"Dodo~" Li Xiucai, whose face was full of wrinkles, took his dry tobacco pipe and tapped it vigorously on the trunk next to him.

After knocking out all the black tobacco that was stuck inside, he took out the new tobacco from the cigarette pouch and put it in, and lit it with a fire breaker.

I took a beautiful sip, squinted my eyes and lay on the old chair that I had been in for some years, leisurely.

The twilight is sinking in the west, the sunset is burning red for half the sky, through the overlapping shadows of the old locust tree in the courtyard, the orange horizon can be vaguely seen, it is so bright, the floating clouds are like human faces, which makes Li Xiucai think of his father and mother who have been buried for I don't know how many years, and he is a little drowsy.

"Old man, the dog baby went to the city to ask for Zhuzong, why hasn't he come back for so long." The old woman, who was offering incense on the incense burner in the hall, chattered, "Something must have happened." ”

Li Xiucai opened his heavy eyelids and scolded angrily: "Day by day, we are in charge of the five gods, what can happen?" ”

"That's just as well." The old woman couldn't help sighing: "In the past, the year was not good, it was very chaotic, and life was not as stable and good as it is now~"

The words of his wife couldn't help but evoke some memories of Li Xiucai.

At that time, the imperial court was busy fighting, and there was chaos everywhere, and the family was divided to eat a sweet potato, and then they didn't even have to eat sweet potatoes, and the whole family relied on drinking water to fill their stomachs, and they were all skinny.

Fortunately, his father and mother helped in the city, got some beef and mutton from the eldest man's house, and helped the family survive for a while.

It's just that somehow later, my father and mother never came back.

By the time he found it, there was only a pile of bones left, and if it weren't for the tattered cloth on the corpse, he would not have recognized it.

And no matter how you make the beef and mutton you bought back later, it doesn't have the taste of that time.

It's a different day now.

Since the imperial court invited the five gods, not only has the battle been won, but the wind and rain have been smooth over the years, and life has slowly improved.

Li Xiucai knew in his heart that all this was thanks to Wutong God.

Therefore, the sacrificial thing is not sloppy at all, and the dog baby was asked to invite Zhu Zong from the city to come to the village to preside over the sacrificial ceremony.

Count the time, it's time to come back.

Thinking of this, Li Xiucai was no longer sleepy, he wanted to wait for his son to come back, and ask how the sacrificial things were going in the village.

I waited for more than half an hour.

Outside the adobe house, a frightened voice suddenly sounded:

"Ahhh Hell! ”

The sound was like a dog baby, and the two old people in the room couldn't help but feel nervous.

Li Xiucai hurriedly walked to the door, looked around, and happened to see the dog baby running back to the house in a panic, followed by several dark figures.

"Daddy, close the door! Close the door! ”

The dog baby rushed into the yard, fell to the ground, and shouted in a panic.

"Something that has no interest, we are still afraid of something under the noses of the gods, hurry up and stand up!"

Although Li Xiucai reprimanded the dog baby, he still pushed the two wooden doors to close, but at this time, a wooden stick stuck on the door that was about to close.

Attached to the stick was a piece of black cloth, and when you could see what it looked like.

Li Xiucai's lips trembled, and the dry tobacco stick in his hand fell on the threshold with a "clang".

His voice was extremely hoarse: "If you want to stay here for one night, please ......"

"Nope! Empty room!"

Li Xiucai could see that although he was in the shape of a human being, his skin and flesh were scorched and some red flesh grew from it, a pair of scorched eyes bulged high, as if something was about to grow, and the one on his back should be a copper coin sword, and the black banner blocking the gate was painted with a strange pattern, which looked a little more evil.

"Uncle, don't get me wrong, we're not bad people!" A pleasant female voice came from outside: "The place where we lived before was water, and my eldest brother's body was burned." ”

Only then did Li Xiucai see that behind the man stood a girl with a white cloth covering her eyes, and on the other side was a child with an unusually pale face, and there was an indescribable weirdness between the three of them.

"That'...... That's not going to work, there's really no room. ”

"Uncle, you see it's so late, we really have nowhere to go, please do it."

"Girl, there is really no place for our house...... You can look elsewhere. ”

Seeing that the other party didn't mean to let go, Lu Xuan said coldly: "Uncle, if we are really bad people, it is useless for you to close the door." ”

Hearing this, Li Xiucai was stunned, and what the other party said seemed to ..... There is some truth to this, not to mention......

"Uncle, I still have a few silver bracelets here, if the uncle doesn't dislike it, it should be our house money." Lu Zhaozhao said, and took out a few silver bracelets found from Langyuan Wonderland from the burden he was carrying behind him, and originally planned to take them to the city and sell them as a coil: "Uncle, look at it, the condition should be not bad, and it is worth a lot of money." ”

"This...."Li Xiucai glanced at the silver rings, the workmanship was exquisite, and it was indeed good, but he still asked with some anxiety: "I don't know where a few of them came from?" ”

In this regard, Lu Zhaozhao thought of a rhetoric when he entered the village: "Uncle, we are from Dajin. ”

"Da Jin, that's not far from here."

Lu Zhaozhao's tone was a little crying: "Uncle, we can't help it, there is a famine in the village, and it has been confiscated for several years, my eldest brother and younger brother and I, I fled here and wanted to join our relatives, and we were displaced along the way, and I don't know how much suffering I suffered." ”

"It's also a hard-working baby." Li Xiucai felt it, let go of the hand that was pushing the door, took one of the silver rings in Lu Zhaozhao's hand, and said with emotion: "I don't need so much money to live in the hotel, and I can't compare to the inn in the city here, so you will stay for one night." ”

Walking into the adobe house, Lu Xuan could feel that the dignified atmosphere did not subside.

It seems that the other party still hasn't let down his guard.

However, it is great to have a place to stay for a while.

Lu Xuan didn't care about this, but he smelled the strong smell of incense in the air, and couldn't help but be a little surprised, this smell has been there since he entered the village, just like every household has lit a long incense.

"Xiao Po settles down, there are not many vacant rooms, little girl, you live alone, as for this ..... The two little brothers have to squeeze in. Li Xiucai led the three of them to a wing room and allocated two accommodations.

"There's Uncle Lao."

"It's nothing, it's just that tomorrow we have to sacrifice to the gods in our village, and according to the rules, a few people have to go with them." Li Xiucai said with a smile: "You are also lucky, that is a blessing from a true immortal, a great blessing, and outsiders generally can't touch it." ”

Immortal?

Lu Xuan's brows furrowed slightly, Zhen Yuanzi could be said to be the first half-immortal he had encountered, but listening to the other party's tone, it seemed that there was no danger, plus they had been on the road for a day and a night, they were very tired, and it was not realistic to continue to travel at night, so after a short period of thought, he nodded.

"Rest early, old man, I'll go back to my room."

Seeing that everyone agreed, Li Xiucai turned around and left.

Lu Xuan originally wanted to ask about some other things, but seeing this, he had to give up for the time being, and followed Ah Lai into the room.

But when he felt the dust floating around him, Lu Xuan couldn't help asking, "Ah Lai, hasn't the room been cleaned?" ”

"No, it's clean." Ah Lai looked around: "Brother Lu, what's wrong?" ”