do you see the horns on my head

"What happened here?" Charmander curiously flew towards the entrance of the village, and soon heard the roar of the car, and the big headlights cast two beams of light in the darkness, and Heinrich quickly got into Ao Ze's backpack in.

"Is it Zhenqiao? Zhenqiao?!" A shrill and sharp voice suddenly sounded in the darkness, and a staggered figure ran from afar, holding two big yellow lanterns in his hands, reflecting the panic on her face And messy white hair, this is the old lady from the farmhouse.

"It's you..." the old lady murmured in a daze, before she could continue, a middle-aged woman with disheveled ponytails rushed up to her, grabbed her and said, "Okay, the whole village is looking for you!" There is no one around, how can there be such a coincidence that there is a power outage again?? Where did your granddaughter abduct my son? You are a black shop! If there is something wrong with my son, I will fight with you!"

The middle-aged woman grabbed the old lady by the collar, and the old lady seemed almost out of breath.Li Jia hurriedly stepped forward to separate the two, and asked, "What happened? Your child is lost?"

The old lady was panting heavily, her face drooping like loose bark looked even grayer under the strange lantern light.Her voice was terrified and bitter, and it became even sharper: "My... my granddaughter and that guest's child suddenly disappeared. I'm afraid, I'm afraid it's..." But her throat suddenly choked, and she couldn't say anything. Out.

The middle-aged woman recognized Li Jia and Ao Ze, quickly grabbed Ao Ze and said, "I know you also live in that farmhouse. Please, please, help me go out of the village to find my friend." Son! He's still so young...he'll be scared to death!" The middle-aged woman's voice was hoarse and rough, and her red eyes were full of anxiety.

"Okay, we will join." The woman's strength was strong, but Ao Ze withdrew his hand effortlessly and replied.

The woman didn't care, she nodded in a panic, and said to them: "Let's look for the left side of the village, you look for the right side, that's it." Without waiting for Ao Ze's answer, the woman directed her husband who was driving to turn on the lights. , escorting the old lady to move forward together.

At this time, Ao Ze suddenly walked up to the old lady and stopped her.

The old lady raised her triangular eyes in surprise, and looked at Ao Ze in the faint orange candlelight.

"Give me one of the items your granddaughter touched today, and this one for us." He pointed to the two big lanterns in the old lady's hand: "We want to illuminate."

The old lady faltered and held her own lantern, and said, "You can use a flashlight. I know that you foreigners all have that smart phone, which can also be used as a flashlight. I want to use this lantern. And," her expression became suspicious Get up: "What do you want personal items for?"

"Heh," Ao Ze smiled, "I'm a mage."

"What are you?" The middle-aged woman didn't seem to understand.

"Mage is the kind of mage who can exorcise ghosts and demons, and find people through divination." Ao Ze said.

The old lady's eyes became averted, while the middle-aged woman looked suspicious, and her husband honked the horn impatiently in the car.

"Give my children personal items, and I can find them." Ao Ze said, "Of course, you don't have to believe it, but there is always no harm in giving me anything, right?"

"This..." The middle-aged woman hesitated for a moment, then suddenly took out a crystal clear glass marble from her pocket, handed it to Ao Ze and said, "My son has played with it all day, here it is."

"Okay." Ao Ze took it and turned to the old woman: "I think the painting in your pocket is not bad."

"How do you know I have paintings in my pocket?" The old woman covered her pocket.

Ao Ze didn't answer, but just looked at the old lady quietly. Under Ao Ze's calm gaze, the old lady felt that she had nothing to hide. Soon, she took out a crumpled piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to Ao Ze. .

"I told her to stop drawing these things, but she wouldn't listen." The old lady muttered.

Ao Ze opened it for a glance, then closed it again, smiled at the old lady, approached her, and whispered: "You are the snake feeder in Dongyi Village, aren't you?"

The old lady looked up at Ao Ze in shock, but he ignored her and didn't want the lantern anymore, and disappeared into the darkness with Li Jia.

When the lights disappeared, Heinrich got out of his backpack, squatted on Ao Ze's shoulder like an old hen, and asked, "Ao Ze Ao Ze, what is that painting? What is the snake feeder?"

Ao Ze stopped and said, "It's almost far from here, Heinrich, please shine a light on me."

Heinrich ordered, flew up from Ao Ze's shoulder, and enlarged the small flame on the tip of the tail, so that they could see clearly within a radius of one meter.

Ao Ze took out the piece of paper, and Heinrich recognized it. It was a picture drawn by the little girl named "Zhenqiao" in the corridor.At that time, she didn't finish the painting, and Heinrich thought she was painting two big yellow lanterns, but now it seems that these are not lanterns, they are clearly two eyes of a giant python.The childish style of writing is naive, but it is not difficult to see that this cold, scaly creature is huge and occupies a full river.

