The people of Datang, on the whole, still follow the living habits of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.

When the sun sets, every household rises to smoke, and Su Duan can faintly smell a little rice fragrance, which means that there must be people living nearby!

I carefully identified the direction from which the smell of rice came from, and ran away without saying a word.

The scenery along the way quickly swept back, and the faint smell of rice gradually became clear, and after a while, a village appeared in front of Su Duan's eyes.

"Huh!?" Su Duan looked at the smoke rising in the village, and subconsciously frowned, I don't know why, there is always an inexplicable sense of disobedience in my heart, just like a ragged beggar walking down from a luxury car, which makes people feel unreal!

This village gave Su Duan such a feeling.

Obviously, it was just approaching dusk, but there was no villager at the entrance of the village who had returned from work, and the whole village was quiet, if it weren't for the smoke wafting from the chimney, Su Duan would even think that this was a deserted village that had been abandoned for a long time!

"It's weird!"

Su Duan said to himself in his heart, he has not forgotten that this is the Tang Dynasty in the Journey to the West, and demons and monsters are common things, perhaps, this village is an illusion transformed by demons.

Subconsciously opened the writing wheel eye and glanced at the village, although there was no suspicious sign, Su Duan did not dare to relax his vigilance.

His writing wheel eye can indeed see through illusions, but it doesn't mean that it can see through demons, after all, it's not the famous eye that can see through all illusions and demons!

"The sun is about to go down, and once it falls, it will be even more dangerous!" Su Duan glanced at the sunset that was only a little red, and his heart was horizontal: "Although this village is a little disobedient, but there is no feeling of palpitations, be careful, there should be no problem!" ”

Thinking of this, Su Duan walked directly towards the village, the closer to the village, the more intense the feeling of disobedience in his heart, looking at the three big words "Lijia Village" on the brand-new stone tablet at the entrance of the village, Su Duan finally suddenly felt where the disobedience came from:

This village is so "new"!

In this kind of wilderness, it is already an extremely lucky thing to be able to exist a village, Su Duan will not care about its dilapidated and deserted at all, but this village is just beyond Su Duan's expectations, it does not look like a poor village located in the wilderness at all, compared to Su Duan's imagination, it seems low-key and luxurious.

From a distance, the feeling of desolation can't help but permeate your heart, and as you get closer, you have the opposite feeling.

The roof was covered with new tiles, and a few sticks of thatch were interspersed in the cracks, so that one could imagine that it had been covered with thatch a few days ago, and the houses were old, but not a single break, and they were all repaired perfectly, as if everything had been renovated not long ago.

A village in the middle of nowhere, can afford to renovate the entire village once? No wonder Su Duan's heart is always filled with a feeling of disobedience, because this is unreasonable!

"Tuk Tuk!" Su Duan came to a house that looked the most "luxurious" and knocked on the wooden door gently.

"Squeak-" The wooden door slowly opened, making a high-pitched sound to show its age.

An old man with white hair appeared behind the wooden door, holding the wooden door with one hand and a cane in the other, looking at Su Duan in front of the door, his eyes emitted a sharp light, like a devouring demon, which made Su Duan subconsciously take a step back.

"Young man, is there anything wrong with you?" The old man asked in an old voice, as if he would lose his breath in the next moment.

Su Duan took out the words he had thought of a long time ago: "Old man, I'm going to Chang'an, I don't want to get lost in the forest, it's getting late now, I don't know if I can borrow it from you for a night?" ”

Chang'an, the starting point of Chen Xuanzang's study of scriptures in the West, although there is a big gap between the plot of Journey to the West and Journey to the West, it is not surprising that the whole story should happen near Chang'an!

"Ho, that's the case, then come in!" The old man let out two chuckles in a low voice, but it looked very strange in his hoarse old voice, and he trembled out of the way and went into the house: "You are on the wrong path, young man! If you go to Chang'an, it is the opposite direction to the village! ”

"We have not been here since the last time a scholar came to Beijing to take the exam!"

"Really?" Su nodded noncommittally, followed the old man into the room, closed the wooden door with his hand, sat on a wooden chair that he knew was very old at a glance, and asked tentatively: "I see that your houses here are quite new, why didn't anyone come?" ”

"You don't know, we ...... here," the old man said, his wrinkled face showed a look of panic, looked around, and cautiously leaned into Su Duan's ear and said, "Demon! ”

"Haunted !?" Su Duan subconsciously exclaimed.

"Shh——!h Don't be so loud, you'll be heard by that monster! The old man was taken aback by Su Duan and hurriedly silenced.

Su Duan immediately covered his mouth, pretending to be afraid, and asked, "What kind of monster is that!?" ”

"Oh, that's all our own doing!"

When the old man heard this, he sighed, and looked like he regretted that he shouldn't have been:

"A year ago, a seriously injured wolf fainted at the entrance of our village, the village of Cuihua saw that it was pitiful, so he took it in, to treat it, it took two months, the wolf recovered from the injury, but we never thought that it was a wolf-hearted monster, the injury was just healed, and the cuihua was eaten, it was really miserable......"

Su Duan asked curiously, "Then how did you escape?" ”

"Hey, thanks to the scholar we took in before!" The old man said in a tone of impermanence: "He went to Beijing to take the exam, and he was the champion of high school, in order to thank us for taking us in, he took the officers and soldiers, invited craftsmen, and wanted to repair the house for us, but he just happened to be in trouble with the wolf demon, and the joint officers and soldiers drove the wolf demon away!" ”

"But although the wolf demon was driven away, he often returned to the village to kill people and eat people, making people panic, and no one dared to come to our village again!"

"There is really a difference between this person and a brute, people know how to repay kindness, this beast will never be able to raise it, only know that grace will be revenged!" After the old man finished speaking, he lamented sadly: "Poor Cuihua, she is so kind, but she is ...... Ay! ”

"I see, no wonder!" Su Duan bowed slightly, reached out and patted the old man's back gently, and said, "People can't be resurrected after death, please mourn and change." ”

"I wonder who you are in this village?!"