Cui'er kept her head down and didn't say a word to me. I wanted to talk, but when she saw her gloomy face, she didn't dare to speak anymore.

When I returned to the old lady's house, it was already afternoon. The old lady was about to cook lunch. Cui'er and I walked into the upper room. She looked at me very seriously. Her red and swollen eyes made me fur.

Cui'er asked: "Do you like me?"

I nodded hard.

Cui'er said: "You are my man, I will raise you. When I get old, you have to take care of me. Can you?"

I remembered Nizi. I wanted to be Nizi's man in my heart, but I can't go back to Nizi's village anymore because we kept walking south and never repeat the road we walked. What should I do? Then let's be a man for Cui'er first. In fact, it's not bad to be a man for Cui'er. She can hug me and sleep. So, I nodded again.

Nizi said, "I lost my body, will you still like me?"

I don’t understand what losing my body means. When I understood this concept, it was three years later, three years later, that I realized that a woman who lost her body was like a man who lost her legs and feet, destined to be ups and downs for a lifetime. However, when I saw me nodding, Cui'er was happy and nodded quickly.

Nizi said, "Then you will listen to me in the future, okay?"

I still nodded.

Cui'er said: "They stole the silver dollars and bills from this family. I want to get them back. After getting the silver dollars and bills, we will come back here to live a good life. I will be my daughter and you will be your son-in-law."

I was afraid that Cui'er would leave me alone here, so I quickly said, "I'll go too."

Cui'er said: "Okay. Let's go after dinner."

After lunch, Cui'er and I each had two steamed buns in their pockets and set off. In order to catch up with the circus as soon as possible, we did not rest all the way. Whenever we encountered a larger village, we asked if there had been a circus performance. Every village said without exception that the circus had performed. It is certain that each village had made mistakes on the day of the circus performance, but they would not suspect that it was done by the circus, nor did they suspect that the two people in the circus were in the same group as the circus thieves.

It is easy to find a circus, their performance is the signpost.

Four days later, we finally caught up with them. In a place called Jiao Castle, the circus was performing. When we arrived, the threshing ground was performing a monkey climbing pole.

Our coming came surprised everyone in the circus. I saw two children standing with them, at most ten years old, and they saw others patting my shoulders and running to pat my shoulders.

I asked, "Who are these two little ones?"

Gao Shulin smiled and said, "My new apprentice."

Gao Shulin walked over and tried to pat Cui'er on the shoulder. Cui'er dodged in a flash. Gao Shulin was a little embarrassed and annoyed, but he couldn't bear it when he saw so many people around him.

I asked Gao Shulin: "Where did you find these two little ones?"

Gao Shulin said: "I signed a document with their family and sent them home to reunite when they learned their skills three years later."

I said, "I asked where to get them?"

Gao Shulin suddenly changed his face and said, "You're so fucking talking about it. Get ready quickly and come on stage later."

I am a rap-hearted child. I haven't seen Gao Shulin for a few days and I forgot who he is. When he has a little better attitude towards me, I feel complacent; and when he loses his temper, I feel afraid.

I was hurting my self-esteem, so I secretly saw whether Cui'er noticed it, because he said that I was his man, and hurting her self-esteem in front of her own woman was a very shameless thing. I saw Cui'er looking at Gao Shulin coldly, just like looking at a stranger.

We are uncertain and will never go back. There are so many villages across the country, we can't walk one a day, and we can't finish it in our lifetime. These two young parents handed their children to the circus. Not to mention three years, even thirty years, or three hundred years, we can't find their children.

I know the secret of the circus, but they don't know anything like me who just entered the circus.

That day, I walked on the rope like many times before. I stood on the rope and looked at the village beneath my feet with a familiar look. I saw a pregnant woman basking in the sun in the courtyard of the sixth house on the right. The pregnant woman was wearing an extremely bloated satin cotton coat. Behind her was an open door, and two wooden boxes were drying in front of the door, and the edges and corners of the wooden boxes were wrapped in brass. Such boxes were a luxury of that era, and only wealthy families would have such things. These boxes were generally made of nanmu and were very expensive. This family must be very rich, and maybe there were people who had left samples.

