I woke up early the next day, opened my eyes and saw that the old man was no longer in the room, hey, I didn't expect the old man to get up earlier, I looked at the sky outside the window, the white fog was cloudy and I couldn't see anything clearly, even the sun didn't come out, I estimated that it was about six o'clock. I got up, grabbed my clothes, started putting them on, and got out of bed a moment later.

I was about to go out, when I saw the old man Bai walking in leisurely from outside, in good spirits, as soon as he saw me, he hurriedly greeted: "Master Bi, you got up so early!" ”

"Wake up!" I'll reply to him.

"Hehehehe...... we don't have anything to do in this mountain and wilderness village, Bi Gongzi can sleep for a while!"

"Senior, I've slept well!"

"Then Bi Gongzi will wait a minute, the old man will cook porridge!" After the old man finished speaking, he began to burn wood and wash rice, and after only a moment, he poured the washed rice into the pot, and then covered the pot and waited for the porridge to cook.

"Senior," I looked at the iron pot and asked casually, "Can you tell me, how long have you been the village chief in this Peach Blossom Village?" ”

"It's been thirty years!" The old man didn't raise his head, and replied to me casually.

"What? Thirty years? "I calculated in my heart that the election of the village head of Peach Blossom Village is once every ten years, and this old man Bai has been the village head for thirty years, so doesn't it mean that he has been elected for three consecutive terms? This...... Is this still called democracy?

Old man Bai looked up at me and smiled kindly, "Master Bi, I heard that you are from that Chizhou City?" ”

"Yes!" I nodded.

"That Chizhou City is more than 1,500 miles away from here, and you guys have a very hard time on the way!"

"Uh...... OK! ”

"I don't know if Bi Gongzi has ever met Xu Mansion on the road?" Old man Bai asked suddenly.

"I've met it!" I didn't even think about it.

Old man Bai straightened up and sighed faintly, looking at the outside of the grass house, "Then how is Xu Mansion treating you?" ”

"Uh...... It's okay! ”

"Alas......!" The old man sighed and stopped talking.

"Senior, you...... Seems to have something on mind? I looked at the old man in front of me and asked tentatively.

Old man Bai turned his eyes to look at me, and there was a bit of wisdom in his eyes, as if it was a bottomless pool, which made people feel frightened unconsciously, "Actually, the old man also had a relationship with that Xu Mansion!" ”

"You also had a relationship with the Xu Mansion?"

Old man Bai nodded slightly, "Back then, the old man was just an unknown junior on the rivers and lakes, and it coincided with the year of the election of the village mayor of this Peach Blossom Village, and all the knights on the rivers and lakes gathered in this Peach Blossom Village, and the old man also felt curious to follow, but just before the competition began, an unexpected thing happened...... ”

"Unexpected?" My gossip heart suddenly rose, and the old man Bai said that he was young at that time, and he also came to participate in the village mayor election, which should have happened more than 30 years ago.

"Yes!" Old man Bai nodded his head again and continued: "At that time, the old man was young and vigorous, and he was very shallow in the rivers and lakes, so he always felt that his heart was higher than the sky, so he didn't take those knights ......of the rivers and lakes in his eyes at that time. The people of the rivers and lakes have a penchant for fighting since ancient times, and before the election, they naturally have to compete in private to try to spoil the morale of others, the old man still remembers that day, the weather was sunny and cloudless and windless, and the person who fought with the old man was the ...... of the Xu Mansion! ”

Old man Bai's eyes instantly deepened, as if he was gradually falling into a memory, I looked at him, I couldn't bear to interrupt, I had to wait for him to continue.

