After getting on the long-distance bus, I asked Su Xi to sit in the window seat inside, and I sat outside. After the car left for a while, it was very quiet next to me, and I turned my head sideways to see that Su Xi had fallen asleep with his eyes closed. She cried for a long time in the middle of the night last night, and she should be tired.

Cai Han had been to Rayong's house once before, and I asked him for the route before leaving, but even so, when Su Xi and I arrived at the village where Rayong's house was located, it was almost dark. Fortunately, I was prepared in advance and brought two flashlights.

According to Cai Han, after getting off the bus on the side of the road, it took nearly half an hour to walk the countryside road to reach Rayong's house. Now it's dark, and it's gray, and I can't tell where I am. I wanted to call Cai Han and ask again, but I didn't know that there was no signal on my mobile phone at all.

There is no shop in front of the village, and some animals are called from time to time in the distant forest, and we can't stay in this wilderness for a night, so we can only choose a direction according to our intuition, and walk first.

After walking like this for about ten minutes, I turned a corner, and finally saw a house with dim lights inside, and I was overjoyed and quickened my pace.

The countryside is not better than the city, there are fewer people in the countryside, the neighbors are very familiar with each other, and there is usually something that can be taken care of, they are all from the same village, so I thought that if I asked the family in front of me, I would definitely be able to find out the location of Rayong's house.

When the two of us were still more than ten meters away from the house, a dog barked suddenly, and Su Xi was so frightened that she called out directly, this is the nature of girls. I looked over and saw a yellow earth dog standing in front of the door, barking at us viciously. Fortunately, it was chained and couldn't rush away.

After the dog barked a few times, an old man came out of the house and looked at us. At that time, Su Xi and I were in the dark, he couldn't see our faces, but he could see the flashlight light in our hands, so he asked "Who", I quickly responded: "Uncle, we are outsiders, and we want to ask you about a family." (Good novel)"

After listening to my words, the uncle yelled at the yellow dog, and the yellow dog's voice stopped, but he was still panting.

"Housheng, who are you looking for?" Uncle asked me.

"Uncle, may I ask if Rayong is from this village, and where is his home?" I hurriedly asked.

"Oh, yes, yes, there was a baby a few days ago, you guys are together, right?" The uncle leaned forward as he spoke, and got closer to us.

I knew that he was talking about Cai Han, so I took two steps forward and introduced that we were Rayong's classmates, his parents were just one of his children, and now that he had an accident, let's take a look at his parents, which can be regarded as doing our filial piety for him.

"That baby is not angry, what a sin." Uncle shook his head and said.

I was a little surprised by what he said about Rayong, so I asked him why he said that. He sued me, Rayong's family has been farmers for several lifetimes, and finally came out of a college student, which was originally a matter of honoring his ancestors, but he didn't say that Luo Yong was greedy for fun, didn't graduate on time, and still caused trouble at school, and was stabbed to death by the gangsters in the school, and made his parents miserable.

Hearing this, I was shocked, and the school was too shameless to use such a lame reason to prevaricate the disappearance of Rayong at school for no reason, which is really a bully for an honest man!

When I mentioned Rayong's parents, the uncle kept sighing, I thought that Rayong's father was still in a coma and needed my help, so I urged the uncle to show me the way.

"You follow this path all the way forward, there is a fork in the road three hundred meters ahead, you take the right one, and you can see his house after walking for more than ten minutes, there is only one family there, it is still easy to find." The uncle pointed with his finger as he spoke.

After the uncle finished speaking, Su Xi and I thanked him and walked along the path, and after walking a few steps, I listened to the uncle murmuring behind me: "Speaking of which, I haven't seen the two people of the Luo family go out to do farm work for several days, but don't be angry." ”

The uncle's voice was not loud, it was more like talking to himself, so I didn't look back, but I thought in my heart that Luo Yong's father was in a coma, and Luo Yong's mother had to take care of him, and of course he couldn't grow crops.

The mountain road is rugged, Su Xi and I haven't walked much before, so we walked very slowly, at this time it was completely dark, the front was black, and the light of the flashlight could only shine out about ten meters away.

After turning right, I looked back and couldn't see the uncle's house, and the situation on both sides of the road in front of me couldn't be seen at all.

We were walking on a dirt road, so there was no sound when the shoes stepped on it, the silence made me a little depressed, I looked at Su Xi, she actually looked calm, which made me very surprised, as a girl, her courage seemed to be a little surprising, at that time I thought, this may be related to her growth experience, so that she is more mature and stable than other girls.

