The sunset has long since drifted away, and he shyly hides in the back mountain, leaving a poignant night.

"Alright, let's go, everybody watching. ”

Mallow half-covered her face and whispered to Bai Qiu and Yuan Lin.

She wanted to remind her: at this time, the sun is setting, and everyone who returns home is coming with hoes, and they are all looking at it, but they can make a face.

"You apologize to me!"

"I don't, eat me!"

"Ah, my face. ”

But these two people didn't know where to go, and they wanted to start, which was much more barbaric than the first time she and Yuan Lin met.

"Enough!

Mallows slapped the table and got up, and the two looked at each other.

Anyway, this smokeless battle was finally interrupted.

"Only a female villain is difficult to raise, and you, a fat ball, have both, my Yuanlin master is not as knowledgeable as you. ”

"Shut up, I can't check your identity, if you don't check, get out. ”

Mallow circled the white ball and reminded Yuan Lin loudly, but also stopped the white ball's urge to fly forward and kick it.

"Oh yes, it's still the best mallow to do. ”

Yuan Lin showed the signature smile again.

"White balls, degassing, go eat something delicious when the time comes. ”

Malallow appeased Bai Qiu and glared at Yuan Lin helplessly.

Fortunately, everything finally calmed down, just like the night was as light as water.

Walking on the mud road at night, the yellow lights of the people around me flickered little by little, I don't know if it was too tired for a day, or if there was something to be afraid of at night, people who returned late returned home early, and even the lights were dimmed early.

It's just that none of the three of them have returned home at the moment.

"Yuan Lin, there is something strange about your Nan'an Village, do you think. ”

Mallow frowned and looked around, there was always something strange that could not be explained.

"Well, let's go quickly, it's the old house on the mountainside, there is a very old grandmother, who has come to my house before, if she is still alive, there are some things I want to ask her. ”

"What about your house? Won't you go back first?"

"It was burned by the fire, and the people in the village said that it was stained with something ominous, but I didn't believe it. ”

The boy's eyes were full of determination.

"Little master, the white ball will protect you. ”

Bai Qiu was holding Mallow's hand, and the chubby hand made her feel that she was indeed quite safe.

Halfway through the mountain road, they came to the mountainside.

"Whew-"

The cool breeze blew, and the mallow felt a little cool to the bone, but it was not the twilight autumn season at the moment, could it be the temperature that this deep mountain has always had.

The old house in front of me was short and shabby, the roof was covered with heavy yellow straw, a window was nailed to death by a few wooden boards, as if it was guarding against something, and no one cleaned up the sundries in the yard, and even a few chickens raised by the owner were lying there, without energy.

Malallow couldn't help but wonder, if it weren't for the fact that there was still a little dim light on in such an old house, I didn't believe that anyone still lived here.

Bai Qiu followed closely behind her, but Yuan Lin knocked on the door with a fearless face.

"Grandma, are you at home, I used to live next door to your house, and you often call me Yuantou Boy. ”

When the mallow turned his head, there were trees on the left and right, and he couldn't see it, and it didn't look like there had been any traces of a house.

“...”

Half a day, I haven't heard anyone answer the door.

Yuan Lin, the stunned man, knocked on the door even harder, and even the wooden door shook a few times.

"Grandma, the head boy is coming to visit you. ”

"Poof—"

Mallow couldn't help but laugh a few times, Yuan head boy?

"Laugh at what, moment of truth. ”

Yuan Lin was very serious, and said to Malallow in a low voice.

Finally, there were a few coughs in the old house, and a sigh of squeezing was heard, as if something heavy had been removed from the doorway.

"Ahem, ahem, come... Here it comes. Don't knock. ”

The voice was old and trembling.

Yuan Lin smiled smugly, as if he would definitely find the answer he wanted this time.

"Squeak-"

The door opened.

An old woman opened a little crack in the door, her body was stiff, her face was wrinkled, and her lips were not bloody, but her old eyes were shrewd and shining.

