Xiaoshui left on the horse, looking at the direction, it should be chasing Ma Ye and his party.

"Go back to Qualcomm first, rest well tonight, and gather on standby tomorrow. ”

Qiu Shu said, and walked along the original road in the direction of Gaotong Station, Lou Yanxin and another woman, Yan Wei, followed closely, and Huang Wanli glanced at Sheng Gray, without saying a word, and followed.

When everyone was far away, Lord Xuanyu turned his horse's head and came to Sheng Gray's side, and said: "Little black charcoal, don't be too sad, there are many things in this world, who can say clearly, compared to many pickled things, what is the brother wall." ”

Sheng Gray frowned slightly, this sound seemed to comfort him at first, but after hearing it, how could it be more and more wrong to hear, he was about to refute the Xuanyu Lord, but the Xuanyu Lord had already chased Huang Wanli in front.

Sheng Shen rode alone on a bantam horse, standing alone in the middle of the road, unable to calm down, thinking for a long time, and walking alone towards the Qualcomm Station.

It was midnight and snowflakes were falling from the sky, and the first snow in Sangam County this winter came unexpectedly.

In the southern part of Liule County, poor peasants and tenants lived, and the houses were often very simple wooden houses, which could only shelter from the wind and rain.

At this time, most of the people who had been tired all day had already fallen asleep, but in one room, the light was still on.

This is the home of the cowside, since the last incident, the cowside even the sheep herding work has been lost, fortunately he has not married a daughter-in-law, let alone children, otherwise, even the livelihood is estimated to be a problem.

But even so, if he only relied on the remaining silver money in hand, he would at most survive this winter, and after that, if he still couldn't find work, I am afraid that he would not even be able to eat.

In the winter night, the cow side does not sleep, sits in front of the oil lamp, weaves straw sandals by the light, and has placed a few pairs around him, and when the weather improves, he can go to the West Market to sell it for money, although it can't change a few, but it can be exchanged for a few, which is better than no income at all.

In fact, in the past few days, he has been in this state every night, sleeping at night, but as long as he lies down and closes his eyes, there will be a huge black lion in front of him, and he will not pounce on him and bite him, but just watch him sneer not far away.

A sneering black lion, it sounded like a joke, but Niu Bi couldn't laugh at all, and every time he woke up from this dream, he was covered in cold sweat.

It was the same tonight, when I woke up, I simply put on a torn cotton jacket full of patches and knitted draft shoes.

When you focus on one thing, you can often forget about things you don't want to think about for a while.

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in Niu Bi's ears: "I ask, you answer, if you shout, this is the table." ”

Before Niu Bian could react to what was going on, a gust of wind suddenly sounded in his ears, and the corner of the table in front of him, as if it had been cut off by something, fell straight down.

Niu Bian gasped, to say that the most valuable thing in his house, that is, this table, was made by him personally going up the mountain to cut trees, absolute solid wood, even if he was allowed to cut with an axe, it was not a few strokes, it was not cut at all, but this gust of wind came, and it was actually broken.

What frightened him the most was that he looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see what this gust of wind was.

Suddenly, his eyes froze, he bent down, and picked up a leaf from the corner of the table where he had fallen, and at the edge of the leaf, a very thin piece of wood was inserted.

This, isn't it?

Niu Bian couldn't believe his guess, he suddenly remembered what the man had just said, so he didn't dare to move again.

"Very well, tell me about the black lion you saw the other day. The voice rang out suddenly.

The cow edge couldn't tell where the sound was coming from, some looked like it was outside the window, and some looked like it was overhead.

Niu Bian swallowed a mouthful of saliva, slightly relieved his tense emotions, and said tremblingly: "These days, I have been thinking about that monster all the time, and the more I think about it, the more I think about it, the monster seems to live in my heart, what do you want to know?"

"Everything you know about the Black Lion. ”

"Everything, that was ten days ago,"

"Ten days?" interrupted the voice.

"Ten days? I'll do the math, oh, seventeen days ago. ”

"Seventeen days, it turned out to be that day, okay, you go on. ”

"Seventeen days ago, that day was very strange, in the morning it was still a big day, it seemed to be a very warm day, but in the afternoon, the weather began to turn cloudy inexplicably, and the big day was gone, I remember very clearly, that day I was obviously driving sheep, to the west, but I don't know what's going on, I hurried to the side of the town ghost pit. ”

"What is the ghost pit? Is there really a ghost?"

