The host has exploded again

Chapter 64

"Is there really anyone here?"

Qin Huan looked at the pitch-black surroundings, and couldn't help feeling hairy all over.

Su hand tightly clutched Hu Li's sleeve robe, lowered his head, looked around.

They had set foot in this village earlier.

The entrance of the village is simply surrounded by wooden fences, and a larger wooden board is used as the gate.

There is a big stone outside the door, about half a person's height.

A dilapidated long plank with rotten edges stood in front of the stone, with three large characters crookedly written on it: "Huangbai Village".

They walked around the village roughly, maybe it was late at night, and there was no one on the street.

But the strange thing is that there is no light in this village.

The houses in this village are all thatched houses, with few tiles.

"Let's go again."

Hu Li pulled her further away.

His hands were also shaking, and Qin Huan could feel the vibration of his sleeves.

They went to a remote place, passing the plowed fields.

It's just that most of the fields are covered with weeds, and the ground is full of hard soil.

Finally, we came to a larger house, which was actually the size of an ordinary living room, but it was also the largest one seen in this village, but it was also dilapidated.

In the yard surrounded by bamboo fences, the night wind blows the doors and windows and creaks, and the stone mill is covered with dust.

The two walked to the door of the house.

A few whimpering sounds were faintly heard.

Qin Huan raised his eyes to look at Hu Li, and Hu Li happened to be watching.

—someone!
Qin Huan knocked on the door lightly and shouted, "Is anyone there?"

There was still a whine in the room, but no one answered and no door opened.

The two looked at each other, and Qin Huan came to the window.

Through the half-opened and half-closed window that swayed in the wind, the inside of the window was pitch black, and the table and the bed board could only be roughly distinguished.

Qin Huan leaned over to take a closer look, but saw something shaking beside the table!

Not just one, it should be two or three!
One big and two small, floating and sinking, very slight, but so obvious in the night.

That's where the whining sound came from.

Is it human or what...

Qin Huan turned back to look at Hu Li in a daze, but couldn't speak when he opened his mouth.

"What's wrong?" Hu Li asked her.

She didn't return.

Hu Li also came over, leaned over to look through the window, and held his breath suddenly.

Some cautiously called out, "Old man."

As soon as he shouted, his eyes looked over like this.

It was a pair of dead eyes, unable to see life.

White with black, his eyes were cloudy like a bottomless abyss.

Under the moonlight, the dead wood-like skin of the old man looked like frost-beaten branches, making it impossible to distinguish the facial features.

The only thing visible were those eyes engraved with fear.

Hu Li held Qin Huan's hand.

Both hands were clasped together and trembling.

The footsteps are about to retreat.

But suddenly heard a sound -

"Where does the honored guest come from?"

The old man's voice was extremely hoarse, old and slow, like the call of a ghost in the underworld in this dark night.

Qin Huan's heart tightened, his throat seemed to be choked by a stone, and he looked at Hu Li nervously.

Hu Li held her hand tightly.

Taking a deep breath, he shouted boldly, "Old man, my brother and I are passing by here, can we stay overnight?"

After speaking, his legs trembled while he was stunned, and even his lips trembled.

"Gah-"

The door is open!
"come in."

Qin Huan turned his head and saw a big wrinkled hand clasped on the door, which could not be seen clearly under the moonlight.

The two looked at each other nervously, then walked in cautiously, hand in hand.

"Thank you old man."

The two entered the door and the old man closed the door.

Even seeing the old man, I still feel a little bit afraid in my heart.

In the indistinct darkness, the unkempt, wrinkled old man in front of him really made it impossible to calm down.

The two who were huddled by the table just now were already sitting on the wooden stool.

When Qin Huan looked there, his figure was blurred, but he could still make out it clearly. It was an old woman with a half-old child.

Xu is the old man's wife and grandson.

"I'm really sorry, we don't have much place to stay here. But the whole village is like this, so I can only wrong you two to rest at my old table."

Qin Huan frowned and asked, "Old man, why didn't we see anyone in the village when we came, even the lights were not lit?"

The old man said helplessly, "How can we, a poor and remote person, have the spare money to light a lamp? We can't see it in the dark, so we have to stay at home."

"I see."

Qin Huan asked again, "Then why, just now when we came, we heard faint sobbing in the house?"

The old man said, "Dear guest, you may have heard wrongly. My whole family was resting just now. There was no crying."

"Oh, that's right." Qin Huan still didn't believe it.

Thinking that their family consisted of old people and children, Hu Li and the two of them just lay down at the table and fell asleep.

As soon as Qin Huan lay down on the table, he looked at Hu Li, but Hu Li fell asleep minding his own business.

Qin Huan was helpless, as if there was always a lump in his heart that he couldn't let go of.

She always felt that there was something strange about it.

Early the next morning, Qin Huan woke up.

Hu Li was nowhere to be seen.

The child was still lying on the bed, and the old man was not in the house.

Qin Huan pushed the door and went out.

There was only one sound, "Little brother, are you awake?"

——It was the old lady last night.

She was tinkering on the stove in the courtyard, probably cooking.

"Yes." Qin Huan responded loudly, "Thank you to my mother-in-law's family for taking me in last night, otherwise my two brothers would have to sleep on the streets last night."

The old woman smiled and said, "It's okay. When anyone who is away from home has any inconvenience, we can help as much as we can."

"Mother-in-law is really kind-hearted." Qin Huan chuckled.

"Mother-in-law, let me help you." Qin Huan stepped forward to help her mother-in-law. She didn't know what she was going to eat this morning, so she decided to help her first.

The old lady said politely, "No, I can do it by myself, little brother, you just go to rest."

Qin Huan still passed by, after all, he was still a foreigner, so he was a little embarrassed.

Looking at it in the past, I felt a little distressed. The mother-in-law cooked a big pot of porridge, but it was full of water. There were only dozens of brown rice, most of which were rice husks.

"Grandma, this porridge..."

The old woman sighed, "There is no one farming in the village, so there will be less rice."

Thinking of the hard soil-like fields that he passed by before, Qin Huan asked, "Why is no one farming in the village?"

The old woman's eyes looked elsewhere, "This village is poor, and all the younger people have gone out of the city."

Qin Huanxing narrowed his eyes slightly, "I see."

Secretly doubting in her heart, she always felt that it was not that simple.

After a while, I saw Hu Li coming back from the outside, holding a folding fan, and the dark green bamboo tube was still hanging on his waist.

Qin welcomes up, "Brother Hu, where have you been?"

"No, here you are." Hu Li proudly took off the bamboo tube from his hand and handed it to Qin Huan.

Qin Huan took it and removed the cork, feeling that warm breath hitting his face again.

Qin Huan looked up at him, "Soup again?"

"Yeah." Hu Li nodded, "I said, drink something hot in the morning to warm your stomach."

"What about you?" Qin Huan asked him.

Hu Li rolled his eyes, "I just drank it."

Qin Huan drank some, blew on it, and handed him the bamboo tube, "This is a lot, I can't finish it, let's go together."

"it is good."

Hu Li took it, twisted his hands, and drank from the mouth of the barrel.

Qin Huan asked him, "I want to go to the village first."

Hu Li said casually, "I just turned around, there is nothing to visit, what do you want to see?"

(End of this chapter)