"And how do you say you can help?" Huang Na looked overjoyed and looked at Xu Ran with big eyes.

Touching his nose and thinking about the problem here, Xu Ran suddenly realized that he was still short of a guide.

As the words fell.

"Do any of you have someone to help lead the way?"

Everyone looked at each other, and just as a woman tried to stand up, she heard a little boy of seven or eight years old shouting.

"I, I can take you there."

A familiar voice came into everyone's ears as they walked.

It was Ertong's voice just now, and he squeezed out of the crowd again.

"Little friend! Would your mom agree. Xu Ran looked at Ertong Dao, who was squeezing out of the crowd.

"Don't call me a little friend, I'm a lot older." Ertong looked displeased, dissatisfied with Xu Ran's salutation.

"Little brat! The hair hasn't grown yet. Huang Na glanced at Ertong and couldn't help but quip.

At this time, another woman squeezed out of the crowd, standing beside Ertong, staring at Ertong with a pair of eyes, and then exuding a soft gaze.

"My child, since he was a child, has been smart and clever, likes to think independently, and is very curious about new things, if I don't let him go, he will secretly follow you, and he will still help you lead the way when the time comes."

"And what did you decide?" Hearing Ertong's mother's words, Xu Ran looked at Ertong's mother as if asking.

I saw Ertong's mother patting her son's shoulder and sighing.

"Let him go, he still can't stay at home."

After hearing his mother's words, Ertong suddenly lowered his head, like a child who had just done something wrong.

"Mom," Ertong called to her mother softly.

Huang Na seemed to be touched after seeing this scene, and suddenly said to Xu Ran on the side.

"If only I had such a smart boy in the future."

Xu Ran glanced at Huang Na inexplicably, very surprised that she would say such a thing.

After coughing dryly twice, Xu Ran changed the topic and said.

"Ertong child, are you still sure you want to go?"

"Of course, I'm curious what the mountain will be like." Suddenly, he paused and said to Xu Ran, "Please don't add the word "child" after my name. ”

"Good! Ertong! Xu Ran shook his head helplessly and sighed lightly.

"Then it's okay to add the word kid after Ertong." Huang Na continued to joke.

"Hmph" Ertong snorted coldly and no longer paid attention to Huang Na.

The atmosphere is slightly dull.

After some detailed discussions, it was already more than eight years old, and after eating something, Xu Ran chose to live at Ertong's house.

Ertong's house is located in the southwest corner of the village, the place is not too big, the adobe tile roof, there is a small courtyard in front of the house, and the surrounding area is made of mud bricks, and the two are sitting in the courtyard chatting at this time.

"Brother Xu Ran, why did you come to such a place, listening to your accent, it shouldn't be from your own country." Ertong blinked and stared at Xu Ran with curious eyes.

"For an answer!" Xu Ran looked into the distance with deep eyes.

"What's the answer? Is it important to you? Ertong then asked.

"I don't know! Maybe it's important, maybe it's not. Xu Ran's gaze became more and more gloomy and deep.

In fact, he didn't know whether this answer was important or not, maybe for him, it was just a way to kill time.

"Oh"

Ertong answered, and did not ask any more curiously, but changed the topic.

"Brother Xu Ran, how long have you known that Sister Huang Na?"

Xu Ran was surprised that Er Tong would ask such a question, so he put away his deep and confused eyes and turned to look at Er Tong.

"Ertong, why do you ask like this, is it because of that incident."

Ertong is like an adult, making the movement of brushing his beard.

"I'm not that stingy, I just don't think she's a good person."

Xu Ran suddenly looked around, and after finding that no one was eavesdropping, he pulled Er Tong into the back room, and then closed the door gently.

"Ertong, you are not allowed to talk nonsense, be careful that you will be unhappy if you are stopped by her." Sitting on the bed, Xu Ran pretended to be annoyed and glared at Ertong.

"I'm not talking nonsense, since she came to the village, a group of black-robed people have appeared near the village, and the reason why we are like this is because of those black-robed people."

"What did they do to you?" Xu Ran thought of the scene when he had just entered the village, and couldn't help but look at the injury on Ertong's hand.

"They took what we had on us." Ertong clenched his fists indignantly and said.

"What's that? Do you mean the things that were taken back from the mountains? Xu Ran's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of what the villagers had brought back from the mountain.

