When Da Lei followed the sixth child and them in, the patriarch was not there, and the house was empty. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Although the appearance of the house is different from the others, the inside is much the same, the yellow clay kang and tables and chairs, there is a bowl on the table, which is full of white raw rice, but.... It doesn't seem like it.

"Brother." Xiao Hai leaned over and whispered in Da Lei's ear: "That's called 'sirling rice', you can eat it." ”

"Why do you still have this thing when the region is desolate?"

"There was a clearing at the back of the village, and there were a lot of small white flowers, which fell out of them. The patriarch said that it was a divine flower, and the rice produced by the divine flower could not only be eaten but also ward off evil spirits. ”

"It's amazing that this environment can still bloom...."

"So, it's called Shenhua."

The sixth child laughed out loud when he heard this, paused, and said solemnly: "You can't be so casual when you see the patriarch. ”

Da Lei nodded, and couldn't help but ask the sixth child: "People are not at home, isn't it okay for us to just break in?" ”

The sixth man stretched out a finger, pointed to it, and whispered, "His old man is upstairs." ”

As he was talking, he only heard the footsteps of "let's click", mixed with the squeak of the old staircase from the corner of the wall, Da Lei saw clearly that there was a staircase over there, because it was a corner of the wall, and it was concave inside, blocked by the protruding earthen wall, so he didn't care at first.

The patriarch walked down the stairs with his back bent, and saw Da Lei obviously stunned for a moment, and looked at the sixth child suspiciously.

The sixth explained: "He just woke up this morning. ”

"Lord Tiru." Xiaohai spoke: "Ganu, this kid is not making you angry again." ”

The patriarch didn't reply to him, he walked over leisurely, sat on the kang with the table, glanced at Da Lei, looked at the sky outside the window, and muttered: "It's early enough..."

"Huh? What the? Da Lei lowered his head and asked.

"Nothing." The patriarch waved his hand: "It's good to wake up, how do you feel?" ”

"I'm a little dizzy, and I don't have any strength in my body."

"Haiwa was like this when she woke up, and it would be fine in three or five days." The patriarch kept staring at the outside motionlessly, Da Lei was curious, and he also bent down to look out of the window, but there was only a bare mud house, and the sky was as muddy as the patriarch's eyes.

What is this old fellow looking at......

"I'm looking at the well." The patriarch retracted his gaze, then stared at Da Lei and said, "An outsider has touched that well. ”

Da Lei was startled, thinking that the people here are as evil as knowing how to read minds, he coughed twice, and said with some embarrassment: "I touched it." At that time, I was too tired to sit against the well for a while, but this time I knew that I would never do it again. ”

The patriarch nodded, reached out and picked up the bowl on the table, pinched a few grains of rice and put them in front of his eyes to squint, and changed a few after looking at them for a while.

Da Lei looked at this strange behavior and couldn't help but feel some sympathy in his heart. I think this old man should stay in an inaccessible place all day with nothing to do, which is a precursor to inducing Alzheimer's disease.

Will it be the same in the future?

"Lord Tiru, I have already criticized Ganu, he is young, don't meet him." Xiao Hai interjected.

Da Lei frowned, glared at Xiao Hai fiercely, he didn't even wake up for a day, no, not for half a day. This calf doesn't know how to greet himself, and his words are inseparable from Canu.

I was still thinking about him at the time.

It's chilling......

Xiao Hai didn't look at him, and still said to himself: "Ganu is young and has a big heart, so it is inevitable that he will run out for three days." But the surroundings are desolate, and even if he runs, where can he go, he doesn't have to come back. As he spoke, he patted Ganu on the shoulder and pushed him in front of the patriarch: "Ganu, apologize to Lord Tiru, saying that you know you are wrong." ”

Ganu lowered his head with his hands behind his back and did not speak.

Da Lei stood behind and noticed that the child's hands were shaking all the time.

The patriarch looked at the bowl of rice with a blank face, and looked at Ganu with cloudy eyes. After a while, he waved his hand: "Let's all go out." ”

Da Lei breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and followed the sixth child to turn around, but he caught a glimpse of Ganu still standing motionless in front of the patriarch, but the hand behind his back trembled even more.

