The man who died that night was Timar from the town. Tima is originally the colloquial language of the Tujia people living in the Wuling Mountains, which means a person who worships the gods and bodhisattvas, which is what we often call "witch" or "sorcerer". Wuling Mountain is located in the border of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, hundreds of kilometers away from the Sleeping Valley, according to legend, during the Qianlong period, when the officials surnamed Chen were sent to the Sleeping Valley area, it was the Tujia people who lived here. After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, there are only a few Tujia people in the sleeping valley, but some folk customs of the Tujia people have been preserved.

Tima is the sorcerer in the Tujia family, and the name of Tima in Sleeping Valley is Tian Yangzong. Three years ago, after his father died, he became the new Timar of Sleepy Valley. After the autumn harvest of each year and the beginning of spring of the following year, it is the peak season for Tima's activities, and when the witch worship is not busy, Tima also lives and works like a normal person. The sacred duties of Tima mainly include presiding over large-scale mass witchcraft activities, presiding over witchcraft activities with the family as a unit for the purpose of seeking heirs, praying for blessings, retrieving disasters, and redeeming souls, as well as asking for divination and practicing witch doctors. Over the years, Tima activities have been greatly reduced, and major witch rituals are not held once for many years, but many people in the town prefer to go to the witch doctor when they are sick.

Shortly after his father's death and his succession to Tima, a mother brought a boy of three or four years old to see the witch doctor. The little boy was in a coma, his eyes were closed, his head was covered with beads of sweat. After two or three minutes, he said, "It doesn't matter, take the child back, shoot three arrows at the head of the house, and then sprinkle some water and rice, and it will be fine." The next day the woman came to thank him, and the boy woke up that night.

Another time, Tian Yangzong chased the white tiger for a baby girl who had just been born for seven or eight days, suddenly foaming at the mouth, and almost ran out of breath. He took the red-crowned and red-haired rooster prepared by the baby girl's family in advance, bit the cockscomb, took the chicken blood and smeared it on the baby's forehead, and then took the chicken and peach branches in one hand, and sprinkled the soaked rice and millet from the house with the other. About two hours later, Tima said that the white tiger had been driven away, and the baby girl was gradually regaining her senses.

After these two events, Tianyang Zongtima won people's trust and respect in the Sleeping Valley.

But now, the young Tianyang Zongtima has died in the alley in front of his house. The news spread quickly through the Sleepy Valley, and people poured to Tima's house early in the morning.

Timar's death was horrific, he was stabbed in the chest no less than ten times, and there were many slashes in his face, and the fatal wound was a slash in the throat. Timma's blood stained ten bluestone slabs red, and his entire body lay in a pool of blood.

The people who came in became angry, angry with fear.

The one who killed Timar must be the devil!

Someone shouted the name of the Yaksha, and someone shouted "If our ancestor can kill him, we can kill him again". More people are gearing up to unite against the Yakshas.

If the perpetrator was Yaksha, he would have killed three people in the town in a row, but he really shouldn't have chosen Tima as his target, and Tima has a pivotal position in the hearts of the townspeople.

The alley in front of Tima's house was already crowded with people, and everyone was excited, and the scene was quite noisy for a while.

At this moment, Tima's twelve-year-old son suddenly stood up and exclaimed in a voice of grief and hatred, "It was not Yaksha who killed Tima, it was a foreigner!" "If dealing with Yaksha can still make many people fearful, now, everyone has nothing to fear.

The son of Twelve-year-old Timar added: "I know the stranger, and I know where he lives!" So the twelve-year-old son of Timar suddenly became the leader of the whole town, and they embraced him, and they hurled out of the alley, across the chain bridge, into another alley to the east of the town, and stopped at a gate. With a wave of his hand, the people flooded into the small courtyard, and those who could not enter surrounded the house.

A frightened elderly couple silently retreated to their room after asking what had happened. Several sturdy men rushed into the wing room on the west side, and in the room, they saw a man who was not very tall, but unusually strong. The man apparently lacked the necessary psychological preparation for what had happened, and before he could speak, he was knocked to the ground by the crowd. The men who rushed in kept beating the stranger until he lay on the ground, unable to move.

So, the stranger was tied up and pushed out of the door, and some people were angry and smashed in the house before they stopped going out.

