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It gets dark early in Xiejiao Village, and it gets bright early.

Meng Yan sat quietly by the bed for two hours, and there was already some hazy sunlight outside the house.

He wanted to go out and wash his face to wake up, but he heard the sound of the ladder again. It was Aunt Li who came back with someone, as if she was carrying something.

"Third Aunt, don't be too sad. When a person leaves, it doesn't mean that the ashes return to the ashes. The old man was taken away by King Yalu and went to enjoy the blessing!" The strange voice seemed a little excited, and it sounded young.

Meng Yan stretched, held his chin and began to listen to the corner of the wall.

"Oh, I know, there's nothing I can do about it." Aunt Li's voice came in, "It's really troublesome for you to transport my father up here."

"No trouble, no trouble, the old man has already delivered it, so you can prepare it."

The young man seemed to have left the house, because Meng Yan heard the sound of climbing down the ladder.

Silence returned in the hall, and only Aunt Li's breathing could be heard from time to time, as well as the sound of wiping her tears and blowing her nose.After a while, Aunt Li left.

Meng Yan didn't want to go out hastily, he returned to the bed and sat down, muttering, "It's so weird."

In fact, he knew in his heart that he had entered some strange game or competition. Although he didn't care about his own life and didn't take this game seriously, he couldn't just watch others die.

Because he has wandered between life and death, and witnessed countless roommates screaming and crying while lying on the hospital bed, he can understand people's desire for life, and he is also willing to help people with good hearts like Wang Bowen survive.

If he hadn't slept with Wang Bowen today, he might have died.

This forced Meng Yan to take this place seriously.

At first he followed along just out of curiosity, but now he's changed his mind.

First, the announcement asking him to protect his teammates may be a test for him, even if the system does not allow him to protect him, he will do so; second, there are really ghosts in Xiejiao Village, which made Meng Yan feel Challenge the mind.

He has traveled all over the world, but he has never had such a novel experience.

Meng Yan decided to get serious.

He doesn't know whether the world he is in now is virtual or somewhere in reality, but he understands that this game is by no means that simple. Maybe in addition to taking care of these teammates, he also needs to collect information, or "plot", Maybe there will be hints that can help them survive.

The thoughts in his mind were interrupted not long after they existed, because the fat man moved.

Wang Bowen woke up shivering in cold sweat, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he grabbed Meng Yan and cried, "Brother Meng, you would never have imagined that I had a terrible dream last night!"

Meng Yan...

"Did you see that window? I dreamed that there were ghosts outside the window!" Wang Bowen himself was not so afraid. "Then...you beat the ghost with a candlestick."

Meng Yan quietly walked to the table and turned the bloody side of the candlestick inside. "Brother's image is quite tall in your heart."

Wang Bowen nodded wildly.

"Okay, don't scare yourself, go wash your face."

The fat man got up tremblingly, and just as he opened the door, there was another horrific scream.

"Coffin coffin coffin coffin coffin!"

Meng Yan glanced over and found that Wang Bowen was very upbeat this time and did not faint again.

But his scream woke up all the sleeping people. The baby-faced Li Qing and the prematurely aging-faced Lu Ren opened the door with displeasure, and then they were scared back by the second, but Lin Manshu surrounded the coffin with great interest. walked around.

"You didn't cover the coffin, just put it in the living room." She wasn't afraid, but there seemed to be disgust in her expression, "Hey, why is your head so swollen?"

Meng Yan sat in the room thinking to himself, his strength is useless, he kept his hands, probably because of his osteoporosis.

Wait, what did Lin Manshu just say?

Now he couldn't sit still.

On the other side, Wang Bowen boldly went over to take a glance, almost peeing in fright, isn't this the ghost he saw last night?Isn't it a dream?

Fatty's soul was about to fly away, but he saw Meng Yan going straight to the coffin, and actually poked his head in, and he did it!

When Meng Yan saw the face of the corpse, his heart sank suddenly.After all, being old and mature like this, as if the folds had become fine, really impressed him deeply.

