During the Qingming Festival, it rained a lot.

Pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

By asking where the restaurant is.

The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village.

Walking through the lush forest, the road is full of birds and flowers, accompanied by mountains and waters, but it has been raining overhead, and the sun is lacking, and not long after, a village with smoke curls in front of you.

In a shed on the edge of a melon field outside the village, a group of mud-legged men gathered around to shake dice and gamble, shouting loudly.

A little shepherd boy holds a buffalo in his hand, and people sit on the back of the cow and watch the excitement with relish.

"Excuse me, what village is this?"

Outside the village, a man from another village passed by, he looked at the man who was addicted to gambling, and finally politely asked the shepherd boy who was sitting on the back of a cow watching the bustle.

"River Village. ”

The shepherd boy looked strangely at the stranger who was asking him for directions, and replied.

It's a strange feeling.

The other party spoke the same ancient language as the old Taoist who burned the paper of the gods, but this time he could understand the content of the words, which made people have a strange feeling that they couldn't speak, and they always felt that something was weird.

"Thanks, this peach is my reward for asking for directions. The stranger who asked for directions threw a peach to the shepherd boy, and the shepherd boy took the peach with a bright eye, and said happily Thank you, Childe, you are a good person.

Ask the way, the outsider waved his hand at the shepherd boy, saying that the time is not early, it will be dark soon, and after herding the cows, go home early, don't let your father and mother worry.

The shepherd boy just wanted to speak, when a young man about 20 years old in the group of gamblers lost his eyes, and he scolded unconvincedly: "Today is really an idea to go home, how can Lao Tzu always gamble and lose! Ah Zhi, don't you say that there is a Taoist chief who gives you a hexagram, saying that you are the reincarnation of a toad fairy, you come over and blow fairy breath on your cousin's dice, let me open a leopard, kill all of them." ”

Amid the laughter of a group of men, the shepherd boy came to his cousin's side, picked up the porcelain bowl that was covered by Hegai, puffed out his cheeks and blew hard into the bowl, and then handed the porcelain bowl back to his cousin.

When the little shepherd boy reached out and took the bowl, he saw that he only had four fingers on each hand, and only eight fingers in total, two fingers were missing than ordinary people.

Soon after, there was an exclamation from the shed, and the dice really opened the leopard!

After Jin An asked the shepherd boy for directions, he continued to walk towards the village, he vaguely heard the toad fairy, blowing a few words, his eyes were thoughtful, and he continued to walk towards the village called Hezhuang in front of him.

At this time, the sky overhead was getting darker and darker, and more and more households in the village began to rise with smoke from cooking, and the smell of firewood and rice filled the sky over the fields.

If it weren't for the rainy weather and the sun above his head, it would have been a sunset scene by now, right?

At this time, an old man with a hoe on his shoulder, rolled up his trouser legs, and walked barefoot on the ridge of the field.

He was still holding his little granddaughter's hand, talking and laughing.

When the old man saw Jin An, he showed a kind and kind smile, smiled and nodded to say hello.

Looking at the peaceful village in front of him, Jin An's brows became tighter and tighter, and he looked up at the top of his head, where there was a divine light covering this world and opening up an isolated Taoyuan Village.

With a deep groan.

He continued walking towards the village.

When Jin An entered the village, many villagers along the way saw him, a foreigner, and they all cast curious eyes, and there was still a bit of strangeness and confusion in those curious eyes?

But he didn't pay much attention to the side glances of these villagers, and walked around the village by himself, until he saw an old Taoist priest in an earthy yellow Taoist robe in the village, who was showing his right hand to a group of five big and three thick rural women, and he didn't know what the old Taoist priest said, which made the group of middle-aged women laugh, but the surrounding men were so jealous that they planned to give their mother-in-law a meal tonight.

"Old way!"

Seeing the familiar back, Jin An shouted in surprise, he was afraid that he would recognize the wrong person, so he hurriedly approached the old Taoist, intending to get closer to see if it was an old Taoist.

The old Taoist priest, who was originally showing the rural woman his right hand, trembled, he turned to look at the familiar voice behind him, but the next moment, the old Taoist priest grew his mouth, and a man full of jewels and jewels like the stupid son of the landlord's family, carrying the trunk of a peach tree on his shoulder, ran towards him happily.

The peach tree was full of fruit.

"Little, little brother?"

"It's really... You?"

The old Taoist priest was startled by the whole peach tree that the other party was carrying on his shoulder.

Why does this peach tree look so familiar?

Aren't they just the peach trees on the outskirts of the forest?

The old Taoist priest gasped!

He picked a few peaches and was smashed all over his head by the wild monkeys, and even lost one of his shoes, not to mention how embarrassed he was.

As a result, now someone uprooted him and ran directly towards him with a peach tree.