The crowd had taken over the entire alley, and when the stranger went out, he was beaten again.

Someone pointed at him and shouted, "He still has a few accomplices, and he is also in town now." So the agitated crowd took the stranger and reappeared in the side street, this time aiming at the nightsleep inn in the middle of the street.

Perhaps it was the effect of the sedative, Tang Wan didn't wake up until early in the morning.

First her hand trembled, then she called Tan Dong's name in her mouth, and then she opened her eyes. It was not Tan Dong who appeared in her eyes, but Sha Bo. She let out a startled "huh" and realized that she was still holding Sabo's hand tightly. She hurriedly withdrew her hand, her face flushed.

"You're awake." Shabo said softly, although he had not slept all night, at this moment, his face was also flushed with red tides.

"Why am I here, Tan Dong?" Tang Wan asked.

Sha Bo hesitated, he really didn't know how to answer Tang Wan's question. Tang Wan couldn't wait for his answer, and quickly sat up, realizing that she was still wearing pajamas. She clasped her arms to her chest in disbelief: "What the hell is going on, why am I here, where did Tan Dong go?" It was an unanswered question, and Shabo looked at her apologetically, as if it was all his fault. Tang Wan calmed down for a moment, remembering that she seemed to have had a nightmare last night, and she was chased by the black shadow again in the dream. She kept running, and on that side street, she vaguely saw two people running towards her.

"Isn't it in a dream that happens at night?" The horror on her face intensified.

"What did you dream about in your dreams?" Shabo said softly, "Don't be afraid, you are with us now, you are safe. Qin Ge also walked to the side of the bed at this time, and greeted Tang Wan with a smile.

Tang Wan relaxed slightly, but then she thought of something that made her even more panicked: Tan Dong was gone, if what happened last night was true, then, when she woke up in the middle of the night, Tan Dong was no longer by her side.

Tears fell irrepressibly, and she muttered, "He's gone, he's finally left me." She remembered Tan Dong's abnormality in the evening, the gardenia that he stepped into the mud with one foot, and his slightly slumped back standing in the lace, she screamed in despair, and her body immediately began to tremble again.

Shabo put his hands around her shoulders, he didn't know how the girl in front of him could be so emotional at this moment. He used force in his hand so that Tang Wan could face him: "Now that no one can hurt you, what are you afraid of?" "Tan Dong is gone, and there is no one left to protect me." Tang Wan hissed.

"Everyone here will protect you!" Sha Bo also said heavily, he suddenly held Tang Wan's cheek and forced her to stare at him, "I don't know what you're afraid of, this is a legal society, no one can hurt others at will." Even if there is, there are so many good people in this world, and they will come to protect you from harm. But all this has to be done by yourself, no one is born weak! Tang Wan listened in a daze, but the tears in her eyes were still falling like rain, and her body kept twitching because of crying. Sha Bo said softly: "Okay, don't cry, I'll accompany you to find Tan Dong." Tang Wan shook her head heavily, wanting to say that Tan Dong had left her, but the choking made her speechless. Then she kept nodding, she still thought that she could find Tan Dong and ask him how he could bear to leave her.

Qin Ge over there went to the bathroom and got a towel, came over and handed it to Tang Wan, then patted Sha Bo on the shoulder and whispered, "Let's let her calm down alone." Sabo hesitated for a moment before standing up.

At that moment, there was a knock on the door. Tang Wan on the bed looked uplifted, and she actually regained her strength in an instant. She turned over and went to bed barefoot, not allowing Qin Ge Shabo to stop her, and had already arrived at the door. She shouted: "It must be Tan Dong who saw that I was not coming to me, it must be." The door opened, Tang Wan stood in a daze, and then her body went limp, but fortunately, Qin Ge Shabo had already come to her and supported her together. Tang Wan's face was already full of fear.

The person standing outside the door, dressed in black, with a grim expression, turned out to be the thin man.

"What are you doing here?" Shabo asked in a deep voice, and unconsciously, he was also hostile to the thin man.

"I'll tell you the truth." "What the truth." Sha Bo spoke, and helped Tang Wan back to the bed and sit down. He stood in front of Tang Wan, "Now I just want to know why you came to Sleeping Valley. Tang Wan seemed to have been frightened by the sudden appearance of the thin man, and she sat there in a daze, crying silently.

