After Qi Lu and the three of them took a plane to Hainan to find a hotel and settled down, they stopped a taxi to go to Hailong Village.

It was a gloomy day, and when the driver heard that Qi Lu was going to Hailong Village, he actually looked at him like a monster.

"Why, the village is too far away, you don't want to take it?" Qi Lu frowned, after all, it was not the city he lived in, and there was nothing he could do if people were to bully him.

"It's not." The driver didn't say anything more, and took them to their destination.

As soon as the three of them got out of the car, the driver turned around and left as if he was afraid of something, leaving at least several times faster than when he came.

"Hey...... What kind of attitude do you have" When the taxi left, Lao Wu was splashed with dust, and he stomped his feet angrily, and began to curse his mother in his mouth.

"Forget it, let's go to the village." is not familiar with the place, Qi Lu has no choice but to settle things, and the driver has long since disappeared.

The village is still some distance from the road, Qi Lu and the others are walking on the potholed path, far away at the end of the road, the village houses are surrounded by greenery, Qi Lu has smelled the bitter smell of the sea breeze.

Halfway through the road, Ding Xiaolan stopped.

"Ah, there are so many graves!" Faced with this bleak scene, Ding Xiaolan could no longer be calm.

Indeed, as she said, there is a cemetery on one side of the road, Qi Lu is roughly counted, not to mention there are hundreds of graves, it seems that this is where the ancestral graves of the villagers are located.

Lao Wu also stopped, he squinted his eyes and said to Qi Lu: "It's a bit abnormal, you see it, right?" ”

"Yes, I saw it." There was some sadness in Qi Lu's words.

Ding Xiaolan couldn't help but be curious when she heard the strange conversation between the two, she began to observe the cemetery carefully, and when she found something strange in it, she couldn't help but shudder.

Because among these mounds of various sizes, there are nearly thirty new graves! This is too abnormal, so many people died in the village before the end of the year!

"It can't be an epidemic in the village, right?" Thinking of this terrible answer, Ding Xiaolan suddenly became nervous. Then she remembered why the driver had left them behind and drove away in a hurry, because the village had brought people the shadow of death.

Qi Lu said disapprerovingly: "Don't guess, let's go and see the tombstone." ”

When they came to the cemetery and looked at the new graves one by one, they were more and more surprised, and even Qi Lu was tightly knit.

They saw pictures of the dead on the tombstones of each new grave and discovered that the new dead were young men and men.

Ding Xiaolan asked strangely: "Why are all the young men who died?" ”

"It's a little weird indeed." Qi Lu sighed and said, "Let's go to the village and ask." ”

So they quickened their pace and came to the village.

For some unknown reason, the village was unusually deserted, and they couldn't see any villagers coming out and walking.

Walking all the way, he finally saw that the door of a house was open, so Qi Lu asked at the door: "Is there anyone in the house?" ”

No one came out for a long time, and Qi Lu screamed a few more times but still didn't see anyone paying attention to him.

Lao Wu said: "Maybe the master is not at home, let's find someone else." ”

At this time, the sharp-eyed Qi Lu saw that someone from another family ten meters in front of him had come back from outside and entered the house, so he hurriedly walked to the door of the house and knocked on the door that had just closed.

After a long time, the window of the wing room opened a small crack, and the people in the room showed half of their faces, Qi Lu hurriedly said: "Fellow, let me ask something"

Before he finished speaking, the window was closed, and no matter how Qi Lu asked, no one came out to deal with him.

"It's bad luck to run into a weirdo."

Lao Wu smiled and said, "Let's go to other homes and ask." ”

Who knew that I asked several in a row, but they all touched the dust. As if Qi Lu was a transparent person, he didn't want to talk to them.

"Why is it such a strange village, you will die if you reply!" Ding Xiaolan also muttered angrily.

Gradually, at the end of the village, there was only one last family left, and there was a middle-aged man killing fish at the door.

Although Qi Lu was full of complaints, he still forced a smile and said, "Let's go, go and ask." ”

Ding Xiaolan said angrily: "What if people still ignore people? ”

"Then we'll go home."

Qi Lu kept a heart this time, he walked to the middle-aged man and quietly watched him kill the fish, and did not speak.

The middle-aged man noticed that there was someone beside him, raised his head and looked at him indifferently, ignored him, and continued to cut the belly of the two-foot-long sea fish, and took out the internal organs such as fish intestines and threw them on the ground.

Suddenly, he realized something, so he put down the work in his hand and raised his head to look at Qi Lu again. This time, he looked at Qi Lu's face very seriously.

Qi Lu instinctively felt that there was a play this time, and hurriedly smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to the middle-aged man and said, "Master, come and smoke a cigarette." ”

The expression on the middle-aged man's face became more and more surprised, and he didn't take Qi Lu's cigarette, but turned around and ran back into the house.

"Alas, it's all work in vain again." Qi Lu hung his head and prepared to leave the village.

Just as Qi Lu beckoned Lao Wu and Ding Xiaolan to leave, an old voice suddenly came out of the house: "It turns out that there are guests here." ”

Finally there was a person who spoke, Qi Lu hurriedly looked back and found that an old man in his sixties walked out, followed by the middle-aged man who had killed the fish just now.

