The man beckoned everyone to sit on the kang, but the four of them were all authentic southerners, and they could not adapt to the habit of going to the kang, so they could only find a stool and sit down.

"This ......" Lin Haotian looked at the man embarrassedly, not knowing what to call him.

"Oh! My name is Li Qingguo, and you can call me Uncle Li. The man sat cross-legged on the kang and said indifferently.

"Good. Uncle Li, I was at the entrance of the village just now, I heard you talk about catching children or something, what is going on? Lin Haotian asked.

"Oh, you're talking about it." Uncle Li took out a pack of cigarettes from his body, smoked one and lit it, "Two months ago, four or five children suddenly disappeared from the village. Everyone hurried to find it. The whole village searched inside and out for several rounds, but they couldn't find it. ”

Everyone knew in their hearts that this was probably the child that their king had taken away as Luthos said.

"And then? Did you find it? Zhu Chenyang asked worriedly.

"I searched for a long time but couldn't find it. Even the police came, saying that they had been abducted by human traffickers. At that time, the adults of those families passed away. Uncle Li took a few puffs of cigarette and continued, "Fortunately, later, the children came back on their own. Xiaowen was one of those children. ”

"The children who came back didn't talk about the obsolescence, who took them?" Lin Haotian continued to ask.

"We asked, and the police asked, but the children were too young and frightened to tell. I don't remember most. Uncle Li said helplessly, "I thought this matter would pass like this, but I didn't expect it to ......."

"The children in the village are starting to disappear again?" Han Leng asked coldly.

Uncle Li smoked a cigarette and nodded, his face was a little sad, "That's why everyone's reaction at the entrance of the village will be so intense." Don't care! ”

"No!" Lin Haotian and Zhu Chenyang replied in unison.

Eleven lowered his head and turned the bracelet on his wrist, the large green pattern was not very clear on the black bracelet.

"Can we go out and have a look?" Eleven interjected coldly.

"Of course, where are you going to look? I'll take you there. Uncle Li turned over and got off the kang and said enthusiastically.

Where to go? Everyone didn't pay attention at all, and the three boys looked at Eleven in unison, she had a pothos with her, and she must know the address of the persimmon forest.

Eleven lowered his head and stroked the bracelet on his wrist, a flash of light flashed in his eyes, and he quickly raised his head and said lightly, "Northeast direction." ”

"There...... there was a hint of hesitation on Uncle Li's face, after thinking about it, he finally shook his head and smiled with relief, "Forget it." Let's go, let's go. I'll take you there. ”

After speaking, Uncle Li strode to the door, lifted the heavy cotton curtain, and walked out, and a few people did not stay longer, so as to get out of the warm room.

Accustomed to the warm temperature in the room, at this time suddenly arrived in a cold place, several people immediately shrank up and trembled. Uncle Li couldn't help laughing when he saw it, "Hahaha, it's cold here, right?" You southerners can't tolerate the cold, wife, bring a few thick clothes over and keep these children warm! ”

"Okay Lak, you wait." Aunt Li came out of the kitchen, wiped her hands casually on the apron in front of her, walked into the back room quickly, and soon came out of it with a few cotton clothes, "Come, look at which one you can wear!" It's probably warmer in the south now, but in Beijing, it snowed a few days ago, so why don't you wear more when you come? ”

"Hehehe......" Zhu Chenyang and Lin Haotian smiled awkwardly, they heard that Beijing was heating everywhere, so they didn't bring cotton clothes, no one thought that Beijing was so cold now!

"Let's go." Uncle Li saw that a few people were dressed in cotton clothes, and with a wave of his bold hand, he took a few people out of the house.

Uncle Li led the way in front, and several people followed behind in the back cotton clothes wrapped in Uncle Li and Aunt Li. From time to time, Uncle Li, who was enthusiastic and bold, turned back to introduce them to the villagers who passed by.

Eleven tilted his head slightly, glanced at Han Leng, Han Leng pushed a pair of glasses, took a quick step forward, and kicked Lin Haotian who was listening with interest in front of him.

"Yikes!" Lin Haotian was kicked coldly, and suddenly screamed, causing the enthusiastic Uncle Li to look back.

"What's wrong?" Uncle Li asked with concern, "Hey, Xiaowen, why did you come with me?" ”

In the shadow of the corner of a stone house on the side of the road, a small head timidly stretched out, secretly looking at the eleven people. Uncle Li walked over, pulled him out of the shadows, patted the soil on his body, and asked with concern, "Why didn't you go to play with other children, why did you follow us?" ”

It's been half an hour since I walked out of Uncle Li's house, and this place has reached the edge of existence, except for the empty house, there is nothing fun here, and there is usually no one.

What Uncle Li didn't know was that when Eleven and they came out of Uncle Li's house, Xiaowen was already following Eleven and the others, at first, Eleven didn't pay attention, thinking that he was just going to play with his friends, and happened to be on the same road with him, but it had been more than half an hour, and it was sparsely populated, and this child named Xiaowen was still following them, which couldn't help but make Eleven wonder, what did this Xiaowen want to do?

Xiaowen timidly hid in Uncle Li's arms and whispered, "I want to go over there with you." ”

"We're not going to play. Be good, Xiaowen, hurry home, or your mother will be in a hurry again! Uncle Li comforted Xiaowen and lowered his voice to persuade.

"I want to go to ......" Xiaowen grabbed the corner of Uncle Li's clothes, bit his lip tightly, his eyes were full of tears, and when he saw that he was about to break out of the flood, Uncle Li immediately raised his white white and surrendered,

"Okay, okay. I'll take you with me! Don't cry anymore. ”

Xiaowen immediately burst into tears and laughed, and the little hand that grabbed the corner of his clothes was immediately changed to Uncle Li's thick big hand. Uncle Li led Xiaowen into the eleven people, and said embarrassedly, "I'll just take this little guy with me." ”

Eleven stared at Xiaowen lightly, looked at Xiaowen, and did not speak. Lin Haotian walked over with a smile and touched Xiaowen's head and said, "Don't say you're tired for a while!" ”

Xiaowen hugged Uncle Li's arm tightly and looked at Lin Haotian in front of him timidly.

"Uncle Li, there are a lot of empty houses here?" Zhu Chenyang looked around boredly, and found that the houses here seemed to have been vacant for a long time, and some were even dilapidated to the point that they could be described as ruins, so he couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Oh, you said these vacant houses." Uncle Li took Xiaowen's hand and walked forward, explaining to a few people, "Our Tuling Village was still a big village when I was young. Although there are many mountains and few lands, the land is very fertile, and there is a good harvest every year. Later, for some reason, the grain production decreased year by year, and some families did not receive enough food for themselves, so many people gave up farming and moved to the city to work. The village is slowly declining. In the end, Uncle Li inevitably sighed, Tuling Village was also a rich and prosperous village a few decades ago, and now only a few dozen families are still guarding the land left by their ancestors.

"Further on, we're going up the mountain. The mountain road is not easy to walk, so you should be careful. Uncle Li took Xiaowen's hand and looked ahead and reminded.