At first, no one cared about the loss.

After all, Su Xiaoqin is also a high school student, so it's impossible to find her just by banging gongs and drums after missing her for an hour or two.

Su Xiaowei wanted to ask her sister to play with her mobile phone, but she couldn't find it after searching for a long time.

I ran to ask the adults but no one knew. At first, no one cared much about it, but by the time the sun went down, every household had surrounded the entrance of the village.

Most people in Su Ji are surnamed Su, which is a neighborhood relationship bonded by blood. This kind of southern clan village has a high cohesion. If a family loses a child, the whole village will not eat. They will go around the village with oil lamps and flashlights to look for it.

go.

A few old people were smoking and saying something. The old village chief walked aside and took a mobile phone to make a call. The dialect he spoke was unreasonable and could not be understood.

The third aunt looked very anxious. Su Xiaowei, Po Nu, the second aunt and other women were all trying to comfort her.

She scolded her third uncle for more than an hour. The third uncle was also anxious but did not say a word.

Su Xiaoqin went to the mountains with them for an outing and came back together, so it was no wonder that this was the third uncle's fault.

Some people asked whether they might have slipped and fallen somewhere, and the third aunt was panicked when she heard this.

There was an old butcher in the village who had a crazy son who always liked to say disgraceful things to people. He was eating a cigarette and said that he might have been abducted by the devil boy. Half of the people in the village sneered at this statement, and the other half scoffed.

People are dubious.

"After being abducted by the Demon Boy, he would be released after playing with the Demon Boy for a few days. Many young people in the mountains were lost and found like this back then."

Just when he was about to say something, he saw Feng Wuli in the crowd and continued to smoke silently without saying anything.

If this is really being dragged away by some demons and monsters, there is no need for him to say anything if there are real gods at home.

Feng Wuli asked Wang Xilou what the devil was.

After all, Wang Xilou had lived for eight hundred years and had experienced a lot. He thought about it and said: "It seems that Hu Jian said that it is neither a god nor a ghost, but a spirit in the mountains that confuses humans and plays tricks on them."

Feng Wuli nodded.

He was not in a hurry, because just now, Ah Huan told him that the man had been found. He was playing one-two-three with a black and purple spirit in the mountains. He seemed to be delusional.

That monster was probably the Demon Boy, and he was beaten up by the muscular crow man, but the little cousin fainted and hasn't woken up yet. The crow brothers are taking care of her, so there is no need to worry about being snatched away by jackals, tigers and leopards.

…

It started to drizzle in the mountains, and the villagers planned to go into the mountains to search.

On the way into the mountain, there is a small wooden door. It is about the same size as the doors of those firewood sheds and wooden houses. It looks like Doraemon's random door standing alone on the mountain road. People can completely bypass it. Young people don't understand how to put up a wooden board.

What's the point of blocking the road? As the saying goes, the mountain gate is this gate. The older generation said it blocks mountain ghosts. People walk on the mountain road during the day and ghosts walk at night. The ghosts and ghosts are full of negative energy, and crops do not grow well where they pass.

, so open the door to prevent ghosts from coming down.

I passed by it once while outing during the day, and now I have to go up the mountain to find someone to open it again at night. An old man placed an incense stick next to the door and burned two handfuls of paper money.

Tell the things in the mountains to bother you tonight.

In fact, they are all superstitious customs.

Some old people set off firecrackers in the village, and some people went to Aunt Wang and the Land Master to offer incense and offerings, saying that they wanted the devil to bring back the lost people. Some people believe it, some don't. This is the current era, people who believe and

There is no conflict with unbelievers.

Holding flashlights and shouting in the mountains with a long voice, the lingering sound is soul-stirring. People wear raincoats, straw hats, or hold umbrellas and walk into the mountains.

The monsters in the mountains were so noisy that they came out, stood on the branches, hid in the grass, and some bold ones even followed humans directly. The mountains at night were more lively than people imagined.

"What are these humans doing?"

"Seems like he's looking for someone."

"Looking for someone?"

"Looking for someone!"

"It turns out I'm looking for someone."

"We're looking for someone, please tell me earlier."

"Who are you looking for?"

"Yes! Who are you looking for?"

