This year, Mr. Zheng is sixty-nine years old, and according to the custom, "nine is not ten", so this sixty-nine is equivalent to seventy birthdays.

In the last life, when the old man Zheng celebrated his birthday, Wei Qian always sent a longevity stone, which was one zhang high and six feet wide, and the natural stone pattern formed a longevity character. Kuihu sent a pair of Baishou screen, set Su embroidery, Shu embroidery, different stitches embroidered 999 longevity words, big Zheng old man pleased, but also from this day, Zheng Lao Ming obviously favored Kuihu, ignoring the Wei family.

Wei Jiang knows that neither Nanshan Shoushi nor Baishouping can compare to a "birthday gift" - the long-lost daughter of Old Man Zheng.

Back then, the old man Zheng was romantic, and there were not enough wives and four concubines, and he also lingered in the land of fireworks. Old Man Zheng's wife was frail and sickly, and she was angry with her husband all day long, so she died in her thirties.

Old Man Zheng's youngest daughter was born to this wife, she has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she knows that her father has always neglected the family, and later when she is older, she is not close to Old Man Zheng. However, Old Man Zheng is very partial to this little daughter, on the other hand, he knows that he is at fault, which can be regarded as atonement.

Old Man Zheng's youngest daughter has a somewhat similar temperament to Wei Jiang, when she reached the age of marriage, she took a fancy to a very honest scholar and insisted on marrying him. Old Man Zheng refused, saying that this person's heart was not right. She didn't listen, but she took away the gold and silver and eloped with the scholar, and she walked for more than 30 years, and she didn't come back until Master Zheng passed away. The girl who was water spirit back then had become a woman with a wrinkled face, kneeling in front of Old Man Zheng's tablet and crying sadly.

These are all things that Mo Ye told her, and he said that in fact, Old Man Zheng's daughter didn't go far and lived in Qi Village, which was not far away. The scholar ran away within a few years of marrying her, she dragged her son to grow up alone, and she had a hard time, and she had a good face and refused to turn back, and the father and daughter were deadlocked for most of their lives.

Old Man Zheng's daughter cried sadly in front of the spiritual seat, indicating that she had feelings for her father. And Old Man Zheng sent people to search for decades, which also shows that he thinks about his daughter.

Wei Jiang felt that Old Man Zheng's birthday was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so she decided to go to Qi Village to invite Zheng Honggu back, so that the father and daughter could be reunited.

From Yunhaizhou to Qicun, it takes about four days to take the official road. Wei Jiang silently calculated, this time it was just in time for Old Man Zheng's birthday banquet. Originally, she planned to discuss with Mr. Wei Qian, but she was afraid that the news would leak out, so after thinking about it, it was better to go alone.

When Wei Jiang left, no one said anything, including peace. She only left a piece of paper and told him that he was going to do something very important, so that he could stay at home obediently and not think nonsense.

After Wei Jiang dressed up in disguise, he set off alone on a mule. All she had with her was an old package, which contained a daughter's outfit and a few pancakes. When she went to the tea stall to rest, she took out two copper coins to buy a bowl of tea, wrapped her belly in pancakes, and continued on the road after eating, hoping to reach Qi Village as soon as possible.

It's the height of summer, and it's hot during the day and full of mosquitoes at night. Wei Jiang was bitten by mosquitoes all over his body, his body was sticky and smelly, and as far as the eye could see, there was no place to stay, let alone wash and bathe. Wei Jiang had no choice but to find a clean place and curl up under the tree to rest.

Wei Jiang slept in a daze, and was suddenly woken up by a gust of wind in the middle of the night. She shuddered, and suddenly opened her eyes. The dim path is as quiet as an ancient tomb, looking left and right, and there is no wind or grass.

This is Wei Jiang's first time going out of the house, she knows that the road is dangerous, but she doesn't know what the specific sinister method is. At this time, Wei Jiang was a little scared, and she involuntarily took out a dagger and stuck it to her chest to increase her vigilance.

There was a movement in the grass, as if something was in the grass. Wei Jiang's heart was about to hang out of her throat, she didn't dare to move, she stiffened her back and looked down.

Just as the moonlight poured down, illuminating the square inch of land in front of her, Wei Jiang opened her eyes wide and saw a giant python five fingers wide poking its head out, and then as if it had found prey, it suddenly stood up.

Wei Jiang trembled, his feet seemed to be welded in place, and he couldn't move half a step. She looked down at the dagger in her hand, hated it for not being long enough, and waved it a few times, but instead of scaring it away, the snake spat out the letter.

The python seemed to be eyeing her, and slowly snaking around. Wei Jiang didn't know how to deal with it, and held the dagger nervously.

"Sue you, don't come closer. See, I have a knife in my hand! ”

Wei Jiang waved the dagger again, but people were not afraid at all, the silver scales sucked the full moon and the cold light was reversed, and Nobuko sizzled in and out, like a wolf who laughed at her.

Wei Jiang was afraid, afraid that he would have to die again, and this time he would die in the mouth of an animal.

Unwilling, really unwilling!

Wei Jiang was afraid of being extremely angry, and mustered up the courage to take a step, wanting to scare the python away. The python stopped, perhaps frightened by her, and raised its head and stopped moving.

Wei Jiang thought that he had won, but before he could think of it, the python suddenly opened its bloody mouth and rushed over like an arrow.

Wei Jiang was frightened and unconsciously stepped back, but she accidentally tripped and fell to the ground on her back.

