"Looks a little familiar?"

Jia Qilin blinked, thinking about the identity of this old man.

The carriage was getting closer and closer, and the old man in the carriage also looked at Jia Qilin curiously.

"Kirin baby?"

The old man asked suspiciously.

"Third grandfather!"

Jia Qilin's eyes lit up, and he remembered this old man, Jia Zhenguo, his name was the third grandfather. They are the most literate people of the older generation in Jiajia Village.

Although he is not a close relative, he had a very good relationship with his grandfather during his lifetime, and after more than ten years, the tall appearance in his memory has become the old man in front of him with white temples and a wrinkled face.

"You are really a unicorn baby, hurry up to the car, alas, I have seen you for so many years, and you have grown so big."

The third grandfather hurriedly jumped out of the donkey cart and put Jia Qilin's things on the donkey cart.

The grandfather and grandson sat on both sides of the cart pulled by the donkey, one on the left and one on the right, and walked inside.

"Third grandfather, where have you been?"

Jia Qilin asked.

"Hongmei's family, Siqi was admitted to a prestigious university, and said that she was going to a big hotel to eat and celebrate, so she called me over, and let me stay for a while, but I really couldn't get used to their rickety elevator building, and I didn't come back early in the morning."

Jia Zhenguo replied.

Hongmei is his eldest daughter and married into the town. Siqi is Hongmei's second daughter, and she ...... in this year's college entrance examination

"Kirin, by the way, you ...... The third grandfather also heard about it, but it's nothing, people have a long life, and it is inevitable that there will be ups and downs......"

Jia Zhenguo hesitated and said.

"Well, it's in the past."

Jia Qilin smiled slightly.

"It's in the past, but looking at your worried look, it doesn't seem to have eased yet. It is not the fall that people are afraid of, but the collapse after the fall...... It's good to come back and stay for a while this time and adjust your state...... By the way, your yard has been deserted for a long time, so you can live in the third grandfather's house......"

People like Jia Zhenguo can see Jia Qilin's state at a glance.

"It's fine. I don't want to disturb the third grandfather, although my old home has been crowded for some time, there are all the things in it. It's still early today, so just clean it up and make a stove to drive away the cold. ”

Jia Qilin shirked.

"Your kid has been in the car all night, how can you have the strength to clean up, besides, the old house that hasn't been inhabited for so long can be cleaned up for at least a few days before you can move in...... You have to have been out for so many years and grown up, lived in the city for a long time, and looked down on the third grandfather, and looked down on us farmers in the mountains? ”

Jia Zhenguo quipped.

"I didn't ...... How could it be! Even if he becomes an emperor one day, he is still the descendant of a peasant. All right...... I've been staying at my third grandfather's house for the past few days. By the way, the third grandfather, let's talk about what is new in our village in recent years. ”

Jia Qilin changed the subject.

"What can we do in this mountain? It is nothing more than trivial things such as the east family losing the cow, the west family losing the donkey, the south family losing the sheep, and the north family losing the chicken...... The world is going down......"

Jia Zhenguo shook his head, a little helpless.

"I remember when we were poor when we were like that, there would be no such thing as these chickens and dogs, how can it be like this now? Is there an object of suspicion? Chickens and ducks are not worth much, but a cow or a donkey is not a small number. Did you call the police? ”

Jia Qilin frowned. Having grown up here, he naturally knows how important a cow and a donkey are in a family, which is no less than a person.

"In the first few years, it was just a chicken and a duck or something like that, and everyone suspected Sun Weizi from the next village, and I heard that this kid had unclean hands and feet. But considering that everyone is adjacent to each other, they did not report the case. Last year, the kid fell off the balcony and died when he was burglarizing in the city, and everyone thought it was okay, but even the sheep began to be lost, and then several cows and donkeys were lost, and everyone hurried to report the crime. But the people from the police station have been here a few times, and they haven't found out why......"

Jia Zhenguo sighed.

"Then we didn't find any strange clues?"

Jia Qilin was suspicious.

"Yes Wherever the animals were lost, footprints the size of a mill were found near the house. Some people wonder what kind of monster it is. The people at the police station also checked the footprints and tried to look for them in the direction of the footprints, but strangely, there were only a few scattered footprints, and none of them had a complete direction. Actually...... It's just that someone is deliberately making trouble and confusing the public......"

Jia Zhenguo said.

"Grinding the big footprints? Just a fragmented distribution? Don't have a full direction? ”

Jia Qilin was thoughtful.

As the clattering hooves of the donkey landed on the smooth and brand-new cement road, the donkey pulled the cart forward, and the jingle of Ling'er hanging from the donkey's neck echoed.

……

Jia Qilin's old house is at the foot of a mountain north of the entrance of Jiajia Village, in the early years, there were still many people living nearby, with the passage of time, the older generation in the village died, the younger generation went out, the people in the village were less than one-third, and some of the places where they lived became barren and empty old houses.

Although he didn't go back to his family's old house, he entrusted someone to take care of it, but in the past few years, there should be no one to take care of it anymore.

Along the sheep intestine path covered with thorns and weeds, it took more than ten minutes to come to the gate of the old courtyard.

The dilapidated gate at the entrance that had been eroded by wind and rain and the half-human-tall weeds told Jia Qilin that no one had come to the old courtyard in the past two or three years.

Push open the door.

Squeak......

There was a dry, jerky sound from the door, and a smell of grass came to my face.

"Flutter Flutter ......"

A flock of sparrows perched on a date tree in the center of the courtyard scattered around.

Jia Qilin stood quietly at the door, looking at the courtyard, his mind full of memories.

In my memory, this courtyard, which was once full of laughter and slapstick, has now become a deserted old courtyard, and the old man who looked at him with pity has become a tombstone in the middle of the mountain. Time is like water, fleeting.

"Grandpa, I'm back."

Jia Qilin muttered to himself, inexplicably a little sad.

Walking towards the courtyard, I had just taken a few steps when there was a sudden uproar in front of my eyes, and a white light flashed over the backyard.

Jia Qilin was stunned for a moment and moved forward.

Whoa......

Another flash of white light flashed in front of him, this light was like a beam of light dropped from the sky, falling in the backyard, lasting for three or four seconds, and the moment the beam ended, a behemoth flashed quickly.

"Something!"

Jia Qilin was stunned, the time that lasted just now was quite long, and he could see it clearly, it was real, the light and shadow of the behemoth that flashed was a bit like the monster dinosaur in the movie.

Three steps and two steps, quickly walked to the door of the backyard, and pushed the door open.

The small backyard of 100 square meters was overgrown with weeds like the front yard, but Jia Qilin was stunned there.