The night was like water, and the summer frog cries came from the vast fields, one after another, like thunder.

An MPV car drove on an unmanned road, and after entering this remote area, the traffic flow became less and less, and there was a small village along the way that was far away, and in the early hours of the morning, it was quiet, only the occasional dog barking showed that there were still people in the village.

The two children who had been asleep in the car woke up because of the frog cry, and they have basically lived in the city since they were born, and they know the sound of the car's engine and horn, but they are still full of curiosity about this natural sound.

"What's that calling?" The three-year-old girl asked.

"Frogs." Yu Qi stroked her daughter's head and said, "It's the kind of frog in "The Frog Prince". ”

"Quack, quack, quack." The six-year-old son, Xiaohutou, screamed imitatively, croaking and bringing joy at the same time.

But Guo Pengbin, who was driving the car, still stopped: "Don't make noise about your grandma, grandparents, and grandmothers." The three old men all fell asleep on the back of their chairs, and they were bumpy for almost ten hours, and their legs and feet could not be stretched, which was a torment for their old bodies.

Xiaohutou lowered his voice, but leaned forward, leaned into the ear of his father in the front driver's seat, and croaked again.

Guo Pengbin ignored his son, smiled at the corner of his mouth, and muttered to himself: "It's almost there." ”

The mobile phone navigation shows that there are less than 10 kilometers left from the destination Hewei Village, and it will be reached soon.

Along the way, Guo Pengbin was responsible for driving at full speed, and Yu Qi was responsible for using his mobile phone to watch the news all the time, and did not continue to have accidents; Citi has given a lot of accounts about what happened in New York, and the Heavenly Machine Bureau has also issued a statement condemning the atrocities of the Will to Life Alliance, no matter how powerful the enemy is, they will fight to the end.

Those statements and statements have made the world more aware of the complexity of the world in which they live, the dark forces, the aliens, and the dimensional invasion......

Seriously, Guo Pengbin and Yu Qi didn't really understand much, but they knew that their guess was right, and even the Tianji Bureau couldn't guarantee everyone's safety.

Moreover, the Inhumans continue to appear in various places, and the strange howls are getting more and more.

Yu Qi knew that it was because he kept swiping a website that provided warning maps, whether it was a stranger or a patient, and wherever a new howling occurred, it was displayed as a red dot on the warning map. And the red dots in Dongzhou are already dense, more than ten times more than when they set off.

And Hewei Village, their destination, has not yet appeared red dots, and there is no area in this area.

When there were only five kilometers left, Guo Pengbin stopped the car and made another call to Uncle Quan, who was less than sixty years old and had a mobile phone in the village, and was quickly connected, Guo Pengbin asked: "Uncle Quan, we are almost there, and the village is ...... today Did anything happen? Is there any strange screaming? ”

"Strange screams? No. Uncle Quan's words came from the mobile phone, "It's still like that, where are you going?" ”

"It's almost to the end of the village." After Guo Pengbin ended the call, he said hello to his wife and continued to drive the car.

Although the road here is very bad, the five kilometers are still completed quickly, and the couple can see through the windshield and the light of the headlights that make up the village. Guo Pengbin couldn't help but say happily: "It's here, it's here, wife, wake up mom and them." ”

The two children looked curiously, Yu Qi woke up a few old people, and everyone heard the shouts of a few people waiting in the village in front.

"Peng Bin!" A middle-aged man shouted, shaking the flashlight in his hand, and there was joy in his voice: "Here." ”

The headlights made their figures a little blurry, and when they got closer, Guo Pengbin saw their faces clearly, Uncle Quan, Uncle Hong and Uncle Bo. Uncle Quan is a relative, and Uncle Hong and Uncle Bo are both friends of his old father before his death. I haven't seen you in years......

At this time, Guo Pengbin suddenly had some complicated and inexplicable feelings, he should have come back to the village a long time ago.

The car slowed down slowly and stopped, and Guo's mother had already rolled down the window and looked out to greet these old acquaintances who might not have seen her for a long time: "I'm back, Peng Bin said that it's been dangerous outside recently, and there are a lot of messy diseases, so I'll come back to live for a while." ”

"You can stay as long as you want." Uncle Quan nodded happily, his dark face was full of smiles, "Your house is still there, I put some sundries before, and I moved it for you today, there is a bed and a stove...... But you've been living in the city for a long time, so you may not be used to ......."

"How so?" Guo Pengbin hurriedly said, those two yellow mud houses were definitely transferred out a few years ago, and people can not let them live at all, thanks to Uncle Quan's kindness, "It's good to have a place to live, and I will ask Uncle Quan more in the future." ”

The two children probed their brains, he took everyone out of the car first, and then introduced the three uncles, "Call someone quickly." ”

This time, the little tiger head and the vegetable girl are also well-behaved, although they are young, they seem to be sensible, and they have called the three uncles, so that Uncle Quan and they all smile more.

The most likely people who are not accustomed to living are not the old father-in-law and mother-in-law, they are old, even if it is not the current situation, it is good to be able to live in this kind of village with fresh air for a while; The most likely thing that he can't get used to living in is his wife, and Yu Qi is not that kind of unruly woman, and she is also very polite at this time.

