At the foot of the mountain, the forest began to become sparse, and Granny Liu stopped crying. There was a stone staircase built on the side of the hill. It seemed that I had to climb up and then climb down. I looked back at the road I came from, which was already blocked by the forest.


    "Just climb over this hill." Granny Liu said in a slightly low voice, "Be careful, the road is very slippery in the deeper dew."


    I nodded and followed Granny Liu. When I got to the top, I knew why there was a notch. This was a place dug by humans for people to rest before going down the mountain.


    Granny Liu said that she was afraid that I would be tired and asked me to rest here. At the same time, she stood in the notch and looked down anxiously. There were a few houses with dim lights not far away. I guessed that was her home.


    The wind from the concave was so cold that it was bone-chilling. I tightened my clothes and didn''t want to stay any longer: "Grandma, I''ve rested well, let''s go down."


    "Okay." She smiled, raised the corners of her mouth, and reached out to pull me, "I''ll support you, the way down the mountain is not easy."


    Grandma Liu''s hands were very cold and rough. This was my first reaction. When I got down the mountain and followed her to the small thatched house in the west, it turned out to be a thatched house? I had never heard of people living in thatched houses in this era. I suddenly felt a little pity in my heart. No wonder she said her family was poor and she had to work as a nanny at such an old age.


    The thatched house is divided into two rooms, the outer room has only a simple table with a worn-out yellow landline phone on it, and the inner room has a bed. When she heard us coming, an auntie came out of the room, wearing a very eye-catching yellow dress: "Auntie Liu, since you are back, I will leave, don''t leave the child alone at home anymore."


    Grandma Liu said yes repeatedly, and the auntie looked at me carefully when she left, smiling brightly. Grandma Liu grabbed me and pulled me in front of her and said coldly to the auntie: "Isn''t it time for you to leave?"


    The auntie smiled awkwardly, and left with her hips twisted.


    Grandma Liu smiled awkwardly and told me not to mind, and pulled me into the room. There was a little girl lying in the room covered with a red quilt with flowers embroidered on it, and a pair of small embroidered shoes on the ground. Grandma Liu''s clothes were neat, but they were old at a glance, while the clothes on the little girl were brand new, which showed that Grandma Liu really loved her granddaughter.


    But the little girl''s face was pale, and the corners of her mouth were black, obviously she was seriously ill. Granny Liu rushed over and cried loudly: "My Qianqian."


    I felt a little awkward, and retreated outside to sit on a stool and wait, but I didn''t expect that the aunt just now didn''t leave. She stood at the door and looked at the direction of the inner room with her eyes straight. When she saw me coming out, she blinked and walked over. I was still a little scared of her at the time: "Auntie."


    "You have a sweet mouth." The aunt said in a low voice with a curled mouth, "You don''t know that a disaster is coming?"


    "What are you talking about?" I retreated nervously. Granny Liu''s crying came from the room, and I didn''t dare to go in and disturb her.


    "What a child." The woman looked into the inner room, with an expression in her eyes that I couldn''t understand, and turned away, "Forget it, forget it."


    After she left, I stared at the door for a long while, and only breathed a sigh of relief when I was sure that she would not come back. I tiptoed to sit on the stool next to the table, but I was anxious in my heart. Why didn''t Granny Liu take her granddaughter Qianqian to the hospital? I immediately thought that it might be a money problem. I touched my pocket and found that there was less than 500 yuan left. This was the pocket money that Lao Ge gave me. Thinking that he would be back tomorrow anyway, I got up and walked into the house and put the crumpled money on the bedside: "Granny Liu, take Qianqian to the hospital first, you take this money first, if it''s not enough... if it''s not enough Lao Ge will be back tomorrow, I will ask him to give you more wages. "


    "You kid." Granny Liu wiped her tears and touched Qianqian''s little face, "There are still good people, oh, forget it, this disease is an old problem, once you get sick, you will have a fever, there are medicines at home, but you have to keep someone at home, Granny doesn''t want this money, but it''s wronged that you have to sleep with Qianqian tonight."


    I hooked my hands, hesitated, looked at the sky outside and nodded: "Okay, you can go back before Lao Ge comes back tomorrow."


    Granny Liu''s face looked a little better, saying that the house was small and there was only one bed, she could go to the outer room to make a bed on the floor, and put the money in my pocket, and my good impression of her increased a little.


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    When I went to bed at night, Qianqian next to me was unconscious for a while and conscious for a while. When she was conscious, she said a few words to me. I tried to make her happy, and I could see that her disease would not be cured in a day or two, so I lay on the bed and slept next to her.


    But the night was getting colder and colder, and I started to shiver. I always sleep lightly and don''t like to move around, so I wondered if the quilt was gone? I opened my eyes and saw Qianqian staring at me with her eyes open, her black hair drooping, only a little finger''s height away from me, her mouth opened and closed, there was no warmth in her eyes, but the paleness on her face faded, and even a hint of redness appeared.


