Chapter 332
Follow the path to the village entrance...
The people in the village went to bed early. When they entered the village, some people were still enjoying the cool air in the square, but they were all gone by then.
Walking along the path to the village entrance, I could see the blazing fire from a distance.
"Is this bonfire going to burn all night?"
Cheng Hui shook his head. "I don't know. I went to bed early yesterday. When I woke up in the morning, it was already daybreak and the bonfire was out."
The two of them approached quietly without disturbing Zheng Xing who was dozing off.
Lin Qingyang looked at the little Taoist boy who was sleeping with snot bubbles coming out of his nose, and the corners of his mouth twitched. Is such a night watchman really reliable?
After passing the pavilion where the little Taoist boy was taking a nap, the two of them came to the campfire.
There was a smell in the air that was hard to ignore. Cheng Hui sniffed and found the smell a bit disgusting.
Lin Qingyang keenly noticed his change: "Uncomfortable?"
"No, it's just that the smell is so bad..." Cheng Hui felt that the strange smell in the air was getting stronger and stronger, and he had to cover his nose.
"Stinky?" Lin Qingyang sniffed carefully. The smell was indeed a bit strange, but not bad. Why did Cheng Hui think it smelled bad?
"Did you smell anything bad when you first got here?"
Cheng Hui thought for a moment and said, "No, right? At the time, I just felt like something was following me. It was quite scary, so I didn't notice the smell here."
Although he didn't get a definite answer, Lin Qingyang felt that Cheng Hui should not have smelled any bad smell at that time. Smells are really hard to ignore. Even if his attention was focused on the thing following him at that time, he would not forget the bad smell when he recalled it later.
"It's okay, it's just a little smelly, I can tolerate it, let's investigate something else quickly." Cheng Hui said, pinching his nose.
Lin Qingyang answered directly with action. He reached out and tore off the lining of his clothes, gently blocking Cheng Hui's mouth and nose, then went behind him and tied a knot with the cloth strip.
Cheng Hui was stunned for a moment, then blushed a little at the other party's thoughtfulness.
As a man, he had been accustomed to growing up wild since he was a child, as if he had never been taken care of so carefully.
"Thank you, thank you..." he stammered.
Lin Qingyang curled his lips and said softly, "You're welcome."
After doing all this, Lin Qingyang calmed down a little. Fishing requires a balance between relaxation and tension. He can't be too eager, lest he scare people away.
The two continued to check the bonfire, but after checking again and again, they only proved that it was just an ordinary bonfire.
No... If I have to say, the only special thing about Cheng Hui is that he smells stinky.
Lin Qingyang didn't know why Cheng Hui reacted to this smell while he didn't, but he kept it in mind.
He tried to walk around the campfire and took a few steps back along the path he had come from.
With his back to the campfire, he cast a long shadow on the ground. As the shadow grew longer, he suddenly caught a glimpse of something out of the corner of his eye.
"Who?" he asked in a low voice.
There was no answer.
"What did you see?" Cheng Hui asked.
Lin Qingyang shook his head. He had only accidentally caught a glimpse of a moving shadow and couldn't be sure...
Wait! Shadow!
He suddenly lowered his head and was shocked to find that his shadow had changed at some point. His drooping right hand had turned into a huge claw, and this claw was grabbing towards his neck.
Lin Qingyang's mind moved, and he thrust the broken tiles he had found earlier as weapons into the ground, embedding them into the shadow.
The shadow suddenly let out a scream, and then its shape changed, turning into the ghost of a woman.
The ghost suddenly emerged from the ground, staring at Lin Qingyang with resentment.
After Lin Qingyang succeeded in his move, he didn't stop at all and ran back to the bonfire at the entrance of the village.
"What is this!" Cheng Hui exclaimed.
"I don't know. She was hiding in my shadow just now and looked malicious." Lin Qingyang himself was surprised at his calmness at this moment.
He was facing a female ghost who might be impossible to defeat. He was just a scholar, and his attitude towards the female ghost was too calm.
Could it be that I was used to seeing these things before I lost my memory?
Temporarily suppressing the doubts in his heart, Lin Qingyang concentrated on facing the female ghost.
He had no means of resisting the female ghost, and the broken tiles from before did not seem to cause any harm to the female ghost.
Fortunately, for some unknown reason, the female ghost did not continue to attack him after he ran back to the village entrance. She just stared at him with her bloodshot and tearful eyes, with a resentful look.
Lin Qingyang's expression remained unchanged and he was very calm.
Hate me if you want. There are so many people who hate me that they can’t even get a number in the queue right now.
Lin Qingyang suddenly froze when this thought popped up in his mind:... Wait, was I hated so much before?
Lin Qingyang secretly glanced at Cheng Hui and decided to keep this matter to himself.
He instinctively knew that Cheng Hui didn't like bad people, so his image had to be positive.
Even if he is not, he must not be a scumbag!
The female ghost wandered around the campfire, but never dared to get close.
Lin Qingyang and Cheng Hui also roughly guessed the reason why she didn't dare to get close, and they guarded the campfire and refused to go out no matter how the female ghost roared.
Seeing that she could not succeed, the female ghost could only leave angrily and soon disappeared into the darkness.
