Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 190 Night Talk (66)

When I returned to Tianmen Village, the village was already dead silent.

When a few people approached the village, the dogs in the village suddenly started roaring in the dark.

A dog's roar sounded in the darkness, immediately alarming all the dogs in the village.

Long Zongshu, who was not afraid of evil spirits, was frightened when he heard a dog barking in front of him and quickly hid behind his cousin.

Long Zongshu's cousin waved a wooden stick and glared and roared at all the dogs rushing towards them.

"Go away!"

"If you keep yelling, I'll break your legs!"

“Roll, roll, roll!”

Long Zongshu's cousin waved a wooden stick majestically to clear the way, and the barking of dogs could be heard one after another along the way.

Fortunately, most of the dogs just stood on the embankments of their own homes and barked, and stopped barking after the few people walked away.

The few dogs that came after him would be driven away by his cousin Long Zongshu waving a stick.

In this way, they returned to the doorstep of Long Zongshu's cousin's house, "greeted" by a group of local dogs.

The dark, wooden house had no lights. Long Zongshu's third sister-in-law stood at the door with a flashlight, sleepy-eyed, and said, "Why are you back so late..."

The woman was a little tired, but she was relieved to see that the people had returned safely.

"Are you all hungry? I'll heat up the food right away..."

The room was soon filled with the sound of food being cooked in oil, and a faint fragrance wafted out.

Under the dim light of the kerosene lamp, several people wolfed down all the food.

Then I washed my feet with water and went to bed.

That night, Mo Li was arranged to sleep in the big bed at home with his cousin's wife.

Long Zongshu, Ran Qing and his cousin slept on a small bed in the side room.

After a tiring day, the two brothers, covered in the smell of sweat and incense ash, fell asleep directly after going to bed, and snoring sounded instantly.

Ran Qing was also very tired and fell asleep in a daze with a sticky sweat smell all over his body.

Although it was uncomfortable for three people to squeeze into a small bed, they were so exhausted that they had no time to care about it.

The moment their heads touched the pillows, the three of them fell asleep.

However, due to the special physique of the Yin-walking person, Ran Qing woke up very early.

At three o'clock in the morning in the second half of the night, Ran Qing got up with a clear mind and sat in a strange room in a daze, sniffing the strange smell in the air. Ran Qing felt a little lost for a moment.

That strange monster with long, thin limbs still didn't come to dig out his internal organs tonight.

The blessing to ward off evil spirits received during the Torch Festival seems to still be working.

But that monster did not appear, and Ran Qing's mother naturally did not appear either.

After being silent for a while, Ran Qing dragged his tired and sore body to stand up, groped for the flashlight in the darkness, turned on the flashlight and walked out the door.

The courtyard at the door was empty.

The chickens raised by my cousin were driven into the chicken coop before dark. Now they were huddled in the coop under the eaves, making dull clucking sounds.

A night breeze blew, and the air was filled with the fresh smell of dust, chicken manure and pig manure.

From the pigpen next to the wooden-tiled house, the sound of a domestic pig could be heard from time to time, and it seemed that the pig was pushing the door open.

Ran Qing sat at the door blankly, feeling a little bored.

There is no electricity in the countryside and nothing can be done after dark.

Although I had a kerosene lamp, kerosene also costs money, and I felt embarrassed to use someone else's kerosene lamp. I couldn't do my homework or read, and could only sit in the dark night breeze and stare blankly.

At this moment, Ran Qing was actually a little envious of Long Zongshu, envious that he could sleep until dawn.

Just then, the wooden door behind him creaked open and Mo Li walked out with a flashlight.

Seeing Ran Qing sitting at the door, Mo Li smiled and said, "You're not sleeping at night and sitting at someone's door pretending to be a ghost... Aren't you afraid of scaring people to death?"

Ran Qing looked at her in surprise and asked, "Why are you up?"

Mo Li sighed and said, "I got up to pee. Who knew you'd be standing by the door pretending to be a ghost, scaring everyone's pee back..."

Mo Li stopped joking, moved a small stool out of the house, and sat next to Ran Qing.

"You think it's boring in the countryside?" Mo Li stretched out on a small stool and yawned. "There's no electricity, and you can't watch TV. Even a top student like you can't do your homework. I don't know when electricity will be available in the mountains."

The girl held her chin with her hands, looked at the dark village and the gloomy mountains, and said softly, "When I was traveling, those wealthy places had electricity provided to their villages more than ten years ago."

"I didn't expect that when I came back, the mountains were still pitch black. Not to mention electricity, there were not even a few cars on the road."

"When I went to Hong Kong, the locals called me a northern girl, but there's real money there. The streets are full of cars, and everyone is dressed beautifully and fashionably. It's a completely different world from our poor, remote Shankaka."

Mo Li laughed again as he spoke, looking at Ran Qing and said, "But the people over there are very superstitious, especially those who believe in ghosts and gods."

"There are a lot of charlatans running scams there. I've run into quite a few. They clearly have no skills, yet they still pretend to be masters and rip people off."

"With your skills as a shady person, if you can't find a way out in the future, you might as well go south to Hong Kong."

“Even if the ghost walkers become weaker after leaving Zangke, it’s still enough to catch ghosts and cheat people out of money.”

"It would be even better if you could learn the Feng Shui technique passed down in our family. Let me tell you, people in Hong Kong now believe in Feng Shui."

"Your Ran family's Feng Shui skills are truly impressive. If you learn Feng Shui and go south to Hong Kong, you'll probably be able to make millions a year without any problems."

"It makes money faster than applying to any university."

Mo Li smiled as she talked about what she had seen and heard during her travels, and then changed the subject to talk about the Ran family's Feng Shui.

But Ran Qing showed little interest in this.

He shook his head and said, "My personality is not suitable for being a quack."

Even if you have real skills, you may not be able to make money.

Just like Aunt Liu said, to work in this industry, one needs to be good at talking and cheating.

Ran Qing is too honest, which means he is destined to be unable to make money by illegal means.

"But where have you traveled in the past two years?" Ran Qing was very interested in Mo Li's travel experiences.

The world outside the province, in the eyes of a child who grew up in the mountains, is full of fantasy and mystery.

Even more mysterious than ghosts and evil spirits.

He was very curious about what the outside world was like, and also curious about Mo Li's experience.

The two of them sat in the courtyard where the night breeze was blowing and started chatting.

"I didn't go to many places," Mo Li said with a smile, "I went to Hong Kong, eastern Guangdong, and also visited Southeast Asia a few times."

"I've also been to the north, climbed the Great Wall, visited the Imperial Palace, and even ran into a shaman disciple on the way to Shanhaiguan."

"That Chu Ma Xian is quite strange, he has real abilities."

"Although there's no Wujiang ghost world over there, there are also many strange things outside the Great Wall. It feels not much different from here in Zangke."

"The people over there believe in something like Hu Liu Huang Bai Hui. They are more difficult to deal with than the evil master and have a bigger appetite. Sometimes they even cause people to lose their families."

"When I was riding my bike across the mountain late at night, I ran into a yellow-skinned man asking for a title!"

(End of this chapter)