The crackling of the campfire.

The firelight jumped on Lu Jue's side face, changing into flickering shadows, which made his nose and eyes more and more cold.

He said: "It is rumored that the Chaos Jade was stolen from the royal tomb by a group of tomb robbers, and it is said that holding it in the mouth of the corpse can protect the body from decay for 10,000 years, and the living person can prolong life if it is held in the mouth every day." ”

When Luo Chanyi heard this, she couldn't help but show a look of realization, and now she finally understood why the brocade-clothed man had been chasing after her.

When a person has power and wealth, what do you want most?

It is nothing more than the extension of the period of life.

"Does this Chaos Jade really have such a miraculous effect?" She asked.

Lu Jue turned his eyes to look at her and shook his head: "I don't know, my master said he couldn't, but he lived to be one hundred and twelve years old." ”

"This ......" Luo Chanyi didn't know how to answer.

The normal life expectancy of a human being is only sixty or seventy years.

It's like a person shouting "chicken legs don't smell" while gobbling them up.

She thought for a moment and said, "In other words, Chaos Jade has been with your master before, and he handed it over to you after he passed away. ”

"Didn't give it to me, just let me send it to a place."

She paused and continued, "What about you...... Did you send it? ”

Lu Jue sighed faintly and shook his head: "That group of people has been entangled, and they can't be sent rashly." ”

She nodded, and it seemed that the thing was on him.

Although Chaos Jade is indeed a good thing, keeping the living alive and the dead from rotting, she really can't figure out what the underworld wants to do.

It's like the collar just said: it's useless.

"Tomorrow we will set off for Wangling, and we may be able to get rid of them."

Luo Chanyi hugged his arms and asked, "Is Wangling far away?" ”

Lu Jue thought for a moment and said, "There are some." ”

There were some in his mouth, but what Luo Chanyi didn't expect was that they had been on the road for seven or eight days.

On the way, he tossed and turned, took a cart to transport grain, and borrowed a caravan horse, and finally came to his hometown - Wangling, Shijia Village.

"It's here!" The coachman let out a long roar.

Luo Chanyi was awakened and found that she was sleeping on Lu Jue's shoulder with her head tilted, she sat up and turned her head to look at him in a daze.

He was also looking sideways at her, and repeated in a low voice: "It's time to Shijia Village." ”

Luo Chanyi jumped off the ox cart, and there was really a small village in front of him, with not many households, and it was very scattered.

It was just after early in the morning, and the smoke from many houses had not yet completely dissipated.

The ox cart stopped under a large willow tree at the head of the village, and the old cow crackled and began to solve on the spot.

"Thank you". Lu Jue gave the fare to the old peasant.

The old farmer obviously knew him, first refused, and then at Lu Jue's insistence, he took the copper coin with a smile: "You came back to see your master, and I thought you wouldn't come back." ”

Lu Jue didn't say anything, picked up some of the tributes he had bought from the ox cart, and led Luo Chanyi to the village.

They followed the small road that turned east and west, and finally came to the place where Lu Jue used to live.

The house is very simple, and a small fence is considered a courtyard wall.

There was a covered kitchen in the yard, which was already full of dust and dust, and many fallen leaves had been blown into the shed.

The two huts were seen at a glance, and there was nothing left except for the most basic utensils.

The tribute in Lu Jue's hand has not been put down: "I will go to worship the master first, and then come back to clean up." ”

Luo Chanyi followed: "I'll go with you." ”

His master's burial place was not far away, on a low hill behind the village.

The mountain has apparently become the best place for burial, and there are burial mounds everywhere around.

Lu Jue walked straight to one of the most conspicuous ones, this tomb was different from the others, and it was somewhat ...... Luxury.

It looks like it was built with reinforced rammed earth, and the perimeter is surrounded by a magnificent pedestal, on which are carved columns, like a small palace.

Luo Chanyi looked at the tombstone, and couldn't help but feel a little strange in her heart, the mansion where this master lived was so simple and dilapidated, but it was the other way around after his death.

Lu Jue placed the five offerings in front of the grave one by one from the bag, lit a stick of incense, and bowed three times to the tombstone.

He knelt straight in front of the grave, stared at the tombstone and said, "Master, I'm back to see you." ”

Luo Chanyi stood next to him for a while, and saw that Lu Jue did not continue, so he took a funny step and walked away.

Lu Jue is thin-skinned, she is here, and it is difficult to say anything.

But she had already gone far enough, and she didn't see Lu Jue's mouth move again, it seemed that Lu Jue didn't talk much, no matter whether it was for the living or the dead.

But he was not ready to leave, but knelt down at the grave like a child listening to a discipline.

The people in front of the grave had no words, and the people in the mound could not speak, so they were silent and confronted each other for a long time.

Luo Chanyi remembered that it was written in the biograph that Lu lost his father and mother, and it must have been this master who raised him as an adult.

She couldn't help but wonder a little about what kind of person this master was.

——

When they returned home, Lu Jue began to disturb the courtyard, obviously he was already familiar with these tasks, and Luo Chanyi barely intervened.

In the end, Lu Jue hung the rag in the yard and turned his head to look at her: "Hungry." ”

"Like...... There was nothing to eat. She went to look for it just now, and the small rice bowl was empty except for a few grains of mouse droppings.

"Let's go get some rice to ......"

Lu Jue turned around and entered the house, and when he came out again, he had an extra kraft booklet in his hand, which he used for bookkeeping.

