Chapter 701 Neither a ghost nor a human
It was just getting dark.
Every family in the village started to cook.
One family finished cooking and took a large porcelain bowl. First, they filled a bowl with rice and then put vegetables and meat on top of the rice.
The male owner muttered, "Why is there such a big bowl today?"
The auntie who was in charge of picking up the vegetables glanced at him, "Baoshan didn't eat in the pit this morning. Shouldn't he eat more for dinner?"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but look outside the yard, still wondering in her heart.
It was already dark, why didn't Baoshan come over?
Did he forget that it was her family who cooked for him today?
...
Baoshan, who was missed by the auntie, was walking through the village with Jiang Xuxu and his group to the mountains behind the village.
Lu Nanxing looked at Baoshan who was walking very fast in front of her and couldn't help wondering,
"Are the village guards so powerful now? First, they saw through the fox's true form at a glance, and now they can even see its spirit, and they can follow it back..."
Jiang Xuxu also looked at Baoshan in front of her and said,
"Maybe he is more special."
As she said this, she suddenly stepped on a piece of thin ice and staggered slightly. A hand immediately reached out from the side and supported her steadily.
Chu Beihe took back the hand that was holding her arm, and instead pulled her wrist, saying in a deep voice,
"The mountain road is slippery, hold me."
Lu Nanxing was watching from the side and smacked his lips. Next to him, Hua Sui, who had been acting as a background, thought about it and followed Chu Beihe's example and reached out to her,
"I'll hold you."
Lu Nanxing: ...
Just as he was about to teach Hua Sui not to learn everything, he heard Jiang Xuxu say,
"It's better to hold you."
She said, "We seem to have entered a maze, be careful not to get separated."
Lu Nanxing grabbed Hua Sui without saying a word.
Seeing that Hu Lizhi was alone, he grabbed her with his backhand.
Jiang Xuxu and Chu Beihe walked hand in hand at the end, thinking that they would enter some strange place next.
Unexpectedly, a few lights flickered ahead, and it turned out to be another village.
Compared with the modern buildings in Huabei Village, this village looked more ancient, with bluestone roads, tiled houses with flying eaves, and lanterns hanging in front of each house. The
whole village was shrouded in misty darkness. At first glance, it felt like a mountain village from another era.
In fact, the appearance of this village was indeed unusual.
According to the pace of the group, it took about half an hour to walk up the mountain road. In such a close place, there was such a village with a completely different style, and the director of the village office didn't even mention it.
Jiang Xuxu's first reaction was - a ghost village.
But after a closer look, it didn't seem like it.
As if hearing some noise, a man came out of a house at the entrance of the village. Seeing so many strangers at once, his expression was obviously a little surprised.
"Baoshan, why are you here so late? And you brought so many people with you?"
The other party obviously knew Baoshan, but he was subconsciously a little wary of the people following Baoshan.
Baoshan just smiled foolishly and murmured,
"Yuyu, looking for Yuyu."
The villager didn't seem to care much about his appearance. He glanced at Jiang Xuxu and his group, and seemed to understand, "She is not in the village today."
Suddenly, his eyes turned to Chu Beihe. I don't know if it was an illusion, but the man's eyes obviously lit up.
Jiang Xuxu subconsciously held Chu Beihe's hand tightly.
She didn't forget that Chu Beihe's golden physique inexplicably attracted strange things.
Chu Beihe sensed her alertness and gently shook her hand in comfort.
"It's a distinguished guest."
The man said, and his guard suddenly became less. He turned around and shouted at a house at the other end of the village,
"Village chief! Village chief! Baoshan is bringing guests!"
Lu Nanxing was a little scared by the other party's sudden change in attitude, and couldn't help but approach Jiang Xuxu,
"Xuxu, we are not being taken to some zombie village again, are we?"
The last person who greeted them so warmly was a villager from Lijia Village who wanted to take them home to be raised and eaten.
Jiang Xuxu was not sure at this moment, so he could only whisper,
"Let's take a look first."
As the man called out, many people came out of the village one after another.
They were holding lanterns in their hands, and what was even more surprising was that all of them were wearing ancient costumes.
Some were wearing cloaks, some were wearing jackets, and just looking at their appearance, they didn't look like ordinary villagers at all.
Lu Nanxing felt that his eyes went dark,
"It's over, this village is definitely not normal, maybe it's some kind of ghost village."
Jiang Xuxu stared at it for a long time and said only one sentence,
"It's not a ghost."
Seeing that Lu Nanxing and Hu Lizhi were looking at her expectantly, Jiang Xuxu pursed her lips and added, "But it's not a human either."
Lu Nanxing: ...
It might as well be a ghost.
Soon, the village chief came over. He didn't think it was a
big deal that the group of people came to the village at night. When he heard that they were looking for someone, he just said, "It's late now, why don't you rest in the village first? If there is anything, we can talk tomorrow morning."
As he said that, he looked at Chu Beihe deliberately,
"This distinguished guest should stay at my place."
Subconsciously, Jiang Xuxu pulled Chu Beihe and said to the village chief, "Let's live together."
Since she knew that there was something wrong with this village, she naturally couldn't let her favorite live alone in the villager's house. Upon
hearing this, the village chief first looked at the two of them strangely, then stared at them for a long time, and finally smiled as if he understood,
"So the two of you are husband and wife. I didn't think it through. It's right, it's right to live together."
With a smile, he turned around and invited them to enter the village.
The houses in the village were not big, so they could not be arranged in one family. Jiang Xuxu let Hu Lizhi, Lu Nanxing and Hua Sui live together.
Although he didn't know what the situation was in the village, Hua Sui's bones were not rotten, so if anything happened, he could protect the two of them in time.
Jiang Xuxu also gave Lu Nanxing and the others a photo talisman so that they could see each other's situation in time.
The village chief didn't care about their actions.
After making arrangements, he took them home.
The village chief's house was not big. It looked a bit old from the outside, but it exuded a bit of ancient charm inside.
His eyes swept over some of the furnishings in the house. Jiang Xuxu seemed to think of something in his heart, and subconsciously looked at Chu Beihe.
Chu Beihe nodded, and neither of them spoke.
After going upstairs, the village chief arranged two rooms for them.
Jiang Xuxu subconsciously thought that she and Chu Beihe would have one room each, but she heard the village chief say,
"You two are a couple, so you can live in the big room, and the small room will be given to the girl."
He said it casually, but it made Jiang Xuxu look a little gloomy, and Yu Ling couldn't help but be surprised,
"You can see me?!"
She is now in a spirit state.
Baoshan can forget about it, but the village chief can actually see her too? The
village chief's expression was a little puzzled when he heard her say this,
"You are so old, how could you not see? Have a good rest tonight, and talk about anything in the morning."
The village chief said this and went downstairs.
Jiang Xuxu watched the other party leave, and then took Yuling and Chu Beihe into the house first. As soon as they entered the house, Yuling couldn't help but whispered,
"Something is wrong, Master Jiang, something is wrong here!"
But before she finished, Jiang Xuxu's phone rang suddenly. Seeing that it was a video call from Lu Nanxing, she answered it without hesitation.
As soon as the call was connected, Lu Nanxing called out.
"Xuxu, something is wrong with this village!"
"I know."
"You don't know!"
Lu Nanxing interrupted Jiang Xuxu, and his baby face was very excited, "Don't you know, what kind of bed did this family prepare for Hua Sui?!"
As he said that, the camera turned sharply, and he saw that what was placed in the room behind her was -
a coffin.