Ch132 - Evil Spirit (6) — Threshold

As expected, Qin Qin’s cell phone was not broken. She clicked on the video just now, but in the video, the river was calm and there was no sign of the girl asking for help.

Su An and Qin Qin looked at each other, and Qin Qin said anxiously: “Teacher, I won’t lie to you, I really saw a girl and two adult men!”

Su An paused and said quietly: “Teacher believe you.”

Qin Qin then remembered that her teacher had also experienced such a weird thing. She felt somewhat comforted in her heart and quickly calmed down, “Teacher, if this situation occurs here, Zhou Hao and the others may also be in danger. Should we go find them first?”

Su An affirmed: “Go.”

They walked to the river at the west end of the village. Su An looked down at the water in the river, thoughtfully.

Qin Qin asked in a low voice: “Teacher, what are you looking at?”

“The rain in Xijing Village does not fall evenly,” Su An murmured to himself, “Look, the rain on the river seems to be heavier…I had discovered this phenomenon before on the east side of the river. At first I thought it was due to the terrain, but now it seems that it is not that simple.”

Qin Qin didn’t notice this at all. She looked around and saw two sneaky shadows not far away. Qin Qin waved and said: “Zhou Hao! Chen Tian!”

Zhou Hao and Chen Tian saw them with sharp eyes, they ran over quickly and lowered their voices: “Why are you here?”

“Something happened,” Qin Qin then asked in a low voice, “What’s wrong with you? Looking so mysterious.”

“We found traces of car tires,” Zhou Hao’s eyes shone, “There must be a car here!”

Chen Tian added: “There are two car indentations. It should be that someone started the car recently, but I don’t know where the car was hidden.”

If they want to leave here, they will have to walk for two days. In such a humid place, mosquitoes are a trivial matter, but venomous snakes and spiders are not.

Even if there were no large wild animals, they had no food and no equipment. Walking at night in the rain, they were afraid of stepping into a snake hole, and they had no tools to save themselves.

It’s different when they have a car.

Su An asked: “Where does the indentation lead?”

Zhou Hao’s face darkened, “It leads to the river. Two of us can’t swim, but we tried it with branches and there were no cars at the bottom of the river.”

Su An and Qin Qin looked at each other and wondered at the same time whether what they saw was also an illusion.

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What’s going on with these car marks?

The white mist all around was also very strange.

The white fog on this side of the river is light and does not affect the vision, but on the opposite side the white fog is thick, so thick that it seems to be dripping.

It seemed that only inside the village did the white fog dissipate much.

The four of them, teacher and students, who were confused, returned home and made lunch using the rice noodles they bought from Brother Liu.

Yu Su’an and Zhou Hao didn’t know how to cook. They were washing vegetables and lighting the fire, watching Chen Tian take charge as the chef and Qin Qin as his assistant.

Unlike gas and electrical appliances, stoves require firewood to start a fire. However, the firewood here was too moist, and when it burned, the smoke billowed out, making Yu Su’an shed tears and become extremely embarrassed.

When the meal was ready, Yu Suan’s face was already black and white, his eyes were red from the smoke, and the students couldn’t help but look at him a few more times.

Teacher Yu blushed and said in embarrassment: “I’m going to wash my face.”

Chen Tian scratched his head, “Teacher is actually still very young.”

Although Yu Su’an has long been known to be young, Yu Su’an’s clothes are too old-fashioned, which always makes the students forget his true age unconsciously.

Now think about it, Teacher Yu is really the youngest among the university teachers who taught them.

When Su An came back after washing his face, the students had already set out the dishes. Chen Tian has been accustomed to farm work since he was a child, and his meals have a unique home-cooked taste. Su An ate deliciously and felt much more at ease eating it than the food sent by the village elder brother.

Qin Qin talked about her hallucination at the dinner table, “The feeling was very real. If the teacher hadn’t caught me in time, I would have drowned in the river.”

She is still a little scared, “The water has already reached my neck. Logically speaking, I should feel suffocated, but in fact, I don’t feel any discomfort.”

Zhou Hao and Chen Tian felt goosebumps all over their bodies when they heard this. Yu Su’an said with some relief: “Now you believe my words.”

Chen Tian nodded repeatedly and said happily: “Fortunately, Zhou Hao and I can’t swim, so we didn’t go near the river. But if there are really ghosts in this world, they can still appear during the day.”

