Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

Chapter 173 Zhou Yaya

"Damn you, you didn't tell me in the evening that you were going to chop one up, how could you be so cowardly like this!"

It's a pity that Li Daoxuan only dared to say this in his heart.

He put on some clothes casually, went to the hall and removed the door lock, and Wu Fa squeezed in.

By the way, there was also moonlight.

Li Daoxuan could vaguely see through the dim light that Wu Fa was so frightened that his face turned pale and he was even trembling a little.

"Quick, close the door."

He seemed afraid that the ghost would follow him.

In fact, there was no need for him to remind him. Li Daoxuan had already closed the door and the room became dark.

But the next moment, candlelight appeared.

Wu Fa subconsciously looked back and saw a woman with gray hair, dense wrinkles at the corners of her eyes, and a slightly stooped body walking out.

The woman's right hand was hiding the candlestick, and her left hand was protecting the faint light.

She seemed to still be laughing.

Wu Fa, who had just sat down, was frightened and jumped up again. After seeing the appearance of the person clearly, he breathed a sigh of relief, "Sister-in-law, you are scaring me to death."

"mother."

Li Daoxuan went over and took the candlestick and placed it on the table.

The candlelight filled the entire living room, seeming to isolate all darkness, and Wu Fa breathed a sigh of relief again.

Mother Li sat aside and said, "Old Wu, what's wrong with you? A pig butcher can still be frightened by these things."

"Sister-in-law, you don't know, there is really... there is a ghost!"

Wu Fa spread his hands with fear in his eyes.

Li Daoxuan sat aside, feeling a chill behind his back, but the doubts in his heart still made him unable to stop asking: "Master, what on earth is going on?"

"Ghost, that Zhou Yaya you are talking about is the ghost!"

"what?!"

Li Daoxuan was so frightened that he stood up immediately. He thought that he had talked with her at the mountain temple last night, and even took the initiative to send her to her second uncle's house.

Now that he learned that she was the ghost, how could Li Daoxuan not be afraid.

"Last night... no, just now, I slept well..."

Wu Fa fell into memories and began to speak slowly.

……

"Boom-"

"咚咚-"

Wu Fa, who was sleeping soundly, was suddenly awakened by two knocks on the door.

"Who?"

He opened his eyes, which were a little blurry from sleep. After waiting for a moment, there was no sound again, so he thought he had heard wrongly. He was about to close his eyes and rest again, but at this moment, the knock on the door rang again.

"咚咚-"

"Who the hell are you? What are you knocking on in the middle of the night?"

There was no response. Wu Fa pushed the woman next to him who was sleeping like a dead pig, "Someone is outside. Go and see who it is."

The mother-in-law didn't move at all.

Wu Fa cursed and could only put on his clothes and get up, "I raised you in vain. You lie at home every day and you don't let me sleep peacefully at night."

"I'll divorce you as soon as I get up tomorrow."

Wu Fa scolded, casually put on his clothes, opened the door, went to the living room, lit the candle first, and then used the light to remove the door stick.

But as soon as he opened the door a crack, a large gust of cold wind blew in. Wu Fa shuddered and cursed the weather. Why was it so cold in the middle of the night in June and July?

The moonlight squeezed in and blew the door open.

Wu Fa also finally saw who was knocking on the door.

"Little girl from the Zhou family, why are you here at my place in the middle of the night?" Wu Fa stared at the little girl in a red dress and said in a very aggressive tone.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he thought of what Li Daoxuan told him in the evening.

In addition to the situation at this moment, in the middle of the night, the moonlight was slightly cold, and a girl in a red skirt with disheveled hair stood at the door of her house.

Wu Fa was subconsciously frightened and took several steps back, trembling.

"You...didn't you say you're not afraid of me?"

Zhou Yaya spoke and slowly raised her head. It was only at this moment that Wu Fa noticed.

Zhou Yaya's back was facing him... but her head was facing him.

The raised face was pale.

His eyes were protruding, and there was a strange livid look on his bloodless face. Wu Fa fell to the ground when he saw it.

"Ghost, you are a ghost!"

But when Wu Fa looked up again, he found that Zhou Yaya had disappeared again... The door was empty.

……

"Then you came to my house?!"

Li Daoxuan, who had just sat down, was so frightened that he stood up again and looked at the door with a pale face, "The damn ghost won't follow you here."

"I, I don't know."

Wu Fa was also afraid.

Li Daoxuan had no choice but to look at his master with hatred, "You...you..."

At this moment, Mother Li spoke, "Don't worry, even if there is a ghost, she can't get in."