Qin Ge stepped forward and whispered to the thin man, "Let's go out and talk." "Right here, I have to be in front of her." The thin man pointed at Tang Wan, "I think there are some things that she has the right to know." "I'll have to ask her if she'd like to hear you." Qin Ge's voice also carried some hostility.

Sha Bo turned to Tang Wan and said softly, "Are you willing to listen to him?" Tang Wan didn't react, and continued to cry silently.

Qin Ge stepped forward and stretched out his hand to make a gesture of invitation: "If you really want to say something to us, then go out with me, her current mental state really can't be stimulated in any way." "Telling her the truth is helping her, and you are only defending her on the surface, but you are actually harming her." "I used to be a doctor, and I knew how to treat patients. "You're a doctor?" Qin Ge blurted out, "That note on Shabo's bed?" "I left it behind." The thin man admits it frankly.

"And do you know what happened last night?" The thin man nodded: "I thought you could have gone to her sooner after you found the note, so that you would know what happened without me having to say." But you're moving too slowly. "What the hell happened last night?" Qin Ge's tone had eased down.

The thin man glanced at Tang Wan: "I came to you to tell you the truth of the matter, but I must know now, she," he pointed at Tang Wan again, "Do you want to know like you." Tang Wan suddenly nodded vigorously, so hard, the tears on her eyes were thrown up and fell on Shabo's face on the side. I want to know. Tang Wan said.

The thin man took a step closer to Tang Wan: "However, before I can tell the truth, you must do one thing first. "What's the matter?" Shabo hurriedly said.

The thin man ignored Sha Bo, and just stared at Tang Wan gloomily: "You must apologize to me first, so that you and I can be liberated." "Apologize?" Tang Wan was puzzled, and Sha Bo and Qin Ge on the side both showed puzzled eyes.

"I don't think you will forget that the first time we met was in the elevator of your company, at that time, you were with a girl named Yuan Li." Tang Wan understood at once, she didn't hesitate, and immediately said softly: "I'm sorry, if we hurt you at that time, I apologize to you now." The thin man didn't speak, stared at Tang Wan in a daze, and after a long while, he suddenly let out a long sigh, and his gaze finally softened. "It turns out that forgiving someone makes it so easy," he said. Tang Wan was also stunned, when she looked at the thin man again, she suddenly no longer had the panic she had before. She seemed to understand the meaning of the thin man's words, and she didn't seem to understand them all, but it was enough.

The thin man turned around, took two steps back, didn't look at Tang Wan anymore, and his voice became calm: "You want to know why I came to the Valley of Sleep, and I tell you now that it's because of her." She had teased me with a colleague of hers in the elevator, so I had to take revenge. "Just because she made fun of you, you came all the way here?" Qin Ge didn't believe in authenticity.

"Yes, I swore that I would never let anyone mock me. All those who have ridiculed me, I will make them pay. "Yuan Li!" Tang Wan on the side of the bed suddenly called out the name.

The thin man was still facing Qin Ge: "That girl named Yuan Li is dead, don't think that I killed her, I just punished her, as a result, she couldn't stand the stimulation and walked into the Rose River by herself." Qin Ge suddenly became angry: "Who gave you the right to punish others." "Oh my God!" The thin man said heavily, "Karma is the law of the operation of the Heavenly Dao, but not all causes in this world will have effects, this is the injustice of heaven." If the heavens are unfair, then I will make him public myself. Qin Ge was speechless for a while, and he couldn't speak. The thin man's words are irrefutable theoretically, there are too many unfair things in this world, too much good is being bullied by evil, and good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil, and it only exists in our ideals. However, Qin Ge still felt that there was something wrong with the thin man's words, but he couldn't remember what was wrong all of a sudden.

Tang Wan looked at the thin man blankly, she completely believed what the thin man said, Yuan Li was already dead, no wonder in that Yi family town, when she saw the thin man again, she would be so panicked in her heart, it turned out that she had already felt the murderous aura permeating the thin man's body at that time.

"I'm not here to tell you about it, I'm going to tell you what happened last night, and I think that's what you are anxious to know now." The thin man said.

The crowd was silent and acquiesced to his words.

"I followed her to this town, because she had a man by her side, and I couldn't punish her, so I ran out into the mountains every night and secretly watched on both of them." Tang Wan's mouth opened wide in surprise, as if she had forgotten the sadness of knowing that Yuan Li had died.

