The moment the four eyes met, Rao is Xue Hongbi had already been prepared and was so frightened that he fell backwards, almost falling off the crockpot pile and falling to the sky.

He stood still, and then climbed up the pile of clay pots and looked at the hole, where the old woman had already turned over her body, and only half of her hand hung down weakly, thin and wrinkled, pale and weak, like a white moth stuck to a large net of ashes, dying and struggling but unable to move.

Xue Hongbi couldn't hear her clearly, he could only watch the three fingers curl up or grab the air above his head, he knew that she had found himself and was calling for help, if he just watched, maybe it would not be long before she died.

Fu Yuanyu has no news yet, and the killer of the Listening Rain Pavilion doesn't know how far away he is...... Xue Hongbi had all the worries in his heart, but he finally opened the cellar door and climbed up the half-decayed staircase.

At this time, it was evening, the room was dark, Xue Hongbi took the lamp in his hand and showed the old woman's current appearance, only to see her lying on her back on the cold ground, half-pulled the futon was also dragged off the bed, cloudy eyes stared at the roof blankly, if it weren't for the slight rise and fall of his chest, he almost thought she was dead.

Xue Hongbi only knew a little about medical skills, and thought that the old woman was also suffering from an epidemic, but found that the illness did not match most of the oral traditions in Wutong Town, and she was suddenly a little at a loss, so she could only help the person back to the bed first, turn her head while boiling water, and rummage in the house for possible herbs, but found nothing.

At this time, the old woman's originally weak breathing became rapid again, struggling to get up, Xue Hongbi hurriedly supported her to sit up, only to see her bend over and spit out a mouthful of dirty blood, which looked shocking on the grass-colored futon.

"You-" Xue Hongbi was shocked when she saw this, and gently used her hand to calm her down, sensing that her breathing had calmed down again, so she carefully brought hot water to her to drink.

That night, the old woman didn't fall asleep until the third watch, but Xue Hongbi didn't close her eyes all night. Waiting until the next morning, before dawn, Xue Hongbi checked the old woman's pulse, and found that her pulse seemed to be absent, and the palms of her hands were also wet and cold, and sighed in her heart, knowing that she might not be able to survive today.

At this moment, the old woman slowly opened her eyes, and it took a while for her dilated pupils to reflect Xue Hongbi's shadow, and she said angrily: "Hungry ......"

Xue Hongbi said softly: "Grandma, what do you want to eat?" ”

The old woman looked at him steadily, and spit out a sentence with difficulty: "Fish...... Soup ......"

Xue Hongbi suddenly felt a headache, and she didn't want to disappoint the old man who was about to reach the limit, thinking that she was also borrowing her place to avoid trouble so far, so she said: "Okay, I'll do it for you, are you waiting here?" ”

The old woman stretched out her finger and hooked his sleeve, which was considered to be an agreement.

Xue Hongbi was full of thoughts about where to get fish soup, and went out of the warehouse before dawn, not noticing that a five-step snake chased a lizard through a crack in the wall at some point, snaking through the floor tiles, and crawling towards the bed.

Now it is close to early winter, the weather is getting cold, even if the southern climate is hot and humid, most of the snakes have begun to hibernate, this snake is obviously also preparing for hibernation, the lizard stopped above the head of the bed, the five-step snake slightly straightened up and was ready to bite, and opened its mouth to bite and kill the past.

At this moment, the half-dead old woman lying on the bed actually shot like electricity, two thin fingers like withered branches firmly pinched the poisonous snake seven inches, the other hand pinched the snake's head, let the snake's tail wrap around the arm and clamp it hard, both hands tore the snake into two, the fresh and cold snake blood all dripped into her mouth, only the stars splashed on her face and bedding, she swallowed snake blood like thirst for wine, and waited until the snake corpse had no blood to drop, then she licked her lips unfinished, the original pale as paper face also had a little blood, I don't know if it was an illusion, It looks a little younger.

