The crescent moon was buried in the clouds, the stars blinked, and disappeared into the night sky together, and the pine forests blown by the long wind floated together, and Lu Jianxiang was a little scared.

It's been almost half an hour, but there is still no movement from Zhao Jianxing, thinking that he can't be taken out by some evil ghost. He wanted to climb up the wall to see, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't touch the wall, and he paced anxiously outside the wall.

Suddenly hearing a woman's cry, he was smart, the wind was tight, and he faintly heard Zhao Jianxing's roar.

At this moment, a bolt of lightning streaked through the sky, and the night bats hanging in the corner of the wall were frightened and flew around.

Lu Jianxiang felt that something was wrong, and knocked on the courtyard door urgently: "Jianxing, we don't want a baby, come out quickly!" ”

However, in response to him, there was only one muffled thunder.

Lu Jianxiang was anxious and scared at this time, he had been honest since he was a child, and he didn't have as many ghost ideas as Zhao Jianxing, but he knew since he was a child that he couldn't suffer a loss with Zhao Jianxing, who was one year younger than him. But when he saw that Zhao Jianxing inside had no movement at this time, he was ruthless in his heart, withdrew a few steps, and slammed his body straight towards the courtyard door.

The decaying courtyard gate failed to withstand Lu Jianxiang's desperate impact and fell to the ground with a bang.

Lu Jianxiang also didn't hold his strength, and fell to the ground with the rotten courtyard gate, and before he could get up, he saw Zhao Jianxing staring at a little girl in the corner viciously.

Through the afterglow of lightning, the girl in the corner of the wall was Zhang Yanan, whom he and Zhao Jianxing often talked about.

"You're here so late in the day?" Lu Jianxiang was taken aback.

"Hurry up and get that string of beads out, it's raining heavily, don't think about it!" Zhao Jianxing shouted viciously at Zhang Yanan.

"If you take it, our village will be finished! My mother has been here for forty years, just for this string of beads. Zhang Yanan's face was sad.

Lu Jianxiang endured severe pain and got up from the ground, he didn't understand what they were talking about, but he just saw Zhang Yanan holding a string of fluorescent prayer beads in his hand. Only then did I understand that Zhao Jianxing wanted the string of beads in her hand.

He had heard the old man say before that there was a treasure in the village, which was made of some kind of turtle shell, and if that thing left the village, the turtle spirit would get angry, and it would collapse the river embankment and flood the village.

But no one can tell what the treasure is like and where it is buried. But I never expected that the female ghost that Wu Cripple said was Zhang Yanan and her mother.

He saw that Zhao Jianxing was going to grab the string of prayer beads, and he knew that something was wrong, and he just wanted to step forward to stop it, but he was so frightened by a welding thunder that he couldn't move, and when he saw that the door panel in front of him was struck by a big hole by lightning.

Zhang Yanan shouted, and was about to run out of the chaos, but Zhao Jianxing was willing to let him go, and chased him out with a shout, Lu Jianxiang grabbed Zhao Jianxing who was running, but he scolded him and threw him aside.

The sky was thundering, and heavy rain accompanied by lightning suddenly fell. Lu Jianxiang hugged his arms and chased out, seeing that Zhao Jianxing was chasing Zhang Yanan in the back mountain.

Zhang Yanan ran into the pine forest in the back mountain, running wildly on the path between the forests, Zhao Jianxing chased after him relentlessly, and Lu Jianxiang stumbled step by step, and followed them closely.

The lightning continued, Zhang Yanan kept looking for a way out with the help of electric light, the mountain rain hit the ground and set off a burst of mist, Lu Jianxiang wanted to call Zhao Jianxing in front, but he had no strength.

I saw Zhang Yanan, who was running at the front, slipping and falling to the ground, but he still crawled forward with all his might.

Zhao Jianxing quickly ran to the front. I don't know what to say, but Zhang Yanan just half-knelt on the ground and begged bitterly.

Lu Jianxiang also ran to the front, just about to stop him, but he was still a step too late, and Zhao Jianxing snatched the glowing rosary in her hand.

raised another kick and kicked Zhang Yanan in the face.

Zhao Jianxing held the string of prayer beads high, opened his mouth wide, and laughed wildly.

