Solstice Secrets

Ling Dongzhi leaned against the crack of the door and fell asleep for a while.Although there is a fire outside, it cannot be compared with the heating of the city after all.Moreover, the fire was quite far away from the door, and there were a bunch of people around it.The more Lingdongzhi slept, the colder he became, and he felt that he must catch a cold if he continued to sleep like this.All I can do is sit and spend time.When the sun rises during the day, the temperature can always be higher.

The group outside left two watchmen, and the rest fell asleep.

At some point, there was a crackling sound from the broken window.The night watchman suddenly became vigilant, and as soon as he picked up the dagger in his hand, he saw a gray cat squeeze in through the window with a mouse in its mouth.Seeing a room full of people seemed to be startled, hesitated for a moment, slipped by the wall and rushed into the room.

The night watchman hesitated for a moment, probably thinking that the cat just wanted to find a safe place to eat, and besides, there was only the unlucky ghost caught in it, so he didn't care.

Ling Dongzhi didn't take it seriously when he heard the window ringing.The wind in the mountains is strong, and broken windows and doors will make a little movement from time to time.It wasn't until a cat and a mouse opened the door beside him that he was startled.

Xiao Hui spat out the little mouse in his mouth, raised his head and meowed at Ling Dongzhi.

Ling Dongzhi was dumbfounded, and then his heart filled with ecstasy.This is Xiao Hui, there is nothing wrong with it, why is it here? !

Xiao Hui quickly climbed onto Ling Dongzhi's lap, glanced at the people outside the door secretly, and said in a low voice: "Brown Tang and its father brought us here. I asked Xiaomai and the servant to find Brown Tang and the others." help."

Ling Dongzhi bumped his head against it, "Brown Tang and the others are here too?"

Xiaohui nodded, "They are waiting for you in the village. The three of us couldn't wait, so we ran here first. The old cat in the village said that you went to the mountain temple, but we couldn't find you there, so we followed the smell to find you. It happened. I happened to meet Eggy on the way."

Sweat dripped from Ling Dongzhi's forehead. Three cats caught a small mouse in the deep mountains and old forests, but they didn't eat it in one bite. It can be seen that Dandan is a very promising mouse with a deep destiny and a deep destiny.

"Thank you, Eggy." Ling Dongzhi comforted the shivering little mouse curled up at his feet, "I'll definitely give you a big box of egg yolk pies when I go back."

Xiao Hui flicked his tail and asked him in a low voice, "What shall we do now?"

"Wait." Ling Dongzhi looked at his watch, "These people should go out to hunt after dawn. At that time, let's find a chance to escape."

Xiao Hui raised his nose and sniffed everywhere, "It smells so strong of blood."

"They should be poaching foxes." Ling Dongzhi whispered, "It's been a few days since they came here, so I guess they hunted a lot. A bunch of bad things."

Xiao Hui bared her teeth, "Bite them to death!"

Ling Dongzhi rubbed its head, "Don't act rashly. They have guns, they are dangerous. There is no reason to talk to these desperadoes, the most important thing is our safety."

"Will they beat you?" Xiao Hui was not at ease.

Ling Dongzhi shook his head, "No. They locked me up because they were afraid that I would reveal their tracks. When they leave, they will probably throw me down the mountain or deal with them directly."

Xiao Hui looked at the fire outside the door bitterly, gritted his teeth, "Bad guy."

"Wait until daylight. During the day they'll probably leave a man or two behind to guard their prey. We'll figure it out then."

Xiao Hui lay down on his lap, looked around uneasy, and then asked the little mouse at Ling Dongzhi's feet, "Hey, Eggy, can you ask your family to come and help?"

Eggy nodded quickly, "Yes. I can go find rice balls."

Xiao Hui asked it back, "Who is Mi Tuan?"

Ling Dongzhi smiled and said: "It's an old mouse, a very old mouse. I guess they all listen to it."

Xiao Hui became suspicious, "Then can you please move it?"

"Yes." Eggy nodded, "I look like Mituan, and Mituan likes me the most."

Xiao Hui hesitated for a moment, "Then you go and invite him, let him bring more friends. Just lie in ambush around here. After they go out during the day, let's find a way to lure the rest of the people away and save Dongzhi out. "

Eggy followed Xiao Hui's example and rubbed Ling Dongzhi's leg, "I'll go right away."

Ling Dongzhi was about to give some instructions, when Xiao Hui said: "Run faster, don't be caught by wild cats!"

Eggy staggered, glanced at it resentfully, and crawled away crookedly.

The waiting time was long, but fortunately he was holding Xiao Hui in his arms, otherwise Ling Dong Zhi really felt that he would freeze to death in this dilapidated cave dwelling.

When the sky turned pale, the group of poachers got up, washed up briefly, and began to share food.Ling Dongzhi was taken outside to relieve himself, and before he could see the surrounding terrain clearly, he was dragged back into the cave.This group of people probably also thought that if Ling Dongzhi disappeared, someone would come to the mountain to look for him.The tall man in the lead discussed with the man with the Zangbian accent, and then dragged his burden and Ling Dongzhi changed places.

Still blindfolded on the road, still the rugged mountain road.The nose is full of the cold smell among the trees, and the dry air in winter carries the unique coolness of unmelted snow, and the startled birds are chirping above their heads.It would have been a satisfying excursion were it not for the worrisome situation and his ankle, which ached from walking.

As early as when Ling Dongzhi was taken out, Xiao Hui slipped out of the corner of the wall.It's just a stray cat, and no one pays much attention to it.At this moment, it quietly followed behind the group of people, leaving small samples and signs that the servants could understand in conspicuous places on the side of the road from time to time.

