"No need."

Bai Ling and Huang Wufeng spoke at the same time, then glanced at each other, and Bai Ling said, "I don't eat." ”

"How can you do it without eating?" The old woman said, "Don't be polite to an old woman with me, I raise those chickens, and I am also idle and lonely, and it is rare for guests to come, and it is too late for me to be happy." ”

Huang Wufeng couldn't help but glance at the scholar, and when he saw him bowing slightly, he smiled at the old woman, "Then it's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, and trouble the old man." ”

What kind of medicine do they sell in their gourds? Do you want to stay here for the night?

Bai Ling frowned, but saw him stroke his beard and asked, "By the way, old man, when Meijiang was adopted by you, she was still a child, right?" ”

The old woman sat down next to Bailing, wiped her sweat, and said, "Yes, she was three or four years old at that time, I went up the mountain to collect firewood, and I saw a little girl who was unconscious by the ditch." I carried her home, but when she woke up, she didn't remember anything, and asked her what her name was, where she lived, and she didn't know anything, but looked at me with those bright eyes. I had no children under my knees, and when I saw that the child rejoiced, I adopted her. ”

"I wonder where the old man picked her up?"

"To the east of the wheat field, the highest mountain, I used to go there to collect firewood."

"Oh......" Huang Wufeng poured a bowl of water for the old woman and the scholar, and asked, "I wonder if something strange happened to that mountain?" For example, people are missing, I have seen monsters and so on. ”

Finally asked the point, Bai Ling involuntarily sat up straight, "Yes, and the young man you said before, he is also a demon?" ”

"The guy I'm talking about, it's a stranger who stayed in our village a few days ago, I heard that he is a fox ghost story, who has traveled north and south, and has recorded a lot of strange things." The old woman said, "I'm just wondering, this strange thing, there must be some real thing." ”

It turned out to be a writer.

Bai Ling was a little disappointed in her heart, but she still asked, "Is he still in Lotus Village?" ”

"He lives in the cow's house at the head of the village, but ......," a bitterness flashed on the old woman's face, "I don't go out often on weekdays. It was only a few days ago that he came to my house out of the blue and asked me about the yokai, and I found out about him. I didn't tell him anything, though. If you want to know anything else, you'll have to go to Niu's house to have a look. ”

Bai Ling suddenly said, "I'll go now." ”

Then he got up, lifted the straw curtain and went out the door.

She said to go, startling the old woman, "Hey, girl......"

"Old man, leave her alone." Huang Wufeng said with a smile, "She has this temperament, she is hot, let's continue to talk about ours." ”

The sun was shining outside.

Bailing walked out of the yard and went straight to the cow's house at the head of the village. When I asked, I found out that the young man had left the day before yesterday, but he learned an unexpected thing - the young man was from the Wei family.

That's something to be fun with.

Someone in the Wei family is investigating the matter of Meijiang?

Bailing didn't have time to think about those trivial things. The search for the monster has reached an impasse, if there is no Liu Linglang, how can she restore her former strength, and how can she take revenge?

She was suddenly a little confused.

After wandering aimlessly around the village for a long time, Bailing sat down in front of a dirt slope full of straw and looked up.

In the distance is a lush green mountain field, hanging heavily on the edge of the clear sky, with distinct colors in sharp outlines. The sun is scorching, and all the places that shine are glowing with a slightly drunken halo, and the birds are flying in the sky, as far as the eye can see, as if they are wandering between dream and reality, and the aftertaste is endless.

This situation and this scene should be touching.

Bailing didn't think about anything. Or rather, she forced herself not to think about anything.

Until nightfall, she shuffled back to the old woman's house.

The lights were on in the house, and Bai Ling entered the courtyard, closed the fence of her hand, lifted the curtain and walked in.

Hearing the movement, Huang Wufeng, who was cleaning up the dishes, looked up and was happy, "Oh, immortal...... Why did you come back in disgrace? I've been there for so long, so I guess this trip didn't go well. ”

"The girl is back?" The old woman was holding a mat and happened to come out of the back room, seeing that she looked listless, she couldn't help but walk over and hold her hand distressedly, "Didn't you eat?" I'll do it for you now. ”

No one cared about her for many years, and Bai Ling retracted her hand unaccustomed and said, "No need, I've eaten outside." ”

"That's right." The old woman smiled and took her to another room, "Then tonight, you will stay in this room." ”

This room is small, and you can see the thatch of the sloping eaves when you look up, but it is unusually clean, and you can see that it is often cleaned.

Bai Ling couldn't help asking, "What about them?" "It's Huang Wufeng and Brother Shu who asked.

"They said, just lay it on the floor." The old woman spread the mat in her hand on the kang, "This is Meijiang's previous room, no one has lived in it for many years, I will bring you some deworming herbs in a while, you can put it by the window, and you can sleep peacefully." ”

As soon as he heard that it was Meijiang's room, Bai Ling stopped and pointed to Huang Wufeng, who was washing the dishes, and said, "Old man, the room is still left to him, he is weak, and the gold is very expensive, and he can't beat the floor." ”

Then exit the back room and sit down at the table.

The scholar was directly opposite her, still the same as before leaving, with a straight body, sitting like pine needles, drinking tea as if no one was around.

"Who do you say is expensive?" Huang Wufeng put down the washed dishes and shouted dissatisfiedly.

Bai Ling said, "It's not good to let you sleep in the room?" ”

Huang Wufeng snorted, "Are you that?" It's clearly scared ......."

The old woman laid out the mat and came out with a cloth bag, and when she heard his words, she smiled and asked, "What are you afraid of?" ”

"Uh......" Huang Wufeng dragged out a long sound, his eyes kept glancing at Bai Ling, but he saw her sitting upright for a long time, looking like she was listening.

"Leave them alone." The scholar helped him out of the siege, "They are used to bickering, let them go." ”

"I see." The old woman smiled, "Our village is close to the mountains, and there are indeed a lot of snake and insect poisons, but I guarantee that with the insect repellent herbs here, not even ants can be seen on the ground." As she spoke, she opened the cloth bag in her hand, and in addition to the three packets of herbal powder, there was also a pair of rusty scissors.

The old woman handed the scissors to Huang Wufeng, "This is for you." ”

Huang Wufeng took it and looked at it, the ordinary little scissors, nothing special.

Puzzled, he asked, "Why did you give me this?" ”

"You, you have such a long beard at a young age, it's weird, it's not good-looking." The old woman made a gesture of scissors going down, "We in Xiling, there is no custom of growing beards and honoring elders. ”

Hearing this, Bai Ling snorted lightly, "His name is a beard?" It's just a few stray hairs, and it's gone after a few pluckings. ”

“……”

Huang Wufeng blushed and glared at her, "What do you know?!" ”