I woke up from a coma with a splitting headache and found myself lying in bed in a strange room. The furniture around is old and not modern, but it gives the impression of being clean and clean. It looks like it's a bedroom in a farmhouse.

The morning sun poured in through the newspaper window, and my first reaction was, "I'm alive!" "It's just...... What happened? What about the two men who stunned me? In a trance, I heard that they were going to kill me...... Where exactly is it now, and how much time has passed? “

"You're awake."

The thin man who had been in the same car before opened the curtain and came in, but he looked more haggard, and he was very happy to see me sober up. Hand over a sea bowl: "Drink soup to warm up." ”

"I'm sorry...... How did I end up here? "I took the soup, but I couldn't get it down. Do I think it was this person who saved me?

The thin man stopped my doubtful voice, and then began to ask about my physical sensations, and then asked about how I felt before the "onset". Uh, how do you tell him this, I had to change the subject.

"Well, I don't know what's going on, I don't know how I got here. By the way, this ...... Mr. Long, how did I get here? ”

"I'm a big dragon in the four seas, and the locals call me dragon four. Do you remember how it happened? Oh, you don't know, my heartbeat was about to stop when I met you, and my sister repeatedly gave you cardiopulmonary resuscitation eight times before her heartbeat came back. After that, you were unconscious, the nerve reflexes in your whole body were gone, and your pulse was messy, and we all thought you couldn't be saved. ”

"Really? Thank you for saving your life. ”

"No thanks, it's just our duty." Long Sihai was humble for a moment, and said: "You can stay in peace, I will send you to the station in two days, here...... It's not a place for single women to stay for a long time! ”

Seeing that he seemed to know something, I subconsciously asked, "Do you know Mu Tongtong?" ”

Long Sihai's body was shocked, and he turned his head and left, leaving only one sentence: "You are here to find that child...... O iniquity! ”

When I slept at night, I occupied Long Sihai's bed, and Long Sihai was laying on the ground underground, according to him, he was an ugly man who was a medicine picker and naturalized locally, with no mother-in-law and children, only a godfather and sister.

I felt an indescribable weirdness, so I didn't say anything, and went to sleep in fear.

――Come to "Pretend to be a Gentleman" with the heroine to discover the truth of the world, you can collect votes, share WeChat to earn points-

A dreamless night.

Early the next morning, I woke up Long Sihai's movements, got up and walked outside the house, only to see Long Sihai carrying a basket on his back, which contained a knife for chopping wood, and was ready to go.

"Let's go, since you are here for her, let's go to the Mu family's old mansion and make a move!"

I packed up my personal belongings, and then ate some dry food and went up the mountain with Long Sihai.

Along the way, Long Sihai cut off the delicate branches with a knife and put them in the basket, while introducing the situation in the mountains to me.

This mountain is said to be able to lead to Peach Blossom Island in the past, but later it is said that because of the thunder and thunder of the sky, the Dragon King of the Sea split the mountain cliff, the mountain road is steep, and there are often passers-by who stumble and fall into a corpse without bones, and over time, some people say that it is the curse left by heaven, and it gradually becomes a deserted place. In the past, there were still people in the old society who were forced to come up to hunt for a livelihood or something, but now, the people in the village develop Longtan Township as a tourist attraction, and they take care of doing business at their own doorstep, and rarely come up. Pointing to the road hidden in the weeds, Long Sihai carefully reminded me, for fear that if I was not careful, I would be injured. What a nice guy.

At this time, the mountain was indeed a barren mountain and a wild range, overgrown with lush weeds, and the high place even came to the chest of a person, if it were not for someone familiar with the terrain to lead the way, I would not know how to walk at all.

After walking for almost an hour, Long Sihai stopped.

"Uncle Long, is this it?" Looking at the grass in front of me, I couldn't see anything clearly, and I couldn't help but ask in confusion.

"Yes, this is it, that's where I found that...... But why can't you find it now? Looking around, Long Sihai still can't seem to find the old mansion.

Looking around, I don't think it's any different from the mountain trails along the way. Could it be that he made a mistake?

"No, I won't admit it, it's different here than just now, but why can't I find it?" Still looking around, Long Sihai turned over the grass around him, while looking carefully.

"Uncle Long, look for it slowly, I'm not in a hurry." Looking at Long Sihai's movements, I clapped the sweat of my hands and chose to believe in Long Sihai, if he had bad intentions, he could do it as early as the front, but I can also fight now.

"Ahh Found it, this is it, you look at the cliffs over there...... This is the old house of the Mu family. "

This courtyard is not used. The door is an old-fashioned red lacquered wooden door, still closed. The trees behind the house have grown into a landscape. The environment here may be particularly satisfying for visitors who have just come from outside. This is the case in many hollow villages where people go out to work, but the yellow paper seal diagonally across the two doors obviously proves that it was opened after it was seized, or that someone came. According to the folklore books of the Shiling people, this means that there are "unclean things" in the courtyard, but most people are afraid of getting bad luck when they go in. Who will come?

