Du Kang clasped his hands and looked at me sullenly, his expression was indescribably complicated, and it was difficult to guess what was going on in his heart.

I don't know if it was my delusion, but when Du Kang stared at me with his weathered eyes, I felt as if he was confronting me, but I couldn't figure out why he was confronting me.

It was a long time before he slowly looked away from my face and stared at the flames that were about to be extinguished in the pit.

The fire burned there for most of the night, and some of the firewood had turned gray powder, some of it turned charcoal black, and it looked unusually hard, but it was extremely fragile.

The narrow sparks slowly jumped on the dark wood, showing a kind of impetuousness that seemed to have nothing to do with me.

My heart was a little confused, Du Kang seemed to be thinking about something, only Li Huaishan was still the same, always like that heartless, he walked to me with a bottle of mineral water, his body sank, and he sat heavily on my sleeping bag, making a lot of movement.

I couldn't help frowning and squinting at him, who was struggling to unscrew the cap of the mineral water bottle, not noticing my gaze.

After pouring a big mouthful of water, Li Huaishan opened his mouth and asked me: "Just rely on the three of us, can we beat Song Tiefu and Bi Kun?" ”

I didn't respond, but turned my gaze to Du Kang, and of the three of us, he was the only one who knew the strength of the Eight Masters of Tsukasa.

Du Kang knew why I was staring at him, and without me asking more, he said: "You can still fight, as for the victory or defeat, it's hard to say." The inner line you buried in Buzhou Mountain, I think you are also a person with a high level of cultivation, right? ”

I said, "He's not cultivating, he's just a mercenary." ”

Du Kang stroked the beard on his chin, nodded, and didn't say anything more.

At noon, the sun was blazing, but the air in the village was still damp and cold, and Du Kang did it for a while in front of the earthen pit, probably unable to bear the dampness and cold on the ground, so he stood up and moved his legs and feet in the middle of the courtyard.

Li Huaishan glanced at Du Kang twice, and then asked me, "What should we do next?" ”

I leaned back on my sleeping bag and only replied with one word: "Wait." ”

Next, I have to wait for the news of the old Long family, and I also have to wait for Wu Lin, as soon as he appears, we should do it.

Li Huaishan probably thought that I was a little abnormal today, and asked me again: "Why are you depressed today, it's not the same as usual." ”

I didn't want to talk much now, so I didn't hear anything, and my eyes kept on Du Kang's side.

Du Kang first punched a set, and when his body was warm, he returned to his sleeping bag, opened the backpack, and took out seven or eight apricot-like things from it.

There was a strong aura on that thing, but before Du Kang took them out, this aura was hidden very deeply, at least I didn't notice it at all along the way.

I was also in a mood for this, so I approached Du Kang to see what he was holding.

As soon as I arrived at him, he handed me an "apricot pit", I looked at it carefully, this is a stone with two narrow ends and wide in the middle, which looks similar to the apricot kernel from a distance, but when I look closely, there is no unique gully on the apricot kernel on the stone surface, and the surface is very smooth.

Du Kang took a palm-sized square step, and while polishing these stones carefully, he said to me: "These things are flying locust stones, and in the early years, Dong Dong also used them, but he was not good at hidden weapons, and he felt bored after using them for a while, so he never touched them again." ”

I returned the flying locust stone in my hand to Du Kang, "Senior Du, are you very familiar with the second master?" ”

Du Kang raised his head, looked at the sky in the distance and exhaled, and smiled helplessly: "The old man and I are still small when we talk about it." ”

Is he the second master's hair small? It's okay, why haven't I ever heard the second master mention him before.

At this time, Du Kang seemed to suddenly remember something, turned around and asked me: "Tell me, how much are these flying locust stones in my hand worth when they are placed on the market?" ”

Listening to his tone, there was a bit of ridicule in his tone, as if he was joking, so I didn't take it very seriously, but just said: "Looking at the age, these stones should be the products of the five generations, right?" The year is there, and the spirit is not bad, but the problem is, these are a few ordinary stones, and the material is still a little worse, and it is estimated that it will not be sold for a few dollars. ”

Du Kang laughed on the spot: "When I saw these flying locust stones, I also said that they were ordinary stones, hehe, I don't know if his eyesight has improved in the past few years." ”

"Didn't it be a stone?"

Saying this, I stretched out my hand, wanting to take back the stone that I had just returned to Du Kang to take a closer look, but he quickly put all the locust stones into his pocket, obviously not intending to let me take a closer look, but just said to me: "These locust stones are actually made of old locust wood, and in our vein, they are also called Huai Zhenzi." ”

I watched as he put all the locust stones in his backpack, and even if I wanted to play with them more carefully, it would be impossible.

I have to say that the touch of the flying locust stone is very good, round and silky, like an old jade that has been finely broken, just holding it in the hand, it makes people feel comfortable.

