Chen Guangyu held Zhang Sheng's hands tightly, unable to control the excitement in his heart, he must invite Zhang Sheng to his house to sit and take Zhang Sheng to see his grandfather.

Zhang Sheng smiled: "Our identity is ......"

"If you are a reactionary, I will be reactionary with you!"

Chen Guangyu's family is very poor, two houses of less than 30 square meters, there are nine members of the Chen family, Chen Qing sleeps in a single bed, Chen Guangyu's six children sleep on the kang, and their husband and wife live in a shack in the yard.

Chen Qing is already over eighty years old, and his thin body seems to be blown down by the wind, seeing Zhang Sheng walk into the house, Chen Qing's jaw kept trembling, and Zhang Sheng held Chen Qing's hand: "Old man, long time no see." ”

Chen Qinglao burst into tears and held Zhang Sheng's hand tightly: "I thought I would never see you again in my life." As he spoke, he slowly bent his knees to kneel for Zhang Sheng.

Zhang Sheng hurriedly helped Chen Qing up: "What are you doing, if you want to do this, I'll leave." ”

Chen Qing grabbed Zhang Sheng's hand: "Don't go, stay and eat with me." ”

Wang Sheng smiled: "Village chief, do you remember us?" ”

Chen Qing looked at Wang Sheng and the four of them for five minutes, and suddenly showed an extremely surprised expression on his face, turned his head to look at Zhang Sheng and asked, "Are you together?" ”

Zhang Sheng nodded, there was obviously a trace of displeasure on Chen Qing's face, and he didn't know why Wang Sheng and they didn't like Chen Qing.

After a few words of greeting, Wang Sheng and they were about to leave, but Chen Qing disagreed: "I have this old bone, I don't know how many days I can live, benefactor, I beg you, stay and have a light meal with my old bone, I will die blind." ”

Zhang Sheng looked back at Wang Sheng and the four of them, as if he was asking Wang Sheng for their opinion, Wang Sheng scratched his hair, Chen Qing's family was surrounded by four walls, Chen Guangyu's child was yellow and thin, and he was malnourished at first glance, leaving Chen Guangyu to eat a meal, which might have to use half a month's ration of his family. But looking at Chen Qing's sincere face, Wang Sheng really couldn't refuse.

Wang Sheng took out the money and food stamps sold by the task scroll: "We only have this money and food stamps, you can accept it, and it will be our food money." ”

Although Chen Guangyu is poor, he also has his own bottom line, saying that he doesn't want Wang Sheng's money, Wang Sheng smiled: "If you don't want it, we will really leave." ”

Chen Guangyu made a few dishes, the best dish was scrambled eggs, dry cornmeal nests, Wang Sheng felt no appetite, Zhang Sheng's mouth was full, it seemed that he had never eaten such a delicious thing.

Chen Qing looked at Zhang Sheng's eating, with a satisfied smile on his face, and involuntarily shed two lines of tears, Zhang Sheng smiled and said, "Eat, come and eat together." ”

Chen Qing nodded, the smile seemed to freeze on his face, Zhang Sheng frowned, gently put his fingers under his nose, couldn't help but gasp, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground.

Wang Sheng suddenly felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly reached out to touch Chen Qing's neck, and there was no pulse. Wang Sheng gently put down his chopsticks and sighed, Chen Qingshou finally died.

Chen Guangyu was stunned, and when he understood what was going on, he knelt on the ground, his eyes flowed out like a flood, and he cried so dimly that he couldn't pull it up.

Zhang Sheng frowned, slowly walked to Leng Ai's side, and whispered something in Leng Ai's ear, Leng Ai blinked her eyes wide, and looked at Zhang Sheng with a confused expression. Zhang Sheng gently patted Leng Ai's arm, sighed helplessly, and walked towards Chen Qing's corpse.

Zhang Sheng helped bury Chen Qing's funeral, Leng Ai mysteriously pulled his bald head to leave, Wang Sheng hurriedly followed, but Leng Ai asked him to wait here, as for why, there was no time to explain to him now.