"It's too little...... the old woman muttered to herself, threw the snake corpse in her hand, lifted the futon and got down, and walked back and forth in the room a few steps, first frowning, then thinking of something, and the corners of her mouth hooked up with a smile.

As early as the first night Xue Hongbi came here, she found him, but this period is special, this young man is rare and pure, and it is a pity to kill him in a few days if he is not good at raising him.

As soon as she thought of this, she was a little embarrassed, she deliberately lured Xue Hongbi out last night because she wanted to do it, but when she saw that the other party was still losing both qi and blood, should she try to have a momentary pleasure, or continue to wait for him to recover and then enjoy it slowly?

But she is really hungry, if she doesn't replenish her qi and blood, I'm afraid it won't be easy to survive today.

At this moment, three long and one short crows suddenly came from the roof, and the old woman's eyes were cold, but her tone was light: "Come in." ”

A black shadow came in from the window, knelt on one knee, his head lowered, and he didn't dare to look up, but said respectfully: "My subordinates meet the landlord." ”

"What's going on?"

She had ordered before entering the Longevity Village that no one was allowed to approach this place for ten days, and it was not idle to let her subordinates come to meet her even if they disobeyed the order.

The man in black didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly took out the letter from his arms, and said: "Back to the landlord, the owner of the Yan Mansion of the Shocking Wind Building died in Liyujiang seven days ago, and the Lord of the Xiao Pavilion convened the first seat to return to Beijing to discuss the matter. ”

The old woman wiped the blood in her hand for a moment, and after a while, she didn't laugh angrily: "Okay, which hero is doing the right thing for heaven?" ”

"It's Fu Yuanyu, and ...... Cuckoo. ”

"Old Demon Fu......" the old woman narrowed her eyes, "There is such an action, why don't I know about it?" ”

The man in black didn't dare to answer, but he saw sweat on his forehead.

As the so-called one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, listen to the rain Your Excellency set up four parts of wind and clouds, thunder and lightning, although they are all colleagues, it is inevitable to friction between each other, especially the frightening wind and floating clouds are the most, the former master of the floating cloud building died last year to deal with Fu Yuanyu, Yan Quan is sad outside and happy inside, and he has taken advantage of the chaos to encroach on the interests of the floating cloud building, until this adult is on the throne this year, and he uses a little means to make the frightening wind building suffer a few hidden losses, and the two parties have stopped, and the beam is getting deeper and deeper.

Therefore, this time when she got Fu Yuanyu's whereabouts, Yan Quan not only did not notify Fuyunlou to help, but also blocked all possible channels for leakage, and took advantage of her retreat to directly ask the pavilion master for this task, and used the name of spying on border intelligence to dispatch forty-eight elite killers in the Shocking Wind Building, but they still fell short, and even lost their lives.

The thoughts in her mind turned a thousand times, and after a short time, she figured out the cause and effect, and the old woman couldn't see joy and anger on her face, and asked, "What's the matter with the cuckoo?" ”

"Back to the landlord, Fu Yuanyu had already been captured, but when the fleet reached the Liyu River, Du Juan rebelled and let it go, and she herself failed to escape from the encirclement, so that Ji killed herself after assassinating the owner of the Yan building."

"It's a shame." The old woman sighed softly, and the man in black listened to her subtle tone, and didn't dare to think deeply about who this "pity" meant.

The old woman read the letter at a glance, threw it back again, and ordered, "Eat it." ”

The man in black immediately tore the letter into his stomach and swallowed it, leaving not even a scrap of paper.

"Sect Master Zhou personally led people to chase all the way, and it was okay to still ask Fu Yuanyu to escape, after all, the old demon has been famous for a long time, even if he is down, he is the first person in today's martial arts, but ...... A demon sect elder with more than a dozen Storm Tower killers captured a half-grown child, how could he let people run away? The old woman's face was slightly gloomy, "If this matter gets out, I will have to lose face when I hear that the Yu Pavilion and the Heaven Replenishing Sect will have to lose face!" ”

The man in black was shocked when he heard this, and lowered his head a little lower.

