Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Tile Lamp
Li Huowang lay on a pile of sacks, closed his eyes and recuperated.
The setting sun made his whole body warm and not too dazzling, and the donkey cart creaked in his ears.
Yesterday he bought a ticket and came to the city a little closer to Biyou Village, and the ticket money was naturally Tian Jinzhong, and he told Li Huowang his WeChat account and password.
Surprisingly, Tian Jinzhong is actually very rich.
"Old man, I'm a hundred years old, I have no children and no daughters, isn't it normal to have a coffin?" , Tian Jinzhong said so.
He also told Li Huowang that some of his antiques were still on Longhu Mountain, and that he would sell them this time and use the money to maintain the goodness and righteousness.
With this money, Li Huowang didn't spend it indiscriminately, he still ate normally, and even used the car by this kind of donkey cart that pulls straw.
No way, he called a taxi and no one stopped, maybe he was wearing a tattered robe, if he wore a clean and tidy monk's robe and was more oily, the driver braked and handed the cigarette, and asked: "Master, where are you going?" ”
But Li Huowang doesn't care much about this, it's good to have a car without having to walk by himself.
The surrounding rice paddies are about half a man's height, standing quietly in the paddy fields, and a few grasshoppers jump up as the donkey cart passes by.
Li Huowang's palm thunder was slightly condensed in his hand, and he electrocuted a few grasshoppers flying in front of him, and he had planted the land and suffered from hunger. In my memory, my parents in this world always said that farming was unproductive, and they wanted to be doctors and lawyers, so they made money quickly, probably because of his illness, and they had to deal with these two professions.
However, for Li Huowang, it is good to be able to plant in another world for a while, and when Bai Lingmiao cooks at home, he and Li Sui will go to plow the fields.
Li Sui has a lot of hands, and rice planting should be a good hand.
Just when Li Huowang was thinking, the sun had already plunged into the mountains and didn't know who to make an appointment with, and the moon gradually appeared in the sky with the morning star next to him, as if he had come to find the sun, a negative man.
"Xiaodao Chief, it's going to be dark this day, and the old man is going to get home, when do you think you will get off?"
Li Huowang looked at the sky that had turned into a crab shell, got up and jumped out of the car and said, "Is there any place to live here?" ”
"There is a hotel in the town in front, and the trail chief can go there to stay, and it is not expensive to stay overnight." The old man said.
"Okay, thank you." Li Huowang took out two hundred-yuan bills from his bag and handed them to the old man, originally the fare was only sixty yuan, but the old man's rickety body and sweat-stained clothes made Li Huowang understand that the conditions in the old man's house were not very good.
"Oops~" The old man took the money, and after reading it, he returned Li Huowang 14 and said, "I don't need these." ”
Just when the old man handed the money to him, Li Huowang was gone.
"This little path is long, and he is a master." The old man put away the money and walked towards the town.
Li Huowang found a small hotel that looked good, but he was stumped when he wanted to stay.
"Sir, you have a disability certificate, we want an ID card, and we can't check in if we can't swipe the information."
"Just stay for one night, and I'll give you some extra money."
After listening to Li Huowang's words, the little girl at the bar looked at him vigilantly, took out her mobile phone and said, "Sir, if you don't leave, I'll call the police." ”
Li Huowang had no choice but to walk out of the hotel, and there were several of them.
Just as he was about to sleep on the steps outside, some rough female voices sounded in his ears, "Young man, do you live in a hotel?" ”
He looked up and saw in front of him an elderly woman with a round face flushed and a white sign hanging in front of him with the striking red word "Accommodation".
"I didn't have my ID with me." Li Huowang replied.
"It's okay, sister, here." Seeing Li Huowang relieved, the woman directly took his arm and pulled him and said, "Let's go, go to the house with my sister." ”
"I'll go by myself." Li Huowang said.
He doesn't care who the other party is, even if he opens a black shop, Li Huowang is confident that he will live in the black shop for one night unharmed.
Following the woman to turn left and right, a lodging lamp decorated with a small pink lamp appeared in front of Li Huowang, and below was an inconspicuous bungalow.
"Come on, young man." The woman waved her hand and pushed open the door as if to welcome Li Huowang.
As soon as he entered the door, Li Huowang understood why this woman didn't want an ID card.
Inside were a few small rooms separated by wooden planks, which were not inns at all, and the women had made them out of their own houses.
"It's okay, boy." The woman's round face said with a smile.
"Okay, how much is a night?"
In terms of living, Li Huowang's requirements are not too high, after all, he was going to sleep outside just now, and now he has a bed.
"Forty-one nights, I can take a bath." The woman stretched out her left hand and gestured with a "four" with her palm.
When Li Huowang finished paying the money and lived in a compartment by the window, the fire suddenly burst into the sky outside, illuminating Li Huowang's face red.
Seeing this, he hurried to the window and pushed it open.
Outside, there was a group of people, surrounding a small tower one man high, and the inside of the tower was full of flames, and from time to time some sparks and puffs of green smoke were spewed.
Li Huowang took a closer look and found that the tower was made of tiles, and the firelight shot out from the gaps in the tiles, imprinted on the ground like golden petals, and the small tower also looked like a burning pine tower.
"I haven't seen it." When the woman saw Li Huowang staring, she explained: "This is called burning tile lanterns, also called tower lanterns, and it is a custom to celebrate festivals in our place. ”
"Ordinary people can't afford to burn it."
As the two spoke, the group began to lift the jar and splash things on the tile lamp.
Call~!
When the liquid came into contact with the tiles, the fire intensified, and Li Huowang also smelled the pungent smell of wine.
The firelight illuminated Li Huowang's hut as if it was stained red with blood, and it also pulled the shadows of the group of people.
Just as Li Huowang was about to close the window and draw the curtains, a girl's voice came from outside.
"Help!"
"Ah!!h
Hearing this, Li Huowang's heart tightened and he walked out of the room.
"Guy, look at the lights?"
In the shouting of the woman behind him, Li Huowang followed the sound and came outside.
He pricked up his ears, heard a few more sounds, and then ran to the tile lamp.
The group of people gathered around the tile lamp saw Li Huowang coming over, and hurriedly stopped him, "Master Dao, it's dangerous here, don't hurt you again." ”
Li Huowang looked at the so-called tile lamp, and then at the man in front of him with his eyebrows upside down.
"If you're curious, come up to us, it's dangerous on the edge of the tower." The man said.
When Li Huowang walked near the tile lamp, the cry was gone.
After watching it for a long time, the group of people just poured wine on the tower every once in a while, didn't say anything, and just watched quietly.
"Did you hear it wrong?" Li Huowang said in his heart and walked to the cubicle shop.
In the dead of night, Li Huowang came to the extinguished Wazi Pagoda again, not because of anything else, but because of the smell.
After the smell of wine dissipated, another smell of Wazita gradually emerged, and he could not be mistaken, it was the smell of burnt human flesh.
Li Huowang drew his sword and approached the tower.
When he split the tiles with a sword and cut down the tower, a charred and cross-legged body appeared in front of Li Huowang's eyes.