death

Chapter 48
Yao Ziqiang's father didn't say much, and Mai Xiaorou told him: "You deserved what happened to you, so don't tell anyone else about these things except us, so as not to cause trouble again."

Yao Ziqiang's father nodded and remained silent.

Then we didn't have anything to ask, so we let him return to the grave.

Mai Xiaorou and I stayed here for a while and then went back to the residence to rest, without talking all night.

In the early morning of the next day, Yao Ziqiang said that he would arrange a car to take us back to the county seat. Mai Xiaorou and I directly refused. We had already discussed this last night. We are going to look for the double-headed python on the nearby hills. See if there is a chance to meet again.

The reason why we dare to look for it is because Mai Xiaorou said that it is a spiritual creature with extremely high spiritual intelligence, and it will not harm people casually, especially practitioners like us.

We told Yao Ziqiang that we still have some trivial matters to deal with, so we asked him to go back first, and he agreed without saying much, but before we arrived, he left a driver and a car here, saying that he was waiting. When we were done, let the driver take us back to the county seat.

Mai Xiaorou and I did not refuse this proposal.

After Yao Ziqiang and the others left, Mai Xiaorou and I walked up the mountain along the path behind his small building. There was a small hill near his house, and the terrain was not high. We walked along the hillside, and we could still see The trace that the big snake had crawled over, but after walking along the trace for a few miles, it was found that the trace disappeared out of thin air.

This is a ravine with luxuriant vegetation, of course it is all withered and yellow now.

I stepped on the ground a few times, it was hard, and it didn't look like there was anything that could get under it.

But on another thought, when we were in the ditch behind Yao Ziqiang's house, we didn't feel the ground was soft, but the two-headed snake was hidden under it. Could it be the same now?

Thinking of this, I touched the Snake King Pendant on my chest to see if it responded.

In the end, it didn't respond. If those two heads were nearby, my Snake King Pendant should emit that disgusting emotion again.

I stepped on the ground a few more times, and then asked Mai Xiaorou if the two-headed python had hidden nearby, and if she could feel that my King Snake Pendant had stopped responding.

Mai Xiaorou lowered her head for a few glances, then raised her head and pointed to the air and said, "The two-headed boa constrictor probably didn't burrow into the ground, but flew into the sky, and then flew to a farther place."

"Ah!" Hearing what Mai Xiaorou said, I was stunned. A snake flew into the sky?

I still can't believe it.

Mai Xiaoju said: "There is nothing surprising. It seems that our fate with that python has ended here for the time being. Maybe we will never see it again in this lifetime."

Hearing what Mai Xiaorou said, I felt even more pity. It was a flying snake. I really regretted not taking a selfie with it when it was coiling me.

We searched again on several nearby hills, and after searching to no avail, we returned to the village and asked the driver Yao Ziqiang left us to take us back to the county seat.

We didn't go to Yao Ziqiang again. The matters in his family have basically been resolved, and our case can be regarded as a successful conclusion.

So when we arrived at the county seat, we asked the driver to take us to Li Guidao's wreath shop.

When we got here, we found that there was no one in the store. I called out a few times, "Is there anyone?", and a woman's voice came: "Who, who are you looking for?"

After a while, a girl about my age entered the wreath shop from the backyard.

After a few glances, I felt a little familiar, as if I had seen it somewhere.

And that woman seemed to recognize me and Mai Xiaorou immediately, and said "Hey": "It's you, I understand, you are here to take the case."

Hearing what the woman said, I immediately remembered that she was the girl named Xiaoyu whom Mai Xiaorou and I met in Miao Village. A light-colored hoodie with skinny jeans underneath is a huge change.

And when she was in Miao Village, Xiaoyu wore her hair in a coil, but now she has a ponytail. At first glance, it looks like the two of us that day.

But she is very beautiful and looks beautiful in everything she wears.

Mai Xiaorou tugged at me and said, "Don't just look, talk, keep your eyes straight."

I hurriedly said embarrassedly: "We are here to take over the next case, Li Guidao, where is Brother Li Dao?"

Xiaoyu said with a smile: "He, he and a girl named Ningxi took Aunt Mengmeng out to play, and they can't come back in ten days and a half months. If you want to accept the case, you should come back in half a month." Well, I'm not in charge of giving you the case."

Mai Xiaorou hesitated for a moment and asked, "Dare to ask about the relationship between Fellow Daoist Xiaoyu and Daoist Li?"

Xiaoyu hesitated for a moment, then tilted her head and said, "Should I tell you? Forget it, I'll tell you, Li Guidao is a closed disciple my father accepted, and he is my junior brother!"

That Xiaoyu turned out to be the daughter of that master Li Guidao! ?
Xiaoyu went on to say: "When I went to Miao Village, I used a pseudonym to avoid trouble. I can use my real name here. You can call me Li Dihuang from now on."

Li Dihuang?This name sounds a bit awkward, and it doesn't sound right no matter how you call it.

