Chapter 3: The Outer Villages

"The thatched eaves are long and clean without moss, and the flowers and trees are planted by hand. "The yard is very small, but it is also clean and chic, and the flowers and plants in the courtyard are lined with the high standard elegance of the owner here. Such a fresh and elegant farmhouse courtyard, its artistic conception can catch up with Mr. Wuliu, who does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, but such a refined and elegant courtyard is a little incompatible with the identity of the grave watcher.

"Hey, I said Yu Lao, do you have my breakfast?" Lei Luo rushed into the kitchen, regardless of whether the old man who was still adding firewood to the stove disagreed, he reached out to lift the lid of the pot and looked inside.

"Hey, steamed steamed buns again......" Lei Luo looked at the steaming steamed buns in the pot, reached out and grabbed them, bit while blowing, and said vaguely, "It's delicious...... But, well, it's not as delicious as Wan'er......"

"Then why don't you go to Wan'er's house to eat?" The old man raised his head, looked at Lei Luo with a smile, and said, "Look at your soulless and unhappy appearance, the thing is done?"

The old man is about sixty years old, not too old, and it is rare that he is in good spirits, his face is full of red light, and he smiles kindly.

Lei Luo wolfed down a steamed bun, opened the lid of the pot and took one and stuffed it in his mouth. In order to pick flowers, he only ate one steamed bun in the past two days, and now he is naturally so hungry that his heart is close to his back, and he replied to the old man while eating: "The food of the Wan'er family is not enough to eat, how can I be willing to eat her...... By the way, the flower can be regarded as plucked, the iris thunder flower, it is really beautiful............" Lei Luo was too excited, chattering about everything, the old man just laughed, did not speak, while adding fire to the stove, while listening to Lei Luo's story, but when Lei Luo talked about the black shadow of the cornices and walls, the old man's face showed a trace of imperceptible solemnity.

When it comes to the stone crevices in the mountain wall and the thunder feather arrows in the stone crevices, a thought suddenly pops up in Lei Luo's subconscious: It's better not to say it, so as to avoid a lot of trouble.

So, Lei Luo grabbed a steamed bun, and swallowed back what he wanted to say.

Yu Lao didn't ask much, just smiled. That smile seems to penetrate everything and see everything deeply.

The fourth steamed bun was in his stomach, and Lei Luo picked up the water scoop and scooped up half a scoop of water in the water tank, and drank it with a slurp. Wiping his mouth, Lei Luo said to the old man: "Old Yu, you said that the kite thunder flower can really cure Wan'er's mother?"

Yu Lao didn't speak, just looked at Lei Luo with a smile, Lei Luo touched the back of his head embarrassedly, and said: "Oh, okay, okay, I don't ask you, I know you never lied to Lei Luo, you are supernatural, okay." When her mother's illness is cured, Lei Luo will definitely repay you well, whatever you want to eat, I will go and catch anything for you...... I'm leaving, thank you for the steamed buns. As he spoke, he grabbed another steamed bun and ran out with a smoke.

Yu Lao stood up, stood at the door, looked at Lei Luo's happy back, let out a long sigh, and said meaningfully: "This day of indisputability with the world is coming to an end. ”

Besides, Lei Luo, bypassing the woods at the head of the village, ran to the door of his house in one go. Lei Luo's house is much larger than the old courtyard of Zhiyu, but it is also much more messy, farm tools are everywhere, and the houses are not often cleaned, which looks a little messy. But to tell the truth, this is the most normal farm yard, and Yu Lao's kind is like a master of the world who lives in seclusion here.

Thunder fell to greet him with a black dog, as strong as a calf, and Lei Luo gave him a powerful name, called "Zhuangshi"! When the strong man saw his master, he barked twice and wagged his tail and rubbed it at Lei Luo's feet. Lei Luo happily touched the strong man's head, but as soon as he pushed the door open, he suddenly drooped his head like a deflated ball. Lei Luo's father, a middle-aged man who looked honest, was sitting under the eaves, staring at him with a black line on his face.

