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Not finding any strange traces under the tree, Ruan Jiyan took Yang Si to the three forked roads at the entrance of the village.

They walked straight to the ruined temple at the fork in the road and happened to meet the old woman who was frantically shouting at the six of them to leave when they entered the dungeon.

She took two steps forward, but Yang Si was a little faster than her. He walked forward, bent down, and asked the old woman who was holding a cane and taking a nap with her eyes closed: "Grandma, when you saw us two days ago..."

Before she could finish, Ruan Jiyan gently pulled her back. Ruan Jiyan asked her in surprise, "What do you want to ask?"

Yang Si didn't know why she looked at him like that, and said innocently, "Didn't she say we would die the day we entered the dungeon? I want to ask her what she knows."

She asked this as soon as she arrived, not to mention whether the old lady would think that they were a little strange.

Just the fact that a few boys questioned and mocked what she said that day, and even called her a lunatic, she probably no longer had a good impression of them, so how could she be willing to talk to them again.

"We questioned her like that that day. What if she didn't want to tell us?"

"So what should we do?"

Ruan Jiyan put down her hand and slowly walked towards the old woman. Then he squatted down and looked up at the old woman, his voice a little soft: "Grandma, we haven't seen the sun much these past few days. It stands to reason that there is no rain forecast, and the sun should rise every day on such a hot day. Why is this happening?"

Yang Si listened to the questions she asked, which were somewhat confusing. They wanted to ask the old woman about the village, but Ruan Jiyan asked why the sun could not be seen in the sky. What was the connection?

"..." The old woman with her eyes closed said nothing, and Ruan Jiyan was about to speak again.

"We just arrived here that day, and I didn't quite understand what grandma said, which was a bit offensive to her. I hope she won't take it to heart..." She was talking to herself when she was suddenly interrupted by someone with his eyes closed.

"If you have anything you want to ask, just ask." The old woman no longer looked crazy as she did when she first met them. Her words made Ruan Jiyan feel an invisible sense of oppression.

"Well, we have some questions..." Yang Si continued.

Ruan Jiyan immediately interrupted her loudly: "It's like this, our friend was catching crickets in the grass two days ago, and then he started to have a fever and talk in his sleep that night when he returned. He looked particularly painful."

"The old man at the end of the village said... that he was possessed by a little ghost."

The old woman had been listening to her explanation leisurely with her eyes closed, but after hearing the last sentence, her eyes suddenly opened.

The old woman's eye sockets were deep and dark, and her eyeballs were particularly prominent. She stared at Ruan Jiyan with her cloudy eyes and asked word by word: "Where did you see that little devil?"

Ruan Jiyan was shocked by her reaction. Yang Si replied, "In the graveyard behind the village."

Ruan Jiyan told her his doubts again: "But, I was the one who had the most contact with the child. I also had a nightmare last night, but I didn't have any other feelings."

The old woman narrowed her eyes again, as if she was thinking.

Then, her voice rang out again, confirming Ruan Jiyan's guess: "Maybe it's not because of that little brat. Have you come into contact with anything else?"

Yang Si was a little surprised and nodded quickly, "Yes, that friend took a bowl when he was catching crickets. I don't know who threw the bowl on the roadside."

After she finished speaking, the old woman understood: "Then that's the reason for the bowl."

She then explained: "People in our village believe in ghosts and gods. The bowls placed on the roadside are used to worship the ghosts and gods on the roadside."

"However, they are usually placed on the roadside leading to the mountains, along with a handful of rice."

Although the bowl was not placed on the path on the mountain, the offering should be the same, so Liu Qi might not be obsessed with the child, but something else.

"Also, people in the village generally don't go out at night, and guests from outside the village are told not to go too far away from the village during these few days. You guys should not run around these two days." The old woman reminded kindly.

Seeing that she had said so much to them, Ruan Jiyan wanted to find the right opportunity to ask her what she meant by the words she said when she first met them.

But as soon as I opened my mouth to ask, I saw her close her eyes again.

"Mother-in-law, I have one more thing I want to ask you."

"What did you mean when you advised us to leave that day and said we would all die..." Before she finished her words, the old woman suddenly changed into a different person and started laughing. Then she pointed at the two of them and said while laughing: "Hahahaha, you will all die...you! You will all die hahahaha..."

Then she stood up suddenly. The crutch in her hand was not stable and her whole hunched body was shaking. Ruan Jiyan wanted to go over to help her but was stopped by Yang Si.

"No need to go. You won't get any more answers if you ask any more questions." Yang Si said calmly as he looked at the old woman who staggered into the ruined temple.

"No, she must know something. If we don't find out, we might all die here." As she said this, she followed.

Ruan Jiyan and Yang Si walked up the stone steps of the ruined temple one after the other. She suddenly opened the curtain and saw the Buddha statue when she looked up.

I didn't know where the crazy woman had gone, and I didn't see her when I walked in. Instead, the Buddha statue looked very strange.

The Buddha's face was very fierce and ferocious. Both of them were frightened when they first saw it. The Buddha's left hand was missing, and no one knew what had happened to it.

