At dawn, Li Heping also came back.
Regarding the conjecture that "the wanderer is my aunt", Li Heping gave considerable affirmation, "Your aunt really impressed me. I haven't seen her handwriting before, so I didn't think of her, but if it's true, If it’s her, it wouldn’t be surprising.”
Yan Yueming was curious, "Why are you so impressed?"
"Ahem." Li Heping stopped talking, "I'll let your aunt tell you. Isn't she still outside and refusing to come back?"
Li Zheng glanced over casually, "It seems that the teacher is also outside the city and has not returned?"
Sooner or later, Li Heping will be pissed off by him. He is doing evil. He accepts such a stinky disciple and always undermines him. Fortunately, at this time, Yan Yueming brought him fragrant and hot porridge, and also cared about whether he was tired, which gave him a little comfort in his heart.
"In short, as I said before, make bold guesses and verify carefully. Xiao Ming's aunt is a possibility, but it is not completely certain. The dog hole has not appeared yet. We will continue to search in this village during this period. Are there any other clues?" Li Heping asked.
The waterway is still too dangerous. If it leads to something deep, he and Li Zheng will be fine. Yan Yueming is a tough guy, so he won't try it easily unless it is absolutely necessary.
After finishing speaking, Li Heping was also tired and planned to lie down for a while to recharge his batteries. Yan Yueming took advantage of this moment to propose the idea of going to the village alone.
"Can you go alone?" Li Heping turned around and asked.
"It's daytime now, I won't go far, and I can ask Dahuang to come with me." Yan Yueming said her plan. He thought about it carefully. It was relatively safe during the day, and he already had a preliminary understanding of the plot in the small mountain village, so he had a certain confidence and no longer had stage fright. At this moment, he was full of energy and in good condition.
The senior and the teacher have been busy for so long and it's time to take a rest. It won't be a waste if he goes out to explore.
Dahuang came back early and is sleeping at the door. As soon as it heard the name, its ears twitched, and it immediately ran over like the wind, looking up at them, its eyes wary, as if to prevent them from saying bad things about it.
Now it's better, neither of them need to ask who "Dahuang" is.
Li Heping thought about it and thought he could give it a try, but before he could answer, Li Zheng said: "If you can convince it to go with you, yes."
Yan Yueming nodded immediately, "Thank you, senior."
When he ran out, Li Heping looked at Li Zheng with a strange look on his face, "Aren't you afraid that he will get into trouble by running around? I remember the first time I brought Wenren into the gap, the little boy wanted to show off his boldness. I rushed ahead, but I stumbled over and was picked up by you and hung on a tree."
Li Heping couldn't help but laugh when he mentioned the past, "If I happen to go to that gap next time, I will definitely take Xiao Ming to see the famous 'Children's Tree'. Hey, how many people have you hung up on?"
Li Zheng ignored him, put down the thermos cup, and stood up gracefully.
Li Heping shouted from behind, "Where are you going?"
Li Zheng waved his hand, not taking away a single cloud.
At the same time, Yan Yueming finally convinced Dahuang and embarked on a new journey with him.
Dahuang is a good dog. Although his eyes are always full of wisdom that is difficult for mortals to understand, he is extremely brave. With it by his side, Yan Yueming feels much more at ease, so he starts from the thatched house and explores the outside world one by one.
He carefully searched for any place where a message might appear, taking every step slowly but surely. Dahuang probably disliked him a little, and sometimes ran away, but would come back soon. Yan Yueming concentrated on his own business.
There are a total of 50 households in the village, and they have explored most of them. Many houses have "Access Instructions" posted on their doors. The same goes for the house next door to the thatched house. Yan Yueming spent ten minutes walking around inside, and it was basically safe.
After he came out, he didn't rush to another house. Instead, he walked around the house, looking here and there, looking at every corner and bush.
He tried to explore the movements of the wanderer, the person suspected of being his aunt, in the village. The Wang Mansion and the Thatched House were two places where this person had clearly appeared, but there was almost an entire village between them, and there were too many ways to walk.
So Yan Yueming gave up decisively and began to assume that he was the other party. What would he do? With her aunt's character, what would she do?
Where does the water come from? from the river.
Where do you get the bamboo tubes used to make cups? A small bamboo forest behind the house.
