In the first ten days of Xuanhua, Liu Shuangli took Qin Siyang around the city every day, and after he was tired, he looked for a no-man's land, according to their practice, Liu Shuangli taught Qin Siyang swordsmanship, and Qin Siyang taught Liu Shuangli some poems. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Life is very simple, and Liu Shuangli also tries his best to ignore the dwindling silver in his bag, as well as what he has seen and heard along the way.

Aunt Zhang said that the Jin family on the West Street mentioned by the bakery aunt, they went to see it on the second day after they heard about it, and the small house had already lived in another family. The imprint of the Kim family has long since faded with time and is nowhere to be found.

I heard Aunt Zhang say that it was five years ago, the year before the incident, the northern border of the Great Zhou Dynasty was defeated one after another, and after the victory of the Mongolian people, they were extremely arrogant and rampant in the border areas. During the Chinese New Year that year, because her brother had just had an accident in Jizhou a while ago, the daughter-in-law of the Jin family discussed with her husband and wanted to go back to her parents' house to see the lonely second elder, so as to comfort the two old men. Jin Hong agreed, and on the second day of the Lunar New Year, he and his wife embarked on a trip to Peizhou. I thought that nothing would happen during the New Year, so I didn't take any precautions, and the two of them went out of the city gate early in the morning. But I didn't want to, the Mongolian people even came out to rob during the New Year, and the Jin couple disappeared together.

"Then the bodies of the couple, has anyone converged?" asked Liu Shuangli.

"Absolutely. Aunt Zhang sighed lightly and said, "After so many years of neighborhood, how can the villagers let them be brutal corpses." ”

"Oh, what about their graves?"

"There is a mass grave on the west hill, where the dead of the past few years are buried. ”

"Oh!" Liu Shuangli nodded.

"Are the two little brothers going to the mass grave to worship?"

"It's going. ”

"Those two little brothers are going to take it early. ”

"Why?" Seeing that Aunt Zhang said cautiously, Liu Shuangli said a little strangely.

"If you go down, you will be clear. The eldest lady sighed.

"Well, isn't that just right?"

Aunt Zhang sighed and shook her head: "It's because it's Qingming that it's not good to worship." ”

"How could it be?" Liu Shuangli was even more curious, isn't Qingming the day to burn incense and worship.

"Little brother doesn't know, because there have been too many people who have died in the past few years, and the hell can't be collected, and the ghost has nowhere to stay, so he can only wander in front of his own grave. ”

"Ah, ghosts roaming the sun, isn't that scary. Liu Shuangli stuck out his tongue and said.

"Yes, ghosts are going to the underworld, this is the rule between heaven and earth, isn't it? But now that people have died too much, the underworld can't collect them, so the ghosts of the yin will be left in the yang world. In addition, I heard that the soul of the deceased has left the yang body and has disappeared, and the living cannot see the ghosts of the underworld, but the ghosts can see the living. In this way, if the living are not careful, it is easy to be hooked by ghosts, and then the living will die unexplained. ”

"Auntie, don't talk about this, it sounds weird and scary. "Liu Shuangli has been following Yuntianmen to learn art for many years, and he doesn't believe what ghosts and gods say, but now when he hears Aunt Zhang say it so seriously, he still feels weird in his heart, like he is blocked or something, and it is very uncomfortable. looked at Qin Siyang again, and saw that he shrank his head like him, and he didn't like these words.

"Hey, the eldest lady is just talking, not necessarily like this. Seeing that the two children were a little scared, he smiled and said, "Although it is not necessarily, it is better to take precautions and be careful." ”

"Oh!" Liu Shuangli could only nod and said, "I'm afraid that I will be hooked by the yin ghost, so I won't go to worship, it's not too much, it's disrespectful to the dead ancestors." ”

"It's not that I don't want to worship, it's that the little brother should stagger the Qingming season before going. ”

"Why?"

"Because during the Qingming Festival, the yin energy is the strongest, and the yang energy is the weakest. At that time, it was the time when the mana of the yin ghost was the strongest, and it was the easiest to hook off the soul of the living, so I had to guard against it. ”

It's hooking soul again, Liu Shuangli shrugged her shoulders when she listened, although she didn't believe this, but seeing that Aunt Zhang said so much, it was not easy not to listen. Come to think of it, anyway, she just wanted to help Mr. Chen worship his relatives, and as for whether the time for worship is in the Qingming season, it doesn't matter. That is since the eldest mother said so, it is good to fight early, as long as she does this thing, she will let go of one thing in her heart, so it's okay.