"Quick, come in, don't be discovered. ”

Yuan Lin, including mallow and white balls, are all confused, the night in this Nan'an Village is so weird, even people?

There was only a wooden bed in the room, a few wooden stools with barbs, and a round table in the middle of which was a cold meal.

"Grandma, do you remember me?"

"Remember, remember, be quiet. ”

The old woman made a silent gesture and motioned for the three of them to be quiet.

"Grandma, who are you talking about? ”

Yuan Lin's face was solemn.

In this situation, the white ball actually fell asleep against Mallow's shoulder.

Mallow silently recited: It's really a pig ball.

She could only turn her head and look around.

The light was dim, and the flickering wick shone on the wrinkled face of the old woman, which was a little terrifying.

"Recently, people in this village have often died violently at night, and I don't know what kind of monster is causing trouble, and the water in this village cannot be drunk! ”

In this way, it is no wonder that the brewed tea is bitter and smelly, and there is no fragrance at all.

"Grandma, why is Nan'an Village like this, and my father's and mother's affairs, do you know. ”

Yuan Lin raised his hand to remove a small pendant around his neck, a crescent-shaped jade, as if hiding many secrets.

All these days, mallow didn't notice it.

"Alas, I'm also a person who is going to enter the loess, and as for the strange things that happened in Nan'an Village, I can live one day at a time. And there are some things that I want to bring into the coffin, but I didn't expect you to find it, and at that time your father and mother told the old beggar that you are not allowed to go back here. ”

The old woman sighed, her voice complaining, as if she had taken them back to the scene more than ten years ago.

"You are not actually born to your father and mother, I picked you up on the mountain, and my name was obtained by the old beggar later, but since I took you in, your family has caused a lot of trouble, and I often see many people in black who don't know what to do at your house at night. ”

The old woman coughed and continued.

"You are also fateful, that is, the night before the fire, you seem to be only three or four years old, your father and mother came to my house and wanted me to take you in, I was very scared, I didn't dare to accept it, and then I was taken in by the old beggar next to me, cough cough, this is when your father and mother told the truth, then your pendant was picked up together, is... It's...."

She stopped abruptly and looked around, and the rest of the light drifted towards the mallow, a little hesitant.

"Grandma, it's okay for you to say it, my master has also told me a lot. ”

Mallow was a little surprised, this Yuan Lin didn't have the slightest defense, and she heard all the secrets this time.

And the old woman's shrewd old eyes were like rat eyes, and then she leaned over and lowered her throat.

"This world belongs to the Xiao family, it is rumored that the first emperor had ten sons, and the tenth son died violently, I don't think so, you just need to remember that this pendant must be useful, you are surnamed Xiao!"

"Grandma, you mean..."

"I didn't say anything, you go quickly, Yuantou boy, read the old love of grandma, let me go into the soil in peace. ”

Mallow frowned and stared at this old woman crazy, she felt a little strange, some things could not be stable if they were said, let alone be able to act as if nothing happened, so why say it?

"Grandma, rest early, I'm bothered. ”

Mallow pulled the white ball who was sleeping soundly and the sluggish Yuan Lin out of the door.

But she didn't know that the old woman behind her was staring at her angrily with a pair of old eyes.

It's been a long way to say goodbye to the old house, with no direction and no idea what to do.

Malallow glanced sideways at Yuan Lin again, and he walked with his head down without making a sound.

Maybe it was her delusion, since she knew this, compared to before, he was like two people.

"Find an inn to stay in. ”

Yuan Lin said lightly, his expression was complicated, and he was holding the pendant tightly in his hand.

The night was finally as dark as ink, as if the secret to be found was still bottomless.

At this time, Yuan Lin was in a room opposite the mallow, and he should be unable to sleep all night.

And she was a little sleepy, and she couldn't understand what the old woman said today, why the woman was cowering and crazy, but her words were so clear and clear.

"Little master, the white ball is so sleepy. ”

"Then sleep. ”

The moonlight is shining, but it is hidden in the cloudy clouds.