"Is it a festival in the village today, so lively?" Li Mi looked at the villagers singing and dancing and asked.

Except for some surprise at the beginning, the villagers quickly returned to normal and continued to drink and eat meat happily.

Li Mi hurriedly swept his eyes, roast sheep, hot naan, fat chicken, as well as drumming and erhu around the bonfire, it was very lively.

"The days in your village are very good, the festival of big fish and big meat." Cao Shaocheng teased on the side.

Liu Sanxi pursed his lips, but didn't say anything, and after letting them find a place to eat by themselves, he pulled the cripple to drink and catch up.

Li Mi, Cao Shaocheng and Shen Luo found a place to sit for a while, picked a few pieces of mutton and roasted them to eat, and no villagers talked to them from beginning to end.

Whenever Li Mi wanted to talk to someone, the other party quickly dodged it, and then stared at him with a secretive look, which made people hairy.

Seeing this, the three of them gave up the idea of inquiring about information, and waited for Liu Sanxi to come back drunk and followed him to his house together.

The cripple looked elsewhere, saying that Liu Sanxi's family was too small to sleep with him, so he went to another acquaintance's house to spend the night.

Li Mi and Cao Shaocheng laid bunks on the floor, fell asleep on the kang, and after a room vacated by the old man for one night, the next day, Li Mi woke up suddenly from his sleep.

He got up from the bunk and pushed the door open, where he saw a drizzle of rain falling from the lead-gray sky.

There is a big dog on a leash in the kennel in Liu Sanxi's courtyard, with a red stripe on the top of his forehead, and his head and face are like bears, which is fierce and abnormal.

Li Mi had never seen such a sturdy dog, he booed at the dog twice, the big dog just glanced at him lazily, and then closed his eyes and dozed off.

Li Mi didn't have fun, so she had to stretch her waist with a lack of interest.

"Hopefully it's just a light rain." Shen Luo on the kang also woke up, she stretched out her arms, her white side face was as delicate as jade, "In case of heavy rain, our way out of the village will not be easy." ”

"It's bad to drag on until the seventh day, isn't it?" Li Mi said with interest.

"Li Zhutou doesn't seem to respect ghosts and gods very much."

"Isn't Shen Zhutou?" Li Mi grabbed the rain falling from the eaves and said with a smile, "It's okay for me to believe that the old man of the moon is holding the marriage line, but if I want to believe in some powerful ghosts and ask for the life of the fifty-seven members of the family, it will be difficult for a strong man." ”

"Like-minded people."

Not long after, Liu Sanxi came out of the house with his clothes draped and called Li Mi to eat.

White rice porridge, steamed cakes, eggs, dried fish, can be described as hearty.

Cao Shaocheng couldn't help but joke: "Grandpa, your little day is too moisturizing, you have meat and vegetarian food for breakfast, you are very particular." ”

Shen Luo chewed a dried fish slowly, and interjected: "Those Beijing officials and gentlemen who went to Weiyang Palace in the early dynasty couldn't eat such a hot and full meal in the morning. ”

Li Mi also nodded, "It seems that Quliu Village is quite wealthy, not as poor as the rumors in the market." ”

Liu Sanxi just buried his head in drinking porridge and did not answer, which made the questioning of the three end without a problem.

When he was about to finish eating, Cao Shaocheng couldn't help but say: "Grandpa, this dried fish is very good, what kind of fish is it, I have never eaten it before." ”

This time, Liu Sanxi finally accosted him, and he said slowly: "In our place, this kind of fish is called closed-eyed fish. It was the village chief who caught him from the river outside the village, and I don't know where it is, but I heard that it is very remote, and only the village chief can find it. ”

Liu Sanxi said that the closed-eyed fish in the river dive deep at the bottom of the river, because they will never see the light, so their eyes can't be used, and they gradually close and can't open them anymore, so they are called closed-eyed fish.

Li Mi carefully looked at the dried fish in the bowl according to these words, although it had been fried beyond recognition, but if you looked closely, there were indeed no fish eyes.

He glanced at Shen Luo again, and the other party shook his head, he had never seen such an eyeless fish.

Cao Shaocheng half-jokingly said: "Such a rare fish, if it can be brought to the county, it will definitely be able to sell for a good price." ”

Liu Sanxi shook his head, "This kind of fish can't be raised." Attempts have been made in the village to feed the closed-eye fish, but once the fish leaves the dark bottom of the river and is exposed to the sun, it will toss violently and never stops. Therefore, it can only adapt to the originally dark life at the bottom of the river, and suddenly break the peace, and only death remains. ”

After breakfast, Liu Sanxi put on a piece of clothing, said that he was going to visit the door, and before leaving, he stuffed something in his pocket and left home with his hands behind his back.

Cao Shaocheng lowered his voice and said, "Did you see, Ah Gong Liu stuffed a lot of copper coins into his pocket!" ”

Li Mi nodded, he also saw it, although it felt strange, but thinking of the richness of Liu Sanxi's breakfast, he felt that it was normal for this person to have a little wealth.

The three of them then left Liu Sanxi's house, and it was pouring rain, and most of the villagers hid in their homes to sleep or gather to drink, and occasionally heard the hearty laughter of men playing cards and rolling dice.

Unconsciously, the three of them stood in front of the old mansion of the Feng family again.

Compared with last night, the old house covered by the drizzle was like a black and white picture scroll, bleak and bleak under the cover of the iron-gray mountains behind it.

Li Mi looked at the camphor trees growing densely on the mountains behind him, and guessed that it was the cemetery of the Feng family that the cripple said, but now it was blocked by black camphor trees, giving people a gloomy feeling in broad daylight.

