After more than two hours of turbulence, Lu Zhiyao finally saw the place that Shen Xing said. As Shen Xing said, the village is rooted on the edge of the mountain, and the houses in the village are also scattered, so if you pass by here and don't pay attention, you must not think that this is a village, and there are hundreds of people living in it.

It was dark, and Lu Zhiyao couldn't go door to door knocking on the door and begging someone to take them in. Stopping the carriage in a relatively safe place, Lu Zhiyao took out the dry food and milk that had been prepared long ago, and after feeding the stomachs of the two children, he asked Shen Xing to go nearby to pick up some branches and come back, lit the fire, and sat side by side with Shen Xing while holding the glass wrapped in a heavy quilt.

They didn't feel much cold around the roaring fire. Shen Xing looked around, and his little face finally had the novelty and excitement that should belong to his age.

"Far away, are we going to live here in the future?" He turned his head and whispered to Lu Yao.

"Well, I have to stay here for a while, the glass is still young, and I can't toss it anymore."

"Then I can go up to the mountains to hunt for you to eat!" Shen Xing said to Lu Zhiyao with a serious face, which made Lu Zhiyao feel some comfort.

Lu Zhiyao whispered to Shen Xing, and the villain in his arms gradually fell asleep.

Suddenly, Lu Zhiyao felt the sound of people's footsteps approaching here, and looked coldly, and after a while, a man in black appeared in front of them with several entourages.

"Who are you? How is it here? ”

The man who took the lead was stunned for a moment after discovering that it was a young woman with two children, and then loudly questioned Lu Yao.

Lu Zhiyao looked at the man who spoke to her, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he was very confident in speaking, although the fabric of the clothes on his body was not good, but it was also said that in the past, it should be considered good in this kind of place.

Lu Zhiyao frowned, then slowly stood up, and replied softly: "Homeless, with my brother and daughter here, it's getting late, it's not good to go into the village to disturb, so I have to stay here for the night, I don't want to, I still disturb you." ”

As soon as Lu Zhiyao's words were finished, the men did not show a look of surprise, on the contrary, their eyes became a little pitying.

Qingming Kingdom is a country that advocates martial arts, and women know martial arts and the level of martial arts will determine her future status, which Lu Zhiyao learned as early as the last time he came to Lin Yinan. And it's not uncommon for women to be divorced, so Lu Zhiyao deliberately said this and let them think about it at will.

"Nonsense!" The man in black shouted at Lu Yao, "Don't you know what kind of place this is?" ”

He glanced at him, and the entourage around him immediately extinguished the fire that Lu Zhiyao had raised.

Lu Zhiyao glared at him with a little anger, but what he got was a stronger glare.

"You're clearly sending yourself into the jaws of the tiger! I don't know anything, and I dare to mess around with my children, it's really unusual! ”

Lu Zhiyao was reprimanded in a daze, but fortunately, the man in black relented after training them and took them back to his residence, so Lu Zhiyao didn't care about him.

The man's family is not small, and it can be seen that he is the richest in the area. Why would he be attracted by his own fire, Lu Zhiyao didn't know what to do. It is good to be able to find a shelter for the two children to sleep, Lu Zhiyao sat on the chair, waited for Shen Xing to also fall asleep before putting on a coat, lying on the table, and kept in a state of vigilance, half-asleep until dawn.

Lu Zhiyao walked out of the room and happened to bump into the man in black last night. He had already changed out of the black clothes, and there was still a bit of arrogance and disdain in his eyes when he saw Lu Zhiyao. With a cold snort, he asked, "Didn't sleep well?" ”

Lu Zhiyao saw the hostility in the other party's eyes, and was a little curious in his heart, since he couldn't get used to himself, why did he bring them back last night?

"I slept well, thank you for your concern."

"Hmph, I don't know anything and dare to wander around at night. It's really a fool to be a fool, and if you are rescued by me, it will be your fate. ”

Lu Zhiyao looked at the man's arrogant expression with a light smile and asked, "I don't know how to call the savior?" ”

"Ancient Plains." The man heard someone calling him outside and hurried away. Tell Lu Zhiyao to rest well, and if you have anything to say, you will talk about it later.

Lu Zhiyao saw that his face was a little wrong when he left, and he wanted to follow up to find out, but he thought that he had just arrived here and planned to stay for a long time, so it was better to have more than less, and it was the best choice to wait and see.

Shen Xing also woke up soon, Liuli was still young, and the schedule was uncertain, maybe when she would wake up and when she would sleep, so Lu Zhiyao could only be by her side.

There was something big happening in the village, and it was Shen Xing who ran out of Lu and ran back and was told to Lu Zhiyao.

