While the sun was still shining, the three of them finally arrived at the small village.

What puzzled Alayanzong was that there should be officers and soldiers guarding the intersections of each village now, but no troops were found at the entrance of this small village, and the village seemed to be unusually quiet.

Except for a few chimneys emitting cooking smoke, not a single person was seen on the street.

The three of them dismounted and led their horses, and when they saw that the door of a house in the village was empty, Alayanzong asked Ula Peach and Allah Xiaoer to wait outside the door, so he went straight into the courtyard.

The courtyard was very dilapidated, there was almost nothing, and the three earthen houses were even lower and dilapidated, almost collapsing.

Alayanzong shouted, "Anyone?"

No response was heard.

The door of the house was pinned with a wooden stick, only to find out that it was an unmanned household. Alayanzong pulled out a wooden stick and pushed the door into the house, and the house was surrounded by four walls, except for a few pieces of dilapidated furniture, there was only a clay kang left.

The house is full of dust, and it looks like it hasn't been inhabited for a long time. Alayanzong rummaged through the cupboard, but could not find even a futon, so he withdrew from the house and said goodbye to the door again.

As soon as he left the gate, Ula Peach asked, "Is there anyone?"

Alayanzong shook his head, "No one, nothing else, let's go to the next one." ”

The situation of the second family was similar to that of the first, and when they reached the fourth house, Alayanzong saw someone, an old woman who was nearly seventy years old, sitting by the stove and cooking on the fire.

Seeing someone coming, the old woman stood up and stared at a pair of frightened eyes, for some reason someone suddenly came to the house.

Seeing that the old woman was skinny, hunched over, slow, her clothes were shabby, her face was wrinkled, and her cloudy eyes were even more listless, he didn't say anything when he saw Alayanzong, but just looked at him blankly.

Alayanzong hurriedly stepped forward and bowed deeply, "Grandma is disturbed, we are here to spend the night." ”

"Overnight?"

The old woman was even more weak when she spoke, and she could see that there was no tooth in her mouth with one mouth.

"Yes, the three of us were passing through and wanted to spend the night here. ”

"Three?"

The old woman looked surprised, her shriveled cheeks squirmed, and it was a little difficult to speak.

"The people in the village are fleeing to death, you really have a lot of courage, and you dare to come to this ghost village. If I hadn't been too old to walk, I would have left sooner. ”

The old woman stooped down and added a handful of wood to the stove, and straightened up again.

"You three, I can't live here. ”

"Grandma, it doesn't matter if you can't live there, as long as we can find one or two futons, we can go to someone else's house to live. ”

At this time, Ula Peach and Allah Xiaoer led the horse into the courtyard. The old woman looked out of the door and saw them.

"There is also a female baby, who must have suffered a lot when she was out and about. ”

Alayanzong took over the conversation, "Yes, I just planned to find her a futon, and the two of us don't care." ”

"Yes, yes, I still have a superfluous here, as long as you don't break it. ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's better than nothing. Then thank you grandma. When Alayanzong heard the old woman say yes, he was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

The old woman quickly took a quilt when she entered the house, the quilt was broken, gray and black, not only patched on it, but also exposed cotton wool in many places, and the quilt was very thin, and it was no longer possible to see what color the quilt was. Alayan Sect said in his heart: This is already very good, something is better than nothing.

Then he took out a silver coin from his pocket and handed it to the old woman, "Grandma, you take this." ”

After taking the silver coin, a tear flowed from the old woman's dry eyes, opened her shriveled mouth, and said, "Money is useless, you can't buy anything here, you should take it!"

Alayanzong stretched out his hand to hold the old woman's hand, "Grandma, you take it first if it's useful or not, after all, we used your quilt, and it should be used as the expense." ”

The old woman hesitated and finally accepted the silver coin, and said, "Ah, you haven't eaten yet, have you?" But I only boiled a little porridge here, which is only enough for one person to drink, and you three ......."

Alayanzong hurriedly said: "Grandma doesn't have to worry about the problem of eating, we brought dry food." ”

Hearing this, the old woman turned her face away and muttered in a low voice, "There is still dry food!" and then turned around and said, "It's good if you have something to eat, it's good to have something to eat!"

Alayanzong asked again: "Grandma, can you tell me why some of the residents have no one at all? I heard you just say that you are dead and running away, what is going on here?"

The old woman sighed, sat back down on the wooden pier, and told the story of the little village.

A month ago, a group of people came from the south, all of them poor, ragged and weak, as if they were all sick. When you come to this small village, there will be a few people sitting at the door of almost every household, and they will open their mouths to ask for food every day.

Some people have starved to death on the streets because they have no food to eat. Although the village was poor, there were also good people who took dry food and gave it to them.

Even so, those people are still getting together and dying. With the help of the villagers, the corpse was all buried in a mass grave in the south of the village.

In less than half a month, this group of outsiders died.

What's even more terrifying is that since then the people in the village have started to get sick and some people have started to die. Because the people in the village are poor, they have not been treated, and those who are usually sick carry it themselves, and if they can't carry it, they will be taken away by God.

The old woman said that there were only three or five people in a village of her age, and these people had never been sick in almost their lives.

Some people have begun to be afraid, saying that the strangers have brought the plague god to the village, and when they see that several families have indeed died one after another, some people have begun to flee.

One, two...... In the end, the young men were gone, and there were only three or five old men left in the village.

Because of this, the old woman said that this small village has become a ghost village.

But that's not all, two days ago another group of strangers came, very similar to those strangers who had come before, the same skinny, sick, just yesterday someone died.

Even so, they did not leave the village, because many of the peasant families were empty, so they lived here.

I heard that they all brought some dry food, but it was not much, and they could only eat it for three or two days.

Maybe it was because they were afraid of being infected by the plague, so no one went to anyone's house, and they were all stuffy in the courtyard and resigned to their fate.

The old woman said that she still had a little food at home, and she boiled some gruel every day to barely survive, and she could live one day at a time. has lived for so long, and has long ignored life and death, when God will take it and when to go.

Alayanzong's heart was heavy when he heard this, "Grandma, your husband cooks on fire, we will arrange accommodation, and we will come back to see you." ”

"Ah...... I won't leave you behind, there is no way to live in one room and one kang. ”

Bidding farewell to the old woman, the three of Alayanzong returned to the third house.

By this time it was already dark, so Allah and Ula Tao tied their horses to an elm tree in the yard, found some straw in the corner of the yard, carried them under the tree, and let the two horses eat the grass.

Alayanzon went into the house and found an oil lamp and lit it, and the room became bright.

The three of them simply swept the kang and spread the quilt, which was a temporary nest.

After finishing their work, they took out the dry food, and the three of them sat on the kang and chewed silently.