(October 5) countdown to the 86th day

"Who are you?" Yao Xiaoyi snorted suddenly.

"Yes...... It's you? The figure that had been staring at Mu Lou trembled, turned around suddenly, and looked at her in surprise, not knowing that there was a person standing behind him.

"Who the hell are you? What is the purpose of coming here again and again? Yao Xiaoyi stared at this face and asked coldly, this person was naturally the old man who peeked at her in the teahouse that day.

"Don't be angry, girl, I have no ill will." Xu came back to his senses, but the old man was not flustered.

"You haven't answered my question yet."

"Can the girl answer me a question first?"

"What do you want to know?"

"What is your relationship with Tang Ji?"

"I ...... It was a distant relative of his. Do you know Mr. Donald? ”

"Relatives?" The old man suddenly weakened his knees, and knelt down to Yao Xiaoyi, "Girl, please accept my kneel, I have been waiting for this day for 46 years!" ”

"This ...... This is not to be done. Yao Xiaoyi was stunned and hurriedly raised her hand.

"I, Liu Hui, am the sinners of Mr. Tang's family! I haven't died for so many years, I just want to wait for this day, and if I don't apologize to Mr. Tang's family, I don't have the face to go into the ground. The old man got up, but he was already in tears.

"Old man, this is not the place to talk."

was helped into the wooden building by Yao Xiaoyi, the old man calmed down a lot, sat on the chair, and told a story 46 years ago in a low voice, but the teacup he held in his hands never moved.

The year was 1972, the craziest year of the Cultural Revolution. He was 16 years old that year, and he was a small leader of the Mizuki rebel faction. As Mr. Tang Ji described in his suicide note, the rebels listed the Tang family, the richest man in Shuimu Town, as the key target of criticism, and forced the Tang family's wife and young master to death, and Mr. Tang has disappeared since then, and there has been no news so far.

The Tang family was originally kind to the Liu family, and Mr. Tang once saved the life of the Liu family's mother. When the mother of the Liu family learned that the rebel-faction led by her son forced the Tang family to be ruined and the old disease recurred, when she was dying, she asked her 16-year-old son to kneel down and ordered Liu Hui to spend her life to find the whereabouts of Mr. Tang, and apologize to the Tang family, otherwise she would curse this only unscrupulous son when she went to the underworld.

The old man said that after his mother died, he only had the only thought left in his life to find Mr. Tang to apologize for his crimes, and if he couldn't find Mr. Tang, he was not even qualified to die.

There is a wind blowing, and the night of Shuimu Town in early autumn is misty, and it is as cold as paper.

Yao Xiaoyi looked at the year before last, who was only 62 years old, but he was as old as an eighty or ninety year old, and felt sad but sad. Faced with such an old man who repented with his life, she didn't know whether to forgive him, not to mention that she herself was a person who was guilty. As a fake relative of Mr. Donald, she felt that she was not qualified to judge the old man. Even if the old man was guilty, he spent 46 years atoning for his sins; If the old man is not guilty, who should compensate for the grievances of Mr. Tang's family?

"What would you do if Mr. Donald were still alive?"

"In the past 46 years, the old mother's soul has not been dispersed, and the old body can only be forgiven by her mother when she dies! I beg the girl to take me to meet Mr. Tang. ”

"In fact, Mr. Tang died a long time ago, just the day after the tragic death of his wife and children, but the bones of the old man have not yet been buried in the ground."

"If that's the case, death is not enough to apologize!" When the old man heard this, he burst into tears.

Yao Xiaoyi simply told the old man how Mr. Tang ransomed the bodies of his wife and children with a lot of money, buried his wife and children in the back mountain, and then committed suicide.

"Where are Mr. Donald's bones? I want to bury his bones with his wife and children, and pay filial piety to the three members of the Tang family. The old man wiped away his tears and looked at Yao Xiaoyi pleadingly.

"Burying him with his wife and children is exactly Mr. Tang's last wish. As for Mr. Tang, he has never left Shuimu Town, and he has never left this wooden building. ”

After speaking, Yao Xiaoyi touched the button, and the giant oil painting on the front wall of the hall slowly parted to the sides, revealing a secret door.

Yao Xiaoyi squeezed into the dark room on one side, turned around and nodded to the old man.

The old man immediately stepped into the dark room, and although he was mentally prepared, he was frightened by the corpse in front of him. The corpse faced the secret door, and remained in a posture of prostrating itself to those who entered.

This is Mr. Tang Ji, the day after his wife and children were forced to commit suicide, he used all his family property to redeem the bodies of his wife and children, secretly buried them in the back mountain, and returned to this dark room to commit suicide. He's been in this dark room for 46 years. ”

"Benefactor, the old body is guilty!" Liu Hui heard that his body trembled, and he knelt down heavily on his knees, choked on the bones, and couldn't kneel for a long time.

"It's better to let Mr. Donald go to the ground. It's a pity that I have no way of knowing the grave of his wife and children. He left a suicide note, saying that he was buried in a col in the back mountain, in order to hide people's eyes, there was no grave pile, only two cypress trees were planted on the side to mark. After a long time, Yao Xiaoyi helped the old man up and said slowly.

"In any case, I will find the cemetery and bury Mr. Tang with his wife and children. This is what our family owes him. ”

"Looks like we're going to have to go to the back mountain."

"Ah, back mountain? …… It's a bad place. Xu only then noticed the keyword Houshan, and the old man's face was full of horror.

"What's the danger, it's almost time for the snake to go into the hole this season, right?"

"The back mountain is a magic mountain that makes the people of Mizuki smell and change, full of evil aura, once you enter the depths, you may even be in danger of your life." The old man waved his hand again and again, with a serious face, "The girl can't go, the old body has an old bone, and there is nothing good, and the old body must complete it." ”

"Evil spirit? In what age do people still believe in these? ”

"It's not alarmist. A few years ago, a few brave young men entered the town in groups, and guess what, one of them was carried back in a daze, and woke up from a coma for three days, and no one has been in it since. ”

"Old man, I'm naturally not afraid of this. Fulfilling Mr. Donald's last wish is also something I must do. Well, after I've taken care of a few important things, we'll go into the mountains with us to find the graves of Mr. Donald's wife and children. ”

Yao Xiaoyi immediately sent the old man out of the wooden building, and saw the old man's lonely back disappear into xiaozhe