Chapter 40: Curiosity killed the cat

Hearing Fu Yiran's words, Si Yu gave him a faint glance, opened the quilt without a word, and patted the position next to him to lie down.
Gu Xizhou stared at the two fuzzy figures near the window with slightly frowned brows, but still listened to Si Yu's words and lay down to sleep.
Seeing this, Fu Yiran turned over and lay down on his bed, facing sideways to the window.
In the bed, Gu Xizhou heard Si Yu lower his voice: "Listen to me, don't look at it, sleep well, nothing will happen tonight."
Gu Xizhou nodded, "I know."
It may be to prevent Gu Xizhou from running to see the dark shadows outside. When Si Yu was sleeping, he grabbed Gu Xizhou's clothing corner with one hand. This time he did not sleep with his back to Gu Xizhou, and soon Gu Xizhou heard Si Yu. Smooth breathing.
In the dark, Si Yu closed her eyes, crow feather-like eyelashes curled slightly, and dark hair scattered randomly.
Gu Xizhou glanced at the dark shadow by the window, but because Si Yu was holding his clothes, he had to give up his curiosity.
"Don't see it?"
Si Yu seemed to be asleep, but did not hear Fu Yiran's words.
In the darkness, Fu Yiran got out of bed again with a smile on his pretty face, and blinked at Gu Xizhou, "Do you want to see it? I'll tear the newspaper."
"Don't look," Gu Xizhou felt Si Yu's breath behind him and frowned. "I'm asleep."
Gu Xizhou closed his eyes and fell asleep immediately after speaking, and after a short while, even breathing sounded.
Fu Yiran next saw Gu Xizhou closed his eyes for a moment, stood beside the bed, stared at Gu Xizhou and Si Yu for a moment, and then returned to his bed.
the next day.
Gu Xizhou came out of the bathroom and happened to meet Fu Yiran, who was already wearing women's clothing. He watched Fu Yiran had two dark circles under his eyelids and asked, "Why didn't you sleep well last night?"
Fu Yiran waved his hands and said helplessly, "Don't mention that, yesterday, the two figures stood by our window all night, and I never dared to sleep."
Gu Xizhou glanced at him in surprise, and it was not until breakfast that Gu Xizhou noticed that the other six people had dark circles under their eyes.
"Did you see the figure last night?" Liu Kai suddenly looked around at the dining table and found that the elder sister who had cooked for them had left the dining room. He whispered, "The figure stood by the window all night. , Scared me to move all night! "
"Seeing it," Fu Yiran said, pointing to the dark circles under his eyes. "I didn't sleep all night. The two of them slept quite well."
As soon as Fu Yiran's voice fell, the surrounding sight fell on Gu Xizhou and Si Yu's body at the same time, with a look of surprise, obviously again-how can you sleep?
Si Yu didn't care about the eyes of the people around him. He ate breakfast quietly and elegantly, and Gu Xizhou followed suit.
"It really is a big brother." Fu Yiran stared at Si Yu with a sigh.
They didn't see the village chief until they had a breakfast.
"It's really hard for you to call you these days. There is really no way. The plaque of the shrine is rotten. If it is not repaired, I am afraid that it will fall when the ancestor worships." The village chief said very kindly to Gu Xizhou.
After listening to Gu Xizhou for a long time, I was able to figure out the situation. The ancestors of the village were sacrificed five days later, and the plaque outside the shrine was unable to use because of years of rain and corrosion of termites. The village decided to pay someone to make a new plaque to hang. And they are the carpenters invited by the village to make plaques.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the shrine." The village chief said, "Every year before Qingming, we have an ancestor worship in our village. The ancestor worship is our big thing. Bless us with good weather."
The old man smiled and said to the crowd, "Yes, the shrine is a heavy place. There are rules in the village, and outsiders cannot enter."
Gu Xizhou frowned and asked, "What if we entered?"
The village chief showed a smiley face to Gu Xizhou, a pair of old eyes smiled as if two chrysanthemums, full of wrinkles: "You can try."
After answering Gu Xizhou's question, the village chief then repeated the time limit by himself: "A new plaque must be prepared within five days."
Having said that, the village chief walked behind with his hands behind him and seemed to lead them. The others immediately stood up and followed the steps of the village chief. The village chief told them many times not to enter the shrine along the way. It's not annoying.
