"I was sent by the county to guard the Taoist temple, and the Taoist temple is very badly damaged, I have to go in and check and repair it." Although Zuo Dengfeng didn't understand the meaning of Wu Xinyu's move, he still patiently explained to her with his surname.

Wu Xinyu hesitated for a moment when she heard this, and finally turned around and ran into the main hall, and after a while, she ran out with two things.

At this time, it was noon, and Zuo Dengfeng immediately saw that Wu Xinyu was holding two bones in his hand. One is supposed to be a thigh bone, and the other is more recognizable, a human skull.

Wu Xinyu took the two bones and shook them at Zuo Dengfeng, and then threw them aside casually, and then beckoned to Zuo Dengfeng and motioned for him to enter the main hall.

At this time, Zuo Dengfeng had already understood Wu Xinyu's intentions, she was worried that the corpses in the hall would scare her, so she took out two corpses first to prepare herself psychologically.

"Thank you, I'm not afraid." Zuo Dengfeng stubbornly squeezed out a smile at Wu Xinyu. In fact, the two bones taken out by Wu Xinyu made Zuo Dengfeng very frightened, there was still a little dried flesh and skin on the skull, and the empty eye sockets and white teeth made Zuo Dengfeng almost dare not look directly.

Wu Xinyu didn't stop after hearing Zuo Dengfeng's words, turned around and walked to the west chamber, arrived at the door, bent down and picked up the porcelain bowl with two white buns, turned his head to look at Zuo Dengfeng, and then entered the house and closed the door.

This scene made Zuo Dengfeng both moved, funny and sad, the reason why Wu Xinyu wanted to prevent him from entering the hall was completely out of good intentions, she was afraid of scaring herself, which made Zuo Dengfeng very moved. The reason why she took away the white bun was because she felt that she had done a good deed for Zuo Dengfeng, and now she was qualified to eat his things, which was purely a child's mentality, which made Zuo Dengfeng feel funny. The deeper layer of sadness is Wu Xinyu's desire for food, in her bones she wants to eat steamed buns, she has lived alone in this dilapidated Taoist temple for ten years, she must be hungry, otherwise she would not have taken the risk last night to take the two sweet potatoes from Zuo Dengfeng, who still seemed to her to be a stranger.

Although Zuo Dengfeng has not been in the Taoist temple for a long time, and there is not much contact with Wu Xinyu, Zuo Dengfeng has a general understanding of Wu Xinyu's surname, although Wu Xinyu is very vigilant, but his surname is not bad, and because she lives alone in the mountains all the year round, she has no contact with the outside world, her psychological age is much younger than her actual age, and she is sixteen or seventeen years old.

In addition, Wu Xinyu has another characteristic, she scared herself last night, so she will send herself dates to apologize. She had just saved herself from being frightened, so she took the two buns. This fair exchange has something to do with her real surname, but it is more due to her early education, and her master, who left ten years ago, may well have instilled in her the idea of not treating others badly, and not treating herself badly.

After a while, Zuo Dengfeng retracted his thoughts and walked down the steps into the main hall.

Walking into the main hall, Zuo Dengfeng saw a large number of bones, including complete skeletons and scattered corpses, fortunately, Wu Xinyu took out the bones in advance to make him mentally prepared, otherwise he would definitely be scared at this moment.

Even so, Zuo Dengfeng still didn't dare to stay in the main hall, and hurriedly retreated after simply looking at the things in the main hall.

Several rooms of the main hall are through, the middle is a incense case on the right, the opposite side of the incense case is a statue of a god, because the distance is too far, Zuo Dengfeng did not see clearly that the statue of the god is a clay sculpture or a wood carving, but it is roughly seen that it is a statue of a male god. The incense burner and other offering utensils on the incense table are still there, and they are already covered with dust. Below the incense table are two straw futons, above the statue of the god floats faded and whitened strips, and there are some jars and jars and other containers in the main hall, which should have been used to hold water and sesame oil. In addition, Zuo Dengfeng also found that the door of the main hall was not missing, but was pushed behind the door to the maximum extent.

"How did these people die?" After leaving the main hall, Zuo Dengfeng immediately turned his head and opened his mouth to the west chamber.