Therefore, the two children, who really listened to Aunt Zhang, went to Xishantou to worship Mr. Chen's daughter, the Jin family, two days before the Qingming Festival.

After paying homage to the Jin family, most of the purpose of the two children coming to Xuanhua has been achieved, and it seems that there is no more to find anything related to Mr. Chen. The two children began to discuss leaving Xuanhua.

Leaving Xuanhua, according to Liu Shuangli's original plan, the next trip should be Jizhou. But after inquiring about it, the situation in Jixian County sounded very bad.

It is said that since the defeat of the Great Zhou army six years ago, Jizhou has gradually become a deserted city, listen to the wandering traders say, in addition to the cracked rubble in the city of Jizhou, there are only crazy weeds, not to mention that people live, it is a place where even birds do not want to stay.

The Great Wall of Huangyaguan in the north of Jizhou City is an important defensive place in Jibei. After the defeat that year, the imperial court issued a decree to severely punish the defenders, resulting in the defeat of the army was already unstable after the military spirit was even more sluggish, the soldiers began to flee in a big way, I heard that the successor Jizhou general army had a pride in serving the country, but he was mediocre and shallow, and he could not stabilize the military heart by exhausting all methods, so he reluctantly dragged on for a few years, and finally a year ago, in the exhaustion, he felt shameless to see the king, and he killed himself at the top of the city.

The commander-in-chief killed himself, and the officers and men on the border had no reason to stay.

So far, for more than a year, this dangerous town on the cliff has not been guarded by a single soldier, which is really a strange thing in history.

It is said that now in this pass in the lofty mountains, all you hear every day is the howl of wolves for four miles, so it is not scary.

In short, what I can inquire about is one sentence: Jizhou, now is not a place for individuals to stay, it is better for outsiders not to go there.

Hearing these legends, Liu Shuangli and Qin Siyang were both a little scared and a little dazed.

But if they don't go to Jizhou, where are they going?

If you stay like this in Xuanhua any longer, it won't work. This is not a place to stay for long, and the money in hand does not allow them to stay so idle any longer.

Why don't you find something to do first, save more savings, and see the situation before making plans, Liu Shuangli thought so.

"Since the little brother hasn't settled down yet, and the entanglement is insufficient, it's better to save money, retire the guest room, and go to the eldest mother to live for a while. When your brothers have found a way to go outside, then they can leave. The eldest mother's house is very wide, and there is no one to live in, and I don't charge you for the house. In the evening of this day, the woman who baked the cake said to Liu Shuangli with a smile.

Liu Shuangli hesitated: "Auntie, this is inconvenient, right?"

"What's so bad. The woman said enthusiastically, "The eldest mother's son was gone early because of the war that year, and the only son was away from home all the year round, and there were only the eldest mother, daughter-in-law and two little grandchildren at home. The two grandchildren are young and don't know how to walk yet. At home, we and my daughter-in-law are usually busy with their work, so it's strangely lonely. If the two little brothers can come to stay, they will no longer be so lonely, and I am still happy, auntie. ”

Having said that, Liu Shuangli was still a little hesitant, in fact, she had discussed with Qin Siyang before, Xuanhua now looked like a trade distribution center, and there were many traders coming and going from all over the country, so it was better to find a vendor and ask him to take him in, and follow them to various towns. Silver earns more and earns less, whether the status is high or low, it is secondary, and it is serious to be able to go around and experience it. Although such days are tiring, it is a good thing for them to be able to see and learn a lot of things.

Now that Aunt Zhang is suddenly so enthusiastic about inviting them to live in her house, Liu Shuangli can't refuse, but she doesn't want to disturb Aunt Zhang more. She stretched out her hand and pulled Qin Siyang, looking at him and wanting to hear what he meant, but Qin Siyang turned his head to the side at this time, what did it mean, it was clear that he didn't care, and let Liu Shuangli be the master.

Liu Shuangli was embarrassed, and after some thought, he finally couldn't resist the enthusiasm of the eldest mother, and reluctantly agreed to live with the eldest mother for a while.