I burst out laughing, and instantly fell asleep, and standing in front of me was the kid in red I had seen last time, and coincidentally, he was still wearing a red dress today, looking both cute and weird.

"Big brother, you're awake!"

The little boy smiled at me, revealing two small symmetrical dimples.

"Wake up ......"

Thinking of Fa Dian, I sat up hurriedly, and saw that Fa Ying was still lying on the big bed beside me, his eyes were closed, but his face was a little bloody, and his lips were not as purple and black as last night.

"Grandpa has already fed him medicine, he should be fine."

The little boy told me with a smile.

"Ao-" I nodded, and asked the little boy again, "What's your name?" ”

"Grandpa hasn't named me yet—just call me Red Boy! My grandfather used to call me that. ”

Red Boy? What a name, I couldn't help but smile.

Perhaps hearing the two of us talking, Coffin Lee walked in, only to see that his eyes were red and swollen, and he seemed to have not slept all night.

"Are you awake?"

I nodded, "Thank you!" ”

The coffin Li "En" sighed, but did not speak.

"That's right! Uncle Li, how is my friend? ”

"It's going to take a few more days, so let's stay here for a few days!" Coffin Li walked over and reached out to grab Fa Dian's wrist, which should be taking the pulse.

"Good! Then I'll be here with you! ”

"Whatever!" After the coffin Li finished speaking, he turned around and walked out, walked to the door, and stopped again, "Breakfast is ready!" ”

The red boy took me by the hand and went out of the courtyard, and beside the black coffin there was a small square table with three bowls of soup and two plates of pickles, and on one side there was a small basket with seven or eight fritters in it.

After tossing in the middle of the night, I was still a little hungry, and I didn't care if my hands were dirty or not, so I grabbed a fritter and took a bite hard.

The coffin Li also sat down to eat, and the red boy also sat down, but instead of eating, he looked at me with a smile.

"Why don't you eat it?" I asked casually after taking a bite of the pickles.

"He can't eat indiscriminately these days...... Bad stomach! ”

Bad stomach? Do children still have a bad stomach? If you have a bad stomach, you should eat on time, and eat more home-cooked meals, why don't you let you eat? Curiosity is curiosity, I was really hungry, so I stopped asking and took a big bite to eat.

The red boy just sat like this, smiling, with little dimples on his face, which made me a little embarrassed to eat.

"Uncle Li, what is he eating!" After eating, I wiped my mouth and asked with a smile.

The coffin Li was also full, and replied very casually: "You don't have to worry about this!" ”

I troubled people all night last night, and now I have eaten a meal for nothing, and I always feel embarrassed, so I rushed to clean up the table and washed all the dishes and chopsticks diligently.

The red boys looked at me with a smile the whole time I was working, and it made me feel weird.

In the morning, the coffin said that he was going to go out, and asked me to help watch the house and sell the coffin by the way.

His coffin was at a fixed price, and he never bargained, and after giving the money, he picked it casually, and never said that it would be delivered to his door.

It's also worry-free!

After the coffin Li left, I couldn't help but ask the red boy again: "What did your grandfather let you eat!" ”

The red boy took my hand, and when I arrived at the side room on the east side, I saw a small basket hanging on the beam, in which were placed more than a dozen pieces of dried steamed steamed buns, which were so dry that the surface had cracked.

The doubts in my heart simply reached the peak, and I took a deep breath: "You usually eat this?"

The little boy actually smiled and nodded: "Yes! I just need to eat one piece a day! ”

Seeing the big smile on his face, the uncomfortable feeling instantly came out and filled my brain.

I first thought of the inevitability of Africa, especially the photograph of the vultures waiting for the emaciated little boy to breathe, and then I thought of a report I saw some time ago about the abduction of children, who were abducted by human traffickers, who were imprisoned and lived an inhuman life before being "sold".

Perhaps seeing that my expression was different, the red boy pulled my arm: "Big brother, what's wrong with you!" ”

I forced out a smile and gently stroked the little boy's forehead: "It's okay! You...... Would you like to eat something good? ”

Red Boy blinked: "Good thing? What a good thing! ”

"What's your favorite thing to eat?"

"Me! I don't think I've ever eaten anything else! The little boy asked me with a blank expression.

