Such a house has some characteristics of its own, which is very different from the Qingshan tribe. This is not a deep mountain like Lu Village, and many of their houses are supported by wooden pillars at the corners, with wooden frames on the roofs, and some of the walls are also made of wooden planks. The courtyard walls are mostly made of rubble, which is supposed to have been taken from Baixi.

The wall that once surrounded the village should have been very tall and sturdy, but now it has fallen into disrepair, and there are many places that have opened gaps, which should be convenient for people to enter and exit, because there are many new houses outside the wall. Not only that, but there is also a house and field on the high slope on the north bank opposite Baixi, which may be that as the population of the village multiplies, some people live there.

This very remote village in the north of Feihong City has developed very prosperous in the past hundred years. The reason is also very simple, because there is a powerful monk here and he is the lord of Feihong City, and no one will come here to make trouble. In the past 100 years, the wall has been in vain, but it has hindered people's access.

Today, the population of Baixi Village has increased several times compared to a hundred years ago, and people of course need to build more dwellings, open up more fields, expand the village, and even move to the other side of the river. Although the old city lord died decades ago, the rest of the city is still there, and there has never been any threat here, and the people have become accustomed to a comfortable life.

But today, there are finally rogues who incite the demon clan to come and ransack the almost undefended Baixi Village, and the villagers still don't know anything.

Since it was early winter and there was not much farm work, the weather was not good and the wind was blowing, so people hid in their houses early in the morning and did not come out. Baoyu saw Baixi Village from afar. There were already several gaps in the wall surrounding the village, and the middle of the gap was trampled into a flat road, and it was recognizable that the original gate was on the side near Baixi, where there were steps leading down to the water's edge.

There is a place near the water where there are many large flat stones, which have been chiseled for many years. It should be the place where the people of Baixi Village usually wash their clothes, and there is a water inlet not far upstream, the water flow is gentle and clear, and that should be the place where they usually draw water. Baoyu walked along the white stream, only to see a girl walking to the inlet to get water.

The girl was sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in linen and covered with an animal skin. This Pikan shoulder is old. The hair in several places has been bald, revealing the underbody of the skin. She was holding a clay pot and was about to fetch water with hemp rope, when she heard Baoyu's voice and asked, "Girl, are you from Baixi Village?"

When she came, she didn't see anyone, but she suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice behind her. The girl was so frightened that she exclaimed, and the clay pot fell off her hand on the pebble-strewn riverbank, falling apart.

This is also strange for Baoyu's habits are not very good, he used to travel in the wild, and the most common situation was to go back and forth between Lu Village and Taihao Ruins. And the mountain god told him and Xiaotian to try to restrain their voices and hide their tracks. This habit has been formed, even if there is no need to cast a spell to hide the sound at the moment, when Baoyu and Xiaotian come. Even if you step on a gravel beach, your steps are very quiet. The girl didn't look this way, so she didn't notice them at all.

The clay pot fell to the ground and shattered, startling Xiao Tian too, and jumped back a big step before standing still. The girl turned and saw Baoyu and the dog, and crouched down again to pick up the pottery shards, which were obviously beyond salvage. When she raised her head again, she was already in tears, and said in a voice that was about to cry, "Where are you from, and why are you scaring me like this?...... The jar is broken, what should I do?"

Baoyu also realizes that she has caused trouble. He said apologetically: "I'm really sorry, I'm from a foreign country, and I happened to be passing by here, and I accidentally alarmed you just now." ...... It doesn't matter if the jar is broken, I'll pay you one. ”

The girl said very aggrievedly: "You didn't break it." It's because I didn't take it myself, how can I ask you to pay for it?...... This is the jar of the patriarch's house, not an ordinary pottery ......" she was about to cry again as she spoke.

Baoyu is not only good at refining weapons, but also good at distinguishing utensils, this clay pot is nothing in his eyes, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it can be regarded as a delicate and precious thing. It has "ears" and can be carried through with hemp rope, so you don't have to bend down when drawing water, and you can also fall deep to draw water. The process of firing pottery is easy to break, and with such a pair of hollow ears, the difficulty of firing is much greater than that of ordinary pottery.

Not only that, the blank of this clay pot is very delicate, and the shape of the vessel is also very delicate, obviously carefully made, and it turned out to be the jar of the patriarch of Baixi Village. Baoyu gently comforted: "Don't worry, if I hadn't scared you, you wouldn't have broken the jar, and I would definitely pay if I said it." ”

The girl looked at him with some curiosity and asked, "What do you pay, that dog?...... No need, I'll tell the patriarch myself, I can't blame you. ”

Baoyu was wearing a thin kudzu cloth in this weather, and she didn't have anything on her body at first glance, and as for the piece of gold hidden in her arms, of course the girl didn't see it and couldn't think of it at all. Obviously, this young man only has this dog by his side, how can he let him use it to compensate for his clay pot?