Looking at the peach tree that was uprooted by someone, and the old Taoist priest who was smashed by the monkey and had not yet been good, the pleasure of relieving his anger arose in his heart, not to mention how relieved he was.

When Jin An took off the beast head on his head, and then lifted a corner of the robe that he was wearing backwards, revealing a five-colored Taoist robe, and repeatedly confirmed his identity, the old Taoist priest was convinced that the person in front of him, dressed in jewels and wearing the same as the stupid son of the landlord's family, was Jin An.

"Little brother, why are you dressed up like this? Little brother, you directly uprooted a peach tree, and the group of monkeys outside the forest didn't fight with you?"

After a long absence, I didn't expect to meet in this way, and the more the old Taoist priest thought about it, the happier he became.

Sure enough, he is worthy of being a little brother.

As the old way, I only dare to steal a dozen peaches.

As a result, the little brother directly robbed a peach tree and came back!

It's relieving to think about it.

Those monkeys must be angry now, and they can't close their eyes for three days and three nights, hehe.

"It's because they work hard with me, anyway, picking a peach is also desperate, and carrying a peach tree is also desperate, so I simply carry a peach tree. Jin An's answer made the old Taoist priest give a thumbs up, saying that Mrs. Niu, who used to be a cow in the Zodiac Zodiac, didn't dare to move when she saw her little brother, and in the future, Mrs. Monkey of the Zodiac Monkey didn't dare to move when she saw her little brother, and there were cows on the left and right.

To be able to meet the old Taoist priest again in the ruins, Jin An was so happy in his heart that he picked a peach and shared it with the old Taoist priest, and then he himself gnawed on the peaches, he looked left and right, and did not see the sword, it seems that the sword is still wandering in the ruins, and his eyes are a little low.

But he recovered quickly, sharpening the sword and the old Taoist, he was most worried about the old Taoist with old arms and legs, even the old Taoist can survive completely, and the sword sharpening ability is high, and he will definitely be able to take care of himself.

The grandfather and grandson ate peaches they had stolen from the monkeys and began to recount their experiences in the ruins.

I don't know if there are too many forests here, scattering more vibrant relationships, the peaches here are not as magical as Shou Tao, except for the ability to quickly recover physical strength, the body is warm, and there is not much fear of yin wind and yin qi entering the body.

Through recounting the experience with each other, Jin An also learned that the old Taoist priest arrived at this river village one day earlier than him, and he asked the old Taoist priest about the situation of this river village, and asked what was going on in this river village?

The old Taoist priest arrived a day earlier than him, and he must have learned more information than him.

When it came to the river village in front of him, the old Taoist priest's face suddenly became serious, and he shook his head slightly towards Jin An, there are many people here, and it is not a place to speak.

At this time, the sky outside was getting darker and darker, smoke rose from the thatched houses, and the sound of mothers standing at the door of the village calling for their children to come home for dinner began to be heard.

There are also big-waisted women with wooden sticks in their hands, and the whole village chases and beats naughty naughty boys, and finally the naughty children are pinched by the ears and carried home, and then beaten when they are full.

In the fields outside the village, more and more farmers carry hoes and push canoes to reincarnate the village.

Among the children who were led home with pinched ears, Jin An saw the shepherd boy he had just asked for directions outside the village, and the child shouted that there was a Taoist chief who said that he was the reincarnation of the toad fairy, and he was very faceless when the toad fairy was pinched and carried home by his ears, he was a toad fairy, an immortal, and the immortals in the mythological stories were all people with great abilities, and mortals had to kneel and kowtow when they saw the immortals.

As a result, the shepherd boy was beaten even harder, and was picked up and beaten by his mother, and suddenly he cried loudly, crying miserably, how loud he screamed just now, and now he cries as loud as he wants.

"I let you be a toad immortal, I let you be a toad immortal, you are a toad immortal, then I am a toad immortal, the sky is big, and my father and mother are the biggest. ”

The shepherd boy was carried home by his mother's ears, beaten and cried along the way, when passing by Jin An's side, the shepherd boy recognized Jin An, he forgot to cry for a while, and the nose hung a long string of snot bubbles in the face of Jin An burst into tears and shouted with joy: "Childe! Thank you for your peaches! When I become a toad immortal in the future, I will return you a hundred, a thousand peaches......

Before the shepherd boy could finish shouting, he was beaten even harder, and suddenly cried even more fiercely.

"Laugh, laugh, I see that your skin is getting thicker and thicker, and my attack is still too light, go home and let your father continue to beat you. ”

At this time, the shepherd boy and his mother saw the old Taoist priest, greeted the old Taoist priest politely, and then continued to carry his son home.

Then Jin An saw that the cousin who took the shepherd boy to gamble on the dice was also beaten by a couple with a flat pole, scolding him for being such an adult and gambling with an ignorant cousin, which really embarrassed the face of their old Song family, and scolded you to death as an unfilial son.

