【Outside Pingsha City】

Probably because he was frightened, Jiao Qi had a particularly long dream, he had never slept so comfortably and comfortably. www.biquge.info In his dreams, he returned to the time when he first remembered, he wandered around in Pingsha City, looking for everything he could eat and drink under the scramble and bullying of beggars, not only the leftovers of restaurants and restaurants, but also the dried weeds and roots in the sand. But even so, he ate the last meal, until one day he collapsed on the side of the road hungry like a wild dog. As soon as the picture turned, he saw Boss Ding from the nearby Passage Inn appear in front of him, Boss Ding brought some food and soup from the inn, and looked down and smiled at his gobbling appearance.

Boss Ding pointed to the livestock shed behind the inn and said to himself: "In the future, you can come to the Passage Inn to do some chores, and take care of your three meals a day." ”

Jiao Qi's head was buried in the food, he didn't lift it, he didn't care what he was going to do, he only knew that he would never be hungry again in the future, and nodded desperately.

Then Jiao Qi was like a third party, and the fragments of his life in the nine years in [Pingsha City] swayed in front of his eyes one after another. He watched Boss Ding choose his name, watched the guys at the Passage Inn change batch after batch, and watched his nine-year ordinary life. In just a few minutes, it was as if he was alive again.

In the end, he dreamed that Boss Ding was standing in front of him, smiling and saying to himself, "Good job", his eyes were full of pity and love. Jiao Qi has never deliberately observed Boss Ding, but in this dream, Boss Ding's appearance is so clear, his appearance and clothing, facial expressions, and even the folds of his clothes and the stains on his cuffs, Jiao Qi can see it clearly. It's just that Jiao Qi felt that there seemed to be some differences between this and the Boss Ding he usually saw, but he couldn't tell what the difference was for a while.

Like the shopkeeper of other inns and restaurants, Boss Ding is also a shrewd appearance with low eyebrows and pleasing eyes, round and chubby. A wide robe covered his bloated body, but this did not affect his amiable appearance in Jiao Qi's mind. It's just that Boss Ding in this dream wears an extra big gold chain that he found out of nowhere, which is particularly thick, and there is a gem embedded in it, which is full of the image of an upstart, which is particularly ridiculous. Jiao Qi was also very happy to see it, the laughing person turned his back on his horse, and then Jiao Qi felt that the gem on the chain seemed a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere. After taking a closer look, Jiao Qi was suddenly shocked in his heart, Boss Ding's big gold chain was embedded with a dark red stone! In an instant, the terrible desperate cry of "Cat Jiao'er", the cold and ruthless greedy gaze of the beggar boss, and the silver-white sword light rushing towards him, these pictures flashed quickly in his mind. Jiao Qi let out a loud "ah" and woke up from his dream.

A face full of impatience suddenly turned around, and shouted to him angrily: "Hey, little ghost, you have nothing to do!"

Jiao Qi had just woken up from the nightmare, and then he was scolded by the person in front of him, so frightened that he hurriedly used his hands to prop himself up and move back a long distance, and took two deep breaths, which was a little better. After his mood eased a little, he began to observe the person in front of him, this stinky man was about thirty years old, with a scruffy beard and not very clean body, not much better than Jiao Qi, a sloppy ghost, I don't know how long it had been since he cleaned up. Originally, the man was supposed to be squatting with his back to him, but now he was turning his head to look at him with an unhappy expression. In front of the stinky-faced man was a shelf with a whole sheep strung on it, and countless flames fluttering below, and the flames were actually spewing out of a dark red gourd beside the man!

"You...... You!" Jiao Qi was dumbfounded, and while looking at the "gourd man" and his gourd with wide eyes, he moved back again. Jiao Qi never thought that the stinky man in front of him would be the rickety "gourd man" he had met in the city before!

Suddenly, Jiao Qi remembered the red stone again. Only then did he recall that a second before he lost consciousness, the beggar boss was rushing towards him with a long sword. For the sake of this inconspicuous stone, the beggar boss killed the innocent beggar without saying a word, and also killed himself. But now that he and the "gourd man" are roasting sheep in this ghost place where I don't know where it is, doesn't that mean......

Now it seems that this redstone is not an ordinary thing.

