I gasped in fright, the flashlight in the old man's hand shone at me for the first time, I didn't even dare to tremble anymore, my heart was pinched together, the old man turned around, raised his feet and walked towards me, I suddenly didn't even dare to breathe anymore, and I didn't dare to move again in the grass nest.

The old man walked towards the sheepfold step by step, and when he was about to come closer, a voice suddenly came from not far away, "Village chief, have you found something?" ”

The old man immediately stopped, looked at the grass nest here, turned his head to look in the direction where the sound came from, and after a pause of two or three seconds, the old man asked, "Why are you here?" ”

A not-so-bright flashlight fell on the snow where the old man was, and the light flickered, and soon, a man walked up to the old man, and the man said, "I want to accompany the village chief to look for you." ”

The old man waved his hand, "No need, you can go back to sleep." ”

The man said, "When I went out just now, I saw two figures outside the village, running to the south side of the mountain, are you looking for someone?" ”

"What, do you see clearly?"

"I can see it clearly, don't I hurry up and tell you."

The old man turned his head and looked at the grass nest again, and my heart jumped again. Then the old man paid no attention to the man, and turned to the house and shouted, "Come here, all of you." ”

Immediately after, there was a series of running sounds crackling, and the previous few people ran to the old man, who raised his eyes and looked south, and said to a few people: "Chase after the south of the village!" Turning back, the old man said to the man again, "It's none of your business, go back to sleep." ”

"Hey," the man agreed, and gave the old man a bow. It seems that the prestige of this bald child village chief is quite high.

Who is the person who reported the false letter to the old man at the moment, who else can there be, the people in the mountains, it is estimated that after the old man went to the house of the people in the mountains to find it, the people in the mountains quietly followed the old man out of the door, and at this time he saw that the old man noticed the sheepfold, and he hurriedly came out to block the old man.

The old man really didn't pay attention to the sheepfold at this time, and left in a hurry with those few people, I suddenly breathed a long sigh of relief, and the whole person relaxed, and then I felt that my whole body was soaked in cold sweat, but the heart in my chest was still beating non-stop.

By the time I had completely calmed down, more than half an hour had passed, and it was quiet outside, and suddenly, there was a small sound from the grass around me, and my heart immediately tightened again, as if someone was picking up the grass shed in the sheepfold.

"Bai Xiangu, Bai Xiangu, the village chief, they are far away, you all come out."

My mother, as soon as I heard this, my heart finally fell into my stomach, and it seems that the people in the mountains saw that the old man had gone away, and came back to call us. Fortunately, I am young and in good health at this time, otherwise I would have been frightened this night, and I would have to bluff something wrong.

I gently picked up the grass in front of me to see, it was indeed a mountain person, immediately stood up from the grass nest, patted the grass leaves on the body, turned my head to see, grandma also stood up from the grass nest at this time, the mountain people were picking up the pile of grass that Qiang Shun was hiding at this time, fortunately I had just peed, I don't know if Qiang Shun was scared to pee his pants.

After a few strokes, the mountain people pulled Qiang Shun out, and the mountain people didn't dare to turn on the flashlight at this time, and the grass nest was dark at least and couldn't see anything clearly, so I felt that Qiang Shun was lying there motionless.

I helped my grandmother out of the sheepfold, and the mountain people said to us: "The village chief has searched our house, he will not search again, return to our house." ”

Grandma didn't speak, but nodded.

The book says briefly. When I arrived at the mountain house, the woman was waiting at the door, the house was dark, and she couldn't see her five fingers, and after entering the house, the mountain people put Qiang Shun on the bed in the dark, and then the mountain people said: "Bai Xiangu, why do I think this child is losing his soul again, why is he motionless when I carry him on my back." ”

"I'll see." Grandma answered, followed by the sound of footsteps, and it is estimated that grandma walked towards the bed in the dark.

After pausing for a while, I heard my grandmother say, "It's okay, it's okay, this child is asleep." ”

I heard that the mountain people breathed a sigh of relief, and then the mountain people said: "Bai Xiangu, I don't think this meal can be cooked, and the village chief will definitely be suspicious of cooking by lighting a fire in the middle of the night." ”

Grandma said, "What else to eat, don't be busy." Later, the grandmother said, "Huanghe, where are you?" ”

"I'm here at the door, grandma." I said yes, and I was standing by the door, and I didn't go deep into the house because it was dark.

"Come over here and tell grandma what you've seen since you got out of your body."

"Oh" I hurriedly walked towards the bed in the dark, and after a few steps to the bed, I felt a hand on my arm, and then my grandmother's voice came, "Sit on the bed, tell grandma carefully." Then the grandmother said, "You two should also find a place to sit down and listen, and I will ask you later." ”

The mountain man and the woman hurriedly agreed.

I sat down on the bed for my grandmother, swallowed my saliva and moistened my throat, and I told my grandmother in one breath what happened to me after I followed my grandmother and the two of them into the cave, and told my grandmother in detail, and finally, I also focused on the old man with a bald child's voice, and told me about the old man I saw in the sheepfold.

Grandma listened to me and didn't speak for a long time. After a long pause, the woman spoke, her tone nervous, "Little brother, did you see my son in that compound?" ”

I thought about her son's appearance and said, "There are a lot of children there, and I didn't pay attention to them, anyway, the ones I saw were not your sons." ”

The woman immediately sighed, and the mountain man said: "Child, it's okay, Bai Xiangu can bring back the souls of these two little brothers, and you can bring back the souls of our sons, Bai Xiangu, you say yes?" ”

The people in the mountains asked, but grandma still didn't say anything, so I hurriedly whispered to grandma, "Grandma...... Grandmother? ”

After screaming several times, grandma finally spoke, and grandma said: "Eldest nephew, let me ask you two, you tell me honestly, what are you hiding in this big mountain?" ”

Listening to my grandmother's question, I felt that my grandmother's tone was a little wrong, and I felt like I was asking for guilt.

