Tie Xiangyu rarely speaks along the way, but when she opens her mouth, she always has to come up with a posture that is not shocking and endless.

Regardless of whether her identity is the head of the Longmen Dart Bureau, she is a young woman in ancient times after all, curiosity and superstitious thoughts are of course, after listening to the words of the old man of the Yi nationality, she wondered: "Is it ...... You guys are really ...... in the mountains Ghosts? ”

However, Tianba's younger brother and Xiao Qi laughed when they heard Tie Xiangyu's words, they might not have such a reaction before, but after following Yang Huairen for a long time, Yang Huairen subtly instilled materialist atheism in him through storytelling, and made them also begin to believe that there is no such thing as ghosts in this world.

"Where the hell came from? Stop it. ”

Brother Tianba's voice became more and more like Yang Huairen's, "Do you know what it means to be suspicious and have a dark ghost?" Ghosts are all born from people's hearts, and there are no ghosts in this world. ”

Xiao Qi very much agreed with the younger brother of Tianba's point of view, Fu nodded in agreement, and answered with a little ill-intentioned evil smile, "Tie ...... The girl is strong in martial arts, is it difficult to be afraid of ghosts? Hehe......"

Tie Xiangyu turned her head and stabbed Xiao Qi with a sharp look, then turned to the old man, "Even if there is an accident, so many people can always find one or two corpses, is it that none of those who have entered the mountain can find the corpses?" ”

The older man thought for a moment and nodded silently, as if Tie Xiangyu had found evidence to prove his point of view, "How is it?" What's your explanation for this? It is impossible for a person to disappear suddenly, even if he dies, he will always leave a pair of bones in this world. ”

"Not necessarily."

Yang Huairen naturally stood on the side of Chen Tianba and Xiao Qi, "There are many things in this world that can't be explained by common sense, but because of this, you can't use some crooked theories such as gods and ghosts to explain it."

What is happening in this village may be some ordinary, very rare natural phenomenon, or maybe there are other secret reasons that are not known, but it is certainly not a haunted or something like that, as you said. ”

Tie Xiangyu disdainfully "cut" it, "Someone else said a reason, and you didn't admit it, so you used this kind of words that I didn't understand to perfunctory, in fact, you don't understand what's going on, it's just nonsense." ”

Yang Huairen smiled, and then shook his head helplessly, he was indeed talking nonsense, but no matter how nonsense he was, it was more reliable than her remarks that she had ghosts.

But he is more worried about the future of this Yi village, where there are no young adults, which means that there is not enough labor to grow crops, and the harvest will be greatly reduced, which means that they will have no food.

Maybe in the future these children will always grow up, but what about now? There must be many more families like this pair of young brothers in the village, and there may be grain stocks this year, but what about next year?

"That'...... What are you going to do in the future? ”

The old man was mentioned by Yang Huairen about what he was worried about, and his face became more solemn, "Don't talk about the future, this year, the old man feels that the remaining old people and children in the village will not be able to live." ”

Yang Huairen then remembered that the young man just now didn't want the silver to ask for those cooking cakes, and the young lady and the younger brother looked yellow and hungry, and suddenly realized that it seemed that it was impossible for him to think that there was still food in the village before.

"The village...... Isn't there a surplus of food? ”

The old man shook his head miserably, "It's not much, it's all Zimo...... Well, that is, the toast that you Han people call was taken away, and now the rest is secretly hidden by a few bold people.

Although there are still more than a hundred people left in the village, it is impossible to feed these hundred mouths with that bit of food, and the old man calculates that it is a month's ration for these people, even if they save money, they can cope with two months at most.

But if we can get new grain next year, there will be at least more than half a year, and in the remaining four or five months, what will the old people and children in the village rely on to survive, and the old man is also worried. ”

Yang Huairen raised his head and imagined that it would be really difficult for this village to survive this hurdle.

It is said that relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, but this mountain, although there is a large area of woodland, it is said that people should not starve to death, there is a lot of food in the forest that can satisfy hunger, but no one knows what is dangerous in the forest, and the rest of the people are old and young, and no one dares to venture into the forest again.

Yang Huairen really wanted to help the village through this difficult time, but it was better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish, and it was not difficult to give them money to go to the Han towns outside the mountains to buy some food, but it was not so simple to restore the village to life.

Therefore, it is still necessary to start from the root of the matter, and the first thing to do is to find the reason why those young adults suddenly disappeared, and also to prevent more people from encountering such a situation.

He thought for a while, and the first thing he had to figure out was whether this strange phenomenon was an independent incident or a group incident, so he asked, "Uncle, is there still your Yi village around here?" Did they also encounter something called 'haunted'? ”

The old man nodded, "There is also a village of our Yi people on the other side of the mountain, and I heard from the people in their village that they also encountered a similar situation, although it is not as serious as our village, but there are still dozens of young and strong laborers, who have entered the mountain or left the village, and have never returned."

No matter how far away, there are still many such small villages, and the old man is not very clear about the specific situation, so he doesn't dare to talk nonsense. ”

"And these strange things, did you tell you about Zimo? The villagers of his territory disappeared out of thin air, and it was also his loss, didn't he care? ”

Speaking of this, the old man was a little angry, but he didn't dare to have a seizure, he said depressedly, "We have already reported to Zimo, but Zimo lives in a stone-walled city, and he is very safe, so he doesn't care about the affairs of our small village." ”

Tie Xiangyu couldn't listen anymore, and shouted angrily, "What?! Why was he so active when he was harvesting grain? When the time came to need him, he said he didn't care? ”

The old man looked bitter, "What can we do?" People are born to be Zmo, that is the life of others, and we Quno and Aga, this is life, alas......"

Yang Huairen frowned and waved his hand at Tie Xiangyu to signal her not to be so excited, not only did it not have any effect, but also aroused the sadness of the old man in vain.

But from these words, he also understood another thing, these ethnic minorities in remote mountainous areas still retain some characteristics of slave society, such as all people, are divided into strict hierarchies and strata.