Xiaogu Huaiyu sniffed it, but didn't know what it was like. He just felt that it smelled like an inexplicable feeling of flustering.
But she quickly ignored this point.
Because she saw a black and white photo frame hung on the slightly yellow wall, and a black photo frame was also hung next to this photo frame.
And one of the protagonists in the photo is the grandma following them.
The old lady in the photo does not seem to be so old in front of her eyes. Instead, most of her hair was black at the time. Only when she was carefully observed occasionally, she would notice a few strands of silver threads on her head.
Granny walked over, looked up at her photo frame, and said with a smile for a while, "Don't be offended, it's all like this here. Generally, we take pictures several years in advance, and I'm afraid that I will be in a hurry." "
Otani Huaiyu nodded clearly.
Meng Xiaotao felt a little inexplicable. She didn't look at the photos, but looked around at random.
After pouring them a cup of tea, my mother spoke.
"I know the purpose of your coming here." Ah Po sighed.
Xiaogu Huaiyu didn't have the slightest surprise. He just lowered his head and smelled the scent in the teacup, which seemed to be similar to the scent she smelled in the house, but there were some differences.
Ah Po continued, "You shouldn't have come to this place, there will be a sacrifice here in three days." As she said, her muddy eyes fell on Xiaogu Huaiyu's body.
"At that time, they will send you the female doll to the sacrificial stand for sacrifice."
Xiaogu Huaiyu listened, and suddenly asked, "Is this why there are no children in your town?"
She had noticed this a long time ago.
The people in the small town treat their children very well, but when they walk on the street, they never see the children, which was very unusual at the time.
Now that my mother said so, Xiaogu Huaiyu immediately understood.
My mother sighed and shook her head, "No, there were children in our town a long time ago. Of course, we also have them now."
She paused, her tone changed slightly, "It's just that during the two months of each year, the town will select suitable children for sacrifice, and those children will be taken by the town in the last three days. People are sent to the altar."
Regarding the last encounters of those children, my mother didn't say, there was unspeakable grief in her eyes.
For a long time, my mother tried to open her muddy eyes that were almost invisible, and looked at another picture frame hanging on the wall.
The person in the other frame is a little girl who looks only six or seven years old.
The little girl had a very cute croissant braid on her head, her eyes narrowed when she smiled, and there were two sweet dimples on the corners of her mouth, which looked very cute.
But her photos show the black and white that death can only possess.
My mother looked at the photo, and then she spoke for a long time.
"The lamb was chosen as a sacrifice by them half a year ago." My mother touched the photo with trembling hands, "I can't help it. I want to take her out of here, but I haven't waited for me to take her out of town. The sheep are gone."
On that night with a rainy night, the lamb suddenly disappeared from the house.
Everyone fell silent.
Meng Xiaotao seemed to have thought of something. She tilted her head and thought, and finally asked, "Mother-in-law, I can ask, why did you have to let us go to the Niangniang Temple to rest yesterday?"
They had just walked on the street, and naturally they saw the resting hotel.
Although it looks a little old and a little small, it is a place to rest anyway.
But yesterday the grandmother in front of them said that there was no place to rest in the town, and asked them to visit the Niangniang Temple on the mountain.
They didn't think too much yesterday.
But when I saw it today, it was obvious that grandma said this deliberately and wanted them to go to the Niangniang Temple, but she didn't understand why she said that.
Auntie shook her head and said slowly, "Panlong Town has not had a hotel for the living a long time ago." She paused, her eyelids lifted, and what she said afterwards made people feel a little rebellious in her heart. hair.
"The hotels you saw in the town are not for living people." Auntie said only this, and she didn't go on. She seemed to be very taboo on this topic.
"I advise you to leave here as soon as possible." Auntie continued to persuade, "Every year there are always some outsiders coming here occasionally, but not many can go out alive. Most of them are caught by them. I took it to the sacrificial altar, and occasionally some people stayed in that hotel."
As for what happened to the people who stayed in the hotel, the grandmother did not say, but she had some unnoticeable fear on her face, as if she had witnessed something with her own eyes.
Speaking of outsiders, Xiaogu Huaiyu remembered one thing and asked.
"Mother-in-law, have any outsiders been here in the past two months in your town?" Xiaogu Huaiyu asked.
Ah Po's muddy eyes fell on her body, her expression looked a lot softer.
"You are asking the strange young man who came over last week."
Otani Huaiyu gave a hum, and then said, "Yes, that's the man who often talks to himself by himself. He is quite tall and has a weird temper."
My mother nodded, "I have the impression of the person you mentioned. He is the only person who stayed in the hotel and came out alive."
After Xiaogu Huaiyu confirmed that Grandma knew You Han and the others, she continued to ask, "That's it. They told me before that every night in your town, they would gather together, only when they came out to see you. , But all the people are gone."
"I can ask, what is going on?"
Her question silenced the atmosphere.
Meng Xiaotao stared at her grandma without blinking, as if waiting for her answer.
An Jiu wasn't very interested in these things, so he found a suitable position and looked at each other for a while.
Grandma was silent for a long time before speaking.
"The scene your friend saw was just an event in our town, nothing special and nothing to say."
It seems that the question asked by Otani Huaiyu is a taboo.
I had a good conversation with her, but after she asked this sentence, her attitude immediately changed and she became much colder.
"Girl, don't be too curious." My mother's tone changed. "What your friends saw and what you just said, don't tell other people in the town, otherwise I won't be able to keep you. "
Ah Po just said such a word to her, and then she didn't speak again, her face was exhausted.
The gathering at night, the things to be done, seems to be an unspeakable taboo in this closed town.