When I walked out of the cave, it was noon, but it was already past the time for the village to cook on the fire. The Cao family is very rigid at this point, and after that point, if you want to eat, you can only wait until the evening. We didn't expect this trip to end so soon, and when we came out, we happened to see a sunny day that we hadn't seen for a long time, so we didn't want to leave.

Mr. Cao led us to the edge of a small stream, which was almost dry this season, but the exposed stone platform was just right for us to rest. The fat man was strong enough with Qin Feng, so he took off his clothes and pants, jumped into the stream and took a bath. Both of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and they looked like two hairless bears dripping there.

Taking advantage of this moment, the fat second uncle got into the small forest in front of him, and it didn't take long to catch three big snakes.

"There are no good things near Caojia Village, and this is the thing that can be taken out to entertain people." The second uncle of the Cao family said with a smile.

I guess snake meat is the best meat I've ever tasted, but I'm a grinder, and although I always want to eat it when I'm in Beijing, I just feel weird in my heart. But I don't have that much to worry about right now, so I can't give up the snake meat and eat the compressed biscuits. So I also cooperated and took out a small pot and edible salt.

The snake meat that the fat second uncle cooked for us this time can really be called the best. Needless to say, how fresh the snake is, after peeling the skin and putting it in the pot, it is still turning over. The ingredient is also very special, consisting of several herbs picked nearby, as well as a few pieces of unknown bark. Everything was put into the pot and simmered for more than an hour. As soon as I lifted the lid, the incense almost made me faint.

Everyone scrambled to scoop up the snake meat in an iron box. A piece of snake meat is stuffed into the mouth, not to mention how refreshing the taste is, it is as smooth as lard, and the smell of vanilla and the bark is mixed in the snake meat, and the moment it bites into the mouth, the delicious feeling penetrates into our bones, and it is so refreshing that the fat man screams.

The only one who didn't do it was the old man. He looked at the surrounding mountains with a dry cigarette in his mouth, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was thinking. The snake soup in the pot was eaten by us, and there was not even a little soup left. After eating, the big guy couldn't help but lie down on the big rock. Get ready for a comfortable nap.

I lay down for a while, and after talking to the fat man for a while, I felt that I couldn't sleep anymore. At this time, I saw that Old Man Cao was using a knife to hang the venom on the kerosene lamp, so I got up. Walk up to him and crouch down to take a look.

The old man's hands are skillful. After scraping off a layer of viscous venom, it was smeared on a rag, and there was no waste at all, and the kerosene lamp was shaved clean, and the slightest blue thing was not visible.

"Show me your hand." Old Man Cao said to me after he finished it.

I stretched out my left hand, and the old man took it apart for me, and I immediately noticed that flesh had begun to grow in the place where the fracture had begun. The old man nodded. "If there are no accidents, it should still be able to be connected."

"It doesn't matter if you can take it back or not. I am very grateful to you Cao family. I smiled and said, "The fat man has saved me several times outside, and this time I have to trouble your old man again." ”

"You're very good at talking, who did you learn from?" The old man said without paying much attention.

It's true, I don't know when I started to talk like I am now, and I talk a lot in an official voice, but I don't say this with any lies, nor any purpose, I just want to calm myself and the people I talk to.

As soon as he said this to Old Man Cao, he laughed, "Alas, our Cao family just doesn't have a descendant as sensible as you." ”

"How can you say that, the fat man is much more capable than me, look at him, isn't he holding up the village alone?" I said.

The old man nodded, "That kid is indeed capable, but when it comes to controlling the situation, he can't do it, tsk, how did he get involved in this." By the way, Ah Jin has already put the box that refrigerated your finger at his second uncle's place, I will help you put on the things first, remember, within three days, the place where this poison is applied must not get wet. ”

I nodded. It's not summer anymore, and it's normal for a group of old men to not take a shower or wash their hands for a few days. "Old Man Cao, can you really take my fingers back with these poisons?" At the last moment, my grinding and chirping character was still exposed.

The old man smiled, stared at me and said, "No matter what, I won't let your hand be wasted." ”

I don't know what the road is for, but the old man's words made me feel very relieved. Soon, he was applying venom to five broken knuckles on my left hand. Within a few minutes, the venom was dry. Only then did I understand why the old man had to use a kerosene lamp to catch the venom, in order to use the heat of the oil lamp to keep the venom humid.

After tying the gauze again, the old man began to smoke again.

I couldn't help asking, "Old Man Cao, do you know what happened in the Liao family cave?" Uh, I'm curious, why do you say there are no bodies in that cave? ”

The old man smiled, "I knew that when I told about those things, I was about the same age as you, at that time, the village chief didn't let us contact the Liao family at all, and the people in the village didn't dare to ask about the Liao family anymore after they ate the corpses of their companions." But at that time, I happened to get along with a girl in Liao's cave. ”

"Huh?" I smiled a little surprised, "That's, isn't it, old man." "I said in my heart that judging from the bones of those Liao families, they shouldn't be able to see anywhere. But Mr. Cao's answer really surprised me.

