肋骨

During the low-pitched argument among several people, the outside voices gradually disappeared, and the two left.

Li Zhuofan sighed, "I really don't know how many people are suffering in invisible places."

Zhao Shuitian put on the already hot lighter, and with a crisp sound, the cellar returned to darkness.Then a light came from above the steps, and the cellar door was opened.

"They are gone, you come up." Aunt Li said.

The two asked Fu Kuan to go up first, Jiang Haizhou took a last look at the dark cellar, he thought, if he walked out of this place, he would never come back again in this life, but maybe he would never forget such a miserable existence.

When encountering powerless things, the best way is not to let yourself feel sorry for others.

Aunt Li's clothes seemed to have been tidied up, and her face was tired. "They said that the holy water was lost, and they were looking for it from house to house, but they didn't make a big fuss, as if they were afraid of scaring the snake."

She returned to the urban humanistic way of speaking, and deliberately used idioms.

There was a strange smell in the room. Aunt Li opened the window, and the cold wind came in. The child on the kang was already asleep, and there were tears on his face.

"What exactly is holy water?" Jiang Haizhou asked.

"You go to the Zhou family ancestral hall and get that bottle." Aunt Li said, "I knew when you asked just now that people in the village dare not touch this thing, only you outsiders will do it. But outsiders There are not many, and I haven’t met one in several years.”

She sat on the edge of the kang, sighed softly, and said slowly: "They say that holy water is a magic medicine, which can prolong life and eliminate all diseases. Only those who have made great contributions to the village deserve to have it. But it is very difficult to produce a share of holy water." , and it was regarded as ominous before it was blessed by the ancestors of the Zhou family. It was appointed by the Taoist priest of Lao Sun's family."

"How is the holy water produced?"

Aunt Li shook her head, "I don't know."

After Jiang Haizhou asked, he and Fu Kuan looked at each other. Aunt Li didn't lie. She really didn't know, but she might not be completely ignorant, maybe she knew a little but didn't want to say.

Li Zhuofan still wanted to ask, but Jiang Haizhou shook his head.

"Will those who send holy water get benefits?"

Aunt Li shook her head, "On the contrary, Daoist Sun said that people who deliver holy water will have bad luck, and only those who are blessed by him can get rid of disasters. People in the village are afraid that he will hate him, so they have to ask him for help, because no one thinks about it." Unlucky, those who are not blessed by Daoist Sun will be rejected by the whole village."

"Where is Daoist Sun?" Fu Kuan asked.

"What are you going to do?" Aunt Li said, "Although I really want you to rescue Xiao Peng, it's too difficult, his brother... oh."

Aunt Li hesitated to speak, with a painful expression on her face.

"What's wrong with his brother?" Jiang Haizhou said, "Peng Su is our very good friend. We will save him as long as we have a chance."

Aunt Li shook her head, "Let's go, the farther you go, the better, you can't rescue him!"

"We must try." Fu Kuan said.

"No! It's too difficult!" Aunt Li shook her head, as if remembering something terrible, repeating incoherent words over and over again.

Li Zhuofan wanted to say something else, but she suddenly started to go crazy, tearing her clothes non-stop, and smashing the leftover dishes and chopsticks on the table. Pushed to the outside, the howling continued.

"Go away! Get out! Get out!"

"Oh my god!" Several people ran out and stood outside the yard, Li Zhuofan was still in shock, "Why did she go crazy all of a sudden?"

"It should be because we don't want us to save people."

"Really? That's not necessary!" Li Zhuofan seemed to want to scold a few words, but held back abruptly, "What, the clue I was about to find was broken! What should I do now?"

"Try to go as quietly as possible, and don't meet the villagers." Zhao Shuitian put on his hat and mask, covering Fu Kuan tightly, "Let's go find Taoist Sun."

"How to find it?" Li Zhuofan also covered himself.

"I'll be the bait," Fu Kuan said, "Take it, Daoist Sun, the secret."

"No." Jiang Haizhou shook his head and held Fu Kuan's hand tightly, "Don't make any more trouble."

Fu Kuan said: "This is the fastest way, you save me again."

