肋骨

Zhoujiatun was not too close, and the three of them walked all the way, and in the end the mobile phone had no signal at all.

Jiang Haizhou didn't expect that there was such a village without Internet connection that only existed in the jokes. He kept an eye out, parked the car in the middle of a relatively hidden deserted firewood stack, and chose an easy exit.

"Why stop here?" Li Zhuofan asked.

"If there is something wrong, we can drive away when we get here. In case the car is damaged by them, we will be more hindered."

Fu Kuan didn't say a word, but he was definitely in favor of Jiang Haizhou. What happened later also proved that Jiang Haizhou's idea was correct and saved their lives.

"Withdraw what?" Li Zhuofan was stunned for a moment, probably because he didn't understand what the word "constraint" meant, and he looked bewildered.

Jiang Haizhou rolled his eyes and didn't explain to him, "Get out of the car and walk over."

They are all wearing dark clothes, not too bright, so even if they walk at night in the village, they are not too abrupt.

It was already midnight at this time, and there was no trace of people in the village, and because late autumn was approaching, the autumn harvest was over, and there were not many insects left. Walking on the road, one could feel a kind of extreme desolation and emptiness, passing through large fields without houses. , as if there is a sense of isolation from the world abandoned by the world.

Fu Kuan's face was tense, and he staggered without noticing his feet, and fell directly on the bumpy ground. Jiang Haizhou, who was walking beside him, didn't reach out to give him a hand.He didn't even look on coldly, and walked past him without squinting.

Fu Kuan got up, patted the dirt on his body, and followed quickly.

"Zhouer," Li Zhuofan's voice was somewhat distorted at the relatively open village entrance.

"Huh?" Jiang Haizhou lit a cigarette, and the flame lit up a little in the dark night, and then went out quickly.

"I'm kind of scared, it's so fucking dark."

Jiang Haizhou sneered, and when he heard the word "black", he paused and subconsciously slowed down. Fu Kuan followed quickly, but he didn't dare to follow too closely, and didn't dare to tug on Jiang Haizhou's clothes.

Looking around the village without lights, it was pitch black, so if there were lights, it would be set off very clearly. Several people saw a place with faint lights not far away, located on the mound, like A tiny house, yet too small, smaller than a crib.

"Go and have a look." Jiang Haizhou's voice subconsciously softened.

"Don't." Li Zhuofan followed behind, "Who knows what it is, it's important to find someone."

"The special places are all clues," Jiang Haizhou said, "You see a bright place in the pitch black, and you don't want to know what's so special about it?"

Li Zhuofan shook his head, he didn't want to know, but Jiang Haizhou couldn't see his silent denial.

The three of them came to the bright place. It was a small house made of bricks. Because it was wrapped in a dirt slope, the three of them didn't find it when they got off the car.It covers an area of ​​less than one cubic meter, but it is very delicately built, with a layer of colorful paint on the outside, and two very thick red candles are almost burned to the end.

"It's not unusual for some villages to enshrine the City God," Jiang Haizhou said.

"City God?"

"Well, it's the land, the one who manages this area of ​​demons and ghosts, the kind of hell messenger in anime." He made a very cold joke.

What he said didn't matter much, Li Zhuofan felt goosebumps on the back of his hands, "Superstition, it's infiltrating."

"The world is full of wonders, and it's not surprising to believe in anything." Jiang Haizhou said, "It's just that many villages don't pay much attention to it, but it's reasonable...wait a minute!"

He suddenly squatted down, took out a strong flashlight from his pocket and turned it on.

"Damn, it's too early to say that there is this equipment!"

Jiang Haizhou waved him to stop the noise, shone the flashlight through the door of the small house, shook it a few times, and turned it off again.

"See what?"

"It's not the City God." Jiang Haizhou said.

"What's that?" Li Zhuofan rubbed his hands, "Don't worry about anything, I just want to find someone to go back quickly, hey, I don't know if it's really in this shitty place."

Jiang Haizhou didn't speak, he seemed to be thinking about something, more precisely, he seemed to be taking something out of his head inventory.

