I looked at the group of villagers who were still chatting, and suddenly I noticed a short and fat old man in a gray robe standing in the crowd, listening very carefully to the villagers' chat.

This fat old man is less than 1.5 meters tall, wearing a brand-new satin gray robe, with a few white beards around his mouth, a little pointed mouth, and small eyes that are spinning, and he looks at this person with a smile for a while, and then looks at that person.

This man is not human! My heart sank, and I didn't know how I could feel this way, so I gathered my spirit and looked at the old man again, and found that he really had a mouse head.

This is the rat spirit that Jiang Lianyang killed?

One of the villagers was the first to find out that this fat old man was not from their village, so he asked him who he was and what he was doing in their village.

The fat old man said that his name was Gray Master, and he lived nearby, and he came out to wander around, and by the way, he looked for a few paintings.

At this time, although Shanhe Village was dilapidated in my eyes, it was still quite prosperous in the middle of Shili Eight Villages, because compared with other villages, Shanhe Village had some shops that other villages did not have, and people from nearby villages often came to Shanhe Village to buy things, so everyone thought that this fat old man was also from other villages to buy things.

In the next few days, I found that this gray old man would appear in the village every day, either pacing with his hands behind his back in the village, or when a few people were chatting, he suddenly turned around and found that he was already standing behind him at some point, listening quietly.

But one didn't pay attention, and he suddenly disappeared again.

Later, someone asked him a few times which village he was from and what his name was. This fat old man said that his name was Master Gray, and he lived around here.

Ask him what he always comes to Shanhe Village for? The fat old man said that he was looking for paintings, and then asked everyone who had seen a few ancient paintings? When I asked what kind of painting it was, I couldn't tell what kind of painting it was.

Slowly, everyone didn't pay much attention to him, only knew what paintings he wanted to buy, and as for when he came, when he left, and how he came and how he left, no one paid attention to it.

But I noticed that the fat old man often disappeared from the side of the road while walking on the road, or suddenly appeared from behind a tree.

Besides, Jiang Lianyang has been frowning since the autumn harvest.

On this day, I was sitting in front of my shack holding the round discus in my hand, thinking that the hole of the rat spirit should be in a place called Xiaoshanbao Cemetery in Shanhe Village, but by the time I lived in Shanhe Village when I was a child, Xiaoshanbao Cemetery no longer existed, so I don't know where the specific location is.

But then again, even if you find it, just grab it? Although it's said to be a mouse, we can't bully people namelessly, right? But the main thing is, where is the hole of this rat spirit......

"Brother Luo, it's time to eat."

Jiang Lianyang brought another bowl of soup, but this bowl of soup was much thinner.

"Brother, why have you been so worried lately?" I asked.

"Brother, you don't know, maybe we're going to starve to death together this winter!"

"Why, isn't there enough food to eat?"

So Jiang Lianyang crossed his fingers and calculated the account for me, after the harvested grain went to pay off seventy percent of the rent of the landlord Lu Yunshan, the rest may not even be enough for the whole family to survive the winter, let alone fill in some cotton clothes for the whole family or something.

Jiang Lianyang couldn't figure it out, he took his son to get up early in the morning and work those two acres of land for a year, and also caught up with a big harvest year, why did he produce nearly 300 catties of grain less this year than in previous years?

"Could it be that the rats moved it? Or you go and look in the ground, and if there's a rat hole, you dig it. ”

I remembered what was recorded in "The Strange Story of Mountains and Rivers" and reminded.

"yes, man, why didn't I think of that? When I was harvesting in the fall, I saw a very thick hole in the ground, and the hole was blocked with some crushed corn husks and rags. ”

Jiang Lianyang suddenly realized.

"It must have been moved by voles! I'm going to go back and prepare some tools now, dig that hole, and get my food back, and I'll be able to survive the winter. ”

Jiang Lianyang then blamed himself for being so stupid and how he thought of this.