"Let's go." The sixth patted him on the shoulder.

When I went out, I found that the sky was already dark, and it was that gray-yellow breath, like a static thunderstorm mixed with a sandstorm, which made Da Lei uncomfortable.

"Brother, why don't you go with me...... Ay? Brother, where are you going! Xiao Hai followed behind in confusion, Da Leili ignored him, chased after him and asked the sixth child: "Why is that kid's hand shaking all the time?" ”

"That kid has a big heart and always runs out at every turn, and the patriarch is angry, and he is probably going to punish him. Besides......" The sixth man paused and said, "Tonight is the daily sacrifice." ”

"What's that?"

"The 'Day Festival' is held once a year, and it seems that in honor of their god, everyone goes to the patriarch's house at night and comes out the next morning, but what exactly is done...... Because I'm a foreigner, I can't participate and I don't know about it. Ganu ran out on such an important day, and you said that the patriarch was not angry. And the child has no father or mother, and the patriarch brought him up single-handedly. He is playful and always runs around, and he doesn't like to talk and always squats in the corner alone, and his personality is weird, and everyone doesn't like him. ”

I see. Hey?

Da Lei was stunned: "So that means there are only three of us in this village tonight?" ”

"Hmm." Lao Liuhu looked at him suspiciously, not knowing why Da Lei was so surprised, and even a little excited.

"You don't want to go again, do you?" The sixth looked at him: "Alas.... Leizi, I advise you to really give up, what you experienced last time you know very well in your heart, why are you so persistent? The next time it's estimated that the life is gone. ”

Da Lei listened carefully to the words of the sixth child, thought for a while and asked: "Listen to what you mean, what I have experienced, you seem to have experienced it." ”

The sixth child was stunned for a moment, then sighed and shook his head: "I don't know what you have experienced, but I am from here, and I can guess a thing or two." ”

"Tell me about it."

"It was many years ago, and I don't remember it exactly." The sixth child's face was not good-looking, and he frowned and quickened his pace.

But Da Lei was even more suspicious.

Forget it, the coming day is long, and you can always ask for results.

If he wanted to leave, he would definitely not sneak around, and the people here would not stop him. It's just that the sixth man is right, this place is not easy to get out of, and it is estimated that he will die next time.

Da Lei faintly felt that this village must have some kind of connection with Loulan.

Lao Liu once said that the people here are all descendants of the Yue clan, and in the records, some people in Gu Loulan are the Yue clan.

He wasn't in a hurry to leave, he had to find something.

In fact, if there is anything, it should also be in the patriarch's house. But that place is really difficult to start, so I can only start from other places and try my luck.

"Brother." Xiao Hai chased after him from behind: "Why are you walking so fast." What about the sixth uncle? ”

"It's already gone."

"He's fast enough.... Let's go, we haven't seen each other for so long, we should talk well, I live in the village. ”

"No, I want to go around first. You go back first. ”

Night.

The village is quiet, surrounded by circular mud houses, which look like a huge living tomb in the dark night.

The patriarch's house popped out in the night, like a wooden sign on a mound.

Da Lei sent Xiao Hai away and wandered alone in the 'cemetery'.

I don't know if it's because the night is too dark, or if he is not familiar with the terrain, during the day he clearly remembers the circular arrangement here, how he feels that at night, no matter how he goes, it is a straight road, there seems to be no turn, and there seems to be no end.

There is no anti-theft here, every family is straight in and out, without exception there are earthen beds with broken tables and chairs, Da Lei looked for it all the way, and found nothing.

"You can't rush." He comforted himself: "It's definitely not easy here, so it's definitely not easy for me to find anything." ”

The front was pitch black, like a black hole.

If you really take a straight road, and the sixth child lives at the end of the village, then ...... Da Lei's hands were clenched, and he was about to continue to move forward to see if his hunch was true, but he heard a "squeezing" friction sound coming from behind him.

The sound went from far to near, and then it stood still.

Da Lei didn't look back, pretending that nothing had happened, but slowed down.

Sure enough, the voice came again.

"......"

"Rub... Rubbing over and over again. But he deliberately kept a distance from himself.

