They are rich in bamboo shoots here, fresh and tender, fried with bacon, fragrant, just smelling makes people drool. In addition, there is a kind of lean meat wrapped in starch and boiled out, what is it called 'cut meat', which is sour and delicious, and then it is a mushroom soup... Uncle Yang is thick-skinned, and as soon as the food comes up, he eats it violently without saying a word. I feel a little embarrassed that other people's families are so hospitable. In return, I gave some of the food we had in our bags to the family. Then we took out the wine and invited the man to drink with us.

The man was in his thirties, in his 90s, and had gone to Guangdong to work, and he chatted with us and spoke Mandarin, but his accent was quite strong. While eating and drinking, I asked the man about the Ran tribe, and he had never heard of this people. As for whether there are any isolated villages in the mountains around them, this man has never heard of them, so he doesn't know... I reckon that even if I asked the other villagers in this village, I would get nothing more than this result. So I decided to stay here for one night, and then go back to the town early tomorrow morning to meet Master and them to see how they were doing.

After running for such a big day, I was already tired, and now I drank some wine, listening to the sound of the rain outside, my eyelids quickly fought, Uncle Yang and the man were shaking in front of my eyes.

"Are you coming here to travel to the Red Army Village?" The man asked.

"Huh?" I rubbed my eyes, "Red Army Village? Yes... No, hehe, we just came from Ya'an city and came to collect wind casually. ”

"Uh-oh."

"That Red Army Village, is it fun?" Uncle Yang asked.

"It's okay."

"How far from here?"

"It's dozens of miles away..."

This man's enthusiasm was a little too much, and he introduced us to the Red Army Village, and I cheered up to listen to him, the so-called Red Army Village, named to commemorate the Red Army Revolution, and the Red Army headquarters had been stationed in that village for nearly half a year.

"Except for the Red Army Village, have there been any Red Army garrisons in other places?" Uncle Yang asked.

"Yes, why not, the Red Army Village is the headquarters of the Red Army..."The man pointed with his finger, "There is a village about four or five miles southwest from us, and my wife is from that village." In those years, a group of Red Army wounded were recuperating and stationed in their village. ”

"Oh." Uncle Yang nodded.

"Well, I think of one thing..."

"What's the matter?"

"I heard from my wife that when those Red Army troops were stationed in their village, something evil happened..."

I was shaking my head and dozing off, but when this man said this, I suddenly came to my senses.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Specifically, my wife didn't know very well, she didn't have her at that time. It seems that there was a soldier who went to collect herbs for the wounded, but he didn't come back..."

"Didn't come back?"

"Well, all the soldiers, including the wounded who were still able to move, went out to look for a long time, and finally found them, and died next to a small ditch outside the village."

"Dead?" I frowned.

"yes, I don't know how I died. The warrior was said to be very honest and young, and everyone liked him. After discovering that he was dead, he immediately reported it to his superiors, and then pulled the body back to the village and parked it in a thatched hut. There was an old man in the village who donated his spare thin coffin for the burial of the little soldier, but before he could bury it, the body of the little soldier disappeared that night..."

"The body is missing?"

"Well, at that time, many people thought it was a fraud, and people were panicked. A commander and fighter comforted everyone, saying that they should not believe in those feudal superstitions, and that the corpse of the little soldier must have been pulled away by the beasts in the mountains or something. Then I went looking for it again, but I couldn't find it. The next morning, one of the villagers came to find that his sheepfold had been opened, and the only old goat was dead inside, with no head and several bloody handprints on his body..."

I got goosebumps as I listened, "What about later?" ”

"At that time, it was said that they were frightened, and the Red Army immediately reported it to their superiors. A lot of people were sent down from above, and finally, in a crack in the mountain, the little warrior was found... It is said that when the little warrior was found, he was sitting in it with his eyes open, holding a sheep's head in his arms, and his mouth was full of blood, and he was brought out from behind and burned on the spot... It's true, my wife's village knows it..."

I didn't feel sleepy when I listened to this story, and later, I listened to this person talk a little, and the ancient legends they have here are all absurd, and they have nothing to do with those Ran people.

