The trail is difficult to follow, and there are similar rocks and uneven dirt paths everywhere, making you feel like you're in a loop.

Zhang Qiang didn't bring a map, but led the three people to find Caoyang Village completely from memory.

Finally, the four of them came to the vicinity of Caoyang Village when it was dark, and Old Man Lin and Niu Niu also happened to come back from hunting, and when they saw that the person who came was Zhang Qiang, although they were not enthusiastic, they still nodded at Zhang Qiang and the others.

is similar to what Zhang Qiang said before, although this old man Lin is very easy to contact, it is also a little weird, perhaps this is also related to the fact that he and his grandson have lived in the deep mountains and old forests for a long time.

"Uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time, you just came back from hunting?" Zhang Qiang took the initiative to say hello first.

Old Man Lin looked at the three people accompanying him, and did not pay attention to Zhang Qiang, but locked his eyes on Ding Lingxiu's body, Old Man Lin's pupils suddenly dilated, and then contracted back, muttering:

"Alas! What should come will come after all! ”

Ding Lingxiu felt that the old man's words seemed to have no meaning, so he walked over, handed Old Man Lin a cigarette, and said:

"Hello uncle, a few of us are friends of Zhang Qiang, and we came here this time to help him recover a thing he lost last time, I wonder if we can stay with you for one night?"

Old man Lin looked at Ding Lingxiu, took the cigarette handed by Ding Lingxiu, and Ding Lingxiu hurriedly lit it for him.

"Well, come on, there are a lot of vacant rooms here anyway, and even if I don't agree, you can go and sleep in those houses where no one lives."

"Hee-hee, thank you, uncle." Xia Xianyao said with a smile.

Old man Lin shook his head, carrying a few hunted rabbits and walking forward, Niu Niu followed, Zhang Qiang touched his little brain, but this little guy was very disgusted by this action, and gave Zhang Qiang a blank look.

Behind them was the pheasant that could eat the climbing kui, this pheasant full of spirituality looked radiant, Ding Lingxiu heard Zhang Qiang say that this baby pheasant could smoke, so he also handed it one, what everyone didn't expect was that this guy really grabbed the cigarette with his beak, and smoked it.

"No faith! You...... Yes? How can a pheasant that looks so cute, how can it smoke? Xia Xianyao looked at this scene in surprise.

"Hehe, it seems that this little guy knows how to live very well!" Ding Lingxiu said.

"Yes, this pheasant is not an ordinary pheasant, it's amazing!" Zhang Qiang is still full of praise for it.

"Really? What else will this little pheasant do? Show your hands? Xia Xianyao squatted down and looked at the pheasant carefully. I want to reach out and stroke the beautiful feathers of this pheasant.

However, before Xia Xianyao's hand could be put on it, the pheasant suddenly froze, stretched its neck, and all the feathers on its body stood up, and even the cigarette in its mouth fell to the ground at once.

Niu Niu saw this scene and said to Xia Xianyao with a smile:

"Sister, please don't touch it, it doesn't like to be touched by strangers!"

Xia Xianyao was also taken aback by the sudden change of pheasant, and couldn't help but say embarrassedly:

"Wow, I see."

The group followed Old Man Lin back to the village, although the head of Caoyang Village can still vaguely see the name of the village, but this village is like a ghost, just like Old Man Lin said, even if he doesn't let Ding Lingxiu live here, they can also find a room to rest on their own, although the houses in the village have not been lived in for a long time, and no one has repaired them, but it can still be seen that some slightly better houses can still live in people.

Although the expression on Old Man Lin's face was lukewarm, after returning to his house, he still made a large table of dishes to entertain Ding Lingxiu and others, because most of these dishes were burned in the stove and the ingredients were also very rough, so they all looked a little black, but the taste was not bad! In particular, Old Man Lin roasted a rabbit, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, very mellow, and Ding Lingxiu was full of oil when he ate it, and he was full of praise.

Rinpoche didn't seem to like the food here, and instead of eating with everyone, he ate the compressed biscuits he had in his backpack. Ding Lingxiu and Zhang Qiang accompanied Old Man Lin to raise a glass and drink, once the taciturn Old Man Lin drank wine, the conversation box was opened, like Ding Lingxiu and others talked endlessly about all kinds of strange experiences encountered in hunting over the years, although most of these things have nothing to do with Huoqian Fang, but Ding Lingxiu also learned some important clues from it:

First, the steep peak of Lion Peak does have a secret passage, and it will be very easy to find the entrance to this secret passage somewhere down the mountain, and it will be very easy to walk from here to the halfway point of the mountain, and then climb to the top from there.

Second, around October last year, there were often visions of Lion Peak, there would always be mountain fires inexplicably, and the tigers, leopards and beasts in the mountains also decreased significantly, and the climbers also became timid and did not appear often. Based on this, Ding Lingxiu speculated that it was probably at that time that Huoqian Fang chose the place of Lion Peak as his place for practice. Those fierce beasts and low-level demons in the mountains were either caught by it and treated as minions, or directly swallowed by it.

Third, here in Lion Peak, there seems to be an ancient tomb, but the things buried in it are very strange, according to legend, the things buried there are not people, but some gods. Although this point is of little value, Ding Devotional also silently remembers it in his heart.