"Fuck a few eggs." Jiang Haizhou said: "There is no signal here. Once we separate, we won't be able to contact you at all. Relying on fucking telepathy to save you? There must be other ways. Let me think about it again. Don't act like a sacrifice." Go up and hit the muzzle."

"I didn't say, just be normal, boy." Fu Kuan blinked.

"What?" Jiang Haizhou was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized, "You mean..."

"Yes." Fu Kuan said, "Find someone first, then talk."

"Then we..." Jiang Haizhou hesitated for a moment, "We need to make a careful plan, otherwise we will be very passive once we show our flaws, and maybe we will get in without being rescued."

"Yes." Fu Kuan nodded, "First, plan."

"What charades are you two playing?" Li Zhuofan was at a loss.

Jiang Haizhou sighed, "Fu Kuan wants to pretend to be the Longevity Boy."

Li Zhuofan opened his mouth wide.

"The Longevity Boy will go down to the earth to show his spirit, and he will summon a boy to follow, and the whole village will not stop him." Jiang Haizhou said, "We just need to rescue Peng Su. Others can do what they can according to the situation. If they can't be rescued, we can't force them to do so. It would be bad if it was self-defeating.”

"You guys are too brave!" Li Zhuofan said, "What if they don't believe it?"

"They must be convinced of this." Jiang Haizhou touched his chin, "According to my guess, except for Aunt Li's family, other families should enshrine the Longevity Boy. Even if they don't believe it, the unknown tablets in the ancestral hall are Enough to confuse them, prolonging life sounds like it will make countless people flock to it, if you can still live forever, who will have trouble with the gods enshrined?"

After several people made their plans, Jiang Haizhou said, "We still have to go back to that ancestral hall."

"Why?" Li Zhuofan was puzzled, and subconsciously frowned, "It's too evil there, so don't go there!"

Jiang Haizhou said: "The holy water is lost. There must be someone guarding the ancestral hall. Let's go there and let the longevity boy played by Fu Kuan appear, and Taoist Sun come to find us by himself."

"That's right!" Li Zhuofan's eyes lit up, "We can't find his nest, so let him show up!"

Several people discussed for a while, and included possible accidents, so that even if things were revealed, they would not be in danger.

"We must have bumped into some mechanism by accident last time, so that the defense mechanism of the ancestral hall was opened." Jiang Haizhou looked at Li Zhuofan after finishing speaking.

"What are you looking at me for?!" Li Zhuofan became furious, "You won't doubt me! I didn't do anything!"

Jiang Haizhou sneered, "I've been surprised since I came here. If I didn't know your details, I would have thought you were in collusion with the people in the village. Both of us are more like saving lives than you. A dignified fitness trainer, really Shame!"

Li Zhuofan's face turned pale from being ridiculed, and it wasn't until Fu Kuan pulled La Jiang Haizhou's sleeve that the latter stopped attacking with his poisonous tongue.

Li Zhuofan pressed in a low voice: "Look at Fu Kuan, I'm so blind to you."

"What did you say?" Jiang Haizhou's ears were sharp, and he narrowed his eyes when he heard this.

"Nothing is nothing!"

The three of them carefully returned to the ancestral hall by the same route. Even though the last time was during the day, Jiang Haizhou remembered the route very accurately.

They guessed right, there were two people standing in front of the white tile house like gate posts, and two people were squatting on the ground holding stones and playing with something.

All four are young people in their early twenties, but each of them has dull eyes and dull eyes, as if suffering from the forbidden reaction of an addict.

The three squatted behind the wall.

"What are those two idiots doing?"

"A puzzle game similar to chess."

A square was drawn on the ground, and five grids were punched horizontally and vertically inside. There were five stones on each side, and they moved forward and backward from time to time.

After Li Zhuofan saw it clearly, he couldn't believe it, "I'm over 20 and playing here?"

"Otherwise, what if you don't have electricity or a mobile phone, what good can you play?"

"Someone is here." Fu Kuan said.

Several people shut up quickly, suddenly Li Zhuofan trembled slightly, and said in a low voice: "This is Peng Su's brother!"

Jiang Haizhou was afraid that he would rush out, so he quickly held him down, "Don't be impulsive, follow the plan!"

