Before going to bed, several people were on alert, and when the door rang, they woke up almost at the same time. Especially the master, he turned over from the bed cover and sat up for the first time, and when he looked at it, the door was not opened, and the sound disappeared.

The master turned his head again, and saw that the two Mao and the thief next to him were sleeping soundly, and it seemed that this matter had nothing to do with them.

Xiao Laodao and several people also sat up quietly from the bed, the master took out the Liangyi Yin and Yang Sword in his waist, walked to the door, gently opened the door, and looked into the courtyard, and saw that the courtyard was dark and empty, and there was no half of a figure.

The master walked out of the room with his sword in hand, and glanced at the low and dilapidated courtyard door, which was closed and had no sign of being opened.

At this time, Xiao Laodao also walked out of the house and said to the master in a low voice: "Maybe the wind blew the door, but we were too careful." ”

The master glanced at Xiao Laodao, "I don't think it's that simple. ”

Xiao Laodao said: "In this case, we are all awake anyway, so it is better to pack our bags now and leave here." ”

The master nodded in agreement, and he didn't want to have too much communication with the two chickens and dogs. Without alarming the two hairs and thieves, a few people packed up their luggage, opened the courtyard door, and left quietly.

The small village sits at the foot of a secluded hill surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is only a rugged path between the two mountains if you want to leave.

After leaving the village, the group walked in the direction they had come from, and the mountain road was rugged, and the mountains were covered with grass and shrubs.

As he walked, Xiao Laodao, who was walking in the front, stopped, turned around and greeted the master, "Brother, do you think this is the way we entered the village before?" ”

The grandfather didn't even think about it, and replied: "It shouldn't be." ”

Xiao Laodao pouted his teeth, "I don't look at it, but I remember that when we entered the village with those two Mao and thieves, there was only one small road, but now...... Why is the path missing? ”

The master said: "Maybe we are on the wrong path, as long as we continue to move forward, we should still be able to get out." ”

"Well, as long as it's not a ghost getting lost."

Everyone continued to walk forward, and after walking for a while, Xiao Laodao stopped again, "No, definitely not, I don't think we've been going around in circles here." After thinking about it, Xiao Laodao beckoned everyone, "Don't go forward yet, go back and try." ”

So, everyone turned around and walked back, and after walking for a while, the master also felt that something was wrong, as if he was really going in circles. The surrounding mountains and the vegetation on the ground all looked the same, but even if they returned the way they came, there were no footprints left by them in the grass nests on the ground.

At this time, Xiao 13 said to Xiao Laodao: "Master, why don't we leave and go back to the village." ”

Xiao Laodao glanced at him, and said angrily: "Aren't we going back, you can see for yourself, where is the road!" ”

Xiao Shisan was silent, Xiao Laodao discussed with the master, "Brother, what are you doing, have you encountered any illusions again?" ”

The master shook his head, he couldn't be sure at this time, at this moment, Xiao Shiyi slapped his palm twice, and everyone looked at him, and saw him raise his hand and point to the side.

Everyone looked at the place he was pointing to, faintly, in the distance it looked like a small mountain bag, and there seemed to be something on the mountain bag, because it was dark and the distance was too far to see clearly.

Xiao Laodao asked Xiao Shiyi, "What did you see?" ”

Xiao Shiyi gestured back: "There is a tree on the mountain bag, and there is a person under the tree, who is hanging himself with a rope." ”

"Someone hanged?" Xiao Laodao was a little incredulous when he heard it, he squinted his eyes and looked carefully at the mountain bag, and when the master heard this, he also squinted his eyes and looked at it, as far as his eyes could see, there was a blur on the mountain bag, it may seem that there was a tree, as for the person who hanged himself, he couldn't see it at all.

Xiao Shiyi has the best eyesight among everyone, plus he has yin and yang eyes, he will definitely not be mistaken, Xiao Laodao greeted him: "Let's go, let's go over and see, if someone really hangs himself, save him first, and then inquire about the way out." ”

Everyone walked quickly towards the hill bag, and after a while, the things on the hill bag gradually became clear, and they saw that there was indeed a tree on the top of the mountain bag, and there was really a person under the tree, looking like a woman, the woman was holding a rope in her hand, and the rope seemed to be tied to something. The woman was throwing the rope to the branch, but because the tree was too tall, the woman was short and had little strength, so she couldn't throw it up.

"I'm really hanging." Xiao Laodao also saw it clearly at this time, and hurriedly beckoned Xiao Twelve and Xiao Thirteen, "Go and save people." ”

The two of them didn't say a word, they ran towards the small mountain bag, and after a while, they ran up the mountain bag and snatched the rope from the woman's hand.

