After Liu Xing finished a day's work, he immediately replied that he had dinner at home, and then came to the only square in Taoyuan Village.

This square is located at the back of the small ancestral hall, about the size of a football field, and in the middle of the small square, the bonfire is ready.

However, looking at the campfire that was so tall that Liu Xing suddenly remembered a problem, that is, he didn't see many trees in Taoyuan Village, not even a small grove of trees, and these trees didn't look like they were ten years old.

This is very strange, you must know that this was in the Jin Dynasty, because coal has not been taken seriously, so everyone basically uses wood as fuel.

But judging from what Liu Xing has seen and heard in the past two days, Taoyuan Village does not seem to be short of former wood, but these trees around Taoyuan Village are definitely not enough for the villagers of Taoyuan Village.

Could it be that the woods are also out of sight?

Liu Xing looked at everything around him, and felt more and more that something was wrong with the situation.

To put it simply, Liu Xing feels that the ecological system of Taoyuan Village is not enough to maintain the living needs of the villagers.

You must know that the current population of Taoyuan Village has reached nearly 1,000 people, and it is not a small amount for so many people to eat and drink every day, and a lot of domestic garbage will be produced every day. . . So the question is, what kind of garbage is Liu Xing eating the remaining half of crucian carp tonight?

Although there are many people in Taoyuan Village who are raising pigs, cattle and sheep and other livestock, the most meat that the villagers usually eat is fish, after all, the reproduction and development speed of fish is very fast, so Liu Xing found that many ponds are actually fish ponds in the past two days.

As the sky became darker and darker, the villagers of Taoyuan Village came to the square, and Liu Xing had been looking for Zhang Jingxu and others.

When the bonfire was officially lit, Liu Xing finally saw Zhang Jingxu and the others standing next to the five clan elders.

And it seems that Zhang Jingxu and the five clan elders have a good conversation.

After a while, the elder of the royal family stood up and clapped his hands, and said: "Today is the 680th year since our ancestors came here to establish Taoyuan Village, and it is a day worth celebrating, plus our good friend has brought us good news of peace today, so everyone should have a good drink tonight!" ”

"Yay!" The villagers of Taoyuan Village cheered happily.

Have a drink?

Liu Xing instantly became vigilant, because in the Cthulhu Run game, it is a classic law that disaster comes from the mouth.

Moreover, during Liu Xing's time in Taoyuan Village, he never drank anything except water, and Liu Xing did not find any alcohol at home.

At this time, several strong men brought over a few wooden barrels, and when the lid of the wooden barrel was opened, Liu Xing smelled a familiar aroma of liquor, and it seemed that it was still a high degree of liquor.

Liu Xing couldn't help frowning, because Liu Xing knew that the degree of liquor in ancient times was actually not high, after all, the brewing technology at that time was not enough to make high-grade liquor, so the three bowls that Wu Song drank before beating the tiger were not good, and the alcohol content may not exceed ten degrees, which is not much different from the current beer.

But judging from the current situation, Liu Xing suspects that the degree of liquor in that barrel is likely to exceed 60 degrees, which is a kind of black technology in the Jin Dynasty where this module occurred.

By this time, the villagers had already gathered around the barrels, and the strong men had begun to distribute drinks.

Liu Xing was able to notice that the villagers who drank the wine all showed expressions like a long drought and a rainy day, and it seemed that these drinks could not be drunk in normal times.

So do you want to have a drink?

After hesitating for a moment, Liu Xing still came to the side of the barrel, because Liu Xing was thinking very openly now, anyway, he was just an NPC in this mod, and he didn't need to be as careful as when he was a player, and if there was really a problem with this liquor, he could also warn Zhang Jingxu.

Of course, Liu Xing had to admit that this liquor had an inexplicable attraction to him, to be precise, "Liu Xing's" subconscious wanted to drink this liquor.

Soon Liu Xing got a bowl of liquor, which was nothing unusual from the outside.

Liu Xing took a deep breath and took a sip directly.

Refreshing!

Liu Xing only felt that after the liquor was in the mouth, it turned into a stream of heat and swam around his limbs, giving him a sense of comfort throughout his body.

Wine.

