Time passes

In a flash.

A month and a half later, at this moment, there is still about a month to go before the great tribute of Guanyin Temple.

Gao Lao Zhuang Bazaar.

At this moment, it seems that the population is sparse, and the prosperity of the past has long been gone.

The phenomenon of gathering ten people to lose their souls has happened more and more frequently in the past month.

Gaolaozhuang seems to be a hard-hit area, and such things happen almost every day. The hearts of the stirring people are panicked, and they cannot live in peace.

Ordinary people are also afraid, this death is inexplicable and inexplicable. Who would dare to gather?

Especially in a place like the bazaar, which is a place of large-scale gathering, gathering ten people, after the phenomenon of losing the soul, the impact on the market is almost the same as that of the place.

There was less traffic, fewer caravans to trade back and forth, and even the shops in the bazaar were half-dead.

After all, relying on the daily life of two or three thousand people in Gao Laozhuang is completely insufficient to support their business.

Zhao Xiaosi is a villager who lives in a small village near Gaolaozhuang. These villages are all affiliated villages of Gao Laozhuang, and they are not big, with about forty or fifty people. Most of them are in Gao Laozhuang, where their ancestors lost their houses and wandered away.

They spontaneously gathered together, snuggled up to Gao Laozhuang, and struggled to survive.

Yusujiazhuang, Songjiazhuang and so on are all different, almost no independent special lines of their own, just a mobile location.

Zhao Xiaosi pushed the wheelbarrow and looked at the huge and majestic city gate of Gao Laozhuang that was approaching, and his eyes showed an extremely envious look.

"When will I be able to live in Gao Laozhuang? ”

He sighed deeply.

For the displaced people in these affiliated villages, their greatest wish is to live in Gaolaozhuang, and many of them have been working tirelessly for this goal for generations.

There was an old man in their village who picked a precious herb in the forest, and he did not choose to sell it, but chose very wisely to hand it over to Gao Yunshan, the owner of Gao Laozhuang.

In the end, he was appreciated by Gao Yunshan, and the whole family moved into Gao Laozhuang, and I don't know how many people were envious. You know, this is the wish of many people, generations of ancestors.

Take Zhao Xiaosi as an example, their family has been struggling for three or four generations in order to move into Gao Laozhuang, but the goal is still very far away, and there is no hope.

"This time...... Be sure to take advantage of your chances. ”

Zhao Xiaosi glanced at his wheelbarrow vaguely and took a deep breath.

Don't be in a hurry, hold your mind, and don't make any mistakes.

He had discovered a strange thing two days before, a smoking egg.

This egg suddenly appeared in the coop of the chickens raised by the house one day, and I don't know if it was laid by the old hens or by other birds.

Anyway, this egg is very strange, the shape and size of the egg is not intentional, but the strange thing is that at noon, when the weather is the hottest, this egg will faintly turn red, and even burst into flames.

The strange aura emanating from its eggs is even more chilling. The old hens, after the appearance of this egg, did not even dare to approach the coop.

It's kind of weird.

Zhao Xiaosi's ancestors have never seen such a strange thing for so many years.

But he is also a somewhat cultured person, although he doesn't know what it is, and he is very scared to look at, even frightened. But this thing is definitely strange enough, and some strange things are exactly what Gao Yunshan, the owner of Gao Lao Zhuang, likes, so after hesitating for a long time, he decided to quietly hand it over to Gao Yun Shan to see if he could exchange it for the right to enter Gao Lao Zhuang.

No matter how bad it is, it's good to exchange it for some food.

Although the tall and mighty city walls of Gao Laozhuang are more desirable in this year of natural disasters, but without food, people will die.

Because Zhao Xiaosi raised a few old hens at home, he was able to save some eggs to sell, and his life was okay, and he could barely get by.

This time, a batch of eggs happened to be accumulated, which could be used as an excuse to mix into Gao Laozhuang.

He had to do this, after all, the crimson egg would attract a lot of peeps. Although he, Zhao Xiaosi, has never read a book, he is not stupid, and he will never dare to blatantly bring him into Gao Laozhuang.

If you do that, you don't know how to die.

Zhao Xiaosi's wheelbarrow slowly approached the city gate.

"Hey, little four, you're selling eggs again?"

"Now in this year, you dare to come out, not afraid of losing your soul!"

"I'll see, how many are there this time?"

There were two guards guarding the city wall, and at this moment, a middle-aged doorman laughed and directly lifted the straw mat on the wheelbarrow.

Sure enough, there was a small basket of eggs, about forty or fifty, and some other, miscellaneous handmade products. There are already a lot of eggs, which are still accumulated by Zhao Xiao's four, four or five hens for more than a month.

Their whole family was reluctant to eat a bite of this egg.

"Yes, yes. My lord, it's just some eggs, I can't live this day, I hope that this basket of eggs can be exchanged for a little food, the old lady and daughter-in-law of the family, the children are already hungry and dizzy, I have no rut, brave this scorching sun, come to the market to walk. ”

Zhao Xiaosi nodded and bowed, and shook again and again, because of the heat, sweat fell down his cheeks drop by drop. A smell of sweat came to my nose.

The guard frowned and pinched his nose.

"It's an egg, no doubt, okay, hand over a copper plate, let's go in. ”

The guard picked up two eggs, pretended to look at them, and then naturally put them in his arms, without the slightest intention of putting them back.

Zhao Xiaosiqiang endured the pain in his flesh, reluctantly glanced at the egg on the guard's chest, and then slowly took out a copper plate from his arms and handed it to the guard.

Whether it was a copper plate or two eggs, he was very reluctant. If it was usual, he would have pleaded euphemistically for a while, asking these adults to take one less, or take one more to offset the copper plate.

But now ~

"When Lao Tzu handed over that strange egg, it will be yellow and prosperous, and I have to sue you. Compensation, a bloodsucking worm, what a thing!"

Zhao Xiaosi spat fiercely in his heart, pushed the wheelbarrow, and staggered into the towering gate of Gao Laozhuang.

Behind~

"Yo, Boss. Zhao Xiaosi, a miser, is quite easy to talk today. The copper plate was handed over, and the eggs were taken. ”

The other, slightly shorter young guard, looked at the middle-aged guard with envy.

"Who knows, maybe you are in a hurry to enter the market, this terrible year, no one is easy, I didn't hear him say that his daughter-in-law and children are starving to death. ”

"Okay, give you an egg, take it back and make up for the child, don't say that your brother and I didn't take care of you. ”

"Okay, stand guard well, today it is said that a big man is coming. ”

The middle-aged guard handed over an egg to the young guard again, but he naturally put away the copper plate that should have been handed over to Gao Yunshan.

The young guard took the egg, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

It's all in plain sight.

It's just that neither of them noticed that the hand that took the egg had some subtle and invisible, sunburn-like red spots.

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