no one knows better than me

Mei Xiaohan, who was focusing on the scroll, didn't pay attention, and suddenly flew forward according to the inertia. Zhu Heng opened his eyes and grabbed her faster than Mei Hualan, and pulled her back.

"What's the matter?? Who is it???" Mei Xiaohan didn't know where to look at all of a sudden, he staggered and turned his head half a circle quickly, and then turned his eyes to the left side.There is a "person" hanging on the corner of the cliff, but it is not a living person, but a lifelike statue, the size of a normal person.

Zhu Heng quickly let go of the bow, looked at the stone statue from a distance, and said in a flat tone: "It's ugly."

Facing a stone statue who wanted to comment on beauty and ugliness, Zhuang Qingliu had nothing to say to her. He just looked up the cliff again, and quickly patted the pine tree under him, making it run again.Although it is a bit abrupt, it is not surprising that this kind of cliff statues are actually very common no matter in the past or the present.But after the pine trees nimbly ran and turned around the foot of the mountain in front of them, a large forest of stone sculptures gradually appeared on the cliff halfway where everyone hadn't looked away.

Zhuang Qingliu quickly said again: "Stop!"

This time Mei Xiaohan also frowned and sat up a little bit straighter. He also grasped the branches with both hands tightly after learning the lesson from the previous time, and said carefully, "It's strange. Senior Zhuang, Hualan, look, the mountains here are originally soft. The loamy soil on the mountain rarely has large rocks, let alone ones as big as people can be carved. But why are there so many natural giant stone statues standing there? There are probably more than 1000 of them, right?"

Not only are there more than 1000 of them, but they even vary in size. At a glance, some of them are nearly ten feet high.Zhu Heng, who was watching over there carefully, suddenly turned back when he heard that Mei Xiaohan's address was only "Senior Zhuang and Hua Lan", and glanced at her with a cool face.

Zhuang Qingliu thought for a while, then hummed quickly, wrapped Mei Hualan's hands around his waist self-help, and said, "Mei Pan, go and have a look."

Meihualan flew up according to the words, and flew towards the stone carving forest halfway up the cliff. In mid-air, she suddenly turned her head and touched Xiazhuang Qingliu's cheek like a dragonfly.Zhuang Qingliu turned her head suddenly, looked at her curiously, smiled and asked softly, "Do you miss me?"

Mei Hualan brought her to the ground very dignifiedly, and only then seemed to be walking around the statues around and hummed lightly.

With a very small sound, like a lamb bleating, Zhuang Qingliu smiled happily in her heart. She couldn't help holding her hand, kneading her fingers quietly, and said to her ears: "If I knew it, I wouldn't bring them here. Come two."

In the past, when Zhuang Qingliu said such words, Mei Hualan would not usually answer them, but this person is different now, after looking around, he nodded naturally and said, "Next time. "

"Hahaha. Okay, next time." Zhuang Qing Liuwei sounded like a colorful balloon, and floated it lightly into the sky, then looked back, Zhu Heng flicked it away like a Zen finger, and Mei Xiaohan was just about to Pulling out Yukong's sword, he immediately lifted her by the back of her neck like a rag, and quickly brought her over.

As soon as Mei Xiaohan landed on the ground, he pulled his crooked collar back and forth, and said to the dog in a very solemn tone: "This is only this time, this time is not an example."

Zhu Heng glanced at her: "How about carrying it again?"

Mei Xiaohan said seriously: "I'll kill you with one punch."

"..."

Zhuang Qingliu next to him laughed undisguisedly for a few times before turning his eyes away from their faces, and carefully shuttled Mei Hualan into the stone forest - just how these two people are now "love to death"?That is probably the artistic processing that Mei Xiaohan, a senior writer, will do for himself in the future.Vegetable chickens peck each other like this, it's pretty good to be able to like each other.

The road halfway up the mountain is not smooth, and some places are even very steep and rugged, and you will roll down if you are not careful, so it is even more strange that there are so many stone sculptures standing in this kind of place.

After Mei Hualan took a general look at the few statues around him, he pondered for a while and said, "The workmanship is rough, not fine." That is to say, it looks like a human being in appearance, and some details are not specific.

But such a simple and rough statue, most of them are carved with some commonly used weapons. Most of them wear a sword on their waist, and the rest hold a halberd with one hand, a hammer with both hands, a broadsword, and a bow and arrow. all have.

After Mei Xiaohan circled around a few times, he thought about it: "What do you mean? It's a stone carving forest for a group of warriors?"

A forest of stone carvings is about two feet wide and more than ten feet long. It doesn't take long to go around.Moreover, all the stone statues are rough carvings with simple techniques, and there is nothing special about them.Although it is more or less strange, Zhuang Qingliu knew some similarities to this strange large-scale stone sculpture forest in her previous life. After patrolling a statue that was not holding a weapon and was about the size of a little girl, she thought: "Let's go, this place is not far from Wazhai Village, just find someone to ask in a while."

