Zhuli Village is about 100 miles away from Qiluo Town, backed by a mountain, and there is a small lake in front of it, so it is a good place to be surrounded by mountains and rivers. www.biquge.info It's a pity that I don't know if it's a custom or something else, but the people of Zhuli Village don't like to go out of the village. The village is accustomed to self-sufficiency, and if there is anything, the village chief and a few patriarchs of the family can directly decide what is good or bad.

Zhu Baosheng poured a cup of tea for the woman in front of him, and the clay cup in the countryside was matched with the tea that had not been touched for a long time, and the indescribable bitterness was mixed with a silky smell. The woman with a bright face took small sips, but she didn't look disgusted at all.

Zhu Baosheng sat in front of the woman and involuntarily cramped, "We haven't had outsiders come to Zhuli Village for a few days, I don't know what you're doing here, girl?" ”

The man is just over forty this year, and the people of the village are living a hard life, although they are not very old, their hair is already gray. He was pushed to the position of village chief two years earlier, and this bamboo is small from the village, and somehow there are fewer and fewer people. In the early days, there were still some big clans, but now in addition to the two elders of the Zhu family, there are only a few seedlings left in the Jin family.

Now walking in this village, from the head of the village to the end of the village, there is really no family that I don't know. Therefore, Zhu Baosheng, the village head, is said to be a steward, but in fact, it is just to consolidate the name of the so-called big family of the Zhu family.

Zhu Baosheng was worried about the dry tobacco pole in his hand, an old thing made of brass, and I don't know how many generations it has been passed on. He squinted his eyes and stuffed some tobacco into the cigarette tube, and for the first time he felt the appearance of his village chief in the face of this sudden living person. He waited for the woman to answer, but saw her put down the teacup in her hand and smile at him.

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It was the first time Zhang Xiaomao saw such a beautiful person, dressed in red tulle, obviously unable to see her face clearly, but she could feel her beauty partially. He gnawed on the stalks of grass in his mouth, and the clothes with a golden luster were also good-looking, unlike the big and small aunts in the village, who were always dusty, and would not change into new clothes even during the New Year's holiday.

The half-grown boy snorted a syllable, and he watched the woman walk into the village chief's house. After the figure disappeared completely, the straw pole chewed in Zhang Xiaomao's mouth was spit on the ground by him, and he turned over and scurried up, taking advantage of the fact that his mother had no time to react, he had already jumped out of the fence and ran a long way.

He could vaguely hear the old lady yelling behind him that the little rabbit cub didn't work, and he knew that he was running outside, and one day he was abducted by a wolf when he entered the mountain, and saw if he could come back......

There is a particularly high stone plaque at the entrance of Zhuli Village, listen to the old man in the village said, the big plaque is actually a chaste archway, and now the change of dynasty has long been out of these things, but put it in front of the court, this chaste archway is not the same, not to mention the reputation of the virgin's family, that is, the possibility that the entire township and county have been blessed is not nothing. So, Zhuli Village was also glorious back then.

Whenever these things were mentioned, the old people who had already stepped into the coffin with half their legs in the coffin would become excited, as if they had eaten some kind of elixir, and pointed here and there with long sighs, as if at that moment, what they saw in their eyes was no longer this dilapidated, dark village, but some great and lively place.

Zhang Xiaomao has never been interested in these old Huang Li, what he is interested in is the thing under the brand. I don't remember exactly when I found the hole, but it was a small one, just enough for the skinny man to get into. How did you discover this hole in the first place? I don't remember.

The only thing I remember is the bright red box, the light in the hole is not enough, it stands to reason that I can't see clearly, but the color of the box is like a bright light, so bright to attract Zhang Xiaomao to the past. It's a box, but it's not exact. It's not the usual boxy, but it's a little more rounded. The lid was raised high, and the corners and corners of the place were also polished into arcs, some like coffins, but I didn't see anyone's coffin would be made like this, such a color, and so small.

This big box is about the same length as Zhang Xiaomao, and the twelve or thirteen-year-old boy has not yet drawn tall, but Xiaomao is thin, so it looks taller. When he first discovered the hole, he also tried to break the lid of the box with his bare hands, but the weight of the box was far beyond his imagination. He had thought about bringing a shovel to pry the lid, but the hole was too small, and the shovel was too eye-catching, so it was gone.

Zhang Xiaomao cautiously leaned over and got into the place he had entered countless times. He shivered for no reason, closed his collar, why did he feel a little cold? He rubbed his arms twice, and he could vaguely feel goosebumps on his arms under the sleeves of his shirt. Zhang Xiaomao didn't care, just crawled down, but after a while, he went down to the hole. The familiarity made him feel less cold than he had been.

The boy touched the big box, which had never been opened, and sat down next to him. I couldn't help but think of the woman in red just now, so beautiful, and completely different from Zhuli Village's temperament, thinking about it, my heart was itching. Suddenly, a gust of wind came, and he looked at the entrance of the cave that went down, and his heart panicked.

What's different in this hole.

He stood up against the wall of the cave, and when his hand touched the box, he always felt that something was wrong, and the little hair groped carefully, and the familiar lines undulated against his hand, and when he touched the edge, he was shocked in vain, the lid of the box was moved a little, and his hand touched, as if the whole arm could reach into it.

Zhang Xiaomao took two steps back, wanting to leave, but couldn't help but be curious, really, really want to know what was in this box. He put his hand on the wall of the intricately carved wooden box, and slowly, reached into the slit that had been removed.

The boy groped carefully, and when his hand touched something, he felt a faint heat spray on his palm, like, it was human breath!

He was so frightened that he didn't have time to stabilize his body, and slammed straight forward, the lid of the box that should have been as heavy as a boulder was directly knocked open by him, and the arm he stretched into the box didn't have time to withdraw it, and pressed straight on top of something with the momentum of the fall.

It was soft, and it was a little hot, and the warm touch made him feel nauseous, and there seemed to be liquid surging underneath the satin-like thing.

He looked down and saw a bright red bead facing him, shimmering dimly like a pearl of the night. He didn't dare to put his hand on the unknown thing anymore, and held on to the edge of the box with one hand, and steadied himself. He tried to withdraw his hand that was still in the box, but somehow, it seemed like something was sticking to it, and although he could lift it, he could still feel the strange warmth.

Zhang Xiaomao narrowed his eyes and leaned down to see what was in his hand, but the red beads moved. Not rolling, but, like an eyeball, turning, "looking" at him!

An indescribable stench began to fill the cave, and the boy screamed and shook his hands to crawl out of the cave.

That thing! That thing! What is that? Did it see me? It sees me!!

Before the scream could spill out of his throat, he was suddenly stuck, and the half-grown boy kept letting out "Roar... cough...", his hands swayed wildly, like a worm bound by a spider's web, and kept struggling, until a red shadow flashed in his peripheral vision.

All struggles stopped, and the cavern was silent, as if nothing had happened.