Xiao Tian glanced at the girl with disdain, and looked very dissatisfied. And Baoyu smiled: "Of course I can't compensate you for this dog, it's my friend." I said that a jar is a jar, exactly the same jar as the one you just broken. ”

As he spoke, he turned and took a few steps higher, leaving the gravel beach to the dirt outcrop, crouching down and starting to rub the mud with his hands. The girl was stunned, and did not know what the young man wanted to do, was his brain sick, so he wanted to pinch a jar with mud to compensate her? Moreover, the clay used to burn the pottery was very particular, and the mud here had a lot of impurities, which was not suitable for making pottery at all.

And Baoyu was really kneading the jar with his hands, digging out the silt by his river, and rotating it into shape in his hands, but later it was no longer kneading it by hand, but the clay blank was moving on its own. Soon after, a jar with the exact shape of Fang Cai appeared in Baoyu's hand. He stood up, held the jar in both hands, handed it to the girl, and said, "Take it, and I will pay you for it." ”

The girl didn't dare to reach out to pick it up, and subconsciously took a step back and said, "This, this, this...... Who are you? You made an identical clay block, but it's not a clay pot!"

Baoyu smiled: "I said that the clay pot is the clay pot, you will know if you take it." As he spoke, he stooped down and picked up the hemp rope on the ground, smashed the broken jar lug that was still attached to one end of the rope, tied it to the ears of the new jar, and handed it over with his hand.

The girl was stunned, since she could lift it with a rope, it was obviously not a mud billet. She took the jar at a loss, touched it with her hand for a long time, and subconsciously knocked it, sure enough, it was a fired pottery, and it was still a little warm and hot.

Baoyu is not pretentious, he just naturally uses refining kung fu. At the beginning, he used the five-colored divine clay to refine a magic clay pot, and firing such an ordinary jar was a matter of casual succession. This was his own trouble, so he didn't spare his magical powers. But his casual skills are definitely not something that ordinary monks can do!

He was afraid that the girl would be in a hurry, so the speed of refining the weapon was very fast, and the softness of mana and the subtlety of divine consciousness had been used to the extreme, and at this moment there was already a slight sweat on the tip of his nose. The jar he refined was much better than the one the girl had broken just now, it could be regarded as a low-grade treasure weapon, at least it was difficult for ordinary strength to break it.

The stunned girl seemed to react suddenly, held the clay pot in her arms, bowed down and saluted with a very frightened expression: "Ziwei was rude just now, I didn't know that you were actually a passing co-worker." ...... I don't know what I can do for you?"

It turned out that this girl's name was Ziwei, after all, she lived in a village like Baixi Village, which has a heritage background, and when she saw Baoyu kneading mud with her bare hands and didn't need to enter the kiln to fire, she made a clay pot out of thin air, and guessed that he was a legendary co-worker. When the co-workers in the city go out and pass by some villages, they often do something at the request of the villagers.

But she had never heard of a co-worker performing such a miraculous skill, just to make an ordinary clay pot. Under normal circumstances, a certain village asks a co-worker to spend his cultivation mana and use such a magical means to help, and the price paid is not small, even if it is possible to compensate a girl like Ziwei to the co-worker.

And what kind of request will this co-worker make if he has already made a move, and how can she meet it?

Her appearance is not as strong and stout as many women in the wild tribes, her body looks a little delicate, her skin is very fair, there are a few freckles on both sides of her nose, her facial features are very delicate, and her figure is a little thin but also with a slender softness. For some reason, Baoyu thought that she looked stupid just now, and the panicked expression of standing in the cold wind at the moment was also very pitiful.

Baoyu smiled and said, "Don't be afraid, my appearance is not scary! I don't need you to do anything for me, I just pay you a jar." Your jar is indeed very good, and it is very difficult for ordinary people to succeed in making it, it turns out that it belongs to the patriarch's family, so you are also a child of the patriarch's family, right?"

Miss Ziwei hurriedly shook her head and said, "How can I be the child of the patriarch's family!" I live next to the patriarch's house, and it is a little cold today, so the patriarch asked me to come and fetch water for his family. ...... This Gonggong master, do you have something to do with coming to our village?"

Baoyu asked curiously, "Is your patriarch sick?"

The girl also asked curiously: "No, the patriarch is very good, why do you ask like this?"

