The man named Lao Hu looked up at us and said, "How many years have bullets been banned, where are they still sold?" ”

As soon as we heard Lao Hu say this, we turned our heads to look at the old Orion who brought us, and the old Orion spread his hands, indicating that he couldn't help it.

An Xiaowu shouted: "Everyone has brought us here." It means that you just have it, I think you want to sit on the ground and start the price! If you can afford the price, the master can afford to pay it! ”

"The smell of copper all over the body, where do you like to roll!" Lao Hu glared at An Xiaowu and said with a snort.

An Xiaowu was anxious for Lao Hu to rub him like this, and Song Gang and Ji Zizheng hurriedly pulled him aside.

When I saw such a scene, I saw that this old Hu was a man who ate mountain food, and I thought of some of the incisions that my grandfather taught me when I was a child. Then he asked, "Old man." Do you see us coming from out of town, recognizing life? ”

Lao Hu said: "I don't recognize life, I dress like people on TV." ”

I said, "It's okay to recognize life, but the kid has a righteous word engraved on his face." ”

Lao Hu glanced up at me, smiled and said, "What era is it, besides, in the mountain nest, where is the righteousness?" I'm afraid you haven't been in the mountains yet. ”

I said: "Don't hide it from the old man, it's true that I haven't entered, but my grandfather has entered, and his old man used to eat and shelf, and I listened to his old man's house about Guan Erye, isn't this old man Ling through the name of his martial saint?" ”

"Well, I've inquired quite carefully, and I'll ask you where your grandfather eats?" The old beard did not raise his head, and continued to be busy in his hands.

I said, "All over the world." ”

"Yo-heh. Your grandfather is not a fairy, the emperor doesn't dare to say that he eats food from all over the world, and your grandfather can't even decide a mountain, how can he tell me a righteous word! Lao Hu said and his face fell.

I said, "My grandfather was a mountain for the poor. ”

Lao Hu heard me say this, almost didn't fall off the chair, he smiled and said: "Young man, I'm not bluffing you, but I think you are humorous, I Lao Hu is so old I haven't heard anyone stuff the words of picking a mountain on his grandfather's head." If this age is set back sixty years. With your upright tone, I'm afraid that a group of Zishan bosses will have to pay a visit to your grandfather's immortal. ”

"If the old gentleman doesn't believe it, the kid has nothing to say, so he just asks you whether to sell the bullet or not?" Beans and pounds.

Lao Hu laughed: "Look at your kid's temper and me, you can send you bullets, there are fewer and fewer people hunting these years, no one has come to ask about my box of bullets for half a year, I don't know if it is damp, if you are dumb when you play with the pole, don't look for me Lao Hu." ”

Lao Hu said and went into the house to carry his bullets, Song Gang and Ji Zizheng both stretched out their thumbs to me, and An Xiaowu looked up at the sky with a look of two hundred and fifty or eighty thousand.

We had some food in the town, and when we left Miaozi Village, we told Grandma Wang that we would eat in the town at noon.

Grandma Wang is now old, and there are no relatives at home, Ji Zizheng's father came to pick her up before and wanted to take her to Beijing for the elderly, but the old man misses the old and doesn't like life in the city, so he stays in the village, and he gets used to being alone for a long time.

Ji Zizheng bought some sugar ginger slices and watermelon radishes in the town, and bought some dates and hawthorn, and there are old people in their seventies and eighties at home, especially children who grew up in the countryside, and they must know that the older generation likes to eat these things.

After returning to Miaozi Village from the town, I saw a group of people carrying the old lady's spiritual bed around the village, they all shouted strange words, but they did not scatter paper money, nor did they ring the soul bell, I glanced at Ji Zi and asked: "Don't you people in your village buy coffins when they die, where are they buried?" ”

Ji Zizheng shook his head and said: "I remember when I was very young, there was no such custom in the village, as for where the dead were buried, I also forgot, and later when my grandfather died, I fell ill and had a high fever and did not come back, and I don't know where he was buried." ”

I frowned and watched a group of people from Zimiaozi Village passing in front of us carrying the old lady's funeral bed, and I became more and more worried, are the old people in their village all childless and daughterless, and no matter how poor the village is, there should always be a few young people.

I remember when I first came to Miaozi Village, I saw a few little babies running around the village, one of them was particularly impressed by the child with a yellow nose, and now even a child can't see it.

If there is a ghost in this village, even if my Dao Qi has not recovered now, but with the treasure of Yin Yang Fish in my body, I can always see it, although this village is dead, but there is no ghost Qi at all, which makes me feel a sense of contradiction in my heart, because I think of the person who stood next to my bed last night, I can't see the person's face clearly, after An Xiaowu woke up when he heard the movement, the figure disappeared.

