Chapter 11: The Ups and Downs of Life

Last time, with Granny Ye's guidance, Zheng Pei drove the fat-butted eagle directly to the outside of Granny Ye's hut. When Zheng Pei, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" pavilion, put the wood carving back into his backpack, the first rays of sunlight in the morning just appeared. He rubbed his swollen eyes, cheered up and took a deep breath, the slightly cool mist moistened Zheng Pei's tired heart and lungs, and his fatigue throughout the night was instantly alleviated.

"Mother-in-law, I'm here." Zheng Pei shouted as he walked towards the cabin.

No one agreed. Zheng Pei looked at the hut, although the door was open, there was no trace of Granny Ye. He turned around and wanted to go to the hut opposite, maybe his mother-in-law was still on the other side. This mirrored hut is a spell arranged to prevent outsiders from offending and breaking into Granny Ye's life. The huts on both sides are real, and there is a spell passage in the middle, which can only be passed by the cultivation allowed by Granny Ye, otherwise they will go directly to the main road. Zheng Pei tried several times to go to the opposite hut, but failed, walking around the path outside the hut like a fool, and finally he was too tired to walk, so he simply sat down on the bamboo chair inside the hut and waited for Granny Ye.

"What are you doing here?" A deep voice came from the corner of the hut.

Zheng Pei was shocked, and quickly got up and looked back, only to be slightly relieved when he found that it was not the villager who ran after him last time. The person who spoke was dressed in black trousers, and his face and expression were as angular as carved granite. He sat in a dark corner of the hut, and if he hadn't spoken to himself, no one would have noticed him. Zheng Pei guessed what he meant, probably asking himself what he was doing, but before he could be sure of his intentions, Zheng Pei asked back: "What are you doing?" ”

"Huh." The man slowly stood up, small eyes shining under the rough exterior. He looked at Zheng Pei with a smile, changed his accent, and said, "You young man is quite bold, aren't you a local?" ”

The comer is not good! This was Zheng Pei's first instinct for this stranger. He took off the backpack on his back and carried it in his hand, stood still on his feet, looked at each other vigilantly, and replied, "So what?" Isn't it? ”

The man in black picked the corners of his mouth contemptuously, and didn't seem to take Zheng Pei seriously. He took out a cigarette pouch pot from behind his waist, sat at the door with his back to Zheng Pei, unhurriedly struck a match and lit the cigarette pot, and smoked it. A puff of green smoke slowly came out of his mouth, and the man in black had a very leisurely expression. He didn't even look at Zheng Pei this time, and opened his mouth to ask again: "Child, what are you looking for your mother-in-law?" ”

Zheng Pei felt that this person was very annoying, this is not your home, and it is not you who is looking for it, why are you asking here and there? So he still said unceremoniously: "It's none of your business for me to find Granny Ye." ”

The man in black sneered and threw the burnt matchstick to the ground.

"Children don't know things, don't you do this!" Granny Ye was already in the hut at some point. She hurriedly came out and stretched out her hand to pull Zheng Pei aside. She turned around and stepped on the matchstick that the man in black had just thrown over, grinding hard, and when she lifted her foot, the matchstick was already a small patch of pus and blood.

The trick was discovered, and the man in black was not annoyed. He knocked the cigarette pot on the sole of his shoe, stood up and said to Zheng Pei: "If the child doesn't know something, he will learn more." With that, he walked away with his hands behind his back, as if he were at home in his own home. Zheng Pei looked at his back and wanted to ask Granny Ye. But when he saw that his mother-in-law gave him a look, he kept silent again. One old and one young looked at the black back until they went out, and then they all went back to the house and sat down.

"Mother-in-law, ...... that person," Zheng Pei asked suspiciously.

Granny Ye shook her head helplessly, pulled over the back basket and said while sorting out the herbs: "Alas, it's a long story, you will know each other in the future." After that, she asked with concern, "Do you wear that ring all the time?" What does it look like now, show it to me? ”

Zheng Pei hurriedly took off the ring on the index finger of his left hand and handed it to Granny Ye. But the color of the ring surprised the two!

Granny Ye asked suspiciously, "Didn't you say it's already black?" Don't lie to your mother-in-law, this is your own life. ”

Zheng Pei also looked at the light cyan ring in confusion, this color was almost the light cyan color when Granny Ye first gave him the ring.

"It's black." Zheng Pei was also confused, he frowned and said to Granny Ye: "Mother-in-law, I didn't lie to you, when I talked to you that night, it was almost completely black. ”

"Impossible!" Granny Ye was slightly stunned and said, "It's definitely not like that, you lied to your mother-in-law." ”

"Really, really!" Zheng Pei was aggrieved and didn't know how to explain it, so he scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry.