Ling Dongzhi's ankle was sprained, and he just recovered a little after resting all night, but in the end he hurried for another day.Ling Dongzhi almost wondered if his foot would break.Fortunately, this group just wanted to change places to stay, and had no intention of going out of the mountains.It stopped around noon.When he unwrapped Ling Dongzhi's face covering, Ling Dongzhi found that this time they stopped on a remote hillside.The surrounding rocks, trees, and the caves where they settled do not have any traces of human life.

Ling Dongzhi felt a chill running from the soles of his feet to the top of his hair.Are these people planning to get rid of their own baggage in this place?

The leading man seemed to have sensed his gaze, and turned his head to glance at him, with obvious guard in his eyes.The man standing next to him with a Zangbian accent frowned, his eyes were gloomy, as if he was looking at some big trouble.Others turned a blind eye to Ling Dongzhi's existence, as for the man who had seen his pendant before, he hid away, as if afraid of being noticed by Ling Dongzhi.

The more this person is like this, the more urgent Ling Dongzhi wants to talk to him.Fortunately, this person's status in this gang is not high, and he is always asked to do some chores. When several people gathered around for a meal and rest, Ling Dongzhi finally had the opportunity to spend time with this young man alone .

With a look of apprehension on the young man's face, he put the lunch box in front of him and was about to leave.As soon as he turned around, Ling Dongzhi grabbed his arm.

The young man seemed to be entangled by piranhas, his bones softened all of a sudden, he leaned against the mountain wall trembling and unable to speak.

Ling Dongzhi was also startled.There is no poison on his body, does this person need to be scared like this?

"I'll just ask you something." Ling Dongzhi tried to comfort him, but seeing him say this, the young man trembled even more.Ling Dongzhi was helpless, so he could only make a long story short with an important question, "Have you seen this?"

The young man nodded with fear in his eyes.

"Where have you seen it?"

"Qing... Qingshi Town."

"What is this?"

The young man shook his head.

Ling Dongzhi became irritable, "I don't know you, so I'm afraid of you?!"

The young man looked at him in fear, "That... is the mountain god's thing. Only the mountain gods have it."

Ling Dongzhi's heart trembled, "Where are they... all the people from this clan?"

The young man continued to shake his head, "It is said that all the members of this clan are dead."

Ling Dongzhi's heart suddenly fell from the highest point, and after a moment of silence, he asked again: "Then you said that you saw this thing in Qingshi Town before, is it a lie?"

The young man shook his head in panic, "There is an old man named Langya in Qingshi Town, and he has one too."

Hope was rekindled in Ling Dongzhi's eyes, "He is also... from the mountain god clan?"

The young man hesitated, "He said no. But he has this thing."

Ling Dongzhi wanted to continue asking, but the voice of the leading man shouting at the young man came from afar.As if the young man had received amnesty, he left Ling Dongzhi and turned around and ran away.

The leading man scolded him, "What are you running for?!"

"It's nothing." The young man took the backpack he handed over, lowered his head, and took it into the cave.

The leading man glanced suspiciously at Ling Dongzhi, who was sitting at the entrance of the cave, obediently eating dry pancakes, and asked the young man, "What did he tell you?"

The young man's shoulders trembled slightly, he turned around and replied calmly: "He wants to ask me for hot water. I said that none of us have had hot water yet, so let him stop wishful thinking."

The leading man waved his hand impatiently for him to leave.Looking at the man sitting at the entrance of the cave and eating pancakes, his eyes were dumbfounded, and he didn't know if he was really frightened into a madman.

The leading man frowned, beckoned the man with the Zangbian accent to him, lowered his voice and said, "Get rid of this man when you get to Qizigou. You can't keep him. The more you raise him, the more troublesome you will be."

The man glanced at the gloomy sky above his head, and nodded without saying a word.

When Dandan found the rice ball, it was strolling in the woods outside the village, and the fat bird named Ma Dian who lived in the same compound as it was squatting on a tree branch beside it, chatting with it without saying a word. staring at the sky.Mi Tuan was a little worried that the weather would change, and was trying to persuade Ma Dian to store some food in the nest, lest he would not be able to catch live rabbits in the wild after heavy snowfall, and could only live on the dried corn donated by the villagers.

Seeing Dandan stumbling over, Ma Dianhu flapped his wings and said lazily, "That little thing from your house is here, I think it really likes to cling to you."

Mi Tuan looked at Dandan in the distance, and said with a smile, "This kid looks like me."

Ma Dian tilted his head to look at the two mice whose sizes were completely uncomparable, and shook his head, "I don't remember what you were like when you were this age."

Mi Tuan patted his paw, "Yes, it's been a long time."

Eggy was out of breath, "Grandpa Mituan, something happened. The person who gave me snacks was taken away. It's the gang of villains who killed Mushroom!"

Mi Tuan froze for a moment, "Is that the one who came out of the village? The one with the green stone around his neck?"

"That's right, that's right," Eggy jumped up, "It's him. He said he would give me delicious snacks when he comes back."

Mi Tuan looked up at the pockmark, "It's that child. What should I do?"

Ma Dian took two steps on the branch seriously, "He is a child of the mountain god clan, maybe he is the last child of the mountain god clan, we can't ignore it."

Mi Tuan asked the little mouse, "Where are they?"

The little mouse pointed in the direction, and said, "His paws are tied up, and he is not allowed to warm up, and he is not allowed to eat any snacks!"

Pockmarks flew up from the branch of the tree, and snorted twice domineeringly, "These goddamn robbers still want to bully the children of the mountain god under our noses, so we can't show them some color! Let's Split up and find helpers! Meet at the fork in the mountain temple!"

Mi Tuan nodded again and again, "Okay, you have to be careful too."

"Understood." Ma Dianhu flapped his wings and quickly flew away, "I'll go to explore the way first, and you hurry to gather your companions. Hurry up!"