The second time I entered Xiangxi, I was familiar with the road, and I entered the territory of Xiangxi on the 72nd day.

The impression I have in Xiangxi is still like that, there are many mountains, and the endless huge mountains make people daunting, because you don't know if the mountain in front of you is still another big mountain.

I followed the address given to me by Sun Erniang and rushed all the way forward.

There are county seats, small towns, and many small villages in the mountains.

Compared with the big cities outside, the mountains are a little less prosperous and a little more quiet and leisurely.

Especially in the small villages in the mountains of Xiangxi, many of them are sitting on chairs at the door of their homes, holding small teapots in their hands, and drinking fragrant tea leisurely.

Groups of children chase and play on country lanes.

Looking at these innocent children reminds me of my own childhood.

When I was young, although I had no parents, I used to be like these children, carefree and carefree in Chenjia Village.

Perhaps, that was the happiest time of my life.

Now, when I grow up, I will always be full of troubles, and I can never find the happiness I had at the beginning.

Perhaps, people are like this, when they are young, they look forward to growing up.

But when you grow up, you look back on your childhood.

Of course, for today's people, it is true that they can only be carefree when they are young.

Because when we grow up, we want too much, ** too much, so the worries also become too much.

On this day, as I was passing through a small mountain town, I was amazed to see a six- or seven-year-old child running by!

Why the surprise?

Because this child who ran past me is so special, even if it is just a casual glance, I feel a lot of yin and evil from his body, and the child runs past me silently, lightly, how to say it, like a paper man running past me, it makes me feel a little hairy.

My first reaction was, "Ghost!"

That kid wasn't human!

You must know that all living people cannot have a strong yin qi, let alone have evil qi, only ghosts and evil worship will make people feel yin qi.

So I was sure there must be something wrong with this kid.

It's just that what I don't understand is that under the bright sky, the sun is flourishing right now, if that kid is a ghost and evil worship, how can he run out in broad daylight?

Curious, I took a closer look at the child, who was indeed only six or seven years old, and was skinny and skinny, with two little arms like two thin sticks, and the whole thing was skinny and boneless.

In particular, the child's face was bloodless, as if he was seriously ill, and it was very white and terrifying, which made people scared when they looked at it.

However, when I was about to catch up with the child to ask, the child ran away in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the child was gone, I had to smile bitterly and shake my head, and said in my heart that I still don't want to be nosy, because this time I went specifically to find Hades, although the child is very weird, but after all, it is not my own business, I thought about it and turned around and continued to hurry.

Soon when I came to the end of the town, I found that there were three roads up the hill in front of me, and I didn't know which way to get to where I wanted to go.

After hesitating, I finally thought about going to a local household to ask for it.

I looked around and saw a house three or four hundred meters away, so I walked over.

The house of that family was relatively dilapidated, adobe houses, covered with black tiles, a total of three rooms side by side, and a large courtyard in front.

At the gate of the courtyard, there sat an old man with an old smoking gun in his hand.

The old man seemed to be thinking about something, his face was full of sorrow, and a pair of cloudy eyes looked at the corner of the courtyard wall, and in front of him, the smoke of drought smoke was filled.

Soon, I walked up to the old man, and then I called, "Uncle! ”

The old man heard someone call him, and then he came back from his thoughts, and when he looked up, he saw a stranger coming, so he got up and looked at me curiously, and then asked, "Are you ......?"

I said, "Uncle, I'm a foreigner, and I'm passing by your place today, and I want to ask you for a favor and ask you for directions." ”

As soon as the old man heard that he had come to ask for directions, he suddenly nodded in understanding, and then invited me to sit in the courtyard with great enthusiasm, and asked me if I was thirsty.

Because this is already Xiangxi, I don't dare to eat other people's food easily when I enter Xiangxi, so I politely refused.

I followed the old man to the yard, the yard is quite large, there are firewood and other things piled up on the side of the corner, messy, on the side of the stacked firewood, there is also a big black coffin, looking panicked.

I don't know why this family wants to put a coffin directly in the yard.

Moreover, I looked around, but I didn't find anyone dead in the house.

