Speaking of this, Ma Wanli lowered his head and smoked again, Zhao Biao was thrilled when he heard it, and couldn't help asking: "Ma, Uncle Ma, what happened later?" ”

Ma Wanli spat out a smoke ring: "Then the ship sank." Zhao Biao was anxious: "I know the ship sank." I'm asking what the hell is going on with this ship. How did the people on board die. ”

Ma Wanli shook his head: "Who knows this?" I said that the ship burned out and there was no slag left, so who can find out the origin of the ghost ship? ”

"Some people say that it was too foggy that night, and the boat got lost in Jiangxin's heart and sailed into the ghost gate and met the evil ghost. Some people say that there is a problem with the things that the ship is consigning, and that the monster of the Taoist Nightmare was accidentally opened by the sailors. Anyway, it's all a blind guess, no certainty. In the end, the shopkeeper Lin went home and fell seriously ill, and asked the monk of the Daning Temple Pagoda to do several rituals before summoning the soul. The kindness also threatened everywhere that there were evil ghosts on the ghost ship that night and also sneaked into Woodland City, so that every family should be careful of the children and the elderly, and they would have nothing to do with the incense in the tower or something, but in the end, they didn't hear anything big, and gradually it stopped. Hey, I said that the two brothers Ma Liu Ma and Ma Qi are making a name for themselves, and they don't come out to change shifts? ”

Zhao Biao was still unwilling: "Is it really gone?" I said, Uncle Ma, you didn't just make up a story to prevaricate me, right? Where could such a terrible thing really be? Ma Wanli threw away the cigarette butt and scolded with a smile: "Is your Uncle Ma full of food to make up a story to amuse you?" Besides, you have to make up stories, and your Uncle Ma is not a story basket, and he can't make up such smooth words for a while. The story of the Foggy Night Ghost Boat is that every child in Woodland City will be scared and listened to by adults when they are naughty. You see, isn't this rice shop the Lin family? ”

Zhao Biao looked in the direction of Ma Wanli's finger, and there was indeed a circle drawn on the broken rice shop wall, and there was a faint forest character in the circle, but it was so smoked by artillery fire that it could not be seen if you didn't look carefully. Ma Wanli couldn't put it down as soon as he pointed to the rice shop, and gradually frowned: "No, even if the Ma brothers don't come out to change shifts and stand guard, it's already past dinner time, why can't you smell the fire of cooking at all?" Let's take a look, don't really get dragged away by the rat essence......"

However, Ma Wanli took Zhao Biao to search all over the rice shop, but he did not find any trace of Ma Liu and Ma Qi. Although the roof of the rice shop has been blown up, the dilapidated grain depot adjacent to it is still in the vicinity. The roof of the granary is intact, and the walls are quite high, so the Ma brothers can't fly out even if they have wings. The floor was covered with old wooden planks used to keep out the moisture, and the moldy wooden planks were scattered with a thick layer of moisture-absorbing straw, which emitted an unpleasant smell of rot. At the narrow gate connecting the rice shop and the grain depot are several half-sized straw piles, which are estimated to be left over from the rice shop that was used to lay the floor.

Zhao Biao covered his nose and picked up the wooden stick at the top door and poked a few grass piles one by one, and the smell of rancid smell became bigger and bigger. Ma Wanli's brows furrowed tightly, and he waved his hand again and again: "Don't, don't, that size can't hide people, don't stab the more you stab, the more rushed!" It's so embarrassing, which one lacks virtue is convenient in the grass? Hurry up and go, the smoke will make people vomit. Zhao Biao waited for this sentence, hurriedly dropped the wooden stick in his hand and rushed out of the way, and only inhaled heavily when he rushed out of the rice shop door, and after a while saw Ma Wanli come out, he was a little embarrassed, afraid that Ma Wanli would laugh at his squeamishness, and asked in disguise: "Uncle Ma, did you find anything inside?" Where are the two brothers of the Ma family? ”

Ma Wanli shook his head with a gloomy face and said: "I just went to the earthen stove in the rice shop to see, there was no water in the pot, and the firewood under the pot was not piled up. I think maybe the two brothers have one heart and become deserters. Zhao Biao shook his head: "Can't you?" The Ma brothers are not like the kind of people who are afraid of death. Besides, the place where we stand guard is right in front of the rice shop, and if they slip out, we won't be able to see it? ”

Ma Wanli took a sip: "I see you steamed buns!" When the sky was darkest, didn't you pester me to tell stories? Speaking so happily, let alone two people, the two dragons flew out without looking, where did this little confidence come from now? Besides, if it weren't for being a deserter, two living people could say that they would be gone? I just think that the Ma brothers are not things, just run away, at least eat a hot mouth and then leave. Well, now, if you encounter any accidents along the way, you will starve to death and freeze to death as a ghost......"

