Master said to go, and the house on this island in the middle of the lake just rested for one night, and then left the next day.

Didn't urge us to do morning classes, I was in bed, or Brother Zhengchuan told me the news.

And the days on the island in the middle of the lake are a little boring, Gou Zize is a very silent person who doesn't drink, he likes to play with his flowers and plants, as if he vented his loneliness on these flowers and plants.

Then, except for the time spent tending to these flowers and plants, Gou Zize likes to lock himself in his room, and he won't eat with us when he eats, so it can be said that he often can't see people.

But except for him, a big living person who can talk, the other two people, one is a deaf and dumb old man, and the other is a deaf and dumb aunt, and Zhengchuan and I both feel that they are about to suffocate to death.

Although life is like that on the mountain gate, with Master here, our life is extremely regular.

Once Master is gone, Brother Zhengchuan and I are in a state of 'herding sheep', and we have no consciousness, and once life is less regular, we will naturally feel bored with nothing.

Two days later, Brother Zhengchuan and I couldn't survive on this small island.

After obtaining Gou Zize's permission, we were allowed to drive the dinghy to the village at any time.

But Gou Zize also warned us, in fact, this village is very close to that Zhujiawan, although in fact, there are many villages not far from Zhujiawan, and this is one of the more special ones, let us be careful when we go to the village, Moduo said, Moduo contact.

I always feel that Gou Zize is a little nervous when he speaks, it's just a village, although he is a little poor, a little strange? What else can you do with people?

Besides, at that time, I didn't have a specific concept of Taoism and some things behind it, thinking that as long as I could fight, I was very powerful, but I still thought I was a young martial arts master.

Brother Zhengchuan didn't express an opinion, and I don't know what he thinks? Anyway, I just knew for sure that he didn't want to stay in the middle of the lake forever.

So, guess he and I should think the same way.

The days on the island in the middle of the lake are boring, but they are not necessarily very interesting in this village.

Before, I only had a rough impression of this village before I went to the island, but after I really started to wander around the village, I found that the people in this village were not only numb but also very strange.

Brother Zhengchuan and I have been wandering around the village for so long, and no one has spoken a word to us.

When I was in the market, I bought some small snacks, and sometimes I saw that the children in the village were in rags and their eyes were dull, and they would take out the snacks and want to give them, but every child's appearance was the same, obviously they wanted those novelty snacks, and I even found that two children were swallowing saliva.

But it just won't come near me, and even after staring for a while, it will turn around and run, and the fast ones will disappear, avoiding us like avoiding 'femme fatales'?

If these were some strange things at first, then as Brother Masakawa and I wandered around the village for a long time, we found more and more strange things.

For example, the people in this village are very poor, but they don't farm much, except for some sparse small vegetable plots that Lala grows at home, the whole village is a messy wasteland, and there is a feeling that the whole village is very barren.

It's okay not to farm, but every household here has pigs, and if you don't farm, raising pigs can be regarded as a matter of living and clothing.

But the strange thing is that their pigs are kept in a large pigsty, like a pig farm, around which the whole village is busy.

And they are very concerned about this pig farm, although they ignore me and Brother Zhengchuan, but as soon as we get close to their pig farm, they will stand in front of us openly and secretly, indicating that they will stop us.

There are also some very unfriendly things and vigilance in the numbness of the eyes, and it feels like Brother Zhengchuan and I are going to steal their pigs.

In this case, I don't bother to look at their pig farms, but Brother Zhengchuan is very strange, the more others stop him, the more interested he becomes.

To the south of the village is a hill that is quite undulating, but this hill is strange, with a 'smooth' craggy rock wall on almost all sides, and some plants growing on it. The slopes on all sides are at an angle of about 60 degrees to the ground, which is very steep.

According to the current point of view, ordinary people must need professional mountaineering tools to climb this mountain.

But I don't know why Brother Zhengchuan fell in love with this hill, and after wandering around the village for two days, he began to think about how to climb this hill.

And I think it's very incomprehensible, it's better to stay on the island in the middle of the lake in this village, how can Brother Zhengchuan think about climbing the mountain?

Brother Zhengchuan said to me: "I have observed, in this village, only by climbing that mountain can you see the situation of that pig farm?" I'll have to go up and take a look. ”

"Isn't it just a pig farm? What's there to see? "My heart was full of questions, and I also felt that the hill appeared in this village, as if it was very abrupt, and I felt that there should not be such a hill in this village, as if someone had shoehorned it in.

