The golden crow crept up to the treetops, and the sky was orange, and the awakened birds were jumping up and down the branches. As if to remind them on purpose, time is running out for them to investigate.

Lin Suqing walked back and forth on the ridges around him, and determined that the place where the big black dog's corpse was located was the northernmost place, in a radish field that had just been sown, and he was lying in the sunnymost place of this radish field. This turnip field is too far to the north, the light is not very good, the soil is poor, so the crops do not grow as lush as the neighbors, but there is no grass and no disease, which shows that the owner of this field is very careful. And the fertilizer in the roots is very thick, and it should be watered within three days.

"Hey, who's over there?"

The quiet morning was suddenly broken by an old man's voice, Lin Suqing and the dog followed the prestige, and saw that there were two old men, one carrying a hoe, the other carrying two buckets on his shoulder, and the two ends of the flat shoulder were pressed down, looking heavy.

"Old man, it's me, Qin He, the shopkeeper of the First Branch!" Lin Suqing raised his voice and reported his pseudonym in a hearty voice, and his voice was particularly clear in the fields in the early morning.

The old man with the hoe took two steps tremblingly, stretched his neck and raised his throat and asked, "What?

"Qin Ji!"

"What's kind?"

"Qin—and, a branch hall—"

"What sugar?"

"Alas, you old man, people are talking about a branch hall, and that is a branch of people. The man who was a few years younger than the one who carried two buckets on his shoulders hurriedly said, "It seems to be the shopkeeper of a branch hall." ”

"Oh, of course I know about it. The old man heard it first, and the old man with the hoe was quite unconvinced, "Of course he is the shopkeeper of the first branch, and the shopkeeper of their branch is a man, and I also know that their account room is a girl with a beautiful face, and there is a little girl in their hall." The old man waved his hand, "That girl can't speak, she didn't say a word when she broke her feet last time, and she didn't let anyone help her when she got up, she was a tough girl." ”

"How do you know that someone has a broken foot and won't be helped?" asked the old man with the hoe, turning around.

"Why don't I know? I saw it with my own eyes, I was in front of me that day, she was right in front of me, and I thought it was a New Year's greeting for me!"

"You bad old man. ”

They chatted like this, leaving Lin Suqing, who had just taken the initiative to report home, aside. When they chatted and suddenly came back to their senses, there was a boy, so the old man who carried the bucket shouted again: "You are not in the store early in the morning, what are you doing here?"

"Aren't you talking nonsense, isn't the shopkeeper of a branch hall constantly running around? ”

"You're talking nonsense, don't you know?" the old man suddenly looked serious, "Don't you know what they do?"

When the hoe was heard, he was stunned: "That's not right...... The treasurer of the first branch hall is here, is it ......?"

The villagers who dared to love him regarded him as a disaster, and Lin Suqing hurriedly surrendered his hand, whether it was an apology or a gift, and said respectfully: "The two old people, please stay." ”

The ridges were staggered, and he trotted to the two old men on the shortcut, and before he ran closer, there was a stench, and when he got closer, he saw that the old man had picked ...... It was a bucket of black dung, as if it had just been pumped out of a septic tank.

The trotting two steps was not panting, but he unconsciously held his breath, and suddenly let go and couldn't help but pass two mouthfuls, which made the two old men disgusted, and sighed one after another about the strength of his youth.

Lin Suqing laughed with them again and again, until they came back to their senses after chatting and asked him rhetorically: "Hey, what did you just call the two of us?"

Taking advantage of their interest in a topic, Lin Suqing didn't delay for a moment, and asked straight to the point: "Oh yes, the junior just saw that the melons in the field over there were growing well, and when he saw that they were not fully ripe, he wanted to order a few in advance, I don't know if the second elder knows whose field it is?"

The two old men followed what Lin Suqing pointed to, squinted their eyes and looked at it, and said: "Hey, you said that melon field, that is too knowing, it is the pair of old couples." "The old man's childlike imitation is the stupid daughter-in-law who had her tongue cut out. His laughter was very loud, but he simply felt that this description was more intuitive, and it could immediately remind people of who it was.

