After some conversation, Zhang Xiaopaw learned that the four old men were all farmers from a small mountain village, and they had never traveled far away, only knowing the village and county seat where they lived, and not knowing anything else.

Zhang Xiaopaw was very embarrassed, because he, like the four old men, also knew Liujia Village, Fengshui County and Baiyun City, as for where these three were located in the vast land of the south, it was unknown.

Therefore, the Baihuang Mountain, Longduo County and Yancheng mentioned by the old man have no reference value for Zhang Xiaopaw.

In the end, Zhang Xiaopaw left half of the snake meat and waved goodbye to the four of them, and marched in the direction pointed out by the old man.

The old man told him that if he had climbed over three mountains and walked more than ten miles further, he would see the official road leading to Yancheng. There are many people who have fled on the official road, and many of them are well-informed and well-read, who may be able to help him.

Zhang Xiaopaw was eager to go home, so the speed under his feet was very fast, and it only took half an hour to see the Yanbei official road that the old man said. But the situation on the official road made his heart unbearable, and he saw a large number of pedestrians on the spacious avenue, staggering from north to south, with no end to the end, like a long dragon.

Everyone was ragged and dusty, with yellow and skinny faces, chapped lips, cloudy eyes, no crying, no laughter, no noise, no lifelessness, only the sound of feet rubbing against the ground, like a group of soulless walking corpses.

"The drought is terrible!"

The scene of fleeing had a great impact on Zhang Xiaopaw, and he became more and more anxious in his heart, thinking about the old folks in Liujia Village, not knowing if they were okay, gritting his teeth and eager to pierce a pair of wings and fly back immediately.

"Old man, please stay, do you know which direction Fengshui County in Baiyun City is going?" asked Zhang Xiaopaw who stopped an old man who looked knowledgeable on the side of the road.

The old man raised his flabby eyelids, glanced at Zhang Xiaopu with a cloudy gaze, shook his head, and responded hoarsely: "I don't know." ”

"Sorry. Zhang Xiaopaw clasped his fists and saluted, got out of the way, and let the old man continue walking, and then searched the passing crowd for those who seemed to be knowledgeable.

"Big brother, please stay, may I ask which direction should Fengshui County of Baiyun City go?" Zhang Xiaopaw stopped a middle-aged man dressed in a long shirt.

"Fengshui County, Baiyun City? The middle-aged man shook his head.

"What about Baiyun City?" Zhang Xiaopaw felt that Fengshui County might be too inconspicuous and not many people knew about it, so he only asked Baiyun City.

"I don't know. The middle-aged man glared at him angrily and walked around him.

"This brother, may I ask how to get to Baiyun City?"

"I don't know. ”

"Uncle, do you know how to get to Baiyun City?"

"I don't know, get out of the way. ”

"Eldest sister, may I ask how to get to Baiyun City?"

"I don't know. ”

Zhang Xiaopaw asked more than ten people in a row, but none of them knew about Baiyun City, which made him panic, guessing that this place might be 108,000 miles away from Baiyun City, otherwise how could no one know.

"Does anyone know about White Cloud City?"

"Ask the well-wisher to tell Baiyun City which direction to go. ”

Zhang Xiaopaw simply stood on the side of the road and shouted, just asking for one of the pedestrians to know. But he shouted so loudly that his throat was about to smoke, and hundreds of people passed by, and none of them knew. However, a few well-wishers told him that forty miles further was Yancheng, and asked him to go to Yancheng City to inquire, and someone there must know.

"Hey-" Zhang Xiaopaw sighed helplessly, and decided to follow the advice of the well-wisher to go to the Yancheng City in front to ask for directions, but just as he was about to lift his feet, a middle-aged man with a goatee suddenly stopped in front of him.

Zhang Xiaopaw was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked, "May I ask this brother, do you know how to go to Baiyun City?"

"I don't know. The goatee man shook his head.

"Thank you. Zhang Xiaopaw hugged his fists, very disappointed in his heart. He thought that the goatee man took the initiative to come over and knew about it, so he stopped to rest.

