"A knock on the door?"

"Bo Ya, you must be having a nightmare."

The boy at the door replied indifferently, he clenched Zhou Zhen's arm again, urging, "Don't talk about this, it's too late for a while, and you won't be able to eat!" ”

Saying that, the other party seemed to be in a hurry, pulled Zhou Zhen's arm and suddenly exerted force, and walked directly in one direction.

Zhou Zhen's body was too weak, and he was quickly pulled out of the room by the other party.

As soon as I walked out of the house, a penetrating chill crept in.

Although it was cold to stand at the door and blow the cold wind after the door opened, after all, the house was partially blocked for him. Now standing completely outside, the cold fog of the early morning instantly enveloped his body, and the coldness that seemed to come from his bones immediately rose all the way down his spine.

Zhou Zhen couldn't help but snort, and at the same time quickly analyzed the current situation......

The young companion in front of him looked very natural, and he really didn't hear the knock on the door last night, I don't know if the other party was the only one like this, or if everyone else didn't hear it?

Now they are going to play the game of "touching the blind", a game that the two of them can't play very well, and there will definitely be other children in the village.

When you can play games, you can ask other children about the situation.

Also, he was very hungry now, and listening to the meaning of this companion, it seemed that playing games could be eaten.

In addition to these, the "nine-tailed fox" doesn't know where it is, he can't recover the "digital energy" in a short period of time now, and the "nine-tailed fox" is also an experimental subject, I don't know if the other party has any special way to recover the "digital energy"?

When you get to the place where you play the game, you can observe the actions of the other children and see if the "nine-tailed fox" is inside.

Thinking of this, Zhou Zhen followed the boy beside him and walked forward, while looking around quietly.

At night, although the moonlight is good, the lighting is limited after all.

At this moment, the sky is bright, and even if there is a light fog, the visibility is still much stronger than at night.

Zhou Zhen's eyes swept over, and he suddenly saw that in front of the thatched hut where he lived, there was indeed a tidy vegetable bed, which was not completely empty, but some straw was laid to keep warm and block the vegetable leaves below.

Judging by the leaves seen in the cracks of the straw, there are turnips, hollyhocks, and some are wheat.

At the end of the vegetable furrow is a ditch to divert water, which looks connected to the pond outside the window.

At this time, it is the dry season, there is no water in the ditch, and some withered yellow weeds grow.

On the ditch there is a row of hibiscus about the height of an adult, used as a hedge, enclosing the vegetable furrow at the door of the hut, there is a gap between the hibiscus, facing the position of the gap, on the ditch is a roughly tended stone slab, acting as a bridge, at the other end of the bridge, a small door woven of bamboo strips is vainly leaning against the branches and leaves of the hibiscus, which is considered the door of the yard, it has no protective ability, it seems to be only used to prevent poultry from entering the vegetable furrow.

At night, it was this hedge that blocked Zhou Zhen's vision, allowing him to see the situation a little farther away.

Out of the courtyard gate at this moment, Zhou Zhen suddenly saw that there was a relatively spacious open space outside, and there were houses near and far.

It was a poor and backward village in the truest sense of the word, and he led the boy in one direction, and there were no buildings outside the thatched huts, not even a single brick house.

The difference is the size of the thatched hut, and the largest is only three in a row.

As he walked, Zhou Zhen gradually frowned, he didn't see the space-time tunnel when he came!

The space-time tunnel can transmit one-dimensional consciousness, and it must have a space-time tunnel for him to come to the ancient times and travel back.

But if the space-time tunnel is not in this village, or even near this village, it will be very troublesome to go back.

Ancient information is backward, transportation is backward, and it is by no means a simple matter to find the time and space tunnel!

Of course, there is also the worst possibility, that is, the space-time tunnel is one-way, and can only come to ancient times from 2127.

It is no longer possible to go back from antiquity to the year 2127!

However, after Lu Xingkuan was able to enter the space-time tunnel before, he returned to Tongfu City, although his body was parasitized, it also showed that the space-time tunnel was not one-way.

"The 'Ash Order' arranged for Lu Xingkuan to enter the space-time tunnel in advance, and it should have been considered this problem for a long time and specially used for testing."

"There may be more than just a wide ...... road"

"Those wanderers who strayed into Clear Spring Valley are likely to be arranged by the 'Ash Order'."

Just as they were thinking, they had come to the door of a family.

