There is a slight drizzle in the sky, and the spring breeze is wrapped in cold and cold. In a dilapidated house in the east of the village, a withered old woman sat in front of the fire in a shabby cotton dress, and on her knees lay a girl with five or six years of withered yellow hair, and a baby sleeping in a bamboo basket she gently rocked.

There was a thunderous explosion, which shook the thatch on the hut and slid down, and a few pieces of mud bricks, which were already not very strong, also fell off. This thunder startled the girl, and she hurriedly drilled into the old man's arms. The baby was also awakened and began to cry, but the thunder ceased in a few moments, and the baby fell back into a deep sleep.

The old woman was also choked by the fireworks and coughed a few times, and the girl quickly stretched out her little hand and gently patted her chest. The old woman smiled and held the girl's little hand, and said in a hoarse voice, "Sanniang is good, it's just that the cigarette is bigger, and it's not in the way." He coughed lightly a few more times.

"Grandma, then I'll go put the fire on the fire. The little girl turned over, and the sparkling eyes on her sallow little face were particularly dazzling. She picked up the burning stick and set aside a puff of firewood, and the smoke gradually faded.

Sanniang sat on the old bamboo stool close to her grandmother, and the baby next to her suddenly woke up and cried. Sanniang hurriedly went over and shook the bamboo basket and comforted, "If my brother doesn't cry, my mother will come back." ”

The more she spoke, the louder the baby cried, and the old woman sighed, "My brother is hungry, and I don't know when your mother will come back, it's freezing and it's raining outside, where can I pick wild vegetables?"

Sanniang shouted, "Grandma, I'll go find A-Niang." ”

"Don't go. The old woman grabbed Sanniang, and looked at the straw sandals she was wearing under her feet, which were only wrapped in rags, and her toes were exposed, and they were covered with red and swollen chilblains, she felt very distressed, and said gently, "You are going to make trouble now, you are young, what if you get sick in the rain, just wait here." ”

After the old woman finished speaking, she was very uneasy in her heart, remembering that her son was so uneasy when he encountered a flash flood half a year ago. It's been more than an hour since her daughter-in-law went out, and she still hasn't come back, so she forcibly suppresses her uneasy thoughts and keeps comforting herself.

The baby cried, Sanniang took a bowl of rice soup, dipped it with her fingers and put it into the baby's mouth, and the baby's crying was much quieter.

Seeing this, the old woman's heart was slightly lowered, but at this time, she heard a person shouting from a distance, and her voice was getting closer and closer, "Granny Liu, something has happened to your family." ”

The old woman could still sit still, she pulled her crutches and was about to run out, and Sanniang was going to follow, she scolded, "Stay and take care of my brother." ”

She followed the messenger to the mountain, and this was the clear thing that her daughter-in-law was dragged away by the tiger in the mountain, until the thunder scared the tiger away, and when the villagers rushed away, her daughter-in-law was already dead in anger.

She looked at her daughter-in-law, whose flesh and blood were blurred and she couldn't see clearly, crying bitterly, begging the neighbors to send her daughter-in-law's body home.

The village was already here, he looked at the old woman, the people in the village were all related to each other, and persuaded, "Sister-in-law, it's not that we don't want to send people back, it's just that we are dragged away by Lord Shanjun, and when people die, they will turn into ghosts, and if we bring the body back, it will leave a disaster." ”

"Auntie, the village is inviting you to come just to inform you that you can only be burned and buried on the spot if you are favored by the mountain monarch, and you can't take it back, we don't have such rules in Miaozhu Village. The man who spoke had a dark face, a tall figure, and a voice like the sound of an urn, and he was a hunter in the village, who had been a soldier for several years when he was young, and had some knowledge.

After he finished speaking, others also came to persuade him. Muramasa asked people to pick up some dried bamboo.

Liu hid her face and cried bitterly, how could she not know this truth, seeing that everyone was already digging a pit, she couldn't stop it, she sat on the ground and cried bitterly, "After all, the daughter-in-law of our Chen family, she came to my house, worked day and night, served me, and did not complain at all, but now she is poor and destitute, and she does not even have a coffin." ”

The rain was not heavy, but it gradually stopped. Miaozhu Village is rich in Miao bamboo, and most of the people in the village make a living by weaving bamboo, and dry bamboo shells can be found around. The village is intending to let people help Liu sit down, but she is reluctant in every way, this daughter-in-law is diligent, she has always been a daughter, and now the family is poor and can't take anything to do, and seeing that the body must be burned, she went to the surrounding area to pick up bamboo shells and bamboo poles.

A middle-aged woman saw that she didn't belong in her mind, and she didn't feel at ease, so she followed her. The village is ordering people to dig a pit quickly, put dry bamboo, and be sure to burn the body before dark, otherwise there will be ghosts entering the village.

After a while, the woman who had gone with them cried out, "Come here, master, there is a man here." ”

"Surprised, what do you look like, aren't you afraid of attracting the mountain king?" Mura Zheng was very dissatisfied and shouted, "Chen Er, go and see what's going on." ”

Chen Er immediately responded, "Dad, I'll go and see my mother-in-law." ”

As he spoke, he followed the sound, and after a while, he saw his mother-in-law standing aside at a loss, while Liu squatted down, and in front of her lay a young man who looked fifteen or sixteen years old. When he saw Liu stretching out his hand, he hurriedly shouted, "Don't move him." As he spoke, he looked around, and several bamboos were crushed.

