Following the path on the west side of the hillside, a large circle, the group of four dodged the three knife-wielding men and reached the town in the afternoon.

The scale of Wucai Town is not large, it should only be half the size of Li Changjing's hometown Datong Town, and when I was on the mountain, I roughly counted it, at most there were only about 100 households, which was larger than ordinary villages, and could only be barely called a town.

What made Li Changjing feel strange was that the atmosphere in the town was very strange, it was obviously daytime, but there were very few townspeople who came out to move, and there were only a few shops on the street, selling some daily necessities, vegetables, fruits and meat.

The town is not prosperous, it can even be said to be backward, although it has been electrified, but there are only a handful of concrete bungalows, most of them are still earthen houses, and there are even some thatched huts mixed in, which are very simple.

When passing by a fruit shop, Li Changjing thought that he was a guest from afar, and he should buy something to come to the door to be considered a courtesy, so he and Lu Li selected some apples and pears at the stall and went to ask the price.

The boss was a woman of about forty years old, with a good face, and she was quite polite at first, but after hearing that Li Changjing and Lu Li were friends with the Bai Baihua brothers and sisters, they immediately changed one hundred and eighty degrees, and said viciously: "The fruits I have here are all two hundred yuan a catty, and I don't sell them for one son less!" ”

"Eldest sister, how can anyone do business like you?" Seeing that the other party's attitude was so bad, Lu Li said angrily: "When apples and pears first came on the market, the most expensive ones were only twenty or thirty yuan, why did you increase it more than ten times." ”

The boss sneered and said arrogantly: "It's so expensive, what's wrong?" Love to buy, don't buy and roll, just you white family, the fruit is not cheap for you! ”

Bai Yueling walked up at this time, and when she heard the boss's words, she was so angry that she burst into flames, and crossed her waist and scolded: "Zhou Mingfang, don't deceive people too much, my two friends are here for the first time, and they don't understand the rules, if you frighten them, I will burn down your broken shop!" ”

The boss named Zhou Mingfang seemed to be a little afraid of Bai Yueling, snorted, didn't fight back, and turned around and went into the house.

"Let's go, don't buy anything from their Zhou family, deliberately find fault, the price is still expensive." Bai Yueling snorted, pointed to a few fruit shops on the right side of the street in front of her, and said with a smile: "This is the shop opened by our Bai family, although it is more expensive than outside, but there is still a discount for buying it by yourself." ”

Li Changjing and Lu Li went up to inquire and found that sure enough, apples and pears were only ten yuan a catty, dozens of times cheaper than the stall just now.

"What's going on?" Lu Li was carrying a big bag of fruit, and couldn't help asking: "Why is your town weird, what are the Bai family and the Zhou family......?"

"It's your first time here, and you don't know it's normal." Bai Yueling sighed, "Our town is divided into two factions, our Bai family is on one side, and the Zhou family is also on the other, you see." She pointed to the street where she was standing and said softly: "With this street as the boundary, the area on the right belongs to our Bai family, and the area on the left belongs to the Zhou family. ”

Li Changjing raised his eyebrows and asked casually, "Is there a feud between your two families?" The relationship is so bad. ”

"That's right, it's because of the hatred." Bai Yueling replied: "Brother Li, you don't know, the Zhou family is really ......."

"Xiaoling!" Bai Tianhua coughed behind him, Bai Yueling stiffened, realized that she had said something sensitive, and hurriedly changed her words: "Don't talk about those unhappy things." You must be tired after walking for so long, right? Come to my house and get some rest. As he spoke, he regained his lively appearance and jumped up and down to lead the way.

Along the way, the four of them met a lot of townspeople who went out, and some of them would show respectful expressions and call Miss after seeing Bai Yueling; And some other people, obviously bumped into it, but they turned a blind eye to Bai Yueling, lowered their heads, and hurriedly walked by, it should be the so-called hostile Zhou family.

"Sister Ling, Brother Hua, you can be regarded as back!"

At this time, there was a thin boy in his teens who hurriedly ran in front of him, out of breath and sweating profusely.

"Xiaojun, why are you in such a hurry, what happened?" Bai Yueling held the child and asked.

"Sister Ling, you should go back quickly." The child finally gasped for breath, and said with a sad face: "Patriarch, he ...... He's dying! ”

Bai Yueling's face changed, and she rushed forward without saying a word, and Bai Tianhua followed behind, both of them looked very anxious.

Li Changjing and Lu Li glanced at each other, didn't say anything, and also followed.

The group turned around in the residential area on the right, walked deeper and deeper, and finally came to a two-story house surrounded by high walls, and there were four or five people guarding the door. ”

"The two people in the back are my friends, don't stop me." After Bai Yueling threw down this sentence, she rushed into the door in a hurry.

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"Dad, how are you, are you alright?"

In the room, Bai Yueling lay on the side of the bed, held the hand of a middle-aged man in his fifties lying on the bed, and asked urgently.

"This time, why did you go for so long? I didn't even go home on Chinese New Year's Eve. "The man on the bed had sunken eyes, a sallow, skinny face, and a cough as he spoke, clearly terminally ill.

Bai Yueling said guiltily: "I'm sorry, it snowed heavily outside in the past few days of the Chinese New Year, and it was very sad to pass through Funiu Mountain, so I delayed it for so long......"

The middle-aged man shook his head and said with a smile: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back." ”

"By the way, are those two of your friends?" The middle-aged man looked at Li Changjing and Lu Li who were standing at the door, coughed, struggled to sit up, and Bai Baihua hurriedly went up to support him.

"Yes, they are all my friends." Bai Yueling wiped her eyes and said with a forced smile: "They are called Li Changjing and Lu Li respectively, and they are all good people. ”

The middle-aged man nodded, and arched his hand at Li Changjing and the others, "My name is Bai Xu, and I am the patriarch of the Bai family in Wucai Town. ”

Li Changjing and Lu Li also gave their hands to each other, which can be regarded as a return gift.

"Dad, you lie down first, I'll buy you analgesics and come back." During the day, Hua shook his sleeves, and a suitcase immediately appeared out of thin air in his hand, which he placed firmly on the ground, and after opening it, it was filled with fruits, meat, firewood, rice, oil, salt, clothes, shoes, medicines, etc., and there were a lot of dazzling colors, and after a rough calculation, there were at least fifty or sixty catties.

Li Changjing's heart shook, and he was surprised: "Brother Bai, is this a trick, where did such a big box come from?" ”

Lu Li was also surprised, but he was surprised by Li Changjing's reaction, and he said in a low voice: "Brother Li, don't you know? This is a sleeve bag, a very magical bag. ”