After we returned to Grandma Wang's house, Grandma Wang was making noodles, preparing to make dumplings, the old man said that now the frost is falling, the weather is getting colder, eating dumplings at night can warm the body, Shi Xiaoxue is interested in helping Grandma Wang mix dumpling filling, Grandma Wang seems to like Shi Xiaoxue very much, teach her how to roll dumpling skin, how to make dumplings, the two chatted very happily.

Ji Zizheng looked at it in his eyes, and I knew that he wanted everyone to spend more time with her grandmother, so that the old man could have a few days of lively and happy days in his old age.

Everyone had a lot of fun together, except that the village was a little weird, but they didn't care about Ji Zizheng's selfishness.

After that, An Xiaowu, Ji Zizheng, and Song Gang each brought a few rounds of bullets they had just bought to go around the nearby mountains to see if they could catch any game.

The three of them just came back when the sun set, Ji Zizheng and An Xiaowu looked excited, because each of them had caught a hare today, and they also found a sweet potato field when they came back, and decided that we would go to stew sweet potatoes together at night.

Braising sweet potatoes is one of the happiest things in the childhood of many children growing up in the countryside, but I remember only running to the sweet potato field in a neighboring village with Huzi to stew sweet potatoes.

Song Gang, who has always been like a river, didn't say a word when he was eating, he finished eating, put his chopsticks on the bowl, and said: "I'm full, grandma, you eat slowly." ”

As soon as Song got up and walked to his house, Grandma Wang hurriedly stopped him and said, "Xiaogang, grandma has candy here, and grandma said that you usually like to eat sweet things at school." ”

Grandma Wang grabbed a handful of candy from the dilapidated wardrobe and handed it to Song Gang, Song Gang took the candy handed by Grandma Wang and thanked him, and then turned around and went out, no one saw him pass by me, and gently tapped my back.

I don't know if Song Gang can't say anything in front of everyone, so he took a few bites of food and then walked out of the hall.

"What's wrong?" I looked at Song Gang, who was squatting on the side of the bed with a sad face, and asked.

Song Gang said: "Wang Yang, there is a problem in this village. ”

I said, "I also think there is a problem, but I haven't recovered from my injuries yet, I can only vaguely feel that the village is very dead, and when my injuries are better, I will help Miaozi Village to see what the problem is." ”

Song Gang said: "I'm not saying that there is a problem in the village, I mean that there is a problem in the people. ”

"What's wrong with people?" Although the people in Miaozi Village look gloomy, I think they should all be because of the elderly, so the village seems to be lifeless, and these old people should be childless and daughterless, take Ji Zizheng's grandmother as an example, she has a daughter, married to Beijing, and later died because of the death incident of asking for directions, so Grandma Wang will be bleak in her later years.

At first, I also suspected that there might be something wrong with Grandma Wang, because that night I found that there was an imperceptible green light flashing in her eyes, maybe I had a bad eye in the night, maybe my fear of the cat's eyes made me delusional, but then I asked Shi Xiaoxue to quietly test Grandma Wang's body temperature and pulse, and they were all fine with normal people.

The most important thing is that I gave Shi Xiaoxue a piece of jade, which has a great deterrent effect on evil spirits, and any evil spirits will definitely react when they encounter them, but Grandma Wang does not have any abnormalities, and there is nothing wrong with all Grandma Wang.

I told Song Gang my thoughts, Song Gang thought for a while and said: "Maybe Grandma Wang is fine, but everyone else must have a problem, did you hear Xiao Wu and Zi Zheng say that they saw a sweet potato field?" ”

I nodded and said, "What's wrong?" ”

Song Gang said: "There is a proverb that says, August 8, red pickpocket, which means that on the eighth day of August of the lunar calendar, dare to pull the sweet potatoes out of the ground before the frost falls, although it is not yet the frost season, but we are the northeast, the winter is already in advance, and it is under the mountain, the sweet potatoes at this time have already been harvested, you don't see the sweet potato seedlings have wilted!" ”

I thought, "There are no young laborers in the village, so the old people are slower?" ”

As soon as Song Gang heard me say this, he glanced out of the door, lowered his voice and said, "I knew you didn't believe it, I felt strange when I saw the sweet potato field, so I handed the shotgun to Xiao Wu and Zizheng, and ran to the hillside on the other side of the sweet potato field to see the fields there, guess what I saw?" ”

I shook my head, did I see more cat and dog corpses?

Song Gang said: "All the crops, including spring beans and summer wheat, are rotting in the ground. ”