    No matter how stupid I was, I knew what was happening. I was so scared that I wanted to run away. Qianqian ignored me and continued to open and close her mouth. I felt my body getting colder and colder. It took me almost a minute to crawl under the bed. I had no strength left in my body. I ran out without even putting on my shoes. There was no trace of Granny Liu in the outer room. I ran out of the door. Granny Liu and the aunt in bright yellow clothes were whispering in the middle of the road. Granny Liu was startled when she saw me and was a little angry: "Why did you come out?"


    My hand quickly fumbled in my pocket, and I quickly held the carving knife in my hand and protected it in front of me. I couldn''t hear what my grandfather was muttering when he sent me out, but I knew the magic of the carving knife. Sure enough, Granny and Aunt were a little afraid.


    "Don''t come over." I spoke with a trembling voice, pointed the carving knife at them, and ran back the way I came.


    "Huh..." I was panting, a little exhausted. I heard two heavy footsteps behind me. I looked back and saw that it was Granny Liu chasing me quickly. Qianqian, who was wearing embroidered shoes, was following behind her. The stone steps up the mountain were a little slippery. I pinched myself to calm down and began to climb up step by step.


    "Don''t go... stay..." Granny Liu''s words got into my ears, and my throat was very hoarse.


    "Xiao Xi!" Suddenly a figure appeared in the notch. Although I couldn''t see clearly, it turned out to be Lao Ge''s voice. "Child, come here quickly."


    I saw hope at that moment. I didn''t need to protect myself with the carving knife. I simply climbed up with all my strength and handed my hand to Lao Ge. Lao Ge pulled me and successfully reached the notch: "Lao Ge."


    I was so scared that I hugged Lao Ge''s body. I felt his body temperature. Lao Ge hid me behind him. He didn''t bother to comfort me and pointed the carving knife in my hand at Granny Liu who was chasing me. Granny Liu stopped when she was about to reach us. Qianqian smiled at me and said, "Xiao Xi, didn''t we agree to be friends?"


    I felt like I was falling into an ice cave. I was blocked by Lao Ge just as I was about to speak. At the same time, Lao Ge muttered something in his mouth. Granny Liu and Qianqian looked paler and paler. The whole mountain forest was roaring, and then quickly faded towards the direction of the village. I trembled and stuck my head out from behind Lao Ge. The thatched house in the distance was pitch black, and there was no light.


    I was dazed when Lao Ge carried me home. He boiled water for me to take a bath. In the mirror, my mouth was pale and my face was bloodless. After taking a bath, Lao Ge had gone out to buy me food. He was a little embarrassed: "Lao Ge, I have never learned to cook in my life. This is frangipani, boiled with boiled water. Lao Chen and I always stole eggs to drink like this. It tasted quite good."


    I curled my lips, but couldn''t laugh. I picked up the frangipani and drank it. The more I thought about what happened just now, the more scared I became. I couldn''t help but shed tears.


    "Xiao Xi, don''t go out after eight o''clock in the future." Lao Ge lowered his voice, and then put a palm-sized note in front of me, "Memorize the words on this paper. If you encounter this thing again next time, use a carving knife to read the words on the note to the dirty thing. Tell me what happened today, and don''t miss a single detail..."


    I nodded silently and said I remembered it, and then told the whole story from beginning to end.


    Lao Ge sighed and said that this incident was his negligence. Granny Liu and Qianqian were both called Yang corpses, not ghosts. There used to be a grave circle behind the forest. The hill was deliberately dug by a Feng Shui master. The eye-like concave hole was called the Yinkou. There was a nursery rhyme about the Yinkou: pass the Yinkou, pass the Yinkou, come to the Yinkou and don''t look back.


    "It means that the Yin and Yang are separated. But I just observed that the grave circle has become a place to raise corpses. Granny Liu and her granddaughter are wearing funeral clothes. The graves there are old and have become living corpses. Granny Liu can get out, but her granddaughter can''t. You said that her mouth opens and closes, that is absorbing Yang Qi!" Lao Ge''s words made me sweat, "If you wake up later, you will go to see Old Chen."


    Seeing that I was scared, Lao Ge asked me to drink and go to sleep. Without Yang Qi, I had no strength and fell asleep quickly. I heard someone twisting the door handle in a daze, and the key clattered outside. Someone was opening the door.


    I opened my sleepy eyes and saw a man holding the baby brother standing at the door. I lost my sleepiness immediately. I wanted to get up in horror but couldn''t. I shouted but couldn''t say a word. The man''s face was not clear. The baby brother was like a doll in his hand.


    "Ah!" I struggled with all my strength and sat up suddenly. Looking at the empty house without a ghost, I broke out in a cold sweat and quickly turned on the table lamp. Only then did I breathe a sigh of relief.


    But I didn''t dare to sleep again. I experienced such a thing at night and had a nightmare at night. My mind was full of baby brother. Since Jiang married into the heavy area with baby brother, there have been constant disasters in the family. First, my father died, and then my grandfather risked his life to send me out. I became the only survivor. Lao Ge, who adopted me, said that I was weak and easy to attract dirty things, but I had lived in the heavy area for seven years. The more I thought about it, the more I felt something was wrong. I put on my shoes and ran to the door of Lao Ge''s house and knocked on the door.