He tucked it into the placket of his chest: "Just return the money to everyone." ”

They knocked on the door next door, following the list in the brown book.

The door was opened by a small middle-aged woman, who looked up and saw Lu Jue, revealing a face full of surprise: "You're back!" ”

The woman rolled her eyes, and when she saw Luo Chanyi behind him, her pupils shook suddenly: "Yo! ”

The woman raised her legs and walked out of the house, and a gust of wind blew in the face, which was so cold that she shrunk her neck, but her eyes were always staring directly at Luo Chanyi, and said with a smile: "I also brought a mother-in-law back!" This handsome yo. ”

Luo Chanyi was in no mood to explain, and squeezed out a wry smile.

"I'll pay it back." Lu Jue counted out a string of copper plates and handed them to the woman.

The woman took it happily, lowered her head and pulled the copper plate in her palm, and couldn't help but say "yo": "It's a lot, but I haven't borrowed so much." ”

"Interest." He said lightly.

An overjoyed smile appeared on the woman's face, squeezing the freckles on her face into a line: "You kid...... He suffered a lot outside, and we all advised you at that time, if you build such a good tomb for him, what can he know? ”

Luo Chanyi was shocked when she heard this, and glanced at Lu Jue.

At this moment, I realized that it turned out that the money that Lu Juedong had borrowed was used to build the tomb for his master, no wonder......

The woman looked at Luo Chanyi at this time, and said with an exaggerated expression: "He is the same as his master, and he has a stubborn temper!" ”

"Oh? The old man is also a stubborn temper? Luo Chanyi chatted with her.

The woman pursed her mouth: "Then it doesn't need to be said, stubborn, wear a cotton jacket in summer, bathe in the snow in winter, don't eat after noon, and punch and kick the big tree every day!" ”

The woman nodded Lu Jue with her eyes again: "It's the same for this child, he usually either beats or scolds, and lets him do all the work at home, this child just knew how to leave when he was a child, so he let him cook, and he almost didn't roast his own local melon......"

"Let's go." Lu Jue pulled a handful of Luo Chan's clothes expressionlessly and walked out of the courtyard.

"Look at it, he doesn't like to hear it as soon as I say two sentences, this kid has filial piety, but his character is a stuffy gourd, from childhood to adulthood, I haven't heard him say a complete word......"

The woman kept babbling on and on in the back.

Luo Chanyi glanced sideways at Lu Jue, and suddenly felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Before that, the master she imagined was a master of the world, living in seclusion in a mountain village, leaving behind and being independent, teaching all his martial arts to Lu Jue, and also teaching him rare kindness.

But what she heard was an old man with a strange personality, who usually beat and scolded Lu Jue.

Over the years, Lu Jue has come over like this?

"Lu, Lu ......" She was in a trance, when she suddenly heard a series of footsteps running behind her: "Brother Lu!" ”

She turned her head and saw a ball of pink hit Lu Jue's body.

A female baby with two small tugging hugging Lu Jue's thighs, she looked seven or eight years old, not as tall as Lu Jue's legs.

"Fat Ni, you're going to hug someone again!" The woman chased after her.

The little girl is quite fat, with a round body and a pink face, just like a New Year's doll.

"This damn girl, when you see him, you will hug him once, and you will be small." The woman pulled the girl off Lu Jue's leg.

Lu Jue looked at the girl's round face, and her expression was no longer as clear as just now, and it softened a little.

"Lu, Brother Lu, she, she, her, is Lu, Sister-in-law Lu?" Fat Ni held back for a long time and finally said a word.

Her face was originally flushed, but it became even redder after a while, Luo Chanyi felt cute, squatted down and looked at her and smiled: "Call sister." ”

"You, you...... Isn't it, his mother-in-law? ”

The little girl reacted quickly.

Luo Chanyi shook his head: "He doesn't have a mother-in-law." ”

Fat Ni raised her head to look at Lu Jue, then at Luo Chanyi, and said with a bit of shouting: "Wait, when I grow up, I will marry him." ”

Luo Chanyi sneered and laughed: "Marry and marry, marry so many times?" ”

"Hmph." Fat Ni was insulted, pouted, pounced and hugged Lu Jue's thigh.

Lu Jue reached out and patted the top of her head: "Obedient." ”

Fat Ni let go of her thigh, and then grabbed Lu Jue's big hand: "Lu, Brother Lu Lu, my family has good food, come in, come in." ”

When a child said this, the woman's face was a little unbearable, and she laughed twice: "Yes, you are hungry, come in and eat something." ”

"No, I have to pay it back." Lu Jue let go of Fat Ni, turned around and walked out.

Fat Ni still wanted to follow, but was held down by the woman.

Walking on the potholed path, Lu Jue took out the brown booklet, which contained a charcoal pen, and he lightly crossed out one of the names.

"You borrowed all this money for your master's death."

The movement in Lu Jue's hand paused slightly, slowly closed the leather booklet, and said "um" softly.

After a while, they also walked a long way, and Lu Jue said thoughtfully: "The house we live in always leaks rain. ”

He remembered very well that on the day when Master's deadline was approaching, it rained a lot, and no matter how hard he tried to make up for it, the rain still leaked into the house.

The master was skinny, slumped on the couch and gasped hard, looking at the intermittent raindrops, anxious and helpless in his cloudy eyes, and only vaguely read over and over again: The roof is leaking again, the roof is leaking again......

Master had been poor all his life, and he just wanted to build him a house that wouldn't leak rain.