Chapter IX: Reconstruction
A golden light in the sky continued to penetrate the clouds, and the dark clouds overhead were gradually washed away.
Originally, Xie Liang thought that it was going to rain in this weather, but he didn't expect that as soon as Zhou Laoer's words fell, the sky began to clear, the warm sunlight sprinkled on his body, and the surrounding temperature also increased a lot.
I saw Zhou Lao Er walk in front of the stone tablet and knock on the stone tablet like knocking on the door: "Fellow villager, come out to work!"
As soon as Zhou Lao Er finished speaking, under Xie Liang's surprise, the names engraved on the stele suddenly bloomed with golden light, I don't know if it was the swaying of the sun, or the astigmatism of the name, the whole stele seemed to be plated with a layer of gold, becoming beautiful.
At the same time, hundreds of small mounds of earth behind the stele shook suddenly, and the surrounding ruins began to float little by little, like a puzzle, the broken pillars and broken walls were spliced together with rubble and rotten wood, and all the ruins were recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"It turns out that this is the Peach Blossom Spring. A small stream of rubble floated by, and everything in front of him made Xie Liang feel very magical, like being in a fantasy movie.
"Not yet. Zhou Lao Er shook his head, his eyes kept staring at the stone tablet and the mound, "How can a place where there is no one be called a peach blossom spring." ”
One house after another was restored, and the names on the stele became more and more dazzling, Xie Liang followed Zhou Laoer's gaze, and phantoms suddenly appeared on the stele, old and young, each smiling happily.
The phantom nodded at Zhou Laoer, and then floated into the mound, Xie Liang only heard a "......click", the smooth small mound immediately cracked, an arm stretched out from it, and the broken earth and stones fell to both sides, Xie Liang watched a person slowly crawl out of the mound.
This scene couldn't help but remind Xie Liang of the Plants vs. Zombies he played when he was a child......
"Little brother, I'll come to my house later, my uncle is most familiar with Wangxiang, I'll take you to some interesting places!" A man who crawled out of the mound smiled innocently, and he patted Xie Liang on the shoulder and walked towards the village.
"I really crawled out......" Xie Liang thought as he looked at the pat on the shoulder.
Hundreds of mounds of earth have been crawling out one after another, and houses that have been reduced to ruins have been reduced to rows of houses.
In the streets, there are men walking towards the fields with hoes, old people chatting about family and chess under the lush mulberry trees, children playing, and women handling dishes for dinner.
"Let's go, there's not many times like this. Zhou Lao Er said to Xie Liang, his eyes looked at everything in the village, he looked very seriously, as if he wanted to remember every tree, every person, and every wall in the village.
Xie Liang followed Zhou Laoer, and the people around him would say hello to them, and after walking for a while, Xie Liang suddenly remembered something: "Old man, have you seen an old man? It was an old man who came in front of me, we knew him, and I couldn't find him just now." ”
"You mean the old man with a knife and looks like a fisherman. ”
Zhou Laoer's face was calm, Xie Liang's words did not attract his attention, he still looked at everything around him.
"And where is he now?"
As soon as Xie Liang's words fell, Zhou Lao Er turned his head and looked at Xie Liang indifferently: "We hate fishermen very much, especially some fishermen who come to Peach Blossom Land with a purpose!"
"You're not going to kill Master Dou, are you?" Xie Liang's eyes widened, in his opinion, Zhou Lao Er should not be such a person, right.
But then again, Peach Blossom Land was exposed because of the fisherman who came in at the beginning, and it just so happened that Liu Dou was dressed as a fisherman again, and he also had a knife on him, which really looked like a person with bad intentions to the people of Peach Blossom Spring.
"No, the old man is interesting, not a bad person. From the moment Liu Dou came in, Zhou Lao Er noticed it, but before Liu Dou could explore the Peach Blossom Spring, Zhou Lao Er trapped him in a fantasy world, making him mistakenly think that he had found the Peach Blossom Spring.
"Can I go and meet him? Master Dou is here because of the notice posted by the Taishou Mansion and the reward. "Pitted Liu Dou's pot, and fooled him into the crack first, if Liu Dou was not taken out, Xie Liang really couldn't get over it.
"Then do you know why he announced the money for the bounty?" Zhou Lao Er didn't answer Xie Liang, he asked about the bounty instead.
Bounty?
Xie Liang really didn't think about what Dou Ye needed a bounty for, wasn't it just because he wanted a bounty? But then again, with Dou Ye's personality, he didn't look like the kind of person who put himself in danger for money.
Shaking his head, Xie Liang still didn't understand what Master Dou wanted the bounty for: "I don't know." ”
"Okay, since you don't know, then I won't talk about it. When Xie Liang was expecting Zhou Lao Er to answer his question, Zhou Lao Er threw down a sentence and walked towards the house in front of him, leaving him alone in the wind.
Don't talk about the second child this week, Xie Liang can't help him, right, who made him the eldest brother in the Peach Blossom Garden, Xie Liang can only follow in a sneering manner.
When he arrived at the place, Xie Liang saw Liu Dou talking to the air happily, eating the air while holding a pair of chopsticks, but fortunately, Zhou Lao Er didn't let Liu Dou stay in the illusion for a long time, and after the man who let Xie Liang go to his house came, Zhou Lao Er lifted Liu Dou's illusion.
