This side house is at the back door of the tavern, it is very small, and after Liang Yuxi saw it, there was nothing to settle down. Yulian helped him build two boards, picked up some clean felt and spread them, and pulled a reed mat, which was considered a clean place to sleep.

As soon as you step out of the door, there is a small courtyard, and the courtyard wall encloses the whole tavern and the brothel building above. It's just that there is no back door in the small courtyard, and you can only enter and exit from the tavern in front.

There was no place for people to live happily in the early years, and the old man of Donglu never made a special explanation. Liang Yuxi thought that if it weren't for Shopkeeper Xiao's nod, it would be impossible to make a living in the forest farm.

I just heard Yulian say a few words, saying that the woman with the black birthmark, named Zeng, is the old bustard of this brothel. This tavern is also her master. It's just that the people in this tavern and brothel seem to be a little afraid of the shopkeeper Xiao, and they are not close to the shopkeeper Xiao.

After Liang Yuxi finished settling, he saw that the sky was already bright, so he thought about how he should protect himself in the forest farm in the next step, and fortunately, when the time came, he could follow the guidance of the treasure box and finish the things that the master had explained. As for the duties of these two shopkeepers, they still have a black eye for the forest farm, and they can't figure out the depth of the forest farm at all. Even what kind of person Xiao Xiaoshen is can't be identified. Of course, Liang Yuxi is also afraid that the old man will blame, but it is almost impossible to take on the duties of the second shopkeeper for a while. I can only watch and ponder, and I can't rush for a while.

Liang Yuxi thought about it, when the old man explained the section of the forest farm, he never mentioned Shopkeeper Xiao. I haven't seen him mention this person for so many years, and this person seems to have never been a person from Donglu Province. Even the old man didn't mention him, as if he was avoiding something.

He just said that he wanted to use some thunderbolt means to clean up the forest farm, with the master's understanding of Shopkeeper Xiao and himself, this has several meanings when he thinks about it. This is the matter of the big shopkeeper who rectifies the forest farm, and it is not Liang Yuxi's turn to take charge, if he wants him to receive the order, it implies that he wants him to be against the shopkeeper Xiao; The second is that Liang Yuxi has just arrived, and he should not be the opponent of Xiao's shopkeeper, and the master should also know this. It seems that the old man is not in a hurry about the affairs of the forest farm, and he does not care very much about whether Liang Yuxi can manage the forest farm, but he cares about whether Liang Yuxi can have some means to deal with Xiao Xiaoshen.

Thinking about it like this, Liang Yuxi suddenly understood the intentions of many masters.

Now Aunt Zeng moved her heart of compassion and gave him a place to live, although this is a partial house, but in this corner, it is also a place where you can see everything. It's just that this brothel is a place of the lower nine streams, which cannot be compared with the Red Mansion Powder Alley, and it is not a fair and honest place. I'm afraid that I will be so down, and I will be known by my lord and my mother, and I will inevitably be scolded.

Thinking of the master's strictness, somehow, Liang Yuxi thought of Donglu Jue, and thought about the situation of that day for a long time......

When he came back to his senses, he felt that his face was hot, his heart was flustered, and there was a kind of unquenchable melancholy that tugged at him.

Liang Yuxi unconsciously scolded himself, afraid that he would have some hateful thoughts.

At this moment, the ears heard the bells...... A hurried bell rang out, and the sound was so sharp and piercing that it startled the crows outside the forest farm, and in an instant broke the dawn in the mountains.

Liang Yuxi listened carefully to the upstairs, and there was no movement, thinking that it was not a big deal, maybe there were some arrangements on the forest farm. So he got up and went out of the house, and went under the porch of the tavern in front of him, and felt that it was not appropriate for him to go out in this way, so he hid behind the pillar and watched the movement.

I saw that the person who rang the bell was Wu Sheng. After this bell rang, the wooden guests in the four big houses all came out, and after a while, nearly a hundred and ten people came out.

I saw these wooden customers, most of them in ragged clothes, dressed in different ways, and all of them wrapped their heads with strips of red linen. Although they are all full of rivers and lakes, their faces are very silent, and they seem to be in awe. The wooden guests gathered in the center of the forest farm, facing the north and standing in several columns, which were also neat, like sergeants.

Liang Yuxi found out from afar, under the plaque of this mountain forest farm, there is also a case, in addition to the incense burner offerings, there is also a long-handled mountain axe on the case, the axe is rough and heavy, only the shape of the axe, there is no metallic luster, it should be a stone axe, not to mention fifty or sixty catties. It is placed on the incense table and hung upside down in front of everyone, which should be a thing of worship.

After everyone finished standing, Xiao Xiaoshen came out of the north house, only to see him wearing a black satin shirt with his hair tied around his head, a belt around his waist, thin fast boots, and a short dress. The fat body looked a lot neater for a while.

