Chapter 16: Lantern 3

When the sun went down, every household in the village raised cooking smoke.
The population of the Gatti family is simple. Gatti and his two sons, the eldest son in his early twenties and the youngest son in seventeen or eighty, are very quiet, do not like to talk, and are tanned black and thin like a stalk.
There is no hostess in this house.
The house was messy, groceries were piled up in the corner of the hall, and there was no vegetable field in the yard to raise chickens and ducks.
Chen Caixing was hungry, and as soon as he saw the meal, the fragrance of the next door reminded him. So he took RMB 90,000 to go downstairs for dinner. On the first floor, the eldest son chopped wood in the yard, and the worked as a carpenter. The younger son helped.
The ice-cold stove in the cooktop is not hot at all.
Chen Caixing: ...
Is it true that he is not worthy of eating? !
"Uncle, I'm hungry, when are we going to have dinner?" Chen Caixing finished, looking at the father-son three-man rough man model, afraid of making random meals, shamelessly supporting his waist, holding his beer belly, embarrassed to laugh He smiled and said, "I can't help it. I eat alone, and my younger brother. The child is growing tall and needs to eat something nutritious."
Gatti looked up at the sky, lost the wood in his hand, and said, "Boss, don't hack, go cook, and you help." Patting the little son on the shoulder.
The younger son evaded his father's hand and silently followed the older brother to the stove.
Soon the cooking smoke rose.
Gatti washed his face with water and washed his hands. He was sitting in the low bamboo chair at the door and smoked a gun.
Chen Caixing is a good actor, always remembering his identity as a'pregnant woman', so he hid aside from secondhand smoke. In fact, it is to visit the place where the Gatti family lives on the first floor. The last game allowed Chen Caixing to observe the site first, and NPC's home can't let it go.
In the middle of the first floor layout is a very open hall, the front yard and the back yard are open, and the summer wind is very cool. In the middle is placed a black lacquered table of eight immortals, a total of four rooms on the left and right sides. The left side of Gatti lived in the direction of the front yard, and behind was a warehouse.
On the right is the room of two sons.
The door was unlocked and left open. There is nothing suspicious in the three bedrooms, they are all simple and clear at a glance. The warehouse was filled with debris, and several heavy wooden boxes were locked and I didn't know what was loaded. There are also several sacks. Chen Caixing untied the dried mushrooms and the like.
"Sister, someone is here." Yuan Jiuwan was the sound tube.
Chen Caixing supported his beer belly and walked out of the warehouse with ease. When he was found, he said that a pregnant woman was too hungry with her baby and wanted to find something to eat.
Although it's shameless to pretend to be pregnant, sometimes it's really easy to use.
As soon as he came out, he made a face-to-face meeting with the newcomer Luzhou. The other party nodded at him with an anxious look. At the door, Gadi said: "... you find the room on the second floor."
"Okay, okay, thank you." Luzhou's attitude towards Gatti can be said to be respectful.
It should have known their situation.
Luzhou had a briefcase and a down jacket, and a face was sweaty. Chen Caixing felt uncomfortable when he saw it. He said: "Don't be nervous, go upstairs and put things first. You will have dinner later."
"Oh, okay, thank you." Luzhou was afraid and went to the second floor with confusion.
Yuan Jiuwan grunted and sulked cheeks, saying, "Sister, why are you so good to him?"
"Where is it better?" Chen Caixing looked at his brother's daring and cute look, and couldn't help but pinch the cheek of the younger brother, guessing that the little fart kid was jealous, and said very well: "I'm only good to Xiaojiu."
Yuan Jiuwan's eyebrows turned into crescents, and he said happily, "After the baby came out, who do you love most, me and the baby?"
Chen Caixing:? ? ?
Brother, there are too many plays.
Yes, but not necessary. There are no Oscars here.
Chen Caixing's eyes on the child's Baba, forget it, he also pretends to be pregnant in any game. So he smiled and touched the child's curls, saying, "Of course I love you the most."
The child smiled happily.
It's so coaxing.
It will be ready in a while. Gatti was dark outside, and Gatti lit an oil lamp.
Four dishes and one soup were placed on the Eight Immortals table. Illuminated by the orange oil lamp, it brought delicious filters, dried rabbit meat, fried mushrooms with mushrooms, fried bacon with bamboo shoots, fried shrimp with eggs, and a soup of tea mushroom ribs.
He was wrong, he shouldn’t be stereotyped that men can’t cook well.
"How do you do so much?" Gatti saw mumbles.
The eldest son was silent for a second and said, "Guests should eat better when they are pregnant."
Gatti glanced at Chen Caixing's stomach and said nothing about sitting down.
Four dishes and one soup, all filled with sea bowls, a large amount, but many people are still men. Chen Caixing had such a meal on his stomach. For the first time, he felt that the four abdominal muscles were replaced.
The eggs are soil eggs, Huang Chengcheng, the shrimps go to the shrimp line, and the adult has the long index finger, the two collide, it is too fresh. Not to mention other dishes.
Go down a spoonful with a long, slender rice filled with firewood. Chen Caixing can eat two bowls.
"It's delicious. Your craftsmanship is so good." Chen Caixing dug a spoonful of vegetables for the younger brother and put them in the bowl.
The two brothers were exaggerated and did not speak, eating in silence. On the dinner table, only Luzhou couldn’t swallow, holding a bowl, and it looked like a few rice, no one looked at the three of Gadi and his son secretly, and a look of alertness.
After eating, the two brothers packed up the tableware.
