"It's almost Chongyang, remember to go home and burn some paper for the old man, you have 5,000 yuan on the table, if it's not enough to call us," a middle-aged man in the living room instructed in a low voice.

"Bang"

Then I heard the sound of the door closing and the footsteps moving away.

In the bedroom, a well-proportioned and handsome young man was staring at the computer doing the exam questions for subject 4 at the moment, and he had no time to pay attention.

His name is Wang Chong, because he was born on the Double Ninth Festival, when he was looking for a fortune teller, saying that he was twenty-four years old was his catastrophe, and he was rich and noble in the past, and he couldn't survive the catastrophe.

As a new generation of students, he is a staunch materialist, and fortune tellers are all about cheating money, but he is always haunted by the same nightmare, and his thoughts are shaken.

In his dreams, there was always a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe and a bronze fanged mask on his face, standing beside the incense burner halfway up the mountain, looking at him with his head tilted, as if waiting for him, the weather was gloomy and cloudy, making people feel very gloomy and depressing.

Wanting to turn around and leave, his neck felt stiff, and there seemed to be an invisible wall behind him that made it difficult for him to walk, and if he wanted to go up to see what was going on, the Taoist priest with the mask would turn around and walk up the steps, and when he stopped, the Taoist priest turned his head and tilted his head to look at him. As I walked forward, I felt that my movements became sluggish, and everything in front of me gradually blurred.

This nightmare is like a wake-up call, always inadvertently appeared in his dreams, looking at the calendar next to his hand, with today is three days before the Double Ninth Festival, depressed, casually buckled the calendar, closed the computer and picked up the backpack that had already been prepared and left the room.

Wang Shangang, I'm here!

Wang Chong's hometown is called Wangshangang, which remote wilderness village, Wang Chong's family has not been back much since they moved to Dongshan City, but the memory is still profound.

As soon as I got in the car, the "buzzing" mobile phone vibrated twice, and when I opened it, I saw that it was a text message from Wang Xi: Before the little brother arrived, I said that I would ride a bicycle to pick you up~.

The person who sent the text message was Wang Xi, his cousin, who had a good relationship with him since he was a child, and the family moved to the town after his grandmother's death, and this time they made a special trip to the town's station to pick him up.

Looking at the undulating peaks on both sides of the bus, I remembered the lively scene in the village when I was a child, and my irritable mood calmed down a little.

"Eh, Master is going to Qingshan Town, where are you going from?" a middle-aged man with glasses who was a little bald touched Wang Chong and asked a little presumptuously.

Wang Chong was in no mood to take care of it, and still stared at the rolling mountains outside the window.

"Handsome guy, we are from the Southwest Academy of Fine Arts, and we will take students to Qingshan Town to collect style, can this bus go to Qingshan Town?" asked Wang Zhong with a little embarrassment.

Turning his thoughts, Wang Zhong looked at the man, five short figures and a vest, dressed like a director, suppressed the irritability in his heart, looked around and found that there was only himself and them in a car, suppressed the irritability in his heart and said impatiently. "This is the car to Qingfeng Town"

The middle-aged man was a little stunned when he heard this, slapped his thigh, and turned to look at the group of students behind him, "Students, we made the wrong car"

Immediately, there was a boiling in the back.

"Professor Chen, didn't you say that you were going to buy a ticket to Qingfeng Town?" asked a tall female student in a white shirt with a ponytail, poking her head tentatively.

The professor shook his head helplessly and complained, "If I knew you were so unreliable, I should have bought the ticket myself, eh, really!"

"What's going on?"

"Where are we staying at night?"

......

The bunch of students in the car were messing around.

"Master, please stop the car!" The middle-aged man grabbed the front seat and got up, staggered to the front of the car, and the girl looked at the teacher who led the team with an apologetic face, and tried hard to comfort the complaining classmates

Wang Chong looked at the teacher who led the team and remembered his past, and felt that these teachers were all angry as if they were all the same, looking at the group of students who were chattering. Wang Chong's heart was even more irritable

"Qingshan Town is in the west of Zaiqingfeng Town, and when you get to Qingshan Town, you have to change trains and walk 20 kilometers to get there," Wang Chong looked at the back of the teacher who led the team, and said in a raised voice.

"Is it still stopping?" came the driver's indifferent question.

The teacher who led the team saw that there were Qingshan on both sides of the strait, and there was not even a figure at the station, so didn't he get off the train to walk back? After listening to Wang Chong's words, as if he saw hope, he hurriedly returned to Wang Chong's side and said, "You said you can transfer to Qingshan Town?"

"If you transfer from Qingfeng Town quickly, you can get there in one or two hours"

The teacher who led the team got up happily and said, "The master doesn't stop, it's okay, you can continue to drive, I'm sorry!"

"Handsome guy, you are a local," the middle-aged man who led the team licked his face and sat next to Wang Chong, and asked abruptly.

