Ye Hao pushed the door and walked into his thatched house.

Although he had only been away for a day and a night, returning to his familiar home after experiencing the wandering of life and death made Ye Hao feel extremely warm, which was a warmer feeling than any day in the previous ten years.

Ye Hao didn't know if his mother was still resting, he was afraid of disturbing his mother, so he tiptoed to the door of the house, and when he was about to open the door gently, he suddenly heard a soothing and calm voice from the house: "Hao'er, you're back!"

Ye Hao's breath was suffocated, and the hand that was about to open the door of the house stopped in mid-air. He retracted his hands, straightened his clothes, and pushed the door open.

Ye Hao's mother's name is Ye Rou, her left leg is a little disabled, and her movement is not particularly convenient.

After coming to Linjia Village with Ye Hao in his arms more than ten years ago, he never left. As a mother, Ye Rou obviously poured a lot of effort into her son.

It can be said that Ye Rou's only hope for life is Ye Hao.

At this time, Ye Rou was sitting on the bamboo chair in front of the window, her eyes did not look at Ye Hao, but kept looking out the window, as if she wanted to find some answers from the morning light outside the window. She was neatly dressed, her hair was supple, and she had obviously stayed up all night.

Ye Hao was a little distressed, and he was a little afraid of his mother, and he felt even more nervous when he saw Ye Rou's expression at this time. He knelt on the ground and said softly: "Mother, Hao'er went up the mountain to collect medicine and didn't return all night, which makes you worried......"

Ye Rou's gaze did not change, she still looked out the window, and then said casually: "Get up, tell me why you didn't return overnight." ”

"Yes, mother. Ye Hao stood up and told him how he picked the seven-leaf fairy Ling when he was collecting medicine that day and night, how he found the bamboo hat Banpo, how he met the monster, and how he was saved by the old fairy.

Ye Rou listened very carefully, but never spoke, only when Ye Hao mentioned that the old immortal fought against the monster, and finally used blood as a medium, causing thousands of heavenly thunders to seriously injure the unicorn monster, Ye Rou's brows were wrinkled imperceptibly.

Ye Hao continued to tell the story, and told the story of how he met the stone monkey at night, chased him all the way to the strange valley, and then the stone monkey was in distress, how he rescued the stone monkey, and how the stone monkey fell off the cliff.

When Ye Rou heard this, she turned her body suddenly, her eyes staring at Ye Hao, and there was invisible anger condensed between her eyebrows.

"The valley, the valley is in the woods to the west of the village?"

Ye Hao felt that his mother was angry, and his heart was suddenly so nervous that he didn't even dare to raise his head: "No...... Yes, the valley is indeed in the middle of a dense forest to the west of the village...... Mother, scold me, hit me, it's really not that I don't want to save people, it's just that my head suddenly hurt very much at that time, so there was no way to pull him up......" Speaking of this, Ye Hao's tears burst out of his eyes.

When Ye Rou heard this, her brows gradually relaxed: "Hao'er, of course you believe these mothers you said, and mothers are not angry because of this...... I just didn't expect you to come across that valley......"

Hearing this, Ye Hao raised his head, with a hint of doubt in his eyes.

"Mother, do you know that valley?"

Ye Rou realized that she was a little out of shape, so she hurriedly adjusted her mood, and replied calmly: "This is ...... My mother hasn't been there, but I heard you Uncle Lin Qing once said that there is indeed a valley with charming scenery, and there is a waterfall in that valley that is very strange, every night, the sound of the waterfall hitting the waterhole will have a great impact on people's spirits, and people with slightly poor mental strength will feel a headache. As you just said, that's how it should be. ”

Ye Hao's eyes lit up when he heard this: "So that's the case, no wonder I had a splitting headache last night, but I didn't feel it at all this morning, it turned out that the sound of the waterfall was playing tricks." ”

"Well, everything in this world is strange and has its own characteristics, and nothing can be ignored. Hao'er, you have to be more careful in the future. Mother only has you as a son, if you have three long and two short, mother really can't live......" Speaking of this, Ye Rou's eyes when she looked at her son also softened.

