The next morning, the sun was shining and cloudless, and it was really a sunny day.

At this time, a gust of wind suddenly blew across Mu Xun's face and woke him up.

But as soon as he opened his eyes, he was immediately forced to close again by the harsh sunlight, and after a moment of calming down, he slowly opened again, he sat up straight and looked around slowly, only to see that the carriage under his seat was now parked under a big tree, and the horses in front of him were bowing their heads and gnawing on the turf around them, and two feet away on the left side was a road paved with bluestone slabs, stretching into the distance.

He raised his hand and rubbed his sore eyes, and his consciousness gradually became sober, but before he had time to think about where this place was, he suddenly remembered Li Xiyan in the carriage, and hurriedly turned around to lift the curtain to look, but seeing that Li Xiyan in the carriage was sleeping soundly at this time, his heart was a little calmer, and he called softly: "Wu Xizi, Wu Xi... Uh, I forgot, it should be called Li Xiyan. ”

In fact, Li Xiyan woke up the moment he lifted the curtain, but she didn't hurry to open her eyes, but waited for his next move, and then heard him talk to herself, she couldn't help but smile slightly, and opened her eyes and responded: "It's good for you to call me Wu Xizi, and I like this name very much." After a pause, he said, "Let's go to Kunming City?"

Mu Xun shook his head and said, "I fell asleep last night, and I don't know where I am now." However, there is a bluestone paved road on the side, which seems to be an official road, and we will not be too far from Kunming City. ”

Li Xiyan smiled: "It's really hard for you to drive overnight." As he spoke, he sat up and said, "Then let's get out of the car and take a look at the road." ”

Mu Xun nodded, turned over and jumped out of the car, and Li Xiyan also followed him out of the carriage and down to the ground.

The two of them walked to the official road with their front and back feet, looked around, but saw that there was no shop in front of the village and no store in front of the village, and they waited for a long time and did not see any cars and horses. Mu Xun took out the map from his arms again to check it, but he couldn't identify the direction, so he smiled bitterly and sighed: "I don't know where this horse took us." ”

Li Xiyan said: "We have waited for so long and there are no passers-by, and if we wait any longer, I am afraid that it will be in vain, why don't we take a walk in a direction?"

Mu Xun raised his eyes to look at the sun, identified the southeast and northwest, looked at both ends of the road, and muttered: "Kunming City is in the southwest, should we go south?"

Li Xiyan suddenly bent down, paced twice with his back on his back, then straightened up and said, "Let's go north." ”

Mu Xunqi said: "Why is this?"

Li Xiyan pointed to the stone slab on the ground and said, "You can see this stone pavement carefully. ”

Mu Xun looked in the direction of her finger, and after a closer look, she saw two inconspicuous rut marks behind her, and she arrived here from south to north, and her heart suddenly understood, but then she asked, "Is this what our carriage left?"

Li Xiyan said with a smile: "The wheel hub of my carriage is engraved with a pattern and anti-slip, and I can see the mark left at a glance, and it must be wrong." ”

Mu Xun suddenly said: "I see, then let's go north." After speaking, he went to the side of the road and drove the carriage to the road, picked up Li Xiyan, and marched along the north side.

After driving for about seven or eight miles, but there were still no pedestrians passing by, Mu Xun secretly doubted in his heart: "It's really strange, it stands to reason that the official road shouldn't be so deserted, could it be that you are going wrong?"

Li Xiyan was lying in the carriage, closing his eyes to recuperate, and suddenly felt that the carriage was moving slowly, so he sat up and lifted the curtain and asked, "Have we arrived at the city gate?"

Mu Xun shook his head and said: "I'm afraid that we are taking the wrong road, we have never met pedestrians on the way, if we enter the official road of the city, how can it be so deserted?"

Li Xiyan glanced around, frowned and said, "Otherwise, let's turn back." ”

Mu Xun also had this intention in his heart, and he was about to turn the horse's head at the moment, but before he could tighten the reins, he heard Li Xiyan exclaim: "Look! There is a house in front!"

Mu Xun immediately stopped, looked in the direction of her gaze, and sure enough, she saw a mansion at the corner of the road.

Li Xiyan said happily: "Let's go over and ask the owner of this house for directions." ”

Mu Xun nodded and said, "That's right, so as not to take any more wrongful paths." ”

At that moment, he whipped his horse and hurried towards the house. As soon as the carriage turned the corner, he saw that the road had come to an end, and it turned out that the road led to the house.

Mu Xun said in his heart: "This road is really not an official road. However, to be able to build such a long bluestone road to this point, it will not be easy for the owner of this house to come. Thinking so, he raised his eyes and looked at the mansion in front of him.

I saw that this house is built with blue bricks and tiles, it is a simple style, a cluster of green bamboos is set up on both sides of the steps, and in the middle is a closed vermilion gate, on which two gilt knockers are wedged, and there is nothing else.

When Mu Xun saw this, he was slightly surprised in his heart, and said secretly: "Why doesn't the owner of this house hang a plaque?" But he thought again: "Well, most of the people who can come here to build a house and live in peace are mostly indifferent-minded, and it is not strange to leave a plaque that does not reveal their identity." Then he reined in his horse, turned back and said, "Wait a little while in the carriage while I go and ask." After saying that, he jumped out of the car and walked towards the door.

Li Xiyan also got out of the car after him, caught up and said, "Let's go together, after sitting in the car for so long, my body is almost stiff." ”

Mu Xun bowed slightly, took the lead first, and reached out to grab the knocker and knock on the door after walking the stone steps.

But at this moment, Li Xiyan suddenly stepped forward to stop him, his eyes stared at the pair of shiny knockers, and said in a deep voice: "Wait, there are strange things on this knocker!"

Mu Xun was stunned for a moment, and blurted out: "Weird? What's weird?

Li Xiyan was not in a hurry to answer, Wu Zi stepped forward to stare at the door knocker for a closer look, and then sneered: "The master here is really vicious, and he actually smeared poison on this door knocker!

Mu Xun exclaimed: "How can you see that this knocker is fed with poison?"

Li Xiyan smiled: "This is not difficult. Do you want to see what's wrong with this gate?"

Mu Xun raised his eyes and looked at it carefully, and said slowly: "The paint color of this gate is decaying, and it is obvious that it has not been taken care of for a long time. Well, but this knocker is shiny and clean, and it looks the most eye-catching at first glance... But this knocker is something that is often touched, and it is normal to be brighter, and how can you see that there is something strange about it?".

Li Xiyan shook his head and said, "Your eyesight is not good, you can't really see it, this knocker has been taken care of." ”

Mu Xun only felt that Li Xiyan's conclusion was quite far-fetched, and he was half-convinced, and asked again: "Are you so sure?"