It was around the clock that the man finally caught up with Ling'er and them...... The first time Ling'er saw the man, she threw herself directly into his arms, and said with a crying voice: "Elder, you are finally back, Ling'er thinks you can't come back!"

The man smiled, touched Ling'er's head, and said with a smile: "Silly boy, the elder won't come back! Don't cry, otherwise it won't look good." ”

Hearing this, Ling'er let go of the man, reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said with a cry and a smile: "Well, Ling'er doesn't cry!"

The sun rose, and the sunlight shone on Ling'er's face through the fiery red treetops...... At this time, Ling'er looked very likable, and even the man who was standing up was lost for a moment.

Strictly speaking, Ling'er is not very beautiful, she is a middle-aged person, there are often three small hills between her eyebrows, and there is often a smile at the corner of her mouth, she looks a little playful, and she is also very lovable when she is sad.

"That's good!" the man laughed!

"Elder, what the hell is going on? You don't look very good!" Behind Ling'er, the younger brother in the two figures stepped forward, and when he saw that the man's face was a little pale, he asked out loud!

At this time, Ling'er found that the man's complexion was not good, and she was a little flustered, and hurriedly asked the man: "Elder, are you okay? How can this be?

"It's not a big deal, it's over!" He just smiled at last night's incident, and then said to his younger brother: "Xiao Chu, set up two tents, one for Ling'er and one for me." ”

"Why?"

"You're not going?"

"Go, why don't you go?" Xiao Chu hurriedly put all the smiles and happiness on his face, and then turned to his brother and said, "Brother, why don't you take someone to take one of you, and you take Sister Ling'er." ”

"Okay!" Nangong Ying nodded, and then went to call someone among the young people.

At the right time, Nangong Ying and a fifteen or sixteen-year-old female disciple carried the clothes of the man and Ling'er with a wooden stick, and met Xiao Chu, who gave the clothes. Seeing this, Xiao Chu was puzzled: "Brother, Ya'er, what are you doing here?"

"Oh~ The elder said that he and Ling'er's clothes were burned. Nangong Ying rubbed his nose and said.

"Why?"

"Who knows?" Nangong Ying said, and at the same time saw the clothes given by the female disciple who gave the clothes, and said, "This is not Ling'er's clothes." ”

The female disciple replied: "No, the clothes brought by Sister Ling'er were broken when she killed the wild bear a few days ago, and I haven't had time to make up for it, so I will use mine, the small one is a little smaller, but it can also be worn." ”

......

The sun rises in the east, and the sun is becoming more and more dazzling, but in this late autumn season, it is not hot. Nangong Ying and Ya'er looked at the raging fire in front of them, their faces expressionless, and this fire seemed even more ruthless.

......

......

There is a small valley somewhere in Cangshan, without a name. There is a small village in the valley, where dozens of families live, all surnamed Niu, so this village is called Niujia Village. There is a dilapidated wooden house at the east end of the village, in which lives a lame old blind man, full of yellow teeth, withered yellow beard, hair is very messy, he will not bathe and wash his hair for more than ten years, and there is no one of the most sloppy people in the village.

The old lady died in childbirth, and on the same day, the father went up the mountain to collect medicine and fell off the cliff, and died, so he had no name. So he grew up eating food from the village chief's house, and the villagers called him Orphan Cow. When he was a teenager, he went hunting in the mountains and was caught blind in one eye by a wild cat, and since then the villagers have called him Niu Blind Man, and then when he is old, he has changed to Niu Lao Blind Man!

He was old, blind in one eye, and unable to see clearly in the other, so he began to collect medicine.

Early this morning, the old blind man got up early as usual, greeted the rising sun, and went up the mountain to collect medicine.

But today he was really lucky, it didn't take long to find a lot of precious and rare medicinal materials, and he didn't worry about eating them for the next few months, so he turned around in the mountains with a happy heart.

At noon, he was attracted by a cry and came to a ruined temple of the city god. Then he was even happier because he saw a three-year-old child covered in mud. He picked up the child and watched the child smile at him, not to mention how happy he was, and he didn't care about the mud on the child's body at all.

He thought the child was fine and took it home.

He took a bath for the child, and saw that there was a pendant hanging from the child's chest, made of stone, and there were words on it, so he found the old scholar Niu in the west of the village, and the old scholar said that those two words were pronounced "Zhaoxue", which might be the child's name. So, the old blind man named this child Zhaoxue!

However, when the old scholar Niu saw the child, he asked him angrily: "Old blind man, where did you pick up this child?"

The old blind man looked puzzled, and couldn't understand why the old scholar Niu was angry for no reason, but he still said truthfully: "The mountains are ...... in the temple!"

"What temple?"

"I can't read or write, how can I know what temple, besides, the gate of the temple is rotten, and the plaques are almost gnawed by ants, who can recognize it?"

Unexpectedly, the old scholar Niu ran to the courtyard and lifted a broom and angrily faced him: "Hurry up and throw him away, do you want to kill the whole village when you pick up the child in front of the City God Temple?" Also, do you know who this child is?"

"Who? My grandson, God is really good to me, knowing that the old man I have no children and no daughters, I actually sent such a big fat boy as a grandson, thank God!"

"Fart, you pick up all the things in the City God Temple, I see that your mind is full of straw paper, you don't want to live anymore, I still want to live a few more years, hurry up and get out of here, throw him away!"

"Eh, I said, what are you doing? If you have something to say, don't you read and don't do it? Isn't the City God Temple just the ghost stories told by the old people in the past, what are you afraid of?"

