There is even an inn in such a place.

The ancient mother-in-law glanced at the threshold, lowered her voice and said to me: "The people of Jiuli and Eighteen Mountains will enter the Yin Village through here every year, and the mountain road behind them is not easy to walk. At the beginning, the people of the Eighteen Mountains came and stayed in the homes of the kind villagers, and later they came more, and the villagers felt that they were profitable, so they built such an inn. ”

I said, "Outsiders always come here, won't the people in the stockade be suspicious?" ”

"Some people are suspicious," Granny Gu nodded: "Later, the people of the Eighteen Mountains all claimed that they were driving the mountain, saying that there were many precious medicinal materials and ingredients in the mountain, and these things were not ripe until winter, and they wanted to transport those things out when they entered the mountain." ”

I couldn't help pouting: "Can such a clumsy excuse be fooled?" ”

Granny Gu smiled: "You are careful, this is a good thing, but the trouble is troublesome, you think too carefully about everything, and there are many questions, and it is troublesome for me to explain." ”

In fact, there are some things, she doesn't say, I can figure it out myself, after all, the people from Jiuli and Eighteen Mountains are either wizards or Gu masters, and it is still very easy to use some small tricks to deceive these villagers who have not cultivated.

But I still don't understand one thing: "Mother-in-law, when we entered the village, you said that if ten people came in together, it would definitely make the locals suspicious, and if we came in in groups, the locals would treat us as honored guests." But what does this mean, and why can't I understand it? ”

"If you don't understand, you don't understand."

Granny Gu smiled slightly, looked at me, and then looked at Lin'er who was holding her, Lin'er blushed and quickly lowered her head.

Seeing Lin'er's appearance, I was a little confused at first, and then suddenly remembered that when I was in Hainan, Granny Gu seemed to ask me if I was married.

She wouldn't have deliberately separated the others so that I could have a chance to be alone with this girl named Lin'er.

I'm also convinced, when did you say it's now, why is Granny Gu still thinking about these things in her heart!

The people in the store probably heard the conversation outside, so they took the initiative to run out to greet customers.

At that time, the person who came out of the threshold was a man in his forties, this man was very solid, with a wide back, thick shoulders, and a pair of big hands that looked very powerful, but this man's face was very kind, and as soon as he came out of the door, his eyes narrowed into two slits, and he smiled at us: "Eat or stay?" ”

Probably because the three of us were wearing civilian clothes, and the man thought that we were all Han, so he spoke a non-standard Mandarin, but fortunately he could still understand it.

Granny Gu said, "Prepare two rooms for us, get some food, and let us fill our stomachs." ”

The man nodded sharply, turned around and walked towards the store.

The moment he turned around, the eyes that had just been squinted were completely opened, and I couldn't help frowning sharply at the sight of his eyes.

This man's pupils don't seem to focus, his gaze looks glazed, and if I don't look at his movements, just those eyes, I might think he's a fool who has lost his mind.

I glanced at Granny Gu, who made a silent gesture at me and whispered, "Look again." ”

What to look at again?

While talking, Granny Gu was helped by Lin'er to cross the threshold, and I followed in.

As I said earlier, this place is an inn.

It's an inn, not a hotel, because when I was outside the door just now, I found that the decoration and furnishings in the store are very similar to the old inn in ancient times, and it is also a canteen as soon as you enter the door, which is full of benches and gray wood tables, and there is a staircase on both sides of the canteen, and if you go up along the stairs, it should be a guest room, and the whole store is made of wooden structure, as soon as you cross the threshold, there is an illusion of crossing time and space and returning to ancient times.

The man who went out to greet us just now walked behind the counter after entering the store, holding a pen to write and draw.

In addition to him, there was a guy in the store who was sweeping the floor with a broom.

There was also a small door on the left side of the counter, and a two-foot-long wooden board hung on top of the door, on which was written the words "Commissary".

Granny Gu picked a table in the center of the dining hall and said that she should sit here.

When I looked up at the tabletop, I saw that it was covered with a layer of dust, and even the four benches around the table had not been taken care of for a long time, and the dust was badly accumulated.

I remember when I first came in, there was a table at the door that was very clean, why didn't Granny Gu sit there, she had to find such a dirty table.

I looked at Granny Gu suspiciously, and my mother-in-law just smiled at me: "Look again." ”

Even though I had doubts, I took out my hand towel and carefully wiped the table and bench, and the guy who was cleaning up in the store didn't even come to help.

