Because I was afraid of startling the snake, I didn't stay at my father's door for long, I went back to my house after watching it for a while, and stayed up until it was almost dawn Liu Cheng returned to the house, he just wanted to give his mother the illusion that he had gone to Huang Yunqiu, so there was no need to stay outside all the time.

After Liu Cheng returned to the house, he began to wait patiently, during which the house was silent, and there was no sound, knowing that the rooster in the village had begun to crow, and the sky was already bright outside, so I said to Liu Cheng, "I think you must have made a mistake, my mother can't be the one who wants to harm us." ”

Liu Cheng smiled secretly, "Wait." ”

After nearly half an hour, the people in the village also got up one after another, Liu Cheng and I were still waiting in bed, just when I was about to give up, I heard the sound of my door being opened, Liu Cheng was excited, and quickly turned over and got out of bed to check, and I followed Liu Cheng out of the door.

When I went out, it was not my mother who opened the door, but my grandfather, who looked at us and smiled and said, "Master Liu hasn't rested well in the past few days, why did he get up so quickly?" ”

Liu Cheng only responded with a smile, and by the way, he put his eyes on the grass and wood ash at the door of his father's house, and there were no footprints on the grass and wood ash, and I was happy to say that Liu Cheng made a mistake this time, but he put his eyes on the 'cat hole' next to the door of my house.

Every household in the countryside has a cat hole, which is a small hole about 20 centimeters dug at the foot of the wall, which is usually used by the cats at home to enter and exit at night, but my cat died of old age many years ago, and this cat hole is not needed, and is blocked by my grandfather with a stone, but now this cat hole has been opened.

Liu Cheng then said to his grandfather, "Why did you get up so early?" ”

Grandpa replied, "If there is such a big thing at home, how can I sleep with peace of mind, Sun Qing and his father are still lying in the house." ”

Liu Cheng answered briefly, then turned to me and said, "You come with me." ”

Liu Cheng said that he didn't care about his grandfather, and went straight out, although I didn't know what Liu Cheng was going to do, but out of trust and intimacy with him, I also stepped out of the door and walked with him, grandpa kept watching us from behind, and after we walked out, grandpa suddenly shouted at us, "Master Liu." ”

Liu Cheng stopped and looked back at his grandfather, "Huh? ”

Grandpa hesitated, as if there was something unspeakable, and after a while, he said, "Master Liu, can you not go out today?" ”

Liu Cheng smiled slightly and said, "Why? ”

Grandpa sighed, shivered and took out the cigarette gun and put it in his mouth, and did not light it, so he smoked it, and then said to Liu Cheng, "When I opened in the morning, I saw the footprints of the fox on the grass and wood ash at the door, and I roughly understood that there was a problem with the fox who reported the funeral at that time, but after all, it was related to Sun Qing and his mother, and he had been conscientious in the Sun family all these years, so I erased the fox footprints on the grass and wood ashes, and I wondered if Master Liu could turn a blind eye and let her go." ”

After grandpa finished speaking, Liu Cheng hesitated for a while, then bowed to grandpa and said, "For Sun Qing's sake, as long as she hasn't done anything hurtful, I'll try not to do anything to her." ”

"Iniquity." Grandpa seemed to be ten years old in an instant, and a few tears were squeezed out of his already sunken eyes.

A daughter-in-law who recruited himself into the house had a problem, and he was concealed for so many years, grandpa must be the most painful, he wants to take care of the whole family, and he has to complete the mission given to him as the old mountain god, he is the most difficult one.

Grandpa already knew that there was something wrong with his mother, Liu Cheng continued to investigate, and sooner or later he would point the finger at my mother, so he could only ask Liu Cheng to turn a blind eye.

Liu Cheng took me out of the door, and instead of immediately going to my mother, he took me to his tomb, and stood in front of his own grave for a while, and then took out a box from the small hole next to the tomb, and opened the box, which contained a clean purple Taoist robe, and a bright money sword, and next to the Taoist robe and the money sword, there was a ghost mask.