"I know." Li Zhuofan breathed a sigh of relief, and repeated again, "I know...we must rescue him."

There was trembling in his voice, the corners of his eyes were red, and his fists were clenched tightly.

"Auntie Li was hesitant to talk to Peng Su's brother just now. This person must be a key person." Jiang Haizhou said: "Let's move to the corner and listen to what they have to say."

"Peng Ping!" The stone player on the ground roared, "I heard that you are out of the village, isn't that fun?!"

Peng Ping didn't speak, but shook his head.

The two people on the ground stopped playing with stones and concentrated on teasing Peng Ping, "Is there any pretty lady?"

Peng Ping shook his head again.

"Hey!" A man on the ground got anxious, stood up and kicked Peng Ping, "You are so fucking stupid!"

Peng Ping was kicked and fell to the ground. When he got up, he didn't know how to pat his dirty clothes, and stared at the man.

"What a fart!"

The man wanted to make a move, but was stopped by the person next to him, "Forget it, Huzi, he is now a celebrity in front of the village chief and Taoist Sun!"

"Bah!" The man spat on the ground, "It's just an obedient dog!"

Jiang Haizhou whispered: "When we were in front of the ancestral hall in the early morning, some villagers also mentioned obedient dogs. Do you have any impression?"

Li Zhuofan shook his head, "I didn't pay that much attention."

"I remember." Fu Kuan said, "It's very likely, not a coincidence."

"Hmm." Jiang Haizhou asked Li Zhuofan, "How much do you know about Peng Ping?"

"Not much. If you don't see him once or twice, you can see that Peng Su doesn't want to talk to him, but he didn't hurt Peng Su. Otherwise, I would have found him a long time ago. Who knows that he can take people into captivity now." Come here. If I knew it earlier, I should have broken my mother's leg, otherwise there would be no such thing!"

Although Li Zhuofan was unreliable, it was not wrong to say such things. Peng Ping had no intention of harming Peng Su.In other words, no matter what Peng Ping wanted to do, at least in the eyes of that person, what he did was not a bad thing.

"Should we ask Peng Ping?" Li Zhuofan said, "But I can't come forward. He must have an impression of me."

Jiang Haizhou looked over the wall, narrowed his eyes slightly, "I don't think Peng Ping is very clear-headed, so don't act rashly."

"Peng Ping, where's your brother? Your brother is back?!" The man playing with stones on the ground smiled and said, "Your brother has become a child prodigy, so don't forget who you are!"

The two of them smiled at each other, which sounded very obscene.

Peng Ping stood there without saying a word, and suddenly said for a long time: "Holy water, lost?"

"I lost it." The man giggled for a while, then stopped laughing suddenly, and turned to yelling: "I don't know which bastard took it away, and Daoist Sun didn't give you any instructions? The holy water has not been purified, whoever took it is in luck." !"

Peng Ping shook his head, turned his back to Jiang Haizhou, and they couldn't look down on his expression, but from the sound of his voice, he was excited and excited, as if something he had been waiting for for a long time was about to come true, "Is this batch of soul boys useless? ?!"

The few people in the corner looked at each other, feeling bad.

"Hey! Who knows what Daoist Sun thinks? He doesn't want to discuss with the village chief, don't worry, your brother will be here soon, what's the hurry!"

Peng Ping seemed to be relieved, and the expression on his face eased.

Jiang Haizhou's expression was dignified, and the phrase "I'll be there with your brother soon", for some reason, made him feel a burst of urgent ominousness.

Fu Kuan shook Jiang Haizhou's hand. He also felt the same way. Maybe if the holy water was lost, it might speed up the process of Peng Su's persecution, which made him very disturbed.

"It's okay." Jiang Haizhou reassured him, "There will always be a way."

"These people don't seem to know too much. This Pengping is not stable yet. We need to find Taoist Sun or the village chief." Jiang Haizhou said, "I have observed every household in the places we walked. There is no difference from the outside of the house, and it is possible that we have not passed the village head or Taoist Sun’s house, or the structure of the residential area here is similar, only this tile-roofed house is different, and there is a cave inside.”