The entire Buddha statue was already a little damaged, and some of the gold on the surface had faded and turned into black spots, but the eyeballs were extremely lifelike, as if staring at Ruan Jiyan closely. Her back was already slightly sweaty after just a while.

Ruan Jiyan looked at the Buddha statue, his feet seemed to be filled with lead and he couldn't move. He just stood there and stared at the Buddha statue.

Until Yang Si behind her tugged at her sleeve and said, "I always feel that this dilapidated temple is weird. Why don't we leave first?" She walked in and felt a little difficult to breathe. She just wanted to leave as soon as possible.

At this time, the crazy woman came out from behind the Buddha statue again, pointed her finger at Ruan Jiyan and muttered something to no one.

Just as Ruan Jiyan was about to approach her to ask her questions again, she shouted first: "Leave here, you will die...you will die..."

Then she picked up her crutches and tried to drive the two men out.

The two men could not bear the old woman's crazy attitude and could only retreat from the dilapidated temple step by step.

After coming out, Yang Si was somewhat unconvinced and shouted towards the broken temple again: "You are really a crazy woman, you keep saying crazy things. You want us to leave, but you are the one who wants us to die."

"Let's go first. At least now we know how to save Liu Qi. Let's solve the problem at hand first."

After they returned, they finally saw the hostess and her husband. They stood at the door and saw the two people coming back from somewhere, so they asked, "Where did you go?"

"I asked someone about Liu Qi's situation. It must be because he took a bowl placed on the roadside when he was catching crickets yesterday. That's why this happened."

After hearing them say that someone touched the bowls that the family had placed on the roadside, the hostess's face changed and she quickly shouted "Oh no!"

"That's for worshipping lonely ghosts, you can't touch it carelessly. Those ghosts without graves or tombstones are the most violent. You will be haunted if you touch the things given to them!" The hostess looked panicked.

It seems that there really is something wrong with the bowl on the roadside. Ruan Jiyan glanced at the hostess, who looked panic-stricken as if some catastrophe was about to befall her.

"So what should we do now?" Yang Si asked helplessly as his head hurt from her shaking.

The hostess gradually calmed down, as if she had regained consciousness: "We need to prepare some things, and then take him to kneel down and worship the gods and ghosts, and ask for their forgiveness."

The "he" the hostess was talking about is Liu Qi, but he is now unconscious and lying on the bed. How can we kneel down and worship him?

"We definitely can't prepare today. We may have to wait two days before we can go," said the hostess's husband.

They said so, and the few people had no better choice but to agree.

Perhaps because they heard from the old woman that they were not allowed to go out too far or for too long during these few days, they began to feel a little nervous after encountering so many things, and thus they did not step out of the bride's house again.

For the whole day, several people watched over Liu Qi, listening to him reciting some incomprehensible words. He even made some gestures from time to time, but he didn't seem to be in so much pain.

Finally he calmed down a bit, and everyone went back to their rooms to rest.

Perhaps he was particularly tired today, Ruan Jiyan fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.

But I didn’t sleep very well and I always heard some noises at night.

At first she heard a conversation between two people, a man and a woman, who were talking very intensely, but she couldn't hear clearly no matter how hard she tried.

Then there was another rustling sound, followed by the sound of a woman crying, her crying was very heartbreaking.

Faintly, Ruan Jiyan seemed to hear footsteps in the room. She wanted to open her eyes, but her eyelids felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds and she couldn't keep her body still.

Her consciousness was as clear as if she had escaped from the clutches of a coma, but she was so anxious that there was no help.

The next morning, she was awakened by the noisy noise outside the room. When she got up, she didn't see Yang Si. She thought she had gotten up before her and didn't care. She scratched her hair and got up to wash.

Today is the official wedding of the hostess's daughter. They have been here for several days. The whole family has been busy with this matter since the beginning, and now it has finally officially begun.

The players didn't have much free time and were always helping out and taking care of the guests all day long.

It was not until evening that the big red sedan was carried into the door from somewhere.

The groom came out from the side, walked to the sedan chair, stretched out his hand, and waited for the bride to come out of the sedan chair.

It was already late at night and it happened to be the Ghost Festival. There were not many guests, and most of them went home early while it was still light.

Now there are only a few players and the owner left in this house.

The bride behaved a little sluggishly and needed the groom to lead her step by step.

Looking at the bride with a good figure and who looked somewhat familiar, Ruan Jiyan couldn't help but ask again, "Is Yang Si back?"

The boy next to her stared at the bride and groom in a trance and answered her slowly: "I've never seen it."

It was strange. Yang Si went to see the old woman with her yesterday and should have heard what the old woman said to them. During the Ghost Festival, people in the village didn't dare to go out for fear of encountering something bad. It was impossible for her to go outside.

"Do you know when she went out?" Ruan Jiyan asked again.

"I don't know. I haven't seen her since I got up this morning. You sleep in the same room with her, how come you don't know?" The boy was annoyed by her question and asked her back.

Ruan Jiyan choked for a moment, thinking of the things he had vaguely felt last night, and he had a hunch that something might have happened to Yang Si.