In the morning, Chen Zifeng was called up by Geng's second brother to have breakfast with them, and as soon as he finished eating, Mei Xue'er, the great-granddaughter of the old village chief, came to him.

Chen Zifeng asked Mei Xue'er what he was looking for him for, Mei Xue'er blushed and said that it was her grandfather, that is, the old village chief, who asked her to be his guide and take him around the village.

Chen Zifeng readily agreed, and then the two walked out of Geng Erniu's house together.

Chen Zifeng knew that the reason why the old village chief called Mei Xue'er to be a guide was to spy on him, but he didn't care, it was still easy for him to explore the village.

And the old village chief's actions can only prove that there must be something in Meihua Village.

Chen Zifeng and Mei Xue'er were walking in the village, Mei Xue'er was still very shy at first, embarrassed to talk to Chen Zifeng, but under Chen Zifeng's humorous conversation, she slowly relaxed.

Chen Zifeng looked at the plum blossoms in the village and asked, "Miss Xue'er, are the plum blossom trees in Plum Blossom Village really blooming all year round?" ”

When Mei Xue'er heard Chen Zifeng's words, she didn't answer the question, but said, "Brother Chen, it's good if you call me Xue'er." ”

After speaking, he couldn't help but blush again, Chen Zifeng was stunned for a moment, smiled and nodded in agreement.

Mei Xue'er waited for him to agree, and then replied: "Yes, these plum blossom trees are all cultivated by Mr. Qi, and they can bloom all year round, which is very magical." ”

Chen Zifeng said: "Yesterday, I heard the village chief say that I still didn't believe it, but I didn't expect that the plum tree was really cultivated by Mr. Qi, Mr. Qi is really amazing!" ”

As soon as it came to Mr. Qi, Mei Xue'er said proudly: "Of course, Brother Chen, you don't know, Mr. Qi has a lot of skills in addition to cultivating plum trees and teaching!" ”

Chen Zifeng asked with great interest: "Oh, yes! What else does Mr. Qi have to do? ”

Mei Xue'er just wanted to tell him, but suddenly thought of something, hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Mr. Qi knows a lot, and often tells us interesting things outside. ”

Chen Zifeng saw her hesitation just now and knew that this Mr. Qi was not as simple as it seemed.

Chen Zifeng said: "Yes! What interesting things did Mr. Qi tell you? ”

Mei Xue'er said vaguely: "Mr. Qi told us too much, and I can't remember it, just some interesting things that happened in the city outside."

Hey, Brother Chen, why do you keep asking Mr. Qi about it? ”

Chen Zifeng explained: "There's no reason, it's just curiosity." By the way, Cher, is there anything interesting about your village? ”

Mei Xueer said: "Yes, there is a small river behind the village, we often go there to play, there are a lot of fish, we often play while catching fish, and when we are tired of playing, we grill some fish to eat, and the scenery of the river is beautiful."

Now let's go to the creek. ”

Chen Zifeng smiled and said, "Okay! ”

Mei Xueer was very happy to lead Chen Zifeng to the small river behind the village, and the two talked and laughed along the way, and the passers-by they met were also very enthusiastic to greet them.

After arriving in the village, I looked at a small river running out of the plum blossom forest, the water and grass around the river were abundant, full of all kinds of small flowers, and with a red plum blossom forest behind, Chen Zifeng felt a different beautiful scenery.

For a while, a strong man like Chen Zifeng almost sank into it, and he didn't want to leave here again, the sun was shining on his body warmly, Chen Zifeng and Mei Xueer played for a while, and when Chen Zifeng was tired of playing, he went into the water to catch some fish, lit a fire again, and roasted the fish.

I have to say that the fish here are extraordinarily large, and they are also extraordinarily fragrant, and Chen Zifeng alone has eaten more than a dozen carps weighing more than ten catties.

Both of them had their stomachs full, and when they were full, they lazily lay on the grass by the river.

The sun is warm, and the person who shines on it wants to sleep, and the fragrance of herbs and flowers wafts through the tip of the nose, which makes people intoxicated.

Everything here is so beautiful that Chen Zifeng has the idea of living here for the rest of his life, but when he thinks of the dangerous situation of human beings on the earth now, Chen Zifeng can't help but sigh.

Mei Xue'er lay next to him and asked curiously, "What's wrong with Brother Chen, why are you sighing, isn't the scenery here beautiful?" ”

Chen Zifeng said: "It's beautiful without here, and the reason why I sigh is because it's so beautiful here, and I don't want to leave here." ”

Mei Xueer said: "Then if you don't leave here, don't you just do it!" ”

Chen Zifeng shook his head and said, "No, there are still a lot of people and things I care about outside, and I can't stay here for a long time." ”

Mei Xue'er was a little depressed and sullen after hearing this, Chen Zifeng couldn't help but reach out and touch her head when she saw her like this, and said comfortingly: "Don't worry, I haven't left yet, even if I leave in the future, I will come to see you from time to time." ”

Mei Xue'er smiled again, this smile was very pure, very sincere and sweet.

This made Chen Zifeng suddenly think that if he hadn't divorced Xia Xue, their children would be as old as Xue'er.

When Chen Zifeng looked at Mei Xue'er again, there was a little less vigilance and more doting in his eyes.

