Last year's drought was almost in time for the famine, and the harvest in the small village was only enough to pay taxes. The desperate villagers can only rely on sweet potatoes to fill their stomachs all year round, and the few grains harvested in the fields are filled by the government.

The old lady with snow-white hair on her back, on crutches, cried with Xia Qingyi with a sad and angry expression, complaining about the hardships of life in Tuwa Village. The woman listened with a solemn expression, nodding her head from time to time to echo the other party's situation.

Two men stood leisurely not far away, watching the woman and talking to someone. Both sides are very pleased with this decision. Xia Qingyi used Xia Qingyi as a messenger to communicate with the outside world, after all, the two of them got along with strangers, and they couldn't beat a fart of wood.

"Grandma, when is the village inn going?" Listening to the old lady nagging for a long time, Xiao Nizi remembered the most important thing.

"Inn? There were no outsiders in Tuwa Village in the past, how could there be an inn!? The old lady sneered, and her words were full of whimsical ridicule of the people who came to the Tuwa Village.

Xia Qingyi was not angry, although she was a little surprised that this village was so closed, she still asked with a pleasant face.

"If outsiders really come to the village, where did they live in the past?

The old lady pondered for a moment, then raised her crutches and pointed into the distance.

"Zhang Tieniu's house in the north of the village, his house is big, maybe he can borrow you to live temporarily."

After receiving the point, the woman thanked her repeatedly, turned around and waved her hand in the direction of the man's pestle, and then hurried to explore the way first.

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The so-called big house, in fact, is only a two-entry bungalow, the entrance is the hall, close to the stove firewood room, and then there are wings, the whole hollow shape, there is a patio of less than two zhang in the middle, but the size of the house in such a pattern can also be regarded as a "big household" in Tuwa Village.

Zhang Tieniu has a simple personality, although he listened to Xia Qingyi's greetings and intentions completely, his face was still blank. But his wife was quick-witted, and when she heard that there was silver, she smiled and saw her teeth and eyes, so she almost beat the gong and drum to welcome the guest.

When she really entered the yard, Xia Qingyi found that although the sparrows were small, they were also cleaned up by this village woman.

In the wing, the slightly old wooden tables and chairs can be spotless to the touch.

Before Xiao Nizi had time to sigh at this simple style of homestay, Zhang Tieniu's wife had already knocked on the door with a thick futon.

"Big girl, don't worry, although our place is broken and small, this bed quilt is clean, and I dried it after washing, you can rest assured to cover it."

Xia Qingyi looked up at the woman in front of her carefully, with a moon-white cardigan, her hair simply combed into a single screw, and only a wooden hairpin was used. The only ornament on the whole body is a jade bracelet on the wrist, although the color is not good, there is also cotton wool, but there is a section of fingernail size inlaid with bright gold, vaguely looking at the engraved word.

Zhang Tieniu's wife saw the "God of Wealth" standing in a daze and didn't speak, thinking that she was still disgusted that her bedding was not clean, so she was so anxious that her face turned red, and she lifted the corner of the quilt and sent it to the other party.

"You smell it, this fragrant quilt, I took it out to dry it on a good day, and I dried it yesterday!"

The woman hurriedly explained.

"Sister-in-law, I didn't mean that, the quilt is very good, I just wanted to ask if there was anything to eat, and I didn't eat much on the way."

"Yes, yes, wait, don't say it sooner!" When the mother-in-law of the Zhang family heard that she didn't dislike that her quilt was not clean, and mentioned eating, her heart was already happy.

In the evening, the stove room really smelled of fragrant soup, and Xia Qingyi sat in the hall with dry hands and looked at it.

"This is the mulberry ear that the iron ox went to the mountains to pick this morning and the little hen we raised stewed for a long time, the best to replenish the body, hurry up and drink it while it's hot."

Mrs. Zhang neatly put down the soup bowl, and skillfully skimmed off the oil slick before retreating.

On the golden and shiny chicken soup, there are fragrant black mulberry ears, and there are fragrant and delicious chicken thighs underneath. Even though I am accustomed to eating delicacies from the mountains and seas, I seem to be accustomed to the light taste of vegetarian food after months of traveling and sleeping in the open, and my taste seems to be awakened at this moment. Ouyang Qingying licked his lips, his eyes were already full of longing for chicken legs, but he didn't stretch out his hand.