I was watching intently when I suddenly saw the pregnant woman lying in the yard, her mouth wide open, as if she was shouting something. Her arms tried to stretch forward, bent her waist, and crawled on the ground like a shrimp. He twisted twice, and suddenly stopped moving.

I was very scared and hurried to the side, holding the wooden pole in my hand and shouted, "Someone is dead over there, and someone is dead over there."

The crowd of people who were watching scattered, and someone asked loudly below: "Where, where?"

I said, "The sixth one on the right, the sixth one on the right."

A man shouted loudly, as if he was burned with his butt, ran to the village, and behind him were a large group of men and women. I heard someone say, "You are so brave, your wife is like that, you still come to watch the circus."

After the crowd left, we packed up our props, put them on the carriage, and left the village. Along the way, we walked slowly, not as fast as we had done many times before. The stump held the whip in our arms and let the two horses walk freely, and walked as fast as we liked. Gao Shulin had a gloomy face and said nothing. I knew he had an objection to me because I yelled on the ropes, and left the crowd, leaving the circus without gaining anything today.

I wanted to explain a few words to Gao Shulin, but looking at his long black face that could scrape out a layer of rust, I was a little timid and dared not say much. I think there was a lot of talk, but it was useless.

When the sun was about to set, we walked into a valley, which was surrounded by mountains, with only one small path leading to the mountains. Moreover, this narrow path is still a dead end, and there is no way to go, so we can only return the same way when we go out.

There is a village in the valley with only a few households. The houses of these families are crowded together, just like warming each other. Their houses are covered with tiles or thatch, but stone flakes. The black stone flakes are irregularly rectangular, covering the roof like fish scales. The village is very quiet, and you cannot hear the crowing sounds of chickens and dogs that you often see, or the crying sounds of children.

Gao Shulin said: "Didou, go to the village to have a look and find a house to stay."

I jumped out of the carriage and walked into the village alone with the feeling of atonement for my sins. I was worried that there would be a dog that suddenly jumped out of the village, so I deliberately stepped on my footsteps and coughed loudly, but the village was silent, and even the sound of a leaf falling could be heard.

I walked into the first house and suddenly saw a man lying in the yard. There were two buckets and a load next to him. It seemed that he was carrying water. He suddenly slipped to the ground and never stood up again. I asked, "Don't anyone?" My voice floated in the empty courtyard without any response. I looked in front of the door and saw a woman on the steps in front of the door. Her arms were stretched forward, one leg was slanted and one leg was pressed under her body. Next to the woman, there were two hens lying on the ground, with their wings drooping, as if they were drunk.

Seeing all this, I suddenly felt extremely frightened, my feet began to tremble, and I couldn't even shout a word. I turned around and ran, ran a few steps, and suddenly fell down. I got up and ran, and finally ran to the carriage, drooling.

Gao Shulin asked: "What's wrong? A ghost hit?"

I pointed to the yard and said in a daze: "All dead, all the people and chickens are dead."

The tree stump stood in the carriage, and he looked at the village and said, "One person died under the tree over there. Oh, there is another person dead under the village road."

The tree stump jumped out of the carriage, pulled the bridle, turned the front of the carriage, and then sat on the shaft, whipped a whip: "Go, go, go."

The carriage drove out of the mountain like crazy. I was sitting in the carriage, with all my internal organs and lungs shaking. My body suddenly hit the body of the line pole and suddenly hit Gao Shulin. Gao Shulin did not lose his temper at me. In the dusk skylight, I saw his face yellow and yellow, and his eyes were panicked. The monkey squeaked, hugging the stool legs tightly, like holding a life-saving straw.

I feel very strange. Could it be that there is really a ghost in that village?
Chapter completed!