The sun near noon is the hottest of the day.

The halo of light poured down from the sky, covered more than half by the luxuriant branches and leaves, leaving only a few warm colors falling in the mountain forest.

Taking advantage of the warm sunlight, they saw a young man in red Miaojiang costume on a locust tree diagonally ahead.

The young man wore a shiny silver ring around his neck. The delicate totems on the silver ring and the complicated and beautiful prints on the clothing combined into a very mysterious ethnic style.

His black half-length hair was loose, and the hair on both sides near the cheeks was braided back with silver chains. The pendant on his forehead and the pendant on his earlobe were inlaid with a small ruby.

This is undoubtedly a very flamboyant and gorgeous attire, but such an eye-catching attire did not take away the splendor of the young man himself, but magnified his visual impact.

There is no other reason, this young man's face is really too delicate.

Her lips are red, her nose is straight, her skin is white and glowing, and her straight eyebrows are like the most beautiful painting in Qingdai's distant mountains.

Especially a pair of slightly raised peach blossom eyes, and a delicate red tear mole under the eyes, exuding an inexplicable charm and coquettishness invisible.

Wang Siyuan's pupils contracted suddenly, and he stared blankly at the young man from Miaojiang on the tree. When he met the young man's eyes that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, Wang Siyuan felt as if something hit him hard in his mind. For a moment, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

After a long time, Wang Siyuan finally found his voice.

"Yu... Brother Yu, there shouldn't be any mountain goblins in this place..." After all, after the founding of the country, they are not allowed to become spirits.

The younger brother of the twins, Wang Xingze, also blinked blankly, confirming that the extremely impactful scene he saw was not a hallucination.

As for Lu Huaiyu, who was standing on the right side of Wang Xingze, his eyes focused on the young man on the tree. In addition to surprise, there was also shock in his pupils.

Lu Huaiyu did not expect that after three years, he would meet his former classmate Xie Jinling under such circumstances.

Yes, Xie Jinling.

Although three years ago, Lu Huaiyu had almost no intersection with this transfer student from Miaojiang. The only brief conversation was on the day when the other party followed Jian Yi to the office to report.

But at this moment, he still recognized the young man on the tree at a glance. It was the Miaojiang boy who was called the eternal white-moonlight/muse by Cheng Lin's juniors in school.

Back then, he spent very little time in school because of his studies.

Under such circumstances, it was even rarer for him to meet Xie Jinling.

However, although he has not met Xie Jinling a few times, because Xie Jinling is so famous in Cheng Lin, it is always the favorite topic among students, so even though he has almost no contact with Xie Jinling, he still knows There are many things related to Xie Jinling.

Lu Huaiyu still remembers to this day, at that time, about Xie Jinling's real face under the paint, once and whether the principal wore a wig, and whether the library was haunted, these two things were called the three major unsolved mysteries of Cheng Lin .

When Xie Jinling didn't show her true face, it was already the hottest topic in Cheng Lin. Things related to him have always been at the top of the discussion list on campus forums.

Later, after Xie Jinling performed a pas de deux with Lin Ye on the school celebration program, she directly became a god in the hearts of Cheng Lin students.

On the day of Cheng Lin's centennial celebration, he just went to participate in a provincial knowledge competition, and did not watch the performance on the spot.

Because of this, he did not see Xie Jinling's true face painted by Xie Jinling.

After the school celebration, although Lu Huaiyu heard from many students and teachers that Xie Jinling's appearance was amazing and beautiful, in fact, he had never seen it himself.

He didn't even search the campus forums for photos or videos uploaded by other people.

For Lu Huaiyu, although he was a little curious about what Xie Jinling looked like, it was not enough for him to search for it.

So in fact, his impression of Xie Jinling still stays in high school, the first time he met with the painting on his face.

However, although he had never seen Xie Jinling's true face, at this moment, when Lu Huaiyu saw the young man on the tree, he did not hesitate to match the young man with Xie Jinling.

Lu Huaiyu originally thought that Cheng Lin's topic about Xie Jinling's appearance was exaggerated.