"Why don't you eat it?" Xia Qingyi saw that the boy was obviously hungry to death but did not move the chopsticks, so she touched his head lovingly.

"Sister, you can eat first." The boy shook his head, although he was raised by the old man's side since he was a child, and no one taught him, but he also knew the basic upbringing of respecting the old and loving the young, and the order of the young and the young.

Reading Ouyang Qingyi's push, Xia Qingyi smiled with a relieved face, and her always indecent jokes turned into moving.

"Oh, my brother has really grown up, come, this chicken leg is for you, you are growing up and need to make up for it, don't say no!" The woman's movement of dividing the chicken leg is clean and neat, and there is no doubt about the attitude.

"Come, this other chicken leg will be given to His Royal Highness the Fourth Prince, who has also suffered since he was a child, and has not been able to enjoy the cold and warmth of his relatives, and he will make up for it for you today, he must eat it, and he is not allowed to say no."

Xia Qingyi glared at the man with fierce eyes, with a posture that if you dare to refuse me, I will tear you off.

Chu Zexi didn't refuse, and let the woman put the chicken leg into his bowl, but asked lightly.

"The chicken legs were given to us, but what about yourself?"

"Oh, I eat wings, I eat meat, and I complement my form with form, so that my light skills can be refined and I can fly higher." The woman is holding a chicken wing, dreaming grandly.

But no matter what, where Xia Qingyi is there, it seems that all ordinary and small things can be happy, even if it is a simple dinner, it can eat the warmth of family reunion.

The mother-in-law of the Zhang family stared at the woman outside the door and drank the last mouthful of soup before she came in to collect the bowl with a smile. Full of wine and food, Xia Qingyi looked at Zhang's busy figure coming in and out, and suddenly remembered something.

"Sister-in-law, let me inquire about something, has someone in the village been seriously ill recently?" The woman asked casually as if unintentionally, but her eyes drifted to Chu Zexi, who was sitting opposite.

"Oh, I don't know much about this outside, I have to ask Tie Niu, he runs outside all day." As he spoke, he opened his voice and summoned his husband.

Zhang Tieniu is an honest rural person, he always doesn't dare to say anything when he goes out of the house, and his submissive temperament can't be on the stage. Fortunately, I found a shrewd and capable daughter-in-law, and I was very happy in my heart. So on weekdays, he is obedient to his wife, although he is a real wife slave in the eyes of outsiders, but he doesn't mind what strangers say, life is a two-person life. He thought about this clearly.

So he received the call of his wife, and he trotted all the way into the dining room happily, and found that there were several outsiders there. Immediately wilted like a frosted eggplant, Xia Qingyi looked at the change in the expression on the man's face with amusement, and said slightly apologetically.

"Brother Zhang, I'm sorry, it's not Sister-in-law Zhang looking for you, it's that we want to inquire about something, but someone in this village has been suffering from any serious illness recently?"

Zhang Tieniu was stunned for a moment, frowned and thought for a long time.

"No, no, I haven't heard that anyone in the village is sick, but the brothers of the Wang family at the mouth of the river in the east haven't seen it for two days in a row, yes, he didn't come to the patrol post that he said he was going to do."

Xiao Nizi had a tacit understanding when she heard this, exchanged glances with Chu Zexi, and then asked.

"Brother Zhang, what is the full name of the Wang brothers, do you know?"

"Then how can you not know, his name is Wang Dali, more than thirty, and he doesn't have a daughter-in-law, who doesn't know in our village." Speaking of the last word, Zhang Tieniu also secretly glanced at his daughter-in-law, stretched out his hand to pull it, but was thrown away by the woman shyly.

Xia Qingyi took in the small movements and expressions of the husband and wife in front of her, and there was a faint envy in her heart

"Okay, Brother Zhang, thank you, there's nothing else, we may stay a few more days and settle the bill with you when we leave."

"Okay, big sister, you can live in peace, what do you need to say to your sister-in-law, let's go back to the room first." Zhang looked at the man on the side and quickly took over the conversation, dragging his uncompetitive husband away quickly.

