A crescent moon hangs in the cold, inky night. The nightmare of fragmentation will kick off this late night.

Li Yan was in a dazed state when he heard the voice of a little girl. When he opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was a fire. The light of the fire reflected the darkness around him, and he squinted, and then remembered that he seemed to have passed out in a small temple on a hill not far from the tomb.

This mountain temple has not been worshiped for a long time, the temple is very small and dilapidated, and there are only two open spaces next to the statue of the mountain god. The ground was covered with dust, and there were many cobwebs in the air.

Li Yan moved his body slightly, and the pain from his fingertips made him have to recall everything that happened next to the grave again. He looked down at his hand and saw that the fingers on it had turned blue.

Injuries are a common thing for Li Yan, and this point on his finger is a small skin injury at best, he didn't pay attention to it, and he didn't even bother to bandage it. The only thing he was worried about was his body, he seemed to have a cold, and he seemed to have tetanus.

Since he woke up, the cold feeling became more and more intense, and he couldn't help but shrink his shoulders and set his eyes on the fire outside the temple gate again. By the fire, I don't know when, there was another girl. Perhaps, the girl had been there all along, but because she was dressed in black, she hadn't noticed it when she just woke up.

Li Yan coughed lightly, and the girl immediately raised her head and glanced into the mountain temple. The girl is very beautiful, and it is the kind of beauty that makes people's eyes shine, especially those eyes, which are as clear as a spring in the desert, and people can't help but be sucked in. Looking at each other, the girl smiled, got up, and walked over with a huge leaf in her hand.

When she arrived in front of Li Yan, she half-knelt down and asked in a small voice: "Are you thirsty, do you want to drink some water?" ”

Seeing that Li Yan didn't say a word, just stared at the leaves in her hand, the girl hurriedly explained: "This water is clean, and I have also cleaned the leaves, so you can drink it with confidence, and it won't harm you." ”

"Nope! The girl misunderstood, I didn't mean that. ”

When the girl didn't bring water, Li Yan only felt that her throat was a little dry and itchy, but she didn't feel thirsty. And now when I saw the water, I found that my throat was very dry. He licked his lips and reached out to take the leaf. But there was a chill on his body, not to mention that it was the injured hand, even the uninjured hand, and he couldn't lift it up neatly.

"If you don't mind, I'll help you."

The girl said, handing the leaf to Li Yan's lips. Li Yan looked at the girl, a little uncomfortable, but due to her own condition, she could only reply stubbornly: "Thank you, girl!" ”

The girl smiled, and her smile looked better and better in the moonlight. Li Yan was stupid for a while.

The girl's face turned red, and she hurriedly lowered her head, Li Yan coughed lightly again as a cover, and then lowered her head and drank water silently. I don't know if it's because this leaf is used to hold water, but this water is exceptionally sweet. The cold water flowed down my throat, and the symptoms of dry itching eased a lot.

"Why is the girl here?"

"Is it here?" The girl pointed to the mountain temple: "This is Mu Xi's home." ”

"Muxi? Is this your name? Li Yan asked, his eyes swept around the mountain temple again. Don't say it's home, even this mountain temple doesn't look like someone can live in it.

"I know you don't believe it, but this is Muxi's home." Mu Xi said, facing the mountain god, his hands folded, and looking at the statue of the mountain god with reverent eyes: "The mountain god grandfather is Mu Xi's family." ”

Li Yan sighed softly.

Compared with other places, it is indeed a little remote, but the fact that there is a mountain temple in the mountain is enough to show that there are people in this vicinity. Mu Xi may be a girl from a nearby village, and only a girl from the neighborhood would be so bold to stay here alone. As for what she said just now, Li Yan didn't take it seriously.

"What about you? And why is it here? Mu Xi looked at Li Yan's eyes, and there was a shallow smile on the corner of his mouth: "Grandpa Mountain God told me that no one has been here in this mountain for a long time. Oh, it's not a long time, there were people coming a while ago, but they only stayed for a while and left. ”

"Is it a funeral procession?"

"The funeral procession?" Mu Xi blinked: "Whether it's a team or not, Mu Xi doesn't know, but it's indeed a funeral." Because they were carrying the coffin, and in the coffin lay two people, a man and a woman. ”

"How do you know there are still two people lying in the coffin?"

"Grandpa Yamagami told me!" Mu Xi said as a matter of course. As he spoke, he counted his fingers: "Grandpa Mountain God also told me that the coffin is very heavy, and it takes four or five young and strong young men to lift it, and the coffin is heavy on the left and light on the right. The one lying on the left is a man, and the one lying on the right is a woman.