In Lu Village, his own patriarch Qingshan has always been the patriarch, but he has never asked his clan to do things like fetching water for him, so Baoyu will ask curiously. After asking, he immediately thought that this was Ba Yuan, and many noble people were served by slaves. And this girl should not be a slave of the patriarch's family, but the patriarch is obviously accustomed to directing his people to serve him.

The mountain god introduced various situations to Baoyu in Bayuan, of course, including such things, and Baoyu could figure it out. Besides, on a windy and cold day, it is better to find a strong man even if someone is sent to do such a thing, why call a weak girl who can't even hold a water jug!

So he didn't have a good impression of the patriarch of Baixi Village, and he didn't explain anything, so he nodded to Ziwei and said, "You are going to the patriarch's house, I happen to have something to tell the villagers of Baixi Village, so I ask you to tell the patriarch." ”

Baoyu told the girl about what he had met early in the morning—two people from the foothills secretly spying on the movements of Baixi Village, and had such a conversation. Baoyu also said his analysis and judgment, there are rogues who collude with the demon clan to come to Baixi Village to rob, and the time is next month, hoping that Baixi Village can take precautions in advance.

He finally advised: "Please also trouble you to say hello to Uncle Tian Xiao and tell him these things." I met him on the road, and he knew who I was. ”

The girl's face turned pale, her lips were a little pale, and she didn't know whether she was frightened or felt a little cold, so she lost her voice and said, "The foothills, are they those pig-headed people? I'm going to tell the patriarch!"

After speaking, she ran back to the village as fast as she could, not even bothering to say anything more to Baoyu. Baoyu stood by the river for a while, he looked at Xiaotian, Xiaotian also looked at him, and the eyes of the dog waited for a long time without seeing any movement. Baoyu smiled and walked downstream to wash her hands by the river. Greeted Xiaotian and left here.

Baixi Village is a strong village, and there are more than 1,000 residents by simply measuring the number of houses. Baoyu also specially asked Miss Ziwei to inform Tian Xiao as well, because the old man had been conscripted to fight on the border, and not only had he cultivated martial arts, but more importantly, he had participated in military training. You should know how to organize your clansmen to deal with those demon clans and rogues, so that Baoyu can rest assured.

Besides, there is still more than half a month, which is enough for Baixi Village to make all kinds of preparations, if you are worried that the strength of this village is insufficient, you will have time to send someone to Feihong City to ask the city lord for help. What Baoyu wanted to do had been done, and he saw that no one came to greet him. He didn't want to stand there anymore and wait for someone to express his gratitude, so he continued on his way.

However, Baoyu had not gone far along the river beach back to the road, when he heard the noise of people in the distance behind him, and turned his head to see that many people had run out of the gap in the wall, and a man of about fifty years old was clustered among them. The man shouted from afar, "Lord Gonggong, please stay!"

The man was white and chubby, and he ran in a hurry. When he came to Baoyu, he was already out of breath, and he knelt down and said, "Master Gonggong, can't you just leave!"

Baoyu was surprised: "Who are you, why do you kneel down to me?...... I am not a co-worker in the city, but a monk who happens to be passing by. Today I met something related to your village, and I have already told the crape myrtle girl just now. ”

The white fat man directly grabbed the ground with his head and said, "I am the patriarch of Baixi Village, called Baixi." ...... My lord, now that Baixi Village is about to be in great trouble, we can't deal with those fierce foothill tribesmen, and the rogues who kill people without blinking. You have a lot of mana. Please help us!"

When Baoyu grew to the age of ten, three or four years old, it was the first time that someone knelt in front of him, and when he knelt, it was a large area, all of which were led by the patriarch of Baixi. The people of Baixi Village in the back ran out with the patriarch, and they were all surprised when they saw Baoyu - this was clearly a child. It's not what you think you are.

Even the well-informed Tian Xiao, when he first saw Baoyu, he was puzzled for a long time at first, not to mention these villagers. But the patriarch's movements were too familiar, no matter whether Baoyu was a child or an adult, and he didn't look like a master, he knelt down in front of him, and his head was banging, without hesitation at all.

The expressions of the clansmen behind didn't seem to be in disbelief, I don't know if they believed Baoyu's identity, or if they didn't believe what Baoyu said to Miss Ziwei just now. But since the patriarchs were all like this, they also knelt down one after another. Only a young man in his early twenties beside the patriarch looked very hesitant, but when he saw that everyone knelt down, he had to bow to the ground, and he was the last to kneel.

Baoyu wondered, "All the news I know has already been told to you. If you gather your clansmen to take precautions in advance, the thieves will not be able to take advantage of it. Even if you are worried about losing the enemy, you can ask for help from other villages or castles, so why kneel here and beg a passerby?"