"Fart, this kid is a heavy pupil, and he came out of the City God Temple, he is a disaster star, he will kill the whole village!" Niu old scholar looked like he hated iron and steel, and wanted to beat the old blind man, but he was afraid that this broom would kill him, so he kept holding it, and he didn't let it go, and he simply continued to "convince people with reason".

"You say my grandson's beautiful eyes are called heavy pupils? Also, why is the heavy pupil a disaster star?" the old blind man Niu also did not lose his momentum, and asked loudly. The old scholar is too much today.

"Do you know how many disasters this heavy pupil has caused over countless years?"

"I don't know!"

The old scholar Niu was completely angry, threw the broom directly on the ground, and then took off his shoes, and at this moment, he almost fell to the ground. Then, he put his shoes at the old blind man, and said with a foaming star: "Can you go?

The old blind man hurriedly ran out of the yard with Zhaoxue in his arms, turned around and said to the old scholar Niu: "Okay, okay, I'll go, I'll go!"

Bang~

However, as soon as the door closed, the old scholar didn't talk to him at all.

"Hmph, inexplicable!" the old blind man muttered in a low voice, and then shouted at the closed door, "I see that you are sick, and it is better to go and see the doctor!"

However, there was only one word in response to him, "Get out".

In the evening, the red sun on the horizon was half obscured by dark clouds, and the dark clouds were drifting towards Cangshan, presumably there was a heavy rain tonight like last night!

Around the end of the day, it was already dark, the sky was covered with a thick layer of dark clouds, and the village was lit up with sparse firelight, and many people came to the east of the village with torches and firewood, and then gathered together and placed the firewood around the house of the old blind man!

"Hey, old man, are you really sure that the old blind man Niu picked up a heavy pupil in the City God Temple?" a deep voice sounded, and it was a woman whispering in the ear of the old scholar Niu.

"I'm sure that the child's name was given to me by the old blind man, and I can see it very clearly, it is a double pupil, and the old blind man personally admitted that he picked it up from the City God Temple!"

At this time, the light in the house of the old blind man went out, and he was going to sleep!

A lame young man came out of the crowd with a torch and said to everyone: "Everyone, the old scholar never lies, everyone can see it, the double pupil is a disaster, it will destroy the entire village, our village has lasted for hundreds of years, and it can't be destroyed by a double pupil, so we have to burn him while he is small!"

At this time, the old scholar Niu whispered: "I think it's better to forget it! Just throw him away, after all, the old blind man is from our village." ”

"Nonsense, he was born to death his parents, all relied on my father to raise him, and as a result, he caused me to break a leg, when I was young, my father told him a family business, and as a result, he ran away from his daughter-in-law, and he achieved nothing when he was old, no children and no daughters, I think, the old blind man is a disaster star, and now he has picked up a disaster star, why should we let them go?" objected the lame young man.

"Come on, why don't you provoke the widow of Granny Niu's family, can the dog bite you? Can your leg be broken? His daughter-in-law ran away, and you are not a light family?" The old scholar looked at the young man with a look of disgust.

"Nonsense, it was the old blind man who did it! It's all because of him, old man, don't spew blood, you're old, you better go back!" The young man heard this, and hurriedly pushed the old scholar away.

"Eh, don't push me, I'll just go by myself!" Maybe it's because of his old age, or maybe it's because the young man is the son of the village elder, the old scholar chose to shut up and go home directly with a torch.

Seeing that the old scholar was gone, the young man said to everyone again: "Everyone, that is the double pupil, it is the disaster star, I have seen it today, don't listen to the old scholar nonsense, a lot of age, just talk some nonsense!"

"That's it, I'm picking vegetables in the fields north of the village today. When I saw the old blind man holding that disaster star and hiding, I felt weak at first glance!"

"Me too, he is digging a pit in the corner of Aunt Niu's house in the village, who knows what he is going to do?

"I also saw him come out of the graveyard in the morning with that scourge in his arms, and who knows what unclean things they would bring. ”

Voices sounded quietly, and the young man stretched out his hand to stop it, and then said: "In short, if we burn this house, our village can be peaceful." ”

"Burn!"

"Burn!"

"Burn!"

......

Everyone is in unison!

"Okay, ignition!"

With the young man's order, all the torches flew towards the house of the old blind man...... With a bang, the fire burst out, and everyone's faces were as red as blood!

The room suddenly became hot, and the old blind man, who had just fallen asleep, coughed incessantly. As soon as he woke up, he found that the house was on fire, he hurriedly picked up Zhaoxue by the pillow and ran to open the door, but the door was locked from the outside and could not be opened!

So, he could only cough violently while banging on the door, and when the coughing stopped, he shouted loudly outside: "Help~"

However, all that came from outside was "Die!", "Disaster!", "Deserve it!" and "It's so good!"

At this time, Zhaoxue also began to cough, and then cried!

The people outside are still indifferent!

The old blind man gradually became disappointed until he despaired. He sat on the ground, crying and cursing, "Why do you burn me and my grandson, you who have been stabbed a thousand times?"

Zhaoxue's crying was louder, and the old blind man was also louder, and the laughter outside also became louder......

Drip~

One drop of water fell on the stone, followed by a second, a third, and then countless drops...... The downpour is coming!

......

......

Syllable~

The tranquility of the early morning is broken by a drop of water, followed by the sound of birdsong and the rustle of autumn leaves. The old blind man was wet, Zhao Xue was held in his arms, and the shabby clothes that were taken off from Aunt Niu's family and thrown on the three-year-old son in the cemetery in the north of the village were already soaked, but the old blind man couldn't care about this, he tried Zhao Xue's forehead, and found that it was cool and there was no fever, so he hurriedly ran out of the broken wooden house that had become ruins and ran towards the entrance of the village!

He will never come back, and these people will burn him and his grandson......