Liu Cheng looked at the purple robe and magic sword, like an old friend who had not seen him for many years, his eyes were full of heat and nostalgia, and he held them in his hand for a long time, and then the god touched them and said, "Old man, it's time to use you again." ”

Liu Cheng said and put the robe on his body, I looked at Liu Cheng stunned, he was completely different from the usual him when he put on the robe, he often smiled, at this time he did have a temperament that rejected people thousands of miles away, just like the statue of the god at home, although it was also smiling, but it always felt that it was not the same passerby.

Liu Cheng then closed the box and stuffed it into the tomb, and then I said, "Your tomb is so bad, if someone else comes to look for it, they will definitely be able to take away your money sword and robe, and I will help you repair it when I am done." ”

Liu Cheng looked at me and smiled, and then said, "No one in this world dares to come to open my grave, even if my coffin is exposed to the wilderness, the cow, ghost, snake and god will take a detour, but if you have this filial piety, you can dig up my coffin in a few days to bask in the sun, and I will let you see what I look like." ”

I sighed, only to feel a chill in my back, shook my head and said, "Forget it, after so many years, your corpse must have rotted to bones." ”

Liu Cheng smiled and said nothing, handed over the ghost mask to me, and then took out a piece of yellow sheet paper from his robe, stretched out his finger and scratched the yellow sheet paper a few times, then released the yellow sheet paper, and recited the sentence 'edict', and after reading it, a gust of wind suddenly came from nowhere, rolling the yellow sheet paper away.

I looked around and saw that only our part was windy, and when I left our part, the grass and trees outside did not move, and I just felt amazing.

Liu Chengdao, "Let's go, find that little white fox." ”

So Liu Cheng and I followed the yellow paper, and the yellow paper gradually drifted away, and we followed all the way, and soon left several villages near us and entered the deep mountains and old forests.

This place is called 'West Cliff', there used to be a black coal mine here, many people in the township have dug coal here, because it is far away from the place where they live, most of them can not go back on the same day after coming, so they built a temporary residence on the West Cliff side, at first it was fine, but it didn't take long to find that the jackals, tigers and leopards who were driven away were all gathered here in West Cliff.

This was their last place of refuge, and the beasts had no way to retreat, so for three days two groups appeared in groups, shouting around the dwellings of the coal diggers, and over time, the people were also afraid, and left the West Cliff, not daring to set foot here for half a step.

I've only heard my grandfather say that I've never been here, but Liu Cheng brought me here directly, which made me a little nervous, for fear that those fierce beasts were still here and hadn't left.

The West Cliff has been inaccessible for decades, and the road that people originally opened up was also blocked by thorns, and we were extremely difficult to walk, perhaps because of the psychological effect, since we stepped into the West Cliff, I felt that something had been staring at us behind us, but I turned back many times, but I didn't see anything behind me.

The short road lasted nearly two hours, until he was about to approach the black coal mine in the West Cliff, when Liu Cheng turned to me and said, "Put on the mask." ”

I just thought of this mask as a gadget, he used it as a toy for me, but I didn't know what I was doing with the mask at this time, and I didn't ask much, I put on the mask, thinking that it would have some magical effect, and I put on the mask and looked at it again, but there was nothing special, but the mask blocked my vision.

Seeing me wearing a mask, he shook his head and sighed, "You have lived in the countryside for so many years, why don't you have any common sense. As he spoke, he tucked the money sword under his arm, and reached out again to transfer the mask I was wearing on my face to the back of my head.

I was puzzled and asked, "Why do you put a mask on the back of your head?" ”

Liu Cheng said, "When I came to your neighborhood, there was no one nearby, only fierce beasts, and fierce beasts like to attack people from behind, so I found this mask to wear on the back of the head. In this way, the beast will not be able to distinguish between the front and the back of the person, and will not attack the person easily. ”

I sighed, this mask is what it does, and at first I thought it was the same as the money sword, and it was also a powerful magic weapon.

However, Liu Cheng's words also reminded me, he is now asking me to wear a mask, doesn't it mean that there are fierce beasts behind me?

"Are there any beasts here?" I asked with a shudder.

Liu Cheng smiled, glanced behind his eyes and said, "Look behind you." ”