Because the old man only had two beds, Zhaowen was arranged to a room alone, and the old village chief and I squeezed one bed.

Zhaowen was very timid, after sending her into the house, she curled up on the bed under the quilt and only showed her eyes outside, I couldn't bear to leave, so I said: "You can sleep in peace, I will guard here, don't be afraid." ”

"When I'm asleep, will you go?" Zhaowen asked.

I wanted to wait for her to fall asleep before leaving, but seeing her weak appearance, I thought for a while and said, "No, I'm reading here, you go to sleep, and you have something to do tomorrow." ”

After hearing this, Zhaowen exposed his head and fell asleep.

There was a writing desk in the room, so I brought a stool and wiped the ashes off the desk before taking out the books in Meng Changqing's bag and flipping through them.

Meng Changqing has told me most of the things above, but I have never practiced them, and of course some of them have not been used by Meng Changqing.

After looking at it for about two hours, I looked back and saw that Zhaowen was still looking at me with his eyes open, so he said, "Aren't you sleepy?" ”

When she saw me talking, she immediately closed her eyes and changed her body to the direction facing away from me.

After looking at it for a while, I was a little sleepy, and when I looked back and saw that Zhaowen didn't move, I closed my eyes and squinted for a while, and then I was woken up by a dog barking.

Sure enough, as the old village chief said, if you don't get used to staying here, you won't be able to sleep at night.

However, there are a lot of ghosts in the mountain village, and I used to often hear dogs barking, and it was usually a ghost passing by, and it would be good after walking.

But the dogs in the village would not stop barking at first, and they were still vigorous after barking for half an hour, so I got up and prepared to go out to see if there was something dirty in the village.

Just as he was about to get up, Zhaowen said coldly: "Didn't you say you wouldn't leave?" ”

I was amazed at how this girl had so much energy, I was so sleepy that she was too observant, and she was so observant, that I had just gotten up.

I glanced back, Zhaowen had already sat up from the bed at this time, and I said, "The dog barks fiercely outside, I'll go and see, you lie down." ”

"I'll go with you too."

I had no choice but to let her go with me, originally she didn't like to talk, thinking that her mental age should be more than eleven years old, but now it seems that her mental age is not even eleven years old.

I took a flashlight from the old village chief and went out to the place where the dog barked.

I turned on the flashlight and looked at the place where the dog barked, and there were three dogs gathered in this place, and they were barking in front of an abandoned house, so I drove the dog away and looked around the abandoned house, but I didn't find anything yin.

I thought that someone should have passed by just now, so I didn't pay much attention to it, and only returned to the old village chief's house after the dog was dispersed.

Zhaowen still didn't dare to sleep alone, so I had no choice but to continue to stay by her bedside.

I owe Zhao Sansan too much, and now Zhaowen is coming to me to collect debts, and I have to pay it back.

stayed up until the next morning, and didn't go out until Zhaowen woke up. The old village chief has lived alone for so long, and his cooking skills are not bad, and after the meal, he asked the village chief: "Are you free today?" Can you take us to the Meng family's house? ”

It was not the season for sowing and harvesting, and the old village chief was okay for the time being, so he agreed to take us there to have a look.

Along the way, I met other old people in the village, and a few old people who had never seen us asked who we were, and the old village chief said, "These two dolls are from the city and have come to our side for a tour." ”

The other old people were relieved when they heard this, no one had come to the village for a long time, and they wanted to get together if they had nothing to do, so they followed the old village chief to the ancestral house of the Meng family.

There are a total of seven or eight abandoned houses, and the old village chief introduced them to us one by one, including Meng Changqing's grandfather's generation, as well as Meng Changqing's uncle and uncle, these houses are all abandoned without exception, and the people inside have long since died.

The old village chief finally took us to the house where the dogs we saw yesterday barked at us, and said, "This is Meng Weiye's house, Meng Weiye's son and daughter-in-law all died in this house, and Meng Changqing's boy also walked from this house." ”

The old village chief said that these people surnamed Meng were full of grief when they died, they were all from the same village, they looked down and didn't look up, they had already had feelings between them, and all their former acquaintances were dead, plus they were at their age, so they would naturally be very sentimental.

I asked Zhaowen to wait outside the house, and I went into the house to check it, and the old village chief followed me into the house.

The structure of this house is similar to that of other rural houses, and the furniture in the house is ordinary, and there is no trace of the people living in the door.

The old village chief introduced us one room to another, and turned around the whole room and was stunned to find no trace of Meng Weiye's life, there was not even incense and yellow mounting paper in the house, and the house was not dedicated to Sanqing, but the God of Wealth.

It seems that Meng Weiye did not bring the things of Daomen to his family, and came back to live as an ordinary person.

We found nothing in the house, so we went out, for fear that the house would collapse and we would be buried inside.

After going out, the other old people sat down on a pile of rocks outside Meng Weiye's house and chatted, and the content of the conversation was extremely extensive, from Taoist priests to goddesses, from family affairs to state affairs, and then from rumors to ancient myths.

When we were talking, an old man talked about some old things in their house, and said that they would be worth some money if they were sold, so he asked me, "Young man, you are from the city, can you show me if these things are worth anything?" ”

I figured it was okay to do it anyway, so I answered them, and then they all went home to fetch the old things, except for the old village chief, who was still smoking dry tobacco.

