Qi Wang returned with a full load and returned to the humble cabin, the door of the wooden house was open, and Li Qing sat on the threshold, thoughtful.

"Master Li."

Qi Wang walked to the door, shouted, and said hello, Li Qing smiled slightly, smiled kindly, and nodded.

Qi Wang began to clean up dinner after being busy, Li Qing tried to help as much as possible, but he couldn't help too much, after Qi Wang lit the fire in the stove, he forced Li Qing, who was about to wash rice and meat, on the stool, and said with a smile: "Master Li, you just rest, just leave it to me." ”

Li Qing smiled helplessly.

Qi Wang asked Li Qing while cutting the meat, "By the way, Master Li, I want to ask you something." ”

Li Qing tilted his head slightly and listened with a smile.

Qi Wang's kitchen knife went up and down lightly and dexterously, and asked, "Do you know the Immortal Fortress?" ”

Li Qing nodded lightly: "Well, I know." ”

Li Qing's voice was soft, with a kind of magic that could calm people's minds, and he gently recounted this place that made the rest of the people tremble when they heard it: "That place has a long history, dating back to before the establishment of Gounod, it is a mysterious and ominous place, and the current Gounod capital is built on its ruins, so the immortal fortress is also another name for the capital of Gounod by outsiders. ”

Qi Wang's meat cutting knife paused slightly, and then quickly recovered, and muttered, "The capital? ”

Qi Wang continued: "Master Li, I met Yang Sanjin when I was buying meat today, and he told me that he was going to join the army, and the military master of Shell City was going to take him to the Immortal Fortress, I think it......"

Qi Wang glanced at Li Qing and sighed: "If you see Yang Sanjin next time, or when he comes back to the village, it will definitely not be the current Yang Sanjin." ”

Li Qing did not answer.

For Gounod's army, Li Qing knows very well what kind of thing it is, because of the previous king Gounod III, the people of Gounod have long developed a real warlike style, their admiration for strength, their desire for war, even not inferior to the Winter Claw tribe of the Frost Ancient Country, if that child really entered the army, if he didn't die, it would definitely become extremely strange to everyone in the village.

Qi Wang poured the minced meat in his hand into the pot in one go, the hot oil splashed, he skillfully turned the wooden shovel, and was a little sad: "Master Li, to be honest, I like everyone in the village, although Yang Sanjin always bullied us when he was a child, but he really wants to leave, I am still a little reluctant." ”

"What do you say if he goes out and becomes a bad guy."

"He's gone to the army, he should fight every day, will he die? But ah, I'm still a little envious of him, after all, he can go out and see the outside world now. ”

Qi Wang talked to himself, and he didn't care whether Li Qing replied to him or not, he just expressed his emotions, after all, in the village, only this blind man in the family would listen to his nagging.

Li Qing clasped his hands together and said, "Qi Wang." ”

"Huh?"

Hearing that Li Qing called him, Qi Wang turned his head to look at Li Qing.

Li Qing said seriously: "If one day, you see Yang Sanjin outside, and he acts recklessly and kills all directions, what will you do." ”

Qi Wang stopped talking, he looked straight at the minced meat on the chopping board in front of him, and was silent and chopped it off one by one.

Li Qing shook his head slightly, got up and walked outside the door.

Half an hour later, the two of them sat in the room, the room illuminated by the oil lamp on the table, there were vegetables and meat today, and enough rice, but Qi Wang's eating in his mouth was never a taste, Li Qing didn't speak, and there was only the sound of the two swallowing food in the room.

Finally, when he was about to finish eating, Qi Wang suddenly put down his chopsticks, looked at the resolute face under the light on the other side, and said softly: "Master Li, today's meat was given to me by Yang Sanjin." ”

Li Qing sighed, and there was no follow-up.

Qi Wang stared at Li Qing and said seriously: "So Yang Sanjin is a good person, right." ”

After thinking about it, Qi Wang added another sentence: "At least for now." ”

Li Qing also stopped eating, "stared" at Qi Wang, and nodded.

Qi Wang, who was affirmed by Li Qing, showed a smile on his face, but quickly relented: "So the current Yang Sanjin is a good person, he is still my friend, and he is still a villager from Lanbo Village, but he ......"

