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Xia Ming and the three saw that Le Zhengli was sleeping really soundly, thinking that he was probably too tired after being swept up by that mouse yesterday, so they didn't bother him anymore. Waking up with a start, he half leaned against the head of the bed and was confused.

He was thinking about whether to go back and sleep again, when the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and a child came in with a bowl carefully, seeing Le Zhengli leaning against the head of the bed, he bent his eyes and said with a smile: " Brother, are you awake?"

Le Zhengli remembered this child. Isn't this the stinky tofu that was fed a bowl of chicken blood that day? He rubbed his eyes, "Stinky tofu? Why are you here?"

Stinky Tofu did not expect that the big brother recognized him, and smiled happily: "My mother said that my brother was tired yesterday, and our family cooked brown sugar eggs for you, brother, you can eat." Then he walked to the bed with the bowl in both hands, Handed the large coarse porcelain bowl to Lezheng Li.

Lezhengli hurriedly thanked him, reached out to take it, and looked down, the sugar in the bowl was reddish, and there were three big poached eggs floating on it, which almost couldn't hold it, so he told Stinky Tofu that he couldn't eat so much, and asked Stinky Tofu to take it too Two chopsticks to eat.

The stinky tofu swallowed, and a blush appeared on the dark face: "Mom said, it's all for brother, I can't eat it, please come to my house for dinner at noon today, brother, I'll come back later." It seemed that he was afraid that Lezheng Li would refuse, so he turned his head and ran away.

Lezheng Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He lowered his head and took a sip of the steaming sugar water. Brown sugar and rice wine were added to it. It tasted sweet and sour, very delicious.

He had just taken two sips when Xia Ming and the others came to see him again. Wei Yihong was the most outspoken. Seeing him, he said, "Comrade Liyu, can you tell me how you fought rats alone yesterday?"

Lezheng Li choked, put down the bowl and coughed several times, "Speaking of which, I still want to ask you, how did I come back?"

The three of them looked at each other, Xia Ming opened his mouth to recount what he had seen and heard yesterday, Lezheng Li touched his nose, and thought: Could it be that I really had a dream yesterday?That strange python was so huge, it was simply impossible to disappear out of thin air without leaving a trace?

Thinking of this, he asked what the rat corpse was doing at the entrance of the village. Xia Ming shrugged, "Who would know if Yin Ran didn't say anything?"

The four of them were talking inside the house, when they suddenly heard commotion outside the house, the voices of voices and footsteps were mixed, it sounded very lively.

Several people looked at each other and immediately walked outside the house. After Le Zhengli was carried back by Yin Ranyi yesterday, the latter helped him change his clothes. Now he washed his face with cold water in the basin inside the house and followed him out.

When I walked outside, I realized that the whole village seemed to have run out. Mrs. Wang was picking vegetables in the yard, but at this moment she was about to go out after wiping her hands with her apron. His expression was a little excited, and he said as he walked: "Isn't this the beast that was carried back yesterday? I just heard that a mountain god came to eat it. I thought about it when Xiao Yin let him throw it at the entrance of the village yesterday. Didn't everyone say that the old man came to eat it?" Is the locust tree the incarnation of the mountain god? It’s like throwing it there, and it’s like making an offering, and let us find some scented wax and light it all night, no, the mountain god is really here!"

The remaining four people also walked out, with only one thought in mind——

What the hell is Yin Ranyi doing!Don't even ventilate in advance!Simply disorganized and undisciplined!

The village is not big, and it didn't take long to reach the old locust tree at the entrance of the village. Several tourists who wanted to visit the corpse-hunters in the mountains were also gathered there. Dozens of mountain eagles were seen hovering over the old locust tree. The eagle's fur is dark brown, with only a cluster of white feathers on the top of its head. While circling around, it whistled from time to time. Lezheng Li slightly raised his head and listened for a moment, and suddenly felt unspeakably sad in his heart, only felt that the mountain eagle's cry was like a song A mournful song without words, long and desolate, straight up to the sky.

Yin Ranyi, Uncle Wang and several other village elders came over. The elders held incense candles in their hands and bowed to the mountain eagle in the air three times before inserting the burning incense candles in their hands under the old locust tree. .

