I stood in the yard in a daze, and Xiao Jiuhong also came out with a sheet, patted me, looked surprised, and said, "Is this Xiaopanhe?" Let's run out of Xiaopanhe, and finally make a big circle, and come back? "

"Yes." I interrupted my thinking, underground, on the ground, there are two completely different environments, when I was at the bottom of the river, I could treat Xiao Jiuhong as a partner who lived and died together, but as soon as I returned to the ground, that faint hostility sprouted in my mind again. She and I were already on the same page.

I'm a little sad, unspeakably sad, I always feel sorry for something, but I don't want to think about it, I think too much, I think deeply, in addition to the taste in my heart, what else can I get?

"Hey, ask you." Xiao Jiuhong may have seen my hesitation and hesitation, she withdrew her hand, thought for a while, and said, "You say, if we meet again in the future, will we still fight?" "

"I don't know." I was thinking about it too, but in the end, I could only say these four words.

"I see." Xiao Jiuhong is always arrogant, and without waiting for me to say anything, she held her head high and said, "I'll let you go this time, and next time we meet, I will catch you, and I won't spare you." "

After saying this, she walked away without looking back, as fast as a gust of wind, without stopping for a moment. Looking at her back, I couldn't calm down. But on second thought, it's been a long time since I entered the bottom of the river, and Qiqi is still on the riverbank, so I have to look for it. Thinking of this, I quickly left the yard of the seventh grandmother and ran towards the entrance of the village.

The river beach is still so empty, there are not many places to hide people here, and when I ran to the place where I fell into the water with Xiao Jiuhong before, there was no one around, I continued to search, and I searched all the places I could find, but I still couldn't find her.

I panicked, Qiqi was very obedient, and if he didn't see me come back, he would definitely not leave alone. But this beach is so big, where can she go? I searched all around, and I had no choice but to expand the range, and I completely searched all the places within a radius of three or four miles, and my heart was completely hairy.

Before I knew it, I had found out that I was far away, and I knew that Qiqi must be missing, and I don't know why I left here. Did she go on her own? Or did someone take her away? I don't know. As I walked, I thought back and forth about where Qiqi might go, she rarely had contact with the outside world, except for her hometown Huaixi Building, only Yinshan Canyon remained.

I can only walk all the way, all the way to find, with Qiqi by my side, I don't feel lonely, I am a companion, but only when I am really alone, can I appreciate what it means to be lonely. I set out from the Xiaopan River, walked back and forth several times along the long road, trekked for several days, did not dare to stop a step, kept looking, and when I approached Huaixi Tower, it was already the night of the fifth day.

I still feel slim, there is no Sun family in the ancestral land of the Sun family, Qiqi is alone, will she come here? But there was no other way, I was going to take a rest near the Wai Xi Building, and then inquire after dawn. The village was very deserted when it encountered water, and I wanted to find a suitable place, and after walking a short distance, I suddenly saw two or three people sitting on the beach where water was still accumulating.

I guess I met too many raids, and I felt nervous when I saw strangers in the middle of the night, but after the other party saw me, they still sat where they were, and there was no movement. Looking at their dress, it was an ordinary local, an old man, and a middle-aged man with a stuffy head, the old man with a wrinkled face, sitting and smoking a dry cigarette, I hesitated for a moment, did not avoid them, but also did not approach, and wanted to take a detour.

"Young man." The old man clicked on the dry tobacco pouch and said to me from afar: "I can't walk at night." "

As soon as I heard it, the other party spoke with a completely local accent, no different from ordinary river beach people. Especially the dry tobacco pouch in his mouth, which suddenly reminded me of the dry tobacco that my grandfather often smoked, and I immediately got a lot closer. I stopped and struck up a conversation with him and asked about the village.

"Take a break." The old man smoked a dry cigarette and said, "The people in the village are busy moving and repairing the embankment, and if you want to inquire about people, you have to wait for two days." "

The dry tobacco pot in the old man's mouth was bright and dark, and his words were also very gentle and amiable, and my heart flickered, and I couldn't help but lower my guard, and talked to him while walking. As I got closer, I saw that in addition to the old man and the middle-aged man, there was also a very slender woman sitting with her back to me. The old man squinted his eyes, knocked the cigarette pouch pot on the sole of his shoe, and said, "Sit down, sit down and say." "

I felt a little dazed suddenly, so I sat down opposite the old man, the old man looked honest, and the middle-aged man next to him may be his son, holding a small stone in his hand, kept drawing circles on the ground, occasionally looked up at me, and grinned stupidly, without saying a word.