Some things are beyond the reach of human beings now, but it is hard to say that they were able to do it in ancient times.Just like Zhu Heng is now cutting mountains and water everywhere every day, many of the traces she left behind will become a kind of miracle in a world where the aura has completely dissipated after a few years.

The few people quickly returned to the pine tree, and Mei Hualan also untied her plum-scented cloak, and wrapped Zhuang Qingliu in another layer.Deng Linyu's territory becomes drier and colder as it faces south, and there is no snow at all.Zhuang Qingliu, the lotus flower essence, knew that she had spiritual power and was not afraid of the cold, so she just wrapped herself into a ball fragrantly.The pine tree spirit carried them on their backs and ran wildly for about an hour of incense sticks, when the narrow path in front of them turned, the scenery in front of them suddenly brightened up.

This is a small fertile plain surrounded by mountains on three sides and water on one side. The air is very clear and there is a meandering river flowing slowly, like a jade belt.Even Mei Xiaohan couldn't help but feel pleasing to the eye and said: "It's a good place, no wonder it's in such a remote location, and there is such a village with such a large population."

When the pine tree ran into the entrance of the village again, Zhuang Qing's nose-piercing plum fragrance suddenly mixed with a fragrance like powder, and immediately walked around a very thick tree. A girl walking with a basket on her back appeared in front of the road.

Several people quickly jumped from the tree, and let the pine spirit pretend to be an aboriginal to take root and stand on the spot.Mei Xiaohan was the first to go up and talk to him, "Wait a minute, girl, are you from Wazhai Village?"

Although the person who stopped was still young, about eighteen or nineteen years old, he was dressed in gold and jade, and all kinds of bright jewelry on his head flashed in the setting sun, just like a walking jewelry store.The most important thing is that after the girl turned her head and looked at them carefully, she stared at Mei Hualan's sword with a vigilant tone and asked, "Are you monks?"

Zhuang Qingliu quickly exchanged a glance with Mei Hualan—since the scandals of Pei's Lan's and Changgeng's Immortal Mansion were exposed one after another, the people of the whole world have been irritated by the nature of these immortals who regard everything as a dog Pot, although some people remember that they are good at eliminating evil and evil, but for most ordinary people, the way they look at monks now is not much different from looking at stinky shit.

After Mei Xiaohan figured out what she meant, he quickly made up his words: "——No. We just know a little bit about swordsmanship." As he spoke, he echoed and scolded himself, " Those people from Xianmen are not good people, we used to join a small sect to make a living, and those people would not accept them with their nostrils upside down!"

As she spoke, the nine-petaled plum blossoms on Meihualan and Zhuang Qingliu's clothes quietly began to disappear.And when the girl heard this, although she still maintained a bit of vigilance, her tone obviously softened, and she said very displeased: "What kind of fairy sect, those people are the rats in the fields and the moths in the world. I heard Therefore, Young Master Zhuang of Mengchao has returned in the past half a year, let her show her supernatural powers and replace all these sects!"

"...?!" Zhuang Qingliu blurted out, "Who?!"

The girl walked into the village entrance and looked at her with disgust: "What's the matter? Haven't you even heard of this?"

Zhuang Qingliu wanted very much to say that not only had I heard of it, but I also knew it very well - that is, mere Bucai himself.

Although Mei Xiaohan felt it was absurd, he followed her closely after turning a small intersection at the entrance of the village, and asked a little subtly: "But she is not human, how could you have such an idea?"

There is a small yard in front of the intersection, with a fence gate and a loess wall. There are three thatched huts inside, and a few hangers of translucent bacon are hung under the eaves.

The girl pushed open the door with ease, and walked in first without stopping them, saying, "Is there anything you don't know about this, haven't you seen that? What's the difference between her and a human being after she transforms?" Where her finger was, it was A portrait used to suppress evil is pasted on one of the gates.

"???" Zhuang Qingliu hurried up to see what she looked like.I saw a woman in the portrait not like a flower spirit, but a vixen spirit, who looks like a gust of fragrant wind whistling by, her eyelashes are three feet long, and her nails are so long that they can scratch the wall.

Mei Hualan, who turned to the door for a look at the first time, seemed to have her eyes scalded, her eyelashes curled away quickly at a glance, and she was speechless without saying a word.

Zhu Heng didn't care about this at all, and didn't even enter the courtyard gate, but scanned the surroundings roughly and slowly at the intersection outside - this village is very strange, every house is closed as soon as night falls, and the gate of each door is There are also yellow talismans pasted on them, which are the simplest evil talismans.Not "Young Master of Tianshenzhuang".