"Don't you know the ghost pit?" Niu Bian looked very surprised and said: "I don't know much about the ghost pit, the ghost pit was not called the ghost pit before, it was just a mine before, but what kind of mine it was, I don't know until now, I only know that it was said that the mining was completed and scrapped, but since the rise of the ghost town, the name of the ghost pit has also sounded." ”

"What is a ghost town?"

"Ghost Town, what should I say? At the mention of the name, Niu Bi subconsciously looked around, but he could no longer see anything except his constantly beating shadow.

"How the ghost town was formed, I don't know very well, don't look at our Liule County is quite close to the ghost town, but I really haven't been to it once, before the formation of the ghost town, it seems to be a village, and then it seems that something happened, the whole village died, it is said that the resentment of the people there has not disappeared for a long time, and slowly there are unjust ghosts. Of course, whether this is true or not, I really don't know. ”

After Niu Bian quickly finished speaking, he kept silent, and it seemed that he never wanted to mention this matter again.

The mysterious voice didn't persecute either, but just asked, "Where is the ghost town, and where is the ghost pit in the town?"

"Why are you asking this, it's so late, do you still want to go to the ghost town?" Niu Bian was stunned and blurted out, but then said with a panicked expression: "I, I don't want to interfere with you, I just want to remind you, I heard that the ghost town at night and the ghost town during the day are like two worlds, I advise you anyway, it's better not to go." ”

"Location. A mysterious voice said.

"Okay, there is an official road in the east of Liule County, keep walking along it, reach a three-way intersection, turn to the road on the left, and go until you reach the end of the ghost town, as for the town ghost pit, it is in the northwest direction of the ghost town, not far away. Niu Bian said.

"Very well, moving on to the black lion. ”

"When I got to the edge of the town ghost pit that day, I realized that I was dizzy, so I hurried to drive the sheep back, but at this moment, from the deep mine, the black lion pounced. I don't know why it didn't attack me, but went to kill all my sheep, maybe it was because I was thin, there was not a few taels of meat on my body, how could I be as fat as the sheep, of course, it could also be that in its eyes, there was no me at all, after killing all my sheep, the black lion originally wanted to run away, but from the hole, a black gas came out, and the black lion was instantly swept in. ”

Niu Bian took a breath and continued: "I was so scared that day that I rushed back to Liule County like crazy, I rushed to Li Dahu's house as soon as possible and reported the matter to him, but Li Dahu didn't believe it at all, saying that I was lying, where is there a black lion in this world, that ghost pit is nothing more than an abandoned mine, how can there be any black gas, he thinks that it is I who came up with this method in order to swallow his dozens of sheep." ”

"Of course, I tried to explain it clearly, but Li Dahu didn't listen to it at all, and called for the murderous slave in his family to arrest me, that is, at that time, someone reported to him that someone in the county had been killed, and when he heard that the murderer was a black lion, Li Dahu was a little suspicious of me. However, although he believed a little, he still sent me to the government. After recording the confession, these days, the government agreed to let me go home and live temporarily, Li Dahu wanted to be unforgiving, but due to the government's order, he didn't do anything to me for the time being, I also know that I also have a lot of responsibility for this incident, but my family is surrounded by walls, and I really can't take out the extra money to return to Li Dahu. ”

At the end, Niu Bian sighed and looked sad.

"How big is that black lion?" asked the mysterious voice suddenly.

"How big? It's very big, it's about the same size as my room. ”

"Okay, I'll give you a stick of incense, and then you can think about it, what is missing from everything about the black lion. ”

"No, no, I haven't seen the monster since. Niu Bian shook his head and said.

"Good. ”

A sound of wind sounded again, followed by a crisp "pop", and the sound came from the table.

Niu Bian looked down, and his eyes widened suddenly, and he didn't know when there was actually a small bag.

He didn't dare to reach for it, but in his heart he was wondering how this thing was here.

"The bag is for you, you are very cooperative, and you should be paid. ”

"Reward?" Niu Bian's eyes lit up, what is he lacking most now, so do you need to ask, what he lacks the most is the reward.