"The snake feeder," Ao Ze said, "is a kind of wizard in the area at the foot of Dongli Mountain. The river outside Dongyi Village is called Xingzi River. According to legend, there lives a blue-white snake with boundless magic power. The river god of the river. If the villagers do not offer sacrifices to the river god on time, it will cause flood disasters. The snake feeder is a wizard who is in charge of offering sacrifices, and the sacrifices include not only pigs, cattle, chickens and sheep, but also newborn children. Boys and girls."

"What, is it so perverted?" Heinrich gasped and stammered, "If such an evil river god really existed, the Spiritual Management Bureau should have arrested him long ago."

"Times have changed, and there is no river god in this river." Ao Ze put away Zhenqiao's painting: "At least I didn't find such signs after waking up. Although the villagers are still feeding the snake man's Under the guidance, the baby girl was thrown into the water, but that's only because they value boys over girls... Just now, although the yin on the old woman's face was stagnant, the surface was slightly blue. She hadn't done this kind of harm for at least 30 years It's done."

"That can't obliterate her original crime! When we go back, we must report to the Spiritual Management Bureau to investigate her thoroughly." Heinrich paw clenched his fist and said.

"It's been 30 years, and the prosecution period has passed long ago, and your Spiritual Management Bureau doesn't care about it." Li Jia interjected.

"Why not?" Heinrich asked in amazement, "Isn't killing someone 30 years ago considered killing?"

"First, there is no conclusive evidence for this matter, and so much time has passed; second, the law does not blame the public, and this is the backward folk custom in this place. If you want to arrest people, most people may not be able to escape; Three, there are so many monsters in this world who have lived for hundreds of years, and many of them have killed and eaten people, if everyone traces back, will the Spiritual Management Bureau still be busy?" Li Jia said.

"Oh, alas." Heinrich blinked his golden eyelids, and landed on Ao Ze's shoulder in frustration.

"She has already suffered her own retribution." Ao Ze patted Heinrich's body with his backhand, somewhat reassuring: "She is full of yin and energy, and she will not live long. In the past 20 years, she has slept every day and every night. Restless, as if there are countless babies entangled in her, every moment of life can not be freed. Do you know why she is holding those two big lanterns? She used this pair of lanterns to simulate the eyes of snakes. She thought it would drive away those Ghosts that haunt her. But those ghosts come from within her, and this lantern won't help her."

"Oh, that sounds pretty hard." Heinrich thought about the sound of the baby crying in his head at night, and shuddered: "What about the little girl? She will be fine, right? "

"Whoever owes the debt will be paid, this little girl is innocent." Ao Ze said coldly: "And how do you know if she is here to collect debts?"

Heinrich stopped talking. He felt that the cool air in the mountains was too cold, which made him shiver unconsciously.So he turned up the temperature around his body again, and the whole dragon emitted a faint red light, which looked like Ao Ze's shirt was on fire.

He found that they were walking towards the Xingzi River. The long reeds were swaying in the night wind, and occasionally the chirping of autumn insects could be heard. Through the long grass beach, the faint silver ripples of the Xingzi River could be seen.

"Why did that little girl and boy run to the water's edge?" Heinrich couldn't help asking.

But Li Jia slowed down unconsciously, he said nervously: "Ao, Ao Ze..."

"Shh, I know." Ao Ze slowed down his voice: "It seems that there are new residents in this river."

He grabbed Li Jia with one hand, and supported Heinrich on his shoulder with the other. Heinrich only felt a dizzy feeling, and they had moved to the river bank.

"Don't tell others what happened just now." Heinrich suddenly thought of Ao Ze's voice. He turned his head and saw that Ao Ze's lips did not move, but those star-like eyes looked at him. Heinrich Rishi nodded involuntarily.

This is near his burial place, so Ao Ze can maximize his magic power, but this matter cannot be let others know, mortals should not teleport.

Heinrich, Ao Ze and Li Jia are now standing behind a very huge banyan tree, the trunk is more than enough to block them.Heinrich flapped his wings and flew up, grabbed the tree trunk, quietly stretched out his head, then covered his mouth in surprise, and almost slipped off the tree trunk.

There are two big lanterns on the bank of the river, shining yellow and clear light, but if you look carefully, where are these lanterns? It is clearly the giant snake drawn by the little girl.His body sank below the river bank, as if he wanted to fill up the long and narrow river channel, and the blue-black scales reflected thin light on the water surface.

Beside the snake head that was as tall as a person was the little boy and girl they saw at the farmhouse this morning. The little girl had a dreamy smile on her face, and she put her hand on the little boy's back.