Zhang Taiping did not follow up in the back room, but went out to lead the grimace and the black dragon into the yard, the little black dog in the yard was tough enough, obviously scared to death after seeing the grimace, but still squatted in front of the door of the back room and stared at Zhang Taiping's actions.

The little girl carried the medicine into the back room and gently closed the door. In the middle is a Buddhist hall, it seems that there were people who ate fasting and recited Buddha in the house, but it seems that no one worships for a long time, and the Bodhisattva has not eaten fireworks for a long time.

The little girl entered the room on the left, a woman's room, not a traditional kang, but a large carved bed, on which lay a woman who was also unrecognizable. The little girl put the medicine on the side of the bed and gently pushed the woman on the bed: "Grandma, take the medicine." ”

The woman opened her eyes and glanced at the little girl: "You have entered the mountain alone again?" After saying these few words, he used all his strength, and said no more, but just grabbed the little girl's hand and whispered.

The little girl did not answer Grandma's question, but scooped out the potion with a spoon and blew it on Grandma's mouth. When the grandmother finished drinking the medicine, the little girl did not go out to cook as usual, but crawled on the edge of the bed and hesitated to say something that should not be said.

As if the little girl's medicine really worked, the woman's complexion was a little better than just now, and she patted the little girl's hand lightly and asked, "Is there anything else going on with Ling'er?" ”

"There was a strange guest in the village, who rode a black horse, and was accompanied by a big dog like a calf, and two eagles in the sky," the little girl was very observant, and explained in detail Zhang Taiping's appearance and dress to her grandmother.

The woman's tense body suddenly tensed after hearing that someone from the village slowly relaxed after the little girl finished speaking, and asked with a little difficulty: "What is he here for?" coughing had a heart-rending feeling.

"Grandma, how are you?" The little girl asked anxiously as she lay beside her, tears rolling in her eyes.

The woman waved her hand and motioned for the little girl to continue.

Although the little girl was very worried about her grandmother's health, she still did not go against her grandmother's wishes and said: "He was a passing guest who wanted to rest in the village for a night, and then the village chief arranged for him to stay in our house and asked him to pay for accommodation, but I did not agree." ”

After hearing this, the woman nodded slightly and understood what was going on: "You go and invite the guests in, I'll take a look." ”

"Hmm." The little girl answered, then got up and opened the door, came to the front room, Zhang Taiping and whispered, "My grandmother, please come in." ”

Zhang Taiping nodded and followed the little girl into the back room, which was within his expectations, he lived here inexplicably, and the main family here always met the previous one. As soon as I entered the back room, the first thing I saw was a statue of a Bodhisattva chanting with his fingers twisted. Zhang Taiping stopped in front of the Bodhisattva statue for a moment, and followed the little girl into the room.

The smell of medicine in the room came to his nose, Zhang Taiping looked at the furnishings in the house without changing his face, in fact, there were not many furnishings left in the house, except for the wooden bed against the wall, there was a large wooden box next to the bed and a few small bamboo chairs around the box.

Zhang Taiping was looking at the furnishings in the room, but the woman on the bed was looking at Zhang Taiping, and her eyes flashed when she saw it, and she didn't know what she thought.

When Zhang Taiping moved his eyes to the face of the woman on the bed, he was stunned for a moment, and then frowned deeply. I was a little surprised by the woman's appearance, judging from the name of the little girl just now, this is her grandmother, at least about fifty years old, but her face seems to have escaped the shackles of time in addition to her bad complexion and has not let the years leave any traces on her face, if it weren't for the fact that she saw a few stripes at the corners of her eyes later, Zhang Taiping really thought that this was just a sick city; The reason for the frown is that his face has been so bad that when the lamp has dried up, and he sees that he has not had a few days to live, and the reason why he has insisted on not letting go is completely due to the obsession in his heart.

"Treat this guest well," said the woman, turning to the little girl. It turned out to be authentic Mandarin, or the authentic Yanjing dialect.

"Grandma, grandma, you've got a cough." The little girl lay in front of the bed and looked at the blood that coughed up from her grandmother's mouth, and said in horror.

The woman just waved her hand to signal that she was okay and let the two of them leave. The little girl refused to leave, but she hid her face and ran out under the gaze of the woman's eyes. Zhang Taiping walked to the door and paused when he heard the heart-rending coughing sound inside, but he still resolutely stepped out of the room. It can be seen that the most serious illness of this woman is not on the body, but because she has long since lost the slightest chance of living, and her heart has already died, even if she is alive, she is just a living dead, maybe death is a relief.

The little girl wiped tears from her face under the eaves and walked into the kitchen.