At this time, I couldn't see the expressions of the two people in the mountains, nor could I see the expressions of my grandmother. After Grandma finished speaking, she listened to the people in the mountains and said, "We...... Our ancestors really moved in from the outside when they fought the Qing Dynasty, and we didn't hide. ”

Grandma asked again, "Then do you often go outside the mountains, what do you do?" ”

After pausing for a while, the mountain man replied: "I often go to those villages outside the mountain, that is, I sell mountain goods for some money, and then use the money to buy some oil, salt, needlework, and so on." ”

"There should be anything else besides that, right?" Grandma's words were full of hints, and I thought she seemed to have sensed something.

After a long pause, the woman spoke, but not to my grandmother, and the woman said, "Daddy, let's tell the truth to Bai Xiangu, what are you hiding?" ”

After the woman finished speaking, the whole room fell silent, and only the heavy breathing of the mountain people could be heard, and he seemed to be making a very difficult decision.

After a long while, I heard a short sigh from the mountain man and said, "In that cave in our village...... There is a great immortal who lives, I heard my grandfather say, the great immortal is the protector of our White Lotus Sect, when the ancestors have not moved to the mountain, they fell in love with the cave of our village, after moving over, they built a temple for the great immortal in the cave, which is the courtyard we saw in the cave, every spring, summer, autumn and winter, our descendants have to enter the cave to worship, when worshipping...... Also, also, I have to bring a boy to the great immortal as a sacrifice. ”

The grandmother asked, "Do you send virgins in the spring, boys in the summer, virgins in the autumn, and boys in the winter?" ”

The mountain people hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, this winter...... This winter, my family should send a boy to the cave, but, yes, yes, I can ......"

"If you don't catch the right boy outside the mountain, they'll use your son to settle the account, right?" Grandma's tone became cold at this time, and she asked coldly.

The voice of the mountain man trembled, "No, no, no, it's not that I didn't catch the right boys, it's that I don't want to catch those children, I'm also a father, I know what it's like to be without children." ”

Alas! Grandma let out a long sigh and said to herself: "No wonder I heard that a few children are lost on the other side of the mountain every year, and I can't find them, it seems that they are all made by you!" ”

Grandma said "over there of the mountain", that is, we here in the north foot of the Taihang Mountain, we belong to the southern foothills, the northern foot seems to belong to Linzhou City, that is, the county-level city where the Hongqi Canal was built, in the past, there were few people and poor land, not to mention losing children, and reselling children.

As soon as my grandmother's words fell, I heard a "plop" sound, as if the mountain people knelt down for my grandmother, and the mountain people said in a trembling voice: "Bai Xiangu, Bai Xiangu, I have never made evil, I really haven't made evil......"

Grandma sighed again and said very calmly: "Get up, you have created evil, I will also save this child in your family, the ancients have clouds, knowing mistakes can improve greatly, do you know?" ”

"Know, know......"

After a few small sounds, the mountain people seemed to stand up from the ground, and they heard the grandmother ask again: "I am afraid that you have some purpose for offering to that great immortal in the cave, right?" ”

I heard the woman immediately say, "You can become an immortal." ”

"What?" Grandma didn't seem to hear clearly, I really listened to it, I can become an immortal! Can it really be?

The mountain people added: "As long as each of our families provides for three years of children and boys, the whole family can become immortals, and there are fewer and fewer people in our village, so many empty houses, in fact, they are not moved outside the mountain, they all become immortals and go to heaven to become immortals." ”

"Become an immortal?" Grandma laughed.

After laughing for a while, grandma said: "Our family has been doing this business for so many years, and I have never heard of anyone who can be immortal, you are only afraid that you have deceived the great immortal in the cave, I think that the great immortal has become a fine beast." ”

As soon as the grandmother's voice fell, she heard the woman say: "It's not a white fairy, you can really become an immortal, there is an old fairy living in our village now." ”

Grandma followed up and asked, "That old fairy is your village chief, right?" ”

The woman replied, "It's just ......."

Grandma asked again, "He's not young, is he?" ”

The people in the mountains said: "It's not small, I heard my father say that my grandfather hugged my grandfather when he was a child, and my father said that he was more than 200 years old." ”

More than 200 years old? My dear mother! I've been listening to the conversation between my grandmother and the couple in the mountains, and when I hear this, I think it's incredible, the old man with a bald child's voice is really more than 200 years old, even my great-grandfather is not as old as him when he lives, I'm afraid that only our grandfather Wang Shoudao can fight with him until now.

However, is there really such an old person in this world?

Grandma didn't seem surprised when she heard this, and after a while, Grandma said very calmly: "Big nephew, you go outside now, and see if there is any movement in the village, if there is no movement, come back and tell me." ”

"Bai Xiangu, what do you want to do?"

Grandma said, "If there is no movement, let's go back to the cave." ”

At this time, I said worriedly, "Grandma, if the cave is guarded by the old man, the people will catch you when you go." ”

Grandma said: "No, they are arresting you and Qiangshun, since you escaped from the cave, will you go in again?" ”

I shook my head, "I'm not going in anymore." ”