"Xiaomi?" Grandpa's mouth was open for a long time, and finally he said two words.

No voice answered him.

Daddy's legs went limp, and he knelt on the ground and crawled towards the cat's nose, his sleeves and trouser legs covered in mud. Daddy crawled to the cat's nose and pressed his ear to the soft dirt.

He heard the slight breathing sound of Millet sleeping as she slept.

Grandpa suddenly burst into tears, and tears dripped into the cat's nose.

"Xiaomi...... Millet ......" Grandpa called softly, afraid of waking her up, and afraid that she wouldn't hear.

The sound of Xiaomi's breathing was close to my ears, as if I had experienced countless nights on the way to Baoding and back to Thrush Village many years ago. Grandpa remembered watching her hair rise and fall in her nostrils at Millet's bedside, seeing the moonlight on her face with a warm glow, and seeing the dents on her fingers because she had cut too many paper figures. Daddy wanted to reach over and pull her undulating hair down countless times. The moving hair seemed to tickle his heart, making him feel itchy. But he never touched that strand of hair.

At this time, he desperately hoped that he could help Xiaomi brush the strand of hair with his own hands.

"Did you lose something?" The voice of a small child suddenly sounded.

Daddy looked sideways, and the child was looking at him with a small twig in his hand.

"Where are you from?" Grandpa stopped his tears and asked.

The child pointed to the small village below the mountain with a twig.

"What's your name?" Daddy asked. Although Daddy didn't smell the danger, Daddy had to be a little wary of Xiaomi's disappearance last time. If the imp finds here and finds the soul of Xiaomi, maybe he will attack the soul of Xiaomi.

"I forgot my name." The kid scratched the back of his head.

"So careless, you forgot what your name was?"

"yes. I can't remember my name. But someone else gave me a nickname. ”

"Nickname? What nickname? ”

"They all call me Old South."

"Old Southside?" Grandpa was shocked, and asked, "Why do they call you Old South City?" ”

"Because my parents picked it up in a dung heap in the south of the old county seat." The boy replied.

People here like to play a joke with children, when a child is punished by his parents for being naughty, they say that the child is not his parents' own, but picked up from a dung heap somewhere. The joke is basically a routine: "Your parents are walking on the road, and suddenly they see a pile of cow dung in front of them, and when they open the cow dung, they take a look, and oops, there is a child inside, and that child is you." So your parents don't hurt you and always beat you. ”

Grandpa thought to himself, this kid said that his parents picked him up from the dung heap in the south of the old county, and this matter should be fake, but he happened to be named Jiunancheng, and he happened to forget his name, which made Grandpa very surprised.

This is too similar to the situation when he met the ghost with broken glasses in Manzhu Tower in Hangzhou!

Could it be that this little child is its reincarnation?

When the child saw his grandfather contemplating, he asked, "Have you lost something and can't find it?" Can't remember? Can't remember my name like me? ”

Grandpa smiled reluctantly and said, "Yes." I lost something and can't get it back. With that, he looked back at the cat's nose.

"Don't worry, maybe it's still here, but I can't find it for the time being, and it won't be long before I can get it back."

"Oh? Why? Daddy asked.

"It's like my name, I don't remember it now, but when I go back and ask, I'll remember it again." The child said.

The father wanted to touch the child's head, but found that his hands were covered with dirt, so he gave up. He said: "In the old South City, some things can be recovered, and some things can't be recovered. There are still some things, even if they are recovered, they are not recovered. ”

The child squinted his eyes and thought about it, but he didn't understand what his father meant, and asked, "Why doesn't it count if it's recovered?" ”

"Because the time is different. You don't understand it yet, but you may understand it when you grow up. Grandpa smiled bitterly.

"Oh......" The child furrowed his brows and thought about it, unable to understand.

"Don't run so far alone in the future, you know?" Daddy said.

The little one nodded.

Grandpa walked up to him and said, "Go, I'll take you down the mountain." ”

So, Grandpa and the little boy nicknamed Old Nancheng returned to the village below the mountain.

The father sent the child home, and then secretly asked the child's parents when the child was born. The child's parents didn't know.

When the father asked the reason, he didn't expect the child's parents to admit that they had picked up the old southern city in the south of the old county seat.

Daddy asked for other clues. The child's parents didn't know what to ask. Grandpa had no choice but to give up.

Since Xiaomi has gone home once, Xiaomi has frequently left home. Feng Junjia thought that those spores were eyeing Xiaomi, but his father knew in his heart that Xiaomi ran away on purpose every time, and the reason for running away was related to him. Sometimes it's because he's late to Feng Junjia, sometimes it's because he's fierce when he talks to her, and sometimes she just wants him to go to her. Grandpa has tried his best to be nice to her and obedient to her, but occasionally he still can't help her.

