24 hour

Chapter 5 Hour 21

It was a few days later that Wu Jia officially visited the teacher.

Wu Jia didn't dare to enter at first, and his parents didn't care that he went in first. Apprenticeship is a cumbersome and complicated process, and there are many things to prepare.

Wu Jia lingered at the door for a long time by herself, holding the door open and carefully looking inside.Both Zhang Zexuan and Zhang Anyan were not in the yard. Wu Jia frowned, walked around the door a few times with his hands behind his back, clenched his fists for a long time as if he had made up his mind, and then turned around abruptly and walked in with great strides.

The messy main room that Wu Jia made a few days ago has been tidied up, and the knife is still hanging on the wall. It looks no different from the treasured swords used by other town houses to ward off evil spirits. Wu Jia couldn't help but glanced again. In the end, he shrunk his neck, thinking of the disaster he had caused, and was still a little scared in his heart.

The door of the inner room was still closed as tightly as last time, and no sound could be heard.Wu Jia didn't care about wandering around the house this time, and went to the yard alone to look at the flowers and plants.There are many plants in the yard, but they are not lush. Instead, they look sluggish. The stems are all bent, and the leaves are slightly drooping. Even the weeds are not a climate. Lie on the ground, not to mention other creatures in such grass.

Wu Jia squatted on the ground looking for grasshoppers everywhere, his legs were so numb that he couldn't stand up, and he didn't even find a single ant.He kicked on the ground angrily, kicking up a layer of soil.Wu Jia walked around the yard again, only to realize that the yard was strangely deserted and quiet. The insects and birds singing in summer had all disappeared here, as if they had been split from the outside world abruptly.

The gap between here and the outside is obvious but also very subtle. People are used to traveling in a hurry, not to mention the people who seek Zhang Zexuan are either haunted by evil spirits or have bad luck. They lament that they are too late. How could they find such dead air in the yard? .Wu Jia is not very old, and children are most sensitive to these mysterious things.

Wu Jia still couldn't figure out whether these things were related to Zhang Zexuan's master and apprentice, but he was running around in the yard with great curiosity. After running around, he found a field behind the house with very lush vines, with thick stems and thick leaves. , densely intertwined, growing tall and seeming to cover something beneath.Without even thinking about it, Wu Jia ran over and pushed aside the vines.It turned out that there was a well below. Wu Jia propped his hands on the edge of the well and looked down. The well didn’t look deep. It seemed that it had been abandoned for a long time. The mouth of the well was still covered with spider silk, but there were still bright and reflective water waves below. Wu Jia I feel a little strange, the water seems to be very dark, there is something swimming in the water waves, and there is a ripple on the water surface from time to time.Wu Jia wondered if there were still fish here, so he climbed up with his hands, knelt by the mouth of the well, folded his hands along the side, and looked down by himself.

The fish seemed to be frightened, and suddenly shrank to the bottom of the water and did not come out again. Wu Jia raised his head and looked around, then climbed down the mouth of the well, picked up a stone and threw it in, trying to force the fish out.There was only a plop when the stone fell, and there was a slight splash, and there was no more reaction.Wu Jia lay down on the edge of the well and kept looking in. After a while, the water below began to shake gently again.Wu Jia held his breath and watched carefully, suddenly felt something rubbing against his legs, the jeans were not too thick but tightly packed, so Wu Jia didn't care, after a while, the slight itchiness went all the way to his neck, He couldn't help scratching with his hand, but he touched something soft. Wu Jia was startled, and turned around suddenly, only to find that the vines behind him that had just been pushed aside had closed back at some point, curly The small leaves and thin whiskers rub against the skin.Wu Jia turned around and pulled the vines to the side again. The well behind him exuded the unique coolness and coldness of the water, and Wu Jia kept pushing the vines away from him.

He wanted to look at the well again, but when he turned around, his eyes were red.

It was a bright red eye, sunken in the socket, nailed to the pale gray skin, with blue whites, chapped lips, and black and messy hair.

Wu Jia felt chills all over his body for an instant, and his hair stood on end. He was so frightened that he was so stiff that he couldn't move.That eyeball also seemed to be a little dazed, empty and didn't know where to look, and suddenly turned around for a long time, looking straight at Wu Jia, the lips were raised immediately, and the corners of the eyes were turned up and narrowed into a curved red eyeball inside. It keeps turning, the corners of the mouth are wide open, together with the eyes, it makes the whole face look horribly gloomy.The chapped mouth was torn, and blood flowed from it.

