Zhao Mingdeng told Su Beize and the others about what he had seen and heard 20 years ago, but he didn't know Su Qiuyu. He had lived in Qiuyu Town for more than 40 years, and he had never heard of someone with this name.

"This name is very strange." Zhao Mingdeng said, "Who would call the town by its name? Unless..."

Su Beize said, "Unless what?"

Zhao Mingdeng pondered and said: "Unless this person is the founder of the town and the town is named after him, there is also a possibility that this person's parents took the town's name as the name to save trouble."

It is indeed possible to think this way, but no matter what the possibility is, Su Qiuyu will not be found for the time being.Su Beize frowned and thought, if even the mayor didn't know about Su Qiuyu, what clues could he have.

"You ran away back then because you saw this?" Soon, Gu Nanyuan's voice brought back Su Beize's thoughts.

Zhao Mingdeng said: "That's true, but it can't be said to be running away. Anyone who sees this kind of thing will be scared. I ran out of the town in one breath, but once I got out of the town, I found..."

Having said that, Zhao Mingdeng's face changed, as if he remembered something terrible, which made it difficult for him to continue talking.

Su Beize also became nervous, feeling the horrible scene below, turned his head to look at Gu Nanyuan, but Gu Nanyuan gave him a comforting smile.

Gu Nanyuan's smile made Su Beize relax for no reason, and his heart also settled down a lot.

Zhao Mingdeng took several more puffs of cigarettes, and after waiting for a long time, he said: "As soon as I ran out of the village, I felt that something was wrong with my legs and it started to itch. As a result, I scratched my legs and was so frightened that I touched them. There were a lot of long worms, and they were still alive. I looked down, and at some point, a large piece of earthworms appeared on my legs... on my legs..."

This scene, just hearing about it makes people feel hairy, let alone experiencing it personally, Su Beize rubbed his arms, and this time the goosebumps really popped up.

Zhao Mingdeng pulled up his trousers and showed them his legs. They saw that there were bumpy scars on them, like they were burned by cigarette butts, but they were a little smaller than that.

"This is what was left after I burned the earthworms and burned them alive with a cigarette end." Zhao Mingdeng said with a puff of smoke, "This matter has been kept in my heart for 20 years, and I have never mentioned it to anyone. When the boss asked, it was impossible for me to say anything.”

Gu Nanyuan took this favor from him, and said: "So, as soon as you leave this town, abnormalities will appear on your body?"

Zhao Mingdeng sighed and said: "Yeah, that's why I ran back again. As soon as I ran back, those bugs stopped growing. However, staying in this town is not absolutely safe. Last night The missing man is an example."

If you leave the town, your body will mutate, and if you stay in the town, all kinds of bizarre events will happen, and you can't live in peace.This seems to be a dead end.

But there is one thing that Su Beize still doesn't understand. Since Zhao Mingdeng has never mentioned his experience to others, and he is the only one who ran out of the town and came back, who told the people in the town? , Qiuyu Town can only enter but not exit?What's even weirder is that everyone believed it to be true.

For a moment, everyone fell silent, either frightened by the scene described by Zhao Mingdeng, or troubled by not being able to leave the town.

The silence was broken by a knock on the door, and everyone was startled, their hearts tensed.

After several knocks on the door, a little girl's crisp voice came from outside: "Uncle Zhao, I'm here to buy salt, are you home?"

Su Beize heaved a sigh of relief, Zhao Mingdeng got up and went to open the door, saying: "At home, wait for a while, I'll be here." Then he looked at Gu Nanyuan in embarrassment, "Boss Gu, look at this..."

Gu Nanyuan also stood up, greeted Su Beize and Chai Jiu, and said, "Go do business, we're leaving."

After the door opened, there stood a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl with a ponytail, a very delicate appearance, big and bright eyes, and a very snowy little girl.

"Come to buy salt?" Zhao Mingdeng said to the little girl with a smile.

The little girl was a little shy of strangers, she turned her eyes around Gu Nanyuan and the others, and timidly moved to the side: "My mother asked me to buy salt, and she said that the salt here is not expired and can be eaten."

