Probably because this restaurant is located on the edge of the village, there are also passers-by who rest and eat here, and five men got out of an off-road vehicle and stared intently at Yue Xinxin and the white cat Ling'er.

Xiao Hei was very unhappy, walked over and hugged the white cat Ling'er into his arms, and stared straight at those men.

The men didn't care, but giggled and laughed.

After Xu Xiangyang got out of the car, he walked around the front and back doors of the restaurant according to his professional habits, and also looked at the off-road vehicle with a foreign license plate, and then beckoned the little black and white cat Ling'er into the restaurant.

When the group saw Xu Xiangyang, they looked him up and down, and their cynical expressions were slightly restrained.

Xiao Hei secretly said to Xu Xiangyang: "You carved words on your face? They seem to be a little afraid of you. ”

Xu Xiangyang was noncommittal, Yue Xinxin smiled and said: "You don't look at what Yangzi did in the past, although he doesn't have words engraved on his face, there is a deterrent force on his body, not to mention that ordinary people are afraid when they see it, and they have to walk around when they see ghosts." ”

Xu Xiangyang corrected: "How did it go before? Not now? ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Boss, a la carte! ”

Yue Xinxin greeted the back kitchen, and a fat man with thinning hair came out of it, smiling all over his face.

"What are you going to eat? Our Shanglin specialties are local chicken pot, stir-fried meat with dried bamboo shoots, and minced meat and eggs, all of which are delicious! ”

"One for both. Is there any fish? Yue Xinxin looked at the little black and white cat Ling'er and asked the fat boss.

"Nope."

"If there is no river in front of the village, how can there be no fish?"

The fat boss had a sad face, and he stopped talking.

"The fish is there, but ...... We don't dare to catch it and eat it. ”

"Why?"

"Well...... this"

The fat boss looked at everyone's eager expressions, and couldn't bear to stop talking, so he could only sigh.

"Hey! In the past, there used to be our ancestral graves in the upper and lower forests on a high ground by the river, but once the rain washed away a large part of the ancestral graves, and all the bones were washed into the river to feed the fish. Since then, no one has caught fish to eat. ”

Everyone shook their heads and sighed, expressing regret over the incident.

The fat boss opened the conversation, gave the menu to the back kitchen, and sat down to continue chatting.

According to his recollection, in fact, the rain that day was not heavy, and it did not rain for a long time, but the strange thing was that when the villagers got up in the morning, a large area of graves on the high ground actually collapsed eighty or ninety percent, and the rotten coffins, burial utensils, rotten cotton wool, quilts, clothes, shoes and socks in the tombs were all scattered on the ground in a mess.

"They all say this is retribution!" The fat boss said this in a very low voice and in a hateful tone.

Everyone looked at each other, why?

"Because of development!" The fat boss drew a circle with his hand, indicating the surroundings of the upper and lower forests.

"Isn't it normal to engage in development? Development is being carried out all over the country. ”

The fat boss shook his head again and again.

"The upper forest is different from the lower forest. There was once a feng shui master who came here to see it, saying that the upper and lower forests are all yin houses within a radius of 100 miles, and in the past, it was likely to be the cemetery of a certain prince and nobleman, but now it is not in vogue, but feng shui is still this feng shui, and it is not suitable to break the ground! ”

Everyone didn't speak, of course they knew why this place was so yin that it was judged to be suitable for a Yin Mansion mausoleum.

Yue Xinxin felt strange: "But we have seen all the way, and the tourism project in Xialin Village is very popular!" ”

The fat boss snorted from his nose and rolled his eyes.

"The misfortune was caused by them, which is why it rained and washed the ancestral grave! And they died there, and our project in Shanglin was also suspended, and now I have no business in this restaurant, and they are not all responsible for it! ”

"Dead?"

The fat boss sighed, took a sip of tea and continued.

"The karst cave scenic spot in Xialin is very popular, and its reputation has spread abroad, and many tour groups come to play. Two years ago, there was a Korean group, the evil door was very evil, thirteen people when they entered the cave, and when they came out, the tour guide counted, and there were only twelve! The tour guide was frightened and hurriedly adjusted the surveillance, but there were only twelve people captured by each camera, as if there was no thirteenth! ”

"Didn't you go into the hole?"

"Impossible! All the members of the group remembered the hole that the man had entered together, but no one could say when he disappeared! ”

"You think people are dead?"

"Anyway, after all these years, he hasn't appeared. Because it is a foreign friend, the government attaches great importance to it, and immediately closed the Xialin Scenic Area, and also stopped the project we are developing in Shanglin. But later, the Xialin Scenic Area was reopened, but our project was not connected, and it has been unfinished until now. ”

Speaking of this, the fat boss let out another long sigh.

"A la carte!"

The five men who got off the off-road vehicle saw that no one greeted them, so they slapped the table and yelled, and the fat boss quickly got up and smiled.

Yue Xinxin lowered her voice and said: "Shanglin is not developed, it is just convenient for us to enter the mountain, let's eat and leave!" ”

The Antlers Girl looked out the window at the sky.

"It seems like it's about to rain, and the car may not be able to walk on mountain roads."

The chassis of their van is not too high, and it is indeed difficult to walk on the potholed mountain road.

To say that they are not ordinary people, and they will not be blocked by the rain, but a tour group enters the undeveloped scenic spot in the rain? If it was seen by the villagers along the road, it was afraid that it would arouse suspicion, so I decided to stay at a nearby hostel for one night.

The rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the van was back on the road early the next morning.

The road was very slow, almost stop-and-go, and Yue Xinxin needed to get out of the car from time to time to find a high ground to observe the surrounding landscape.

Compared with the lively Xialin Village, the deserted Shanglin Village has changed even more.

Some of the mountains were blown open and stones were taken away as the infrastructure materials for the Xialin tourism project, and the yellow-brown bedrock was exposed in the verdant forest, like a hideous scar.

Some rivers are cut off by dams and serve as a source of drinking water for the large inflow of people.

Many native forests were cut down, either as timber for export, or turned into cash crop fields, or just to make way for a tourism development project, but in the end, the project was unfinished, and all kinds of cement, stones, styrofoam and other building materials were piled up in the middle of the woodland, and no one paid attention to them.

Yue Xinxin wanted to break her head, and she couldn't overlap the scene in front of her with her memory, if she didn't confirm that this was the original Gulin Village, she would suspect that she had gone to the wrong place.

Xu Xiangyang comforted her: "It's okay, don't worry, look for it slowly." ”

Xiao Hei proposed: "Should I go back to the forest, maybe over there?" ”

The Antlers Girl and the White Cat also felt that they were in too much of a hurry in the lower forest, and perhaps they had missed something.

Just when everyone was talking endlessly, Chen Mo, who had been quiet, suddenly spoke.

"No, I feel like it's around here."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him in amazement, Chen Mo took out some items from the backpack he had been carrying with him, and the more Xinxin saw it, he understood that it was something that Ling'er had used in the cubicle of the study.

"What do you perceive? Or is the soul summoning causing an effect? She asked hurriedly.

Chen Mo shook his head. "It didn't work. I can't perceive anything exactly, just a vague intuition. ”

"Then let's go around in this mountain, we can always find it!"

(End of chapter)