No one knew about this question. The more Chen Tian thought about it, the more curious he became, “Teacher, is the little ghost you saw last night similar to the ghost Qin Qin saw? Are the ghosts in this village all children?”

Yu Su’an thought for a while and said, “The one Qin Qin saw should be a drowned ghost.”

“Water ghosts beg for mercy. Ghosts who drown in the water cannot be reincarnated unless they can find a scapegoat,” Yu Su’an said, “The drowned ghost cannot leave the place where they drowned themselves. They can only use various methods to lure people to drown.”

“That means…” Qin Qin pursed her lips, “Did the girl who asked for help died at such a young age?”

“Not necessarily,” Yu Su’an sighed and patted Qin Qin’s head comfortingly, “That might be just an incarnation, Qin Qin, don’t think too much.”

“Let’s not talk about anything else first,” Zhou Hao coughed, looked at Su An, and asked with some expectation, “Teacher, do you have any way to deal with the drowned ghost?”

Yu Su’an said sincerely: “I don’t.”

Zhou Hao: “……”

After the meal, the teacher and the students slowly cleaned up the dishes, when they heard faint cries coming from outside the door.

Su An looked through the crack in the door and saw a long funeral procession wrapped in white linen passing by their door. At the front were four old men, each holding a black, square urn in their arms, with an old black-and-white photo standing on the box.

None of the people in the four photos was the young man Su An had seen in the coffin before.

The students also lay at the crack of the door and watched, whispering: “Is this the way this village practices burial? Why were four people cremated at once?”

They still remember clearly that on the day they first came to Xijing Village, the village chief had a quarrel with the villagers because of the cremation of a corpse.

Yu Su’an shook his head, the curiosity in his heart making him uncomfortable, “Do we have white linen in the house?”

Qin Qin was stunned, she ran to the warehouse that had not been packed away, and looked around. With a pale face, she picked up a box of neatly folded white linen, “Teacher, there are three full boxes of this stuff in the warehouse.”

How many deaths must there be for there to be so many funeral items left in an empty house that has not been inhabited for a long time.

Zhou Hao distributed the white linen cloth to everyone with a cold face, “We will follow at the end to see what they are doing. Cover your face and don’t make any sound.”

Su An put on the white linen cloth and tied it in front of his neck. His movements became slower and slower, and suddenly he raised his head and said: “I remembered!”

Students: “What?”

“When we said goodbye to the village chief at the ancestral hall in the morning, there were four people lying in the corner, covered with a layer of straw mats,” Yu Su’an licked his peeled lips and said nervously, “Do you still remember? Brother Liu said this morning that the village chief had something to do. Was he talking about the cremation of these four people?”

“So, I seem to have remembered it,” Qin Qin took a deep breath, “There seems to be a person in those four black and white photos. I saw him yesterday.”

Chen Tian: “That means these four people died today?”

Zhou Hao added quietly: “Maybe it was last night.”

The four people were silent for a few seconds. Their scalps trembled for a moment. They shivered, put on their mourning clothes, quietly went out, and followed the funeral procession.

The funeral procession was very long, everyone had their heads lowered, and no one noticed that there were four more little tails behind them. Su An and the four others were extremely honest. They listened to the conversations of the villagers around them with their ears raised and their mouths closed.

This team almost walked through the entire Xijing Village. Finally, the leader buried the urn next to the old man stone at the entrance of the village.

The funeral was over. The villagers went home in twos and threes. Su An and the others gathered together and exchanged in low voices what they had just heard.

Su An hesitated and said: “I discovered one thing. Have you noticed that the houses in this village have high thresholds?”

Except for the empty houses, the houses inhabited by villagers all have high thresholds, reaching the knees of an adult man.

Chen Tian whispered: “I used to hear my grandparents say in my hometown that old houses in the countryside would have such a threshold, but it is rare now.”

The knowledgeable teacher Yu said: “Thresholds have the function of blocking dirt and warding off evil spirits. In the past, it was said that the threshold was to prevent zombies. Zombies are walking around. Such a high threshold can not only prevent zombies from entering the house, but also can prevent zombies from going out to hurt people when there is a dead person in the house.”

The three students gasped, and Qin Qin said with a trembling voice: “Are there zombies in this village?”