Wang Chong was stunned, "yes, what's wrong?"

"That's great, like you to ask about something, do you know about Li Jiazhai?" asked the middle-aged man who led the team with a very flattering attitude.

Wang Chong's face was inexplicable, "I know, what's wrong?"

"My name is Chen Yu is a professor at the Southwest Academy of Fine America, these are my students, we heard that Lijiazhai was built by the big bandit Li Xianshan in the late Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army suppressed bandits in the southwest and attacked Zhang Zifeng five times without taking it, and now hundreds of years have passed like this, there are too few Qing Dynasty cultures that have not been destroyed by civilization, we want to take students to see the style of Lijiazhai back then"

At this time, the students also gathered around, wanting to learn something about Li Jiazhai from Wang Chong.

Wang Chong was born in Qingfeng Town since he was a child, and when he was a child, he heard the elders talk about fighting bandits, and Qingfeng Town and Qingshan Town were also taken according to the last word of their names.

"Professor Chen, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, Li Jiazhai was gone when I was young," Wang Chong said bluntly.

Professor Chen looked at Wang Chongdao in disbelief, "How can it be, I still have a photo here, I don't believe you" As he spoke, he took out a blurry and gray photo from the canvas bag behind him, and there were pitch-black fortresses on the top of the mountain, and there were many lookouts unique to ancient cities on the fortress, from the foot of the mountain to the ridge, there was a long stone staircase, and the part of the mountainside was good and there was a bright spot.

Wang Chong looked at the picture that immediately jumped out of the dream in his mind, he couldn't see the top steps, an incense burner, and a Taoist priest with a mask, everything in the dream was quite similar to the picture in front of him, at that moment Wang Chong felt a cold air coming out of his back for no reason.

"How is this possible?" Wang Chong's heart felt inexplicably flustered.

"Are you alright, young man?" Professor Chen saw that Wang Zhong was strange, and he was also a little nervous.

After a while, Wang Chong came to his senses, took a deep breath, and said solemnly, "Professor Chen, I suggest you don't go, this place is too evil."

Professor Chen put away the photo and said firmly, "This is a modern society, there are no ghosts, snakes and gods, we are staunch socialist materialists, since there are photos to show that this place may exist, I must take my classmates to see it" said and sat back down

For this kind of stereotypical teacher, Wang Chong didn't bother to fight him, just turned his head and looked at the shadows of the trees outside the window, and his heart was cloudy.

"Thank you, give"

A soft voice interrupted Wang Chong's thoughts, and he turned his head to see which schoolgirl in a white shirt and jute dress was holding mineral water and handing it to him.

Wang Zhong took it and smiled faintly, which was a response.

"My name is Lin Manni, what's your name?" the girl said generously.

"Wang Chong"

"Wang Chong—" The girl said a few words silently.

"Do you believe that there are ghosts in this world?" the girl's expression was complicated, as her eyes intertwined.

Wang Zhong was as uncomfortable as swallowing a live fly when he heard this, but looking at her clean and pure face, he smiled politely and said, "Curiosity kills the cat, don't you know?"

The girl heard the meaning of Wang Chong's words, and a flush rose on her cheeks, "Well, try not to go out these two days" and returned to her original position as she spoke, but Wang Chong was even more depressed when she heard it, and said secretly: This female student will not be as nonsense as that Xie Daoist!

After the girl returned to her seat, the neighboring girl deliberately avoided whispering and complaining, "God chatter, there are so many ghosts in the world, really"

Wang Chong naturally understood that he should be talking about Lin Manni.

It was very calm all the way, and after almost half a day's drive, it was finally here, and I opened my eyes and looked out the window, only half of the morning glow was still hanging in the sky, and there were two missed calls when I opened my mobile phone, and there was a text message: Little brother, have you arrived~

Just about to go back, there was a knocking sound from the car window on the side, and when I turned my head, I saw that it was Wang Xi, a thin little man, who was happily greeting himself "little brother"

Wang Chong raised his hand in response, seeing Lin Manni sitting alone on the opposite side full of concern, Wang Chong walked over, "Mannie's car has arrived, you should transfer."

The girl raised her head and smiled apologetically, and then hurriedly picked up her classmates and teachers who were still asleep.

After getting out of the car, Wang Xi said excitedly, "Little brother, you are not shallow, who is that beauty, you don't want a contact information or anything?"

Wang Chongbai glanced at him and said, "You think they are all the same as you?"

Wang Xi didn't care, but said very proudly, "I'm afraid that I'll get married by then, and you're still single~"

"Well, I still want to be your best man."

"Don't say anything about me when the second mother and second uncle don't know yet!"

The two laughed for a while and then got up and drove towards Wang Xi's house, but Wang Xi's new home was not too far from this station, and it took more than ten minutes to arrive on a motorcycle.