Helping this village, as well as the simple and kind villagers in this village, is a thing that Yang Huairen can do.

The first thing to do is to find out why the villagers disappeared without any reason.

Ah Sa dried all the firewood almost before wiping his little face and looking at Yang Huairen with a smile, "If you burn it again like this, it's fine, don't choke." ”

After saying that, he went to find an old wooden basin, it seemed that he was going to scoop water from the water tank and give them a few washes, Yang Huairen shook his head and smiled, but just reached out to take it and get it himself, but the little girl hid the basin behind him, just smiled on his face, but didn't say anything.

Yang Huairen had no choice but to pretend to spread out his hand helplessly, and then inserted it into his waist, making an angry but slightly funny look.

The little girl was so amused that she couldn't stop laughing, pouted and proudly walked around him to the edge of the water tank, scooped some cold water into the wooden basin with a gourd scoop, and then turned around and took down the jug that had been hanging on the stove and poured hot water out.

She rolled up her sleeves and put her little hand into the basin and stirred, when she felt that the water temperature was very hot but not hot, she had to carry the half-full basin of hot water upstairs, but after all, she was small, and the big basin of water was too heavy.

"This kid is too sensible."

Tie Xiangyu couldn't see it, so she finally stepped forward and grabbed the basin of hot water, muttering, "You make yourself like a maid, and we are like a landlord." ”

The little girl was stunned for a moment, and then she also understood the joking meaning of Tie Xiangyu's words, so she honestly followed Lan Ruoxin and the others upstairs, and before leaving, she didn't forget to say to Yang Huairen, "At home, there is only one basin, and when the upstairs is used up, it will be used downstairs." There are a few pieces of tattered felt cloth by the door, and you can spread them on the ground so that you may be less cold. ”

Yang Huairen smiled and thanked her, because the first floor was lit with a hearth, in fact, it didn't feel very cold, and in the structural design of this kind of house, in the cold winter, the heat generated in the hearth just rose, and the wooden floor on the second floor was relatively warm, so Lan Ruoxin and Tie Xiangyu slept on the second floor with their two children, and it was not cold.

It was only evening, and the three men had not yet been asleep, so they sat or lay around the stove and whispered about the affairs of the village.

"Brother Ren'er, why do you say that the villagers in this village disappeared for no reason?"

Tianba's younger brother curled up on his side, holding his cheeks with his hand, "We all know that there are no ghosts in this world, so it can't be haunted in the mountains." ”

Xiao Qi fiddled with firewood, added some dry firewood to the fire from time to time, and was not idle, "Yes, things are just weird, if you want to say that there are any beasts in the mountains, it doesn't make sense."

The beasts in the mountains are also afraid of life, if they are really hungry, they have no choice, and they will not take the risk of attacking humans, but even if a wild beast attacks the villagers, it can only be an individual incident, and it is impossible to eat the young adults of the entire village, right? Those people from other villages are gone, I can't make sense, I can't make sense......"

Yang Huairen stood up and poured some hot water from the clay pot into the bamboo cup, held warm hands in both hands, tilted his head through the wall as if looking at the mountains and forests outside, and said, "In this world, there is something more terrible than ghosts and beasts." ”

Brother Tianba asked, "What is it?" ”

Yang Huairen calmly replied, "It's human." ”

He paused and turned around, "Since it's not a haunted or a beast, the rest of the possibility is that someone is doing the trick." ”

Xiao Qi was surprised, "Your consciousness is that those villagers who disappeared for no reason were killed?" This...... It seems to make some sense, but it doesn't make sense.

We have also seen these villagers, they are all honest people, if you want to say that you have offended someone, if those people come to take revenge, there is no need to be so mysterious? ”

Brother Tianba remembered something and sat up tigerly, "I don't know if you still remember what you heard in the Han town a hundred miles away before we entered the mountain?" ”

"Why don't you remember?"

Yang Huairen continued, "The large boundary of the Great and Small Liangshan Mountains straddles the border between the Great Song Dynasty and the Dali Kingdom, in fact, the Great Song Dynasty and Dali don't care about these mountain people, and they can't manage it, they all live in their own ancient ways and habits.

In the land west of Liangshan, there are more than a dozen large and small toasts who have divided this place, but among these toasts, due to the size and quality of the territory between them, as well as the amount of resources they occupy, they are also divided into large toasts and small toasts.

The relationship between toast and toast is not peaceful coexistence, but a relationship of mutual struggle but interdependence.

Their territory is inherited from their ancestors, and our Great Song Dynasty also demarcated the legal territory of each Tusi when awarding them the legal title of Tusi.

Toast has size, but the big toast can't directly invade the territory of the small toast, and then take it for himself, if he does this, the other toasts will not allow it, and they will unite against him.

Da Song did not allow such a thing to happen, and gradually let the family dominate, but became a threat to Da Song.

However, although the toasts cannot wantonly encroach on other people's territories, they can rob some other resources, and it is precisely because of this that the group fights and armed fights between the toasts have always been constant. ”

"According to that, is it because of the contradiction between the toasts that another toast secretly sent someone to this village to kill people and take revenge?"

Xiao Qi pondered for a moment, "It's not quite right, according to their barbaric and direct character, it is clear that they want to take revenge, there is no need to hide in the mountains and forests to secretly make ghosts, and judging from the time when the villagers disappeared, where is the revenge that is not a one-time thing, but lasts intermittently for a year?" ”

A flash of light suddenly flashed in Yang Huairen's mind, which made him have a strange thought, "Who said that those villagers are missing, they must be dead?"

Just like Tie Xiangyu said at the beginning, if a person dies, there must always be a corpse, but there is no corpse of any villager in the mountain, that is to say...... Are these villagers still alive? ”

"Still alive?! So who took them and where did they go? The most important thing is why did you secretly arrest them? Or is it just a young adult? ”

Xiao Qi asked a few questions in a row, which made Yang Huairen feel that these words were both questions and answers. His thoughts slowly became clearer, and he seemed to be about to capture the reason for what was happening.

He suddenly realized, "What do you say, what is the most important resource in this large mountain?" ”