He also talked about digging rat holes with his father when he was a child, and dug more than 100 catties of corn kernels in one autumn. Speaking of the thick hole in his field, it is estimated that the corn was dragged into it in whole sticks. It must be a litter of big voles, so you have to be prepared.

"Brother, will you go with you?"

"I won't go, your five elements belong to water, Zhengke that rat, I belong to earth and wood, hurt you, may drag you back, you take your son with you. Remember, the entrance to the cave is not in the field, but in the hill and graveyard, and you can only find it in the evening. I pretended to be deep.

Jiang Lianyang looked at me, who looked like a chicken nest with my hair and hadn't washed my face for a long time, and almost didn't believe that I could say such a thing.

In the next two days, Jiang Lianyang made a simple crossbow and two more guns, and then took his son to the field with tools.

He didn't believe what I said at first, but he went to the field first, and found the location of the big hole he had seen before, and found that the hole had been blocked with earth by cunning voles, but he could also see at a glance that the new soil of the hole was different from the soil next to it.

Jiang Lianyang and his son began to dig. But from morning to afternoon, the hole was bottomless, and the space inside grew larger and larger, and several holes were divided, and they all extended in the direction of a small hill next to it.

Besides, Shanhe Village is located in the plain area, and the only hill is a small dirt bag connected to the fields in the south of the village, which is next to the three acres of land rented by Jiang Lianyang. This small dirt bag is also a cemetery in the village, and it does not produce much, and there are only a few trees on the dirt bag.

Because there are few trees, there are not many mountain goods, and occasionally you can see a hare or fox scurrying through the weeds and graves, or a few mushrooms pulled out from under the roots of a tree, and nothing else.

Jiang Lianyang had already been able to determine that this cave must be connected to the cemetery on the mountain, but there was still nearly five or six hundred meters in the middle, and it was unrealistic to dig it.

Seeing that it was getting late, I came back, and brought a bowl of soup to tell me about it, and I counted the time, so I told him that the evening after tomorrow, after dinner, I went directly to the cemetery in the small hill.

The day after tomorrow, I was worried that Jiang Lianyang would not listen to me, so in the evening of the bleak autumn breeze, I left my small shack in my pajamas and slippers, and left my warm nest with a pile of hay and two sacks, and accompanied Jiang Lianyang and his son to the Xiaoshanbao cemetery to find a little bit on the mountain of Xiaoshanbao.

Finally, just as it was about to get completely dark, I heard the voice of someone talking.

The voice and intonation were familiar, as if I had heard them somewhere.

We held our breath and slowly approached in the direction of the sound, until we realized that the voice was coming from a grave.

Jiang Lianyang didn't dare to step forward again, at this time I felt that the round discus in my arms was a little colder, I was happy in my heart, and I hurriedly took it out to take a look, and a little dark red mist slowly overflowed from the discus.

Seeing this dark red mist, I was so excited that I felt that my breathing became short, and now I was no longer afraid, and as I slowly approached the grave, I heard the voice in the grave as if talking to myself, and sighed again and again, and said:

"My five elements belong to fire, and it is water that regulates me, and on the day of Bingzi, there are rivers and oceans of great water, and I must be going to die."

Immediately afterwards, he sighed again and again, sighed for a while and said, if the direction of coming is the north, then I can't escape this catastrophe, but it's a pity that I haven't found nine heirloom paintings in the end, let alone become a person who inherits it...... As he spoke, he sighed again and again.

I motioned for Jiang Lianyang to come forward quickly, so Jiang Lianyang had the courage to approach a little bit.

This tomb is an old tomb that I don't know decades ago, it seems that no one has repaired and worshiped for a long time, the tomb is built of earth and stone, and there is a big gap in the connection between the stones and the stones, Jiang Lianyang picked it up with his hands, and a large piece of stone fell off the tomb, and the scene in the tomb was clear.

The coffin was empty, and in the coffin was a thick gray brocade futon, on which sat a fat old man in a gray robe, holding a roll of cloth in his hand, and a dozen dead rabbits in front of him.

