Chapter 91
Seeing him walk out from the village entrance, the three of us didn't go up to greet him, instead, we silently ducked behind a tree by the roadside. Seeing him say a few words to the people in the village, then smiled and walked away.
Tintin asked me, saying what about it? Are we going to continue to follow him?
I said someone else has so many beautiful snakes, is following him looking for death. Moreover, we are still not sure if this village is Jiu Ye or not, he can't run away anyway, how about we find a place to settle down first and study it later.
The little ghost nodded, said you look at him like that, I guess his home is in this village, where can he run to, on the contrary, we are the ones who need to hide from him in order to be found.
We hide outside the village to discuss, look at that yinhata, also did not want to come out of the village, just in the village entrance position around, holding a bag, too far away, can not see clearly what he is doing.
After about half an hour, we were all a bit pressed, this guy finally threw the bag in his hand, clapped his hands and turned back to the village.
Waiting for him to go far away, the three of us only came out from behind the big tree, Ding Ding cursed, said this person is sick ah, a person blindly wandering outside what?
The little ghost and I didn't even nibble, and walked a bit towards the entrance of the village, carefully checking out the place where that yin streamer had just walked by. Found this village outside, there is a man-made excavation out of the gully, very shallow and inconspicuous, but the edge of the repair is very neat.
I saw an ditch was sprinkled with a lot of powder, the little ghost rubbed some of it with his hands, picked it up and sniffed it between his noses, and laughed, this is andrographis.
I don't know much about Xionghuang, the only thing I know is still the ones on TV, with the role of repelling snakes and rats. I wondered in my heart, that kid did not know what the hell, recruited a set of beautiful snakes back, although I'm not sure whether those monsters are now hiding outside the village or inside the village, but he sprinkled andrographis in the vicinity of this, do you want to let those monsters in or do you not want them to come out?
The little ghost also thought for a while, waved his hand towards me, and said Tan Xi you see, although the village is scattered all around, but the front of the village entrance is not at all, as if it is left a pass exit.
I looked at it, and it was really the same as what the little ghost said, but after thinking about it for half a day, I couldn't come up with a reason. So I simply ignored him.
I looked up towards the village, this village is very simple, at first glance, but dozens of families, the road in front of the house is also very narrow, almost three or four people side by side forward can block the road. The houses were all of the brick and earth structure, as if a gale would blow them all down.
And there were very few pedestrians on the street, except for a few old men sitting in front of their doors, hardly any people in sight.
I called out to Ding Ding and the others and prepared to go inside the village. We still had to find a place to stay before it got dark.
There were definitely no inns in this village, so we could only talk to the locals, or at worst, give some money and stay in their homes.
However, we just walked in, the old people in front of those earth houses, looked up at us, the work in their hands suddenly stopped, and looked at us without moving.
I was a little nervous by their look, also do not know what they are thinking, can only comfort themselves, said this village often do not see living people, they are more or less a little strange that we will come.
But what I didn't expect was that we walked into the village, turned our heads and looked a few times, and found that even those villagers who stayed in their houses were all strangely sizing us up behind the doors and windows.
This feeling, as if we suddenly walked into an unfamiliar world, everyone around you is watching you, they have different expressions and different looks, some are cold, a little curious, and some are indeed unspeakably worried.
Ding Ding followed me, gently tugged on my clothes, said Tan Xi, they looked at you as if they were looking at the monkeys in the zoo.
I gave him a blank look and chided in a low voice what a load of crap to say.
We walked forward a few more steps, came to an old man in front of me, I hemmed and hawed and laughed, trying to make myself look human and animal harmless, said Grandpa, we came to the mountains to pick up the wind, the result is lost, it is hard to see a village here, I do not know if there is a place nearby that can lend us a place to stay?
The old man's mouth smoking a dry cigarette, face full of wrinkles, a pair of eyes sunken, looking at me with a somewhat complicated look.
I waited for a while, did not see him open his mouth, face more or less some embarrassment, can only helplessly looked at the little ghost, the little ghost is also full of doubts, I see him step forward, is ready to speak, who knows that the old man spit a mouthful of smoke, suddenly hand, our village is small, there is no place for outsiders to live. I can show you the way, you guys grab the time to go now, it's almost out when it gets dark.
When I heard this, I felt that it was considered an expulsion order, which is completely different from what the Internet said, the people of this village treat people kindly ah. We did not expect the old man to speak so decisively. A moment are frozen in place, do not know what to say good.
