There was a road right outside the window. There were not many cars. An ox cart passed by. When the old man driving the cart passed by this place, he took out a quite new piece of clothing from the cart. He looked back and forth, let go and threw it on the ground. He drove the ox cart by himself.

It passed slowly.

What surprised me was that a man who passed by later lowered his head and saw the clothes, bent down to pick them up, looked back and forth and smiled, then put them on directly and left.

Seeing me stunned, Professor Sun was a little puzzled. He turned his head and looked along my line of sight, but saw nothing.

"Ziwu?" He called me.

I quickly came to my senses, smiled, and said, "We don't have much further to go."

Professor Sun smiled and nodded, "What did you see that stunned you just now?"

I thought about it and said, "I just saw someone looking for a scapegoat!"

"A scapegoat?" Professor Sun was surprised, "Does anyone still believe this at this time?"

It seems that he knows about the scapegoat.

I'm a little helpless, I always feel a little uncomfortable when I see this kind of thing.

In many remote places, when someone in the family is seriously ill or seriously injured and his life is imminent, the clothes worn by this person will be thrown on the road. If the person who picks them up wears them, they will become the scapegoat of the seriously ill or injured person.

If the person who was originally going to die had a scapegoat, everything would be fine in the blink of an eye.

And the person who picked up the clothes might die violently the next moment.

This is one way to find a scapegoat.

Some people used a piece of money to write "What should come, come, what should go," plus someone's birthday and horoscope, and then threw it on the road and was picked up.

There is also a piece of jewelry with a lock of hair tied with a red string.

In different regions, the methods of finding a scapegoat are different, but they are similar, they are all done when someone is still alive.

There is also a kind of scapegoat. When someone dies and is unable to enter the underworld and enter reincarnation, and is unwilling to stay in the human world, he will look for a suitable person who will die in the same way as him and stay in the human world for him, while he

Enter the underworld and enter reincarnation.

"Is it too late to stop it now?" After listening to my explanation, Professor Sun couldn't sit still.

Just now, I doubted that anyone still believed this, and now I am anxious to stop it.

I actually think he is a genuine person and quite cute.

I shook my head, reached out and pulled him back to sit down, and said, "In the cycle of life and death, everyone has his own destiny! When I saw that man, he had already put on his clothes, and it was too late to stop him!"

What I didn’t say is that even if it happens in front of me and has no causal relationship with me, I will not easily remind you.

Professor Sun seemed to be somewhat affected. He took a sip of tea and sighed.

"Actually, those of us who do folklore research will encounter many things that subvert our cognition, so we have long been used to it!"

The food is served very quickly in this restaurant, and there may be very few people coming from outside.

The dishes were large and fresh, and we all ate quite a lot.

After eating, the fat man went to pay. Chu Jiarui fought with him for a while, but in the end he didn't take it.

Professor Sun said: "I am coming with you, how can you still invite us?"

"You're welcome!" I said with a smile, "You came out with us, how can we let you spend money!"

"Okay, you're welcome then, haha..."

After eating and drinking, we walked out of the hotel. Tang Zuo and the boss asked about how to get to Sanshu Village. The boss didn't know very well, so he asked us to go to the front and ask someone.

There is a small road on the navigation, but we still hope there is a closer one. Unexpectedly, people here are not very clear about it.

After getting in the car, we could only continue walking according to the navigation.

Soon, Linjiang Town came to an end. Beyond that was a very narrow village road, with farmland or barren mountains on both sides.

Let alone cars on the road, we rarely even see people.

There are some low hills ahead, and the further you go, the fewer people there are.

"You're on the right track, right?" The fat man took out his phone and pulled out the map.

Tang Zuo said: "That's right. Isn't the mobile phone navigation stored here?"

I looked at the scene outside the window and had no impression at all.

Finally, when they reached a corner where there was a fork in the road, Tang Zuo stopped the car and said, "Master Jiang, there is no way. Navigation here, it says to take the fork on the right."

I opened the door and got out of the car, walked to the fork in front of the road, and took a look.

There are dirt roads on both sides, and there are traces of people and cars passing by. I tried hard to search for some impressions of this place in my mind, but found that it was completely in vain.

This somewhat disappoints me.

He raised his hand, calculated, and returned to the car, "Then continue to the right!"

The car drove to the right onto a dirt road, with deep ditches of wild grass on both sides and trees of various thicknesses and heights.

The dirt road is very difficult to walk, it is very bumpy and has uphill and downhill slopes.

After driving along the road for more than an hour, we finally saw a populated area.

Tang Zuo stopped the car on a hillside, and we all got out of the car, flexing our numb buttocks and looking down the slope.

And I saw the road out of the village at a glance, and my heart skipped a beat.

This road comes out of the village. From here, it is just a narrow line, winding all the way to where we are standing. There are several small forks in the middle that lead to other places.

"It should be here, right?" the fat man asked.

Tang Zuo said: "That should be it."

I was still looking at the path, and in my mind, the scene of my master taking me away came to mind again.

I followed my memory and looked towards the village. The house at the back of the village against the mountain, with two trees in the yard, should be my home.

The woman who calls me my mother who puts me to sleep every night, the two children who play with me in the yard, and the villagers avoid me in disgust and bully me!

All the memories I thought I had forgotten came flooding back, and for a while I couldn't tell whether everything I experienced later was a dream.

"Ziwu?" The fat man called me several times from the side.

"What?" I haven't recovered yet, and I can't hear what they are saying.

"Ziwu, what's wrong with you?" The fat man asked worriedly, "I saw something was wrong with you just now. If it doesn't work, we will go back. The worst thing is that we won't take this job anymore."

Professor Sun was also a little worried, "Ziwu, are you okay? Are you motion sick?"

Finally, all my souls came back, and I looked up at the village again, and it seemed like there was nothing there again.

"I'm fine!" I said, raising my hand and calculating out of habit.

"..."

Nothing can be calculated.

Counting others and not counting ourselves, we can’t even calculate whether any accidents will happen when we come here.

It seems that this village, the home in my memory, is inextricably related to me.

We got in the car again and drove down the hillside into the village..c

Driving along the village road, I saw a man walking out of a large yard. It was the old man who went to our store that day.

"Old man!" The fat man stuck his head out and shouted, "We are here!"

The old man looked excited, turned around and shouted inside: "The master is here! The master is here!"

Several people ran out of the room, all of whom were quite young, and they all looked excited.

Tang Zuo followed the old man's instructions and drove the car into the yard and stopped.

I got out of the car, and the old man came with someone to greet him, "Master Jiang, we thought you wouldn't come!"

"Why can't things come as promised?" I said with a smile.
Chapter completed!