Wu Xinyu heard Zuo Dengfeng's question, pushed open the door and walked out, standing at the door eating steamed buns and looking at Zuo Dengfeng, in fact, she had been peeking through the crack in the door.

"How did these people die?" Zuo Dengfeng bent down and picked up a stone and walked over to Wu Xinyu, and when he got closer, Zuo Dengfeng handed the stone to Wu Xinyu.

Seeing this, Wu Xinyu handed over the half-eaten steamed bun to his left hand, took the stone with his right hand, squatted down and wrote a line of words: "They all starved to death, and they were moved by me after death." ”

Zuo Dengfeng took a long breath when he heard this, Wu Xinyu's words are credible, a few years ago, Shandong suffered an extremely serious drought within a year, locust plagues and floods, starved to death many people, and forced countless people to go north to the Guandong, her purpose of bringing starving people to the Taoist temple should be to intimidate the bad people, of course, there is another possibility, that is, to eat human flesh, but this idea was denied by Zuo Dengfeng at the first time, because Wu Xinyu's hands still have water stains, This shows that she washed her hands after grabbing the bones of the dead before going to get the buns, although Wu Xinyu's clothes and face are very dirty, in fact, she is very hygienic, and it is impossible for such a person to eat the dead.

"You didn't eat human flesh, did you?" Even so, Zuo Dengfeng still confirmed, he knew the taste of starvation, and he wanted to nibble on the bark when he had nothing to eat.

As soon as these words came out, Wu Xinyu immediately frowned sideways and showed a look of disgust and disgust. This scene relieved Zuo Dengfeng, he didn't want to live in the same courtyard as a woman who ate human flesh.

"I'm going to get those bones away." Zuo Dengfeng smiled at Wu Xinyu, Wu Xinyu's previous frowning expression was very naughty, although her face was still so filthy, Zuo Dengfeng could be sure that her true face would not be ugly.

Wu Xinyu shook his head again and again when he heard this, and eagerly wrote underground, "Frightened people. ”

"I'll live here from now on, and I'll protect you." Zuo Dengfeng said with a smile.

Wu Xinyu suddenly showed a vigilant look when she heard Zuo Dengfeng's words, but this time she didn't run back to the house.

"If I were a bad guy who bullied you a long time ago, would you have waited until now?" Seeing this, Zuo Dengfeng was slightly unhappy, and turned around from the yard to look for tools that could dig the soil.

The Taoist temple is not big, it is surrounded by a circle left and right, Zuo Dengfeng did not find any tools, just when he wanted to go to the place between the west chamber and the courtyard wall to look for it, Wu Xinyu ran over and blocked him, Zuo Dengfeng was slightly stunned and understood the reason, behind the brick wall should be a thatched house.

"I'll go out and buy something, don't mess with my things, let's talk about it, I won't go to your room, and you won't go to my house." Zuo Dengfeng said to Wu Xinyu. Tools are needed to repair the courtyard walls, which are not available here.

Wu Xinyu nodded in agreement again and again, her attention was now all on the steamed bun in her hand, and Zuo Dengfeng doubted whether she had heard her words.

Zuo Dengfeng glanced at the steamed bun in Wu Xinyu's hand, turned around and walked out of the Taoist temple, this Taoist temple does not have a pot stove, and he has to build a stove when he turns around.

Walking out of the Taoist temple, Zuo Dengfeng found that there was a large waterhole a hundred steps away from the southeast of the Taoist temple, and the ripples in the waterhole indicated that there were fish there.

It didn't feel good to walk the mountain road hungry, but Zuo Dengfeng still walked fast, he was very worried that Wu Xinyu would move his things, and the ten catties of cornmeal and five catties of rice that he finally carried were his rations for a month.

When he came to the chief's house, the chief's family was having lunch, and the tortillas on the table made Zuo Dengfeng even more hungry, but the chief didn't beckon him to eat together. Zuo Dengfeng was not angry about this, now the food is expensive, and the countrymen's three-foot intestines are two and a half feet empty, and no one is willing to let others fight the autumn wind.

