Climbing the mountain once in a while is fun, but climbing the mountain every day is boring.

Xiang Zixi, who has climbed the Zhou Mountain Range for almost a week, has completely climbed enough mountains this time! Sure enough, it's still a plain!

Just as the two of them were turning over the fourth hill of the day, Ji Yan suddenly pointed to the small village not far in front of him and said, "Look! There are people there! ”

Xiang Zixi tried his best to look into the distance, and sure enough, there were several houses there faintly emitting smoke!

Oh my God, this is the best news of the week! I've finally seen people other than each other! Sure enough, I'm still not suitable to be an otaku! Xiang Zixi was about to shed tears of excitement in her heart!

Because of the smoke of the cooking, Xiang Zixi, who had been bored climbing the mountain, suddenly became as excited as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and rushed down like crazy towards the little village chief at the bottom of the mountain: "Ahhhh I can finally stop eating meat! ”

Ji Yan looked at her childish side, and couldn't help but smile again and shook his head gently.

It looks very close from the top of the mountain, but in fact, there is still a considerable distance when you actually walk up. Friends who often climb mountains should have a deep understanding of this. Obviously, I looked at the distance that was close in front of me and within reach, but when I really measured the distance with my feet, I found that it would be several times or even dozens of times the distance I saw by sight.

Therefore, when Xiang Zixi and Ji Yan ran down from the top of the mountain and really walked to that village, it had already taken almost two hours.

Xiang Zixi sat on the stone outside the village, panting, saying that he couldn't walk anymore.

Ji Yan was still so calm and relaxed, and he was still carrying a large stack of animal fur on his body, which were the fruits of hunting these days. The meat was eaten, the bones were thrown away, and the furs were preserved. It can be used as a bedding to keep out the cold at night, and when you meet a farmer, you can also exchange food with each other, and you can count it in one fell swoop.

"It's unreasonable! I'm so tired with my empty hands, and you don't even sweat a drop when you're under weight! It's so unreasonable! Xiang Zixi couldn't help but complain: "I finally understand why Tang Seng Xitian is so slow to learn scriptures!" The more people who ride horses and do not bear weights, the more troublesome it is! ”

"You still get it!" Ji Yan said calmly: "If it weren't for you, such a little road would not be enough for me to walk!" ”

Xiang Zixi hung his head and said: "Yes, yes, yes, people are more angry than people!" If you have the ability, you are better than you! Why do you have to compare with me! Xiang Zixi rolled her eyes, looked at the village, and said happily: "I finally don't have to sleep in the field tonight!" ”

Ji Yan picked up Xiang Zixi and said softly, "Someone is coming in front!" ”

With the help of Ji Yan, Xiang Zixi stood up from the ground with grinned teeth, and the high-intensity mountain climbing in the past few days has made her almost a panda.

A farmer who was walking back from the field with a hoe on his shoulder, humming a little song, came from the position behind the two people, Xiang Zixi immediately smiled, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet the people: "Big brother, let me ask, what kind of place is this?" ”

The farmer looked at Zi Xi, then at Ji Yan, who was standing not far away, and immediately said, "You're not locals, are you?" ”

"Yes, yes, we came to join our relatives, but we got lost while walking, and we didn't find our relatives after climbing a few mountains!" Xiang Zixi has always lied and not made drafts, so she will come when she opens her mouth.

"Kissing? That's not easy, there is only one village in a hundred miles around here. If your relatives aren't here, you've made a mistake! The farmer put down his hoe and said with a smile.

"Ah, that's a coincidence! Big brother, can we brother and sister go into the village to beg for water? Xiang Zixi smiled flatteringly and said: "We have been gone for a long time, and we haven't drunk saliva yet, if the eldest brother doesn't dislike it, we are willing to exchange fur!" ”

The farmer looked at the thick pile of fur on Ji Yan's body, and immediately said, "Isn't it just drinking saliva!" Come with me! It's not easy to walk that far! ”

Hearing that there was a door, Xiang Zixi turned around and winked at Ji Yan, followed the farmer and stepped into the village.

Xiang Zixi looked at the village as he walked. Most of the houses here are adobe houses, which are made of mud mixed with straw to form a base, and when the soil dries, it will have a strength similar to that of bricks, which is suitable for building houses. Moreover, the shape, weight, and thickness can be controlled at will, which is flexible and convenient. Most of these houses are not very tall, only about two meters high, and they are covered with thick straw or hay, and the old window lattices also show the age of the house. Usually such a house is not very well lit, one is too low in height, and the other is that the walls are not painted, so it always gives people a feeling of oppression and heaviness.