Wang Sheng looked at the backs of Leng Ai and the bald head, his heart was full of doubts, he wanted to know very much what Zhang Sheng said to Leng Ai.

Zhang Sheng suddenly walked to Wang Sheng's side, leaned on his ear and whispered, "You and your friends go to Longxing Temple to see if the host is still there." ”

Wang Shenghu asked suspiciously, "Why?" ”

Zhang Sheng said: "If the host is not there, or if he dies, he will come back immediately, you know?" ”

Wang Sheng became more and more puzzled, it was just that Chen Qing died, why did Zhang Sheng take them all away, Wang Sheng suspected that Zhang Sheng had a ghost in his heart, and if he didn't explain the reason, he wouldn't go.

Zhang Sheng sneered and threw down a sentence, "If you're not afraid of being haunted, you won't go!" He strode towards Chen Qing's corpse.

Cheng Hao patted Wang Sheng's shoulder: "I feel like it's better to go and see, if there is a problem, Leng Ai will tell us." ”

Wang Sheng scratched his hair, watching Zhang Sheng busily helping Chen Qing settle the next generation, and he couldn't see any misdeeds in Zhang Sheng at all.

On the way to Xinglong Temple, Wang Sheng called Leng Ai with intercom earrings and asked Zhang Sheng what he said to her.

Leng Ai is a white wizard, she can see things that Wang Sheng can't see, including the soul of people, Chen Qing's death is not the end of life, Leng Ai doesn't know who it is, and what method is used to kill Chen Qing, but she can see that Chen Qing's soul is still in the corpse and has not gone out, Zhang Sheng told Leng Ai that if Chen Qing's soul is not beaten out of the corpse, within three days, Chen Qing will be corpsed.

Zhang Sheng asked Leng Ai to put on his bald head and look all the way to the west, if they moved fast enough, they might be able to see the Dharma platform for the practice. Culture. During the Great Revolution, ordinary people did not dare to engage in feudal superstition, Zhang Sheng reasoned that if there was no Dharma platform in the west, then the place of practice must be in the temple, and the most questionable of them was the presiding officer of the temple.

Wang Sheng and Cheng Hao rushed to the temple, the host was not in the temple, all the monks in the temple did not know where the host went, the two waited all night, and did not see the host come back. Leng Ai and the bald head ran from Yuncheng City to Yongji City, but they didn't see the Fatai.

Wang Sheng returned to Chen Guangyu's home, Leng Ai and the bald head were still on the way back, Zhang Sheng was afraid of being regarded as a counter-revolutionary, and he did not dare to set up a legal platform, so he put the talisman paper in Chen Qing's shroud.

Wang Sheng asked Zhang Sheng softly: "He won't really be a corpse." ”

Zhang Sheng shook his head: "It's not easy to say." ”

Zhang Sheng softly persuaded Chen Guangyu: "The old man is also a happy mourner, you don't have to be too sad, does the old man have any last wishes?" ”

Chen Guangyu reluctantly cried: "Before you came, the old man clamored to go to Sichuan to visit his old friend, but he couldn't go, he knew that I would take him......

Wang Sheng's brows couldn't help frowning together, Jiangxi and Sichuan spanned two provinces, Chen Qing was already an old man in his eighties, not to mention the purpose of his trip to Sichuan, just talking about the bumps in the road, it could also turn Chen Qing's old bones upside down.

Zhang Sheng also thought of this, he suspected that Chen Qing went to visit his old friend fake, he must have known some secret, and the secret was in Sichuan Province. The person who killed Chen Qing behind the scenes should know Chen Qing's secret, but Chen Qing is old and does not pose any threat, so the people behind the scenes did not make a move, Zhang Sheng and they suddenly appeared in Chen Qing's house, and the person behind the scenes was worried that Chen Qing would leak the secret, so he made this decision and secretly killed him.

Three days later, when Chen Qing's coffin was nailed, Zhang Sheng took out a black bead from Chen Qing's head, and after dealing with Chen Qing's funeral, Zhang Sheng and Wang Sheng left together, and they went to Xinglong Temple again.