"Will this 'gourd man' kill himself and seal his mouth", Jiao Qi thought like this while hurriedly turning up and down, wanting to find the stone and return it to the gourd man quickly, so as not to cause another incident. Jiao Qi has often been excluded and bullied by beggars since he was a child, and even if he was taken in by Boss Ding and put in the Passage Inn, the situation has only improved slightly. Because of Boss Ding, the beggars didn't dare to blatantly focus on Qi, and they restrained a lot, but secretly they would still seize the opportunity to clean him up. Of course, the beggars did not bully Jiao Qi for no reason, most of them were also because of Jiao Qi's various impulsive behaviors of "righteousness and courage". Therefore, although Jiao Qi is usually silent, on the surface he looks like a stunned wood, but under the "exercise" of the beggars over time, in fact, his frightened mind is abnormally active, and he is a complete persecuted paranoia. At this moment, Jiao Qi was imagining out of thin air all kinds of horrific acts that the "gourd man" was about to do to him if he couldn't find the red stone, and he was flustered around. But he was afraid of something, Jiao Qi searched all over his body, but he couldn't find the stone, and his heart that had just calmed down was raised to his throat again.

The gourd man naturally didn't know that Jiao Qi's mood fluctuated in this short period of time, but when he saw the thin boy opposite, he was looking for something in a panic, and his face turned white when he looked for it.

"Don't look for it, I've got it back. After the man finished speaking, he turned around and roasted the sheep again, ignoring Jiao Qi.

Seeing that the "gourd man" did not kill him, but did not even have the slightest interest in him, Jiao Qi couldn't help but sigh in his heart that he was too cowardly. Jiao Qi sat up and didn't know what to do, only the occasional "crackling" sound of roast sheep and the "pop" sound of the gourd spitting out flames around him. The "gourd man" kept his back to him and did not have any intention of talking to him. Jiao Qi couldn't figure out what the "gourd man" had arrested him for, he was very jealous of him, and he didn't dare to run away secretly, so he stared at the dark red fire gourd in a silent daze. Jiao Qi has been in [Pingsha City] for nearly ten years, and he can be regarded as having seen all kinds of people. Among these passers-by, there are also masters of kung fu, and Jiao Qi has also seen a little bit of the rare treasure, but this kind of gourd Jiao Qi who can spit fire out of thin air is really the first time I have seen it, and there is a little curiosity in my heart that children can't hide.

After a while, the sheep should have been roasted, I don't know what ingredients the "gourd man" added, bursts of fragrance continued to float towards Jiao Qi, and the hungry Jiao Qi had already seen enough of the fire gourd, and the gluttonous worms in the stomach were hanged high, looking at the roast sheep saliva was flowing all over the ground, and the stomach screamed angrily. When the "gourd man" heard the "cooing" sound coming from behind him, he couldn't help laughing, then tore a leg of mutton and turned around and threw it to Jiao Qi, and asked him: "Little ghost, why did you stop that beggar on the street yesterday?"

"I can't get used to it. Jiao Qi's impression of this "gourd man" changed instantly, and he replied inarticulate while holding the leg of mutton in both hands while eating meat. may be because he has been hungry since he was a child, eating has always been a weakness of Jiao Qi, and he also has a simple and naïve standard for judging people's good and evil - those who are full and well-fed must be good people.

The "gourd man" suddenly laughed: "Hahaha, even a stinky little ghost like you can't get used to others." ”

"I'm not a stinky ghost, I have a name, my name is Jiao Qi. I don't know if I've been in a coma for too long and hungry, Jiao Qi feels that this leg of lamb is really delicious, it's the best thing he's ever eaten in his life, and he can eat it for a whole year without getting tired.

When the "gourd man" on the opposite side heard Jiao Qi's answer, his smile froze on his face, his pupils shrank, and he stood up suddenly: "Who gave you the name?"

Jiao Qi didn't know why the "gourd man" suddenly had such a big reaction, and he almost didn't choke, but Jiao Qi saw that the "gourd man" was so excited that he could only reply stubbornly: "I...... I'm an orphan, and I was given the name by Boss Ding of the Passage Inn. ”

"Jiao Qi...... Boss Ding ...... "The gourd man" muttered for a while, and his eyes flashed, and he already had an answer in his heart. He didn't care whether Jiao Qi had finished eating or not, he jumped on the gourd with Jiao Qi and galloped towards [Pingsha City]. Jiao Qi's leg of lamb was pulled away by the "gourd man" before he finished eating, looking at the roast sheep that had not been eaten much, Jiao Qi's heart felt a sigh of regret.

