In the backyard of the coffin shop, Ke Rong slowly withdrew his fist, walked up to Uncle Chen, and asked in a deep voice, "Are you satisfied?" ”

Chen Bo stared coldly at the willow tree that had fallen to the ground and did not react.

"Satisfied?" Ke Rong asked loudly again.

"Satisfied, satisfied," Uncle Chen was asked twice by Ke Rong before he reacted, and stood up with some lack of confidence.

Hearing this, Ke Rong also ignored Uncle Chen, and walked to the room alone, Uncle Chen looked back at the willow tree that fell to the ground and was stunned for a moment before picking up the stool and walking into the house, and patted Uncle Wang's shoulder before he entered the house.

Ke Rong stood in the hall and waited for Uncle Wang and Uncle Chen to come, then walked to the coffin, picked up the yellow paper on the coffin with his left hand, grabbed the rope tied to one end of the coffin with his right hand, and lifted the end of the coffin easily, and pulled the coffin out of the coffin shop slowly under the frightened eyes of Uncle Wang and Uncle Chen, and walked east along Lin Ying Street, leaving a wide trace on the street.

"What a miracle!" Uncle Wang ran to the door and looked at Ke Rong's back and gave a thumbs up.

"What about strength! Isn't he just a poor ghost? Uncle Chen looked at Uncle Wang's expression and said with a disdainful expression, took out two pieces of money from his cuffs and handed it to Uncle Wang, and said with feeling: "It's better to have money than to be capable!" ”

"That's not enough for one or two, isn't it?" Uncle Wang looked at the silver in his hand and questioned Uncle Chen.

"You just watched it so enjoyable! Shouldn't you pay a penny? Chen Bo said this, picked up his umbrella and walked out.

"I'm sorry," Uncle Wang angrily spat at Uncle Chen's back and cursed, "You old thing, let the money choke you to death!" ”

Ke Rong held the yellow paper, pulled the coffin to the thatched house, put down the coffin and went into the house to see the golden branch princess lying on the bed, he looked at the tears and couldn't help but flow, he wiped away the tears and rushed out of the room, found a worn-out shovel, and dug a pit not far from the thatched house.

On the streets of Linying County, there was a big man with a wooden stick in his hand and rushing towards the direction of the thatched house, and an obese man in the crowd ran to the front and said, "Brother Shunzi, can't we come over another day?" Do you have to arrest someone on this rainy day? ”。

"You Dong fart, if that stinky boy runs away, isn't our dream of getting rich in vain?" Junko said this and quickened her pace.

After Ke Rong finished digging the pit, he ran into the house again, looked at the body of Princess Jin Zhi for a while, and then pulled out a wooden box from under the wooden bed.

Ke Rong blew away the dust from the box and slowly opened the old wooden box. As soon as the box was opened, an intoxicating aroma suddenly filled the room, and a set of extremely gorgeous brocade clothes were neatly placed in the box, and Ke Rong slowly opened the dress. This fuchsia brocade gown is covered with golden phoenix patterns, and these patterns show off a delicate one, just like which phoenixes have come to life and come to life. From these embroiderers and materials, it can be seen that this set of clothes is worth thousands of taels of silver, to say the least.

Ke Rong didn't want to appreciate any clothes, he gently put the dress on Princess Jinzhi. Princess Jinzhi, who was originally very noble, now looks extremely noble and beautiful under the background of this set of clothes, as if she is a goddess descending to earth, which makes people feel like kneeling and worshiping when they look at it.

After Ke Rong finished dressing up Princess Jinzhi, he ran outside and pulled the coffin into the house, but the door of the thatched house was too narrow to pull a coffin in, so Ke Rong removed the door frame and pulled the coffin closer to the room.

Ke Rong walked to the edge of the wooden bed, kowtowed to Princess Jin Zhi three times, and then carried Princess Jin Zhi into the coffin. Ke Rong stared at Princess Jinzhi for a long time before wiping away the tears on his face and reluctantly closing the coffin lid.

Ke Rong pulled the coffin outside again, put it into the pit he had dug, and began to fill it with dirt one by one. After a while, there was an extra grave in the southwest corner of the thatched hut, Ke Rong put the last shovel of soil on the grave, threw down the shovel in his hand and kowtowed to the grave three more times, and then wanted to burn some paper for his mother, but the yellow paper he brought back was all wet by the rain and could not be burned at all. He could only kneel in front of the grave in a daze, he, who had always relied on his mother, did not pay any attention to this sudden change, he could only kneel there alone, forgetting the cold, forgetting the tiredness, forgetting the hunger and forgetting the breathing.

Shunzi came to the thatched house with a big man, and after finding Ke Rong, he quickly ran over and surrounded Ke Rong in the middle, and Ke Rong was still kneeling like that, ignoring Shunzi's group at all.

"You, the grandson of the anti-thief Fang La, are you kneeling on our ground and begging for mercy?" Junzi pointed at Ke Rong and scolded.

Ke Rong still didn't react.

