Because of the appointment to go to Menling Village, Zhong Kui woke up half an hour earlier than usual. Before Liu Wengen came, he took out the cloth bag stuffed under the pillow and the short-handled scabbard to look at it.

Reaching into the cloth bag, there seemed to be a few copper coins, twisting them in the palm of his hand and carefully counting the entire eight. The scabbard shimmered with a cold, blue-green sheen in the light.

Liu Wengen appeared at the door of the ward, he came to pick up Zhong Kui from the hospital.

In Zhong Kui's case, the hospital naturally protects the patient's privacy with the professional medical ethics of saving lives and caring for the injured.

During Zhong Kui's treatment in the hospital, despite previous attempts by several media outlets to interview the mysterious patient, the hospital sternly refused.

It may be that in extraordinary times and all kinds of obstructions, journalists who are naturally curious about new things are also tired of hiding and being sternly rejected, so when Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen walked out of the hospital. It was unexpectedly smooth, and they didn't meet a single person who came out to stop them.

Looking at the world beyond the ravine, this is how it was. Zhong Kui saw that the streets were covered with big-character posters, on the walls, and even on the telephone poles.

There is also the phenomenon of people piling up in mountain villages, people who are very different, these people who are bullishly coaxing people piling up, looking up at their heads in an orderly manner, and looking seriously at a man with a horn in his hand and a green military uniform shouting at the horn or something. Although I couldn't understand what the man was talking about, I felt very powerful.

There is another scene that amazes Zhong Kui, and that is the legendary acrobatic performance on the streets.

Zhong Kui saw a crowd of people performing acrobatics, including men, women, old and young. Strange people, they are not in groups, but appear in sporadic groups. One will appear, and one will appear, and then another, but not in the same direction. Some went from east to west, some from west to south, and some from south to north.

These acrobatic performers have simple props with round wheels on the front and back. Sitting on a triangular cushion in the center of the wheels, I pedaled my legs steadily and walked slowly.

Zhong Kui, who was looking around in the back seat of the car, also heard immature nursery rhymes from the corner of the street; 'Yanmar, roll at both ends, and sit in the middle of the ground mouse. It was an interesting nursery rhyme, and he decided to write it down and take it back to Menling Village to teach Vanilla to sing.

Vanilla is very smart, Zhong Kui secretly taught her everything he had seen his mother-in-law use copper coins to divination. I didn't expect this girl to learn it as soon as she learned it, and her well-eyed appearance made him laugh for a while.

After a burst of reverie, Zhong Kui looked down at the car he was sitting in. It's the same as the car that the acrobats are sitting in. He couldn't help but laugh dumbly, but he understood the meaning of the nursery rhyme.

"Yanmar, roll at both ends, and the ground mouse sitting in the middle" doesn't mean that people, riding this car, the two wheels are round. Then the 'ground mouse' is a human ...... Ha ha! It's funny.

Of course, Liu Wengen, who was pedaling, didn't know what Zhong Kui was laughing at in the back seat, and he didn't have time to ask, so he had to pedal vigorously to carry him to Tongchuan County.

When he was about to arrive in Tongchuan County, Liu Wengen told Zhong Kui that the armed forces minister of Tongchuan County was called Zhong Hansheng and that he would go to see him later.

Zhong Hansheng looks like he is forty and thirty meters tall, he is not burly, but he looks very strong, and his eyes are bright under his thick black eyebrows.

When Zhong Hansheng heard that Zhong Kui's surname was also Zhong, his face flashed with surprise, and he was instantly covered by loud laughter. A pair of thick hands with warm heat tightly held the hands of this slightly cramped young man with a nervous face.

"Haha! We were probably one family 300 years ago! ”

Zhong Kui smiled shyly, and didn't know how to talk to this uncle's big cadre for a while. When he was warmly held by the other party, he was embarrassed and his face was too thin, and it was red to the base of his ears.

"Zhong Kui has just come out of the hospital, and his body is still recovering, but I still advanced a little bit and wanted to bring it to see if I could help him recover his memory." Liu Wengen patted Zhong Kui and said to Zhong Hansheng.

Zhong Hansheng said loudly to Liu Wengen and Zhong Kui in a loud and loud voice: "Well, there is a problem here, there is no home in Menling Village now, I will find Donghua Village to arrange a place for you to live." If you don't dislike it, you can go and stay for a while. As for the rest, you don't have to worry about it, all the costs will be borne by Murakami. ”

Liu Wengen hurriedly said politely: "Can't!" What's so embarrassing about that? ”

Zhong Hansheng's smile became brighter, and he said in a bold tone: "Hey! Isn't it just a trivial matter of adding two pairs of chopsticks, you don't have to be polite. ”

Don't have a home in Menling Village? Zhong Kui listened in a fog on the side, and looked at Liu Wengen and the armed forces minister who were greeting each other in confusion.

Under the arrangement of the Minister of Armed Forces, Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen had lunch at the guest house, and in the afternoon they rushed to the house of the village chief who was going to disturb him.

When the village chief received the arrangement of the armed forces minister, how could he not hurry up and comply? In the afternoon, I took the two of them to Donghua Village and found a bachelor's house.

This bachelor villager's home is located in Donghua Village, which is far away from Menling Village and Threshold Village.

At 3:10 p.m., the four of them climbed mountains and waded through rivers and finally came to the house of a villager in Donghua Village.

There was a river in front of the villager's house, the water was very deep, and a rope bridge paved with black rotten wooden planks led to the opposite bank. Looking at the wooden plank is overwhelmed, Zhong Kui walked to the rope bridge and stepped on one foot to try when Liu Wengen and Zhong Hansheng were talking, and the rope bridge was constantly swaying from side to side by gravity, and made a 'squeak ~ squeak' swaying sound.

The door of the villager's house was closed, and it seemed that he was not at home. Zhong Hansheng had something urgent to do, so he handed over Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen to the village director of Donghua Village and left.

The village director told the two of them that the family's surname was Xia Lai, and the old man was not a bachelor before, but something happened later......

Liu Wengen saw that the village director didn't want to tell Xia Laohan about it, so he didn't want to ask. The three of them stood at the door of Xia's house and waited for the old man to come back.

Sure enough, after a while, an old man carrying a hoe came from the downstream of the river.

The old man's face was wrinkled, and from his dark skin, he looked like an old peasant who was used to doing rough work.

Old Xia Han stiffened his back, and he was completely a bad old man who didn't smile or smile. An old face with vicissitudes of life seems to hide a lot of bitterness and sorrow.

Xia Laohan really didn't say much, and after some negotiation by the village director, he hurriedly let Zhong Kui and the others into the house.

In the evening, Xia Laohan asked Liu Wengen to help slaughter a hen that was laying eggs, in order to entertain guests from afar. This is also the habit of being hospitable and generous in the countryside, even if you lack food and clothing, you can't neglect the rare guests who come from afar.

During the meal, Liu Wengen said another cliché, while picking up the chicken pieces and chewing them vigorously, he said vigorously: "We are not distant guests, villagers don't have to be so polite." ”

Zhong Kui stuffed his brain, ate vegetables vigorously, and pulled rice grains. He ate a few large bowls in one go, and felt that the rice was really delicious, full of grains and sticky, similar to glutinous rice.