There were guests at home, the old man was very enthusiastic, took out a piece of bacon, and a piece of hare meat, all of which were smoked and dried, very black and black, but it tasted very fragrant, this kind of authentic Tujia bacon could not be eaten in the city.

The old man also brought out a large glass of rice wine for us to drink, perhaps because we were afraid of the poison, we didn't drink it.

During the meal, I naturally talked about the strange things in the village, why did everyone leave? The old man sighed and said that something strange had happened in the village!

It turned out that the people in the village all had a strange disease, and the sick people were usually the same as normal people, but whenever they heard a kind of music, they would beat people, and the other person's head would be broken before the bleeding stopped, but when the music stopped, they didn't know what was happening, and thought that everything was a nightmare, and over time, they were very frightened, thinking that there was something evil in the village, so they moved out of the village one after another.

I asked the old man if he had offended anyone in the village, for example, if someone was openly against the village or something, the old man said no, and then asked the people in the village if they had offended anyone from the neighboring village, and the old man said no. The people in the village are honest and not the kind of people who like to quarrel and fight.

Wu Lele asked: "When did this strange thing happen?" ”

The old man thought for a moment and said, "About ten days ago." I asked again if anything had happened in the village at that time, and the old man said no, the village had always been peaceful and normal, but suddenly there was a strange disease, which caused a lively village to become a dead village......

Later, we chatted casually, I told the old man about the situation in the well, the old man was very shocked after hearing it, and he was also skeptical, and then I personally used a flashlight and Wu Lele to get half a bucket of water back, and used the flashlight to shine out the insect eggs in the water, the old man believed it, and only said after a while: "How can there be such a thing?" Which rabbit did it? ”

Of course, we don't know the answer, and tell the old man to drink boiled water in the future, let alone drink the water from the well, because the eggs in the well can only be killed by super high temperatures, maybe they can be killed with herbs, but this herb is extremely difficult to collect, and I don't know if there is one in the mountains behind the village.

It was getting late, and then it was completely dark, and a crescent moon hung in the sky, but it was also bright and bright.

This night, the old man left us to live at his house, Li Mengting and Wu Lele lived in one room, and I lived with the old man in one room.

Thinking that Li Mengting and Wu Lele are next door, I think, will Li Mengting touch Wu Lele tonight? And how can the Gu worms in the well be killed? Will Wu Lele have a way? According to my understanding of insect Gu, there are two ways to get rid of them, one is to use high temperatures, and the other is to use specially configured herbs.

Just as I was thinking about it, suddenly, a flute came in from outside the house, and the sound of the flute was very low, like a cry, as if someone was choking in a low voice, in short, it was very sentimental.

Who is playing such a sad tune at this time? I gently got out of bed and opened the door, but I didn't expect Li Mengting and Wu Lele to also stand outside.

I asked them why they hadn't slept, and Li Mengting said, "I'm listening to the flute." Wu Lele asked, "Who is playing the flute?" The sound is so bleak, aren't all the people here gone, why are there still people playing the flute here? ”

"I'm afraid there are still people in this village, this flute sound is poignant and lingering, this kind of song is not something that ordinary people can make, maybe the Gu worms in the well are what he put them."

The sound of this flute came from the hill opposite, not far from here, I decided to meet this person, for people who understand Gu, I have an urge to get to know him.

Wu Lele and Li Mengting said that they were going too, but I couldn't figure it out, why were these two girls as curious as me? And now it's night, and I dare to go to the opposite hill, and I'm a little bolder!

It didn't take long to get down the hill, and when I looked up, the hill was not high, it was very bare, and there were some rocks and some grass on the mountainside, and there was a very wide road in the middle.

The sound of the flute came from above the hill, but when we were almost at the hill, the flute stopped abruptly.

When I got to the top of the hill, I found that it was very flat, and there were clumps of grass as far as the eye could see, and there were many mounds, one after another.

However, there was no one on it.

At this time, it was very quiet, the wind was quiet, and only the insects sang merrily songs in the grass.

Suddenly, faintly, I seemed to hear a cry for help from the song of the insects: "Help, help......" I thought I had heard it wrong, and after listening carefully for a while, the cry for help came out again, as if it came from the wind, and as if it came from the ground.