Then, Cao Shaocheng stepped forward and pushed open the two half-hidden dilapidated doors, accompanied by a squeaky and piercing sound of pushing the door, and a breath of old decay came to his face.

Li Mi and Shen Luo stepped into this strange murderous mansion where fifty-seven people had died.

Entering the old mansion of the Feng family, a biting chill climbed from the soles of his feet, Li Mi subconsciously rubbed the goosebumps that exploded on his arms, and the air was a little weirdly cold.

It was as if as soon as I stepped into the house, the temperature dropped suddenly.

The three of them looked around in the old house of the Feng family, and there was a towering old tree in the front yard, and there was a dry well in front of the old tree, with a strange shape.

Li Mi squatted down and rubbed the bricks and mud around the dry well, and the wall of the well was carved out of various strange totems.

And this old tree rooted behind the well is even more strange, it is a locust tree, looking at the degree of luxuriant branches, to say the least, there are decades of time.

Li Mi speculated that before and after the completion of the old mansion of the Feng family, this locust tree was also planted.

Isn't planting locust trees in the yard a ghost beckoning? In Feng Shui, this forms a dead end of the word 'sleepy'.

Li Mi couldn't figure out how the Feng family was persuaded to plant the tree.

He walked through the front yard, Cao Shaocheng and Shen Luo followed vigilantly, and the three of them walked through the courtyard, intending to visit the old man Feng.

The old mansion of the Feng family was very large, and the three of them walked around in it, and it took a lot of effort to barely come to a place that could be called an inner courtyard.

The inner courtyard was empty, Cao Shaocheng tried to shout, and the voice echoed in the empty courtyard, and there was no response for a long time.

The three of them walked through the inner courtyard, and there was a house in front of them with the door half-hidden, and some slightly drunken aroma wafted from the room.

Li Mi pushed the door and entered, and found that this was actually the ancestral hall of the Feng family, and the front of the ancestral hall was densely packed with tablets, all of which were the ancestors of the Feng family and the clansmen who had passed away in recent years.

Li Mi saw that there were still three incense sticks of smoke on the copper stove, looking at the length of the cigarette ash, it should have just been inserted not long ago, so the person who planted the incense had not gone far.

He glanced at Cao Shaocheng, and the other party understood, and immediately searched in the house, and then bypassed the tablet, only to find that there was an inconspicuous back door in the ancestral hall, and he immediately chased it out.

Li Mi had a headache when he saw these tablets, and Shen Luo twisted up the incense ash in the copper furnace, and the thick incense ash was stacked on top of each other, which was a scene formed after burning at different times.

"The color of these incense ashes is basically the same, and the burning time should not be too far apart." Shen Luo touched the tablets in a few corners again, "There is no ash on it, it means that someone often cleans it up, and the old man Feng is already stupid, so who is here to worship the Feng family?" ”

While speaking, Shen Luo looked up at Li Mi, and suddenly pulled out the embroidered spring knife and pointed at the other party.

Li Mi's head was covered, then he turned around slowly, and was startled when he saw a figure suddenly appear behind him.

The figure was dressed in coarse cloth and had a burly physique, but there was no expression on his face, and his eyes were blank, as if his soul had been sucked away by an evil spirit, and the walking dead were alive.

"Who are you?" The strong man asked coldly.

"Who are you?" Li Mi asked rhetorically.

The strong man didn't answer, but said, "You shouldn't come to the Feng family, outsiders are not welcome here." Master Feng doesn't like outsiders either, and if he finds out, he will be very angry. ”

"We just wanted to visit his old man's house."

The strong man waved his hand and made a gesture to send off the guest, "No need, Master Feng doesn't like outsiders, you should leave quickly, don't come back in the future!" ”

Li Mi wanted to say something more, but the strong man was silent, and Cao Shaocheng also slipped back from the back door, shook his head, and found nothing.

The three of them had to return the same way and leave from the old mansion of the Feng family.

Coming out of the house, Li Mi exhaled and took out a book from his pocket, looking very interested.

"When did you steal it?" Shen Luo asked.

It was a family tree, and Li Mi hid it when Cao Shaocheng returned from the back door to attract the attention of the strong man.

Li Mi knocked on the family tree and said with a smile: "Let's go, since people don't welcome it, let's come back another day." I went back and flipped through this genealogy, and finally I didn't return empty-handed. ”

The rain had stopped in Quliu Village, but the sky was still overcast with large black clouds, and it looked like the next storm was about to brew soon.

Except for the more remote corners of the village, the main roads are paved with brick and stone, so the roads are not muddy.

When the three of them returned to Liu Sanxi's house, their shoes were only stained with a little wet mud.

Liu Sanxi hadn't come back yet, the three of them stayed in the courtyard and had nothing to do, Cao Shaocheng compared a few sets of boxing moves, and Li Mi picked up the genealogy and looked at it.

Shen Luo looked preoccupied.

Finally, Liu Sanxi returned home in a hurry, and it seemed that he had drunk a lot of alcohol.

Shen Luo and Li Mi both stood up.

The two glanced at each other with their own thoughts, and then went together to help Liu Sanxi over and sit down.

Liu Sanxi fell drunk and crooked on the table, still muttering to himself that he wanted to continue drinking, Cao Shaocheng poured a bowl of tea and brought it over.

Liu Sanxi took the tea bowl and drank it, and lay on the table for a while, a little more conscious, staring at the three of them and burping.

"You ask first?" Li Mi said.

Shen Luo nodded, stretched out his hand and shook it back and forth in front of Liu Sanxi a few times, and the other party asked, "What did Miss Shen do?" ”