Qi Wang's voice became lower: "If he becomes what you say, he is not." ”

"So."

Qi Wang picked up the chopsticks again, and picked up a piece of meat as he spoke: "If that day really comes, he ...... There should be a price to pay, and I believe he should have been ready to die a long time ago. ”

Li Qing looked at the young man in front of him who was eating much happier than before, he obviously understood the previous question and was no longer confused.

Li Qing smiled.

On their roof, a burly man lay with his hands behind his head, staring straight at the stars, his rugged face smiling sincerely.

There is goodness, but not foolishness.

Li Qing looked at the young man who began to clean up the dishes and chopsticks, and walked to the stone table in the courtyard outside the door, and on the roof behind him, the man had already sat up.

After cleaning up, Qi Wang stretched his waist and walked to the yard to look up at the starry sky.

"Qi Wang."

Li Qing smiled: "I've been thinking about a question, where are you from?" ”

Qi Wang sat on the stool, holding his chin, Li Qing reached out and touched his head, and said: "You are not destined to be a Guno person, I have known you for a long time, I think you may become a newborn native, but now it seems that I was wrong." ”

Qi Wang looked at Li Qing, who was chattering, and said with a smile: "Master Li, what are you talking about, I, Qi Wang, have always been from Lanbo Village." ”

Li Qing was stunned.

He burst into laughter.

"Yes, you are from Lanbo Village, an authentic Lanbo Village."

Li Qing got up, as if he had untied a knot in his heart.

Qi Wang looked at the blind man standing with his hands in his hands, suddenly, he had a very strange feeling, this blind man who had been with him for five years day and night had become a little different, but he couldn't say what was different.

Qi Wang, who was frowning and thinking carefully, suddenly caught a glimpse of a golden giant snake that seemed to suddenly appear behind the blind man, the giant snake coiled on the blind man's body, and after a closer look, it had four claws and two legs, and it looked extremely fierce and hideous, but Qi Wang blinked again but saw nothing.

Qi Wang rubbed his eyes vigorously and swallowed his saliva with difficulty, did he see it wrong?

It's scary, what's that?

"Qi Wang."

The blind man's mellow voice sounded, and he said with a smile: "It's not early, let's rest early." ”

Qi Wangmuran, who was still in shock, nodded, for some reason, at this moment, a heavy sleepiness suddenly hit his heart, and when he lay on the bed, he fell into a deep sleep for a while.

Li Qing stood quietly in the courtyard, the night sky above his head turned stars, he stood like this all night, until the early morning, his clothes were also stained with dew, when the first wisp of fish belly white emerged from a distance, Li Qing held a cane in one hand, a bucket in the other, and walked towards the entrance of the village.

After Li Qing went back and forth, the people in the village also got up one after another, and the voices of people gradually became noisy, some children ran back and forth in the village and laughed and laughed, some elderly people sat on the deck chairs under the trees at the door, some women and children stood at the door holding white porridge to talk about family life, and some men carried hoes and sickles to the rice fields outside the village, and they were thriving.

Li Qing walked on the village road with a smile, from the head of the village to the end of the village, his steps were very slow, and the snapping sound of the crutches every time he clicked was very rhythmic, and there were few people in the village who didn't know him, after all, the village was so big, and when he picked up this blind man and walked in front of him, there were very few people who greeted him, and there were more whispers after he left.

There was a naughty child who didn't pay attention to the blind man, grabbed his crutches, pulled hard, snatched it from the blind man's hand, immediately laughed happily, and then kept a certain safe distance from the blind man, jumping up, "Blind, come and grab it, I'll give it back to you if you can grab it." ”

Li Qing looked helpless.

A black shadow grabbed the child's arm, and the child turned his head, deflated, and shouted timidly: "Brother Sanjin." ”

Yang Sanjin glared at him, took the crutches from his hand, the child hurriedly ran away with the others, Yang Sanjin handed the crutches in his hand to the blind man in front of him, the blind man smiled, took the crutches and said, "Is it Yang Sanjin?" ”

The blind man's smile became more and more intense: "This scene is quite similar to five years ago. ”

Yang Sanjin smiled and said, "I was too young and ignorant at that time, I'm sorry for what happened at that time." ”

The blind man waved his hand, Yang Sanjin took a step sideways, out of the way, he paused, and finally opened his mouth and said, "Blind...... Li Qing, although I don't have much friendship with Qi Wang, but I also know that he has longed for the outside world all his life, and he has not left the village because of you, I hope that one day, you can ......"

