The place where Mu Yan flew off the cliff was not far away, she should be familiar with this area, she knew where the cliff was, probably that night the moon was dark and the wind was high, she panicked and ran in the wrong direction. Standing on the cliff and looking down, the steep rocks tower, as if silently telling something, make people dizzy.

Zhou Sinian led us down a stone road from the other side to the bottom of the cliff, and slowly entered the canyon under the cliff. When you look up, a bare stone mountain reaches into the sky, and small waterfalls rush down. The valley is full of trees, and a raging underground river is unfathomable.

Going deeper, I saw sturdy and lush wild vines hanging down from the mountain, and from time to time thick trees grew from the hard boulders of the mountain. Zhou Sinian stopped and pulled his coat outside, the sun couldn't shine in the valley, and the cold hit me, and I sneezed.

Zhou Sinian said: "This is the place where Mu Yanfei's body was found, from here up, is the cliff we just went to, and the rope was hung down from there, and people came down from the top, but there were stones along the way, and nothing was found." ”

The mountain road is rugged and bumpy, like a giant snake, twisting and turning. As we walked, there was a noise, but when we arrived at the market at the bottom of the mountain, scattered mountain people, here they exchanged the mountain goods obtained from hunting for salt and cloth. They were all bartered, and a large boar could only be exchanged for a horse of linen and a small jar of salt.

I was surprised and said, "This is too expensive, I knew we would also bring a few pieces of cloth to sell." Zhou Sinian said with a smile: "Yipin is destined to compete with the small people for profit, be careful of being killed." The father-in-law said, "These are the fugitive mountain people, if they are caught, they will be exiled, and it would be good if they could stutter." ”

My heart moved, and I asked Zhou Sinian: "Brother Nian, when you were looking for Afu, did you ask these mountain people?" Zhou Sinian said: "These mountain people live scattered in the mountains, and as long as they can be found, they have asked, but no." He looked at me, guessed my thoughts, and said, "These mountain people don't have enough to eat themselves, and they won't raise a child of unknown origin." ”

I reluctantly looked back at the mountain people, but saw a tall young man in an animal skin, holding a complete leopard skin walking this way. So they stood still and waited for him.

The boy approached, his fair skin looked like an egg membrane that could be blown and broken, and it looked even more charming under the light, his long and dense eyelashes were like two small brushes, his black jade-like eyes exuded a thick warmth, and his lips bloomed like cherry blossoms outlined a half-moon-shaped arc, gentle as flowing water, and the beauty was thrilling.

Looking at my stunned appearance, the beautiful boy spoke: "Madam, can you take a look at my leopard skin?" It was an arrow shot in the eye, and there was not a single hole. He spread out the leopard skin, and I reached out and stroked it, and the tentacles were soft and warm, as if alive.

I asked, "Are there leopards in this mountain?" "I felt sad for a while, will Ah Fu be eaten by this beast? The boy replied, "Not here, but in the deeper mountains over there, where there are many people." There are very few leopards, and there is usually no such good thing, so Madame wants it. ”

The father-in-law looked at it and said, "Yes, this is a leopard's skin in winter." He turned his head to Zhou Sinian and said, "You're afraid of the cold, this is a good thing, take it." ”

Zhou Sinian smiled and looked at Ah Zhan and said, "Good skills, in this mountain?" The young man replied humbly, "Yes, sir," looking a little restrained and honest, "this leopard skin is only ten taels of silver, and they can't afford it." Zhou Sinian took out twenty-one taels of silver and handed it to the young man.

The young man was embarrassed and said: "I don't have the money to find ......" Zhou Sinian said: "I don't need to look for it." The father-in-law shook his head, "Are you used to being a master?" Where did he spend such a big amount of money. He took out two pieces of loose silver from his body, made up twenty taels, and gave them to the young man.

The young man thanked him happily and said, "Do you want to send the little one to the master's house?" The small ones can do a lot of work. Zhou Sinian said: "No need, talk to us." The young man hurriedly replied: "Yes, what does the master want to say?" ”

There is a wide river next to the bazaar, and we walked into the water pavilion, which is surrounded by beautiful mountains and rivers; In the distance, a waterfall as thin as a white line flows down the lush mountain, which is very poetic. Compared with the desolate Tianshi Mountain just now, it is simply a fairyland on earth. I said, "It's amazing to live here." Looking back at the young man's animal skin, he smiled and said, "Your clothes are so beautiful." ”

The boy said, "The mountains are damp, and there are wild beasts. Linen is too expensive to wear. I didn't know what to say for a while, so I asked, "What's your name?" How old is this year? The boy said, "The youngest is called Ah Zhan, and he is nineteen years old this year." ”

"How did you get to this mountain?" Zhou Sinian asked. Ah Zhan said: "The little one was born in the mountains, my father used to work for the Wucheng Houjia in the capital, and offended the steward, so he first ran to the boat as a boatman, and ran here along the river, but he still couldn't hide, so he had to go into the mountain." ”

I was silent again, and after a while, I asked, "Is your village big?" Do you know everyone around you? Ah Zhan said, "The little ones know everything." I said, "Did you ever see someone bring a newborn baby girl a year ago?" Ah Zhan shook his head blankly: "The people in our village can't even afford to raise their own children, so they won't hold them." ”

I bowed my head in disappointment, and Ah Zhan said, "However, some of them came to our village to buy girls, and some of them couldn't afford to raise them, so I sold them to them." Zhou Sinian asked: "Who are they?" Ah Zhan said, "The little one doesn't know." They don't say. ”

We walked and talked, and before we knew it, we came to the waterfall. The waterfall is magnificent, and the water rushes down from the mountains thousands of feet high, stirring up small droplets of water like rain, and there seems to be a mist rising around it.

At this time, I don't know if I was dazzled or what, there was a figure that disappeared behind the waterfall in a blink of an eye. "There's someone up there!" I exclaimed.

Who knew but no one responded, Zhou Sinian looked at me blankly, Ah Zhan also looked at me stupidly, my father-in-law looked at me and turned his head to look at him, laughed, and said with a smile: "This sun is a little too bright, and there are shadows everywhere." ”

I looked back at the waterfall in confusion, and it seemed that it was really quiet and empty. Could it really be that I'm dazzled?

Ah Zhan said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the small home is in front, if there is nothing else, the little one will not pass." As he spoke, he handed over the leopard skin he was carrying, but he didn't know who he was handing it to.

Zhou Sinian smiled: "It seems that I really want to bother you to send it back, so be it!" I see that you are good, this time go to recognize the door, and if there are good things in the future, send them home directly. He looked at me playfully and said with a smile, "Madame has a big reward." (To be continued.) )