> Liu Wengen complained about it, Nima's eight lambs, when will the wires be pulled here. How do you live without lights? I didn't wash my feet and face, and I had to fumble and undress before I could sleep.

There are two heads on the kang, crowded together.

Outside the window, there was the sound of night bugs, 'chirping', and the cries of the gnats hiding in the pumpkin flowers. To Zhong Kui's ears, these sounds are the most beautiful lullaby at night in the mountain village.

But to Liu Wengen's ears, it became a disturbing drum noise. He lay on the hard kang, tossing and turning, unable to sleep......

There was a sound of snoring soundly in the north room, and Zhong Kui suddenly heard something, and in the silence he turned over and sat up. Zhang Huang looked at the dark space in a daze, and when he erected his ear ring and heard the sound of a wooden door opening, he was even more sure that there was a problem outside the house.

When Zhong Kui heard the movement, he vigorously used his elbow to poke Liu Wengen, who was asleep against the wall. The evil thing is that he stabbed him with his elbow several times, but he didn't wake up this guy.

Zhong Kui estimated whether it would be the thief's move, thinking that he couldn't wait for Liu Wengen to wake up, so he hurriedly got up and put on a piece of clothing, and tiptoed out.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Zhong Kui took a step, a slight barking sound came from the corner of the courtyard dam. With a bark, a black shadow rushed out of the corner and headed straight for him.

Zhong Kui saw a huge black dog rushing towards the corner, and the white teeth of the black dog flashed and pounced on him quickly under the gloomy white moonlight.

Where did Zhong Kui go through these battles, his body trembled with fright, and the foot that stepped out hurriedly retracted, and quickly closed the door of the south house with a 'boom'.

Zhong Kui, who closed the door, felt a heavy thrashing sound in his chest due to the excessive tension caused by the fright. When he leaned his back against the door, he also heard the whimpering sound of the black dog's mouth, and at the same time, he was scratching the wooden door with his paws.

Liu Wengen was not woken up by Zhong Kui, but was woken up by the dog's crazy barking. The moment he opened his eyes, his gaze was completely unfit for the dark space. After a long time, I realized that something seemed to be happening around me, and when I reached out and groped, there was an empty bunk.

"Zhong Kui?"

Zhong Kui, who was leaning against the door of the hall, suddenly heard Liu Wengen's shout from the house, so he hurriedly replied: "It's here!" Here it is! ”

Zhong Kui replied, and the black dog outside the door barked even more violently.

Liu Wengen fumbled and took out a match, lit one and walked out, seeing Zhong Kui still leaning on the door, he kept gasping and asked, "What is the dog barking?" ”

"Shhhh Bite me! Scared me to death. Zhong Kui pulled out of the door, and followed him into the house with the matchstick that was about to be lit in Liu Wengen's hand.

A few minutes after Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen entered the house, they could still hear the dog at the door of the house whining unrelentingly. Both of them were silent and did not dare to make any more noise, and after leaning a little, there seemed to be no sound at the door.

"Gone, aren't you?" Liu Wengen asked quietly.

"Hmm."

"Why don't you wake up in the middle of the night?" Liu Wengen still cautiously lowered his voice and asked.

Zhong Kui whispered to Liu Wengen in the dark that he heard movement just now, if it was a thief, why didn't the black dog make a sound?

Liu Wengen pursed his lips when he heard this, and yawned a little disapprovingly: ", delay your brother's good sleep, hurry up and go to sleep!" You don't care about other people's affairs. ”

Zhong Kui scratched his head, there was one thing he didn't understand. I really want to ask, that is, the black dog barks so much, why didn't Xia Laohan get up to take a look? Isn't he afraid that thieves will come and steal things? Could it be that the movement just now was made by Xia Laohan?

Liu Wengen was extremely impatient, and pulled Zhong Kui, who was grinding non-stop, onto the kang. He muttered, "Sleep!" It's still early tomorrow! ”

Zhong Kui didn't feel sleepy, he remembered that he once saw his father, who got up in the middle of the night to smoke outside, and then fell asleep on the bed as if nothing had happened, and when he got up the next day, it was as if nothing had happened. He hurriedly asked, "Brother Liu, what do you say is that if a person doesn't sleep in the middle of the night and goes out to walk outside, what is it?" ”

Liu Wengen scolded in his heart: This king has a lot of words, but in terms of face, he still has to show off his knowledge and insights. He replied, "That's a disease, it's sleepwalking." ”

As soon as the word sleepwalking came out, it seemed to pierce the tense nerves of the two in this dark night. After being speechless, he didn't dare to break the silence, so he sat so evilly.

People who sleepwalk often go to places that they are most afraid to face on weekdays.

If Old Man Xia sleepwalks, where should he go? Neither Zhong Kui nor Liu Wengen can explain this problem.

But Liu Wengen thought to himself; If you were sleepwalking, you must have gone to the rope bridge at the door......

Zhong Kui saw that Liu Wengen fell asleep by himself first, so he sat alone for a while, he couldn't stand the eyelids of each other, and finally fell asleep on the kang so casually as soon as he shrank his body.

The rooster crow, and the soft bird cry, woke up the sleeping Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen.

Breakfast was corn bun and pea porridge, Zhong Kui ate very violently, and after a while, Xili snorted and slipped two large bowls of porridge into his belly.

During the meal, Liu Wengen deliberately talked about the black dog barking indiscriminately last night. Old man Xia didn't seem to hear it at all, and the whole process of speaking was Liu Wengen talking to himself.

A dinner ended so silently, Liu Wengen was so angry that he blew his beard and glared.

Zhong Kui was also puzzled on the side, but he had nothing to say.

After the meal, Liu Wengen made some preparations for Zhong Kui before walking, and the two of them each carried a duffel bag. The bag contained cold water drawn from the old well of the Xia family, as well as a few yellow corn buns with a sweet and greasy fragrance.

Zhong Kui, who has never been out of the village since he was a child, will ask Liu Wengen to lead the way.

But after walking for a while, Liu Wengen couldn't figure out the direction. This village was originally a remote village compared to several other villages, and even if nothing happened in the past, this village had to be reached by going over the mountains and mountains through the only way.

And now, because of the big incident, the only path to the outside world has been flooded by weeds and silk thatch that have risen from the ground. Even when he found Zhong Kui before, he inadvertently lost his way, ran blindly to the cemetery and saw a hole in the tomb, so he tried to save him.

Zhong Kui looked at Liu Wengen, who was sweating profusely, and asked, "What?" Can't find your way? ”

Liu Wengen took out a cheapest economic cigarette at that time, put it in his mouth with a sophisticated taste, and looked at it uncertainly.

"Grandma's, I remember walking here that time, why is there no road shadow today?"

Zhong Kui saw that Liu Wengen couldn't find the way, so he was in a hurry to delay the time like this. He took out his scythe from his backpack and slashed at the artemisia grass that was blocking his way. After a while, an artificially opened path appeared in front of Liu Wengen.