The grilled leg is fresh and spicy, and I don't know what is coated on it, it is full of flavor and delicious.

I've never eaten such delicious barbecue in the Tujia family, and I don't know how their Gaoshan people made it? this

Craftsmanship, if you set up a barbecue stand in the city, it will definitely attract many customers.

Just as I was thinking nonsense, Yan Xiaoying spoke, she first explained our identity to the young man in front of her, and then said, "We are here this time to find the legendary ghost lantern, and we need its fruit to wake up a friend." ”

By the time she had finished speaking, the young man had already eaten a roasted leg, threw the bone to the hunting dog beside him, and said slowly, "I can take you there, but I need to pay for it." ”

It was the first time he had spoken to us since he appeared, and his voice was stiff, as if he hadn't spoken in years, but his Mandarin was standard.

Hearing him speak, I immediately took out the money I had prepared from my backpack, handed it to him and said, "This is a 50,000 honorarium, I don't know if it's enough?" ”

50,000 yuan is already quite a lot for a rural person, but the young man just glanced at the money in my hand, did not reach out to take it, and said lightly: "I don't need money." ”

His words made Yan Xiaoying and I a little unable to react. At the beginning, Yan Xiaoying had heard her grandmother say that as long as there was a good reward, the remnants of the Gaoshan clan would take us to find ghost lanterns.

I always thought that what she said about the good pay was money, so I went to town to get cash and brought it here.

But now, the other party said that I didn't need money, which made me not know how to answer for a while, and the money in my hand was not handed over, nor was it taken back.

Fortunately, Yan Xiaoying reacted quickly and asked, "What do you need?" ”

"I need Sansheng grass."

"What's a three-life grass?"

It was the first time I had heard such a strange name, and I looked at Yan Xiaoying.

The latter also shook his head, indicating that he didn't know what it was.

"There is a three-life grass where the ghost lantern is, I can take you there, but you have to help me pick the three-life grass." The young man spoke again.

I was relieved to hear him say this, since there is also a three-life grass where the ghost lantern grows, and it is also a matter of effort for us to pick it and give it to the youth.

"What is Sansheng Grass? If you know where it grows, why don't you pick it yourself? I just wanted to agree, but Yan Xiaoying suddenly asked.

"One plant, three leaves, three colors, it works for me." The young man said, "But I can't pick it, because there's something I can't touch where it grows?" ”

"Untouchable things? What is it? If you can't pick it, why do you think we can? Yan Xiaoying asked again.

"Because you are not from the mountains, there is no curse on you."

The young man in front of him was silent, only said this one sentence, and then kept silent.

Yan Xiaoying was thoughtful, and after thinking for a while, she said, "Yes...... But we can't guarantee 100% that we'll get it, and if we can't, don't blame us. ”

"Good!"

The young man answered, and then fell silent again.

I didn't expect it to be talked about like this, and I think it's a little incredible. I came here with tens of thousands of dollars in cash, but the other party only needed our promise to find Sanshengcao, but didn't want my money, what is it?

But if you think about it carefully, the young man in front of you lives in the mountains, and it is useless to ask for money. What we cherish as our lives is nothing more than a useless note in the eyes of the other party.

It's ironic!

I'm very curious about the three-life grass that the young people are talking about, and I don't know what it does. But I think it should be the same strange thing as the spirit baby fruit, ghost lantern, etc.

It's just that what is the curse of the Alpine Clan that he said?

The young man in front of him didn't explain to us, just sat silently across from us, and the atmosphere seemed very awkward.

I've never seen anyone so wooden, and to lighten the mood, I asked, "That'...... After talking for so long, we still don't know what your name is? ”

"My name is ...... Lin Miao. ”

I don't know why, when I met the young man's gaze, I saw a thick vicissitudes in his eyes. That weathered look shouldn't have come to a young man of eighteen or nineteen years old at all.

That's right, the young man in front of him looks only eighteen or nineteen years old, but he has a pair of vicissitudes of life.

Lin Miao...... Was that old man your grandfather? It's just the two of you living in this room? ”

Lin Miao shook her head and didn't answer.

"Anyone else? Why didn't they come out? I continued.

"I'm the only one here."

Listening to Lin Miao's answer, Yan Xiaoying and I were shocked at the same time, and our faces were full of incredulity.

"Wouldn't it? When we came in just now, we saw an old man. Brother, don't scare us at night. ”

I think the other party is joking, the old man just now, Yan Xiaoying and I both saw it. And because the old man suddenly appeared, like a ghost, I also deliberately checked to see if he had any shadows.

The old man who was obviously alive just now, and we also saw him come in here with our own eyes, why did the young man say that he was the only one living here?

Isn't this talking nonsense with your eyes open?

"I said, it's just me." Lin Miao looked at me with no expression on her face, and said again.

"Just kidding......"