Ding Lingxiu listened attentively to Old Man Lin's narration, and suddenly, Niu Niu, who was chatting with Xia Xianyao, suddenly stood up, rushed to Rinpoche, and shouted:

"Stop! Don't touch it! ”

Ding Lingxiu and the others followed the prestige and found that Rinpoche was observing a black short knife that had been shelved, and he was just about to pick it up to look at it, when Niu Niu suddenly stopped him.

"Rinpoche, what's wrong?" Ding Lingxiu asked.

"It's nothing, I just think this knife is a little weird!" Rinpoche explained.

"Of course it's weird, you must not touch this knife!" Niu Niu said.

Zhang Qiang looked at the knife, patted his head and said:

"This isn't the one we two found in the yurt......"

Niu Niu nodded.

Ding Lingxiu also got up and walked over, looked at the black short knife for a while, and faintly felt that the blade of this short knife seemed to be surrounded by an indescribable strange aura, and couldn't help asking:

"Uncle, what's the matter with this knife?"

Old man Lin took a sip of wine and muttered:

"Oh, forget it, let's sue them! After all, the thing they're looking for has something to do with it! ”

Niu Niu looked at Old Man Lin and asked timidly:

"Grandpa, do you really say that?"

Old man Lin nodded.

Niu Niu reluctantly said:

"Okay, you guys stay away from that knife first."

Everyone did so, and when everyone returned to their original seats again, Niu Niu sighed and began to preach:

"It's a long story, please be patient."

Ding Lingxiu and the others nodded.

"Actually, my mother passed away after I was born, and I was very young at that time, so I didn't know anything, but when I grew up, I listened to my grandfather, and soon after I was born, strange things began to happen one after another."

Niu Niu said and looked at Old Man Lin, who was gloomy and calm, and did not speak.

Ding Lingxiu listened intently, he also learned something about this strange family from Zhang Qiang.

"What's weird?" Xia Xianyao's curiosity was teased all of a sudden, and she couldn't help but ask impatiently.

Niu Niu thought for a moment and continued:

"Because my mother died just after I was born, my grandfather could only feed me rice soup every day, but it was too young to drink it at all. At that time, my grandfather always carried me to the town by walking a few miles to the town during the day, begging pregnant women to breastfeed me. ”

"You should know that when I was born, my family conditions were not very good, especially in the countryside, and many pregnant women had their own milk. There isn't enough water, let alone give it to me. So my grandfather went hunting every day and then took the prey to exchange with others, and even then he was often hungry and full. ”

"Oh, it's hard enough." Xia Xianyao listened patiently with her chin pinched.

But one day, when my grandfather came back from hunting, he found a cup of fresh milk next to the table. water, grandpa gently touched the milk. The water turned out to be still hot. Grandpa tasted it, and after waiting for a while, he thought it was okay and gave me a drink. ”

When Niu Niu said this, Old Man Lin sighed, and then Niu Niu's words continued:

"After I fed Niu Niu that first time, I felt weird, but I didn't pay much attention to it. But I didn't expect that in the days that followed, every morning, noon, and evening, there would always be a strange amount of milk in that bottle. Water. At that time, although I was also wondering, it also solved a problem for me, so I didn't think much about it. It was about a week or so that I had an accident when I went to the town to catch the market.

There is a market every Monday in the town, and people from a radius of fifty or sixty miles gather in the town. As soon as I arrived in the town, I found a cow's head and a sheep's head hanging at the entrance of the town, and there were many people around the town, and they were beating gongs and drums, which was very lively.

Curious, I squeezed into the crowd, and then I saw several men in coats standing in the middle of the crowd, and next to them sat several women, holding children in their arms, babbling something out of their mouths.

I didn't understand what was going on at first, but when I listened carefully, I realized that these women have been feeling that someone is breastfeeding when they are asleep in recent times, and when they wake up, they find milk. There is simply not enough water for your children to eat. This kind of thing happened in a radius of dozens of miles, so the people in the town felt that there must be something dirty, so they killed cattle and sheep to sacrifice here.

So the women around heard the news and came to the town.

When I heard this, my heart suddenly chuckled, and I suddenly remembered the milk that mysteriously appeared at the head of the cow's bed every day. water, how dare I continue to listen to it, and immediately rush back home.

Who would have thought that as soon as I arrived at home, I found that Niu Niu was gone! ”

"Huh? Niu Niu is gone? Xia Xianyao was surprised.

"yes, isn't it gone!" Old man Lin continued, "I was really frightened at that time, and I was anxious like ants on a hot pot looking for the whereabouts of Niu Niu in the house, but I searched all the corners of the house and still couldn't find Niu Niu's whereabouts. It was as if the child had suddenly evaporated from the room, and just as I was about to break down, I noticed that a pheasant, which had been following me all the time, had suddenly run in from outside.

This pheasant you see, and that day I found him standing on the ground flapping his wings and cooing. I suddenly understood what it meant, so I followed the pheasant out, and we walked for a few miles, and by the time it was getting late, we found Niu Niu in an empty tomb! ”

"In the tomb?" Ding Lingxiu couldn't help blurting out. R1058