It was just getting dark.
Every family in the village started cooking.
One of the families prepared the meal and took a large porcelain bowl, first filled it with rice, and then put vegetables and meat on the rice.
The host muttered, "Why is there such a big bowl today?"
The aunt in charge of picking up the dishes glanced at him and said, "Baoshan didn't eat in the pit this morning. Shouldn't you eat more for dinner?"
As she spoke, she couldn't help but look outside the yard, still wondering.
It’s dark now, why hasn’t Baoshan come yet?
Have you forgotten that it’s her family who’s cooking today?
…
Baoshan, who was being missed by his aunt, was now leading Jiang Xuxu and his party through the village towards the mountains behind the village.
Lu Nanxing looked at Baoshan who was walking very fast in front of him and couldn't help wondering,
"Are the village guards so powerful now? First, they saw through the fox's true form at a glance, and now they can even see its spirit, and it can even follow it back..."
Jiang Xuxu also looked at Baoshan in front of him and said,
"Maybe. He's special."
As she said this, she suddenly stepped on a piece of thin ice and staggered slightly. A hand immediately reached out to her and held her steadily.
Chu Beihe took back the hand that was supporting her arm, and pulled her wrist instead, saying in a deep voice,
"The road up the mountain is slippery, hold my hand."
Lu Nanxing was watching from the sidelines, smacking her lips in amazement. Hua Sui, who had been acting as a background, thought about it and followed Chu Beihe's example, stretching out his hand towards her.
"You lead it."
Lu Nanxing: ...
Just when I was about to teach Hua Sui not to learn everything, I heard Jiang Xuxu say,
"It's better to hold it hand."
She said, "We seem to have entered some kind of maze. Be careful not to get separated."
Lu Nanxing grabbed Hua Sui without saying a word.
Seeing that Hu Lizhi was alone, he grabbed her again.
Jiang Xuxu and Chu Beihe walked at the back holding hands, thinking that they would enter some strange place next.
However, I didn't expect that I would see a few lights flickering in front of me, and it turned out to be another village.
Compared to Huabei Village, which has buildings with a distinctly modern feel, this village looks more ancient, with bluestone pavement, tiled houses with flying eaves, and lanterns hanging in front of each house.
The whole village is shrouded in foggy darkness. At first glance, it feels like you have accidentally entered a mountain village from another era.
In fact, the emergence of this village is indeed unusual.
According to the pace of the group, it took only about half an hour to walk up the mountain road. Such a close place, yet there was a village with such a completely different style, and the village director hadn't even mentioned it.
Jiang Xuxu’s first reaction was - ghost village.
But if you feel it carefully, it doesn't seem like it.
As if hearing some noise, a man came out of a house at the entrance of the village. Seeing so many strangers all of a sudden, he looked obviously surprised.
"Baoshan, why did you come so late? And you brought so many people with you?"
The other party obviously knew Baoshan, but was subconsciously wary of the person following Baoshan.
Baoshan just smiled foolishly and muttered,
"Yuyu, find Yuyu."
The villager didn't seem to care much about his appearance. He glanced at Jiang Xuxu and his group and seemed to understand, "She is not in the village today."
Suddenly, his gaze turned to Chu Beihe. It was not known whether it was an illusion or not, but that person's eyes visibly lit up.
Jiang Xuxu subconsciously held Chu Beihe's hand tightly.
She did not forget that Chu Beihe's golden physique inexplicably attracted strange things.
Chu Beihe sensed her wariness and just gently held her hand back to comfort her.
"You are a distinguished guest."
As the man spoke, his guard suddenly dropped a lot. He turned around and shouted at a house at the other end of the village.
"Village chief! Village chief! Baoshan has brought guests here!"
Lu Nanxing was a little uneasy about the other party's sudden change in attitude, and couldn't help but move closer to Jiang Xuxu.
"Xu Xu, are we being taken to some zombie village again?"
The last person who greeted them so warmly was a villager from Lijia Village who wanted to take them home to raise them for food.
Jiang Xuxu was not sure at the moment, so he could only whisper,
"Take a look first."
Following that man's shout, many people came out of the village.
They were holding lanterns in their hands, and what was even more surprising was that all of them were wearing ancient costumes.
Some were wearing cloaks, some were wearing jackets, and just looking at their appearance, they did not look like ordinary villagers at all.
Lu Nanxing felt a blackness in front of his eyes.
"It's over, it's over. This village is definitely not normal. It might be a ghost village."
Jiang Xuxu stared at him for a long while and said only one sentence,
“It’s not a ghost.”
Seeing that Lu Nanxing and Hu Lizhi were looking at her expectantly, Jiang Xuxu pursed her lips and added, "But he's not a human either."
Lu Nanxing: ...
It might as well be a ghost.
Soon, the village chief came over. He didn't think it was a big deal that a group of people came into the village at night. When he heard that they were looking for someone, he just said,
"It's getting late now, why don't we rest in the village first? We can talk about anything tomorrow morning."
As he said this, he looked towards Chu Beihe.
"This distinguished guest can stay at my place."
Subconsciously, Jiang Xuxu grabbed Chu Beihe and said to the village chief, "Let's go together."
Since she knew that something was wrong in this village, it was impossible for her to let her beloved daughter live alone in a villager's home.
Upon hearing this, the village chief first looked at the two of them strangely, then stared at them for a long while, and finally smiled as if he understood.
"So you two are husband and wife. I didn't think it through. It's only right for you to live together."
He said this with a smile, turned around and invited them into the village.
The houses in the village were not big, so it was impossible to arrange them to live in the same family. Jiang Xuxu let Hu Lizhi, Lu Nanxing and Hua Sui live together.
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