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It was completely dark, and it started to snow again. Although everyone was well equipped, they felt that the weather was really bad.

The temperature in the mountains has always been lower than that outside the mountains, even if there is a fire, it is not very warm.In the small room, everyone gathered around a small table to drink hot soup. The kind-faced middle-aged man rubbed his hands awkwardly. It seemed that he hadn't communicated with outsiders for a long time. He wanted to say something, but couldn't find a topic.

Seeing the other party's nervousness, Cheng Wanshi sighed, and said slowly, "It's really cold, Brother Gao, do you all rely on burning fires to keep warm?"

The middle-aged man, namely Gao Chengjun nodded quickly, his expression was more natural, and he didn't seem to be so entangled: "Yes, the mountain roads are impassable, and we rarely go out, and we are basically self-sufficient. Anyway, there are many mountains and trees around, and firewood Everything has been burnt." After speaking, he noticed that the bowl of Chengwanshi was empty, and wanted to ladle him soup again.

The body has warmed up, and the joints are not so stiff. Cheng Wanshi declined the other party, showing a sincere smile: "No wonder, there are few outsiders in the village, right? We thought we couldn't find a place to stay, and we were going to pitch a tent in the mountains." .”

Gao Chengjun frowned, and soon opened it again: "Oh, Chongyang Mountain has a bad reputation, and even our village is not popular, except for some young guys who occasionally come in and say they want to explore, basically no one will go here Come on. Most of the younger generation in the village have gone out to work and won't come back. If I didn't get along outside and miss the old house, I wouldn't..." He swallowed the last part of the sentence and replaced it with a wry smile.

"Are the parents of those children playing in the wasteland working outside?" Xu Cheng, who is an orphan himself, felt the same way and couldn't help asking.

"That's right, it's not that everything is expensive in the city, and they couldn't afford to raise children, so they sent them back." Gao Chengjun disagreed, but there was nothing he could do, so he could only complain to outsiders, "They, It’s just relying on the elderly at home to be able to move, send something every month, and work hard outside.”

Hearing the contempt in the other party's words, Bai Jiu cleared her throat: "Maybe it's because she doesn't want to leave, because she thinks this place is too remote."

"How do you talk!" Cheng Wanshi reached out and knocked him on the head, with a fierce expression, but immediately calmed down when he turned his head, and apologized to Gao Chengjun embarrassedly, "My brother is young, and he has no brains when talking..."

Gao Chengjun was very honest, waved his hands again and again and said: "It's okay, it's okay! Children are lively!" When he said this, his face showed a bit of disappointment, "If it wasn't for me being worthless, alas."

While a few people were chatting, Jiang Fengbai looked around...Suddenly, he half-closed his eyes and asked, "Did Brother Gao's child come back?"

"Yeah, studying in the city with her mother." Gao Chengjun sighed, with a strong sense of helplessness in his tone, "I will live in this village all my life with me, and I will suffer so much. It is better to be a city dweller."

Everyone understood, it seemed that the other party was divorced, or separated from his wife. In short, the child lived with his wife, and he went back to his hometown by himself.However, Cheng Wanshi was still a little puzzled, he poked Jiang Fengbai's waist with his elbow, and asked in a low voice, "How do you know he has a child?"

"On the shelf over there, there are children's toys, which are very old. Coupled with his age, I think he should have children."

Cheng Wanshi was dumbfounded: "Can you guess right?"

After talking about the child, Gao Chengjun was not in a good mood. He opened the window and looked at the yard, frowning: "It's still snowing..." After thinking about it, he turned around and said to everyone, "It seems that it won't be warm for a while, I'll go and tidy up the room first, and set up the brazier." After finishing speaking, he picked up his coat and went out.

Seeing Gao Chengjun's figure disappearing outside the door, Cheng Wanshi said, "There are strange things in the village."

The few people who were lucky to have found a place to stay overnight suddenly looked over curiously. Even Situ Jingwen, who had been silent all this time, was attracted by these words.

Xu Cheng nodded in agreement: "Yes!"

