"Huh?" The old man was frightened by Li Qiufan's sudden words, and after picking it up, he said: "Young man, don't talk nonsense, it's so decent, why will he die?" ”

Li Qiufan smiled and said: "It's okay, just when I'm talking nonsense, uncle, didn't you say that we have nowhere to go and come to you, I don't know if it's inconvenient for Fang to take us in for two days, of course, we will pay." ”

The old man didn't take what Li Qiufan said to heart, lit a cigarette pot and smashed it twice, and said with a simple smile: "What's not money, our family, there are so many rooms, the children are angry, they built a new house for the family, and no one has lived in it, you are all some city boys, if you don't dislike it, you want to live for a few days, don't want money." ”

The people in the mountains are very simple and hospitable, which may be the fine tradition of the Chinese nation for 5,000 years, Li Qiufan sincerely thanked him and followed the old couple into the house.

Their house is a two-storey building, the roof tiles are more inclined than in the north, this is because of the rain in Shudi, the front of the small building has been painted with lime, the back is red brick, there is no gate, and the back of the house is a small bamboo forest, which is more standard southwest architectural style.

Invite people into the house, and the old couple are enthusiastic about getting busy, boiling water to make tea and take dried fruits.

The fat man sighed: "There are still many kind-hearted people in the world!" Look, these two old men treat us like their own children. ”

Li Qiufan said: "If you haven't experienced something desperate, who wants to be a wicked person who is pointed out by thousands of people and scolded by everyone." ”

"What Li Tianshi said makes sense!" Twelve felt and said.

"Sycophants!" The fat man glanced at Twelve, took a sip of hot tea, and praised: "It's delicious!" ”

The old woman smiled and went to the kitchen, and the old man sat down and chatted with a few people, rolled a few dry cigarettes and said, "Young man, do you dare to smoke two puffs?" ”

Except for the sting, the three of them took it with both hands and lit it, and because there was no cigarette holder, the first puff was too strong, and the choked tears were coughed up.

"Hahaha!" The old man laughed and said: "Don't you dare to smoke dry cigarettes like paper cigarettes, who can stand this!" Try it in small bites, I grew it myself, and it tasted very good. ”

The three of them took a small puff this time, and they were quite rushed, but they could bear it, not to mention that the taste was indeed quite different from paper cigarettes.

"Hehe, where are you from, traveling? We are poor and remote in the mountains, and we don't have much to swim into. ”

Li Qiufan habitually flicked the cigarette ash and said: "I am dissatisfied with you for saying that we are not here to travel, but we have something to deal with, by the way, uncle, when did the knife seller come today?" ”

The old man said: "I came yesterday to collect the knife money." ”

"Meaning he's been here before?"

"But no, this person came back twenty years ago, carrying a broken box, walking the streets and alleys saying kitchen knives and scissors on credit, don't want money, leave a sentence, and collect money again."

"At that time, everyone didn't believe it, afraid that he would play some tricks, there was only one family, and the poor had a few cheap lives left, and they lived by going up the mountain to pick some herbs every day, and they were not afraid of anything, so they asked for a pair of scissors, and the one who gave the knife told him, 'When the mountain at the entrance of the village is flat, and the road is open, he will come to collect money'."

"He's talking about the mountain... But a serious, unclimbable stone mountain, our ancestors need to go far to get out, such a large amount of work, unless there are gods to come, otherwise how can it be flat! ”

The old man suddenly said in a shocked tone: "Who would have thought that just this year, the country would really level that mountain!" The stones that can break the pickaxe out of sparks are as brittle as paper in front of the big machine, and they are dug up piece by piece and built into a road! ”

"No, the road has only been repaired for a few months, and the one with the knife on credit came, and we thought he wanted the lion to open his mouth, but I didn't expect that he only charged fifty yuan! Now the whole village said that the words of the knife on credit worked, so they asked for a credit to hear what else he could say, but unfortunately he didn't want to talk, but he only talked to my scoundrel nephew, who was not a weapon, but said that he couldn't get the account back if he was on credit

, no matter how much he consumes, people just ignore him. ”

"Later, you came, and he said so many things for the first time, and gave this fat boy a knife."

The old man smiled honestly: "Listening to what he said, I feel that you are not ordinary people, and you will definitely be able to make great achievements in the future." ”

After Li Qiufan heard this, he suddenly had an illusion, this person with a knife on credit seemed to be waiting for them!

But the man was nowhere to be found, and looking at his appearance, even if he followed, he wouldn't say anything, Li Qiufan had to be more careful, and he couldn't let the fat man easily get into danger.

The old man was very talkative, and what he said was also well-organized, and he was a transparent person, and after chatting for a while, Li Qiufan asked him if he had heard of any monsters in the vicinity during this time.

"Monster..."The old man smashed the smoke pot and thought for a while, "Does cannibalism count?" ”

"Of course! Is there really one nearby? ”

The old man said a little unnaturally: "What are you asking for?" ”

Li Qiufan said under the guise of "We are college students, specializing in the study of some endangered creatures, don't you hear that this piece has been there recently, let's come and investigate to see what species it is." ”

The old man immediately became serious, and said seriously: "Doll, that thing is not interested in research, it is really cannibalistic, I have a cousin and nephew, I was almost eaten by that thing when I was herding cattle a few days ago, and I didn't die, and many people have died in their family recently!" Don't you dare go! ”

"Where's your cousin's home? Far and near? ”

"Hey! Do you believe me?! The old man's anxious dialects all came out.

Li Qiufan waved his hand again and again: "No, no, uncle, you believe me, we have a spectrum in our hearts, we won't mess around, if something so big happens, the police must have intervened, we just went to understand the situation, and we didn't arrest it." ”

The old man took a puff of his cigarette and said, "You mean you have to go?" ”

"Well, it's about whether you can get credits and graduate successfully, but you don't have to go there!" Saying that, Li Qiufan also took out his student ID card and showed it to the old man.

