Di Renjie and the others have been on the road for a long time, and some people are already sleepy. Hearing Li Yuanfang's shout, everyone couldn't help but be shocked. Looking ahead, I saw that in the distant foothills, there was indeed a small village standing in it.

As the saying goes: Looking at the mountain and running a dead horse. The village that Li Yuanfang casually pointed to actually let Di Renjie and the others go for as many as two hours. By the time they were about to reach the village, it was completely dark, and everyone had entered the Zhuangzi to look around, but they did not see the slightest anger, let alone people, and even the roosters and dogs could not be heard. Li Yuanfang saw that the situation was different, so he beckoned the guards around him to step forward and said to Di Renjie behind him: "My lord, I'll take a few people to the village first." ”

Di Renjie listened, raised his hand to stop Li Yuanfang's words, and said, "No need, I'll go around and take a look together." After saying that, he turned over and dismounted, and Li Yuanfang hurriedly dismounted when he saw this, and followed Di Renjie to be on guard.

Deeper into the village, the village was even more depressed than it could be seen from the outside. The adobe walls of loess were cracked by lack of repair and seemed to be about to collapse at any moment; The window paper has not been replaced for a long time, and under the destruction of the wind and sand, only pieces of paper remain, hanging on the window lintel; The tiles are also mutilated, and even the weak rays of the setting sun can easily penetrate the roof.

Everyone walked around, and Ruyan, who came out of a deserted house, said to Di Renjie: "Uncle, there seems to be no one in this village, it is an empty village. ”

At this time, Li Yuanfang also came back with a few guards, and also said: "My lord, this is indeed an empty village, and I took the guards to look around, and there was no trace of anyone at all." ”

Di Renjie stroked his beard and nodded, just about to speak......

"Who?"

At this moment, I saw Li Yuanfang suddenly draw his sword in front of Di Renjie, his eyes staring at the small alley in front of him. Hearing Li Yuanfang's shouting and questioning, the guards who were resting on the side immediately got up and surrounded them, protecting Di Renjie and the others in the middle.

I only heard the sound of footsteps kept coming, and not long after, a middle-aged man in gray in his thirties walked out of the alley and appeared in front of Di Renjie and others.

Li Yuanfang looked at the middle-aged man vigilantly and didn't speak, staring at him with his eyes, for fear that he would have some bad behavior. Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly bowed his hand.

"I don't know who everyone is?"

Di Renjie glanced at the middle-aged man, and motioned for Li Yuanfang and the others to put away the weapons in their hands. Stepping over Li Yuanfang, he took a step forward and said with a smile.

"In Xia Huaiying, it is Lang Zhong who walks the square. Unfortunately, I got lost in the forest and went to your place by mistake, please forgive me. ”

"I want to spend the night in your land, but I don't know if I can stay?"

Hearing Di Renjie's words, the middle-aged man had a difficult face: "This ......" Seeing this, Di Renjie hurriedly took out two ingots of silver from his arms and handed them over: "Don't dare to live in vain, Sichuan Zi will offer it." ”

After thinking for a while, the middle-aged man looked around, his eyes were a little more nervous, and he leaned to the side and said

"You don't need any money, please come with me!" As he spoke, he waved his right hand at Di Renjie and the others, signaling to follow him, then turned around and walked quickly towards the place where he came.

"Adult ......"

Li Yuanfang was a little hesitant and stopped Di Renjie from going, after all, this person's appearance was too weird, and he didn't look like a villager here. Di Renjie glanced at Li Yuanfang, waved his hand to signal Li Yuanfang not to be too nervous, and followed the middle-aged man towards the alley.

Di Renjie and the others followed the middle-aged man, and after walking for a short time, they came to a small open space in the village, only to see that there were twelve blood-red gold-painted flags on the open space to surround an altar in the middle, because the sky was dark, what the altar looked like was not very clear, the middle-aged man stopped in front of the formation, pointed to Di Renjie and others on the periphery of the formation, and then bypassed the formation and walked over.

Di Renjie and the others, seeing the strange scene, naturally did not dare to be careless, according to the route of the middle-aged man, also bypassed the magic circle in the middle, and came to the door of a relatively intact house in the back, only to see that the house was brightly lit, and there was a young man of twenty-seven or eight standing in front of the door.

The middle-aged man walked over, talked with the young man for a while, then turned sideways and smiled again, inviting Di Renjie and the others to enter the house.

Li Yuanfang walked in the front, as the two walked in, they suddenly opened up when they entered the house, and there was a lot of space inside, at this time, there were more than a dozen people resting in it, there were men and women, old and young, the youngest was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and the oldest was fifty or sixty years old.

Seeing these people like this, the middle-aged man couldn't help arching his hand at Di Renjie and the others, revealing an embarrassed smile, and said:

"I'm waiting for people in the mountains and wilderness, I don't know how to be polite, and I ask my husband not to be surprised"

"There, there, I'm the one who bothered you." Di Renjie hurriedly returned the salute and said with a smile.

The middle-aged man also smiled and nodded, did not speak, waved his hand to signal Di Renjie and the others to be casual, walked to the middle of the group and sat down, closed his eyes and rested.

Seeing this, Di Renjie ordered everyone to find a corner where no one was there and sat down. The house looks in disrepair, but the house is still clean, there are almost no furnishings, only an incense case in the center, densely filled with tablets, this is obviously an ancestral hall in the village.

When Di Renjie looked inside the house.

On the other side, a man in a green robe was talking to the middle-aged man in a gray robe, and the man in the green robe lowered his voice and said to the middle-aged man:

"Senior brother, is it a little reckless, let a group of ordinary people enter the village, I'm afraid it will be ...... for a while"

"Don't get in the way, if I don't bring them into the village, they will be more dangerous outside the village. Since I am equivalent to a native of the Great Zhou Kingdom, I can help if I can, how can I see this demon ruining their lives. The middle-aged man glanced at Di Renjie and the others and said.

This is Li Yuanfang who walked next to Di Renjie and said softly:

"Your Excellency...... I'm afraid it's not advisable to stay here for long. ”

"Yuan Fang, don't be impatient, it's getting late now, where are I going? You go and inform Ruyan Dichun and tell them to be on guard. Di Renjie stroked his beard and smiled.

"My lord......" Li Yuanfang said hurriedly.

"Yuan Fang, go and see Ruyan and them." Di Renjie waved his hand and motioned for Li Yuanfang to inform Ruyan and the others. After speaking, he walked towards the middle-aged man. "Two strong men, the old man is polite, and I would like to thank all the strong men for their stay." Di Renjie paced in front of the gray-robed middle-aged man, and clasped his fists and bowed to the middle-aged man.