The young man looked around, and finally stopped his hurried gaze in the direction of Gai Nie, the young man first snatched the roast pheasant without saying anything, and then glanced at Gai Nie with displeasure, at this moment, the young man seemed to see Gai Nie's appearance clearly, the young man saw Wei Zhuang sitting in front of him, holding a roast pheasant in his hand, but Tianming didn't know that Xiao Zhuang at this moment was controlled by his uncle's consciousness, Tianming's expression immediately changed from anger to joy, only to hear the young man smile: "Second uncle, it turns out that you are here." ”

Gai Nie's eyes wandered away from the backing chicken, and he didn't pay much attention to what the young man said, Gai Nie just subconsciously asked, "Are you?"

When the young man saw Gai Nie's eyes staring at his roast pheasant in a daze, he turned to one side and hid the roast pheasant behind him, and then said with a smile: "Second uncle, why don't you know me? Hey~"

"Tianming?" Gai Nie felt that this name was very familiar, he racked his brain to think about all the names he knew in his mind, or felt that the name 'Tianming' had never been heard, well, at this moment, in Gai Nie's mind, there was only one word to call a name, and that was 'Wei Zhuang', that is, his own name that he was told.

"Second uncle, what's wrong with you?" Tianming felt that Gai Nie's appearance was a little strange, so he asked with concern.

Gai Nie didn't speak, his eyes seemed to pass through Tianming's body, staring straight at the roast pheasant behind Tianming.

Tianming was stared at by Gai Nie's gaze and felt the hair on his back, only to see Tianming hiding the Tibetan roast pheasant behind him, as if he didn't want to give Gai Nie food, and finally hesitated for a long time, Tianming still struggled to give up the roast pheasant in his hand.

Gai Nie turned out to be a roast pheasant in the morning, and ate it in a big gulp, the previous fainting and today's escape made him hungry and growl, and now he could finally fill his empty stomach.

Gai Nie ate two bites, his stomach was gradually filled with food, and his previous thoughts of wanting to eat all over the world were gradually swallowed by reason, Gai Nie realized that he was a little rude just now, Gai Nie broke off a chicken leg and held it in his hand, and returned all the remaining roast pheasants to Tianming.

"Second uncle, what's wrong with you?" Tianming turned the roast pheasant in Gai Nie's hand, put it to his mouth and took a big bite, and then he chewed it while asking with concern: "Looking at your appearance, it seems that you haven't eaten for several days." ”

Gai Nie silently gnawed on the chicken legs, not speaking because he didn't know what was wrong with him, what happened before, Gai Nie didn't know anything, he just felt very hungry.

Tianming felt a little distressed when he saw Gai Nie's appearance, he took a handful of clear spring water from the side of the creek and handed it to Gai Nie: "Second uncle, drink saliva." ”

Gai Nie slowly took the mountain spring water of Tianming and drank a few sips, and the sweetness brought by the water instantly made Gai Nie's mood much easier.

Seeing that Gai Nie's mood seemed to be getting better, Tianming slowly asked, "Second uncle, did you sneak out of the Ghost Valley again?"

"What did you say?" Maybe it was because Tianming's voice was too quiet, or because there happened to be a gust of wind blowing, and Gai Nie didn't hear what Tianming said.

And Gai Nie's question is a naked threat in Tianming's eyes, judging from past experience, when the second uncle usually says this kind of thing, it is when he wants to cut people with a sword.

"You're not going to sneak out of the Ghost Valley again, are you?" Tianming smiled, looking a little schadenfreude.

"Ghost Valley?" Gai Nie frowned slightly, the distress of not having a memory made him feel that every point mentioned by Tianming was familiar, but he couldn't remember it himself anyway.

"How, isn't it?" Tianming said curiously.

Gai Nie groaned for a while, and then as if he was being dragged by something, he stood up abruptly and walked involuntarily into the depths of the bamboo forest.

Tianming also followed, only to hear him follow Gai Nie, and at the same time did not forget to chirp: "Second uncle, where are you going? It seems to be very dangerous over there, don't go over." ”

Gai Nie didn't pay any attention to Tianming's words, and walked forward on his own, with the memory in his mind that could not be called a memory, maybe this is the legendary sixth sense?

Gai Nie didn't walk a few steps to the depths of the bamboo forest, the moonlight was covered by bamboo leaves, the secluded forest seemed to be dyed with a layer of ink, only a few streamers squeezed through the gaps between the leaves, which allowed people to move forward slowly.

Gai Nie continued to walk forward with his feelings, and Tianming followed, for fear that he would lose it if he was not careful. The two of them walked one after the other, crossing the bamboo path.

Finally, a silvery light appeared in front of the two.

Such a halo suddenly appeared in this dark bamboo forest, like a guiding light in the boundless darkness, Gai Nie walked in the direction of the bright light, and finally walked out of this bamboo forest, and Tianming followed closely behind.

