As soon as Hou Bin and the others saw that the direction the old man was pointing to was actually the reservoir, the flame of hope between the two was instantly extinguished. The monkey beside him wondered if this old man was a psychopath, or someone would not be at home at night and run up the mountain.

Hou Bin could only smile bitterly and said to the old man: "Uncle, we came from over there." ”

The old man still smiled and said, "Old man, I have lived here for a long time, listen to me, or I will show you the way, and you will follow me." Then the old man was going to lead them in the direction of the reservoir.

Hou Bin hurriedly stepped forward to stop the old man, "I have received your wishes, but that is really not where we are going." Hou Bin said, hesitated for a moment and continued: "Otherwise, I'll forget it, it's a big night, the mountain road is not easy to walk, you better go home." After Hou Bin finished speaking, he turned around and sat down next to the monkey again, with a blank face.

At this time, the old man was a little angry, "Hmph, I kindly want to take you out, but you still don't believe me, so you can stay here." With that, the old man turned around and was about to leave. When Hou Bin saw it, he was a little embarrassed, so he immediately stood up and grabbed one of the old man's arms, and said with a smile: "Ouch, look at you, don't be angry." It's not that I don't trust you, but when we came, we did come from this side, and if we went back to the reservoir, it would really be the other way around. ”

The old man was quite stubborn, but he just "snorted" and turned his face to the side. Hou Bin thought about it, forget it, he can't go out anyway, this big night, one more person, one more strength. Then he smiled and said to the old man: "Don't be angry, then you can take us out, maybe it's dark, and we really turned." ”

Unexpectedly, the old man's face turned faster than the book, and immediately turned cloudy and sunny, and turned his face with a smile, "Isn't this right!" With that, he turned around and took Hou Bin in the direction of the reservoir. The monkey on the side was a little uncontrollable, walked up to Hou Bin, and said a little anxiously: "Are we really going over there?" Hou Bin pinched the monkey with his hand, meaning not to speak anymore.

Hou Bin supported the old man all the way, walking and walking, and suddenly chuckled in his heart, could this old man be a ghost? Just encountered a ghost hitting the wall, and before he went out, an old man came, and the more Hou Bin thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong. But when he looked at the old man again, he didn't find anything wrong, Hou Bin was entangled in his heart, and then he simply didn't want to think about it, it was a blessing or a curse, and he couldn't avoid it.

Although the old man didn't seem to be walking very fast, he only walked for more than ten minutes and found that he had reached the foot of the mountain, and it was in the direction of Beili Town. The monkey didn't think much about it, but this Hou Bin began to doubt himself, is his sense of direction so weak now? But no matter what, it has already come out, the two hugged each other excitedly, and after a burst of cheers, they wanted to say thank you to the old man, but when they turned around, they found that the old man was gone, and no one responded after shouting a few times, and the two of them were suddenly frightened by a white sweat.

The monkey hadn't completely detached himself from the excitement just now, and then such a scene came, which really made him sad and happy.

"Dabin, this, is this old man a human or a ghost?" When the monkey said this, his heart went to his throat.

Dabin was also a little at a loss at this time, and said after a pause: "Don't care if it's a human or a ghost, let's leave quickly, this place is not suitable for a long time." With that, the two of them ran to Beili Town in one go. When I got home, it was certain that I was scolded by the second uncle, but who the old man I met in the mountains was, and the second uncle didn't figure out about it.

After breakfast the next day, the two originally planned to go back to the city without incident, but before they could leave, a man came to the second uncle's house. The man looked to be forty-five or sixteen years old, and he was not very tall.

When the second uncle saw that someone was coming, he said hello: "Yo, the fifth child is here?" "This fifth child is a person who used to run ghosts with his second uncle. This person has a relatively honest personality and is more stable in his work, and the second uncle likes this person very much. Like the second uncle, he also lives in Beili Town.

Lao Wu looked at Hou Bin and the others, and said, "Oh, there are guests at home?" ”

The second uncle glanced back and continued to say to the fifth child: "Oh, this is my nephew. What's wrong? If you say anything, it's okay, it's not an outsider. ”

Lao Wu paused for a moment and continued: "Oh, that's right. Yesterday, my husband came to me and said that he had contacted a job, and the buyer was a businessman from the south, and asked if we would like to run this job. ”

The old man mentioned by the fifth child is a city man, and he and the second uncle belong to a cooperative relationship. In addition to having his own hardware store in the city, he also has a profession of introducing ghost work to his second uncle and contacting buyers.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the general situation of running ghosts. At this time, the form of ghost running was not quite the same as that before liberation. In the pre-liberation era, everything was done by the whole team, including finding a place at the beginning, and then the whole team set off to the destination, and after the work was completed, they found a suitable buyer according to what they ran. It is precisely because of this method that things that often come will be pressed in the hand for a long time before they can be shot. But this line of work may not be able to run twice a year, and it may only run once every two years, so if the things that come from running are always pressed in your hands, it is still the same as not running this job.

