At midnight, at the entrance of Yanjia Village.

When Yan Wuhuo regained his consciousness again, he found himself sitting in front of the stone monument at the entrance of the village and drinking again.

"It's so cold! Why did I sleepwalk here again? Ay! Every month on the night of the full moon, there will be one seizure, but fortunately it is not seen by others, otherwise it would be difficult to explain clearly. Immortal God, Immortal Heaven, why do you tease me like this once a month? The old man asked himself in his life if he had never done anything harmful, why did he treat me like this! ”

Yan Wuhuo grumbled and complained.

For him, since the Mid-Autumn Festival five years ago, when he was drinking and admiring the moon with a few drinking friends at the entrance of the village, he had this strange sleepwalking disorder because he drank too much wine, causing stomach bleeding and vomiting a lot of blood on the stone tablet.

Since then, almost rain or shine, on the night of the full moon and at midnight, he would carry his wine and come to the stone monument at the entrance of the village, drinking while falling into a dream.

In this way, the dream lasts for an hour at a time, starting from the time of the child and ending at the time of the ugly.

In the course of that hour, he found himself always repeating a very ridiculous dream.

That is, he found that he would experience a hundred years in this dream.

For the past hundred years, he seems to have been reading books in a world full of ancient words, and every time he has to read the last word before he can wake up.

But, strangely, in the past hundred years, and every time he woke up, he found that he had changed back to his youthful appearance, about eighteen years old.

When I got home, I woke up from a sleep, and I became an old man over half a hundred years old.

He was also puzzled by this, but he couldn't ask other villagers, lest he let other villagers treat him as a monster, and then burn him alive as a monster because he was afraid, which would be too unjust.

Fortunately, he had little contact with people in the village, and he lived alone, so he did not reveal the secret.

It was as if he had been cursed by some kind of curse, repeating itself over and over again.

Every time he woke up, he was helpless and didn't know how to dissolve this unbelievable curse.

"Hey, it's snowing again, it's the fifth winter, does the old man have to live the rest of his life so absurdly?"

Yan Wuhuo sighed, and said to himself in an extremely lonely tone.

"Seeing that you are young, why do you call yourself an old man? I wonder why Childe is drinking alone here late at night? Seeing that you are dressed so thinly, aren't you cold? ”

Just when Yan Wuhuo was looking up to the sky and sighing in extreme depression, a woman's voice suddenly sounded behind him.

Immediately startled him, and quickly turned around to see that he actually knew him, because the person who came was the first beauty in the village, Ye Shuang'er.

Since Ye Rong said to the outside world that Yuan Xunshuang was her niece, named Ye Shuang'er, no one in the village knew the fact that her real name was actually Yuan Xunshuang.

In addition, she is slim and elegant, and she is born with a shy face, and she is gentle and virtuous, respects the old and loves the young, and is deeply liked by the villagers, so the people in the village are deeply impressed by her, and Yan Wuhuo will naturally be no exception.

"Night...... It's so deep, it's so cold, and the girl is so thinly dressed, why did she come here? ”

At the moment of recognizing Ye Shuang'er, Yan Wuhuo blurted out and almost called out Ye Shuang'er's name directly, but soon he realized that he was now the same as when he was young, and he was a stranger to Ye Shuang'er, and if he really said Ye Shuang'er's name, it would make the other party feel strange.

So he quickly paused, and cleverly changed his words to late at night, and by the way, he diverted the topic by asking the other party.

"I ...... Just because ...... Today is the night of the full moon, and I miss my old friend for a while, so I go out for a walk and feel a little ...... It was cold, and when I was about to go home, I saw Childe sitting here alone, so I came over to have a look. ”

Yuan Xunshuang said with some hesitation.

The reason why Yuan Xunshuang was a little nervous was because she lied.

When she came in a hurry, it was not because she missed her old friend, but because she happened to see the bright moon in the sky.

Second, she didn't feel cold, because she rubbed the birthmark on her palm hard along the way, so not only was she not cold at the moment, but her forehead was still slightly sweaty.

In addition, her character is not good at lying, and because of curiosity and the kind of heartbeat in her heart that she has never had, she rushed here recklessly.

I didn't think of any reasonable excuse in advance, but I was asked by Yan Wuhuo, and I realized that I was a little abrupt.

However, she is a woman after all, and she can't say that she saw him in the palm of her hand and was moved, so she came to see Yan Wuhuo.

What's more, how can there be a picture in the palm of a mortal? Without confirming that the other party is not a mortal, Yuan Xunshuang is not easy to expose his differences.

As for the fact that after rubbing the palm birthmark, it will activate the blood of its own golden-crowned black-tailed frog and heat up all over its body, let alone tell a stranger rashly.

So she can only lie, even if it is a far-fetched reason, she can't explain it to her, and casually admit the fact that she is not a mortal.

