Gu Xiaowu followed the old man's instructions and walked for more than an hour, and then saw a village, this village looked much bigger than the one he passed by, and the houses were relatively clustered, and the village was surrounded by wooden fences, leaving only one entrance to the village. He was hesitantly standing at the entrance of the village to consider whether to enter the village to ask for some food, his dry food had been eaten, although he was not hungry now, but considering that the next journey would take two hours to reach the town, he must maintain enough physical strength, I hope that this village is normal, and he can ask for some dry food.

At the entrance of the village, two big men were standing on the side talking, seeing that Xiao Wu wanted to enter the village and stopped talking, a big man walked to the middle of the road and stopped Xiao Wu and asked, "Where are you from, what are you doing here?"

"I'm from Hengwu County, when I was a monk visiting relatives, I met robbers in a panic and ran here, and now I'm tired and hungry and want to go into the village to ask for some food, I don't know if my eldest brother can give me a bowl of rice?"

"Go, go, no matter what is going on with you, this village prohibits outsiders from entering the village, you better leave me quickly. After listening to Xiao Wu's story, Dahan looked at Xiao Wu's thin body but thirteen or fourteen, and the vigilance in his heart was completely lowered.

Xiao Wu said two more words of pleading, but Dahan just didn't give way, and was helplessly ready to turn around and walk towards the official road. Just then, another big man with a scar on his face stopped him and told him to wait and enter the village. Xiao Wu was feeling strange, but after a while, the big man with the scar walked out with two thick buns in his hands and handed them to him. Xiao Wu was pleasantly surprised and hurriedly thanked him, and devoured it in front of the two big men and burped it in his stomach. There are still many good people in the world, with these two steamed buns, he also feels more energetic, and then he just needs to hurry to the town, no longer hesitate, thank them again and walk quickly towards the official road.

Watching Xiao Wu walk away, the big man who was in the way said to the big man with the scar: "Just your kindness, you have to help anyone in trouble." ”

Scar shouted but said with a wry smile: "Look at him is only fourteen or fifteen, although what he said is not necessarily the truth, but if he can help, he can help, I just hope that if I am in trouble, someone can come out and pull me." I hope the robbers don't come here, or the village will be finished. If you do come, you take the kids with you------"

When the two big men were discussing things, Xiao Wu had already walked on the official road, but before he had gone far, the sky was getting darker and darker, this ghost weather, the sky changed faster than the face, and it seemed that a heavy rain was brewing. He was unlucky, and he didn't dare to continue to walk, and the village behind him was not allowed to enter, so he could only look around to find a place to shelter from the rain, and there was a collapsed haystack in the field not far from the official road in front of him. When he reached the haystack, a dense raindrop had begun to fall from the sky, and the heavy raindrops smashed a layer of smoke and dust on the dirt road.

Xiao Wu dug a hole with his hands at the bottom of the side that did not collapse, put the dried grass he pulled out, and when he could accommodate himself, he sat in reflexively, bent his legs and squeezed into the haystack hard, and used his hands to pull out the hay next to him to plug the gap outside. After doing this, he breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he got it quickly, otherwise he must have been soaked, even then his back was still wet, watching the rain fall down the hay, the outside has been blocked by the heavy rain, I don't know how long this rain will fall, it is estimated that I can only spend the night here today.

Gu Xiaowu endured the feeling of a wet back, closed his eyes and slowly fell asleep. When I woke up, it was already dark outside, and I didn't know when the rain would stop. The wet grass at the entrance of the cave was pushed out, and the man followed suit. Activity's legs, which were already numb, stretched out his arms, and felt that the clothes on his back had been dried by himself. Today, I can only spend the night here, so I have to enlarge the grass hole a little more and lay the bottom flat. After tidying up the inside, take out the headband inside the cloth bag and put it inside, and then find a comfortable position to lie down and continue to sleep by the light of the headband, preferably until dawn.