The two chatted on the grass, Mei Xue'er pestered Chen Zifeng and asked him to tell her about interesting things outside, so the two kept laughing and talking until lunch time in the afternoon, and then returned to the village.

This was the case for the next few days, Chen Zifeng and Mei Xueer got along very well, of course, Chen Zifeng regarded Mei Xueer as a daughter.

It's just that the old village chief talked about wanting him to marry Mei Xue'er a few times, but he said that he just treated Xue'er as a daughter, and asked the old village chief not to make it difficult for others, which made the old village chief dispel his thoughts.

In addition, he also had a deeper understanding of Meihua Village in the company of Mei Xue'er, and he learned that Mr. Qi's status in the village was very unusual, and he and Geng Erniu could be said to be the right-hand man of the old village chief.

What made Chen Zifeng most curious was this Mr. Qi, in addition to teaching in the school every day, he was in the ancestral hall in the center of the village.

And the ancestral hall in the center of the village is also very strange, according to Chen Zifeng's perception, there are more than a dozen villagers patrolling around the ancestral hall.

Although the control center of the protective shield is there, and it is normal to send people to protect the patrol, there is no need to send so many people.

The most important thing is that except for the village chief and Mr. Qi, no one in the ancestral hall, including Geng Erniu, can enter, which makes Chen Zifeng even more strange.

His instincts told him that inside the ancestral hall was the secret of the village.

So he's going to find out tonight.

At night, because there is no night activity in the village, the villagers go to bed early.

Despite this, Chen Zifeng did not start his action until one o'clock in the morning in order to prevent an outsider, and this hour is the time when people are most sleepy, and I believe that the patrols of those ancestral halls will also relax their vigilance because of sleepiness.

In the dark and moonless night, Chen Zifeng came out silently, turned into a black shadow, and disappeared into the night sky of the village.

In the blink of an eye, Chen Zifeng came to the vicinity of the ancestral hall, the guards here were indeed as Chen Zifeng thought, they were all very sleepy, he easily jumped on the roof of the ancestral hall, without attracting the attention of any guards.

The ancestral hall of Meihua Village is like the old-fashioned ancestral hall in the old era, the houses are covered by tiles, Chen Zifeng lifted a tile, looked in, through the candles in the ancestral hall, he saw that the ancestral hall was very ordinary, but he did not see what they worshipped.

At this moment, a door next to the hall of the ancestral hall was opened, and two people came out of it, an old man and a middle-aged man.

The old man is the old village chief of Meihua Village, and the middle-aged man is the teacher Mr. Qi.

The old village chief was different from the usual charity, and he was very indifferent, so he walked and said to Mr. Qi behind him: "How are you preparing?" ”

Mr. Qi said: "Please rest assured, everything is ready, just waiting for tomorrow night." ”

The old village chief nodded very satisfied and said, "Well, you did well this time, but if you have another accident this time, no one will be able to protect you." ”

Mr. Qi heard the chill revealed in the words of the old village chief, and immediately said humbly: "Please rest assured, there will be no problems this time, just ......"

At this moment, the old village chief interrupted him and raised his left hand to signal him to shut up.

The old village chief looked up sharply at the place where Chen Zifeng had peeped on the roof just now, but fortunately, Chen Zifeng was aware of it and evacuated early, so he was not discovered.

The old village chief didn't find anything, so he put down his arm and said indifferently: "Just what? ”

Mr. Qi said: "It's just that the candidate for the sacrifice has not yet been determined. ”

The old village chief furrowed his white eyebrows and said sharply, "Qi Yanming, what's going on?" Why hasn't the sacrificial candidate been decided yet? ”

Mr. Qi felt the killing intent in the old man's words, shivered, and said: "Village Chief, listen to my explanation, every year's candidate is a girl who has reached the age of eighteen and has not yet left the pavilion, and the last time because the girl herself was unclean, the sacrifice failed to succeed, so that now there is only one person in the village who meets the requirements, and that is your great-granddaughter." ”

This time, the old village chief's eyebrows were almost wrinkled together, his face was very ugly, and he said gloomily: "Except for Xue'er, there are no other girls in the village who meet the requirements?"

What about the girl who didn't succeed in the last sacrifice? ”

Mr. Qi said: "Village chief, you have forgotten that although the sacrifice was unsuccessful last time, the girl had already been sacrificed in the sacrifice, and now there is only one girl left in the village who meets the conditions. ”

The old village chief had a calm face and was silent, while Mr. Qi was frightened by the previous village chief, for fear that a little movement would disturb the village chief and make his bad situation even more dangerous.

The old village chief finally sighed and said, "Well, I can only sacrifice her for the sake of the village, I believe she will understand!" ”

Then the old village chief walked out of the ancestral hall with a sinking face, and only Mr. Qi was left in the entire ancestral hall.

Mr. Qi waited until the old village chief walked away, then straightened up, looked at the direction of the gate where the old village chief left, snorted contemptuously, and whispered to himself: "Old thing, for the sake of your usefulness, let you live one more day, as long as this plan is successful, see how I play you to death, hum!" ”

After Mr. Qi finished talking to himself, he also walked straight out, leaving only an empty ancestral hall, which looked so strange under the swaying of the candle flame.