Before I met the head of the empty cloud and Zhang Zhenren, I always thought that people like them should be like the second master, with a sense of power in every gesture, and getting along with them should feel a lot of pressure.

But after getting along, I realized that their usual appearance was no different from the old people sitting in the village basking in the sun and chatting, and even chatting a lot, and I could feel a different kind of warmth from them.

This warmth seems to come from their expectations for me, a junior, and it is also possible that they treat every junior like this.

Yao Xuanzong and Second Master are both the kind of people with very strange tempers, they are not as close as Kongyun Daochang and Zhang Zhenren, but after getting along with them for a long time, you will also find that although they treat juniors harshly, when they worry about your affairs, they often work tirelessly, and they are not only superficial at all.

Sometimes I also think that in our industry, the reason why the older generation is respected by everyone is that generation and age are secondary, and what really impresses you is personality.

Yao Xuanzong's time to go to the tomb was very short, and before the moon sank into the West Mountain, he came back to join us.

Zhang Zhenren seemed to have expected when he would come out early in the morning, and when Yao Xuanzong climbed the cliff, Zhang Zhenren was taking me to hang out near the ancestral hall.

"All cleaned up?" As soon as he saw Yao Xuanzong, Zhang Zhenren asked briefly.

Yao Xuanzong nodded: "It's considered to be dealt with." ”

Zhang Zhenren frowned slightly: "What do you mean?" ”

Yao Xuanzong said: "The pollen has been disposed of, but there are too many corpses in the tomb, and I can't handle it alone." Let's go back and let Lao Bai bring someone over. ”

I interjected and asked, "Who is Lao Bai?" ”

Yao Xuanzong: "The people in your organization, by the way, I heard Zhuang Youxue, and you have been in contact with him a lot recently?" ”

I said, "It's not a regular contact, but sometimes, when I encounter something that is difficult to solve, I can only ask him for help." ”

Yao Xuanzong sighed and said, "If you have anything to do in the future, don't bother to learn, the funeral sect has been making a lot of trouble in the past two years, and he is almost too busy." What, I'll give you Lao Bai's phone number when I go back, he's a big idler, just look for him if you have anything. ”

Zhang Zhenren asked him: "How many corpses are in the tomb, are they burial corpses?" ”

"It's not for burial," Yao Xuanzong clasped his hands and said thoughtfully: "This tomb should have been built in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, but the corpses inside were all dressed in Manchu costumes, and they were all skinned raw." ”

Zhang Zhenren pondered for a moment and said, "Could it be that the matter of the puppeteer is true?" ”

Yao Xuanzong nodded: "It should be true that he killed people and made puppets, but this guy shouldn't have died back then, if I guessed correctly, the flower corpse in the tomb is him." You've been around the village for so long, what have you discovered? ”

Zhang Zhenren responded: "This village was abandoned only 30 years ago. From the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance to the end of the seventies of the last century, the people of the village should have cut off contact with the outside world, for unknown reasons. ”

Yao Xuanzong: "When I went to the tomb, I have been thinking about the old cat and the landmine, if I am not wrong, their ancestors should also be from the village, but they left the village relatively early, and when they left, the master of the puppet maker had not yet started to kill." People who don't go around the mountains...... It may be that he wants to make a bone formation here, and the old cat's death should be the same as the death of the villagers at the beginning. ”

How did Yao Xuanzong and Zhang Zhenren speculate about these messy things?

I was a little dazed in my head, and I couldn't interject, so I could only stand by and listen in a daze.

I saw Zhang Zhenren nodded: "There is indeed such a possibility." Balth and they came all the way here, and it was definitely not just as simple as stealing the flowers. ”

Yao Xuanzong turned his head and asked me, "What did you do with the old cat's corpse?" ”

When he mentioned this, I remembered that the old cat's corpse had not been disposed of, and when I left the village, my mind was all on Li Huaishan, and I forgot about this stubble!

However, when Zhang Zhenren and I were walking around the village just now, we didn't see the corpse of the old cat.

Without waiting for me to speak, Zhang Zhenren spoke: "With the situation at that time, if it weren't for the fact that I didn't have time to deal with the old cat's corpse." ”

I said, "I really didn't have time to deal with it, but just now we also went to the place where the old cat's corpse was displayed, why didn't we see ......?"

Speaking of which, a stubby figure popped into my mind: Balth.

Zhang Zhenren thought of it together: "It must be Balth who transported his body away, this guy is very thoughtful, for fear that you will bring someone back to visit and erase the clues early in the morning." ”

Listening to Zhang Zhenren's meaning, Balth should still be alive.

I breathed a sigh of relief, but I also felt a little awkward.

Yao Xuanzong said to Zhang Zhenren: "What happened here, I'm afraid it's not that simple, it seems that you have to find someone to check the history of the village." ”

Zhang Zhenren: "Let Lao Bai investigate, it's inconvenient for us to meddle in this kind of thing." ”

Yao Xuanzong nodded at first, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, and asked me without a beginning: "Li Huaishan's nickname, is it called Ergouzi?" ”

I said, "Ergou, there is no son." ”

"This kid, you're still chewing words with me," Yao Xuanzong smiled and said, "I'll give you a preventive shot first, Lao Bai is not very easy to get along with, he is a fierce tiger, and he is also a mad dog, notoriously short-tempered, and he bites whoever he catches." But it's hard to say, maybe he'll get along with you. ”

Just like you, are you embarrassed to say that others are grumpy? You should be the one who catches and bites whom!