After sitting down, the qi and blood on my body gradually calmed down, and I felt a faint coolness behind me, which felt like a lot of sweat on my back, and a gust of wind pressed over and blew all the sweat cold.

But there was no sweat on my back.

"This place is a bit evil." I spat out briefly, then looked over to the counter.

When I entered the store, I saw the man writing and drawing behind the counter, and my vision was blocked by the partition of the counter, and I couldn't see what he was doing.

His pen didn't fall completely, it just hung in the air, dangling with his wrist as if he were really writing.

During this time, I paid attention to the man's eyes, which were sometimes very dull, and sometimes suddenly they became shining, like a madman who was about to go crazy.

Could this guy be evil?

Thinking so in my heart, I tried to look at his three souls and seven spirits, but I didn't expect his soul to be very complete.

But I don't know why, when I peeked at his soul with the quicksand of the Qi Sea, although his soul was complete, I still felt that something was wrong.

Bang dang!

The guy in the shop accidentally kicked over a bench, and I frowned and looked away.

I saw that the man first helped the bench up, and then trotted all the way to the door of the store, and wiped the table and chair on the left side of the threshold several times.

That table was the only clean table in the entire dining hall.

The more I felt that something was wrong, I fixed my eyes on the guy.

After he finished wiping the table, he picked up the broom again, swept around the dining hall, and then ran to the same table, and wiped it again and again with a rag, and on the way to the table, his leg accidentally touched a bench, knocking the bench over the spot, making a muffled "clang" sound, and a lot of dust was raised on the ground.

After wiping the table several times, he picked up the broom again and swept it around the dining hall......

During this time, I paid close attention to this guy's eyes, and like the man at the counter, his eyes were sometimes very dull, sometimes very manic.

This guy's soul is also complete.

No wonder I felt that the atmosphere was wrong when I first entered the village, and when I recalled the few pedestrians I met on the road, they all seemed to have similar eyes, but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time.

"Is there any rice wine?"

"Yes, how many do you want?"

"Let's make a pot, more soup, less rice."

Someone was talking at the door, and I looked sideways to see a withered man standing on the threshold, one arm resting on the doorframe, the other raised, and carrying a terracotta jar covered with nets.

He was talking to the man at the counter just now.

This person stood in the light, I couldn't see the expression on his face clearly, I just felt that the accent and tone of his speech were very weird, he just spoke Mandarin, but the pronunciation was extremely non-standard, the word rice wine, when he said it in his mouth, sounded similar to "Mo porridge". It is said that he and Hanzi are both locals, so it is reasonable to use the local dialect when communicating. What was even more unpleasant was his tone, extremely stiff and wooden, like the noise of a scraper scraping on glass.

The man behind the counter took the jar and entered the commissary.

The man at the door came in, and he turned his face sideways, and I finally saw his eyes.

A pair of pupils are completely dilated, like the eyes of a dead man.

My heart tightened, and I immediately sensed the other party's three souls and seven spirits, his seven souls were all complete, but the human souls in the three souls seemed to have been encroached upon by some kind of cannibalization and became very weak.

Is this the rhythm of corpse transformation, but how can a living person be corpse transformed!

I whispered to Granny Gu, "What's wrong with the people in the village?" ”

Granny Gu looked quite helpless: "I'm just speculating now, they may have fallen into a very strange Gu, this kind of Gu even I can't solve, in March this year, the people of the Eighteen Mountains set up a witch Gu array here, wanting to see if they can temporarily suppress the Gu things on the villagers, but now look at it, the array that was laid out at the beginning doesn't seem to be of much use." ”

I couldn't help frowning: "Have all the people in the village become like this?" ”

Granny Gu nodded, her face a little heavy.

At this time, Lin'er spoke: "If you don't solve the Gu for the villagers, after a while, something big will definitely happen!" ”

I looked up at her, "What's going to happen?" ”

Unexpectedly, when I looked at her like this, Lin'er blushed and lowered her head again.

What do you call it? I didn't say anything bad, she was so ashamed!

The atmosphere at that time was quite awkward, and it happened that two people came to the kitchen and brought us food, that is, these two people were sandwiched between me and Lin'er, which eased the atmosphere.

I said to one of the food deliverers, "Why is this a food that has been delivered, and we haven't ordered it yet?" ”

The other party ignored me, put down the plate and hurried away.

I frowned and looked at Granny Gu, who stared at the food with a blue face.

(End of chapter)