Fu Kuan, who had always been honest, suddenly took Jiang Haizhou's flashlight, and the latter let go of it without paying attention.

Fu Kuan turned on the flashlight to shine it on, and let out a soft "Huh".

Li Zhuofan was a little curious about the reaction of the two, so he also took the flashlight to look over, and then sat on the ground with a "Oh my god", and the flashlight rolled away a long way.

Jiang Haizhou picked it up and turned it off, but Li Zhuofan hadn't gotten up yet, as if frightened.

"What did you see?" Jiang Haizhou asked him.

"Ghost! Ghost!"

Jiang Haizhou kicked him, "Don't talk about ghosts at night, don't talk nonsense."

"Then what, it's so scary!"

Li Zhuofan saw a pale face with a twisted and grinning expression glowing with strange light, the City God must not look like this!What the hell!

"Longevity, boy." Fu Kuan said softly.

"Ah?" Li Zhuofan was at a loss for a while, but somehow he stood up.

Jiang Haizhou also looked at him, surprise flashed in his eyes, he didn't expect Fu Kuan, who was afraid of the dark, to be so calm, he was just thinking about what it was, but he didn't expect Fu Kuan to know.

"En." Fu Kuan paused, and just when Li Zhuofan thought he had something to say, he fell silent.

Li Zhuofan: "..." You have finished your sentence!

"The Longevity Boy," Jiang Haizhou said, "a relatively unpopular figure in the Buddhist family, the son of the King of Longevity. According to legend, the King of Longevity captured the King Fanyu of the neighboring country and let him go, but King Fanyu is under the command of Mr. Dong Guo The wolf, who was unconvinced when he went back, wanted to fight the Longevity King again, and then the brainless Longevity King changed his face with the prince, the Longevity Boy, and turned into ordinary people and went to the enemy country. Later, the Longevity King was killed, and the gc told his son not to seek revenge , said that forbearance is filial piety, and told him not to make grudges, but to do charity. Then his son really remembered the teaching, and then King Fanyu lay on his lap without using a knife. Later, King Fanyu repented and everyone was happy. "

"This..." Li Zhuofan said, "Isn't this too stupid?!"

"Buddhist stories generally have this tone."

"How do you know? You don't believe in Buddhism, do you?"

"No." Jiang Haizhou said, "I have read a few related books before, and it is more than enough for you who are illiterate."

The illiterate choked for a moment, "Then why does this village enshrine the Longevity Boy?"

Jiang Haizhou didn't answer, something flashed through Fu Kuan's mind and he didn't catch it, and finally stayed on Zhen Chixuan's instruction - boy, don't go.

What is the relationship between the two?The Longevity Boy represents forbearance and obeys his father's filial piety. It is a relatively ignorant image that modern people will not respect. What is the specific connection with the taboos in this village?

The three continued to walk forward, Fu Kuan looked back for the last time, the candle had been burned out, the place had returned to pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

After hearing a story, Li Zhuofan's mentality did not relax, and he was still in a trance and very nervous.

"There is no signal in this village, so there will be no valuable electronic equipment. It is relatively primitive. The communication between the villagers may rely on two legs, so it will not be very big." Maybe it is more like several families lined up together. In that way, living an isolated life and going to the outside world to purchase regularly, it is estimated that there may be cars, but the quantity will not be large and the quality will not be too advanced. This is Jiang Haizhou's guess.

This also explains why there is no news on the Internet and no anchors or the like come here to explore. There is no shit at all. At most, a documentary can be filmed and brought out. However, this village does not have the "China's No. [-] Ghost Village" like Fengmen Village. "Evaluation, who would come here to toss.

During the conversation, several people had already arrived at the door of the first family. Jiang Haizhou turned on the lighter and looked at the pocket watch on his chest. After driving for at least 40 minutes, plus the time wasted in finding the route, it has been delayed for a long time.

"It's so dark, do you go door-to-door and search?" Li Zhuofan asked, "Is it better to wait until dawn and ask if anyone knows the Peng family's children?"

