The more I looked at it, the more chills I felt.

The silver-haired child we saw last night should have been the thirteenth brother of more than ten years ago, if ...... If the thirteenth brother hadn't died, he would have grown into a young man in his prime by now, and he would never be like the mysterious child last night.

Could it be that the kid really a ghost? But why did he save me? Or ...... Is he the ghost of the thirteenth brother? Neither is it right...... The orphanage had only been on fire for a few years, and even when the thirteenth brother died, he should have looked like a teenager......

The more I thought about it, the more chills I felt, and when I looked at the old photo again, there was no nostalgia, but a deep sense of fear.

The innocent smile of the thirteenth brother in the photo is so weird in my eyes.

I shuddered.

Daikin came over and patted me on the back, so scared that I almost fell to the ground.

He sneered: "What's the matter, I'm scared to pee by my own nest." ”

I pretended to be calm and shook my head: "Did you find anything?" ”

Dajin retracted his smile: "There is no clue at all, our orphanage is a bit of a cut corners, except for a few brick walls, the frame of the house is all wood, just a little bit." Clean, nothing ......"

Lin Fanyin also rushed over and shook his head at me: "I didn't find it either." ”

I nodded, it has been three years since the accident happened here, and it has been patronized many times by the police and even the idlers in the village afterwards, and even if there is anything obvious, it has been searched and cleaned.

"Let's go find the nearest neighbor." I looked at the misty lights in the distance with certainty: "They must have known what had happened." ”

We immediately left the ruins of the orphanage and found the nearest dwelling. The house was an ordinary stone house, and the yard was surrounded by a wooden fence, and a dog inside saw us barking.

A middle-aged man in ordinary clothes heard the voice, and the sun was gradually setting at this time, but his eyes were very bright, staring at us with a full face of vigilance: "What are you doing?" ”

I don't know this middle-aged man, this family may have moved in a few years.

Daikin stepped forward to explain his intention and asked about the orphanage. When the middle-aged man heard about the orphanage, his face immediately turned white: "Go, go!" Not clear, not knowing. Let's go......"

When I looked at his face, I knew he knew something. took out a box of Yuxi and threw it over: "Fellow, we are not outsiders, to be honest, I am also a child of the orphanage, and when I grew up, I came back to repay the kindness, but I found that the orphanage was gone." What the hell is going on? ”

The middle-aged man took Yuxi, did not answer my question, but took out one and put it in his nose and sniffed it, and put the cigarette to his ear with an intoxicated expression. Then his attitude was better and he was relieved: "It turned out that I was from my hometown...... Your yard caught fire a few years ago, and none of the adults and children in an orphanage escaped. The police came to investigate and said that the fire was set by man, and that person was also deliberately murdered! This case has alarmed the big people in Beijing, and the wanted warrants are still everywhere to this day......

That's not the point, I heard that the people in the orphanage died too unjustly, the child became a ghost lantern, and there were ghosts floating back and forth every night, damn, I came out again to relieve my hands and saw a red ghost lantern, so I didn't scare me to death, I advise you to stay away from that, don't get too close at night, save trouble. ”

I listened to the middle-aged man's words and nodded secretly, which is basically consistent with Meng Xinghe's narrative with us, it seems that he is not lying.

Just thinking about it, the middle-aged man looked at us for a while, especially on Lin Fanyin for a while, and suddenly said, "You haven't been back for too long, I don't know if our village has changed, right?" The big dam behind our village is cracked, and there will be a lot of flooding every rainy season, and the previous village has been flooded. Now the villagers have moved to live on the north and south hills on both sides.

They all disliked the haunted orphanage on Nanshan, and most of them moved to Beishan. Kitayama is far from here...... I am afraid it will take you two hours to pass. Now it's dark, and it's not easy to walk at night, so you can stay here, and I'll ask my mother-in-law to get you something to eat. The price is easy to say......"

Feelings: This guy sees us and wants to make our money.

Dajin was tired after a day of walking, and immediately agreed: "Okay, let's stay here tonight, I said fellow countryman, what is there on the pheasant and hares, autumn eggplant millet soup, my brothers are all returnees, and they are coming back to repay the great motherland." ”

"Turtles?" The middle-aged man was stunned.