Where did you steal the bowl from? From Wang's house.
What about the quilt? It must be from someone nearby, because the quilt is large and heavy, and it is impossible to bring it from so far away from Wang's house.
Yan Yueming searched and searched for half an hour, and finally found the original owner of the quilt in a room about 50 meters away from the thatched house. Because this family has more than one quilt, the fabrics used are the same, and the patterns and stitching are also the same.
But apart from that, he found nothing, so where should he look?
Yan Yueming couldn't help but cast her eyes in the direction of Wang's house, and then shook her head. It was too far and it wasn't safe for him to go alone. Suddenly, he thought, why is he so stupid?
"Dahuang, Dahuang, come on, do you know this person?" Yan Yueming took out his mobile phone and found a photo of his aunt and showed it to Dahuang. The moment Dahuang saw the photo, his already big dog eyes were as wide as bells, and his ears were as wide as bells. Also upright.
It looked at Yan Yueming, then at the photo; at the photo, then at Yan Yueming, and then burst into a burst of barking that contained a whimper, and almost sprayed Yan Yueming's face with saliva.
Yan Yueming felt so wronged. After living for twenty-three years, one day she was sprayed by a dog until she wanted to cry.
Dahuang seemed to have finally realized that the person squatting in front of him was not the same person back then. After a few "wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo", he stopped scolding him. She yelled at him, ran out again, ran a few steps and then called back to him, as if asking him to follow.
Yan Yueming was confused and followed it all the way to the river.
"Dahuang, why did you bring me here?" Yan Yueming used a branch as a crutch. Because he ran slowly, Dahuang disliked him. But he wasn't angry either, and even discussed it with it, "I promised the seniors and teachers not to run away. You know Tang Seng
? If he did not leave the circle drawn by the Monkey King, nothing would happen to him. Dahuang, your ancestor might have been a heavenly dog under the throne of Erlang God. If you have read "Journey to the West"..."
Dahuang didn't care about "Journey to the West" or "Journey to the East" and ran wildly along the river. He ran forward for a while, ran back for a while, and sometimes stopped to smell, as if he was looking for something.
Yan Yueming simply waited, and waited, and Dahuang suddenly jumped into the river.
"rhubarb!"
Yan Yueming hurriedly ran forward, only to see blisters on the river surface, and the dog had long since disappeared. But is the river that deep?
Yan Yueming couldn't swim, and just when he was about to go back to find his senior, Dahuang emerged from the river again.
"Wow!" The water rippled.
Dahuang jumped up to the river bank with something in his mouth. Yan Yueming took a closer look and found that it was a small wooden sign as big as a palm, "What is this?"
Yan Yueming took the wooden sign out of the dog's mouth, frowned and read the words on it, "Tang...Qiao?"
Don Joe?
This is his aunt's name!
Yan Yueming immediately got up from the ground, holding the wooden sign and going back to find the seniors and teachers. But the weather was not kind to him. It started raining before he took two steps, and the rules of the mountain village immediately came to his mind——
[You must hold an umbrella when it rains. If the rain is red, ignore it and don’t be surprised. 】
Oops.
Yan Yueming didn't have time to think too much, so she quickly called Dahuang and quickly rushed into the nearest room to take shelter from the rain. He didn't forget to knock on the door before going in, but the rain came quickly and urgently. When he finally opened the door and went in, he was already wet.
The raindrops were freezing cold.
Yan Yueming shivered from the cold, and rushed into the yard and ran to the porch with all her strength. Then she looked back - the rain curtain was swaying, and it was actually a faint blood-red color.
He really wanted to follow the rules and ignore it and not be surprised, but the areas covered by his clothes were okay. His hands and neck, the areas directly hit by the rain, even if they were only a few scattered spots, felt very uncomfortable. Not good.
Like a drop of ice piercing the soul, an uneasiness began to emerge from the hole.
One eye was staring at the hole.
It was this creepy feeling that was hard to ignore. Yan Yueming could only try his best to breathe steadily, then took out a tissue from his backpack and wiped away the rainwater pretending to be calm.
Dahuang also seemed a little anxious, his screams were suppressed in his throat, and he looked very angry, but he was cautious and did not go back into the rain.
