sunk in yesterday

Faced with a group of strangers who came suddenly, most of the villagers in Tuping Village kept their distance.Walking around the village, seeing that the sky was getting darker and darker, and the aborigines had all gone home, there was still no progress.

After a long time, they still don't know what these red silks are hung for.

"Hey sister, let me ask you..." Seeing that he would not be able to catch anyone if he didn't take the initiative to attack, Shen Wei boldly grabbed a woman who was picking up a vegetable basket and going home.

The woman was a little flustered, and quickly broke away from his hand, turning her head and running away as if frightened.

"Wait, don't run away. We are not bad people. We just passed by here by chance when we were on a trip." He hurriedly tried to persuade her to stay, but the woman slipped away very fast and ran into the intersecting alley in no time. shadowed.

After receiving and stopping both failed, Shen Wei scratched his head, not understanding: "What's going on..."

Liu Qianyu went crazy: "Don't touch people casually anymore. In ancient times, men and women couldn't accept each other. If you touch someone, you will be frivolous. Maybe she is going back to ask her husband to beat you up!"

"Oops!" Shen Wei shook his hand, "I forgot about this, it's over, she won't really ask someone to go, will she?"

Liu Qianyu rolled her eyes at him, "It's getting dark, so we have no idea where we will stay at night."

"As the saying goes, if you don't stay here, you will have a place to stay."

"Keep your head!" She greeted with a palm, "Do you still think you are very humorous?!"

Shen Wei yelled: "Stop, stop, don't hit people in the face..."

One of the gay men who accompanied her was less courageous than a mouse, and the other was like a single-celled organism. Liu Qianyu felt that the future was dark, and she didn't know whether it was luck to pass through several dreams safely.

While the two were fighting, another girl who came back from washing clothes by the river came here with a clothes basket in her arms.Shen Wei shook his head, shouting that he must go up this time.This time he learned the previous lesson, and he greeted him three meters away: "Miss, are you free? I'll hold you up for 2 minutes, I—"

Before she finished speaking, the girl backed away in panic, avoiding them like a flood of beasts.Just as he was about to run away, he suddenly heard another voice behind him: "Girl, please stay."

The girl turned her head, and saw that the speaker had a calm expression, and the dim light of the lantern in his hand revealed the faint smile on his lips. He was a handsome young man with an extraordinary bearing.

The girl's footsteps were delayed, and then she covered half of her face with her wide sleeves neatly, and asked shyly and timidly: "Seeing this young man's face, where did he come from?"

Shen Wei:? ? ?

Run, why don't you run?

You aborigines also look at faces? !

Guan Yuzhou said: "A few friends and I came from the capital to find an old friend. I wonder if the girl knows where 'Liu Zijin' lives in the village?"

"Liu Zijin..." The girl repeated these three words, but shook her head after thinking for a long time, "Everyone in the village knows each other, and there is no family with the surname 'Liu'. Did you remember the name wrong, or look for it wrong? land?"

Guan Yuzhou's expression did not change: "Since this is the case, I dare to ask the girl if there is a place to rest temporarily in Murakami. We came to seek refuge with old friends, but now we have nowhere to go."

"Ah, if you don't dislike it, but—" the girl smiled shyly, and was about to say something when an old woman rushed out from the earthen house beside her, grabbed her arm and scolded her.

"How long has it been since the sun set and you haven't entered the house? It is said that things are easy to go wrong in the past two days, but you are the only girl in our house. Come back quickly! Hurry up!"

Being dragged, the girl didn't care to say anything else, and hurried in with her mother one after the other. The sound of the lock being locked could be clearly heard outside.

"Look, it's not my problem, it's the people in this village who have been avoiding us... so will something important happen in the past two days?" Shen Wei looked up and looked around, and he seemed to be bustling during the day. The ribbon had been eroded by the darkness at this time, swaying feebly in the night wind.One is okay, the picture of thousands of them gathered is unspeakably weird, he quickly touched his arm, "How can this be done, we really have to sleep on the street tonight?"

One family after another closed their doors, and even when they got close, they couldn't hear anyone talking, and the windows were tightly covered, as if they were hiding in fear of something.

