"What about Xiao Wu? Didn't he come back with you? ”

"Brother Wu is still in retreat, and he still can't come back for a while."

"That stinky boy, you know you've worked so hard."

"Yes, Brother Wu and Brother Dong Solstice are working hard, they are both in retreat and cultivating immortal methods."

"They worked so hard, how did you sneak down on your own?"

"Uncle Zong, I didn't run out secretly, I was ordered by my master to go to a long way, so I came to see you."

"Oh, I see." The village chief suddenly realized, "When are you leaving?" ”

"Let's rest for a few days."

"How many days off?" The village chief frowned: "Will you delay the task given to you by the fairy girl?" ”

"No, no, Uncle Zong, are you driving me away?" Lin laughed in surprise.

"Stinky boy, what are you talking about, how could Uncle Zong drive you away." The village chief scolded with a smile.

"I'll just say it."

"Have you eaten?"

"Not yet, then you stay well, Uncle Zong will go get you some food."

"Okay, thank you, Uncle Zong." Lin Jingzhen suddenly remembered the old cow, so he asked, "Uncle Zong, is that old cow still there?" ”

"Eh, a few years ago, that old cow was already sick and died."

"Sick and dead? Where is that buried? I want to go and see it. ”

"On the east side of the mountain, because we died of illness, we were cremated directly."

"Oh." Lin said a sigh of surprise, said goodbye to the village chief, and went to the east of the mountain.

The hill is not alone, there are dozens of graves erected here, and it is the place where the ancestors of Bailu Village have their roots.

Lin Jingzhen found the grave of the old cow, and knelt down and kowtowed three times.

When his parents died when he was young, he grew up sucking the milk of a cow, so this cow is his reborn parent.

His parents were not buried here, according to the village chief, he was not from Bailu Village, but moved from other places, also surnamed Lin, that day was the stinging solar term, so the village chief gave him the name of the 24 solar terms.

Because they were not from Bailu Village, they were not buried on the east hill after their deaths, but on the north hill, and it is said that when the two elders died, they asked the people in the village to bury them in the north, because the north is their hometown.

Lin Jingyi finished worshipping the old cow, and went to the north mountain, although his biological parents did not support him, but also gave himself a complete life, so this worship is a must.

There are only these two graves on the north hill, Lin Jingzhen came to the grave and found that these grave grass is not high, so he knew that someone must come to sweep the tomb for him every year during the Qingming Festival.

He sighed and said in his heart, "Is it the village chief?" Or the fat aunt next door? Either way, thank them. ”

Lin bowed to the two graves, kowtowed a few times, and then went down the hill and returned to the village.

"Stinky boy, where have you been, why did it take so long to come back?" When the village chief saw him from afar, he smiled and scolded him.

"Ugh." Lin was shocked to find that the village chief's house was full of people, and he couldn't help but be touched, remembering that nine years ago, this place was also full of people, and it was when the old witch was accepting apprentices in Bailu Village.

"I went to the east hill once, and then I went to the north hill again."

"Oh, come and eat, the dishes are cold."

"Okay." Lin said hello to everyone and followed the village chief into the house.

After eating a few bites of food, Lin asked the village chief, "Uncle Zong, over the years, did you help me hoe the grass from the two graves on the north mountain?" ”

"Hmm." The village chief nodded, "When I went up the mountain to sweep the grave, I swept it together by the way." ”

"Thank you, Uncle Zong." Lin was stunned and said: "I thought that I hadn't been home all these years, and the grave grass there would at least grow so tall." ”

"Phew, you stinky boy, is Uncle Zong such a cold-blooded person?"

"No, no, if Uncle Zong was really such a cold-blooded person, that kid would have starved to death outside the door back then."

"Hey, you stinky boy, why did you mention the incident of the year again."

"If you hadn't taken extra care of me with Aunt Fat, I would have died a long time ago, and I will naturally remember your kindness."

"You stinky boy is really good at talking."

"Uncle Zong, this is five hundred taels of silver, you transfer some to the fat aunt for me, I don't want to see the old man next to her."

"Hey, you kid, you're slow to return, your fat aunt is gone."

"Gone?" Lin Jingzhen naturally walked the meaning of the two words, in the village, except for the village chief who was good to him, and then the fat aunt.

"You stinky boy, if you don't go back a few years ago, I'm afraid my old bones will also leave."

"Uncle Zong, what kind of frustrating words did you say, I see that your body is very strong and strong."

"It's not like I don't know how my body is." The village chief sighed: "A year is not as good as a year, huh." ”

Lin was silent for a while and did not speak.

"By the way, why haven't you seen Brother Dayong?"

"Dayong? That stinky boy, except for some replies and silver taels a few years ago, has not replied since, and when it comes to him, I get angry. ”

"Uncle Zong, don't be angry, where can he go?"

"I heard him say that he was going to the capital when he replied to the letter, who knows if that kid hasn't replied for so long, whether he died on the road." Speaking of Dayong, the village chief does not come out in a single breath.

"The capital?" Lin Jingzhen frowned slightly, he knew that Dayong might already be a fierce and unlucky, after all, he had asked the shopkeeper in the inn before, and he said that the work in the capital was recommended by the old witch.

"Eh, although the old witch didn't die in her own hands, she can be regarded as avenging him and Winter Solstice Xiaowu." Lin thought to himself.

