A winter rain was bitterly cold, and the night was deep.

The clouds passed, revealing a crooked crescent moon hanging in the sky.

The moonlight was as cold as water, making Ji Fan, who was like snow and frost in the dense forest, vaguely see the light.

"There's a village in the mountains!"

Ji Fan, who was hiding behind a tree, had an extremely complicated mood.

Although the alien pupil power dissipated and Ji Fan took the spirit fruit again, his eyes were still bloodshot, and he was like a beast at night.

Thirty days after leaving the top of the world, Ji Fan was cautious everywhere, and finally came to the periphery of the Xuanyin Mountain Range.

"After going over more than 20 mountains, it should be the Yin Capital City, and when you get to ......" Ji Fan thought about it, and waited until the day to go to the village first to take a look and inquire about the situation.

After hearing Suosuo's voice, Ji Fan had already burrowed into the dead grass.

In Ji Fan's mind, whether it is Yin Capital City or the surrounding villages and towns, as long as he can settle anywhere.

If you can enter the Yin Capital City in the north on the periphery of the Xuanyin Mountain Range and find a place to stay, it depends on the situation.

As for the village, there should not be many monks, it is estimated that they will have to find someone to take them in, and when the time comes, they will pretend to be teenagers collecting medicine or hunting, and explore the situation in the surrounding mountains, which will be much more convenient for cultivation.

The night passed quietly, and it was only when the sun rose the next day that Ji Fan got up in the grass.

Although it was the middle of winter and the weather was cold, the river was not completely frozen, and it was flowing in a hurry.

Out of the woods, the ice ballast on Ji Fan's cloth also melted during the walking.

Enjoy the bright moon and the ethereal dreams

In the spring and autumn of the year, the mountains and seas are lovesick

Looking back at innocence when I was young, I had a lot of past events in my heart

Love is hidden in the heart, and the rain and snow are unforgettable

Ling Feng stood out from the crowd, and his pride pierced the sky

The blood-red afterglow recalls the vicissitudes of life, and the fingertips are sorrowful

Day and night in the world, the mountains and rivers of life are shaky

The flowers don't dare to grow old and pour out their thoughts

Scorching its brilliance, a song is yours in the end......

Just as Ji Fan was about to approach the village, he was attracted by the melodious singing.

The singing seems to spread far and wide among the mountains, and it is the first time for Ji Fan to hear such a beautiful singing, and the memories of each scene and complex emotions are aroused by the singing.

Follow the song to find it, the entrance of the village is a small river, the water is clear, winding like a jade belt, and there are holly flowers growing by the river.

The melodious singing is sung by the girl squatting by the river and preparing to do the laundry.

In the middle of winter, the river was cold and bone-chilling, and as the girl soaked her clothes in the water, the singing in her mouth stopped, and from time to time, she would raise her red hands and take a few hot breaths on her lips.

Maybe he was moved by the singing just now, or maybe he saw the girl's efforts to pound her clothes with a pestle and pound her clothes on the pillow stone by the river, Ji Fan walked over to the girl unconsciously.

A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, with patches on her cloth clothes, black hair tied in two braids, a pair of smart big eyes and black slippery, and a small mouth under her nose, which makes the whole smile delicate and beautiful.

Although it was cold, the girl washed her clothes, but she was already sweating on both sides of her forehead, and her face was flushed like goose eggs.

The girl pulled her cold red hands out of the water again, and when she kept rubbing them, she looked up and saw Ji Fan walking not far away, and she was frightened.

Finding that the girl was shocked, Ji Fan reacted at this time, wanting to appease her but didn't know what to say.

I don't know if it's because Ji Fan closed his eyes and stopped, or if he was dressed in damp and ragged clothes, the girl looked at him, and the horror on her little face dissipated a little.

"Who are you?"

For Ji Fan not to speak, the girl asked him in a low voice.

"I haven't eaten in days. ”

Ji Fan's voice was not very sharp, and he didn't know where he was from, as if he wanted to beg for food.

The girl realized that the world was difficult, and it was in the middle of winter, and she looked at Ji Fan and didn't ask any more, and her little face had a look of hesitation.

Feeling the girl's embarrassment, Ji Fan showed a stiff smile, with the intention of leaving.

"You come back to the village with me first, I still have some food at home......" The girl's words were not confident, but her heart was very good.

Noticing that the girl put her clothes in the wooden basin, she got up and motioned to go to the village, and Ji Fan, who had planned to enter the village, followed.

"Your eyes?"

The girl just saw Ji Fan's blood-red eyes.

"It's stained with something unclean, and I can't see clearly. Ji Fan gave a girl response.

"Hold on to the stick, I'll take you. ”

The girl is not very old, but she knows very well that if she can't see, not only will she not be able to walk, but it will be even more difficult to survive.

Ji Fan grabbed the laundry pestle handed by the girl and did not refuse her kindness.

Before this, Ji Fan was mentally prepared to contact people, but he didn't expect to be given by a girl younger than him.

Following the girl all the way back to the village, Ji Fan closed his eyes, and he could also feel the emotion of a few villagers looking at the girl and his eyes.

Following the girl to the small mud-walled courtyard on the east side of the village, Ji Fan was not surprised that there were mostly mud and straw houses in the village.