The house of this family is obviously more regular than the rest of the village, the yard is also larger, the fence is not a simple hedge, but a low wall made of adobe masonry, and a wooden door is made on the courtyard gate to protect it from some wind and rain.

Under the door are two thin-skinned wooden doors, on which there are faded spring couplets, which are hidden at the moment, and the noise of chickens, ducks and geese comes from the yard, as well as the sound of chirping people.

From the side of the low wall, you can see that above the rightmost one of the thatched huts inside, billowing smoke is rising from the chimney, accompanied by the black ash of the burning straw, and at the same time, the aroma of food spreads, causing Zhou Zhen and his companion to swallow at the same time.

"It's time for the village chief's house!"

As he spoke, his companion picked up Zhou Zhen and walked in at a faster pace.

As soon as I opened the courtyard door, I saw that in the spacious courtyard, several adults in patched clothes were busy coming in and out, as if they were cooking.

A dozen children of different heights and heights, male and female, all dressed in gray and dusty colors, occasionally wore hair bands that were dyed a dull red.

At this moment, all the children's expressions were very expectant, and they were smiling, looking very happy.

Seeing Zhou Zhen and the two come in, a boy wearing a brown caftan that was obviously a small size of an adult's clothes and a pair of straw sandals with a little smoky on his feet immediately beckoned: "Bo Qian! Uncle dolphin! This way! ”

Uncle Dolphin immediately pulled Zhou Zhen and walked towards the boy, asking as he walked, "Zhong Song, what are you eating today?" ”

Zhong Song's eyebrows and eyes were slender, his cheeks were red, full of chapped red blood, he was jumping in place to keep warm, Wen Yan looked left and right, and when the two approached, he replied very quietly and mysteriously: "There is meat today!" ”

When Uncle Dolphin heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, revealing an extremely excited expression, and his body, which was shivering from the cold, seemed to have eased a lot at once.

Zhou Zhen watched quietly from the side, silently observing the surroundings.

The courtyard of the village chief's house covers an area of two acres, and a vegetable furrow is enclosed with a hedge in the southeast corner, which is the same as the thatched house where he lives, covered with straw to keep the vegetable seedlings warm.

Immediately next to the hedgerow, I don't know if it was a natural formation or a small pond dug by hand, about ten square meters, there were some aquatic plants floating in it, and some fallen leaves were falling, and the aquatic plants and fallen leaves were motionless at the moment, frozen in thin ice on the water surface.

At this moment, there is a white mist rising from the surface of the pool, and it is diffuse, eliminating poverty and backwardness, and there is a sense of filter of a fairyland on earth.

On the edge of the pond grows a large persimmon tree that needs to be hugged, and its bare branches are sloping towards the center of the pond. This season, most of the persimmons should have been picked, leaving only a few near the top that could not be picked, and the shriveled orange-red color was particularly conspicuous in the gray winter morning, and the lantern-like light of the small courtyard lit up the color.

A little revetment is padded with stones under the tree, which is easy to wash.

This pond does not seem to have live water access, and the water is greenish, not as clear as the small pond outside Zhou Zhen's thatched house.

In other places, all of them are compacted mud floors, on the ground near the door of the main house, there are a few pieces of withered yellow grass leaves, and a few chickens are clucking and pecking.

In addition to the chickens, there are also some ducks and geese in the yard, some of them go into the water, smash a few pieces of thin ice in the flutter, and some of them pull the leaves of the withered yellow cabbage with the chickens.

A black-backed and white-bellied pastoral dog, tied to a rope, lay down under the hedge, it was obviously familiar to the people in the yard now, its chin resting on its front paws, its tail wagging for a while, and not at all vigilant barking.

Ordinary farm yard, everything looks normal.

Zhou Zhen finished looking at the environment of the courtyard and turned to look at the crowd beside him.

Most of the children were happy, or they were talking childish words, or chasing each other, or picking up a branch and digging up earthworms in the soft mud by the pond...... Have a lot of fun.

But among them, there was a boy of the same age with a mole on his neck, just like Zhou Zhen, with a just right smile on his face, and his eyes quickly roamed around, constantly observing all kinds of clues.

Zhou Zhen's eyes froze slightly.

There may be something wrong with this boy!

At this moment, the other party seemed to have noticed something, and his gaze just swept towards Zhou Zhen, and it happened to meet Zhou Zhen's four eyes.

Zhou Zhen's expression remained unchanged, and he had vaguely guessed in his heart that the other party might be the "nine-tailed fox"!