I was so shocked that I almost couldn't speak: "What do you say?" You...... You haven't eaten anything else? How is this possible! ”

The red boy nodded firmly: "Really, brother! Grandpa told me that I would come to eat a piece of dry steamed bun every day, and I couldn't eat anything else...... Otherwise......"

"How else?"

"Or I'll die!"

My heart trembled again, I just regarded Coffin Li as a good person, it seems that this time not only did I look away, but even my uncle also saw the wrong person, I can't figure out that this old guy is a child trafficker, or an old pervert or something. Think about it, angry and sad, how can he cruelly treat such a young and cute child!

I squatted down, stroked the little boy's face, and asked him softly, "Little brother, is this your own grandfather?" ”

"Didn't I tell you! Grandpa said I grew from a locust tree......"

This is obviously a foolish nonsense, and I don't think so, and continues to ask: "Then you don't have any other relatives besides him?" ”

The red boy's mouth cracked suddenly: "Yes! That's a lot! They come to see me sometimes. ”

When I heard this, I was shocked: "Who are they?" ”

"You've seen it!" The red boy smiled softly, revealing her white and neat teeth.

I'm confused now. Ever seen? Could it be the villagers of this village? That's not right! Speaking of which, this is the third time I have come to Qilijing Village, but both times it was at night, only the first time was in the afternoon, but I have only seen the old man with a hoe and the proprietress of the supermarket.

The point is that I've seen them, and Red Boy shouldn't know about them!

"I've seen it? When have you seen it! ”

"Last night!"

"Last night?"

My heart, which had just been calmed, was picked up again.

"That's right!"

I recalled the people I saw last night like lightning in my mind, except for the people brought by Fa Dian and Hao Minyuan, there was only the Bai family. Wrong! There is also an old man in the south who raises snakes, from last night's conversation, I seem to hear that he is from the Miao nationality and knows witchcraft, so this old man is the grandfather of the red boy!

"They are?" I've been asking since then.

"Oops! Big brother, I'll show you!"

After that, he led me to the room where Fa Dian was lying, which made me even more confused.

"How did you get here......" v5

Before I finished speaking, I saw the red boy pointing to the paper-cut works pasted on the wall, and said with a smile: "Big brother, look! These are my relatives and friends! ”

"You're talking about them?" I was choked speechless, thinking about it, what kind of logic I talk to a child of a few years old, maybe it is because he has no friends that he will regard these paper-cut works on the wall as friends.

Poor thing!

I couldn't hold back my tears.

"Big brother, why are you crying?"

"I'm fine...... quickly wiped it, not wanting the little boy to see anything, "Don't you usually go out?" ”

What makes me even more uncomfortable is that the little boy always has a smile on his face, just like the protagonist in "The Smiling Man" written by the famous British writer, because he was operated on by a bad man on his face, he kept smiling all his life, even when he cried bitterly.

"Big brother is talking about this yard?"

I nodded, "Yes! Grandpa took you out to play? ”

The little boy shook his head: "Grandpa won't let me!" Grandpa said that there are a lot of bad people outside the yard, and they will hurt me. ”

I secretly cursed, this old guy surnamed Li is really vicious! It's not okay to be so cruel to a child who is a few years old! Now that I know this, I must take care of it. This person is so ruthless, he won't be unfavorable to Fa Dian, right? No way! I had to call Hao Minyuan first, be told the truth, and then ......

Before I could come up with a reason, I heard a knock on the door.

Not good! The old guy came back, and I subconsciously wanted to find the stick, but then I thought about it, the door was not locked, and I still needed to knock on the door when I went back to my house! Could it be Hao Minyuan and them?

With joy in his heart, he hurriedly trotted to the gate.

When I opened the door, I saw the fat woman next door and his skinny husband standing at the door with a smile on his face, and the thin husband was still carrying a basket in his hand, which contained half a basket of eggs.

The fat woman was carrying a box of eight-treasure porridge in her hand.

"Brother, what's wrong with that monk?" The fat woman asked me with a smile.

I flashed into the air: "People haven't woken up yet!" ”

"I don't know what to say this time...... Thanks to you! It turns out that there is such a big snake in that ancient well! "The fat woman was startled when she spoke, which made people very uncomfortable.