After Mei Xiaohan looked away twitching from the corners of his eyes on the portrait on the gate, he quickly noticed Zhu Heng outside the courtyard.So with a thought in his heart, he took a few steps forward quietly, stuffed a magic talisman into each of Mei Hualan and Zhuang Qingliu's sleeves, and then hooked Zhu Heng in, and threw a ball into her collar—these four people I simply set up a communication array with the magic talisman, which can facilitate sound transmission and encryption.

Zhu Heng looked down coldly at his collar which had been pulled open again, raised his finger to draw out the ball, and flicked Mei Xiaohan on the forehead.Immediately without hindrance, he told the whole village about sticking talismans in a secret voice.

"This is something that can be discovered by looking at it casually with long eyes, and it's not too secretive. Why do you do it so quietly?" Mei Xiaohan quickly raised an eyebrow at Zhuheng Dalala, and stepped forward to ask openly The jewelry store girl.

Zhu Heng: "..."

The girl put down the back basket in the main room, lit the candles, casually pointed to the ordinary and dilapidated tables and stools in the center of the room, motioned them to sit by themselves, and said: "You have also seen that Wazhai Village is located in a remote place, with low terrain and surrounded by three sides. In the deep mountains, it is inevitable that there will be some evil spirits and the like, so everyone likes to paste evil talisman papers on the door, which is so strange."

Although among the people, there is a practice of pasting talismans on doors to ward off evil spirits in many places.But this is not a customary habit, because as we all know, even ordinary evil spirit talismans are drawn with spiritual power, and generally they will not be so generously wasted where they are not needed, not to mention that mountains, rivers and rivers have always had a feng shui fortune. It is said that Wazhai Village is not only a place of poor mountains and bad waters just by looking at the terrain and fresh air, but it is even a relatively aura of treasure.In such a place, under normal circumstances, there would be no evil spirits.

In other words, there is no use of magic symbols at all.

So there is another reason for sticking the spell—that is, something terrible and evil has happened, and the people here are still afraid.

Zhuang Qingliu glanced at the girl calmly, and asked curiously, "Then I see that every door has yellow talismans on it. Why didn't your house post it? And the village has already closed its doors at night. People are walking around, why did you just come back from outside? Aren’t you afraid?”

I don't know if it was an illusion, but the girl's side face seemed to darken silently and paradoxically under the light of the candle, and then she bent down and took out some needles, thread, powder and a bag of rice from the back basket without stopping. After seeing something like that, he raised his head expressionlessly, and said with dark eyes, "Because I am the only one left in our family. My parents and relatives are all dead, and I am not afraid of death now."

This answer seemed to surprise Zhuang Qingliu and the rest of the people who were staring at the corner. Zhuang Qingliu quickly put away his expression, nodded seriously at her and said, "I'm sorry."

The girl said "nothing" with a flat expression, walked over after finishing her own affairs, went to the kitchen to pick up a pot of hot water, and brought them a few cups to drink upside down.

Zhuang Qingliu thanked him again, and took out Mei Sigui, who had been unhappy after being robbed of the flower cake, from his sleeve, but was still very obedient, and asked, "Are there any snacks and pastries for us? Do you want a little bird that loves to chirp? You can buy it."

Although this girl is single, she wears gold and silver, and the family should have these things.

Sure enough, after looking at Zhuang Qingliu with a half-smile, the gold jewelry girl grabbed her body and walked towards the wooden cabinet, untied a bag she had just taken out from the back basket, and returned with a bag of snacks and put it on the table.Mei Sigui, who was rarely hungry since she was a child, immediately chirped and pecked happily.

The girl suddenly withdrew her hands, looked Mei Sigui up and down and said, "What kind of bird is this? Why does it look like this?"

"??" What does this look mean? Mei Sigui immediately asked loudly, "——Chirp?!"

"Can you understand human language?" The curiosity in the girl's eyes suddenly deepened, and she suddenly returned to Mei Si, "I lost my temper, so I won't eat it."

"..."

To eat.

Mei Sigui quickly jumped onto the edge of the table condescendingly, opened her wingtips, and allowed her to touch her bird feathers with a proud face: "—Chirp!"

Zhuang Qingliu burst into laughter seeing it's cute appearance, Mei Hualan couldn't help but said nothing, and the gold jewelry girl also smiled, and after touching its soft and smooth crane feathers gently, she unfolded the dessert On the table, said: "Eat all of you."

Mei Xiaohan could see through this bird cub who is usually so angry, but who would have bent down for a piece of dim sum. After looking at its feathers very itchyly, he still stretched out his hand for the dim sum.After running for most of the day without a drop of water, I was really hungry and thirsty.But who knows that before her hand touches the crumbs of the dim sum, Mei Sigui suddenly makes a whirlwind to poke her claws, swishing and swishing a whole bag of dim sum quickly into Zhuang Qingliu's sleeve, meaning to throw these into Zhuang Qingliu's sleeve All good ones will be hidden first.

