The sky gradually flashed the same color as the white of the fish's belly, and it turned out that the day was coming. Tonight seems to have gone by exceptionally quickly, a little unexpectedly.

Gu Zhihan took off his long-sleeved casual jacket and draped it over me, "The temperature in the morning is even colder, seeing that you are shivering from the cold, let's wear this dress of mine again." Then, go with me to a place. ”

His tone was very light, and he didn't ask about Jinxuan anymore. Instead, I saw that my lips were a little purple from the cold, and I was worried that I handed over my clothes......

I thought I would have refused, but when my eyes met Gu Zhihan's, I consciously "I...... I ......" speechless.

It's cold, but my heart is warm.

However, when I think of the infant spirit, my heart becomes extremely heavy.

When Jin Xuan left, he told me that the ghosts in the river were not something I could provoke. But even if I knew, I wouldn't be a coward and would flinch from it.

"Giggle...... Giggle...... "The rooster started crowing, I didn't ask Gu Zhihan where we are going now, what are we going to do?" Because I know that he must have this in his heart, and I believe him.

Following Gu Zhihan's footsteps, the two of us stopped in front of a courtyard door. The red door was half-hidden, and the inside looked quiet......

"Is the patriarch at home?" Gu Zhihan pushed open the half-hidden door, and then shouted inside.

"Who is it?" From the voice, it was an old man who spoke.

It turned out that Gu Zhihan took me to the patriarch's house. The patriarch is the most powerful person in the entire Xiangxi Miao Village, and he is over ninety years old this year, which is the oldest person in the entire village. However, his body is still quite tough, his eyes are not dazzling and his ears are not deaf, although his legs and feet are not very dexterous, but he can move around without the support of others.

"Oh, it turned out to be Xiao Han...... "The patriarch should know Gu Zhihan, and when he came out slowly, he shouted out Gu Zhihan at a glance, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

"Senior brother, does the patriarch recognize you?" I looked at Gu Zhihan suspiciously.

And Gu Zhihan touched my hair, "Well, grandpa used to come here before, and I followed at that time." I didn't expect the patriarch to think about me until now. ”

He smiled dotingly, which made me feel a little uncomfortable. Gu Zhihan, who felt cold, suddenly turned into a warm man, and smiled at me warmly, which really made me very ...... Awkward!

I don't know what Gu Zhihan did when he brought me to the patriarch's house, but my intuition tells me that it must have something to do with the infant spirit under the river......

The patriarch walked in front and beckoned the two of us to sit in the house. We nodded and smiled, and followed him into the house. It was originally a very close distance, but it made us walk for a long time.

Because the patriarch walked very slowly, Gu Zhihan and I also walked very slowly.

"Patriarch Grandpa, I didn't expect you to remember me until now!" Gu Zhihan sat next to the patriarch, his handsome face shone with a hint of light, I was a little stupid to watch, I think the picture of him and the patriarch's grandfather together is particularly warm.

"Huh...... Of course I remember you, when you came with your grandfather...... Xiao Han, you must be doing the strange thing in the village again this time! Hey, every time there is something in the village, I will look for your grandfather and you. Now that I'm old, I can't do a lot of things, so I can only rely on you young people......" The wrinkles on the patriarch's grandfather's face were very deep, but his voice was very confident, and it could be seen that he had a good figure.

Gu Zhihan told the patriarch grandfather the purpose of this visit, and it wasn't until he asked about the strange thing a hundred years ago that I realized that it seemed that the matter of the infant spirit at the bottom of the river might be the same as this strange thing.

"Patriarch Grandpa, our Miao Village has a tradition, if one child is two daughters, one must live. How can there be such a tradition? When did it first come down? Gu Zhihan said shallowly, and an intuition told him that if he figured out this matter, maybe he would be able to find the weakness of the infant spirit under the river. Then you can find a way to subdue her.

The patriarch's grandfather lit a cigarette, and I was somewhat surprised that someone of such an age still smoked. I wanted to persuade him not to smoke at such an old age, but the patriarch told me with a smile that he had been smoking all his life, especially when recalling that period of time, he had to rely on the power of nicotine in tobacco to stimulate him to remember that period of time.

"Is there something unspeakable?" I saw that the patriarch grandfather had been silent, and his brow was furrowed, as if there was something he didn't want to bring up.

"Hey...... I didn't want to talk about it, but it got to this point, and it might be too late if I didn't say it. He took a puff of his cigarette and gently exhaled it.

Looking at the smoke of tobacco, a smoke-like past began.