Ertong nodded heavily. "Hmmm! And as soon as Sister Huang Na made a move, she stopped their leader. ”

Xu Ran suddenly smiled and said to Ertong: "Are you suspicious of Sister Huang Na because of this?" But she would have known martial arts. ”

"No," Ertong Yizheng said, "Because those black-robed people are all wearing masks, they can't tell the difference at all, and that one is the leader." ”

"Well, that's very suspicious." Xu Ran nodded and said, "But these are all speculations, and we have no evidence at all." ”

"Yes! But we still have to watch out for her," Ertong said.

"What about me, you just believe in me like that, and you're not afraid that I'm one of them." Xu Ran said with a smile.

"I can see you're not one of theirs." Ertong glanced at Xu Ran with a slightly deep look.

"Yo! This kid is becoming more and more like an adult, tell me why I'm not one of theirs. ”

Ertong smiled mysteriously and said, "You are a principled person." ”

"Am I a principled person? Why are you so sure? ”

"Because, you're here for an inconsequential answer."

After hearing Ertong's words, Xu Ran was silent.

Ertong is right, this may be an insignificant answer. And he did.

"Why don't we find a reason tomorrow to trick her somewhere else, and then we find a chance to sneak away." Ertong suddenly showed a wicked smile.

"If you don't learn well at a young age, you will learn this bad mind and sleep in the light." Xu Ran didn't have a good airway, and as soon as his body turned over, he lay on the bed.

Ertong snorted, and then pressed the switch button.

Suddenly it was pitch black in that house.

......

At two o'clock in the evening, in the dense bushes, a black shadow appeared lightly under a large tree with the breeze blowing.

Cold, solemn, there was not too much expression on that pretty face, but the moment she appeared, there was a wisp of cunning gaze in her beautiful pupils, accompanied by a light breeze brushing her hair, and suddenly her eyes stared coldly at a big tree not far away.

"How's it going?"

As her words fell, several more figures appeared near the big tree.

"Back to the Divine Lord, the matter has been done."

"Good! Then go back and rest.

The words fell, and several black shadows were silently hidden in the darkness.

And that figure also disappeared without a trace at this moment.

At this point, there was a dead silence in the bushes. It seems that no one has ever been out like this.

Nothing was said all night.

As soon as he opened his eyes, Xu Ran found that Ertong's figure had disappeared, and sighed silently, he got out of bed, put on his shoes, took out his mobile phone to take a look, and found that it was more than five o'clock.

Outside the window, a wisp of red glow penetrated slightly, and the warm sunlight hit people's faces, and there was a trace of warmth.

Early in the morning, many villagers began to work in the fields with tools.

Xu Ran looked out through the window.

Suddenly the wooden door creaked, and a thin figure stepped in from outside the door, but it was Ertong who walked in from outside with porridge, and when he saw Xu Ran wake up, his eyes lit up.

"Brother Xu Ran, why did you wake up so quickly."

"Hmm," Xu Ran nodded, "Do you usually get up so early?" ”

"This was not the case before, since the accident in the village, in order to guard against those black-robed people, we can only finish our work early and run to other places to hide."

Xu Ran nodded, of course he knew who those black-robed people were.

Whenever they appear in the world, they are bound to bring disaster.

Ertong saw that Xu Ran didn't speak, so he handed the porridge to him.

"Why don't you have some breakfast and refresh yourself?"

Xu Ran suddenly smiled: "People are small and big." ”

Ertong smiled and said, "My mother said the same about me." ”

Xu Ran shook his head helplessly, thinking of the suffering in this village, where he still had the heart to eat their things.

"Ertong, you eat! I also had some dry food in the car. ”

"I've got it for you." Er Tong saw that Xu Ran didn't want to eat his things, so he stared at him with a pair of pitiful eyes, but he was a little sullen.

"Okay!" Since it was someone else's intention, Xu Ran couldn't refuse again.

After taking the porridge, he took a bite of it, but there was a faint fragrance coming from him, and Xu Ran suddenly looked at Ertong with wide eyes.

"Your porridge is quite special." As he spoke, he finished the porridge with a slurp, and then looked at Ertong again. "Did you add some herbs to it?"

"Brother Xu Ran! How do you know? Er Tong was also stunned, blinking and staring at Xu Ran.