As the night wore on, the man led us to a side room. Uncle Yang was so drunk that he started snoring after a while. But I couldn't fall asleep tossing and turning, my thoughts drifted around, and then I had to count the sheep, and when I counted the hundredth sheep, I finally fell asleep, but I had a nightmare... When I fell asleep, I was still counting sheep, one, two, three... I heard the cry of a sheep coming from a crack in the mountain, and hurriedly ran over, and when I looked inside, I saw a monster with a sheep's head and a human body, standing straight inside, and said to me, are you looking for me? …

I woke up scared and sweaty. I sat up, gasped for a while, touched my phone and looked at the time, it was past two o'clock. Outside, the rain was still rustling, and the sound was like some animal chewing leaves...

I glanced out the window, it was so dark that I couldn't see anything clearly, and I was about to fall back to sleep when there was a sudden knock on the door, which scared my heart to the ground.

"Who?" I asked in a low voice.

"It's me," the hostess's voice said.

I let out a sigh, got dressed and got out of bed, and opened the door.

"What's wrong, sister-in-law, is there something wrong?" I asked.

"Have you seen any of my men?"

"Big brother?" I was stunned, "No." ”

"It's really weird, it's raining in the middle of the night, where can he run..."The woman rubbed the corners of her clothes and said anxiously.

"What's wrong?" Uncle Yang also woke up.

"This big brother is gone."

"Is that so?"

"Hmm... Sister-in-law, did my eldest brother go out at night before? ”

"No, never go out. I woke up at one o'clock and found him gone. I thought he was going to relieve himself, but he hasn't come back until now..."

I looked at the dark night in the distance, frowned and thought for a while, and said, "Did my eldest brother tell you anything before going to bed?" ”

"That's why I'm so worried."

"Oh?"

"When you were drinking together, did he tell you about the evil things that happened when the Red Army was stationed in my mother's village?"

"yes." I nodded in dismay.

"He told me when he went to bed."

"How?"

He said that when he told you about it, he felt a chill on his back, as if someone was blowing on him. He looked back and saw that the window was closed, so he didn't pay attention at the time. But when he sent you to our house, it felt as if someone was watching him... He told me that he regretted it a little and shouldn't have talked about it in the middle of the night..."

This woman's narration made me feel cold down my spine.

"And then you wake up and he's gone?" I asked.

"yes..."

I thought to myself, how could there be such an evil thing? … I can't help but think of that nightmare I had earlier...

I glanced at Uncle Yang and the other, and I said, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, I know a little magic, I'll do a divination, see if I can find out where the eldest brother went..."

I used the time when the woman found out that her husband was missing, and through the analysis of the situation, I felt that the man should have gone to the southwest, and I couldn't see what he was going to do.

"Sister-in-law, you are waiting at home, let's go find the eldest brother."

"But..."

"Don't worry, the two of us, it's going to be fine..."

Uncle Yang and I put on raincoats, took flashlights, went outside, and walked southwest.

"Xiao Leng, is this person an evil person?" Uncle Yang asked.

"It's hard to say." I said.

Soon we were out of the village and walking along the mountain road, which was lined with dark woods.

"Big brother..."

The sound came far away, echoing through the mountains, and there was no response, only the sound of rain... After walking for four or five miles, I didn't see anyone, and a village appeared in front of me.

"This should be the village that the man told us..."I glanced at the dark village and said, "Uncle Yang, are you afraid?" ”

Uncle Yang straightened his neck, "Uncle, what have I been afraid of?" ”

"Okay..."I took out two magic weapons and handed them to Uncle Yang, "Then the two of us will look separately in this village to see if the man is here..."

After separating from Uncle Yang, I restrained my breathing, listened to the sounds around me, and walked lightly in the village.

In this village, there are many old buildings in the Qing Dynasty style, and on some walls, there are still incomplete slogans. After walking straight like this, I passed through the village and came out of it. Bypassing the two large trees at the entrance of the village, I faintly heard the sound of 'rushing' water. Following the sound of the water, I came to a small river. There was a big rock by the river, and when I climbed the big rock, I looked at both sides of the river, and saw a black building on the hill on the other side of the river, and I don't know what kind of temple it was.

I retracted my gaze and looked down, and I suddenly noticed that in the river, about ten meters away from me, there seemed to be something under the water... It's dark, but it's white and conspicuous... I was wondering when a man suddenly came out from behind a tree on the bank of the river, and walked straight in the direction of the thing, and I looked at the man, it was the man...

"Hey, big brother!" I shouted hurriedly.

The man didn't react at all, and seeing that one of his feet had gone down to the shore in the water, I jumped off the rock and threw myself at him...

"Big brother, you can't go down!"