The children in the village were all a little simple, they ate the biscuits given by Senior Brother Zhuang, and nodded to my Senior Brother Zhuang very seriously. When I walked into the village, I looked back and saw two children who had gotten a piece of cloth from somewhere, carefully cleaning the mud from the car window.

At that time, it seemed to be four or five o'clock in the afternoon, the weather was good, but there were almost no people in the village, the doors of every house were closed, some old houses seemed to have been uninhabited for a long time, and some of the door panels were cracked with a large gap, and when you looked through the gap, you could also see a thick layer of dust piled up on the ground in the house.

On the side of a relatively wide dirt road, there is also a telephone pole made of old wood, and there is a big-character poster with an unknown date and month pasted on it, because it has been eroded by wind and rain all year round, and the text on the big-character poster can no longer be seen.

Master stopped in the middle of the road, frowned, and pondered for a long time before leading us into a path on the left.

The houses in the small village are arranged very irregularly, and after walking here for a while, I can't distinguish between east and west, north and south, only front and back, left and right.

Master came to a house with a very old façade and knocked on the door: "Is it Wang Dafu's family?" ”

An old voice quickly remembered in the room: "Who? ”

As the man spoke, he opened the door to us, and I saw that he was an old farmer, wearing an old coat and a sweat towel on his shoulders, and he looked like he had just returned from the field.

He stared at my master for a long time, and asked suspiciously, "Who are you?" ”

My master just asked him, "Are you Wang Dafu?" ”

He nodded, still staring at my master with a puzzled expression.

My master said with a smile on his face: "You have probably forgotten me, my surname is Chai, Chai Zongyuan." ”

Wang Dafu was stunned for a moment, and then he took my master's hand excitedly: "Oh, Master Chai, how can I forget you?" You see my old eyes are dizzy, I don't recognize it at all, don't stand outside, come in, come in! ”

As he spoke, he invited us into the house.

After entering the house, my master introduced us to him one by one, and the last one introduced me, and the master patted me on the back and said to Wang Dafu, "My apprentice." Then the Master said to me, "This is your grandfather, and he is the great hero of this village." ”

I bowed politely to the old man and called "Grandpa Wang".

Who knew that Wang Dafu sighed: "Alas, what a big hero, all the things I did back then were all evil!" That's it, don't mention the past, Master Chai, don't you drink water? ”

My master waved his hand and said to him, "I have come to see my senior brother this time, and I want to ask if anyone in the village has seen him recently." ”

Wang Dafu thought about it and shook his head again: "Master Zhao? I guess I haven't been here, hey, he did, and no one necessarily saw him. You have already seen it when you entered the village, and now there are few people in the village, the young ones have gone out to work, and many of the people who came here have also passed away, leaving us with a few old bones to help the village plant the land and take care of the children. ”

At this time, Senior Brother Feng interjected and asked, "Uncle Wang is not a local, right?" ”

In fact, I can also hear that Wang Dafu has a lot of tongue curls when he speaks, and the locals will definitely not speak like this.

Wang Dafu nodded at Senior Brother Feng and said, "My hometown of Hebei, when the People's Republic of China was first founded, I came here to support construction. If it hadn't happened to Erlongwanzi, I wouldn't have stayed here forever. Hehe, when I was young, I couldn't walk if I wanted to, but now that I'm old and have feelings for this place, I don't want to go, and I can't walk. ”

I was curious about what had happened in Erlong Bay, but no one in the room asked.

After a while, my master asked him, "Over there in Erlong Bay, there haven't been any problems over the years, right?" ”

Wang Dafu nodded with a smile: "It's okay, it's still Master Zhao's clever means, that thing has been suppressed by him for so many years, and there has never been an accident." But...... A while ago, I heard from people from the neighboring village, Erlong Bay seems to be engaged in development, and I don't know if they have moved the bridge. ”

My master frowned, "Who would engage in development in such a place?" ”

Wang Dafu thought for a while and said, "I heard that it seems to be a tourism company, saying that it wants to develop an underground Grand Canyon over there in Erlong Bay?" I don't know the specifics, but I heard from the neighboring villagers. ”

When Wang Dafu said the words "Underground Grand Canyon", I saw Master's brows furrowed even tighter.

