Tao Yuniang got off the donkey, hung her head slightly, and a small piece of white skin was exposed on the back of her neck. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

She is a woman, Ji Bai is not good to walk with her, and whispered to the washing inkstone beside him: "You are one step behind, take care of this Tao girl." ”

Xi Yan understood Ji Bai's etiquette as a gentleman, and responded in a low voice: "Yes." "It's a big step behind.

Ji Bai quietly distanced himself from Tao Yuniang, following behind Zhou Renrui and Tao Zilong, who were riding donkeys. A few people gossiped from time to time, and they didn't feel lonely along the way.

With things pressed in his heart, Li Chenyu was not in the mood to enjoy the surrounding scenery, so he listened to them all the way, and took care of himself in a daze.

After walking for more than an hour, a group of people finally arrived at the foot of the mountain, far away, they saw a large piece of emerald green bamboo forest, the bamboo is lush, or thick and straight, or thin one, all are smooth bamboo body, section by section, more than ten meters long, short also seven or eight meters of appearance, all are at the top with loose bamboo leaves.

"After the bamboo forest, there is a small platform village after walking more than three miles," Tao Zilong stretched out his hand and pointed to a path next to the bamboo forest, "noon is approaching, let's hurry up and see if we can save that person and do something of great merit." ”

Li Chenyu sat on a donkey all the way, and was uncomfortable with slow bumps. When he heard this, he jumped off the donkey and walked towards the bamboo forest first.

Tao Yuniang, who walked all the way down the mountain, was taken care of by Xiyan during the period, and saw that she had no chance to talk to Ji Bai, so she got on the donkey, and several people in the group accelerated their pace and went towards Xiaotaizhuang.

After walking more than three miles, I finally arrived at the place, and first a large area of crops appeared, and then I arrived at the entrance of the village.

Stopping a passer-by, Tao Zilong asked, "I heard that one person in your village is going to be burned to death today?" But really? ”

The middle-aged man who was stopped for questioning held a meeting and looked at everyone, "How do you know what is going on in our village?" Where did it come from? ”

Tao Zilong smiled, stretched out his hand and pointed to the north, "The old man is from the Zhuangzi on the mountain, I heard about your village a few days ago, and I came here today to inquire and ask, and I heard something strange." ”

"Oh, on the mountain," the man made a mistake, looked at everyone again, and said, "But there is an old gentleman who said that there is something going on, and I also rushed over to see where the ancestral hall of our village is." I'll take it together. ”

"Thank you, thank you."

Leaving the two servants to watch the donkey, the others followed the man towards the ancestral hall in his mouth.

I followed into the village, during which I didn't meet a few people, and the most I saw were the rough houses in the village, and the loess that blew on my head and face as soon as the wind passed.

When strangers came, the children of the village followed them to see the excitement and followed them to the ancestral hall.

In the distance, I saw a crowd of people, and an old man greeted him, looked at the people a few times, and asked: "Zhang Dafang, who are you brought?" Why did you bring people to the ancestral hall, you don't know what you're going to do today! ”

"I know, I know," Zhang Dafang, who led the way, responded, "These are all people from the mountain village, I heard that we are going to burn the demons to death, so I came to see it." ”

"Oh," the old man suddenly sighed, glancing back and forth, "I don't know if that one is from another world?" Zhuangzi often went to our village to collect mountain goods, and we never saw the master's house, nor did we thank them. ”

Tao Zilong stroked his beard and stepped forward, raised his hand and arched, "The old man is from another Shizhuang, and he is not polite about collecting mountain goods." ”

The old man said words of gratitude, and said something like what he lacked to find him. I saw the young posterior lying on his stomach and saying a few words in his ear.

The old man's thick black eyebrows wrinkled together, and he waved his hand to the latter life, enduring the unhappiness in his heart.

Li Chenyu clearly heard the latter say: "Those two old men with long beards are the drunken people who said a few days ago that the old three heads ate by mistake. ”

"I don't know what happened to a few nobles coming to our village?" The old man held his face, and did not show any displeasure. No wonder he seems to be familiar with people, it turned out that the two nonsense people who drove away that day, what do you want to say today?

Tao Zilong told the old man what he had just said to Zhang Dafang again.

After hesitating for a long time, the old man held his hands, pondered and pondered the words in his heart, and thought about how to say, "It's okay to stay in the ancestral hall, but we have to deal with things in the village, and we can't let a few distinguished guests interfere with this." ”

Tao Zilong and Zhou Renrui glanced at each other, but they couldn't do it, so they had to agree first.

Tell them to answer, and then tell someone to get out of the way and let them pass. The children who followed them were chased away by their own adults.

The villagers gathered in one place talked about it with open voices, and the eldest girls and little daughters-in-law praised a few of them for their good looks, and they also said that they were all rich and oily.

At the request of the old man, someone quickly moved out a few benches and placed them in the open space in front of the ancestral hall, facing a large fire that had been erected. There were people standing on all sides, and the most they said was a man named Lao Santou, who said that he had deceived the corpse, that he had been hungry for four days and had not starved to death, and that he always cried in the middle of the night, crying like a ghost.

Li Chenyu and Ji Bai sat on a bench, staring at the pyre in front of them expressionlessly, and the villagers were talking endlessly.

Some of them are afraid, sympathetic, embarrassed and surprised, but no one stands up and says that the old three heads should not be burned to death, and there may be kind-hearted people, but no one speaks to say that they should not be burned to death.

"Chen'er," Ji Bai looked at Li Chenyu with worried eyes, and in his mind was another scene where Li Chenyu was surrounded by a sea of fire, the fire rushed up, and the people who were burning the fire couldn't get close, and only the cry of despair could be heard in his ears.

As soon as the picture turned, it was a big knife that flashed with cold light, and with a pop, the human head fell in response, blood was all over the ground, and the heads rolled down from the high platform one by one, and the gurgling sound was heard like a drum beating in the ears, and a headless corpse, like a broken sack, was lifted and thrown to the ground. The orange is red, the bright red is blood, scene by scene, like a nightmare-like fact, it keeps churning in Ji Bai's mind.

"What's wrong with you?" Li Chenyu held Ji Bai's cold hand and frowned at his miserable white face.

Ji Bai held the little hand holding the fingers with his backhand, clenched it tightly in the palm of his hand, and looked at Li Chenyu in a trance, his mouth opening and closing.

"What's wrong with you," Li Chenyu gently slapped Ji Bai, who was like a lost soul, on the face a few times.

"It's okay, it's okay," Ji Bai closed his eyes, muttered inaudibly, and held Li Chenyu's hand tightly but didn't let go. He hung his head, and his long hair blocked Li Chenyu's vision.

Li Chenyu and Ji Bai looked back and forth at the pyre, and suddenly thought of the person who was burned to death for her at the beginning, and understood why Ji Bai suddenly lost his mind like this.