"Sister, uncle, are you there?" Han Xin was about to speak, when the bedroom door was pushed open, and Xiao Zhuang walked out of it.

Na Wu glanced at Xiao Zhuang and said, "I'm sorry, I ate breakfast alone, you wait, I'll go out hunting." Oh, by the way, there isn't much wood in the house, Han Xin, you go to the firewood house in the village to get some. The firewood house is next to the temple in the village. The temple is relatively high and is a meeting place for the villagers, so you will know it when you see it. However, you must not enter the temple. With that, Nano went out.

Han Xin came to the kitchen, but found that there was still a lot ......of wood there, "There is so much wood, why does Uncle Mingwu want me to pick it up?" Thinking of this, Han Xin seemed to understand something.

"Sister, where are you going?"

"It's a bit of a thing. Xiao Zhuang is waiting here, and my sister will be back soon. ”

With doubts, Han Xin hurriedly walked towards the temple in the village, and halfway through, Han Xin saw that the villagers were standing in the open space in the center of the village, with a waist-thick iron pillar, and the iron pillar was surrounded by wood, Han Xin understood that it was for Xiaozhuang.

When I came to the temple, the temple gate was closed, but I could faintly hear the sound of a group of people talking. Han Xin hurriedly hid in the firewood room, climbed up the pile of wood, and through the window, he could just see the scene in the temple. In the temple, dozens of men gathered to discuss something.

"There must be no more mistakes tonight. "The village chief.

"As I said, I'm sure I put the poison in. You must have taken the wrong bowl. A middle-aged man explained impatiently.

"Either way, tonight has to be successful. Looking at the little girl's dress, she should be a rich daughter, maybe she can make a big deal this time. "The village chief.

"Boss, I suddenly remembered that I heard that Na Wu talk about it before, he will be very sleepy at night, why don't we change the poison to hypnotics?"

"Are you worried that ordinary poisons won't work for him?"

"You don't need to change it, can't you just put the two together?" As soon as these words came out, everyone present looked at me, I looked at you, and smiled silently......

Just as Han Xin was listening to it, there was a sudden sound of footsteps outside the firewood room, and Han Xin hurriedly climbed down from the pile of wood. When the man who came to get the wood pushed open the door, he saw Han Xin holding the wood, and his expression was a little panicked.

"What is the little girl doing with the wood?" asked the man.

"I want to go and cook some food. ”

"It would be nice to let the villagers send some more. ”

Han Xin ignored the man, hugged the wood, and hurriedly walked towards the house.

Back in the house and in the kitchen, Han Xin was surprised to find that all the wood that had been placed here was gone. "What's going on? There were so many before I left. Before, Na Wu asked me to fetch wood, did he really just let me go and fetch wood, and it didn't mean anything else?"

Putting down the wood, Han Xin found that Xiaozhuang was gone. After searching the house, I didn't see Xiaozhuang. Suddenly, there was the sound of dry wood exploding in flames from the back of the house, Han Xin opened the back door and saw the back of a boy, obviously Xiao Zhuang, and a bonfire was burning in front of Xiao Zhuang.

"It turns out that the timber has been moved here by Xiaozhuang. Xiao Zhuang, what are you going to do?"

"Hey, Xiaozhuang, what are you doing here?" Han Xin said and walked slowly towards Xiaozhuang.

Han Xin's accosting, Xiao Zhuang didn't seem to hear it, and still stood still, without any reaction at all. Han Xin felt that something was wrong, so he hurriedly ran over, and sure enough, Han Xin saw that Xiao Zhuang was holding a red-burning wooden stick in his right hand and scribbling on his body.

"Stop, what are you doing?" Han Xin quickly snatched the wooden stick from Xiao Zhuang's hand and threw it aside, then picked up Xiao Zhuang and ran towards the house.

"Is it my sister?" Xiao Zhuang came back to his senses.

"Why are you doing such a thing? doesn't it hurt?"

"Does it hurt?

"When ......" returned to the house, Han Xin put Xiao Zhuang down, and seeing Xiao Zhuang's unwavering expression, as if nothing had happened, Han Xin suddenly understood that the little boy in front of him seemed to have lost his sense of pain. "Of course, normal people will hurt. Han Xin whispered.

"Why, I can't feel it?"

Looking at Xiao Zhuang's empty eyes, Han Xin had doubts in his heart, "Could it be that his eyes were also made by himself?" However, even if he doesn't feel pain, there is no need to torture himself like this, or even blind his eyes. What happened to Xiao Zhuang?"

Thinking of this, Han Xin hugged Xiao Zhuang tightly, touched Xiao Zhuang's head, and comforted him softly: "Don't destroy your body in the future." ”

"Oh!"

At this time, Na Wu pushed the door in with a wild roe deer, "Roast it, let's eat it." Recharge some energy, we'll have to get out of here tonight. ”

"What about Xiao Zhuang, you're going to take him out of here too, right?" Han Xin looked at Na Wu with a begging gaze.