Ye Hao's heart was moved: "Mother, don't worry, Hao'er will definitely not let you worry so much in the future." ”

Ye Rou nodded and said, "Hao'er, I heard your Uncle Lin Qing say that not only the sound of that valley will have an impact on people's spirits, but also many other dangerous places, so my mother hopes that you will never go there again in the future." ”

"This ......" Ye Hao usually listens to his mother's words, and has never violated Ye Rou's intentions, if Ye Rou usually says such a thing, Ye Hao will not hesitate to agree, but at this moment, he already has a plan to go back to the valley to find the stone monkey, so he couldn't agree for a while, and said in a snort: " Mother, I want to find some people in the village to go to that valley together, to see if I can find the stone monkey, whether it is dead or alive, as long as I can find him, Hao'er can feel at ease, otherwise I will not be able to forgive myself in my life......"

Ye Rou's gaze suddenly became fierce: "Why are you so disobedient......?"

Ye Hao raised his head and met Ye Rou's fierce gaze: "Mother, just let me go, so that I can have an explanation for myself." ”

Looking at the resolute gaze in her son's eyes, Ye Rou was shocked, she knew her son too well, and she knew in her heart that if Ye Hao decided on one thing, then she couldn't change this idea no matter what.

Ye Rou turned around silently and said lightly: "Then you can go...... Be careful, though. ”

"Hmm. Hearing that his mother agreed to his request, he was immediately relieved from his depression, Ye Hao nodded vigorously: "Mother, you haven't slept all night, it's better to rest and rest, Hao'er will be careful herself." ”

Ye Rou nodded slightly, did not speak, and her eyes turned out of the window again.

Ye Hao's heart warmed, he could clearly feel his mother's care for him at this time, although his mother's words were not much, but it was a kind of care from the heart. After Ye Hao walked out of his mother's room, he went back to his room to find some strips of cloth, and then turned around and walked out of the hut.

Ye Rou heard her son's footsteps gradually disappearing, but her eyes were instantly full of tears, and the strength she had shown in front of Ye Hao just now completely collapsed in an instant.

Her body slowly and struggled to stand up, raised her eyes to look at the dark clouds outside the window, and muttered, "Is all this the will of heaven? I tried my best to make Hao'er an ordinary child, but why did God insist on letting him enter that valley...... Was this his fate......" She bit her lip and closed her eyes, letting the tears rain down her cheeks and drip all the way down her clothes.

As soon as Ye Hao walked out of the house, he saw four people walking in the direction of the intersection of the west of the village, led by the girl Wanqing. Behind him were two very tall teenagers, although they were only fourteen or fifteen years old, but their figures were quite straight, and there were seven points of similarity between their eyebrows.

And the last one is a young man of the same age as Ye Hao, but the appearance is too different from the previous two, this young man is not tall, and he is very rich, his stomach is bulging, as if he is about to burst, how do you look like a meat ball.

I saw the little fat man yawning, as if he had just been pulled up from his sleep, and after seeing Ye Hao come out of the house, he said reluctantly: "Boss Ye, what is the urgent matter, pull my brother out of the bed so early." ”

These four people are Ye Hao's sworn friends, basically playing together since childhood, and often get together to fight with people from neighboring villages, they can be called brothers who share weal and woe.

The two who look similar are a pair of brothers, the son of Lin Xi, the Orion in the village, the eldest is called Lin Long, and the younger is called Lin Hu, at the beginning, he was not in harmony with Ye Hao, and often clashed, but after a long time of contact, he found that Ye Hao was a very righteous person who could stick a knife in the ribs for his friends, so the three of them became friends who did not fight and did not know each other.

The little fat man's name is Lin Qingwa, because of his name, everyone calls him a toad, and he is the son of a Lin butcher in the village. But don't look at his wide body and fat body, but he is a good hand in fighting, and often a carp jumps the dragon gate, and crushes the opponent half to death.

At this time, the four of them had already walked in front of Ye Hao, and Lin Hu asked, "Boss Ye, is there anything urgent?"

Ye Hao nodded at him, then looked at the four people in front of him one by one, and said, "Brothers, something happened last night......

As soon as they heard this, the four of them felt a sudden burst in their hearts, because with their understanding of Ye Hao, if it wasn't for something big, he wouldn't have said this sentence so seriously. The fat man also immediately shook his head to sober himself up, staring at Ye Hao with wide eyes, waiting for him to tell what happened.

Lin Wanqing blinked a pair of big talking eyes, looked at Ye Hao and asked eagerly, "Brother Hao, you should hurry up, what's going on?"