The girl didn't say much, took Ji Fan into the house, and immediately gave him hot food.

The wild vegetable soup is very thin, a cassava, and a dried bean stick.

Because it is a mountain village, there is no shortage of firewood, but food is very scarce in the middle of winter.

"Eat. ”

It didn't take long for the girl to bring the cassava and dried bean sticks to the table in the back room, and served Ji Fan another bowl of hot soup.

Ji Fan felt the girl's gaze, didn't eat cassava and dried bean sticks, but slowly drank a bowl of wild vegetable soup.

"Why don't you eat?"

Seeing that after Ji Fan drank a bowl of soup, he stopped eating and didn't speak, and the girl seemed to be saying that she couldn't eat enough just by drinking soup.

Ji Fan just shook his head, not knowing how to get along with the girl.

The room was dim, the oil lamps seemed to have not been lit for a long time, and the atmosphere was a little dull.

"I want to live in the village, I can collect medicine, I can hunt. After being silent for a while, Ji Fan expressed his will.

Although the girl was worried just now that Ji Fan had injured his eyes and had no one to take care of him, he would not be able to live long outside, but it was a little difficult to deal with his offer to live in the village.

"I also rely on the help of the village......"

The girl understood the difficulties of the villagers, but she couldn't say that it was a burden to take in Ji Fan.

"As long as I can have a place to stay. ”

Ji Fan doesn't have to live in a mountain village, he needs the identity of a person in the village.

"If you want to live in the village, you have to get the permission of the village elders. The girl was kind-hearted and couldn't refuse Ji Fan's request.

Ji Fan followed the girl out and went to the south of the village.

Although the village elder's house occupies a larger area, the conditions are not much better, and after she helps the girl to understand her intentions, an old man who is nearly seventy years old with a sick face can't help but fall into a dilemma.

"After the winter, She Cripple froze to death outside, and there was no one in his dilapidated house in the east of the village, if you want to stay in Yuanshan Village, the dilapidated house will be given to you, and the old man will tell the people in the village. The old man took a deep breath, it was not easy to make this decision.

"Thank you, village elder. ”

Ji Fan closed his eyes, bowed deeply to the old man, and didn't say anything more.

The village elder said that the lame She's house was not far from the girl's home, and he couldn't walk a hundred steps.

Led by the girl, Ji Fan came to the damp courtyard and saw the mud and straw house with a missing door.

Entering the mud and straw room, it is almost the same as the temperature outside, the earthen stove and stone soil bed, and a stone pot are clear at a glance.

The girl entered the mud and straw room and looked at it, feeling that Ji Fan was afraid that it would be difficult to survive the midwinter here.

Ji Fan didn't seem to have anything to do, and he didn't dislike the dilapidated house, so he directly settled down.

After the girl left, in the afternoon, some people from Yuanshan Village came over and brought Ji Fan a little food and simple utensils, which can be regarded as living in the same village and getting to know each other.

Ji Fan also realized why the village elders were embarrassed, and telling the people in the village was equivalent to increasing the burden, especially when the season was not good.

In Ji Fan's opinion, the people in the village are still quite kind, and he also learned that this distant mountain village is not a mountain village with the same surname, but is composed of some displaced people.

The parents of the girl Ye Yao are hunters in the village, and she went out hunting once and never came back, and she became an orphan in the village.

The people in the mountain villages have a low status, they all depend on the weather for food, and make a living from farming, picking, and hunting, and it will be more difficult when the season is bad.

"You'd better be careful. ”

In the evening, Ji Fan ate a piece of cassava sent by the villagers, let the cold wind pour into the house, and considered the environment he was in.

As far as Ji Fan knows, the Xuanyin Mountain Range is also known as the Little Ten Thousand Mountains, not only there are thousands of mountains, but there are also rumors that the Xuanyin Mountain Range is an ancient battlefield and there are ruins.

When he came to Yuanshan Village, Ji Fan considered whether this village, which was crowded by homeless people, would hide cultivators, after all, he had a purpose.

Ji Fan felt that even if he lived in a mountain village, it was best not to act like a cultivator, as long as he could barely survive.

"With the identity of a person from a mountain village, you can go to the nearby mountains to collect medicine, hunt, and enter the Yin Capital City. "Ji Fan mainly wants to explore the environment and inquire about the news.

Even if you live in a mud and straw house without a door, it is much better than Ji Fan walking all the way and hiding and sleeping in the open.

At dawn the next day, Ji Fan, who was in rags, took the firewood knife and firewood rope sent by the villagers yesterday, and left the village with the medicine basket on his back.

The first thing Ji Fan wanted to explore was the mountains around the mountain village to see if there was anything unusual.

Yesterday, while the people in the village were sending things, Ji Fan asked about hunting in the surrounding mountains, and learned that there were more beasts in the mountains, but he didn't hear that there were cultivators and demon beasts in the mountains.

It took almost a day for Ji Fan to explore the two peaks in the east of the mountain village, and he didn't find the existence of monks, so he was not in a hurry, he cut some firewood, dug up six pieces of cassava, dug out a bird's nest, and hit a fat pheasant by the way.

When Ji Fan returned to the village at night, he sent a little food to Ye Yao, which already surprised her.