Chapter Seventy-Four: The Wasteland

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, another month passed, and a heavy snow covered a peaceful mountain village in the Eastern Regions.

The whole world turned white, white snowflakes fell from the sky, and the fierce north wind blew, blowing mercilessly on the pedestrians on the road.

In the midst of the snowflakes flying in the sky, a young man dressed in white walked slowly through the snow, and the snowflakes fell all over his head and shoulders, making him look like a snowman.

The young man walked forward for a long time, looked up and saw the small mountain village in front of him, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly quickened his pace and ran towards the small mountain village.

This young man is Lin Jiuyou, after leaving Chitian City, he did not return to the Divine Wind Gate, but chose to travel outside.

In the past month, Lin Jiuyou's footsteps have traveled all over the Red Heaven Realm and the Taihuang Realm, and he has experienced a lot of things.

He had been to the crater of the Red Heaven Realm, seen the fiery and furious momentum of the volcano, and had also been to the vast grassland and forest of the Tai Wilderness Realm, fighting with all kinds of spirit beast warriors.

This month, Lin Jiuyou kept fighting with people, for no other reason, those people either wanted to fight Lin Jiuyou's idea, or they were committed evil and Lin Jiuyou did the right thing for him.

Of course, he was also hunted down, went through all kinds of dangers, and finally survived tenaciously.

Now that it is deep winter, the heavy snow has covered the wasteland, and in this cold weather, Lin Jiuyou doesn't want to run around outside, and is ready to find a place to rest.

Seeing the quiet mountain village in front of him, Lin Jiuyou, who was physically and mentally exhausted, couldn't help but feel excited and quickly rushed over.

There were about dozens of families in the mountain village, and the pure white cooking smoke wafted out of the chimney, and the rich aroma of rice wafted into Lin Jiuyou's nose, making his saliva flow uncontrollably.

At the entrance of the village, several children were building snowmen, and they saw Lin Jiuyou coming over, staring at him with big watery eyes.

"The snowman has become a sperm!" a little boy suddenly pointed at Lin Jiuyou excitedly and shouted, making Lin Jiuyou stunned.

Then he looked at the thick layer of snowflakes on his body, showed a soft smile, and shook his body to shake the snowflakes off.

"It's not a snowman, it's a big brother. Another little girl said.

Lin Jiuyou laughed and slowly approached them.

"Big brother, where are you from?" asked the little boy who said that Lin Jiuyou was a snowman tilting his head.

Lin Jiuyou reached out and touched his head, and said softly: "Big brother came from far, far away, and now he is tired and hungry, can you take me to your house for dinner?"

"Yes, yes," the little girl hurriedly jumped up excitedly and said, "Big brother, you go to my house, you go to my grandfather and you will make food!"

Lin Jiuyou hugged her and said happily, "Can you tell the eldest brother what your name is?"

"Big brother, my name is Wan'er. The little girl said innocently.

"Okay, then the big brother will go to Wan'er's house for dinner, and then play with Wan'er, okay?"

"yes, that's great...... a few children suddenly shouted excitedly, jumping and jumping around Lin Jiuyou.

"Wan'er, Wan'er......" At this time, an old voice came from the village, and the little girl hurriedly replied: "Grandpa, I'm here." ”

Lin Jiuyou looked back, only to see a seventy or eighty-year-old man walking out slowly on crutches, he saw Lin Jiuyou holding Wan'er, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Lin Jiuyou walked over with Wan'er in his arms, put Wan'er down and said to the old man: "Grandpa, my name is Lin Jiuyou, I came from the Tianyun Realm, and I traveled in the Taihuang Realm, I don't know if I can stay in the village for two days." ”

The old man stared at Lin Jiuyou, he saw that Lin Jiuyou had a beautiful face, his eyes were pure and indifferent, not like a treacherous person, and he couldn't help but let go of his heart.

"Little brother must be tired, how about going to eat at home with the old man?" said the old man kindly.

Lin Jiuyou was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you, old man." ”

"Just call me Zeng. The old man took Wan'er's hand and led Lin Jiuyou towards the village, and the other children also followed curiously.

There were many people in the village, and when they saw Lin Jiuyou, they showed curious expressions one by one, and they stopped what they were doing and asked the old man about Lin Jiuyou's information.

The old man smiled and introduced Lin Jiuyou to them, and Lin Jiuyou also smiled and saluted them.

The old man led Lin Jiuyou into an old room, and then let Lin Jiuyou sit on the hot kang.

After Lin Jiuyou sat down, he took a look at the situation in the room.

The hut was very simple, with only an old wooden table, a few wooden benches, a few wooden jars, and a few strings of bacon hanging on the walls of the house, and nothing else.

It can be seen that the life of the grandfather and grandson is very poor.

After letting Lin Jiuyou sit down, the old man began to prepare lunch, he took a hanging of bacon from the wall of the house, and took out the dried vegetables that had been stored for the winter from the wooden jar, and began to cook.

Wan'er on the side obediently walked to the old man's side and helped her grandfather, the old man touched her little head with a smile, and her face was full of kindness and love.

When Wan'er helped her grandfather get vegetables, she turned her face sideways from time to time to peek at Lin Jiuyou, which made Lin Jiuyou laugh.

After a while, a few simple and delicious side dishes came out of the pot, and the three of them gathered around the small table to enjoy a steaming lunch.

Lin Jiuyou was hungry and tired, and when he encountered such a delicious farmhouse dish, he suddenly couldn't control his appetite, and began to gobble up the rice bowl, making Xiao Wan'er on the side giggle non-stop.

"Eat slowly, eat slowly, don't choke. The old man smiled and instructed Lin Jiuyou.

The wind and snow outside the house were all over the house, but the inside of the hut was extremely warm, and the fire under the kang head was burning, warming Lin Jiuyou's body and heart.

After lunch, Xiao Wan'er got on the kang and began to take a nap, while Lin Jiuyou chatted with the old man about family life, and roughly understood the situation in the village.

The small village is called Zengjia Village, located in the northwest of the Taihuang Realm, and most of the people in the village are of the same race, helping each other and loving each other, and everyone gets along very happily.

Because the wilderness is not suitable for growing crops, the people in the village basically make a living from hunting, and the young men in the village will form a hunting team and go out to hunt every once in a while.

The old man's name is Zeng Zhifu, and he lives alone in a hut with Wan'er, and his usual food and daily necessities are provided by the people in the village.

Lin Jiuyou looked at Wan'er on the kang, and stopped talking.

The old man was empathetic and saw Lin Jiuyou's doubts, he glanced at Wan'er lovingly, and found that Wan'er was already asleep, so he told Lin Jiuyou the truth.

It turns out that Wan'er is not the old man's own granddaughter, the old man has been lonely all his life, there are no children and no daughters under his knees, four years ago one morning, the people in the village found that there was an abandoned baby at the entrance of the village, the old man saw that the child was pitiful, so he adopted her, which is now Wan'er.