sunk in yesterday

Without the owner to lead them, they had to go upstairs to find a vacant room by themselves.

Originally, Xia Zhuo was curious about where Uncle Wang lived, and pushed open the door of a room, only to find that the man was lying on the bed and sleeping soundly. Can't wake up people.

"That's why I said that alcohol is harmful." Xia Zhuo went in and took away his oil lamp, and closed the door again in disgust, "Mr. Guan and I entered a dream before, and a person died not long after the beginning, and the reason was bad. He came in drunk."

Shen Wei followed behind him, "We dare not do that." He patted his chest and said proudly, "I am a good modern young man who does not drink or smoke."

"Hey, tell me, does Uncle Wang have any skills?" Liu Qianyu asked curiously.

Recalling his every move in the temple, Xia Zhuo still said: "There must be."

Guan Yuzhou had a candle in his hand that could light up, and the oil lamp that came along gave it away.He and Xia Zhuo chose a nearby room to stay in, thinking that there would be important things to do tomorrow, so they went to bed early.

Before dawn on the second day, there were footsteps outside the corridor.I thought it was Old Uncle Wang next door, but the footsteps sounded again after a while, back and forth endlessly, Xia Zhuo was forced to wake up and dozed off, got out of bed and opened the door to see that Li Sun was walking back and forth with a sad face.She seemed to be waiting for these guests to wake up, but when she saw Xia Zhuo coming out, she looked like she wanted to go forward but didn't know how to greet her, and she just stood there awkwardly.

"What's the matter with you?" Xia Zhuo was the first to ask.

Guan Yuzhou also got dressed, put the lantern handle back into his belt, and came behind him calmly.

Li Sunshi hesitated for a moment, saying that breakfast was ready, she came to tell everyone, but she didn't expect to get up, she was worried that something might happen again, so she stayed for a while.

Hearing the sound of conversation, other people also poked their heads out one after another, asking what happened with their eyes.

I couldn't look carefully yesterday, Xia Zhuo re-examined the aborigine in front of me now.Her husband is very particular about his clothes, leaving his wife to wear a coarse cloth shirt with patches, without even a decent piece of jewelry on her body, and her long hair is casually arranged with the simplest wooden hairpins, and she doesn't dare to look at people when she speaks. It seems that last night that centipede face really spoke the truth after drinking, and he didn't work hard on her even if he had a few dollars. He probably kicked her away when there was a suitable opportunity in the future.

Shen Wei also said that the surnamed Li's cheeks were sunken and his ears were protruding, which was a very obvious fickle appearance. Marrying a wife is like marrying a maid.

When asking again, Xia Zhuo inevitably showed some sympathy, "Has my sister-in-law always lived in this village?"

Mrs. Li Sun nodded slightly, and raised her hand to half cover her mouth, "My ancestors lived in the village, and they have taken root a long time ago."

"Then you must know the whole village well."

"It's hard to talk about understanding, everyone's neighbor relationship is good."

Before Xia Zhuo could figure out how to attack sideways, with a creaking sound, the door next to the stairs was pushed open.The old man in a white robe walked out and glanced at them impatiently, "It's so noisy this early in the morning, why don't people's ears be clean?"

Li Sun hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his head to apologize to him, stumbling and saying good things.Uncle Wang let her blush, and then flicked his sleeves, "Forget it, where is Mr. Li? Yesterday we agreed to go to the temple early this morning. Why don't you see him come up with you?"

"Husband, he drank a little wine yesterday, and he hasn't woken up yet..."

"Nonsense! He took the ceremony as a joke? Huh, I think the entire up and down of your village will be delayed in his hands!"

"I, I'm going to call him now..."

Mrs. Li Sun trotted down the stairs. Uncle Wang held his head up, not paying attention to the others at all, turned around with his hands behind his back and went back to the house.

Several people went downstairs one after another, and the table that was overturned last night was reset. There was a pot full of porridge on it, which smelled quite delicious.Shen Wei had been hungry for a long time, and when he saw this, he immediately went over and scooped out the bowl one by one.

"Pig, eating is the most active all day long." Liu Qianyu sat next to him, thinking that he was also the first to move chopsticks last night.