"I found a spot on the cliff behind their rented house with a view of their window. Also, I bought a telescope in this town, so every night they can't escape my eyes. My original intention was to find out their weaknesses and wait for an opportunity to do so. However, just the night before yesterday, I really discovered a secret, the secret of the man named Tan Dong. When the thin man said this, he suddenly stopped, and there was a chill in his heart.

"I was so shocked by that secret that I suddenly lost all faith in myself. I was so scared that I couldn't wait to get to the station the next morning, intending to take the train out of Sleepy Hollow. However, there are some things you can't dodge, but the dumb driver died, dying on the chain bridge. When I found out about this, I was even more scared, because I was the only one who knew that it was not the Yaksha who killed the mute. "And who is the murderer?" Qin Ge asked nervously.

The thin man glanced at Tang Wan and Sha Bo, who were also wide-eyed, and then said in a deep voice: "It's Tan Dong!" "You're lying!" Tang Wan screamed, "Tan Dong can't kill people, how can Tan Dong kill people?" "How do you know that the murderer is Tan Dong?" Qin Ge also frowned and asked. In fact, when he heard the thin man mention Tan Dong's name, he had already decided that this would be the truth. Tan Dong's violent tendencies are too serious.

"Because I saw Tan Dong's secret on the cliff." - What did the thin man see on the cliff?

When he woke up and was feeling sorry for Tan Dong disappearing from sight, Tan Dong suddenly reappeared. The magnification of the telescope in the thin man's hand is quite high, and he can clearly see Tan Dong's face. It was a face of absolute indifference, and you couldn't see any expression from that face. He sat up from the bed, his back straight, his eyes open, but dull inside, like the eyes of a dead fish.

The thin man had been observing for a long time, and he couldn't say that he was familiar with Tan Dong, but he still knew something about Tan Dong's usual expression. Tan Dong's abnormality at the moment made him extremely interested, and he was so excited that the hand holding the telescope was trembling slightly.

Tan Dong got out of bed in the window and stood straight beside the bed, as if looking at Tang Wan on the bed. Tang Wan's hair was just at the bottom of the window, and the thin man could know exactly where she was on the bed.

Tan Dong stood beside the bed for a long time, just standing so straight, his expression indifferent, a pair of dead fish-like eyes that didn't even blink for so long. At this time, the thin man knew that something was wrong, as if it had exceeded his imagination.

Suddenly, a dagger appeared in the telescope.

The thin man on the cliff broke out in a cold sweat nervously. He saw that the dagger was suddenly raised high, stayed in the air for a while, and suddenly stabbed downward, and the direction of the stab was where Tang Wan was on the bed.

The thin man couldn't help but let out a low snort, and the hairs on his whole body stood up.

What a horrible picture it was. In the dead of night, a man raises a dagger and stabs at the woman he loves. And he was originally going to protect her with his own life.

The dagger suddenly stopped, and the thin man's eyes widened, surmising that the dagger had not yet stabbed Tang Wan. He was so nervous that he didn't dare to come out, and his eyes fell on the dagger.

The dagger paused for a moment, then suddenly raised again, and then fell heavily.

The dagger stopped again.

Lifted, fell, stopped, and repeated five times in a short period of time.

The thin man couldn't fall into his throat in one breath, and his breathing became rapid because of this. Great fear swept over him at this time. He could feel his hands and feet tremble slightly.

In the telescope, Tan Dong's face seemed to have an expression, it was a kind of dazed, empty blankness, it seemed that even he didn't know why the dagger couldn't be pierced.

Finally, Tan Dong gave up assassinating Tang Wan, the dagger in his hand hung down and disappeared into the window, while he slowly turned around and slowly walked out of the thin man's sight. He walked strangely, with a seemingly difficult step and a quick fall. As he walked, the upper half of his body did not move, his hands hanging down at his sides, without even the slightest swing.

The thin man on the cliff did not dare to move, and could not move. His body became cold, and fear took root in his heart, he didn't know what would happen if he went back now and ran into Tan Dong.

That's all the thin man sees on the cliff.