I had been looking for clues before, ignoring this voice, if I hadn't just stopped and heard this voice in the interval between thinking about the problem, I'm afraid I wouldn't have noticed it now.

It seems that he has been following himself for a long time.

But at this time, the people in the village went to the patriarch's house for the daily sacrifice, the sixth child went back, and Xiaohai was also sent by himself, so who will be the person who is following him now?

Da Lei gradually quickened his pace, faster and faster, and then paused, and heard a rapid "thump..." behind him, mixed with anxious footsteps. He had a bottom in his heart, and suddenly trotted on tiptoe all the way, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, and then suddenly stopped to pick up a dead branch at his feet, turned around, and waved a whip at the night!

Sure enough, there was an "oops".

A figure crouched on the ground, covering his face and moaning in pain.

Da Lei listened to this voice, confused, and asked cautiously: "...... Small... Xiaohai? ”

"It's me—" Xiao Hai's muffled voice came.

Da Lei helped Xiao Hai up, and with the faint moonlight, he saw a clear red mark on the left side of his face, and he was indeed ruthless, and the red mark was bulging.

Xiao Hai held back a face that made Da Lei cry and laugh, and he wondered: "Why are you?" What are you doing with me... And that weird grinding sound, how are you ...... Hey? Why don't you take a dead branch? ”

Da Lei looked at Xiao Hai's hand and was even more puzzled.

Xiao Hai rubbed his face, and first glared at Da Lei resentfully. Then he looked around, lowered his voice and approached Da Lei: "Brother, you go back with me first, and I'll tell you when I go back." ”

Da Lei followed Xiao Hai and walked for a while to where he lived.

"Except for the patriarch's house, the other rooms here are the same, and the things in them are the same, how do you recognize where you live?" After entering, Da Lei sat on the bed and asked.

"After living for a long time, I will recognize it."

Xiao Hai sat down next to him, looked outside again, and after a long time, he turned his head to Da Lei and said, "You can't find anything in other people's homes." ”

Da Lei's heart sank and asked, "Do you already know what I'm going to do?" ”

Xiao Hai nodded, and then spoke: "You are my brother, how can I not know what you are going to do." It's just that.... The people here are weird, and we have to be cautious. ”

"You think there's something wrong with them, too?"

"Hmm. From the day I woke up, they looked at me with a complicated and strange gaze, I can't say the specifics, but no matter what I was doing, there were always people staring at me behind me, and when I found out, they pretended to be nothing, which was weird. ”

"Have you ever asked the sixth child?"

"Of course, the sixth said that I didn't rest well and thought too much. The people here are very simple, don't put too much pressure on yourself. After a long time, I don't always talk to him, and I'm used to it. ”

Da Lei nodded, and asked again: "How do you know that I am going to search this village at night?" And...."Da Lei looked down at Xiao Hai's feet and asked, "Why aren't you wearing shoes?" ”

Xiao Hai lowered his head and rubbed the soles of his feet that were already red and swollen, and said, "Because when I woke up back then, I also happened to catch up with their daily festival, and I also searched everywhere at night, but I found nothing. And ......" Xiaohai lowered his voice: "Early the next morning, they even found out!" I was taken to the patriarch, who said that it was rude for me to trespass into someone's house and that it seemed to infringe on some of their beliefs, and that they wanted to expel me. I was stupid! This deserted, I have nothing, and there is no way out of the dead road?! Besides, you weren't awake yet, and you're still in the village! I can't leave you behind! So I gritted my teeth and said that I had been lying down for too long, and my bones were tight, and I just wanted to take a walk at night, and I didn't think about violating others. Fortunately, the sixth child has been pleading with me, and this matter is over. ”

"That's it.... Alas, no, it stands to reason that they should not have come out of the patriarch's house that night, so how did you find out? ”

"I also wondered at the time, and I kept wondering if it was the sixth child who went to tell the truth. It wasn't until the second year of the festival that I discovered that they would take off their shoes, sweep the footprints on the sand with a dead branch, and go barefoot to the patriarch's house. And the sixth brother and I, from the patriarch's house to our own residence are the same road, and the footprints left by wearing shoes are also that road, if there are other routes, then it should make them suspicious. ”

"That's why you're sweeping all the way behind my ass with bare feet and a dead branch at night? You can't just tell me about it! It's still a matter of cost! ”

"I want to too! But you don't know what's wrong, not only do you ignore people, but you also turn around and leave, I want to say that you don't have a chance. Xiao Hai covered his face and looked at Da Lei with extreme dissatisfaction.