"Stinky boy? Bad food? ”

"It's delicious, it's delicious, what's not delicious."

"Okay, okay, don't be a sycophant, go over to greet the villagers after dinner and get in touch with the villagers, after all, you haven't been back to your hometown for nine years."

"Okay, okay."

"By the way, the sister of the little ghost on the winter solstice is getting married, and his brother is not here, how about you act as his brother tomorrow?"

"Okay." Thinking of the winter solstice, Lin Jingzhen felt that the most shameful thing for himself and Xiao Wu was the winter solstice.

After eating, Lin Jingzhen wanted to help clean up the rice bowl, but was driven out by the village chief, and in desperation, he drove the ducks to the shelves, and had a relationship with these villagers who had not had a good relationship and had not seen each other for nine years.

Most of the questions they asked were how the mountains were, whether cultivation was hard, whether they could eat enough, and so on, and some asked to help see if their children had the physique of cultivating immortals, and in desperation, Lin Jingzhen only made up a lie, saying that after completing the task in hand, he would go back and talk to Xianzun about the situation here.

On the second day, he naturally went to act as the elder brother of the sister of the winter solstice, and then accompanied him to the next village, and also gave a lot of silver taels, which was quite a dowry.

With so much silver as a dowry, Dong Zhi's sister's in-laws were naturally very happy, and said that they would treat her well.

Back in the village, Lin Jingzhen went to the Winter Solstice house again, stuffed each other with a hundred taels for the two elders, and told them that the Winter Solstice asked him to send silver taels to the two elders for him.

The people in the village knew that the children of the village chief's family and the Dong Solstice family were cultivating on the mountain, so they naturally didn't dare to worry about them.

But Lin Jingzhen still told them not to expose their wealth, so as not to attract the attention of the evil people.

In fact, he still had hundreds of taels of gold on him, all of which were rewarded by King Chu Huai, but he didn't dare to give those gold to the village chief, after all, silver can cause others to steal bets, let alone gold.

After doing all this, Lin Jingzhen wandered around the village for a day, and on the fourth day, he set out on a hurry, leaving no letters, because the village chief was illiterate.

At noon, when he passed by the Star Picking Peak, he glanced at it from a distance, did not go up the mountain, and then left.

A few days later, he appeared five hundred miles away, in a small city next to the country of Chu, near the country of Liyu.

He inquired about the news that there was a family in this city who had been to the ends of the earth when he was young, so he came to inquire about it.

After all, the name "The End of the World" exists in legends, because it is so far away that no one has even heard of it.

It was a low courtyard house deep in the suburbs of Xicheng, and Lin Jingzhen had been looking for a long time to find here.

There are a lot of people living in the courtyard, and there is not only one family.

He found the house, and then knocked on his door, and it was an old woman.

"Xiaodao Chief, who are you looking for?"

"Immeasurable Tianzun, Poor Dao wants to ask your male protagonist about something."

"Xiaodao Chief, it's not the right time for you to come, it's been more than a month since the old man of my family passed away." The old woman's voice was extremely depressed when she said this.

"Oh, sorry to excuse me." Lin sighed and prepared to leave.

"Mother, who?" Inside the house, a man's voice was heard.

"A little Taoist, he wants to ask your father about something."

"Oh, mother, let him in, he should also want to listen to the story that his father said, since he came alone, then I will take him half a tael of silver."

"Son, your father's story isn't a story."

"It's so mysterious, it's not a story."

"You kid, hey, forget it, the old woman doesn't have many years to live."

"Mother, why are you saying these frustrating words?" The voices inside were getting closer, and then a figure came through the crack in the door.

When Lin was stunned to see this person clearly, he was stunned for a while, this person turned out to be Lu Xiaoer, who robbed himself and the shopkeeper back then.

No wonder Lin Jingzhen felt that this voice was so familiar, it turned out that he had met an acquaintance.

Lin looked at this person quietly, and thought in his heart, what to do with this robber.

"Come in, I know what you want to inquire about, isn't it the end of the earth? My dad didn't know how many times he had said it, and his ears were calloused. ”

"Huh?" Lin Jingzhen secretly thought in his heart, this Lu Xiaoer's father has really been to the end of the world, it is said that the end of the world is thousands of miles away from here.

Nalu Xiaoer didn't seem to recognize himself, and then he came into the room alone, Lin Jingzhen hesitated for a while, and followed.

It's a simple room anymore, and there's nothing in it except a few benches!

"Sit down." Lu Xiaoer said hello, and then sat on a stool by himself.

"Say, do you want to know about the end of the world or the cape?"

Lin was stunned and said suspiciously: "Do you want to separate two things?" Isn't that a place? ”

"Two?" Lu Xiaoer smiled: "Those are two different things! ”

Only then did Lu Xiaoer turn his head carefully to look at the young Taoist priest, and then after taking a closer look, his expression gradually became uncalm.

"We've seen each other somewhere."

"What do you say?" Lin laughed in surprise.

"It's really a narrow road." Lu Xiaoer got up suddenly and was about to run away, but he remembered the elderly mother in the house, so he stopped running away and turned back.

"What do you want?"

"I didn't think about anything, I just came here to ask for some news."

"You're really not here to kill me?"

"I'm not interested in fighting, killing, killing."

"Uh, who believes, the way you killed people back then without blinking an eye still makes people feel palpitations."

"That's not killing, that's self-preservation."

"Okay, you're really not here to kill me?"