"You're lying!" Tang Wan's hoarse cry already had a hysterical flavor, "How could Tan Dong kill me, I love him so much, he loves me so much, we fled all the way from the city where we live, just to be able to go to a place where no one knows us and live peacefully." Now that we have fulfilled our wish, how could he kill me, you liar, you are lying to me! "Then why wasn't Tan Dong by your side last night?" The thin man said coldly.

Tang Wan was stunned, this question was also something she was eager to know. However, she must not accept this fact. Tan Dong wanted to kill her, but Tan Dong actually raised a dagger at her!

"You lie, Tan Dong won't kill me, never!" She could only comfort herself with a cry of despair.

Qin Ge and Sha Bo were stunned, and after a while, Qin Ge asked, "Then how do you know that Tan Dong is the murderer who killed the mute driver?" "Not only the dumb driver, but the mad woman was also killed by him." The thin man paused and said, "As I said earlier, I used to be a doctor, and although I haven't seen people for many years, I can still tell if a person is normal. The Tan Dong I saw at night was definitely not a normal person. His demeanor, the way he walks, suggests that he suffers from a severe form of schizophrenia, and the manifestation of this symptom is, in what we usually call sleepwalking. "Sleepwalking to kill?" Qin Ge exclaimed.

"You lie......" Tang Wan was still screaming hoarsely, but her voice had become hoarse.

The thin man ignored her screams and continued, "When I saw that dagger, I knew that he was the murderer of the mad woman. The next day, the night before yesterday, the mute driver was killed, and I was even more convinced that Tan Dong sleepwalked and killed. "Because you saw Tan Dong holding a dagger and wanted to assassinate Tang Wan, that's why you thought of leaving us a note." The thin man nodded: "Although Tan Dong didn't stab Tang Wan with the dagger, sleepwalking should be an unconscious behavior, and I don't dare to guarantee whether he can still control himself with his subconscious mind next night." "He didn't stab because of the subconscious?" Qin Ge asked puzzled.

"The subconscious is a word that you are all familiar with, there are some things that are outside of our consciousness and we don't feel it at all, but it tends to dominate our behavior at certain times and circumstances." "His dagger can't be pierced, I think it's because of the relationship between him and Tang Wan. And this feeling should be within the scale that consciousness can perceive. Qin Ge asked.

"But don't forget, Tan Dong was sleepwalking at that time, in an unconscious state, then, when he was awake, his consciousness would react on him unconsciously, which was the main reason why Tang Wan was spared." "And." The thin man hesitated for a moment, and then looked at Tang Wan, who was already stunned, sympathetically, "A person who is sleepwalking, even in an unconscious state, his behavior still has a certain relationship with the consciousness he can perceive. Just like we dream, don't the people have a saying that 'there are thoughts during the day and dreams at night'. Qin Ge Shabo understood the meaning of his words at this time, and both of them looked back at Tang Wan, whose face was pale and her cheeks trembled violently, and they really couldn't bear to use words to stimulate her anymore. But the thin man over there had gone on talking.

"Tan Dong raised his knife to stab Tang Wan, this must be a manifestation of his true will." There was also something unbearable in the thin man's voice, "Why is this happening, I don't understand, because at least on the surface, Tan Dong and Tang Wan are a very loving couple, they came to this town thousands of miles away, and held a wedding, if it weren't for the deep love, they wouldn't have done such a thing." Speculation and speculation need some real information as a basis, but they obviously know too little about the relationship between Tan Dong and Tang Wan, and perhaps, only Tan Dong and Tang Wan themselves can explain this situation.

Tang Wan no longer cried, the tears were still on her face, but the tears seemed to have flowed out. Her dull eyes showed that she had completely despaired in her heart, and that kind of sad and helpless sorrow had penetrated into her internal organs and bone marrow. It was as if she had entered a state of unconsciousness, no longer perceiving everything around her.

The thin man knew in his heart that this was a precursor to a nervous breakdown.

But no one can help her but herself.

At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, everyone was startled, Qin Ge went over to open the door, and this time it was Jiang Nan, the innkeeper, who was standing outside the door.

Qin Ge seemed to already know a lot of Jiangnan's secrets, so his face was extremely gloomy. Jiang Nan looked very anxious at this time, and everyone saw him lose his usual calm for the first time.

"Hurry up, the townsfolk are looking for you." He said.

"Why did you come to us?" Qin Ge asked.