I took a closer look, and it was indeed the gray old man who often appeared in the village. I have often seen this gray old man on weekdays, although he is not tall, he is about 1.5 meters long, and now he has shrunk to less than two feet?

Jiang Lianyang looked at it for a long time, and then asked stupidly:

"Master Gray? How are you, how did you become so small? ”

"Poof—" I couldn't help but laugh.

Unexpectedly, this gray old man looked up and saw Jiang Lianyang, and he was immediately shocked, and scolded sharply:

"The man who hurt me has come. Immediately after that, he shouted and cursed again and again. ”

Jiang Lianyang was scolded by this fat old man, and he probably reacted that this might be a monster.

At this time, the fat old man scolded for a while, suddenly jumped up, turned into a big mouse half a meter long, and pounced in the direction of Jiang Lianyang's son.

Jiang Lianyang's son was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and when he had seen such a battle, he was immediately stupid and would not move. I was also shocked, if my son was bitten to death, it was estimated that Jiang Lianyang would not be able to live, I was anxious, staring at the mouse that jumped in mid-air, a faint dark red mist entangled the fat mouse, and then, the mouse pounced in the air and fell directly.

Jiang Lianyang also shot the fat mouse with the repeater crossbow in his hand at this time, and the fat mouse was hit by four crossbow arrows in succession, and was still crawling in the direction of Jiang Lianyang's son.

Jiang Lianyang chased after him from behind, nailed it to the ground with a gun, and died for a long time.

After killing the big rat, Jiang Lianyang found the hole in the grave again, dug down, and found that there were all kinds of good things hidden inside, several pieces of cloth, dozens of pieces of silverware, nearly 1,000 catties of various grains, and some silver dollars and banknotes.

And I took out the round discus in my arms again, only to see that the dark red mist was even stronger, yes, the last time it was after the appearance of this red mist, I thought that Shanhe Village came here, it seems that this dark red mist is the energy to achieve crossing, and its appearance seems to be related to my use of the ability that was not working at that time.

"Send me home!"

I closed my eyes, clenched the discus in my hand, and said word by word.

Then, when I slowly opened my eyes, I was excited to find that it was already my bedroom.

Suddenly, with tears in my eyes, I looked around for more than ten minutes, making sure I was really back. Looking down at the dirt all over my body, I rushed into the bathroom to wash it up, then took out my phone and ordered a bunch of junk food.

Eating junk food, I still kept looking around, I couldn't believe that I had really come back, looking back on the past two months, it was like a big dream, I didn't even have the concept of time, and looked at the time on my phone.

What?!

On June 4, 2022, at 12:19 a.m., time was still stuck in the time when I had just returned from a fight upstairs before I crossed over.

In 1928, I spent two painful months in Shanhe Village, and in this time and space, time has not changed at all?

All of a sudden, my IQ was a bit underwhelming.

I took out the notebook "Mountains and Rivers Strange Things" and found Jiang Lianyang's page, which recorded that that night, after Jiang Lianyang found the money and grain in the gray old man's cave, he took his wife and son to move things back overnight, and moved them dozens of times.

Later, the Jiang family stopped being tenants and opened a grain store in the village.

This matter was not told to others until more than ten years after Jiang Lianyang's death.

I heard that the roll of cloth that the gray master was holding in his hand that day was full of strange words, and it is still kept in the hands of the descendants of Jiang Lianyang's family.

Seeing this at this time, my heart moved, because the old man of the rat spirit gray said that he came to Shanhe Village to find the nine paintings, and what kind of inheritor he wanted to be.

And among the information I wanted to know about the Black Taiji Gate, there was a record of nine ancient paintings.

Although Shanhe Village is not big, but the history is still quite long, since the Ming Dynasty has been built here, but there are no supernatural rumors handed down earlier, and all the supernatural events come from the period from 1928 to 1949, is there any reason for this?

To find the connection, the only way to do this is to continue analyzing the supernatural events in Shanhe Village.