When Li Daoxuan heard this, he felt reassured and secretly thought that his mother was still reliable.

"Is there anything particular about our family?" Li Daoxuan asked tentatively.

Wu Fa also blinked. If this is the case, that would be... great!

I will move to my disciple's house from now on.

Mother Li sat peacefully, folded her hands on her lower abdomen, and said proudly: "Before your father died, he said he would protect us."

The smile Li Daoxuan had just squeezed out froze on his face.

"You believe this too?!"

Wu Fa was also disappointed, "And even if Lao Li can really, really protect you, isn't he also a ghost?"

"You can believe that the girl from the Zhou family is a ghost, why don't I believe that Lao Li can protect us two?" Mother Li sneered.

Li Daoxuan finally heard it, and his mother's tone showed that she didn't believe in ghosts.

Otherwise I wouldn't have said this.

"Forget it, let's just wait here, master and disciple. We are together, so that ghost won't dare to come."

"it is good."

At this point, Li Daoxuan had no other choice.

It was still late at night, and Li's mother got up and went back to sleep after sitting for a while. Only Li Daoxuan was left here to accompany Wu Fa.

Both the master and the disciple stared at the door with big eyes and small eyes. Even after sitting for a while, they felt a little scared and turned to sit back to back.

I don’t know how much time passed, but I heard the first cockcrow in the village.

The master and apprentice both breathed a sigh of relief.

"Is there water?" Wu Fa asked.

"Have."

Li Daoxuan replied, but did not do anything else after he finished speaking.

Wu Fa scolded: "Then go and pour me a drink."

"I...my legs are numb." Li Daoxuan said awkwardly.

Wu Fa: "..."

After a while, until the sky turned white and the light spilled into the house through the crack in the door, they both collapsed on the ground, breathing heavily.

"Master, didn't you say you weren't afraid? Why are you so afraid now?"

"Afraid? I'm not afraid!" The wind stopped and the rain stopped, and Wu Fa felt that he was okay again. "After breakfast later, you accompany me to find that ghost!"

"I?"

Li Daoxuan stretched out his hand and pointed at himself, quite unbelievable, and almost said, 'I'm scared too'.

But for some reason, when it came to dealing with ghosts... Li Daoxuan actually felt a little excited in his heart?

Or passionate? In short, Li Daoxuan agreed in a daze.

Mother Li got up and made breakfast for them. After eating, the master and the apprentice decided to go to Wu Fa's house first.

Take a handy weapon by the way.

"Apprentice, you said I ran away suddenly last night. Would that ghost... eat your aunt and sister?"

The morning sun has come out, and the sunshine on Wu Fa's body has given him a lot of courage. He finally thinks about his family.

"Will not."

Li Daoxuan said very firmly.

"How can you be so sure?"

"Auntie is waiting for you at the intersection and has a broom..."

Wu Fa breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain. Finally, Li Daoxuan stood up and testified, saying that Wu Fa slept at his house last night, and this woman, who was not much worse than Wu Fa, reluctantly let him go. .

"So, the ghost really didn't enter my house last night. After I saw her disappear, she really disappeared."

Wu Fa walked behind and whispered to Li Daoxuan.

"It's possible."

Li Daoxuan felt a lot more at ease. After the two returned home, they went to the warehouse.

Wu Fa took out his set of tools for killing pigs.

He took the hardest bone chopping knife, put it on his waist and covered it with his clothes. Otherwise, if he walked out openly like this, everyone would be scared.

Li Daoxuan subconsciously took the sharpest bloodletting knife, and then took the rope used to tie the pig.

Originally I wanted to take the iron chain, but found that it was too heavy and difficult to hold, so I settled for the next best thing and took the rope.

"What are you doing with this?"

This question stunned Li Daoxuan. He was stunned and didn't know why. "I just took it. Maybe I will need it later?"

"Yes, then you can take it with you."

Li Daoxuan tied the rope around his waist and used it as a belt, and hid the pig-butchering knife. However, when he held the pig-butchering knife, he always felt familiar, as if... he often held it. Like a knife.

But then he thought about it and realized that as a pig butcher's apprentice, he had indeed started holding a knife last year, so he didn't think much about it.

"Let's go to Zhou Laizi's house first."

Wu Fa took the lead.

Zhou Laizi is Zhou Yaya's second uncle.

"Ah."

As the two walked in Huangliang Village, the people they met greeted them one after another.

Everyone looked like ghosts to Wu Fa. If Li Daoxuan hadn't stopped him, he would have taken out the knife long ago.

