The old man looked at me, with a flash of extremely complex emotions in his eyes, which seemed cold, resentful, and a little bit sad.
After a while, the old man spoke slowly: "There is only one family with the surname Hu in the lower eight gates... What does Hu Jing have to do with you?"
I saw the old man in front of me suddenly mentioned my grandfather's name, and my heart suddenly "thumped".
However, many years of experience in society have taught me that even if things are turbulent inside, it is calm on the outside.
Even if the old man was listening to my chest at this time, he would not hear any changes in my heartbeat.
I coughed lightly, then looked at the old man and said word by word: "What? From what you said, old man, do you also know my grandfather?"
I deliberately said this in an understatement, but after hearing what I said, the old man frowned even more tightly.
I looked at the bitter and resentful expression of the old man in front of me, smiled slightly, and then said lightly: "Looking at your expression...or is it that you, the old man, follow us to the Eight Gates, and have nothing to do with our Hu family Yiyuanzhai?" Liangzi?"
The old man didn't answer my words. He just looked at me coldly, which made me feel a little bit hairy.
After about three or four minutes, the old man sighed slowly and said, "Okay! Girl, help the boy named Hu and come with me!"
Upon hearing this, Hua Muling hurriedly bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, senior!"
After saying this, Hua Muling reached out and helped me up from the ground, and I asked, "Where are you going?"
The old man didn't look at me and said lightly
He said: "My home!"
After saying this, the old man walked slowly to Xiong Ming. When I saw this, I quickly said, "What do you want to do?"
"What are you doing? Of course you are taking this big man back with you..." After saying this, the old man crossed Xiong Ming's hands, then lifted his arms hard, and then suddenly put two hundred dollars into his arms. The weighing Xiong Ming was carried on his back like a child.
This scene really shocked both Hua Muling and me. You must know that the old man in front of us is eighty or ninety years old. If he were an ordinary old man, let alone carrying things, he could even go up and down the stairs by himself. You have to show off to the world how good your health is, not to mention carrying more than 200 kilograms of Xiong Ming on your back like a dead dog.
Seeing Hua Muling and I looking at him with wide eyes, the old man said calmly: "What the fuck are you looking at the old man with this expression? Don't you want to throw this stupid guy here?"
Hua Muling and I quickly shook our heads when we heard this and said, "We didn't mean that."
The old man looked at the two of us and said calmly: "If that's not what you meant, why are you still standing there? Let's go! It's getting late, and it's getting more and more uneventful here at night."
Hearing this, I quickly asked: "Old man, you always say it's not peaceful here, what exactly is it about?"
The old man didn't look at me when I asked this question. He just replied calmly: "Boy, sometimes you know that you will live longer! Haven't you heard of the saying that curiosity kills the cat?"
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After saying this, the old man stopped talking to me and carried Xiong Ming on his back along a path heading west.
Go ahead.
Strangely enough, the explosion just now did not have much impact on this place. Apart from a few slightly thinner crooked-neck trees that fell down along the way, one or two sparrows that were injured by the explosion could occasionally be seen on the ground.
Thinking of the sudden and inexplicable explosion just now, I couldn't help but said to the old man: "Sir, do you know what happened with the explosion just now?"
"What else could be going on..." The old man walked forward slowly and said calmly: "Of course someone is looking for death!"
"Someone is seeking death?" I was stunned when I heard this, and quickly asked: "You mean, those villagers just now...?"
The old man didn't answer me directly, but after walking for a while, he said lightly
: "Greed is really the root of all evil. People of the older generation say that it is difficult to move forward without money, but money is also the root of trouble!"
"That explosion just now...did it come from that coffin?" Hua Muling, who had been silent at this time, suddenly said: Who is in that coffin? "
"Human?" When the old man heard what Hua Muling said, he stopped slightly, turned his head and looked at Hua Muling and said calmly: "Girl, who told you...that the thing in the coffin must be a human?"
Hua Muling and I were both shocked when we heard this. After a moment, Hua Muling was the first to ask: "Old senior, let me tell you this, what is in that coffin is not a human being? What could it be? It's a tomb. ? Or something that belongs to someone else?"
"You are so curious!" the old man said slowly: "This matter has nothing to do with you, so
It's best not to know, at least the three of you can survive for a few more days. "
After saying this, the three of us briefly talked about a few other words, but most of them were about something or other.
I originally wanted to take this opportunity to trick the old man, but when it came to serious matters, the old man refused to answer. After trying it a few times, I no longer forced it. Anyway, for us now If there is no better choice, it is better to take it one step at a time. At least with the old man's physical fitness and condition, if he wants to kill the three of us, he doesn't have to work so hard.
Thinking of this, I stopped worrying about anything and followed the old man slowly towards his house.
The whole journey was silent, and in less than twenty minutes, a few of us arrived in front of the old man's house.
The old man's home is very remote, to the north of a ravine. There are three tile-roofed houses inside and outside, and there is a quite large yard in front of the door.
There is a stone millstone in the yard. It is very big and old. There is a layer of dust on it. It can be seen that it has not been used for a long time.
There is a barn in the corner of the yard, and there is a light brown little donkey in it. There was a big black dog lying at the door of the livestock shed. When the big black dog saw someone coming in, it first looked up. When it found that the old man was followed by two strangers, it immediately stood up.
This big black dog didn't bark. It just looked at Hua Muling and me coldly.
Anyone who has ever raised a dog knows that the kind that barks endlessly as soon as you pass by is probably a dog that doesn’t bite very much. On the contrary, this kind of dog is absolutely top-notch in terms of aggression and fighting power. .
The old man seemed to know what his dog was thinking.
When he saw it standing up, he said, "Erheizi, get down! These are all guests of your grandpa and me... Don't be rude, do you hear me?"
The dog named "Er Heizi" seemed to be able to understand human speech. After listening to the old man's words, he made a slight "um" sound in his mouth, and then he lay down obediently.
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