Liu Xing looked at the barrel with unfinished eyes, and couldn't help but drink the whole barrel of wine.

It's a pity that when Liu Xing got a bowl of liquor, he was squeezed out of the team by other villagers around him, so Liu Xing looked at the crowded crowd and decided to go to meet Zhang Jingxu and the others first.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu was still chatting with the five clan elders, Zhang Wenbing and Ding Kun stood behind Zhang Jingxu as bodyguards, while Yin En was studying the red apple in his hand.

Apple?

Liu Xing frowned, and said straight in his heart that this Taoyuan Village is in a dream, because this apple was only introduced to China in the nineteenth century, so there should be no apples in Taoyuan Village at this time.

Of course, there are also people who think that the "柰" mentioned in the ancient text is an apple, but even if it is really an apple, it is not the same variety as the red apple in Yin Eun's hand.

So it's clear that the red apple in Yoon's hand shouldn't be here.

But then again, if Taoyuan Village is really located in the Dream Realm, then the appearance of red apples is quite easy to explain, after all, it is not impossible for the gate of the Dream Land to appear near the production area of red apples.

At this time, Yin En also noticed Liu Xing, so he stepped forward and said, "This little brother, I have something I want to ask you. ”

Liu Xing knew that Yin En wanted to pass on a message to himself.

Liu Xing nodded and said with a smile: "If you have any questions, just ask, I must know everything, and I will say everything." ”

Yin En also smiled and asked: "What I want to ask is whether there are people in Taoyuan Village who know spells, I deliberately made a lot of marks when I left Taoyuan Village, but I still didn't find the way several times, and I didn't find the markers I made before when I left Taoyuan Village again." ”

"Well, I really don't know about this question, but I've lived in Taoyuan Village for so many years, and I haven't heard of anyone in Taoyuan Village who can do magic." Liu Xing replied seriously.

Yin En nodded, and said with some disappointment: "I see, thank you little brother for your guidance." ”

Yoon Eun finished speaking and left.

Liu Xing looked at Yin En's back and began to think about what Yin Eun meant by this message to himself.

Obviously, Yin En's message is also from the original text of "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring", which simply means that although the fisherman who left Taoyuan Village made marks along the way, he failed when the fisherman tried to find Taoyuan Village again through these markers.

This passage seems quite normal in the original text, but if you put this sentence in the Cthulhu Run game, it will inevitably make players think too much.

So why is the Fisherman's mark wrong?

In the mods about "The Story of the Peach Blossom Spring" that Liu Xing has seen, there are generally two explanations for this - the first explanation is that when the fisherman left Taoyuan Village, Taoyuan Village arranged for people to manipulate those marks; The second explanation is that Taoyuan Village has been on the move.

In this regard, Liu Xing is more inclined to the latter, because it is still easy to get hungry if you want to find a motionless Taoyuan Village, as long as you send enough people, you can do it, and in the Cthulhu Run group game, it is not impossible to make the location of Taoyuan Village constantly change, and from the current situation, this is just a matter of moving the gate of the dream realm.

Wait a minute.

Liu Xing suddenly realized a question at this time, that is, didn't Zhang Jingxu and the others leave Taoyuan Village a few days ago, and didn't the main quest of this mod require Zhang Jingxu to leave Taoyuan Village alive?

Could it be that Zhang Jingxu hasn't left Taoyuan Village these days?!

Liu Xing couldn't help but look at Zhang Jingxu, and found that Zhang Jingxu was also looking at him at this time.

As an old teammate who has completed many modules together, Zhang Jingxu immediately saw the confusion in Liu Xing's eyes, so Zhang Jingxu nodded slightly.

What's going on here?

Liu Xing recalled carefully, at that time, Zhang Jingxu and the others did look like they were going to leave Taoyuan Village under the farewell of the elder of the royal family, and when Zhang Jingxu and the others came back during the day, it didn't look like they came back because they were lost.

So Zhang Jingxu and the others fell for illusion?!

Liu Xing only thought of such a possibility - Zhang Jingxu and the others were unknowingly caught in the illusion, so they thought that they had left Taoyuan Village and returned home.

If it is an illusion, then this matter will be a little troublesome, because the characters played by Liu Xing and the others this time are ordinary people, and it is not easy for ordinary people to crack the illusion.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu finally finished chatting with the five clan elders, and the clan elders dispersed.