Na Wu sighed slightly and said, "Winter is coming, let's let the leaves fall when it should fall." You and I are just unexpected passers-by. ”

Although Han Xin didn't understand what she said, she knew that Mingwu would not take Xiaozhuang away.

After eating, Han Xin didn't mention the matter of the village chiefs again, she vaguely felt that Mingwu didn't intend to let her know the truth about the village, but she didn't want her to explain. "Uncle Wu, what are you tabooing about?"

In this way, the three of them spent a peaceful afternoon. When it was almost dark, the village chief came to call Na Wu and Han Xin to attend the banquet, and at the same time took Xiao Zhuang away.

"Don't eat the food at the banquet. Before participating in the banquet, Na Wu reminded Han Xin.

Han Xin nodded, indicating that he understood.

As the two of them left the house and walked towards the meeting place, the sky to the north was covered with thick dark clouds, the north wind rattled the dead branches, and the temperature seemed to suddenly drop again.

"Welcome, two. The village chief and the young people of the village had a festive smile on their faces as if they were celebrating a festival.

As soon as Na Wu and Han Xin arrived, the village chief ordered someone to tie Xiao Zhuang to the iron pillar and set fire to the wood around the iron pillar. The flames rose like the morning sun in June, with an unstoppable majesty, and soon drowned Xiao Zhuang's thin figure.

At the same time, the banquet began with everyone's cheers. And contrary to everyone's expectations, before the village chief could speak and let everyone drink, Nano suddenly picked up the wine prepared for him by the villagers and shouted: "I'll do it first for respect." Then he drank it down, as if to let everyone know that he had drunk the wine that the villagers had prepared for him.

Although he didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Mingwu's gourd, Han Xin still sweated for Mingwu, "This wine is clearly poisonous, why do you want to drink it?"

At the same time, the village chief and the villagers didn't expect that Nano would be fooled like this, and happiness came too quickly, which caught them off guard. At this time, the eyes of everyone in the audience were on Nano, like parents expecting their son to lift the veil of the bride.

Sure enough, as expected by the people in the village, Nano lay on the table and passed out. Just as everyone in the village was about to laugh and celebrate the success of their plan, a scream pierced the night sky came from outside the house, turning the joy that people had not had time to show instantly into endless fear. The villagers are very familiar with this voice, because they had just heard it half a month ago. This is the cry that sends chills down the spine when Xiao Zhuang turns into a demon.

At this time, the villagers focused their eyes on Namu again, they hoped that a miracle would happen again, they longed for Nanoshi to wake up, but this time it didn't go as they wanted, Namu still lay motionless on the table.

"Ah——!h,......h Suddenly, the banquet was in chaos, and people threw away their wine glasses, screaming and running out frantically.

In the midst of this chaos, Mingwu quietly got up and secretly left Liangmiao Village with Han Xin.

At this time, Han Xin also remembered last night's dream, and she understood everything: why, Mingwu was deliberately bitten by Xiaozhuang, why, Mingwu was unwilling to find out the truth about the village, and why, Xiaozhuang was so self-harming. She seemed to be able to feel the unbearable and painful feeling of the man in front of her, and she could feel Xiao Zhuang's anger and self-blame.

The reason why Nano is reluctant to find out the truth about the village is just to find an excuse for his plot to murder the entire village, and to find a reason that he did not mean to do. Pretend that you don't know anything, pretend that all this is the self-inflicted work of the villagers. But he knew he had to, because he shouldn't have saved the village half a month ago. The destruction of the village may have been arranged by heaven long ago, and even the rare phenomenon of the curse of the ghosts and gods appeared here. But he couldn't bear it, even if the villagers were robbers who killed people without blinking, he couldn't bear to let the village be destroyed in his own hands like this, so Namundo was deliberately bitten by Xiaozhuang to show his condemnation of himself.

And Xiao Zhuang, when his body was burned by the flames, the pain that was forgotten by his body also recovered under the threat of death. At this moment, he remembered the scene where his mother was burned to death, he felt the pain of his mother's death, and at the same time understood that his mother pretended not to be painful in order not to let him remember the pain, and thought of the villagers who had tortured his mother and himself for so many years, and the hatred in his heart was like an erupting volcano erupting wildly, driving the curse in his body and turning into a demon. But after being suppressed by Namno for the first time, Xiao Zhuang seemed to forget the pain again, but he began to constantly harm himself, and even poked his own eyes blind, wanting to experience the pain of his mother at that time, but he couldn't feel it anymore, until this time he was surrounded by flames again.

Thinking of this, Han Xin's heart was as heavy as a stone thrown into the river. Han Xin looked back at the village, let out a long sigh, and a woman appeared in front of him, under a big tree, picking up a baby, the woman hummed a nursery rhyme in her mouth, smiled at herself, and then turned around and walked slowly forward, gradually disappearing into the valley......

"Let's go, we need to find a place to stay, it looks like it's going to snow heavily tonight. ”

"Hmm. ”

On the wasteland, two figures, one in front of the other, slowly, slowly walked towards the distance......