Chapter 7: Blacksmith Zhao's Request
The 8 people who were still alive soon all met the conditions for moving in.
Feeding pigs, chopping wood, buying things... All sorts of mundane-sounding events.
But everyone knows that judging from the strange smiles of those villagers, these incidents hide dangers that they are not aware of.
No surprises... No one was looking for the strange old man.
At the beginning, the infiltrating words made many people avoid him like a snake and scorpion.
When the other assessors found out that Li Xiaoshuai, who came out last, walked in front of the strange old man, they were all stunned.
"Old man, living on your side, what do I need to help you do?" Li Xiaoshuai asked.
The strange old man stared at Li Xiaoshuai who came to him.
Half an hour...
He said coldly: "Ask for an account!" There are a lot of people in the village who owe me debts. To get one back, I'll let you stay for one day. β
And those monsters to get an account?
Li Xiaoshuai's heart sank... This sixth sense won't lie to Lao Tzu, right? You can't be shot to death like a tall woman, right?
After a moment of silence, Li Xiaoshuai still chose to believe in his own ability.
"Okay, I promise." Li Xiaoshuai said.
The strange old man sneered, walked into the room, stretched out his hand, and threw out a very old book full of yellow-brown oil stains.
He turned the first page.
"Old village chief, owe half a catty of lamp oil."
Li Xiaoshuai immediately flipped over.
He made up his mind that no matter what happened, he would not go to the village chief who made people feel the most dangerous.
"Blacksmith Zhao - owed, 5 catties of meat."
"Widow, mother and childβowed, 20 bundles of firewood."
"Wang Laosan - owed, save your life once."
β...β
There are all kinds of strange debts in it.
After a rough flip, there are more than ten or twenty things that owe him.
Seeing that everyone else was busy with the conditions, I was afraid that it would be dark. Li Xiaoshuai thought about it for a while, and hurriedly turned around the blacksmith Li who owed meat.
"Old man, where does Blacksmith Zhao live?"
The strange old man sneered, ignored Li Xiaoshuai, turned around and entered the house, and the door slammed shut.
Li Xiaoshuai froze in place.
"Blacksmith Zhao lives over there. There is a blacksmith shop, and you can see it when you walk past it. Suddenly, the village chief on the opposite side smiled at Li Xiaoshuai and pointed in the direction.
Turning his head to see the door of the house, under the kind smile of the village chief, the squinting slender eyes, Li Xiaoshuai felt indescribably awkward in his heart. However, Li Xiaoshuai still squeezed out a smile and said, "Ah... Hehe, I see, thank you village chief. "Don't look back, pick up the pace and leave.
In the evening, in what was supposed to be a lifeless village, the closed doors of each house were opened at the same time.
All kinds of strange people appeared on the road where Li Xiaoshuai passed.
For example, when I just walked past an old mud house, the door of the house opened. The man in the shroud with only a thin layer of skin sticking to his legs was broken, dragging his bloody legs, as if he were unconscious, crawling in front...
For example, a pair of children are holding a maggot-ridden, half-rotten, rancid human head, kicking and playing happily... Maggots and carrion were scattered.
Under one strange incident after another, if Li Xiaoshuai was not born bold, he would be afraid that his frightened legs would not be able to walk.
The blacksmith shop is not difficult to find, and on the street in the evening, an old stone shop with the word 'blacksmith' appeared in front of Li Xiaoshuai.
At the entrance of the blacksmith shop, a young man dressed in the modern costume of the Blue Star is communicating with a big man who is more than 2 meters tall and looks like a giant.
Not long after, the man left.
Li Xiaoshuai immediately walked up, "Big brother, you are Blacksmith Zhao, right?" β
Blacksmith Zhao glanced at Li Xiaoshuai, "Boy, do you want to stay too?" β
Also?
Li Xiaoshuai was stunned...
He glanced at the young man's background, he was just talking to Blacksmith Zhao about staying in the house?
This man isn't one of their bunch...
Don't... Not only the 11 of them who came in for assessment? It's just that there are 11 of them, lined up together?
Li Xiaoshuai didn't think much about it, entered the topic, and said with a dry smile, "No, no... Brother Blacksmith Zhao, I'm here to find you an account for the old man over there. Say you owe him 5 pounds of meat. β
"Accounts?"
Blacksmith Zhao looked like he had been stepped on by his tail, and his face sank. Those round eyes turned red suddenly, and the skin seemed to have been burned off by fire, piece after piece... The flesh and blood were exposed in front of Li Xiaoshuai's eyes.
Cold...
A sense of crisis on the verge of death came to Li Xiaoshuai's heart.
"Brother Blacksmith, this is what the old man asked me to do, I just brought the words... You don't want to pay it back, and that's okay... I'll leave right away.." Li Xiaoshuai hurriedly said.
As soon as the words fell, the breath of death suddenly dissipated on Li Xiaoshuai's body.
Blacksmith Zhao's red eyes gradually calmed down, and his body gradually returned to its original state.
"Stop, I'll let you go?" Blacksmith Zhao drank Li Xiaoshuai, who wanted to leave.
Li Xiaoshuai secretly complained bitterly.
He knew that it was not easy to ask for accounts.
"Brother Blacksmith, do you have any orders?" Li Xiaoshuai said flatteringly.
"Meat, since he asked you to ask for it, I will definitely return it." Blacksmith Zhao replied.
"Really!?" Li Xiaoshuai said happily.
"Of course it is." Blacksmith Zhao cracked his mouth, "However, you have to exchange the meat on your body." I don't want you much, 5 catties for 5 catties. β
Your uncle!
Li Xiaoshuai's head shook like a rattle, "No... No need, big brother blacksmith, I looked for you about this, you shouldn't have happened, okay? β
"You said you don't have to, you don't have to?" Blacksmith Zhao said coldly.
β...β
"Brother blacksmith, I'm thin, my meat is not delicious, and I have a lot of firewood. And if you are not in good health, you may die with this cut... The old man still has a lot of accounts for me. So be it... Think about it, here, is there any other way..."
Li Xiaoshuai's smile is more ugly than crying.
Damn.
This blacksmith Zhao really wants his meat, he can't run if he wants to!
I didn't think that what he said seemed to be useful.
Hearing that he was going to continue to help the old man ask for accounts, Blacksmith Zhao was stunned. After thinking for a moment, he suddenly remembered something, and smiled, "Okay, there really is one thing." β
Speaking of this, Blacksmith Zhao groped in the blacksmith shop, and then threw a sharp boning knife in front of Li Xiaoshuai.
"You help me bring this boning knife to the butcher's house in the east, and I will give you the 5 catties of meat. I don't want you to work for me in vain, you have done this, I just happened to give you the little dagger. Zhao Blacksmith said.
Butcher?
Seeing Blacksmith Zhao's expression of wanting to escape from some trouble, Li Xiaoshuai's eyes darkened.
Finished.
You won't send him to the butcher to be slaughtered, will you?
"A special sharp boning knife."
"Butcher's Supplies."
"It has a strong penetrating power for everything."
"Introduction: Don't be slashed, if you're not careful, you'll be cut in half."
took the knife with a bitter face, and a message came into Li Xiaoshuai's mind.
Then, the message of the dagger that was put aside was immediately released...