smuggler

Chapter 88
The old lady coughed and ignored the man under the eaves at the door, but walked up to me and stared at me with a smile for a while.

"Little girl, what's your name?"

The old lady held the covered oil lamp, her eyes narrowed into slits.

I stared at her nervously, and said hesitantly, "My name is Bai Yao!"

The old lady nodded with a smile: "What a good name, not bad, not too late, just in time!"

The old lady seemed to be insane, talking to herself in words that I couldn't understand.

"Grandmother..." I looked at the wrinkled old woman and hesitated to speak.

The smile on the old lady's face disappeared, replaced by a dignified face, squinting her eyes and said: "The local people call me Erpo Ma, and young people as old as you, just call me Granny Ma."

I called out to Granny Ma, but after the shouting, the smile on Grandma Ma's face disappeared, replaced by a solemn face, and she said something that made my bones shudder.

"Little girl, you are dying, do you know that?"

"Grandma Ma, what do you mean by that?" My heart skipped a beat.

"Your face is full of death, and there are dark lines and black air on the bridge of your nose, which indicates that you will encounter a life-and-death disaster!" Granny Ma turned her head, glanced outside the door, and sighed.

I frowned and said, "Grandma Ma..."

Granny Ma shook the oil lamp and said, "You and I are destined to meet at this time. In this way, you promise me two things."

"You put three sticks of incense on the censer on the table, and then go to pick a peach from the ancient peach tree in Ridge Garden, and I'll give you something to save your life, maybe it can turn your bad luck into good luck."

I shook my head unconsciously after hearing this, "You said it's not difficult to get three pillars of incense, but now the peach tree has passed the month, how can I still pick the peaches."

Granny Ma narrowed her eyes and laughed dryly, "It depends on your luck."

I was full of doubts, but before I could speak, Granny Ma smiled kindly, and said: "Stop talking, it's time to go, it's not good if it's too late."

With that said, Granny Ma stood at the gate holding an oil lamp, arranging her makeup.

At this time, a tall and thin shadow wrapped in black air came out from the eaves door. He seemed to be wearing a tall hat and holding a flag in his hand.

When he appeared at the door, that dark face glanced at me.

Then, the tall and thin black figure walked into the heavy rain, and the bell was hung on the black flag, which jingled when it walked out.

Granny Ma also followed the man behind her, and stooped into the rain curtain with a lantern in her hand.

This scene made me feel extremely weird.

Because, in the midst of the wind and rain, the oil lamp carried by Granny Ma was not extinguished, and the sound of the bell was very clear, and her skirt was never wet in the rain.

In the mist, the tall and thin black figure and the figure of Granny Ma gradually disappeared.

Like a bolt from the blue, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in my mind, I turned my head and glanced at the full-length mirror in the side room of the main room.

In an instant, I finally understood what I felt was wrong before.

At first, when Granny Ma came from the side room with an oil lamp, the full-length mirror was empty.

Thinking of her wearing a shroud, I couldn't help but hiss.

Then he turned his head to look at the pitch-black coffin placed behind him in the main room, couldn't help moving his feet, and slowly moved closer to take a look inside.

As I approached the coffin,
Suddenly, I felt the pain in my palms, and subconsciously looked down, my whole body twitched violently, and I almost cried out in fright.

On the back of my right hand, there is actually a big scarlet centipede crawling!
I hurriedly shook my hand vigorously, but the centipede seemed to be nailed to my hand, and I couldn't shake it off no matter what.

Just as I was frightened, suddenly, a hand was placed on my shoulder from behind!

I couldn't help but tremble all over, but I reacted very quickly, and grabbed that slender and white jade hand.

"Are you OK?"

A frail and frightened voice suddenly sounded.

I glanced around, but found that I was still sitting in the back row of the bus, holding the hand of the female student next to me. The latter seemed to be a little frightened, and she shrank and turned her head tremblingly to look at me.

She kept silent and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

I looked around and my head was too slow to react. I let go of the female student's hand and said to her, "What's going on? Why are we here?"

Outside the car window is a winding dirt road, surrounded by a forest, and there are no old houses at all.

My brain is a little overwhelmed.

The female student retracted her hand, a little frightened, and said weakly, "At first you fell asleep in the car, and then suddenly your body trembled like an electric shock. I just wanted to wake you up."

After she finished speaking, her eyes were a little strange, and she asked tentatively, "Did you have a nightmare just now?"

I held my forehead in a daze, and it took me a while to wake up, but the dream I had at the beginning was too real.

After being relieved, I didn't have time to think about it. At this time, the rain had stopped, and the fog in the valley had also faded, and it was clear and bright.

I said apologetically to her, "I'm sorry!"

"Do you drink water?" The female student looked at my pale face and whispered.

I shook my head, said thank you, and then looked out of the car window in a daze. The car moved forward slowly on the bumpy mountain road, and drove forward for a while after passing through the mountain forest, at the mountainside.

At this time, Panshan Road suddenly made a sharp turn, and a black car in front of it seemed to be out of order. In order to avoid it, the bus obviously panicked.

Then there was a bump, and it hit the guardrail next to it. The front of the car was tilted, and the car turned off immediately.

With quick eyes and quick hands, when the female student bumped into the front, I pulled, and we were thrown back to our seats.

Amidst screams of horror, the car stopped, and the people in the car were staggering and noisy. The driver reacted, got out of the car cursing and walked towards the black car.

The female student was still in shock, and said thank you to me with a pale face.

But I didn't speak, because an old house next to the wild road appeared in my sight, and as I looked carefully, my face became more and more serious.

The old house was very simple, like a village grocery store, with a window, and the straw-covered courtyard door had been washed for many years, and the door was tied with a few rusty wires.

One of the doors was tilted and could collapse at any moment.

Looking at the old house through the car window, I couldn't help shivering.

Looking at this old house, I suddenly thought of the dream I had earlier, and there was a layer of cold air behind me.

This old house is exactly the same as the one I just dreamed about.

(End of this chapter)