Dajin took out his wallet from his pocket and counted a dozen pieces that Grandpa Mao threw to the middle-aged man: "Got it?" We are all elite returnees, and some of us have money. ”

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up when he saw so much money: "Brother Turtle, Uncle Turtle!" Hurry up and sit in the house. So saying, he put the money in his pocket.

I grabbed his hand and stopped, "Not yet......"

The middle-aged man looked at me a little unkindly: "You can't regret it." ”

I shook my head and said, "You take me somewhere, I'll give you more money." ”

As soon as he heard the word 'money', the middle-aged man's eyes became brighter, and his breathing became heavier: "I am very familiar here, where is it?" ”

My gaze was complicated: "Go to the burial place of the dead in the orphanage." ”

"Huh?" The middle-aged man's face changed drastically, "Graveyard? ”

He hurriedly dissuaded me and said, "Brother, it's not that my brother is cowardly. I can't go to that place, and the blind people in the village have said that the people in the orphanage are all dying, and they are all going to become ghosts. The orphanage alone is very evil, and people walk around it during the day, not to mention the cemetery where those ghost babies are buried? It's getting dark, let's go to their graveyard, isn't that looking for evil......"

I snatched Dakin's wallet, pulled out a wad of money from it, didn't look at it, and threw it on the ground: "To go?" ”

The middle-aged man's eyes flickered, and he could see that he was already moved. This money is on top of his hard work for a year, the mountains are originally full of cemeteries, as a mountain man, if it is not for the evil of others, he is not too afraid of any cemetery, and now as soon as he is attacked by money, the fear in his heart will disappear in an instant.

But I noticed that he looked at Daikin's wallet again. We have made a fortune since we came back from Chongdugou, and we don't need to be as stingy as before, Daikin came out this time and took out a lot of cash in case of emergency. Even if you take out a lot of money, this wallet is still full and heavy, and it has a lot of weight.

A flash of greed flashed in his eyes.

"I'm not going." He said simply, after saying this, he kept staring at me, waiting for my next move.

I know he wants to get the money out of his wallet.

When did the simple mountain people become so cunning? I shook my head, picked the wad of money from the ground, and said, "Let's go find another one." ”

After walking a few steps, the middle-aged man softened: "Oh, brothers, it's not okay for my brother to play with you." I have night vision, and I can recognize you very accurately when walking at night, and if you look for someone else, I won't take you to the ditch. Let's go......"

As he spoke, he hurried to the house and got a flashlight, leading the way.

The slopes here are not steep, the mountains are full of vegetation, and the trees and grasses are showing signs of yellowing in autumn.

The mountain people's memories of the mountain road are always very good, and the middle-aged man walks in front with a flashlight, bypassing the trees and forks in the road. In this direction, it should be not far behind the ruins of the orphanage.

It didn't take long for the mountain people to stop. There was a tremor in his voice: "This is it." ”

As far as we could see, by the light of the flashlight, we could see that there were piles of grave bags in this flat clearing. The strange thing is that there are only two stones in the front row of tombs, and in the back row, stone tablets are installed one by one.

It seems to have a name engraved on it.

Dajin nodded again and again: "This level of repair is about the same as the cemetery in the city...... How can there be class discrimination, if you want to get it, you can get a tombstone together, and look at a lot of pomp. ”

The mountain people hurriedly made a silent gesture and said cautiously: "You don't know, the row in front of you is all children from the orphanage, and there shouldn't be a stone tablet." The back row is the adults in the orphanage, all of whom were children who grew up in the orphanage. They ran an orphanage, never accepted outside help, and after their deaths, the government allocated money to build a cemetery for them. Ay...... Brothers! ”

Before he could finish speaking, I had run to the middle of the cemetery.

I counted the number of tombstones and was shocked.

In addition to Meng Xinghe and me, there were 14 brothers and sisters in the orphanage.

But there are only thirteen tombstones here......

Could it be that Little Thirteen is really not dead......