Xiao Ming's gaze retracted from Ah Liu's fading back, looked at the cook who was looking in the same direction, and said, "They have all left, why are you still here?" ”

"Alas! I'm poor Ah Liu, you see such a big person. The old lady is gone, and someone has to take care of him, right? Folks, I can't harden my heart, right? ”

"Oh, does Ah Liu have any other relatives besides the old lady?"

The cook slowly retracted her gaze, shook her head and said, "It doesn't seem like there is, their family is very complicated." The family was composed of rich peasants, and in the early years their family was prosperous. The wind and the rain were to be rainy, and then the times changed, and their family suffered, and the old lady's husband was captured by a group of unknown people. The old lady took a half-year-old child with dementia, and her eyes were blinded by crying, and then her husband couldn't stand the mental pressure and collapsed psychologically, and he jumped off the building and committed suicide the night he was released. ”

As he spoke, he walked to Xiao Ming under the stone stairs at the door, stopped, and asked, "Suicide by jumping off the building?" ”

The cook looked at him with a complicated expression, and suddenly pointed to where he was standing and said, "Just die here......"

Scare! The cook's words shocked Xiao Ming's nervousness. The person had already dodged away, two feet away, and his eyes looked at the stone staircase in a daze. There is indeed a dark mark on the stone staircase, and the dark mark should not be the bloodstain left by the suicide back then! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but have the courage to step forward and rub his foot a few times.

The darkness on the stone staircase seemed to be a stain formation, and no matter how he rubbed it, it was still the same. The cook stared at Xiao Ming's actions, and for a moment she was puzzled, and opened her mouth to say something, when a rapid slamming sound suddenly came from the door.

'Bang Bang...... Bang Bang ......'

Almost at the same time, the two turned their heads to look at the door behind them. are all speculating, I don't know who will knock on the door at this time.

Xiao Ming is a man, and a man must be responsible, this is what the master once taught him, and it is engraved in his heart as always. Under the frightened gaze of the cook, Xiao Ming tidied up his clothes, rolled up his sleeves, didn't say anything, walked towards the door with steady steps.

The door opened with a 'snap', and a cold wind swarmed in, and at the same time I caught a glimpse of several people standing in the doorway. Xiao Ming looked at it fixedly, weren't they just a few young people who stopped him on the road and asked how to go to Menling Village?

At the same time as the door opened, the people inside the door and the people outside the door were stunned at the same time......

"You ......" both sides said in unison. The person outside the door, the girl with clear eyebrows, had a pale face. Open your mouth, want to speak and stop.

"Tell me first, what are you doing here?" Xiao Ming asked.

"We ...... We got lost and saw this, so we came knocking on the door. The girl was full of tears, and she looked very moving, which aroused Xiao Ming's pity. He didn't move, and turned his head to look at the cook behind him, the cook is now a temporary supervisor in the old mansion, and only she has the right to decide whether to keep them or not.

At a glance, at a glance, they tacitly understood each other, and they didn't understand each other's meaning. The cook nodded silently at him and agreed to his request.

"Uh, that's it? Come in, then! Xiao Ming removed the body blocking the door and let them in.

The mermaids outside the door poured in, and the cook carefully counted them, and there were eight people in total. The girl with a face, similar to Ran Qin, walked last. When passing by him, he cast a wry smile mixed with shyness and anxiety.

With Xiao Ming's careful observation, they must have encountered something bad to make them look so flustered and disgraced. Sure enough, under the careful settlement of the cook, they drank water while telling about the terrifying journey along the way.

Xiao Ming learned from their self-introduction that the girl who looked very much like Ran Qin was named Jiang Rong. The rest are her classmates, friends, and a handsome guy who adores her.

Jiang Rong has a strong interest in comics since she was a child. As I said before, after the teacher's guidance, I learned about my comics, why I can't get the approval of others, it's because of the lack of something called aura.

That's why she invited a few friends and classmates to visit the legendary ghost village, Menling Village, after the holidays!

Xiao Ming also asked who told her about Menling Village.

Jiang Rong said that it was told by a mysterious person, and she still doesn't know who this person is. That is, when she was meditating hard and didn't know how to grope for the aura, when she was going to the bathroom, she walked on the school playground and a leaf fell from the top of her head. On the leaves, the words "Menling Village" are written.

This little story of hers is really very strange, except for the classmates and friends who came with her, Xiao Ming and the cook don't quite understand it.

Isn't the Liu construction incident an illustration? A person's imagination transcends the scope of human thinking, which becomes paranoia. That's what people call rhapsody! Self-fantasies, self-imposed barriers, self-justification, allowing oneself to fall into this fantasy that doesn't exist.

Jiang Rong could see from the other party's disdainful demeanor that she didn't trust. Feeling very aggrieved, "Big brother, auntie, I didn't lie. We really found this village, but ......" As she spoke, she showed a look of horror on her face, and snorted: "Just as we were about to enter the village chief, a very terrible person appeared. ”

What follows is Jiang Rong's narrative......

For Xiao Ming's warning, Jiang Rong and the others laughed. They thought that this person must have deceived them that they were not locals, and deliberately used these words to scare them.

Knowing what they had learned, they decided not to ask for directions anymore. Instead, rely on a cheap local map purchased at the station to find the legendary village of Menling.

In my imagination, I think that nothing is a thing. According to the scheduled time, starting from Tongchuan County, passing through other small villages, passing through Donghua Village, and entering the boundary of Menling Village, it is only one or two hours away.

But things often don't go well unexpectedly, and they didn't listen to Xiao Ming's warning on the way. According to the direction shown on the map, I saw a barren and devastated village in sight.

One by one, broken walls, dead branches and willows, black eagles, flashing soul-like bone-turning eyes, perched on the roofs overgrown with weeds that were about to collapse. Looking at it, it gives people a sense of great shock, and it makes people feel shocked, but Jiang Rong feels that there is nothing. She was obsessed with this feeling, and while she was happy, she ran down the mountain beam desperately. The sky was suddenly overcast, and the lead-gray clouds were gathering thicker and thicker, and they were circling overhead.

The wind rose from the flat ground, and the wind swirled in circles, blowing from under their feet...... The sky also darkened in an instant. The friends and classmates who came with them all watched in horror what happened in an instant.