"Oh my god! I'm so scared!"
Zheng Xing suddenly appeared from behind them, startling the two of them.
"When did you wake up?"
"Ah? Just now, when that female ghost screamed, oh my god, it turns out there really is a female ghost."
Lin Qingyang: Hmm? What do you mean? Aren't you guys using this bonfire to protect against female ghosts?
He asked the question, but Zheng Xing's answer was unexpected: "Of course not. This bonfire is to protect against the walking dead, the zombies. The white bamboo leaves burned inside, the zombies hate the smell, and they won't come over when they smell it."
"There are still zombies and walkers around here?" Cheng Hui's mouth twitched. Is life in your village so dire?
Not only are there female ghosts, but there are also walking corpses and zombies... So how did you survive?
"Ah? That's not the case, but my master said that the yin energy nearby is a bit heavy, and there might be zombies and walking corpses causing trouble. However, the village chief and others insisted that there was a female ghost. My master didn't believe it. I didn't expect that there really was a female ghost..." Zhengxing touched his head as he spoke, looking frightened.
Then, he said with a worried look, "What should I do? This female ghost... is much more powerful than zombies and walking corpses. Master, can you help me?"
Cheng Hui's face twitched, he always felt that this master was a little unreliable.
Lin Qingyang looked at the little Taoist boy thoughtfully. He did not mention anything about Aunt Zhang's family. He simply said a few words and then took Cheng Hui away.
After they left, the little Taoist boy returned to the pavilion. Half asleep, a question came to his mind: Why were these two people coming to the village entrance in the middle of the night?
But soon, a strong sleepiness took over his brain and he could no longer think.
Cheng Hui and his friend returned to Aunt Zhang's courtyard. The courtyard was very quiet and there was no sign of anything unusual.
The two returned to the woodshed. Cheng Hui volunteered to keep watch, but Lin Qingyang sternly refused. In the end, the two of them kept watch for the first and second half of the night respectively, which was considered a good rest.
The next morning, as the sun rose, the sounds of Aunt Zhang and her family getting up could be heard from the yard.
Aunt Zhang and her husband have three sons. The eldest and second sons seem to have gone out to work, leaving only the youngest son to accompany the couple.
Cheng Hui and Lin Qingyang got up and opened the door, only to see Zhang Hai yawning and getting water. He greeted them with half-closed eyes, looking like he would fall asleep at any moment.
Aunt Zhang just came out of the kitchen carrying dishes. When she saw the two of them, she quickly invited them to eat.
After breakfast, Cheng Hui carried his hoe and went to work in the fields.
Lin Qingyang was originally going to go too, but Cheng Hui persuaded him to stop. According to him, the work in the fields was simple and he could do it alone. Instead of wasting both of their time there, it would be better for Lin Qingyang to go around the village and investigate.
After what happened last night, both of them became extremely suspicious of the village.
Zombies, female ghosts, snakes with human heads... the first two are fine, but Aunt Zhang's head is really scary.
The most important thing is that Aunt Zhang looks normal, but she is actually a monster. What about the villagers who look equally normal?
Going a step further, that little Taoist boy Zhengxing... is he a human?
Lin Qingyang did not reject Cheng Hui's kindness. In his impression... he had no impression of hoeing the fields.
It seems that he is not a farmer.
And the reason he separated from Cheng Hui today was because he had an idea in his mind and wanted to ask the little Taoist boy about it.
During the spring plowing season, almost all the men in the village went to the fields, and the stronger women also went to help. Only the elderly, weak and sick were left in the village.
Lin Qingyang randomly found an old man twisting ropes and asked about the little Taoist boy's residence.
Lin Qingyang came to the door of the most "luxurious" blue brick and tile house in the village and knocked gently.
Soon, a reply came from inside.
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged man. He had a decent appearance, but his eyes looked at people with a sneaky look, which always made people feel that he had bad intentions.
"Are you looking for Young Taoist Priest Zhengxing?" The man was first stunned by Lin Qingyang's appearance, but when he learned that he was looking for Zhengxing, he showed an expression of disapproval.
"Are you also a stooge hired by that fraudulent master and apprentice?" He looked at Lin Qingyang with suspicion.
Lin Qingyang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "With my looks, do I really need to be a scammer's agent?"
"That's true..." The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly. "Well, let me advise you. That so-called Zhengxing Taoist Priest and his master are two liars. If you want to find them to catch ghosts or something, you've come to the wrong place."
"Oh? What do you mean?" Lin Qingyang asked at the right time.
Maybe it was because he had been holding it in for too long, but the middle-aged man started complaining incessantly.
Lin Qingyang listened very carefully, and occasionally added some words like "hmm", "you're right", "yes, that's it...". The man complained so heartily that it seemed that Lin Qingyang's eyes changed, as if he had seen a confidant.
Until he brought people to the courtyard of the Taoist master and apprentice, he still did not persuade Lin Qingyang, asking him to think twice and to go to a legitimate Taoist temple if he had any problems. These Taoists who roamed around were most likely scammers.
In the end, Lin Qingyang had to make an excuse that he was just looking for the two men to chat casually and would never let them cheat him out of a penny. Only then did the middle-aged man leave contentedly.
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