I was about to refute, when Yan Xiaoying pulled my sleeve, gave me a look, and said to Lin Miao, "Where do ghost lanterns grow?" More than twenty years ago, a group of seven people came here, and their purpose was the same as ours, looking for the ghost lantern, but only two people left alive, what danger did they encounter there? ”

"Ghost lanterns can only grow in places where the yin qi is extremely heavy, and that place ...... There are a lot of dead people. ”

Lin Miao glanced at Yan Xiaoying, and there was a moment of trance on her face: "But...... You misremember the time, they didn't come from more than 20 years ago, the time is long, it's a little hard to remember. ”

Yan Xiaoying was slightly stunned, frowned lightly and said, "Listening to your accent, it seems that I know them, but you weren't born at that time, right?" ”

"It's an island in a lake, with poisonous insects, wild beasts, and strange and unknown things."

Lin Miao said a lot this time, but he didn't answer what he asked, and he didn't answer Yan Xiaoying's question directly, and said quietly: "That's heaven, it's also hell, and it's the tomb of a clan, the tomb of the Gaoshan clan." ”

It turns out that the ghost lanterns grow in the cemetery of the Gaoshan tribe, no wonder Granny Yan said that the people of the forest house can lead us to find the ghost lanterns......

"When are we leaving?" Yan Xiaoying suddenly asked.

"Anytime." Lin Miao replied.

"Okay, then let's leave tomorrow morning, we'll stay here for one night, do you still have a place to stay here?" Yan Xiaoying asked meaningfully.

"Yes, but only one room."

Lin Miao glanced at the other wooden door he had just walked out, then stood up, walked into the room he came out of first, and closed the door.

He didn't even say hello to us, and ran back to your room to rest.

Seeing him enter the room, Yan Xiaoying and I glanced at each other, and the two of them packed their bags and walked into another room with Xiaobai.

The room is not big, there is a wooden bed in it, and there is a futon on the bed, but it is worn out and moldy. As soon as I got closer, I smelled a strong musty smell, the wooden planks on the ground, the surrounding wooden walls, and many places were covered with moss, and the humidity was very heavy.

I pinched my nose and complained speechlessly, "How can people live in this kind of place?" That wood is really, and I don't know how to clean it up, so it's a guest from afar, and I don't understand human feelings at all......"

"Okay, don't complain, I found that you have been with Lao Fei for a long time, why is your personality more and more similar to him?"

Yan Xiaoying glanced at me and said, "When you go out, it's already very good to have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, it's better than sleeping in the barren mountains and mountains outside, and you can't be dissatisfied." ”

As she spoke, she lit the brazier on a nearby wooden shelf, and there was a layer of solidified black grease at the bottom of the brazier, which ignited at a moment's notice.

It is the grease of the pine tree that has a unique flavor when burned.

I closed the door, found a few pieces of firewood and put them in the brazier, and whispered to Yan Xiaoying, who was opening the window, "Don't you think he is very strange?" ”

"Hmmm! It's really weird. ”

Yan Xiaoying propped up the window, looked at the thick night outside the window, and said quietly: "After all, he is a person who lives in the mountains all year round, and he lacks communication with people, so it is nothing strange to talk strangely, at least he promised to take us to find ghost lanterns." ”

"I'm not talking about his character, but about ...... We had seen the old man come up here before, but why did he lie to us that he was the only one living in this house? ”

"I don't know, but there are only three rooms in this attic, and there are only two rooms in addition to the hall. You can see that our house is moldy, which means that no one has lived here for many years. Yan Xiaoying said.

"Maybe the two of them live together?" I said.

Yan Xiaoying shook her head, and suddenly smiled mysteriously: "I have some suspicions that the old man and the young man are the same person. ”

"What? The same person? It can't be, right? ”

I was surprised: "One is an old man who looks to be in his eighties, and the other is a young man who is eighteen or nineteen years old, how can the two be the same person?" Even if the disguise technique in the legend of the rivers and lakes is not so magical, is it? Besides, why is he playing two people? ”

"I don't know. But have you noticed, the young man named Lin Miao and the old man who appeared first, although their clothes are different. However, their height and stature are almost identical, and the shoes they wear are identical. ”

Hearing Yan Xiaoying say this, I thought about it and asked puzzledly: "But the appearance of the two of them is not the same at all, how can this be explained?" ”

"This may have something to do with Sansheng Cao, no matter what, with him, we must always be vigilant and pay attention."

I nodded and said, "But I think this Lin Miao is credible, it's just that he has a lot of secrets, which makes people feel mysterious and difficult to see." ”

"It's a pity...... Grandma, she didn't want to mention the past...... Otherwise, we wouldn't have to be so passive now. ”

Yan Xiaoying sighed, turned around and rolled up the moldy bedding on the bed and put it aside.

This bed can't sleep, but fortunately, there is a fire to keep warm, and we don't need to cover the quilt, so we can live for one night.

When we go out, we don't pay so much attention to it, we are all children who grew up in the countryside, and we have lived in caves and kilns, and we can still eat this bit of hardship.