"Who's there?

After Li Yunxiao stared at him and scolded, the little tiger who was originally hiding behind the peach blossom tree not far away finally dared to lean out from behind the tree after several hesitations.

I don't know if this little doll is naturally bold, or if he has a little bit of a bright brain, in short...... The whole village was very afraid of these two strangers, but he was the only one who had nothing to fear!

This time he not only came, but also carried a small bamboo basket in his hand, but the basket was covered with coarse satin, and he did not know what it contained.

"You really came from outside, what does it look like outside, will there be peach blossom trees all over the mountains?"

Xiaohu sat cross-legged on the ground as they were, supporting his head with his chubby little hands, his big watery eyes showing curiosity about the outside world, tilting his head and tilting his head, as if he was fully prepared to listen to the story next!

Shangguan Xi's thoughts flashed in his heart at this time, and he suddenly had an idea, maybe there would be unexpected gains from this little doll, it was better than them groping around here, right?!

After pondering like this, she immediately smiled and leaned over to Xiaohu's side, and whispered softly:

"Little Tiger, if you want to hear us tell you stories from outside, of course you can, there are many delicious and interesting things in the world outside, but you have to tell us first, why are you so afraid of outsiders, haven't outsiders ever been here before?"

Xiaohu was a little dazed by her sudden question, and after a while, he shook his head in a daze.

"I don't know why, the village chief said that this is a secret that cannot be said, and he is the only one who knows...... But I can exchange it for you with good food, which I secretly brought from home, as long as I can tell me stories from the outside, I will give you all this to eat!"

Xiaohu said, pushed the small bamboo basket placed on the side forward, and proudly lifted the covered cloth, which was really full of all kinds of pastries and steamed buns.

Shangguan Xi didn't look like he was lying when he looked sincere, he really thought he was too optimistic, what could he know if he was just a child, and even if he said it, he might not be able to take it seriously!

On the contrary, I didn't eat anything in order to prepare for the performance of the god worship ceremony, and I came here inexplicably after only a glass of cold wine at night, and now I touched my shriveled belly, and I was really hungry and panicked......

"The Emperor...... Well, do you want to eat something, after all, we still have to save enough strength to find a way!"

Although Shangguan Xi's polite invitation gave him enough reason to go down the steps, Li Yunxiao only glanced at it casually, and then turned around as if he pretended not to care, and he didn't know if he didn't look down on the contents of this basket in the first place, or if he was just bent on maintaining his noble image.

If he doesn't eat, Shangguan Xi has no time to take care of it, and when he is extremely hungry, he still has to eat, and he doesn't care about the stalemate for a while, it's better to fill his stomach first.

She swallowed her saliva, quickly took a piece of osmanthus cake from the basket, and was about to put it in her mouth when she raised her hand when she suddenly heard someone shouting in the distance.

"Can't eat it, wait~ don't eat it...... You can't eat anything here!"

The old village chief dared to come over from a distance out of breath, and before anyone could react, he knocked the dim sum in Shangguan Xi's hand to the ground.

In the end, he was old, and it was only a two-mile journey from Taoyuan Village to here, so he was stunned to hold on to his crutches and breathe for a while before he finally eased up.

"Old man, what are you doing? You didn't want to tell us the way out before, so why do you want to spoil this good food now?"

Shangguan Xi complained, lowered his head and leaned over to pick up the half-broken osmanthus cake from the ground, and carefully skimmed off the dust on it.

"Hey!" the old village chief sighed at first, as if all the whimpering and mourning were in this condensed emotion.

He said: "How do you know, if you really want to eat the things in Taoyuan Village, you will never be able to get out!"

"What?"

Shangguan Xi chuckled in her heart after hearing this, she hurriedly put the pastries in her hand back into the basket, but soon felt that this statement was a bit ridiculous, so she asked in disbelief: "Old man, are you afraid that you are not here to make up a reason to scare us here in order to drive us away?"

"Believe it or not!"

The old village chief originally wanted to say something more, but suddenly saw the gradually reddening sky on the horizon, his originally complaining face changed in an instant, and he quickly accelerated the speed of his speech.

"A mile further north there is a clean stream, where you can drink the water without any problem, and the baskets on the ground that you can take and eat from the peach blossoms on the trees, and remember that nothing but the peach blossoms and the stream are edible!"

After the old village chief said that, he picked up the small basket on the ground and handed it to Shangguan Xi, and added: "It's getting dark, no matter if you two see any vision in Taoyuan Village tonight, or hear any strange sounds coming from inside, you must not take a step closer to the village, and when everything settles until the sun rises tomorrow, I will come to look for you!"

The sky gradually began to darken, as if it was just a stick of incense from the scorching clear sky to the sunset covering the sky.

If you look closely, you can see that the day and night here are noticeably faster than in the normal world.

Before the little tiger sitting there had time to listen to the story, he was dragged back by the old village chief, watching them disappear in a hurry at the end of the path, and he didn't know what he was afraid of.

Shangguan Xi came back to his senses and found that Li Yunxiao on the side was staring at the sky with his brows tightly locked at this time, what time is it now, he is really in a daze!

Shangguan Xiwu shook his head, and inadvertently glanced in the direction he was looking at, the sun at the end of the sky in the west was gradually setting, and when it reached the connection between heaven and earth, it actually stopped there.

Its bright and dazzling halo gradually faded, and slowly turned into a golden full moon, which was not as dazzling as during the day, but it also shone slightly.

The full moon gradually rose from the western hill until it hung high in the sky, like a light that pierced the dark night sky.

However, there was no warmth brought by this moonlight, only a trace of coldness and weirdness, which made Shangguan Xi, who was already a little scared in his heart, feel a chill in his back at this moment.

She involuntarily moved closer to Li Yunxiao, and before the violent heartbeat could subside, a scream suddenly came from Taoyuan Village, and then a flash of fire rose from the village, and instantly spread everywhere!

Suddenly, screams, screams, and begging for mercy came and went......

"Firefighting...... Let's go put out the fire!"

Shangguan Xi subconsciously wanted to run in the direction of Taoyuan Village, but was grabbed by Li Yunxiao behind him, and he said coldly: "What are you doing, have you forgotten what the old man said?"

"But I can't die without help, little tiger...... Xiaohu is still in there, he's just a child!"

He's just a kid......

This sentence deeply pierced Li Yunxiao's heart, and the memories that had been hidden in the depths suddenly appeared in front of him.

Thirteen years ago, it should be today, the tearful queen mother knelt on the ground and begged bitterly, but the ruthless figure only flicked her sleeves and pushed her to the ground.

He will never forget the desperate and helpless eyes of the queen mother, and her tone of complaining and begging for mercy gradually turned into hatred, so hated that she gritted her teeth and hated it so cold that it was cold to the bone!

"Why are you so ruthless, he's just a kid......"