Lei Luo knew his father's temper, he hadn't gone to school for two days because of the flower picking, and he sneaked back at this time, and before he changed, his father had already broken his leg. Lei Luo didn't dare to come out, buried his head, and walked cautiously to his room, his father's angry gaze just kept falling on him, and Lei Luo only felt a burst of hair in his heart.

Now when I go to my husband's place, I can still hear him give a lecture, and if I work harder, I can recite yesterday's content together...... Thinking of this, Lei Luo cautiously walked towards the room, and when he walked into the room, his father did not take action. As soon as he got out of the hospital, he heard his father scolding in the house: "Dogs don't learn well, don't study for Lao Tzu to go back to farming, save Lao Tzu so hard......"

Lei Luo trotted and rushed to the private school along the yellow mud path in the village.

Although he was scolded, Lei Luo was extremely happy in his heart, touched his cheek, thinking about the appearance of Guan Er kissing him, Lei Luo smiled again. Whistling, running faster on his feet.

Out of the village, through a green field, in front of me is a mountain covered with snow all year round, and the husband's home is already in sight. Thunderfall quickened his pace and ran forward.

The village where Lei Luo is located is almost an isolated village outside the mountains, but there are two old people in the village who are quite literate, one is a gentleman from a private school, and the other is Yu Lao.

Yu Lao has a high status in the village, and the village chief is also respectful when he sees him. When he was a child, Lei Luo admired Yu Lao the most. The reason is very simple, that Yu Lao is a know-it-all in the village, he will line up the four pillars, play gossip, and judge people's fortune through the eight characters of people's birthdays, and Yu Lao will also choose a day for weddings and funerals, take a compass to see feng shui for the person who repairs the house, and set "acupuncture points" for the deceased...... The big and small things in the village are inseparable from him, in Lei Luo's heart, Yu Lao is a fairy-like character, and he will always be unpredictable, so he often follows Yu Lao to recite some things that Mr. Yu does not teach in the private school.

As he grows up, little Thunderfall will always find himself around, and there will be a lot of inexplicable things, especially in this almost isolated village, there will always be some strange phenomena that people can't explain. Whenever he encounters a problem that he can't figure out or something that can't be solved, Yu Lao can find a unique way and give Lei Luo a perfect answer, and Lei Luo begins to admire Yu Lao from the bottom of his heart.

Especially once, there was a strange disease in the village, the whole village vomited and vented, the doctors in the village were completely helpless, and the barefoot doctors outside the village also returned one by one, and they could not find the reason, but the result was still Yu Lao, after walking around the village for most of the day, he instructed the village chief to take a few small fires in the prime of life, and ambush the largest well in the village at the turn of the night (11 o'clock to 1 o'clock in the evening) and the ugly time (1 o'clock to 3 o'clock in the middle of the night). Lei Luo was twelve years old that year, which was the age when he was as powerful as an ox and was not afraid of heaven and earth, so he naturally volunteered to participate.

Before he arrived, the village chief took a few young men in his prime and climbed to the huge cypress trees around the well. The village chiefs and the others all worship Yu Lao as a god, so they naturally obey the arrangement.

This small mountain village, which is almost isolated from the rest of the world, has a cold air as soon as it enters the night. Everyone lay in ambush on the branches, motionless, and did not dare to come out. At the turn of Zichou, there was a sudden movement in the grass in the distance, and a sound of rustling came from far and near, and everyone held their breath, so nervous that their hearts were about to jump out.

After a while, a small colorful snake came out of the grass. The little snake looked left and right, and it seemed to have a spirit between his eyebrows. What's even worse is that the little snake turned out to be like a firefly, and its body was flashing and glowing.

Just as Yu Lao said, the little snake saw that there was nothing abnormal around, so he came to the well, and slid to the well along the long bamboo pole that drew water.