It's a pity that I just treated it as an ordinary stone, and I didn't particularly care about the feel, only when Du Kang put them away, and carefully recalled the scene just now, I couldn't wait to hold it in the palm of my hand and feel more of that rare touch.

Du Kang packed his backpack and carefully rolled up the sleeping bag on the ground, and while he was busy with the work in his hands, he said to me without raising his head: "Let's go to Lao Hu's house to have a look, it's almost time." ”

I said, "Lao Hu's calamity, is it coming?" ”

The movement in Du Kang's hand paused, sighed and said: "The earliest time, the latest time, whether it is early or late, what should come, today is the final eventual." ”

When I just left home to travel, I stayed in Kunming for a long time, at that time I lived in Lao Hu's house every day, although there was not much intersection between each other, but after all, I lived under the same roof, and I was more or less concerned about his affairs.

Let's hope he's lucky enough to survive this catastrophe.

After packing up, we left the old house and went back to the village to find Lao Hu.

The place where he lives is not too far from the entrance of the village, there are two roads connected to the entrance of the village, along the north road can go directly to the mountain dragon temple in the center of the village, and a road to the west leads directly to the place where Lao Hu lives.

Although the village is poor, most of the houses are two-storey wooden buildings, only where Lao Hu lives, it is a low house with a height of only more than two meters, sandwiched between two wooden buildings, the sun shines through, and it is also blocked by the buildings, and there is a thick shadow pressed in front of the door of Lao Hu's house, which looks particularly depressing.

Du Kang knocked on the door, and not long after, the old wooden door opened in a low "squeak" sound, and the person who opened the door was Lao Hu, at this time his face showed a touch of terminally ill exhaustion, but he still grinned and gave us a simple smile.

Seeing his smile, my heart was also heavy.

"There's nothing to entertain you, so why don't you drink some water?"

Welcoming us into the door, Lao Hu leaned against the door and said this weakly.

I turned my head to look at him, and I was about to say, "Don't bother", but before I could speak, I saw a figure flash quickly on the wooden building across the road.

The speed of the other party was very fast, I only saw half a shoulder in the window, and in the next moment, he disappeared completely.

I stood there and was stunned for a while, and then I suddenly remembered that the small building on the other side of the road, I had seen it before, and the scene at that time was similar to now, I drove this car on the village road, and there was a human face in the window next to the road, staring at me deadly, when I looked up at them, they did not avoid it, only the person on this building was an exception, the last time I looked into that window, he also quickly hid himself as now.

The more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, and when Du Kang saw that I had been staring out the door, he asked, "What's wrong?" ”

I frowned and pouted: "It is said that in this village, there should be no eyeliner from Zhou Shan." ”

I was thinking just now, the person who appeared in the window just now, could it be that it was not Zhou Shan's eyeliner, but when I thought about it, it was not right, but Zhou Shan didn't know where Lao Hu lived, and it was impossible to install eyeliner here, besides, if they had already placed eyeliner here, why would they delay time in Guiyang.

Judging from the information sent to me by Wu Lin, Bu Zhoushan really didn't know that we hadn't been to Guiyang at all.

Du Kang also looked out the door, turned around and asked me again, "What did you see just now?" ”

I said briefly: "A figure flashed in front of the window on the second floor. ”

Du Kang turned to the opposite building and asked Lao Hu: "Who lives in that building?" ”

Lao Hu said: "That's where my third aunt and grandmother lived, and her son-in-law had a crazy illness in his early years, and the family didn't dare to let him out, so they kept locking him on the second floor." It should be him that the master saw just now. ”

He's a madman, no wonder he's different from other villagers.

As he spoke, Lao Hu cast his eyes to the back room, his eyes were full of deep exhaustion, and when he finished speaking, he sighed weakly.

Du Kang walked over and patted Lao Hu on the shoulder, as if he wanted to open his mouth to comfort him, but when the words came to his mouth, he didn't know how to blurt out, and finally he just opened his mouth and didn't say half a word.

Lao Hu smiled at Du Kang: "Master Du, I have a request, I don't know if you can ...... Promise me. ”

Du Kang nodded: "You can say it." ”

Lao Hu sighed again: "The people in my wife's family are quite snobbish, if I can't resist this time, her family may not be willing to take care of her, you see......"

I grabbed ahead of Du Kang and said, "I take care of her." ”

Lao Hu looked at me stunned, his arm trembling slightly.

I nodded at him, "Leave it to me, I'll take care of her." ”

With red eyes in his eyes, Lao Hu clenched his fist and wanted to shake it at me, but the tears that he was forced to suppress pressed his limbs like a flood that was about to burst the embankment, and he trembled violently, so that he could not make other movements, and finally he could only hold his fist and look at me from afar.

(End of chapter)