Shen Wei smiled, and placed the bowl in front of her, "OK, OK, aunt, what do you mean, can I still not understand? Of course, I want to honor you for the first one~"

Liu Qianyu took the chopsticks from him and couldn't help laughing: "It's not too bad."

Halfway through breakfast, a person came out of the back room in a hurry. Centipede Face barely held the corner of his mouth when he saw them. He didn't know if he remembered what happened last night, but he obviously didn't have time to chat with them now.Because the wound was re-opened, half of his face was wrapped in gauze, and his voice was obviously hoarse after being drunk: "I still have some important things to do today, so I won't accompany you." After speaking, he lifted the hem of his clothes and walked He rushed upstairs, persuaded him with good words and bowed his head to apologize. After a lot of effort, he finally invited Uncle Wang down.

Xia Zhuo and the others knew where they went and what they did, so they let them go.After Li Sunshi cleaned up and locked the door of the house, he took them to the village according to the plan agreed yesterday.

The light was too dark last night, and now when the sun comes out, Xia Zhuo noticed that there is a beautiful looking house on the hillside behind their house, which is not bad compared to the Li house, which made him feel Interested, he pointed to the slope and asked, "Who lives on it?"

Just after asking, the dream echoed his words, a lively figure appeared on the balcony, happily smelling flowers in the newly gathered mist.The sunny weather didn't affect her mood at all, and she could feel the innocence and romance in her body from such a long distance. Li Sun replied without turning her head, "It's Wan'er and her family."

According to her introduction, Wan'er is the youngest child in the village, a little over seven years old, and she has been well-behaved since she was a child.Her father would occasionally go out to do some small business, and her mother was an excellent female celebrity, so the family was relatively well-off, and the three members of the family were very harmonious.

"Wan'er learns everything very quickly. Her mother taught her to embroider, and she had already mastered it within three days of holding a needle. After a few more days of practice, the embroidered things are just as real as they are!" Li Sun smiled. He gestured wildly, and when talking about this little girl, he took the initiative to talk a lot, "Her father always brings something new to coax her every time he goes out, and he also said that when she is older, he will take her to the capital to settle down. Let her live in this small place for the rest of her life..."

She sighed slowly, hesitated to speak, "Who doesn't want to go out for a walk? This village..."

Li Sun raised her head and looked into the distance—there was already surrounded by fog, leaving only a vast expanse of whiteness.She stopped suddenly, and when she turned around, her eye circles were already red. She looked at Xia Zhuo, "I heard from my husband that some of them are also from the capital. This reminds me of the only girl who married in from outside. I heard that she My hometown is also in the capital, and my ancestors were in the business of medicinal materials, and there were several shops under his name, and he was a young lady from a rich family."

When she said this, her hands were tucked into her sleeves, only her white knuckles were exposed, she was obviously afraid of something.

Liu Qianyu liked to listen to stories, and didn't notice her fault, so she asked, "What happened next?"

"Later, it was discovered that forbidden substances were added to the medicinal materials. The owner of the family was arrested and imprisoned, and his wife died for it. to the inn outside the village."

"Is their family really tampering with the medicinal materials?"

Li Sun shook her head: "That's not something we ordinary people can know."

"Where is this girl now?"

Where are people?Li Sun's body trembled, as if she woke up from a deep sleep, she immediately stopped the topic, brushed the hair next to her ears uncomfortably, and quickened her pace with flickering eyes, "I, I don't know where she is, Let's go quickly? If the fog gets thicker, we won't be able to go anywhere."

As if she didn't want them to know about the temple, she led the participants to the opposite direction of the mountain.They have never been to this area, and weeds are overgrown in front of the road. If you don't look carefully, you may fall down if you don't pay attention.

Xia Zhuo slowed down, leaned close to Guan Yuzhou and said, "Ms. Guan, could this Miss Jingcheng she's talking about be Mrs. Liu?"

Guan Yuzhou narrowed his eyes, and let out a low "hmm" in his throat.