Borrowed the tool Zuo Dengfeng left, before leaving, the chief asked him about the situation in the Taoist temple, Zuo Dengfeng did not tell the truth, on the contrary, he also exaggerated the terrifying atmosphere of the haunting, the frightened chief of the face was green, and stammered to praise Zuo Dengfeng for having the courage.

Leaving the Bao Chang's house, Zuo Dengfeng did not immediately return to the Taoist Temple, although the Bao Chang did not leave him to eat, but told him that the Zhuangzi in the east was a market today, and Zuo Dengfeng wanted to buy some salty salt and miscellaneous goods before the gathering.

When I arrived at the market, many stalls began to close, Zuo Dengfeng bought what he needed and began to return, at this time the ocean had been broken, replaced by a bag of tinkling copper, although the banknotes were already in circulation at this time, but Zuo Dengfeng did not trust the banknotes, in his opinion, the thing could become worthless at any time.

Zuo Dengfeng is a bit like a turtle at this time, because he is carrying an iron pot behind his back, the last meal was eaten at noon yesterday, and it has been a day and a night now, and when he left, Zuo Dengfeng bought a few fritters from Jitouer, ate half of them himself, and left two paper bags in his pocket for Wu Xinyu.

On the way back, Zuo Dengfeng has been thinking about a problem, that is, how to get along with Wu Xinyu in the future, Wu Xinyu has been living in the Taoist temple, strictly speaking, she is the owner of the Taoist temple, Zuo Dengfeng must not be able to drive her away, take a step back and say that even if she is not the owner of the Taoist temple, Zuo Dengfeng can't bear to drive her out of the Taoist temple, in that case she will definitely have nowhere to go. But if she is allowed to live in the Taoist temple, she will definitely not be able to bear to eat by herself when she eats, and she will inevitably be given some points, and the fifteen catties of food are not enough for herself, how can she still be given to her?

After thinking about it, Zuo Dengfeng finally decided to cook more in the future, after all, his salary of four oceans a month can be left after deducting one piece for his mother and sister, and it should be enough to buy food.

Thinking of his mother, Zuo Dengfeng couldn't help but feel anxious, Qingshuiguan is located in the west of the county, nearly 100 miles away from the county seat, and his home is 60 miles east of the county seat, this 160 miles away if he wants to go back, he has to walk for a day and a night, and Sun Aiguo and Hu Qian They must be staring at themselves, if they send someone to check and find that they are not in the Taoist temple, they will inevitably take the opportunity to find fault, it seems that they will not be able to return home for a while, and they don't know if their mother's cough is better, but fortunately, their two sisters are married to the village, With them here, my mother would not be left uncared for.

Just when Zuo Dengfeng was thinking nonsense, a hare jumped past him again, this time Zuo Dengfeng was not frightened by it, on the contrary, he was very happy, with this bundle of wire on his shoulder, these hares had to run into his pot sooner or later.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Zuo Dengfeng finally returned to the peak where the Qingshui Temple was located, and he also saw Wu Xinyu while seeing the Qingshui Temple, Wu Xinyu was catching grasshoppers in the grass on the west side of the Taoist Temple at this time, although it was late autumn at this time, there was still a kind of big grasshopper called "Kicking Down Mountain" in the mountain, this kind of big grasshopper was very large and very cold-resistant.

Zuo Dengfeng felt interesting, so he walked towards her quickly, and when he got closer, he found that Wu Xinyu was holding a dog's tail grass in his left hand, and a string of "kicking down the mountain" was worn on it.

Just when Zuo Dengfeng wanted to open his mouth to greet her, Wu Xinyu caught a fat grasshopper and let out a crisp laugh with joy.

This scene made Zuo Dengfeng suspicious, he was an intellectual, and he knew that most of the dumb people couldn't speak because they couldn't hear the voice, Wu Xinyu's hearing had no problem, and he never made a dumb 'ah' and 'ha' sound in the process of contact with him, so Zuo Dengfeng always thought that her vocal cords were wrong.

Now it seems that this is not the case, her previous laughter was very crisp, no different from ordinary people, which shows that her vocal cords are normal, her vocal cords are normal, her hearing is normal, why doesn't Wu Xinyu speak.

Is she unable to speak, or does she not want to speak......