Soon after, we came to Shi Yitong's village. From a distance, you can see many people working in the farmland, as well as men carrying water and sheep. This scene was in stark contrast to the scene of being eaten by that Gu Eagle some time ago, and the bloody and terrifying scene made my body shiver.
"What's wrong with you?" Shi Yitong asked strangely. I quickly shook my head and smiled to indicate that I was fine.
For a moment, I was suddenly glad that I was the one who met Wen Jiubai and not Shi Yitong or Su Xiaoyun. It would be better for them not to see such a bloody and cruel scene for the rest of their lives.
"A Tong!"
At this time, a cry was heard in the distance, and Shi Yitong raised his head. His grandma was standing at the entrance of the village, waving to us.
"Hey, grandma, why did you come out?" Shi Yitong hurried over when he heard this, "I was just about to go back with my friend."
Su Xiaoyun and I hurried over to say hello to the old man, "Grandma!"
"Oh, you little bastard, you don't study hard at school, so what are you going to do when you have nothing to do?" Shi Yitong's grandma twisted her wrinkled face and reached out to pat Shi Yitong on the head.
Shi Yitong laughed twice, and scratched his hair, "No, grandma, I'm fine at school. This time I brought my friends back to play, mainly to see how your old man is doing, right?"
"Yeah."
"I don't do my job all day long, but my mouth is quite good at talking." Grandma's frowning relaxed, and she looked at me and Su Xiaoyun, her face softened again, and she smiled, "Okay, don't just stand there, I will I just bought a little hen today, go for a walk and stew it for you at home!"
In this way, we had dinner at Shi Yitong's house in a friendly manner. When Su Xiaoyun came to Shi Yitong's house for the first time, his grandmother picked up vegetables desperately and praised her for being good-looking, which made Su Xiaoyun feel very embarrassed. .
I saw that the two of them were barely amicable at the dinner table, but after the meal, when Grandma Shi Yitong went to wash the dishes, the atmosphere began to return to the familiar rigidity, and neither of the two of them would take the initiative to speak. Say the first sentence to the other person.
I looked helplessly at the two people who were arguing, and just couldn't help but want to explain it to them, so that they would stop this kind of boring cold war. Unexpectedly, Shi Yitong spoke first.
"Hey, Gu Yu! Well, we've finished our meal, let's go and look through my grandpa's diary!"
I had no other choice, so I had no choice but to follow Shi Yitong's words and agree, "Okay... Su Xiaoyun too?"
Su Xiaoyun nodded, and followed us into the room where Grandpa Shi Yitong's relics were piled up.
"When it comes to the legend of Bai Ze, it may not be easy to find."
Shi Yitong opened the door of the room, and a smell of dust came over his face. But it is much neater than the last time I came here to look for Jinhua cat information. The scrolls of books are neatly placed on the old bookshelves, and some of the utensils used by the grandfather during his lifetime are quietly placed in the corner of the room.
Shi Yitong walked to the nearest row of bookshelves, took down a leather diary from above, rummaged through it, and muttered, "I was eight or nine years old when grandpa first told me about Bai Ze. , and Grandpa's diary records all the things he encountered when he was young, and I don't know if he will write Bai Ze in the diary."
"Let's look for it, maybe." I comforted Shi Yitong while walking around the room, checking those old books and materials.
"It's useless to just find the information about Bai Ze, but also to find out whether Bai Ze is in Yancheng, and if so, where it might be." Su Xiaoyun said casually while flipping through the books on the bookshelf.
I leaned over to Shi Yitong to look at the diary in his hand, and he turned pages from back to front. His grandpa's notes are full of fluff and phoenixes, and I can barely understand a few words, but this doesn't seem to affect Shi Yitong's reading speed.
"No..." Shi Yitong murmured, "It's all about grandpa when he was young, most of them are boring journals, and there is no record of what happened after he was forty. Gu Yu, look, the last one The first page of the diary was in 1968, so grandpa hasn’t written a diary since then.”
"What about other books and materials?" I asked expectantly.
"Look for it, but don't get your hopes up."
So we put down the diary again and buried ourselves in the old scrolls.
"found it!"
"Where is where?"
"Uh, I'm sorry, this is not. It seems to be just a drawing drawn by a child."
"Ah, I found it!"
"where?"
"No... Although there is a record of Bai Ze here, there is no mention of Yancheng at all."
"Then what are you talking about!"
"Hey, come here!" At this moment, Su Xiaoyun suddenly spoke, and Shi Yitong and I raised our heads.