Looking at it now, he finally understood why Xie Jinling's popularity soared so high after the school celebration program, and why she became the most unforgettable and insurmountable existence in the hearts of those students back then.

Whether it is a girl or a boy, they all like him so much and regard him as the brightest and most vivid memory in their youth.

Three years ago, Lu Huaiyu's impression of Xie Jinling was that Xie Jinling was a young man with many variables and difficult to control.

But now, looking at Xie Jinling sitting on the tree, Lu Huaiyu silently added a prefix in his heart...

——The appearance is extremely beautiful.

Apart from this description, Lu Huaiyu couldn't find a closer generalization than this for the time being.

After more than three years, now that he saw Xie Jinling again in this way, Lu Huaiyu actually had a very strange feeling in his heart.

Even... For a moment, he actually had a feeling that this could be considered fate.

Thinking of this, Lu Huaiyu raised his lips slightly, showing a gentle smile, "Xie Jinling, are you the one who picked us up?" His voice was gentle and low, and Xie Jinling's black pupils stared at Xie Jinling like a deep spring in the mountains .

Xie Jinling's eyelids drooped slightly, and the halo of light was mottled from the gaps in the leaves, and soft light and silhouettes fell on his black hair. He replied with a half-smile: "It's obvious, isn't it?"

Although he hasn't seen him for more than three years, Lu Huaiyu, who is the protagonist of the original book, still gives him the feeling that he is hot on the outside and cold on the inside, extremely hypocritical.

Maybe it's not right to say that, because Lu Huaiyu's smile now is at least much more natural than that of three years ago.

It seems to be able to cover up the truest emotions in the heart with perfect proficiency.

Listening to the conversation between Lu Huaiyu and this young man from Miaojiang, Wang Siyuan recovered from his daze, subconsciously stood up from the suitcase, he looked first at the boy sitting on the tree, then at Lu Huaiyu next to him, and then He looked at this beautiful young man from Miaojiang again.

Xie Jinling?

Wang Siyuan reacted for a few seconds, then opened his mouth slightly, and said with some stumbling: "Yu...Brother Yu, do you...know each other?"

Lu Huaiyu nodded slightly: "We are high school classmates."

...high school classmates...

Wang Siyuan blinked, his eyes overflowed with undisguised amazement, his eyes stayed on Xie Jinling's body, he looked at it, accompanied by the frequency of his heartbeat, he still couldn't hold it back, he was a little dazed, and his tone was very serious Asked: "Then you, a high school classmate, can... play Gu?"

Lu Huaiyu: "..."

Seeing that Lu Huaiyu didn't speak, Wang Siyuan couldn't help touching his beating heart, and said exaggeratedly: "Otherwise, why would I have a feeling of being bewitched?!"

Especially when he saw the smiling eyes of this Miaojiang boy, the feeling of his heart missing was really hard for him to ignore.

"Didn't everyone say that people in Miao Jiang are good at deceiving people!" At this moment, Wang Siyuan seriously suspected that he had been tricked.

He was bewitched by the eyes of this Miaojiang boy.

Lu Huaiyu: "...Please believe in science."

Wang Xingze, who was standing on the other side, also nodded in agreement.

He looked at his twin brother who always thinks unconstrained and unconstrained, and said solemnly: "Wang Siyuan, please believe in science."

The reason why they had a feeling of rapid heartbeat was entirely because of the exotic attire of this Miaojiang youth and the atmosphere created by the position difference between the two of them.

But although Wang Xingze thought so in his mind, his mood was not much better than Wang Siyuan's.

As twin brothers, there is a certain amount of telepathy between him and Wang Siyuan.

This kind of telepathy will form a special commonality when their mutual emotions reach a relatively strong state, as if they can feel each other's thoughts and feelings.

Seeing Wang Xingze's duplicity, Wang Siyuan gave him a big Byakugan.

He just didn't like Wang Xingze's way of pretending to be calm even though he clearly felt the same as him in his heart.

Not at all frank.

