When Zhong Kui left the temple, Xiao Huya took the children to play with slingshots in the woods not far from the temple. The old man couldn't tie up the wooden branches, so anxious that a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on the forehead of the little tiger tooth.

The children didn't know much about Zhong Kui, but they were afraid of his unsightly face.

After Zhong Kui woke up, only Xiao Huya dared to speak to him, and the rest of the children stood timidly and far away, not daring to approach.

At this time, Xiao Chrysanthemum is like a little housekeeper, and if she doesn't come, she will use Zhong Kui to scare disobedient children.

Zhong Kui walked all the way, thinking to see if he could catch up with Xiaoqing, who had just walked out of the broken temple. Walking to the fork in the road in Donghua Village, he was stunned. One road leads to Xia Laohan's house, and there is a huge old locust tree in front of the road, which leads to the storage room of Donghua Village. The storage room used to be the village of Donghua Village, and the villages of Donghua Village were relatively dense.

Donghua Village is also a slightly better village among the three typical poor villages in Tongchuan County.

Donghua Village may be a little closer to the county seat, so the population here is relatively larger than that of Menling Village and Threshold Village. There may be several reasons why it is more populated than the other two villages.

One is that in today's chaotic era, there are so many people begging for food, and some people disdain to live without a fixed home. As the saying goes: If a tree dies, a man lives. Since I came here, I feel the simple feelings of the humanity of the mountain village. As soon as I saw the beautiful mountains and rivers here, I simply settled down, anyway, I ate a big pot of rice, and I also earned my work points, as long as I had the strength, I would not starve people to death.

Another reason is that there is no family planning practice. In spring and autumn, when the fertility rate is high, men and women roll the sheets at home when they have nothing to do. One by one, the belly is big, and unambiguously every year, a child who gives birth to a litter like a sow gives birth to a litter, and opens his mouth to eat. As soon as the adults went to work, they dragged their mothers like piglets and followed several children who were not small.

The children who followed the fields played with mud on the ridges with small pestles, while the adults hoeed the grass and watered the seedlings in the fields. In this way, every family has several babies, and the family has a lot of trouble all day long.

The root cause of poverty may be the overflow of population, but it may also be that people's consciousness has not yet fully awakened, and they are still in a confused and ignorant imagination.

Let's take a look at what will happen to Zhong Kui when he goes to Xia Laohan's house!

Zhong Kui walked loudly, and the birds and birds that were singing were so disturbed that they fluttered and scattered. The wild chrysanthemums all over the mountains are already withering, and a small bee with a pointed butt is buzzing reluctantly with a pair of small transparent wings, hovering in the small chrysanthemum petals for a long time and reluctant to leave.

Unintentionally watching the scenery along the way, Zhong Kui's mind was still stagnant, the scene that happened in the broken temple just now.

Is Xiaoqing really not vanilla? She walked so fast, and in a blink of an eye, there was no shadow.

Zhong Kui was stunned and turned his head to glance back at the old locust tree at the intersection of the downhill that was getting farther and farther away from him. imagined that Xiaoqing was hiding under the old locust tree, as if he was secretly peeping at him.

Knowing the fact that conjecture is impossible, Zhong Kui inadvertently felt a pain in his heart after seeing Xiaoqing. He didn't know why he felt this way, and the more he thought about it, the more confused he became, and in his frustration he reached out and pulled at a thorny blade of grass, pinched it in his hand and brought it to his mouth, and pursed his lips to blow a sharp and loud whistle.

Who is Lai Xiaoqing, I can't tell you now, there will be a decomposition later.

Zhong Kui went to Xia Laohan's house just to find out the cause of Lai Pi's death, and also to find a place where the children could be placed.

Xia Laohan's house is a single house, several miles away from the storage room in Donghua Village.

On weekdays, when Xia Laohan was still alive, he rarely interacted with those villagers, let alone after his death, who would be too idle to come to see the houses of a desperate family.

At that time, people were afraid of desperate families. What is extinction? It is this surname that has fallen in this generation and completely disappeared from people's sight.

Speaking of which, there are other theories; In rural areas, having more children and grandchildren is a blessing. It doesn't seem to matter whether you have money or not, the key is to eat three meals a day, be hungry and even, have land to plant, and have food to eat is a big deal.

At that time, filling the stomach was a big deal, and it didn't matter so much to him. Don't believe this, otherwise later, some people who do business in the county town will quickly put down their business picks and go to the countryside to divide one acre and three points of land to do it.

After that, someone started scolding; When I carried your mother, at that time it was really Gua Wazi (Sichuan dialect) that meant stupid, Nima's, it was not good to do business in a big city, so I ran to the poor mountains to divide a few acres of Tiantian and became a farmer facing the loess with his back to the sky.

Okay, don't talk about it, let's talk about this head; Zhong Kui was approaching Old Xia's house.

In another place, there were also two people approaching Xia Laohan's house.

These two people are Chen Zhiqing and Liu Wengen's master and apprentice.

On the one hand, he relied on his feet, and on the other hand, he pedaled the car to this way, of course, he pedaled the car first to the foot of the mountain leading to Xia Laohan's house.

Zhiqing and Liu Wengen came by their own cars, and the two of them left the car at the foot of the mountain at a villager's house, and hurried to the mountain.

I don't know if there is any tacit understanding for Zhong Kui, Zhiqing always feels that he will meet him when he comes to Xia Laohan's house this time. It's subtle, like a sensitive touch.

Zhiqing didn't say this feeling, because he was afraid that there would be some evil statements, and if he said too much, it wouldn't work!

Liu Wengen's interest was extremely high, and he chattered non-stop along the way.

Say everything; Talking about Zhong Hansheng's incident, he said that the movement seems to be in a state of depression recently, and I haven't seen any scenes of those activists making trouble.

Zhiqing knew that Wen Gen was good at inquiring about these miscellaneous matters, and expressed his acquiescence to his chatter. Because a heart hangs over Zhong Kui, occasionally nodding along the way is a reply, and there is no extra mind to think about other things.

The mountain road was very difficult to walk, and the two of them wore semi-rubber shoes, which also stuck a lot of green climbing grass clippings and yellow mud. When walking downhill, a river that is not wide meets the eyes of Zhiqing and Liu Wengen, and both of them sigh with relief.

"It's finally almost here." This is the exclamation that Zhiqing made when he looked at the river.

"Hey, hey!" Liu Wengen laughed dryly, stopped, and bent over to look at his shoes. Because it's so heavy under your feet. He had no choice but to reach out and hold on to the branch, pull the branch and break a branch to poke the yellow mud on his shoes.

The chain bridge is still there, and the greenery planted under the bridge has withered and yellowed. Xia Laohan's home is like an uninhabited grave of the living dead, and the courtyard dam door trembles in the wind, as if silently narrating something.

Zhiqing looked around, and there was a black lump curled up in the courtyard dam.

"It's Raippy." Wengen screamed and pushed open the half-hidden courtyard door and went straight in.

Zhiqing, who covered his mouth and followed behind, looked around vigilantly, and then followed with a steady pace.