"The Qingming Festival has just passed, and it's not time yet......" The shopkeeper looked at the two of them, his eyes were like a pool of muddy stagnant water.

Liang Erer blinked, not knowing what he was talking about.

"Why did you come early?" He asked again.

“……”

"What are you talking about?" Liang Erer tilted his head,

"Aren't you merchants who collect ochre?"

"Ochre?" "What's that?" ”

The shopkeeper paused and said, "Who are you?" ”

"Just passing through here." Liang Erer back.

"Oh......" The ruler nodded plausibly and said no more.

Liang Er'er walked up to the shopkeeper, put down the silver, and said, "Two people and one horse, give me two upper rooms." ”

The shopkeeper glanced at the silver, looked sad, and said, "There is a room upstairs, go up and turn left, the first and second rooms." ”

Liang Erer looked left and right, trying to find the shopkeeper, but as a result, in this half-old inn, there seemed to be only one panting in front of him.

"Can you feed me the horses?" Liang Erer asked.

The shopkeeper said, "Good...... Hold on. ”

"Do you have anything to eat?" Liang Erer sat down in the lobby.

"There is ......"

Liang Erer opened his mouth and ordered a few dishes.

The person in charge waved his hand and said, "I'm sorry, the guest officer, this restaurant only has noodles." ”

"What?"

"I only cook noodles ......"

"You're going to cook?" Liang Erer was surprised and asked, "What about the cook?" ”

"I'm the cook."

“……”

Liang Erer didn't know what to say for a while, and looked at Zou Lan.

Zou Lan said: "There is only one inn in the town. ”

“……”

The shopkeeper on the side nodded: "Well, just this store, I am alone in the store......

Liang Erer blinked, and said in his heart, this is strange.

Strange towns, strange people.

"Xiaoluzi, a bowl of Yangchun noodles." At this time, a hunchbacked old man stepped on the afterglow of the setting sun and walked into the inn.

"Got it." The shopkeeper answered and went to the kitchen.

The hunchbacked old man was slightly surprised when he saw Liang Erer and Zou Lan.

"You're here to harvest ochre?" He sat at the table next to the two.

Liang Erer said: "Ochre? What's that, exactly? Do you have any specialties here? ”

The old man asked, "Aren't you merchants who collect ochre mushrooms?" ”

"It's not." Liang Erer was curious, "Old man, what is that ochre mushroom?" ”

"A mushroom." The old man said.

"Mushrooms?"

"Is it delicious?" Liang Erer asked.

"You can't eat it." The old man told Liang Er'er and said, "Remember, if you see it, you must not eat it, you will be poisoned." ”

"Oh......" Liang Er'er nodded, and said, "You can't eat it, what are you doing with it?" ”

The old man said, "Use it to sell for money." ”

"Sell for money?"

The old man bowed his head and said slowly: "As for those merchants, what they did with the ochre, we don't know. ”

"That's it......" Liang Er'er seemed to understand whether he understood or not, and his heart was probably regarded as a medicinal material that fights poison with poison.

"Little girl, do you know why we call it Tuxiang Town here" The old man was not as listless as the one in charge, he was a talkative.

"It's because only our soil here can grow ochre."

"That's it......" Liang Er'er nodded and looked at Zou Lan on the side.

She was a little curious about the ochre.

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After the three of them finished dinner, the sky was already slightly dark, and the old man waved goodbye to Liang Er'er.

Liang Erer waved his hand and watched the hunchbacked old man go away: "Old man, it's quite talkative......

Zou Lan nodded slightly invisibly.

Liang Erer stretched his waist and said, "After a day of walking, I'm tired, I want to rest for a ......."

Before he finished speaking, Liang Erer paused and looked straight outside.

I saw that outside the inn, a group of people carried hoes and baskets on their backs, and walked in one direction, as if they were going to do it at sunrise, but ...... It's sunset time.

"Now, what's going on?" Liang Erer looked back at the one who was still listless.

"Oh......" said the sweeper in charge, who did not sweep the outside, "they have gone up to the hill to collect ochre." ”

"Now?" Liang Erer looked at the sky that was getting darker and darker.

"Yes." The one in charge snorted through his nose and said, "Ochre mushrooms must be picked in the night." ”

Liang Erer looked at Zou Lan.

"Let's go!" She said, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

"Aren't you tired?"

"I'm tired!" Liang Er'er's eyes were shining, like a child seeing his favorite gadget, "But, I haven't seen the mushrooms that need to be picked in the dark!" ”

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Liang Erer took Zou Lan and followed the group to the mountains of Tuxiang Town.

Ever since entering the mountain, Liang Erer has been sniffing.

"What's wrong?" Zou Lan asked.

"This smells ......" Liang Erer rubbed his nose, "This smell, it's a little strange......"

Zou Lan looked at her.

The smell that Liang Erer said was a faint incense, like a grass fragrance with a faint rouge smell.

Liang Erer wondered: "I always feel that this smell is familiar, but ...... I can't tell. Where did it smell. ”

"Is it a past life?" Zou Lan asked.

"It seems to be ......" Liang Erer plausible, "and it doesn't seem to be." ”

"Is this the smell?" Zou Lan picked a "small umbrella" and handed it to Liang Er'er.

Liang Erer took it, and then the moonlight looked at it.

This is probably what the old man said about "ochre"

Liang Er'er also understood why it was called "ochre", because this delicate mushroom was ochre-colored, and it glowed slightly red in the moonlight.

Liang Erer sniffed the ochre mushroom in his hand.

"That's right! That's the taste! She almost crushed the ochre, "It's familiar!" Particularly familiar! I definitely smell it! ”

But I can't remember......

"They're all picking this mushroom." Liang Erer looked not far away, busy with everyone, and lowered his head to smell again, but he still couldn't smell the reason.

That's when it happened.

"Ahh Yes! ”

The crowd suddenly let out a terrible scream!

"What's wrong?!"

Liang Erer threw away the ochre and ran over.

The moonlight was cold and clear, and I saw a person, rolling in a patch of red.

That patch of red is patches of ochre.

When there was only one, I didn't think much of it, but the patches of kudzu mushrooms, in the moonlight, were actually bewitching red, like the hijab on the bride's head......

At this time, the person who was rolling and struggling on the ochre mushroom showed his face.

Liang Erer was shocked, it turned out to be a talkative old man he had met at the inn before!

"Are you alright!?" Liang Erer is possessed, and he has to help him!

Zou Lan grabbed her arm.

Liang Erer was stunned, and then he realized that something was wrong.

The people around him, not only her and Zou Lan, but the others remained motionless, looking at the old man struggling in the ochre bush with a numb face.