to say, they all saw that someone had raised Gu here before, it might have been one person, or it might not have been one person.
It is possible that many people are raising Gu, or it is possible that people are just Gu.
They all looked at the black cat with green eyes. Tears finally overflowed from the black cat's green eyes, and soon the green eyes were covered by a slender hand.
The black cat was picked up by someone. Perhaps they were too focused on looking at the basement and didn't notice when he appeared.
He was a man who looked to be about thirty years old, wearing grey clothes and had a layer of black stubble on his chin, as if he had not trimmed it for a long time. Although he looked haggard and tired, he was tall and thin, and his smile was warm, with two dimples at the corners of his mouth.
He said: "Hello, my name is He Chunhui, and I am a doctor."
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