Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 25 A Liang

  There was no one in the yard, half-dried clothes hung on the clothesline, and the door inside the yard was also tightly closed. A corner of the house could be seen through the window. It was dim and simple, with no lights on.

"There is no one in the yard. I can't see clearly in the house. I didn't turn on the lights." Xiaolan gently relayed everything he saw to everyone. "But the clothes hanging on the clothesline in the yard were not collected. It is estimated that someone lives. ."

   Maple Sugar did not give up, and shouted at Xiaolan from below in a low voice, "Xiaolan, see if there are foot pads and shoes at the door, and the footprints on the ground are not deep."

   Xiaolan narrowed his eyes and looked hard, before giving up, "I can't see clearly, it seems that there are no foot pads and no footprints, what else to look at..."

  "Squeak—"

  Before he finished speaking, the door of the courtyard opened. Xiaolan was so scared that he shut up immediately, subconsciously trying to shrink down, but found that because the little fool was too tall, there was not much room for her to shrink.

  The door opened, and a little boy walked out. The boy turned around and closed the door. He turned around and caught the sight of Xiaolan who hadn't hidden yet.

  The boy opened his mouth in surprise and rubbed his eyes vigorously.

   Xiaolan felt embarrassed if she didn't say something at this moment, so she raised her left hand and gave a blunt smile.

   "Hello brother..."

"what!…"

A scream resounded through the valley, startled a group of perching birds. The boy's screams scared Xiaolan and the idiot to lose their center of gravity. Xiaolan swayed and fell back, before she thought about how to force herself. Landed on his buttocks, he fell into a warm embrace.

   Xiaolan raised her head, the Taoist leader was looking at her worriedly, and seeing that she was full of energy, he put her down.

   deserves to be the leader, really reliable! Xiaolan gave a thumbs up in her heart.

   "Mom!...Ghost!..."

  After the boy’s scream, it was the sound of reopening and closing the door. The rest of the boy’s screams and crying were locked in the door, and after a while, nothing was heard.

   Xiaolan reflected for a while, and felt that when she went out, she saw a head on the wall waving at her. This scene was really shocking. She understood the boy's reaction. If there is another time, she will just open her mouth to explain, don't wave and stop laughing.

   "Then let's knock on the door now, it has been discovered anyway." Baomu pointed to the still big iron gate again.

   "Knock on the door and others may not open it, will you open the door to the ‘ghost’?" The little fool patted his chest, and was shocked by himself, “Let Xiaolan first...”

   "Hahahahahahahahaha..."

"what!…"

  This time the scream was made by the little idiot. The little idiot was scared by the laughter that appeared behind him and threw himself on Baomu, who was so shocked that Baomu also shivered.

  Everyone was more or less surprised, looking at the girl in front of her who was laughing joyfully.

  The little girl was about seven or eight years old. She appeared behind everyone at some unknown time, holding a small ball in her hand, and at this moment, she was holding her belly and laughing forward and backward.

  Everyone was puzzled, where did the little girl come from?

   "You guys are so fun, frighten the slugs hahahahahaha..."

   Xiaolan looked at the Taoist chief, who also looked at the little girl with a pensive expression at this time.

  "Is the slug the little boy in this family?" Xiaolan, as the only one who witnessed all the passing, stood up bravely, "Who are you again, can you tell us?"

"That's him, he likes to cry. It's very embarrassing. You see, he must be crying again ha ha ha ha," the girl is not timid, and after every sentence is a string of silver bells of laughter, "I call A Liang, you are not from the village, right."

   Xiaolan leaned over to the girl.

   "We are not from the village..."

   "Then you are from the mountain, right?"

   Xiaolan looked back at Daochang, then nodded at the girl.

  "We are people coming down the mountain, and want to come over and ask something, can you take us to find your mother, little sister."

   "What's the matter?" A Liang tilted his head, seeming to have a good impression of Xiaolan, "Ask me if I can't, I know everything!"

   "You...what do you know."

   Xiaolan opened his backpack and prepared to take out some snacks to bribe A Liang.