Mu Tongtong?

The house was at the westernmost end of the cliff, some distance away from the adjacent peak, with three regular rooms of blue brick and gray tiles, and a spacious yard, which was already thick with ash. It looks like the owner never came back after the family went out. I pushed open the door with anxiety, walked into this old house in the overgrown grass, and saw that the courtyard was in order, a picture easel was placed under the canopy, and there was a drawing board on it.

On the canvas is an unfinished oil painting that looks like a woman hidden in the dark, with an inexplicable flame, and eyes...... The woman's body in the shadows, illuminated by the firelight, emitted a crimson glow on one side* and the curve of her waist. The strange thing is that the red competition is still so bright, and it will not fade after years of wind and rain outside. On the easel, palettes, paints, knives and brushes are there, as if the owner had just left for a while. Now the door was ajar, but the room was dim, and the light was obscured by the tents outside. I walked into the house and stood timidly in the middle of the house, clearly feeling movement in the room.

Suddenly, I heard a soft sound of "Gaba", and I hurriedly retreated to the door.

I asked tentatively, "Mu Tongtong, are you there?" Is it you in the room? ――"

No one answered, it was quiet, as if everything was holding its breath.

I swallowed and walked slowly. I pushed open the room to the east first. Inside, there are several simple wooden shelves with various plaster statues on them, and many picture frames are piled up next to them. On the wall, at first glance, it was clear that there were originally paintings, but now they were empty, leaving only hanging hemp rope and a little rusty nail head, on which a spider had formed a web.

Taking advantage of the faint light, I saw a table in the corner with many books on it, neatly arranged. I walked over and flipped through the books, and I was only familiar with the names of Dante, Rembrandt, Racine, Danner, and the others were art theories and master books that were unfamiliar to me. I wanted to find a diary or a photo or something, but I didn't see any personal records of Mu Tongtong for a long time.

There was a book spread out on the table with a thin layer of dust, and the title of the book was a long foreigner's name. I was about to flip through the book, but I found a familiar business card next to it, which turned out to be Yue Wenbin's. He also gave it to me. There was not only one handwritten business card, but also a large stack in the corner of the table, and a few scattered on the ground. So, Yue Wenbin has also been here?

- Even if you give someone a business card, it is one, not so many; And business cards scattered on the ground...... There can only be one explanation, and that is that he fell in a panic, and the man was shocked.

――It seems that Mu Tongtong is here. I've got to find him.

I quickly searched the house and judged that Mu Tongtong was not in this room. Then, I resolutely walked out of the east room and walked to the west room. The curtains of this room were not opened, and the room was dark, and I saw a person lying on the bed in a trance, so I walked over lightly.

"Mu Tongtong, is that you? I asked, my voice trembling, moving my steps cautiously forward.

There was no movement in the darkness, but the gray sheets on the bed bulged out of what color, like the slowly bulging body of the man lying on his side. I took another small step.

At this moment, the sheet was lifted with a "swish", something came out of it, and jumped in front of me, "Wangwang" screamed, I was so frightened that I turned around and fell to the ground.

It was a dog, a big, tall and thin wolfdog, jumping in front of me, lying on its feet, sticking its head forward, baring its teeth and grinning, howling in a menacing manner like thunder, and shaking the roof to the ground.

I ran out of the ground with the dog chasing after me. I fell twice in a row, rushed into the yard, and tripped over the easel. ran to the gate, and almost knocked over Long Sihai who was standing there. The dog didn't chase out the door, and kept barking in the house. I leaned against the door frame and gasped for air, my heart aching as if it were about to pop out.

The dragon said, "It's like this here, every family has a dog." Sometimes the owner of the dog is gone, but the dog does not leave, especially in this house, where it is often heard barking, and no one can enter the house. There were wild beasts on this mountain, and they had never seen the dog go out, and they didn't know how it survived. Let's go, shall we? “

I didn't leave, I went into the courtyard again, picked up the easel I had just tripped over, stood in the original position, put the brushes and knives in their original position, and then walked out of the door. The dog looked at me quietly, as if human.

Long Sihai said again: "You are here for Mu Tongtong, and it doesn't hurt to have something to say to you...... Some people in the village said that Mu Tongtong committed a crime and committed suicide in fear of crime, while others said that she did not die and may have escaped...... It's not easy to explain to the official, so find a stand-in to recognize the body. Some people say that they saw that she was still alive, not dead at all, and hiding. "

I was taken aback and asked, "How can you say that?" Is there any evidence for this? "

Long Sihai said: "It's just what a few people say -- someone has seen her in other places and other cities, and it is seen by a person who runs around doing business, and she has a nose and an eye." In addition, not long ago, there was a drunkard named Wang Lao Wu in the village who said that one day he was drunk in the middle of the night before taking a shortcut back on the mountain road, and when he walked to the house and saw the light on, he looked through the crack in the door and saw that Mu Tongtong. She sat under the canopy in the courtyard and watched her dog lie down in front of her, eating what she had brought with her. What did you say the dog ate? It's all bloody viscera, I don't know if it's human or animal. Wang Lao Wu said when he saw people the next day, but no one believed him, saying that he had drunk too much. On the third night after that incident, Wang Lao Wu got drunk again and fell into the ditch and drowned. Whether he had seen it with his own eyes or whether it was nonsense, no one could tell for sure. "

I was stunned in my heart, remembering the rotting corpse I saw on the road before, is Long Sihai hinting at something?

