Finally, I asked about the colorful tiger and why there were so many people guarding outside the stockade.

Brother Niu said, everyone stays outside, is afraid that the colorful tiger will attack the village at night, it is a beast that will emit colorful light, it runs very fast, no one can see its appearance clearly, only know that it will shine, these months, the colorful tiger will run to the village every once in a while to eat livestock, even the cattle used for farming have been eaten by it, and if this continues, the people in the village will not be able to eat next year.

In addition, the people guarding the outside must not only beware of the colorful tigers, but also prevent the outside people from entering, and the reason for this is that my father, who has been missing for many years, once said a word to the Nojan Witch, and when he revisited his hometown five years ago, he told the Nojan Witch that the news of his arrival here may not be known by the people outside, and let the Nojan Witch be careful of those who come here to find him.

Not wanting to cause trouble, he issued an order that outsiders were not allowed to enter, especially at night, and that all outsiders must not enter the village.

Brother Niu also said that in the past five years, it is not that there have been no lost travelers, or some poverty alleviation volunteers have come here, but they have not been able to enter the village in the end, and those who come at night will be driven away by the villagers, and when they come during the day, the villagers will entertain them with wine and cigarettes, and then give them some food to send them away.

As for me, I am the son of a benefactor, so I can naturally stay in the stockade.

Listening to Brother Niu say so much, I vaguely realized that the reason why Hu Nanqian sent me here seemed to have made a wishful thinking a long time ago, she should know very well that only I can live in the village, and only I can get permission from Nuoja Dawu to enter the ghost cave.

After making trouble for a long time, I was put on the spot by Hu Nanqian again.

However, Hu Nanqian said that she did not know the local situation, which should be true, it can be seen from Xiao Heitian's matter, in Hu Nanqian's mouth, Xiao Heitian is our main opponent on this trip, but listen to Brother Niu's meaning, Xiao Heitian is not only not our enemy, but also very likely to provide us with some help when we enter the cave.

Judging from Brother Niu's description, this thing, which is called "Little Black Sky" by the locals, should be the legendary tengu.

There is a record in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Classic of the West Mountains": "Yin Mountain, there are beasts, its shape is like a pig and a white head, the name is called a tengu, its sound is like a pomegranate, and it can resist the evil." ”

To translate it slightly, the tengu is a beast with a white fur that looks like a tanuki or a fox, and it is also a good beast that can be used to ward off bad luck.

In the records of the old family's classics, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was indeed a community of tengu in Sichuan, and as soon as this strange creature appeared, it would cause a fire, which coincided with Brother Niu's words.

After about twenty minutes, we finally got out of the village, and there was no one else on the road, except for a dirty car that reflected in the moonlight and sometimes lost its silver light, and even the big man who had been standing on the roof of the car did not know where he had gone.

Li Huaishan probably saw someone coming out of the village, so he turned on the car lights, took a picture at the entrance of the village, and found that it was me, so he turned off the car lights and opened the door to come out.

"The back compartment may have been ripped open!"

Li Huaishan quickly said such a sentence after getting out of the car, and then went around the back of the car.

In the back compartment of the car, that is, the luggage compartment, all our luggage, as well as the "Sixty-four Hexagrams", "Ten Yangzhi", and "Luban Book" are all placed in it.

Hearing Li Huaishan say this, I was also a little anxious, so I hurriedly rushed to the back of the car, and saw that all the luggage was scattered on the ground, and several hand-copied books were also scattered on the ground.

I quickly squatted down and looked at these books, fortunately, the Shiyangzhi and Luban books were not damaged, and the sixty-four hexagrams of the Kongyun Dao Chang seemed to have been trampled on, but the cover of this book was made of hard kraft paper, and it was no big deal.

Li Huaishan put away the Ten Yangzhi and Luban Book, and when I built the Sixty-Four Hexagrams and was about to stuff it into the baggage bag, I found that the front cover was broken.

Yes, it was broken, but it was not broken into two, nor was it that there were more holes or something on it, but from the middle one to two, one piece of paper became two sheets of paper, and in the gap between these two pieces of kraft paper, there was a mezzanine.

I shook the book in my hand in the moonlight, and saw a palm-sized note with some words written on it in the middle of the cover, but the light was too dim to see the specific content.

At this moment, Brother Niu also ran over and asked me what was wrong, I immediately put away the sixty-four hexagram notes, turned back to him and said, "It's nothing, it's just a little thing that has fallen." ”

Li Huaishan said while packing up the things on the ground: "What is the matter, the cigarettes I put in my bag, and some cash, I can't find it." ”

Brother Niu suddenly frowned: "Someone stole your things?" ”

I smiled and waved my hand, "It's okay, it's all inconsequential." ”

Compared with inheritance, a few cigarettes and a little money are, of course, inconsequential things.