"Pfft—" Chai Jiu laughed unkindly, Su Beize wanted to laugh too, but he was afraid of scaring the little girl, so he could only hold back.

Zhao Mingdeng went into the house and took a bag of salt, and handed it to the little girl. Seeing that Su Beize and the others were still lingering, he said with a headache: "Boss Gu, you are also in business, and the world is difficult now. If you don't work hard, your wife will starve to death." child."

Hearing "wives and children starved to death", Gu Nanyuan felt that it made sense, and turned to Su Beize and said, "Let's go, you can't starve your wives and children to death."

Su Beize: "..." Where did your wife come from... Oh, she does have a child.

The little girl had already run far away before them, and she might think that they were abnormal and looked scary.

Chai Jiu said: "That little girl runs so fast, she must think that we are tall and big, abnormal, and it looks scary."

Su Beize thought to herself, she only thinks you are scary, the moles on your face are not for nothing.

He just thought about it, but Gu Lin thought about it with him, and said, "Uncle Chai Jiu, she only thinks you are scary. You should find a way to get rid of the mole on your face."

Chai Jiugang wanted to say, "It's a natural thing, there's no way to go," but when the words came to his lips, he assured him, "Okay, I'll go to the hospital for an operation when I leave this town."

Gu Nanyuan glanced at him coldly and said, "If you don't go to the hospital, I will operate on you myself."

Chai Jiu swallowed immediately, feeling that the joke was overdone.

On the way back, they made a detour to the vegetable market.The vegetable market in Qiuyu Town is not very large, but fortunately, there are all kinds of melons, fruits, vegetables, chicken, fish, meat and eggs, just one word - dirty.

There are rotten vegetable leaves thrown away everywhere on the ground, and the water that washes the vegetables is also poured directly on the ground, and it flows into the underground tunnel by itself, and the chicken, fish, and seafood are even more invisible, not at all. where to step.

The vegetable market was very lively, and Gu Nanyuan also had a whim, but looking at the scene in front of him, he couldn't move for a long time. In the end, Su Beize walked in first, and Gu Nanyuan followed behind.

Thinking of the "earthfish" described by Zhao Mingdeng, Su Beize didn't dare to look at the fish sellers. The fish in Qiuyu Town all grew up eating earthworms, which naturally included the fish sold in the vegetable market.

"It's no wonder that the fish here are all so fat and strong." Chai Jiu said, "Fortunately, we haven't bought fish to eat. Let's eat beef tonight. I'll buy some potatoes and make potato beef stew for you. Lamb chops."

Su Beize said: "As long as you don't eat fish, that's fine." Thinking of Gu Nanyuan saying that he wanted to buy shrimp at noon, the fish and shrimp might be in a pond, and said, "Don't buy shrimp either, I'll just eat some vegetables."

Gu Nanyuan couldn't help but smiled, and said: "You are really easy to feed, so you should buy more vegetables."

Gu Nanyuan's casual words made Su Beize blush a little. It's not usually used to describe things like being easy to feed...

At this moment, Su Beize saw a familiar figure, widened his eyes, pointed to a vegetable stall not far away, and said, "That person..."

At this time, two people happened to pass by him, blocking his sight. When the two people walked past, he took a closer look, and there was no one in front of the vegetable stall.

Gone so soon?Su Beize was a little puzzled.

Gu Nanyuan looked in the direction of his finger and said, "What's wrong?"

"I saw a person." Su Beize said, "It was the owner of the breakfast stall I met when I first arrived in Qiuyu Town. He even took me for a ride on a tricycle."

However, he always felt that the boss who charged him six yuan at the beginning and the "boss" who took him by bike later were not the same person.In other words, the one at the beginning is a person, and the one behind is not known what it is.

And there was a mole on that thing's face, and the long worms under the mole fit Zhao Mingdeng's description very well.

Su Beize looked around, but he didn't find the early stall owner.

Gu Nanyuan said: "Let's go back."

It seemed that no one could be found, Su Beize said, "Okay, let's go."

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