He was woken up by a cry, he rubbed his eyes and listened carefully, and sure enough, it was a cry. He hurriedly crawled out of it. The moonlight after the rain was particularly bright, and when I looked in the direction of the village, I saw that it was brightly lit, and there were houses on fire. Xiao Wu remembered what he encountered during the day, people had helped him, he should also do his part, he couldn't sleep anyway, go over and see what happened, if he could also help.

When Xiao Wu cautiously slipped into the village, he saw that six houses were on fire, and there were a large number of people nearby in the fire fighting in large barrels and small basins, but the most attractive thing for Xiao Wu was not far from a farmer's door, thirty or forty stout peasant households holding various "weapons" in their hands surrounded a few men in red clothes, but they all looked frightened. Xiao Wu took advantage of the fact that no one was paying attention to him and approached him, and found that three of them were still tied to nine children in their hands, the eldest was only eleven or twelve, and the youngest was only four or five years old, and each of them was unconscious. A man in red was saying something to the surrounding villagers with a cold expression, only to see that there was a red fireball jumping in one of his hands, and there was a black "person" lying at his feet, and that man turned out to be an immortal cultivator. Xiao Wu quickly hid in a corner and listened carefully to what they were saying, and the villagers were all angry.

One of them, the red-clothed man with a fireball in his hand said unruly: "Hurry up and make a decision, I kindly accept some children to practice the Immortal Dao, you don't obey, it's no wonder that I can, today I only need to take ten children, and now there is still one left, the time for you to consider is up, if you don't agree to hand over the children, I will burn you one by one, and then find out all the children and take them away." As he spoke, he looked at one of the people in the crowd in front of him with cold eyes.

Xiao Wu saw a big man in the crowd standing in the middle by the light of the fire, looking at the man in red with an angry face, and the other farmers around him were also full of grief and indignation, but some people's eyes had begun to waver.

"Immortal Master, there are no more children in our village, many of them have gone to learn the Tao with the Immortal Master before, and the rest have been caught by you, and now there are really no more. The big man said helplessly.

"Hmph, don't you eat and drink, you want to lie to me? Don't you have a nine-year-old girl at home? Why do you want to taste the taste of being burned to death? I'll fulfill you. As he spoke, the fireball in the man in red was a little bigger than just now.

"No, I'll take the child out, but the fairy master doesn't want it------" A woman came out of the next room, crying and kneeling to the red-haired man and begging for mercy.

"You dare!" The big man standing in the middle of the peasant family turned his face to look at the woman angrily, and Gu Xiaowu recognized this big man at this time as the big man with a scar on his face who had given him a meal earlier.

Seeing this, the man in red threw the fireball in his hand at the big man with the scar, and hit the arm of the big man with the scar, and suddenly the big man fell on his back, and one arm instantly turned to ashes. The big man screamed and rolled on the ground to extinguish the fire around him, and the woman fainted in fright, and the other farmers around him also ran in fright. The red-haired man didn't want to kill the scarred man at once, the fireball just grazed his arm, but he laughed heartily when he saw the big man struggling to roll on the ground in pain, and no one around him resisted.

Gu Xiaowu couldn't help it, he ran to the side of the big man with the scar, and splashed a bucket of water on the big man he grabbed easily, extinguishing all the flames caused by the big man. He probed the unconscious man, and when he saw that there was still a trace of breath, he let out a long breath. Dahan is also a gift to him, he really doesn't want to see him die in front of him, so as soon as he saw Dahan suffering, he subconsciously ran out, forgetting about the danger nearby.

The man in red watched a thirteen or fourteen boy run in front of him, thinking that it might be a child who had been hidden, although he was older, he could use it as long as he was less than fifteen. Thinking of this, he glanced at a man in red next to him, and the subordinate walked behind Xiao Wu and faced Xiao Wu's neck, knocking Xiao Wu who was exploring the big man with the scar unconscious. After the man in red saw that Gu Xiaowu was also tied up in front of him, he didn't say anything, lit the house opposite with a fire, and then directly ordered everyone to leave the village with ten children, ignoring the chaos in the village.