It was dark, and Duan Xu also arrived at Ayun's farmhouse.

"Ah Yun, do you live alone?" Duan Xu glanced up at the two-story building.

"No, I live with my grandmother!" Ah Yun shook his head.

While Ah Yun opened the door, Duan Xu turned his head and looked towards the village.

Ayun's house was so high that he could see most of the village, and even the canopy of the locust tree in the middle of the village could be faintly seen.

I don't know if it's because it's too dark, Duan Xu always feels that the shadow of the canopy looks like a person lying in the sky.

He closed his eyes, stopped looking, and took a deep breath.

Very familiar taste......

The smell of firewood mixed with the sweetness of rice and the earthy smell of the mountain breeze, and the rustling sound in the woods outside the village was like droplets of water that penetrated the smoke and fell into Duan Xu's ears.

From the story Gao Ran told, Duan Xu understood that what happened in this village was inseparable from the locust tree.

As for the villagers? For the time being, there is nothing special about the villagers here, not simple, kind, and hospitable, but also ignorant and arrogant.

However, if Gao Ran's story is true, then there must still be a secret hidden in this village, a villager died, very strangely dead, not only no one pursued, but the insider was also asked not to meddle.

It's not clear whether Gao Ran is nosy or not, but ...... Gao Ran came to this village again, and it was the village chief who personally received him.

Opening his eyes and putting away his head full of thoughts, Duan Xu just wanted to turn around, but saw Ah Yun's dark eyes: "Guest, are you also from the mountains?" ”

Duan Xu shook his head: "Why do you ask that?" ”

Ah Yun looked at him thoughtfully and said, "The guest just looked like he was very familiar with the mountain village, as if he grew up in the mountain village. ”

Ah Yun's statement made Duan Xu shake his head and smile, he was an adopted child, he had lived in Fengdu since he was a child, and there was never a picture of a mountain village in his memory.

But the familiar Duan Xu that Ayun said couldn't refute it, because ...... He himself felt a familiarity from the depths of his soul, as if he had first stepped on that train.

If it was before, Duan Xu might have no clue.

But now, he knew...... These familiarities may come from another person, a ...... Someone who looks exactly like him.

"Guest, come in, it's cool at night in the mountains."

Ah Yun shouted as he leaned against the door.

Duan Xu nodded and entered Ah Yun's house, there was no decoration, but it was very clean.

"Grandma! A guest has come to the house! Ah Yun swooped into the back room.

Duan Xu sat on the wooden bench and looked around.

After a while, an old man with white hair walked out holding a few oranges.

Duan Xu quickly stood up and reached out to pick up the orange.

"Thank you, Grandma."

The old man dodged his hand and glared at Duan Xu: "Young man, this is what I ate myself." ”

Duan Xu withdrew his hand stupidly and glanced behind the old man: "What about Ah Yun?" ”

"Cooking."

Duan Xu retracted his gaze and looked at the orange: "Is this orange sweet?" ”

The old man stopped peeling oranges and asked, "You want to buy them?" ”

Duan Xu raised his eyebrows: "How much is a catty?" I'll buy some to eat. ”

The old man handed one over and said proudly: "This is my family's own planting, and now in this village, only my family has an orange grove." ”

Duan Xu asked suspiciously, "Why?" Others don't grow oranges? ”

The old man's face fell: "Plant? People are dead, how to plant? ”

Duan Xu looked gossipy, and pretended to be nervous and asked, "When I came, I heard that a person died in the village, is it the one who planted oranges?" ”

The old man raised his head, stared at Duan Xu with cloudy old eyes, and whispered, "Don't ask about Xie Hua, be careful that they beat you." ”

Duan Xu's face was full of doubt, and he asked, "Why?" I'm not from the village, what did that person do? Can't even mention it? ”

The old man sighed: "I didn't do anything, what can I do in the mountains?" ”

"Then Xie Hua is a good person, why can't you mention it?" Duan continued.

The old man put a petal of orange into his mouth, and said while chewing: "How can someone always be a good person, always a bad person, no matter how good a person is, he will miss and harm others, and no matter how bad a person is, he will go home and kowtow for the New Year." ”

Duan Xu nodded: "That's right." ”

The old man sighed and said, "Alas, Xie Hua's life is hard, his family died early, he grew up eating a hundred family meals, and finally became a family, and got an orange grove, but the people were gone." If you want me to say, he shouldn't have gone to see any city people. ”

"Does he know anyone else in the city?" Duan Xu asked pretending to be surprised.

The old man said, "Isn't it? His orange grove was contracted for him at the city's expense. ”

"Isn't that a good thing?" Duan continued to ask.

"A good thing? How can there be good people in the city? Can you take advantage? The old man said with an angry face.

Duan Xu glanced at her and said, "You just said to yourself that people are good and bad, and they will not always be good, nor will they always be bad. ”

"That's your mistake, I didn't say it."

The old man ate an orange, took the rest of it in his arms and left.

"Xiao Yun'er, grandma went to sleep, don't ask grandma to eat!"

"Huh!"

Ah Yun's voice came from the depths of the room.

Duan Xu watched this old woman who was in good spirits walk into the back room and fell into deep thought.

The one who died...... It's called Xie Hua.

So, is it he who has turned into a ghost this time? Is the knot to be found his knot......

……

Zhao Wei stood at the west entrance of the village, beside Meng Yue.

"The others must have entered the village through the other entrances, shall we go under the old locust tree first?" Zhao Wei asked.

Meng Yue looked at him and said, "It's okay to go, but for safety, we'd better keep a certain distance, once my ring is used, as long as it's not two people killed by the ghost at the same time, nothing will happen, you go under the locust tree, I'll watch from afar, if it's in danger, you use your knot first, if it doesn't work, I'll use my knot again." ”

Zhao Wei lowered his head and thought about it, nodded and said: "Okay, I heard the story before entering the village very strangely, no matter how you look at it, it is related to the locust tree, this village is also called Huai Village, does the train want us to find a knot of a locust tree?" ”

"No, we can't meet a powerful ghost with no source and no cause and effect now, if it is really a problem with the locust tree, with our current knot, we can't deal with it at all." Meng Yue said with certainty.

"You have a point, while there is still the moon, let's go, go to the old locust tree first."

Zhao Wei said.

The two had just taken two steps forward when they suddenly saw a pitch-black silhouette coming out of the village.

The nervousness suddenly came to their hearts, the two glanced at each other, and quickly distanced themselves from each other, if there was an accident, the two could immediately disperse and flee left and right.

The pitch-black silhouette quickly walked to the bright light and found Zhao Wei and Meng Yue.

"You ...... Haven't gone back to sleep yet? ”

Zhao Wei and Meng Yue's hearts were relieved, and Zhao Wei replied: "Take a walk after eating, what about you, Mr. Gao Lan?" ”

Gao Ran's face showed a strange smile, and he said slowly: "When I entered the mountain in the afternoon, didn't the story I told scare you?" ”