"Listen to the elder brother, that night he was good at talking bad to persuade his brother not to act rashly.

After all, when the brothers left, they still needed the villagers to show them the way out of the mountain.

Once someone detects the gold and silver in the ancestral hall, it will greatly anger the old patriarch who is obsessed with wealth in the 'Gege'ao'.

It would be difficult for the brothers to get out of the old woods near the village.

Even if you get the gold or silver, it will be useless.

Who knows, it will be ...... the next day."

According to Ma Laoke, the day after the brothers were so excited that they couldn't sleep all night because they learned that there was a large amount of gold and silver stored in the ancestral hall of 'Gegeao', the old patriarch, who had not seen each other for four or five days, took the initiative to find the hut where the brothers lived.

When he saw that the Fu brothers had ruddy faces and a stable breath, and they were no longer as sallow and dying as they were back then, the old patriarch nodded with satisfaction.

"Since you brothers have had a good rest in the past two days, then I can rest assured.

After breakfast, the two of you can leave by yourself, if you don't know the path out of the mountain, you can ask Wang Erya, who is guarding the gate at the entrance of the village.

Today, I will take the villagers into the mountains to pick the mountain chestnuts that need to be stocked for the winter, and I will not see them off at that time. ”

Speaking of this, the old patriarch paused for a moment, and then changed to the cold tone he had before and spoke.

"You might as well talk about the ugly things ahead, and when we go down the mountain and return to the village in the evening, I don't want to see you two brothers still in the village!"

With that, the old patriarch turned and left.

Seeing that the family had already ordered them to be evicted, the two brothers knew that the village really couldn't stay any longer, so they hurried to pack up the things they needed to enter the mountain, and left the village with the dry food and water bags prepared by the girl on their backs.

However, the two brothers did not really go far, and only walked more than a mile, and then quietly turned back, and found a secluded place in the woods where they could monitor the entrance of the village of 'Ge Ge' and hid in hiding.

About half an hour later, the two gates at the entrance of the 'Ge Ao' village, which had been closed tightly after the brothers left, suddenly "squeaked" and split to both sides.

Then I saw the old patriarch wearing an apricot-yellow suede robe, and a large group of women with baskets and backpacks behind him.

Seeing that the patriarch really led people into the mountains to pick chestnuts for winter, the two brothers were immediately overjoyed.

After some whispering, Fu Ying stayed here to continue to monitor in case the old patriarch suddenly led someone to kill the carbine, and agreed with his younger brother to use 'three owls' as a code.

He ordered him to hear the chirping of an old owl that was rarely heard in the daytime, and to find a way to escape from the village to join him, regardless of whether the gold and silver had been obtained by then.

However, Fu Xiong has been gone for more than two hours, and the brother who is watching outside the village is really anxious.

Seeing that the sun was past noon, Fu Ying thought to herself that it was not early, and the women who had gone out to pick chestnuts might return to the village at any time (it was dark in the col, and it would be dark at 4 o'clock).

So the man got up from his hiding place, circled the village for half a circle, and finally climbed a slightly lower wall to the north and climbed in.

Thanks to the fact that in the past few days, the brothers have been looking around for the architectural arrangement in the 'Gege Ao' whenever they have time, so this person did not take much effort to sneak into the outside of the ancestral hall in the village.

But he said that this person stood at the door of the ancestral hall, and listened attentively for a while, but found that there was no movement inside.

So he gritted his teeth, pulled a small plug out of his sleeve, and swiped the tip into the crack in the door.

When he had touched the hard object, the man hung on the barb on the tip of the plug and shook it back and forth a few times, and then he opened the latch behind the door.

(The plug is a hollow, obliquely pointed iron pipe with several barbs cut out of the tip of the pipe to tear the wound, and at the end of which is a wooden handle that can be grasped.)

This is a weapon used by mountain walkers to deal with small carnivorous beasts in the mountains and forests [such as bobcats], and its effect is to leave a wound on the opponent's body that is difficult to heal, causing it to die due to the rapid loss of a large amount of blood, and it is useless against bears and wild boars with rough skin and thick flesh.)

After unplugging the deadbolt, Fu Ying put her ear to the door panel and listened for a while, until she was sure that there was indeed no sound in the room, so she carried the small plug upside down with her hand, and pushed the door panel with her other hand vigorously, pushing the two thick wooden door panels open a small slit that only allowed one person to pass, and tiptoed in.

Listening to Ma Laoke, this Fu Ying recalled to him after he woke up that there was no light in the ancestral hall very abnormally, not only was it dark and rumbling, but there was also a faint lingering cold air tightly wrapped around him.

It gives you goosebumps one after another, and it feels like you're in a grave hole.

said that Fu Ying touched the black and walked forward four or five steps, and this eye was able to adapt to the darkness in the ancestral hall.

At this moment, he found that a dozen paces away in front of him on his right was a large pillar that was as thick as a man from the ground to the roof.

There are many small irregularly shaped protrusions on the branches, as if some kind of figure has been carved in a simple and rough way.

So the man hurriedly rubbed his eyes, looked closely, and found that the carving on the big pillar seemed to be a man with long hair, sword eyebrows, high nose, and deep eyes, who was scuffling with a big snake with a bloody mouth and constantly swallowing poisonous letters.

What is puzzling is that this big snake that was tightly choked by the long-haired man and struggling desperately was actually fluttering on a pair of wings covered with feathers that seemed to be bird's wings?

"Is there a snake with feathered wings under this world?"

That Fu Ying was muttering in his heart, and he saw that on one of the wings of the long-winged snake, there was actually a strip of white cloth that was more than three feet long and covered with bright red blood.

As soon as he saw this strip of cloth, the brother who walked the mountain suddenly had a sour nose: "Brother, you died so miserably......"

"Wait, Master Ma, let me take care of it first...... What you mean is that this blood-stained strip of cloth is the thing of the missing mountain walking brother Fu Xiong.

And his brother Fu Ying concluded that his younger brother had died just by virtue of this belt? What's the point? ”

"Naturally, it's because this cloth belt is a legging."

"Leggings?"

Seeing Yang Congxun's puzzled expression, Ma Laoke laughed.

"The virtuous nephew is the son of a big family, so it's not surprising that he doesn't know this kind of thing.

These leggings are the straps that are tied to the lower legs of the trouser legs in order to relieve the fatigue of walking long distances or mountain roads, or to prevent insects and scorpions from burrowing into the trouser legs and stinging people. ”

"Yes, the little nephew has indeed heard from the family members who are in a hurry to travel long distances.

But the little nephew still doesn't understand, what is the connection between this blood-stained leggings and the death of his younger brother who walks the mountain?

And what is the connection with the fact that the woman in the 'Gege Ao' will eat people? ”

"The virtuous nephew asked this well, but the virtuous nephew didn't know that the leggings of this mountain walker were different from others!

Even if someone else's leggings are stained with blood, it's not a big deal, but if the leggings of a mountain walker are stained with blood...... Then he will be really fierce and unlucky! ”