After I had said this, the three of us searched in these three different directions, and after about a quarter of an hour I suddenly saw smoke in the southwest corner, and I ran at once, and when I had passed there I found that the torch had been lit by the fat man.

The fat man stood in front of a door with a torch, and when he saw me and the phoenix coming, he pointed directly to the room and said, "This family has a pig, I'm afraid it's the only one in the village, go in and have a look!" ”

I nodded, and at this time I took a little bit of silver from my body, and then slowly walked in front of the door, and knocked on the door three times.

The person who opened the door was an old lady, who was now in her 50s, which was not too young in the Qing Dynasty.

The old lady was a little hunchbacked, wearing a cloth shirt, and when she saw us, she was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Are you lost guests?" Come in and take a seat! ”

The door was opened, so I naturally didn't say anything, nodded, and walked in.

After walking into the room, I saw that the tables and chairs in this family were very tattered, this family was poor, it was really purple, and the clothes worn by the old lady were also patches from east to west, and I smiled and said: "Grandma is really disturbed, this village is so strange, why no one lives?" ”

The old lady was going to serve us tea and pour water, but we found that there was no boiling water at all, so I quickly helped the old lady and said, "Don't be busy, we are passing by here, sit for a while and rest and leave!" ”

The old lady nodded embarrassedly, although the other party was old, but he was still conscious, and said to us: "That's really embarrassing, this house is also poor and white, there is nothing, I haven't had time to prepare a few guests where to go?" ”

The fat man patted his belly next to him and said, "Oh, we came here with Baimei Dao, and we happened to pass by here, so let's come in and have a look!" ”

The fame of the white-eyed Taoist is very big in this era, and the old lady scares the child, I am afraid that everyone knows about it, and no one knows about it.

The old lady immediately nodded with a little envy and said: "The Taoist is a god operator, if you are a friend of the Taoist chief, it is also my blessing to come to see me, the other rooms in this village are all dilapidated, and I am an old lady who relies on going up the mountain to pick up some fruits to eat, and I can't live for many years!" ”

Phoenix walked up to the old lady and said, "Don't say that, grandmother, we wish you a long life, why is there only one family in this village?" Did everyone else starve to death? ”

Although what Phoenix said was not very polite, it was also true, this village was so poor that it could only rely on picking wild fruits to feed its stomach, and it was indeed impossible to feed people, and it was not surprising to starve to death.

The old lady sighed and said: "There was no one in this village more than ten years ago, there was a time when many people in the village were seriously ill and died, and then the living people fled here, although the virus is gone, but where the plague has been obtained, who dares to come?" ”

It turns out that in the era of the Qing Dynasty, this virus could completely put people to death, and there was no special medicine.

So as soon as everyone hears these two words, it is like facing death, and they are running as far as they want.

The phoenix pulled the old lady and continued, "Then grandmother, why don't you leave here?" What about your children? ”

Since we found someone, we are not in a hurry and go straight to the point, so we will chat casually for a while and learn about the local background.

I also nodded and said, "Yes, you are so old, someone should take care of you, is there no one else in this family?" ”

The old lady nodded and replied, "The children in the family are still there, but I drove them out, and there has been a plague in this place, so I can't let them continue to live, but my father is dead, and the rest is my only son, who has already gone away, and when he fled, I also fled between him and me, and the boy probably didn't dare to come back!" ”

I asked curiously, "Then why don't you leave, you see that your old legs and feet are still quite good, and it is not difficult to leave this village!" ”

The old lady nodded confidently at this time and said: "It's not a difficult thing, I usually walk around the village, and I also raise a pig, so I can only pick it up, you can also see, my old lady has nothing to do, just such a hobby!" ”

The fat man read, Nan Wu Amitabha, interjected next to him and said: "Since the old lady refuses to leave, then naturally she has her own suffering, I am a Buddhist person, you say that what you can do is very limited, if you have any suffering, you can confide in me!" ”

When the fat man said this, I almost vomited in one breath, and the fat man had nothing to do with the monk at all except for the robe he was wearing.

However, the fat man said this can really move people's hearts, because when he entered the room, Sun Yan supported the family, and the house was surrounded by walls, but a Buddha statue was indeed placed in the middle of the house.

It can be seen that this old lady does believe in Buddhism.

For a person who believes in Buddhism, seeing the fat man must be particularly kind, the old lady before looking at the fat man will look at us differently, with a little admiration, now the fat man himself said, the old lady is even more happy to hold the fat man's hand and said: "Amitabha, it turned out to be a Buddhist person, I pray to God every day to worship the Buddha, pray to be able to protect the son who is far away, I didn't expect to really invite the living Buddha." ”

The fat man is sometimes very shameless, but no matter how shameless he is, he doesn't dare to pretend to be a living Buddha, he hurriedly said beside me: "You are serious, but you have a common belief, not to mention the extent you said, in fact, we came here today to inquire about a person, this person's nickname is called Xiaofang, I don't know if you have heard it, it is said that it is a person from this village!" ”

When the old lady heard the word Xiaofang, she held the fat man's hand tightly for a moment, although she had already held it before, but this time it was different, and she worked harder.

And the old lady looked obviously very excited, and then the old lady closed her eyes, and after five or six minutes, she calmed down and sighed, and said to us: "Where did you ask about Xiaofang's name, is Xiaofang okay?" I've lived here for so many years, just to wait for Xiaofang to come back and refuse to leave! ”