However, although I felt that the coffin was placed in the yard, it was weird, but I didn't take it to heart, after all, in the countryside, whenever the number of Jiazi (sixty years old) is full, the family will make a coffin for the elderly, at best, it is to add blessings and longevity to the elderly, and to be practical, if the old man has three long and two short, there will also be a coffin to be buried, so as not to borrow a coffin from everywhere.

At this time, the old man asked me, where is this going?

So I retracted my thoughts, and told the address that Sun Erniang gave me, and asked the old man which way I should go next?

When the old man heard this, he shook his hand at me.

Seeing him stop here, I asked him if he didn't know this place.

The old man shook his head and said: "I know, it's just that the place is far away from here, and you need to walk more than 20 miles of mountain roads, and there are no people along the way, and now it's almost dusk, and I'm afraid I can't go on the road today." ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but be stunned, thinking that if this was the case, it would be a bit of a trouble.

Then the old man told me that if I wanted to get to that place, I had to take the middle road, which was a mountain road.

After pointing out the way, he advised me not to go again today, and it was not too late to go tomorrow, because there were many wild animals in the mountains, and the mountain roads were difficult to walk, and it was extremely inconvenient at night.

I nodded, what the old man said was not wrong, if there were really more than 20 miles of mountain roads, it would be better to stay in this town for one night first, it was impossible to walk alone in the mountains at night, right?

I'm afraid that I'm not too afraid, after all, I'm Mr. Yin and Yang, even if there are ghosts blocking the way at night, Lao Tzu can solve them.

It's just that this time I'm different from last time, the last time I entered Xiangxi was to save Chen Xianyi and Lao Tang, and this time I went to find the Hades, and I don't have to be in such a hurry, so if I can not walk at night, I will try not to go, first, for the sake of safety, and secondly, I don't have to suffer in vain.

Thinking of this, I asked the old man, is there a hotel in this town?

The old man smiled and said, "Where can there be a hotel in our small place, there is not even a restaurant." ”

That's right, this place is located in the depths of the mountains of Xiangxi, and there are few outsiders who usually enter, all of them are local residents, and there is no need for a hotel, so how can there be a hotel.

Seeing that I was frowning and making trouble, the old man said, "If you don't dislike my humble house, stay at my house for one night, and you won't be too late to go on your way tomorrow morning." ”

As soon as I heard this, I was greatly moved, I didn't expect this old man to be so kind-hearted, so I hurriedly nodded in agreement, and at the same time thanked him again and again.

Seeing that I politely thanked him, the old man told me with a smile that he said that his house was so big anyway, and his grandfather and grandson lived together, so one more person was just a matter of one more pair of chopsticks, and there was no need to thank each other.

I took a look at it, and the house was indeed not small, so I asked, "Uncle, your family has two grandchildren, what about your children?" Did you go out to work in the city? ”

"Alas!"

The old man sighed and said, "I have a son, but he died a few years ago, and then his daughter-in-law also remarried, so I and my grandson are left to guard this house." ”

"Oh!"

I nodded, I didn't expect this old man to be so good-hearted, and he was so miserable, this is really a creation and trickery.

"Grandpa! I'm back......"

Just when I didn't know what to say, a child suddenly ran in from outside the yard, called for grandpa, and threw himself into the old man's arms when he came in.

The old man touched the child's head, then pointed at me and taught him to call me uncle.

The child was also well-behaved and sensible, and called me uncle directly.

I smiled in response, but when I saw the child clearly, I was stunned, and the smile quickly sank, for this child was not the same weird child I had seen in the town before!

How...... Could it be that this child is the grandson of this old man?

When I first saw this child, I thought it was very special and strange.

It's just that at that time, because he was running too fast, he disappeared in the blink of an eye, so I didn't bother with this idle matter, but now I didn't expect to see him again, so I took a serious look.

I saw that I really didn't look at it before, this child is indeed a problem, the yin is pressing, the evil qi is head-on, this feeling is not what should appear in people at all, but it is like a murderous house, because often some murderous houses, just stand at the door, will make people feel the yin is pressing, evil spirit.

However, what makes me wonder is that this is not a murderous house, this is obviously a big living person!