Thinking of the dragon crocodile, Lu Yu said again: "Lao Gao, I'm worried that the dragon crocodile will go down the mountain again in the spring, do you think we should move to another place to avoid it?" ”

Lao Gao obviously didn't expect Lu Yu to say this, most people are more afraid of dragons and crocodiles than tigers, but Lu Yu won't, he is a strange person with earth-shattering skills. Lao Gao asked him, "Are you scared too?" ”

"Dragons and crocodiles are brutal and ferocious, and they are very difficult to kill, who is not afraid?" Of course, Lu Yu will not be afraid of the dragon crocodile in his heart, and the teleportation array will be arranged, and when the time comes, he will send the Yan family and Lu Ming's family into the valley, so there is no need to be afraid of the dragon crocodile. But Lao Gao and they can't, although Lu Yu has a good relationship with him, it doesn't mean that he can send Lao Gao's family and his sister's family into the valley. There are too many involved, Lu Yu doesn't want to think about it, but Lu Yu asked Lao Gao if he wanted to move, and it was indeed for Lao Gao's consideration.

Lao Gao sighed and asked Lu Yu again: "But where can we move to?" Another village? Or go to town? ”

Lu Yu was a little weak-hearted and said: "Alas, let's talk about it then, maybe we can find the nest of those dragon crocodiles, and when the time comes, we will kill them all in one go, so we don't have to worry about it anymore." ”

"Of course it's for the best." Lao Gao didn't want to leave Yangshan Village in his heart, he said: "If you want me to help at that time, even if your life is in danger, I will go with you." ”

"As long as you can find the nest, the rest will not be difficult." Lu Yu got up and patted Lao Gao on the shoulder, beckoning Yan Xiding to go home together.

Yan Xiding had been holding on to the maltose and was reluctant to eat it, Lu Yu asked him why he hadn't eaten it, and he said that he would go back and share it with his sister.

Lu Yu quipped: "Your sister always scolds you, and you still think about her." ”

"Hey, hey, uncle, you're provoking, I'm going to tell my sister."

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Nonsense, I didn't provoke you." ”

"You said my sister was always scolding me, I want to tell her."

Lu Yu smiled: "I'm kidding, don't tell your sister." ”

"It's okay if you don't tell me, then you have to promise me something." Yan Xiding looked proud.

Lu Yu bent down and pinched Yan Xiding's face, pulled it lightly, and asked, "What promise you?" ”

"Teach me martial arts, now."

Lu Yu refused: "No, you have to wait until you reach the age of twenty." ”

Yan Xiding said: "Then don't blame me for being rude, I'll say to my sister when I go back: 'Uncle Da Yu said that you always scold me, so I don't think about you if I have any good things'." ”

"Hey, hey, hey, I'm not afraid." Lu Yu looked at Yan Xiding with a smile, and said, "Your sister believes in me more." ”

"No, she's my sister."

Lu Yu smiled slightly and said, "Okay, no kidding, then I'll teach you martial arts when you're sixteen years old, okay?" ”

"Sixteen? That's three years to go. Yan Xiding hesitated for a moment and said, "Fourteen years old, how is it?" ”

Lu Yu shook his head: "Seventeen years old." ”

"Okay, okay, sixteen is sixteen." Yan Xiding was worried that Lu Yu would have to increase his age again, so he hurriedly agreed, but he was thinking in his heart: "Today, I have advanced the time for learning martial arts by four years, so next time I will find an opportunity to threaten Uncle Da Yu, maybe I will be able to let him teach me martial arts next year." Thinking of this, Yan Xiding was both happy and proud, and secretly admired his wit.

Lu Yu didn't go out in the second and third years of junior high school, he carried a shovel to the backyard during the day, planning to dig another big hole in the backyard mountain wall to store ice cubes for use in the summer. And at night, he silently arranged the sub-array of the teleportation array in his room.

The soil layer of the back mountain was frozen very hard, and Lu Yu laboriously dug a two-zhang deep road, and then he couldn't dig it, and after two zhang, it was no longer a soil layer, but a very hard rock.

Lu Yu secretly thought that if he wanted to dig an ice cellar in the back mountain, it seemed that it would not be possible, so he would find a place to dig it in the future.

And the fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day of Lu Sanye's funeral.

Early in the morning of the fourth day of the new year, Lu Yu went to Lu Sanye's house, he is considered Lu Sanye's own junior, and he does not need to be a sedan chair (the name of the coffin bearer), but he also has to wear filial piety to send the third grandfather up the mountain.

The custom here in Yangshan Village is that the deceased is directly descendant, and when sending the spirit, he must not only wear filial piety, but also wear linen, and the son needs to wear a white filial piety dress and a white turban on his head; The grandchildren are dressed in the same way as the sons, except that the white is changed to red. And Lu Yu is a nephew, so he only needs to tie a red turban on the top of his head.

Yan Jibai and Lu Sanye's family can barely be regarded as relatives, so early this morning, he also followed up the mountain.

It was really cold in the morning, and the sixteen sedan chairmen were all dressed thick and solid, and it was not very easy to carry the coffin, and when they arrived at the Lu family's ancestral tomb mountain, it was almost noon.

Because of the lack of firecracker paper money, and the monks and Taoists who chanted the scriptures were not invited to do so, this funeral was not lively at all. The person who presided over the funeral was another old man surnamed Lu, and Lu Yu called him the fifth grandfather. Lu Wuye is not the fifth brother of Lu Sanye, according to the genealogy, he is the son of Lu Sanye's cousin, and he can be regarded as a cousin who is a little far away. Lu Wuye is old and knowledgeable, and he understands a lot of rules, since there is no Taoist priest, he can only ask him to preside over on his behalf.