Thinking so in my heart, I don't dare to say more, after all, people are elders.

But I didn't say it, naturally Zhang Zhenren helped me speak: "Lao Bai's temper has been much better than in the past two years, you think they are all like you, and they bite when they see people." ”

Yao Xuanzong glared at that time: "Hey, you still raised the bar, didn't you?" I kindly reminded him, why did you seize the opportunity to take advantage of me? ”

Zhang Zhenren: "What do you have to take advantage of, thinking that you are a yellow flower girl?" ”

It's really an eye-opener, Zhang Zhenren can actually say such a thing!

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Zhenren himself seemed to feel that it was not appropriate, and coughed twice pretendedly, and then changed the topic and said to me in a relatively gentle tone: "But then again, Lao Bai is indeed very evil, and Xuanzong is also evil, but the two of them are different. Lao Bai has a nickname, called Bai Lao Dog, and he usually lives well, but as long as someone annoys him, he will be entangled to death. ”

"What do you mean that I am also evil, how many do you mean this?" Yao Xuanzong sighed very unhappily: "Forget it, I don't have the same knowledge as you. ”

When he was done, he said to me again: "The old dog usually doesn't bite people, but once he bars his teeth, it is to bite to death, this guy has no bottom line at all, you have to be careful." ”

Li Ergou, Bai Laogou, what kind of life do you say I am, why do you always have to get entangled with four-legged things.

Zhang Zhenren said: "If you have a school, if you can't count on it, you can still help Ruofei now, and it will be in vain." It doesn't matter if you get along well or not, you have to give it a try. ”

Yao Xuanzong nodded: "That's right." ”

While talking, Yao Xuanzong and Zhang Zhenren walked towards the entrance of the village, and I stood behind them and asked, "Are you leaving?" ”

Yao Xuanzong turned his head and glanced at me: "If you don't leave, you still want to spend the night here?" ”

I originally thought that it would take at least a day or two to revisit my hometown this time, but I didn't expect that in just a dozen hours, we would return to Tangjiazhuang again.

Or that people are people who stand at the top of the industry, and the efficiency is really not ordinarily high.

Seeing that it was already getting late, I was also afraid that the two old men would be tired, so I proposed to settle down in Tangjiazhuang for one night and return to Wushan after noon.

It was originally a good intention, but I didn't expect to be scolded by Yao Xuanzong, what to say, looking at my young age, I only tossed for more than ten hours and shouted to rest, there is no young man should look like a young man at all, and then Yao Xuanzong also sighed, saying that the young people of our generation have no hard-working spirit at all, and they can't compare with when they were young.

What is good heart as a donkey's liver and lungs, this is.

What's even more embarrassing is that Yao Xuanzong's seniority is too high, and I can't quarrel with him, whether he is right or not, I have to carry it around, and I have to make an appearance of humbly accepting criticism.

What do you call it?

Fortunately, Yao Xuanzong didn't toss me for too long, when I drove the car back to Wushan County, he took Zhang Zhenren to take a long-distance bus, and on the way to come, he gave me Lao Bai's phone number, and asked me not to take the initiative to contact Lao Bai, saying that when the matter of the deserted village was clarified, Lao Bai would naturally take the initiative to contact me.

The two of them took a long trip to Sichuan, and I watched them leave the station all the way before driving back to the hotel.

In view of Li Huaishan's physical condition, in the next period of time, I do not plan to take orders from Hu Nanqian again, so as to concentrate on recuperating for Li Huaishan.

According to the agreement between me and Gai Dong, in April this year, I still have to go to Kunming to find Lao Hu. Bao Youyou also told me in advance that in July, let me lead the team to Savage Mountain. I don't know how much time these two things will take me, and Li Huaishan's situation is also very worrying now, so it is estimated that I will not be able to take a few cases from Hu Nanqian before returning home.

The matter of the deserted village is still not very clear, and I guess I will have to involve some energy in the future.

The whereabouts of the Ice Grass became a mystery, and the shezi flower that was parasitic on Li Huaishan's body didn't know how long it would last. Originally, I was thinking about how to find the Ice Undergrass Grass, but I didn't know how, thinking about it, Wu Lin's figure appeared in my mind.

I was thinking, maybe he knew where the junction of the Yin and Yang worlds was, and the Raushzi quadruple space he had mentioned, maybe it was the place I was looking for.

It seemed that everything had become "maybe" and "uncertain", which made a mess in my mind.

Thinking about these things repeatedly, I had unconsciously driven the car to the door of the small hotel, when Hu Nanqian was standing on the curb of the road, chatting with the grasshoppers and mines, and when she saw me coming back, she waved at me through the window glass: "Come, if not, come and meet these two new friends." ”