The most important feature of Suhua Village is its tranquility: the whole village is like a gray island in the middle of the mountains, all relying on the vibrant source of the nearby Qishui River. In the middle of the village, you can't see the marks left on the ground by the ruts, you can't hear the merchants raising their horns, you can't smell the smell of oil smoke from the inn kitchen, some are just childish-looking cowherds, woodcutters with big smoking guns, and fishermen sitting on chairs in front of the door weaving nets.

What connected all this was just a beckoning gesture from Wang Zhaolin, plus a cordial greeting. He didn't seem to like the stiff smile on his face when he inquired about the news.

"Master Ban went fishing early this morning, you didn't come at the right time, if you change the time......" The fisherwoman put down the half-woven net.

"Hmph, don't listen to her nonsense, the old man of Master Ban is very strange, and he has been hiding at home day and night lately to strengthen his broken boat, and the devil knows if he wants to break the rules of the village. The woodcutter took a puff of his cigarette and unceremoniously interrupted the fisherman.

"Little Huzi, tell my brother the whereabouts of Master Ban, I have something important to discuss with these friends. Wang Zhaolin squatted down, only hating that he didn't have candy in his pocket and handed it to the cowherd baby in front of him.

"Hmm...... I don't know...... You'd better find it for yourselves. The cowherd scratched the back of her head and rolled her eyes, "What's the matter with your friend looking for him? I haven't seen you back to the village for a few months, can't it be that the city is too fun and reluctant to come back?"

"Cut! How can Haojun City compare to our Suhua Village, and besides, a person like me who has been in the village for a long time will not like the fast-paced life in the city anyway. Wang Zhaolin stood up and sneered, "It's just that in order to make ends meet, the working conditions in the city are a hundred times better than in the village." ”

"Did you find it?"

"Of course! No matter how you say this, you can be regarded as a person who has spent half of his life in Suhua Village, although it is not as good as Xiao Yin, who left the village two years ago to travel to the rivers and lakes, but he has some ability, I think the natural environment in the village is good, and the government has invested a lot in tourism in recent years, so I did not hesitate to seize this opportunity. Wang Zhaolin clenched his fist to his lips and pretended to cough twice, meaning to let the already impatient people behind him allow him to pretend to be forced a little longer.

"They are all outsiders who come to Suhua Village to visit and travel, and they need my tour guide to find a suitable sightseeing route for them, so I thought of Master Ban, if I can rent his boat and see the beautiful scenery on both sides of the river, wouldn't it be a great joy in life?"

Hearing this, the fisherwoman finally couldn't help but laugh: "As far as your virtue is concerned, no one in the village knows about it? Promise that someone else's thing has never been successful, and you also want to be a tour guide?" It's so funny. ”

Wang Zhaolin put his hands together, and his tone began to become a little impatient: "Don't talk nonsense, I'll ask you: Who knows the whereabouts of Master Ban?"

Seeing that the three of them shook their heads and said they didn't know, Wang Zhaolin sighed helplessly, and had no choice but to lead everyone towards the path on the right.

"Where are we going?" Yu Na took three steps and two steps to barely keep up with Wang Zhaolin's pace.

"Go to my house!" Wang Zhaolin replied without looking back, and it seemed that he was in a very unhappy mood.

"Aren't you looking for Master Ban? Why did you suddenly change your mind?"

"Hey, Xiao Na, let's just listen to Guide Wang's arrangement, don't care about these details, don't you say!" Ling Wenxuan skillfully took Wang Zhaolin's words.

However, his help didn't have much effect, Wang Zhaolin and Lu Juji walked briskly in front, and after a while, they arrived at the door of a large mansion.

Two square areas are fenced off in the courtyard, with canopies and troughs for sheep on the left side, a fertile field for highland crops on the right, and a small workshop next to the main entrance with tools for processing bean crops, and bunches of dried corn hanging from the edge of the shanty. At this time, it is not difficult to imagine a self-sufficient production chain: when the crops in the yard are ripe, part of the forage is used as sheep feed, soybeans are processed into various legume ingredients in the workshop after maturity, and mutton, goat's milk and products from the workshop can be sold at a good price in the market.

It can be seen that this farmer is a hard-working and capable person, to run this production chain must do everything himself, every day from the morning to play, the body must be strong, because he often works in the field, his hands will be covered with calluses, will be worried about the fluctuation of meat, vegetable prices are full of gray hair, even bald, the appearance of pre-aging is more obvious.

The middle-aged man standing in front of the door, who was called the second uncle by Wang Zhaolin, interpreted the above characteristics very well, and the woman next to him, who was half a head shorter than him, had small eyes, a wide nose, a sallow complexion, and was not good-looking.

Are women in mountainous areas unable to have beautiful faces due to the influence of harsh natural conditions such as water sources and climate?

Yuna couldn't help but have this question in her mind, and when she first entered the village, she noticed that the young girl here also had the same sallow yellow skin as this woman. But out of courtesy of greeting, she stopped thinking.

"This is my second uncle Yin, and next to it is my second sister-in-law. Wang Zhaolin greeted everyone and introduced everyone by the way, "They are all travelers from afar, ready to visit at the foot of Suhua Village." ”

"Oh, then everyone is welcome!" Second Uncle Yin smiled and invited everyone into the courtyard, and instructed his wife to move seven chairs and sit around the stone table in the middle of the courtyard with everyone.