"Take a look, is it this?" Su Xiaoyun walked over with the book in her hand. When we looked closely, this book seemed to be a small street book from the period of the Republic of China. The typeface printed on it was also crooked, and it was still in traditional Chinese characters, which was very difficult to read.
"Let me see..." Shi Yitong leaned over and read with great effort, "There is a beast named Bai Ze in Dongwang Mountain. Pray for the spirit of the dead, and sleep in Diecui Mountain."
I looked at Shi Yitong in bewilderment, "What... does this mean?"
"That's it! It's definitely this!" Shi Yitong snatched the booklet out of Su Xiaoyun's hand, and pointed out this paragraph to us, "The first half is about Bai Ze, and it's all about "The Book of Mountains and Seas." The original sentence in ". The second half is different. You see, it says 'there is a flood in this mountain, and Bai Ze crossed the river to this place to pray for the spirit of the dead'. It means that there is a flood in the mountain area, and Bai Ze will Crossed the river and came here to pray for the dead. The most important thing is the last sentence, 'I sleep in the Diecui Mountain'. It is the Diecui Mountain in Yancheng!"
"The Diecui Mountain in Yancheng?" Su Xiaoyun was also moved by the atmosphere, and asked excitedly, "So, Bai Ze is really here?"
"I don't know if it's true, but we have this, at least we have a direction to investigate!" Shi Yitong was so excited that he almost gave Su Xiaoyun a hug, "Goddess Su is worthy of being Goddess Su! Awesome! You can find the clues you are looking for in no time!"
"Cough cough." Su Xiaoyun coughed dryly twice, then suddenly pulled her face down again, and looked at Shi Yitong unhappily, "Really, now you know how to flatter me."
When Shi Yitong saw this expression, he was immediately dumbfounded again.
I stepped on Shi Yitong's instep, "What are you doing in a daze, hurry up and apologize."
Only then did Shi Yitong suddenly realize, and bowed deeply to Su Xiaoyun, "Goddess Su! I'm sorry, I'm not good at computer matters! This slave is willing to do anything for Miss Su Xiaoyun. I implore Miss Su Xiaoyun to forgive me!"
Su Xiaoyun burst out laughing with a "puchi", slapped Shi Yitong on the back of the head, and said arrogantly, "Okay, for the sake of being so stupid, I will forgive you. But if you dare to do anything This time, I will never forgive you!"
Shi Yitong held the pamphlet in his hands, "Yes, yes, there will never be a next time, thank you for your generosity!"
I covered my eyes with my hands, and exaggeratedly shouted, "Help, you are abusing the dog!"
Then the two of them beat me up and down.
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In the evening, Shi Yitong put away the booklet with the only clue, and sent Su Xiaoyun and me back to school.
"If possible, I want to go there as soon as possible." After hesitating for a while, I still said, "Maybe I can really find something."
"If you don't open your mouth, I'm going to talk about it." Shi Yitong said straightforwardly, "Of course, the sooner this kind of thing happens, the better. After all, if you don't find out something, you will definitely not be able to let it go. Bar."
Su Xiaoyun also nodded in agreement, "It's already Thursday, let me tell you, we can charter a car to go there as soon as school is over tomorrow afternoon. Hey Shi Yitong, isn't Diecui Mountain not far from here?"
"It's not too far, and it's not too close." Shi Yitong thought for a while and said, "It's still affordable to charter a car, and it takes about an hour to get there."
"Then it's settled, get out of class is over tomorrow afternoon, see you there!" Su Xiaoyun smiled at me and blinked, "But Gu Yu, don't forget, the literature teacher's paper will be due next Monday. hand it over."
"I know." I scratched my head embarrassedly, "I won't forget to hand in my homework this time."
"I think you've been in a daze for the past two days, but it's not necessarily true."
A warm current rose in my heart. Both Shi Yitong and Su Xiaoyun chose to sacrifice their own time to help me without hesitation. Anyway, it's great to have these two friends by my side.
Back in the dormitory, I washed up early and climbed into bed. I wanted to go to bed early, but Di Zizhen was still playing games downstairs. I was so bored that I took out my phone, only to see that it showed five missed calls.
Wen Jiubai.
This name made my heart skip a beat. I hesitated for a long time with my finger on the push notification at the top, and then I swiped the message directly.
Now I really don't want to talk to Wen Jiubai... No, it's not so much that I don't want to talk, it's better that I don't know what to say.
After the incident with Xiaobai, Wen Jiubai seemed to have misunderstood something, and became closer to me. Although others may not be able to see any clues, but as the person involved, I can clearly feel it.