When I returned to the village, it was already noon.

Naturally, the old mansion had no food reserves, but Jiang Yue returned to the old mansion from the city the first day and brought back a lot of ingredients.

The kitchen is very simple, only a small stove that burns honeycomb coal, and hundreds of honeycomb coal are hoarded.

After all, it's a festival, and it can't be too simple.

Salted duck is a cooked dish brought back from the city, plus a plate of stir-fried beef, a plate of braised fish pieces, and a few home-style stir-fries.

This meal is also decent, with meat and vegetarian matching, color, flavor and flavor. Let the three dogs have an appetite.

"Second brother, do you want to discuss something?" the third dog muttered as he gnawed on the duck's leg.

"No discussion!" Jiang Yue didn't raise his head.

"I haven't said anything yet. "Sangou is in a hurry.

"I don't know anything. ”

"Then you say, if you don't say it right, then you have to promise me one thing. The three dogs shook their little wit.

"I want to take you to the city, you can! ”

Sangou's careful thoughts, Jiang Yue couldn't be clear.

A test word made the three dogs wilt like a needle-pierced balloon.

The duck leg in his mouth suddenly tasteless.

"Second brother, I promise to play for two days. You can take me to play. ”

Qingming has a small long holiday, and it is not a big deal to play for two or three days. However, the boy Sangou is a monkey, and he can climb up by following the pole.

Once you agree too happily, there will inevitably be various follow-up requirements. Hang him first.

Sangou didn't know what Jiang Yue was thinking, and was about to grind, but someone shouted outside the courtyard.

"Is anyone home?"

When the brothers went out, they saw that it was an old man passing by.

The round hat was paired with a blue-brown robe, and a pair of mango shoes that are rarely seen today were on his feet, stained with mud.

It's a very hunched back, and with a fish basket on his back, it looks even more rickety.

The robe is also very peculiar, much wider than the ordinary robe, and there are faint strange patterns, which look quite nondescript. But on the whole, it can still be judged that he is a fisherman.

"Little brother, the old man passed by here and begged for a bowl of water to drink. "The old man's accent is very strong, and he can barely understand the words when he speaks, but it is indeed the local dialect of this hundred and eighty miles.

"Father-in-law, do you want to come in and sit down?" Although the Lao Jiang family is not a prominent family, there has always been no shortage of tutors. In terms of dealing with people, Jiang Yue has a rare skillful etiquette at this age.

"No, no, this mud, don't dirty the house. The old man waved his hand again and again.

"Sangou, go and pour a glass of water for your father-in-law. ”

The three bullshit stumbled into it and poured a glass of warm boiling water.

The old man took the cup, just brought it to his mouth, and shook his head: "The countrymen are." I can't drink boiling water all my life, and if I drink it, I will have stomach trouble. Just fetch some well water. ”

"Hey, look at your father-in-law, how can you not drink boiling water, and you still like to drink raw water?" Sangou complained, but his hands were not idle, and he walked to the well on the edge of the yard to make a small bucket.

Coo-goo-goo......

Don't look at the old man's stiffness and thinness, he is quite proud to drink water, and the amount is amazing.

A small bucket of water, in the blink of an eye, he drank it to the bottom. Smacking his lips, he was a little unfinished.

Even the three dogs, who are all-round eaters and drinkers, are also amazed.

After taking the bucket handed over by the old man, Sangou inexplicably remembered the color of "one more bottle" in the drink in the city that year, and blurted out: "One more bucket?"

"Another bucket?" the old man seemed to consider whether this was a bit inappropriate, and then grinned happily, "Then another bucket." ”

Another bucket went down, and it turned out to be a bottom to the sky.

Sangou didn't say anything on his lips, but he muttered in his heart, he had only heard of rice buckets since ancient times, and it was the first time he had seen what a bucket was.

The old man seemed to have drunk enough this time, and waved his hand to leave.

After walking a few steps, he staggered back and beckoned to Jiang Yue.

"Little brother, I drank two buckets of water from you and sent you a few words. ”

"Father-in-law, please speak. ”

"Hehehehe......" The old man smiled inexplicably, and under his throat it seemed like a fish spitting bubbles, and he seemed to mumble a few words, but he didn't seem to say anything.