"It's five or six o'clock until dawn. If something happened in these few hours, people would have been cold."

"Then what should we do?" Li Zhuofan didn't expect this, and was taken aback.

"What I'm worried about now is whether I will tell us if I ask, and if we refuse to speak up, should we use other methods." Jiang Haizhou sighed, "Many villages are very xenophobic, and they don't help relatives."

"Besides, people who have been doing farm work since childhood are full of brute force. It won't be too easy to fight." After finishing speaking, Jiang Haizhou took a look at Fu Kuan and sighed again. If something happened to the little one, he would never forgive himself for the rest of his life. So let's solve it as soon as possible, he really doesn't want to come to this broken place a second time.

"Then ask a kid?" Li Zhuofan said.

"How can there be children?" Jiang Haizhou said, "And don't think that children are easy to fool."

Li Zhuofan wanted to say something else, but Jiang Haizhou suddenly "hushed".

Silence was restored in the surrounding area. From time to time, there were dogs barking and untimely crowing of chickens, and unknown birds and beasts were calling. I wonder if it was a nightingale or an owl. The sound was very ugly, like a baby crying, which made people feel a little horrified. It was obviously a village on the plains. , but it gives people a sense of sight that the sun is not seen in the primeval forest.

"What's wrong?" Li Zhuofan whispered.

"Shush casually, why is a fitness trainer so cowardly." Jiang Haizhou scorned.

"Damn! You know a fart! You are afraid of the unknown!" Li Zhuofan became furious, "Don't f*cking scare people!"

A few people continued to walk forward. Jiang Haizhou didn't turn on the flashlight, but turned on the flashlight of his mobile phone to illuminate the road.

After going straight for about ten minutes, you can basically see the field at the end.

The village was indeed not that big as Jiang Haizhou had said, so he breathed a sigh of relief for no reason, at least there would be no things that could not be seen at a glance. They turned a corner along a brick road and continued on their way.

"Hey, if we go on like this, what can we see?"

Perhaps the atmosphere was too dull, Li Zhuofan was not a talkative person, but now he kept looking for topics like a chatterbox.No wonder he, the remaining two people were in the Cold War period, they were the ones who didn't talk much, the atmosphere was too bad.

"I don't know, let's take a look first." Jiang Haizhou said, "At least familiarize yourself with the terrain. After dawn, there will be people and many things will be difficult to handle."

"What kind of terrain can this show?"

The corner of Jiang Haizhou's mouth twitched coldly, "As long as it is a place I have traveled, the route will never be forgotten."

"It's so awesome," Li Zhuofan muttered, "won't my head explode after memorizing so many things..."

Jiang Haizhou didn't speak. He walked very fast, but he would slow down after a while and wait for Fu Kuan. The improvement is great, but I don't blush or breathe.

Following behind Fu Kuan, Li Zhuofan suddenly tripped over something, and with a "snap", he bent down and supported the ground with his hands.

"Fuck, there are pits on the brick road, what is this!?"

Several people's mobile phones were pointed at the ground, and then they saw a pile of yellow paper.

"Don't move your hands." Jiang Haizhou stopped Li Zhuofan who was about to reach out to pick it up.

"Don't you know paper money?"

"Damn! It's getting more and more like a ghost movie!"

Li Zhuofan cursed, and quickly jumped up. He would not be frightened by the paper money, but the atmosphere of this scene was not friendly at all. His nerves were already in a state of high tension and continuous tension, like a frightened bird.

"The dead in the village are generally not cremated. They are buried in a coffin and carried in a coffin. But we have never seen a person on the way. Maybe the paper money is not today, or the burial time has not caught up. I have read some northern folklore Books, but cannot be regarded as 100% accurate."

With Jiang Haizhou's life experience, these are impossible to meet, and his grandparents have never told them.

"If you have paper money, it doesn't necessarily mean that you are dead." Fu Kuan said suddenly.

"Ok?"

He took a picture of the surrounding area with his mobile phone. There were no large pieces of paper money scattered, but some ashes were blown everywhere by the wind.