He touched the body's temperature and pulse with his hands, opened his eyelids again, and found that the eyeballs inside had shriveled and turned upside down.This is definitely not a fake, but a real corpse.

Yesterday, it was "it" who hit the floor after climbing the ladder. The uncle is really strong and healthy.

"What kind of place is this..." Meng Yan laughed angrily, "How about shooting ghost movies?"

Lin Manshu looked at him curiously, but got no answer.

Meng Yan told Wang Bowen not to tell the story, and then knocked on the door one by one to call the students out.

"This, this is the coffin, right?" The timid people drooped their faces and didn't even want to get close.

"As you can see." Meng Yan shrugged, "Go find Aunt Li with me and ask her what's going on."

A group of people followed him to the gate and climbed down the ladder. In front of them was a rather turbulent stream. There were two people standing in the stream, which saved the time to find someone in the field.

One of the two is older, wearing very traditional Miao women's clothing, and the other man is wearing a clean white shirt, and the whole body is covered with a layer of morning light, plus that face...

Meng Yan clearly heard Lin Manshu's admiring click of her tongue.

But he himself seemed to be struck by lightning, and he froze for a long time, and it took a long time for him to show disgust.

Why does this man look so much like his ex-boyfriend?

Meng Yan was disgusted and couldn't help but want to confirm. He wanted to be polite, but he couldn't say anything nice to that face.

"Who is that, the others are awake."

Before the man could reply, the aunt who was holding a basket in her hand laughed, "Oh, it's considered good. When I moved you home, I thought I couldn't save you."

"Uh." The fat man rubbed his nose and whispered to Meng Yan, "Brother Meng, is this Aunt Li?"

Aunt Li's hearing is very good, and she can hear it from a long distance, "Isn't it me? These days, you eat, drink and drink at my house, so you need to get to know me."

"Thank you, Aunt Li." The fat man was startled, straightened his body immediately, and bowed exaggeratedly to her.

Amused by the little fat man playing tricks, Aunt Li waved her hands, rolled up her trousers and went ashore, followed by the young man behind her.

Meng Yan immediately took a few steps back.

"Who is that?" The man had a cold face, but he smiled gently at Meng Yan, "Ruishen, my name."

Ruishen is very white, especially when standing with Meng Yan, his pupils are so shallow that they reflect the sky like a stream, showing a faint blue.On this delicate face, the lips are probably the only prominent color.Although his lips are red and his teeth are white, but his outline is very clear, there is always a sense of sharpness in his eyebrows and eyes, and no one would dare to go up to talk to him when he is stern.

This face, which was rarely seen on TV, was too close, making Meng Yan frowned unconsciously.

Not the same, although they look a bit alike, they are not the same person.

He didn't answer, but turned to the student behind him like a little chicken and said, "After being rescued to the village, it was Aunt Li who took the initiative to help take care of us, why don't you thank her?"

With a few sparse thanks, Aunt Li shook the basket.

"You must be starving. The river fish that Xiao Rui helped catch is available for lunch today. I'm going to cook right away."

Meng Yan didn't want to ask her directly about the coffin, so he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to follow suit, but was quickly driven back by Aunt Li.

The sun outside was very poisonous, so a group of city people had to go back to the hall of the stilted building and sit far away from the coffin.

I don't know who mentioned it first, and began to talk about the mountain torrent.

"We are living here, how can we get out?" Lu Ren finally stopped being a gourd.

Rui Shen said, "All six of us have lost our mobile phones and lost our luggage. As for Xiejiao Village, it is very backward. I didn't even find electrical facilities in the house, and I didn't see anyone using the phone. I asked Aunt Li about it." , the nearest Zhuxi County also has tens of miles of mountain roads, it is very easy to get lost, and there is only one bus passing here a week, fortunately, the driving route has not been affected by flash floods, so we can only wait."

The terrain of Zhuxi County is undulating and mountainous, with rivers interspersed vertically and horizontally like ring belts, and most of them are mountainous.Like Xiejiao Village, which is located in the middle of the basin and separated from the county by a few mountains, it is probably the only one.