The people in the village are getting a strange disease, and this guy is actually releasing poison?

There are many poisonous snakes seen in the mountains, and the villagers often go up to the mountains to catch some snakes and sell them in the market in exchange for some food money. It's just the first time I've seen a little snake like this. The snake caught it, but Yu Lao didn't allow everyone to hurt its life, but asked a person who specializes in snake catchers to pull out the little snake's fangs, and then tossed the little snake again, and let the little snake go.

It was so miraculous that after that night, the strange illness of the people in the village slowly improved. Lei Luo asked Yu Lao more than once what he did to the snake spirit that night, and Yu Lao always replied: "Tell you now, you don't understand it, sooner or later you will understand it yourself." ”

But in any case, Yu Lao's status in Lei Luo's heart is as tall as a mountain, and since then, he has admired Yu Lao so much that he has learned a lot from Yu Lao. What "Jiazi Yi ugly gold in the sea, Bingyin Ding Mao furnace in the fire; what shocks the double shortage, the eagle's vision." Shocked, smiling dumbly...... "In short, they are all things that can't be learned in private school, and Mr. said that they are useless."

Lei Luo quickly ran out of the field, came to the foot of the snow-capped mountain, and came to the door of his husband's private school.

This mountain, in the western part of the mainland, some peaks are covered with snow all year round, the mountains are high and the roads are dangerous, the mountains are extended, the forests are deep valleys, the traffic is extremely inconvenient, and the harsh natural environment makes this village of the snow-capped mountains a veritable paradise.

And this private school gentleman is the only way for Lei Luo to know the outside world.

Mr.'s courtyard has more precipitated scholarly fragrance than Yu Lao's small courtyard. When Lei Luo pushed open the courtyard door, Mr. was explaining the history of the pre-Qin period, and there were more than 20 students of all sizes sitting cross-legged below, listening attentively. Seeing the thunder fall in, Mr. just glared at the thunder with his eyes, and then the thunder fell like falling into an ice cave, trembling all over, and quickly found a place to sit down.

When Wan'er entered the house, his heart was still like a rabbit, and he was jumping and fluttering. Thinking that he was so bold just now, his face burned terribly. Wan'er Xiaolei is two years old, "Lang rode a bamboo horse, went around the bed to make green plums, lived together in Changganli, and the two were not suspicious." "Although Wan'er also knows that he likes Leiluo, the villagers in this mountain are simple and strictly instructed, and for so long, Wan'er and Leiluo have really never held hands......

Thinking of Lei Luo's smirk, Wan Er couldn't help laughing.

A slight cough came from the bed, and then Wan'er remembered what he should do, hurriedly put the bag on the table, picked up an earthen bowl, poured some warm water, and came to the bedside.

"Mom, Lei Luo sent the herbs. Wan Er picked up his mother, and while feeding water, he said, "Yu Lao said that if you take this medicine, you will definitely get better." The mother took a sip of water, took a few breaths, and then lay down again. Since the death of her father five years ago, her mother has been ill, and for this small family, it is undoubtedly in a desperate situation. I went to the doctor in the town to see my mother's illness, but I couldn't see any problems, and I took a lot of home remedies, but it never worked. After a few years, the family's savings were spent, and his mother was bedridden, and the burden of life fell on Wan'er.

If it weren't for the thunderfall, it's hard to imagine how Wan'er would have survived to this day.

Just when everyone was already desperate, Yu Lao quietly said a word to Wan'er: "The cliff gives birth to flowers and contains Lei Yuan, and the blood of Xuanhuang's widow has not dried up." Wan Er naturally didn't understand what Yu Lao was saying, so Yu Lao simply explained: "Use the flowers that bloom every six years on the cliff and your blood to save your mother." ”

Wan Er carried his pocket, came to the kitchen, and carefully took out the fragrant iris flower, which had been plucked for so long, but the flower was still bright. On the petals, there seems to be a faint halo flowing faintly. Where have I ever seen such a miraculous thing, carefully put it into a casserole one by one, add a little water, and raise a small fire to boil.

