Heavy snow covered the mountains and mountain villages all night.

From all around the village, there are five white peaks; Looking up from the village, a cage.

"Master, this is where Teacher Zhou fell off the cliff."

Jin Shan and Long Yang stepped on the thick snow to the site where Zhou Lan fell off the cliff, and the snow was covered in front of them, and the heavy snow buried everything, without a trace.

"It's not a good time to fall under the snow."

Jin Shanjing walked to the bottom of the cliff, picked up a handful of snow with his hand, and rubbed it vigorously against his face until the snow in his hand melted. Then Jin Shan carefully peeled off the snow with his hands, revealing the dead grass under the snow.

"Is this the place where Zhou Lan fell after falling off the cliff?"

"Yes, Master."

Long Yang hurriedly ran over and used his red little hand to open a place with Jin Shan. Although he didn't know what Jin Shan's intentions were, as long as he could know the cause of Zhou Lan's death, Long Yang would do it.

"Teacher, is this place big enough?"

"Boy, I just want to see the place, why are you so excited?"

"What are you looking at?"

"Location."

"Location?"

"Yes, it's the location."

After Jin Shan finished speaking, he looked up at the top of the mountain. He went from where he was standing to the bottom of the mountain, and from the bottom of the mountain to where he had been. After walking, the silent left back looked up and down again.

"Long Yang, how about we go to the top of the mountain and have a look?"

"Master, listen to you."

The master and apprentice stepped on the snow, held each other's hands, and walked to the peak.

"Longyang, pick up the snow on the top of the mountain, and be careful not to destroy what is under the snow. For example, the location of the stones, the marks on the ground. ”

"Okay."

Long Yang carefully cleaned up the ten meters radius near the top of the mountain, and retreated step by step. Jin Shan, who was next to him, watched Long Yang's movements, and couldn't help but nod with satisfaction, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and the ice slag on his beard clicked.

"Okay, you go to the side and wait, don't come here."

Jin Shan bent down and walked slowly towards the place that Long Yang had cleaned up. Instead of going straight inside, he walked around the bare ground, snorting from time to time.

At this time, Jin Shan was like an old hound, looking for prey. Long Yang on the side stared closely at Jin Shan's every move, for fear that he would miss any details.

Until the edge of the cliff, Jin Shan stopped, squatted down, looked carefully at the ground on the cliff, and from time to time drew something on the ground with his hands, shaking his head for a while, and nodding for a while.

Long Yang in the distance looked anxiously and kept looking.

"Master, have you found anything?"

"Master?"

shouted a few times, Jin Shan didn't seem to hear it, and gestured to himself.

Long Yang tried to walk to the edge of the cliff to see what Jin Shan was drawing on the ground.

"Master, what are you doing here?"

"Long Yang, come and see."

Long Yang hurriedly came to Jin Shan's side, followed the direction of Jin Shan's finger, and saw the gravel on the mountain.

"Master, isn't this just a little stone?"

"Hehe, it's a small stone. Long Yang, think about it, Lan came to Jin Village to enroll students this week, right? ”

"yes."

"Recruiting students into our Jin Village can take the road at the bottom of the mountain, how did she get to the top of the mountain?"

Hearing Jin Shan's question, Long Yang was like an initiation, and suddenly came to his senses. Yes, how did Teacher Zhou Lan get to the top of this hill in our village?

"Also, if she got lost or got to the cliff, how could she suddenly fall off the cliff?"

With Jin Shan's questioning, Long Yang felt that his observation and thinking were simply too far behind, too mentally retarded.

"Look again, I asked you to pick up the snow carefully so as not to damage the marks on the ground. This is a slightly smaller footprint, but whose is this big foot? ”

The rocks on the mountain are all hard and rarely leave footprints. After winter, the weeds and leaves of the mountains are left on the ground, blocking the fine sand blown by the wind, forming a shallow layer. Long Yang followed Jin Shan's guidance and saw the broken footprints on the ground.

"You said there were people there?"

"It's hard to know for sure yet."

"Look down the hill."

Long Yang walked to the edge of the cliff and looked down the mountain. It's all snow under the mountain, and there's nothing special about it.

"Master, there's nothing down the mountain?"

"Do you see the place you picked up down the hill?"

"Vaguely seen, what's wrong?"