"Su Xi, you're quite bold." I deliberately found something to say.

"I often walk alone at night, so I'm not afraid of the dark." She replied to me.

"Then are you afraid of ghosts?" I don't know how I asked this question, maybe it was just because I was not convinced, and I wanted to provoke her and make her scared like a normal girl.

"Ghosts? I wish people could actually become ghosts when they die, so that my mother-in-law and I will never be separated. When Su Xi said this, there was no fear in his tone.

As soon as she said this, I saw a few green lights shining in the darkness on the side of the road in front of me, and I knew that they were phosphorus fires, or "ghost fires" as they are often called in the countryside, and they were mostly found around the graves. Thinking of this, I took a flashlight to the side, and I really saw a few towering dirt bags, which scared me into a spirit, and I scolded myself for my bad mouth.

As I passed by the grave, my eyes were staring straight ahead, and I didn't dare to squint. After walking for about ten minutes, I estimated that the position was about the same as that the uncle said, so I looked around, but I didn't see any lights, I remembered that the villagers generally go to bed early, and I was afraid that I would walk over, so I walked a few steps and shone a flashlight left and right.

When I stopped for the fifth time to shine my flashlight, I finally found a house on my right, and there was no light in it, just standing quietly in the darkness.

I remember that my uncle said that there was no one near Rayong's house, and it seemed that this was the place, so I walked slowly side by side with Su Xi.

Because I was worried that Rayong's house would also have dogs, when I was still six or seven meters away from the house, I picked up a stone and threw it over, but there was no movement there, and I was completely relieved.

After walking a few more steps, I felt my clothes being pulled, I looked back, and saw one of Su Xi's hands pulling the corner of my clothes, her face was a little hesitant, I asked her softly what was wrong, and she pointed to the front.

I followed her hand and saw that there seemed to be something on the ground. In order to see more clearly, I shot my flashlight there, and the light of Su Xi's flashlight converged, and now I saw that there was a big black dog lying on the ground there, which scared me so much that I hurriedly pulled Su Xi back, for fear that it would suddenly come over and bite us.

Su Xi is not afraid of the dark, but he is afraid of dogs, and he was so frightened by the uncle's dog that he barked out just now. We retreated to the side of the path, but the big black dog did not move, which made me wonder a little, it stands to reason that the dog should have found us a long time ago, how could it be like a dead dog.

"What happened to the dog?" Su Xi's voice came, and at the same time I felt something in my hand pull out, and I reacted at this time, just now in a hurry, I was actually holding Su Xi's hand and running.

"I don't know, maybe I'm sleeping." I hid my embarrassment.

"So what should we do, we can't get over it?"

I thought about it, I had already come here, and it was impossible to go back, so I shouted to the other side of the house: "Auntie, I am Rayong's classmate, are you at home?" ”

All I could do was the rustle of leaves in the night wind.

I shouted again, and the same. I shot the flashlight at the big black dog again, and it was still in the same position as before, motionless, and the feeling I had just had came back - could it be that the dog was really dead?

Thinking about it, I found another stone and threw it next to the black dog, but there was no response. I had never seen such a dog so unresponsive, and this proved my suspicion again, and the last time, I threw the stone directly at the black dog, and when the stone rolled off it, I was convinced that the black dog was dead.

This black dog should be from Rayong's house, but why did he suddenly die and be thrown in the yard like this. I felt a little strange in my heart, so I thought that I would remember to ask Luo Yong's mother later.

Now that the black dog is no longer a threat, I no longer have any scruples, and I walked to the front of the house again with Su Xi.

Although it was only a dead dog, on this big night, I saw the ghost fire again just now, and I was still a little empty in my heart, so I didn't look at the black dog when I passed by the black dog.

When I walked to the door of the hall, I knocked on the door, and when I knocked on the door, I paid attention to the movement in the room, but there was no sound.

I thought it was Luo Yong's mother asleep, so I knocked it again, and the force in my hand was a little stronger.

This time I put my ear to the door, and after listening for a while, there was still no sound, and I was a little puzzled, and when I was about to knock for the third time, the door creaked open, and I hurriedly stood up straight and looked inside.

It was pitch black in the hall, but fortunately neither of our flashlights was turned off, and by the light of the flashlight, I saw a person standing in the crack of the open door, it was Rayong's mother.

Because it would be rude to shoot a flashlight directly at someone else, both flashlights were fired at the ground at the time, which led to a weak light in the hall.

In the dimness, Luo Yong's mother looked at us blankly and did not say anything.