Three days later.

In the afternoon, Chenjiagou, a cloth spinning.

"I'll go first!"

A woman with braids carries a cloth satchel and waves to her friend sitting in the cloth.

Lu Xuan sat in her seat and smiled at her.

"Go back quickly, it's too late for your father and mother to scold you again. ”

"Got it!"

The girl trotted away briskly in the setting sun with a brisk gait, and ran away until she could no longer be seen.

Lu Xuan didn't retract her gaze until she couldn't see her friend at all, looked at the empty cloth spinning, everyone left, and in the end she was the only one left.

"It's time for me to go back too. Lu Xuan carefully put away the pen, ink and papyrus on the table. Slip it into the small satchel he had brought, then stand up and pat his ass and walk out of the classroom.

Chenjiagou under the sunset looks particularly dark and silent.

Several women who were originally chatting by the wall, as soon as they saw Lu Xuan come out, they hurriedly walked away, seemingly unwilling to even look at her more.

There were also a few seven or eight-year-old boys in the distance, who were playing with mud with snot, and when they saw Lu Xuan coming out, several little boys were so frightened that they ran away.

"Run!

"This way!"

Seeing this, Lu Xuan didn't care, lowered her head, straightened her small satchel, and walked in the direction of her home.

Chenjiagou is not far from her home, only a few miles away. But for her, a ten-year-old girl, the road is also extremely long.

In fact, a few years ago, her family was still fine, and her parents-in-law were still alive.

But since two years ago, my husband has been obsessed with alchemy and cultivating immortals. I don't take the annual exam. I chatter at home all day long, and practice the Immortal Martial Arts and Pills. He also wasted his family's money and bought a lot of messy books on cultivating immortals and alchemy.

Since then, life has been rocky.

First of all, my parents-in-law went out one day and never came back. After that, before the husband's younger brother Shouxiao arrived, he fell off the carriage in an accident and rolled off the cliff.

After that, no one else in the family could control her husband, so he began to frantically refine the pill and cultivate immortals, as if he had fallen into a demon.

Most of the other relatives were disappointed and left. Until now, she and her husband are the only ones living in the Zhuangzi. For the sake of alchemy, the husband sold all the valuable things in the house, and now the whole Zhuangzi is empty, and even the thieves are not willing to patronize it. The servants of the family were also dismissed, and only the two of them remained.

Lu Xuan's white face was a little lost, she thought about her father.

"There is also the osmanthus cake made by my mother, it is delicious...."She lowered her head and gently wiped her moist eyes, and hurried towards the house.

All the way to a foot deep, one foot shallow, Lu Xuan tied the shoulder-length short straw rope. Walking briskly all the way, I finally arrived at the door of the house when it was just dark.

There is a crack in the gate of Yizhuang, which is not locked, and the surrounding area is pitch black, and there is no popularity.

Lu Xuan had long been used to it, pushed open the door vigorously, walked in, and then locked the door with his backhand, and then put down the thick latch.

Bang.

The door was locked, and she patted the dust off her hands and turned to look at the courtyard of her home.

The floor was full of fallen leaves and branches, and the room was so dark that there was no light.

By the light of the moon, she walked in the direction of the side hall.

In the empty and silent courtyard, the footsteps of her alone kept echoing, and the worn-out deerskin boots stepped on the stone slabs, constantly making a crunching sound.

Lu Xuan had long been accustomed to this kind of scene, she walked quickly to the side hall and looked, it was dark inside, the moonlight shone on the dining table in the middle, and there was nothing on it.

"Ugh...."

She sighed and walked towards her husband's bedroom.

Across the stone bridge, she walked to the largest wing on the left and gently pushed the door open.

Squeak.

The piercing sound of wood grinding is extremely eye-catching throughout the Zhuangzi.

The room was dark, and Lu Xuan could only barely see the furnishings inside by the moonlight.

: On the left side of the room is a dark corner where nothing can be seen. By the moonlight, I could faintly see a huge object placed there.

Lu Xuan knew that it was her husband's Dan furnace.

She looked to the right, and in the moonlight, several bowls were faintly placed on a square table.

"Husband, you're still alchemizing. ”

After a moment of silence.

"Well, I just refined a little. A male voice replied in the darkness.

Lu Xuan walked into the room, groped her way to sit down at the dining table, and felt her chopsticks to prepare for dinner.

But after picking up a dish, she realized that the dish was actually cold. It's not allowed to light the lamp at night, and now you can't even heat the food? What kind of cold refining method, how can there be alchemy without fire?

"Husband, don't you have any hot dishes?"

"yes, it's still made in the morning, and it's not hot yet. An answer came from the darkness.

Lu Xuan sighed.

But what she couldn't see was that behind the alchemy furnace in the dark, there was no one at all!

No one, where did that sound come from?

Nobody knows.

After two bites of the dish, she felt that it was difficult to swallow, and the minced meat in it seemed to be a little rancid, not like she had only made it in the morning.

"I told Chen Meiqin in the cloth spinning today that she will come to my house to play in a few days, husband..."

"Well, I'm listening. The voice replied.

"Can you accompany me at home during the day?" Lu Xuan whispered.

"I'm going to do alchemy. The voice replied briefly.

"Can't you stay with me for a day?" Lu Xuan's eyes were full of disappointment.

"I'm going to do alchemy. The voice repeated.

Lu Xuan was silent, bowing her head and eating her meal silently.

She didn't realize that a tall figure silently walked out of a corner of the room and slowly stood behind her.

The figure had a pale face, it was a man's face, an expressionless face.

Bang bang bang!

Suddenly, there was a violent knock on the door of the house.

Lu Xuan stood up suddenly.

"Who?" She ran out and came to the gate.

"Is anyone there?"

"We are in a hurry, it is getting late, and we want to stay here for the night. A clear man's voice came in, with a hint of gentleness.

Lu Xuan hesitated, now there are only her and her husband in the Zhuangzi, in case she encounters any villains.

"Madame, we can advance the money first, and borrow it for a night. The man said again. "We're not bad guys, it's the cost of staying overnight. ”

Crash.

There was a crisp sound, and a piece of silver was thrown through the wall.

Lu Xuan ran to take a look and picked it up.

The surface of the silver ingot emitted a silver glow, and there were some engravings on it that were common to the firm, which was obviously genuine.

However, Lu Xuan still put it in her mouth and bit it.

Thinking of the situation at home, Lu Xuan hesitated, but thinking that there was still a man like her husband at home, she raised the door latch. Laboriously open the door.

A figure wearing a white coat and a little girl with a collar appeared at the door.