The night is already very deep, there are no young people in the village all the year round, there are very few cars, some vehicles are some agricultural diesel tricycles, most of the roads between the houses are still dirt roads, and these yellow mud houses are built relatively densely, and their MPV can not drive in.

At that moment, the car stopped at the entrance of the village, and several men such as Guo Pengbin and Uncle Quan took out boxes of luggage from the back compartment and moved to two yellow mud houses in the village.

When Yu Qi saw these two adjacent yellow mud houses, although he had been mentally prepared and understood what the situation was now, he was still a little uncomfortable.

Both rooms are one house high, with old and dilapidated yellow mud exterior walls, old and dilapidated tiled roofs, and an equally old and dilapidated wooden door, and there is a small deserted yard outside the house, overgrown with untended weeds, and some water tanks, firewood and other miscellaneous items are piled up.

The telephone pole plugged into the roadside outside the house is crumbling, and there are wires leading to the two old houses, but because of the disrepair, Uncle Quan and the others can't say whether they can still be electrified.

After entering the house, Guo Pengbin opened the old electric gate installed on the wooden board, and the electric light entangled in cobwebs emitted a dim light, which immediately made them all breathe a sigh of relief. With the current temperature, it is difficult to sleep well without electricity and fans. Don't think about the air conditioner, but there is not even a fan in the house, fortunately, Uncle Hong has an idle floor electric fan at home, and Uncle Quan also has a small fan, and they are all enthusiastic to move over and lend them to use, so this problem is solved.

Tap water is available, and after the turbid water from the old water pipes is removed, the water quality gradually becomes clearer. However, the "kitchen" is basically an old stove in the house and a few pots and pans in the courtyard outside the house; And there is no separate toilet, the toilet is a small hut on the wasteland not far from the yard.

With such a living environment, it may be no problem to stay for a few days, but after staying for a long time, there will definitely be many problems......

When Uncle Quan didn't pay attention, Yu Qi sighed, did not hide the loss in her heart, and said to her husband: "There are a lot of renovations to do, at least there must be a separate bathroom...... We can't break the monthly payment in our house......"

Guo Pengbin wanted to speak and stopped, but in the end he didn't say anything, and continued to carry his luggage in first.

There are two yellow mud houses, the one where the family and his mother live in the bigger one, and the old man and his mother-in-law live in the smaller one next to them.

Uncle Quan, Uncle Hong, and Uncle Bo were busy, and in this midsummer season, even if the night breeze was cool in the early morning, they were busy sweating, shirtless, with fat bellies, just like when they were working in the fields. It wasn't until they were all busy and saw that the family had settled down initially that the three uncles had to leave and go home.

Before leaving, Uncle Quan said: "You live first, if there is anything lacking or repairing, tell me tomorrow, and I will take you to the town to find someone to do well." ”

"Okay." Guo Pengbin nodded in response, in fact, he just wanted the entire village to be closed and not to contact the outside world in the short term, including the nearest town.

After Uncle Quan and the others left, everyone who had been running around all day should also sleep and rest.

At first, the two children were curious to look at this and there, and there were a lot of questions to ask their parents, but after all, they were how old the children were, and they were soon tired, Yu Qi coaxed the two children to sleep on the small broken wooden bed in the house that was the best ventilated near the door, and turned on the borrowed old floor fan that made a rattling sound.

She told her two children a fairy tale, told them to sleep peacefully, and went to another mud house to help her parents clean up.

Guo Pengbin's mother thought it was too hot in the house, and after seeing her grandchildren, she moved a bamboo mat and spread it on a freshly cleaned ground in the courtyard outside, as she did many years ago, and slept there. The surrounding darkness, mosquitoes and so on, she, an old peasant woman, could stand it, just like the refreshing night breeze.

Guo Pengbin stood at the door of the yellow mud house, watching his mother sleep there on the ground, and after a while, he began to snore, and he was already asleep.

He looked at the bottomless darkness of the night, his mind churned, and after a sigh, he walked to the wooden bed over there.

The vegetable girl also fell asleep, but the little tiger head was still spinning around, probing his brain, and when he saw him coming, he whispered, "Dad, I can't sleep......"

"What's wrong?" Guo Pengbin sat on the edge of the bed, paying attention to the position of avoiding the fan blowing. In fact, he drove for a day, his mind was highly concentrated, and he had been tense and nervous, and he was already exhausted, and he almost fell asleep when he sat down, "Is it hot?" The bed is too hard? The fan is too noisy? Or is it the frog outside noisy? ”

Xiaohutou shook his head when he heard it, "I can't sleep......

"Homesick?" Guo Pengbin whispered softly, reached out and stroked his son's young face, "This is home, Dad used to grow up here, and he also slept in the bed you are sleeping in now...... Dad knows, you're not used to it, but something happened...... We all have to be brave, you know? ”

The little tiger head seemed to understand whether he understood or not, after all, he nodded, closed his eyes vigorously, and his small face was resolute, "I know, I am a man." ”

"Well, let's sleep......" Guo Pengbin couldn't help smiling, maybe it was really too hot in the house, and even the heart that had been cold from time to time recently was a little warmer.

(End of chapter)