Chen Caixing ate a little, and walked around the yard with his waist, Yuan Jiuwan dada followed. Gatti glanced and said, "Go to bed early at night, don't run away if you're fine."
"Okay, I will walk around the yard twice." Chen Caixing agreed.
At first glance, the village was normal and normal, but when he thought of the human skin lantern, he wasn't as concerned, and he had to go for a walk at night.
But after not long, Xiao Jiu suddenly said, "Sister, someone is watching us."
"...Let's go back." Chen Caixing took Xiao Jiu's hand and walked back. He glanced quietly at the outside of the fence, the dark path, and a faint red shadow drifted across.
A trembling in his hand, who is a ghost.
There was hot water in the kitchen, and there was no bathroom on the second floor. Chen Caixing did not want to wake up at night, scrubbed with Xiao Jiu in a hurry, and used the toilet in the backyard. He held the oil lamp and stayed in the toilet. "Don't be shy, you have some sisters."
RMB 90,000: ...
After the solution, nothing happened. The two carried the oil lamp upstairs, but when they passed the hall, Chen Caixing always felt a pair of blood-red eyes staring at them outside the courtyard gate.
The wooden door is spliced ​​with bamboo and has gaps.
The lights of the two red holes are particularly conspicuous in the dark night.
"Sister, don't be afraid, I protect you."
Chen Caixing's mouth is hard: "I'm not afraid." It is the oil lamp in his hand that moves by itself!
The evening in the mountains is very cold, even in summer. It was cold and the blanket was still damp. Chen Caixing and Yuan Jiuwan were wearing thin clothes at home. They came here during the day and couldn't bear it at night. The two went to bed with their clothes, and next door was Luzhou's room.
"Brother, I'm cold." Yuan Jiuwan's voice was dull.
Chen Caixing opened his arms and embraced, "Brother hugs." Suddenly he got into a fleshy little body.
Silent at night, the oil lamp on the table went out.
The room fell into darkness, and Chen Caixing was a little afraid, but he slowly fell asleep after hearing Xiao Jiu's breath.
Suona sounded, and the paper was floating all over the sky.
The village was lively and bustling, and there were incense arrays under the big willow trees in front of the ancestral hall. The children dressed in joy, running around and shouting, "Choose a sacred girl, choose a sacred girl."
"Giggle, I'm going to eat the Virgin Seat this year."
"Ma, ma, I don't want my sister to be a saint--"
"Don't talk nonsense, the kids don't have a door on their mouth, sorry everyone."
"Ooo, will Auntie come back as a saint?"
"You also say! The saint is the ancestor of the ancestor. When you choose the saint, you will accompany the ancestor. In the future, you will bless the incense in the village and prosper for generations."
Chen Caixing knew that he was dreaming, but he couldn't wake up. It was too real. He could even smell the incense and fireworks under the big willow tree.
As soon as the picture changed, I came to a courtyard.
A man shouted: "This year the Saint Maiden is here, your home is Xiang Xian, and she is of good age."
"My home is still small--"
"What do you mean? Every five years in the village, you choose a virgin. If you are still as small as you said, how do you choose a virgin? No one else has refrained from saying anything before. The pure and unpolluted, A Xiangxiao is also just right."
Chen Caixing is like A Xiang, in a red dress by a strong mother-in-law.
Suona sounded through the yard, and all the way to the big willow tree. The children clapped their hands and shouted happily. Chen Caixing noticed that these children were all boys, not a girl.
In front of the ancestral hall was a total of six girls, 20 years old and 14 to 5 years old.
"Choose a virgin, please spirit—"
A cold air blew his face, and Chen Caixing woke up from a dream, but he didn't open his eyes. There was something in the room, so he stood by the bed and stared at him.
"You look at me with your eyes open."
The woman's faint voice, "I know you wake up."
No, you don’t know.
Chen Caixing not only didn't open his eyes, but also turned over, pretending to be sleepy, and turned his back to the bed.
Behind the gloomy, cold air seemed to pop from the spine.
Chen Caixing wanted to go to the toilet a little. Resolutely not admitting to be scared. Maybe he is older than the month, doesn't it mean that the pregnant woman gets older and wants to go to the bathroom? Chen Caixing thought shamelessly.
Xiao Jiu was warm in her arms, and there was no sound behind her after a while, but Chen Caixing still dared not open her eyes.
I don't know how long I waited, and when I heard a click, the room temperature returned to normal.
Cold, but not gloomy cold.
Chen Caixing fell asleep again, and was awakened again by hearing the door clap. The bang shot was very loud, it can be said that the door was smashed.
"Open the door, open the door, help save us."
"I beg you to open the door. Does anyone open it?"
He thought it was a dream, but the sound became louder and louder. After a while, the lights turned on, and Gati spoke downstairs. Chen Caixing knew that it was not a dream. There were people outside.
"Brother?" Huaiyuan Yuan was also awakened.
Chen Caixing's mind was sober, and he heard the voice outside, "It's okay, you keep going to sleep, let me go down and see."
"I went with my brother." Yuan Jiuwan struggled.
Chen Caixing thought of the female ghost who stood by his bed not long ago, and he dared not put Xiao Jiuyi here, without objection. The two went downstairs wearing slippers. The oil lamp of the first-floor house was lit, Gatti was dressed in clothes, and he was cursing with a black face: "...Speaking of the wolf in the mountain, let you keep up, don't go back to the village during the day, and keep arguing at night, The brain is broken."
"No, not a wolf, but a ghost, a ghost."
The talking is about rookie players who are going to go back to the village, but there are only two left of the three.