"Disciple, do you think Zhou Laizi's family was all killed by that ghost?"

Before Wu Fa said this, he looked around to make sure he didn't see Zhou Laizi's family, and then asked.

"probably not."

"How do you know?" Wu Fa asked again.

"If it was really like what you said, someone in the village would have discovered it and spread the word."

After hearing this, Wu Fa said dullly: "Your brain is indeed better."

In fact, this was indeed the case. When the two came to Zhou Laizi's house, their family was eating breakfast.

Zhou Yaya... is also here.

And when she saw Li Daoxuan's eyes, she was obviously a little happy.

Wu Fa was a little scared, but at the same time he also had a hint of... doubt. He suspected that he might have seen it wrong last night.

Zhou Laizi naturally asked Wu Fa why he came to the door.

Wu Fa was not prepared to tell the truth, but Li Daoxuan still revealed the matter.

As soon as he finished speaking, Zhou Laizi and his mother-in-law immediately said: "This is impossible, Yaya slept with me last night, she hugged me and never let go all night, how could it be Butcher Wu? What the hell are you talking about!" "

"You look like a ghost to me!"

After she finished speaking, she hugged Zhou Yaya tightly in her arms.

Zhou Laizi also frowned and said: "Brother Wu, this is really impossible. Yaya slept well at my house last night. There is no way she will do what you said."

Wu Fa was also a little confused.

Li Daoxuan didn't speak. He was silently observing the reactions of several people, but he discovered something unusual about Zhou Yaya.

"She...it's her."

Zhou Yaya was so frightened that she broke into a cold sweat and said with a trembling voice.

"is her!"

Wu Fa also remembered what Li Daoxuan said to him yesterday evening. The master and the disciple looked at each other and saw the panic in each other's eyes.

"No, what are you talking about?" Zhou Laizi still didn't know what was going on. Apparently Zhou Yaya hadn't told him about it yet.

Immediately afterwards, Li Daoxuan told the whole story. It was better not to tell him. As soon as he told it, Zhou Laizi immediately went out with a hatchet, saying that he wanted to chop to death the ghost who harmed his elder brother.

When they came, there were still only two people, Li Daoxuan and his apprentice, but as they left, more and more people came. By the time they arrived at the door of Zhou Yaya's house, there were already five or six men with various weapons in their hands.

There are even more people who don’t mind watching the excitement.

Wu Fa had taken out the bone-chopping knife at some point and stood at the door of the room, hesitating.

He was afraid again.

The shadow of last night always stayed in his mind and never dissipated.

"I come!"

Zhou Laizi just wanted revenge now, so he stepped forward, thrust the hatchet in his hand forward, and pushed the door open.

Behind the door is the dead mother Zhou.

His hair was disheveled and his face was haggard, as if he had been dead for a long time.

……

Zhou's father was killed by the evil spirit that possessed Zhou's mother. Zhou's mother was also killed by the evil spirit, leaving poor Zhou Yaya, who was taken in by Zhou Laizi.

This is what happened.

However, the news that Huangliang Village is haunted by a ghost is spreading more and more widely, and everyone knows about it.

People die and ghosts run away.

The ghost is still in Huangliang Village.

This matter is like a dark cloud that always hangs over Huangliang Village, and every villager is overwhelmed by this matter.

I always open the door when it's dark, and I lock my door before it gets dark.

And the first thing I do when I wake up every morning is go to my neighbors’ houses to see if they are still alive.

Li Daoxuan is also living such a life.

Until one month later.

He teamed up with his master again and killed an old sow in the village. He was sitting in the yard enjoying the shade.

Wu Fa came over with a tea cup, his face a little ugly.

"Disciple, there is something I still can't let go of."

"what?"

Li Daoxuan put down the cattail leaf fan and looked back at Wu Fa, whose apron was still full of scarlet pig blood and whose body still smelled of blood.

Wu Fa sat down next to him, with pig blood still on his hands. Obviously this matter made him very anxious.

"I still think that girl from the Zhou family... is the ghost."

Li Daoxuan frowned, "Master, why are you still thinking about this matter? Hasn't it been so long?"

"Why don't you believe me?"

Wu Fa sat up again, shaking his hands and said.

"It's not that I don't believe you, it's just that... I don't know." Li Daoxuan scratched his hair irritably.

The master and the apprentice broke up unhappy without discussing the outcome.

But early the next morning.

Before Li Daoxuan could get up, he heard a piece of news from his mother.

"When Zhou Laizi died, he was hanged in front of his house. He looked miserable."

(End of this chapter)