"Sister-in-law, get up quickly!"
Liu Sandao hurriedly went to help him up: "Don't you trust me, Liu Sandao, to handle things? I brought my junior brother with me this time; he has ancestral ghost-catching skills!"
As she spoke, she pulled me forward, and I stumbled two steps, almost falling over.
Zhou Guilan's cloudy eyes looked me up and down, and her cracked lips moved slightly: "This young man looks unfamiliar... Could he be from the city?"
"Oh, cousin-in-law, don't underestimate me!"
Liu Sandao pulled out a crumpled cigarette box, took out two cigarettes, and handed them to Chen Dashan: "His grandfather used to bless the ancestral hall in our town! We specially invited him to subdue the female ghost this time. By the way, what happened to Xiaozhu's matter?"
I:"……"
I know he's bragging, but what can I do?
It should match your outfit!
Chen Dashan puffed on his cigarette, the ash falling softly onto his faded clothes.
"What else can we do? The doctors at the county hospital said they've never seen an injury like this before..."
He suddenly lowered his voice: "Last time, Blind Wang from the next village came to see him and said that half of Xiaozhu's soul had been taken away, and he would have to use the skin of a living person to make up for it..."
Zhou Guilan suddenly burst into tears.
Before the words were finished, a piercing scream suddenly came from the west wing, mixed with a woman's maniacal laughter, startling the swallows' nest under the eaves into falling to the ground.
Zhou Guilan trembled, her eyes instantly reddening: "Old Chen, you stay and talk to the guests, I'll go check on Ah Xiu..."
Chen Dashan pulled out a crumpled pack of "Hongtashan" cigarettes, the pack making a rustling sound as he squeezed it between his fingers.
"To be honest, ever since that incident, Ah Xiu has become like this. She's relatively quiet during the day, but at night..."
He took a deep drag on his cigarette: "A few nights ago, I heard her singing a wedding song. I opened the door and found her combing her hair while holding a doll..."
A cold sweat instantly broke out on my back.
Liu Sandao calmly flicked his cigarette ash: "Cousin, don't worry. Now that we're here, we won't let the tragedy repeat itself."
...
After chatting for a while, Liu Sandao led me to the room where I would be staying for the next few days.
I froze on the spot as soon as I stepped over the threshold.
The walls were covered with bright red silk, and dragon and phoenix wedding candles burned on a bronze stand. The red silk hanging from the beams was lifted by the draft.
On the offering table was a plate of blood-stained peanuts, and in the very center, framed in a red sandalwood frame, was my ID photo.
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