The ink color soaked the earth, and the night wind was rustling, making a humming sound in the open field, like a woman's low sobbing.

Two orange dots loomed on the remote path. They were two men carrying lanterns. One was fat and the other was thin. They walked on the field ridge with one deep foot and one shallow foot. The candle in the lantern seemed to be extinguished. The appearance, it adds a bit more a sense of austerity.

"Hey, it's gloomy here, is there really any treasure?" The thin man shivered, and quickly lifted the hoe on his shoulder up. His teeth were chattering when he said this, and he didn't know it was because the night was too cold. Still freaked out.

"Didn't you also see the light from here just now? There must be a treasure born there!" The fat man spat and swore, and raised the lantern in his hand a little higher, making the disdain on his face clearer. , "If you are afraid, go back and warm the kang for your wife. I can do it alone, but don't regret it in the future."

"I, I'm with you." Thinking of the tigress at home, the thin man trembled even more.

There was no words along the way, and after a while, a village buried in the darkness appeared in front of the two of them.

"Huh? Strange, I've never heard that our village has a neighboring village." With the dim light of the lantern, the fat man touched his nose in surprise after seeing the outline of the village not far away.

"Yes, yes." After seeing the village, the thin man's eyes were full of fear, his whole body was like sifting chaff, and the hoe on his shoulder fell to the ground with a bang. Fortunately, he grabbed the lantern in his hand so that Let yourself be in the dark.

"What's the matter with you? You haven't picked up the hoe yet!" The thin man's murmur was not heard, but when he saw that he was so courageous, the fat man yelled loudly, with a very fierce expression on his face.

"I... let's go quickly." The thin man was about to cry, and he kept pulling the fat man, trying to pull him out of the village, but because he was really scared, and he was not big enough, he couldn't shake the fat man at all.

"You made it clear, isn't it just a village? As for making such a fuss?" The fat man impatiently lifted the thin man's hand, pushing the thin man to a staggering position.

"Squeak..."

At this moment, the door of the house closest to them opened, the sound of the door opening was particularly obvious in the silent night, and warm lights spilled from the door. "The visitor is a guest, why don't you two come in and have a rest?"

"Let's go and have a look." The fat man couldn't help but dragged the thin man into the house, but he didn't notice the terrified despair on the thin man's face.

The two disappeared inside the door, which slammed shut, and the village was once again plunged into darkness. The wind blew past, and the woman's sobbing was particularly obvious in the dark night.The place the two stepped on just now was a small stone tablet covered with moss, and only the three largest characters could be vaguely seen - Geyan Village.

Half a month later, Luoqing Village welcomed two guests.

"I said, big sister of the Liu family, don't wash your clothes, we have guests from our village."

"Sister-in-law Zhang," the woman's sun-burned face was covered with sweat, she wiped it off with her wet sleeves, looked at the woman who was walking towards her, and asked doubtfully, "How can there be guests in our village?"

Except for the time when she and her husband moved here four years ago, Luoqing Village has never seen any visitors. It is also because the village is too remote.

"Don't tell me, these two guests are so pretty. Sister-in-law Zhang, I thought it was a fairy who came down to earth. Alas, maybe it's a fairy who came down to earth. Didn't your big pillar disappear last month? And my poor second dog Son, maybe the immortal came to help us."

Thinking of their own family, the women's eyes were full of sadness, and Mrs. Zhang, who had always been noisy, fell silent.But after a while, she jumped up, grabbed the woman and ran away, "The village chief told us to go there just now, we have to hurry up!"

There were many villagers watching the excitement outside the gate of the village chief's house, and the two women managed to squeeze in.

"Two gentlemen, these two are the relatives of the two villagers who got lost last month." The village head with a big beard smiled and introduced to the two sitting on the main seat, and then turned to the surrounding villagers who were watching He waved his hand, but he was somewhat dignified: "It's okay, it's okay, let's go!"

The room was soon emptied, only two women were left in a daze.

The two masters and apprentices came towards this direction as soon as they got off the mountain. At first, they could sense the ghostly aura here, but when they got closer, they disappeared completely. Even Jing Su couldn't detect the reason.

Shi Qian did remember the two girls he met near here a few years ago, but this time they didn't see the village, as if they had completely disappeared without a trace, so they turned to Luoqing Village , this equally weird village.

When he first stepped into this village, Shi Qian noticed that although these villagers were no different from ordinary people, they all had a layer of lifelessness on their bodies, as if they had crawled out of the grave.

And one of these two women was particularly deadly.Seeing that Jing Su had no intention of opening his mouth, Shi Qian nodded slightly to the village chief, and then set his sights on the simple woman in a coarse gray shirt, "I heard that your husband saw a beam of white light before he left, can you tell me what happened at that time?" status?"