Prudish.

Wang Siyuan muttered in a low voice, and was about to have a good talk with his twin brother, when he heard the Miaojiang youth on the tree also imitate what Lu Huaiyu and Wang Xingze said, and said it to each other——

"Well... Please believe in science." His voice was light and loose, and there was a kind of temptation in his tone with a little smile.

When the person said this, Wang Siyuan's ears turned slightly red. When he met the light-colored eyes of the other party, he scratched the hair on the back of his head in embarrassment, and became shy: "Yes, believe in science. .”

He echoed Xie Jinling's words.

Seeing him like this, Xie Jinling smiled more clearly. The twins are quite interesting, at least they are more pleasing to his eyes than Lu Huaiyu.

Seeing Xie Jinling smile, Wang Siyuan laughed too. He walked forward a few steps, stood under the old locust tree, raised his head and looked at Xie Jinling on the tree: "You sit so high, how do you get down?"

Xie Jinling said in an unhurried manner: "However you go up, you will come down naturally."

After Xie Jinling's voice fell, Lu Huaiyu also walked under the tree.

His dark and deep eyes were focused on Xie Jinling, and there was a calm and light warm color between his handsome brows: "Do you need my help?" He asked Xie Jinling gently and politely.

Xie Jinling wanted to laugh a little.

In fact, he laughed outright.

He raised his eyebrows, and asked with interest: "What can you help?" It's impossible to just raise his hands to catch him, right?

At a height of more than three meters, it may cause Lu Huaiyu to fall due to gravity and cause fractures, and thus go directly to the hospital.

Lu Huaiyu paused slightly.

Obviously, it was Xie Jinling's rhetorical question that made him instantly realize that his thoughts just now were really outrageous. He also didn't expect that this kind of unrealistic thoughts would appear in his body one day.

It seems that it was really because of the moment when Xie Jinling suddenly bumped into him just now, the impact he received from the other party was so strong that he subconsciously had that kind of thought that seemed to be based on instinct without careful thinking in the brain.

Thinking of this, Lu Huaiyu withdrew his gaze, shook his head slightly and smiled, and took the initiative to take a few steps back, leaving enough space for Xie Jinling.

Wang Siyuan looked at Lu Huaiyu, his lips moved slightly: "Brother Yu, you... ah, snake!!!" Wang Siyuan screamed suddenly.

Seeing the red snake that fell out of the tree suddenly, Wang Siyuan's pupils trembled, and he was caught off guard by jumping backwards, and he retreated nearly one meter away.

Lu Huaiyu was also shocked, but after he understood the shape of the red snake's head, his expression calmed down. He turned his head and said to Wang Siyuan who was a little scared by the snake, "Don't be afraid, this is a hognose snake."

Er Goudan, a species of hog-nosed snake, was proudly hooking his tail on a tree branch at the moment, his head and body were swinging downwards, making a hissing sound while spitting out snake letters.

Wang Siyuan took a deep breath, looked at the pig-nosed snake who seemed to be happy because of a successful prank, and thought that he was scared by this stupid snake just now, he endured it, and finally couldn't hold it back, and burst into a foul language: "This pig-nosed snake The snake is absolutely perfect!"

He remembered that this kind of notoriously naive snake, the only skill he knew was to play dead! Why, this guy has learned to be scary? !

Wang Siyuan was speechless.

Wang Xingze suppressed a smile and said, "Is there a possibility that it simply doesn't like you."

Wang Siyuan was very dissatisfied, and began to argue with Wang Xingze.

At this moment, Xie Jinling, who was sitting on the old locust tree, took out a bamboo flute from her waist and began to play it slowly.

Hearing the sound of Xie Jinling's flute, the twin brothers, who were habitually bickering, also stopped fighting each other and turned their eyes to Xie Jinling.

The sound of this flute is very pleasant.

But why do they feel that this is not a conventional melody, but more like a summoning?

And apparently it wasn't just the twin brothers who felt that way.

Lu Huaiyu looked at Xie Jinling who was playing the flute, his dark eyes narrowed slightly: "You are..."

