The old man's voice was loud, after shouting, we did not go to the gate of the courtyard, an old lady walked from the courtyard to the gate, the old lady was full of silver hair, rich face, wearing a blue coarse cotton coat, and an apron tied around her waist, and looked at us when she went out, and said: "Okay, okay, quickly lead the baby to the house." ”

As we spoke, the paper man with the lantern and the old man who led the way in front walked up to the old lady, and both stopped and looked back at us, waiting to welcome us into the courtyard.

Although the two old men look tough, they don't look old at all, but judging from the white beard on the old man's chin and the white hair on the top of the old lady's head, how can they be seventy or eighty years old, aside from the time difference that we are returning to the Republic of China from modern times, the two old people are also our grandfathers and grandmothers, and of course we juniors are embarrassed to let the old man wait for a long time, so we accelerated the pace together.

When we came in, the old lady took us to the house, and the old man closed the courtyard door with his back hand and followed us.

None of us are the kind of introverted people who can't beat a fart with three sticks, but this thing is so weird that we can't even say the usual polite words for a while, and after being welcomed into the gate by the old man and the old lady, we all turn our heads to look at the scene in the courtyard.

And since I met these two old men, except for the old man who said inexplicably, "It's really you", it was to let us hurry to the house to eat, and the other words were not said, which was enough to make us curious, but when I entered the gate and saw the situation in the yard, I was even more curious, because the old man's courtyard was quite large, there were three tiled houses in the north, there were partial houses in the east and west, and there were two large and one small three-hole cave in the south of the mountain.

Judging from the number of houses in the courtyard and the curtains hanging on the doors of these houses, as well as some farm tools for working in the courtyard, the old couple should have lived with their children and grandchildren.

Finding this situation, I couldn't hold it back any longer, turned to the old man and said, "Uncle, your yard is really big, just you and your aunt live together." ”

"I have three sons, the eldest and the second live in the two courtyards in front of me." The old man said and pointed back to the two houses that could be seen outside the wall, "Now our old couple lives in this courtyard with the eldest son and eldest grandson. ”

"You always know that we are coming, why don't you let them get up to pick us up in the middle of the night, and get up in person."

"They're busy." As he spoke, the old man looked at the two large caves on the south side of the courtyard, and a trace of imperceptible sadness slipped through his eyes.

The old man stopped talking after speaking, and I was embarrassed to ask what other people's sons and grandchildren were busy with, but I was even more puzzled in my heart, it was the tenth winter wax moon, there would definitely be no farm work in the field, and it was a troubled time outside, what could they be busy with.

Could it be that he is participating in the team to fight devils, this idea flashed in my mind, and I immediately denied it, because judging by the old man's age, his son is also fifty or sixty years old, and fifty or sixty years old is also an old man, so it should be impossible to join the team to fight devils.

In the courtyard, there is only the north room, that is, the house where the Buddha's light falls into the light, and the old couple took us to this house.

When we arrived at the door, the paper figure floating in front of us lowered his head and blew out the lantern, and fell motionless on the ground, and the old lady walking beside us was busy opening the curtain for us and letting us into the house.

After entering the house, the old lady stood in the room and looked at several of us one by one, and then stretched out her hand to pull Lu Keqin, then Lin Xian'er, and then Hongyun, and praised this girl for being good-looking, and that girl was also beautiful.

The three women surrounded the old lady, and called the old lady and grandmother sweetly as if they had been smeared with honey, saying that the old lady was also beautiful, and she must have been a beautiful woman when she was young.

After the three women and the old lady made such a fuss, the atmosphere in the room no longer seemed so deserted, and the distance between us and the two old men seemed to be shortened.

Lu Dachuan was also busy taking out a cigarette and talking to the old man, I took the opportunity to look inside the house, and saw that the layout of the old man's house was the same as the inside of the north house of the courtyard house we found in Beiping City, and it was also a wall on the right hand side of the door that divided the three houses into two rooms, one inside and two large rooms outside.

There is a curtain hanging on the door of the inner room, you can't see what is inside, there is a table of eight immortals in the outhouse opposite the door, there are teapots, teacups and other daily necessities on the table, there is a Taishi chair on both sides of the table, there are two wooden boxes side by side on the west side of the table and chairs, and then the wooden box is a big kang like the Datong shop in the hotel in the past, there is a stove built with bricks under the window in front of the kang, and there is a steaming casserole on the stove, and a large water tank is placed on the side by the door.

After surveying the room, I finally landed on a table in the center of the room, which was obviously prepared for us, and the food on the table was already arranged, including a plate of fried shredded potatoes, a plate of fried radish strips, a plate of pork, cabbage, and vermicelli stew, a pot of steamed buns made of flour of white flour and cornmeal, and a plate of pickles.

