Is there a green glow on the riverbed?

My heart jumped slightly, and a voice appeared in my head, but refused to connect the two things.

Even though he kept advising himself not to cause trouble in this place, he couldn't help but ask softly, "Nothing else besides these?" ”

The man smiled and said, "There is a person who said that there is a treasure buried under the riverbed of Erdaokou, and I don't know anything else." ”

I saw that this man had a lot of potential to tell stories, so I took out a whole box of Chinese cigarettes, but as soon as I stuffed the cigarettes into his hand, the gong on the side of the ancestral hall rang again.

"I have to go."

The man muttered, told me to stay in the courtyard and wait for him to come back, said that he would stay here for a wedding banquet in the evening, and then put the cigarette in his arms, opened the courtyard door and slipped away.

I sat at the door and listened to the dense footsteps outside the door, and thought for a long time, the haunted Erdaokou that this man said was not the place where Jin Zhenbang told me to find the surname Ji, could there be such a coincidence?

This possibility is too low, I frowned, could it be that the reason why Jin Zhenbang asked me to hand things over to people during the day and have to leave before dark is actually because of this?

But since that man knows Erdaokou, why would he lie to me that he is in the back mountain col?

The main thing I can tell if a person is a liar is the way he speaks. If the man deliberately lied to me, then he would definitely not mention the matter of Erdaokou to me, make up such a long story, and there is no need for me to stay in the courtyard and not let me go out, I believe what he said should be true. Then the things in the riverbed of the two mouths, whether there are buried treasures or not, whether they are haunted, you have to think about it.

I thought of the old professor from Beijing, the old professor's surname was Gu, and the old experts from the University for Nationalities must have worked hard to know something in this poor and remote place, and I wondered if I would have the opportunity to meet him and ask him what was going on with these two crossings, but I didn't know where he and that student were now, and whether they would like to help me find a favor.

Sitting at the door and waiting for a while, I heard the footsteps outside gradually subside, I stood up and opened the door a crack, and saw that there was no one on the road, so I opened the door directly, and the cat's waist went out.

When chatting with the man before, I noticed that when he mentioned Erdaokou, his eyes always glanced to the west inadvertently, thinking that Erdaokou should be in this direction, but before he could run far, he heard a woman's sobbing sound in the silent village, which floated into his ears leisurely.

The voice is as low as a small sob, as if it is afraid of being heard, and it is a bit like a child crying, it should not be very old, and it sounds very aggrieved.

I thought that everyone in the village was staying in the ancestral hall at this time, and I heard a cry and almost fell to the ground with a weak stomach, but if I listened carefully, the source of the sound was in a house on the side of the road, close to me, two steps away.

So far, this remote river village has given me the feeling that it is strange except for being ancient, I really don't want to stay here for long, and I don't plan to meddle in their affairs, so I hurriedly sent the things home before dark, but after a moment's hesitation, reason was finally overcome by curiosity, I crutched to the back of the house where the cry came, reached out against the wall, poked my head out and aimed into the courtyard.

Unlike the man's house, the yard in front of me is very clean, there are no piles of debris, and even the newly paved bluestone bricks on the ground are spotless, and they are almost catching up with the hygiene in my shop.

It's just that in the middle of the courtyard squatted a girl in red clothes, with her hands on her knees, her eyes were red, her head was trembling, and her fair cheeks were covered with tears.

I saw that the red dress that this girl was wearing should be a wedding dress, and I thought that she was probably the bride who was going to get married today, but she looked too young, and she felt that she was fourteen or fifteen years old just by looking at it with her eyes, and her childishness had not completely faded, and it really didn't match the red wedding dress on her body.

As I looked at her, the girl looked up at me.

Looking at each other, I didn't expect the girl to be very excited, and stood up at once, her eyes were full of fear, her little face became a little deformed, and her eyes glanced to the side vigorously, I followed her gaze, and noticed that she was not the only one in the yard, and there were two people standing at the door, muttering something.

I couldn't hear what the two of them were saying because of the distance, but it wasn't a good thing to see the two of them sneaking around the door.

I easily thought of the news about the abduction and trafficking of women and children that I had seen in some newspapers and on television, and I was thinking about what to do next, when I saw a little girl in the yard walking towards me.

What is she going to do?