Wu Jia's hands and feet shook involuntarily, and he let out a heart-piercing cry.The vines behind him also entangled almost at the same time, tightly strangling his hands and feet.The thing in front of it slowly approached. It looked at Wu Jia as if it had found something delicious. Two cold hands pinched Wu Jia's arm. Wu Jia felt a sharp pain and coldness in the place it grabbed to the bone.It watched Wu Jia's mouth suddenly open, it opened so wide that the corner of the mouth was almost torn to the base of the ear, but it seemed to be unconscious, and a viscous red liquid like blood was left behind, exuding a rotten stench.The vines wrapped around his body became tighter and tighter, almost strangling him to breathe. Wu Jia's heart beat fast, and his brain suffered from lack of oxygen. It took him a while to see clearly that the vines wrapped around him were actually slippery and disgusting. s hair.What grows at the mouth of the well is not vines, but hair!Wu Jia's stomach churned violently, and a few strands of hair tightly strangled his neck. Wu Jia couldn't help retching and couldn't make a sound.

His mind was blank, and when his hands and feet were cold and he was about to lose consciousness, he suddenly felt a dazzling light flashing in front of his eyes, followed by his skin burning.The thing wrapped around him let out a sharp cry, which made Wu Jia's head ache. Almost at the same time, the tightness on his neck, arms, and legs disappeared, and Wu Jia's body went limp and fell to the ground. Both ears are humming, throat is hot, eyes are turning white, and I can't feel anything.

Wu Jia still didn't understand what happened. He was immersed in fear and couldn't move. He was pulled up and hugged in his arms and ran back. The man whispered his name while running. It took Wu Jia a while to feel He regained consciousness and looked up to see Zhang Anyan.The grievance that had just been frightened suddenly popped up, and Wu Jia didn't care whether the thing was still behind, grabbed Zhang Anyan's neck and cried loudly.

Zhang Zexuan and Wu Jia's parents came after them. Wu Jia's mother rushed over to hug Wu Jia. Wu Jia was too frightened by the camouflaged vines. He was afraid that his mother was also a fake. He hugged Zhang Anyan and refused to let go, shaking his head. He glanced at the rattle drum, his eyes were red, his teeth were biting his lower lip, tears were streaming down his face.Wu Jia's mother's heart was broken, and she also wiped tears beside her. Zhang Zexuan only took a look at Wu Jia to make sure Wu Jia was fine, and then went into the backyard. With a shrill scream, remembering what happened just now, he shuddered twice and slipped into Zhang Anyan's arms.

Zhang Anyan was not a few years older than Wu Jia, his arms were sore from hugging Wu Jia, and he didn't dare to put Wu Jia down, so he just patted Wu Jia's back lightly.The forbidden woman in the backyard was drowned in the well before, and the land there was very dark, and she became a ghost over time. However, the local restrictions are not very favorable, and it is not a threat to people with such skill as Zhang Zexuan.There are other evil things that catch unjustly killed ghosts and eat their ghosts to grow their own strength. Zhang Zexuan kept the forbidden woman as bait. Unexpectedly, he was bumped into by Wu Jia by accident. lost his life.

It took Wu Jia a while to calm down. Seeing Zhang Zexuan coming out from the backyard with the black knife in his hand, he remembered that there was something inside the knife he touched last time, and he was even more frightened.

It was Wu Jia's first encounter with a ghost, Zhang Anyan was the first to come to rescue him, Wu Jia was so scared that even his own mother couldn't believe it, but she only believed in Zhang Anyan, nothing else, but Wu Jia who was so frightened that he almost collapsed Jia didn't have a chance to doubt, and finally broke free when he saw the first acquaintance he saw, and rushed forward desperately. Wu Jia was preconceived, and after being appeased, he had time to fear other things.This experience was terrible. The sense of security that Zhang Anyan brought to Wu Jia at that moment was unmatched. After that, Wu Jia began to cling to Zhang Anyan, and grew bigger and bigger, even though he was no longer afraid of ghosts. Only when Zhang Anyan is present can he be completely at ease.

Wu Jia didn't go home at night, and spent the night directly in Zhang Zexuan's yard. During the day, he was still trembling, and his parents were beside him, holding Zhang Anyan's clothes and not daring to let go. At night, he had a fever and cried again. It was noisy again, and it didn't work to be coaxed by anyone. It was only after Zhang Anyan called Wu Jia's name beside him that he settled down.

A good teacher apprentice banquet was ruined in a mess, Wu Jia's parents felt distressed and at the same time strengthened their determination to ask Wu Jia to apprentice.However, Wu Jia didn't know the reason for his apprenticeship until a long time later. When he was young, he didn't understand it. He always felt that his parents had abandoned him. But after he understood it, he didn't feel much anymore. People have their own destiny.Sports can be moved, but life has a style.If you are ordered to be rich and prosperous, you will not be down and out on the street; if you are ordered to die, you will not be able to earn your life.

Wu Jia later thought that even though he suffered a lot from being a teacher when he was a child, it was still good. At least he got to know Zhang Anyan.