Seeing Yin Ranyi retreating quietly, Le Zhengli turned sideways and asked him in a low voice, "Are you really worshiping the mountain god?" He was actually prepared when he asked, Yin Ranyi probably would Keeping silent, shaking your head or saying "huh" is what you earn.

Unexpectedly, Yin Ranyi raised his head to look at the mountain eagle still lingering in the sky, and said softly, "They are the souls of those paper figures."

Le Zhengli was startled, and subconsciously wanted to retort, "Are you kidding me?" But the person who spoke was Yin Ranyi, who seemed to have no reason to lie to himself about this matter, let alone if this person didn't want to answer, Can't speak at all, let alone joke and lie.

He thought of the scene of the young man in white cutting the paper figurine with scissors yesterday, and couldn't help but shudder. At this time, the villagers were gathering around the tree to worship the mountain god, and he didn't notice them at all, so he asked again: "What about that?" Is this mouse... the person we saw yesterday?"

Yin Ranyi nodded.

Rats become refined people... This is the first time that Lezheng Li realized that the folk legends he knew before had truly appeared in front of his eyes, and it was in such a bloody and cruel way. For a while, he felt a little unacceptable , no longer opened his mouth, just watched the body of the big white-haired mouse under the old locust tree being grabbed by the mountain eagles, and finally flew to nowhere.

Seeing that he fell silent and stopped talking, Yin Ranyi coughed lightly and said, "This snow rat likes to eat people's souls, so it's not a good thing."

"...Snow rat?" Le Zhengli was startled, then turned his head and asked, "This thing is called a snow rat?"

Seeing him talking, Yin Ranyi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and explained: "In the deep mountains and old forests in the west of Xiangxi, there is a kind of non-day wood. After burning, mice with snow-white fur will be born from the ashes. , after the soul is taken away, it will be stored in the paper doll, and every ten souls it eats will grow an inch, the taste of your soul is very delicious to him, so I wanted to take you away yesterday."

It was rare for him to say such a long series of words, and Le Zhengli was a little dazed when he heard it, but he remembered something: "Then it was also this thing a few nights ago..."

"En." Yin Ranyi nodded.

The other party looked light, but Le Zhengli suddenly felt creepy. If Yin Ran was not around that night, wouldn't he have to be made into a paper doll?

At this time, Shanying's figure had completely disappeared into the air, the villagers gradually dispersed, Le Zhengli and Yin Ranyi also stopped talking, Xia Ming came over and asked them to prepare for the afternoon shooting, the big mouse is dead , I don't know if the person who chased the corpse is there.

Yin Ranyi shook his head: "There is no mortician here."

"How do you know?" The two next to each other asked together.

Yin Ranyi frowned, he was really not used to explaining his thoughts or behaviors to people like this, for him, he knew the reason of this matter, and other people saw the result of this matter, this was enough up.

The three of them were in a stalemate. Stinky Tofu and a few children ran over, and when they saw Lezheng Li, they smiled and said, "Brother, are our eggs delicious? My mother cooks them well!"

Lezheng carp bent down and said with a smile, "Well, it's very delicious, and it smells so good."

Stinky Tofu immediately puffed out her small breasts, with a look of color on her face: "Of course, Mom made chicken soup at noon today, and said she wanted to make it up for you, brother," he said, pointing at Yin Ranyi, " My mother said when that elder brother carried you back yesterday, brother, you must have been injured, and you need to take some good supplements!"

Yin Ranyi's expression froze, and he stepped back half a step to avoid the child's finger.

Seeing this, Le Zhengli let out a "poof" laugh, Yin Ranyi and Xia Ming both turned their heads to look at him, he waved his hands and said, "It's nothing...cough, um, let's go first, the final filming still needs to be done." Can you discuss it with Tang Zhongliu and the others?"

Xia Ming shrugged his shoulders: "Sure, let's go."

The author has something to say:

[Remarks] Wood of the Day and Night: From "Shen Yi Jing", the original text describes "there is a volcano outside the wilderness, and the wood of the day and night grows in it, and the fire burns day and night, so that the storm is not fierce, and the rain is not extinguished." Here is just borrowed the name, The snow mouse is a fiction.