I nodded, and they didn't seem to notice. Sure enough, a woman's voice came from inside a moment later, and she whispered, "It's inconvenient for me to come out, I'm sorry." ”

The voice sounded a little timid, maybe it was because he hadn't had much contact with the outside world in the mountains all year round, so he didn't dare to see us. I smiled and said, "Then don't bother." ”

After waiting for a while, the old man surnamed Long turned around and walked back, and said with a smile: "The hut in the back has been cleaned up for you, so you can stay tonight." ”

A few people were a little hesitant, but now they want to go back and have no way out, so they can only stay.

"Then there will be labor." I said with a smile.

I went outside to smoke and saw Old Man Long lock the door of the house, sprinkle a circle of black powder around the house, and asked strangely: "Uncle, what is this spilling?" ”

He heard the voice and looked back at me, and smiled: "It's not safe in the mountains at night, those black monsters don't know when they will come." This black powder is actually gunpowder, and I don't know why those black monsters are afraid of gunpowder. ”

I nodded, walked over and reached out and pinched it, put it on my nose and sniffed it, it was really gunpowder.

"By the way, Uncle Long, you have a girl in the house, right?" I asked casually, but I didn't expect to see Uncle Long's face change slightly, and at that moment, his complexion obviously became complicated, and even his voice sounded a little strange.

"Did you find out?" But soon his countenance recovered, and he whispered, "That's my granddaughter, and she's a miserable person. ”

I took a cigarette out of my pocket, lit it for him, and heard him say, "A few years ago, my son and daughter-in-law were killed by a monster that jumped out of the mountains. At that time, my granddaughter and I were left to depend on each other, and my granddaughter had a strange disease, and she could not blow the wind or see the sun, so I let her stay in the house, and only go to the yard for a while when the wind is strong or at night. Because she always stays in the house on weekdays, she has a timid temperament, and there are no outsiders in the mountains. She was scared when you showed up this time, and I didn't know where you came from, so I asked her to stay in the house and not show her face. ”

"Oh......" I have heard of this strange disease in the past, it is said that Marshal Lin Biao once suffered from this disease, and later the condition worsened, and the whole person was in a very bad state, unable to blow the wind or see the light.

"Why do you get this disease?" I asked curiously.

"Well, that's weird to say. My son and daughter-in-law have never had this problem, and they are healthy. But that's how children become, and I remember not like that when I was a kid, I guess it started when I was about five or six years old. He exhaled a smoke ring, his eyes staring into the distance, his voice cold.

"Not born? Can you elaborate on that? I motioned for him to be specific.

"Oh, that's probably the case, when my granddaughter was five or six years old, the village was quite lively, and there were many neighbors, and those black monsters, although they had already been seen, were not so wild as to rush our village. My granddaughter was also very naughty at that time, and once went to another village with a few little guys from the village. When I came back after dark, I was anxious, although several of her children were in their teens, but after all, my granddaughter was five or six years old, and she was still too young. Seeing that she never came back, I was a little anxious. I found a few people to go out to find her. By the side of the creek at the back of the village, I saw my granddaughter upside down, and the other little ones were gone, and I thought something might have happened, so I hurried home with my granddaughter. I invited the doctor from the village to come and see, and the doctor said that the child was scared and fainted, and he was fine. Speaking of which, I handed out another cigarette to the old man, and he took it and nodded at me slightly, very polite.

"And then?" I asked hurriedly.

"There are three children missing in the village, all of whom are fifteen or sixteen years old, and the neighboring village is not too far from us, only about two miles, and the children in the mountains are fast on foot, and it takes about ten minutes to walk back and forth from two miles. We hurriedly sent people to the next village, but the next village said that they had not seen the children since the morning. I haven't been here at all, and at this time, the big guys feel that things are a little serious. Many strong men in the two villages tried to find a way, but they searched all night but found nothing. It wasn't until dawn that a child's shoes were found on a hillside five or six miles from the village. When the big guy came back, he thought that he might have been dragged away by a wild beast, but he wondered why my granddaughter, who had gone to the next village together, came back. After three or four days of searching, I found nothing, and then my granddaughter woke up. Many people in the two villages came to ask, and my granddaughter was very scared, and she was very scared. I asked her, what the hell happened? What about the other little dolls? ”

It looked like the mystery was finally going to be solved, and I listened intently.

"My granddaughter was on her way for a long time, crying and saying that she had been taken away by a dark-skinned stranger. As soon as a group of children left the village, they walked five or six hundred meters, and you can see this forest, there are many trees, very dense, if it rains, it will be foggy during the day, and you can't see people when you go out three or four hundred meters. They walked into the woods and were attacked by the dark-skinned monsters out of sight of the villagers. My granddaughter didn't hide at the time, she was caught by a dark-skinned monster, and she said that the dark-skinned monster caught her and thought she was too small, so she let her go. But when it was time to release, I gave her a little black water. Then my granddaughter became dizzy and walked from memory to the house, and finally fainted by the stream behind the village. Until we found her...... Since then, her body has been getting worse day by day. The village is also very turbulent, those dark-skinned monsters often come, catch the powerful people, my son and daughter-in-law don't want to stay here and wait for death, so they want to rush out, but there is no news of this time, they must have died at the hands of those strange people. Hey......" He shook his head as he spoke, smoking a cigarette, his face was gloomy, even though a long time had passed, he could still see that the painful time had not been smoothed by time, and the bitterness in his memory was still tormenting him all the time.

"It seems that your granddaughter's strange illness seems to have something to do with the black liquid she drank from it." I said in passing.

Uncle Long was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "It's just that we can't leave here, and if we want to go out, we may die at the hands of those black monsters, so I can only raise her according to the methods I knew in the past." By the way, little brother, it seems that you know how to heal, can you help my granddaughter take a look? ”

I don't know how to heal, but seeing the sincerity of the old man's face, I am also very interested in those dark-skinned monsters who are not giants, although I have not seen the true faces of these strange people, but observing the little girl they persecuted may also be able to gather some information. Only then did he ponder for a moment and then said, "I'm not a doctor, and I only know the skin, so I can't guarantee that my granddaughter will be cured." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's good to show it." The old man saw hope and hurriedly led me into the house. Standing at the door of the inner room, the old man knocked lightly on the door and said, "Granddaughter, a little brother has come in to see you, don't be afraid." ”

After a long time, the female voice came from inside, and the old man took out the key and opened the door, and it was dark inside that he couldn't see anything clearly, but the old man walked in familiarly, lit a candle in the dark, and the layout and layout of the house gradually became clear under the faint light of the fire.

I stepped in, perhaps because the door hadn't been opened for a long time, and it smelled faintly musty, not very pungent, but generally uncomfortable.

The furnishings and furnishings were very old, and I couldn't tell that there was a girl about my age living in this house. A simple wooden bed with a table stacked with a number of medicines, all unpolished.

As the old man said, he knows a little about fur, and there are all kinds of Chinese medicines he picks, and there are all kinds of them.

I followed the old man to the side of the wooden bed, and saw a frightened girl curled up in the old quilt, hiding in the corner of the bed, and from time to time looking at us with the afterglow of the quilt.