Wei Lai spent the night in the firewood room.

He wasn't too picky about these things, and it was summer, and although it was raining, it was enough to keep warm with some thatch, and the only thing that Wei Lai was not satisfied with was the musty smell lingering in the firewood room.

But after a busy day of work today, from moving in the early morning to taking care of the old house, and then going back and forth to the Dragon King Temple, Wei Lai, who was lying on the grass, was quickly hit by tiredness, and closed his eyes in a drowsy blink of an eye.

This night, Wei Lai slept surprisingly peacefully, without the slightest difficulty in tossing and turning in an embarrassing situation, and the musty smell that lingered on the tip of his nose was also forgotten in the dream.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already early morning on the second day, Wei Lai rubbed his eyes and sat up.

It was still raining outside the house, Wei Lai walked out of the firewood room and bent up, thinking about going to see if the old man woke up yesterday, but after knocking on the door for a long time, there was no one in the house to answer. Wei Lai frowned, and simply pushed open the door, only to see that the futon was neatly folded, but the old man was nowhere to be seen.

"This is leaving?" Wei Lai secretly thought, he didn't think much about the old man's farewell, it was just a little strange. However, he looked at the futon, and Wei Lai's disgust for the old man in his heart was a little lesser, at least the other party still knew how to repay it.

His mood was a little better, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

But the smile froze in the next moment—when he walked out of the firewood room, he vaguely remembered that the old man's soaked and dirty clothes were still thrown on the ground, and it was obvious that the other party could not leave shirtless on such a rainy day, so what could he wear?

Wei Lai walked into the room quickly, his eyes locked on the wooden box in the corner that contained most of his belongings. The door was opened, and the contents were scattered, apparently rummaged through.

......

A quarter of an hour later.

Wei Lai sat on the ground in frustration and sighed deeply.

He double-checked, and lost a garment and a dozen brass plates, but the rest were mostly intact, although in fact things such as candlesticks and bronze mirrors did not seem to attract the attention of a thief.

Fortunately, the black python and the hundred taels of silver tickets Wei Lai have always carried with him, otherwise it is estimated that he will not be spared this "catastrophe".

The loss is not huge, but the situation of good intentions and no retribution makes Wei Lai a little angry.

The idea of reporting to the official flashed in Wei Lai's mind, and in a blink of an eye, he shook his head and denied it.

After all, he swore yesterday that he waved his fists, clamoring to avenge Lu Guanshan and collect his body. It's like an adult child who leaves his parents, saying that he wants to set up another door and get ahead, and in the blink of an eye, he leads the wolf into the house and runs back to complain to the adult. Even if Wei Lai is not a person with a good face, but when he thinks of the eyes of Lu Guanshan, who was sitting in the position of the magistrate, looking at him at that time, Wei Lai's cheeks are a little hot.

He couldn't afford to lose this person, but he couldn't swallow it after all.

Wei Lai frowned, paced to the firewood room, and squatted beside the piece of clothing that had been thrown on the ground like a rag, thinking about whether he could find some clues about the other party in the old man's clothes.

But soon his brow wrinkled deeper - maybe because of yesterday's sleepiness, he didn't look at this clothes carefully, today he simply mentioned that the musty smell from the clothes made Wei Lai nauseous, and he reacted to it, it turned out that the culprit of the musty smell in the firewood room yesterday was this clothes.

He glanced at it in disgust, twisted the shirt with his fingertips, and was about to throw the foul-smelling piece of cloth far away, and at that moment, something fell off the shirt and landed on Wei Lai's toes impartially.

Wei Lai subconsciously looked down, in line with the principle of not missing any possible clues, and carefully looked at the thing - it seemed to be the branches and leaves of some kind of vegetation, like the weeds that crossed the knees on the side of the road, but it was a little different, Wei Lai simply lifted this thing and put it in front of him.