It wasn't until she couldn't hear the footsteps of the husband and wife that Xia Qingyi spoke.

"How can you say that this king is 。。。。。。。 us?"

"I'm going to check it out tonight." Chu Zexi blurted out the woman's words, and the two looked at each other and smiled;

I heard a slightly immature voice beside me: "I'm going too." ”

"You are not allowed to go!"

"You are not allowed to go!"

was rejected in unison, Ouyang Qingying was even more annoyed, slapped the table, and stood up:

"I want to go, why can't I go if you can go?"

Chu Zexi's lips moved slightly, but Xiao Nizi raised her hand to give him a gesture of calmness, and then adjusted her sitting posture and said seriously:

"You don't know how to do Gu arts, what's the use of you going? Why don't you just rest at home and wait for us to hear from us, and if we don't come back for an hour, you can find someone to help, right? ”

Xia Qingyi looked at the boy intently, her eyes sincere.

In the middle of the ring, the boy finally lost the battle, pouted and said: "Okay, I'll wait for news in the rear, and I'll rescue you at any time!" ”

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The night was dark and the wind was high, and there was silence, and two figures wandered sneakily outside the door of a dilapidated house

"Isn't that it?" The woman asked softly;

"How do I know!?" The man replied helplessly;

"No matter, rush in, cover your face anyway, don't you faint!" As soon as the woman's voice fell, she charged a palm and shook the door open, and before the man's eyes widened and before he could speak, the woman had already rushed into the house.

"Are you Wang Dali?" Xia Qingyi held the night pearl in one hand, and pressed the other party's neck with the moon chopping silk in the other;

Lying on the bed, looking at the two people who suddenly broke in, they were at a loss, and trembled: "Yes, yes, what are you going to do?" ”

"It's nothing, I heard you're sick, come and see you." As soon as the woman finished speaking, Chu Zexi looked at her like a fool;

Where would someone break down the door in the middle of the night to visit the patient???

"Nonsense, I, I'm not sick!" The man pulled his throat and pretended to be calm

"That's the Gu, isn't it? So don't you dare to tell others? The woman continued to tempt him;

But this time, the man's face suddenly panicked, and even in the faint light of the Night Pearl, his frightened eyes had already explained everything.

"Brother Shen!"

"Hmm!"

Shen Changqing walked on the road, and when he met someone he knew well, he would say hello to each other or nod his head.

But it doesn't matter who it is.

There was no superfluous expression on everyone's face, as if they were very indifferent to everything.

on this.

Shen Changqing is used to it.

Because this is the Demon Suppression Division, it is an institution that maintains the stability of Great Qin, and its main responsibility is to kill demons and monsters, and of course there are some other side jobs.

Arguably.

In the Demon Suppression Division, everyone has a lot of blood on their hands.

When a person is accustomed to seeing life and death, then he will become indifferent to many things.

When he first came to this world, Shen Changqing was a little uncomfortable, but over time he got used to it.

The Demon Suppression Division is huge.

The people who can stay in the Demon Suppression Division are all powerful masters, or people who have the potential to become masters.

Shen Changqing belongs to the latter.

Among them, the Demon Suppression Division is divided into two professions, one is the town guard and the other is the demon exterminator.

Anyone who enters the Demon Suppression Division starts with the lowest level of demon slayer.

Then step by step, he is expected to become a town guard.

Shen Changqing's predecessor was a trainee demon slayer in the Demon Suppression Division, and he was also the lowest level of the demon slayer envoys.

Have memories of the predecessor.

He is also very familiar with the environment of the Demon Suppression Division.

It didn't take long for Shen Changqing to stop in front of an attic.

Unlike other places full of slaughter, the attic here seems to stand out from the crowd, and in the bloody Demon Suppression Division, it presents a different tranquility.

At this time, the attic door is open, and there are occasional people entering and exiting.

Shen Changqing only hesitated for a moment, and then stepped in.

Access to the attic.

The environment has changed in vain.

A burst of ink fragrance mixed with the faint smell of blood came to his face, making his brow furrow instinctively, but quickly stretched.

The smell of blood on everyone's body in the Demon Suppression Division is almost impossible to clean.