At first, my father had to worship ghosts again, and every time I found millet after worshipping ghosts, my father felt tired and weak, his chest was a little stuffy, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead. But Grandpa didn't blame Xiaomi, he thought that this was what Xiaomi owed him when he was alive, and now he is paying her back little by little.

But Xiaomi has no moderation at all, and it is leaving the house more and more often. In this way, Xiaomi's body couldn't stand it, and not only did it not grow meat for several months, but it lost a lot of weight. This is very dangerous for a newborn baby.

Yan Yulan was even more worried.

After his grandfather came home, he thought of a way, he made two silver hand rings and two silver foot rings at the old silversmith in Longwan Town, and then put the silver hand ring and silver foot ring on Xiaomi, and said to Feng Junjia and Yan Yulan that they were given to Xiaomi. They didn't know that there was a dent in the silver hand ring and the silver foot ring, which was specially made by the old silversmith for the grandfather. Daddy added a circle of silk to the dent.

Xiaomi's hands and feet are bound by the silk, and Xiaomi's spirit cannot be separated from her body. As a result, Xiaomi's courage has been stable for a while.

One day, my grandfather watched Xiaomi at Feng Junjia's house and left under twilight. When he had not gone far, the laughter of the child appeared again.

Grandpa walked to a slightly remote place, and then said, "Do you want Millet to play with you?" ”

The little ones came out. The little girl in the lead said, "Yes." But you tied her up and didn't let her play with us. ”

Not far away there was a desperate barking of dogs, and it should have smelled the scent of these children, but it had a chain around its neck and could not run here.

Grandpa approached the little girl, then squatted down and said, "When she turns one year old, you come to play with her again, and I will not stop her." ”

The little girl didn't quite believe her father's words and asked, "Really?" ”

Grandpa nodded and said, "I won't lie to you." ”

"Good. Then let's pull the hook! The little girl held out her little finger.

"But...... "if you don't come to her on the night she turns one, I'll go to you." Then I will tie you all up and make you like she is now. ”

The little girl's face was horrified. Daddy immediately reached over and hooked her little finger with his own......

Maybe it's the revenge of the ghost, or maybe it's because Daddy is really tired, and Daddy fell on the way back that night and broke his leg bone.

The so-called 100 days of broken muscles and bones. After his father's leg bone was injured, he couldn't go to Feng Junjia's house to see Xiaomi. Fortunately, Xiaomi wears a silver hand ring and a silver foot ring, and Xiaomi's spirit can't run. Moreover, the spore ghost reached a verbal agreement with his grandfather that the spore ghost would not go to Xiaomi.

In the days when her grandfather was recuperating from her injuries, Shang Ruoran had been serving him, but her mouth was not idle, she always said that her father should not go to Feng Junjia's house, and that he had caused his leg injury, but he wanted her to be tortured.

One night, Shang Ruoran boiled water in the kitchen, poured the water into the basin after boiling, and then went into the bedroom with the basin to wipe his father's face and feet.

After Dad washed his face and feet, Shang Ruoran went to the gate with a basin and poured water, and then returned to the kitchen with an empty basin, ready to fetch water for himself to wash his face and feet.

As soon as Shang Ruoran walked into the kitchen, he saw an extra person next to the fire pit. The man was hunched over, with his back to her, his face facing the fire. Shang Ruoran couldn't see the person's face. From behind, the man's body was very fat, almost round. The man was adding wood to the fire pit. The fire that was about to be extinguished was burned vigorously by that man. The flames rose so high that there was a fear of a misfire.

Shang Ruoran was stunned for a moment. Just left for a while, how could there be one more person coming out by the fire pit? Besides, from behind, this figure is not familiar at all.

The man quietly added firewood and did not say a word.

Shang Ruoran thought to herself, there is no unclean thing that dares to come to my house from the outside, Ma Xiucai's reputation is still relatively loud, and unclean things will be avoided if they can be avoided. Although the man's whereabouts were strange, she wasn't too worried.

She walked over to the fire pit and couldn't help but beat her heart faster when she looked at the man again.

The man was an old lady with goosebumps, but only a few hairs on the top of her head. There has never been such an old man in the village.

Shang Ruoran strengthened his courage and asked, "Are you ......?"

Without waiting for Shang Ruoran to finish asking, the old lady actually grabbed the words and said, "Do you eat flatbread?" "It's as natural as a conversation between acquaintances.

Shang Ruoran didn't know why she suddenly asked this, she was stunned, and she didn't know how to answer.