"My unproductive nephew didn't cause you any trouble. Second Uncle Yin personally poured tea for everyone, and said with a gloomy face.

"We still have to thank him, if he hadn't led the way, we really wouldn't know how to get to Suhua Village. ”

"Of course, second uncle, don't look down on people too much. Wang Zhaolin took Ling Wenxuan's words and said, "Recently, this job as a tour guide has allowed me to earn a lot of money every month, and I already have the strength to support myself!"

Looking at Wang Zhaolin's proud appearance when he bragged, Ling Wenxuan thought to himself, you are just a temporary guide for us, and you are embarrassed to lie to your second uncle so exaggeratedly, so shameless. However, for the sake of their plan, they had to smile and accompany him to act: "Your nephew really has a filial piety and will send money to the family." ”

Hearing Ling Wenxuan say this, Wang Zhaolin couldn't help but scold in his heart, you kid dare to calculate me like this, wait for me! So with a smile, he took out the money bag containing five hundred belon from his pocket: "Second uncle, this is my salary this month, half of it is given to you, which is a little filial piety of mine." ”

"It's not in vain that I've raised you for so many years, and I'm finally sensible. Second Uncle Yin took the money bag, finally laughed, and personally poured tea for Wang Zhaolin, "This cup of Second Uncle respects you, and I wish you to make your own career in the city as soon as possible." ”

Before Wang Zhaolin could raise his glass, Ling Wenxuan felt that it was necessary to learn about the past of their guide, so he took over the conversation: "A young talent like Brother Wang must have received a lot of guidance from masters, otherwise how could he be so heroic?"

"Mr. Priest is serious, my nephew has been raised by the fact that his parents have died since he was a child. Second Uncle Yin took a sip of tea and continued, "It's all because I told him too much about how his squire father became an adventure traveler before, and now this kid's mind is full of unrealistic fantasies, except for the self-proclaimed 'Ben Shao' every day, he is trying his best to be an adventure traveler." Don't take my advice seriously at all, adventure travelers need a strong foundation of spells and combat skills to rely on, and they have to bear the risks brought by entrusted tasks at all times, how can you be able to be it if you want to? Even an honest man like Lu Juji has brought him bad. ”

"Oh, second uncle, it's almost okay in front of outsiders, I don't have a face to say. Wang Zhaolin glanced at Ling Wenxuan, "Besides, I'm just taking them to play in Suhua Village, and I won't go on an adventure!"

"That's right, you can't go to that place in the Qishui Dragon Palace, so far, the only one who has been there and can return safely is your father, don't think you can be like your father. After that, Second Uncle Yin slapped Wang Zhaolin's thigh hard to warn him. However, his words made Gui Xun'er and Youna immediately interested, and asked him to continue to tell Wang Zhaolin's biological father's past.

Seeing that he couldn't resist everyone's curiosity, Second Uncle Yin sighed helplessly and began to narrate:

When I was young, I had all kinds of beautiful dreams like you, but the conditions in Suhua Village were limited, and the people from poor families were not qualified to settle in the city, and I was thin and weak since I was a child, and I was cold-eyed by many of my peers, so I met Wang Zhaolin's father under those conditions.

When I was beaten that day, he was the only one who stepped up to the rescue and taught the teenagers who bullied me a lesson. At that time, I was naturally very grateful, but I had long heard that he was the son of a famous landowner in the village, and that he lived a nourishing life of exploiting tenant farmers every day, and that my family owed him rent for several months, so I didn't have much good feeling in my heart, and I didn't have much contact with him later.

According to others, it didn't take long for him to be admitted to the Purple Mist Spell Academy in the city, and after graduating, he became an adventure traveler and began to travel around the world, but since then, his family has been in a bad situation, and he has to sell all his land and rely on the scarce commission to survive.

Qishui Dragon Palace was the last adventurous trip in his life, it was shortly after he got married, he never expected that he would leave his wife and children in this large mansion to me to take care of, and in the following months, his wife became more and more emaciated in anticipation, and unfortunately fell ill and died......

"But didn't you say that Wang Zhaolin's father later returned safely from the Qishui Dragon Palace?" Gui Xun'er interjected suspiciously, she felt that Second Uncle Yin still had something to hide from them.

Second Uncle Yin let out a long sigh: "Yes, but after returning from there, the news of the death of his beloved wife caused him to be overly sad, and after entrusting his bereaved son to me, he went away. ”

"Sir, I still have a question that I don't know whether to ask or not?" Gui Xun'er subconsciously glanced at Wang Zhaolin, she had always heard him mention this person along the way, it seemed that this person's relationship with him was extraordinary, and if he didn't find out clearly, it might have an unpredictable impact on the priest's plan.

"Just ask!"

"Who is this Xiao Yin in your nephew's mouth? I always feel that as long as he mentions this person, he is immediately energetic, of course, I may be exaggerating, why is she not in the house now?"

Second Uncle Yin touched his beard and smiled lightly: "Oh! The little Yin you said is named Yin Youning, she is my daughter, she went out to travel two years ago, and she hasn't come back yet?"

When Gui Xun'er heard him say this, she was stunned at first, and suddenly found that this name was unusually familiar, Yin Youning ...... By the way, it was this person they met in Heglila disguised as an innkeeper and then captured Kalia and caused them a lot of trouble.

Ling Wenxuan noticed the strange look on Gui Xun'er's face, it seemed that they thought the same, this matter was by no means simple, it was certain that there was a mysterious organization that was using them to find the Seven Artifacts.