Mu Qingming and the others sat down around a small wooden table, quietly waiting for the woman to speak. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The woman drank a cup of weak tea for everyone and herself, then held the teacup with both hands, and said quietly: "I grew up in this abandoned army valley since I was a child, and when I was a child, I thought it was just an ordinary small valley, and the adults in the family never said anything about the strangeness of this valley, and they have always been peaceful. At that time, there were still hundreds of people in the Valley of the Abandoned Army, and when we had nothing to do, some of our juniors liked to listen to the village elders under the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village to hear how wonderful the outside world was. Speaking of this, the woman had a faint smile in the corner of her eyes, and the woman continued: "He asked the elder, why don't we go to the outside world, and the elder just said lightly that we can't get out." ”

Mu Qingming asked softly in confusion: "Didn't you get out at that time, how did you know what the outside world was like?"

The woman's face was full of bitterness and said: "Yes, I didn't realize it when I was a child, but now that I think about it, I realize that the expressions on the faces of those elders are also bitter like resignation, we who live in the Valley of the Abandoned Army, never know what the outside world is like." It was a so-called prosperous and wonderful world, but it was said by the occasional person who got lost and entered the Valley of the Abandoned Army."

The woman continued: "When I was a child, I called that child Brother Guo, and he grew up with me and had a good relationship. Brother Xiao Guo is such a person, he never accepts his fate, no one in the clan goes out, the more he wants to go out. ”

The woman mentioned the person named Xiao Guo, and said with a smile on her face: "We have tried before, as long as we go out, we will encounter fog, and then we will return to the entrance of the village." I still remember that when Brother Xiao Guo left, he said to me with a smile, "The old village chief said that there are monks who penetrate the heavens and the earth, and when I go out and return from seeking the Fa, I will definitely break this ghost place and go to the prosperous time outside, and when that time comes, I Guo Shan will marry you Li Li as his wife." After Brother Xiao Guo finished speaking, he strode outside, and at that time I had a premonition that Brother Xiao Guo would definitely leave, and Brother Xiao Guo really didn't come back, and really left the Valley of the Abandoned Army. ”

The woman sighed and said, "From time to time, lost people come here in the village, so we know a lot about the outside. ”

Xiao Duo interjected: "Didn't those who came in go out again?"

The woman nodded and said, "Those who come in will never be able to get out." ”

Xiao Duo asked curiously, "Did that little brother Guo come back later?"

The woman named Li Li nodded with a bitter smile and said, "Brother Xiao Guo is back, twelve years later." I have been waiting for him to come back, but I didn't expect that I waited for twelve years before Brother Xiao Guo came back. When he left, I was fourteen and he was sixteen. When he came back, I was twenty-six and he was twenty-eight. When he returned, the people in our village were overjoyed, and they thought he was dead. ”

After Brother Xiao Guo left, the village slowly changed a lot, and the young and strong people in the village disappeared inexplicably, but no one saw how those people disappeared, and the whole village was panicked. Brother Xiao Guo said that he was lucky to enter a certain avenue courtyard, and he had already made great progress in Taoism, and he came back this time only for me and to help the village. ”

When the woman named Li Li paused, Mu Qingming looked at the woman, although she had a lot of white hair on her head and her face was covered with traces of vicissitudes, she could still see that she must have been a beautiful woman when she was young.

The woman named Li Li paused for a moment and then continued: "At that time, the villagers were overjoyed and thought that they were saved, but I saw that the corners of Xiao Guo's eyebrows were full of sorrow. Xiao Guo Ge did not immediately cast a spell to save the village, but carefully looked through the books left by the village from ancient times to the present. One night he told me that our place had been a great battlefield with countless deaths, and that one of them was a very brave army, and that every time it fought bravely and did countless deeds. Later, he was plotted by his own people, trapped in this valley, and struggled for several days to run out of ammunition and food, only to know that he was abandoned. The Lord killed himself, and the soldiers followed the Lord to kill themselves. Their resentment has not been dispersed, and they have been surrounding this valley of abandoned armies, bringing disaster to the world. Later, there were Taoist masters who laid out a formation, inhabited their grievances with locust trees, peach trees calmed the soul, and banyan trees lit soul-attracting lamps, which suppressed their resentments that soared to the sky. Later, another group of people were sent to live in this valley and suppressed it with popularity, which is the origin of the abandoned army valley. We always thought that this was just a legend, but later after Brother Xiao Guo said this, we learned that the legend was true. ”

Speaking of this, Li Li already had tears in the corners of his eyes: "Brother Xiao Guo said that he was going to repair the formation and suppress the unjust soul, and he also said that this unjust soul has exceeded his expectations, and he doesn't know if he can come back, when he left, he hugged me and said that if he can come back alive, he will get married." That night, there was a sound of fighting in the locust woods, and Xiao Guo never came back. Later, there were also monks who entered this valley of abandoned soldiers, but without exception, they could not get out and disappeared silently. It has been more than 16 years since Brother Xiao Guo disappeared. "The peach blossoms in front of the door, the flowers have bloomed and withered for decades, and I still don't see you welcoming your relatives.

Mu Qingming opened his mouth at the moment, but he couldn't speak, he didn't talk much on weekdays, and he didn't know how to comfort this woman named Li Li at the moment, he could see that her vicissitudes of life were full of bitterness, longing and loneliness.

When she said these words, it was like a spit of lovesickness.