The young man was beaten by his own father and mother.

This is still a really vibrant village, full of the smell of fireworks in the world, this is called human taste, this is the human smell that has not been seen since entering the ruins, in stark contrast to the silent ruins outside, Jin An looked at the village full of human flavor, with great interest.

"Little brother, do you know the shepherd boy?"

The old Taoist priest raised his hand and pointed at the shepherd boy who was beaten by the old lady and carried home, and said in surprise.

So Jin An roughly said what he had just entered the village, and after the old Taoist priest heard it, he slapped his thigh, and said in surprise that it seemed that the residence had fallen tonight.

The shepherd boy's family are honest and simple and hospitable villagers.

When the old Taoist priest took Jin An to stay overnight, the shepherd boy's parents recognized the old Taoist priest as Chen Daochang, who had given the villagers a day of divination for free today, and they were hospitable enough to let the two stay and prepare a sumptuous dinner.

However, the old Taoist priest did not let Jin An go to these dinners, he politely said to the couple that they had already eaten, and they only needed to arrange a room that could shelter from the wind and rain.

Then chatting with the other party, the old Taoist priest talked more and more, his face was full of red light, talking about the customs and customs of various places, talking about how he fought zombies to drive away evil spirits, helped the right way in the world, and put the country couple who had never seen the world in a small mountain village for generations, and listened to it again and again.

Even the little shepherd boy on the side, holding the peaches given to him by Jin An, ate with relish and listened to it with fascination.

This peach was given to him by Jin An again.

Rural people rest early at night, with the late night, the villagers of Hezhuang began to gradually extinguish the candle flame and fall asleep, at the beginning called Song Zhi little shepherd boy, clamoring to live with the old Taoist, said to continue to listen to the old Taoist priest to tell the story, naturally his mother was beaten again, so he honestly went back to sleep.

As the lights of the hundred houses were extinguished, the people of Hezhuang gradually fell asleep, and the village became very quiet, so quiet that there was no barking of dogs or the sound of night insects and birds.

It's so quiet.

Whether it was inside or outside the village, there was silence without a sound.

It wasn't until the two were alone that Jin An finally inquired about what was going on in this village?

Hey, there was a sigh in the dark night, the old Taoist priest did not answer immediately, but took Jin An to see is believing, when the old Taoist priest took Jin An to the kitchen and lifted the lid of the pot, the pot was filled with tonight's leftovers, and it turned into river mud, and the bacon strips hanging on the beam of the house also became river mud.

Then, the old Taoist priest took Jin An out of the kitchen and came to the main house and knocked on the door, but the room was dark and no one answered. The old Taoist priest said that he was disturbed, pushed the door and entered the house, and Jin An found that there was no shepherd boy and Song couple in the house, only a muddy man lying on the bed who seemed to be asleep.

Look at the facial features of the clay man, it is the shepherd boy's family of three!

Jin An was stunned.

Next, the old Taoist priest took Jin An to a river outside Hezhuang that went around the village.

At night, the sound of the murmuring of the river became clearer and clearer, and at this time, it was already the second half of the night, and an old boat, an old man with a broken crown and a blood-stained mantle, went upstream.

The lonely shadow of heaven and earth against the current!

It's like knowing that you can't do anything against the sky, but you want to do it!

The old man raised his thin palm, grabbed a handful of river mud, and pinched it out in the shape of a small earthen, and he blew a breath at the little earthen, and the little earthenman actually came to life and became a big living person who could talk and laugh.

It was a villager I had just met in the river village today.

The old man continued to pinch the natives.

Every time he blows a breath to the natives, the natives will come back to life and become villagers ashore, and the villagers will walk home one by one.

One after another natives were pinched out.

Blow out one breath after another of fairy breath.

The natives came to life, and then went ashore and walked into the village, becoming Hezhuang villagers.

This includes shepherd children and their parents.

After pinching the villagers, the old man began to pinch out birds, insects, butterflies, monkeys... These seem to be the reproduction of the old man's childhood memories, knowing that people die like lights going out, but they still can't let go of their obsession with their homeland.

Just to make up for the regrets in my heart.

"Little brother, this is the truth that Lao Dao discovered in this village, there was once a senior master in the Dongtian Blessed Land Dojo, and that senior master should be a villager from Hezhuang. It is said that everyone is eager to become an immortal, and after becoming an immortal, you can live with the sky, be at ease, and you can go anywhere in the world. But the most unforgettable thing after the death of this great immortal is his childhood father, the popular Hezhuang when he was a child, when his father and mother are not there, when his relatives are old one by one, when he sees that the familiar people around him have turned into dust, and he is left alone, isn't this the biggest regret?"