Chapter 4 Men He Bing
After discussion, the four of them agreed that they should wait for a while in the ancestral hall. If there are other living people in Hejia Village and they know the existence of the 'taboo', then they must They would come to the ancestral hall to read the almanac and check whether the day was good or bad.
I don’t know what happened tonight. In Hejia Village, every door is closed and the windows are closed. No one goes out to the ancestral hall to check whether the day is good or bad.
This thing is very abnormal, and abnormal means weird.
"Do you have any clues?" Zhang Yangxu asked while waiting.
"No." Ning Zhe shook his head and said: "The He family comes to the ancestral hall every night to read the almanac, but they didn't come today. Either they no longer care about seeking good luck and avoiding bad luck, or they have other ways to know whether today is good or bad. Or it's ...There is some kind of danger in the ancestral hall today, which makes them afraid to come."
"Oh?" Zhang Yangxu was curious: "Is that so?"
"I. I don't know, it's just a guess." Ning Zhe spread his hands.
"Danger...danger?" Feng Yushu's whole face turned pale when she heard that there might be danger in the ancestral hall. She was a Buddhist and had witnessed the weirdness of the snake god in Hejia Village. He was even more nervous, walking on thin ice in everything he did.
Feng Yushu looked at the tablets of the deceased and the statue of the snake god on the lotus platform with lingering fear, and then looked at Ning Zhe with a look of help, and suggested: "Otherwise, let's go out first and wait outside the ancestral hall. ...Would it be a little offensive to stay in front of the snake god?”
"I think so." Ning Zhe agreed and turned his attention to Zhang Yangxu and Xie Sining: "What do you think?"
"That makes sense. Places like the ancestral hall are not accessible to outsiders, let alone Not to mention staying here for a long time." Xie Sining also felt this way. Sample: "Mr. Zhang, are we going out?"
Zhang Yangxu glanced at Ning Zhe silently and nodded: "Let's go."
The four of them left the altar through the gate. In front of the lotus platform with the snake god, he stood under the eaves outside the main gate of the ancestral hall and waited.
There was nothing to talk about between the strangers. Xie Sining suggested that everyone could share the process of being involved in Hejiacun. Perhaps they could find some common ground or clues to leaving here.
Feng Yushu first said: "Yesterday...it should be the day before yesterday, my husband and daughter and I stayed in a hotel in Gubei Town. Because he has the habit of working alone at night, we rented three rooms, and he and I also had The daughters each have a room.”
“At about 7 o’clock in the evening, I made some coffee and prepared to send it to my husband’s room... ...But after opening his door and stepping over the door frame, what appeared in front of me was not a hotel room, but a narrow alley paved with bluestones. "
Feng Yushu said with lingering fear, "At that time. , the stainless steel door handle I held in my hand turned into an old brass door latch. Behind me was a low-rise stone house. Empty...as if I just walked out of this door."
Zhang Yangxu nodded slightly: "My situation was similar. My car was parked outside Gubei Town. At a gas station, the driver went to use the restroom. I asked Sining to buy a pack of cigarettes for me, but she didn’t come back and didn’t reply to her messages. I had no choice but to open the car door and go out. Looking for her. The moment I opened the car door and got out of the car, I came here.” After leaving the canteen, the concrete pavement under my feet was no longer the concrete pavement of the gas station, but the stone slabs paved on the streets of Hejia Village.”
"I'm more direct." Ning Zhe nodded and said, "I returned to my hometown, opened the door of my old house, and then came here."
Zhang Yangxu's eyes were slightly focused, thoughtful.
Is it a coincidence? Or is it inevitable? Whether it's the front door of an old house, the door of a hotel, the glass door of a department store... or even the door of a car, although the four people's journey to Hejiacun is different, they are all related to 'doors',
Ning Zhe's expression remained calm, thinking in his mind: "It's a pity that Lin Zhiyuan is already dead. Otherwise, we can ask him how he got in here. Did he also pass through a certain door?" Suddenly, a black shadow appeared. At the edge of Ning Zhe's field of vision, it disappeared in an instant.
"There is someone in the alley opposite, and he wants to run." Ning Zhe took out his cell phone without hesitation, turned on the flashlight, and pointed the light source at an alley across the street.
The flashlight that comes with the phone is not very far away. Ning Zhe did this just to transmit the coordinate information of the black figure to others in the most direct and quick way. The efficiency of describing it in words is too low, and Easy to distort.
But the strange thing is that the black figure who was trying to run away just stopped when he saw the flashlight turned on in Ning Zhe's hand.
The man took two steps this way, and then, a little white light lit up from his hand, which was also a flashlight.
"Great, it's a living person." Feng Yushu breathed a sigh of relief. Just now, her heart was about to jump out of her chest.
As I got closer, I realized that there was not just one person, but two, in the alley across the street. A man and a woman, two young men, they looked young, they seemed to be college students.
"Hello, my name is Gu Yunqing." The young man first revealed his name, and then introduced the young woman next to him: "This is my senior sister, we are both students of Qinzhou Medical University "
"My name is Ye Miaozhu." Gu Yunqing's senior introduced herself: "Were you also accidentally involved in this?"
Ning Zhe nodded.
After some communication, everyone exchanged information about each other and documents that could prove their identities. Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu both presented their internship certificates.
Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu are both interns. Qinzhou Medical University has always had a tradition of sending students to the countryside to intern in small clinics in remote places to gain experience, similar to volunteer teaching, and their internship location is the designated location of Gubei Town. Medical point.
Like Ning Zhe and the other four, Gu Yunqing and Ye Miaozhu came here after pushing open the doors of the clinic and pharmacy respectively.
"Sure enough, it has something to do with the door." Ning Zhe's guess became more certain: "If we all entered Hejia Village through the 'door', does this mean that somewhere in this village, Is there a hidden door that allows us to leave this strange world and return to reality? "
"Not sure, but it's possible." Zhang Yangxu agreed with his guess.
Zhang Yangxu asked Ye Miaozhu again: "You should know the existence of good and bad luck and taboos, but why did you not enter the ancestral hall to read the almanac, but hide in the alley across the street?"
Ye Miaozhu shook his head: "We dare not go in."
Gu Yunqing also said: "The He family usually comes to the ancestral hall on time every day to read the almanac and check good or bad luck, but today none of them came. You know this is Why?”
“Why?” Feng Yushu asked quickly.
Gu Yunqing took a deep breath and said: "I also overheard the chat between two older villagers... They said that the snake god is sick, and today is the day when he becomes ill."
(End of this chapter)