After walking for a while, I commanded the old man to come to the shore and asked him and Huang Da to wait for me by the Nanxi River, and by the way, repair the leak as much as possible. They were a little puzzled when they saw that I was going into the village alone, but they didn't ask much.

I went up the embankment and walked through the familiar paddy fields to the grove.

At this time, the mobile phone received a signal, buzzing non-stop, I took it out and looked, it was all sent by the fat man, Gua Ge, Miao Miao, Poison Butterfly, Wu Kui and Xu Dashan, one by one, the number was as many as hundreds.

Zhou Jianbing also sent me a few, but they were all the progress of the intelligence network, and he didn't know that I had gone more than half a step, and it was estimated that the fat man didn't tell him.

I watched it with a warm heart, the strange things in Hongcun made me lose a lot, but I also gained a lot.

After thinking about it, I edited a text message to report safety and sent it back to them, and then turned off my phone.

Walking into the grove, as always, lying there quietly, like a stone turtle, the stele on the back was erected again, and looking at the ground, there are many traces of incense and oil candles burning. It is estimated that it is Ma Yongde's relationship, and it is no longer forgotten in Hongcun, and it can accept some incense offerings.

However, these things are not expected to be of much use to it.

A big question arose in my heart, I am free, I can go anywhere in the world, why do I want to stay in Hongcun? Hongcun has nothing, even if everyone comes to give it incense and worship it, but what makes sense to it?

When I left, it said it was guarding Hongcun for me, but I always felt that it had something to say.

Taking a deep breath, I walked over to the scumbag and looked at it. He also slowly opened his eyes, and the cyan stone skin slowly transformed into black scale armor, although he had seen it many times, he still felt shocked.

His limbs were extremely strong, his muscles bulged like a dragon, his feet were like dragon claws, his head was like a dragon's head, and his huge turtle shell was covered with blood-colored secret lines, and he felt like his soul was about to be devoured at a glance.

There is also the Hongzi tablet that has been re-erected, the font force penetrates the stone tablet, and suddenly there is a sky and the earth, and the breath of the giant pillar of the sky is blowing in my face, so that I have the illusion that there is only this Hongzi tablet left between heaven and earth. I don't know how Ma Yongde got such a monument, which is exactly the same as the one he destroyed before.

One of its legendary nine sons of the dragon, although it is not a fierce beast, it is definitely a terrifying existence once it is launched.

In the battle of Hongcun a year ago, it bit off one of the arms of the Niu Commander, and gnawed it as chicken.

……

He looked at me and spoke first, "You're coming back much earlier than I expected." ”

I instinctively asked, "Do you know I'm coming back?" ”

"Since you are looking for the answer, you will definitely come back here, and since the robbery starts in Hongcun, you will solve it in Hongcun." Gang Dao.

I was slightly startled, how long has it been, and I heard this sentence again: The robbery started in Hongcun, and it was solved in Hongcun.

The first time I heard this sentence was from Wong Tai Sin's mouth, and Wong Tai Sin had lost news for almost a year.

After thinking about it for a while, I was going to start with the gentleman himself, and said, "Why did you stay in Hongcun?" You said to protect this place for me, but I don't think you're done. ”

"You're smart." He looked at it, groaned slightly, and said, "Someone asked me to guard this village." ”

"Who?" I hurriedly asked.

He hesitated for a moment and slowly shook his head: "I don't know who it is?" ”

"This ......," I wondered, "you...... Why should you listen to him if you don't even know who it is? ”

"It's a complicated question, and I can't answer it for you." Gang Dao.

I nodded slowly, I didn't lie, some things really couldn't be explained; I feel this deeply, just like I left Hongcun, I still don't know why I left, I have a choice, but I choose to leave; There are many reasons to leave, but even more to stay. At the end of the day, I can't tell what it's for.

There are some things in this world that are confusing and inexplicable.

I even wonder if this is what ordinary people call fate, and the reason why I feel confused is because God's script is not seamless enough?

