Chapter 8
The sound of water drops came crisply.
The creditor's heart beat violently, and his breathing became rapid due to fear. He could tell that the sound of water drops came from the broken house.
It was summer now, and the evening wind in Dabie Village was particularly cold.
Moreover, Dabie Village had not rained in recent days.
At the same time, the creditor was also sure that there was no water in the broken house.
Where did the sound of water drops come from?
""Hoo, hoo, hoo."
The creditor breathed rapidly. The icy wind chilled his entire body, as if the night wind was urging him to get into the shabby house to take shelter.
Even though the shabby house was shabby, it could block the night wind and make him a little warmer.
Finally, the creditor cursed.
"Zhou Erdan, are you playing tricks, you bastard? Don't play tricks, believe it or not, I will beat you to death now."
No one responded to him, only the cold night wind.
After cursing for a few times, seeing no one responded, the creditor got angry, picked up the white wine offered on the altar, drank it in big gulps, and walked towards the broken house with the courage of the wine.
"You little bastard, dare to tease me, I'm���I'll come to find you."
He strode towards the shabby house.
The shabby house was old and had a big hole in the roof. With the help of the weak moonlight, the inside of the shabby house was dim but still clear. The empty shabby house had nothing else except the three empty and lonely coffins.
The creditor listened carefully to find the sound of dripping water.
At this moment, it seemed that there were drops of water falling on the creditor's face, cold.
He stretched out his hand and looked at his hand, and his pupils suddenly contracted!
With the help of the moonlight, the creditor saw the water drop on his finger.
It was not a drop of water, but a drop of blood with a scarlet luster under the moonlight.
The cold wind blew.
The creditor trembled and looked up at the roof, and the fear on his face gradually spread..
There were three corpses hanging on the roof, swaying in the night wind.
They were the three corpses of the villagers that disappeared from the coffin.
And the blood was dripping from one of the corpses.
Under the full moon at night, the summer wind was cold, and the three cold corpses with corpse spots had their eyes wide open and bloodshot, as if they died with their eyes open.
The creditor wanted to scream for help, but he couldn't.
It was as if something was strangling his neck, tightly, making it impossible for him to breathe or shout.
Zhou Erdan came back after taking a shit.
Originally, he wanted to take a longer shit, but he heard movement from the broken house, and vaguely heard the creditor calling his name. He thought the creditor had finished the ritual, so he had to rush over.
"Where is the old man? He didn't go to bed first."
Zhou Erdan came to the broken house and found that the creditor was not there and the altar was empty.
He turned around and looked at the broken house. Three coffins were quietly placed in the room, and the bodies of the three villagers were also lying in the coffins.
Everything was the same as before Zhou Erdan left, except that the creditor was gone.
"What bad luck! It would be fine if I left first, but I was left alone to clean up the place.
Zhou Erdan complained as he cleaned up the altar.
Suddenly, at this moment, the sound of dripping water came, accompanied by a crisp groping sound, coming from the broken house.
"Hmm? Boss, is that you? So you didn't leave.
Zhou Erdan, who was always brave, walked towards the broken house. The noise just now didn't seem to be made by mice or small animals.
He was sure that it was probably the creditor who was hiding from the cold wind in the broken house.
After entering the broken house, Zhou Erdan called Boss, but no one answered.
There was a creaking sound from the roof, and it seemed that a drop of water fell on Zhou Erdan's face...
Zhou Erdan looked up.
""Ah!!!"
The hair-raising screams spread throughout the Dabie Village.
He saw a man hanging from the beam of the house.
That man was none other than the creditor.
The creditor's eyes were bloodshot, and he stared at Zhou Erdan with an unwilling look.
Zhou Erdan's screams lit up the entire Dabie Village in an instant.
All the villagers rushed out of their houses and ran towards the dilapidated house.
When they arrived at the dilapidated house, the female villagers screamed and the male villagers' faces were filled with fear.
At this time... in addition to three coffins and three corpses of villagers in the dilapidated house, there were two corpses hanging from the beams, Zhou Erdan's and the creditor's corpses.
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Wang Ping and his two companions arrived at Dabie Village around noon.
"Police car?"
When the three arrived at the village, they found a police car parked at the entrance.
As Wang Ping and the other two got off the car, they asked the villagers through Aunt Zhou and understood the reason for the police car's arrival.
Zhou Erdan and the outsider master Zhang Cai performed a ritual yesterday and were suspected of hanging themselves.
Five people died in total.
Wang Ping stroked his chin. All five people died by hanging. This evil ghost should be a hanging evil ghost.
"Taoist Wang Ping, can you kill this ghost?"
Knowing that the ghost was a fierce ghost, Aunt Zhou's heart suddenly lifted again.
The village chief and several others were also present.
Compared with the police, the village chief and others believed in Wang Ping more.
Even though Wang Ping was very young, they heard from Aunt Zhou how powerful Wang Ping was, and they all placed their hopes on Wang Ping.
Rural people have always been feudal and superstitious. Even after the reform, many rural areas still retain feudal customs and other things. When the police intervened, none of the villagers in Dabie Village were optimistic.
Because the police would not believe in feudal superstitions, they advocate democracy, prosperity, and science, and they don't believe in ghost theories at all.
However, the villagers of Dabie Village are very sure that it was a ghost at work.
How could the police who don't believe in ghosts save Dabie Village?
"Tell me, before the first villager died, was there anything unusual in the village? Or, did the three villagers who died break any taboos?"
Wang Ping didn't believe that the appearance of the hanged ghost was accidental. There must be a reason that caused Dabie Village to attract the hanged ghost.
Whether it is modern or ancient times.
There are often some taboos circulating in rural areas.
For example, you can't whistle at night, you can't look back when you hear someone shouting behind you when walking at night, you can't stand upside down at night and look at things from under your pants...
As Wang Ping, who knows that ghosts really exist, believes that these taboos must be believed, but they must also be believed.
Sometimes, it is better to believe it than not to believe it.
After all, ghosts have appeared, what absurd things can't happen?
After hearing Wang Ping's words, the village chief, Aunt Zhou and others recalled
"Could it be that incident?!"
"I remembered it, it was that incident, Zhuzi and the others knocked on the bowls."
Wang Ping's reminder reminded the village chief and others of an incident.
A month ago, when no one in the village had died, Dabie Village celebrated the custom, and each household gathered together for dinner.
That night, the village was full of joy.
Men, women, old and young all drank. Among them, a middle-aged man named Zhuzi, who was drunk, knocked on the bowl with chopsticks in the middle of the night and sang folk songs. There are many taboos in the countryside.
In addition to not being able to whistle at night, another one is not being able to knock on the bowl with chopsticks in the middle of the night.
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