The man pulled Xie Liang to sit down, just like the description in "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", the aborigines in the Peach Blossom Land were very hospitable: "You guys sit here, I'll go get a few more appetizers, I just caught a few wild games today, you have a good mouth!"
"Okay, good, young man, don't do so much, it's embarrassing to eat and drink for nothing!" Seeing the man leave, Liu Dou was happy when he saw Xie Liang: "Little brother Xie Liang, why did it take so long for you to come in, I have eaten here several times!"
"Eh, Master Dou, I was delayed a little on the way," Xie Liang scratched his head embarrassedly, and introduced Zhou Lao Er to Liu Dou: "Then I met this old man and chatted a few words, and thanks to this old man, I was able to find you." ”
Looking at Xie Liang's hand, Liu Dou noticed Zhou Lao Er sitting on the side: "Who is this old brother?"
"I am the village chief of this village, and my surname is Zhou Mingjin. Hearing Zhou Laoer's real name, Xie Liang was a little surprised, which was actually expected by him, after all, it was not the village chief who could make many villagers listen to him.
I saw Zhou Jin stand up from the bench, he finished introducing his name, and then looked at Xie Liang and Liu Dou respectively, his eyes were sharp like eagles catching prey: "I want to ask you two a question, can you two promise that after you go out, you two will not explain the situation here to others?"
Don't worry, I'm a model of tight-lipped talking. Xie Liang said it directly without thinking about it.
Wait for this level to pass, you can go home, where is the peach blossom source in modern times, and there are a lot of things in the toy store, how can you have time to tell your friends about the ethereal things like the peach blossom source.
Liu Dou hesitated when he heard this, he needed the money, but he didn't want to lie: "I'm sorry, man, I can't do it, I have a reason to say it, although I understand that I am very unkind to do this, but I really need ......"
"Bang!"
Before Liu Dou finished speaking, a person suddenly appeared behind him and knocked him unconscious, and Zhou Jin's momentum on the side suddenly exploded, and he became almost the same as the angry appearance before.
A little bit of blood bloomed on the cloth, his eyes quickly turned red, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, the light in the house was directly distorted, and Xie Liang felt a little coolness inexplicably.
"Who are you?" Zhou Jin frowned and stared at the person who walked behind Liu Dou, this person was dressed strangely, and he also felt the aura of danger from that person.
"Tuzhi!" Xie Liang exclaimed, he recognized it at once, "Are you here to pick me up?"
Zhou Jin's fierce aura stagnated, and he turned his eyes to look at Xie Liang: "You know?"
"The loyal defender of the Peach Blossom Spring, during the war in the Qin Dynasty, the people in Hewang Village were slaughtered, and this place was later called the Peach Blossom Spring, I still know more, but I am not here to find you now. Tu Zhi lifted the back of Xie Liang's neck in the air, and drew a crack in the void, but he didn't even take Zhou Jin in his eyes.
"Mr. Tu Zhi, are we going back now?" Xie Liang let himself follow Tu Zhipiao, and he couldn't break free anyway: "Why did you suddenly come to pick me up? Also, did I complete the task?"
"Don't talk so much, this time you passed, now follow me back to the castle, there are some things you need to deal with. "Tuzhi's face doesn't look good, it seems that something unpleasant has happened in the castle.
Soon, Tu Zhi's figure disappeared into the void crack, and when Xie Liang's body was halfway in, he waved his hand at Zhou Jin: "See you later! ”
"See you later!" The house was restored to its original state, Zhou Jin watched the cracks in front of him heal little by little, and he was now wondering whether he should erase the memory of Liu Dou's Peach Blossom Spring.
............
In the Void Rift.
Tu Zhi floated forward, he was looking at an ancient book with black pattern packaging, Xie Liang was floating behind with his back to Tu Zhi, in fact, Xie Liang still didn't understand this trip to Peach Blossom Spring.
The messy furniture is because the village was slaughtered by the army, the blood stains in the house are the first death scene of the villagers, and the whole village, including Zhou Jin, is also dead, and the house is probably destroyed by fire when the villagers were slaughtered.
But Xie Liang didn't understand what made Zhou Jin approve of it, how did Zhou Jin become like that? And that weird crack channel, what were those things beckoning to him?
"Mr. Tuzhi, why do you want to go back to the castle after I pass the Peach Blossom Spring, shouldn't you let me go home? I still have a lot of things to do. There was silence in the void crack, and Tu Zhi didn't speak, Xie Liang always felt that there was nothing good about returning to the ancient castle this time.
I saw Tu Zhi put away the book, he pulled Xie Liang to his side, and showed a standard smile, this kind of smile Xie Liang seems to have seen somewhere, yes! It is the smile on the face of the person who tries to sell the product.
Laughing so much that Xie Liang was uncomfortable, he really couldn't bear it: "Mr. Tuzhi, can we stop laughing like this?" You laugh a bit like the fake medicine seller on East Street, just say anything straight, I will help if I can." ”
"Yes, human, from now on you have to take everything I say to heart. He immediately changed his face and spoke to Xie Liang: "When you get to the castle, you will see a boy in an ice blue tuxedo, if he asks you if you are the heir of the castle, you can say yes, remember that you must say yes! When it gets done, I'll give you an unexpected reward. ”