"Is he dead?" The clever young man looked at Ke Rong curiously, and walked up to the grave to see what was going on.

"Get out," Ke Rong roared, and quickly jumped to his feet, grabbed the young man by the neck, and lifted him high and threw him aside. Immediately, the young man was thrown two meters away, and fell heavily to the ground, wailing.

Seeing this, Shunzi and the others also took a step back in shock, Ke Rong slowly turned around and faced everyone with a gloomy face and did not speak, but the murderous aura emanating from him forced everyone to retreat.

Junko looked at the trembling appearance of the big guy and scolded "waste", and then raised the wooden stick in his hand and shouted to everyone: "Everyone catch him together and receive the reward." ”

Although the big men were very afraid, when they heard the word reward, they all seemed to be filled with chicken blood, and rushed towards Ke Rong in the encirclement with wooden sticks.

"Oops, hey, hey," these big men rushed up, and before the wooden stick in his hand fell, Ke Rong knocked him to the ground one by one, and kept wailing, and even worse, before Ke Rong's fist hit him, he fell to the ground in the wind, lying on the ground and wailing.

Junzi looked at Ke Rong's figure and found an opportunity to smash the back of Ke Rong's head. When the wooden stick was about to fall, Ke Rong quickly turned around, grabbed the smashed wooden stick with his left hand, and hit Junzi on the cheek with his right fist, knocking Shunzi out with just one punch.

Junko was knocked out, lying on the ground, and before he could wail, Ke Rong quickly came to him, stepped on his chest with his right foot, raised his right fist and stared at Junzi viciously.

"Grandpa spares his life! Grandpa spares his life, I don't dare anymore," Junko looked at Ke Rong's fist and had a feeling that death was about to come, and his survival instinct made him completely forget about the pain in his body and just beg for mercy.

Ke Rong raised his fist high, stared at Shunzi viciously for a long time, but his fist never fell, he slowly stood up, walked to the thatched hut and simply cleaned up, carried the burden and quiver, and then came out to kowtow to Princess Jinzhi a few times, and then suddenly got up and picked up the wooden stick on the ground and still walked resolutely to the northeast. His lonely back gradually became smaller and smaller, until it disappeared into a haze. Although he was very reluctant to his mother, he knew that his identity had been leaked and he could no longer stay here, and he had to leave here to fulfill his mother's last wish to find his father.

After watching Ke Rong's back disappear, the people lying on the ground slowly got up and slapped the dirt on their bodies. At this moment, one of the people in the crowd shouted, "Xiao Nakayu has run away, his things are ours," and he rushed to the thatched hut as he shouted.

Hearing this, everyone forgot their wailing, and got up one after another, rushing to the thatched nest, and the excitement of looking at them was completely impossible to imagine that they had just been beaten on the ground and kept wailing.

"A bunch of unproductive waste," Junko scolded viciously at the men's backs.

After everyone rushed into the thatched house, they turned the thatched house upside down and found nothing of value, and they scolded angrily with disappointed faces: "This poor boy doesn't even have a fart, and he caused Lao Tzu to run for nothing."

When everyone walked out of the thatched house, the fat man stayed and looked around carefully, when he saw a rice bowl, his eyes lit up, and he quickly ran to the side of the rice tank, and looked into the tank, and then saw that there was no trace of rice grains at a glance in the rice tank, in fact, this is not true, when you look carefully, you can find that there are two rice grains lying there quietly in the tank.

Junko lay on the ground and looked sarcastically at the crowd that came out of the thatched hut with a dejected face, and the fat man suddenly ran over after seeing Junzi, helped Junko up, and said as if making a report: "His family is poor and has nothing, it seems that his mother is starving to death." ”

Junko put his right hand on the fat man's shoulder, and ignored his words, he swept over the thatched house, and when he saw the tomb in the southwest corner of the thatched house, his eyes were fixed on the tomb of the princess of the golden branch, and a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Ke Rong left Lin Ying County and walked eastward, and when he passed a small hill, he was lucky enough to hunt a rabbit and eat a picnic. In this way, when he was hungry, he would hunt some game to eat, when he was thirsty, he would find some mountain springs to drink, and at night he would find a cave to sleep in, and when he met pedestrians, he would ask him the direction of Shandong.

Ke Rong walked in a winding way for more than a month, and when the sun was about to set, he came to the bottom of a hillside, and saw a lonely house standing there, so he went to knock on the door.

The door was opened by an old man with gray hair and beard, and the old man was slightly stunned when he opened the door and saw Ke Rong's embarrassed appearance.

"Uncle, my name is Ke Rong, and I am going to Shandong to look for relatives," Ke Rong said respectfully to the old man who opened the door: "Seeing that it is getting late, I want to spend a night here to see if it is convenient for you?" ”

"Ke Rong, is it?" The old man muttered in his mouth, and looked Ke Rong up and down again before inviting Ke Rong into the room.