As soon as he opened his mouth, a majestic wolf howl suddenly sounded in the air.

The voice was bright and penetrating, exuding a sense of inviolable oppression.

Wang Siyuan and Wang Xingze looked at each other, Wang Siyuan looked shocked, he turned his gaze to Xie Jinling stiffly, swallowed and said, "No way! You are summoning wolves?!"

Xie Jinling took back the bamboo flute, tilted her head slightly: "Summon?"

Xie Jinling felt that this word was not used correctly, because he was just using the sound of the flute to signal the big dog to come over here.

Lu Huaiyu stared at Xie Jinling for a few seconds, but he didn't know what he thought of, so he chuckled.

He originally only planned to stay here for a week or so at most, but now it seems that he may be able to stay longer.

With Xie Jinling here, this trip to Miaojiang will definitely be very interesting.

Just as Lu Huaiyu was thinking, there was a rustling sound in the grass on the right.

Immediately afterwards, a gray wolf twice the size of an ordinary wild wolf leaped towards them, appearing majestically in their line of sight.

Wang Siyuan whistled: "Cool!"

Wang Xingze also nodded in agreement, and echoed: "It's really cool!"

The big dog glanced at Lu Huaiyu and the twin brothers, and then quickly came to the old locust tree where Xie Jinling was staying.

Xie Jinling nodded slightly at Big Goudan.

So Big Goudan moved his front feet and leaned his body a little bit closer to the tree trunk.

Lu Huaiyu looked thoughtfully at the interaction between Xie Jinling and the gray wolf, and a hint of interest and thought appeared in the depths of his eyes.

next second.

Xie Jinling leaned on the trunk and descended the tree nimbly, finally stepped on the back of Big Goudan, and landed steadily on the ground with strength.

And the whole process took only five seconds.

Lu Huaiyu's pupils couldn't help shrinking slightly.

Although he had already guessed that Xie Jinling might use the strength of this gray wolf to descend the tree, and he could feel that Xie Jinling's figure should be very flexible, but actually seeing it, he was somewhat surprised.

However, after the initial surprise, Lu Huaiyu quickly adjusted his mood, and the brows returned to the usual calm and restrained.

Compared with Lu Huaiyu's expression management, the twin brothers are far behind.

Or to be more precise, they are not used to hiding their true emotions like Lu Huaiyu.

Wang Siyuan's eyes lit up, and he wanted to stride forward to talk to Xie Jinling, but in the end, due to the presence of Gray Wolf, he had to stop two meters away from Xie Jinling: "You are too dexterous!"

The sense of agility just now cannot be cultivated in ten years.

It is even more powerful than that kind of parkour master!

Xie Jinling looked at him, thought for a while, and said, "If you lived here since childhood, you can do it too."

Wang Siyuan immediately waved his hand: "Forget it, there must be a prerequisite, and that must be to climb trees often."

Lu Huaiyu looked at Xie Jinling, and asked curiously, "You raised this wolf and this snake?"

Xie Jinling nodded.

Wang Xingze also asked: "Then besides raising them, do you also raise Gu worms?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Siyuan immediately added tacitly: "It's the kind of Gu insect that can be used to lay Gu!" His tone gradually became excited.

When Wang Siyuan was at Mingsu yesterday, he deliberately searched a lot of things about Miao Jiang on the Internet. The more he read, the more mysterious he became, and the more he read, the more curious he became.

Lu Huaiyu didn't speak, but just stared at Xie Jinling with black pupils, obviously curious about how Xie Jinling would answer.

Before Lu Huaiyu came here, he had heard that in Qian Jiang Wushangling Village, where there are many seedlings, there are Miao family members who can play Gu.

However, most of the people who can play Gu are women, and almost all of them are very old. They are the kind of grandmothers who are at least ten years old, and belong to the branch of ghost grass women.

This kind of ghost grass woman who can lay a venom is different from the conventional ghost grass woman who knows poisons and chooses medicine for the villagers. They will not contact outsiders, and they hardly see even the people in the village.

