The woman looked back and forth at the two of them for a long time, Pei Xia was a young woman, she didn't look threatening, and Wei Jiu was not very old, and she did look like a pair of young sisters and brothers.

She looked around, and finally her gaze fell on Wei Jiu's saber.

Seeing this, Pei Xia hurriedly said: "Don't be surprised, auntie, my brother loves to dance with knives and guns since he was a child, but he is very well-behaved, so the two of us will rest for a while, and I won't trouble you." ”

Wei Jiu showed a harmless smile at the right time, he already had a baby face, and it looked a little cute when he laughed like this.

The woman hesitated for a while and opened the door, let the two of them into the courtyard, went to the house and poured two bowls of water and handed them out to Pei Xia and Wei Jiu, just standing in the courtyard and watching, obviously not planning to let the two into the house.

Pei Xia didn't mind, drank all the water, found a haystack in the yard and sat down with Wei Jiu, and the two pretended to chat.

"Sister, how long do we have to get to Peiling?"

"Soon, not more than half a day, are you hungry? When I came out of the inn in the morning, I told you to eat more. ”

"What a place to eat! You didn't go to the mountain the day before yesterday to see it, and the dead man was rotten, maggots, worms, and worms crawling everywhere, and the stench was so bad that I can still spit it out when I think of that stench. ”

"Don't talk about it, it's disgusting. You also deserve it, what kind of fun do you have to make when other officials handle cases. ”

Pei Xia peeked at the woman as she spoke, and saw that although she was still working, her movements were much slower, obviously eavesdropping on them.

"I've learned martial arts, don't I just want to go to the government to get a job? Hey, that day I seemed to hear them say that the dead man's name was Liu Wu, and it seemed that he used to live in a village in Peiling, called Laoshu Village. ”

When the woman heard this, she froze.

"Isn't that what it is?" Pei Xia exclaimed, his voice deliberately low, but just enough for the woman to hear.

"Really?" Wei Jiu pretended to be surprised.

"Isn't it! Didn't you see the words written on the monument when we came? ”

Wei Jiu wanted to say more, Pei Xia "shh

"Say no more. Have you rested, let's hurry up on the road after resting, I don't know if we can get to Peiling before dark. It was too late to set off, and I listened to the old man's nonsense on the way, saying that there was a shortcut in Liujia Village in Yutian, but I didn't go there, and I caught up with the county government to investigate the case and delayed it for half a day, which was unfortunate and time-consuming, and I went around the road and delayed it for two days, and I couldn't catch up with my uncle's birthday if it was too late. ”

"Take a rest a little longer, sister, I really can't walk."

"You are a man, why are you so useless, get up and get ready to go!"

Pei Xia got up to pull Wei Jiu, Wei Jiu refused to get up, and while the two were pulling, the woman suddenly asked, "Where did the two of you come from?" ”

Hooked!

Pei Xia was secretly happy in his heart, and replied silently: "The two of us are from Qiuzhou, and we are going to Peiling County, and I just want to ask my aunt, how far is it from Peiling County?" ”

"How did you come here from Qiuzhou to Peiling County? That's the wrong way. ”

"Isn't it!" Pei Xia was shocked, and hurriedly went to pull Wei Jiu again: "You get up quickly!" We may not be able to catch up. ”

Pulling up Wei Jiu, Pei Xia was about to say thank you and say goodbye to the woman, and the woman stayed: "It's almost noon, my family has cooked a meal, otherwise the two of you will leave after eating." ”

"What's so embarrassing about that." Pei Xia said: "Thank you for your kindness, it's just that the two of us are really in a hurry." ”

"This place is already very close to Peiling County, and it will take less than two hours for the two of you to travel faster." The woman still wanted to keep it, but Pei Xia insisted on refusing.

The woman saw that Pei Xia really refused, and even felt that the two of them happened to be passing by in a hurry, so her vigilance was completely gone, so she asked Pei Xia: "I just heard that the two of you seem to have mentioned some dead people in Liujia Village?" ”

"Well, we've only heard about this, so we can't take it seriously."

Pei Xia showed a look of reluctance to say more, the woman's brows were deeply furrowed, her expression was not only curious, but also worried, and asked again and again, Pei Xia saw it in her eyes, deliberately prevaricated a few times before pretending to be impatient to ask and replied: "It's on the mountain near Liujia Village." We didn't go there, but on the way we heard an old man say that there is a mountain near Liujia Village, and there is a cave on the mountain that can lead to Laoshu Village, which is not far from Peiling County, and it is a shortcut road. Who knew that when I went to inquire, not only was the cave long gone, but there were also dead people on the mountain. ”

"You mean the dead man's is the mountain that used to have caves?" The woman's voice trembled.

"Yes! As soon as my brother heard that the government was handling the case there, he had to go to see the excitement, and as a result, the two of us were interrogated by the government for a long time. ”

"Little brother, what is the name of the person who died first?"

