The madman thought that Ding Ping had been mentioning the Lin family when he was in the house, and seemed to understand a little: "Is the master you said surnamed Lin?" ”

Ding Ping nodded: "Yes, my father once told us that only the Lin family can save the entire village, is the friend named Lin Qi who asked you to come here is the Lin family?" ”

The madman shook his head: "I don't know if he has anything to do with the Lin family you said, and even he himself doesn't know his background, otherwise I wouldn't be here." ”

Ding Ping was silent for a while: "My sister left here three years ago to find the whereabouts of the Lin family, and there is no news so far. If your friend is from the Lin family, please tell him not to forget the Lin family's agreement. Okay, let's go down. ”

The madman stood up with Ding Ping, turned around to face the entrance of the village, and suddenly remembered the two uncles under the willow tree: "What's the matter with the two uncles at the entrance of the village?" ”

Ding Ping explained as he walked down the wooden ladder: "The two of them are guides, and the two children selected by that person when he was playing nightmares can only play chess there since they were selected, and they should have been playing chess for decades now." Red represents Yongjia Village, black represents Dingjia Village, and every game is won by red during the day, and the opposite is true at night. ”

"How old are you?" The madman looked at Ding Ping in front of him, no matter how he looked at it, he looked like he was only in his twenties, but when he was at nightmare, he and the two people at the entrance of the village were children, and it stands to reason that Ding Ping should also be an old man.

"I don't know, for me, time doesn't mean anything." Ding Ping covered the wooden planks on the roof, turned around and walked down the wooden ladder: "At night, the whole village will become pitch black, except for the sky light and the ghost lantern, all other lights are useless, just like being eaten, time is the most meaningless thing for people who can only live in the dark." The madman heard a kind of desolation from Ding Ping's words, a feeling he probably would never understand.

Ding Ping took a lamp tray from the twelve lamps and handed it to the madman: "The one next to it is the room where my sister used to live, you can stay there tonight, this is a ghost lantern, you can only use it for lighting at night." ”

"Ghost Pig Lantern?" The madman took the lamp and glanced at the oil, and there was nothing peculiar about it, except that it was a little greenish.

"The ghost squid is a fish that grows in the ruins. The lamp oil of the ghost pig lamp is made of ghost pig, the lamp and the oil are left by the Lin family back then, and when the lamp oil is burned out, it is the day when the agreement expires, if the Lin family has not come by then, Dingjia Village can only live in the dark for generations. ”

"What is the ruins?"

"The Book of Heaven and Water" records that 'the west of the Bohai Sea, I don't know hundreds of millions of miles, there are big gullies, but there is a bottomless valley, there is no bottom under it, the name is called the ruins, the water of the eight and nine wilds, and the flow of the Tianhan and Han are all gathered here. There is chaos under the void, and there is no light at the end of the light, only ghosts can exist. Its body is rich in fat, burning indestructible, can be passed on for thousands of years, and can be dispelled. ’”

The madman looked at Ding Ping and scratched his head: "Can you say something that I understand?" ”

Since Ding Ning left, Ding Ping has spent more than a thousand nights here alone, and the madman is the first person who can speak normally when he comes here, although there are a lot of problems, Ding Ping is not impatient.

"The Book of Tianshui says that in the west of the Bohai Sea, where I don't know how many tens of thousands of miles, there is a very large and deep ravine, which is actually a bottomless valley with no bottom below, and its name is Guixu. The water from the eight poles of the earth, the nine directions of the sky, and the Milky Way will flow here, but the water here will not increase or decrease. Beneath the ruins is a land of chaos, where it is dark all year round, there is no light at all, only the ghost pig can survive there. The body of the ghost squid is rich in oil, and once ignited, it will not be extinguished, and it can continue to burn for thousands of years, driving away all darkness. ”

The madman slapped his forehead after hearing this: "In this case, this ghost pig lamp can burn for thousands of years, how many years have you been, and it is still early to extinguish." ”

Ding Ping lowered his head as if sighing, but the madman didn't hear the sound.

"The light is now less than half of what it was at the beginning."

After speaking, he raised his head, as if he could see the sky through the roof, and I didn't know if I thought of my family or my fate.

The madman followed Ding Ping's gaze and looked at the roof for a while and couldn't see why, but he could faintly feel a trace of sadness, which was the second emotion he felt from seeing Ding Ping, and he was a little at a loss for a while, feeling like he had said the wrong thing, so he hurriedly played haha: "I don't know who wrote this "Tianshui Sutra", isn't this nonsense, and what do you say will not be extinguished for thousands of years, it is not reliable at all." ”

Ding Ping still maintained that posture and did not move: "Is it reliable, you can ask your friend surnamed Lin." After speaking, he waved his hand, which was kind of saying goodnight to the madman.

The madman looked at Ding Ping, wanting to say something comforting, but he didn't know where to start, so he could only let him continue to stare at the roof, and walked into Ding Ning's room with a ghost lantern.

This is the first time he has entered someone else's boudoir other than Shen Muhan's room. The room was simply furnished, except for the necessary furniture, and only a rag doll sewn from brocade could tell that a girl had lived here.

A little girl of a few years old has just begun to enjoy a colorful life, but suddenly the ghost has suffered an unjustified disaster and became a village keeper, growing up day by day but losing the right to marry and have children like a normal woman, and can only live in the dark all day long, guarding the people in this village. On a dark night, the girl sat in front of the window and embroidered the doll stitch by stitch against the hazy moonlight, perhaps she was manipulated by fate, or maybe she was an important person.

The madman shook his head and stopped thinking about it, put the ghost pig lamp on the table, and prepared to go to bed, after a series of events just now, his stomach was already hungry, and now he didn't feel hungry.

The madman picks up the rag doll on the pillow and discovers a raised pattern on the doll's chest with the help of the light. When I got to the lamp, I saw that there was a snake-shaped pendant embroidered on the neck of the doll, this pendant maniac had seen before, and it was exactly the same as the one on Lin Qi's neck, and the word "Lin" was embroidered under the pendant.

"Could it be that Ding Ning's crush is Lin Qi?" The madman shook his head and denied his own idea.

"The two of them should have met for the first time in Yinyu, and at that time Ding Ning had already left here, so it was impossible to embroider this doll. The only explanation is that this doll is the Lin family who once saved them, Ding Ning once saw that person with a snake-shaped pendant, Lin Qi should be the Lin family in Ding Ping's mouth. ”

The madman put the doll away, lay down on the bed for a while, and fell asleep with a lot of questions, until he was woken up by Ding Ping.

"You should go, it's going to be dawn soon, you won't be able to get out when Dingjia Village disappears, remember the Lin family's agreement."

When he walked out of the gate, there was already a little sunrise in the east, and the madman glanced back at No. 1 Pailou Lane, sighed and walked towards the entrance of the village. When passing by the village monument, it has become Yongjia Village, and the chess game under the willow tree has also become a red chess advantage, and the entire Dingjia Village has once again entered the reincarnation.