【Pingsha City-In front of the Passage Inn】

A few minutes later, Jiao Qi stood in front of the Passage Inn, which had been burned to the ground, looking stunned.

The "Gourd Man" took him straight to [Pingsha City], and when they arrived at [Pingsha City], they found that the Passage Inn had become like this. The "gourd man" handed a piece of red stone into Jiao Qi's hand, and jumped on the gourd and shot away into the distance under the surprised gaze of a group of people around him.

Jiao Qi stood in front of the smoking ruins of the inn.

Jiao Qi has been bullied by beggars, has no fixed place, and has not eaten the last meal. Although he is silent and has no good friendship with the guys, Boss Ding takes care of him mostly out of pity. But for Jiao Qi, the Passage Inn is his first home, and Boss Ding and his guys are his relatives. Even though this home was just a few simple dilapidated rooms, it made Jiao Qi feel that he finally had a home and was no longer a wandering savage. And all this that he had so hard to have was shattered by fate without warning.

"Why did this happen?" Jiao Qi slowly lowered his head and clenched his fists.

The Passage Inn was found to have been burned to ashes early this morning, and there were a lot of passers-by gathered around. Everyone is speculating whether the Passage Inn has offended some unprovoked master, otherwise how could it end up like this overnight. Looking at the tragic appearance of the scene, if the boss and the guys didn't have time to escape, it is estimated that there would definitely be no hope of survival.

And the fanfare of the "gourd people" just now once again attracted a large number of onlookers, and Jiao Qi, who was standing in front of the ruins, undoubtedly became the focus of everyone's attention. However, many people saw that the "gourd man" had handed something into the hands of the thin young man before leaving, and at this time the thing was being held in the right hand of the thin young man, and it looked like an unknown stone.

"Maybe there's a gem hidden in there. There was a lot of discussion in the crowd of onlookers, and more and more greedy eyes began to wander behind Jiao Qi.

Lao Chen, a Taosha man, didn't have a stall today, he watched the excitement here early in the morning, witnessed the coming and going of the "gourd man", and happened to see Lao Wang next door also here, so he hurriedly beckoned him over and said to him: "Hey, have you heard? Zhang Ran was also killed last night." ”

Lao Wang was taken aback: "Really? Is it the boss of the group of annoying beggars, the flying sword Zhang Ran? This is a great deal." ”

"Isn't it, this rumor has been everywhere since I woke up early this morning, and I heard from those beggars that their boss was turned to ashes by a 'gourd man' who fell from the sky. The 'gourd man' used one move, no more, no less, just one move, Zhang Ran disappeared with a sword, leaving nothing. Lao Chen didn't know where he heard the news, and what he said was exactly what he said.

"Is that the one who flew away just now?" asked Lao Wang, who had also seen the "gourd man" just now.

"You can't be wrong, where can this kind of person go to find a second one. After Lao Chen finished speaking, he lowered his voice and secretly said to Lao Wang: "And I heard that the beggar boss was killed, including the burning of the Passage Inn, all for a red stone. ”

"Oh?" Lao Wang on the other side immediately came to his senses, and his eyes focused on the things in the hands of the thin young man in front of the ruins.

【Desert】

At the same time, the wind in the desert swept the sand and gravel like a wave, and an obese figure who was slowly moving forward against the wind and sand seemed to sense something and stopped.

"It seems that I still can't escape, [Huo Hu Jiao Er] is really worthy of its reputation. The owner of the voice said with a wry smile.

A burst of red light in the sky gradually became clear, and the "gourd man" locked on to the person below with a pair of fiery red eyes as if it were burning, it was Boss Ding who Jiao Qi thought had disappeared along with the Passage Inn.

"Sure enough, it's you. The "gourd man" didn't seem to be a stranger to this person, and he had already expected the identity of Boss Ding, so he jumped off the gourd with a silent sentence in his heart, and landed far opposite Boss Ding, but the gourd was still floating and spinning in the air.

"This temper has not changed at all. The fat figure glanced at the gourd in the air, shook his head, and whispered to himself helplessly.

The "gourd man" looked at the opposite side from afar, and the firelight was almost about to erupt from his eye sockets.

Boss Ding also knew that there was no room for negotiation, so he spewed out countless flames with one hand, the fire dissipated, and Boss Ding had an extra fire gun with an extremely exaggerated caliber in his hand, and the color of the fire gun was the same as the color of the gourd.