I don't know when the blue fog began to rise, probably because it was almost dawn, Gai Nie stood on the broken wall, looking down at the scene below.

I saw a small courtyard underneath, simple and solemn.

Gai Nie came to the courtyard, first carefully looked at the courtyard, and saw that the courtyard was a little leaky, it should have been a long time since no one lived, and the door panel was covered with a thick layer of dust.

Gai Nie pushed the door open and headed inside. As the door opened, the wooden door made a strange creaking sound.

Maybe because Gai Nie was there, Tianming was so scared that he could grab the corner of Gai Nie's clothes and shrink behind him. If Gai Nie is replaced with Yue'er, it is estimated that even if Tianming is frightened, he will try his best to protect Yue'er behind him.

Where there is no light to speak of, there is no life at all, the weeds in the courtyard seem to have been greatly encouraged, growing rapidly, the well at the door has not been exhausted, the mouth of the well is covered with green moss, only the curved water platform in the courtyard does not look too shabby. Gagnie looked around and entered the inner court.

When he came to the inner courtyard, he first looked around, and saw that the furniture in the room was not of many styles, and it was simply arranged, and the furniture and the floor were covered with a thick layer of dust.

"It seems like it's been a long time since there were any people living here. Tianming stood behind Gai Nie, looking around.

Gagnie didn't speak, there was no electric light in the room, but there was an oil lamp, and a flint and steel was found in the drawer under Ganie's desk, but... The oil has not yet been found. Gai Nie opened the other drawers and finally found some candles.

There is a wax table around the room, and a bronze mirror is placed around the wax table, each of which illuminates a different direction, and Gai Nie inserts candles into the wax tables at the four corners of the room, rubs the flint and steel, and lights them in turn.

Tianming stood aside and watched Gai Nie busy here, and at first he didn't know why, because he only needed to light two candles, one for Tianming, and one for himself, so why did he light so much?

However, when Gai Nie lit all the candles, Tianming knew Gai Nie's intentions, and saw four candles lit, because the bronze mirror reflected the candlelight, and the dark room instantly became brightly lit.

Tianming stood behind Gai Nie, silently looking at Gai Nie, in Tianming's eyes, what he saw was Xiao Zhuang's figure, and Tianming didn't know about the misalignment of Gai Nie and Xiao Zhuang's souls, so he mistakenly thought that it was his second uncle Xiao Zhuang who was standing in front of him.

At this moment, Tianming's eyes were full of admiration, looking at Gai Nie's back, Tianming opened his mouth and said, "Wow! Second uncle, you are really amazing!"

Gai Nie didn't answer, he came to Qushui Tai alone, took out the two rags he had just found from the inner courtyard, washed them in clean water, and returned to the house, Gai Nie said with an indifferent face: "You are... Tianming?" said Gai Nie's voice with some hesitation.

"Yes, second uncle, what's wrong with you? don't know me anymore?" Tianming looked at Gai Nie's somewhat confused appearance, scratched the back of his head, and wondered a little.

Gagne didn't say much, he handed Tianming a broken step, and walked to the room with a flint and a candle.

There are not many rooms in the inner room, one master bedroom, two secondary bedrooms and one guest room. Gai Nie knew that the master bedroom was the room where the master lived, and Gai Nie felt that it was too unruly and unreasonable to live directly in the master bedroom without saying hello, so he found a second bedroom that was quite pleasing to the eye. A candlestick was also placed next to the window in this room, and Gai Nie inserted the candle into the candlestick and lit it with flint. The small room was instantly brightly lit.

Gai Nie looked around for a moment, the room was simple and elegant, even to his own heart. Gai Nie planned to stay here tonight, but there was too much dust in the room, Gai Nie held the damp rag in his hand, and he didn't know where to clean it up for a while, his body was extremely tired, and finally Gai Nie just cleaned up the bed and prepared to sleep.

Gai Nie was lying on the bed, he was very sleepy and tired, he should have been on the pillow, but I don't know why, he came to the spirit instantly after lying on the bed, and he was completely sleepy, tossing and turning, and couldn't sleep.

At this time, Tianming walked in slowly, he first looked around, and then walked to Gai Nie's bed and said, "Second uncle, that room is too dark, I can't sleep." ”

The room was too dark to sleep... I'm afraid that only Tianming will come up with this reason, Gai Nie was speechless for a while after hearing it, he guessed that it was because there were no people here, and Tianming was scared.

Gai Nie silently moved inside, making room for half of the bed for Tianming, and then Gai Nie put one hand behind his head, and patted the bed board with the other, signaling for Tianming to come and sleep.

Tianming hesitated for a moment, he remembered what the second uncle said to him before, and the matter of the mandarin duck hugging was taught to him by the second uncle himself, but the second uncle already has Wei Xiaonie, and he will not give birth to a Wei Xiaoming with Tianming, right? Tianming hesitated, not knowing whether he should sleep in this bed or not, but he was too sleepy, and the room next to him was really terrifying.

This book was first published in Reading Books