The Golden Beast avoided multiple expeditions along the way, taking a circuitous route that was slower but more stable.

In fact, when he met the people of the Shuiyun Sect, or the people of the other forces, Chu Nan didn't feel embarrassed, the most taboo thing was that he met the people of Xizhou, the last incident made Chu Nan feel uncomfortable, and the assassination of some forces in Xizhou against Chu Nan has never ended.

So this time, he drove the golden beast into the sky, avoiding it all the way, and after seven days in a row, he saw the outline of Chiming City from afar, and Chu Nan did not enter Chiming City to eat a hot pot chicken, but chose to bypass Chiming City and go to the ancient and dilapidated mountain village.

There are countless delicacies in Nanzhou, but Chu Nan is really not so leisurely and elegant, of course, if you can meet Lu Li's predecessors again, you can still sit together and eat a hot pot chicken.

It's really not interesting to eat hot pot alone.

Chu Nan is not a lonely person in his heart.

Going around all the way, on the tenth day, Chu Nan finally came to the village deep in this mountain.

Near the entrance of the village, Chu Nan and the golden beast descended on the ground, and Geng Meng re-transformed into a yellow dog, one person and one dog, and entered here again.

At three o'clock in the morning, there were still a dozen or so lonely old people in the village, sitting under the eaves basking in the sun, while some old women were busy with lunch in the kitchen.

Under one roof, four old men sat around a table, the two were talking, the two were watching and the other was a staff officer, and their mouths were still pointing and pointing.

Watching chess without saying a true gentleman, for such old people, there is no such thing.

But for such old people, sitting together and having a lively time, and constantly fighting and staggering in words, can also mobilize the blood and vitality of the elderly.

Seeing this, Chu Nan came to these four old men in great strides.

Seeing this, the two old men watching the chess showed a puzzled expression, and looked at Chu Nan timidly, and there was some fear in the depths of their eyes, they may have never walked out of their village in their lives, so they saw strangers, just like ignorant children seeing beasts.

In addition, there is really no youth in the village, and the old people have a deep awe in their hearts for outsiders.

"What is this boy going to do?" The white-haired uncle, whose face was full of wrinkles and an old man's smell on his body, asked cautiously.

The two masters who were playing chess also stopped, turned their heads, and looked at Chu Nan with a nervous expression.

There are often people from outside the mountain who enter this mountain to pick some wild fruits, but people outside the mountain never talk to the old people here.

Not disturbing each other is the unique tacit understanding between these old people and outsiders.

At this moment, Chu Nan broke the tacit understanding in the past.

Chu Nan showed a gentle smile, bowed slightly, and said, "I've seen a few masters, I want to ask a few masters something." ”

The white-haired uncle at the head of the group still looked timid, and said, "What's the matter?" ”

Chu Nan said softly: "In our village, there is a forest of steles, on which many words are engraved, do you know, who is also carving words there?" ”

After hearing this, the other uncle asked strangely, "Why is Childe asking these things?" ”

"Could it be that Childe has a friendship with the people we have here?"

The other three masters also looked at Chu Nan with a confused expression, for these uncles, the words on the stone tablet in the field were worthless.

Chu Nan had a plan in his heart and said: "I am from the government, and I have been investigating some people's livelihood in our village in recent days, just to see how the uncles are doing, as well as some past things." ”

After finishing speaking, Chu Nan took out a few copper coins from his sleeve and put them on the table.

These uncles may not have the ability to go down the mountain to catch the market, but when people are old, their obsession with money will be deeper.

Sure enough, when several uncles heard that Chu Nan was from the government and took out the money to them, a bright light suddenly appeared in their eyes.

The white-haired uncle at the head said: "So that's the case, I didn't expect that our dilapidated mountain village would also be remembered by the lord in the government, it must be the ancestral tomb of one of our families that is smoking." ”

Hearing this, Chu Nan's heart was inexplicably a little sour.

This is the most real life and the most real mentality at the bottom.

Chu Nan said: "Uncle, do you know who wrote the words on that stele forest?" ”

When several uncles heard this, they fell into deep thought, and the white-haired uncle led by him said thoughtfully: "This era is early, that stele forest was there when I was a child, and the person who wrote the words seemed to be from the Long family." ”

"The people of the Long family, many years ago, all left the village."

"I can't remember the details."

Another uncle seemed to suddenly think of something, and said: "I remember, the person who carved the words on the stone should be called Long Feng." ”

mentioned the word dragon and phoenix, the eyes of several uncles around him lit up, and trivial memories of the past came to mind.

Dragon and phoenix, the dragon and phoenix among people, for a small common person born at the bottom, this name is a bit too big.

Chu Nan said with a smile on his face: "I, I like to listen to the older generation talk about the past, do you know the details about the dragon and phoenix?" ”

The uncles suddenly remembered Long Feng, and they also suddenly opened the conversation.

An uncle said: "When I was about seven or eight years old, the dragon and phoenix had been dead for many years, and now I am in my eighties. ”

"When I was young, I heard my old father mention things about the Long family."

"When the old Long family was divided, Long Feng was the eldest son of the family, and he was assigned a small earthen house and two acres of land, and he also had two younger brothers and two sisters."

"Since the two sisters got married, they have never returned to their parents' home, and I don't know what happened later."