Wei Jiang grinned in pain, tears were forced out, and the dagger in his hand fell somewhere, and he didn't find it after searching for a long time.

The python seemed to know that its prey had fallen, so it quickly twisted around, wrapped one of Wei Jiang's legs, and then aimed at her head and opened its mouth, and Wei Jiang could see the cold teeth in its mouth.

"If you want to eat Lao Niang, it's not so easy!"

Wei Jiang was furious, stretched out his hand and grabbed the snake seven inches, and exerted his strength. The python felt pain and couldn't help but tighten the snake's body. Wei Jiang only felt that his legs seemed to be crushed, and his bones were about to be torn off by it.

For a while, Wei Jiang fell into despair, but she was also Wei Qianzong's daughter, and she died in the mouth of the snake, it was not worth it!

It's too late, it's too soon.

Just as Wei Jiang was about to be entangled in the bones of the python, suddenly a silver light swept through the air, and before Wei Jiang could see clearly, this silver light pierced into the python's seven inches.

The python sizzled a strange sound, like a wild dance, twisting its body desperately, and then collapsed to the ground with a "snap", staring at Wei Jiang with gloomy snake eyes.

"Get out of here!"

Wei Jiang roared and removed the body of the snake from her body, and then she didn't understand her hatred, and grabbed a stone and smashed it on the head.

"Actually, this snake pile looks pretty good, but you haven't seen it yet."

The sound that came out of nowhere made Wei Jiang even more panicked. Wei immediately bounced up, looked left and right, and finally couldn't help but look up and move his eyes to the tree.

Mo Hua sat on the fork of the tree, stilting Erlang's legs, and smoking a cigarette stick leisurely. Looking at his complacent appearance, it seems that he has come to some work.

The ghost is not gone, the ghost is not gone.

Wei Jiang rolled her eyes in her heart, she looked at the snake corpse again, and found a six-inch nail at seven inches from it, which was the secret weapon of Mo Hua's constant envoy.

"Are you going to ask me to thank you, or what?"

Wei Jiang asked him lukewarmly. Mo Hua jumped down from the tree with a backward flip, landed in front of her lightly, and then said, "I'm not here to ask for thanks, let alone to scold." You are a girl's family who has walked so far, and no one is at ease when you meet anyone. ”

"Are you secretly protecting me?"

"Hmm...... Sort of. ”

Mo Hua smiled, his deep eyes bent into two lovely crescents, which really made people unbearable to scold him.

However, Wei Jiang remembered the coldness when he quarreled with her that day, and knew that his smile was fake, so she would not be lightly moved, and still said coldly: "Then thank you so much this time, when I go back, I will definitely repay you well." But for now, you just don't think you've seen me, let's go half of the road. ”

Wei Jiang said ruthlessly, and his ink eyes couldn't help frowning slightly.

He said softly: "Do you think that if you leave a note, your father and mother will not be worried?" It will take eight days to go back and forth to Qi Village, and you have not heard from you in these eight days, and there is no one around you to accompany you, so your mother must not cry to death? ”

"How do you know I'm going to Qi Village?"

Wei Jiang asked rhetorically, looking at him with a sharp look. Mo Hua was still smiling, not showing any flaws.

"This road only leads to Qi Village, doesn't it? You come back eight days after writing on paper, and it's about the same if you count the back and forth. ”

With that, Mo Hua took out the note that Wei Jiang had left before leaving from his arms. Seeing this, Wei Jiang couldn't help but reach out to grab it, Mo Hua closed it with two fingers and lightly hid it back in his arms.

"I told your father and mother that I would go out with you, so that they would be more relieved. Don't worry about it next time. ”

Mo Hua stretched out the index finger of her thin hand and gently tapped her forehead as she spoke, and her helpless smile was full of love.

Wei Jiang's heartstrings trembled slightly, but she stubbornly refused to admit it, and insisted on pretending that nothing happened.

"I'm hungry."

Wei Jiang deliberately ripped away from the conversation and turned around to pick up her small broken bag. There was only one piece of pancake in the broken bag, which was too dry to chew and it was a pity to throw it away. Wei Jiang sniffed, and suddenly, she missed the delicious food her mother cooked.

"Isn't there a ready-made one here?"

Mo Hua bent down to pick up the python on the ground, took out a knife to cut open its abdomen, and neatly squeezed out a snake gall.

"Come, open your mouth."

He brought the snake gall to Wei Jiang's mouth. Wei Jiang's head shook like a rattle.

"No, it's disgusting."

Mo Hua shrugged helplessly, tilted his head and swallowed the snake gall, then peeled off the snake skin and picked out the internal organs.

"You always eat cooked food, right?"

Wei Jiang thought for a while and couldn't help licking his lips.

"Eat!"

Mo Hua set up a fire, skewered the snake meat, and roasted the big snake that bullied Wei Jiang just now.

Perhaps having received the anger of this snake, Wei Jiang gnawed its flesh and felt particularly fragrant, she ate two large pieces in a muffled voice, and after eating, she wiped her mouth and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Alas...... There is food but no wine. ”

"Wine."

Mo Hua handed over the wine pouch, Wei Jiang took it easily, and naturally pulled out the sac plug and drank a few sips. She forgot that she was only thirteen years old, and Mo Hua didn't seem to treat her as a thirteen-year-old girl, and handed her snake meat and wine.

The tacit understanding between the two of them was seamless, and neither of them felt that it was wrong, but the person hidden in the dark looked at the piercing eyes, gritted his teeth and clenched his fists in anger.