After Liao Qing came back from Bingyang City, he basically spent most of the day at Lao Xu's house, and it was the norm to come several times a day.

Therefore, Lao Xu's family treats him as their own, and they can't be more familiar.

Only Xu Lao Wu just came back, watching the two talking to each other, stunned.

Liao Qing and Xu Lao Wu are the same age, they have known each other since childhood, Liao Qing saw Xu Lao Wu's appearance, and comforted him a few words.

Xu Lao Wu was absent-minded.

When Liao Qing left, Xu Lao Wu stopped him, "Liao Qing, are you good at bows and arrows?" Or, let me take a look here, I'll study it, and one day I'll help you make a big iron bow and arrow, which will be more penetrating when shot! ”

Liao Qing went up to the mountains to hunt today, and now he still has his bow and arrows on his back.

"No, I'm used to this, I don't use iron, and I can't pull the iron bow a few times if I don't have enough strength. Thank you! ”

Xu Lao Wu sighed, "Yes, then I'll give you a machete another day, it's very useful to go into the mountains to chop firewood, I made several in the county blacksmith shop, but I didn't get it back." ”

Liao Qing patted him on the shoulder and left.

……

In the middle of the night, the back door of Lao Xu's house squeaked slightly and opened.

A tall, black figure flashed out of the back room.

He didn't alarm anyone, and tiptoed with a big black and gloomy firewood knife in his hand.

Quietly touched out of Xujia Village, and as soon as he got out of Xujia Village, he began to run wildly and ran in the direction of the county seat.

……

Xu Jiaojiao slept until midnight and suddenly woke up.

I don't know what's going on, I can't sleep anymore.

She simply got up and went to a hut.

At night, when the house was dark, she lit a lantern, walked out, and when she walked to the threshold, she tripped in a daze.

With a bang, Xu Zhang's in the upper room woke up.

Xu Zhang's people are old, and they don't sleep well, so they can wake up when the wind blows.

"Who?"

"It's me, mother, I'll get up and go to the hut." Xu Jiaojiao hurriedly whispered back.

Xu Zhang asked, "Is it a small night, or a big one?" The little mother has told you many times, just solve it in the urinal in your own house, don't go out in the middle of the night, now the weather is getting colder and colder, and it will snow in the winter in the future, you still run the thatched house, how cold it is! Petite ......"

The rural conditions are poor, and the thatched houses are all in the backyard, and there is still some distance from the main house.

Generally, when I get up at night, I use a urinal and urinal.

If you, you have to go out of the hut at night.

But Xu Jiaojiao came through time, and she couldn't bear to have a basin with excrement in the room where she was sleeping, and she couldn't get over this hurdle.

Therefore, if she gets up at night, she will go to the thatched house.

"Mother, you don't care about me, you continue to sleep."

Xu Zhangshi muttered a few words, and then said, "Old five, old five, you get up and accompany your old sister to the thatched house, in case there is a ...... of those disciples."

Before the fifth child came back, Xu Zhang didn't think about this problem.

It was all Gu Xiuer's mother and daughter, which made Xu Zhang's very nervous about her baby girl.

Her daughter is also an unmarried girl, good-looking and capable, what if there is such a short-sighted disciple who is ambushed on the periphery of Lao Xu's house, and takes advantage of Xu Jiaojiao's inattention to bully her?

People's hearts are so bad that they have to think more.

Xu Zhangshi shouted a few times, but there was no response from the kang.

Xu Lao Wu has not yet married and has not been assigned his own room, so he sleeps on a kang with Xu Zhang's old couple.

screamed a few times, but there was no response, Xu Zhangshi couldn't help but stretch out his legs to kick, the quilt next to him.

With a kick, he kicked the pile of human-shaped quilts open......

Where is there anyone inside? No one at all!

What about the five old people?

Xu Zhang's got up, lit the oil lamp, and woke up Xu Youde, "Old man, old man, where is the fifth child?" ”

Xu Youde was pushed awake, looked left and right, and then came back to his senses.

"Where is the fifth child? Did you go to the thatched house? ”

"I don't know! No, if he went to the thatched house, why did he pile up the quilt in a human shape, and put his melon skin hat on the side of the pillow, so that people could mistakenly think that he was sleeping on the kang? ”

Half of the old couple's drowsiness is gone.

Xu Jiaojiao also heard it outside, she came in to take a look, and sure enough, it was like this.

Then he turned around and ran to the hut.

You can tell if you look at the thatched house.

Carrying a horse lantern, he ran to the thatched house in one breath, but there was no one.

Her heart sank, broken!

A bad premonition came to the fore.

She remembered that before, when Xu Lao Wu was talking to Liao Qing, he wanted to use Liao Qing's bow and arrow to study......

Xu Jiaojiao turned around and ran to the kitchen again, and sure enough, the big kitchen knife was gone!

"Dad, mother, the fifth brother may not be at home anymore!"

Xu Zhang exclaimed, "Ah! Xu Lao Wu, who is a sinful worker! He's trying to us off again...... Why did the old lady give birth to such an unconscious Wang Ba Lamb! Wake up your second brother and fourth brother, go and find, go and find, and you must find out the fifth king......"

Suddenly, oil lamps were lit in several rooms of Lao Xu's house.

In a hurry, they all got dressed and came out.

I turned over Lao Xu's house inside and out, but I didn't find Xu Lao Wu.

Luo Che is a big mouth who can't stop his mouth, and he doesn't speak mindlessly, she snorted, "I've searched inside and out, no, I can't think about it, where to go with a knife to end myself, right?" ”

Xu Zhang's eyelids were already inexplicably jumping, and his heart was like an oil pot boiling, and hearing this sentence was like adding fuel to the fire.

An angry roar, "The fourth family, what did you say?" Say it again to my mother! ”

Seeing that Xu Zhang's was about to eat people, Roche was excited and completely scared away from the drowsiness.

Hurriedly picked up a big slap and slapped it in his face, "Mother, I didn't wake up just now, I said nonsense, I should beat, I hit my own big mouth, I'm just out of tune!" Mother, the fifth brother Ji has his own natural appearance, just like our old sister, it looks like a blessed one, I'm nonsense, I should fight. ”

After hitting the left side, hitting the right side, the fight was so loud that it was not until she hit seven or eight times that Xu Zhang spoke.

"If you can't speak, shut up the old lady, and I'll clean you up later."

Xu Jiaojiao's intuition is not very good, there must be nothing good about Xu Lao Wu's disappearance, "Dad, mother, it's important for us to find someone first." ”

"Yes, yes...... But where to look! This skull-chopping man left with a kitchen knife without saying a word, who knows where he's going, Dog's Day Xu Lao Wu ......"

Xu Youde gathered all the people in the house and assigned people.

Under Xu Jiaojiao's proposal, it was divided into three factions.

One is to go to the Duan family in Shilitunzi to find out, according to Xu Lao Wu's feelings for Duan Hongmei, it is possible that he went to intercede overnight, or it is possible.