The old man didn't know a few big characters, but seeing that Li Qiufan said it was clear-eyed, he believed it, so he said the name of the place.

The place name is very distinctive, called 'Mountain Ghost Village', I don't know if it's a coincidence, the Mountain Mandrill is also called a Mountain Ghost in some places!

The fat man searched the mountain ghost village on the mobile phone map, which was only a hundred and ten miles away from here, and was ready to set off immediately, but he didn't expect the old woman to cook all the food, and like the elders in the family, she forced them to eat.

No matter how many people tried to say no, they couldn't say anything to refuse, and they were a little hungry, so they gratefully stayed to eat.

Before I knew it, I moved my chopsticks, and a heavy rain was about to fall, and the road that had not had time to harden immediately became muddy.

The old man looked at the sky at the door with the bowl, looked at the ground again, and said with a smile: "The Lord does not keep guests, young man, I am afraid that you will have to stay in our house for two days." ”

For this situation, no one can do anything, the mountain road is muddy and slippery, the curve is large, and many places are steep cliffs on both sides, and the strong walking is completely a joke with a small life, so I can only listen to the old man's words, temporarily stay, and wait for the rain to shine.

The old woman's cooking is very simple, fried rice noodles with her own pickled radish strips, it is very delicious to eat, everyone eats two large bowls, and the old couple can't close their mouths with a smile.

In order to repay the kindness of the take-in, after the meal, Li Qiufan and the others also helped the old man clean up the house and change the drain.

Holding a cup of hot tea in his hand, looking at the hazy mountain scenery, under the eaves of the heavy rain, the old man held a tobacco pot in his mouth, pressed the tobacco leaves with his thumb familiarly, and slowly talked about the past, Li Qiufan felt a very comfortable sense of tranquility in his heart.

The fat man was playing with his mobile phone with a hippie smile, and he knew that he was chatting with Xu Huixin by looking at the pig brother on his face.

Twelve had no strength to make a mission, holding a few pieces of bluestone to exercise.

Unknowingly, Li Qiufan and Jing Jing actually sat and fell asleep at the same time.

By the time I woke up, it was already afternoon, and the person was still in bed, the bedding was very clean, without the slightest smell, obviously new.

Li Qiufan stretched his waist and got out of bed, the sound of rain outside the window was dripping, a little smaller, but it was still falling.

Pushing open the window, I found that the stunned person was holding his head with one hand, looking at the rain curtain in a daze, and the whole person seemed to be integrated with the surrounding environment, like a splashed ink landscape painting, and the beauty made people unconsciously fall into it.

"Is it pretty?"

"Hmmm! Don't get tired of watching it! ”

"I'm talking about the scenery..."

"I'm talking about scenery, too!" Li Qiufan stared intently at the stunned sting, and said with a smile.

Li Qiufan's appearance is not that amazing handsome, but like a pot of wine warm on the fire, and like the wind on a hot summer day, very comfortable and warm-hearted, but his character is extremely resolute, real, not pretentious, after a long time of contact, it is difficult not to be attracted by him.

It's the same with the sting, from the cold as frost at the beginning, to the melting of ice and snow now, she herself feels incredible.

"The one who said on credit said that I was a red face and a curse...", the voice of the sting was very light and brittle, very similar to the sound of rain falling to the ground.

Li Qiufan leaned on the window, handed over a cigarette, and thought about catching it in shock, but didn't light it.

took a puff of cigarette, watched the smoke drift out of the window and was washed away by the rain, and said with a smile: "He is right, he does have this capital, this is no wonder to others, you can only be blamed for being too good-looking." ”

"I'm going to cause you a lot of trouble, I see a hint of disgust in the eyes of the knife, and the source of that emotion is you, he must have seen something in the future..."

"The First Minister of the Ming Dynasty"

"There will definitely be trouble, our two families are too far away not to say, there are many brothers and sisters in your clan, how many red envelopes I have to wrap in the future, I go to the door one by one during the New Year's holidays, I am afraid that the seven-day annual leave is not enough, every time I go back, I am afraid that I will have to pull a truckload of gifts, and the red and white ceremonies will be accompanied by gifts, if they come to borrow money, we may have to quarrel about this, my mother said that it will hurt to have a child if the woman is too thin, but I am an only child, my mother said that I will have a few more in the future, if you don't agree, the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will be difficult..."

Li Qiufan sighed, and said in a long voice: "Who is not worried?" ”

The stunned clear eyes turned around and landed on Li Qiufan's playful smiling face: "You really like me so much?" ”

"Really, it's almost steamed, so I don't have to say these words again in the future, otherwise I'll have to copy a lot of fleshy love words on the Internet."

"Hmm... I won't talk about it later. ”

The two looked into the distance and stopped talking to each other.

The rain didn't stop until it was a day, and after dinner, Li Qiufan spread out the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone and began to replenish the spirit runes.

He continued to paint until two o'clock in the middle of the night when he was interrupted by a gloomy wind.

The ghost bell rang, and the sting came to Li Qiufan's room almost instantly.

"Don't worry, it's the guy who snatched the old two chickens, he just died, and his soul actually ran here."

As he spoke, he opened the window and saw a soaked, mud-stained ghost figure walking in through the door.

"Old immortal, my house collapsed, stay in your Xiaobin's house for one night!" The ghost figure walked upstairs with a swagger, and then skillfully pushed open the door and entered Li Qiufan's room.

"! Why are you in Xiaobin's room?! Still lonely men and widows, you two young people won't be... Hey, hey, hey..."

The ghost laughed lewdly.

"What's going on? He doesn't seem to know anything! The sting wondered.