Chapter 18: The Trial

"You've seen him." Sun Yang said.

It's not about asking questions, it's about stating facts.

Ba Youde did not deny it, but he did not take up his topic either.

"Shall you buy something?" He said with a smile.

"I can give you money, but you're going to tell me about him, where did he go? Where is it now? ”

"I don't know the answer to the question you're asking." Bayoude shook his head. "Except for Elder Barong, probably no one in the village knows where he has gone. I can tell you what he's done here, though. ”

"Wait a minute." Sun Yang said. He called Lu Xiaoling and asked her to come down with Xu Hai, and Xu Hai readily agreed to Ba Youde's request.

"The person you're looking for, his surname is Cao, right?" Ba Youde got five hundred yuan and happily opened a bottle of wine, but no one drank it except Li Yong. "He asked around about the amulet, and he took some pictures and showed them around, just like you."

"It's taboo." He said mysteriously. "Who dares to tell him?"

"Where did he go?" Xu Hai asked anxiously, he just wanted to rescue his father-in-law as soon as possible.

"I don't know, but I do know that he had a fight with Elder Barong before he went out, and Elder Barong said that he would definitely die in the mountains." Ba Youde said. "A lot of people in the village heard it. In this place, if Elder Barong said this, that person would definitely not live. ”

"He's alone?" Lu Xiaoling asked.

"I came with a man from another village, who must have been hired to help him carry his things, but he sent him away when he finally went up the mountain."

"What's on the mountain? Where will he go? Sun Yang asked.

Ba Youde shook his head: "How do I know this?" Nanyou Mountain is so big, who knows where he will go? ”

"That Elder Barong, will it be ......," Xu Hai suddenly asked in a low voice.

"Elder Barong?" Bayoude shook his head. "If he wants someone to die, he doesn't have to do it himself, and those things in the mountains will naturally come."

These words made Li Yong jump up suddenly: "Then we ......"

"Be careful yourselves." Ba Youde said.

Li Yong panicked all of a sudden, and Sun Yang ignored him, but continued to ask, "You say it's taboo to ask these things?" Why? ”

"It has something to do with those things in the mountains." Ba Youde said. "Don't ask me, the older generation knows it, but we don't know so much. Those things are very evil, if you don't respect them, you will be seriously ill at the least, who dares to ask questions? ”

"Ba Youde!" Someone outside suddenly came to buy something, Ba Youde's face changed suddenly, and he hurriedly walked out.

Sun Yang saw that the man said something to Ba Youde with a gloomy face, and his face changed suddenly.

"Hurry up!" He screamed in panic.

"What are you doing?" Lu Xiaoling asked in surprise. The man who came to buy something took advantage of this time to hurry away.

"You've killed me!" Ba Youde threw the money on Xu Hai. "You've been targeted by mountain ghosts, why didn't you tell me? You've killed me! ”

Sun Yang What else did they want to say, but Ba Youde pushed them out and locked the door from the inside.

"What does he mean? What are we targeted? Li Yong asked in a panic, but no one paid attention to him.

"We'll have to go find that Baron elder." Sun Yang said.

The group walked back to the big house, but was blocked out before they could enter the door.

"We're going to see Elder Barong!" Xu Hai said loudly.

"The elder said that if you lived until tomorrow morning, he would see you." The guard said coldly, as if looking at a group of dead people.

"There is really no royal law!" Xu Hai shouted loudly. "You're threatening me, aren't you? I'll call the police now! ”

"This is not your Han land." The guard sneered. "You're going to call the police? Let's see if the police dare to come! ”

Several men came out of the big house, holding their hands and looking at them coldly, Li Yong hurriedly persuaded Xu Hai to leave.

But Xu Hai still called his friend at the Linhai Police Department, but the other party called back a few minutes later and told him that it was best to leave here as soon as possible.

"That place is very bad, it was a little better when the anti-feudal superstition law was strictly enforced, and the local witch doctor elder power has been defeated a lot. But in the last decade, the power of the witch doctors and mage elders in these remote places has begun to rise again, and the local police can hardly control their business. ”

"They're so lawless?" Xu Hai asked in surprise.

"Unless it's a fatality, but in that kind of remote place, even if there is a fatality, no one will call the police, and almost no one will care. What are you doing in that kind of place? Hurry up and come out! ”

Xu Hai had no way to explain that his father-in-law was doing this, he could only ask the other party to tell the Kuishan police about his whereabouts for the record, which was more or less a little restrictive.

Li Yong regretted it so much that he quietly ran to find someone he knew, but the other party didn't dare to receive him, just told him to be careful tonight.

"What the hell is going to happen?" Li Yong shrank in the innermost part of the fire pond and kept asking, which made the driver nervous.

If it weren't for the fog on the mountain in the distance, he might have run away with Li Yong.

"It's going to be fine." Sun Yang comforted them. He gave each of them a talisman to carry with them, while Lu Xiaoling arranged a lot of charms around the yard and house.

Sun Yang checked his things, made a few torches out of wood and rags in the yard, and finally said. "Everyone stays in the hall tonight, don't panic if there is anything, don't run around, protect yourself with torches. It's up to me and Xiaoling to deal with everything! ”

At five o'clock, the two men before brought rice, bacon, and a small amount of vegetables, and they didn't seem to want to do anything to them, nor did they want to make things difficult for them, but wanted to see if they could withstand the test.

"Wait and see!" Lu Xiaoling sneered.

Dinner was tasteless, Li Yong and the driver shrank to the most walled part of the fire pit early, Sun Yang wanted to tell him that the earthen foundation wall might be more dangerous, but he still didn't say anything.

He went into the yard and dragged in a few large logs, which should be enough to burn until dawn.

After dark, the temperature suddenly became very cold, and several people did not have anything to say at first, but time passed little by little, until nine o'clock, nothing happened.

Everyone had been tense and tired, and Sun Yang suddenly laughed: "I knew that this was the case, and I would have slept for a while after eating." ”

Li Yonghe and the driver smiled reluctantly.

"It's not a way to go on like this, you either have to sleep with your clothes and have time to react to anything."

But Li Yong, how could they sleep?

Sun Yang smiled, didn't care about them, and sat cross-legged.

At the end of a week, his spirit was completely back to its peak state, Lu Xiaoling was adding firewood to the fire, and Li Yong and the others had already fallen asleep.

"Aren't you going to rest for a while?" He asked Lu Xiaoling.

Lu Xiaoling shook her head: "I'm not tired." ”

At that moment, there was a sudden sound of something stepping on something heavy outside the house.

"Smack!"