This boil is terrible. When the water began to bubble, the casserole slowly lit up, and the faint halo on the iris flower was boiled into the water, and more and more, brighter and brighter...... Wan Er began to panic, remembering Yu Lao's explanation, he quickly picked up the knife that had been prepared a long time ago, cut his fingers, and squeezed out three drops of blood into the casserole.

It was like a wonderful chemical reaction, the light suddenly faded, Guan Er poured out a small bowl of water, brought it to his mother's bed, and helped his mother drink it.

Lei Luo sat on the straw mat in the last row, and before he had time to catch his breath, he stared at Mr. seriously, and listened attentively. A handsome young man on the side crutches Lei Luo with his arm, and whispered: "What are you doing kid doing? I haven't seen you late...... Lei Luo just wanted to answer, but saw that Mr. raised the ring ruler and knocked it the table, Lei Luo and the handsome young man quickly sat up straight, so frightened that they didn't dare to take a breath. It seems that the gentleman of this private school is extremely strict, and his voice is not loud, but there is silence in the school, and everyone is sitting upright, concentrating abnormally.

Mr. is explaining the controversy of the hundred schools of thought of the pre-Qin Dynasty, the philosophy of various schools, and the evolution of various words. Look at this gentleman, he is already in his prime, but he has a sense of immortal wind. If Yu Lao is a folk recluse gentleman, then this gentleman is a master of the famous mountain Taoist temple. Every move and gesture make people sincerely admire and respect.

Lei Luo likes to listen to Mr. lecture the most, it seems that the ancient sons of the hundred schools, the world of today, are all in front of their eyes one by one in the teacher's witty words, every time I listen to the lecture, Lei Luo always listens to it as if fascinated. And the handsome young man next to him always looked out the window at the snow-capped mountains......

The sun had risen overhead, it was already noon, what should have been said was finished, and all the thunder that should be recited had been recorded. Lei Luo's books had not yet been packed up, so he shook off the young man and said, "Cho Yu, what's so urgent? Can't you wait for me to pack up?" The handsome young man named Cho Yu grabbed Lei Luo's sleeve again, and whispered: "Let's go, I'll take you to see Mr.'s granddaughter, she is wearing a green gauze dress today, and she is too beautiful to be......"

"It's not that I like her, you dragged me there, it's just to give you courage!" Lei Luo said indignantly, "Go see it yourself, I'm not interested." ”

The jade cut was not followed, and he simply pulled Lei Luo out. Lei Luo couldn't be stubborn, so he had to pack up his books and follow the jade out.

Mountains and villages, this private school is afraid that it is the only place where you can learn knowledge in the hinterland of the vast mountains. The villagers sent their children to study, and the older ones were taught by the husband's granddaughter. Chopping Jade pulled Lei Luo around the hall and came to a clearing behind the house.

In the clearing, there was a young woman in a green gauze dress, leading a group of children to play games. The woman was slender and thin, but she had a sassy heroic spirit. The most rare thing is the innocent and natural smile between the eyebrows, which does not have the slightest bit of human fireworks. It seems to be shrouded in a faint mystery. When Cho Yu saw this woman, she was immediately stunned, and stood in place in a daze, but she couldn't move half a step.

Lei Luo squinted at Cho Yu and teased: "Look at your little bit of talent, I really like it, you ......"

"Bunny, come here again to be lazy. The gentleman's majestic voice sounded behind him, "Don't you go to the kitchen to help, don't you want to eat?"

The two turned around suddenly, and saw that the gentleman was holding the ring ruler in his hand, and his eyes were wide with anger, staring at him, and his legs were weak in fright, and he turned around and ran to the kitchen. The girl in the green gauze dress saw the scene here, and saw the two of them running towards the kitchen, and couldn't help laughing.