"Oh...... What about the land over there?" Lin Suqing asked, pointing to the land with radish seedlings.

"That piece is theirs too. The old man who carried the hoe pointed to the land, and then pointed to the edge of the land and said, "That piece, and that piece, originally belonged to the old man Li's family, before the old man Li had a cold, and he never got up after sleeping, and the old woman Li couldn't plant the land because of her bad legs and feet, so she originally planned to sell it, but the land was too poor to plant anything, so no one wanted it, so the old lady Li let the land be planted by their family." Later, it didn't take long for Mrs. Li to be gone, and there was no one to plant that land anymore. ”

The uncle who picked up the dung bucket sighed: "Don't say it, that fool, people are really upright, Mrs. Li gave him two pieces of land, and he finally raised the land to fatten up, but he gave all the things he gave to Mrs. Li when he planted things, and he didn't ask for a grain of rice from her." ”

A few days ago, the old Chen family didn't bully him, and he couldn't get off the ground because his leg hurt, so he deliberately let the fool help him and did those few days of work in vain. The uncle who carried the hoe said it with sympathy.

"By the way, old man, is there anyone around here who has a black dog?" Lin Suqing asked when he saw the stitches and caught them chatting.

"You say black dogs? It's the kid's family, and black dogs don't breed in the countryside. The old man carrying the hoe waved his hand, "Unlucky." Even that black dog still doesn't know where the boy picked it up. As soon as the dog was picked up, it was quite big, and he let the black dog run around, and he was not afraid to bite people. But fortunately, the black dog is angry, quite sensible, does not bite, and does not even bark indiscriminately. ”

"Oh, hehe, thank you two old people, there is still something in the junior store, I have to hurry back, so I won't delay the second elder." Lin Suqing said with a smile and took out two drawn talisman papers from his cuffs, and one of them gave one talisman, "This is a branch of the hall's evil talisman, which can be worn close to the body to ward off evil spirits and avoid evil, and a little caution is not a respect." ”

Seeing that their faces were confused, they glanced at them with wrinkled eyes, and asked thoughtfully, "Is there something going on around here?"

Lin Suqing hurriedly smiled and said: "No, no, my branch hall has a small business, and when I meet someone, I will give a talisman to him, one is a gift, and the other is that I can also expand the fame of my branch hall, and I hope that the second elder will not blame." ”

"Oh, wear it, wear it, anyway, it's not heavy. The old man who picked up the dung bucket took it with both hands, then straightened his chest, signaled the old man to help him take it and help him put it into his arms, and joked: "Is there any longevity charm or something, give me a few, my old thing hasn't lived enough." ”

"What are you talking about, look at your face, you are a long-lived and hundred-year-old look. ”

After a few simple polite jokes, and bidding farewell to the two old men, Lin Suqing returned to the field, and the dog had already fallen asleep with the corpse of the black dog bored. He bent his fingers and flicked the dog's nose, flicked it like a lazy dog, and then held it down to prevent his wrist from reddening. Then he said: "This land, that piece, and that melon field belong to the old couple, and this black dog is raised by them to guard the land." ”

The dog's eyes lit up, and he said in surprise: "That fool died with his dog?" Orr denied himself: "No, no, no, it's not that simple, that fool died first, this black dog died later, and the soul of the black dog is possessed by the dead man......"

Lin Suqing looked at the sky, put his hands on his shoulders, and said, "They should be in the store." ”

"Let's go!" The dog casually beckoned a cloud, pressed the head of the cloud and turned it over, Lin Suqing lifted the back of its neck and slipped down, and said, "In broad daylight, you are not afraid of scaring the timid to death." ”

"No, they just think it's a bodhisattva who can fly. ”

"I'm not afraid of being struck by lightning when I say this. ”

"If you have words without a heart, the Bodhisattva will not be so stingy. ”

Lin Suqing knocked on it with a muffled sound, and said angrily: "Let's go back, by the way, calculate how many hours it will take to walk from here to a branch hall." ”