I asked you to tell divination, but I didn’t ask you to catch ghosts.

The next day, Xie Zhiyao was awakened by the sound of crows outside. It was already winter, so logically speaking, crows should not appear.

When she lifted the quilt, the biting coldness made her immediately return to bed. She forgot that she didn't have a heater at home. It was really cold in the morning in the mountains!

After finally summoning up the courage, she got out of bed and put on her coat to feel a little warmer. She opened the door and saw that the fire was burning brightly in the fire pit.

Next to her was Zhang Li's grandmother, who was adding coal inside. She had been working on it for too long yesterday, and no one had gotten up yet.

"Good morning, grandma!" Xie Zhiyao greeted Zhang Li's grandma.

"Morning, please leave after breakfast. My family doesn't believe this, and we don't have any extra money to give you." Zhang Li's grandmother raised her head and glanced at Xie Zhiyao, her old face full of defense.

"Don't worry, I heard that the red leaves in Hongye Town are one of a kind. We'll go back after watching the red leaves. We won't disturb you again." Xie Zhiyao said with sincere eyes.

Seeing people saying this, Zhang Li's grandmother couldn't say anything more, but got up and walked outside with hunched body.

"The climate here is much colder than at home." Xiaohuai rubbed his face and moved to sit next to Xie Zhiyao.

"It is indeed colder in the mountainous areas. The altitude here is relatively low. If the mountains are at higher altitudes, they are already covered by heavy snow." Xie Zhiyao used a branch to take out a roasted potato from the fire. It was before going to bed last night. Put it in.

The potatoes that are now overripe cannot be overcooked and are burnt on the outside, but after breaking them open, the potatoes inside are still fine.

"How did you know there were potatoes in it?" Xiao Huai asked in shock. Didn't they just come yesterday?

"They buried it before going to bed last night! With a fire pit, it would be a waste not to bake the potatoes!" After giving half of the potatoes to Xiao Huai, Xie Zhiyao took a bite, frowned for a moment, and then spat out the potatoes.

The taste of potatoes is not right. Why do good potatoes have a faint fishy smell?

"What's wrong?" Xiao Huai looked at Xie Zhiyao's appearance and asked doubtfully, and then took a bite.

This is his favorite taste. The locust tree likes shade, so it especially likes the yin energy, and this potato grows in the ground with strong yin energy.

"I'll give it all to you. Fortunately, I only baked one!" Fortunately, no one else discovered it. If they ate it, the consequences would be disastrous!

But this potato is placed in a corner of the main room, which means that this potato will be used when cooking!

"Master, you got up so early!" Zhang Li yawned, rubbed her eyes and walked over, and saw the potatoes in Xiao Huai's hand.

I was shocked, so I snatched it away from him, threw it into the fire and burned it.

"What are you doing?" Xie Zhiyao raised her eyebrows and asked, does Zhang Li know that there is something wrong with the potato? Then why do you still keep it at home? Aren’t you afraid that family members will eat it and have problems with it?

"I'm sorry, little brother!" Zhang Li wiped Xiao Huai's hands with a paper towel, and then said: "Master, these potatoes are inedible to people. I don't know what's going on. In the past few years, the potatoes in the fields have... Pigs and chickens have no problem at all, but if people eat them, they will suffer from vomiting and diarrhea! So all the potatoes in my house are fed to pigs or chickens!"

Zhang Li said embarrassedly, and she didn't know why. She remembered that the potatoes at home were not like this in the past!

"Is it only true for potatoes, or is it true for every vegetable grown?" If it is true for all, it means there is something wrong with that land!

"I don't know, but I haven't heard from my family that there is a problem with the vegetables. Maybe they don't grow vegetables there, they just grow some potatoes and sweet potatoes." After all, Zhang Li has lived in the county since she was a child, so she doesn't know how to grow vegetables at home. What. But what is certain is that vegetables are generally grown close to each other. There is a vegetable garden outside, and the land where potatoes are grown is next to the red leaf forest.

Breakfast is very simple, just boiled porridge, multigrain steamed buns, and molded tofu. The homemade molded tofu is very fragrant and different from the ones sold outside.

After breakfast, Zhang Li took a few people up the mountain. On the way, she met many villagers who went up the mountain to pick chestnuts and walnuts.

However, when they saw Zhang Li, they all said hello casually, lowered their heads and hurried away. Some of them were so frightened that they rushed to another road after seeing her.

"The people in your village are quite strange." Xiaohuai said speechlessly as he looked at the woman who jumped directly to the other road.

"It wasn't like this before. Everyone loved each other. After all, there were only a few families in the whole village. But since our accident, people in the village have avoided us like snakes and scorpions, for fear of getting contaminated." Zhang Li explained weakly.

People in the village believe in these things, so as long as a family dies one after another, they will feel that this family is contaminated with bad things. If you don't stay away, then those things will find you.

After crawling for a while, some scattered chestnuts and walnuts appeared on the ground, which the villagers had not noticed before. Xie Zhiyao picked up a chestnut, bit it open with his teeth, and ate the sweet pulp inside.

Then let Xiao Huai and Ye Fan pick up more. After taking them back, they can make tea and roast chestnuts around the stove!

After crossing the mountain, we arrived at a piece of land with four graves neatly placed. It didn't take much to figure out that these were Zhang Li's relatives.

"This is my grandpa, uncle, uncle, and aunt." Zhang Li took out paper money and incense candles and burned some at each grave.

"Do you practice burial here?" Xie Zhiyao looked at these old and new graves, then grabbed a handful of mud and smelled it on the land next to it.

"My grandpa was buried in the ground, and my uncle and the others brought him back after the cremation was done outside. I don't know why. People in the village bury them in the ground, but my grandma was very insistent. She wanted to let my uncle and the others cremate him before he was buried. Bring it back!" Zhang Li said with a frown. Their family was very surprised. After all, the uncle, second uncle and aunt all died in the village, unlike the city and county where cremation is mandatory.

But grandma was very insistent that it must be cremated. She would even go with him every time he was cremated, for fear that others would deceive her.

There was no problem with the soil outside. Xie Zhiyao dropped the soil in his hand and started looking around the graves again. There was no problem with the four new graves.

Even in older graves, the soil has a fishy smell, exactly like the ones on those potatoes!

"Are your potatoes planted here?" Xie Zhiyao looked at the planted land next to the old grave.

"Yes! These are planted potatoes. After the potatoes are dug next year, corn and sweet potatoes will be planted." Zhang Li nodded and placed the incense on the grave.

But I don’t know why. Grandpa’s incense stick couldn’t be inserted, as if there was something in the ground, but the other three tombs were easily inserted!

Ye Fan, who was standing next to him, saw this and asked Zhang Li to give him the incense. Then he cast a spell on the incense and gave it back to Zhang Li, asking her to try again.

I didn’t expect it to actually go in! Zhang Li glanced at Ye Fan gratefully. Unexpectedly, he just held the incense and turned it around twice, and there was no problem!

It was just that the three sticks of incense went out after a short while after they were inserted, and the incense went out very suddenly, as if it had been dropped directly into the water!

"What's going on? Why did my grandpa's incense suddenly go out?" Zhang Li asked in shock.