The old man smacked his cigarette pipe and said happily: "The main thing is that she pursues me vigorously, I was young at the time, and I was carried away by love." ”

I'll go, if it weren't for the fact that he was a senior old man, I would definitely have to laugh immediately, I wouldn't be embarrassed to say such a damn thing, I didn't expect Old Man Cao to say it so calmly.

"Oh, it's also because of that girl from the Liao family that I learned their secret." The old man continued, "She told me that originally their branch was a small branch of the Liao clan. I don't know when their ancestor inadvertently got on a boat and got off the ship. The Liao family began to change gradually, at first they only had bigger heads, but after several generations, the Liao family was surprised to find that the people of their own clan lived longer and longer. And in their generation, no one in the Liao family died anymore. ”

As soon as I heard about the boat, I reflexively thought of those things. How? Could it be that the Liao family also has a relationship with that boat? However, it is not certain.

But another question immediately came to my mind. What did the old man say? The Liao family has never died again, but the fat man didn't say it. Did the person who found the Liao family eating the corpse see an old lady dead?

Seeing that my face was pale, Old Man Cao shook his head slightly, "Them." can't adapt to this kind of immortal life at all, although nominally immortal, but at some point, the Liao family will still be like ordinary people. Die for a while. year. Ten years, even hundreds of years, in short, their bodies will rot like dead people, but their bones will not be destroyed, even if they are smashed and burned to ashes. I can grow it back again, too. The girl told me that she had been dead for those days. They went back to the ship, which took them to hell. ”

The old man paused, and then continued, "I don't know when the Dao began, the Liao family found that as long as one of them is eaten by their own people, a small doll will inexplicably appear among the clansmen, and more importantly, this little doll is not like them, it is a normal person, it will be born, old, sick and die." So, the Liao family began a bold plan, they were ready to eat all their own people slowly, and then let those normal dolls replace themselves. What the Liao family didn't expect was that when some of these dolls grew up, they began to envy the Liao family's ability to live forever, and those people thought that as long as they drank the blood of the Liao family, they could also live forever, so what happened that night. ”

"You mean, there are actually two kinds of people in the Liao family?"

"That's right, the first is the original Liao family, and the second is the descendants of the Liao family who are hiding outside and don't know the origin of the road. That night, the descendants of the Liao family outside came back, and they brought a lot of helpers to kill all the immortal Liao family members and drink their blood. They did it, but after drinking the blood of their elders, those descendants of the Liao family all melted. At that time, we didn't open the door, because we didn't want to get into trouble with the people outside. The things in the Liao family's cave have become very demonic because they have lived with the Liao family for a long time, and the tree vines that strangle their necks and those strange cats and centipedes are all them. ”

"What about the female ghost?" I asked.

The old man shook his head, "That girl doesn't know, she only knows that the girl was brought out of that ship by their ancestors, and she has always been with the Liao family." ”

When I heard this, I felt a shock in my heart. Daddy told me before that he had seen many, many ghosts on that ship. He said that those ghosts are very special, and I will understand a lot of things when I look at them. Could it be that the female ghost is one of them? I don't see anything special about her, but if I could connect my fingers, it would still be very special and even important to me.

And I'm still speculating whether the longevity of the Liao family has something to do with the thousand-year-old zongzi.

Not only did I sigh in my heart, but as long as I got something to do with that ship, it didn't seem to be too easy.

It's also strange that after applying those poisons, I soon felt sleepy all over my body, and I still had a chat with the old man without a word, and I don't know why I fell asleep. Maybe this is a side effect of the poison, but it doesn't matter, just take advantage of such a good weather to relax and relax

I felt like I was awake, it wasn't like dreaming or half-asleep, everything was clear. However, as soon as I opened my eyes, I felt that something was wrong, and I looked around, and suddenly, I found that on my left hand, there was a strange claw-shaped glove again.

It's dreaming.

I made a judgment at once, but such clarity was definitely not something that dreams could achieve. I even saw that the gloves were covered with a streamlined pattern of gold, which was very beautiful, but it also made me feel extremely strange. The gloves were on my left arm, and I didn't feel them at all. It looks like it grows on me, it's very natural. I had a terrible premonition that I could manipulate this glove to do anything. All of a sudden, this hunch made me feel as if I was completely different.

"Whoa"

A tidal wave sounded around the rock beneath him, and the southeast wind blew, damp and cold. I shuddered, looked up sharply, and jumped up from the ground in fright at what I saw.

"Sea"

My God, in front of me, is the sea. At this moment. The rocks beneath your feet are like an island in the middle of the ocean. Every time the waves crashed in, I could feel the water soaking my shoes and trouser legs.

"Walking, the road meets the eldest sister, and the news is heard" is the ethereal singing voice again, or what kind of singing voice. It still sounds good to me.

At the same time, my left arm shook uncontrollably. Tremble, and the black-gold gloves will make a long crunching sound. It was as if something was pulling me, and the arm slowly lifted up. I followed the movement of that hand and looked above my head. In an instant, I saw the familiar white shadow.

And this time. The shadow was barely three or five meters above me. Although the scene in front of him was daylight, the indifferent shadows were still extremely clear. It was bigger than before, and all of a sudden, the white shadow seemed very familiar to me, but no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn't remember what it looked like.

