I have a book of good and evil

Chapter 18 The Wolf's Den
"anyone there?"

With the sound of knocking on the door, it was an immature child's voice, but such a sound in the silent night did not make people feel at ease, but only made people afraid.

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With a slight blowing sound, the flickering lights in the night were blown out, and the house in front of me was silent, as if there was no one there.

"Uh!"

The situation in front of him left Feng Bingwen speechless. It's not like he couldn't empathize with the people in the house. Suddenly a child came knocking on the door in the middle of the night, which was too scary.

But now he really needs a place to spend the night, and locals who can show him the way and the way.

"Can you open the door and let us go in and have a rest? We are abducted children who just escaped."

For a while, Feng Bingwen couldn't think of a reasonable reason for the three children to appear in the wilderness in the middle of the night, so he could only tell the truth.

"Abducted child? Escaped?"

Finally, there was a sound in the room, and someone inside could vaguely hear a sigh of relief, as if he had just been so frightened that he didn't even dare to breathe.

"Go and open the door!"

"Why don't you drive?"

There was a voice of dissatisfaction, and amidst the sound of small arguments, the closed door opened, revealing a rough and nervous face.

"Uncle, can you let us stay overnight, we will leave at dawn tomorrow!"

"Aren't you ghosts?"

Looking at the three children, two of whom were in ragged clothes and covered in bruises, the man who opened the door felt more at ease, but he was still worried and asked another question.

"Of course not. If you don't believe me, if you touch my hand, it's still hot."

Feng Bingwen raised his hand to prove his identity as a human being. The cheeky man was not polite and reached out to hold Feng Bingwen's hand. After feeling the warmth emanating from the child's palm, the man relaxed a little. tone.

"come in!"

The man stepped aside and let the three children enter the house. As soon as he entered the room, Feng Bingwen noticed that the furnishings here were a bit weird by rekindling the lights.

There are no utensils for daily life, there is only a firepit in the room, and a hanging pot set up with a few branches, and there are only a few bundles of hay on the ground.

"We are hunters from a nearby village. Today we went into the mountains to hunt some game, but it was too late and we couldn't go back. We just made do here for the night. Don't be afraid, we are not bad people."

The cheeky man seemed to be a little wary when he saw the three children, and explained with a rough smile on his face, while another man in the room also stood up to say hello, and his attitude seemed very gentle.

"Uncle, do you have anything to eat here?"

Feng Bingwen rubbed his stomach, feeling a little embarrassed.But he was so hungry that he couldn't stand it anymore, and fortunately he usually ate a lot, but even so, he was a little dizzy from hunger now.

"Eat? We've already eaten it just now, and there's nothing hot about it. It's just that we brought some dry food when we went hunting in the mountains, and there's still some left over. If you don't dislike it, you can use it to fill your stomach."

As he said that, the man took out three dry and hard biscuits from the cloth bag beside him, and handed them to Feng Bingwen.

"Thank you uncle!"

Feng Bingwen thanked politely, and then distributed the biscuits in his hands to the other two little guys.

The three of them walked through the darkness for an unknown amount of time, and at this moment they were tired and hungry, and they didn't care how tough this thing was, so they all chewed it dryly, not wanting to drop even a little bit of crumbs.

Feng Bingwen wanted to check. Everyone knew that he shouldn't eat anything given by strangers, but now he really had no choice but to grit his teeth and eat. He would talk about anything after eating.

"Where are you children from? How did you get kidnapped here?"

Seeing the three eating, the two men glanced at each other, their eyes gleaming with unknown meaning, and then one of them asked a question.

"I'm from Qingshan County, uncle, do you know where Qingshan County is going?"

Feng Bingwen raised his head, swallowed a mouthful of dry biscuits with difficulty, and asked with some hope.

"Qingshan County, I haven't heard of it. I only know that Yuhua County is thirty miles west of our village."

Feng Bingwen was quite disappointed by the answer given by the man shaking his head.

But this is also a matter of course. In the farming era, most people stayed in one-third of an acre of land. If they want to travel far, they must go to the government to get a guide, otherwise they will be taken away as refugees. You can run around if you run.

"Yuhua County? I haven't heard of it either."

Although it has been several years, Feng Bingwen has not figured out the situation in the surrounding counties, and there is no such thing as a map in his place, which is strictly controlled.

"I'm from Ye Family Village."

"I'm under the camphor tree."

The other two children also revealed their origins one after another, not to mention that they were just two hunters.Even people who are familiar with the surrounding situation will have to shake their heads when they hear it. There are as many villages named after surnames or special landscapes. How can they find their original places with only such names.

"Then we can't help you. We have to wait until you go to the government tomorrow."

"No matter what, thank you, uncle!"

Feng Bingwen thanked him sincerely.

"It's a trivial matter. After eating, you should rest quickly. We will take you to the county tomorrow morning."

After eating the biscuits, Feng Bingwen walked towards the corner of this temporary house. The light from the candles fell here, but there was not much light, and it looked very dim. When he raised his head, he froze.

A piece of yellow cloth painted with patterns like dragons and snakes was quietly hanging on the wall. Because the light was too dim, I didn't see it when I stood a little far away, but when I came to the corner, I saw it immediately.

"Uncle, what is this?"

Feng Bingwen's body tensed up, and he looked at the two men who were packing hay and getting ready to sleep.

"This is to ward off evil spirits. God knows how many dirty things this wilderness needs."

The cheeky man explained casually, completely ignoring Feng Bingwen's completely stern face hidden in the darkness.

"So this is ah!"

Feng Bingwen responded, seeming to relax.

"By the way, uncle, I forgot to ask, which village are you from? Maybe we are still from the same family."

"My family? Hahaha, it's impossible, our surname is rare, and there is no one with the same surname as our Qijiagang in the surrounding ten miles and eight towns."

"It turns out that your surname is Qi, uncle, that's really rare."

Feng Bingwen greeted him with a smile, but his mood was quite bitter. If he remembered correctly, one of the people who forcibly took him here was called Qi Laosi.

He didn't think it was a coincidence. At this kind of moment, the last thing to imagine was the worst.

(End of this chapter)