Liu was taken aback, Chen Er had already strode over, looking at the young man in front of him with a fair and clear face, he couldn't help frowning tightly, most of the people in the mountains were black and thin, this person must have been born rich and noble, and then he saw that his chest was slightly undulating, and he was still alive. He hesitated for a moment and said, "Auntie, this person's origin is unknown, don't pay attention to it, leave quickly." ”

Liu Shi was very unbearable, and begged, "This person is obviously alive, save him, accumulate some yin virtue, right?"

When she said this, the fat woman next to her couldn't help but say, "In charge, I think it's important to save people." ”

Chen Er glared at her, but he was very hesitant, "Don't talk nonsense, I'll ask my father what he means." Even so, he stepped forward to check it a little, and saw that there was nothing else except for a few external injuries, so he immediately carried the person away.

Everyone had already dug a deep pit, erected dry bamboo, and lifted the body of Liu's daughter-in-law. Seeing that Chen Er had come back with a person, Murazheng's face couldn't help but change, and he walked over quickly and scolded, "Where did you pick it up, throw it back immediately." ”

"Muramasa, after all, it is a human life, maybe my family has created too many evils, after all, I want to accumulate some yin virtue for my family and do some good deeds, so I will send it to me. Liu had already dried her tears, looking at the bloody body of her daughter-in-law, it seemed that she was bored, and at this moment she looked at the young man who was in a coma, she couldn't help but plead.

Mura Zheng sighed, Chen Liu's family is the lineage of the village, serving as the patriarch Mura Zheng, when he was young, he also got the help of the former patriarch's family, so that he could study in the town, and he also obtained the fame of Xiucai, and later found a job in the county, learned skills, married a wife and had children. It's just that the patriarch's family had a few major events later, and the Liu family gave birth to a son who didn't learn and didn't know how to learn, and he was abducted and cheated, and the family business was ruined, so he ended up in poverty today.

Mura Zheng stared and said, "Sister-in-law, since you have spoken, I will also call the shots, but this person's origin is unknown, I don't know if it will bring disaster to the village, you have to think clearly." After he finished speaking, he saw that the other party's expression was firm, so he had to say, "Chen Er, you can carry the person back later, and send two liters of beans and rice to your aunt's house by the way." ”

After speaking, he no longer looked at the person in front of him, and asked dissatisfiedly, "When will Zhai Po come?"

Whenever such a white thing is encountered in the village, it is rare for the woman to come to make sacrifices, which is to ask the public land to send the people who died in vain to the underworld, so as to eliminate bad luck. After waiting for half an hour, Zhai Po's daughter-in-law brought incense and candles, and after some practice, it was already two moments.

When Liu returned home, her granddaughter couldn't cry, she had to whisper to appease, Sanniang was very well-behaved, even though she was young, she knew life and death, and she was crying while boiling beans and rice. Because he was killed by the mountain monarch, he couldn't worship at home, Liu wiped his tears, but he still cheered up when he looked at his young grandchildren, and he wanted to leave his son with blood no matter what.

The grandparents and grandchildren ate half a pea rice together, but they filled their stomachs slightly, but they didn't dare to eat more, the rice tank at home had already bottomed out, and now it was early spring, so they must keep the grain. She glanced at the young man lying on the bamboo bed, and regretted it a little in her heart, but since she brought it back, she had to take care of it.

Lying on the bamboo bed, with a thick layer of straw under him, and a thin quilt, Chen Jingzhi looked calm, but he knew that the sea was turned upside down.

A thought told him that his actual name was Chen Yin, who was originally from Taihe County, the capital of Dongzhou, because he took office with his father, but he met a monster on the way, and the monster killed his parents, relatives, servants and maids. Only the monster saw that he was handsome and clean-looking, and took him away again, intending to refine him into a furnace to cultivate the demon law. When passing through this place, he suddenly encountered a spring thunder and earthquake, which broke the monster's way, and he gave up and fled for his life. He is now being rescued by others, and he doesn't know what to do, so he should hide his identity and pretend to have amnesia.

But another thought came to him, Chen Jingzhi, Wanhua Tiandonghua Dao Chen Chaoyuan Zhenren disciple. Because Chen Chaoyuan's teacher Xu Yan and Yang Kui, the current Taoist master of Donghua Dao, lost the battle for the position of Taoist master, Xu Yan left Donghua Dao, leaving only Chen Chaoyuan and other disciples. Later, Chen Chaoyuan and many of his fellow disciples also left Donghua Dao, and five hundred years later, Chen Chaoyuan returned to Donghua Dao after refining qi and transforming the realm of gods and earths.

At this time, Yang Kui had already controlled the sect, and Chen Chaoyuan's line was suppressed everywhere and could not be autonomous. It's just that Chen Chaoyuan returned to Donghua Road not to have a place in Donghua Road, but to use a magic weapon of Donghua Road to cross the void sky, so as to find the original of Xu Yan's Taoist scriptures, and then climb the Dharma Peak.

At this time, the two thoughts were entangled and invaded each other, and he felt even more headache, and suddenly a jewel jumped up in the sea of consciousness, and immediately calmed the Purple Mansion Mud Pill Palace. His consciousness suddenly cleared, and a wave of enlightenment was born in the sea of consciousness, and with a shout, Chen Jingzhi seemed to have a thunderclap and exploded.