Chapter 168 Li Tian and Li Yue
Late at night, Lijia Village was exceptionally quiet.

Li Tian walked out of the house and headed towards the toilet not far away.

I drank some wine with some people in the evening and ate some pork head bought from the town. For some reason, I suddenly had a stomachache.

If Li Tian hadn't been unable to hold it in any longer, he would never have gone out so late.

After all, all kinds of strange things have been happening in the village recently, and I heard that someone drowned in this pit toilet.

Just as he stepped out of the courtyard, a dark shadow appeared in front of Li Tian, ​​who was protecting the faint oil lamp in his hand with fear.

At that moment his heart almost jumped out.

"what!"

"What the hell is your name?"

Li Tian was about to scream but was interrupted by the black shadow.

He looked at the shadow intently and was relieved when he found it was his brother.

"It turned out to be you. You scared me to death."

"I'm not a ghost, what are you afraid of?" Young man Li Yue thought this man was making a fuss. "Why are you out so late?"

"My stomach hurts and I'm in a hurry to go poop." Li Tian's anxious heart finally relaxed.

People are like this. Once they have accomplices, they become bolder.

"It's better not to go out casually at night. The village is very dangerous recently." After saying this, Li Yue walked straight into the house without caring about Li Tian's response.

Li Tian and Li Yue are brothers. Although they don't get along very well on weekdays, they are still a family. One lives in the south room and the other lives in the north room. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are next door to each other.

"Tsk, what?" Li Tian looked at Li Yue's back with dissatisfaction.

He and Li Yue both helped their father with work, making clay pots, clay figurines and the like. Whenever there was anything happening in the village, they would ask their family to prepare some ceramic clay ware.

Because they made a living by working with their own hands and did not rely mainly on farming, they never placed a dung bucket in the yard as they thought it was unlucky. On weekdays, if they had to relieve themselves, they would go to the nearby village toilet. If they had to relieve themselves briefly, it would be convenient for the men in the family, as they could just open the gate and do it when they didn't want to move.

As for the toilet in the village, it is a public place. Two large clay vats are mostly buried in the ground, surrounded by a thatched fence and with wind on the top. Usually, if any farmer needs to apply fertilizer, they will come with a dung bucket and a dung shovel to get it, so there is no need to worry about the large vats buried in the ground overflowing.

Although Li Tian and Li Yue usually help their father with work, Li Yue has no other skills but is very good at bragging and flattering. Today, Li Tian worked honestly all day, while Li Yue was sneaking around and flirting with the girls in the village.

The more Li Tian thought about it, the angrier he became, and he was no longer so scared.

He trotted into the village toilet, hurriedly took off his pants and squatted down. Just when he felt comfortable, he turned his head and looked to the side, he was shocked.

In the dim flickering light of the oil lamp, it was Li Yue standing aside, peeing with his eyes closed in a daze.

"Fuck you! You scared me to death!" Li Tian said angrily. "Didn't you just go back? You're scaring me in the toilet again. You really want to make things difficult for me, right?"

"What are you yelling about?" Li Yue rubbed his eyes and looked at Li Tian in confusion. "Who wants to scare you? I obviously had the problem before you, okay?"

After hearing what Li Yue said, Li Tian was a little unsure.

He remembered that the other party was just coming back when he went out, so he hesitated and asked in a low voice.

"I just went out and saw you coming home. Why are you here all of a sudden?"

"You're confused after sleeping, right?" Li Yue rolled his eyes, shook his pants a few times and pulled them up. "Don't talk nonsense! I just came out and just finished peeing. When did I go back?"

Hearing this, Li Tian felt his hair stand on end for some reason.

The quiet night breeze from the mountain village blew over him, causing him to break out in a cold sweat.

He swallowed his saliva and asked the other party carefully: "Um. Li Yue, did you just get out?"

"Really? Isn't it obvious?" Li Yue looked at Li Tian in confusion. Seeing his pale face and sweating profusely, he suddenly felt a little horrified. "What's wrong with you? Why are you sweating profusely?"

"When I came out just now, I really saw you just went back." Li Tian said dryly, with a look of horror on his face.

"Brother Er'er, don't scare me." Li Yue shuddered when he heard Li Tian's words, and the urge to urinate that he had originally done came up again.

