Hearing the old man ask which family was surnamed Gu, the second uncle raised his voice and said, "Pingyin Gujiazhuang!" ”

"Really?" Qingyue Daoist asked.

"Juniors don't dare to lie." The second uncle replied respectfully: "The junior is Gu Rui's uncle, and this time I came with Gu Rui." ”

"Well, that's good, come up!"

Daoist Qingyue said, and threw the rope down from the hole again.

The second uncle was startled when he saw the rope, and turned his head to look at me: "He used this rope to get you up last time?" ”

I nodded, "yes." ”

The second uncle looked up, and a trace of horror appeared on his face: "You must know that the entrance of the cave is seven zhang high from the ground, more than twenty meters, and an adult can be dragged up with a single rope......

After the second uncle finished muttering, he looked at me a little embarrassed: "Xiaorui, the second uncle's ability is not enough to bring you up......"

"I didn't let you bring that kid up, you came up by yourself, that kid has me!" Daoist Qingyue's voice came again.

The second uncle responded, walked to the bottom of the cliff, stretched out his hand to grasp the rope, drank lightly, his feet were a few times, his body jumped up two or three feet high, and then he made a few quick strokes again, and when he came to the entrance of the cave, he released the rope again, and his palms were supported on the cliff wall, and he stood straight at the entrance of the cave.

I stood below and could see clearly, the second uncle's movements were extremely chic, no less than anyone who had crossed the chain on Jinsu Mountain.

"Hmm...... Yes, it's just that I'm a little lacking in strength, so let's come in and rest for a while! Qingyue Daoist said, "That kid below, hold on to the rope." ”

I answered, hurriedly walked over, grabbed my body, took a deep breath, closed my eyes and tugged for a moment, and then I felt that my body was soaring into the air, and a long-lost feeling of weightlessness hit, and when I came back to my senses, my feet had fallen to the ground.

"Huh-" I breathed a sigh of relief, opened my eyes, and saw the Qingyue Taoist priest who was still wearing a wide gray Taoist robe, skinny, white hair reaching to the waist, and two white eyebrows hanging down on his cheeks.

"Hello senior!" I smiled and bowed to say hello.

"Well, good! Come and sit! ”

I answered the call and walked over, and saw Daoist Qingyue sitting cross-legged on the stone table with his bare feet - behind a big stone, and the second uncle sitting cross-legged on one side, and I sat on a stone. Sit down and look at it, and see some bones on the stone table in front of Qingyue Daoist, and there is something uneaten next to it.

After a closer look, I suddenly got goosebumps: the uneaten thing turned out to be a huge brown-haired mouse that had been roasted, and it seemed that this Qingyue Taoist priest had been living on a bonfire roasting rat for decades!

"Hungry?!" Daoist Qingyue saw me looking at his mouse, pointed and said, "Thinking about it, do you want to try it?" ”

"No, no......" I hurriedly waved my hand: "You better keep it and eat!" ”

"Humph! And even better! Daoist Qingyue said, got up and walked to the back of the cave, and while walking, he actually took off the tattered Taoist robe on his body, and he didn't wear anything inside, I saw the skinny body, the bones on the body could be counted one by one, and even the buttocks were so thin that only several layers of flesh were wrinkled!

This thin Qingyue Taoist walked to the depths of the cave, and actually jumped and jumped!

"Senpai?!" This startled me, and when I screamed, I heard a "poof" below, and it turned out that there was a small lake behind the cave.

I quietly waited for Daoist Qingyue to come up, turned my head to look at the second uncle, and saw that the second uncle was actually nervous at this time, like a student who had not completed his homework and saw the teacher! I couldn't help but laugh out loud when I saw this embarrassment: "Second uncle, why are you still nervous?" ”

"Just kidding!" The second uncle glared at me: "This is nervous, it was just a breath just now, and now I don't have enough strength, I'm in a good mood!" ”

"Oh, I see." I still couldn't help but laugh a few times, and waited until the Qingyue Daoist appeared again, and then sat down.

