The old man pretended to be angry and asked the little girl, "Ayi, it's so cold, why don't you make a fire?" ”

"Apu...... I...... Home...... Not...... Not...... There is no firewood......"

The older man's face was not very good-looking, not to blame the little girl, but more like to blame himself for wrongly blaming her, so he took the smaller male doll and hugged him in his arms, warmed him with his body, and then said to the older child who came with him, "You go back and carry a bundle of firewood...... Pick some dry. ”

Then he turned to Yang Huairen and a few of them, and his tone was a little embarrassed, "A few guests, the life of the people in the mountains is hard, and there is nothing to entertain, it is better for everyone to sit down and rest around the stove first, and carry firewood for a while, so that you can live and keep warm." ”

Yang Huairen said kindly, "It's okay, in such weather, it would be good for us to have tiles to cover our heads." ”

After saying that, he beckoned a few of his people to sit down around a hearth in the middle of the hall, and Yang Huairen asked curiously, "This old man, this village...... Why don't you see many adults? ”

"Alas......"

The older man sighed, the cold light shining through the hanging window on his solemn face, he took out two dry cloth towels from his arms, handed them over, and said slowly, "It's all gone." ”

"Thank you."

Yang Huairen took two dry towels, and handed them to the two accompanying women, asking them to wipe their wet faces first, and then asked more curiously, "This is gone, is it...... Does it mean to be deceased? ”

He was not sure that the elder Yi man did not understand the double meaning of the Chinese language, but the older Yi man immediately replied, "There are two meanings." Some are gone, some are gone, and they can't be found. ”

Yang Huairen saw that his face was a little heavy, and he still had some intention of wanting to speak and stopping, so he didn't want to ask any more. But this answer is really not easy for him to understand.

It is normal for the living conditions in the mountains to be poor and the average life expectancy of the mountain people is short, but if there are no young and middle-aged people in a large area of the whole village, it is not as simple as poor living conditions.

And the other reason, if you can't find it, it's even more difficult to understand, can this mountain village really be haunted?

After a while, the boy returned, carrying a bundle of wood in his fel, and the little girl understood, and went up to take it from his back, and then picked some slender ones, and put them on a small stone slab, first lit them with velvet, and then carefully carried the stone slab and put it in the hearth.

Then I slowly propped up some of the thicker ones, puffed out my cheeks and blew, and when the flames became bigger and burned, I raised my head and smiled at everyone.

Lan Ruoxin saw that the firewood ashes were sticking to her little face, so she hurriedly hugged her over and wiped his face with a hand towel.

The little girl was nervous at first, but then it seemed that she had not been so loved for a long time, and there was a smile on her face, but there were tears in her eyes.

Lan Ruoxin felt more and more pitiful for these two children, so she muttered and complained, "These two children are still so young, why are their parents so irresponsible, and they don't know what to do when they go out in such a dark day......"

Yang Huairen actually thought the same way, he was a person who had just become a father, and he could already experience the sense of responsibility of being a parent, but he felt that the little girl's performance seemed to be a little wrong, and the smile on her face disappeared after listening to Lan Ruoxin's words, but grinned aggrievedly, looking like she wanted to cry, but she didn't dare to cry in front of outsiders.

Seeing this, Lan Ruoxin didn't know where she said something wrong, so she comforted, "Little sister, what's wrong with you, my sister said the wrong thing just now, that ...... How long have you been out of the house? When will you be back? ”

"I ...... I do not know. They go out...... It's been a long time......"

The little girl's voice became quieter and quieter, and she didn't know if she was reluctant to answer this question or unwilling to face it.

After speaking, he gently broke free from Lan Ruoxin, turned around and took out an old and black clay pot, scooped it up with water from the water tank next to the door, and then came back and hung the kettle on a hook tied to the beam, and hung the pot like this, just so that the bottom of the pot touched the rising flames.

The older man let go of the male doll in his arms, and his cheeks moved, as if he was gritting his teeth hard, "You guys go and heat up the dry food brought by the guests, and then go pick some good mountain vegetables to entertain the guests." ”

The two younger ones obediently followed the older boy and took the back, and when they walked out, the older man said, "The old man dared to say this when he saw that several of the guests were kind-hearted and good people." ”

Hearing him say this, Yang Huairen and the others waited curiously to hear what was going on with this village and the family in this house.

"It's a bit hard to talk about, and a few guests have seen that our village is very poor and has nothing to eat. The dozens of acres of mountain fields in front of the village are all the fields in the entire village.

Usually plant some rice, rape, but can also eat, not starving, although the life is hard, but the mountain life is simple, the villagers have been enjoying this simple and peaceful life.

Our village is close to the main road and not far from the town of the Han people, so most of the villagers still know some Chinese, and they can occasionally pick some wild fruits, mushrooms, or hunt some wild boars and pheasants from the mountains to sell to the Han people, and they can exchange some money to buy salt and cloth.

But since this year, a strange thing has happened, and the previous peaceful life in the village has been shattered. There have been cases of people in the village who had gone into the mountains before and never returned.

For example, encountering some wild beast, or falling into a mountain stream while picking medicine and fruits, this happens from time to time, but it will only happen once in several years, and this year seems to be a special one.

Ninety percent of the young men and women in the village never came back after entering the mountains, and at first everyone only thought that they had encountered some accidents, but then there were more and more such things, and everyone felt strange.

Half a year ago, the village began to organize the remaining young adults to go to the mountains to look for them, but ...... They also went into the mountains and never came back, and the old man's daughter and son-in-law were so gone, alas......"

Yang Huairen understood now, this old man is the grandfather of the two children of the family, and his children and son-in-law went into the mountains to find those missing villagers, and they never returned, so there were only some old people and children left in the village, and it slowly became the scene of a haunted ghost village that I see now.