Wrong person. Zhong Kui hurriedly lowered his head, his face was as red as Guan Gong's face.

Zhong Kui didn't notice that just when he said that he recognized the wrong person, Xiaoqing's expression instantly dimmed, and he put down the bamboo basket in the gap. Glancing at him with a complicated facial expression, he who had already turned his back to her and left, said to the children in a heavy tone: "Come, come and eat steamed buns, it won't taste good when it's cold later." ”

Zhong Kui, who walked to the gate of the temple with his back to Xiaoqing, suddenly turned around and stared at Xiaoqing, constantly searching for vanilla in his memory and his voice when singing mountain songs. He felt that there was an element of vanilla in Xiaoqing's voice, especially the tone of his speech.

"Do you know how to sing mountain songs?"

Xiaoqing seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then shook her head desperately, but she didn't say anything again.

The children were hungry, and under Xiaoqing's greeting, they flocked to pick up the big white flour steamed buns and bite them.

Zhong Kui still stared at Xiaoqing, and made a request that embarrassed Xiaoqing.

"I'll listen to you when you roar."

Xiaoqing shook her head, raised her dirty but delicate fingers, and pointed to her throat to imply that her throat was uncomfortable and she couldn't roar.

Zhong Kui glanced at the gobbling children, and when Xiaoqing denied that she was vanilla, his whole body and mind were empty. He glanced at Xiaoqing again, swallowed a puddle of saliva secreted by the nervous sublingual glands, and asked in a hoarse voice, "You saved me?" ”

Xiaoqing pointed at the children, then glanced at Zhong Kui's face lightly and nodded, deliberately sticking his fingers to his throat, as if his throat was really uncomfortable.

"How do you know I'm going to be killed? Are they all children of Menling Village? How did you get them out? Zhong Kui asked Xiao Qing again and again.

Zhong Kui couldn't see Xiaoqing's true appearance clearly, and he didn't know if she had smeared the ashes of the pot or something else, anyway, her facial features and skin were all black. If you see it at night, you might think you've seen a ghost!

When Zhong Kui asked, Xiaoqing pouted and was stunned for a long time, not knowing whether to nod or shake his head.

Zhong Kui and Xiaoqing froze in place, and the clever little tiger tooth saw this and ran to the two of them.

"Brother Zhong Kui, Sister Xiaoqing just knew that someone had an accident in Menling Village, and called us to save you together."

"It's none of your business, go to the side." Zhong Kui grabbed Xiaohuya's teeth and stared at Xiaoqing unrelentingly.

Because Xiaoqing's face was so black that he seemed to be wearing a black mask. Except for seeing the two black and white eyeballs turn around the bones, I couldn't see the change in her facial expression at all.

Pause for a moment: "I don't know anything. Xiaoqing deliberately hoarsely voiced, and suddenly said to Zhong Kui in a rough voice. Then he added: "The children are so small that they have to be taken care of, so I will trouble you to help me watch them for the time being, and I still have to find food." As he spoke, Xiaoqing quickly left the place and walked straight to the door without looking back.

Chapter 072: Pain in Lips and Teeth

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 people in 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.

Chapter 073 is missing

When Zhong Kui arrived at Xia Laohan's house, it was quiet in the courtyard and did not see the corpse of the black dog. When he entered the courtyard, he subconsciously reached out to shake the door of the room, but was surprised to find that the door seemed to have been repaired, and it was not tilted to the side.

Entering the courtyard, Zhong Kui instinctively held down the scabbard on his waist, looked around with alert eyes, and entered the inner courtyard with a very fast figure and quickly flashed into the stove room.

Zhiqing and Wengen buried the black dog at the back of the house, at the lower end of the old well. As they walked, they talked about how the black dog had died so miserably, that his neck had been torn open, and his entire throat had been bitten by something.

Is it a dog fight? But I can't say anything about it! In this radius of more than ten miles, that is, Xia Laohan's single family is a single house, a family. If it is reasonable to say that the black dog went down the mountain to find the little lover, it is reasonable to say that the wild dog is here to fight Raippi. And he bit off his throat raw, and that ...... You have to leave some traces!

Zhong Kui, who had just entered the stove room, suddenly heard the sound of talking and footsteps outside, and immediately jumped a few steps as soon as he was tight, jumped to the outer wall of the stove room, and looked out close to the outer wall.

Zhiqing wondered how the courtyard dam door was opened, he glanced around, and pushed the door of the house with his hand casually.