"That's it, it's all a mess left by Yan Quan, even if others are dead, there is always a large group of loyal dogs to clean up the mess, and this seat can't wade into troubled waters." The old woman lowered her eyes and muttered for a moment, "Let everyone be obedient, don't come to the door to give people a handle, and stop the transaction with the East China Sea first, and wait until this seat returns to Beijing...... Also, let people deal with the corpses sent out by Changshou Village in the past ten days, and the relevant people will clean up, and then leave a prescription for treatment, which will be counted as the money for these people's lives. ”

"Yes!"

The man in black was ordered to be pardoned, turned around and was about to leave the same way, and listened to the old woman say: "After ordering this, you will hand over the affairs in hand to Fei Fu, find a good feng shui place to cut yourself, and your family will be safeguarded." ”

No matter what the reason is, disobedience is disobedience, if she is usually more tolerant, but at this crucial juncture, looking at the other party's past achievements, she promised him to break himself off happily, if the other party is not interested, the end is thousands of times worse than this.

She didn't say these words, and her subordinates who had been with her for a long time understood, and the man in black didn't even hesitate for a moment, and went out.

After he left, the old woman slowly exhaled a breath of turbidity.

The secret letter said that Lu Wugui and others had chased down the Nine Palaces raised by the cuckoo, but she compared the information with Xue Hongbi one by one, and the answer was self-evident, and she didn't know how there could be such a coincidental thing in the world.

recognized Xue Hongbi's identity, the old woman didn't want to show mercy to her subordinates, not to mention that she and Du Juan were only one-sided friends, with her current situation alone, there was no choice, a few days ago, she was able to take the young man who had just recovered from a serious illness in the village to make a living, today is the last level, she never does stupid things that harm herself and others, at most, for the sake of this kindness, give the other party a good time, and then leave the whole corpse.

Thinking of this, the old woman calculated that Xue Hongbi should almost come back, so she cleaned up a little, disposed of the snake corpse, and then rubbed the blood stain on the bedding with a handkerchief, and then half lay back on the bed, coughing from time to time.

Sure enough, she lay back with just a stick of incense, and there was a familiar sound of footsteps outside, and the old woman covered the corner of her lips with a handkerchief and smiled, and the fierce light flashed at the bottom of her slightly drooping eyes, and there was hidden blood.

"Grandma, I'm back."

With Xue Hongbi's greeting, the wooden door was pushed open with a "squeak", and the old woman first smelled a fishy smell, she looked up, but her heart skipped a beat when she saw the figure of the person who came.

Xue Hongbi didn't come back alone.

There are pots and water in the warehouse, Xue Hongbi only needs to catch a fish and dig up some wild ginger and garlic to make a pot of soup, he vaguely remembers that when he entered the village, he passed a small river, and a lot of wild vegetables grew on the bank, so he left and went straight there, turned over in the grass for a while, and finally dug up a piece of ginger and pulled out a few old garlic seedlings.

Just as he was forking a fish with a branch, a hand suddenly landed on his shoulder, so frightened that he jumped away on the spot, and his heart almost flew out of his throat, but fortunately he looked back and saw that it was Fu Yuanyu who had not been seen for a few days.

Compared with when he first met, Fu Yuanyu looked much haggard, although his robe was neat, it was full of dust, and when he saw that Xue Hongbi was fine, the solemn expression on his face was released.

"I'm here, are you okay?"

Fu Yuanyu's journey can be described as difficult, if it weren't for the words that Du Juan wrote in his palm at the end, he might not even have a direction to find someone, fortunately, Xue Hongbi is a ghost, and he was careful to leave marks along the way, so he asked him to touch Changshou Village as soon as possible.