The whole body of the coffin is red, and it is also the kind of bright color, like the color of saffron in the mountains, which shows that this mandarin duck coffin is also a happy coffin, and a man and a woman in the coffin may be a newly married couple, or they may be originally married to a yin relative.

On the coffin, there are traces of being bounced through the ink line, and there are many red ropes tied to the coffin. This red rope is not ordinary, it has been soaked in the blood of a rooster. There are still some copper coins tied to the red rope, and the copper coins are green and rusty, indicating that these copper coins are some years old, and they must have been borrowed from others, so the two people in this mandarin duck coffin will become powerful ghosts after death. ”

"That's what your mountain god grandfather told you?"

If he heard these words before today, Li Yan would probably think that the other party's head was not clear, or he was deliberately pretending to be a ghost. But at the moment, he listened very carefully.

"Some of them are, some of them aren't, but most of them were told to me by Grandpa Yamagami. Grandpa Shanshen is very fond of telling stories, he always says that he is old, the old man, he likes to wander around, there are more places to wander, not only the people he sees, but also the things he sees, and even the story he hears more. In this mountain, I am the only one who can accompany the mountain god's grandfather to speak, and when he comes back from listening to the story, he can't hold it back, so he can only tell it to me. I listened to it a lot, and I got confused, and I couldn't figure out which ones Mu Xi heard by himself, and which ones were told to Mu Xi by Grandpa Mountain God. ”

Li Yan was slightly stunned, and then a light smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "It's okay, what you just said is very bizarre, but it's also very interesting." Do you know anything else about that mandarin duck coffin? ”

"Mu Xi still knows ......"

Mu Xi's mouth opened, his eyes quickly swept over the mountain god high above, and then he covered his mouth with his hand: "There is one more thing, but Mu Xi can't say it." ”

"Is it serious?" Li Yan thought of the situation in the coffin, and when he opened the coffin, he didn't see a red rope or copper coins wrapped around the coffin. So, in his heart, he decided that the incident that Mu Xi said must be related to his deputy general and the man in black.

The man hiding behind the lieutenant must have already been to the grave, and even moved his hands and feet in the coffin, in order to lure himself into the bait. It's not surprising that there are people in the barracks who want to harm themselves, but it's strange why they would choose this method?

If you think about it too much, you will have a headache, and once you have a headache, all the pain switches in your body seem to be turned on at this moment, especially your fingers, which hurt so much that he couldn't help grinning and inhaling a few breaths of the night breeze.

Mu Xi noticed Li Yan's expression and followed his gaze to his fingers. When he saw the half of the nail that had been peeled off, Mu Xi's face changed slightly, and he said, "Have you been to that cemetery?" Did you open the coffin and see the woman lying inside? Did you touch her? Did she strip your nails from you? Who are you? ”

Mu Xi asked a lot of questions. If it was left in the past, Li Yan would disdain to answer even if he didn't feel upset. But Mu Xi's eyes were too different, especially when she stared at herself, he couldn't refuse her question at all, and he couldn't bear to look at those eyes without answering.

"Yes, I've been. The girl in the coffin was my fiancée. It's just that I'm too busy fighting to take care of it, so I let her wait. As for the other person in the coffin, it was her newlywed husband. Li Yanli looked at the half of his nails. Its fingers, swollen and heavily blue, but their nails were white, and then the moonlight was faint, as if the red lines hidden in the nails could be seen.

"Me"

"You know that your fiancée is married to someone else, and you are very sad and want to come back to see her and ask her, why don't you wait for you for two more days? As a result, you came, but you heard the news that they had died, so you secretly went up the mountain and secretly opened their coffins, but you didn't know what was hidden in the coffins, right? Mu Xi asked, touching his face: "Then have you ever seen your fiancée?" ”

"We are destined by our parents, and before we are born, our parents have set this family business for us. At the time of separation, we were still young, and we were not too impressed by each other's appearances. Li Yan said and sighed deeply: "If we had seen it, probably everything would have changed today." ”

"So, you don't know what your fiancée looks like?"

Li Yan nodded: "I saw it once later, but the scene that day was a little chaotic, and she had some emotions, I was irritable, and I didn't look at it carefully." I only remember that when I went out that day, I looked back at her, and the makeup on her face was all gone, and her eyes were red and swollen, so I didn't look at it again. ”

"What about her in the coffin? Have you ever looked at her face? ”

Li Yan shook his head.

Mu Xi exhaled softly.

(Education 123 Literature Network)