Ye Hao looked at the inquiring eyes of the four people, so he sighed and told in detail what happened after he met the stone monkey last night.

After listening to Ye Hao's narration as if listening to a book from heaven, the expressions on their faces became extremely surprised.

The little fat man's chin was about to drag to the ground, he blinked his two little eyes, swallowed his saliva and said, "You mean, Shi, the stone monkey died like this......

Lin Wanqing was also surprised: "He is the stone monkey who is so bad that he can't die so easily." ”

Lin Long thought for a moment and said, "Not necessarily. ”

Lin Hu beside him said, "Boss Ye, do you mean that you plan to let us accompany you to find the stone monkey." ”

Ye Hao nodded and said, "Yes, since he fell from my hand, then he must be recovered from my hand, even if it is a corpse...... I can't let him be exposed to the wilderness......"

Lin Wanqing pressed Ye Hao's arm: "Brother Hao, don't be sad, we understand your current mood." Don't worry, we will help you find him. The other three nodded firmly.

Ye Hao's heart was moved, and he waved his hand to the four of them: "Okay, then let's set off, and we will not give up until we find the stone monkey." ”

The other four people also responded: "I will not give up until I find the stone monkey!"

The five men walked towards the outside of the village, and as soon as they reached the entrance of the village, a person quickly ran out of a hut and stopped in front of several people.

Ye Hao took a closer look, this was a child less than ten years old, stunned, holding a rock sugar gourd in his hand, and a long green snot on his face.

Several people were happy when they saw it, it turned out that this child was Lin Douzi, the youngest grandson of the village chief Lin Deshou, who was stupid since he was a child, and he always followed a few of their older children to fool around, but he didn't expect to be entangled by this kid again today.

Lin Douzi habitually wiped a handful of snot with his sleeve, pretending to be cute and said: "Brother Ye Hao, Sister Wanqing, where are you going so early, why don't you bring Douzi with you when you go out to play." After speaking, he put on an extremely aggrieved expression.

The little fat man Lin Toad didn't say a word, came up and flapped the little bean aside, pretending to be fierce and vicious: "What are the children doing, we have something important to do, but not to play, you go home quickly." ”

Lin Douzi's face changed in an instant, and his expression changed even more, and then he cried out with a "wow" and shouted: "Brother Toad bullies, go out to play without beans." ”

When he shouted, the screams came out far away, and beads of sweat immediately rolled down the fat man's face. He stepped forward and blocked Lin Douzi's mouth at once, and said hatefully: "Little Douzi, stop shouting, I won't let you follow us after shouting again." ”

Lin Douzi didn't eat this, he still cried unrelentingly: "Sister Wanqing, you usually have the best for beans, why don't you take beans to play today, Brother Toad bullies Douzi, you don't care about Sister Wanqing...... Sister Wanqing doesn't like beans anymore......" After speaking, she cried out like a wolf.

After all, the girl is soft-hearted, Lin Wanqing snatched the beans from the fat man's hand, hugged the beans in her arms, and comforted: "Okay, okay, don't cry about the beans, Sister Wanqing still likes beans." But the place we're going to today is dangerous, you really can't follow us. ”

"Wow......", hearing Wanqing say this, Lin Douzi cried even more, he hugged Lin Wanqing's waist violently, and cried: "Sister Wanqing, if you don't take the beans with you, then the beans won't let go." ”

Lin Wanqing was speechless for a while, and he looked up at Ye Hao.

Ye Hao also showed a helpless expression and said, "Okay, Douzi, you can follow us, but you have to stay away when there is danger." ”

"Yes, Brother Ye Hao, or Brother Ye Hao feels the most distressed about the beans. Lin Douzi was overjoyed, and immediately showed a sweet smile to Ye Hao, and wiped his green snot with his sleeve.

In this way, there was an extra stinky forest bean in the team.

Lin Wanqing took Lin Douzi's hand and followed a few people to continue to set off. Lin Douzi was full of joy, and a sly and smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth from time to time.

Ye Hao was familiar with the road and took everyone straight to the jungle, but after entering the jungle, he found that he couldn't find that strange valley no matter how he looked for it......

A few people shuttled back and forth through the dense jungle, seeing that it was almost noon, but they could not find the valley.

It was as if the valley had disappeared completely.