I nodded first, and then wondered, "But Master, didn't you let me choose for myself?" ”

Master was stunned and didn't respond to me for a long time.

But Qiao Sanye kept laughing there: "I'll just say, what can such a young child understand, you let him choose by himself, isn't that nonsense?" ”

The master frowned sullenly, and held back for a long time before scolding: "You laugh at a hammer!" ”

Qiao Sanye stopped talking, but he still kept laughing.

The car quickly drove onto the winding mountain road, there was a section of the road built along the cliff, the mountain was steep, and the road was not easy to walk, Qiao Sanye could only slow down and let the car go more smoothly. I put my head on the car window and looked down the mountain, and I could see a long, slender silver strip in the mountain forest in the distance.

It was a long, narrow town, and if you squint hard to look at it, you can see the houses on either side of the road, and the occasional pedestrian on the road.

A road, a city, beside the mountains, leaning on the dense forest, like a silver snake crawling between the mountains and rivers.

And that was the destination of our trip.

Twenty minutes later, Qiao Sanye parked the car on the outskirts of the small city, which was faintly connected to the outside world by a relatively wide road, but because it was far away from the city, it was completely integrated with the winter color in the mountains and forests.

In addition to the road and the forest, there is only a dilapidated courtyard, and through the car window, you can see the iron gate embedded in the courtyard wall, and the door panel has long been peeled off, revealing large sections of rust.

"This place was originally a scrap yard," Qiao Sanye said without raising his head while pushing the door and getting out of the car: "When the New Year closed last year, Lao Zhang, who lived here, hanged himself, and no one dared to come over after that." ”

Master led me out of the car, and when I saw that Qiao Sanye opened the trunk to help us with our luggage, Master suddenly became nervous, and hurriedly dragged me to the trunk and took out all the belongings inside.

Qiao Sanye couldn't help frowning: "I'll help you get something, what did you say, be stingy." Ouch, your apprentice is really a baby bump, rushing over to grab things without forgetting to hold it, making me feel like I want to rob the apprentice with you. ”

My master didn't pay much attention to him, hugged the luggage, and called me to walk towards the gate of the courtyard, until I reached the door, I found that I didn't have a key, so I could only stop and wait for Qiao Sanye to come and open the door.

Qiao Sanye sighed, took out the key and walked over: "Let's talk about it first, this place is a murderous house, and you can't afford to rent other places anyway, so let's make do with it." ”

Only then did my master open his mouth to talk to him: "How did the old Zhang Tou who was watching the scene die? ”

"Didn't you just say it, hang yourself. But to say that the old man died really evil, when the body was found, the whole was frozen like ice cream, the neck was also frozen, there was no strangulation marks at all, what is even more strange is that the old man's eyeballs were also dropped, the autopsy person found that he had no pupils, he felt strange in his heart, opened his eyelids to see, the original eyeballs were replaced with two miserable white wax balls, the key is that before the autopsy person gave him a knife, he had no scars on his face at all. ”

The master frowned slightly: "He committed suicide, he was obviously killed by the evil spirit." ”

Qiao Sanye smiled: "I think so too." ”

"Did anyone do something for him?"

"Recently, there was a Taoist priest surnamed Zhou in the town, hey, he said that he was a Taoist priest, but in fact he was a god stick. He did a ritual in the courtyard, but it was useless, and he still roamed around the area with something that hurt people. ”

Master's face became a little complicated: "You really found me a good place. ”

Qiao Sanye tossed for a long time, and finally opened the rusty door lock, and while pushing the door, he said to my master: "Since the surnamed Lu brought the gilded hand stove to this town, the town has not stopped much, otherwise I can't say that the things in his hands are evil." ”

"You've been watching him?"

"It's not really, I already have an industry in this town, and I often hear people talk about things in the town, so I know a little bit about the situation here. Okay, you guys go in, I'll go through the enrollment procedures for your apprentice, I also live here before he officially enrolls, don't be too crowded. ”

Before leaving, Qiao Sanye also reached out and pinched my face, but there was no meat on my face, and it hurt to be pinched by him, so I couldn't help grinning.

My master was anxious to protect the calf, and waved his hand away: "Why is it not light and heavy!" ”

Qiao Sanye grinned loudly: "This kid is really painful." ”

After saying that, he got in the car and left.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, I felt a very strong cold, which was not normal cold, but a cold that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and even the breath that came out of my mouth was cold at that moment.

I wrapped my jacket around my body and looked up at Master, "Master, I don't want to live here. ”

When I said this, Master was actually happy: "Silly boy, this is a good place. ”

Although I said this, the master still stuffed a jujube core-like thing into my hand: "Take it, and your heart will be steady." Put it in your pocket, don't look at it yet, and you'll be fascinated again. ”

I obediently put it in my pocket, and it was a lot more comfortable.

Now I have forgotten the first time I walked into the yard, there was something in the yard, but I vaguely remember that the yard had been cleaned beforehand, and the corners were sprinkled with dry lime, and it was very clean.

The room where Master and I lived had just been cleaned, the bedding on both beds was new, there was a stove in the middle of the room to warm the water, and there was a pile of coal outside by the window.

The reason why I still remember the appearance of the house is because after so many years, the room has hardly changed, but the courtyard has changed from time to time.

However, on the day I moved in, Master had more important things to do, and I had to put it aside for a while.

After putting all the belongings in the cupboard by the bedside, the Master moved the square table in the room to the courtyard, and then took out a glossy yellow cloth from the box he had brought and spread it on the table.

I didn't have much to do, so I stood in the courtyard and watched Master busy, and as he went in and out, there was a heavy incense burner, a tablet, a bowl of water, and a slender sword on the table, and finally when Master came out of the house with incense and talismans, a wind suddenly rose in the courtyard.

The wind came quite quickly, and for a while, all the things on the table were swayed by the wind, and the yellow cloth that had been pressed on the table was almost completely overturned, but fortunately there was an incense burner, so it did not fly out.

Master stood in the doorway, frowning at first at something swaying violently on the table, and then as if he felt something, he suddenly turned his gaze behind me.

Behind me, there was a half-collapsed wall pile, and through the breach above the wall pile, I could see a dark old forest, and when I saw Master looking in that direction, I also looked back.

I don't know if it's my delusion, but the moment I turned around, I saw a pair of yellow eyes flashing in the shadows of the old woods, and because it disappeared so quickly, it's hard to say if I was gone.

I heard the master sigh sullenly: "The old forest is not peaceful." ”