A little further on, out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly noticed something staring at me not far away. That thing has eyes, and its eyelids blink, and when they open, they have a strange sheen.

What's that?

Long Sihai walked fast and disappeared, and my heart was fluttering and fluttering! The palms of the hands are sweaty.

"Dog!" I yelled tentatively at the other side.

"Whew!" Bang. The dog ran over with a grunt, and the pad under his feet crushed the branches, making a "click" sound.

"It's really you, scare me to death!" I flickered at it with a stick, "Go, go back!" "

The moment he turned around, he seemed to see a fire in the distance.

There are people in the mountains!

I squatted down and held the dog's head, and it crawled and hummed flatteringly, without the initial hostility at all, and it was my actions that touched this humane dog.

The fire flickered and disappeared. It's all around. I patted the dog: "Let's go!" Maybe I'm dazzled. "

As he walked, the dog suddenly jumped out like a spring and roared.

"Who?"

"Dead dog! Let go! Don't bite, spread out! "Someone was drinking.

"Who?" I was surprised.

"Who else do you ask?" The man asked me.

It shines brightly in the moonlight. I was taken aback, and the man was the same thief-eyed man I had seen on the mountain. After a closer look, I realized that it was not, this person was uglier than the previous thief's eyebrows, his eyebrows had grown into a smooth, his eyes were so small that people couldn't see them, the bridge of his nose was flattened, his lips were broad, and his face was like a piece of brine tofu.

"Who are you?" I cross-examined.

"Oh!" The ugly man smiled and showed a mouthful of open teeth, like a bulldozer cutting wheat, and a few teeth in the middle were shining golden. "You're a relative of Long Sihai, right? I'm a medicine picker, I live in the mountains, I'll leave in two days, and then take my car. "

I intuitively felt that this person was related to the thief-eyed Bayi Master and the fat man, so I sneered, ignored it, and went straight downhill.

The man opened his arms to stop me, blocked the mountain crossing, swallowed at the throat, and made a slurping sound at the corner of his mouth.

Worst! I bowed my head, the moon stars were thin, the wind blew through my sleeves, and the water-colored silk wrapped around the uneven parts of my body, looming in the wind. Still a pervert!

I hate such looks, like wolves, with a weird and gloomy green light.

"Get out of the way!" I snapped.

"What does the little girl say? Where are you going? I have never seen such a watery ...... in the villages. This was the best bite for my brother when he was alive. "

I don't know what found me, it seems that the thief-eyed Bayi Master and the fat man didn't mention me to him when they met me, and now he is still tempting. I raised my left hand and whistled at the crooked little finger, and the dog immediately rushed out like a winding arrow. That's good!

"Yikes! Why is this dog again? He stepped back.

I breathed a sigh of relief when footsteps could be heard behind me.

"Little girl?" Long Sihai asked, "Why are you still here?" "

"I'm ......," I hesitated, "this dog ran out to find me, and I'm going to keep it." "It was snuggling at my feet, whimpering, and it seemed to hurt.

"Oh!" Long Sihai sighed, "That dog has a master, go back quickly!" "

"He hurt the Mu family's dog." I pointed at the ugly man with one hand, reluctant to let him go.

"Hurt if you hurt! Isn't it just a dog! When Long Sihai saw the ugly man, his face changed, and he said, "Just go back and give the bag." The black light is blind, it pounces and bites, and people are also self-defense, thinking it is a wolf! "

"He defends himself?" I stared at the unfamiliar face in the shadows in disbelief, "It's not that no one has hunted on this mountain for twenty years, he is an ugly medicine picker, what is he doing running up the mountain in the middle of the night?" "

"Look at you kid, this broken ridge is so big, and it's not a family's own land, why do you talk like that? Let's go back! You don't have much to do with the things of the medicine pickers. Long Sihai stretched out a hand, pushed me aside, and pulled the ugly man medicine picker past me.

"Eight of the king's sons!" It wasn't until he turned a few mountain beams that Long Sihai scolded with a dark face, "Sure enough, it's the gang of big golden teeth!" As soon as you are alone, they will have their eyes on you! "

"No grievances, why did they kill me?" I finally asked this sentence.

This book has been put on the shelves, I hope you will go to the "Pretend to be a Gentleman" panda to read the page of the book after reading the chapters to give support, every click, every collection, every monthly pass, every comment, every subscription is a great support for "Pretending to be a Gentleman", and it is also the motivation for the author Potemkin to write.