I don't dare to move at all now, I can only quietly wait for the changes around me, at the same time. Remember all the details in front of you.

The sea, the song, the white shadows, and the glove. What are these things suggesting to me? I thought about my head and my eyes closed.

As soon as I opened my eyes again, I suddenly found that the white shadow above my head was gone, and the surroundings returned to normal, and the fat man, Qin Feng, Old Man Cao, and the second uncle all sat on the ground looking at me with a dull expression.

My arm raised in mid-air suddenly fell, and it occurred to me that I might have been sleepwalking just now.

"Uh, I've slept too long, live, move my arms, hahaha" I smiled awkwardly and shook my arms stiffly.

The fat man glared at me and said, "Did you dream that you had ascended to heaven?" Do you have a share of me? ”

I looked at my left hand wrapped in gauze, and I couldn't explain it to them immediately, so I could only let the fat man talk nonsense, but fortunately, Qin Feng helped me say a few words, and Old Man Cao also urged us to go back to the village.

The big guy climbed back to the hillside, and suddenly he saw a man running from the village in a hurry.

"Oh no, Dad, someone is going to set fire to our village!" The man ran up to us.

"Big brother, what the hell is going on, what kind of arson?" The second uncle of the Cao family and the fat man hurriedly went over and helped the middle-aged man up. Feelings: This person is the fat man's uncle.

"Here, there's a woman." The eldest uncle panted and said, "She, she said that she was coming to find some round and square Jie, saying that we hid the person, and if she didn't let him go, she would burn our village with fire." ”

When I heard it, it was probably coming for me. But who would find me here? It's still a woman.

"Tsk, uncle, a woman, why did you do this?" The fat man said.

"Hey, you don't know how powerful that woman is, she has already flirted with several young men in the village. I looked at her momentum, as if she was really the master who dared to say and do. ”

"She, what does she look like?" I couldn't help but ask.

The eldest uncle thought for a while and said, "It's not tall, it's beautiful, oh no, it's very beautiful." ”

Eh, I said in my heart that it was probably Zhuge Xuan, and I don't know if I was excited or what, so I rushed to the village first when I thought of this.

When I ran to the entrance of the village, I saw that the woman was facing us with her back to us, wearing autumn and winter clothes, carrying a travel bag, and all kinds of bells and whistles.

When she heard someone coming behind her, the woman turned her head and smiled at us.

It's been a long time. I said in my heart that Zhente Niang wanted to die. That's really Zhuge Xuan, I haven't seen her for a while, she seems to be more beautiful than before. Seeing her smile, I couldn't take my eyes off it.

The fat man patted his uncle on the shoulder, "Don't worry, this fire can't get up during the day, wait until you find a better house at night." ”

"Look, what are you looking at?" The eldest uncle didn't understand very well.

"Dry wood and fire, didn't you see that these two whores started to be passionate as soon as they met?" The fat man said hello to Zhuge Xuan with a smile.

"Long time no see." Zhuge Xuan came over and waved his hand and greeted us.

"You, how did you get here?" I asked, stunned.

"You don't have to worry about this, I have a lot of ears and eyes, eh, but you people have actually been to the Phantom Snow Forbidden City, how about it? Did you take things out? Zhuge Xuan was very excited and moved closer to me.

This girl really made my heart beat wildly, and my face was about to turn red. I sighed and raised my left hand. "I didn't take anything, but I lost something in it."

As soon as he saw the situation of my left hand, Zhuge Xuan immediately froze. "What's wrong with your hand?" She immediately grabbed my left hand, and it was really painful.

It's so cool in my heart, my mother knew that Lu Dao said that her chest was injured, maybe Zhuge Xuan could hug me immediately. I looked back at the fat man, coughed dryly twice, and then said in a very calm tone: "It's nothing, the Phantom Snow Forbidden City is full of dangers, and the zongzi and monsters we have dealt with are really too many to count." I'm too young.,I thought I could rush and carry.,It's too desperate.,As soon as I got distracted, I bit off my finger for the monster.,It's all over.,Fortunately, I finally brought the big guy out after the worst.。 ”

As soon as I finished speaking, I heard the fat man cursing in a low voice.

Zhuge Xuan immediately let go of my hand, and glared at the peanuts, "How did you guys do it, how can you let him rush to the front, now that his fingers are gone, how can I accompany him?" ”

I kept waving at the fat man behind Zhuge Xuan, which means, you have to help me greet a little, Lao Tzu's lifelong happiness depends on today.

Chubby smiled: "Compensation, of course you have to pay, you see who is suitable for a few men here, you just pull one and take it away." ”

"You"

I hurriedly grabbed Zhuge Xuan, "Don't be angry, you can't blame them." Then I walked over to them with great momentum and said: "Well, that Qin Feng, go and send Old Man Cao and the eldest uncle and second uncle back to the house, peanuts, you, you sort out our thoughts for today, fat man, don't talk nonsense, go back and prepare to cook, a few delicious food, you see that it is easy for other girls to come over alone, ah"

I said in my heart, brothers, even if I Yuan Jie owes you once today, I will definitely repay you with death in the future, hehe. (To be continued......)