"Liu Wu." Wei Jiu replied: "Those people said that he originally lived in Laoshu Village, do you know him, auntie?" ”

The woman's face was full of panic and she said, "I don't know, I don't know!" Let's go! ”

Then she couldn't help but say something, and pushed Pei Xia and Wei Jiu out of the courtyard gate.

"Miss Pei, is this considered a success?" Wei Jiu asked Pei Xia quietly. He has already said according to what Pei Xia taught him, this is his first time acting, and he doesn't know if he has revealed any flaws.

"It's done, it's a good performance, let's just wait to watch the show." Pei Xia beckoned to him, and the two went around to the back of the courtyard, quietly climbed in, and hid behind the house.

When the woman had pushed them out of the door, she walked up and down the courtyard, looking very disturbed. Not long after, footsteps were heard outside the courtyard gate, and the woman went to open the door, and it was a man of fifty or sixty years old, who was supposed to be her husband.

"Why are you flustered?" The man looked at her a little inexplicably.

"Liu Wu, Liu Wu is dead!" The woman trembled and said, "It's on the mountain!" ”

"Didn't Liu Wu's family move away? Where did you hear all this nonsense? ”

"It's not nonsense. Just now, a pair of sisters and brothers who were going to the county seat came from Liujia Village, saying that Liu Wu died on the mountain over there, and the government was investigating! ”

The man also changed color when he heard this, and the hoe was still on the ground, and he was silent for a long time.

"Ah Ruan, we Ah Ruan won't have an accident, right...... After all these years, I thought I was fine...... What's going on......"

"No, haven't we already let Ruan go elsewhere." The man comforted her.

"Liu Wu also moved away, but he still had an accident, I'm worried, I'm worried that the mountain god has started eating people again!"

"Maybe it was an accident, don't be suspicious."

"No, how can it be so coincidental, it was no one else who died, it was him, and he died on that mountain. No, let's talk to the patriarch about this! ”

The two hurriedly finished eating at home and went out. In broad daylight, Pei Xia and Wei Jiu didn't dare to follow too closely, so they only found a big tree from a distance and climbed it to hide, and saw that not long after the man came out of a house with a larger house, and knocked on the doors of each house, as if to inform something. Later in the day, they all gathered in the ancestral hall of the village.

Pei Xia and Wei Jiu approached the ancestral hall, Pei Xia peeked in against the entrance of the ancestral hall, while Wei Jiu climbed to a tree a little farther away to watch the wind for her.

In the ancestral hall, an old man stood in the middle, and on either side of him sat a row of people, all in their fifties and sixties, and the woman and her man from before were also there.

"Amei, you tell everyone about it." The old man spoke.

The woman from before stood up and told everyone what she had heard from Pei Xia and them.

Hearing the news of Liu Wu's death, whispers rang out in the ancestral hall. Some looked panicked, while others wept and muttered names.

Pei Xia had read the file and knew that the names of those teenagers who had disappeared that year should be the parents who had lost their children back then, while some people with worried faces might have been like the woman before, their own children had escaped, but they were worried about whether it would be their turn next.

"Coincidentally, it's been okay all these years, how can you suddenly start making trouble again?"

The one who spoke was given a sideways glance by the patriarch.

"What the hell are you doing, it's the god of the mountains!"

"Yes, yes." The man who spoke earlier shouted.

"Maybe it's because we've stopped sacrificial ...... years," another guessed worriedly. His speculation was shared by some, but others insisted that it was a coincidence.

In the end, the patriarch spoke out to stop everyone's argument.

"Whether it's a coincidence or not, in order to bless the safety of the living, everyone will go back and prepare later, and tonight we will go up the mountain to worship the mountain god."

"How could the mountain god be troubled?" Wei Jiu was confused when he heard the news that Pei Xia overheard, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Pei Xia also wondered in his heart, these villagers act mysteriously, this legend of the mountain god really has a hidden secret, even if it is to worship the mountain god, there is no need to be so urgent, not to mention how can there be a big night to go up the mountain to worship the god?

She and Wei Jiu stayed outside the village, waiting until it was dark and there was no movement.

"Could it be that you heard me wrong?" Wei Jiu was puzzled, he still couldn't figure out the relationship here.

"Impossible." Pei Xia was very confident in her five senses, "Wait." ”

The only way up the hill was there, and they couldn't miss it with the villagers.

The two waited until they were approaching, and when Wei Jiu was a little sleepy, they finally saw a team of people coming out of the village with a few baskets.

"It's coming!" Pei Xia patted Wei Jiu, and Wei Jiu became energetic. The two hid behind a tree and waited for the group to pass before following them.

The dark night gave Pei Xia and Wei Jiu the best cover, and the people of Laoshu Village didn't notice that they were being followed all the way.

No one spoke along the way, and the atmosphere was eerily quiet, except for the occasional thrashing sound in the basket, which seemed to be filled with some living creature.

After a long time of incense, the team finally stopped in front of a small earthen bag.

The leader was a strong man, who took out a knife from his body, and a few roosters from the baskets he had brought, and a black dog, whose mouth was tied with strips of cloth, no wonder he didn't hear a sound along the way.