Even though during the day, Lu Keqin and the others brought us back so many delicious foods, I didn't ask anything, but I clearly knew that in this chaotic war years, food was extremely scarce, and they went out with gold bars to buy so much food, and it was definitely extremely rich to have such meals on the table of ordinary people's homes, but what surprised me more was not these meals, but the wooden stools around the table were six, and the dishes and chopsticks on the table were also six.

In other words, the old man not only knew that we were coming, but also knew that we were six people, and then I thought of the formation that hid the village, the paper man carrying the lantern and the three words on the lantern, which made me doubt once again that all the things we saw in our eyes, including the Buddha light that brought us here, were not real things, but some kind of monster that came out to confuse us.

At this time, the old man, the old lady and Lu Dachuan were pulling the homework, and they had already asked them to put down their luggage, fetch water, let them wash their hands and faces, and walked to the dining table.

I had doubts in my heart again, so I made a look at Lu Dachuan and asked them not to eat first, and then glanced at Lu Keqin and Hongyun, and said loudly to the old man: "Uncle, your toilet is in that place in the yard, and my two friends are embarrassed to say it if they want to make it convenient." "In fact, when I entered the gate and looked at the courtyard, I saw that the toilet was in the southwest corner of the courtyard, and I deliberately asked out, but I wanted to find an excuse to go out and ask Hongyun if he found anything abnormal, but it was not good to go out with Hongyun alone, so I pulled Lu Keqin up.

I spoke loudly, and the room suddenly fell silent, and the old man and the old lady stared at me, but did not answer, and their faces were full of doubts, and I remembered that they did not understand what I said about the toilet, nor did they understand what I meant by convenience, so I spoke again: "I asked you where the hut is, and we want to solve it." ”

"Oh, you want to go to the hut." The old man walked to the door, lifted the curtain and said, "On the southwest corner of the courtyard." ”

"It's dark outside, I'll get you a lamp to light it up." The old lady said and went to find us a lamp in the house.

"Auntie, no need, we can see it." As I spoke, I winked at Lu Keqin and asked her to pull the red cloud outside.

We had to go to the toilet, there were men and women, and the old man and the old lady naturally couldn't follow out, we went out of the threshold, and the old man also lowered the door curtain, and the sound of them and Lu Dachuan and others sounded in the house.

I pulled Lu Keqin and walked forward, then turned my face to look at the paper man standing against the wall at the door with a lantern in his hand, and saw that it was an ordinary papier-mâché person, who was blown by the wind and swayed left and right with a "bang", and the suspicion in my heart couldn't help but increase a little more.

Walking to the middle of the courtyard, Lu Keqin asked in a low voice: "Zheng Shuang, did you find that there was a problem when you asked us to come out?" ”

I turned my face to look around, making sure that nothing in the courtyard could hear us, so I lowered my voice and told them what I saw at the dinner table, and then said, "I have some doubts about what we saw that all these things have been conjured up to confuse us, but I don't dare to be sure that they are indeed monsters, or just people who know some doorways, so I want to ask Hongyun if she has found anything." ”

"Oh." Lu Keqin turned his face to look at Hongyun, and I also went to see Hongyun.

Hongyun said: "To be honest, the human beings of the era when I lived in the outside world are different from your current humans in many places, but I don't feel the alien aura here, and take a step back, even if there is an alien cultivation so advanced that I can't perceive its aura, it can conjure these houses in this village, and it is impossible to conjure those ferocious big dogs." ”

I believed that Hongyun's feelings would not be wrong, but he was still a little uneasy, and asked, "Are you sure which dogs are real and not fake?" ”

Hongyun glanced at me: "How can I not even recognize a real or fake dog,." ”

I smiled embarrassedly: "Then I'll be relieved." ”

Saying that, we had already walked outside the toilet, although we were not in a hurry to go to the toilet, we also lined up to make it easier.

Back in the house, Lu Dachuan and they sat at the dining table, but they didn't move the chopsticks, the three of us washed our hands, came to the dining table, I saw that the old man and the old lady were sitting on the edge of the kang, so they said kind words, let them eat together, they all said they had eaten.

After we sat down, the old lady stood up, took the bowl in front of us, and was busy scooping us from the casserole on the fire, Lu Keqin and Lin Xian'er stood up and went over to serve the bowl.

I took a look at the sweet potato porridge cooked in the pot, and said to the old man sitting on the kang smoking Lu Dachuan's filter cigarette: "Uncle, did you already know that we were coming, this sweet potato porridge is boiling until the fire." ”

"Last night, the Bodhisattva gave me a dream, and I waited for a day with trepidation, and I still couldn't believe it was true......