There were four people standing on the left and right behind him, all of them were sturdy men, two of them hung waist knives, two of them lifted their knives, their eyes widened one by one, and their faces were fierce.

As soon as the five people appeared, the one hundred and ten people were silent all of a sudden. A huge forest farm was quiet, only the distant croaking of birds, slow and tight, as if some were not surprised.

Liang Yuxi had also seen the battalion drills on the school ground, but the wooden guests who seemed to be a rabble in front of him, although they stood solemnly and motionless, some of them seemed to have been drilled, but they all looked silent and seemed to be scared.

Although Liang Yuxi was standing in the distance, he could feel some ominous aura in the silence, and he didn't feel that his heart was beating faster.

Wu Sheng sang loudly on the side: "The time has come, worship the gods!" ”

I saw Xiao Xiaoshen singing, holding up a stick of incense with a solemn expression, bowing a few times to the stone axe, then inserting the incense into the incense burner, turning around, and nodding to the two people on the left.

The two men on his left jumped down the stone steps and walked into the crowd. Suddenly there was a commotion in the crowd.

The two quickly moved out of the crowd, one on one side. I saw that this person had sharp-beaked monkey gills, short and thin, and a pair of small eyes that were spinning around, which was the thin man Liang Yuxi met when he rescued Miss in the Land Temple.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yu was shocked to see this person here, and he subconsciously hid behind the pillar.

The thin man had a weeping and mourning face, and he didn't dare to speak, so he let someone put him in front of the case.

Xiao Xiaoshen didn't look at the thin man who knelt down a few days ago, he raised his chin and said: "My mountain Mishan Forest Farm is blessed by the axe god, the cold and summer are coming, the spring is long and the autumn is long, and it is prosperous so far. Damanto, the proud son of the sky, said in a dream that he would sacrifice the blood of this person and a branch of his body to my axe god, eliminate disasters for all the woodmen, and ensure that the mountain god would not be angered when felling, and he would return to my forest farm with all his beards and tails. ”

After listening vaguely, Liang Yuxi was most puzzled by hearing him say that he wanted to worship with the blood of this person, could it be that he was going to kill this guy? In broad daylight, only the river thieves and green forest heroes can do it.

Although this thin man is not a good citizen, such a worship still makes Liang Yuxi feel that it is too bloody. I don't know how sacred this axe god is, and how he manifests his spirit, so that he has to worship with human blood? This end is different from the mud bodhisattvas and land lords I have seen in the past.

I only heard a long howl: "The axe god invites ......"

Liang Yuxi's heart tightened, and he saw that the kneeling thin man was held hostage by two strong men, and the other strong man grabbed one of his hands, and the knife flashed, and a sharp knife cut off his little finger to the ground. The thin man screamed, but he couldn't bear the pain, and was let go. Someone next to him quickly bandaged his fingers with strips of cloth.

The man who used the knife picked up his fingers on the ground and handed them to the desk with respectful hands.

Liang Yuxi was dumbfounded, this whole action, several strong men are not stiff, they should be some familiar hands, and this worship ceremony does not seem to be the first time. It turns out that the body branch that the shopkeeper Xiao said is what he said.

The little finger should be regarded as the most insignificant branch of the body given by the parents. If it is other parts that cannot be cut off, it is not as cheap as giving up this little finger.

Liang Yuxi sighed and said in his heart: "This ghost place is really not good." Fortunately, my mother didn't know about these situations, and if she knew, she would have been scared half to death. ”

While he was pondering, he was tapped on the shoulder, "You kid, I didn't find you in your room, I didn't expect you to hide in this corner, watching this matter." ”

Liang Yuxi knew that Wu Niang was behind him, so he deliberately asked: "Wu Niang, this forest farm worships the axe god, why do you want human blood, isn't it cheaper to kill a chicken than this?" ”

"What do you care about these pickled wooden birds," Wu Niang said in a low voice, "My woman can also see that this is just some tricks. Xiao Scorpion doesn't play some tricks, then he can bluff these broken goods. ”

Liang Yuxi nodded, still as if he understood. When Wu Niang saw this, she laughed and said: "Don't look at this place, the door is open, it's not that you can come if you want to, and you can leave if you want to." If you come, don't want to go out. You don't think about these things, and you can stay with Wu Niang with peace of mind, and Wu Niang can still cover it. After speaking, he leaned his body softly against Liang Yuxi.

Liang Yu was busy and said with a smile: "Wu Niang, don't bluff me, this is not Longtan Tiger's Den, is it so scary?" ”

"Is it still so scary? Do you know that the last time you went into the forest to worship the axe god, you were really going to kill ....... I don't know when, that Yulian answered on the side.

When Wu Niang heard Yulian say this, she hurriedly gave Yulian a look and told her to stop, "Don't talk nonsense about you girl, if someone hears it, take you to worship." ”

Liang Yu was happy to see this, and it was inconvenient to ask again, so he hurriedly took the opportunity to avoid the two of them with questions.