"Think about it."

After Jin Shan finished speaking, he walked behind the sheltered rock at the top of the mountain, took out the wine jug in his arms, shook his head and squinted his eyes and drank the wine.

Thinking about it, Long Yang touched his head, leaned to the edge of the cliff again, and kept looking down. So high, what's there to think about? Teacher Zhou Lan fell from here, huh?

Long Yang suddenly sensed a problem, it should be almost a straight distance when he fell, how could it be so far away?

"Master! Master! ”

Long Yang ran quickly towards Jin Shan, and accidentally fell into a snow-gnawing style. Don't worry about wiping the snow off your body and face, "Phew! Long Yang spit out the snow water in his mouth and struggled to run towards Jin Shan.

"Master, Teacher Zhou Lan's direction has deviated a lot!"

"Yes, it's a lot off. Now the question is that we don't know why we deviate so much? ”

"yes, why?"

"Let's go, the situation here is already like this, there's nothing to see."

After Jin Shan finished speaking, he went down the mountain.

Could it be that Teacher Zhou Lan was not an accident, but someone hurt her?

What the hell is going on?

Seeing that Jin Shan had already walked away, Long Yang temporarily put down his thoughts and quickly followed.

"Buzz, boom!"

When the master and apprentice walked to the bottom of the mountain, the snow on the mountain collapsed, surging all the way down the top of the mountain.

"Master, look, there's an avalanche on the mountain!"

"yes, the snow on the mountains isn't that thick, how can it be? Long Yang, it seems that the two of us have come to the right place, Zhou Lan's death is not only strange, but also wronged. ”

"Long Yang, did you hear who found Zhou Lan when you came?"

"I heard that it was Li Orion from Li Village, and when I came, he had already gone to the county seat to report the case, and now he should be at home."

Long Yang recalled the conversation at that time and told the story of the incident.

"Okay, let's go to Li Village now!"

"Master, do you know where Li Village is?"

"Do you really think that your master is an old antique, staying at home, illiterate, boy, just follow me."

Jin Shan is really an old naughty boy sometimes, he doesn't care about everything, he doesn't care about anything, even a child like Long Yang feels that there is no way to take him. Hey, Master, when are you going to be serious?

The master and apprentice set foot on the road to Li Village again, and if Long Yang held his stomach, Jin Shan looked like he was ignoring it, and he didn't have a chance to say it.

"Master, you wait for me, don't you know that I am a child?"

Long Yang really couldn't keep up with Jin Shan's pace, and trotted all the way, complaining while running.

"I'll wait for you, you don't know I'm an old man, you're embarrassed to say."

"I, hey, Master, you should be old and strong, old and strong, old horses know the way, old people have support, suitable for all ages." Long Yang said breathlessly.

"Stinky boy, what are you talking about, for all ages?"

"Huh? Did I say that? ”

"Haha" Long Yang smiled and overtook Jin Shan and ran to the front.

"Hahahaha! , this kid! Jin Shan also smiled, like a few years younger, back to a few years ago.

At that time, he and Shaoyun were like this, forgetting the New Year! Hehe, now it's in this relationship with his son, hey! I'm not old! Jin Shan's mood has improved a lot.

"Master, is the village in front of you Li Village?"

When the two came to the place where more than a dozen families lived scattered, Long Yang was not sure.

"Yes, in fact, this is just a single family, just branches."

"Why don't you see anyone?"

Long Yang was the first to enter the village, the whole village was quiet, and the door was closed, and no one was active.

"Strange! Long Yang, knock on the door and take a look. ”

Jin Shan was also very puzzled when he saw this situation, although it was winter, he should always see someone! After all, everyone still has to live and work, at least someone should come out and do activities.

"Knock knock!"

"Anyone?"

Long Yang knocked on the door of the family.

"Anyone?"

No one responded, just a knock on the door.

"Master?"

Long Yang looked at Jin Shan.

"Next!"

"Anyone?"

Long Yang walked to the next house again and knocked on the door.

"Master, there is still no one."

"Let's go to the next one."

Long Yang then knocked on the door of every house, and no one in the whole village was at home, and no one in the whole village existed.

Long Yang looked at Jin Shan, and Jin Shan looked at the ancient trees in the village, the ancient locust trees full of red cloth!