"Look, it's good stuff!" After Daoist Qingyue came ashore, he shook his body slightly, and then put on the tattered Taoist robe, and walked over with a few silver silver carp with a few small arms: "Now there are only seven or eight catties left, and in the past few years, I have caught more than forty catties!" Very fresh! ”

As he spoke, the old Taoist priest grabbed a branch and directly disemboweled, disemboweled, and hung it on the bonfire beside him.

Within a few minutes, the tender aroma spreads.

"Is it fragrant?" Seeing that my saliva was about to flow, Daoist Qingyue asked with a smile.

"Incense!" I smiled and replied.

"Well, wait a while, your second uncle will be happy and eat together!"

I answered, scratching my head a little embarrassedly: "Senior, I have to apologize to you first." ”

"Apologize? What apologies? Daoist Qingyue asked with a puzzled expression.

"Before, I was arrested by Chai Lao Wu and them, they asked for my dragon carved jade plate, I was afraid that they would rob it, so I told a lie, saying that it was given to you......" I replied with a wry smile.

"Ahem, I thought it was a big deal." Qingyue Taoist priest waved his hand: "No wonder they came over a few days ago and asked me about what brand, and I said where I knew what brand, so I drove them away!" By the way, I asked you to find Xiu'er, did you find it?! ”

"There is no news of Xiu'er's seniors, but I found the apprentices of Xiu'er's seniors!" I told the story of the last time I left Bears Ears Mountain, and then found the nameless old woman near the Qingyue Temple of Lotus Mountain, that is, Xiu'er's senior apprentice, and then I also told the story of meeting the Falling Flower Cave Girl Ruoran in Daling Mountain in Xiangxi, and the old Taoist priest was fascinated by it, as if a child was listening to a story.

"Oh...... It turns out that Xiu'er still blames me! After hearing this, Daoist Qingyue sighed and grabbed his white hair with both hands: "After so many years, there is still no ...... Wait a minute! You mean, she's pregnant?! ”

I was taken aback by the old Taoist priest's cold question: "Hmm, mm! yes, you just reacted?! ”

"Pregnant?! Haha......" Qingyue Daoist jumped up excitedly: "I actually have children and offspring?" Ha ha...... No, no! Did you just say that she killed the child?! ”

I nodded, and hurriedly shook my head: "I'm not sure, according to the apprentice of Xiu'er's predecessor, he killed the child when he was not born, but Uncle Bao Weng, the owner of Miao Village in southern Yunnan, said that the elders said that when Xiu'er's predecessor went back, he took a ......child with him."

"Senior, could it be that you have become a human Gu?" The second uncle seemed to be relieved, and asked softly on the side.

Hearing the word "human Gu", Daoist Qingyue trembled, and glared at the second uncle with a pair of bright black eyes: "No, no!" That is also her own flesh and blood, even if she kills it, she will never be ruthless to be a 'human Gu'! No! ”

Daoist Qingyue sat back down at the stone table, the expression on his face seemed to be a little painful.

After a long while, the old Taoist priest regained his strength, laughed and said: "That's it, no matter what, it's good that Xiu'er is still alive, I'll go down the mountain and find it myself!" Come, you two, eat fish! ”

The old Taoist priest took two grilled fish from the bonfire and handed them to me and my second uncle. After an afternoon of walking on the mountain road, I was already hungry, so I didn't care about the grilled fish, and just stretched out my mouth to bite.

"Slow down, slow down!" Qingyue Taoist saw that I was being burned and screamed, and said with a smile, then grabbed the huge mouse left on the table, bit it down, and looked at the second uncle while chewing the rat meat: "Your name is Gu Wenhua?" Senior, depending on your age, Gu Xiansheng's old guy must have been about sixty years old when he gave birth to you, right? ”

"Not yet sixty." The second uncle said: "The last time Gu Rui came home and told me about his predecessors, I always wanted to come to meet my father's old friend, and more than half a year has passed, so I have time to come." ”

"Ahem, it's just a one-sided relationship, and I saved that old guy's life! I didn't expect to do a good deed, but I was chased everywhere, I didn't get tired of it, and I couldn't bear to kill it, so I hid in Bears Ears Mountain. Qingyue Taoist sighed: "If you hide, it's decades...... By the way, you must have something to do with me, right? ”

The second uncle nodded, took out a blue-gray cloth bag from his arms, and placed it on the stone table.