God's offering

With simple luggage, Lu Yinbai got on the plane to S City the next day. When he arrived in S City, he had to take a bus to get to a small county town closest to Shanxi Village. As for how to get from that small county town to Shanxi Village Xi Village, there is no detailed statement on the Internet. Some donkey friends said that they found people who sell mountain products in the village to lead the way, and some people said that if the county pays some money, someone will take you there.Lu Yinbai checked the time and found that the answer was a long time ago. I'm afraid it is not feasible, so he decided to wait until the county seat to make plans.

Tang Ao carried the bag for Lu Yinbai, frowned and looked around the room, "This is too..."

Lu Yinbai threw the backpack on the bed, glanced at the cobwebs in the corner and the dusty ground, and commented pertinently: "It feels like it's only worth 50 yuan."

Tang Ao raised his eyebrows, "I remember paying one hundred?"

Lu Yinbai said calmly: "There is only one hotel like this in this county." The implication is that things are rare and expensive.

Tang Ao muttered in dissatisfaction, "At least clean it up." As he spoke, he went downstairs to ask the waiter for a broom and a rag. The basic point is full of all life skills, and it is easy to take care of.

When Tang Ao was busy, Lu Yinbai was not idle either. He took out the teacher's black notebook from his backpack. Inside was a piece of paper with a simple map on it. This map was not in the notebook before. It was Su Yinxiu who found it somewhere in the middle of the night, and made a phone call to send it over.

The map is crudely drawn, but the places that should be marked are clearly marked. Starting from the county seat, the roads and forks into the mountains are very clear, but the mountain roads are changeable, and the roads may be changed in a heavy rain, not to mention It seems that the village is indeed in the deep mountains. If you follow this map that is not known how long ago, you may get lost.

"We still have to find a guide." Lu Yinbai had already read the map several times, and almost memorized it. He put away the paper, put it back in the notebook, told Tang Ao, and left the hotel .

This county is not big, you can see the other from one end of the street, but there are not too few people, there are mountains behind the county, and the villages in the mountains are gradually deserted, and the remaining villagers still have to go to the county every once in a while Come here, sell the mountain goods in exchange for other daily necessities.

Although there were quite a few people, looking around, many of them were old people.Lu Yinbai sighed helplessly, the old man knew a lot of things, but he was not good at communicating with him. The dialect accent was not a problem. Like Shanxi Village, where he was going this time, his reputation would not be so good. The superstitious old man is not necessarily willing to tell him.

He hesitated for a while, and was about to find someone to ask, but was patted on the shoulder.

Lu Yinbai turned his head and saw an old lady with gray hair looking at him with a smile, "Baby, when did you come back?"

Baby?Lu Yinbai was stunned for a while, then realized that he had admitted the wrong person, "I am not a baby, mother-in-law, you have admitted the wrong person."

The old lady let out an "ah" and tried to open her cloudy eyes wide. After looking at him for a while, she sighed in disappointment, "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

The old lady shook her head and was about to leave, but Lu Yinbai stopped her, "Well, mother-in-law..."

Ten minutes later, Lu Yinbai was sitting in Grandma Sun's main room, listening to Grandma Sun talking about her grandson.

"I know too. Young people are like this. When they want to go out and look around, they are not happy to come back after studying. It's always good to come back once a year. It's really busy. It's okay to come back once every two or three years. Alas, as I get older, I can only sit at the door and look around all day long, and I can’t see anyone.” Granny Sun said as she stood up tremblingly, “Hey, young man, do you want an apple?”

Lu Yinbai quickly waved his hand to stop, "No need for mother-in-law."

Grandma Sun didn't seem to hear, she took out an apple from the cabinet in the house, wiped it with her sleeve, and stuffed it into Lu Yinbai's hand, "You're welcome, eat it."

Lu Yinbai stared blankly at the wrinkled apple in his hand, and after a while, he still took a bite.

Grandma Sun laughed, and the dry wrinkles on her face stretched out. She sat beside Lu Yinbai, and began to talk about some irrelevant things. He took the apple and answered the question vaguely.

"Kids, they don't study well, what are they doing in this place where we don't shit?" Grandma Sun squinted and scolded him, "That kid in our family always skipped classes in high school and was always whipped by his father, you Don't learn from him."