The decoration of the house is very simple, there are two wooden beds against the back wall, in front of the wooden bed against the west wall there is a table, next to the table there are three stools, the dust on one stool shows that the stool has been unused for a long time, on the wall hangs a tiger skin and a few sheepskins, and in the corner of the wall there is a steel fork against the wall.

"Uncle, are you living alone?" Ke Rong glanced at the room and asked the old man.

"I live with my son, and I don't know what he's doing during this time. I always don't go home, I thought he was back when you just knocked on the door," the old man said, walking over to the table, pulling out a stool and motioning for Ke Rong to sit down.

At this time, Ke Rong's clothes were even more shabby because of his long-term travel in the wilderness, his face was pale, his eyes were sunken and a little black, and his lips were already cracked. The old man looked at Ke Rong's miserable appearance and felt a sense of pity in his heart, so he said, "The young man hasn't eaten yet, has he?" I've just finished making dinner, so you can eat it while it's hot. ”

Ke Rong stood up to say something, but he touched his empty stomach and sat back on the stool.

After a while, the smell of food came into the kung fu house, and the old man brought the hot meal, placed it in front of Ke Rong, and said in a compassionate tone: "Don't eat it while it's hot!" ”

"Thank you, old man, I will repay you well when I have the opportunity in the future," Ke Rong looked at the food on the table, swallowed and foamed, and looked at the old man gratefully.

"There's no need to be polite for a meal," the old man waved his hand and smiled: "Also, don't keep calling me uncle, my surname is Zhang, you can call me Uncle Zhang!" ”

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang," Ke Rong thanked Uncle Zhang again before picking up the dishes and chopsticks and devouring them. During the meal, Ke Rong glanced at Uncle Zhang, who was smiling, and asked, "Uncle Zhang, don't you eat?" ”。

"I just finished eating, you have eaten it yourself," Uncle Zhang looked at Ke Rong with a kind face and asked, "Where are you going here?" ”

"I'm going to Shandong," Ke Rong replied, swallowing the food in his mouth.

"Go to Shandong, it's not close, and bandits are rampant on the road, and it's very dangerous," Uncle Zhang said to Ke Rong with concern: "The world is very chaotic now, if you don't have anything to do, don't go north!" ”

"There are bandits? I didn't see any of them on the road, huh? Ke Rong couldn't help but ask with some doubts.

"Alas, now there are bandits and bandits everywhere, and you didn't meet your luck!" Uncle Zhang sighed lightly and said, "A year ago, dozens of bandits suddenly appeared on the White Tiger Ridge on the north side of the mountainside, robbing passers-by, and I don't know how many people they killed!" ”

"Are there really bandits here? Don't the officers and soldiers care? ”

"The officers and soldiers have come here a few times, but the bandits are too powerful, and they don't dare to come over again to kill any of the officers and soldiers" Zhang Bo continued dissatisfied: "Which officers and soldiers bully us ordinary people on weekdays, but when they really encounter bandits, they are so scared that they don't even dare to fart." ”

"Are the bandits really that powerful?"

"They are too powerful, I heard that their leader is called the one-eyed dragon Deng Tian, he is blind in one eye, and he doesn't know who shot him, he has a long scar on his face, he is fifteen years tall, and his arms are thicker than your body," Uncle Zhang's kind face gradually became serious and said: "That Deng Fei is infinitely powerful and skilled, and he once single-handedly killed more than 100 officers and soldiers!" ”

"Young man, I advise you to go and don't go any further, if you go forward, you will definitely be caught and killed by some bandits," Zhang Bo looked at Ke Rong's somewhat solemn face and persuaded again.

"Thank you for the reminder, but I have to go to Shandong to find my father," Ke Rong gently put down the dishes and chopsticks in his hand and said with a firm face: "No matter how powerful those bandits are, I must go over." ”

Ke Rong spent the night at Uncle Zhang's house, and the next day Uncle Zhang took out a set of clean clothes for Ke Rong to change into, and then sent Ke Rong outside the gate.

Uncle Zhang sent Ke Rong out of the room and persuaded him again, and after not saying anything, he picked up the steel fork from the corner of the wall and handed it to Ke Rong and said, "Young man, take this on the road, if you really encounter a bandit, maybe it can be of some use!" ”

Ke Rong looked at the kind-looking Uncle Zhang and felt an inexplicable feeling in his heart, which made him a little overwhelmed, this was also the first time since his mother died, he felt the care of others.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang, I will thank you the next time I pass by," Ke Rong's eyes were filled with tears, he wanted to say something but he couldn't say anything. He convulsed for a moment and then stopped being scorched, took the steel fork and thanked the old man, and then hurried away.

"Child, my son's name is Zhang Hao," Zhang Bo shouted from Ke Rong's back, "If you meet him on the road, let him take you over the mountain!" He is very familiar with Baihuling. ”

Ke Rong listened to Uncle Zhang's words, turned around and agreed, and ran north.

"Alas," Zhang Bo stood at the door and prayed to himself as he watched Ke Rong's back gradually disappear, "Poor boy, don't meet those robbers!" ”