This doesn't seem to be too far away, and it took more than ten minutes for a few people to rush all the way over.

It wasn't until he got closer that he realized that the light was a street lamp hanging from a dilapidated telephone pole. The pole looks old, it's still wooden, it's full of cracks, and the light is an ordinary yellow bulb with a cover on it, and if the wind blows, it will flicker a few times.

Walking through the street lamp and looking forward, this village is not big, more than ten meters away are twenty or thirty households, at this time it is only 7 o'clock in the evening, these people actually do not have a light, looking at the moonlight, most of those houses are a little dilapidated, and most of the white walls have fallen off most of the wall skin. If it weren't for the occasional dog barking and the cooing of chickens in the cage, the herring would have thought that this was an abandoned dead village.

When I came all the way just now, the senior brother also mentioned to Qingyu that in a small mountain village like this kind of barren mountains and mountains, all those who have some ability or are younger have basically gone out to wander, and there are either old people left in this kind of village, or they are abandoned. Since the street lights are still on, let's try our luck.

But a few people walked along the path at the entrance of the village, and the crackling sound of the broken petiole could be heard on the dead leaves of the village's quiet feet on the ground. Passing by a few houses, all locked the gates, the herring approached the corner of the wall and listened carefully for a while but did not hear any sound in the courtyard.

"This looks like no one" Vacuum pouted and lay in front of a broken door and looked in the crack of the door, the courtyard was overgrown with weeds under the moonlight, it seemed that no one had lived in it for a long time, the door frame was also in disrepair, and the door shafts on both sides were rusty. The vacuum just lay up for a while, the door shaft made a dull cracking sound, and then there was a bang, Qingyu and the others quickly looked back, and saw that the door panel was slapped on the ground, and the vacuum was still pouting and lying on it, stirring up a lot of dust.

"Ahem, sin and sin" Vacuum quickly patted his ass and got up, helped the door panel up and carefully placed it, he didn't expect that this was to pull the crack of the door to see if it could be broken.

This muffled sound broke the silence of this small village, and for a while I heard some sparse footsteps from several nearby houses, and the footsteps came to the door of each house but stopped, and seemed to be carefully hiding at the door to look out, even the herring fish could feel that someone was staring at him, making the herring a little involuntary.

"Everyone, I'm sorry, Poor Dao and the others wanted to borrow a night here, but they didn't want to break the door panel by mistake. The senior brother stood in the middle of the road, arched his hand at the surroundings, and said loudly, "Dare to ask, can someone let me wait for a few people to borrow for one night?"

There was silence all around.

The senior brother paused, and then said, "Who do you want to compensate for this bad door panel?"

There was a slight movement behind the doors, as if they were discussing something, and the door of one of the households creaked open, and a person's face poked out, and he said with a smile, "The old Wang family entrusted me to take care of it, you can give me the money." ”

This man looked to be in his forties, but by the moonlight he looked a little cunning, and the hair on his head was sparse, and only the circle around his ears was thicker. As he spoke, he opened the door wider, and walked out, with one leg down his knee, limping towards the elder brother with a tattered cane.

The man had barely taken two steps when the door of the house opposite the broken door was opened, and he coughed twice, and an old voice came out

"Cripple, go back, shameless thing. As he spoke, an old man walked out of the door slowly and hunched over, glared at the lame man, and coughed twice. When the lame man saw him come out, his face was a little embarrassed, and without saying a word, he turned around and went back to his house.

"What are you doing?" The old man walked over slowly, looked up at the senior brother, and then looked at the herring, which seemed to pay special attention to Mingyue, and he also looked at the black cat squatting on the shoulder of the herring a few more times.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, old man, we have lost our way in the mountains, I wonder if we can borrow a night here?"

"Lost?" The old man looked the senior brother up and down a few times, then looked at the vacuum, and waved his hand with some disdain

"You're here to rob the grave, aren't you? ”

The combination of this Taoist priest and monk together makes ordinary people look really peculiar. When the senior brother heard the words tomb robbery, he said in his heart, maybe he was talking about the cave of the Xiaguang Daoist, right? Then he rummaged through his satchel, took out his transmission certificate from it, and handed it to the old man

"Old man, look at this, we are either here to rob the tomb, or we have gone into the mountains to practice and got lost. ”

The old man took the Taoist transmission certificate in the senior brother's hand in disbelief, flipped through it, and glanced at the vacuum as he flipped it back. Seeing him look at it, the vacuum also took out his own meter and handed it over. The two of them also took out spiritual runes, wooden nail beads and other things from their shoulder bags, and the old man saw them take out these items, and his face looked a little better.

"I can't read the truth either, it's good that I'm not a tomb robber. The old man returned all the cards, turned around and walked into the house, "If you don't feel dirty, come and stay at my house for one night." ”

Seeing this, the senior brother hurriedly thanked him, beckoned and walked in with the old man with a few people. This time I entered the courtyard, it looked very clean, but as soon as I entered the house, there was a smell of mold and decay, and the old man pulled down the light line at the door, and a dim light bulb lit up.

"I'm at home, and you can clean up the next room. The old man didn't want to say much, so he pointed to the next room, and went back to his room and closed the door.

Qingyu walked into the room he pointed to and saw that there were only two hardwood beds, and there was no cover, and the walls were covered with black and yellow newspapers, and he covered his nose and fanned it, and when he touched the bed with his hand, it was a hand of ash.

"Make do with it, and ask tomorrow where we're looking. The senior brother walked in from behind, looked at the scene in the room and didn't say much, took off his robe, folded two layers and put a cushion at the head of the bed, and Mingyue consciously jumped over and occupied it.

He sat cross-legged with Vacuum on the other bed, closed his eyes and recuperated.

Qingyu put Luan Niao and Senior Sister together, and climbed onto the bed and crossed her knees. After closing his eyes for a while, the herring fish whispered

"Senior brother, I can't sleep sitting like this. ”

The senior brother opened one eye, and the blue fish glanced at him and said

"If you can't sleep, you can recite the mantra of purifying your heart. ”

Qingyu pursed his lips, sat quietly, put his hands on his knees, and silently recited the mantra in his heart, and after a while, there was only a slight sound of breathing in the room.