   "Hmm...for example..." A Liang's eyes rolled and looked very cute, "I know why the slug said you are a ghost hahahahaha!"

   Xiaolan squatted on the spot, thinking that anyway, a head suddenly appeared on the courtyard wall, usually everyone would not think that it was a person.

"Do you want to know?"

  A Liang looked at Xiaolan and the snacks in her hand expectantly.

   Xiaolan smiled and handed her the snacks, "Because of what?"

  A Liang quickly took it over and put it in his pocket, looking at Xiaolan happily.

   "Because of you, you look like sister Miao Miao!"

  Miao Miao sister?

  Dao Master heard the girl's words, he also squatted down and began to pay for the food in the bag. Everyone began to look up their backpacks to see if there were any snacks suitable for the children.

   "Who is Sister Miao Miao?"

   "Sister Miao Miao is from the bottom of the mountain. She often goes up the mountain and plays with us!" A Liang seems to like Xiaolan's look very much. "Looks a bit like you, with big eyes and such long hair!"

  A Liang said and gestured near his shoulder.

  Tao Master also came over and handed over a pack of chocolates, "Where is Sister Miao Miao now?"

   "She's gone!"

  "Gone?" Xiaolan frowned, "Where did you go?"

"My parents told me she's leaving. Sister Miaomiao has been gone for a long time, but..." A Liang suddenly pouted and stared in the direction of the slug's house. "But the slug doesn't mean that Sister Miaomiao is dead. I won’t come back again, we don’t believe him, slugs like to lie the most!"

   "Ah..." Xiaolan smiled at A Liang, "That's why he thought I was a ghost."

  A Liang looked at Xiaolan, laughed, and nodded obediently.

   "Sister Miao Miao is from the foot of the mountain, why does she come to the mountain so often?"

  Maple Sugar walked a few steps to ask a question. A Liang shrank from the fright by Maple Sugar's serious expression. He lowered his head and saw Xiaolan who was smiling, and then smiled shyly.

  It seems that this child really likes Sister Miao Miao, Xiao Lan thought.

"Sister Miaomiao said that it was the task assigned to her by her uncle and aunt," A Liang tried hard to recall, "Every time I go to bed in the morning, Sister Miaomiao is in the village, playing with us, and telling us stories. Sister Miao Miao disappeared when she got up the next morning."

  A Liang’s description is very strange. Does sister Miao Miao go up and down the mountain at night?

   "A Liang, when did sister Miaomiao leave? How long have you been away?" Pineapple also asked.

"Yeah..." A Liang measured time from the perspective of a child. "Last year when the mountains were fruiting, they disappeared, ah! By the way! I haven't seen Sister Miao Miao since Aunt Xiaohua ran away from the village! what!…"

  A Liang, as if suddenly remembering something incredible, covered his mouth, his eyes were round, and he shook his head straight.

  "Aunt Xiaohua is..."

  A Liang shook his head even harder, and directly stretched out his hand to cover Xiaolan's mouth.

   "Mom doesn't let Aunt Xiaohua, there is no Aunt Xiaohua, she said she would be beaten!"

  There is definitely a problem!

   Xiaolan grabbed A Liang's hand and tried to ask something more, but a sharp shout suddenly sounded not far away.

   "A Liang! What are you doing!"

  Xiaolan turned his gaze to behind A Liang, and a woman wearing an apron rushed over aggressively, shouting A Liang's name loudly.

   Seeing this, the Taoist commander hurriedly stood in front of Xiaolan.

   "Mom..."

"you shut up!"

  The woman pulled A Liang’s hand and stared at them angrily and suspiciously.

   "Who are you! Where did you come from?"

  "Eldest sister..." Pineapple squeezed from behind, holding a portable camera in her hand, and gave an excuse made in advance, "We are reporters to investigate the suicide incident of tourists a few days ago..."

  The woman became more excited when she heard it, and she directly pulled Ah Liang back, as if she was avoiding something.

   "Sister..."

  Pineapple still wanted to catch up and ask, but the woman directly picked up A Liang and quickly ran away. A Liang looked at Xiaolan from a distance with red eyes and disappeared into everyone's sight.

  (End of this chapter)