Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Ali stood up and walked to Zhang Jizu's side and persuaded: "Young master, don't cry, people can't be resurrected after death, don't cry your body!" It's going to be dark, so why don't we have to find a place to stay, we can't stay here, right? ”

Zhang Jizu wiped his tears, burned a few more pieces of paper for his father, stood up and sighed, and looked around, the last touch of sunset on the horizon had faded, and it was indeed time to find a place to stay. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"I think the two of us can only go to that row of houses for the time being, and we will only be able to spend one night at the moment." Zhang Jizu said, isn't it? Now the cemetery on the entire Tao town is still his Zhang family, only the row of gray and white houses can still accommodate it, I didn't expect that the first night of my return would be spent here.

Saying that, the two of them walked along the gravel road in the cemetery towards the foot of the mountain, and after walking for only five or six minutes, the two came to the front of the white house, at this time it was completely dark, and it was still obvious by the moonlight that a row of white houses was still obvious, and there were six houses in this row, and the exterior was all stone-built walls, and a layer of ash was smeared outside, but the strange thing was that only the middle two of the six houses had doors and windows, and the four rooms on both sides had only doors and no windows.

"Is it a barn, but what's the use of a barn in this cemetery?" Zhang Jizu was puzzled in his heart, and then looked at the two rooms in the middle, the door was closed, and there was no light in the house, so there should be no one.

"Young master, you wait outside, Ali will go first and have a look." As he spoke, Ali walked to the door of the first room in the middle, looked at it first, then turned his head and said, "Young master, the door is locked from the outside, there should be no one." Ali walked to the door of another room next to him, also lowered his head to look, and then pushed it gently, "squeak" The door opened, in such a quiet cemetery, although this small sound really startled Zhang Jizu, and was about to shout to Ali to let him not be so reckless, but before the words came out, he saw that Ali had already entered the white room with a cat's waist. Zhang Jizu was a little anxious, so he took a few steps forward and wanted to enter the house. As soon as I walked to the edge of the door, I saw a bright light flashing in front of me, and when I looked closely, it turned out to be Ali walking out with a lantern in his hand.

"Young master, come into the house and have a look." Ali seemed to be very excited to say, Zhang Jizu was relieved to see that Ali was fine, so he followed Ali into the house by the light, and the psychology of bright people was a lot more steady, Zhang Jizu began to look at the furnishings in the house, the house is not big but very tidy, there is a wooden bed by the north, the bedding on the bed is all there, although it is old but relatively clean, it seems that someone has indeed lived, the floor of the house is along the corner of the wall by three bamboo poles that are one person high, and there is a small iron hook on one of the bamboo poles, I don't know what it is forIn the center of the room, there is a table of eight immortals and four chairs, there is a stove in the corner, there is a black iron pot on the stove, and there are two large vats next to it. He turned his head to Zhang Jizu and said, "Young master, don't you say it's strange, this water is a fresh mountain spring, it really quenches your thirst!" Master, why don't you try it too? As he spoke, he scooped up half a scoop of water and handed it to Zhang Jizu, Zhang Jizu smiled bitterly in his heart, thinking, "This Ali is really a fool!" However, I haven't eaten a drop of water from early in the morning to now, and I've been running around for so long, so I really haven't taken care of it so much, so I took the water and scooped it down, it was really sweet and refreshing, so I was like Ali's "Goo Dong, Goo Dong" and drank half a scoop of water clean. Ali on the side was not idle, and lifted the lid of another large vat as well.

"Ahh Ali exclaimed, Zhang Jizu put the water scoop in his hand aside, and hurriedly came over, and at a glance, it turned out that there was a jar full of white rice in this big vat.

"What an endless road!" Zhang Jizu said with emotion.

"It must be the old man who has appeared, thank you, thank you, thank you." Ali knelt directly on the ground and bowed uncontrollably to the heavens.

"Ali don't say goodbye, follow me to this next room and have a look." Zhang Jizu now feels more and more weird, Ah Li heard the young master and hurriedly stood up, picked up the lantern and followed Zhang Jizu out of the house, came to the door of the white house next door, Zhang Jizu looked at the lock on the door, and said to Ali: "You go and see, see if you can find the key." ”

"Young Master, can there be a key here? If I don't break the lock, it won't be a lot of effort. ”

"Ali, don't be brutal, I don't think things are simple, besides, this lock is not an ordinary lock, but a German steel lock, it's not easy to smash." Zhang Jizu said with a frown.

"What? Master, are you saying that something is wrong here? Ali was also alert when he heard Zhang Jizu say this, and he carried the lamp to the left and right, Zhang Jizu saw Ali like this, and he was also a little crying and laughing, and said: "I'm just guessing, you go and find the door key." ”

"Oh!" Ali agreed, and began to feel up and down around the white house, searching, and then returned to the first room to look around, but the light was so dim that it was not easy to find the little house key.

"Young master, I can't find it at all, did the person who lives here take the key with him when he left." Ali looked for a long time and said dejectedly, but Ali saw Zhang Jizu but ignored him, but stood alone under a big tree in front of the house, looked up for a while, lowered his head for a while, and muttered something in his mouth, behaving very strangely.

"Young master, it can't be an evil spirit, right?" Ali's heart is up and down, after all, there are all graves around here. Ali thought about it, and couldn't help but get goosebumps all over his body.

Suddenly, Zhang Jizu patted his head, turned his head to look at Ali and asked, "Ali, what are you doing standing there?" ”

"Oh! Less, young master, I didn't find the key! Hearing Zhang Jizu speak, Ali's hanging heart relaxed, so he hurriedly replied.

"You don't have to look for them, I think I probably already found them. Go and get the three bamboo poles in the house. Zhang Jizu said again.

The second monk was confused, returned to the house in a daze, carried out the three bamboo poles in the corner of the wall and put them on the ground, and asked, "Young master, what is the use of these bamboo poles?" ”

"Ali, do you look up at the height of this tree?" Zhang Jizu asked.

"High, really high, how can this number be hundreds of years old!" Ali raised his head and looked at the towering tree beside him by the moonlight.

"Then listen carefully to see if you can hear anything?" Zhang Jizu said again.

Although Ali was still confused, he still listened with his ears sideways as the young master instructed, "There is no movement?" Ali listened for a moment and said to himself.

"Listen to it again, and you'll hear it in a moment." Zhang Jizu commanded on the side again, and as he was talking, a mountain wind blew, causing the leaves on the big tree to "swish", but it was also mixed with the sound of "clanging" metal collision.

"I heard, I heard, young master, you mean, the key is in this tree?" Ali asked, widening his eyes in surprise.