But just as he was about to raise his foot, he heard the goatee man continue: "But I know that someone knows about Baiyun City. ”

"Huh?" Zhang Xiaopaw was overjoyed and asked eagerly, "I beg my brother to tell me." ”

The goatee man's triangular eyes swept Zhang Xiaopaw up and down, and finally his eyes fell on the small cloth bag that Zhang Xiaopaw hung on his waist, and then swept his eyes left and right, and saw that no one was paying attention to this side, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Is there anything to eat?"

The small cloth bag was wrapped in the remaining half of the snake meat, which was the advice given to him by the old man he met in the Baihuang Mountain, saying that the fleeing people were all hungry and red-eyed, and if they saw him holding meat in their hands, they would definitely rush up and grab it, so he suggested that he wrap the meat in a cloth so that no one could see it.

Zhang Xiaopaw felt that what the old man said was very reasonable, so he borrowed a piece of cloth and did it.

"Yes. Zhang Xiaopaw replied.

The goatee man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he reached out and grabbed the cloth bag on Zhang Xiaopaw's waist.

"Wait!" Zhang Xiaopaw frowned slightly, shook his hand and slapped away the hand that the goatee man stretched out, raised the bone knife in his hand, and said, "There is food, there are knives, knives that have killed people." ”

The implication is that if you rob it, don't blame me for being unkind.

Zhang Xiaopaw has killed people, and has experienced several trials on the edge of life and death, and his tone sank at this time, and he has a bit of power.

"Ah, haha, abrupt, abrupt. The goatee man hurriedly retracted his hand, smiled awkwardly and said haha, he felt the sense of oppression emanating from Zhang Xiaopaw's body, and knew that the young man in front of him was not easy to mess with.

"Little brother, come here to talk. The goatee man pointed not far from the side of the road, made a gesture of please to Zhang Xiaopu, and then took the lead in walking over there, not afraid that Zhang Xiaopaw would not follow.

Zhang Xiaopaw asked for a long time and shouted for a long time, and finally found an insider, so he naturally would not give up easily.

"How much do you eat?" Seeing Zhang Xiaopu follow, the goatee man's eyes couldn't help but fall on the cloth bag on Zhang Xiaopaw's waist, rubbing his hands and swallowing saliva.

"A pound of meat. Zhang Xiaopaw replied.

"Give it all to me, and I'll tell you who knows about Baiyun City. The goatee man said eagerly.

"Half. Zhang Xiaopaw frowned.

"No, I want it all. The goatee man said in a resolute tone.

There was a request for someone, Zhang Xiaopaw had to back down, but he was not stupid, and said: "Take me to find that person, and give you all the meat." Otherwise, don't talk about it. ”

"Yes. The goatee man readily agreed, and after speaking, he turned his head and walked north, and said as he went: "Come with me, not far ahead, I heard a little old man begging someone to write him a tombstone." ”

"What tombstone?" asked Zhang Xiaopu, puzzled.

The goatee man replied: "The little old man is illiterate, he took a piece of wood, blocked the road and begged someone to write on it the tomb of who is in Liujia Village, Fengshui County, Baiyun City, I didn't hear the specifics." ”

"What are you talking about?!" Zhang Xiaopu's body trembled violently when he heard this, and his voice suddenly raised dozens of times.

The goatee man was startled by Zhang Xiaopaw's sudden increase in volume, and hurriedly said, "I said that the little old man begged someone to write on the wood." ”

"I'm asking him what kind of writing he wants someone to write on the wood?!" Zhang Xiaoshu asked.

"What are you anxious about?" The goatee man glanced at Zhang Xiaopaw dissatisfied, and said, "The little old man asked people to write on the wood the tomb of who is in Liujia Village, Fengshui County, Baiyun City, and the specific name is not clear. Why, you know that little old man? Oh, you and he are both from Baiyun City, maybe you really recognize—ah, what are you doing?!

The goatee man suddenly screamed in horror as he was grabbed by the back of his neck and lifted up by Zhang Xiaopai.

Zhang Xiaopu ignored him, and just asked, "Is it in front?"

"Yes, right ahead. The goatee man replied honestly, he felt that Zhang Xiaopu's body suddenly exuded a terrible tyrannical aura, as if he was going to choose someone to eat, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say more than half a word.