"Because of Tan Dong." Jiang Nan knew that he had to let them know the seriousness of the problem, "Tan Dong killed someone, it was Tima in the town. Tima is very respected in this town, and everyone is excited, and now Tan Dong has been captured. Some people say that you are Tan Dong's accomplices, and now the crowd is coming here. Hearing Tan Dong's name, Tang Wan raised her head slightly, as if she had a reaction, but immediately lowered her head again, ignoring everything. Qin Ge Shabo and the thin man both realized the seriousness of the problem in an instant, but Qin Ge still had to say: "We don't know that Tan Dong killed people at all, we can explain it to the people in the town." "If you think someone will listen to your explanation, then you stay. I'm just here to advise you, and I can't influence your behavior. Jiang Nan shook his head and said, "The death of three people in a row in the town has ignited the anger and hatred of the people of the town, in their minds, the sense of law is very weak, if they let them find you, no one dares to guarantee what will happen." "So how is Tan Dong now?" Qin Ge asked.

"According to the person who came to the report, he is still alive, but he is almost dead." Jiang Nan glanced at Tang Wan as he spoke.

Tang Wan let out a low voice, and her whole body trembled like chaff again. Shabo quickly sat down next to her, reached out and put his arm around her shoulder, hugging her as close as he could.

Qin Ge didn't hesitate at this time, turned around and said, "Let's pack up our things and leave here." Sha Bo blurted out: "Go and call Yang Xing and Xiaofei." "They went out early yesterday morning and haven't come back since." "It doesn't matter where they go now, as long as they're not here, there's no danger." Shabo immediately felt uneasy in his heart, but now that the situation was critical, he didn't think much about it. Immediately packed up with Qin Ge, the thin man over there had been silent, and suddenly walked in front of Jiang Nan: "Where can we escape to?" Qin Ge and Sha Bo were both stunned, this is a real problem. This town is located in the mountains, and it is more than 300 kilometers away from the nearest small town of the Yi family. When the people of the town come here and can't find them, they must search the town. It's easy to get out of the Nightsleep Inn, but where is the safe place to be when you get out?

Jiang Nan's expression also became calm, obviously this was a question that he didn't expect. After a while, his face became a little heavier, and he spat out four words word by word: "Sleeping Villa!" "——Sleeping Mountain Villa, a castle that has condensed countless souls in legends, now, is it going to become a shelter for Qin Ge and others?

- Will the mysterious owner of the Sleeping Mountain Villa take in such a group of people in danger?

Xiao Fei was startled for a moment, and then woke up suddenly. The dim light came from the roof, but the wattage of the bulb was so small and the room was too large that the light seemed to blend into the darkness of the twilight. Xiao Fei lay on the floor and felt a deep chill. The floor was also paved with bluestone slabs, lying on it, the cold seemed to be able to penetrate into the bones, and Xiao Fei couldn't help but shiver.

When she woke up, she remembered what had happened, and at the last moment, the owner of the sleeping villa named Du Chuanxiong, a strange smile appeared in front of her again, Xiaofei immediately understood what had happened, and she immediately became frightened.

By her side, Yang Xing closed his eyes tightly, obviously not awake yet.

Xiao Fei struggled to crawl over, shaking Yang Xing incessantly, and calling his name with a crying voice.

Where is this? Why is it so cold? It's still summer, but there's a chill that fills the air. Xiaofei was still wearing denim shorts and a white sleeveless crop top, and at this moment, all the exposed skin became as cold as ice. Moreover, Xiaofei's whole body is soft, and it seems impossible to stand up. Probably because the medicinal properties of the wine have not passed yet. When Xiao Fei shook Yang Xing, her eyes roamed around, and she saw that she was in a big empty house, this house was two hundred square meters, and the four walls were so empty that there was nothing left, only in the opposite corner, there was a half-person high wooden wine barrel. The dim light wafted through the room, and the cold air had vaguely taken on some shapes, and they mixed with the light like a thin smoke.

Where the hell is this? Xiaofei was very scared, she was already regretting not telling Sha Bo, so she came to this damn sleeping villa with Yang Xing without permission.

and the owner Du Chuanxiong, such an easy-going and elegant person, who will have a femme fatale-like heart.