"I'm fine, you ......" Xue Hongbi looked at him like this, and swallowed back a greeting when it came to his mouth, so he had to raise the branch and say, "Have you eaten?" ”

Fu Yuanyu was stunned, looked at the dead fish, and said disgustedly: "No need." ”

The mud bodhisattva crossing the river is still a poor and exquisite person, Xue Hongbi is so old and only knows Fu Yuanyu alone with this stinky problem, he finally let go of his heart when he heard this, gave this dusty man a hug, and said happily: "Father-in-law, it's good that you can escape safely." ”

After a pause, he raised his head again and asked hesitantly, "Three...... What about my mother? ”

Fu Yuanyu's smile that had not yet appeared froze at the corner of his mouth, he had told too many lies in his life, and on the way here, he had already thought of seventeen or eighteen perfect excuses to prepare to prevaricate Xue Hongbi, after all, he would not coax the child, and he was afraid that the child would cry.

However, when he looked at Xue Hongbi's eyes, those excuses were speechless.

Seeing that he was silent, Xue Hongbi clearly didn't hear anything, and tears had already burst out of his eyes.

Killers are only born to kill, when a killer puts down the butcher knife to save people, and does not know whether to live or die to shake the tree, what will she usher in?

The white pear is a lesson from the past, and the cuckoo is going to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Fu Yuanyu sighed and squatted down to wipe his tears, but Xue Hongbi turned around and didn't let him look, wiped his face red with his sleeves, and his tears soaked half of his sleeves, but he never cried.

After a while, Xue Hongbi put down her hand and said in a hoarse voice: "Let's go, I'll make you a bowl of fish soup to drink." ”

Fu Yuanyu didn't know how to respond for a while, even if he had already started walking the rivers and lakes when he was thirteen years old, and had experienced life and death, but he was crying at that time, and he couldn't be as weak as Xue Hongbi on the surface, because he already had a friend around him who was worthy of life and death, and although Xue Hongbi called him a father-in-law, he didn't really treat him as half a father.

Of course, Fu Yuanyu knew that Xue Hongbi was kind in nature, if he could get along for a few more years, sincerity would always be exchanged for sincerity, which was completely different from Zhou Jiangyun's rebel, but what he lacked most now was time, and he didn't have the blessing of filial piety from his father and son, so he deserved to be a lonely ghost.

He thought to himself, smiled on his face, and said, "Okay." ”

Xue Hongbi took out a knife and squatted down, cut the fish by the river, and didn't know what he remembered, tears smashed on the water one by one, making a circle of small ripples, Fu Yuanyu didn't make a sound when he saw it, and it rained as he wished.

After a while, Xue Hongbi stood up with the packed fish: "Let's go." ”

The way back to the warehouse from Xiaohe is not far, but it is enough for Xue Hongbi to explain his experience these days, after Fu Yuanyu learned that he was now living with a strange old woman, he first frowned, and when he heard that the other party was terminally ill, he slowly let go, and only turned his breathing into internal breathing, and there was no footsteps at all.

When he arrived outside the warehouse, Fu Yuanyu could also hear the faint breathing sound inside through the wooden door, he took a step forward quietly, just blocking half of Xue Hongbi's body, stretched out his hand and pushed the door open, first smelled a faint smell of blood, and then saw the old woman who was half lying on the bed.

"Grandma, wait a minute, the soup will be fine soon."

Although Xue Hongbi was not close to Fu Yuanyu, he already trusted the other party's ability, and now he was in a state of confusion, and he went to the corner to boil water by himself.

Fu Yuanyu approached the bed, and looked at the spirit of the person in front of him, he was indeed an old man who was dying soon, his breathing and breathing were no different, and the dirty blood on the handkerchief and futon could also correspond to what Xue Hongbi said, and then I thought that this person lived here earlier than Xue Hongbi, and the encounter was also accidental, maybe it was really a coincidence?

The old woman seemed to be a little afraid of the living, and curled up in the corner of the bed, Fu Yuanyu showed a kind smile when she saw this, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, old man, I am the elder of this child, and I know a little about medicine, why don't you let me take a pulse?" ”