"Take a look at it, the best sheepskin shoulders, don't miss it when you pass by"

"I just ate the meat buns out of the pot, come and try them"

Walking in the noisy bazaar, looking at the surrounding small merchants and vendors, feeling the long-lost fireworks, a young man with a beautiful face sat in a teahouse, drinking tea in a cup by himself.

The boy was Xiao Xuehong, and after two days of traveling, he finally met a caravan on the deserted grassland, and after some conversation, he followed him to this market square.

Talking all the way, Xiao Xuehong already knew at this moment that he was in the Menggan steppe at this time, where the people lived by shepherding sheep and hunting, and this market was the place where they exchanged for each other's needs.

When asked which region the Menggan Prairie belonged to, the people here told him with a puzzled face that the Menggan Prairie belonged to Sangzhou and was located in the south, and when he learned his location, Xiao Xuehong was puzzled.

In the library of the Daogong Academy, Xiao Xuehong looked through the geographical distribution of the mainland, but had never seen Yousangzhou, thinking that he was located in the Southern Regions but the people here had different names, so he got up and came to a grocery store on the corner.

A middle-aged man in a sheepskin jacket sits at the counter.

"Do you have a map here?"

"What kind of map do you want?

"I want a map of the entire South, do you have it here?"

"Wait a minute, officer, I'll fetch it for you," he said, walking out of the counter and running to a warehouse in the back.

After a while, a middle-aged man held a thick scroll of animal skin maps and placed it on the counter.

"I bought it from a merchant in the early years, after all, we are a small place here, and the pedestrians who come and go have never even left Sangzhou, so I have always kept it in the treasury as a collection."

Xiao Xuehong slowly opened the animal skin map, and the regional distribution in the south was clearly marked on it, although it was not detailed enough, but it was enough for the current Xiao Xuehong, closed the map and asked.

"I want this map, you can make a price"

The middle-aged man's front face showed a hint of joy.

"Since the guest officer is so refreshing, then I will also quote you a real price, fifty taels of silver."

Xiao Xuehong didn't have much of a concept of silver taels, for cultivators, elixirs and pills were what they really needed, and silver was not much use at all, so he took out a silver ingot and put it on the counter, took the animal skin map and left.

With the map, Xiao Xuehong prepared to leave this place and go to Xiangcheng, the nearest city, to inquire about the situation.

I spent ten taels of silver again to buy a black horse to walk, one person, one horse, and galloped on the vast grassland like this, which was quite poetic.

According to the guidance on the map, after a long journey, Xiao Xuehong came to a village, thinking of resting here tonight, but when he walked into the village, he found that it was empty, and he shouted twice without the slightest response.

Xiao Xuehong, who was puzzled, walked towards the depths of the village, but still did not see a figure, the quiet was a little unusual, Xiao Xuehong suddenly became vigilant, and then a woman's face appeared in the window of a house, and her unkind eyes stared closely at Xiao Xuehong on the street.

Xiao Xuehong looked at him, vigilant, and said softly: "I am passing by, I want to rest here for one night, if it is inconvenient, then I will leave now."

The face of the woman in the house disappeared, and there was no response, and a door opened on the side of the street, and an old woman with silver hair and a wrinkled face staggered out on crutches, and the old voice came out, "Young man, if you don't dislike it, you will spend the night at the old woman's place, I still have something to eat here"

Looking at the old man in front of him, although he felt that the village was a little strange, he still thanked the old man and led the horse over.

"Just tie the horse to the door, the old woman doesn't have a lot of space here, so let's stay for the night," he said tremblingly, leading Xiao Xuehong to the door of a thatched hut.

"You can spend the night here tonight, and I'll get you some food."

"Thank you mother-in-law for your kindness, you don't have to eat, and you still have some dry food on your body, so you won't be troublesome."

Looking at the young man in front of her, the old woman's old face revealed a faint smile.

"Mother-in-law should go into the house early to rest, it's windy outside and I'm worried about getting cold"

"What a sensible good boy, you clean up after yourself, remember, no matter what noise comes from outside at night, you don't leave this room" The old woman looked back and leaked a strange look.

Xiao Xuehong's eyes narrowed slightly, and she replied quietly: "Thank you mother-in-law for reminding me."

Looking at the staggering back in front of him, Xiao Xuehong felt that this village was not as simple as he saw at the moment, and his thoughts were full of .........

Night...... Xiao Xuehong sat cross-legged on the haystack with her eyes closed, the whole village was silent, the woman who appeared during the day gently opened the door and walked to the courtyard, with a longing expression on her face, greedily stretched out her tongue and licked her fingers, and walked towards Xiao Xuehong's courtyard step by step.

The horses tethered to the reins in front of the door walked back and forth restlessly, neighing.

Xiao Xuehong, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly opened his eyes, listening to the sound from the outside world, his heartbeat began to accelerate, his breathing became short, he quickly moved his body to the corner of the wall, closed his eyes and tried to calm his emotions.

The sound of the door opening of the next room came, and the sound of the crutches hitting the ground softly, as if a heavy hammer was smashed on Xiao Xuehong's heart, looking out through a gap in the wall, I found that the old woman in the day came to the courtyard at this moment, holding a bracelet made of white bones in her hand, and there was a low chanting sound from her mouth.

The sound of the horses neighing outside the house became more and more urgent, Xiao Xuehong felt that his heart was about to jump to his throat, covering his mouth and trying to control his breathing, and his eyes looked outside without blinking.

The faint sound of footsteps came, and suddenly there was a strange silence outside, without the slightest movement, and the figure of the old woman in the courtyard disappeared in front of Xiao Xuehong's eyes out of thin air, as if everything just now was an illusion.

Xiao Xuehong, who was trying to adjust his breathing, turned pale, and struggled inwardly whether to go out and check it out, after all, everything that had just happened was too unbelievable.

The heart kept entangled, and finally reason overcame fear, Xiao Xuehong lightly operated the power of the wind spirit slowly came to the gate of the courtyard, and the horses had disappeared at the moment, leaving only a pile of weathered bones piled there.

Xiao Xuehong slowly stepped forward to check in fear, and found that there was a shallow footprint on the ground............