"Remember, remember. ”

The old man left a strange smile and staggered away.

"Sangou, did you hear what he said?"

"Second brother, you didn't hear clearly? The stinky old man couldn't be fooling us, right? "The three dogs are annoyed and want to catch up with the theory.

Jiang Yue didn't let him go, and shook his head: "Forget it, the old man is so old, and the horizontal and vertical are just two buckets of well water." ”

The two brothers went back to the house in a huff.

Before they reached the hall, the brothers noticed an anomaly in the hallway.

"Second brother, what's written in this corridor?!"

There are three lines of big characters in the corridor, and the pen is quite meteorological.

The first and second lines have ten words each, and the third line has twelve.

Who wrote it?

The back door was closed, there was no one in the house, and the two of them had been outside the yard, and it was impossible for anyone to come in through the courtyard gate.

And it's very unscientific to write so many words in just such a long time.

The most bizarre thing is that this character is actually written with water marks.

Dipping in water to write big characters, Jiang Yue is common in the city.

In the park, and even in the open space of the community, there are often old men who like calligraphy who like to show off their hands like this.

Say it's weird, weird at four o'clock.

First, this word appears extremely strangely, the handwriting is calm, there is no sense of haste, in such a short time, it is difficult to complete with normal hand speed.

Second, the yard is so big, they stand at the door, and it is only seven or eight meters between them and the corridor, even if someone secretly writes so many words, it is impossible not to make a little noise.

Third, generally dipped in water to write large characters, they are all written and melted, and the traces will slowly fade until they disappear. But the traces of the water seemed to be thicker than ink, and there was no sign of fading gradually.

Of course –

The weirdest thing is the content of these three lines!

The white tiger fights the green dragon, and the heaven and earth poke holes.

The backbone of the Vermilion Bird is broken, and there are many events in the world.

There are many rights and wrongs in the land of right and wrong, don't stay for a long time. ”

If Jiang Yue was just guessing and having a premonition before, these three lines suddenly appeared, completely breaking the last bit of luck in his heart.

Those premonitions before, I'm afraid it's really going to be hammered.

After all, Sangou is only twelve years old, and he has not yet graduated from elementary school with these tongue-twisting words, and he can't understand them at all, and he can't figure out what the deep meaning is behind them. He grabbed a knife leaning against the door and rushed into the house.

I rummaged inside and out, and finally walked out in frustration.

Shaking his head: "The back door is closed, and there is no one in the house." ”

"Follow me. Jiang Yue realized something, and walked quickly towards the outside of the courtyard.

"The old man from before, is he going this way?"

Jiang Yue took the three dogs and followed the direction where the old fisherman had left, chasing all the way until the end of the road and stopping near a small stream.

Jiang Yue picked up the grass, a fish basket, and a pair of broken shoes were discarded inside.

When you get to the stream, it's a dead-end road, unless you go through. But during this time, there was a lot of rain, and the water in the stream was very deep. Not to mention an old man, even if he is in the prime of life, it is absolutely impossible to get through it without the help of tools.

And even if you wade through a stream, there is no reason for a food guy like a fish basket to throw it away.

"Second brother, look, there's something in the water!"

The three dogs were sharp-eyed and pointed to the water.

Sure enough, twenty or thirty meters downstream of the stream, there was a living creature floating in the water waves, and the water went away.

It had a head, limbs, a shell on its back, and a stripe on its shell.

It's an old turtle.

After Sangou saw it clearly, he sighed and felt a deep pity: "It would be nice if there was a net, such a big turtle, a big thing." If you get it to sell it in the town, it's worth hundreds. ”

This is where the advantage of young age comes in.

Young and ignorant, ignorant and fearless, will not associate blindly, and there is no confusion.

All the way back, Sangou couldn't stop complaining about the old man who borrowed water to drink, thinking that he must have a comrade, deliberately pretending to be a ghost and teasing them.

As for the motive, Sangou attributed it to bullying their brothers, who were not very old and the adults were not at home.

Jiang Yue didn't explain, there was no need for a twelve-year-old child to be surprised.