C89 dead meat

"The woodshed you guys want to live in is in the yard. Follow me."

The old man seemed to be holding a rusted key in his hand, as well as a very old flashlight. I had seen this before when I was young in the countryside. It could even be considered an antique.

"That... The two of us have been out walking for half the night, and we're extremely hungry. Can you find us something to eat?

Tang Rou's words also made my stomach growl. After working on the boat for a while, I had consumed a lot of energy. In addition, I had walked for over an hour in the dialect area. My stomach was rumbling with hunger.

"Why is it so troublesome? If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have let you two in."

The old man's tone wasn't very impatient, but at this moment, Tang Rou took out a few hundred dollar bills and placed them on a worn out table. She had a smile on her face.

"Wait a minute, there's also last night's meal, but it's already cold, you guys can have it."

The old man turned around and walked into a nearby room. It sounded like a kitchen. After a series of clinking sounds, he took out two large bowls.

One of the dishes was green vegetables, while the other seemed to be meat. Furthermore, the stew was already very rotten, and no one knew what it looked like or what it was made of.

The old man's manner was so unfriendly that he almost dropped his bowl on the table and pointed to the wall.

"There's still some leftover porridge there. Hurry up and eat. After you finish, go to the woodshed."

The porridge was already cold, and the oil on the surface of the dishes had almost frozen.

Tang Rou creased her eyebrows. She picked up a pair of chopsticks, stirred up the radish in the dish, and then picked up a piece of meat.

I immediately kicked under the table.

Tang Rou glared at me.

"What?"

I looked at Tang Rou and quickly winked at her.

After I saw this bowl of meat, I felt that something wasn't quite right. That faintly discernible smell of death became even stronger. Although it didn't come from the inside of the dish, I could see a layer of black air enveloping the meat.

These pieces of meat were definitely not good.

Tang Rou immediately understood. My meaning was to directly change to another pair of chopsticks. Neither of us dared to touch that bowl of meat.

At least he had some food in his stomach, so it wasn't that uncomfortable. Throughout the whole process, the old man was squatting in the corner, smoking a pipe while staring at the two of us. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, he blocked the entrance of the curtain.

I secretly peeked behind the curtain a few more times, and at this moment, a gust of wind blew past, lifting up the curtain once again. This time, I saw a few broken boards, and it was obvious that they were taken from Kuan Chuan.

Of course, I didn't dare to ask too many questions at this time. I felt that the atmosphere was extremely tense.

After Tang Rou put down the bowl and chopsticks, she stretched lazily. Afterwards, the old man knocked the pipe on the ground, coughing as she walked into the courtyard. At this time, the rain had lessened a lot. Tang Rou and I looked at the old man for a long time before finally unlocking the copper lock.

I felt a little strange, because I had lived in a woodshed in the countryside before, something that normally didn't have any valuables in it, let alone lock it.

It seemed that it had been a long time since the door was opened. The moment the door was opened, a musty smell immediately wafted out from the room, and a few bugs were seen crawling on the floor.

However, the smell in the woodshed was completely covered up, and that terrible stench made me feel much more comfortable.

The old man placed an oil lamp on the window of the woodshed and said coldly.

"There are some wooden planks over there, you can set them up to sleep. I'm warning you, regardless of what you hear, don't look around or make any noise. I'll tell you to leave before dawn tomorrow."

After saying that, he didn't care if Tang Rou and I agreed or not. He unexpectedly slammed the door shut and I heard the sound of locks from outside.

This time, even Tang Rou wasn't happy.

But in the end, I opened my mouth, but didn't say anything because at this moment, a mouse directly climbed over Tang Rou's foot. It scared the girl and made her jump into my embrace.

I thought I heard the old man curse in a low voice, then slam the door behind him.

"What kind of place is this? It's too scary."

The dim light from the oil lamp wasn't enough to clearly illuminate this place. The two of us took out our phones and turned on the flashing lights, allowing the entire woodshed's scene to be reflected in our eyes.

The area here was very small. There were a few old wooden planks stacked in the corner. However, these planks had been there all year round, and a lot of dust had fallen from them.

Fortunately, I was already used to this kind of environment, so I quickly built a few wooden planks to make a simple wooden bed and wiped them clean.

"Is there something wrong with the meat?"

Tang Rou and I were lying side by side on a very hard wooden board, so naturally, she put her shoulders on my body.

"Maybe I'm overthinking it, but for those who are out, it's better for us to be careful."

"Oh?" Tang Rou said after a moment of thought.

"I also find that old man a bit weird. Did you see what happened to his hands?"

I really didn't pay attention to this before, because I focused all my attention on the old man's gift and didn't even observe it. The old man's hand.

But after hearing Tang Rou's words, I still had a bit of an impression. When that old man opened the door, she seemed to have exposed a few black dots the size of copper coins on the back of her hand.

At first, I thought it was something like an age spot or something. After all, the old man isn't young anymore, but that age spot is really too big.

"I've heard my grandpa talk about it before. That thing is called money from the Yin. In medicine, it seems to be called some kind of tinea. Normal people can't grow this thing on their body."

I immediately rolled over and sat up. I opened my eyes wide and looked at Tang Rou.

"What do you mean?" Isn't this old man a human? "

Tang Rou stared at me and said faintly.

"You can't put it like that. My grandpa said that if a person is tainted with a large amount of corpse aura, then they might be poisoned by the corpse poison."