Guan Yuzhou looked along the tangled ribbon, thought for a while and said, "Let's follow the red silk and see where we end up."

"I'm not going." Meng Tianhua leaned against the wall with a resisting expression: "I don't know what's outside the village. Don't you usually run around when it's dark? I'll just stay in the village."

Shen Wei advised, "It's more dangerous for you to stay here alone."

Zhao Xiaomeng said: "I also think this village is very strange..."

Meng Tianhua still shook his head, unable to listen to anything he said.

Xia Zhuo waved his hand, "Then you discuss it, my teacher and I will go first."

Seeing that the two were about to leave, Shen Wei was unhappy again, he gritted his teeth and chased after them, "I'll be with you."

"Then we can't leave him alone." Liu Qianyu looked around and saw several dyeing vats in a corner, so she had to say: "Let's try to knock on the door again, maybe there is one who is willing to take us in." It's late, if you can't, just hide there. Sister Zhao, are you with us?"

Zhao Xiaomeng froze for a moment, she hesitated, originally wanted to go with Xia Zhuo and the others, but seeing Liu Qianyu adding a little girl and a thin man, she nodded, "Okay, I'll stay with you."

At this point, the participants were divided into two groups, with four going up the mountain and three staying behind.

After setting off, Xia Zhuo looked at Shen Wei and asked curiously, "You're not with your girlfriend?"

Shen Wei was puzzled: "Where did I get a girlfriend? You can't speak Liu Qianyu?"

"Yeah, haven't you been making small fights and being sweet?"

"...Damn it, don't! Don't! I'm getting goosebumps when you say that." Shen Wei rubbed his arms frantically and shivered exaggeratedly, "You don't know her, you don't know her well, She is very fierce in private. If I want to find a girlfriend, I must find a gentle and homely type. She is a good buddy. I, she, and Meng Tianhua met on the forum. After chatting for a while, I think They are good people to each other, so we have worked together in dreams a few times, boyfriend and girlfriend, etc... It's really impossible, but Meng Tianhua likes her quite a bit, but unfortunately she thinks Meng Tianhua is timid and looks down on her."

"Then you still go with us?"

"Why don't you come here to get clues, hehe." Shen Wei smiled silly, "You don't mind, do you? I think you are also good people, otherwise I wouldn't come here with you. If they stay, then I have to come out Look, it can't be possible that no one in a small team knows the clues."

Xia Zhuo, who was suddenly issued a good person card, raised her eyebrows and said nothing.

The four of them crossed the main road, and the red silk hung over the eaves of the last house, and then fell to the ground, extending towards the high hillside.

When I got closer, I found that these silks and satins seemed to be separated in pieces, but they were actually connected together with needles and threads, but it was not obvious.

When I stood taller and looked back, the lights in the whole village had been turned off, and there was no light at all, and all the scenery was blurred. Those silks and satins were like countless hands hanging from the sky, constantly trying to grab something. , One more look and you will feel chills all over your body.

Further forward is a bamboo forest, silk and satin are wrapped around the bamboo body, and some places are tied with abrupt knots for fear of falling apart.After passing through the forest, a dilapidated small house appeared directly below the cliff.From the outside, this house is no different from those in the village at the bottom of the mountain, except that the surrounding walls are higher, and only a barren corner of the courtyard can be seen through the crack of the locked gate.

"Teacher Guan, there is a sign here, come and take a look." Xia Zhuo lifted up the unhanging plaque on the wall, the four sides were not stained with dust, it should have just been done recently and brought.

Guan Yuzhou held up his hand and saw three golden words written in the middle of the plaque: Goddess Temple.

"Goddess Temple...is this the place where they enshrine the Goddess?"

The word "worship" sounds very sacred, but Xia Zhuo always felt that something was wrong.

Looking at the wall, the color of the top layer of mud is different from that of the bottom layer. It seems that it has been specially repaired after a long period of time. The lock on the door is also very special. Normally, no one would come to such a naughty place to steal things. , It was also in the period of ancient times when people believed in ghosts and gods. Such a big black iron chain was not meant to protect the temple, but more like it wanted to tie things in the temple.