Xiang Zixi made a rough estimate, this village is indeed not big, it is only the appearance of dozens of families, and the gap between the rich and the poor is not very large, most of the people are wearing almost black and gray homespun cloth clothes, and the children playing on the streets of the village are all wearing snot bubbles, looking at the two people from outside curiously.

Compared with the residents here, the clothes on Xiang Zixi and Ji Yan are much brighter. Not to mention anything else, the color alone is much brighter.

Xiang Zixi is wearing a light blue dress, and Ji Yan is wearing a dark blue gown, and the two people who are in a lot of spirits are in good spirits.

Xiang Zixi noticed that most of the buildings in the village were mud houses, but in a corner of the far corner of the village, there was a brick house standing quietly. This kind of house is not luxurious in the outside world, but it is simply luxurious here.

The farmer noticed that Xiang Zixi's gaze had been fixed on the brick house, and immediately said, "This is the first time you have come to our village, so I have to remind you in advance of some things!" That house is a place that must not be approached at night, that place, haunted! ”

The farmer said mysteriously, "In the evening, a woman without a cloak will come out and cry for her husband!" It is rumored that her husband was killed, and she was also chopped off by the enemy and tortured to death! ”

Xiang Zixi shivered, it's a ghost story again? Don't!

Ji Yan said disapprerovingly: "That house can't be the place where the dead couple lived, right?" ”

"Yes! It used to be a young couple from the outside world like you, and then they came and didn't leave, and built a house with their own hands. The farmer shook his head and said, "After a few years, they were found by a group of outsiders, and then the men were killed, and the women were tortured to death!" Tsk, that's cruel! Then, no one ever went to that house again. A few years ago, someone wanted to go and see it, but they were scared out by a female ghost wearing a white dress with a hair and no feet. From then on, the house was deserted, and no one dared to enter it again! ”

Xiang Zixi's eyes lit up again!

"Ah, I'm here!" The farmer walked over to an adobe house similar to the rest of the house and gently pushed open the wood door.

Because there is only one village here, and everyone is a familiar villager, so people here do not have the habit of locking the door. It can be said that the real night is not closed, and the road is not left behind.

Xiang Zixi and Ji Yan followed the farmer into the house, and at a glance they saw the farmer's wife breastfeeding a small child, and two three or four-year-old children were playing on the ground next to them.

When the peasant woman saw that her husband had brought two strangers, she immediately looked at Xiang Zixi and Ji Yan with some shyness and trepidation.

Xiang Zixi squatted down, teased the two children, took out a piece of cooked meat from the baggage and handed it to the two children.

"Sister-in-law, we are from outside to join our relatives, but we got lost and came here, can you exchange some food and drink with us? We exchange these furs! Ji Yan patted the fur on his body lightly, and the peasant woman's eyes lit up: "Do you all have to replace these?" But we don't have that much food at home! ”

"It doesn't matter, as much as you want, you can give as much as you can!" Xiang Zixi said with a smile: "If there are greens, you can give some greens!" ”

In the past few days, she has eaten enough meat, and she really doesn't want to eat meat! Every day except for roasting and roasting, there is no seasoning except salt, it is simply boring to death!

The peasant woman was even more happy when she heard this: "Yes, there are still a lot of vegetables now!" Go and look into the garden behind you, and take whatever you like. ”

Xiang Zixi was overjoyed when he heard this, and dragged Ji Yan to the back of the house to take a look, sure enough, what a big vegetable field! It seems that every household here has such a large vegetable plot, and the self-sufficient life is really comfortable!

Xiang Zixi squatted in the vegetable garden, shaving fresh radishes and picking fresh vegetable seedlings, feeling that she was about to drool.

Holding a large pile of booty, he smiled and left most of the fur to the couple, leaving only a few nights to sleep on the fur, and all the rest was put down.

Originally, I was going to use it in this farmer's house, but their house has such a large place, the husband and wife have a kang, and the two children occupy a kang, so there is no more place, and there is a milk doll.

Xiang Zixi could only smile and leave the farmer's house with a large pile of loot.

I visited several farmhouses and almost every one of them was in this situation. A four-room house, one for cooking, one for food, one for food, one for adults, and the rest for children. Almost all of them don't have spare rooms, and the two of them call themselves brother and sister, so they can't sleep in the same room, right?

After the two of them had dinner, they stood helplessly on the street and turned their attention to the brick house in the corner of the village.

Judging from the current situation, either continue to sleep in the open, or live in the supposedly haunted brick house.

"What should I do?" Xiang Zixi looked at Ji Yan: "Shall we go?" ”

"You've decided!" Ji Yan shrugged his shoulders: "I'm a killer, am I still afraid of the ghost of revenge?" I don't know how many souls have died at my hands! If I'm even afraid of this, what am I messing with! ”

Xiang Zixi gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "Stop!" Who's afraid of whom! ”