Ordinary people will never encounter that kind of ghost grass woman.

Even if they come to this village, the chance of encountering them is almost zero.

As for the method of making Gu insects by the ghost grass woman, it is said that she is very particular about the method.

It is necessary to put the seven most poisonous poisonous insects in an airtight urn, and then bury the urn containing the poisonous insects deeply under the pine tree. After seven to forty-nine days, let the seven poisonous insects inside kill each other, and finally The poison king who survived is called Gu worm.

And Gu worms need to be fed by Gu people with blood essence.

But in fact, from Lu Huaiyu's point of view, these were not so much poisoning as poisoning.

In the final analysis, it is just the result of being exaggerated and demonized.

However, although Lu Huaiyu had a clear view on the issue of Gu in his heart, he still wanted to hear what Xie Jinling would say.

Under the gazes of Lu Huaiyu and the twin brothers, Xie Jinling raised her eyelids, her gaze swept over the faces of the three of them, and finally replied with an unclear meaning: "There are no Gu in this world, only poisonous poison." .”

Strictly speaking, those legends about Gu worms from the outside world are actually half-truths and half-false.

Listening to Xie Jinling's somewhat ambiguous answer, the twins Wang Siyuan and Wang Xingze looked at each other, seeing disbelief in each other's eyes.

So Wang Siyuan pursed his lips slightly, thinking about his words, and wanted to ask something more.

However, before he opened his mouth, Lu Huaiyu said calmly: "It seems that it's getting late, are we going up the mountain now?" He asked about their upcoming itinerary, and naturally exposed the more sensitive topic just now .

Sensing Lu Huaiyu's intentions, Xie Jinling took another look at him. Then he estimated the time and said, "Wait a little longer." Lin Ye hasn't come back yet, but it shouldn't be long.

Xie Jinling looked in the direction of Xialing.

Lu Huaiyu's expression moved slightly, and from Xie Jinling's subtle movements, he guessed something: "Is there anyone else waiting?"

"Wait for my little friend."

"Little buddy?"

"Well," Xie Jinling gave Lu Huaiyu a meaningful look. If he remembered correctly, Lin Ye and Lu Huaiyu were cousins.

Lu Huaiyu raised his eyes slightly, and subconsciously wondered whether Xie Jinling's look had some deep meaning related to him.

At this time, Wang Siyuan, who had been listening to Xie Jinling and Lu Huaiyu's conversation, posted again curiously: "Your little friend? Is it male or female?"

Wang Xingze glanced at him: "Why are you asking this?"

Wang Siyuan opened his mouth and smiled, and said very frankly: "Isn't there a saying that good-looking people must hang out with good-looking people?" This Miaojiang boy is so good-looking, "His little friend must also be a very Beautiful person, it would be even better if this little friend is a little elder sister."

As soon as Wang Siyuan finished speaking, a deep and lazy male voice came from behind him——

"I'm afraid it will disappoint you."

Same sentence, different voices.

Only about ten minutes later, it reached Wang Siyuan's eardrum again.

At this moment, if it wasn't for the fact that the timbre and the direction of the voice didn't match, Wang Siyuan almost thought that the words were said by Brother Yu, a high school classmate named Xie Jinling.

He should take a good look at what Xie Jinling's little friend looks like.

Thinking of this, Wang Siyuan turned around and looked in the direction of the voice.

And when he saw Lin Ye carrying two big bags, his first reaction was that he was so tall, with a perfect head-to-body ratio, a figure he envied. The second reaction is, why does this person's eyebrows and eyes... are somewhat similar to Brother Yu?

Illusion?

In the next second, Wang Siyuan looked at Lu Huaiyu together with his younger brother who had the same thought.

And Lu Huaiyu.

Lu Huaiyu didn't care about the sight of the twins, his eyes fell on Lin Ye, watching Lin Ye approaching step by step, Lu Huaiyu's eyes also showed surprise.

He didn't expect Lin Ye to be here.

