As soon as this girl cried, there was less resentment in my heart, and if I think about it carefully, she is a female baby, in order to protect herself, it is not too much to deal with outsiders who trespass to Yinshan Gorge. Thinking of this, I also put down the whip in my hand and looked at her. From her narration, I could hear that something seemed to have happened to her grandfather, and I was a little anxious, and whispered to urge the old ghost to hurry over and take a look.

"Baby, I've been friends with your father for many years, take me to see him, okay?" The old ghost said a word to the girl, and then shook his head at me gently, his expression indescribably heavy.

I don't know if the old ghost's soft tone made the girl let down her guard, or even if there was some induction between people in the seven gates of the river, as soon as the old ghost said this, the girl nodded, pinched a small tube in her hand, put it to her mouth and blew, the kind of chirp that made my scalp tingle just now came out again, but with this sound, the insects and mice not far away retreated to the coffin mountain not far away.

The girl led us along, and she was so familiar with the environment that she couldn't take a wrong step with her eyes closed. We walked all the way to the deepest part of the Yinshan Gorge, where the corpses had been cleared, but the wind was wrapped in gray clouds and turned overhead. We saw a hole in the rock wall on the right side of the canyon, which was covered by a rotten cloth curtain, and it was probably a place to live.

"Right here." The girl pointed to the hole covered by the curtain, and looked back at me and the old ghost, and although she stopped crying, her eyes were still a little red, and she waited pitifully for the old ghost to speak.

"Let's see." The old ghost's expression was deeper, he seemed to have sensed something, and his steps became very slow.

The moment the cloth curtain at the entrance of the cave was lifted, a very bad smell floated out of it, the Yinshan Gorge didn't smell very good, but this smell was especially bad, I couldn't help frowning, the hole was not big, but the light was even dimmer, the lamp in the old ghost's hand was refracted out, and I vaguely saw a person sitting inside.

The man was motionless, and I couldn't see much of it, except for the long and tangled hair and beard. But when I smelled the smell of the cave, I immediately knew where the heavy expression on the old ghost's face came from. There was a smell of corpses wafting in the cave, although it was no longer thick, but it faintly indicated that the person sitting there had been dead for a long time.

"Shiyong" the old ghost muttered in a low voice, his body shook, and he walked into the cave with his legs raised, and I followed behind, only walking a few steps, and the guess in my heart came true. The man sitting in the cave was rotten and mottled, and had been dead for at least half a year.

This is the person in the seven gates of the river, who died in obscurity in the Yinshan Gorge, the scene is sad and sad, I saw the girl standing in the corner of the cave, looking at the old ghost and the old man who has been dead for a long time. At this time, I seem to understand her feelings, since I was a child, I have grown up in this kind of place, I have hardly seen outsiders, when the only relatives who can rely on are also far away, what can she do as a girl? She guarded her grandfather's corpse, stubbornly believing that her grandfather was not dead, but he just didn't want to pay attention to her.

Thinking about it, my eyes soured, because I also thought of my grandfather.

To be honest, the corpse was really miserable, and you would feel uncomfortable at a glance, but the old ghost didn't care at all, he held the lamp and stood in front of the corpse for a long, long time, without saying anything, just sighing softly. Fifty years have passed, and there are no vicissitudes in this world, but many things have become different from people.

"Baby." The old ghost slowly turned around, walked to the girl's side, and asked softly, "Where is your father, and do you have any uncle, uncle?" "

I watched the two of them speak with a little jealousy, and the old ghost's tone was not only soft, but even a hint of imperceptible kindness. I was in a trance for a moment, this person, what is he like? When I first saw him in the stone coffin, he looked so terrible and gloomy, and then the people of Xiaopanhe Village were cruelly pulled to fill the river, these things always made me feel that he was a ghost, a cold ghost. But the experience after that changed my impression of him a little bit.

"Daddy is gone, he fell into the river, and he floated in the river." The girl was always crying, and she couldn't help it when she said it, and said with tears in her eyes: "My father took me out of my father and buried it over there." "

While crying, the girl said that it had been a long time, and when her father died, she was only about four or five years old, but this kind of tragedy left a deep impression on her, and she will never forget it to this day.

When I listened to her tell me this, my heart shook violently, and my hands trembled slightly. Because the process of her father's death is so similar to my father.

This girl must be the granddaughter of the Sun family in the seven gates of the river, her family is the same as our Chen family, the people are not prosperous, when she was a child, her father also maintained the habit of patrolling the river, but it is not in the same place as my family's river patrol. That year, she was four years old, still living outside the Yinshan Gorge, her parents went out to patrol the river, did not come back for a long time, in the middle of the night, her mother ran home alone, crying and wiping tears, saying that her father died in the river.