Because of this, the traffic in this place is extremely inconvenient, and the people in the village still live a poor and backward life. The environment retains the oldest and primitive side, and the vegetation grows extremely wantonly, as if breaking free from shackles, flaunting the past of the years. trace.

Meng Yan is not fascinated by the beautiful scenery here. He feels that in this kind of place, no one can hear your cry for help.

Wang Bowen hesitated to speak, remembering that Meng Yan warned him not to tell about the ghost encounter, so he could only keep the words in his stomach.

But he really didn't want to stay in Xiejiao Village, so he propped up his fat body and said solemnly, "How about this, I still have the only big ticket left in my pocket, and I will buy a ticket to go to the county when the traffic opens. You can stay in the village. The combined fare of the six of us can’t be paid by the villagers, the conditions in the village are really not good.”

Li Qing said, "Go and inform the professor, and change some money at the bank by the way, and we will transfer it to you when we go back to school."

The fat man said generously, "Okay, when the time comes, I will take you to the county when I come back from renting a car."

After finalizing the plan, the big stone in everyone's heart has been dropped, and there is joy on their faces.

Lin Manshu joked, "I was too embarrassed to say too much in the car before, but now that I'm familiar with it, I dare to say it. Brother Meng, you don't look like the professor at all."

Meng Yan touched his face, not knowing why, but felt that Lin Manshu was too interested in him.

Ruishen is here, but he still has the peripheral vision of the opposite sex allocated to him?

Meng Yan has always been a person who is very confident in his appearance, but Ruishen can't bear to stand out.

Lin Manshu covered her mouth and smiled, and glanced at the man with agile eyes, "Brother Meng, once you wear this mandarin jacket, you look really integrated into the local area."

This mandarin jacket has a long story to tell. He rescued people immediately after encountering a flash flood. Those masters were covered with mud, and he was scratched by wild branches, and his clothes were all in rags. Aunt Li probably saw him. It was too pitiful for him to have no clothes, so I changed them for him.

But why did Lin Manshu's words sound wrong?

The team leader, who has been exposed to the wind and sun all year round, reacted quickly, realizing that the big girl turned around and called him dark.

"What do you know?" Meng Yan snorted, with a bit of self-pity. "This is called wild beauty. Look at the male models on the cover of foreigners. It is popular for me to have dark skin and a good figure."

No wonder Meng Yan is narcissistic, his appearance is really superior.

Honey-colored skin, tall, and quite beautiful muscle lines, anyone who sees it will shine.

Meng Yan heard a chuckle from beside him, and before he could attack Ruishen, he was interrupted by Wang Bowen's flattery.

"That is, my brother Meng must be a girl killer when he is sent abroad!" Fatty also joined in the fun in order to alleviate his fear.

"The mouth is so sweet." Meng Yan smiled and touched the dog's head.

"The truth." Wang Bowen was serious. "I still think Manshu looks like a female star, but I can't remember what it's called."

While chatting and laughing, it was noon in a flash, and Aunt Li stopped running to the fields, but cooked lunch for everyone.Although the students were hungry, there was a coffin parked not far away, and no one had much appetite.Aunt Li was unaffected, chewing the rice in big mouthfuls.

Meng Yan was aroused by this game, he knew that now is the time to inquire about the business.

He put down his chopsticks while eating, "Auntie, I don't know if I can ask..."

Aunt Li put down her chopsticks and said enthusiastically, "If there's anything you can't do, just ask."

Meng Yan: "What is this coffin?"

The smile on the middle-aged woman's face changed, and in the end she couldn't hold it any longer, showing other expressions.

"My father passed away last night, and he was sent to me today to take a bath and cleanse himself." Aunt Li looked really sad, with some redness and swelling remaining in her eyes, she smiled wryly, "Although we don't live together, my daughter needs to die for him , this is our custom."

custom……

Meng Yan should have given up on this topic, so as not to cause Aunt Li's sadness, but his intuition told him that he should continue to ask.