Da Lei also felt guilty in his heart, looking down at the palm of his hand waving the withered branches, he must have hurt a lot when he swung it down and hit Xiao Hai in the face! blamed himself for being too cautious to be like this, and secretly scolded himself several times in his heart, and apologized to Xiaohai awkwardly.

Alas, Da Lei also wondered, he was a big man, and he wasn't so calculating before, could it be because Xiaohai was his only relative, and he became so anxious in this desert?

Xiao Hai waved his hand and said half-jokingly: "I owe this whip, and I will pay it back later." After a pause, he said: "Brother, during the day in the patriarch's house, the reason why I have been talking to the patriarch on the topic of Canu is because I don't want him to talk too much about you. ”

"Trick me? What do you mean? ”

"When I woke up, I was startled by seven or eight heads in front of me, and I was even more surprised to understand what they were saying, and the whole room was cheering, and I had a very strong premonition that their cheers were not glad that I woke up, but for something else, and I didn't know what it was...... Many people are asking me what happened to me in the Loulan ruins and what I remember. I was still in a drowsy state and didn't really want to speak. But these people didn't give up, they asked me over and over again, and in the end, I was so annoyed that I didn't speak. Finally the patriarch came, and he was in the same state as he was during the day, rubbing it around with a piece of rice and asking me if anything strange had happened. I shook my head and said I didn't remember. But in fact, it is also true that I always feel that I have experienced a nightmare dream, and I remember the outline of the dream, but I only remember the specific details. I always felt that I couldn't tell them everything, after all, I couldn't tell whether I was friend or foe. That's why I'm going to go in with you today, and I'll keep interrupting Ganu. ”

After hearing this, Da Lei scolded himself thousands of times in his heart. Facing Xiaohai, he felt even more guilty.

The younger brother is still the good brother, but he is too cautious and careful.

"Brother, don't worry too much, the reason why I like to be with Canu is because he doesn't stare at me with weird eyes like others, although he is naughty and unpopular, but I am also sympathetic to him, no father and no mother, you have been in a coma during that time, I will play the role of Canu's brother, and sometimes I can experience your mood in this role."

Da Lei didn't know what to say anymore, he was most afraid of this kind of hypocritical scene, coughed dryly twice, held his face and forcibly said: "Brother knows, this matter is wrong with my brother, and there will be no second time in the future." By the way, what do you think of the sixth person? ”

"Sixth?" Xiao Hai thought for a while and said, "I can't say it, it's not good or bad." But brother, according to the sixth child, when you and I were in a coma, the people in this village came to see us almost every day, hoping that we would wake up. But when I woke up first, they didn't come, and they didn't come to see you. Except for me and the sixth child, no one came. And the sixth seems to be more anxious than me, and more eager for you to wake up than I am. ”

"That's it..."Da Lei nodded, there is nothing strange about this matter, but when you think about it, there is always something unspeakably wrong.

"In the future, this is the home of our brothers, brother, it's not early, although you have been in a coma for four years and just woke up, but I am a person who has come over, and being in a coma is not the same as being asleep. After a day, I have to rest at night. Saying that, Xiao Hai lay down with his head upside down, and as soon as he fell, he scared Da Lei with an oops, it turned out that Xiao Hai had his left face down, and he touched the scar, and the pain made him turn over and sleep in a different direction.

Da Lei looked very uncomfortable, lay down on the edge of the earthen bed, and asked, "Hai, is there any medicine here?" ”

"It's okay!" Xiao Hai didn't care and said: "Didn't I say it during the day, there is a flower in the village called Shenhua, white." Don't say hey, it's amazing! That flower not only bears rice, but also cures all kinds of diseases, I will pick one tomorrow morning and put it on, it will be fine in a short time, just like the new skin and flesh, I can't see it at all! ”

"What's that flower called?"

"The people in the village call it Manbai."