The grass is green, green and yellow, and there are messy plants and trees everywhere, as well as houses and houses that have been abandoned for a long time. Even some of the houses have collapsed, or have been blown by the wind and rain, or washed by the years, and there are many potholes of different sizes on the walls of the houses, most of the houses here are made of adobe, a few are made of stones, and they look very simple and old.

After wandering around this so-called Shikeng Village for most of the day, I asked myself blankly: "This, is this the Shikeng Village I have visited?" But that's not what I saw before...... There are a lot of villagers living in it, by the way, those villagers are ghosts, maybe the yang world and the underworld are completely different, but why can't I feel any yin energy left? But I know there are a lot of ghosts hiding in there! ”

At this moment, Master interrupted my words inexplicably: "What are you muttering about? Seeing that it's getting dark, if you've had enough of wandering around, let's find a way out of the valley and get out of here first! ”

Hearing Master's words, I nodded helplessly, but immediately said, "Master, I remember that Grandpa Sun said that there is a great sacrifice in their village, and this valley has been sealed by that great sacrifice, and the ghosts inside can't come out. Master, could it be that we are blocked by the seal, so we don't feel any strange aura? Master, maybe we can think of another way, I really want to save Grandpa Sun! ”

"That's it!" The master frowned and sighed lightly: "The master knows your mind, but even if there is a seal in it, we don't know what kind of seal it is, how to break it?" On the bright side, if the Great Sacrifice was only to imprison the ghosts, what was his purpose? And those ghosts have been living in it for so long, and the grandfather Sun you said in your mouth must be fine, the ghosts are already dead people, how can they die? It's not going to be gone, is it? Okay, don't think about it, even if we want to figure out the situation here, we have to find people who are familiar with this place first, there seems to be another road out of the valley ahead, let's go out along that road to see if there are any other villages! ”

Following Master's point, I also saw a junction out of the valley, in the deepest part of the valley, blocked by a jumble of trees, but the gap could still be seen clearly. And the place is very close to the waterhole not far away, and there are footprints on the road, so maybe someone actually walked this road.

I want to think about it, I have to do what the master said, what the master said, but it is also reasonable, now only by finding someone who is familiar with this place, and asking the origin of this stone pit village, can I determine how to rescue Grandpa Sun from escape!

Having made up my mind, I hurriedly followed Master to the small mountain path in front of me, all the way out of the gap in the valley, and there was a small forest in front of me, and there was indeed a clean mountain path in between. The road in this mountain, if it is walked or often walked, there will not be too many weeds on the road, so it is easy to distinguish.

Out of the grove, there was a rugged downhill road in front of us, but it was an uphill road not far away, and it was quite steep, until Master and I came to the top of this hillside, and when we looked around, we saw that there was really a small mountain village in front of us. I said happily, "Master, look ahead, there really is a village!" This is not too far apart, as long as we find someone in the village in front of us, we will know the problem of Shikeng Village as soon as we ask! ”

The master frowned, glanced left and right, and then said, "Ergou, don't you see that this village doesn't seem to be too angry?" Let's go in and have a look, although the teacher doesn't feel too popular, at least there should be people living in this village! "Master's previous words almost choked me, but fortunately, Master didn't completely deny that there was no one in this village, as long as there was someone, even if it was just one person, at least it would solve the doubts in my heart.

When Master and I entered the village, the sky gradually darkened, and sure enough, when we walked around, there were only three families in the entire village, and the rest of the houses were empty. Master and I finally came to the door of this house without a courtyard wall, but we saw that the door of the house was open, and the small stove house on the east side was already smoking. Before I could call someone, I saw a half-sized man walking out of the hall, about my age.

This young man was very tiger-headed, with dark skin and extremely shabby clothes, and he looked my master and me up and down, and asked with a stunned face, "Who are you?" ”

He asked in the local dialect of the mountains, but I could still hear the general meaning, and immediately saluted the young man with a fist and smiled: "May I ask what village is this?" We've just come from the village of Shikeng in front of us, and we want to ask you ......."