"Could it be that their residence is also the same as the tile-roofed house?" Fu Kuan asked in a strange way.

"It's not impossible." Jiang Haizhou looked serious, "But it looks the same from the outside. You can only find out if you go inside first, so the main thing now is to wait for someone to show up."

"Then wait here, I don't know when Taoist Sun will come." Li Zhuofan frowned, "If we don't come today, we can still hold on. What if we don't come tomorrow or the day after tomorrow?"

They were exhausted after staying up all night. Li Zhuofan and Jiang Haizhou were fine, but Fu Kuan might not be able to take it anymore. Besides, they didn't know anything about Peng Su's situation, and they might suffer. They couldn't afford to wait for a protracted war. , must take the initiative to attack.

Fu Kuan said: "I remember, the old man in the early morning said that the torn clothes belonged to the old Sun's family. Could it be related to Taoist Sun?"

He seemed unsure, "Should we take a look, or should we stay here and watch?"

"Split up?" Li Zhuofan asked.

"We split up and found that we can't get in touch with anything." Jiang Haizhou shook his head, "Here, if he manifests directly, someone will notify Taoist Sun."

"it is good."

"How did it manifest?" Li Zhuofan's eyes widened, looking curious.

Jiang Haizhou twitched the corners of his mouth, took out his mobile phone and turned it on. He turned it off after entering the village last night when there was no signal. He only used the flashlight for a while, and the battery was almost full at this time.

He moved automatically, Li Zhuofan leaned his head to look at it, but was slapped away, and Jiang Haizhou's faint voice came out, "Just look at it."

Huzi's stone was eaten by the opponent, so he kicked the "chessboard" and yelled: "Don't play, don't play, it's a chicken feather!"

"Who is it?!"

"You're sorry! Er Gouzi is sorry!"

"Just talk nonsense, every time you can't play it, you are so virtuous!" Er Gouzi also kicked the chessboard. Just as he was about to say something, he heard a strange voice not far away, like the village head and Taoist Sun. The voice that only appears when the ancestral hall greets everyone to pray, but it is not exactly the same.

Huzi also heard the voice, and suddenly changed color. They both knelt down in the direction of the voice and kowtowed non-stop.

"The boy has appeared! The holy water is lost, and the boy is angry!"

The two of them kowtowed, and the two guards standing in front of the tile-roofed house heard it too. Their reaction was even worse than the one who kowtowed. They just came down from the steps and rolled several times. He said tremblingly, "Don't be angry, boy! It's none of my business!"

Several people in Jianghaizhou looked at each other. They didn't expect that a Great Compassion Mantra would have such an effect. It was originally written by Jianghaizhou when he was reading Buddhist scriptures. The Heart Sutra and Diamond Sutra are both in Sanskrit, but they will not scare the villagers. Is it like this?

Li Zhuofan was amazed and clapped his hands, "Great, we can play! The people here are even more stupid than I thought!"

Jiang Haizhou stuffed his phone into his coat pocket and said to Li Zhuofan, "Stay here and don't move. Fu Kuan and I will go out. Don't be impulsive when you see anything. Wait for my instructions."

"You two be careful." Li Zhuofan nodded.

"Aren't you afraid?" Jiang Haizhou rubbed Fu Kuan's head.

"Do not."

Jiang Haizhou smiled, "It's really courageous."

He also said: "We are in this dangerous situation, we will live and die together, and we are not allowed to dump me in the future."

He wanted to say something relaxed to ease the tense atmosphere. After all, there are countless possible unknown dangers waiting ahead, but unexpectedly, Fu Kuan answered very seriously, almost like an oath: "I will not, never will."

Jiang Haizhou was stunned, the teasing look disappeared, his eyes filled with a sea of ​​passion, "This time I went out successfully, I want to tell you something."

"Okay." Fu Kuan didn't ask anything, but he had a hunch that what Jiang Haizhou was talking about must be the topic that Fu Kuan brought up many times between the two of them - the future.

Jiang Haizhou had already made plans for the future, and when they successfully rescued Peng Su this time, Jiang Haizhou would promise him.

Therefore, Fu Kuan looked ahead, this operation must end smoothly.