Before noon, the sedan chair bearers had already dug the burial pit, and after the ceremony, the coffin was placed in the pit. The ritual here is that after putting in the coffin and before filling the soil, all the younger generations of the deceased present must kneel at the end of the pit, and the Taoist priest stands in front of the pit, reciting blessings and praying for the health of the deceased after ascending to heaven. Lu Yu naturally had to kneel down and listen to Lu Wuye's prayers.

Lu Yu knelt respectfully, but thought in his heart: "Even if the deceased has a spirit in the sky, how much ability can he have to bless the safety of his descendants." ”

When he was kowtowing, Lu Yu suddenly felt that his surroundings instantly became much cooler. This "cool" does not mean that the air is colder, but that you feel something yin and gloomy around you.

Lu Yu squinted his eyes and looked up, and found that the sun didn't know when it would get behind the clouds, and the sky and the earth were all gray. And on the back of the coffin, an old man stood impressively. Lu Yu opened his eyes and saw that the old man was thin and thin, his face was blue and black, who was not the dead Lu Sanye.

Lu Yu was taken aback, he didn't expect that the first time he saw a ghost was during the day. Lu Sanye floated on the coffin, his eyes were confused, and he didn't seem to know where he was.

Lu Yu turned his head to look at the others, some were kowtowing respectfully, some were praying sincerely, and some were filling in the grave pit with a shovel of broken soil, it was obvious that no one could see Lu Sanye except Lu Yu himself.

Confused and surprised, Lu Yu saw that Lu Sanye seemed to beckon to him, he thought he was dazzled and saw it wrong, rubbed his eyes and looked again, sure enough, Lu Sanye did wave to him.

Lu Yu also ignored the eyes of the people around him, stood up, and followed Lu Sanye, who was floating away, into a dense forest not far away.

Lu Sanye floated in the dense forest for a while, Lu Yu followed behind, and only stopped when he could no longer see the figures of the funeral people.

Lu Yu wanted to get closer, but Lu Sanye waved his hand, and said in a hoarse voice: "Don't get closer, Da Yu, the yang fire on your body is too strong, and my old bones can't stand it." "Lu Sanye is a ghost now, not only his face is ugly, but his voice is also ugly.

Lu Yu took a few steps back and asked, "Third Grandpa, why did you leave all of a sudden?" ”

"I can't hold on, I've lived enough, I always have to go." Lu Sanye looked at Lu Yu and said, "Da Yu, our village will depend on you in the future, you can't just pick and choose." ”

Lu Yu smiled bitterly: "The world has been too difficult in the past two years, and I don't know if I can rely on it." Lu Yu had already guessed that the third grandfather must have something to say when he saw him, and now he heard him explain that he should not leave the village, and Lu Yu was not surprised.

"Oh my God, it's too ruthless." Lu Sanye said: "Don't shirk it, child, I can see that you are not a mortal, if you don't do great goodness, our village will be finished." ”

Lu Yu nodded and said, "Third Grandpa, don't worry, as long as I stay in this village for one day, I will try my best to keep our village safe." But he thought in his heart: "If the people in the village force me to stay one day, then I will not be able to complain that I will not be saved when I die." ”

Lu Sanye shook his head and sighed: "Da Yu, even if you don't look at the third grandfather as an old ghost, you have to remember that you were born and raised in Yangshan Village." No matter how many people in the village are, after all, they are all your fathers and fellow villagers! ”

Lu Yu didn't want Lu Sanye to grimace and be anxious, so he hurriedly said, "Yes, I remember, I won't leave our village." ”

"Alas, it's hard for you." Lu Sanye breathed a sigh of relief, and said again: "I'm leaving, you take care of yourself." ”

Lu Yu bowed to Lu Sanye, and suddenly said urgently: "Third Grandpa, wait." ”

Lu Sanye's figure was fading little by little, and when he heard Lu Yu shouting to himself, he hurriedly asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

"Third grandfather, it's been a few years since my father left home, I'm worried about his ......" After a pause, Lu Yu said again: "Third grandfather, if you see my father, ask him to come back and see, his two sons are thinking of him." ”

Lu Sanye glanced at Lu Yu, did not nod or shake his head, and then the figure completely faded and disappeared into the air completely. Lu Yu soon couldn't feel Lu Sanye's breath, and he didn't know if he had gone to the underworld or reincarnated.

Lu Yu suddenly pondered: "In this world, is there really a netherworld?" ”

Back at the cemetery, Lu Sanye's coffin had been completely covered, and the sedan chairmen were shoveling soil and raising the grave. Yan Jibai asked Lu Yu what he had just done and why he left suddenly. Lu Yu said that he suddenly had an urgent need to urinate and went to the forest to make it easier.

The stove was heated on the mountain, and after eating, Lu Yu followed everyone back to the village. Soon after returning to the village, Lu Yu found that the previously gloomy sky suddenly cleared.

Today's sunny day is a little different from the sunny day when the sun is shining but there is no warmth, the sun is very hot, and the ice outside the village seems to be slowly melting.

The sun was warm, and Lu Yu was in a good mood standing under the sun. But after a while, he felt that something was not good: the ice cellar had not yet been dug up, and if the ice had melted, there would be no ice to use in the summer.

Of course, it's not a big deal if there is ice available in the summer, and it's even more important when the weather gets warmer.