Yan Yueming looked back again. He had never entered this room before, and there were no entry and exit instructions on the door. It seemed that he should be more cautious. In short, look for an umbrella first.
It was his mistake not to bring an umbrella.
Before this trip, he prepared many things, including an umbrella. But just because we were so well prepared, with all the basic necessities including food, clothing, housing and transportation, and too many things, we missed essential items like an umbrella when we were finally packing.
There are many rules in the gaps. Even though he has a good memory, it is impossible to keep all the rules in his mind at all times. It was sunny again when he went out just now. He temporarily forgot about the possibility of rain and did not prepare in advance.
Yan Yueming was quite upset, but there was no point in regretting, he could only look forward. This family has five rooms in total, plus a small woodshed. Judging from the furnishings in the house, it looks like a very ordinary farmer's household.
What kind of rules will farmers have?
Yan Yueming probed his head and went through the possible rules in his mind before he stepped across the threshold of the main room. He had a good idea in mind and just stepped forward. There would definitely be no problem with such a simple movement. Who knew——
As soon as his right foot landed, he felt like he was being stared at. This time it was no longer staring from behind, but from the front, as if everyone in the room was looking back at him, their eyes cold and intense, like a thousand pounds of weight.
Yan Yueming lowered his head and quickly put his feet back.
His vision then receded like a tide, leaving him with a cold sweat.
"Huh..." Yan Yueming raised his hand to cover his chest, never expecting that he would get off to a bad start. From the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Dahuang next to him. Dahuang was looking at him with a look like "Why are you such a bad guy?"
Yan Yueming didn't believe it, so after two or three minutes, he tried again.
He lifted his feet.
He took it back.
"What should I do?" Yan Yueming tried twice without success, and his legs were a little weak. He squatted on the ground and held his head, muttering softly, "Is it because my posture when entering the door is wrong? But I have tried it with both feet. ...Why can't we enter the farmer's house? Why..." He couldn't figure it out.
The rules in this village are actually quite logical. The widowed mother of a scholar cannot live in the same house with a strange man. The medicine in the doctor's house may be poisonous. There is a house fight in the house of the rich Wang family. But in ordinary farmers' houses, it is reasonable to say that There are fewer rules.
Could it be that this family has some hidden identity?
There was rain in front of him and there was a threshold that he couldn't cross behind. The only place where Yan Yueming could move was the small corridor under the eaves. He could only walk back and forth here, standing on tiptoe and looking into the room, but he didn't see anything special. There were no special marks on the corners or door panels.
So what exactly went wrong?
Yan Yueming was thinking hard and caught a glimpse of Dahuang from the corner of his eye. Dahuang didn't enter the house either and seemed quite afraid.
After a while, a man and a dog squatted under the eaves, watching the rain and sighing. Yan Yueming felt that he could not continue like this, so he opened his backpack and rummaged through it to see if there was anything useful.
So he found it - the mobile phone.
Yan Yueming had an idea and turned on the camera function. She stood outside the house and put her phone in to take pictures. This is quite safe, as long as you don't step in.
If the umbrella is by the door, he can find a way to hook it out. Unfortunately, when he watched the video, he found that the umbrella was hanging on the wall far away, and there was no way he could take it out without entering the house.
"well……"
One person and one dog looked at the rain again and sighed.
Yan Yueming was bored, so he opened the video and watched it over and over again, trying to find some feasible solution. But after looking at it for a long time, he gained nothing. However, when he saw the hanging bacon, he was aroused and felt a little hungry.
Eat when you're hungry. Yan Yueming raised his hand and touched the rhubarb, ready to take out the last snack to share with it. However, at this moment, he suddenly paused.
hungry?
Eat something?
"I thought about it!" Yan Yueming's eyes brightened slightly, "It's a meal. Ordinary farmers don't have much money, and every household almost only has their own food rations, so we can't come to the door during the meal, otherwise it will be a waste of money, right? Be welcomed.”
Dahuang tilted his head and said, "Wow."
Yan Yueming suddenly gained confidence. Time passed quickly in the gap, and he only had to wait for dinner to pass before going inside to get an umbrella. At the same time, he also understood the reason why Da Huang did not dare to enter the house——
Probably dog meat can also be served.