Looking at Zhang Yanan on the ground again, he was lying in the puddle, his body twitched twice, and then he didn't move.

Lu Jianxiang hurriedly squatted down and helped Zhang Yanan on the ground, but seeing Zhang Yanan's mouth and nose constantly dripping with yellow mud soup, he knew that she was no longer good.

Thunder, blasting in my ears. Seeing that Zhao Jianxing was still standing in the rain and laughing wildly, but his expression was frozen at that moment, he was seeing red thunder in the distance slashing towards him.

Lu Jianxiang looked at the red thunder that was about to slash in front of him, shook Zhao Jianxing's body vigorously, and shouted angrily: "You are not a human, you have been punished by God now!" That's not something we can take! ”

Zhao Jianxing glared at Lu Jianxiang fiercely, threw him aside, and said hurriedly: "What are you afraid of, quickly pick up her clothes." ”

Lu Jianxiang didn't know what to do at this time, he listened to Zhao Jianxing's command numbly, lowered Zhang Yanan's pants, and the two of them hurriedly stripped off her clothes. The red thunder waded through, and the ancient pines on both sides of the mountain road broke off in response, and the two of them ran down the mountain while dodging the fallen branches.

The rain was pouring down, and there was no way forward, and occasionally lightning was seen smashing on the ground and fires were everywhere.

However, God couldn't do anything about them, so he stopped yelling, but the saliva of shouting and scolding still didn't stop.

Lu Jianxiang saw that the thunder had stopped, so he wiped the rain on his face, and walked down the mountain with Zhao Jianxing, but it had become an ocean in front of him, and he couldn't see the broken temple or the cornfield of Zhao Jianxing's house.

The village where they had lived for more than ten years disappeared into that thunderous and rainy night, and the yellow Ussuri could not hear the homesick cries of the two.

Zhao Jianxing was still holding the string of prayer beads, without any remorse, Lu Jianxiang cried hoarsely, and followed behind Zhao Jianxing numbly.

The rain stopped, Zhao Jianxing led him over many hills, stole a carriage in a town, and lived by sneaking along the way, and after more than half a month, the two arrived in Nanping.

But Lu Jianxiang wanted to go further, wanted to stay away from that village, and wanted to make his guilt lighter.

The two of them got into another carriage and lived in Nanping for a few days, and soon spent all the money on their bodies. I want to sell the beads but I don't know where to get them. If it was gold, it would be fine, but since that night, this thing has been like a piece of wood, and the surface of the beads is rough, and it has never looked like it is shining.

The two discussed it, and that night they picked up the wagons full of timber and headed south. When the train stopped occasionally, they would go to the trash can at the station to dig through some leftovers and pick up the other trains, anyway, the farther away from there, the better.

They didn't count how many days they had spent on the train, and they couldn't remember whether there were more trains loaded with wood or more with coal. It just feels like the air is getting hotter and hotter. The two of them divided the rosary in two on the wagon, which was considered a commemoration.

A few days later, when the train arrived at Nanjing Station, Lu Jianxiang got off the train to look for food, he was really hungry, and snatched a woman's betel nut and was caught by the police.

But Zhao Jianxing on the wagon was looking forward to landing Jianxiang coming back as soon as possible.

The train roared, parting the troubled brothers. The rosary, which had been a string, was separated.

"I worked in the Nanjing Welfare Institute for two years, and then Zhao Jianxing came to Nanjing to find me, and he said that he had taken a wagon to Chongqing, and he was doing very well. Later, I wrote to him, and he wrote back to me, saying that he had exchanged the half of the beads for a high-ranking official with a person. ”

"And let me send him this half of the beads, and let me mix it up, but the beads are the only thing left in the village, and I can't give it to him even if I die."

"After that, there was no news from him, but then a man named Shui Xiaoliuer came to me and asked me where I got this half of the beads, I don't know how he knew that I had this bead, so I didn't tell him."

"Do you know who the person who exchanged beads with Zhao Jianxing is?" I asked.

"I don't know, but my leg was chopped off by a person covered in rotten sores, and snatched the half of the beads, and later Zhao Jianxing knew about it and picked me up here, and I only knew from then that Zhao Jianxing changed his name, what is Zhang Zhifang, and he also became the helmsman. If you listen to the accent, you really can't tell that he is from the north. ”

"He may have been angry with me, and threw me here a few years ago, and would have starved to death if it hadn't been for some rat cockroaches."