"Far away! Oh no! Shen Xing pushed open the door breathlessly, ran to Lu Zhiyao's face, and whispered in a panicked face: "Someone has been killed!" ”

"Killed?" Lu Zhiyao remembered Gu Yuan's strange look when he left, stood up and said to Shen Xing: "You stay here with Liuli, and I'll go out to have a look." ”

This kind of thing happened when she just arrived here, and I don't know if it will affect her plan to live here for a long time, so Lu Zhiyao still decided to quietly take a look at what was going on.

But when Lu Zhiyao found the villagers, including Gu Yuan, and understood the reason for the death, she realized that things were not what she thought it was at all.

That man was bitten alive by the beast, and at this time there was only a pile of white bones left on his body, and he was eaten up.

Lu Zhi felt a little uncomfortable seeing the scene from afar, and she was also glad that Shen Xing didn't figure out what happened and hurried back to tell her, otherwise such a picture would be seen by a child, and he would definitely have nightmares in the future.

Lu Zhiyao returned to Gu Yuan's home, and waited for half an hour before seeing Gu Yuan walking back with a calm face.

Lu Zhiyao stopped him and asked straight to the point, "I heard that someone died in the village?" What's going on? ”

"How do you know about the Dao?" Gu Yuan looked at her suspiciously, "You saw it?" ”

Lu Zhiyao shook his head and replied: "My brother ran out of the house for fun, and he came back and told me that he was hiding in the room now. ”

Gu Yuan didn't think much about hearing Lu Zhiyao say this, sighed, and said, "Follow me." ”

After Gu Yuan took Lu Zhiyao into a room, he asked her when she planned to leave and where she wanted to go, and after hearing Lu Zhiyao say that she wanted to live here for a few months, Gu Yuan was silent for a while, and said in a low voice: "This place is not suitable for you to live in." ”

"For what?" Lu Zhiyao asked puzzledly: "We won't stay here all the time to disturb you, I still have some silver on me, I wonder if there is an uninhabited house in the village that can be borrowed from us for a while?" ”

"Not that problem." Gu Yuan frowned and looked at Lu Zhiyao, who wanted to solve the problem with money, and told her the truth of the matter.

Just as Lu Zhiyao saw and thought, that person was indeed bitten to death by a wild beast. Wild beasts from the mountains often appear in the area, biting people to death and eating them, as has happened in several villages on the mountain. But here, the last time someone died because of those brutes was a year ago. Almost twenty people died at that time, and the inhabitants of the village were terrified. Recently, after discovering traces of the appearance of wild beasts, he will send people to patrol the edge outside the village day and night, which is also the reason why Gu Yuan found Lu Zhiyao and others last night.

Lu Zhiyao didn't speak for a long time after listening to Gu Yuan's words, at this time, she should behave like an ordinary woman and feel scared.

"What kind of beast...... How brutal it is? Hasn't anyone gone into the mountains to hunt? ”

Gu Yuan smiled at Lu Zhiyao's question, "It would be nice if things were as simple as you said, no one has ever seen what that animal grows, but I heard that it seems to be white." And none of the people who went into the mountains to look for it came back alive. There are many mountains in the vicinity, all of which are connected together, and walking along these mountains can even pass through two or three towns, and no one knows what is inside the mountain and what is at the other end of the mountain, so it is not so easy to catch those elusive beasts. That's why I said, it's not safe for you to live here with two children. ”

"But I have nowhere else to go." Lu Zhiyao slowly lowered his head, and said pitifully: "My daughter and younger brother are still young, in case we meet that beast when we are in a hurry, then we ......"

It turns out that although Gu Yuan is fierce and loud when he talks to people, he is really a good person. Even Lu Zhiyao's heart was sour because of her own pretense, but the few tears she squeezed out really made Gu Yuan's heart soften, and he agreed to let her live, and moreover, he lived in his home.

"I'm afraid that's not right, right?" Lu Zhiyao wiped away those few hard-won tears, looked at Gu Yuan and said, "I'm an outsider, and I live here with a child......"

"I'm not married, and there are no other people in the family, and I don't stay at home very often, so there's nothing wrong with it, you just stay."

Gu Yuan was very free and easy, and told Lu Zhiyao to stay. Lu Zhiyao refused several times when he opened his mouth, and Lu Zhiyao had no choice but to say that he would thank him with silver.

From some of Gu Yuan's words, Lu Zhiyao could hear that he was a merchant and had his business in a town not far from here, so he didn't come back to live here often. This time I came back, also for the sake of the beast. And Lu Zhiyao likes to deal with businessmen, a profiteer like Chu Ziqian, as long as the price is negotiated, he is willing to do whatever he is asked to do.

"Are you rich?" Gu Yuan smiled sarcastically when he heard Lu Zhiyao's words, and asked her, "How many belongings can a woman who is not wanted by a man have?" ”

Lu Zhiyao was originally kind, but he was ridiculed like this. Gritting his teeth and looking at Gu Yuan's departing back, Lu Zhiyao took a deep breath and decided, even if he wanted to ask for silver from himself in the future, it would be a no-brainer!