After a long time, he looked at me and said slowly: "I see the tiredness in your face, the pace of your pursuit is too fast, this is not a good thing; The secret of more than half a step is a taboo and you are not allowed to touch it. ”

I instinctively touched my face, I have been almost non-stop for a year, I have never stopped, the pace of pursuit has never stopped, sometimes I feel really tired physically and mentally when I am quiet; And that feeling of exhaustion is not something that can be recovered with rest, it is a state of mind, and the heart is moving too fast to stop.

I even felt like a donkey, attracted by a carrot hanging in front of me, and I always thought that I could go up and take a bite if I ran faster, but I found that I couldn't do it at all.

After thinking about it, I simply unloaded the bag and threw it on the ground, and sat on it, I was really tired.

"How do you know I've been more than half a step?" I asked casually.

"You have the smell of a yin beast on you, it's very pure, and it's only found in more than half a step." When he saw me sit down, there was a human smile on his face.

I raised my hand and sniffed it, it was all stained when the previous one was disemboweled.

"Do you believe in your fate?" Strangely enough, my eagerness was calmed down a lot, and the answer to the main question was suddenly not so enthusiastic. Maybe it's right, the pace of its pursuit is a little fast, and if you don't relax and rest, the strings on your body will break sooner or later.

"I believe it." He nodded slowly and asked me, "What about you?" ”

"I don't believe it." I shook my head and said strangely, "You are so strong, are you still succumbing to fate?" ”

"Life has nothing to do with strength, and it doesn't matter if you give in." He smiled and said, "If you live as long as I do, you will believe it." ”

I nodded, feeling a little incomprehensible, this was a matter of my own level.

"Your Meng Po soup is still with me, drinking it may also be a good ending, sometimes it's not a bad thing to be confused at all, have you ever thought about giving up?" After a pause, he asked me.

I was stunned!

Yes, giving up is also a way, and it is not that you have no choice.

Drinking Meng Po soup, maybe I will forget a lot of things, but I am still Ma Chun from Hongcun, running my own mobile phone and computer store in an ordinary way, maybe I will do some other business in the future, marry a wife and have children, support my parents, and end up uneventful.

The gang will guard Hongcun for a hundred years, which is enough for his own life, and there is no problem in terms of safety.

But soon, I thought of Miao Miao again, thought of the fat man, thought of the people around me, and even, I couldn't stop at all.

After pondering for a long time, I slowly shook my head and did not explain why, because I didn't know why.

After a moment of silence, I couldn't find any other topics, so I got to the point and said to Yun Tuan: "I came here to find you to want to know about Meng Po's ghost." ”

He nodded and said directly: "Twenty-four years ago, the ghost of Meng Po appeared at the entrance of the village for the first time, and there was a very strong existence that accompanied it; I fought that being once, and I lost; So I made an agreement with that existence in Chapter 3, I let Meng Po ghost into the village, and Meng Po ghost promised not to harm people in Hong Village, nor to interfere in the cause and effect order of Hong Village. ”

I raised my eyebrows suddenly, and hurriedly asked, "You mean that there was a strong existence around Meng Po when he first came?" Who is it? ”

"I don't know." He shook his head and said, "I was restrained at the time, and I couldn't get to the bottom of that existence, but I don't think it should be human." ”

I frowned, there really is another existence behind Meng Po's ghost, I thought of Bai Xiangyue, and my heart said could it be her, right? But this is just a thought, there are many things in this world that are not human and strong; The water behind Meng Po's ghost must be very deep, Bai Xiangyue is just suspicious.

"If you weren't tied down at the time, would you be able to beat that being?" I asked.

"Maybe, but I haven't been able to test the bottom line of that existence, I can't be sure." He said with some certainty.

I nodded slowly, Bai Xiangyue is very strong, but I have a gut feeling that she should not be able to do it, and the dragon species and other demons feel that there should be a significant gap in strength.

"When did the ghost leave?" I asked again.

"After the possessed Su Yue reached the end of his life, it kept its promise, did not harm anyone, and did not interfere in any cause and effect in Hongcun. ”

I was speechless for a while, so it seems that my previous guess was a little wrong, Meng Po did not kill Grandma Su Yue's wife, and Grandma Su Yue also lived a natural life.

Then the question is, what did Meng Po Ghost do in Hongcun?

Or is it just doing nothing, doing nothing, what?

……