"Twenty years, just like a day, the number of these Seven Peerless Mountains is almost exhausted!"

He looked at the skylight, leaning against the cold wall, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, as if he remembered the two dolls chasing each other under the poplar in his childhood.

I couldn't calm down after listening to it for a long time, but I was already sure that the half of the rosary he was holding at the beginning should be something like Xuanwu's Inner Dan.

"Qinglong, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Xuanwu, do these four divine beasts really exist?" Thinking of this, I shook my head unconsciously, "This should be a misunderstanding of mine, the so-called four divine beasts are not those legendary divine beasts, but extremely rare creatures close to the image of these divine beasts." ”

I think these creatures are mythologized by a certain group, they are relatively independent of the outside world's ideological system, and have their own set of ideologies, for example, they regard the giant snake as a green dragon, and worship the turtle as a xuanwu, which shows that they have a certain intersection with our general ideology, but only absorb and borrow some things, and put the labels of these "imported products" on the creatures such as the big snake and the big turtle.

"If that's what I think, it can explain why the mysterious man called the python 'Green Dragon', which shows that his ideology also intersects here. It seems that this matter is really complicated. ”

It seems that the person who exchanged with Zhao Jianxing back then is the mysterious person today. No wonder he is so familiar with Evergrande Shouzhuang, and he actually found this place before us.

I am even beginning to suspect now that Xiaoyaozi's death may not have been accidental, because Xiaoyaozi also has a deep relationship with Evergrande Shouzhuang.

"Evergrande Shouzhuang is inextricably linked with the mysterious person, could it be that there are still shares of the mysterious person here?" I thought to myself.

Lu Jianxiang, 20 years is like a day. But I stayed in this stone room for a day, but it seemed like a hundred years had passed, watching him eat three meals on time, whistling when he had nothing to do, and looking at the skylight in a daze.

My eyes are dazzled with hunger, and sometimes I want to catch a cockroach and beat my teeth when I see him eating cockroaches, but my expression when I see him eating cockroaches is daunting.

I survived two days and nights in the stone room, and when I woke up, I saw Lu Jianxiang half-kneeling on the ground, looking up and dropping water from the ceiling.

I looked at his embarrassed appearance, and I didn't want to die like this, so I kept rummaging left and right in the stone room, hoping to find some secret passage.

But apart from a few rat holes in the corners, there were no gaps. The skylight hung overhead, and the sun was divided into many parts by the window frame, casting a dappled light, and the stinging did not dare to open their eyes.

"Don't be afraid, I scared you yesterday, you can't die!" Lu Jianxiang chirped and chirped, and he was still unfinished.

After listening to this, I looked straight at him, I don't know if this person is crazy, but my heart is still a lot more spacious, and I hurriedly asked him: "Why can't you die?" ”

"I ate it today!" He pouted his teeth and groped on the ground.

"What does it matter if you eat a few meals and whether I live or die?"

He glanced at me, looked at the skylight, and said to me with a smile: "I don't know the celestial phenomena, and I can't pinch my fingers, but since you came here, I haven't eaten a full meal." The rats and cockroaches are all fucking hiding! ”

He didn't say it, but I could hear what he meant.

"It could be that the kiln is going to collapse, or the well is running out of oxygen, and the rats will be bumping around, looking for an exit." I found a reason to fool him. The scientific explanation is that rats have a keen sense of senses and touch, and can perceive dangers that humans cannot perceive.

"But these Seven Peerless Mountains are rare treasures in the world at first glance, how can there be any natural disasters?" He stroked his unkempt hair and let out a long sigh of relief.

"I don't know what you're talking about, I think you'd rather eat rats and cockroaches to live, do you have any wishes?"

"Not bad!"

"What wish?"

He didn't answer for a long time, and his eyes looked straight at the wisp of the sun.

I stepped forward and stabbed him twice with my fingers, and when he didn't respond, I yelled in his ear again. He collapsed into my arms, like a homesick child. I tried his snort, and then I realized that he was no longer good.

I don't know what his wish is unfulfilled, I can only guess from his life experience, he wants to go home and see the river that raised him and destroyed him.