In the darkness, only the sound of the soles of shoes rolling over the dust can be heard.The red silk went all the way around the high wall, but they couldn't see what was going on inside.After turning around the wall and confirming that the silk and satin is over, Shen Wei worried about the heavy chain lock on the door: "How can I go in and rest without a key?"

"Who said we rested here tonight?" Xia Zhuo put the plaque back, "Have you ever heard a sentence-I would rather sleep in a grave than in a deserted temple." Guan Yuzhou told him this, but It does not prevent him from learning and selling now.

"Ah? Why?" He still wanted to go back to the village and bring the other three people over.

"People are buried in the grave, but do you know what is in the temple? Is it a god or a ghost?"

"...It seems to be the reason." Shen Wei stretched out his hand and tugged at the chain, and the cold temperature spread to his hand along his fingertips. The surrounding area was too quiet. There were no villagers' conversations, no insects or even the wind, and the air was like It seems to be frozen here.

At this moment, a low, murmuring cry came from the crack of the door, the voice was thin and soft, no different from what was heard in the inn last night.It's just that this time the crying sound was extraordinarily clear. Compared with yesterday, it was separated by a door panel, and what I heard now seemed to be ringing right next to my ears.

Shen Wei didn't dare to breathe immediately, he hurriedly looked at others, Xia Zhuo and Guan Yuzhou looked calm as usual, only the change on Kong Man's face told him that this was not an auditory hallucination.

The voice was high and low, and it didn't mean to stop for a long time. Now he finally believed that this temple can't be entered casually, and retreated a few meters hesitantly, "How about...we should go back to the village?"

"I won't go back." Guan Yuzhou looked towards the cliff behind, "Rest over there tonight, and come to the camp as soon as it dawns. It's too easy to meet the villagers face to face in the village."

The villagers don't welcome them, so some things have to be done behind the scenes.

Kong Man nodded, "He's right. We don't have the key, but the key must be with someone in the village. It's stupid to act without knowing the situation. And after knowing where the key is, what should we do next? It’s easy to discuss. This dream must be around the village, and the villagers are busy with temple-related matters recently, so staying near the temple to observe at any time is the most sensible choice now.”

Shen Wei didn't know whether he thought about it or not, so he nodded in a daze, "So, so, anyway, I'll listen to you."

Letting the voice in the temple continue to cry, they walked around the high wall to the bottom of the cliff.There is an abandoned wasteland behind the temple. It has not been plowed for many years, and it is covered with weeds. Only the tools for plowing the land are left.

Finding a flat place in the stone wall and sitting down, Guan Yuzhou set up the lantern and looked at it. Shen Wei looked at the lantern and asked strangely: "It's quite flammable. Is it oil or something? It won't go out. ?"

At the end of the day, it was as bright as ever.But if it is taken from the hands of the dead, it is normal if it can be lit all the time...

Guan Yuzhou took the lantern apart in twos and twos, and inside was a white candle.The candle flame was flickering at the top, and it was not warm to the touch, nor did it burn out the wax.

Shen Wei took a closer look and wondered, "Good thing, isn't this cheaper than a flashlight?" He believed that the biggest function of a flashlight is to repel ghosts, and it's too wasteful to use it for normal lighting.

"I can't take it out," Guan Yuzhou said.

"Can't you put it in the warehouse for a look?"

"Tried it, it didn't work."

"Well, that's a pity." Shen Wei sighed. He thought it was an artifact, but it turned out to be a temporary prop, so there is nothing to envy.

After eating something to solve the stomach problem, several people gathered in a circle to rest.

Leaning on Guan Yuzhou, Xia Zhuo finally stopped after walking so much, and the tiredness that had been suppressed for a long time surged outwards.He glanced at the sky where there was not a single star above his head, and for some reason he thought of the little girl named Wan'er he saw at the village gate in the evening.As for the reason, it might be the butterfly kite she held in her hand, which matches the butterfly pattern on the embroidered shoes.

After thinking about it for a while, he suddenly stopped, poked the man beside him as if he had noticed something, and said in a low voice, "Teacher Guan, did you find that there are no children in this village?"