"I've eaten it before." Xu Ran smiled and said.

"The environment in which this herb lives is very harsh, and it is not something that can be picked from just one place." Ertong said.

"Hmmm! You know a lot," Xu Ran said.

"Of course, our village lives on this in the first place." Ertong Road.

"So you grow herbs." Xu Ran thought for a while: "It stands to reason that you shouldn't be so poor." ”

Ertong said a little helplessly, "Those herbs are all worthless, but no one dares to pick them." ”

"Ertong! Isn't it those precious medicines, all grown in the foot of the mountain. Xu Ran thought for a while and said.

"Brother Xu Ran, you are so smart, you can guess without me saying it." Ertong nodded and smiled knowingly.

So Xu Ran took advantage of the fact that it was still dark and asked about the foot of the mountain.

"Have you really been to Foothill?"

Ertong nodded: "I've been there, otherwise where would there be these precious herbs." ”

Xu Ran thought for a while and said, "Since you've been there, let's talk about what's going on on the mountain?" Is it really like Granny Li

Say so? ”

"Grandma is right, it's like that on the mountain." Ertong said.

"Ruins?" Xu Ran asked

"There are ruins, but everyone sees a different scene." Ertong Road.

"What do you mean," Xu Ran asked.

Ertong thought for a while and said, "It's like a mirror, the expression on each face is different, and the scene you see is different." ”

"Mirror," Xu Ran muttered, "will there be such a place?" ”

"Yes, I've been there." Ertong said.

"And what do you see?" Xu Ran asked.

"I saw me in a strange place helping someone else." Ertong thought for a while and said.

"True or fake? Don't lie to your brother Xu Ran. ”

"Of course it's true." Ertong said with certainty.

As Ertong's words fell, the wooden door creaked, and a shadow stepped into the house from the outside, accompanied by a faint fragrance wafting in the house.

Xu Ran saw that it was her, and just nodded with a smile, and there was not much mood swing, but after Ertong saw her, a trace of displeasure surfaced on her immature face, and she raised her neck and snorted coldly.

"What are you talking about?"

I saw Huang Na walking in from outside the door with a smiling face, still holding some breakfast in her hand, and when she saw that it was Ertong, she couldn't help but quip.

"Yo! The little ghost is also there. ”

"Humph! Bad woman!" Ertong snorted coldly.

After Ertong shouted out the bad woman, Xu Ran clearly saw a trace of displeasure on her face, and immediately looked at Xu Ran with a smile.

"Did you have breakfast?"

Xu Ran nodded: "I've already eaten it, Ertong was unintentional just now, don't take it to heart." ”

Huang Na is still smiling sweetly, but in her heart, it is as cold as an iceberg.

"Boy, when the mission is over, I must sew your mouth shut, and then take it to be an experimental subject, to see that no one in this world dares to call me a bad woman." But it was said.

"How could I be so careless with a child, doesn't that seem very ungraceful."

Ertong wanted to speak, but Xu Ran covered his mouth.

"Are you going to come with us?" Xu Ran said that although this sentence was just a nonsense, it was used to divert Huang Na's attention.

"Go! I have promised my grandmother that I will rescue my uncle from them. ”

Xu Ran nodded, and then let go of Ertong, whose face was flushed.

And Ertong was also very interested in not dismantling Xu Ran's platform.

"That's good! You go back and prepare your stuff first. We will meet at Granny Li's house. Xu Ran looked at Huang Na and said.

"Okay" Huang Na nodded, glanced at Ertong, and then walked out of the door.

When her figure was far away, Er Tong looked at Xu Ran with some dissatisfaction.

"Brother Xu Ran, you know that she is not a good person, why do you have to let her follow us."

Xu Ran looked cold, and looked at Ertong, "In the future, don't say anything like this, even if you want to say it, don't say it in front of her, if she is really a bad person, just with what you just said, it is enough to put the entire village in danger." ”

Ertong lowered his head knowing that he was wrong, "I know it's wrong, Brother Xu Ran." ”

Xu Ran's face suddenly improved, and he patted Ertong's shoulder, "Remember not to show your emotions in the future, so that outsiders will soon see through your heart." ”

A hint of firmness suddenly flashed in Ertong's eyes: "I won't in the future." ”

"Okay," Xu Ran said, "Then let's go and prepare something."