The patriarch of Baixi said with a crying voice: "You are a foreigner, I am afraid that if you don't understand the situation, Baixi Village is facing a catastrophe." The foothills were very cruel, and the rogues were also murderers and arsonists. We are no opponents, and even if we send someone to the city for help, it will not help. ”

Baoyu frowned and said, "Oh, what's the situation?"

Baoyu forgot to call these people up for a while, not because she was rude, but she didn't react. These people were not made to kneel by him, and as soon as they ran over, they knelt in a large area, and it seemed that there must be some reason. When the villagers in the back saw that the patriarch didn't get up, they also knelt there and didn't dare to get up. But the young man beside the patriarch was a little impatient, although he was still kneeling, his shoulders were slightly strained, obviously ready to get up at any time, Baoyu could see it.

The patriarch of Baixi said: "It's hard to put it into words! Your Excellency, you might as well go back to the village with me, so that everyone can be entertained, and I will tell you in detail." ”

Baoyu waved his hand and said, "If you want to speak, it's the same wherever you say it." You guys get up first, there's no need to kneel and tell me what's going on?"

Bai Xi finally stood up when he heard this, and the rest of the people also got up, everyone stepped forward and formed a circle, and Bai Xi grabbed Baoyu's sleeve and began to cry, and Baoyu learned a lot of things that he hadn't expected before.

Baixi Village and the foothill people have lived here for generations, in fact, they are interdependent. Despite its remote location and the surrounding wilderness, large beasts rarely hurt. The reason is very simple, the deep mountain is in the north of Baixi, and the foothill people live in the mountain, which invisibly prevents large beasts from running down the mountain to Baixi.

In the memory of the contemporary people of Baixi Village, they have always lived in peace with that demon clan, and they can even take advantage of it. The people of the foothills are good at hunting, and they can raise pigs, and the products in the mountains such as animal skins, all kinds of fresh game, and their own pigs will be exchanged for things in Baixi Village.

Baixi Village is rich in produce, and the people are more intelligent, often using only a small amount of wheat or yamsa to get a pig, which is much less expensive than domesticating it themselves or hunting in the mountains. Because of their strange appearance and stupid heads, the foothills are also laughingly called "pig-headed people" by the villagers of Baixi.

It is said that a long time ago, this was not the case. The foothills would often run down the hill, spoil the crops in the fields, and have even injured people. But nearly a hundred years ago, a powerful monk came out of Baixi Village, he went to the mountains, found the patriarch of the Foothills tribe to clean it up, and agreed to live in harmony, and the place has been peaceful since then.

However, the old city lord who walked out of Baixi Village has long passed away, and in the past ten years, because Baixi Village has planted a large number of yams in many surrounding fields, occasionally there will be greedy pig-headed people sneaking down the mountain in the middle of the night to plow the ground and eat yams. Sometimes it was discovered by the villagers, and everyone shouted with torches to blast it away, but there was no great conflict.

But the villagers of Baixi Village never dreamed that the Foothill people would attack on a large scale this time, entering the village and snatching the grain stored in the warehouse. At present, it has just entered winter, and if they all snatch the food, how will the people of Baixi Village live? Many people will starve in the coming year!

The foothills have inherited the talent of their ancestors, and they are physically strong, and they rush wildly with their hands and feet and land on the ground, and even trees can be broken, but their brains are not as good as ordinary people. Their current patriarch Zhu Sanxian is also extraordinary, it is said that he is already a monk of the Three Realms and Eight Transformations, and the people of the Foothill Clan who can enter the initial realm and be able to cultivate will often inherit the natural supernatural powers of their ancestors, and no one in Baixi Village is his opponent.

The terrible people of the foothills are secondary, and the more ferocious are the rogues. In recent years, there has been a stream of bandits in the border area between Feihong City and Gaocheng, and their whereabouts are hidden and rarely appear, but once they make a move, they will bring tragedy to the village. In the autumn of the previous year, a small remote village on the border of Gaocheng was slaughtered by the rogues, and not even a single living mouth was left.

At that time, Yue Geng, the lord of Gaocheng City, also sent an army to chase after him, but he found nothing. They came and went without a trace, where they hid, and they never reappeared for a long time. Unexpectedly, two years later, I learned the news from Baoyu, a passer-by, that some rogues colluded with the foothills of the Foothills to ransack Baixi Village in the future, how can people not be afraid!

In the summer of three years ago, the Rogues raided a village in Feihong City, attacked several households, killed all the people in the family, set fire to the courtyard, and then roared away and hid into the forest. There was actually a monk of the Three Realms and Six Turns who was killed, and that monk used his magic to fight with people, but in the end he was defeated and defeated, and of course the city lord also sent people to track down the whereabouts of the Liukou, but found nothing, and found nothing.