Chapter 2: The Mysterious Village (9) Human Skin Envelope Sohu Read Book Digging for a better look at Sohu

  I turned my head and found myself face to face with Old Jin, his face was solemn, his eyebrows furrowed, he didn't say a word as he leaned against the wall deep in thought for half a day, before suddenly saying: "You weren't scared just now, were you?"

  I shook my head.

  "Where did I stop talking to you last time?" Old Jin Tou seemed like he hadn't spoken in a long time, so many things had been pent up in his chest. Today, when he met me, he poured out everything at once, feeling relieved after finally speaking out.

  "When you get home, you'll find something is off!" I repeated, while carefully noticing that Old Jin's hand seemed to have an extra black object.

  "Right, right!" Old Jin's words interrupted my train of thought. "I returned home to find the atmosphere in the house a bit strange, and it seemed like something was gasping for breath in the darkness. I lit the kerosene lamp, only to discover that one of the two remaining jars was also missing."

  I rushed to my daughter and Jin Douzi's room, saw that they were fine, and then returned to my own room. At this time, Tang Jun had woken up, seemingly waiting for me to return, his face solemn, as if he had just gone through a life-and-death struggle. I immediately asked him, "The jar in our house is missing again, you've been at home all the time, didn't you notice?" After finishing speaking, I went back to the hall and carefully investigated, but still couldn't find any clues. What do these thieves want with those two jars? Could it be that the thief was one of the two black shadows from earlier? I thought puzzledly, recalling that the three jars had appeared under strange circumstances when I was only three or four years old, at a time when we were still living in Beigou Village. The three jars suddenly appeared overnight, and later when we left Beigou Village, my father insisted on bringing those three jars with us." Speaking to this point, Old Jin got down from the kang and said to me: "Xiao Luo, come take a look!"

  I curiously followed Old Jin down from the kang, in the northeast corner of the hall was a black large vat over one meter high, on the body of the vat were three... oh, it should be five monster heads, although not big, but looked very ferocious. On the edge of the vat body there were several blurry scratches, among which one was relatively clear, and in the scratch grew light green fluff.

  I approached the vat and tapped it gently twice, only to hear a "thud" sound from the vat. In fact, when I saw the green fluff, I had been suspecting that this vat should be made of copper, and now my guess was confirmed.