Wang Dafu also saw that my master's expression was wrong, and asked my master very worriedly: "Master Chai, you said that the things under this Erlongwan will not come out to make trouble again, how many years have passed, is that thing still alive?" ”

My master lit a dry cigarette, went to the window sullenly, and picked open the lattice with one finger. He glanced outside, and said with a heavy face, "It's foggy." ”

I felt that my master should be talking to himself, but Wang Dafu still accosted on the side: "Well, the fog, as in the past, every day at this time, there will be a fog floating over Erlong Wanzi for a while. ”

The master knocked the smoke pot on the wall, turned to Wang Dafu and said, "If the fog does not disperse, it is the result of the condensation of yin qi. ”

Although I don't know what happened in Erlong Bay, I can understand my master's words, and his meaning is actually very clear, the reason why the Yin Qi in Erlong Bay is condensed is because the things under the town are still alive.

Of course, Wang Dafu also understood what the master meant, and his expression became a little heavy, and he asked my master quite worriedly: "Master Chai, you said that those workers who are working in Erlongwanzi will not have any accidents, right?" ”

My master closed the window, smiled, and said, "It's out of the way, look at this yin qi, it's much lighter than when I first came here, which means that the thing is still being pressed." By the way, how is the Zhang family's aunt lately? ”

Wang Dafu sighed: "Alas, the old man also passed away ten years ago, and the people who came with me to support the construction back then walked and died, and now there are only me and Li Erdan." Lao Li had a cerebral thrombosis last year, and he was bolted up and has been lying in bed, but now his brain has atrophied and he no longer recognizes me. ”

My master smacked his tongue and didn't speak, but he heard Wang Dafu sigh again, and then said: "Either I'll say, that incident is really evil, if it wasn't for the opening of the eyes of Qian at the beginning, we individuals would not have fallen to this point." ”

Master was still standing in front of the window, smoking a cigarette sullenly, while my Senior Brother Zhuang asked, "Are you two old people and a few children left in this village now, and the younger ones have all gone out?" ”

Wang Dafu shook his head: "No, if you can mix food when you go out, you can be regarded as a capable person." There are also people in their thirties and forties, who can't get along for a few years outside, so they come back to farm. I was there, Master Chai still remembers, when he was a child, he had a high fever and burned out his brain, and he was always stupid, and now he stays in the village to farm. Now I probably went to play cards with his mother-in-law, and I will be back after a while. ”

My master asked Wang Dafu again: "My sister-in-law has also passed away?" ”

Wang Dafu smiled bitterly: "It's dead, I died a few years ago." Alas, it's good to be dead, it's also a relief. ”

While talking, Wang Dafu opened the drawer under the table, took out a paper roll of grass tobacco from it, lit the fire, took a big puff, and said with a smile: "Just a while ago, my nephew came to see me from his hometown in Hebei, and he had to take me to the hospital to check my body, I said I don't check, but he was very difficult, he had to let me check, you see, this check found that lung cancer was coming, and it was an advanced stage." I estimate that I haven't been around for a few days, hehe, I don't know who is ahead of whom between me and Li Erdan. ”

Just as Wang Dafu finished speaking, the door of the house was pushed open, and he saw a middle-aged man with a serious figure leading a lean woman into the threshold.

To tell the truth, although the goddess is thin, she looks very good, and her eyes are shining, which makes people feel that she is a person with strong eyes and a lively brain. But the man looked very weird, his appearance was decent, but those eyes smaller than me had no look, and his eyes were very loose.

As soon as he entered the door, the man took out a handful of cigarettes from his pocket and said to Wang Dafu stupidly: "Hey, here you go, smoke!" ”

Wang Dafu had an expression of wanting to cry without tears at that time, and muttered in his mouth: "I'm a fool!" ”

At this moment, the lean woman snatched the cigarette from the man's hand, broke it into several sections without saying a word, and threw it out of the door.

After that, she glanced around the room again, looked at Wang Dafu with inquiring eyes, and pointed at a few of us with her fingers.

Wang Dafu didn't speak, the woman's expression became irritable, her mouth screamed "ahhh

That's when I realized she was mute.

Wang Dafu didn't care about the woman, but just asked my master: "Master Chai, seeing that it's not early, let's stay here tonight." ”

Actually, I don't want to live here, it's not that Wang Dafu's family is bad, when I lived in Wangzhuang, my uncle's old house was much more dilapidated than theirs, but I don't know why, seeing the appearance of Wang Dafu's family, I always felt panicked in my heart, and I could see that the dumb woman was not friendly to us.

But after my master took a long puff of cigarette, he nodded unexpectedly and said lightly, "It's okay." ”

In fact, if you think about it, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be dark after two hours, and even Senior Brother Zhuang, who was familiar with mountain roads, would be extremely dangerous to drive at night on muddy mountain roads.

But after my master agreed, the mute woman became more anxious, and kept counting the money.

Wang Dafu suddenly glared: "Master Chai is the benefactor of our village!" Get out of the way! ”