It's too cold here, and when Xiao Fei hugged Yang Xing, she felt that his body was also cold. She lay her whole body on Yang Xing's body, shook his head vigorously, and woke him up one after another.

Yang Xing snorted, and then, his arm hugged Xiaofei tightly, and for a long time, he slowly opened his eyes.

"Where is this?" This was the first sentence that Yang Xing, who woke up, said.

Xiaofei didn't speak, and cried on top of him. Yang Xing struggled to look around, and immediately understood that he was in danger. But he still didn't understand how he and Xiaofei got here.

"It was that Du Chuanxiong who drugged the wine." Yang Xing was stunned, and then hugged Xiaofei tighter: "It's me who has caused you." Xiaofei said angrily: "It's all at this time, you still say these useless words, we have to think about how to get out now." Yang Xing still said apologetically: "If it weren't for the cure of my illness, you wouldn't have come to Sleeping Mountain Villa." Xiaofei was silent for a moment: "This is my own choice, if I want to blame, I can only blame myself, it has nothing to do with you." If you don't want me to hate you, come with me and find a way to get out of here. Yang Xing stared at Xiaofei and finally nodded.

The two struggled to their feet, holding each other and walking towards the door. The door was unusually strong, and the two of them pushed it together, but they didn't move it in the slightest. And when they looked at the four walls, they found that they were all made of stone. The two looked at each other, and neither of them could speak for a moment.

It was almost impossible to get out of such a stone house on your own.

Yang Xing's gaze finally fell on the wine barrel in the corner of the room, Xiao Fei understood, and the two of them immediately walked over with their arms. The barrel was the one they saw when Du Chuanxiong took them on a tour of the winery before they fell unconscious. On the top of the wine barrel, there were actually two cups, as if they were specially prepared for Yang Xing and Xiaofei.

"What the hell does he want to do by imprisoning us here, leaving behind a barrel of wine and two glasses?" Yang Xing was puzzled.

Xiaofei couldn't guess it, she squatted down with the wine barrel, and saw a small faucet at the bottom of the wine barrel, she turned the switch, and some crimson liquid flowed out, with some wine fragrance.

When Xiaofei turned off the faucet, she suddenly saw something behind the barrel, so she reached out and took it out. In her hand, there was a knife more than a foot long.

Yang Xing took the knife and already felt its sharpness from the shiny blade.

The knife wouldn't have been forgotten here, but it was kept in the shadows behind the barrel. What is the purpose of deliberately leaving the knife without them immediately finding out?

Wine barrels, cups, knives, these are the three things that Du Chuanxiong left them. Yang Xing and Xiaofei later hugged each other and sat in front of the wine barrel, thinking hard. I don't know how long time has passed, Yang Xing suddenly felt something strange in his body, and Xiaofei obviously felt the same way. Their stomachs rumbled twice at the same time.

Hunger swells up like a flood, but at this time, where do they go to find something to eat?

Xiaofei was a little better, but Yang Xing was so hungry that everyone became restless. Xiaofei remembered that time, at Langzhong in the town, after Yang Xing drank the bottle of wine, his appetite was great, and he ate on the street for a whole day. She immediately understood what Yang Xing was feeling at the moment.

But at this moment, what is there to eat? Except for that barrel of wine.

Xiaofei suddenly thought that people are hungry and thirsty because the human body lacks a glycoacid, so when people are hungry, eating a few pieces of chocolate or sugar can temporarily suppress hunger. And wine definitely contains sugar.

However, they just drank wine and passed out, could there be anything strange in this barrel?

When she thought this, Yang Xing had already stood up. Xiao Fei stared at him strangely, seeing that he had already picked up the wine glass, unscrewed the faucet, and took a glass of wine.

"Yang Xing." Xiaofei suddenly became nervous, she inexplicably felt some fear coming, but she didn't know where that fear came from.

Yang Xing smiled sadly: "Then Du Chuanxiong left this barrel of wine for us, obviously just to let us drink it." At this time, he doesn't have to bother so much with what he wants to do with us, so there must be nothing wrong with this barrel of wine. Xiao Fei was speechless, and watched Yang Xing drink all the wine.

Her heart was at a loss, and she only felt inexplicable fear. She closed her eyes, hoping it was just a nightmare.

(1) For the description of folk customs in this chapter, please refer to "Chinese Soul Faith", by Ma Changyi, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House.