"Auntie, can you tell us about the customs on your side? You also know that we are all students of the Folklore Department, and we came here to record these." Meng Yan took Aunt Li's hand and said softly.

"There are still people studying this stuff."

Aunt Li seemed to think that it would save face for the people in the city to be interested in their customs, so she started talking endlessly.

Following Aunt Li's narration, Meng Yan's complexion gradually darkened.

If someone dies here, the daughter is responsible for loading the coffin and buying sacrifices, and the son is responsible for hiring the undertaker "Donglang".Since the old man only has this one daughter left, and everyone else has gone to work in the city, Aunt Li has to take care of everything.

The most peculiar thing is that their funeral has a traditional ceremony.

This traditional ceremony is a long story, and it can be traced back to the era of the Central Plains.

The ancestor of the Miao people was Chi You. After the defeat of Chi You and Yanhuang, most of the Miao people migrated. Later, Dayu attacked the three Miao people. In history, the Miao people experienced a total of five major migrations.

This scattered ethnic group is spread all over the world, and the branch in Wangmo County, Mashan, or the branch in Xiejiao Village, retains the oldest tradition-"singing scriptures and cutting horses".

What is sung is the epic of King Yalu, and what is chopped is the horse that knows the way.

Meng Yan caught the point very keenly. He remembered that the young man had mentioned King Yalu in the morning, but Aunt Li stopped talking, and just waved her hand and said, "You will know when the time comes."

The bags under her eyes were big and deep, covering the misery of a country woman. Seeing that everyone stopped eating, Aunt Li rolled up her sleeves and started to clean up the dishes.

"Thank you so much, Aunt Li." Wang Bowen clasped his hands together and bowed.

"It's okay, just look at what you said." Aunt Li wiped the table, all her sorrow was hidden, and she looked very kind. "By the way, which university are you from? There have never been any college students in our village."

"From Capital University." Wang Bowen said.

"People from the capital?" Aunt Li grinned up at the corners of her mouth that had just drooped.

"I'm not." Wang Bowen shook his head, "My family is from Luoyang, not a local."

Hearing this, Aunt Li couldn't control her expression anymore, she bared her teeth suddenly, and smiled silently, as if she was so overwhelmed by the extreme surprise that she didn't know what to do, the wrinkles on her face piled up together , looked very strange and ferocious.

Everyone was taken aback by Aunt Li's smile.

Wang Bowen was also frightened. Aunt Li immediately restrained her expression when she saw this, as if the scene just now had never happened before. After cleaning the table, she hummed a little tune that no one could understand and left. She seemed in a very good mood .

The students looked at each other.

"Don't you think Aunt Li was a little weird just now?" Wang Bowen wiped off his cold sweat.

Li Qing curled his lips, "Don't scare yourself, okay, they are just too enthusiastic."

As soon as the words fell, there was a creaking sound from the ladder. Wang Bowen, who overreacted, immediately turned his head to look over, and found that Aunt Li had returned.

"I forgot to take the rag, hee hee."

The middle-aged woman's smile was like a mask stuck on her face, Wang Bowen didn't think he would be so happy if he won the lottery.

A meal broke up badly.

Due to the bad luck, not many people left the house today, and no one went outside to gather wind. They had just experienced a mudslide, so they didn't dare to run around casually.

Aunt Li is a hardworking person, and her father was the village chief. Although she is the only one left in this life, she doesn't want to be looked down upon. She spends all day cleaning the house, and she insists on doing it herself even if someone wants to help her.

The solid wood tables and chairs are waxed, the old beams are swept away, and the stilted building, which is as old as my father, faintly glows with new brilliance.

Meng Yan and others listened to the sound of clanging sweeps until dusk.

The fat man huddled on the bed and shivered, and asked, "Brother Meng, aren't you afraid?"

"What's the use of being afraid, here is deep in the mountains and you can't escape, so you just waited for the bus for two days." Meng Yan sighed, "I thought you would lose your sense of fear, but you have figured out a way Well, you are our only hope."