I looked at Wu Lele and Li Mengting, and I asked, "Do you hear someone's cry for help?" They nodded, and I cleared my throat and asked in a loud voice, "Anyone?" ”

The voice was very loud, and it seemed very abrupt in this dark and quiet night, and the cry for help suddenly became louder: "Help, help......"

This time we heard it very clearly, it was a man's voice.

We followed the sound, and it came from the grass on the left, and it seemed to be coming from underground!

When we came to a tomb, the voice became clear, it turned out to be from the tomb!

In front of the grave, there was a hole.

I stretched out my hand to block Wu Lele and Li Mengting, signaled them not to move, walked over cautiously, and shone a flashlight into the cave, and found that there was a person standing under the hole, looking at me with wide eyes at this time.

It was a man in his forties, with short hair, a thick beard, his hair and beard covered in mud, holding a flashlight that was almost extinguished, and his face was tired and depressed.

I emboldened myself and asked, "You...... Is it a human or a ghost? ”

The man hurriedly said, "It's a man, it's a man, I'm a man!" ”

Wu Lele and Li Mengting also walked over, and Qi shone the flashlight into the grave, and the man below was taken aback and hurriedly covered his eyes with his hands. This time we saw clearly, this man was actually standing in the coffin below, the bones in the coffin were faintly visible, and this tomb was very strange, more than a foot deep, no wonder the man could not come up below.

Presumably a tomb robber.

I deliberately asked, "What are you doing down there?" It's not catching mice, is it? The man said with a sad face: "Where to catch mice, what did you say, I came to catch rabbits, but I fell off when I stepped on the air, and my bones were broken." ”

What is the difference between catching a mouse and catching a rabbit?

"Huh!" Wu Lele actually laughed.

The man said again, "Hurry up, pull me up." As he spoke, he threw a thick hemp rope up, and we grabbed the other end of the hemp rope and pulled him up with all our might.

As soon as he came up, the man kept grabbing his hair, and when he saw the dirt on his hair falling, he patted the dirt on his body again, looked at the three of us and asked, "You guys...... Where did it come from? ”

I asked him if he knew Li Mengting, he looked at Li Mengting, shook his head, I said Li Mengting has amnesia, we sent her home, but I don't know where her home is, because it gets dark can only live here, now lives in the village of an old grandfather's house, heard someone playing the flute on this hill and came up to see.

The man grinned and said, "I don't know the flute you said, don't look at it, it's probably a ghost." He said and left.

After the tomb robber left, Li Mengting asked curiously, "That uncle...... Did it really fall? "I said don't listen to his nonsense, you must have seen that the people in the village were gone, and you wanted to go underground and find the dead to make a fortune."

"Tomb robber, I really thought he fell."

I looked at the tomb again, and a big black hole came out, and the corpses inside were also exposed, and said that we should simply do a good thing to the end, and bury this tomb, and when it dawns tomorrow, the ancestors inside are afraid that they will not be at peace.

Li Mengting said that the coffin lid was not covered, I jumped down to cover the coffin lid again, just jumped down, and suddenly heard a strange sound from the other end of the coffin, I used a flashlight to shine, I wiped, and a person appeared in front of me!

It's a child! Thirteen or fourteen years old, with a dark face, looked at me with a look of astonishment and hostility.

I was really taken aback, who would have thought that a big one would walk and there would be a small one underneath? And he was squatting on the other side of the coffin, thinking at first glance that he was a little ghost!

I was in a stalemate with him for ten seconds, and Wu Lele asked, "What are you doing there?" Hurry up and cover, I'll pull you up! ”

The black boy stood up and bent over, staring at me with gloomy eyes, like a little wolf dog ready to fight, and I smiled kindly at him and asked, "Don't be impulsive, I don't mean anything malicious?" ”

He was still staring at me, silent.

Wu Lele asked above: "Who are you talking to?" ”

I said there's a kid down there.

Wu Lele was stunned: "Child? ”

I said yes, and then said to the black boy, "Go up, what's the fun down here?" I'm going to cover the coffin. Then he hesitated and walked over, his eyes fixed on me, and he held a ceramic in his hand, which was about a foot high and half a foot wide, as if he were some kind of treasure.

No wonder they didn't go up with the man just now, apparently because they were worried that we would find the ceramic.