I was silent for a while, in my head to run through how to speak, slowly only said, master you see, now it's not early, we are tired, you are to give us the road, we estimate that there is no physical strength to be able to go out, but I want to ask you to help, can you help us ask which of the village can allow us to borrow a little bit of the village, we can pay, we can discuss it.
Who knows I said such a big paragraph, the old man simply did not listen to it, he knocked the pipe in the heel of the shoe, get out of the tobacco inside, said carelessly, young people, it's not a question of money, but our village is like this, you can see, there is really no way to help you. If you don't have the strength to go out, take advantage of not yet dark, find a safe place in the mountains, make do for one night, the young man's body is good, it will be fine.
I see that he is still not willing to help, frowned, is going to ask someone else, which know that Ding Ding can not continue to listen to, directly up, said have not seen such a rush ah, even if there is no place to live at home, at least let us in the village randomly under the eaves of the wall will be ah, you go to the mountains to live a night to try to be all right to death I do not believe.
The old man heard Ding Ding bad breath, looked up and gave him a blank stare, and lowered his head to pull out some tobacco from his pocket, not going to pay attention to us. I was busy pulling Ding Ding a hand, was about to indicate that he said don't be impulsive, this is at least someone else's territory.
Which know that the old man suddenly froze for a moment, and looked up at Ding Ding a glance, lowered his head slightly thinking for a while, and then looked up at him, face expression can not be described odd.
Ding Ding was he looked hairy, frowned and growled, said what are you looking at!
The old man this only awkwardly don't head, reluctantly smiled a smile, said children temper don't be so impetuous, I just see you a little familiar just, looks somewhat like this one of us, inevitably more than a moment to look at.
I heard this strange, busy to come forward, asked, like a person? Like who?
He dry smile, said nothing, some like our village old Yu family's youngest daughter, but I have not seen this person for some years, see look like, can not help but think of the past.
I wondered in my heart, thinking that the person he was talking about could be Mrs. Nine? When I thought about it, Ding Ding and Mrs. Nine were really quite similar, only that Ding Ding, being a boy, had a few more sharp eyebrows than Mrs. Nine.
I saw Ding Ding frowning, seemingly also considering this old man's words. Seeing his contemplative look, I was slightly surprised, secretly saying that this wouldn't still be guessed by me, right? Could there really be such a coincidence?
But on second thought, I think not, this should not be a coincidence, I always thought that Mrs. Nine's is that city people, but now think about it, although the accent is very close, but the nuances of the difference is still there, where exactly her hometown, none of us know, and perhaps even Ding Ding is the same.
Mrs. Nine deliberately left me an address, at that time did not say let Ding Ding come to this place, if Ding Ding does not come, then these things I can not know. This village is too small, the locals turn around, see some old faces, no matter how long you left, as long as mentioned, there will still be some impression.
I was silent, wanting to think about a moment and tell him the guesses in my heart, but Ding Ding suddenly spoke up, saying that my mother's surname is Yu, her name is Yu Fangtong, do you recognize her?
I and the little kid are a little surprised, but the tacit understanding of who did not speak, only to see that the old man was originally cloudy eyes suddenly bright, trembling slightly stood up, the mouth can not stop repeating, Yu Fangtong …… Yu Fangtong, yes yes yes, that is the name of this word, you are her son?
Ding Ding is still frowning, slowly nodded.
The old man appeared more excited, earlier still put a bitter face, but now it is a happy face, this expression changed too quickly, so that I was a moment some acceptance incompetent.
He gestured toward an old woman in the neighborhood, saying that the old proprietor's, don't be busy, quickly come over to see, this is Xiaoyu's son ah!
The old woman froze for a moment, her wrinkled face slightly puzzled, and asked, which Xiaoyu?
The old man put his arm around Ding Ding's shoulders, scared him to try to avoid, but the old man was too excited, how hard he could not break free, only to hear the old man said, is the size of the play together that, the Yu master's family of the nine girls Xiaoyu, Yu Fangtong ah!
Said he also complained a slap on the thigh, said you really, how did you forget?
The old woman stood in place for a moment, suddenly face is also a happy, busy walked over, towards Ding Ding face look and look, reach out and pinch his chin to turn the left, and then turn the right, said really look like ah!
Said, she walked behind us with a smile, looked in the direction of the village entrance for a while, turned his head to Ding Ding and said, "Where's your mom, little guy? Why don't you see her?
Ding Ding face crossed a color of loss, said, my mother disappeared ……
The old man and woman froze for a moment, looked at each other, half a day did not say anything.