Lu Yinbai didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "No, I came here because I wanted to write a thesis."

Grandma Sun half understood, "Oh, the paper... what are you going to write?"

"Grandma, have you ever heard the name Shanxi Village?" Lu Yinbai asked cautiously and tentatively.

Grandma Sun fell silent. Once she stopped smiling, the weight of years represented by the layers of wrinkles on her face immediately made her harsh. Her friendly expression disappeared, replaced by suspicion and vigilance, "I haven't heard of it. "

Lu Yinbai sighed inwardly, it was not easy to meet an old man who could speak Mandarin by such a coincidence, but he still fell on the hurdle of conservative superstition.

He tried to explain to the old woman, "It's like this, what I'm studying is related to folk customs, and then I heard that there is a village here with very strange customs, so..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Grandma Sun, "No."

The old man stood up. Although she was short, she could still look down at Lu Yinbai who was sitting, with a gloomy and decisive expression, "There is no such place, let's go back."

When Lu Yinbai returned to the hotel, the sky was dark. After eating a nail from Grandma Sun, he persisted and asked many people. Some people even heard the name of Shanxi Village without hesitation. Walking away without hesitation, Shanxi Village is like a time bomb that can't be lifted, and people can't avoid it. I wasted an afternoon and got nothing but knowing that it was a terrible place.

Tang Ao had already cleaned up the room, and he also borrowed the hotel kitchen. When Lu Yinbai entered the room, Tang Ao was helping him to serve soup.

Lu Yinbai had something on his mind, and he was so absent-minded about eating, Tang Ao stopped him with a chopstick, took away the ginger he was holding, and said with a frown, "Be more attentive when eating."

Lu Yinbai replied in a daze, regained his composure, sighed and said, "It's not as easy as expected."

Tang Ao had a tough attitude towards Lu Yinbai only at this time, and he did not back down, "Think about it after eating, your stomach is not good, does it hurt to think about it after eating?"

Lu Yinbai raised his eyebrows, but didn't say anything.

After dinner, Tang Ao cleaned up the table, and the two sat down opposite each other in front of the narrow table. Lu Yinbai took a sip of water, "It's really not possible, go ask the younger ones, they should be willing to take us there with some money. .”

After a while, he overturned his own thoughts, "But according to the information I searched, this village may not be open to the public for more than ten years. There are not many younger people in this county, and they know how to get there. I'm afraid it's hard to find."

Tang Ao propped his chin and thought for a while and said, "Why don't you go and beg Granny Sun?"

Lu Yinbai nodded, "I also think this is more feasible." He paused, and suddenly realized, "How do you know Grandma Sun?"

When he came back, he was in time for dinner, and he was used to not talking and chatting when eating. How could Tang Ao know about Grandma Sun?

Tang Ao leaned over, took out the jade pendant bought from Luo Sheng from his collar, and said with a smile: "As long as this jade is on your body, no matter where you are, I will know exactly what you are doing."

When he said the last four words, Tang Ao deliberately lowered his voice, coupled with his triumphantly raised eyebrows, he seemed both affectionate, lustful and ambiguous.

Lu Yinbai started to untie the red rope hanging on the jade expressionlessly, Tang Ao quickly took his hand, "Don't! If you are in danger, I can come to you immediately, don't untie it, don't untie it. "

Lu Yinbai squinted his eyes and pinched Tang Ao's "hehe" face with a dry smile, and said each word: "Did you see it when I was taking a shower?"

Tang Ao sat up straight, and replied solemnly, "No way!"

Lu Yinbai raised his chin slightly, "En?"

Swept by Lu Yinbai's long and narrow phoenix eyes, Tang Ao cleared his throat, and laughed again, "You are all mine now, I haven't touched them before, why should I..." the voice It became weaker and weaker, and finally he touched his nose, hummed a little tune and started looking out the window.

Lu Yinbai turned his head back, stared at him and said: "If I find out that you use this method to spy on me, you will not be able to practice in the past few months."

Tang Ao immediately moved back his wandering eyes, and sincerely raised his hand to swear, "I promise not to do so in the future."

Lu Yinbai snorted coldly, let go of his hand, "Tomorrow morning we will split up and go to the county town to ask questions, and we will meet at the hotel at noon."