His mother and Lin Ye's mother are sisters, but his relationship with Lin Ye is very ordinary.

Lu Huaiyu still remembers that before he came here, he heard complaints about Lin Ye from Lu Junxing, saying that Lin Ye didn't know where he went to a remote mountain and old forest, and he couldn't even contact him.

At that time, he didn't care about it, but now he saw that Lin Ye had come to Qian Jiang Wushangling Village.

Lu Huaiyu thought of Xie Jinling's description of Lin Ye just now.

buddy?

Hearing this address, Lu Huaiyu's ink-like pupils flashed an unknown meaning.

After briefly meeting Lin Ye's eyes, Lu Huaiyu smiled slightly and took the initiative to speak: "I didn't expect to see you here."

Lin Ye raised his eyelids lazily: "I didn't expect you to be among those graduate students."

Wang Siyuan looked back and forth between Lin Ye and Lu Huaiyu's face: "Brother Yu, you know this again?" He made a bold guess: "Could it be your high school classmate too?"

Lu Huaiyu nodded slightly: "You can say that." After he finished speaking, he thought for a while and added: "He is my aunt's son."

When the two twins heard this, they suddenly realized, no wonder just for a moment, they felt that Brother Yu's eyebrows were slightly similar to this person's.

Lin Ye glanced at the twins indifferently, then looked away indifferently, and walked in front of Xie Jinling.

As for the big dog who had been baring his teeth at him since he appeared, he was still directly ignored by Lin Ye.

Xie Jinling looked at the big bag in Lin Ye's hand: "Have you bought everything?"

Lin Ye nodded, "I've bought it." He took out a transparent bag from the top of the bag: "Glutinous rice cake, you asked me to buy it." He opened the bag, "It's still hot, and it tastes just right."

Xie Jinling took out a glutinous rice fruit from the bag, took the first bite, and his eyes lit up instantly, "Did you buy it from Uncle Wang?"

"You can eat this?" Lin Ye was slightly startled. He did buy it from a bun shop that said "Wang" on the plaque. The characters in the middle should be in Miao language. The characters are Chinese characters, Lin Ye can recognize them.

"The taste of their home is quite special. Sometimes if you are lucky, you can even eat that kind of one-cent coin that is not available in the market." Xie Jinling has eaten it several times before.

"Since you say so, then this glutinous rice cake should taste very good." Before Lin Ye bought it, he was a little worried that Xie Jinling would not like it. Now it seems that he bought the right taste by mistake.

"The taste is definitely one of the best in Xialing." Xie Jinling praised without stinginess.

Hearing what Xie Jinling said, Lin Ye also took out a glutinous rice cake from the bag, took a bite and started to eat.

"How about it?"

Xie Jinling's eyes were bright, with a moist luster. This look reminded Lin Ye of Xie Jinling eating sweet and sour pork ribs before.

Lin Ye hooked his lips, nodded and said, "It's delicious."

Lu Huaiyu looked at Lin Ye and Xie Jinling's interaction as if there was no one else present, his expression was always gentle, but there was some indiscernible gloom in the depths of his eyes.

Xie Jinling looked at the glutinous rice cakes left in the bag, then glanced at Lu Huaiyu and the others: "Do you want to eat it?" They originally had their share.

Lu Huaiyu didn't answer whether to eat or not, but asked politely: "Is it okay?"

Before Xie Jinling could speak, Lin Ye snorted lightly.

Lu Huaiyu really took the hypocrisy to the extreme. It would be fine if this courtesy was sincere, but it was cold and cold in his heart.

Among the duplicity people he had seen, Lu Huaiyu was definitely at the top of the list.

The twin brothers at the side sensed the strange atmosphere between Lin Ye and Lu Huaiyu, the two exchanged a look, Wang Siyuan walked forward with a smile, and said to Xie Jinling and Lin Ye: "Then I will not be polite."

He put his hand into the bag and took a glutinous rice cake and put it in his mouth. Then he took two from left to right, and handed one to Wang Xingze and the other to Lu Huaiyu.