"Second brother, what do you see in front of you?"

On the grass, a girl of seven or eight years old, carrying a small flower basket, her dark eyebrows flashed, as if she had found something interesting, her little hand stretched out, pointed to a certain place and asked curiously.

"Where...... Let me see. The young man on the side slowly turned to the side and looked in the direction of the little girl's finger.

Not far ahead, I saw piles of scattered stones, which were full of weeds, and most of them were born through the stones, which looked a little wonderful.

However, the young man at this time was a little dissatisfied: "Xiaoxia, don't I usually tell you to be more literate and memorize, you must not have listened to me, the stones in front of you, but they are all recorded in "Gui Caotang", most of the stones in appearance are flat and pointed outside, all of them are somewhat similar to the shape of the big leaves, and there are weeds that have long been spiked on them. ”

"Oh, that's just some stones, I thought it was funny? However, I don't want to read those books, the words on them are so complicated and difficult to understand, I want you to teach me yourself, second brother." The little girl listened to the young man's words, her little face flushed for a while, and then she playfully stuck out her tongue, and said a little coquettishly.

"Alas, the second brother is not small now, I estimate that our father will let me go to other towns to learn a craft this year, and no one will teach you these at that time, so you have to rely on yourself for future knowledge. Seeing that the little sister was so patient with herself, the young man was really helpless.

"Second brother, I don't want you to go, if you want to go, there will be no one to play with me. After listening to the young man's words, the little girl's face suddenly became a little anxious, and she was busy pulling the corner of the young man's clothes, and kept shaking.

"Good, good...... If you have to be obedient, the second brother will promise you not to leave, but you have to go back to memorize the names of the herbs on the first ten pages of "Gui Caotang". The boy picked up the wooden basket at his feet, turned to face the little girl, and said with a serious expression.

"Okay, I'll carry it when I go back, second brother, you are not allowed to lie to me. The little girl puffed out her cheeks and patted her breasts, looking like she was swearing.

"Second brother won't lie to you, let's go, let's go back, it's not early. The boy touched the little girl's head, and a smile was on his face.

Qingyang Town is a small town surrounded by three green mountains.

The mountain body is peculiar, the upper and lower are flat, the trails are mixed, all cross the mountains, at a glance, the three green mountains seem to be connected into one, so it is called "three longitudinal mountains" by the locals.

After crossing the three vertical mountains next to Qingyang Town, there are all mountains in the eye, and a large area of dense forests is born with the mountains, as far as the eye can see, like a green ocean, unfathomable.

The three longitudinal mountains are divided into outer mountains and inner mountains.

The outer mountains are rich in herbal resources, difficult to exploit, dangerous, some fierce beasts, often haunted them, the inner mountains are relatively barren, but it is better to be safe, often some town teenagers and women will go to find some common daily necessities.

There are also some naturally formed small holes and pits on the inner mountain, which are scattered all over the mountain, with different shallow and deep depths, and most of the pits are just some weeds growing in the pits, and if you are lucky, you will occasionally encounter some precious herbs.

It was approaching evening and it was getting dark.

On the road down the mountain, a teenager and a little girl of seven or eight years old were heading down the mountain.

The young man carried a large wooden basket on his back, with beads of sweat from time to time, and seemed to be full of helplessness.

The little girl next to her was really playful, always walking and running along the way, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, but she hadn't even finished two-thirds of the way down the mountain.

Thinking that it would be too late to go back, my parents would be worried again, and I felt a little anxious.

After thinking for a while, he had to put all the things that the little sister was carrying on himself, and muttered from time to time, urging him to hurry up.

In this way, although the speed has increased a lot, but even so, I am afraid that I will not be able to get home before dark.

After a short while, the young man suddenly saw a fork in the path on the west side of the road, and his face suddenly became happy, and he quickly thought in his mind.

The trail in my memory is a shortcut down the mountain, and although the road is a little bumpy, it saves a lot of distance compared to the main road.

If you follow this path, you may be able to return home before dark, so that your parents will no longer have to worry.

The young man quickly looked up at the already dark sky, so he didn't hesitate and took the little sister directly into the path.

The sky was getting dark, and in the light of daylight, there were tall shrubs on both sides of the path, and some round and pointed leaves grew on the shrub poles, and each of them looked about five or six feet in size, like a dark blue boat.

Underneath the shrubs are scattered blue-gray stones of various shapes and sizes.

Two people were hurriedly walking in the middle of the path, one tall and one short, one in front and one behind, looking at the young man and the little girl whose faces were halfway up the mountain in front of them.

At this time, the little girl beside the young man suddenly stretched out a small hand, gently touched the young man's arm, and then opened a pair of big eyes and asked in a confused tone.

"Second brother, look at what is in front of you, why do I always hear some strange sounds?"

The young man who was concentrating on the road suddenly heard the words of the little sister in his ears, looked stunned, and subconsciously looked ahead.

Seeing that there were no people around except for his brother and sister, he thought that his little sister was messing around again, so he couldn't help but warn.

"Xiaoxia, don't mess around anymore, it's going to be dark soon, and you'll have to be trained if you're late when you go back. ”

“...... Second brother, I didn't lie to you, I really feel like there is a strange sound in front of me. "The little girl was a little aggrieved.

The young man looked at the little sister in front of him, hesitated slightly, stopped again, swept the two eyes in front of him, and saw that there was still nothing, he immediately felt helpless, shook his head, ignored it anymore, and accelerated his speed to continue to concentrate on the road.

A moment later, the little girl pulled up the corner of the boy's shirt again and repeated the question, but this time there was a hint of trembling between the words.

The young man's brows furrowed, and a wave of surprise rose in his heart, although his little sister was a little naughty, he had already warned him once.

According to past habits, this time there will definitely not be a recurrence for no reason, is there really something ahead of this?

Thinking of this, the boy once again focused his gaze on both sides of the path in front of him, and carefully observed it again from beginning to end.

I found that except for a bumpy road two or three people wide, there were only a few bushes around the edge, and there was no human figure at all, not to mention no strange sounds.

Feeling the uneasiness and trembling on the arm of the little sister on the side, for some reason, the young man felt a faint trace of uneasiness in his heart.

"Xiaoxia, don't be afraid, you tell the second brother, which direction is the sound you hear?"

"Right there...... It sounds so scary!" Although the little girl was very scared at this time, she was fortunate that she still had her second brother by her side, so she didn't seem to be too flustered, and after listening to the young man's question, she still pointed out the direction more rationally.

When the boy heard this, he followed the direction pointed by the little girl, and looked over, only to see a very common shrub falling in front of him, and some weeds were distributed under the tree, but they did not look abnormal in the slightest.

Perhaps the only thing that caught the eye was the large flat leaves on the bushes, which were extremely large and obscured most of the mountain behind.

Many years ago, the teenager heard some legends related to ghosts and gods from the mouths of the older generation, and it is said that this world is not only the human world, but also the underworld, a region unknown to mankind.

As for the rumors about this underworld, it is said that after death, people's souls will not disappear, but will become a kind of underworld, and will fall into it by itself.

But there are often some special ones that have not been brought back by the underworld and continue to remain in this world, which will turn into so-called ghosts.

Although I heard it when I was a child, it seems that it is only for ordinary boredom now, but this deep-rooted conjecture is retained.

As it gets dark today, everything around him has become extraordinarily quiet, even if most of what the young man thinks in his heart are those unbelievable rumors, but now in this weirdness, it is inevitable that there will be random speculation in his mind.