At this time, on the square, the villagers of Taoyuan Village sang and danced around the bonfire, and everyone was very happy.

Zhang Jingxu and others seemed to be infected by the people around them, and they also participated with a smile... Of course, Zhang Jingxu stuffed a small note when he passed by Liu Xing's side.

Because Liu Xing's clothes don't have pockets now, Liu Xing can only hold on to the small note.

The bonfire party lasted for more than two hours before it ended because the bonfire was extinguished, and at this bonfire party, Liu Xing still did not talk to Zhang Jingxu, and Zhang Jingxu and others went to the royal family's hometown to rest after the bonfire party.

After returning home, Liu Xing has been pretending to sleep in the room, and only after the surroundings are completely quiet can Liu Xing walk out of the door with a small note, and then check the content of the small note under the moonlight.

From this small note, Liu Xing finally knew what Zhang Jingxu and others had done in the past few days.

First of all, Zhang Jingxu's identity in this module is one of the best celebrities in Wuling City, so after the fisherman "Yin En" brought the news of Taoyuan Village back to Wuling City, "Zhang Jingxu" began to prepare to go to Taoyuan Village, but "Yin En" took Wuling Taishou's men for the first time and did not find Taoyuan Village, so "Yin En" became synonymous with a liar in Wuling City, and Wuling Taishou also gave up the idea of going to Taoyuan Village again.

However, "Zhang Jingxu" did not give up, so "Zhang Jingxu" spent money to hire "Yin En", and this time "Yin En" took "Zhang Jingxu" and the three found Taoyuan Village.

And when they entered the module, Zhang Jingxu and the others were actually in a cave, and as Liu Xing guessed, Zhang Jingxu and the others stopped when they saw a light, wanting to see the situation inside before moving forward, but Zhang Jingxu and the others couldn't see through what was behind the light, so they could only walk in boldly, and then after a short loss of vision, Taoyuan Village appeared in front of Zhang Jingxu and others.

At this time, Zhang Jingxu suspected that Taoyuan Village was located in a dreamland.

After being invited by the elder of the royal family, Zhang Jingxu and others came to the old family's house as guests, and the old family's home was a relatively large wooden courtyard, and Zhang Jingxu and other guests lived in the west wing.

In the past few days, Zhang Jingxu has repeatedly proposed to go out for a walk, but each time he has been rejected by the royal elders for various reasons, and the other four clan elders often come to chat with Zhang Jingxu, but in the process of chatting, Zhang Jingxu found that these five clan elders have a wide range of knowledge, and they are not like an old man living in a village isolated from the world for hundreds of years.

Of course, what surprised Zhang Jingxu the most was that there were many things that should not exist here in the old family of the royal family, such as a set of purple clay pot tea sets, blue and white porcelain pillows and some cotton products.

It is important to know that cotton was an ornamental plant a long time ago, and it was not valued in the early days of its introduction to China, so the earliest cotton spinning products recorded in China were in the Southern Song Dynasty, and in the early Yuan Dynasty, cotton cloth was added to the tax list together with silk and silk.

After seeing these cross-era items, Zhang Jingxu was even more sure that Taoyuan Village was located in the fantasy realm, and Taoyuan Village was a vassal village of a mythical creature, so Zhang Jingxu began to walk around the old royal family's home, trying to find clues related to mythical creatures, but Zhang Jingxu found nothing.

So, Zhang Jingxu tried to say goodbye to the elder of the royal family, but he didn't expect that the elder of the royal family really let Zhang Jingxu and others leave Taoyuan Village, so Zhang Jingxu immediately took Ding Kun and others to leave Taoyuan Village.

Although he returned to the cave again, Zhang Jingxu did not receive the news that KP El informed him that he had passed the mod, so Zhang Jingxu was sure that he was still within the range of Taoyuan Village.

However, since he had "left" Taoyuan Village, it was impossible for Zhang Jingxu to immediately turn back and "return" to Taoyuan Village, so Zhang Jingxu took Zhang Wenbing and others back to Wuling City, and after resting in Wuling City for a few days, he found a chance to return to Taoyuan Village.

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