But Brother Niu didn't think so, he asked Li Huaishan directly: "How many cigarettes have you lost, and how much is it?" ”

Li Huaishan threw the duffel bag into the car with an unhappy face: "A soft China, three thousand yuan." No, I just can't figure it out, how can I get into a fight and still take that thing with me, doesn't the thief go empty? ”

This guy has no sense of proportion, I was afraid that something would make a mess, so I glared at him in vain, Li Huaishan shrank his head and stopped talking.

Brother Niu looked a little embarrassed, and said to me hesitantly: "If you don't worry, I will definitely help you find what you lost, and the teacher will also help." ”

In order to change the topic, I patted Li Huaishan on the shoulder and said to Brother Niu: "This is Li Huaishan, you can call him Li Ergou, he is my best friend and my assistant." ”

After finishing, he said to Li Huaishan: "This is Brother Niu, a disciple of Nuoja Dawu." ”

Li Huaishan put the last luggage bag in the back of the car, and then walked over quickly, looked Brother Niu up and down, and gave Brother Niu a smile: "You are Brother Niu?" When I was fighting outside, I heard the big man call your name. ”

Brother Niu smiled when he saw Li Huaishan, and he also laughed: "He is not called a big man, his name is Yoda." In your words, he should be my senior brother, but he is not a nobleman, his ancestors have been our slaves for generations, and the name Yoda was also given to him by the teacher, and his surname is ......."

Li Huaishan interrupted him halfway: "Slave? Did I hear me right, but you're still a slave society? ”

Niu Ge said: "We didn't have slaves here until the fifties, but there are some things, how to say, by the way, that word should be called deep-rooted, I and Yoda are good brothers, he is very Li Huaishan, he is a capable person, but in the village, there are still many nobles who think he is a slave and look down on him." ”

It's really an eye-opener, the words "noble" and "slave" actually come out of the mouths of modern people.

I couldn't imagine what life would be like for the locals.

I was afraid that Li Huaishan's conversation box would open and he would ask endless questions, so I took the initiative to put a break in the conversation between the two of them: "The road in the village is very wide, you can drive in, what about Lao Chen?" ”

Li Huaishan: "This old guy, when he was besieged just now, he was calmer than me, but when the people dispersed, he collapsed all of a sudden, and now he can't move his legs, and he is hiding in the car and smoking." Okay, what, get in the car, I've got to find a flat place to fix the car. ”

After speaking, Li Huaishan beckoned to Brother Niu again: "You can come up too." ”

I didn't think much about it, I immediately opened the co-pilot's door, got into the car, Brother Niu's movements were a little slower, and after I sat down, he opened the back door.

At that time, Lao Chen was sitting near the right window, and Brother Niu opened the left door, and at a glance he saw the hammer and the size black shrunk in the seat.

I looked at the situation behind me in the rearview mirror, and I panicked all of a sudden, because I saw that Brother Niu was stretching out a finger, intending to poke Xiao Hei, and Xiao Hei would be sleeping soundly, and he didn't notice that the car door was opened, and the hammer woke up, but it just glanced at Brother Niu, and then began to stretch his waist as if nothing happened.

Seeing that Brother Niu's finger was about to poke Xiao Hei's body, I immediately turned around and grabbed his wrist: "Don't touch it!" ”

As soon as they saw someone getting into the car, they immediately leaned inside, leaving a place where people could sit, but the hammer didn't seem to want Brother Niu, a stranger, to get into the car, so he immediately jumped to the door of the car, staring at Brother Niu, looking at it like that, as long as Brother Niu dared to get in the car, it would greet Brother Niu with teeth and claws.

Brother Niu didn't seem to see the hammer, and raised his chin towards the big and small black: "What is this?" ”

Before I could speak, Li Huaishan looked in the rearview mirror and said with a smile: "They are all pets, I advise you not to have too close contact with them, you definitely don't want to experience that kind of sourness." ”

I swept the situation in the back seat and sighed helplessly: "Forget it, let's walk over." ”

After speaking, I got out of the car, and Lao Chen also shouted: "I will also go out to breathe." And it came down.

In this way, Lao Chen and I walked towards the end of the village under the guidance of Brother Niu, and Li Huaishan drove alone behind him.

Brother Niu seems to be very interested in Big and Small Black, and keeps asking me about Big and Little Black, asking me why Big and Little Black are black all over their bodies, why they don't have faces, why they look like villains, what kind of animals they are, and whether they can speak.

He was very curious, I hadn't drunk much water for a whole day, my mouth was dry, and my heart was a little impatient, but I still answered his questions one by one.

Seriously, I really don't want to hurt such a pure-hearted person.

Lao Chen was probably frightened by the angry villagers, and he kept smoking along the way, and my mouth was dry, and his cigarette was very choking, which made me very unhappy.

Brother Niu saw that Lao Chen kept smoking, so he asked me if I smoked.

I said smoking, but it wasn't much of an addiction.

I don't know if there was something about this sentence that stimulated Brother Niu, and then he fell silent.

(End of chapter)