"You don't learn much now, you can't see anything! I'm sure that this village has secrets, I've observed, and there are some places," Brother Zhengchuan said this, as if he was a little irritated, and was silent for a while before he said to me: "In short, I can't figure it out for a while, I think I have to go to see the pig farm to know." ”

"But even if this village has secrets, what does it have to do with us?" That's what I think from the bottom of my heart.

"The third child" Brother Zhengchuan faced my question, his expression began to become a little solemn, and his tone was almost emotional: "I have always been eager to learn to be useful." I have always been looking forward to being able to shine on the lintel for the master and revitalize our mountain gate! If there is an opportunity in front of me, I will definitely seize it. ”

Speaking of this, Brother Zhengchuan paused a little and continued to say to me: "What's more, the matter that Master wants to solve happens here, maybe there is some connection?" We also have to solve problems for Master, maybe we will find something? Master will have a lot of peace of mind. ”

Regarding the first point that Brother Zhengchuan said, I don't agree with it in my heart, isn't this too persistent? And Master often taught us not to be too attached to everything, and if we have some obsessions in our hearts, it is easy for people to be in a 'rope' hanging in the air with a demarcation.

If you don't control your obsession well, then you think of heaven and hell.

Therefore, I will look at everything with a comfortable and casual heart, and naturally I feel that Brother Zhengchuan is persistent.

However, the second point that Brother Zhengchuan said really touched me, because I was also very willing to solve problems for the master.

However, Brother Zhengchuan didn't know what to think about, so he had to set off at night to be afraid of the hill, and I couldn't resist Brother Zhengchuan, and a sense of adventure stimulated me, so I inexplicably agreed to Brother Zhengchuan's suggestion.

Before that, we did some simple preparations.

asked that Gou Zize for some ropes, and two flashlights, Brother Zhengchuan also went to look at the terrain deliberately, and finally decided to climb the mountain from the direction with his back to the village.

Gou Zize has always been not very in charge of things, as if there is a feeling that he is addicted to his own world and can't get out, and he will not ask what Brother Zhengchuan wants to do, but when we ask for these things, it still arouses some vigilance from him.

"You want these things? It can't be related to that village, right? That's how he asked me and Brother Masakawa.

"Of course not, we walked to the next village two days ago, and found a deep pool where there were a few ten-year-old medicinal herbs, and we wanted to pick them." Zhengchuan is perfunctory like this.

But he is not completely lying, the villages here are generally two or three connected together, not too far from each other when we came to the road mountain, it is true that there is a deep pool or something in the next village, surrounded by slippery bluestone, as for whether there are medicinal materials, that is two words, after all, who cares about this kind of small detail?

Unexpectedly, Brother Zhengchuan kept this thing in his heart that I almost ignored.

His remarks naturally did not make Gou Zize suspicious, because he lived on a small island in the middle of the lake, he had a wealth of tools here, so he still asked the deaf and dumb uncle to prepare things for us, and just said: "Don't think I'm verbose." You'd better not be curious about this village, because it's related to that devilish village of Zhujiawan. Naturally, it is not your turn to be curious, and I don't want your master to come when the time comes, and I have no way to explain to your master. ”

"We understand, you don't have to worry." Brother Zhengchuan did not deny Gou Zize's words, and his appearance originally had a convincing feeling.

Gou Zize didn't ask any more questions, handed over the things to us, waved his hand happily, and locked himself in the room again.

But Brother Zhengchuan was extraordinarily 'excited', and analyzed me in a low voice: "Third child, do you feel it?" This Gou Zize speaks, often speaking half and leaving half of it. didn't explain it too thoroughly to the master, but inadvertently revealed to us that this village really has a secret! We've got to figure it out. ”

I nodded, there was a kind of enthusiasm that I could do big things myself, but I also felt faintly uneasy? Is it really appropriate for us to do this? But at that time, no one dissuaded us, and Master was not around.

On the island in the middle of the lake, except for Gou Zize, the two deaf and mute people were even more ignorant of our actions, and after this decision, we left the island at night when it was completely dark, and we didn't even look like we were noticed.

And that night, I always remember that there was a moon with a red hazy light.

Because it's too hazy, it looks a little hairy, and according to the calendar, shouldn't it be a few days before there will be such a full moon that is almost a full moon?

I sat in the dinghy and had this question in my mind? There was also a saying that suddenly rose, Master once said with a smile, there is a folk saying - Mao Moon is ominous.