The carriage passed through the pit area and soon entered a meadowy hill full of small white flowers.

Compared with the stone pit, the meadows and hills here are much more vivid and vibrant than the front.

The convoy kept moving forward, over the hills, and finally arrived at the area where the mine in Dingshan County was located by noon.

Dingshan County built a small wooden house here, and the overseers, miners, and gangers who came to open the mine formed a small village here. It's called Iron Mine Village.

The convoy's destination was to the village.

The sound of turning one after another, Kou Peiquan sat by the window of the car, breathed for a while, and was suddenly woken up by Qin Zhen gently.

"My lord, I'm going to the Iron Mine Village soon. ”

Kou Peiquan opened his eyes and turned his head to look out the window.

The car was slowly passing by a high walled Zhuangzi, whose gray and white walls were mottled and somewhat dilapidated. There didn't seem to be many people around, and it seemed cold and quiet.

The car had to go around this Zhuangzi and turn in the other direction to continue on its way.

In the process of turning the road, Kou Peiquan carefully looked at the Zhuangzi on the side, and there was a quiet and dead silence inside the high wall, and it seemed that no one was living at all.

"This is Chenjiagou. When Qin Zhen said the name of this Zhuangzi, he couldn't help but turn a little pale. He was a man with a full face and a strong figure, and he actually showed a look of fear and fear, this strong contrast made Kou Peiquan very impressed at a glance.

"Chenjiagou, is that the village where the accident happened?" he asked.

"Yes, sir. Lord Wu was investigating the matter of this Zhuangzi, and after entering, he never found anyone again. Later, in the woods outside" Qin Zhen lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Zhuangzi outside the window. "The brothers who came here this time are all new to join not long ago, I don't know about this, and I know that this Zhuangzi is the one who had an accident before. So please don't talk about it. ”

Kou Peiquan narrowed his eyes and looked carefully at Zhuangzi slowly passing by outside the car window.

Soon, the car passed through the gate of Zhuangzi.

The red lacquered door, which was supposed to be closed, seemed to be closed at this time, and there was still a crack.

Kou Peiquan looked at it at a glance and could see part of the scenery inside the Zhuangzi through the gaps.

Dilapidated courtyards, dry garden flowers, ground covered with fallen leaves, bare trees.

The Zhuangzi was empty and deserted.

"This Chen Jiagou, no one lives there, right?" Kou Peiquan asked softly.

"There used to be people, a scholar who lived here, and a wife who lived here. After the accident, this place became Yizhuang, and there was no one left. Qin Zhen replied in a low voice.

"Yizhuang. Kou Peiquan looked carefully through the crack in the door. As the carriage continued to move, he gradually saw the inner courtyard of Zhuangzi from different angles.

Decayed dead trees.

White-ash windows.

A white lantern swaying in the wind.

Scratched pillars of the house.

There was also a scholar standing on the stone bridge. His hair was scattered, and his eyes were staring at the gray-clothed scholar who passed by the carriage.

Kou Peiquan's eyes widened, and with his eyesight, he could clearly see that the scholar's face was expressionless, his eyes were bloodshot, and his face was pale, if he didn't stand there with his eyes open, he could make people think that he was a dead man.

Before, it was blocked by half of the door, and Kou Pei didn't see anyone there, but now that the carriage moved, from this angle, he could see the scenery in the other corner of the courtyard.

The stone bridge and the scholar are in the other corner of the courtyard.

The scholar stood there stiffly, motionless. Just staring at the carriage moving.

Kou Peiquan also stared at the scholar carefully. The clothes this man was wearing were also tattered, very old and filthy, as if they had not been washed for many days, and there were holes. The head is also scattered and messy, standing on the stone bridge like a pillar, motionless.

"No one has been in or out of this village for many days, so there shouldn't be anyone living there. After all, there is no entry or exit, if there are people inside, what will they eat?" Qin Zhen didn't see the scholar from his angle, but just explained to himself.

"But there are people, isn't it?" Kou Peiquan raised his chin at Zhuangzi.

Qin Zhen hurriedly followed suit.

Strangely, when he looked over, the scholar blinked.

Kou Peiquan squinted, and as soon as he was distracted, he said something to Qin Zhen, slightly distracted, and didn't realize when the scholar had disappeared.

"Who's there, sir, don't scare me. Qin Zhen was a little hairy when Kou Peiquan said it. He looked through the crack in the door, but there was no one to be seen.

Kou Peiquan stared for a moment.

"Nothing, maybe I'm dazzled. ”

The carriage slowly drove away. Kou Peiquan was reminiscing about the previous scholar all the way, and he always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with that person.

Soon, the convoy arrived at the iron ore village.

The village was deserted and silent, with the doors of the wooden houses opening and closing, and some of the wooden doors swaying and creaking in the wind.

The convoy walked between the houses in the village, and the faces of the originally sturdy men were also a little unnatural, and they all felt that the atmosphere was a little uncomfortable.

It was getting late, Kou Peiquan and Qin Zhen got out of the car and found a few relatively intact wooden houses to live in.

Some of these wooden houses still have leaky roofs, and it is difficult to live in when it rains.

A group of men each found a wooden house to live in, and ate and drank with their own water bladders and dry work for one night.

Kou Peiquan lived in a large wooden house, so he asked someone to remove the quilt tent from the carriage, set up a bonfire in the house, and then boiled a pot of water from a nearby stream, threw some dried meat and dried mushrooms, and boiled for a while, it was a pot of delicious mushroom meat soup.

A group of men squeezed in, each with a bowl of mushroom and meat soup, and ate dry food, which was also quite happy.

Kou Peiquan didn't have the heart to eat with this group of men, he walked out of the wooden house and looked in the direction of the Zhuangzi in the distance.

The moonlight sprinkled down like a gray-white veil, and the Zhuangzi was in a hollow far away from the wooden house village, and the white wall could only be faintly seen in the moonlight, and only a gray shadow could be faintly seen.

Kou Peiquan tightened his robe, looking at the Zhuangzi and frowning slightly.

Qin Zhen walked out with a hint of wine.

"My lord, why don't you go in and drink with your brothers?"

Kou Peiquan shook his head slightly: "Are there any brothers who have arranged a night vigil around?"

"Don't worry, my lord, it's been arranged a long time ago. The three of them were separated in three directions, and after eating for a while, we went to replace. "Qin Zhen is also a head catcher, and these things are familiar with the road.

Kou Peiquan nodded.

"Tomorrow we will take our brother into this Chenjiagou, and then we will know if there is really something weird there, or if there is that thief, if it is the latter, then don't blame me for being unkind!. ”

Qin Zhen was indeed a little relieved when he heard his own adults speak like this.