Green, narrow, soft, and wet, this is probably all the characteristics of this branch and leaf, Wei Lai was stunned for a while, and quickly reacted, this thing he had seen before, it was the water snake grass growing in the Wupan River.

The taste is a little bitter, but it can be satisfying, it has been recorded in the county annals of Wupan City, in the days of famine, many people in Wupan City who have cut off food will rely on salvaging this thing at the bottom of the river to make a living, because the deeper the water, the more lush and thick this thing will grow, and there have been many lives because of the salvage of water snake grass. Looking at the length of this water snake grass, it must be at least three or four feet deep in water to grow.

"Alas, it seems that this old man is indeed in a difficult situation. "Although this year is not a prosperous time, it is far from the point where you need to feed on this water snake grass, and the old man has such a thing on his body, which largely shows that the other party's current situation will not be too unsatisfactory.

Wei Lai thought of this, and most of the resentment in his heart that wanted to find the old man to vent was also dissipated.

His father once said that the world is like a sea of suffering, and it is endless and difficult to cross. But how can there be an endless sea, but there are too many people crossing the sea, and the first to sink always likes to pull the corners of the floating people's clothes, the higher the float, the more people pull you below, and in the end everyone can only sink deeper and deeper together, and no one reaches the shore.

Wei Lai didn't want to pull the corners of other people's clothes, even if others had pulled the corners of his clothes. He stood up and looked out of the house, the rain was dripping and dripping, Wei Lai thought about it, and felt that there was nothing else to do, so he took the umbrella and went out of the courtyard gate and went to the Dragon King Temple. Although it was raining heavily, the view during the day was clear, and it was easier than rushing at night.

There were still some pilgrims in the Dragon King Temple during the day, but fortunately, Wei Lai came early, and he was not in a hurry, and those pilgrims did not have any suspicions about a fool except for Wei Lai's frequent visitors, except for their contempt or sympathy for Wei Lai. Wei Lai could naturally stay in the Dragon King Temple until everyone left, and then he finished what he had to do slowly.

But when he put his purse in his arms and came to the gate of the temple, Wei came to see the sky, and the rain was still so heavy that it was almost impossible to see. The little luck in Wei Lai's heart dissipated at this time, he sighed, held up his umbrella, and stepped into the rain curtain with one foot.

The scene in front of me suddenly became clear—the rain had subsided, and everything around was no longer submerged in the rain curtain.

Wei Lai blinked, and the foot he took back was retracted.

Bang la blah.

The rain curtain opened again in front of his eyes, obscuring his vision.

This situation made Wei Lai stunned, and he stepped out with a strange expression, and the heavy rain fell down again in an instant.

Wei Lai was interested, and his feet in straw sandals quickly stretched out, retracted, and stretched out under the eaves of the Dragon King Temple at that time. The heavy rain in front of the Dragon King Temple was collected and fell, as if someone was holding the floodgates in the sky, deliberately following Wei Lai's steps.

Rumble!

Wei Lai was having fun, but suddenly there was a thunderclap on the dome.

As soon as he stepped forward, a bigger rainstorm poured down at this time, and even when he stood under the eaves, the splash made Wei Lai, who was caught off guard, drenched half of his body. Fortunately, the purse was kept close to him and did not suffer.

Wei Lai shrunk his neck and retreated to the eaves for a few minutes, until the sudden heavy rain gradually changed back to its normal size, and he stepped forward to the door with palpitations, and for some reason a strange thought rose in his heart at that time, as if everything that had just happened was a warning to him from some big man in the dark.

Grunt.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva and carefully stretched out his foot again, just as the rain began to light up again.

This further confirmed Wei Lai's conjecture, he retracted his feet, turned around to look around, but there was no trace of anyone, he thought for a while, and didn't care about anything else, then bowed to the rain curtain in place, and said in his mouth: "The kid is reckless, the seniors are not strange." ”

There was still no response to these words, but Wei Lai felt a lot more at ease, so he stepped forward again, held up his umbrella and walked into the small rain curtain.