Both of them are standard Chinese characters, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, Qi Lu suddenly understood that these two were father and son, so he stepped forward and said: "Uncle, we are travelers who came to Hainan to play, and we happened to pass by here and wanted to know some local customs." ”

"What a faux pas, my son has neglected you." As he spoke, the old man also looked at Qi Lu like his son, and looked at him carefully from top to bottom.

"There, we don't know how to be polite." Finally, someone took the initiative to take care of himself, and Qi Lu hurriedly put down his body, for fear that he would be closed again.

"If you don't like it, please come and sit down."

"Okay, then thank you, uncle."

Qi Lu and the three of them followed the old man into the house and sat down, and an aunt of the same age as him came out to pour tea for them, and also took out some local specialties and snacks for them to taste.

He had been treated coldly in front of him, and when he suddenly met this family who treated him with hospitality, Qi Lu felt flattered.

"Old uncle's surname?" Qi Lu took a sip of tea and asked.

"My surname is Yan, and my single name is a military character."

"Oh, Uncle Yan, this is your son next to you, right?"

"Yes, his name is Yan Yuping."

"Hello Lao Yan."

Yan Yuping also responded with a smile.

Yan Jun smiled and said to Qi Lu: "A few of you haven't eaten, you will have dinner at my house later." ”

"Uncle, you are too polite, we have to go back to the city to eat, so I won't bother you."

"If you come, you're a guest, how can you leave without a meal." Yan Jun didn't care whether Qi Lutong agreed or not, so he said to his son: "Go to the kitchen and ask your mother to cook a few more dishes, and we will accompany the guests to have a few more drinks in the evening." ”

"Uncle, how embarrassing is this!" Qi Lu hurriedly stood up and excused himself, and at the same time a question arose in his heart. As a general rule, after asking the other person's name, he should ask my name back.

But the old man's next words proved that Qi Lu was too worried, and at the same time, he was so surprised that he was almost speechless.

Because what Yan Jun said was: "I take the liberty of asking, young man, your surname is Qi?" ”

"Ah, uncle, how do you know my surname is Qi?"

Yan Jun smiled slightly, as if this was all in his expectation, he turned his head to look at Ding Xiaolan and said, "This is Miss Ding." ”

"Ah, uncle, do you know me?" Ding Xiaolan was also surprised.

Yan Jun smiled and replied, "No, I don't know the two. ”

Hearing this, Qi Lu couldn't help but be surprised, he didn't know that he could accurately say his and Ding Xiaolan's surnames, could it be that he was a hidden god!

At this time, Lao Wu spoke on the side, "Old man, you don't even know my surname, do you?" ”

"Hehe, this guest, I don't know your name."

"Then how do you know the surnames of Xiao Qi and Xiao Ding?"

"That's a long story." Yan Jun said to his son, who had just come out of the kitchen, "Yuping, you bring that photo to the guests to see." ”

Yan Yuping walked into the back room in response, and after a while, he took a photo out, and Ding Xiaolan hurriedly took it in his hand to watch. After reading it, she cried out in a lost voice, "How can you have a picture of us?" ”

Qi Lu also saw this photo clearly at this time, it was a group photo of him, Ding Xiaolan, and Chen Jixian. After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that this photo was a group photo taken by Lao Wu when Chen Jixian left after Ding Xiaolan came to work in Kunlun Office.

Yan Jun was about to answer Ding Xiaolan's question, when the smart Qi Lu laughed and said, "Uncle, if I'm not mistaken, this photo was given to you by Uncle Chen, right?" ”

Yan Jun smiled and nodded: "No wonder Xiao Chen always praises you in front of me, you are indeed very smart." ”

"Uncle has won the award." Qi Lu was polite, but in his heart he was thinking about Chen Jixian's intention to give the old man this photo.

Ding Xiaolan heard them mention her uncle, and hurriedly asked, "Uncle Yan, is my uncle also in Hainan?" ”

"You're late, your uncle left our village half a month ago, and it is said that he went to Emei Mountain. Before leaving, he handed me this picture and said that it would not be long before you would come to our village. ”

"Ah, why is he gone again." Ding Xiaolan pursed her lips.

It turned out that Chen Jixian informed the old man of his information in advance. Qi Lu sensed a hint of ominous aura in Yan Jun's words, he was stunned, and asked, "How did Uncle Chen know that we would come to Hainan, and even to your village, he also knew?" ”

In Qi Lu's impression, Chen Jixian is not very good at divination and fortune-telling, and he is far from reaching the realm of an uncertain prophet.

"Did you get a cold reception when you came to the village?" Yan Jun abruptly changed the subject.

"It's true that I don't think the villagers are very welcoming to strangers." Qi Lu replied truthfully, he also wanted to know the reason.

Yan Jun said with embarrassment: "Our village has a history of hundreds of years, you know, the longer the village is established, it is inevitable that there will be some customs passed down from the ancestors, and you young people don't take it seriously." ”

"What kind of custom is it, can the old man tell me about it?"

Yan Jun then told the story.