Nangong Baiye did not go into the middle of the forest, but kept walking along the side of the forest towards the west.
First, she wanted to see the Cunxi Muzhu that the waiter mentioned.
Secondly, the footprints left on the snow here are always facing west, which means that the thin man and the fat man just now must have also gone to the west of the village.
Nangong Baiye narrowed his shrewd eyes and walked into the sparsely populated village, following his footsteps.
Although the village is not far from the capital, it does not have half of the luxury of the capital. It is all made of earthen houses and thatched huts, and you can hardly see many people coming and going.
There are very few young people. Occasionally, I see an elderly person sitting in the yard, holding corn in his hand, stroking the cornmeal very slowly. His face is slightly yellow, and his eyes are not very bright. He is a lifeless person.
's village.
"Auntie, how do I get to the west of the village?" Nangong Baiye asked a busy woman across the fence.
It's no wonder that Nangong Baiye asked, because those footprints suddenly disappeared, the weather in the village was gloomy, and the houses were not built properly, making it easy for people to get confused.
The woman was stunned for a moment, then looked at Nangong Baiye with very strange eyes: "Are you going to the west of the village?"
"Yes." Nangong Baiye smiled with his teeth, very brightly.
The woman looked around and lowered her voice: "Son, please listen to my aunt's advice. You can't go to the west of the village."
"My friend has already passed away. I have to go." Nangong Baiye changed the subject without blushing and without a beating heart: "There are so few young people here."
Hearing this, the woman let out a long sigh and shook her head: "This village is getting more and more evil. People who have money are moving to the capital."
"What about these old ladies and grandfathers?" Nangong Baiye frowned: "Why haven't they moved away?"
The woman smiled and said: "Hey, you are so old and can't afford to bother. Who doesn't want to guard this three-quarter acre of land? The old people are not afraid. They are all people who have one foot in the coffin anyway. It's a waste."
What are you doing with that money!"
Nangong Baiye didn't say anything, only smiled softly. The gradual aging of the village is not a good phenomenon. Generally, the old people sleep lightly and don't have much life left. As time goes by, the village loses its popularity, and it will naturally become more and more popular.
The more eerie...
From the moment he entered the village, Nangong Baiye never stopped holding the compass in his hand, which was really disturbing.
Nangong Baiye pressed his forehead and spoke a few words to the woman before he found out where the wooden pillar was in the west of the village.
But the way the woman looked at her changed from strange to a trace of fear...
When Nangong Baiye walked to the west of the village, the sky was completely overcast, but because it was the time when Yang Qi was at its strongest, nothing dirty appeared...
But, where is the river?
Where are the stakes?
Just when Nangong Baiye was confused, a fierce quarrel suddenly came from his ears!
"I warned you before, but you refused to listen and insisted on cooperating with the Jiang family. Now it's better. None of us will live long!" The speaker was the thin man with a bad temper. He was tall and his shadow was covered by
It was pulled very long, covering the whole body of the fat man.
The fat man narrowed his small eyes and shouted in a low voice: "The time has come. There is no point in saying anything more. Now is not the time for you and me to blame each other. We must find the next one as soon as possible..." At this point, he
He suddenly paused and looked in the direction of Nangong Baiye, with fear in his eyes: "Who, who is there!?"
"Why are you panicking? It must be the scholar who was in the tea shop just now!" The thin man named Liang'er snorted and laughed sinisterly: "He has been following us since just now."
Nangong Baiye curled his thin lips. As expected, he came from a fighting background and had very strong ears.
But, the Jiang family that these two people were talking about just now...couldn't it be the Jiang family in her mind?
Nangong Baiye walked out of the dense hay calmly. Since he had been discovered, he might as well make a grand appearance.
Her thin lips were slightly hooked, and she looked at the thin man with a slight smile. There was no other expression on her face except a slight smile.
This made Liang'er feel very uncomfortable. Things were already going not so smoothly, but another one came to disrupt the situation...
Unexpectedly, when the fat man met Nangong Baiye, he was very friendly and looked at her with a smile: "My little brother is really smart. I must have extraordinary skills in his hands."
Little brother? Nangong Baiye lowered his head and glanced at his scholar's attire, and raised the corner of his mouth playfully: "Brother, I'm sorry, I just heard you talking about the Jiang family. Could it be that this Jiang family is the same Jiang family that was destroyed in the capital not long ago?"
"Isn't it that Jiang family? Liang'er and I were about to be harmed by him..." The fat man's face turned red angrily, and before he could finish his words, the thin man intercepted him.
"Fat man!!" Liang'er glared at him fiercely, her eyes full of warning.
The fat man seemed to have realized something, he shrank back and closed his mouth.
But after hearing this, Nangong Baiye felt clear in his heart that this Jiang family was the same Jiang family that he had checked before.
She remembered that the Jiang family was holding a vaginal object in their hands.
That evil thing made Nangong Nie think about it until she died.
Could it be that the people who stole that evil thing were the thin man and the fat man in front of me?
Nangong Baiye's eyes quickly flashed with a sharp light.
She took a step forward and did not ask more about the Jiang family. Instead, she looked around and said, "When I just came here, I heard a lot of rumors. There used to be a river in the west of this village, but it was weird.
Very good." As she said that, she looked at the fat man and said, "Brother, if you don't mind, let's help each other. After all, this tomb is not like other tombs. Multiple opponents are not as good as multiple helpers. What do you think?"
The fat man clapped his hands: "This is the best way. We were just worried about what to do, right, Liang'er!"
The thin man looked at the fat man, his eyes swayed twice, and he nodded slowly, but did not speak. It seemed that he was not happy to let Nangong Baiye join, and he didn't want to offend anyone at this time. His face looked gloomy.
No joy or anger.
Nangong Baiye didn't care what he thought, but she always felt that something was indescribably weird, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
Three people looking for it separately are always faster than one person looking for it.
People in the village would not bring them here at all, and some old people even showed a repulsive look when they entered the village.
The woman Nangong Baiye met was pretty good. Before that, Liang'er and the two of them met a crazy old man who told them that if they messed up again, they would be driven out of the village.
However, this village was not something he could decide. As early as the first day he came to the village, Fatty and the others bribed the village chief of Xiqiao Village with money.
The income in the village was not good to begin with, and there was little money to be made. When the God of Wealth finally came to provide money, the village chief would definitely not coax people away.
And he's not just doing it for himself. There are so many old people in the village that they always need money to settle them.
The imperial court often did not take care of these remote villages at all.
So even though the villagers were afraid that Fatty and the others would bump into something dirty, they didn't stop them, they just tried their best to avoid going out.
This is also the reason why Nangong Baiye didn't see many people along the way.
According to the waiter's description, the river bed should be nearby.
What puzzled Nangong Baiye was that not only did she not see any dry river bed, she didn't even smell the fishy smell of mud.