The three of them soon went up the mountain bag, Xiao Laodao glanced at the woman a few times, dressed in coarse cloth clothes and big braids, looking less than thirty years old, Xiao Laodao asked the woman: "Female incense master, what do you have to think about, do you have to hang yourself?" ”

The woman just sat on the ground and cried, ignoring Xiao Laodao, Xiao Laodao reached out and touched his baggage, touched a bracelet, squatted down, handed it to the woman, and asked: "What do you think this is?" ”

I don't know what the texture of the bracelet is, it may be jade, and it is still faintly glowing in the dark night, which is very beautiful, which is taken off from the hands of the hostess of the ancient tomb.

The woman glanced at the bracelet, seemed to be attracted by the fluorescent light on the bracelet, looked at the bracelet, raised her tear-stained face again, and glanced at Xiao Laodao, "You, who are you, why don't you let me die?" ”

"It's better to die than to live." Xiao Laodao smiled faintly: "Heaven still has the virtue of a good life, since a few people in the poor road have met it, how can they ignore it." ”

The woman sobbed twice, "Don't worry about it, return the rope to me." ”

Xiao Laodao said: "Okay, since you want to die, Poor Dao won't stop you, but Poor Dao wants to ask you, how to get out of this mountain?" ”

The woman didn't seem to understand Xiao Laodao's words, and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

Xiao Laodao said: "You should also hear it, a few of us are not from your place, and we strayed into this place at night, but we couldn't get out." Otherwise, you show us the way and send us out, and this bracelet is yours. ”

The woman's face darkened, "I'm all going to die, what's the use of asking for a bracelet." ”

Xiao Laodao said: "You can not have a bracelet, then you can't see death and not save it, you want to die, we don't want to die, if you can take us out and die again, it can be regarded as accumulating yin virtue for yourself." ”

The woman said, "There are people in the village in front of you who can show you the way, so why do you have to come to me?" ”

Xiao Laodao said: "We have been walking in circles here all night, and now the village can't be found, and the way out can't be found. ”

The woman glanced at everyone and said nothing, Xiao Laodao then said: "If we can't get out again, we can only wait here to die, or you come first, and we will arrive later." Saying that, Xiao Laodao asked for a rope from Xiao Twelve's hand, looked at the rope, and saw that the rope was at one end, tied to a stone the size of a fist, Xiao Laodao grabbed the stone, and threw it at the branch above his head, and the stone with the rope passed through a thick branch, and then, hanging down, Xiao Laodao grabbed the stone, untied the stone very quickly, and pulled a live buckle on the rope with the rope head, and pulled it hard, and the live buckle went down the rope body and was firmly tied to the branch.

Turning his head, Xiao Laodao smiled at the woman and said, "How about it, next, will Poor Dao help you, or will you come by yourself?" ”

The woman looked at Xiao Laodao speechless to the extreme, and Xiao Laodao said again: "Anyway, we can't go out, and sooner or later we will die, so it's better to let Poor Dao use the rope first, and when Poor Dao dies, you can dismantle Poor Dao's body, and then use it again." ”

"You ......" The woman suddenly cried, and shouted up to the sky, "God, why is it so difficult for me to die......"

The woman was so stirred up by Xiao Laodao, and the idea of suicide was alleviated a lot, and she promised Xiao Laodao that she would send a few of them out first, and then come back to seek death.

On the way, the woman walked in front with Xiao Laodao in despair, and after walking for a while, Xiao Laodao took the opportunity to ask her, "Female incense master, why can't you think about it, can you talk to Poor Dao?" ”

The woman didn't say anything, and Xiao Laodao said again: "Don't underestimate the poor roads, no matter what difficulties you have, meeting is fate, as long as you say it, the poor roads can help you solve it." ”

When the woman heard this, she glanced at Xiao Laodao, "You can't help me, if you want to help me, I'll let me die, or, if you kill me, I just want to die." ”

Xiao Laodao frowned slightly, "Is there anything bigger than death?" ”

"Absolutely!" The woman said goodbye and said no more.

Xiao Laodao said with a smile: "The poor road is north and south, a few deaths and a few lives, I haven't seen any strong winds and waves, you come and listen." ”

The woman was silent, although she didn't trust the grandfather very much, but it seemed safer to tell strangers about her distress than to tell her about her surroundings.

After a long time, the woman said intermittently, ten years ago, the woman and his man became married, and after they got married, they soon became pregnant with a child. When the family was poor, the man went to the mountains to hunt and replenish his body, and one day the man caught a very strange animal, which looked like a snake, but it had horns on its head, and it was as thick as an arm.

The man didn't tell her what she had hit, so he stewed the snake skin, and later, the child was born, but there were no feet, the two legs and feet were connected together, the upper body was a human, and the lower body was like a snake......