Mei Xiaohan: "..."

Zhu Heng, who didn't like to eat and drink, suddenly took a cold look at the bird who was eating and taking, with a very disgusted expression.In her eyes, raising a bird like this is very disgraceful, not to mention that the bird usually pretends to be dignified, and it looks like a plum blossom circle.

Before the two birds were about to fight, Zhuang Qingliu quickly smiled and lifted his sleeves crookedly on Mei Hualan's body, touched half of the snacks that Mei Sigui threw in, took it out and said, "I know you are hungry, and you want to hide it." Delicious food is fine, but when you eat, you have to let others eat, okay?"

Mei Sigui's mouth was smeared by the delicious duck egg yolk puff pastry. She sat on the table and hugged half of the piece with her two little paws, and said to her very cutely: "Jiujiu." It means that she listened and was very obedient. obedient.

Zhuang Qingliu immediately kissed it's cute little head, and the girl in gold jewelry also looked at it a few times with interest, then went to the package and took out a pack of snacks, and said: "You guys eat first, I will cook, and I will cook in a while." Enough."

After Mei Xiaohan thanked you quickly, he said: "Don't bother, we still have urgent matters, we have to rest for a while and we have to continue to work. There are a few things I want to ask you first."

The girl quickly turned her head and asked, "What's the matter?"

Mei Xiaohan asked curiously: "The first thing is not a big deal, but I just want to ask what happened to the stone carving forest not far from the back mountain of your village? Did you carve it?"

The girl cut off the candle wick, shook her head and said casually: "The stone carving forest existed a long time ago, maybe hundreds of years ago. No one knows what happened and who carved it. There are many messy legends. What kind of god descended to earth and left a body to guard here, I have heard since I was a child that it was made up by the older generations to coax children."

Sure enough, Mei Xiaohan didn't ask any more questions, but turned around and said in an ordinary tone: "I passed by the Bailu Village in the north this morning, and I heard some people there said that some tree spirits seemed to have happened here decades ago. Do you know exactly what happened?"

"It's nothing. Just like what they said, an old pagoda tree at the entrance of the village has become old and mature, causing troubles and killing many people." The girl took a sip of water in a light tone, and said, "The pagoda tree is originally a yin tree. It's normal. And I wasn't born at that time, so I didn't know some things, and I just listened to what the elders said casually."

Several people were silently looking at her expression at the table. Mei Xiaohan thought for a while, as if she wanted to say something again, but Zhuang Qingliu asked directly at this moment: "Is there anyone over 60 years old in your village?" elder?"

It is actually very simple to find out the details of the matter of the locust tree becoming a spirit. The easiest way to rule out other accidents is to find a person involved and directly retrieve his memory.It’s just that this incident happened 43 years ago, which is too long. If you want to experience this incident and remember it, you must be over 60 years old.As for ordinary people in the folk, there are generally very few people who can live to be over 60 years old. It is difficult to say whether they can still be found now after excluding various reasons for relocation.

The gold jewelry girl seemed to drink water and thought for a long time before she said, "Yes. But there are only two."

Zhuang Qingliu immediately picked up Mei Sigui who was eating snacks: "Please lead the way, take us there."

The gold jewelry girl didn't say anything, and several of them got up and went out quickly one after another.Outside, the moon had already risen dimly, the clouds were so thick that only a little light leaked out, and it was cold and frosty everywhere.Zhuang Qingliu took a quick scan and found that there are only five or six family-style large earthen buildings in the east of the village, and the rest of the ordinary villagers still live in thatched houses and tile-roofed houses.

The girl took the lead and carried a not-so-bright lantern, turning back and forth on the winding track and field path, and said simply as she walked: "Everyone in our village has the surname Zhu, and this grandma is 67 years old. The eldest son lives together, but lives alone in the old shed next to the pigsty. His son loves to drink and has a bad temper, but the daughter-in-law is okay. When we knock on the door later, it’s better to keep our voices down."

As she spoke, she turned around a tall haystack of loess embryos, pointed at the small yard a dozen steps ahead with a lantern, and said, "This is it."

Just as Zhuang Qingliu and the others followed her gaze, a silver light and shadow suddenly flashed in the thick dark night, and then a creepy scream came out from the courtyard: "—Ahhh! Killed... Killed!

Zhuang Qingliu's scalp suddenly exploded, and a chill shot up her back like a poisonous snake. In a flash, she flew towards the courtyard separated by a wall - the corpse of an old man came into view, and fell heavily at the door with a bang .

Without saying a word, Mei Hualan immediately chased after Li Feng with the floating lamp on her back!