At night, Wang Sheng and the others came to Chen Qing's cemetery, dug up Chen Qing's coffin, and Zhang Sheng took out the kerosene that had been prepared and poured it on Chen Qing's body. Chen Qing and the coffin were burned to ashes, and Wang Sheng and the others restored the tomb to its original state, so as not to be seen.

A week later, Wang Sheng and his team arrived in Yi Autonomous County, Sichuan Province.

Yi Autonomous County is located in the Xiaoliang Mountains of southwestern Sichuan Province, adjacent to Mount Emei, a sacred site of Buddhism. Entrust Leshan Prefecture to manage. The primeval forests here are vast, the mountains and rivers are intertwined, and the scenery is very beautiful. Entering the county seat, although you can see people wearing green uniforms on the streets, there is no revolutionary atmosphere like a big city, and life here is relatively quiet.

In the small county town, there is only one supply and marketing cooperative, and a vegetable market of less than ten square meters, Wang Sheng and his family walked from the street to the end of the street in less than ten minutes.

At noon, Wang Sheng and the others came to a farmhouse. documents, claiming that they were sent by the state to secretly visit and investigate the revolutionary situation of the people, Zhang Sheng took out money and food stamps to beg for food in this peasant house, and the male host entertained Wang Sheng and them very warmly.

Life here is far less than that of Yuncheng, and the best dish is a plate of tofu, which is already a very luxurious food.

During the meal, Zhang Sheng chatted with the male host, and the male owner spoke carefully, for fear that if he said something wrong, he would cause unnecessary trouble.

Zhang Sheng laughed and said, "You don't have to be so restrained, what do you have to say." ”

Wang Sheng asked, "Has anything strange happened here recently?" ”

The male owner laughed a few times, as if there was something unspeakable.

Wang Sheng and they knew that the male owner was also afraid of being criticized and criticized, and under Zhang Sheng's repeated assurances, the male owner really said a terrible thing.

There is a black bamboo ditch town in the southwest of Ebian, where there is a primeval forest, called the black bamboo forest, the local villagers call it Si Huo, Yi language for the meaning of playing pendulum and death, Chinese is the valley of death. Half a month ago, soldiers from a squad of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) surveying and mapping unit and forest surveyors from the Sichuan Forestry Bureau in Sichuan Province disappeared in Heizhugou and have not been heard from since.

The local Yi compatriots are widely spread, in the most dangerous part of the valley of death, there is a place called Shimen Pass, the open valley in the upper part of Shimen Pass, was originally the place where the ancestors of the Yi people lived, the ancestors of the Yi people, no one can enter, otherwise it will be wiped out. Shimenguan is the hinterland of Heizhugou, and many expeditions have gone through hardships, but in the end they have not been able to penetrate the treacherous area of Shimenguan. None of the locals dared to step into the stone gate for half a step, and legend has it that there was no trace of the hunters there, and the strong men never looked back.

Cheng Hao asked, "Could it be that you got lost and couldn't get out?" ”

The man shook his head: "One or two people can't get out, that's normal, but no one who went in ever came out." At the beginning of 1950, half a company of the Kuomintang Hu Zongnan's unit, relying on its excellent weapons, was ready to flee through Heizhugou. But who knew that after entering the ditch, no one came out. ”

Cheng Hao gasped: "So no one has ever come out of this black bamboo ditch?" ”

The man shook his head: "No, the villagers said that the people who went in were eaten by savages." ”

It is said that someone has seen wild people in Heizhugou with their own eyes. The wild man is about two meters tall, with a human-like face, covered with yellow-brown fluff, and has a huge male yang. Later, some people said that the traces of the savages were found in Heizhugou, and the local people's awe of the savages exceeded the awe of the mountain gods, and they called it "Nuoshen Luo Apu", which means "the grandfather of the mountain god", and Heizhugou therefore had a new name: the Savage Valley. The rumors spread more and more, and later some people claimed that some hunters found a giant bird more than one meter in Heizhugou, and some people had seen animals with two heads.