"Long Feng and his two younger brothers have been in the village, and those two younger brothers are honest people, planting crops, hunting, and working as coolies, but they are very happy when they can make money."

"But the eldest dragon and phoenix, once left the village to wander outside, I heard that I didn't make any money outside, but it seems that I followed a pedant who didn't know his roots for a few days and knew some words."

"Then Long Feng returned to his hometown, the whole person was like an evil spirit, the crops in the field were no longer done, and he was rubbing rice all over the village all day long, and he didn't cook himself, his two younger brothers had saved enough daughter-in-law and started a family, but Long Feng was really not rich, and no woman was willing to live with Long Feng, so he became an old bachelor."

"Later, Long Feng planned to write a letter to his family in the village, but the people in our village didn't know a single big word, they didn't write letters at all, and it was useless for us to know the words.

"There is no way, Long Feng had to go to the house of his two younger brothers to mix rice, but his two younger brothers have become a family, and his brother and daughter-in-law don't want him, the eldest brother, to go to eat every day, and once, he even knocked Long Feng out of the door."

"Since then, Long Feng has been honest for a while, but he hasn't done anything serious, just helping the people in the village to farm, help work, and mix a meal in the name of righteousness, but he still has two acres of land in his own family, and he has never planted his own land."

"I've been hanging around the village for more than ten years."

"People are getting weirder and weirder."

Later, his two younger brothers left the village with the whole family, and when they left, they didn't say hello to Long Feng.

"Since then, there is only one dragon and phoenix left in the dragon family in the town."

"Later, when Longfeng was old, he didn't work, and he was hungry, so he looked at which family was eating, and he looked at it with a blank eye, and some people were soft-hearted, so they gave him a meal, and some people were hard-hearted, so they drove him away."

"Suddenly one day, the dragon and the phoenix went to their own crops, and the people in the village thought that the dragon and phoenix were finally going to be self-reliant, but the dragon and phoenix came back with some thin pieces of stone in the mountains and began to carve letters, which was still a joke in the village at that time."

"But it's no wonder, when carving, Longfeng didn't go to other people's houses to mix rice, he went to the river alone to catch fish and shrimp, went to the mountains to find wild fruits, wild mushrooms to eat, and didn't make a fire to cook, just eat raw."

"It's been a month or two, and the crops of Longfeng are full of stone tablets, and the stone tablets are full of words, but the people in our village don't know how to read at all."

"There are often children who laugh at dragons and phoenixes."

After hearing this, Chu Nan's heart felt heavy, a person with great talent and talent fell into the swamp at the bottom.

It's a little sad, if the dragon and phoenix are normal, if they don't pursue knowledge with a tendon, maybe there will be a good end with a full house of children and grandchildren, but ah, there are some things, only a tendon can do the best.

is also very respectable, at least that dragon and phoenix, who has been sticking to his ideals all his life.

Chu Nan continued to ask, "What happened to the dragon and phoenix?" ”

The white-haired uncle said with a smile: "The rest of the houses in the village will change the tiles every few years, but the dragon and phoenix are always very lazy, and they haven't even covered the roof with thatch. ”

"It seems that on the night of autumn one year, there was a heavy rain, which collapsed the small earthen house of Longfeng, and Longfeng didn't know whether he slept too hard, or if he didn't eat grains for too long and had no strength, and people were so gone."

"Later, when the heavy rain stopped, the people in the village felt that the earthen house that Longfeng had collapsed was too unlucky, so every family went to the mountains to find some dry firewood, and a fire was built around Longfeng's house, and the fire burned for three days and three nights."

"Originally, I wanted to go to Longfeng's two younger brothers to come back to deal with Longfeng's funeral, but those two younger brothers have never come back since they left the village, and they don't know where Longfeng's two younger brothers went."

"Anyway, that's it."

After Chu Nan heard it, his heart was even more uncomfortable, and the end was so bleak.

At this moment, the old man suddenly asked, "Childe, do the people from the government really plan to take care of our village?" We old guys, all year round, life is very hard. ”

The other three uncles also looked at Chu Nan with blank eyes.

Chu Nan immediately had a plan and said: "Don't worry, a good meal is not afraid of being late, our official master, he still has you in his heart, he really wants to be a big lord of the sky." ”

"By the way, where is the earthen house where Longfeng was burned?"

When the uncle heard Chu Nan's words, he immediately smiled from ear to ear, there are such sons who have come to inquire about these things in person, maybe one day, the official master will really take care of some of this dilapidated village for good students.

The uncle said, "Just north of his crop field is now overgrown with weeds and thorns. ”

Chu Nan hummed and said: "The story of the past is really interesting, our official master, maybe I will come to our village to visit in the future, the wild fruits in this mountain taste good, my lord likes it very much." ”

"Okay, I'll hurry into the mountains to pick wild fruits for our hometown."

"Uncle, you continue to play chess, and you are also disturbed today."

Several uncles watched Chu Nan leave with bright eyes, and the yellow dog also looked very fat, not a big family, and couldn't raise such a fat yellow dog.

The food of the official family is good, and the dogs eat better than people.

Soon, a man and a dog returned to the stele forest again.

Chu Nan came to the north of the stele forest, where weeds are overgrown and thorns are everywhere, and there was also a mud house with weak smoke and fire......

Some people died, but not completely......