I stared at her, and the little girl's face was even more nervous than mine, and her body trembled, and before I could understand it, I saw her suddenly raise her hand, and a small white thing flew towards me quickly.

I subconsciously reached out to pick it up, but I forgot that I was now on the wall, and while grabbing the white point of light with my palm, my body suddenly fell backwards and fell to the ground.

"Who?"

Hearing an exclamation in the yard, I didn't care what I was holding in my hand, so I got up from the ground with a rolling belt, turned my head and ran in the direction of Erdaokou.

There was only one road in the village, and I walked around the back wall of the house, and just as I poked out my head, I saw a group of people coming out of the direction of the ancestral hall from a distance.

These villagers walked directly to the little girl's house, all of them were sturdy, with sticks in their hands, without a trace of a smile on their faces, and their eyes showed a strange look, like cult believers who had been brainwashed for a long time.

An old man in the lead said, "It's getting dark, let's get rid of all those people from the village, and don't let them spend the night here." The old man's voice was gurgling, like phlegm, very distinctive.

"I'll find someone to send him out later, but the woman hasn't been found yet, so it's probably hidden." The middle-aged man who followed him said.

The old man stood at the door and said to the middle-aged man: "The old man will keep it first, find out the woman before dark, and send it out together, if it's late, don't send it away." ”

The middle-aged man nodded: "Got it." ”

After the old man finished explaining, he pushed the door into the courtyard, the middle-aged man with a group of people guarded the door, I hid behind the courtyard wall and didn't dare to come out, I thought for a long time, took out the phone and sent a text message to Lao Rong, asking him to bring someone over tonight no matter what, otherwise I am afraid that my life will be in danger.

Originally, this text message should have been sent to Jin, considering that his current situation is also a bit unrealistic, in addition to this, there are really not many people I know in this industry, and if you want to say that the only person who has the ability, it is only Lao Rong who has just met.

Sitting under the wall, I looked at the time and put my phone back in my pocket, and began to think about what was happening in front of me, and at the same time unfolded the note in my hand, glanced down, and found that there were three words written on it: Take me away.

I held the note in my hand, took a deep breath, stood up, walked inside with my back against the wall, and after making sure that only these few people in the village were not in the ancestral hall, I rushed along the path in the village in the direction of Erdaokou.

There's still an hour left for me to finish my errands and get out of here by boat, and I don't think I'm a bad person, but as things stand, all I can do is get out of here as soon as possible and go back and find a way to rescue these people in the village.

I cursed Jin Yiyi in my heart while running, if it weren't for this grandson's greed, I wouldn't have fallen into this situation if I honestly opened a small shop, this broken village is so fucking weird, if I die here today, Jin Zhenbang and the thief will not recognize it again, there is really no one to collect the body.

Along the way, I passed many houses, all of which were courtyards, and there was no one in them, so I ran hard for about ten minutes, and when I escaped from the westernmost part of the village, I found that there was no road ahead.

The Haihe River bypasses here and is divided into two by a river beach ridge, one around the back mountain and the other diverts into the village irrigation canal to the south, which is the so-called Erdao estuary.

This is a typical fish-mouth embankment, which is a water-dividing structure similar to a fish's mouth commonly used in the ancient non-dam water intake hub project.

I stood on the shore and felt half cold, except for a dry ancient tree standing on the shore of the fish's mouth, I couldn't see half a ghost here, this so-called Mr. Ji, it wouldn't be this broken tree.

"Hey, over here!"

The sound of the rushing water came into my ears with a faint shout, and I turned my head to follow the sound, and I saw a figure hiding behind a dead tree, waving at me in a wry way.

"Come here!"

Seeing that I was standing there in a daze, and the figure came out from behind the tree, I realized that it was Professor Gu's student, so I hurriedly ran over.

"Why are you here?" I looked at her and asked.

Professor Gu's student, surnamed Tong, a girl from Xinjiang, with a pair of big watery eyes and long eyelashes, said to me, "Have you seen Professor Gu?" ”

I shook my head: "Professor Gu seems to have been caught by the people in the village, and they are still looking for you everywhere, why are you here?" ”

She stared at me and said, "Leave this alone, do you know what this village is going to do tonight?" ”

I was stunned: "What are you doing, isn't the village chief marrying a daughter?" ”

"It's not!" She looked at me and said, "Tonight, Hezi Village is going to carry out human sacrifices, and Professor Gu and I are here for this." ”