"Wait a minute." Zhang Taiping said to the little girl who bowed her head and walked towards the kitchen. The little girl turned her head to look at Zhang Taiping, her eyes as red as peaches made Zhang Taiping's heart soften for a while, and she couldn't help but want to go back to the back room to pour some space spring water on the woman who was about to die. However, reason told him that he could not do this, and that no matter whether the spring water could be cured or not, even if he was cured of the physical pain, he could not stop the death that emanated from his heart. Reaching into the backpack that he had carried on his back before entering the village, he took out a fresh snow rabbit that Xiao Jin had captured in the snowy mountains at that time and kept fresh from the space, "Let's do this too." Will it? ”

The little girl nodded, took the snow rabbit from Zhang Taiping's hand and silently entered the kitchen.

Zhang Taiping sat under the eaves in the courtyard, took out the gourd and poured a sip of wine into his mouth, although he knew that what he did was not wrong, but he always felt that he owed the little girl something, and felt a little guilty.

It didn't take long for the meal to be ready, simply boiled a soup with a snow rabbit, a plate of wild vegetables, a small pot of shredded potatoes, the rice was corn gruel, no steamed buns and no pot helmets.

Zhang Taiping asked the little girl, "Your grandmother believes in Buddhism?" ”

Nodding.

"Is it taboo or not?" The reason why Zhang Taiping knew that he believed in Buddhism and asked this question was because among many women in northern China, they only believed in Buddhism and respected Bodhisattvas in their hearts, but they were not disciples of Buddhism, and they did not strictly follow the precepts of Buddhism.

Shook his head.

"Then you can feed some of this soup to your grandmother."

The little girl's eyes lit up, and the chick nodded like a peck of rice, maybe she herself had this idea a long time ago, but the rabbit was provided by Zhang Taiping, and she was embarrassed to do so.

Ten minutes later, the little girl returned to the front room and sat at the small table to accompany Zhang Taiping to eat, but she only drank gruel with wild vegetables and shredded potatoes, and did not touch the rabbit meat in the small pot. Zhang Taiping smiled, put a piece of meat in her bowl and asked, "Why don't you eat this?" ”

The little girl didn't speak, silently bowed her head to eat, and only when Zhang Taiping put the meat in the bowl would she eat.

"You seem to be afraid of me?" Zhang Taiping said.

The little girl looked up at Zhang Taiping and shook her head, indicating that she was not afraid.

"Then why don't you even say a word?"

"Say what?" The little girl finally spoke, and like her grandmother, she spoke Mandarin.

Zhang Taiping smiled and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Ye Ling."

"Ye Ling, Ye Mu Erhua, Zhong Ling Shenxiu, good name." Zhang Taiping is already a little suspicious of having nothing to say, "Are you living with your grandmother?" ”

He nodded and did not speak.

Then came the silent meal time, Zhang Taiping didn't know what to say anymore, until the little girl suddenly burped when she stood up after eating, and her face turned completely crimson, like a tempting red apple to go up and take a bite, and embarrassedly lowered her head to clean up the dishes and chopsticks on the table. Zhang Taiping didn't laugh out loud, otherwise the little girl would not have to find a crack in the ground to drill down.

After cleaning up the dishes, he pointed to the grimace and the black dragon in the yard and asked, "What should I feed them?" ”

Zhang Taiping waved his hand and said, "You can go to rest after you clean up, you don't have to worry about them, you will go out to find food." ”

"Oh." The little girl nodded, cleaned up the kitchen, and then went into the back room and closed the door.

Zhang Taiping did not sleep, but climbed out of the courtyard wall, and went around to the front door from the back, where there were indeed several people squatting and smoking, one of them was the old man who arranged for him to live here today, each holding a guy in his hand. While eating, Zhang Taiping heard movement outside, but he just ignored it. Now he didn't alarm them, he just returned to the courtyard along the same path, took the black dragon into the space, and calmed down the grimace that he had already noticed the situation outside and began to whine in a low voice.

chuckled, is this still a black village, can't you rob yourself? Ignoring it for the time being, they stood in the room waiting to see what they wanted to do.

It's just that after waiting all night, I didn't see any action from these people, which really confused Zhang Taiping. It wasn't until the little girl Ye Ling got up early and walked up the mountain with the bamboo basket on her back that those who had been keeping watch outside the courtyard all night left. Seeing this scene, Zhang Taiping thought for a while, it seems that these people are not here to make money and kill people, but to let themselves live here but they are not worried that their lord lives here, so they took people to keep watch outside all night.

After the little girl Ye Ling entered the mountain, Zhang Taiping also entered the mountain with a grimace. I have long wanted to take a turn in the famous Daxinganling Mountains in the northeast to see if I can find something new in it.