After all, he looked at the countdown.

Countdown to Survival 06:15:00

It's still early.

Wang Bowen cheered himself up and nodded again and again, "I will definitely rescue you, this place is too evil."

Meng Yan raised his eyebrows, then changed the subject, "Hey, Fatty, are you familiar with Rui?"

Wang Bowen was confused at first, but immediately remembered "Ruishen, who doesn't know him, our schoolmaster senior."

The fat man snapped his fingers and said, "He is handsome, has a good temper, and is capable. It's hard not to know such a person, he is simply a god descended from the mortal world."

Meng Yan said sourly, "It's fine, it's fine, I'm not interested anymore."

"I'm going to put some water first, I've eaten too many pears." Wang Bowen got up, far away from the window, resisting all over his body, and moved for half a minute before leaving the room.

Meng Yan was amused. He took off his Miao clothes, which were one size smaller, and hung them on the chair. He was stretching his upper body, which had been tensed all day, when he heard the door knock.

"So fast? It seems that the current is very fast." He didn't turn his head, and turned his mouth to complain about the fat man.

"Is this welcoming me?" Ruishen's voice sounded.

Meng Yan turned his head so hard that he almost twisted his neck. He quickly put on his clothes and cursed in his heart that Cao Cao would be there soon.

Although Ruishen was not the person he knew, Meng Yan really couldn't be amiable, because Ruishen felt too much like that bastard.

"How did you come?"

"Wang Bowen said that he was afraid of the windows in this room and didn't want to live next to the ladder, so I switched with him." Rui's deep and shallow pupils smiled and looked at the awkward person.

Meng Yan sat down on the floor with a mournful face, "Okay, then you can sleep here."

"Don't want to see me?"

Rui squatted down to get closer to Meng Yan, his dark hair against his cold white skin looked a bit bewildering.

Meng Yan felt that he was too naive.

In this world, there really is an old friend at first sight—not an old friend, but an old enemy.

He thinks he has an easy-going personality and generally would not be hostile to others, but this man managed to make the impossible possible.

Not only do they look alike, but they also have similar auras. It is a miracle for Meng Yan that he will feel psychologically resistant just by looking at them.

"I have already found out what you asked me to inquire about, what about the reward?" Ruishen stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Meng Yan.

"You speak first."

"I asked the old people in the area, and they all refused to say what King Yalu is, and they are very wary of this." Ruishen stood up and looked down at the other party, "Then I specifically asked the children."

"Ask out?"

"They say that King Yalu means King Miao, the ancestor of the past generations." His eyes changed. "But what interests me the most is the part of cutting horses. Do you know what cutting horses is?"

Meng Yan knew that he was trying to whet his appetite, so he frowned fiercely and said, "There's so much nonsense, hurry up and talk."

"People here believe that horses can know the way and can bring people's souls back to the Central Plains where their ancestors lived. Therefore, in the funeral ceremony, a horse must be brought in, and it cannot be killed quickly. The horse must be tortured. Hours, and then cut off its head."

Ruishen's tone was a bit gloomy, "Dong Lang cooperates with the horse-cutting master and sings the handed down King Yalu's Sutra, so that the souls of the dead can return to the Central Plains, and they will no longer suffer from being displaced."

Meng Yan was silent for a while, "What do you think?"

"Remuneration." Ruishen didn't answer.

Meng Yan twitched the corner of his mouth, "Make a request."

Although Meng Yan was very resistant to Ruishen, he was the only one in the team who looked more reliable, so he was asked for help.However, Meng Yan couldn't do it if he didn't like people and used them, so he agreed to Ruishen that he could raise conditions.

The big deal is to treat him like a cow or a horse for a few days!

Ruishen hugged his shoulders, the pensive expression on his face made Meng Yan swallow.

"The reward is, you sleep in bed tonight."

What?

Meng Yan had question marks all over his face, "What about you? You sleep on the floor?"

"Of course I sleep in bed too."

Meng Yan... I'd better treat you like a cow or a horse.

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