"I see, that's a coincidence. It was also the first time that I left my hometown and came to this Yanjia village to join my relatives, and I just arrived this afternoon. Before, because I missed my hometown very much, I was a little bored, and it was inconvenient to drink at home, so I was afraid that it would affect my uncle's rest, so I went out of the village. No, I just finished drinking and was about to go home. It's really cold tonight, I was a little disappointed just now, and I don't think it's cold, but now I really feel so cold, why don't we go back together? ”

Yan Wuhuo said empathetically.

Because he could see at a glance that the familiar woman in front of him was a little embarrassed, and he also understood that the other party was not telling the truth, but he could understand it, and he didn't break it, so he simply followed her lie and told a lie.

In this way, everyone can have a step down, not too embarrassed, and everyone is happy, after all, he himself has some concerns, and he doesn't dare to treat people with sincerity, how can he ask Ye Shuang'er to tell him bluntly!

It is said that do not do to others what you would not do to yourself, which is exactly the truth.

"It turns out that Gongzi only came to our Yanjia Village today, no wonder he hasn't seen it before. Then let's go back together, I have a lantern, this night road is dark, why don't I do my landlord's friendship and send my son home. I don't know who Uncle Childe is? ”

Yuan Xunshuang listened to Yan Wuhuo's words, and also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said.

"This ...... Although this small village is safer than the big city, and there are no bandits, it stands to reason that I should send the girl home first, and then I will go home. Oh, by the way, my uncle's name is Yan Wuhuo, and I'm his nephew Yan Mingxuan. I don't know where the girl's family lives? What should I call my name? ”

Yan Wuhuo said in a somewhat flattered tone.

"It turns out that you are a relative of Uncle Yan's family, it is not far from my home, my name is Ye Shuang'er, and I also came to Yanjia Village when I was a child to go to my aunt Ye Rong. Then walk to the intersection in front of us together, go back to their respective homes, and don't send each other off, how about it? ”

After learning the other party's name, Yuan Xunshuang said in surprise, but she was embarrassed to let the other party send her home, although she had some expectations in her heart, but she still shyly refused, and it happened that the two families were very close, so she thought of a compromise and suggested.

"Good! Then according to what the night girl said, go back to their own homes and don't send each other away. Girl, please. ”

Yan Wuhuo also felt that this method was very good and acceptable to both parties, so he readily agreed.

Then, the two of them walked one after the other towards the village......

Not long after Yuan Xunshuang and Yan Wuhuo left the stele at the entrance of the village, a golden-crowned black-tailed frog jumped out from behind the stele, stared thoughtfully at their backs for a while, and said to himself:

"How does this Yan Mingxuan feel like Yan Wuhuo when he was young? And I didn't see any outsiders entering Yanjia Village during the day and afternoon this day? It seems that this Yan Mingxuan must be strange, maybe it is the incarnation of Yan Wuhuo himself, so he can only find out in secret. If he really has the dual identity of an old man and a young person, then he must not be a mortal, and it is very likely that he is a member of the glorious Ice Moon Clan in the past. After all, only the people of the Ice Moon Clan can have the dual identity of an old and a young. ”

This golden-crowned black-tailed frog is naturally Yuan Xunshuang's Aunt Yerong, after she said this, she glanced back at the stone tablet, hesitated slightly, or followed Yuan Xunshuang and the two of them to chase after them.

Just when Ye Rong's small figure disappeared into the night, I saw a circle of ripples inexplicably appear in the center of the stone monument at the entrance of the village, and as the ripples became bigger and bigger, countless small water droplets flew out from the center of the ripples.

These small droplets of water flew over the stone monument and slowly began to gather and freeze, and soon condensed into a young man who looked like an ice sculpture, and if there was no smoke at this moment, he would definitely be surprised, because this young man actually looked exactly like him when he was eighteen!

After the young man appeared, he floated above the stone tablet out of thin air, frowned slightly, stared at the direction where Yuan Xunshuang had left, Yan Wuhuo and Ye Rong left, and said leisurely:

"Hey, I've been trapped in this stele for 10,000 years, but I still can't completely break the petrification curse that has been blessed on me, if I hadn't accidentally found the descendants of my Ice Moon Clan five years ago, and used him to come here every time on a full moon night, absorb the Ice Moon Mind Technique contained in the moonlight, and help me freeze the curse, I'm afraid I would have turned into stone and become a part of the stele.

"Now there is finally hope, with only fifteen more years of perseverance, I will be able to completely break this damn curse, return to this mortal world again, redevelop and strengthen my Ice Moon Clan, and then return to the Moon Palace. Let's hope all the best. It's just that the appearance of this woman with a birthmark in her palm and the golden-crowned black-tailed frog will ruin my plan. Hey, everything can only wait and see, and leave it to fate. ”

After finishing speaking, this ice sculpture-like young man gradually turned into an ice sculpture old man, and this old man is exactly the same as Yan Wuhuo, who is more than half a hundred years old, obviously this mysterious, dual-identity ice sculpture man must have some special relationship with Yan Wuhuo.

As the old man of the ice sculpture melted into a puddle of snow, the stone monument at the entrance of Yanjia Village was restored to its original state, and even the snowflakes flying in the sky disappeared strangely......