At this moment, a person suddenly jumped out of the door of the stove and shouted, "Uncle Chen...... Wengengo. ”

"Hey! Is it really Zhong Kui? Zhiqing said with great joy.

"You're not dead, are you?" Liu Wengen said humorously. Saying that, the two pushed and shoved in front of Zhiqing.

Zhong Kui's nose was sore, he almost didn't shed tears, and said excitedly: "Uncle Chen...... Brother Wengen, I miss you so much. ”

"We ...... Miss you too. Zhiqing stretched out his arm to hug Zhong Kui and said emotionally.

"Do you know, Lai Pi is dead......" Zhong Kui said as he looked at Zhiqing with red eyes.

"You know, we just buried it." Zhiqing said, suddenly looked up at Zhong Kui, and asked rhetorically, "How do you know it's dead?" ”

"Last night, I came in the dark, and when I came I saw Raippi dead at the door, and then I came in here." Zhong Kuibi gestured and said: "As soon as I came in, there was movement at the door, I didn't know who it was, so I watched quietly, guess what I saw?" ”

Zhiqing and Liu Wengen's hearts tightened, and they asked in unison, "What do you see?" ”

"A man, but not like a man, he has a pair of green eyes." Zhong Kui said in a serious tone with a solemn expression.

"Ahh Wen Gen lost his ** words, his eyes showed a shallow and somewhat distrustful look, and looked at Zhiqing who frowned and pondered.

"Are you sure what you're seeing isn't a hallucination? Did you really see it? Zhiqing's smile plummeted, and he looked at Zhong Kui without a trace of expression and asked.

"Sure."

Zhiqing looked at Zhong Kui's serious expression, convinced that he was not lying, let alone alarmist, and suddenly felt that the situation was far more serious than he imagined.

When Zhiqing and Liu Wengen came, they carefully examined the black dog's wounds, and found that its throat was bitten off raw, and there was not a single trace of blood spilling out of its body. Not even a drop of blood was shed on the ground where it was lying, and it seemed that the black dog's blood had been sucked dry by something.

Zhong Kui was still in a state of excitement when he saw Zhiqing and Liu Wengen. He explained the situation of several children in the broken temple to the two of them one by one, and said what he thought in his heart, hoping that the two of them would find a place for the children in the broken temple.

Zhiqing was shocked when he heard that there were several children in the temple, and the cause of the black dog's death was unknown. He immediately arranged for Liu Wengen to go down the mountain and hurriedly looked for a car. Transfer the children of the broken temple away, what I am afraid of is that the children will also be punished by the black dog, and it will be too late to regret it.

Liu Wengen is timid! Zhiqing let him go down the mountain alone, and he cowered and left to run errands. I was embarrassed to say what I was afraid of, so I didn't say a word like a wooden man.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhiqing looked at Liu Wengen and asked.

"It's not! Master, I'm going down the mountain alone, this ...... This. ”

"Uncle Chen, if you don't come along, I'll go and say hello to the children and ask them not to run around. Let's play at the big locust tree in Donghua Village, how about it? ”

Zhiqing finally saw Zhong Kui, and didn't want to separate him for a while, but Wengen didn't go down the mountain to find the car, originally thinking that he would go down the mountain, even if it was to find a frame car. It's better to pull the children away than to pick them up one by one! Unexpectedly, he was too timid to go down the mountain alone.

Zhiqing looked at Zhong Kui with a solemn expression and asked, "Zhong Kui, did you tell your uncle that you can do it alone?" ”

Zhong Kui saw the look of concern in the other party's eyes, and he was very moved in his heart, he shook his head resolutely and said to Zhiqing: "Uncle Chen, don't worry!" I am a baby in the mountains, and no difficulty can stump me. ”

Zhiqinghe and Wengen hurriedly went down the mountain, wanting to find the best frame car nearby. This type of rack car is common in the countryside, and in the city it is also rare to see a truck full of goods passing by the intersection.

The frame car is two wheels plus a horizontal bar, and the horizontal bar is shelved and ordered with wooden planks, so that you can pull hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of goods at will, which is better than the chicken bus.

Zhiqing finally rented a solid frame car in the old village house at the foot of the mountain, and then took a detour with Liu Wengen from another entrance, entered Donghua Village and passed through the storage room, and then waited under the big locust tree at the intersection.

Zhong Kui also hurried back to the broken temple non-stop, and surprisingly, when he came to the broken temple, the children were