Granny Ye took the ring in her hand and looked at it over and over again, and after thinking for a while, she asked, "Child, have you eaten anything?" ”

Zheng Pei thought seriously for a long time, and replied affirmatively: "Mother-in-law, except for the bottle of wine you gave me, I didn't eat anything strange. ”

Granny Ye asked in surprise: "Don't talk nonsense, where did your mother-in-law give you wine?" ”

"Huh?" Zheng Pei's eyes widened in surprise, and he hurriedly asked, "Mother-in-law, didn't you give me that bottle of wine in a gourd?" ”

A trace of doubt flashed in Granny Ye's eyes, and she slowly shook her head. Then she asked, "What does that wine look like and what does it taste like?" How do you know that the wine was given to you by your mother-in-law? ”

Zheng Pei immediately gestured and said: "That wine gourd is packed in a wooden box, which is the kind of wooden box that Ba Niang uses, which requires a spell to open. Zheng Peiluo recalled, not wanting to miss any details, and continued: "At that time, the box was full of leaves, and I found the wine gourd in it. It is a very small and ordinary yellow scoop gourd, which is the kind with a very thin waist. It was probably half a gourd of wine, and I probably weighed about a pound. Then the gourd had the words "a mouthful" written on it. As for the taste of that wine...... Zheng Pei instinctively made a bitter gourd face expression, "That wine tastes very strong, although it is not very difficult to drink, but it has a lot of stamina and is very spicy." I drank it and vomited a lot of black oil-like stuff coming out. ”

"What?" As soon as Granny Ye heard the "black oil", she immediately asked, "What black oil?" Tell your mother-in-law! ”

So Zheng Pei told Granny Ye what he felt and what happened after drinking that night, so detailed that he explained every feeling with metaphors, and he re-demonstrated every action. Granny Ye was surprised when she heard this, but when Zheng Peidu finished speaking, she looked incredulous. She stretched out her wrinkled hand and slowly stroked Zheng Pei's face, and then picked up Zheng Pei's arm to observe it carefully.

"Child, you can't hold back the pain." Before Zheng Pei could respond, Granny Ye used her yellowed but blade-like nails to make a small "poof" on his arm. Granny Ye looked at the black filaments surging slightly under the wound, as if surprised, angry, worried, and surprised. All these expressions appeared on her face in turn, and finally in Zheng Pei's worried gaze, Granny Ye laughed loudly: "Hahahahaha!" Child, it's all fate! It's fate! ”

Zheng Pei smiled awkwardly, and asked blankly, "Mother-in-law, what happened?" Isn't it serious? ”

The wrinkles on Granny Ye's smiling face have stretched a lot. She looked at Zheng Pei's face, her expression was half kind and half proud, patted Zheng Pei's hand and said, "Child, you were originally a person who was going to die." As a result, not only can you not die now, but you also picked up a big baby, which is really rare, rare. ”

Hearing such news, Zheng Pei couldn't help but be happy. But he was still a little nervous, so he was anxious to let Granny Ye tell him what happened. Granny Ye pulled Zheng Pei to sit down on the bamboo chair in the hut, and patiently explained it to him little by little. It turned out that the ring was a monitor made of the truth figured out by the fingers and the heart, and when Granny Ye put it on Zheng Pei, she wanted to set a spell on it before the worm completely controlled Zheng Pei, so as to save Zheng Pei's life. But when the degree of control of the worm was close to all, Zheng Pei didn't know what kind of wine he drank, and forced out all the divine bodies parasitic in his body, so that Zheng Pei occupied the cultivation of the worm, but the worm became the host. In this way, Zheng Pei not only saved his life, but also obtained the unparalleled cultivation of Ba Worm.

When Zheng Pei heard this, he jumped and jumped with joy. Although he and Granny Ye have different priorities, this is equivalent to him living again in the world.

Watching Zheng Pei scatter joy in the courtyard, Granny Ye's expression gradually filled with a complicated sense of pride. She seemed to see the Ba Niang from many years ago again. No! This child is better and more qualified than Ba Niang!

"Oops! Don't make trouble, don't make trouble! Granny Ye got up and took down the bacon hanging from the wall, and beckoned Zheng Pei to prepare dinner with her. The jumping flames happily hugged the bottom of the pot, and the aroma of fried bacon gradually filled the whole hut. The firelight reflected the excited faces of Zheng Pei Xingfu and Granny Ye, and it was not extinguished all night.