Without waiting for Yang Sanjin to finish speaking, Li Qing said softly: "Don't worry, it won't be too long, I'll leave soon." ”

Yang Sanjin nodded lightly and continued to walk forward.

That's all, you don't have to say too much, this is Qi Wang's business after all, his friendship with Qi Wang is not so deep, it's just that he really doesn't like this blind man's behavior very much, so he will say it again.

Yang Sanjin has always felt that being blind and blind is not a reason for him to be cheeky and eat and drink on an orphan for five years.

Li Qing touched the cane in his hand, walked while laughing, and finally walked to the manor of Lao Lu Tou, and further on there was a winding path that could not be seen at a glance.

The old Lu Tou, who walked out of his yard, looked at the blind man passing by the door in surprise, he hesitated, but still called out to him: "Hey, blind man!" ”

Li Qing stopped.

Lao Lu Tou walked up to him with his hands behind his back, looked at him for a while, and said, "Are you so bored that you panic and go for a walk?" ”

Li Qing smiled and nodded.

Old Lu Tou sneered, and said lazily: "You have met a little fool who can survive until now, people like you, put outside, maybe hundreds of people will die a day." ”

Seeing that this blind and blind man was not angry, and there was no rebuttal, Lao Lu Tou eased his tone a little, and said lightly: "Your luck is quite good, as far as I know, more than eight homeless people died in Shell City alone last year, and those who have hands and feet can't survive, let alone a blind man like you." ”

Old Lu Tou paused, and said lightly: "It's right to want to live, but at your age, even if you are blind, but you have sound limbs, you won't need to rely on a child to support you if you find a job, right?" ”

Li Qing said softly: "Well, I'm sorry. ”

Old Lu Tou felt that it was useless to say more, so he changed the topic and asked, "What about Xiao Wangzi?" Why didn't you see him today? ”

Li Qing replied: "I may have been tired yesterday and was still sleeping." ”

Old Lu Tou frowned slightly, thinking that he let the little guy move so many goods by himself yesterday, and he didn't have time to deliver food at noon, he might really be unbearable today.

Old Lu Tou felt a little guilty, he loved money like his life, but a few silver coins were not heartache and bleeding for him, he sighed, took out five silver coins and gave them to the blind man, and said indifferently: "This is not for you, go back and hand it over to Xiao Wangzi, don't forget to go out of the village during this time, try to stay at home, there are very terrible characters outside." ”

Li Qing put away the silver coin and nodded with a smile.

Old Lu Tou snorted coldly, and just wanted to leave, but suddenly remembered something, and said solemnly to Li Qing: "Hey, blind man, you will come to me when Xiao Wangzi is sixteen years old, usually water my flowers, sweep the floor or something, anyway, you can do whatever you want, I won't let you starve, don't rely on Xiao Wangzi in the future." ”

Li Qing was silent.

"Did you hear that?"

Old Lu Tou glared at him.

Li Qing replied softly, and Old Lu Tou nodded with satisfaction.

Old Lu Tou always remembered that this little guy who grew up by him had been bouncing and noisy since he was a child to go outside to see, and as he grew up, he rarely expressed it again, but he knew that he had been thinking about this matter, and it was not until this blind man came that he temporarily slowed down this matter.

Li Qing slowly walked back to the cabin, it was already noon at this moment, the burly man like an iron tower sat in the room and closed his eyes to recuperate, while the young man on the bed never woke up.

Li Qing and Wu Er sat opposite each other.

Wu Er grinned and said: "Before, you called me over and told me to protect a person in the land of Gunaod, I was actually very resistant, but then I thought about it, you explained this matter to me, and I admitted it, and now it seems that the people of Guno in this place are indeed different." ”

Li Qing glanced at the young man on the bed: "They are not Guno people, they are from Lanbo Village." ”

Wu Er spread his hands and said: "Once you go out, that's it." ”

Li Qing didn't say anything, he took out a bag from under the bed, it was the burden he carried with him when he came to Lanbo Village five years ago, Li Qing patted off the dust on it, put it on the table, and then picked up a rag and wiped the room up and down, carefully and carefully, leaving no dust.