The old man Bai continued slowly: "The battle in the rivers and lakes, I don't care if you use a gun and a stick, what I care about is whether the kung fu you use is inherited from the master, if you steal what the teacher has learned, it will make the world laugh, the old man still remembers that day, Xu Fu made two wide-backed big knives, and the old man made a stick with one hand." Xufu's double knives are no different from other knives, it looks disdainful, but in his hands it seems to be alive, the double knives are flying up and down and approaching tightly, and the stick in the hands of the old man is also handed down by the ancestors, so he struggled to block, when the old man and Xu Fu fought for more than 80 rounds, Xu Fu sold a flaw and turned around to escape, the old man thought he would win so he raised the stick to fight, but when the stick in my hand was about to hit Xu Fu, I suddenly saw a woman next to me, and the woman was still pregnant with Liujia ....... ”

The old man Bai suddenly stopped talking, I vaguely saw a trace of pain flashing in his eyes, according to the logic of the story he told just now, the stick in his hand fell extremely fast, it must be uncontrollable, and he was originally a martial arts practitioner, so the woman must die, is it ......? I looked at the old man Bai with some cruelty.

The old man Bai calmed down his mood, only glanced at me and continued: "Bi Gongzi guessed right, the stick in the old man's hand was hitting the woman's body, and the old man was stunned at that time, although the old man was not a chivalrous man in the rivers and lakes, but it was the first time to beat someone to death with his own hands, the old man was stunned at that time, and the Xu Mansion also stopped the movements in his hand to look at the woman, the strength of the stick was just if the person who practiced martial arts could bear it, but this woman didn't know kung fu at all, and saw death, Seeing this, the old man and Xu Fu wanted to cut off their meridians to apologize for their sins, but at this moment, a voice came into the old man's ears, and the voice told the old man that as long as he won the position of the village chief, the fetus in the woman's womb could be reborn, which could be regarded as making up for some sins, so the old man was determined to win the position of the village chief......! ”

I don't kill Beren, but Beren dies because of me. I looked at the painful expression on Old Man Bai's face, and I could deeply feel his mood at that time, no matter who he was at that time, I am afraid that he would apologize with death. "What about Xufu?" I asked softly.

"The old man didn't know if the Xu Mansion also heard the voice, he just stood up and turned around and left, and the old man has never seen him since then, but later it was rumored in the rivers and lakes that there was a thief god who was arrested and called Xu Mansion, and it should be him!"

"Oh!" I nodded, it turns out that this is the case, I really didn't expect this Xu Mansion and the old man Bai in front of me to have such a story, however, this story doesn't seem to be finished, I looked at the old man Bai and asked softly: "Senior, what happened to the fetus in the woman's womb later?" ”

Old man Bai turned his head to look at me, still full of kindness, "Later, the old man tried his best to compete for the position of village head, and finally became the head of a village in this Peach Blossom Village, that voice really didn't lie to me, just on the day the old man entered the Peach Blossom Village, he inadvertently got a prescription, which brought the fetus back to life, but this prescription was refined for too long, and the old man finally saved the fetus more than ten years ago, in fact, the little girl Changxiu that Bi Gongzi saw yesterday was!" ”

What's ......? The little beauty I saw yesterday was the fetus in the womb of the woman who died thirty years ago? This...... Seems too weird, right?

Old man Bai looked at me with a look of surprise, "Master Bi doesn't need to be surprised, the person who cured Miss Situ's illness back then was also the old man." ”

I looked at the kind white-haired old man in front of me, and two words suddenly popped out of my head: Divine doctor!

"And then?" I continued to ask.

"Later?" Old man Bai looked at me, "Later, Chang Xiu decided that the old man was her father, and the old man also recognized her as his daughter. ”

"I see!" I nodded, I said how could I think Chang Xiu was familiar when I saw her yesterday, it turned out that she was the girl who sang!

The rice porridge in the iron pot has begun to glow, faintly dissipated, and it should be able to eat after a while, this porridge has to be cooked over low heat, and it takes a long time to cook, so that the porridge will have the aroma of rice grains, and it is easy to chew and digest in the mouth, just suitable for the elderly. I glanced at the iron pot unintentionally, looked up and continued to look at the old man Bai, but I was thinking in my heart, he was too weird as the village chief!

The old man Bai had no intention of looking at me, so he waited for the porridge in the iron pot to be cooked, and the iron pot was hot in a moment, the old man Bai straightened up and lifted the lid of the pot, and suddenly the white mist spread out, and the old man Bai said to himself: "The porridge is ready, you can eat!" ”

The two of us settled breakfast so silently.

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