Knowing that Li Dihuang had just returned from the Miao Village, Mai Xiaorou asked her: "Let me ask, how is my grandfather doing in the Miao Village? His surname is Mai, and he is the old man who went with us that day. "

Li Dihuang thought for a while and said, "He, he doesn't have much life left. If I read correctly, the day after tomorrow is his limit."

the day after tomorrow! ?
Hearing this, Mai Xiaorou and I were stunned at the same time.

Mai Xiaoju said "thank you" and walked outside the wreath shop. I knew she was going to Miao Village.

I nodded to Li Dihuang, and rushed out to chase after Mai Xiaorou.

When I got to Mai Xiaorou's side, I said to her, "Don't worry, we will fly there and we will be able to reach the Miao Village tomorrow."

Mai Xiaorou nodded.

I booked a flight to Changsha from the provincial capital tonight.

When we arrived in Changsha, we directly found a taxi and took us to Zhaikou Village. When we got there, we asked the villagers guarding here to borrow horses, but because we couldn't give the password, they didn't lend us at all.

Mai Xiaorou said, anyway, there is only one road inside, and we can walk in along the road, and we can get there in a few hours.

When Mai Xiaorou and I arrived at Zhaikou Village, it was already morning. We set foot on the road to the mountain village. In the afternoon, we still couldn’t see the end of the road, let alone where the Miao Village was. .

But there is obviously only one road. When riding a horse on a mountain road, we don't need to run. It's not much faster than our current speed.

It takes only one or two hours to ride a horse. We have been walking for six or seven hours now, but we still can't see the shadow of Miao Village. What's going on! ?

After walking for a while, we stopped to rest, and I asked Mai Xiaorou what was going on, and whether we had lost our way.

Mai Xiaorou shook her head and said: "I walked all the way, and I didn't feel any formations or spells that infected us, and I didn't feel ghosts covering our eyes, and we didn't see a fork in the road. We must not get lost!"

Mai Xiaorou also looked confused.

In order to prevent us from turning around in place, we walked all the way down and made marks on the trees, but from early to now, we have not seen the marks we left once, which means that we did not turn around in place at all, but kept walking. Moving forward, we did not take the same path.

After resting for a while, I asked Mai Xiaorou what to do next.

Mai Xiaoju said: "Although we haven't been able to see the Miao Village, we haven't encountered any danger. Let's just let it go and move on."

We continued to move forward, and until the evening, we saw a village, but that village was not the Miao Village we saw, but Zhaikou Village.

We circled around and went back to Zhaikou Village unknowingly. This was too weird. Mai Xiaorou and I clearly felt that we were going straight forward.

Seeing that we had returned to Zhaikou Village, the old man in charge of the horses came to us and smiled and said: "Without code words and opportunities, you will not be able to enter the Miao village. I advise you not to waste your efforts and try again." Once, you will turn back to me every evening."

Is this Miao village so difficult to enter! ?
Mai Xiaorou is very disappointed. Tomorrow is Grandpa Mai's birthday. She really wants to accompany Grandpa Mai through this last day.

But people are not beautiful, and the sky is not beautiful, she is afraid that she will leave regrets.

Thinking of this, I went over to beg the old man who looked after the horse, and told him all the good things he had said.

But he just shook his head helplessly at me, and after listening to me say a lot, he said: "Young man, I can understand the feelings of you and your girlfriend, but this rule cannot be broken! What's more, then Fellow Daoist Mai probably doesn’t want you to visit him now.”

Mai Xiaorou asked the old man: "Has my grandfather explained anything to you?"

The old man nodded and said: "Indeed, he came here not long ago and told me that if you come, no matter what reason you give, you will not be allowed to enter the Miao Village."

Is Grandpa Mai afraid of Mai Xiaorou and me being sad?
But doesn't he know that Mai Xiaorou will be even more sad if she doesn't see him?

At this moment, we heard the sound of horseshoes, and looking towards the intersection, a young man in white rode out slowly on a horse.

The old man hurried over to lead the horse, and said, "Master Tian, ​​you're out."

The white-clothed boy surnamed Tian greeted the old man and walked over to me and Mai Xiaorou. After looking at us for a while, he smiled and said, "Chen Yu, Mai Xiaorou!?"

Mai Xiaorou and I nodded, and then asked him if Grandpa Mai asked him to come to us.

The boy surnamed Tian shook his head and said, "My name is Tian Sihan, and I'm Xu Xuan. Uncle Xu asked me to arrange the third case for you. They said they were afraid that you two would be bored these days."

Tian Sihan's name is a bit feminine, so it's no wonder that he looks fair and clean, and he is indeed a bit girly.

Also, he called Xu Xuan his uncle, so he and Li Guidao should be brothers of the same school.

Mai Xiaorou and I didn't talk, Tian Sihan smiled and continued: "Your third case is - the place where Gu is buried, I will go with you, I will be the master, and you will be the assistants."

(End of this chapter)