However, after the 80s, this generation of people who ran ghosts was affected by the reform and opening up at that time, and their thinking became more active, and the overall division of labor became much clearer. Contact the buyer, and then according to the actual needs of the buyer, then find a suitable place, and finally contact the person who runs the ghost to run the work, so that there will not be the embarrassing situation that will press the goods before.

As soon as the second uncle heard that he had come to live, he was naturally very happy, so he asked the fifth child: "Since we have a job, let's run, the question is where is this job?" ”

Lao Wu hesitated at this time, and finally said hesitantly: "It's Ghost Fang Valley." ”

As soon as the second uncle heard that it was Ghost Fang Gu, he said with a disgusted expression: "What? Ghost Valley? No, I can't go. ”

Hou Bin and the monkey have been listening to the conversation between the two of them, Hou Bin knows a little bit about this ghost life, so when the second uncle heard that the ghost Fang Valley had such a big reaction, he didn't understand it very much, and he didn't know what kind of place the ghost Fang Valley was, so that the second uncle could refuse so firmly.

This Ghost Fang Valley is located in a mountain called Hades Gate Mountain, which is more than a hundred miles west of Beili Town. This mountain is not very rugged, so before liberation, there were people living in the area of this Onifang Valley.

At that time, the Ghost Valley was not called that, it was a village, and this village was located in this small basin. At the foot of the hill to the north of the village, there is a place where the soil is very suitable for building a house, so when anyone wants to build a cowshed and a pigsty or something, they will go to that place to dig when they need to use soil.

Later, a family went to dig the soil, digging and digging and found that it was empty, at first I didn't pay much attention to it, and continued to dig, but the more I dug the hole, the bigger it became, only to find that it was a cave. Since then, people have often disappeared in the village, and no one is alive or dead. Later, someone went outside to find someone who understood to come and take a look, and finally found this cave, this person walked to the entrance of the cave, did not dare to enter, said that there was a purple-scaled toad king living inside. This guy is as big as a cow, with horns on his head, and his whole body is covered with purple scales, so he is called the King of Purple Scale Toad, and his temperament is very ferocious.

And when the people here asked what to do, the advice given by the people was that all the people here moved out and left the place, and then the people here gradually moved away.

Ghosts and ghosts rarely appear in places with dense people, because in densely populated places, the yang energy will be very heavy, and it is difficult for ghosts and monsters to get in. So in some of the big cities we live in now, it's rare to hear about hauntings. Even if there are one or two of them, they are special circumstances. On the contrary, in those sparsely populated places, ghosts will run rampant, and the yin qi will be particularly heavy. Later, when some people passed by this place, some people often encountered some very strange things, and slowly people called this place Ghost Fang Valley.

And the reason why the second uncle is very resistant to this place is because this place is too evil. This place is respectful of people who run ghosts, and the most important thing is the Purple Scale Toad King. This Purple Scale Toad King was fortunate to be the same as the white-bearded and yellow-skinned man mentioned earlier, and accidentally obtained the aura and became the body of cultivating immortals, but it couldn't bear the long road of cultivating immortals, so it used the ghosts of unjust death to generate a large amount of resentment, and then used these resentments to cultivate, and finally fell into the demon path.

So when the second uncle heard that the destination this time was Ghost Fang Valley, the second uncle's first reaction was that their target was the Purple Scale Toad King, which meant that the risk of this ghost life was very high, and if he was not careful, he might lose his life.

Of course, the fifth child also knew what the second uncle was thinking, so he went on to say to the second uncle: "But the price given by the buyer this time is very high. On our side alone, the eldest man gave 12,000. "Twelve thousand yuan may not be a big deal now, but at that time, twelve thousand yuan was a lot.

Although the second uncle was a little lively, he hesitated for a long time and still didn't agree. The fifth man has no temper, and when he saw that the second uncle refused to accept the job, he said to the second uncle: "Okay, since the second master is unwilling to take it, then I will tell the old man and let him find another person." That's it, the fifth child is gone.

After the fifth child left, Hou Bin immediately asked the second uncle: "Second uncle, you don't want to take the job of 12,000 yuan?" ”

The second uncle sighed and said, "Hey, it's not that I don't earn money if I am rich." One is because the risk of living in Ghost Fang Valley is too great, and the other is that if you want to go to Ghost Fang Valley, it is not possible for two or three people to run, and there are not enough people. ”

As soon as Hou Bin heard that there were not enough people, he turned around and whispered something to the monkey, only to see the monkey nodding excitedly, and then Hou Bin asked the second uncle: "Then do you think I and the monkey can follow you?" ”