By about six o'clock, the sky had begun to cool slightly, the rain had gradually subsided, and the more industrious residents of the village had begun to prepare for the day's work.

It would rain a lot less, and it would be a drop in the bucket compared to the night. My brother and I cleaned up briefly and left the hut to ask a few villagers about the house.

When he came here before, Liu Kuaikou reminded us that this room was a bit evil, and he didn't know exactly what it was, so he couldn't say why.

However, he also told us a little news, saying that the people who came here before, whether it was for tourism or to inspect the terrain and live temporarily, stayed here for two or three days, and finally either died or went crazy, and some even disappeared until now and have not been found, and no one knows what the reason is, anyway, this place is strange.

At first, my brother didn't take this seriously, thinking that Liu Kuaikou was just scaring us, but now it seems that there is something else wrong with this matter.

Liu Kuaikou won't become that ghost for no reason and inexplicably, there must be something wrong with this.

I followed my brother and began to inquire about the people in the village, and this time the fat boy followed, and he saw that the walls of the house were covered with blood in the morning, and he was so frightened that he did not dare to stay in the house by himself.

When I came to the village, I looked around, and just saw a girl holding a paper umbrella coming out from under the eaves of her house, looking in a hurry, and I didn't know what to do.

I saw that her face suddenly turned happy, and I hurriedly shouted: "Apricot girl! ”

This person was none other than the receptionist Liu Kuaikou told us when he first arrived in the village.

When she heard the sound, her expression was stunned, and then she walked over quickly with a paper umbrella and stepped on the stones, and said in surprise: "It's you two, I remember you, you came with Master Liu." ”

"Master Liu?" My brother and I were stunned for a moment when we heard this, glanced at each other, understood what the other party meant, and suddenly became suspicious, I originally wanted to be polite, from her set of two sentences, but I didn't expect her to contain a lot of information in one sentence.

"yes, aren't you two his apprentices?" The apricot girl's eyes widened, full of confusion.

"Oh, yes, I'm the eldest apprentice, and he's the second apprentice." My brother reacted very quickly, and saw that the situation was wrong, so he immediately answered: "Miss Xing'er, my master went out by himself last night, and I don't know why he went, and he didn't come back until this morning, and the two of us couldn't find anyone, so I was a little worried, so I came to ask you, have you met him?" ”

He said this on purpose to test the other party.

And Xing'er's heart is simple, at first glance, it is the kind of person who shows all his thoughts on his face, and now when my brother asks him like this, his face suddenly changed, his eyes were a little uneasy, his mouth opened, and he looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, looking hesitant.

This way, you can tell that there is a problem at a glance.

When my brother saw her like this, he immediately knocked on the side and said, "Miss Xing'er, do you know where my master has gone?" Can you tell us? As he spoke, he bumped into me secretly and gave me a look.

When I saw this, I immediately understood, and said: "Yes, Miss Xing'er, alas, let's tell the truth, in fact, this time we went up the mountain, the master didn't tell us what the hell was going on, he only said that he would stay on the mountain for a few days and leave, and he didn't say what to do, but who knows that the other person suddenly disappeared, and he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, so what should we do?" I...."

Before I finished speaking, my brother couldn't wait and began to grab the words, and said with sadness on his face: "You also know, it is not easy for us two brothers, we went up the mountain to find our long-lost mother, but we didn't find anything, if even the master is lost, how can I explain to his family after I go back?" How do you explain to your fellow disciples? How can the two of us still live! ”

As he spoke, he pretended to lie on my shoulder and sobbed, so that I still had to hug him, pat his shoulder, and pretend to be strong forcefully, and said in a choked voice: "Brother! It's okay, let's not cry! No matter how difficult and bitter it is, we can carry it! ”

The two of us seemed to be singing a double reed, one for the other, I cried after you cried, and I was hurt after you grieved, and the apricot girl who forced her family was also anxious, and said: "Oh, don't be like this, I... I don't know much, but your master, I really didn't tell you anything, so I took you up the mountain? ”

"Not really!" My brother lay on my shoulder, blew his nose hard, the big snot bubbles were all thrown on me, crying very sadly, and said in a sad tone: "In this world, the two of us are left with this master, as the saying goes, one day is a master and a father for life, over the years, he has taken care of the two of us, and it is half of our father, but now my mother has not been found, and half of my father has been lost in a blink of an eye, poor our brother!" ”

"Okay, don't worry, I'll help you think about it." Miss Apricot really didn't know what to do, so she could only compromise: "Actually, I don't know much, but this incident is mainly caused by that place." ”

As she spoke, her hand pointing far away, it was the dilapidated and strange wooden house!

Speaking of this place, she seemed to have something unspeakable, her brows were wrinkled together, her heart seemed to be fighting, and she hesitated for a moment before saying: "I don't know when this matter started, anyway, it has been a few years, and there is a rumor that the wooden house is haunted, saying that no matter who lives in it, whether it is one person or several people, something will happen in three days." ”

"In recent years, the road to the bottom of the mountain has been repaired, so it is different from before, every year there will be a lot of people from the outside world, some people come on the same day, and leave on the same day, but some people will live on the top of the mountain for a day, and some people will live for many days without leaving, just play on the mountain, especially in summer, more people come, many people come and have no place to live, they will live together in a wooden house."

"But I don't know when the people who live in the wooden house will have all kinds of accidents inexplicably, either someone died inexplicably, or someone disappeared, or they would hear strange noises in the middle of the night, anyway, there are a lot of strange things."

"Aren't you curious about so many strange things?" I was stunned when I heard this, and when I turned my head, I saw that my brother didn't know when he had regained his seriousness, and said that your face changed too quickly, and your snot was not wiped clean!

"Someone in the village went in and checked, but they didn't know what was going on." Xing'er said: "This kind of thing has happened many times, it is said that when I was young, there was already this kind of thing, when even the police came up to investigate, and there is no end to it until now." ”

"Then what is my master here for?" I couldn't help but be curious and began to ask, if this place is really evil, then why did Liu Kuaikou come here? And why make up lies that we are his apprentices? What the hell is he trying to do?

"Your master came here because of the person from before."

"Who else was before?" I hurriedly asked.

"A man." She recalled: "About a few months ago, there was a man who came with a bag on his back, and I had the impression that he was holding a camera and took pictures of me, and you know that I rarely see anything outside in the mountains, so I was very impressed, but the man was very strange. ”

She said, as if she had thought of something, frowned slightly: "He photographed many places in the village, but the most photographed was the wooden house, he said what was in it, I can't remember what it was, and then he asked me a lot about the wooden house, and finally gave me a photo of your master, saying let me wait, saying that in a few months, the person in the photo will bring two people to come in and live for a few days, and when they leave, the wooden house will be fine, and no one will have any accidents." ”

"He just left, and I thought he was joking." Miss Xing'er said incredulously: "But I didn't expect that a few months later, you guys would really come over!" ”

After I heard her, my mind was a little mixed, and my heart was full of doubts, and I said, "That man, do you remember what he looks like?" How old is it and what does it look like? How tall? Is there anything noticeable about your body? ”

"He's gentle." Xing'er remembered that he smiled: "Not very old, about the same as him." As he spoke, he pointed to my brother and continued: "I'm quite tall, as for whether there is anything obvious that people pay attention to, um.... When he took a picture of me, he seemed to have a very special ring on his hand, huh? You two have rings too! But it doesn't seem to be the same as his, he's bigger, it's black, and it looks weird. ”

Ring? I looked at the ring on my hand and fell into deep thought.