"That's right! You and Lao Li are neighbors, do you know him? ”

The two looked at each other, one shaking their heads and the other nodding, and then changing again, one nodding and the other shaking their heads.

The fat woman yelled at the thin man, then turned her head and smiled at me, "Brother, this question is not easy to answer!" ”

I frowned: "What do you say!" What's so hard to answer about that? ”

The fat woman glanced into the room, and I hurriedly replied, "He's out, and I'm at home with this child!" ”

The fat woman replied: "Actually, we moved here two years ago, and this yard used to belong to my cousin, and then his family ...... We moved over, and we don't know Uncle Li very well, so we don't usually have much contact......"

This is said to be a slurry that gives people the feeling of lying.

"Do you know anything about this kid?"

This time they both shook their heads almost at the same time.

The fat woman said, "Sometimes I have seen this child playing in the yard from afar, and we have asked other people in the village, and they all said...... It is said that the coffin Lao Li knows spells, and the child is conjured by him. ”

"Conjured?" I subconsciously frowned.

The fat woman grinned: "Maybe we don't belong to their village, let's play with us!" ”

The thin old man interjected again: "This child has not always been there, it seems to be ...... It seems to have been since before the Chinese New Year last year! ”

He thought for a while, and then continued: "I heard Wu Da in the village say that there used to be a little girl in the old Li family, who was also wearing a red dress, and then disappeared. ”

I nodded: "Such a strange thing, no one in the village cares?" ”

The thin husband smiled: "Who cares!" I can't stand anyone else's business. ”

Although this is straightforward, it speaks to a common phenomenon in today's society, that is, "it is not about oneself to hang high". Who wants to cause trouble? Who wants to be eventful? A few years ago, I didn't report a piece of news, because I kindly helped the old lady who was hit by a car, and the result was on the forehead.

Rural customs are even more so, and most of them feel that whether it hurts nature or violates the law, as long as it has nothing to do with me, they shouldn't be nosy!

The two of them didn't seem to want to stay here longer, and after a few polite words, they left in a hurry.

I suddenly felt that my heart was very heavy, and at the same time, I was very worried about the law, so I took out my phone.

was about to dial Hao Minyuan's number, but suddenly thought of his uncle, so he immediately changed his mind and dialed Wu Jinghan's number.

"Hey! Lu Dong, why don't you answer your call! I'm in a hurry, and I'm trying to let Jianjian take me to Qilijing! ”

I quickly apologized, said a few kind words, and explained that my phone had been on silent and had not bothered to look at it.

"Don't bother to look at it? You...... What's going on with you? ”

"Master Fa Yi is injured!"

"Captain Hao told me about this—what happened to him?"

"I can't explain this in a sentence or two - I seem to have met a perverted old man, and I can't figure it out that I'm still a human trafficker."

On the phone, I said things briefly in a few words, and Wu Jinghan was stunned for a while.

"I think it's better to call the police!"

"What a policeman! Hao Minyuan came with more than a dozen people last night...... The main thing is that I always feel that things may not be as simple as they seem! ”

"What do you mean?" Wu Jinghan asked me rhetorically.

"Uncle was here last night! It can be seen that my uncle's cultivation is much higher than I thought! At least it's not inferior to Fa Dian, and almost everything he has experienced these days, he has expected, and I think this time should be no exception. ”

"Uncle told you to find this old man who sells coffins?"

"Not really! But the uncle didn't object, the key is that I asked the uncle before, and he said with certainty that this old man is not a bad person! ”

"Do you want me to ask my uncle again?"

"Clever! Or let's say that we are husband and wife! ”

"Come less - who has a husband and wife with you." As soon as I finished speaking, I heard a burst of laughter on the phone.

"Uncle doesn't have a mobile phone, so I have to trouble you to run!"

"Okay! When I get to my uncle's house, I'll call you! ”

After waiting for about six or seven minutes, my phone rang.

"Hey! Jinghan ......"

As soon as he spoke, a familiar voice came from the phone.

"It's me! Your uncle! ”

"Oh! Uncle, I ......."

Still didn't finish speaking, and was interrupted by my uncle.

"Coffin Lee is not a bad person! You can rest assured! The old monk's vitality can only recover the fastest by relying on him, otherwise he will have to cultivate for a year! ”