"That day he was working in the field and didn't come home until very late. He threw down the basket and told me that he wanted to go out, and then he left with the neighbor's second dog. He didn't even have time to eat." The woman frowned, His rough fingers pinched the corners of his clothes that were still wet with water, trying to recall the scene that day, "He took away the two newly made lanterns at home, and while walking, he was discussing with Er Gouzi about the white light ,treasure."

"Yeah, Er Gouzi also said that he saw white light that day, uh..." After hearing the woman finish speaking, Mrs. Zhang couldn't hold back anymore, she started talking, but she stopped abruptly before she finished speaking, and obediently stood there. On one side, there was unstoppable fear in his eyes.

Withdrawing his gaze, Shiqian turned his attention to the woman again, and nodded in the void with his beautiful fingers, "These two lanterns you are talking about?"

As soon as the words fell, two somewhat broken lanterns appeared in front of the woman. A delicate light blue flower was painted on the outer shell of the lanterns, which looked exquisite and beautiful. The strange thing was that although the red candles in the two lanterns were faint, they Still on.

"Yes, that's them." The woman recognized the lantern she made by herself at a glance, "I lit those two candles myself."

Shi Qian glanced at Jing Su who hadn't said a word, but found that the other party was also looking at him, the eyes were complicated for him to understand, but it was only for a moment, and there was no trace of it anymore.

They had picked up these two lanterns in an open space earlier, and it was precisely because of the strangeness of the burning candle in the middle that Shi Qian put it away.

"No, they disappeared last month. The candle should have been extinguished long ago." The village chief stroked his beard and looked at the woman with serious eyes, "Are you sure you didn't admit your mistake?"

"That's right, I accidentally drew a wrong stroke on the flowers on this lantern, and I added an extra leaf here." The woman's eyes were sad, and when she heard that Shi Qian found them in the open space in the east of the village, her expression changed and she almost stood up. Unstable, she also went to look for it not long ago, but she didn't see anything at all!

The old village chief's beard was tied a few knots by him, but he didn't bother to untie it. He sat on the stool, took out the bong from behind, grabbed some shredded tobacco in his hand, and put it in, but he couldn't do it after several attempts. Shaking to the ground, looking at the mess on the ground, he sighed, "You're a sinner."

"How do you say that?" Shi Qian lifted the lid of the teacup on the coffee table next to him, a faint smoke came out of the cup, and the taste was quite clear, presumably such tea is extremely precious to such a small mountain village.

"This has to start five years ago." The village head said slowly, his old voice carried a kind of ancient remoteness.

It was five years ago again, five years ago when he met those two girls, and it was also five years ago that Wan Wan entered the Tianling Sect. Thinking of this, Shi Qian couldn't help but have a guess.

"Your karma."

Jing Su's sound transmission confirmed Shi Qian's thoughts, his expression remained unchanged, and he habitually stroked the ring on his hand. He didn't realize that this was another habitual action when he was thinking.Jing Su glanced at the ring on Shi Qian's hand, and also picked up the teacup, the look in his eyes was covered by the thin mist.

The old village chief didn't notice the brief interaction between the master and the apprentice, so he just sighed and continued talking, and the two women also stood aside obediently and didn't interrupt.

"Five years ago, there was a neighboring village thirty miles to the east of Luoqing Village, named Geyan Village. Geyan Village was much larger than Luoqing Village, with a population of about a thousand. But because the road was difficult to walk, although we It’s a neighboring village, but they don’t have much contact with each other, but just one night five years ago, a huge flame suddenly burst out of that village, almost dyeing half of the sky red, and it was almost burned up when we arrived.”

Taking a breath, he seemed to recall the situation at that time. The old village head's eyes were a little red, "At that time, the cries of children and the cries of women could still be heard in the fire. A few men in our village rushed in to save people, but The fire was too big, and a few were folded inside."

"Later, when the fire was extinguished, there was nothing left in that village, and it became the open space to the east."

Shi Qian covered the teacup again, and the lid knocked against the wall of the cup, making a crisp crashing sound, which awakened everyone in the room.

"Village chief, why didn't I know about this?" The woman's dark face and eyes were particularly black and white, and she was full of shock, and the other woman didn't seem to be any better. The two supported each other to barely fall down. .

"You moved here after that, of course you don't know." The old village chief's beard was already in a mess.

"It's all my fault, I didn't ask clearly, woo woo woo my second dog!" The two women who had also lost their hearts finally cried.

After leaving the village, it was almost dusk, and the red sun in the sky only had a slight ray of light, which was not dazzling. The figures of the master and the apprentice were stretched long, and gradually overlapped together under the afterglow.

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