Because of family troubles, he had to escape from his comfort zone. If you say that Mrs. Liu is also a poor man with a lot of troubles.The following story doesn't need Li Sunshi to tell him. He can guess one or two. It is nothing more than giving up his name and getting acquainted with Liu Zijin. The two are about the same age.A young lady in the capital who has no worries about food and clothing becomes an ordinary woman in a small village, and there is a huge gap between the two.As a result, this choice not only did not bring her stability, but instead caused her to die early.

But what they have learned so far is that Centipede Face and his accomplices only killed one person back then. Is this the Liu family or Liu Zijin?Or after Mrs. Liu was killed, she spread her grievances on her husband, dragging Liu Zijin into the water as well?Or was it her husband Liu Zijin who actually killed her, and Centipede Face and the others killed him again because of pity?After all, there was a sweetheart inside and out of what Centipede's face said last night, but I don't know if it is Liu Shi.

More importantly—why did Liu Zijin claim that she was lost, and why did she insist on going back to the village?Could it be he who started the fire?If not, who would have ignited it?

These are mysteries that have not yet been solved, and they need more information to know the cause and effect.

I don't know how far I walked, the fog left the village far behind, and a gust of wind from the front swept across the border, blowing the withered yellow leaves on the ground, and making indescribable weird sounds when passing through the bushes.

"Wait for me! Why is she walking so fast, hiss...there are too many gravels here, it hurts my foot, I accidentally sprained it just now." Liu Qianyu complained softly, bent over and kicked off her right shoe , put it on the ground and knocked it.

Shen Wei and Meng Tianhua stopped to wait for her at the same time, they looked at each other, both were taken aback.Shen Wei winked at him, and secretly suggested: "Go and help her up, don't let her fall."

Meng Tianhua pursed his lips in embarrassment. After hesitating, he still made up his mind. He stepped forward and stretched out his hand to grab Liu Qianyu's arm, but the other party avoided it without a trace.

"Okay, let's go~" Liu Qianyu put on her shoes, ran a few steps to catch up with Zhao Xiaomeng, "Sister Zhao, let's go together!"

Shen Wei patted Meng Tianhua's shoulder sympathetically, "She's just so nervous, just get used to it."

Meng Tianhua was comforted by him, looked down at his palms, didn't say a word, and followed silently.

Shen Wei scratched his face, seeing that he didn't intend to chat with him, so he went to Xia Zhuo's side.At this moment, Kong Man was talking in a low voice, as if he was analyzing the plot with the two of them.He was not interested in the surrounding scenery, and he couldn't see anything clearly under the heavy fog, so he listened with his ears pricked up to join in the fun, but just after listening to the beginning, Kong Man shut up again.

Shen Wei's already sensual face suddenly puffed up, "What's the matter, is there anything I can't listen to?"

In the next second, Xia Zhuo raised his head and looked forward with sharp eyes.

The other two also slowed down, as if they had noticed something.Shen Wei looked in the direction Xia Zhuo was looking at, and found that the woman wrapped in mist in front of her changed her appearance.The coarse cloth on her body was replaced by a blue gauze dress, the plum blossom pleated skirt dragged to the floor, and a few butterflies embroidered on the skirt danced in the white mist.The silver hairpin pulled up her black hair, and the fragments of jade dragged from the top collided with each other from time to time, making clangs.

No one said anything, even Liu Qianyu, who was still chatting about gossip at the back, also stopped talking, and everyone noticed the strangeness.

While all the participants were wary of her, she was as leisurely as a person walking in the backyard of her home, every step was carefully measured, the clean plain embroidered shoes on her feet stepped on the soft soil, Did not leave any trace.It's not that she walks lightly, but that she looks like a ghost.She was babbling and singing, but she couldn't understand the words clearly, as if she heard it from somewhere else, and hummed along on a whim.

After twisting and turning in the fog for so long, she couldn't finish singing, and it was the same passage over and over again.After they walked for half an hour, she suddenly sneaked into the dense forest ahead and disappeared without a trace.Tall trees overlapped and grew, and Xia Zhuo strode to catch up. He pushed aside the weeds that were already half a person tall, and a pit appeared in front of him.Covered by layers of surrounding green plants, it is extremely difficult to find without going to a very close distance.

Less than two meters long and about a meter wide.

Just enough to bury a person.