The village chief took them along the road from the village to the west side of the village. There were low bushes around it, no shelters, no tall trees. You can look far away. See the shrine in the village chief's mouth.
The perimeter of the ancestral hall is bare, and the plaque standing on the door is written with the four characters of 'Zheng's Ancestral Hall'. There are countless small holes on this plaque, which are left after the termites have eaten it. The left leg is missing one piece. The whole The plaque was covered with black mold, and the gold characters on the black background were somewhat smudged.
And on the wall next to the shrine, there is a small wooden sign that reads-The ancestral shrine is heavy, the idlers are free to enter, and the offender is at his own risk.
From the outside, the ancestral hall is very large. Gu Xizhou glanced into it.
The old man pointed at the ancestral hall behind him and said, "This is it. You must make the new plaque as soon as possible, and you must do it within five days before worshiping the ancestors."
When Gu Xizhou saw the old man mentioned the time limit for ancestor worship many times, he couldn't help asking: "What if he didn't do well within five days?"
"Oh." The old man smiled strangely at Gu Xizhou, didn't answer Gu Xizhou's question, put his hands behind his back, and asked the others: "Do you have any questions?"
Si Yu: "Where is the wood?"
The old man smiled and pointed at a mountain road ahead: "That mountain is mostly wood."
"Cut it yourself?"
The old man nodded. "Rest assured that the wood on that mountain was just chopped down by the ancestors of the village."
Gu Xizhou entered this world for the first time. Obviously there is a task in the world that needs to be completed by the player. If it is not complete, there will be a penalty.
"Are there any requirements for the production of plaques?" Gu Xizhou thought of a problem, and they were not carpenters.
"Just do it."
Gu Xizhou frowned: "What is good?"
"If there is a plaque or a word, just count it."
It didn't take long for the old man to answer the question, and everyone whispered.
"This request is too simple, right? If there are plaques and words, even if we draw ghosts randomly?"
While they were talking, suddenly they heard the woman crying, Gu Xizhou subconsciously looked at Fu Yiran next to him, but at this time Fu Yiran was just like him, frowning slightly, as if listening to a voice from a distance.
The voice sounded like a lot of women gathered together to cry, not a single person. The crying voice seemed to be low. With this cry, everyone couldn't help scalp.
Fu Yiran said something for a while and asked the old man, "A woman is crying?"
The head of the village expressed a blank expression: "No, no one is crying, you heard me wrong!"
"Somebody is crying."
The village head was bewildered, and he froze, and said, "I'll go in and see."
After the old man spoke, he stepped into the ancestral hall, and as the village chief went in, Gu Xizhou heard that the cry was even louder, as if there were countless open mouths crying at the same time.
The village chief came out soon after entering, raising his eyebrows and saying, "No one is crying. You must have heard it wrong. Is it too late for us to come to Murakami? So uncomfortable?"
"Maybe." Si Yu heard it, said lightly.
"Hey, you still need more rest. You don't have to meet the five-day schedule. You can take two days off to make plaques, as long as you don't delay the ancestor worship." The village chief smiled and was very considerate.
Although the village chief said so, the cry in the temple still came out intermittently, as if many people were crying at the same time, and the voice was getting louder. As for his kindness, nobody naturally accepted it.
They can leave here early after finishing the plaque early.
After the old man left, Gu Xizhou slightly probed and looked inside, trying to find out.
"Don't go in first," Si Yu suddenly held Gu Xizhou and whispered.
"Okay." Gu Xizhou nodded and glanced at the ancestral hall, only to barely see that the candles were slowly burning inside.
After determining the location of the ancestral hall, Gu Xizhou and they went to take the wood on the mountain that the village chief said. Unexpectedly, the wood was easily obtained. No accidents occurred during this period.
The wood was placed in the doorway of the house where they lived. The woman who cooked for them last night made the meal very early, and when they saw them back, they smiled as broadly as they did yesterday.
"You're back, let's eat." The woman set the dishes and said to several people.
After speaking, the woman took off her waist to leave, at this time Si Yu asked casually, "What is the main purpose of your temple?"
The woman heard the words, looked up at Si Yu and said, "It's the sacrifice for ancestor worship. No one visits it every year."
