Chen Bao'er carried Grandpa up the mountain, found some suitable planks from the village below the mountain, clumsily made a coffin for Grandpa, and buried him behind the old locust tree.

Chen Bao'er wanted to find out how Grandpa died, and also wanted to know why Grandpa was in such a hurry to go down the mountain that night, so Bao'er tried to find the answer from the two books left by Grandpa.

It's just that the things in the book are obscure in the end, but fortunately, it is densely filled with annotations, which should be Grandpa's handwriting.

Those words, Bao'er doesn't know how many years it is, it's very old, the old one seems to be able to vaguely see the appearance of Grandpa when he was young, Grandpa at that time, his eyes were not blind, his face was not old, and he was full of spirit, it should be a grandpa that Bao'er had never seen!

When Bao'er saw the words "Huai is a ghost tree, summoning souls and gathering yin" in those handwritings, he panicked, hurriedly dropped the book and ran away, kowtowed a few times in front of Grandpa's grave, and then dug Grandpa out and buried him elsewhere.

That night, Bao'er dreamed that Grandpa was scolding and asking him, why didn't he cut down the locust tree directly, and had to dig his grave in a daze?

Bao'er said with a heartbeat: "If you cut down the locust tree, Bao'er won't be able to eat locust cakes!"

Grandpa brushed his sleeves away, and then, Bao'er woke up hungry.

There is no food on the mountain, but there is one in the village below the mountain, although there will not be too much left in such a year of great drought, but Bao'er alone is enough.

Of course, Bao'er will not take food for nothing, he will always take some time, carry a hoe, cover his mouth and nose, dig some big pits, and try to put the dead brothers and uncles in the village into the ground, but there are too many dead, and Bao'er always digs and digs and can't finish digging......

Chen Baoer thought that life should go on like this.

However, later, officials came to the mountain, and many officials tied Bao'er's hands and feet and tied them down the mountain.

The official of the county government said that not a single person in a village died, and the official family ordered that the truth should be strictly investigated, and if the truth is not found out, it will be difficult to protect the official position!

Bao'er said angrily: "You want to find out the truth, why do you want to tie me up?"

The official shook the long-winged hat on his head and smiled very kindly: "It is said that there will be demons in the country, look at the strange pearl vision, this monster is likely to be in the boundary of our Chongzhou, according to this official, whether it is a great drought, or a fire, or the death of the whole village, it is all done by this monster!"

Chen Bao'er didn't understand, and said aggrievedly: "Even if it's a monster, what do you do to catch me, my grandfather is also dead!"

The old man of the official stiffened his face violently, and shook the sky with a shocking sound: "Since they are all dead, why is it that only you, this child, are alive and well? Someone has already reported that you are a child, and they go down the mountain every day to bury the corpse, and they are not related to you, so why did you do this? It must be because you are a thief who destroys the corpse and destroys the traces! What a vicious child, a demon boy! You are a demon boy!"

Chen Bao'er sat on the ground, confused, full of grief and indignation, but the official didn't give him a chance to speak, and only ordered the official: "Quickly escort this demon boy to the state capital, and submit it to the state government together with the documents prepared by the official, so as to close the case quickly!"

So, Bao'er was escorted to the state capital, the same court, the same official, the same shocking wood, nothing more than the yamen is bigger, and the face of the official is more fierce.

Bao'er was pressed to the ground, only listening to the master of the state government singing the opera and reading the document handed over by the county government in his hand: "There is a demon boy in Chongzhou today, killing the people of the village, some people see it every half of the night, they will go down the mountain to eat meat and peel bones, after inspection, there should be 312 corpses of the people in the village, and now there is no trace......

As this document was read out word by word, the fierce officials on the side retreated one after another, looking at Chen Bao'er's eyes, already full of fear.

In the hall, the official of the state capital laughed happily after reading the documents.

In the hall, Bao'er was already red-eyed.

Then, a few days later, the imperial court issued a document ordering the state government to send someone to escort the demon boy to Jingzhou for execution.

During this period, the deeds of the demon boy in the market have become more and more ferocious, and they have been out of control, everyone knows that Chongzhou caught a demon boy, cannibalism and blood drinking, day for the child, night for the demon.

Such a slanderous statement, but no one has ever asked Bao'er whether it is true or false!

Soon, the state government dispatched more than a dozen officials, recruited 100 people, and escorted Chen Baoer to Jingzhou to die.

These rumors about the demon boy are not all bad, at least, every night, the people who take turns to watch Chen Bao'er never dare to step within ten steps of Bao'er.

Therefore, one night later, when the servants were cooking in the stove, hungry homeless people gathered on the road to grab food, and Bao'er took the opportunity to escape.

Later, Chen Baoer met Zhao Xishuang and was deceived by Zhao's father, until he came all the way to this place and saw the familiar scene again......

Now, obviously separated by thousands of miles, the scene of the two villages is almost the same, if he can, Chen Baoer is very willing to stay in this village and take a look, what kind of thing happened, so that a village can die so completely and quietly, perhaps, some clues to Grandpa's death can be found from this village.

As for Father Zhao and his servants, when they were handling cases in the past, they naturally had contact with dead people, so when it was almost certain that there were only a few of them alive in the entire village, although they were frightened, they were not distracted.

According to Zhao's father's meaning, the rain is too strong, and the torch can't be lit, the mist covers the road again, and the direction is not clear, and if the mountains on both sides of the road can't bear the downpour, once the mountain collapses on the road, several people will have no chance of survival.

It's just that those poor people have obviously heard rumors about Chen Bao'er's so-called demon boy, and some people pointed at Chen Bao'er in a hurry: "The people who died in this village, could it be ......?"

Chen Bao'er only felt sad and indignant, he had never been out of their eyes from beginning to end, at this time, these people would rather choose to believe those rumors than believe what they saw and heard with their own eyes, it is really unbelievable, it is really ridiculous!

But Father Zhao had a bit of a brain, so he slapped him and scolded: "Idiot, if he is really a demon boy, can you still live to shackle him?"

The official was beaten, but he didn't dare to fight back, he only stared at Chen Bao'er with hatred.

Father Zhao said, the poor people naturally didn't have anything to say, as for Chen Bao'er, these people didn't need to come to ask his opinion, but this was also in line with Chen Bao'er's mind.

In this way, Zhao's father led people to pick a relatively sturdy tiled house courtyard in the village, carried the dead bodies inside to the courtyard, cleaned up the house, lit the lamp, lit a fire to bake clothes, and found some dry wild vegetable cakes in the kitchen, and filled their stomachs with cold water, which was considered to be stable.

Out of prudence, Zhao's father let a group of people, two of them take turns to keep vigil, and the rest of the people were all crowded into one room.

Father Zhao warned Chen Bao'er of two useless words, and he leaned on the fire and shrunk into a deep sleep.