Xiong Ming heard what I said and couldn't help but said: "In that case, should we go to Guo Yichi's room again?"
I thought about it and said, "Yeah! Dali Xiong is right. If you want to find out what kind of medicine Guo Yichi and Zhang Yibai bought in the gourd, you have to visit his room again."
Xiong Ming said: "It's better to do this sooner rather than later. Let's go as soon as we say it!"
As he said that, Xiong Ming stood up and walked out of the house.
At this moment, the little girl from the Tibetan area who had been silent next to me grabbed my sleeve.
I turned my head and looked at the little girl, looking at her big eyes as clear as lake water, smiled and touched the little girl's head, and asked with gestures: "Little sister, what's wrong?"
Hua Muling interjected: "Her name is Niya! Although she doesn't speak Chinese very well, she can understand it."
Hearing what Hua Muling said, I immediately smiled and said, "Niya, why are you grabbing my brother's sleeve? Don't you want us to go to that room?"
Niya blinked her big eyes, looked at me and said, "Yeah!"
Xiong Ming asked in a rough voice from the side: "Xiao Niya, can you tell your brothers why you don't want us to go?"
Niya opened her mouth, and it took a long time to squeeze out two words from her mouth, "There is... a ghost..."
"Is there a ghost?" The three of us were stunned.
I hurriedly asked: "Xiao Niya, you said there is a ghost? Do you mean there is a ghost in that room? You stopped us and didn't want us to go because you were afraid that something would happen to us, right?"
Niya nodded vigorously in agreement.
Hua Muling knelt down next to Niya and said in a very gentle tone: "Niya is the best behaved. Can you tell sister, when did you know that there was a ghost in that room?"
Niya thought for a while, and then made a eating gesture towards Hua Muling. This little girl is pretty smart, but her Chinese is not good, so she simply doesn’t speak and uses gestures instead.
Hua Muling said softly: "You mean during breakfast?"
Niya nodded vigorously and gave Hua Muling a thumbs up.
Hua Muling then asked: "Can you tell sister, what does that ghost look like?"
Niya thought for a while, then pinched her thumb, index finger, and middle finger together, made a pick-up motion, and said with great effort: "Draw...draw..."
Hua Muling understood and said, "You want to draw that ghost, right?"
Niya nodded, then looked at me and said: "Painting..."
I saw Niya looking at me and said hurriedly: "Don't worry! Brother, I will find you paper and pen right away."
As I said that, I went to my bag to find paper and pen.
It's annoying to say that the equipment Mr. Xu assigned to me and Xiong Ming included everything, but there was no paper or pen.
In the end, I ran to the first floor and found Li Guilin spitting at the front desk of the hotel, so I got two pieces of paper and a ballpoint pen.
Panting, I handed the paper and pen to Niya.
Niya took the pen and paper, thought for a while, and then started to draw on the paper properly.
Not to mention, Niya is quite talented in painting. In a short time, she sketched a simple but very clear picture.
I saw three people drawn on the paper, two standing and one lying down.
It was obvious that the man lying on the ground was a human figurine that had been salvaged from the river. The two people standing, the one on the left holding a book and the other holding a pole, were obviously Guo Yichi.
And when I saw the person on the right, I couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.
He was seen wearing shabby black clothes and a bamboo hat on his head. He was holding a soul-calling flag in his left hand and an inconspicuous bamboo whistle in his right hand.
I stared at the person on the drawing paper and stammered in surprise: "How...how could it be him?"
Seeing my reaction, Xiong Ming and Hua Muling couldn't help but frown, and asked almost at the same time: "What? Do you know this person?"
I shook my head and said, "I don't know him! However, I have seen this person before in Yiyuanzhai or in the illusion created by ambergris. Even when I first entered Biluo Village..."
When I mentioned Biluo Village, Hua Muling suddenly opened her mouth and said, "So...it's him!"
This time it was Xiong Ming and I's turn to be surprised. I looked at Hua Muling and asked, "What? Have you seen him too?"
Hua Muling pinched her temples with her index and middle fingers, and after thinking for a while, she slowly said: "I can't remember clearly, I just remember that I got separated from you... Then, suddenly this person appeared here in front of me...and then I felt..."
I asked in surprise: "What do you think?"
When Hua Muling said this, she turned to look at me and said, "I feel like this person looks very similar to you..."
I wondered: "What? This person looks like me?"
Hua Muling nodded slightly, and then said: "Of course, it was just a feeling. Before I could see his specific appearance clearly, I smelled a strange floral fragrance, and then I didn't know anything else. When I wake up again, I will look for you underwater."
I frowned and said, "So that's it!"
As I spoke, I knelt down and took Niya's hand, and said softly: "Xiao Niya, have you seen the face of the uncle wearing the hat?"
Niya shook her head and said softly: "I didn't...see..."
I asked again: "Then why do you say he is a ghost?"
Niya did not speak, but used the ballpoint pen in her hand to color all the pictures on the wall on the right side of the drawing paper.