There were endless conversations, they were following people, wondering what they were doing, and then heard people shouting something.

It seems to be a name called Su Xiaoqin.

They didn't know what it meant, but they thought it was funny and started shouting along.

Su Xiaoqin——

The mountains are calling that name, calling the lost child, shadowy figures rising and falling...

When Su Xiaoqin woke up, she felt like she was on someone's back, and she had just heard distant voices. Those unfamiliar voices called her name, bringing her back from a farther place.

When she opened her eyes, she was actually in the mountains. It was already dark, and now it was raining lightly, making her wet and cold.

I wonder if it was because she was caught in the rain, but now her head is dizzy and her whole body is hot, as if she has a fever.

The person carrying him is...his cousin?

When she was a child, she knew that she had a cousin who was a weirdo.

She was four years old at the time and returned to Suji during the Spring Festival. The remote mountain village was very boring. She walked to the entrance of the village alone and saw a boy sitting under the locust tree.

That boy is her cousin.

He was very strange. He would always sit there and talk to himself, not knowing who he was chatting with.

Many memories have been blurred, but Su Xiaoqin remembers that he happily talked to the air——

"Are there really gods in the mountains? Can my mother-in-law see monsters?"

People in the village passed by and were not surprised by the crazy wind under the locust tree.

Later she found out that her cousin... might have something wrong with his brain.

Everyone didn't like him, at least not the children in the village. She and Su He didn't like him either. This man was too strange and always lied. She felt that no child would like to play with him.

She didn't meet many times when she was a child, because the impression was too deep. That time at the entrance of the village was the only picture she had of her cousin.

When we met again, we were already in the sixth grade of elementary school.

The cousin who was mentally ill when he was a child has become a normal person. He is gentle and polite, no longer startled, can communicate well with them, has a good-looking smile, and is a handsome relative who can show off on social media.

Landlord loses more and wins less.

"Cousin...is there a fairy brother in the mountains?" she asked weakly, her voice hoarse because of the fever. Although she felt baffled by the current situation, she felt inexplicably peaceful.

Feng Wuli was stunned for a moment and realized that Su Xiaoqin was awake. He thought for a while and said, "I don't know, maybe not."

"Why not?" she asked weakly, her mind was very dizzy.

"I didn't say there definitely wasn't. I don't think there was. You saw that you were lost in the mountains. Some old people in the village went to pay homage to Aunt Wang. If so, why didn't Aunt Wang come to find you? In the end, I found you.

You." Feng Wuli told a rare joke: "If there are gods, then I will be your god today."

"Can you see the monster?"

"How can I see monsters?"

Su Xiaoqin suddenly felt very sorry, how could you not see it?

She has seen it all now!

Those strange monsters were right next to them, watching with their eyes open, whispering, and murmuring their own names.

So fucking scary!

"Cousin, I'm so scared..." She felt a little embarrassed. She didn't know whether it was the cold or fear. Her body couldn't help but tremble. She clutched Feng Wuli's clothes tightly, trying to stay awake.

"Don't be afraid." Feng Wuli said in a gentle voice, "It's okay."

If you can’t see it, of course you won’t be afraid!

Why are you still calling my name? I don’t know these monsters!

It's so hard for me...

Because she had a fever, her whole mind fell into chaos, and she slowly fell asleep on Feng Wuli's back.

When she woke up again, she was still on Feng Wuli's back, still in the mountain, and surrounded by people talking. She thought those monsters were still around, but when she opened her eyes, she saw familiar faces in the village.

"Found it, found it!"

"Here!" they shouted, and more and more people gathered.

There was a lot of noise, and it turned out that her cousin had already carried her to the wooden door standing alone on the mountain path, which meant that they were about to leave the mountain. The monsters in front of and behind them were not the monsters they saw just before falling asleep, but the villagers who came to see them.

None of those monsters were seen.

This made her wonder if what she just saw was a monster.

Or maybe she mistook people for monsters.

She asked again: "Cousin, are there monsters in the world?"

Feng Wuli turned around and glanced at the mountain gate that was slowly closed, as well as the mountain monsters bustling with traffic beside the mountain gate. He thought for a moment and said, "Probably not."
Chapter completed!