......

Surprisingly consistent with yesterday, when Wei Lai's feet stepped under the eaves of the old house, the light rain poured down again, and the pedestrians on the street who went out while the rain was at a loss by the change of the sky, and many people were drenched in soup and embarrassed.

With the previous lesson, Wei Lai no longer delved into it, put away the umbrella, and pushed open the door of his courtyard.

"Well, I said, what's wrong with the world now?"

"You just threw me an old man at home, and this family is so poor that I can't find any food!"

"What? Doing so, you plan to starve to death and hold the strange old man, and you can't kill yourself for money?"

But Wei Lai, who was still immersed in his own thoughts, never imagined that after pushing the door, he would be greeted by a ravine-ravine and angry face, of course, he didn't expect that the owner of this face would have the courage to scold him with a burst of anger.

He froze in place, blinking his eyes as if he had been scolded stupidly by the old man.

Probably because the old man was so righteous and righteous, that his first reaction when he came back to his senses was: "You...... Haven't you left yet?"

The old man in Wei Lai's gray robe glared at Wei Lai fiercely and said, "Go, where are you going? With such a heavy rain, can the old man come back after his bones go out?"

The three questions that hit the soul finally made Wei Lai completely wake up.

He felt it necessary for him to make sure the old man figured out what was going on between them.

Wei Lai's eyes sank, and he stepped into the house, and with a bang, the courtyard door closed.

The old man named Liu Jiejie also seemed to see the murderous aura on Wei Lai's body, and his body subconsciously took a step back, wrapped his hands tightly in front of his chest and wrapped the shirt that did not belong to him, and his purple lips trembled: "You... What are you going to do, old man, I promised my wife who has been dead for sixty years that I won't do anything to be sorry for her..."

Wei Lai had a dark face, too lazy to pay attention to the old man's nonsense, whether it was from the situation or logic, and asked in a calm voice, "Where did you get this dress?"

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and responded truthfully: "I took it in the box." ”

"And what about the dozen or so copper plates in my box?"

"I took it too. ”

Wei Lai shouted, "Then you dare to come back?"

Liu Jiejie looked at Wei Lai with a puzzled expression, and responded as a matter of course: "I took it, and I didn't steal it, what are you afraid of?"

Wei Lai looked at the old man in front of him dumbfounded, and the other party's upright posture made Wei Lai even wonder if there was something wrong with his worldview for a while. Most of the momentum he held up was removed at this time, after all, you have to explain this kind of thing to the reasonable person to be useful, and it is obvious that this Liu Jiejie is not such a person.

Wei Lai put away his thoughts about the theory, and asked, "You also wore the clothes, and you took the money, so what are you doing now?" Wei Lai asked, but he secretly made up his mind in his heart, no matter what the old man said this time, he would definitely not take the other party in.

"There's nowhere to go, so I'll have to come back. The old man sighed and said helplessly.

Wei Lai was angry and funny, and asked with a straight face, "What does this have to do with me?"

This seemed to poke the old man's sore spot, and he rolled up his sleeves at that time, blew his beard and glared, and said, "Why does it have nothing to do with you?"

"Look, you were the one who took me in yesterday, right?"

Wei Lai didn't doubt him, so he nodded: "Hmm"

"Today I went to look for my relatives, and I was told that they had gone out last night and would not be able to return for a while. ”

"If you hadn't had to keep me yesterday, I would have gone looking for them, wouldn't I have found them?"

"It's okay now, just because of you, my relatives don't have to take refuge, I'm a lonely old man, if you don't take responsibility for me, then I'll ...... Just ......"

Liu Jiejie said, and looked around with a sad face, knowing that he had caught a glimpse of a pillar next to the house, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he shouted: "I will crash to death on this pillar!"

With that, Liu Jiejie put on a posture, and was about to hit the doorpost......