The reason why the villagers are hospitable is because they have not communicated with the outside world for a long time, so they are extra enthusiastic when they see strangers coming. At Zhong Kui's repeated requests, the villagers took him to a household, where the sleeping man was in the firewood house.

When Zhong Kui and the villagers walked into the firewood house, the villagers were surprised: "Huh! When did that person leave? Why is it gone? The villager gestured in amazement, and he glanced at the small firewood house, which was messy and smelled of mold.

The villagers said that they had sent one to the firewood house, and then they saw another outside, so they sent the two people into the firewood house together. There are stacks of straw stacked here, which are stored here to feed the livestock.

Under the straw stack, there was indeed a round concave mark, as if something had slept here. The villagers looked at Zhong Kui with a suspicious expression, and the straw stack was pressed like a cushion in a daze. He hurriedly explained: "There are many dogs in the village, this nest should be a kennel." ”

"And what do you say about sleeping people?"

"I remember that when I was helped in, I placed it on the side of the straw stack at random, and anyway, there were people from the village who took turns to deliver food every day."

"What words! Dogs and people sleep under a straw stack? Still eating together? ”

This honest villager did not tell the cause and effect of the incident. Just said everything in the east and west, so that Zhong Kui and the others couldn't figure it out.

"No, I ...... I can't explain it clearly. Anyway, under this straw stack, the domestic dogs often come in to rest, but since we brought in the sleeping man, the dogs have not been let in. ”

"Alright! Do you mean that the sleeping man is gone? The missing man is our brother? ”

"That's right."

Looking at this honest villager, Zhong Kui Monet sighed, stretched out his big hand, and patted the other party's shoulder quite affectionately. handed a cigarette roll and said, "Big brother, I won't tell you, we are here to find someone this time." The brother who came with us was called Liu Wengen, and at the same time, he was accompanied by a slightly older one, his master named Chen Zhiqing. Both of them were members of the survey team in City A, and they worked tirelessly to do their work, and they came all the way from afar, but there was a problem, so we rushed to see what happened. ”

"Hi Hi! Why didn't you say it earlier. Go~ Go, go to find Mr. Li and let him tell you. ”

"Good, good! That's great! Zhong Kui promised a few good promises, so he hurriedly called Ran Qin and the others to follow the villager to the house of the old man Li.

LI Laoqi; A simple fisherman. Although it is surrounded by mountains and rivers and has beautiful scenery, there is a shortage of fertile land. When three meals a day are a problem, people have to pin their hopes on the sparkling lake. The villagers here live only by fishing in the lake and touching shrimp. Almost every household has a fishing boat in the shape of a canoe.

Fishing nets and dried fish are dried on the triangular wooden forks at the entrance of each house, and a particularly strong fishy smell can be smelled everywhere. Smelling the fishy smell in the air makes you feel like you've come to the coast.

According to Li Laoqi, one day half a month ago, the sky was hazy, and the clouds were dense like a large heavy curtain, covering the sky and the earth solidly, making people very depressed and almost breathless. In addition, the whole space is extremely hot, and according to the well-known weather omen, this look is the prelude to rain.

At this moment, two men came, one was young and had a child, and the other was a little older and very knowledgeable. The two of them had come to rent a boat, which was said to be to learn how to fish.

Li Laoqi didn't agree to rent a boat for the two of them at that time, but the two of them just didn't leave, and repeatedly raised the price and said good things. In this barren land, whoever is not scarce money is a fool.

Mr. Li took the other party's money, diligently pushed the canoe out of the makeshift harbor, and watched the two of them get on the canoe with his own eyes. Seeing that the two of them could skillfully maneuver the canoe, he told them to pay attention to the range of the canoe, not to get too close to the reeds, and to hurry back to the shore before the heavy rain came.

At that time, both of them readily agreed to Li Laoqi's request, and he didn't say anything, so he continued to mend the fishing nets with his wife. The heavy rain came an hour and a half after the two of them went to the lake, and when the rain was pouring down, Li Laoqi also put on his cloak and cloak to check if the two of them had returned.

But he waited on the shore for a long time, until night fell, and saw no shadow of them turning. I feel that the situation is serious, but what can I do?

Li Laoqi had to brave the heavy rain to find the village chief.

The village chief naturally scolded Li Laoqi for his greed for money and didn't care about the lives of others. Scolding and scolding, the village chief is a good person, he has to be a good person, and at the moment, under the call of the village chief, he called more than a dozen men who are familiar with the nature of the water, and went down to the lake overnight to find the two foreign guests.

The two foreign guests did not leave identification certificates for Li Laoyi, at least they should tell him their names! But for the sake of the banknote, how could he have thought that something would happen? The men led by the village chief were all wearing cloaks and cloaks, and shouted one after another, resounding on the surface of the lake. On the surface of the lake, in addition to the sound of the rain hitting the water on the surface of the lake, it is the sound of the waves gently hitting the shore.

There was no response, no cries for help were heard, did the two of them have an accident? Mr. Li has never done anything bad in his life, and he is uneasy and regretful in his heart.

"Look over there." At this moment, a partner was yelling. In the wind and rain, only a canoe that turned on the surface of the lake with the wind and rain appeared in their line of sight.

There was only one man in the canoe, soaking wet and pale, as if he had passed out. The village chief and the others were in a hurry to pull the people in the canoe back to shore along with the canoe, and they were busy pouring ginger soup into the guest to drink to remove the moisture.

As a result, this person woke up in the middle of the night, and after waking up, he couldn't say a word, just staring at a place in a daze. The villagers were afraid of provoking something bad, so they told them to avoid it, and they were unwilling to ask the guest to go to the house, so the village chief had to let people vacate the firewood room and place the person in the firewood room temporarily.

After the man was settled, the big guy dispersed on its own. Because it was caused by Li Laoqi's greed for money, when he didn't find another guest, he couldn't feel at ease.

So he wanted to ask the person he rescued about the whereabouts of the guest. When he came to the firewood room, he saw a person outside who seemed to be relieved, and he didn't say anything, but went straight in and wanted to wait inside.

When I went in, I saw that the man was still sleeping under the straw stack, and I thought strangely, and then I thought! It may be that the person has returned, and since the family has returned safely, Nima might as well go home and sleep, and wait for tomorrow to talk about everything.