Then, Niya drew a big circle on the man with the bamboo hat, and then drew an arrow outside the circle, pointing to the black wall.
Xiong Ming didn't know why and asked in a rough voice: "Xiao Niya, what do you mean? If you don't understand, don't draw anything!"
Xiong Ming's voice was so loud that Niya trembled in fright, and the pen in her hand fell to the ground. The next second, Niya raised her head timidly, and big tears kept rolling in her eyes, as if they could fall at any time.
When Hua Muling saw this, she rolled her eyes at Xiong Ming, then hugged Niya and said softly: "Niya is not afraid! Niya is the bravest! Can you tell sister, what does this picture you draw mean?"
Niya thought for a while and said with difficulty: "The wall... can move... he... disappears... in a moment..."
Hearing what Niya said, all of us couldn't help but be stunned. I even asked hurriedly: "Xiao Niya, do you mean that the wall in that room will move?"
Niya nodded and said softly: "Yes!"
I thought about it and then turned to Hua Muling and Xiong Ming and said, "According to what Xiao Niya said, there is a mechanism in that room. If what Niya said is true, then it is really necessary for us to go there." Go to Guo Yichi's room."
Xiong Ming rubbed his hands with excitement and said, "Then when will we do it?"
I thought for a moment and then said, "Wait until dark!"
Xiong Ming clapped his hands excitedly and said, "Okay!"
Hua Muling looked at me and said, "Do you really want to go and see it?"
I looked at Hua Muling and said in a deep voice, "Don't you want to find out what's going on here?"
Hua Muling looked at me, her eyes unconsciously showing an extremely complex emotion.
After a while, she said slowly: "Okay! Then at eleven o'clock tonight, we will meet in your room!"
I nodded and said, "No problem!"
Hua Muling nodded and said, "Okay!"
After saying that, Hua Muling took Xiaonia and turned around and walked out of the room.
After Hua Muling left, Xiong Ming and I sat on the bed and lit a cigarette. After taking a few puffs, Xiong Ming glanced at his watch and said, "It's only after nine o'clock, what are we doing? ?”
I glanced at Xiong Ming and said two words, "Eat! Sleep!"
Xiong Ming smiled and said: "Nothing wrong! The body is the capital of revolution, we must take good care of the capital first!"
After saying that, Xiong Ming and I strode downstairs.
At this time, the restaurant of the hotel had already closed the meal. The two of us talked with the boss for a long time before he managed to get a large bowl of clear soup noodles for each of us.
Xiong Ming and I didn't mind either. This guy also came with two heads of garlic, a mouthful of noodles, and a mouthful of garlic. He was eating so enthusiastically.
In a short time, the two of us stuffed two large bowls of noodles into our stomachs.
Then, he turned around and returned to his room, lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
Perhaps because we didn't sleep all night last night, Xiong Ming and I slept for more than ten hours. It wasn't until Hua Muling knocked on the door that the two of us woke up from our dreams in a daze.
Hua Muling looked at the sleepy looks of the two of us and couldn't help but said: "How great are you two that you can still fall asleep after all this time?"
I smiled and said, "The two of us stayed up all night yesterday just to read the contents on that torn piece of paper!"
Hua Muling frowned and said, "Okay! Stop talking nonsense, it's almost time, hurry up and pack up, we have to go."
I nodded: "Got it!"
After saying that, Xiong Ming and I gave full play to the excellent qualities we had trained in the army. We packed up our housekeeping equipment within ten seconds, turned around, and followed Hua Muling down the stairs.
And just when we walked to the door of Guo Yichi's room, suddenly a figure jumped out from the dark shadow on the side, which shocked all of us.
Xiong Ming lowered his voice and asked, "Who?"
The shadow was not tall. When he saw us asking, he said in a very awkward Chinese: "It's...I..."
Hearing this man speak, several of us couldn't help but be surprised: "Niya! Why are you here?"
Niya walked out of the darkness as cautiously as a thief, and said softly: "There are... ghosts... I'm... worried..."
Niya did not continue speaking, but pointed at me with her index finger.
Niya's intrusive behavior made me very surprised. I asked softly: "Xiao Niya, are you worried about me when you come here?"
Niya nodded decisively and said, "Yes..."
At this moment, a very slight sound of footsteps suddenly came from a place not far away from a few of us.
Hua Muling said alertly: "Someone is coming! Let's hide first!"
I said: "Yeah!"
After saying that, the four of us dodged and hid in the shadow where Niya had been hiding.
After a while, an old man in red walked slowly to the door of Guo Yichi's room.
Hua Muling said softly in surprise: "It's Zhang Yibai! Why did he come here? Did you really guess it right?"
Zhang Yibai was not the only one who came. There was another person not far behind him. That person was none other than Li Qiang, who was in the same room with him.
However, at this time, Li Qiang no longer looked like an old scholar. His eyes were piercing and his movements were swift and powerful. He was walking behind Zhang Yibai like a tiger ready to prey on prey at any time.
