Their speed was so fast that in an instant, they had already grabbed the corner of my clothes and dragged me down, I stuck my hand between the bricks, and my body turned to the other side to resist, and the scorching light rose from the hanging star's house, "Acuo! The call became louder, and the crowd of people under the pressure of black immediately stopped, and they all let go, and I was planted into the courtyard of another family by inertia.

"Hmm." I snorted on my buttocks, but luckily the walls of the courtyard were not too high, so I didn't fall crippled.

"Raw?"

An unfamiliar male voice came, and I turned my head to see that under the starry sky, he was holding a night light and looking in this direction.

"Well, excuse me, I'll leave right away."

"Don't worry, it's okay for you to rest and leave." He sat down on a stone bench in the courtyard and turned off the lights.

I rubbed my aching buttocks, "It's not bothering, let's leave right away." ”

He didn't answer again, just watched the sky in silence.

I walked around his yard, but I couldn't find the door, so I could only continue to climb over the wall with some embarrassment, but his wall was very clean, and it was really difficult to turn, and I fluttered for a long time, but I still couldn't climb up.

I had to walk up to him, "You take a hand and help me up, and I'll climb the wall." ”

"There is no way to get to the village."

"What?"

"The wall has inside and outside, inside and out, this wall is outside, you can't go up, you can't go."

It seems that it is indeed that no matter how you climb it just now, it is difficult to go up, first it is not slippery, it is difficult to borrow strength, and then you feel that the courtyard wall is becoming more and more unclimbable, obviously the courtyard wall is only two meters when you are on it, but I have climbed for a long time and have not touched the wall, "..... Where's the door to your house? ”

"This is to come to the village, there is no road, no door, there is no return."

"No way, I went to the lantern festival a few days ago."

"Is it around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month?"

"Hmm."

"That's it, the rules for coming to the village are very strict, and the people in the village are difficult to communicate with each other except for festivals and funerals, so they can only stay until the day of the road and walk out safely before they can return. Other times, there is no way out. ”

"Is the next holiday on February 2nd?"

"Qingming." He kept looking at the night sky as he spoke, obsessed.

Qingming, that's still more than a month.

"The walls of the village cannot be climbed unless you are alive. Why did the living come here? ”

"Come in ignorance, and go in search of the past." Happy mourning, happy mourning, how do you know who is happy and mourning?

It turns out that this village is isolated from the world, the way of life is different from other places, the family is independent, the daily necessities are all sent by hired people one by one, the wall is divided into yin and yang, can only climb up from the yin side, climb down to the yin side, bad luck (such as me), fall from the sunny side, and unfortunately, the three walls of this house are all sunny side, so you can only stay honestly until the next time.

I can only lie in a stranger's house, waiting for Qingming, or waiting for an uncertain joy and mourning.

"Well, the bunch of people next door."

"For them, the most important thing is to prolong life, and you may look more delicious."

He replied plainly, and my heart stirred up turbulence, don't talk about this as ordinary as eating.

"Then you," you won't be like them.

"Well, it's a lot worse than them."

He turned his head to look at me, "Want to go?" ”

I nodded vigorously, afraid that he wouldn't be able to see clearly, "Yes, yes." I struggled to get up and pat the dirt off my body, and walked in front of him, and then I really saw what he looked like.

His eyes are all pale blue broken light, like flawless diamonds, and this dark night sky is shining brightly, when he looks at me, there is a sense of the world, everything is under control, he gives people the feeling of wisdom, is mysterious, is the boundless inquiry.

"Where are you from?" He glanced at the direction of the Hanging Star House, where the light was still there, and the words like fireworks were scattered, [Find someone, you will be thanked.] ]

I stood still, my fingertips fighting behind my back, my eyes in the direction of the hanging star, silent.

"If you want to go back, it's simple, that person is capable, and he can get up and send you back immediately after talking to the village chief."

"I don't, I don't want to. I want to get out of here. I clenched my fingers and looked straight at him.

"You think I'm going to offend him for a stranger like you?" He tilted his head, his expression a little playful, as if he was playing a funny game.

He has been looking at the night sky since the beginning, what can he do to look at the night sky, for the sake of being beautiful? Or is it a hobby of astronomy? Absorb the essence of the sun and the moon? Stargazing? I was a little unsure, so I had to raise my head to look at the night sky, which was different from what I usually saw, the sky was full of stars, the bright moon hung high, obviously afraid of the bright moon, the stars should all disappear, but here it was sharp, intersected with each other, full of tenderness, embedded in the gray and blue Milky Way, and opened brightly, which was really extraordinary.

"That person has the ability, are you inferior to him?" I can't guess his purpose, so I can only use the method of agitation.

He suddenly smiled, "So, indeed. ”

...... "You admit it so briskly, I can't take it, and my own cleverness is embarrassing in front of him." I don't think so..."I can't even say the word 'think' myself, I only feel that he seems to be teasing an innocent cat, because of the gap, so wantonly teasing.

"All I know is that if you weren't as good as him, I wouldn't be here safely now." I bet that Hanging Star didn't come to ask for someone right away, because I was afraid of him, not because I was afraid of the rules of the village.

"Come with me." He lit the lamp casually, and persisted in the candle flame into the middle of the big room, the old building, the room has a few cases, the huge room is only dedicated to a wordless tablet, the room relies on the candle in his hand, it can be seen a few times, he pointed to this tablet and said, "This is the only way to communicate with the village chief, who has a happy funeral will burn a stick of incense, choose an auspicious day to pray for it, the village chief will be recorded in the book, the road on the same day, in order to act." ”

"Thank you for your advice." In line with the principle that people have to bow their heads under the eaves, I have to ask him for a place to stay for a few days, and I am walking and trying to find an excuse to stay here so that I can wait for the people of the village to do the funeral.

He shook his head slightly, so subtle that it was barely visible.

"Then you can rest here." He handed me the lamp, strode out of the room, and as he approached the threshold, he added, "As long as you want." ”

I was a little sleepy after a night's tossing, and I walked around the house only to find a hammock, climbed up and slept with my clothes.

Murphy's Law tells us that things tend to go in the direction you think they don't go well.

That night, I had the longest and most complicated dream of my life. So much so that later I would wonder if I would run away again if I had to do it all over again, I was not open enough, I was not firm enough, I was afraid that I would become Yu Xuan like I had been bewitched.