"If it is an ordinary villager, this behavior is quite normal. However, you see, we came all the way, except for Gao Chengjun, we only saw some old people and children. If all the young people go out to work, how can the children who are still in their infancy be taken away?" Send it back? The family that rejected us at the very beginning, an old man who can hardly walk, actually guards the child who still needs to be nursed? How to take care of it? Aren't you afraid of dying?" Cheng Wanshi analyzed it logically.

Hearing what he said, Jiang Fengbai also noticed something was wrong: "Young people, wasteland, self-sufficiency..."

Bai Jiu raised her eyebrows: "Unless Gao Chengjun lied."

"It's impossible for a whole village of young people to disappear out of thin air. Maybe they are all hidden, or something else is helping the villagers." Situ Jingwen made a creepy guess.

"Another point is that when they entered the village, they were very excited, although they didn't show it. They were obviously very xenophobic. They didn't allow us to stay overnight, but they expected us to enter the village...Even if Gao Chengjun took us in with a 'great kindness', the villagers didn't Came to the door and forced him to drive us away." When he said the words "show kindness", Cheng Wanshi deliberately emphasized his tone.

Hearing this, Jiang Fengbai's face became even more gloomy: "They did it on purpose."

"But Gao Chengjun looks like a good man... Besides, is there any benefit in deliberately luring us to live in his house?" Xu Cheng became more and more puzzled.

"Hush—" Cheng Wanshi suddenly raised his head, motioning for everyone to be quiet.

After a while, Gao Chengjun's footsteps gradually approached, accompanied by his words with a smile: "I haven't had any guests for so many years, and the room is full of dust, just clean it up."

Cheng Wanshi curled the corner of his mouth, looking very cute and harmless: "Thank you, brother Gao! I am really troublesome for you."

"It's okay, it's okay, you city people like to go to the mountains to play, you have no experience, it's bad if you don't get trapped in the snow." Gao Chengjun said worriedly, probably because he has seen too many donkey friends who got lost and died in the mountains, "rest early , if it continues to snow, you can stay for a few more days, and wait for the snow to stop and go down the mountain."

"We still have to go up the mountain! Go to Chongyang Mountain!" Bai Jiu blinked and said the purpose of the trip carelessly.

Gao Chengjun seemed to be frightened by him, and he kept persuading him, and he didn't feel relieved until several people promised not to go up the mountain.

Gao's house has a few empty rooms, just for a few people to live in. Although it is not clean, it is comfortable, and it is much warmer after burning the brazier.Cheng Wanshi lay on the bed, sniffed, seemed to dislike the smell of the quilt, got up and opened the luggage, took out a few pieces of golden mahogany wood and threw them into the brazier.The room was as warm as spring, and it wasn't cold at all, so he calmly pushed the quilt aside.

Jiang Fengbai took off his coat, saw the person on the bed tossing and turning, seemed very uncomfortable, so he went forward to occupy the other half of the bed, and hugged the person in his arms: "When you find Lu Zhuang, leave this place immediately."

"That Gao Chengjun really knows how to act, he was calm, and he didn't show his feet when he was tempted by Bai Jiu. However, I think he must have something to do with the person who kidnapped Lu Zhuang." If he hadn't suspected it for a long time, he observed the other party's expression carefully, Maybe you will feel that this person is really amiable, like an ordinary villager.Cheng Wanshi changed his posture, leaned on Jiang Fengbai's body, smelled the other person's smell, and felt less bored: "Tomorrow morning at the latest, he will definitely do something."

Those seemingly delicious and warming soups are filled with good things. For ordinary people, after drinking half a bowl, they will fall asleep.

It's a pity that Cheng Wanshi is not very human. In order not to startle the snake, he only hinted at Bai Jiu to make him be more vigilant, and did not say it to others.Thinking of this, Cheng Wanshi sneered, his dark eyes became deeper and deeper: "I want to see what is hidden in Chongyang Mountain."

The author has something to say:

The name of this volume is 凐蛇, 凐 [yīn], the original meaning: the freezing climate of the western plateau.Extended meaning: cold, cold appearance.

It is different from [yān]/[yīn], the former has two points of water, and the latter has three points of water.