The next moment, the boy with a mole on his neck fixed his gaze on Zhou Zhen for a second, and then quickly retracted his gaze, as if he had also guessed Zhou Zhen's identity.

At the same time, Zhou Zhen also looked away.

There is too little information now, and neither side has any intention of going over to recognize each other immediately.

Zhou Zhen continued to observe the others, and after looking around, he didn't see anything special except for the boy with a mole on his neck.

At this time, seeing that Zhou Zhen had not spoken, Uncle Dolphin pulled him and immediately asked, "Bo Yan, what do you want?" ”

Zhou Zhen came back to his senses and replied calmly: "It's nothing." ”

As he spoke, Zhou Zhen looked at Zhong Song and asked in a low voice, "Zhong Song, did you hear a knock on the door last night?" ”

Zhong Song shook his head and replied with great certainty: "No! ”

"When they sleep at night, who will knock on someone's door?"

Uncle Dolphin nodded beside him, and then said, "Bo Yan, I just said, you must have had a nightmare last night!" ”

Seeing that the two friends who knew the original owner said this, Zhou Zhen did not continue to argue, and only replied vaguely: "Well, maybe I heard it wrong......"

As the three of them spoke, two stout young women walked out of the main room of the hut, carrying a large pot of steaming soup.

Behind the two young women was an emaciated child.

"Let's go, don't burn!" Seeing that all the children in the yard had gathered around, the two women hurriedly laughed and drove away, "When we put the pot on the table, we have all of them, don't worry!" ”

As they spoke, they worked together to put the pot on a wooden frame, and only then did they let go after making sure that it was stable.

Next, one woman arranged for the children to line up, and another woman returned to the house, dragged out a large basket full of wooden bowls and chopsticks, and began to prepare for the children's meal.

"I want to be ahead!"

"I'm the one who came first!"

"We both came before you!"

"Queue up! Whoever is in front is in front! ”

"That's right! You are not allowed to cut the line! ”

The hot soup was in front, and the cold and hungry children suddenly began to compete for the position at the front of the team, but Zhou Zhen deliberately delayed a few steps, separated from Uncle Dolphin and Zhong Song, and lined up at the tail of the team.

The boy with a mole on his neck who looked at Zhou Zhen just now had similar thoughts, and he also moved a few steps slower and lined up behind Zhou Zhen.

At the same moment, the woman who dragged the basket out began to pick up a wooden bowl, beat half the bowl of soup into it with a large spoon, and handed it to a young boy at the front of the line.

The boy took the wooden bowl and immediately tasted it, and his face was so hot that his face was distorted, and tears almost came down his face.

But he didn't mean to give up at all, and after a little blow, he immediately wanted to taste a second bite.

The woman who made the soup said with a smile while making the second bowl: "Slow down, I said be careful ...... burning"

Immediately after that, the second bowl of soup was ready, and the second child took it, and also immediately took a big sip, and then was scalded until his tongue sticked out.

Next up is the third child who picks up the soup......

The whole process was orderly, the hot soup in the cauldron sank little by little, more and more children received the hot soup, and the queue became shorter and shorter.

The courtyard soon sounded the sound of concentrating on the soup, and the smoke and fire were steaming, which seemed to dilute the winter mist and chill.

However, compared to this warm scene of red dust, Zhou Zhen stood in the middle of the line, motionless, his eyes fixed on the child who followed the two women out of the village chief's house, and had not lined up or drank soup.

The child was described as thin, dark-skinned, and staring not far from the iron pot.

The silhouette of the other party is very familiar to Zhou Zhen.

That's what he saw out of the window last night, the kid knocking on the door!

At this time, the little boy with a mole on his neck behind him suddenly approached Zhou Zhen and asked very quietly, "Did you also hear a knock on the door last night?" ”

Zhou Zhen immediately came back to his senses, he nodded slightly, and was even more sure that the other party was the "Nine-Tailed Fox"!

So, Zhou Zhen also replied very quietly: "The knock on the door, only the two of us should hear it......"

The child behind him nodded, and continued to whisper: "I'm Lu Xingkuan, are you Zhang Xi?" Xu Xiang? Wang Kui? Or Li Hao? ”

Ask for a commuter pass!

PS: Thank you for your concern and treatment suggestions, I have to hang water for a day today, and now I am not so uncomfortable, but I am still hungry and dizzy. This plot of the protagonist and the child's hunger is too empathetic......

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