"I'm telling the truth." Li Tian looked outside the toilet carefully. "When I came out just now, I opened the door and saw you coming back. You even talked to me and told me not to come out casually at night."

"Second brother. My second brother." Li Yue looked at Li Tian's expression and suddenly felt that Li Tian was also afraid. The sweat on his forehead was not a joke. He was also frightened and looked at Li Tian in a daze. He almost cried.

"Second brother, I really didn't meet you. I had to pee urgently, so I came here to pee in a daze. The person you were talking about was really not me." "Then, then..." Seeing Li Yue speaking with a tearful tone, Li Tian's voice trembled more and more. He stuttered and wanted to say something, but couldn't. All of a sudden, all kinds of rumors in the village in the past few days emerged in his mind.

Li Tian didn't care about his still aching stomach. He just stood up and pulled up his pants when the oil lamp at his feet suddenly dimmed. The two brothers huddled together unconsciously and looked around nervously.

"Brother, is there a ghost?"

"Don't be afraid."

As he spoke, he slowly bent down.

The two of them panicked for a long time, and then they felt that nothing seemed to have happened. Then they came to their senses, supported each other, slowly stood up, and looked outside the toilet.

Just when they looked out, they saw a clay doll standing grimly in front of the toilet under the cold moonlight. Its eyes were dark and empty, staring at them blankly.

Li Tian's mind went blank for a moment, his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.

At the end of his consciousness, he seemed to hear someone coming.

"What happened?"

Li Daoxuan looked at the person who fainted on the ground with a puzzled look on his face.

He had been out of the Li family's old house for quite some time and had walked around the village twice. This was the second time he passed by this toilet, but he didn't know if it was because he came out at the wrong time and didn't find anything strange.

When I walked here again, I happened to see a man holding something and fainting beside the toilet.

"Why are you holding a clay doll?" Li Daoxuan walked closer and saw clearly what the man was holding. "He went to the toilet in the middle of the night and was holding a clay doll. Was he trying to give himself courage? I didn't scare him. Luckily he didn't fall into the toilet."

Li Daoxuan thought about it secretly and found it a little ridiculous, so he planned to help Li Tian up first. After all, the place next to the toilet was not a good place.

He pulled the clay doll out of Li Tian's hand and put it aside. Just as he squatted down and was about to pick up Li Tian, ​​he saw a flash of golden light behind him and felt hit by something. Then there was a "clang" and the sound of clay and tiles breaking.

"Huh?" Li Daoxuan turned around in confusion and saw the clay doll shattered on the ground. There was no one around. "Did I not place it firmly just now?"

When the roosters crowed in the village, a line of milky white appeared in the distant sky.

Li Tian slowly woke up from his coma, and then curled up in fear as if he had thought of something.

"Are you awake?" a voice came from the side.

He looked in the direction of the voice and saw a man in coarse servant's clothes busy with his work. When he saw that he woke up, he smiled and nodded at him.

"You, who are you?"

"Just call me Ergou. I am the servant of this family." Li Ergou said with a naive smile.

"So this is Mr. Li's house." Li Tian saw clearly what Li Ergou was wearing and breathed a sigh of relief, and asked Li Ergou again. "Why am I here?"

"You fainted in the toilet yesterday, so my Third Young Master carried you back and asked you to rest in my gatehouse for a while. What happened?"

"Yesterday, in the toilet" Li Tian's face was covered with cold sweat. "I saw my brother, and then I saw a clay doll standing in front of the toilet"

"And then. Then I passed out."

As he spoke, he suddenly raised his head and asked in panic, "Did Third Young Master see my brother?"

"Your brother? Is there anyone else in the toilet? The master only brought you back." Li Ergou said puzzledly, touching his head.

"Impossible! I remember my brother was there at the time, how could I be alone? Where's my brother?" Li Tian shook his head, his tone seemed certain, yet uncertain. "Think about it again, did the Third Young Master really bring me back alone?"

Li Ergou frowned, thought for a moment and then said affirmatively, "The young master really didn't bring anyone back."

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At this moment, Li Tian only felt the cold air rushing from the soles of his feet to his brain and spread throughout his body in an instant.

"My brother, my brother could be a ghost?" He muttered to himself in a trembling voice.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Li Tian's familiar voice came.

"Brother! Are you here? Dad told me to call you to hurry up and finish the work."

(End of this chapter)