"Does anyone live in your village?"
The women in the village smiled and lowered their waistline: "Live in? Who lives there? Live with the ancestral tablet? How terrible!"
The woman left after speaking, leaving nine of them sitting at the table to continue eating.
"It's so good today ... we'll cut the piece of wood with a tool later." The only girl in the team said softly, "I haven't seen such a world for a long time. It is rare that there are no dead people this morning."
The girl finished speaking, her eyes bent into a small moon, obviously not as nervous as yesterday.
Fu Yiran next heard the girl's words, and said lightly, "Don't be careless, be careful the first person to die is you."
When the girl heard Fu Yiran's words, she immediately became angry and excited, and asked, "What are you talking about! What is the first person to die is me, are you sick?"
Fu Yiran gave her a faint glance and sneered, "I just kindly remind you that curiosity killed the cat."
"Hey, you man and girl, you say it again! You ..." The girl was so angry that after all, in such a world, someone said you would die, which is not a good thing.
Fu Yiran rolled his eyes: "Remember my advice, you have to die or live anyway, it has nothing to do with me."
"Well, say a few words," Gu Xizhou patted Fu Yiran's shoulder, this place is always full of death at any time, which is really bad.
The people next to him also persuaded the girl. Fu Yiran did not speak under Gu Xizhou's eyes. In the afternoon, two people in the team looked at each other unpleasantly.
"Done? You are too fast, can you press it today?" The village chief didn't mind the crooked characters on the new plaque, as if written by Xiao Er, but he was very happy.
However, Liu Kai glanced at the already dim sky. It is estimated that it took them about an hour from here to the shrine this morning. Now it is dark.
"We will press you early in the morning, and now it's too dark and unsafe." Liu Kai said.
The village chief did not forcefully ask them to hang the plaque today. Instead, he laughed, "Well, don't worry, anyway, you can do it well before the ancestor worship."
After eating at night, Gu Xizhou glanced at the time on his mobile phone and said to everyone: "It's late, go to sleep."
People around him heard him, nodded slightly, and returned to the room.
The three had simply washed and Gu Xizhou sat on the bed, staring blankly at the window next to the newspaper.
"Look what?"
Si Yu asked Gu Xizhou's shoulder and asked.
Gu Xizhou looked up at him and said, "I was thinking about the two figures last night."
"Curious kills the cat." Si Yu said suddenly.
Gu Xizhou heard this sentence for a moment, because it was exactly the same as what Fu Yiran said to the girl during the day.
After falling asleep in the middle of the night, Fu Yiran awakened Gu Xizhou again, pointing to the reflection on the window, "Gu Ran, aren't you curious what is outside?"
Gu Xizhou: "..."
Fu Yiran smiled slightly at him, and had the intention of inviting Gu Xizhou to explore the secrets, his eyes smirked, but soon the expression on Fu Yiran's face froze.
Gu Xizhou felt the coolness of the vest. He turned around and saw Si Yu rolled up from the bed. Si Yu's gaze fell on Fu Yiran's body, and he whispered to him, "Remember what I said to you."
Gu Xizhou nodded curiosity. In fact, he was scratched by the dark shadows outside. He wanted to take a look.
It must be a ghost outside, and it didn't matter much to him.
Si Yu saw his eyes looking at the window, but reluctantly went to the window and knocked on it with his hand.
"There is nothing you want here, let's go."
Something outside seemed to understand him, the outlines of the dark shadows on the windows became smaller and smaller, getting smaller and smaller, until they disappeared.
The next day--
Before Gu Xizhou stepped out of the door, he heard the whispering sound at the door!
"Dead ... It really won't be that simple. Two dead in one night!" Liu Kai pointed to the room in the corner and talked quietly with Wen Wen beside him.
Gu Xizhou saw the blood on the floor, and knew that something had happened last night. Four feet were outside the door. Gu Xizhou walked over and took a look—the two corpses lying on the ground were already beyond recognition. It flowed from their faces, and their faces were gone. In addition, all the clothes on them were intact. One of them was the girl who quarreled with Fu Yiran yesterday.
Gu Xizhou subconsciously looked at the situation in the two people's room. He noticed that an irregular shape was torn open from the window of the room next to the newspaper, so that he could see the situation outside.
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