Her father was trapped in the water by a floating corpse, and the same iron-clawed corpse standing upright in the river, and a group of family members of the deceased who were looking for the body along the riverbank met her father and begged for help in salvaging the body. Among them was a young woman, with a big belly, kneeling on the bank of the river and crying, her father, like my father, was still young and enthusiastic at the time, and although he knew the danger, he could not withstand the pleading of the other party, and finally ventured into the water, never came up again, and lived and died in the river. When her grandfather rushed over, her father's body was still floating on the water, probably because of this incident, her grandfather was disheartened and didn't want to do anything, so he moved into Yinshan Gorge with her.

I thought in my heart that the Sun family and my family have never had any contact, at least not on the surface, and they are so far apart, the death of my father and the death of the female doll's father will definitely not be a coincidence.

I felt that someone was deliberately harming them.

Boom

I was thinking about it, the old ghost's body shook suddenly, his fists clenched, the bones exploded one after another, the green tendons on his forehead jumped back and forth twice, and he gritted his teeth and said: "The descendants of the Hezi family are so bad!" Lao Tzu came out this time, and he didn't want to cause trouble, but it seems that it is not possible to turn the world upside down! "

The girl may have been very lonely in her heart, and when she heard that the old ghost was going to stand up for her family, she cried. The old ghost paused and said, "Baby, don't cry, your father and father are dead, and your father is in charge of you." "

At that age, I was very competitive, and I pitied this girl, but usually the old ghost was either fierce when he spoke to me, or he ignored it, and the sour energy in my heart rose up one by one, and I felt that the old ghost favored one over the other.

"Her father and grandfather are dead, she is lonely, you at least have a master, what does she have?" The old ghost looked at me in a flash, as if he knew that I pouted and squeezed my eyes because of jealousy, and said slowly: "The father of the dead son is bitter in his heart, but the baby without his father is not bitter in his heart." "

After listening to the old ghost's words, I immediately felt ashamed, and I lowered my head and didn't dare to make a sound.

The old ghost buried the corpse in the cave in Yinshan Gorge with his hands, and he was busy for a long time. The girl brought us some food, sweet potatoes and peanuts that she had grown in the sandy soil outside the canyon, but there was no food.

"Master, you eat." The girl held a handful of peanuts and handed it to the old ghost, then turned her head and grabbed it for me, and said, "Brother, you eat." "

"Baby." The old ghost took the food, but did not eat a bite, touched the girl's hair, and said, "What's your name?" "

"My name is Qiqi." The girl stood in front of the old ghost, although she also vaguely knew that I and the old ghost had a deep relationship with their grandson family, but after all, I was not familiar with it, and I spoke timidly, bowed my head and rubbed the corners of my clothes, and whispered: "My father said that I was fat when I was born, seven catties and seven taels."

"Okay, seven pounds and seven taels, seven seven." The old ghost smiled, slowly took a peanut and put it in his mouth to chew: "Don't cry again in the future, eat well." "

We left Yinshan Gorge that day, and I didn't know where we were going next, so the old ghost told me that I was going to find something. He didn't say what he was looking for, but I had a feeling that the old grandfather of the seven gates of the river was a person with a broken hand, and the thing that my grandfather repeatedly told me to dig up before he left was a broken hand, and these clues were connected together, which made me feel that the broken hand must be a very important thing, and besides, there will be one in each of the seven doors and seven families of the river. What the old ghost wanted to find was the severed hand left by the Sun family.

"Isn't that the hand?" I asked the old ghost tentatively.

"How do you know?"

I told my guess, anyway, the old ghost himself is a person from the Seven Gates, and these are not secrets to him, so there is no need to hide them.

"You baby, I finally let Lao Tzu see a little hope." The old ghost said: "I guessed well, I want to find that hand." "

"Where are you going to find it? Why don't you look for it in Yinshan Gorge? "I said, Sun Shiyong spent the last ten years in Yinshan Gorge, if you want to hide something, I guess I will hide it in Yinshan Gorge.

"You don't understand." The old ghost said: "After the family continues, from generation to generation, that thing must not be too far away from the body, but after the family is broken, the thing will inevitably be put into the ancestral grave." "

After the death of the river, when the burial does not have a grave, after being buried, the cemetery is flat, outsiders can not see, even if the family, only remember the approximate location, every year Qingming and Halloween, the family will draw a circle next to the cemetery and burn paper to offer, and after a few generations, the descendants may be very vague about the specific burial location. This is a kind of protection, each river sink, has its own secrets, and they don't want people to dig their own graves.

"Baby, where did you put the things your father told you to dig up?"

"At home."

"Nonsense!" The old ghost glared and said, "Is that thing safe at home?" "

I sighed, the whole Xiaopanhe Village was empty, who would go to the house to rummage things, and besides, the severed hand was put on the beam of the main house by me, even if it was robbed, it would not be lost.

"I've always wanted to ask." I leaned over to the old ghost and whispered, "What does that hand do?" "