The old man casually said a few gossips, his eyes slowly moved from my face to my chest, and he looked at the Zhenhe mirror on my chest, and froze. At this time, I felt that the mirror moved slightly, and the little wound on my chest that was cut suddenly stabbed again. This pain completely woke me up, and the feeling of being dazed was instantly swept away, and the reduced vigilance in my heart resurfaced. I looked at the three people in front of me suspiciously, although the old man looked normal, but the middle-aged man kept smirking and drawing circles on the ground, one after another, and the slender woman kept turning her back to me and refused to look back.

In the middle of the night, three people sitting together like this can't be said to be abnormal, but it makes people's hearts a little hairy. I immediately stood up and wanted to leave, but the old man was still staring at the Zhenhe mirror on my chest, and said slowly: "Don't be in a hurry, you can't do anything in a hurry, I've been waiting for a long, long time, old man." "

This strange sentence made my heart more and more uneasy, I didn't even care about talking, and walked away, but after only walking three or four steps, I felt that my legs and feet did not obey the call, although I walked straight forward, but walking around, but always in circles in the same place. It felt like a ghost hitting a wall, but it wasn't exactly like it. I looked back at the three people in horror, and the old man was still smoking slowly and indifferently, but it was the stupid middle-aged man, grinning happily, holding the stone in his hand and drawing faster and faster.

The more anxious I was, the more I couldn't get out of that small circle, and my legs were numb when I walked back and forth. The old man took the dry tobacco pot and said, "Come and sit, if the old man doesn't speak, you won't be able to get out." "

I stopped hard, I couldn't go away anyway, I'm afraid it's useless, I can't tell the origin of these three people, I simply don't want to, I turned around and sat down opposite the old man again, stared at him, and said, "Who are you?" "

"The old man is old, his memory is not very good, I have forgotten who I am." The old man put away the cigarette pouch and pot, knocked on the middle-aged man's head, and said, "Stop drawing." "

"I still have something to do, and I don't know you well, what else do you say?"

"Is it unripe or not, and if you say a few words, you will be familiar?" The old man smiled and said, "What's the matter with you, tell me, the old man may be able to help you." "

"You can't help." As soon as my mind cleared up, I felt that these three people were abnormal, especially this old man, who looked at nothing, in fact, the most wrong thing was him.

"Laughing about?" The old man smiled again, with a confident face, straightened his chest, and said: "On the entire Yellow River beach, there are really not many things that the old man doesn't know. "

"I'll go first, I'll talk about it when I'm free, the matter is very urgent, and I can't delay it."

"What's the matter, since you're here, sit down a little longer. The old man likes to listen to the drama the most, and there is a fold, and you love to listen to it. The old man turned to the woman behind him who was sitting with her back to me and said, "Tie up his daughter-in-law and sing to others." "

The woman turned around slowly and silently, she was in good shape and handsome, but when she turned her face, I was startled. The makeup on her face is very thick, as if she is singing on the stage, with a red face and a white forehead, and there is no blood at all. She frowned slightly, as if she had never stretched out, and there was a faint sadness between her eyebrows. She turned around, did not speak, and looked up at the old man.

At this moment, the blood on my body seemed to freeze, and I suddenly remembered the rumor about Huaixi Tower that I had heard a long time ago. I always thought it was just a story made up by the villagers when they were full of food, but I didn't expect to meet it today.

Who is this old man?

"Sing." The old man said to the woman, "Just sing the fold I taught you." "

The woman cleared her throat slightly, and she began to rap, she was born with a good voice, and as soon as the first words came out, I felt like I was struck by lightning, although I kept convincing myself to calm down, but I still couldn't sit still.

She sang a river patrol tune, which was not as ghostly as the river patrol tune I had heard before, but it was very bleak, making people feel that something tragic had happened, and they couldn't help but want to cry. The old man seemed to like this paragraph very much, holding his knees and beating slowly, and his son was also happy, hehe couldn't stop laughing.

"Stop singing!" I felt my scalp tingle, and I couldn't help but say to the old man, "What do you want!" "

"Don't be annoyed, don't be annoyed." The old man raised his hand to signal the woman to stop, then put away the smile on his face, and said, "I don't mean to harm you, you said, you have something to do, and the old man will help you, but well, I also ask you to help us do something." "

"I don't know anything."

"Wrong, wrong, only you can help us with this matter." The old man took out the cigarette pouch again, filled it with tobacco, smoked it, and said: "Our matter, first and then put it away, what do you have, say it and listen, the old man can help, or that sentence, on the beach of the Yellow River, there are not many things that the old man doesn't know, and there are not many things that can't be done." "

"Really?" Although I was afraid, I could vaguely see that this old man might not really mean to harm me, but I didn't know what he wanted me to help me with, which made me very worried.

"Old men don't brag or lie, they have been like this for many years, and they won't change when they get old." The old man said: "If you have something, just say it, the old man will listen to it first." "

"Don't brag?" My heart moved, and I wanted to try him, so I deliberately leaned towards the old man and said, "Where does the eye of the Yellow River lead?" "