Ma Wanli just chattered, Zhao Biao's face turned even redder by what he said, and he looked around to see if there was any dry firewood or something to pick up and make a fire to cook. Ma Wanli saw Zhao Biao's plan and scolded: "Don't look for it, don't you know why Uncle is so angry?" The Ma brothers are not things, and the little dry food left in the shop was taken away by them, and not even a single rice crumb was left. Not only do we have to starve tonight, but we also have to help them give them the night job of guarding the flag, who are they?! ”

Zhao Biao was stunned, fortunately, he didn't digest well in the past few days, and he didn't feel hungry. Seeing Ma Wanli scolding and walking towards the flagpole, and then looking at the entrance of the house where the rice shop was blown off, it seemed that a black giant beast with a huge mouth was squatting in the night, and couldn't help but shiver, and hurriedly chased Ma Wanli. At this moment the rising moon burrowed into the clouds again, and it was still black all around. Zhao Biao felt that the darker it became, the more panicked he became, the wind was leaking on all sides and there was no fire, thinking about the strange things earlier, he couldn't help but ask Ma Wanli again: "Uncle Ma, Uncle Ma, when it was not dark, you told the Ma family brothers that there have been no rats in Mulin City who dare to be so arrogant and show up in front of people for decades, what do you mean?" ”

Ma Wanli took out a cigarette from his pocket and put it under his nose greedily to smoke it, sighed with satisfaction, and was reluctant to smoke it and put it back, and angrily rushed to Zhao Biao: "What do you mean, that is, that white-haired mouse must not be a native of Mulin City, and he slipped in from outside the city, don't you see it with bad eyes?!" ”

Zhao Biao was so rushed that he didn't dare to answer for a while, and after a while, he couldn't help but say aggrievedly: "I didn't see it!" A mouse is a mouse, what difference can it make? Uncle Ma, how do you see that? Ma Wanli snorted: "That's not easy. With your little eyesight, you say, your two wolf dogs, you have found that little bit of meat to feed them for so many days, why do they still look so oily and slippery? ”

Zhao Biao was shocked, scratched his head and said, "I really didn't expect this." yes, why didn't I see them hungry? Ma Wanli said in a sullen voice: "Of course." They carry you on your back every night to find wild food to eat, and they naturally don't call when they are full. You sleep like a dead pig every day, and you don't notice what you just came to the woods and screamed happily every night, and now it's almost extinct? ”

Zhao Biao suddenly realized: "Uncle Ma, you mean those wild cats, yes, I'm still strange!" Why did they run all over the place before, but now there is no trace, it turns out that these two wolf dogs did a good thing. ”

Ma Wanli nodded: "That's it, originally no one in Mulin City had dogs, there were more dogs and cats, more cats and fewer rats, and rats didn't dare to show their heads day and night." You see that the Lin family's granary is so big, covered with wooden planks, and they are not afraid of being gnawed at all, so they don't take the rats who steal grain seriously. ”

"Now that you two wolf-dogs are in town, the wild cats that can't run away have filled their stomachs. The cat is gone, and the rats outside the city are ready to move. Although there is no rice in this rice shop, the taste of rice is still there. That's why they brought in rats from outside the city. Got it? This is often said to be a thing descending from one thing, just like a tight iron chain, if you knock off one of the inner links, the whole chain will be turned over. But let me tell you, this place of the wood forest is evil, don't look at your two dogs are the boss now, maybe they will be punished at some point, and the end will be worse than those wild cats. ”

Zhao Biao didn't seem to be frightened when he heard Ma Wanli's words, he panicked for no reason, and pestered Ma Wanli to tell him why there were no dogs in Mulin City. Ma Wanli was so entangled by him that he couldn't help it, took out his cigarette again and smelled it, and said in a low voice: "Because it was raised for nothing, there were many dogs in Mulin City in the early years, but I don't know when the domestic dogs and wild dogs slowly disappeared." It doesn't matter if you lock it in the yard or leave it outside for a walk, the end result is the same, you can't find even a dog bone. ”

"The fierce dogs in Woodland City can't be raised, and even the wild dogs outside the city never dare to enter Woodland City to look for food, as if they are afraid of some fierce gods and evil spirits in the city. Your two dogs are good, and they dare to bark twice in Mullin City, the dogs in the early years of Mullin City walked with their tails between their legs, and never dared to bark. Unless ......"

Ma Wanli swallowed his saliva, and Zhao Biao urged: "Unless what?" Ma Wanli said slowly: "Unless any dog is going to be lost for a while, it will howl like crying." Soon after the howl, the dog was gone. As I said, I can't even find the bones of a dog. That's it, you listen, that's it, I heard it once many years ago, and I'll never forget it. ”

The two wolf dogs howled in the direction of Zhao Biao and Ma Wanli at this moment, and their voices were like weeping, as if they were telling their masters about the pain of parting, and they seemed to be pleading bitterly for something behind them. Zhao Biao has raised dogs for so long, and he has never seen them like this, so he couldn't help but panic for a while, and always felt that there was something behind him staring at him with bad intentions, and looked back and again. Ma Wanli smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It is said that not raising dogs in Mulin City is only the first evil, but I won't talk about the two evils below, so as not to scare your baby out of illness." If you really can't worry about your two baby bumps, just tie them up to this flagpole, and you can keep an eye on them, right? ”

Zhao Biao nodded again and again, and suddenly remembered that Ma Wanli was afraid of dogs, his face turned red, and he asked in a low voice: "Uncle Ma, what should you do?" Ma Wanli smiled: "I'll change nests with them, and I'll squat at them." It's windy there, so I'm squinting. I've worked hard for you at night. ”