Baiyun City, Fengshui County, Liujia Village, Who's Tomb.

Zhang Xiaopaw's eyes were red at that time, and tears were rolling in his eyes, everyone in Liujia Village was his dearest, so no matter who died, he would be heartbroken.

Moreover, the appearance of the people in the village here means that Liujia Village can no longer survive, and everyone has abandoned the village and fled for refuge.

Why is there only one little old man begging, where have the others gone?

Won't all—

For a while, Zhang Xiaopaw panicked in his heart and didn't dare to think about it anymore.

The goatee man looked at the rapidly regressing scenery on both sides, listening to the whirring wind in his ears, a little stunned and a little frightened, he never expected that this skinny young man would be so powerful, he could walk like a fly with a person in his hand, and he was scared that he wanted to coerce such a powerful person to hand over all the food, is it a long life?

"There, there, that's the little old man. The goatee man suddenly pointed to a thin figure in the distance by the side of the road and shouted.

Zhang Xiaopaw looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, he saw a thin old man, crying and digging in the soil. There was also a thin girl next to her, holding a thin stone in her hand, helping the old man dig the soil together. A few steps away from them lay a man, his vision obstructed, his face out of sight.

Zhang Xiaopai carried the goatee man in two columns, instantly crossed a distance of more than ten zhang, and landed beside the little old man with a bang, raising a cloud of dust. The frightened little old man trembled violently and sat on the ground.

Zhang Xiaopu's eyes fell on the little old man and the little girl first, and found that he didn't know the grandfather and grandson, and then immediately looked at the person lying on the ground, this person had a dark complexion, and he had lost his appearance.

The more Zhang Xiaopaw looked at it, the more he looked like Niu Dawa, thinking of the content of the tombstone written by the little old man begging someone, and immediately identified this person as Niu Dawa. Immediately knelt down beside Niu Dawa, held his head in his arms and called urgently: "Dawa, what's wrong with you? Dawa, wake up?"

"Big baby, wake up, I'm a pawn!"

"Big baby?"

"Big baby!"

Tears poured out of Zhang Xiaopaw's eyes like a flood that burst the embankment, no matter how he called, Niu Dawa didn't react at all. What's even more terrifying is that he can clearly feel the stiffness and coldness of Niu Dawa's body.

Zhang Xiaopaw never imagined that when he said goodbye to the eldest baby in the Black Forest, he was separated by yin and yang when he met again.

Scenes of the past came to mind, and Zhang Xiaopaw's tears became more and more unstoppable.

"Shao-young man, do you know my father-in-law?" the little old man was shocked, and when he heard Zhang Xiaopaw holding Niu Dawa's head calling and crying, he hurriedly climbed forward and asked cautiously.

"Is his name Niu Dawa?" Zhang Xiaopao asked with tears in his eyes and choked up. He had a hint of fantasy in his heart, how much he wished that the little old man shook his head and told him that it was not.

In fact, he was deceiving himself, and a date-shaped scar behind the right ear of the man in his arms clearly told him that this was Niu Dawa, because this scar was left by the two of them when they were young, and he accidentally poked it with a branch.

The little old man didn't know who Niu Dawa was talking about, but he still replied: "My family's name is Niu Guangmao, and the word is Lotte." ”

Click!

Zhang Xiaopaw only felt like a thunderbolt on his head, and his brain was buzzing and blank.

"What's wrong with him?!" After being stunned for a while, Zhang Xiaopaw looked at the little old man sharply and asked. The fierce eyes made the little old man shrink in fright.

The little old man wiped his tears and said: "In order to save our grandfather and grandson, Engong sacrificed his life to fight a team of big-toothed soldiers alone, and he was brave and fierce, and more than a dozen big-toothed people were all cut to the ground by Engong's steel knife, but Engong was also stabbed several times, and the wound cracked several times along the way, and he was never treated, and the result - the result - "

The little old man choked up and couldn't speak.

The little girl also cried, pleading with a handful of snot and tears: "Woo, Engong is a good person who saved me and grandpa." Can you save the Grace Father, he is still angry, he is still alive. I beseech you, save the Lord. ”

"Still alive?!" Zhang Xiaopaw was suddenly startled, and immediately overjoyed.