Li Zhuofan cursed again, he always felt that he was very brave, and he was still startled when he saw the paper money, but the two around him were calmer than the other, as if they saw a pebble, and their expressions did not change. !

"It's also possible, simply offering sacrifices, buying roads, eliminating disasters, and praying. Just burn it at the crossroads." Fu Kuan said again.

"It makes sense." Jiang Haizhou nodded subconsciously. This is indeed a crossroads. "So this doesn't explain anything. It may be the custom of this village, or the personal behavior of a certain villager."

"Keep going and remember what you see, it's better than not knowing anything."

Fu Kuan also followed, Jiang Haizhou shook his hand suddenly, Fu Kuan was stunned, feeling flattered by being left out all the way.

"Cold?"

Fu Kuan shook his head, thinking that Jiang Haizhou might not be able to see him, so he said, "It's not cold."

Jiang Haizhou didn't let go, and there were more and more trees and low walls in front of him, and it was not as clear as before. He was afraid that Fu Kuan would not be able to take care of any unexpected situations, so he didn't dare to take care of Fu Kuan as he did just now.However, Jiang Haizhou found that he was not as angry as before. He thought Fu Kuan was too delicate and weak, and needed protection too much. Now it seems that Fu Kuan is calm and calm, and can help analyze. Li Zhuofan is countless times stronger.

He felt more and more that this little thing was not as weak as he thought, he was a teammate who could work together, and even someone he liked.I don't need to use a protective attitude to treat him as a porcelain doll that cannot be touched.

Isn't this better?

Only those who can stand side by side with him will go further. If he has to be coaxed all the time, sooner or later he will become impatient, and then he will inevitably deal with wide and cold, resulting in gaps and even conflicts. Jiang Haizhou does not want such a scene see.

Thinking about it like this, Jiang Haizhou realized that he was really indifferent to reality and unkind.But it's also... But it's also just right, after all, Fu Kuan will not let him down, he can always surprise him.

In front is a field that has been harvested, but it seems to have been confiscated. There are a few stalks standing jaggedly, swaying in the breeze.

"It should be to save the seeds." Jiang Haizhou was afraid that Fu Kuan would be surprised, so he directly explained in a very academic way, "This is a very normal farming phenomenon."

"Yeah." Fu Kuan's heart was sweet, and the corners of his mouth were slightly curved.

--"Meow!"

A wild cat sprang out, meowing mournfully, and under the light of the electric light, its two green eyes shone strangely. Jiang Haizhou could feel Fu Kuan's short "Ah", and he held his hand immediately. It tightened up.

He hurriedly clasped back to appease him, but Li Zhuofan was not so lucky, he screamed "Oh my god", the black cat was also startled by him, and swished past his feet.

It took only a second or two for Li Zhuofan to break out in a layer of cold sweat, and then screamed "Ahhh", punching and kicking the air.

"Don't be surprised." Jiang Haizhou said in a deep voice, he seemed to think that Li Zhuofan was a little funny, and almost laughed out loud.

Li Zhuofan gasped violently, and cursed, "Male Gobi! Find me to kill this little bastard, and fuck him so hard he won't be able to get out of bed for a few days!"

"I'll talk about it when I can find it."

Jiang Haizhou stopped after speaking.

"Why..." Fu Kuan raised his head and froze there.

"Why don't you two talk?!" Li Zhuofan looked at them suspiciously, and after turning a corner, he saw several big trees and a white tile-roofed house suddenly appearing behind the fence.In the dark night, the contrast is relatively strong. A pair of large white lanterns are hung in front of the tile-roofed house at both ends of the eaves. There should be open flames inside, and traces of candle flames can be seen dancing.

"This..." Li Zhuofan swallowed his saliva, trembled, and stammered even more than Fu Kuan, "Let's go, what should we do next?"

"Hush." ​​Jiang Haizhou said again.

"You boo again!" Li Zhuofan was about to scold, when he heard a voice not far away, which gradually became clearer.

"Hide!" Jiang Haizhou urged in a low voice.

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This story is purely fictional.