Before I could finish the word "ask" in my mouth, I saw the young man retreat backwards with a frightened face, and then turned around and rushed directly into the stove house. Go and see, if they are ghosts?! ”

"Uh......" I scratched my forehead, turned to Master and whispered a low laugh, "Master, that kid was saying that we are ghosts!" ”

Master glared at me and said solemnly, "Don't talk nonsense! Seriously, we're here to ask for help! ”

When I heard Master's words, I immediately wilted, and then I saw a thin, half-hunched old man walking out of the stove house, wearing a gray coarse cloth coat and a large black patch on his body, which looked like a standard mountain man. Simple, and giving people a sense of simplicity and kindness, the old man looked me and Master and me up and down for a long time with cloudy old eyes, and then turned his head to his grandson and said, "Huzi, what kind of ghost is this?" This is clearly a human being! Don't talk nonsense, you two...... What do you call them? Where did it come from? ”

I didn't expect this old man to speak official dialect, but it sounded a little jerky, but he could understand it, but with a strong taste of mountain dialect. Hearing this, the master hurriedly clasped his fists and saluted, and said respectfully: "Old man, my surname is Yang, this is my apprentice Ergou, we are from Shikeng Village in front, dare to ask you where you are?" Why are there only a few of you in the neighborhood? ”

"What?"

When the old man heard the master's words, he suddenly leaned back, but fortunately, the young man named Huzi held the old man so that he would not fall down. Immediately afterwards, the old man hurriedly said again: "Don't you know, we are Shikeng Village here, the Shikeng Village over there was originally Xiashikeng, and we are here on Shikeng, but no one has lived in Xiashikeng for decades, and this area is also our Shikeng Village, and that Xiashikeng is a forbidden place for the living!" You guys...... Where did you come from, are you humans or ghosts?! ”

Just now, the old man said that we are humans and not ghosts, but when he heard that we were from that Shikeng village, he asked us if we were humans or ghosts, what did this mean? When the tiger heard the old man's words, he immediately looked at me and the master with a wary and panicked face.

The master immediately explained: "Don't be afraid, old man, we are naturally human beings, maybe the previous words were not made clear, we are faraway foot walkers, passing by the Shikeng Village in front of us, and coming to you from Shikeng Village. But now I already know that this is Shangshikeng Village, and that side is Xiashikeng Village, although we are from there, we are by no means ghosts, and the old man can rest assured. ”

After a long time, the old man led me and the master to the hall and lit the oil lamp, carefully identified it for a long time, and then breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Oh, it almost didn't scare my old life, it turns out that Mr. Yang is a Taoist priest from afar, no wonder it is okay to be able to come out of the stone pit, it can be seen that those things are afraid of the mysterious spells of your Daomen, otherwise if an ordinary person enters the forbidden land of the living, it is not easy to come out!" ”

"Forbidden land for the living? This ......" Master hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "Old man, why is a small village in good terms considered a forbidden place for the living?" ”

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly made a silent gesture, and then motioned to his grandson: "Huzi, go and add some food, it is rare for our family to have two guests, by the way, let your second uncle and third uncle come." After instructing his grandson, the old man turned to the master and said, "Mr. Yang, now in Shangshikeng Village, there are only my two sons and two families left, as well as this grandson, our family is here, and the other villagers have already moved away......

It turned out that the only three families left in this village were all the old man's family, and the other two were his other two sons, so the father of this grandson was probably ...... The master hurriedly smiled and said, "The old man is so blessed, this can be regarded as a full house of children and grandchildren!" ”

"Huh! Mr. Yang won the award, but unfortunately my eldest child died early, so he left me such a precious grandson, and I lived in this eldest child's house to take care of such a hard-working grandson. The old man didn't say anything about avoiding the forbidden land for the living, and diverted the topic and talked about his family...... "Fortunately, my two children have also become families, and I have children, my third child just gave birth to my youngest grandson this year, only four months old, hehe!"

Half an hour later, the old man's other two sons, also came to the old man's house, after some acquaintance, I learned that the old man's surname is Lin, his second son is called Lin Xingwen, and his daughter-in-law is also an authentic mountain person, with two babies under his knees, but they are only four or five years old, the third son is called Lin Aiwen, and the daughter-in-law is also young and capable.

Huzi was left by Old Man Lin's eldest son, compared to the second son's family and the third son's family, Huzi is a child with a hard life, no father and no mother, only an elderly grandfather to take care of him. But now Huzi is seventeen years old, and the old man is worried about letting Huzi go out of the mountains, hoping to touch a personal home, as long as he can find a daughter-in-law to become a family.