That's the only thing he's capable of right now.

By the time he was done, it was almost dark.

After cleaning up everything, Li Qing continued to sit opposite Wu Er, one with a cover on his eyes, and the other with his eyes closed, and the two sat like this until the next morning.

A little red light pierced through the black curtain and fell on the silent world, and then it ignited the land like a prairie fire.

It's dawn.

Wu Er opened his eyes instantly, and there were turtles, tigers, and bears behind him roaring and roaring, setting off him like a god, and Li Qing also opened the burden in front of him, which was a square yellow and red monk's robe, which was different from ordinary monk's robes, and this monk's robe was tattooed with a hideous golden dragon.

The monk's robe flew up automatically and fell on Li Qing's body, his palms folded in front of his chest, and he was silent for a while, slowly turning around and stepping out of the wooden door.

In the distance, the iron hooves roared, and the humanoid crabs had already reached the foot of the mountain range, and they were not tired, but had a high fighting spirit, and their eyes were full of murder.

In the cave, the fat figure in a white coat also walked out of the cave, revealing a purple face with distorted facial features, his tongue flung out, hideous and disgusting, and there were still a few needles on his body, he pulled out the needles casually, grinning strangely.

"Meng Zu can go wherever he wants."

The figure was carrying a blood-stained and rusty scalpel butcher knife, grinning wrecklessly, and in the cave behind him, green jars were placed on the ground, each with a crossed skull emblem on it.

At the gate of the village, the people of Lanbo Village gathered together in surprise, pointing at the two people who were walking slowly.

"It's ...... The blind man? ”

"What is he wearing, monk's robe?"

"What a strange outfit, and who is the person next to him, why does it look so scary."

There were constantly people running curiously, but this time no one dared to step forward, and there was also Yang Sanjin who was frowning in the crowd standing, and there was also an old Lu Tou who came in a hurry and was stunned.

In the small cabin not far away, the young man who had slept for a day and two nights finally woke up, he looked at the new and clean house in a daze, and the picture before falling asleep resurfaced, he reacted, hurriedly ran out of the house, and saw the crowd of people who were constantly gathering at the entrance of the village, and Qi Wang, who was aware of it, also hurriedly ran over, and finally, he squeezed through the crowd, and went to the front, and saw the dazzling gold.

I saw the big snake that coiled up hideously, or rather, the dragon.

The blind monk who walked to the entrance of the village step by step felt the familiar gaze behind him, and immediately turned around slowly, his smile as kind and warm as ever.

He and Li Qing looked at each other, and time seemed to rewind quickly at this moment, back to the moment when the two first met five years ago.

"When we met for the first time, my surname was Qi, and my name was Qi Wang."

Five years ago, Qi Wang's immature tone was still echoing in the ears of the blind man.

This time, the blind man repeated the conversation five years ago, but added another sentence after the words, which made the only old Lu Tou in the village who had ever walked out change his face greatly, like thunder.

"My surname is Li, a single name is a clear character, the land of the newborn, the blind monk, Li Qing!"

At this moment, except for Lao Lu Tou's face, the others gradually widened their eyes and froze in place, not because of his words, but because this blind man, who had lived in the village for five years, actually stomped his feet and jumped into the sky!

That's right, he flew!

Qi Wang looked at the flying figure in a daze.

At this moment, people seemed to be stagnant even breathing, and the blind and blind man in the air was wearing a dragon robe at the moment, invisibly as if there was a sinuous dragon entrenched on his side, and the vigorous and powerful illusory body squirmed slightly, mighty.

Li Qing made a flying kick.

A little streamer pierced the sky and went straight to the towering mountain, the size of which was incomparable, like a mayfly shaking a tree.

Li Qing kicked heavily on the mountainside.

The next moment.

Half of the mountain above the mountainside was struck by a giant hammer, and huge cracks quickly emerged, and the entire mountain peak was in a state of cracking.

A fresh breeze blew and the earth crumbled.

It's like a miracle.