I asked him, "Do you know Mu Wantong or Ye Jiafu?" ”

After hearing this, the old village chief thought for a while before he said: "Mu Wantong, I have heard, at that time, the people of the Meng family were almost dead, and it was the monument and grave that she paid for to erect, and the boy of the Meng family was taken away by her." She was forty-five years old when she came, a little younger than me, and she was a very nice person, and I don't know if she was still alive. ”

Later, the old man asked me how I knew about Mu Wantong, and I said that I was from the same village as her.

The old village chief sighed for a while after hearing this.

After a few words with the old village chief, the other villagers also returned here with some of their belongings.

Each of them handed me a box, which I opened and looked at, and it contained some old copper coins, some of which were silver.

In fact, Shen Fu is better than me at these things, and I just went through the motions, and when I got to the last box, there was a silver hairpin and a green and transparent bracelet inside, which looked extremely exquisite.

I took it out and looked at it, and if they were both true, they would be worth a lot of money.

Zhaowen also saw two things, pointed to the green bracelet and said, "That one is so beautiful." ”

"What do you want?" I said.

Zhaowen nodded, the old man saw Zhaowen nodding and said he wanted it, took the box and took out the bracelet and put it on Zhaowen's wrist and said: "These things were dug up when digging the barrier, and they were all going to be thrown away, since the little girl likes it, I will give it to you, it is better than in the hands of us old guys." ”

Zhaowen looked at the bracelet on his wrist and gritted his teeth, and I thanked the old man.

After that, I introduced the copper coins to him, and Taoist priests often have to buy copper coins, so they naturally know their price, but as for other things, I don't know.

After talking to the old man, the old man saw that we were here to inquire about the news related to Meng Weiye, so he told us about another matter related to Meng Weiye.

"It has been normal for Meng Weiye to come back as a Taoist priest for a few years, and when his baby was in his teens, a person came to him, and within a month of that person saying a few words to him, Meng Weiye left, and never came back after that."

"Who is that man? Do you know each other? I asked.

"I also heard from the Meng family about this, and a few people from his Meng family have seen that man, but we haven't seen it, and we don't know each other." The old man said.

I groaned, didn't get any news, and roughly sorted out my thoughts.

A mysterious man came to Meng Weiye, and Meng Weiye then ran away from home and took Lu Hao, his second grandmother, and my grandfather as apprentices. After Meng Weiye died, the Meng family almost died, and the second grandmother rescued Meng Changqing and sent him to the Taoist temple.

In this way, the matter will be clear, but it is even more difficult to find out who that man is and what he said to Meng Weiye.

After that, the villagers began to chat again, and the nonsense was carried out on other content.

By noon, the old people went home to cook, I took Zhaowen to the vicinity of the village a few times, and found some graves with his surname in the surrounding cemeteries, and the people who erected the monument were also Meng Changqing and Mu Wantong.

These people should be the women of the Meng family.

After putting some incense in front of the grave, he returned to the old village chief's house, and was not in a hurry to leave here, always feeling that there were still secrets here that had not been discovered, and only needed time to dig them out.

In the afternoon, I was idle in the house, so I took out a brush and drew a talisman, during which Zhaowen watched with interest, I intended to teach her to draw talismans, but Zhao Sansan said that she was allowed to contaminate things related to Taoism, so she didn't let her touch these.

Seeing that she was really bored on the side, he told her about the knowledge of Taoism, such as which three talents are the three talents, and which four images are the four elephants.

After I chirped and talked for a while, Zhaowen yawned, and then leaned back in the chair and dozed off, I was afraid that she would fall, so I let her into the house to sleep.

She didn't need me to accompany her during the day, so she went back to the house and went to sleep. She slept straight into the night, and seeing that she hadn't slept for so long before, and was afraid that she would get sick or something would happen, she went into the house to take a look.

I didn't find anything feminine in the house, and she was in normal health, thinking that she hadn't slept well a few days ago, so she didn't pay much attention to it.

At night, I wanted to go to bed by myself, but I was worried that Zhaowen would wake up in the middle of the night and see no one afraid, so I went into Zhaowen's room again and rested on the edge of the desk.

At midnight I was awakened by the sound of dogs barking outside the window, and I stood up and looked out of the window, and saw three big yellow dogs barking in front of the room I was in.

Usually dogs bark so abnormally, there must be something dirty, so I hurriedly turned around and looked for it in this house.

Zhaowen was also woken up by the sound of a dog barking at this moment, and when he opened his sleepy eyes, he saw that I was still guarding the house, and grinned.

"What's wrong with you today? Why do you get so sleepy? I told her as I looked at the weirdness in the room.

Zhaowen yawned and shook her head at me to indicate that she didn't know either.

She was clear, and there was no sign of ghosts and monsters, thinking that it was something in the house, so she simply recited the Pure Heaven and Earth Divine Mantra, and after reciting it, the dogs outside really left.

Zhaowen then fell asleep, and not long after he fell asleep, the barking of the dogs turned to the same place yesterday.

I turned my head to see that Zhaowen was asleep, so I went out by myself, and I must find out what it is today.

I walked to Meng Weiye's ancestral land, but I still didn't find it, and I was about to leave, but I saw a haggard Zhaowen coming over, I thought she was coming to me, but when I got closer, her eyes didn't open at all.

Zhaowen walked directly into Meng Weiye's ancestral house, I followed in, but saw Zhaowen enter the side room very skillfully, took off a wooden box on the top of a cabinet, took out a guzheng from the wooden box, and then went out with a guzheng, sat cross-legged at the door of the house, helped the sideburns and broken hair, gently touched the zither strings with his slender hand, and then played and sang with his fingers.

"Youlan dew, like crying eyes. There is nothing to knot, and the fireworks are unbearable. The grass is like a grass, and the pine is like a cover......"