Ding Ye stretched out his hand, shook it in front of Yun Xuelan, who was looking at the figures of the three of them leaving, and asked, "We should also go into the village to find a family to stay, right?"

Yun Xuelan shook her head and said, "The people in this village are all frightened birds. Let's go back to the village tomorrow. I'll be here tonight. If it is really like what the two children said, you can catch two ghosts at night, you should give a meeting gift to the people in the village. ”

After that, the two of them picked up some dead branches and kept them for the night fire.

The two leaned against the ruins and broken walls, bathing in the slanting sun that was gradually falling in the west. Yun Xuelan told Ding Ye the origin of Zhuangyuan Village and why it became what it is today. The black felt boy had a straw pipe in his mouth, and the grass juice flowing into his mouth was as bitter as the experience of Zhuangyuan Village, and the two fell into a long silence.

The sky facing the boy had turned red. There are also a few households in the village that smoke rises, but there is no warmth of the sunset smoke waiting for people to return. Some are faintly depressed. Ding Ye squinted and yawned. At this time, a thin figure dressed in a golden glow appeared in the young man's sight, walking towards the two of them. Facing the sun, Ding Ye couldn't see the appearance of the person who came, but Yun Xuelan, who was a martial artist, could see it clearly.

The little girl in the green cotton jacket came to them with a basket on her arm. Obviously, because the former walked too fast, some sweat oozed from the girl's forehead, and her little face was red and panting.

The girl removed the basket that she was carrying on her arm. Remove the gray cotton cloth that covers it. In the basket were a few sheets of crepes and a plate of pickles. The little girl in green took out the food from the basket and placed it in front of the two young men with surprised faces. Then he pursed his lips and said, "Grandpa said that he was a guest from afar." The situation in the village is not good, and this is what we eat on weekdays, so we can only treat guests like this. ”

Maybe it was because they were in a hurry for days, and the two of them ate dry food from Yunxuelan's mustard seeds. Ding Ye, who had seen a hot meal for the first time in these days, salivated at the steaming pancakes, and he swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva and thanked him repeatedly.

Yun Xuelan looked at the pickles and some burnt pancakes on the plate, frowned, and asked, "You eat these on weekdays?"

It seemed that the young man in the green shirt in front of him felt that he was slacking off on the food he sent, and the little girl in the green cotton jacket bit her lower lip with her teeth, and her hands clutched the placket of her clothes silently, but the corners of the girl's eyes were slightly red.

Realizing that her words had misunderstood the girl who was only seven or eight years old, Yun Xuelan said apologetically: "I'm not disgusted that the food you sent is not good. Your grandfather asked you to bring us food, and I'm already grateful. It's just that as far as I know, Yunyin Mountain Villa secretly sends someone to send some silver over every year, why are your lives still so poor?"

Seeing the sincere apology in the young man's eyes, the girl's heart relaxed slightly. She rubbed the corners of her eyes and replied, "In addition to maintaining everyone's basic life, the money in the village is used by Grandpa to buy books and reading things for the children in the village." ”

Yun Xuelan didn't answer, and after pondering for a moment, he asked, "I don't know what your name is?"

"Grandpa named me Frostfall. The girl in the green cotton jacket replied.

"Frost falls. Very good name. Frost Fall, let me inquire with you, there used to be a teacher in your village surnamed Tao, do you know where he lived?" Yun Xuelan asked.

Without thinking, the girl replied, "There is no teacher surnamed Tao in the village. The children in the village are all literate from their grandfather. The tone was firm.

Seeing that the girl's expression didn't seem to be lying, Yun Xuelan frowned and asked, "Isn't Frostfall's grandfather surnamed Tao?"

The girl shook her head and said, "Grandpa's surname is Du." ”

"Du?" Yun Xuelan muttered to herself. Then he took out a toad made of topaz from his bosom, handed it to the girl, and said, "Frostfall, can you take this to your grandfather." He is an old man in the village, help me ask him if the owner of this jade toad is still in the village. ”

The girl didn't take the thing in the young man's hand, she stared at the jade toad for a long time and said, "This thing is too valuable, how can you trust it to me?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, obviously not expecting that the reason why the girl did not take the jade toad was this. He stood up, walked up to the girl, then squatted down, took the girl's arm, put the jade toad on the girl's palm, then gently closed the girl's fist, smiled softly and said to the girl: "Because Frostfall is a good person, and all the people in your village are good people." No one in your village will take anything from another person for himself. ”

It seems that it is the first time that someone from outside the village has spoken to a girl so modest and friendly, and the little girl in green has blinked her big eyes, and her eyes are a little ruddy, but this time she is not wronged. She didn't look at the objects in her hand, but nodded emphatically, and said before leaving: "Tomorrow morning, you enter the village, the courtyard on the edge of the ancient well is our family, and you can ask grandpa when the time comes." When it was late, my grandfather wouldn't let me go out. With that, he ran back to the village in the darkening sky.

Yun Xuelan watched her back disappear from her sight, turned her head, and there were only two empty plates left in front of her. At this moment, Ding Ye's mouth was stuffed and he looked at the young man with embarrassment.

Yun Xuelan lit a bonfire and sat down beside the black felt boy. He took out the white wooden flask, tilted his head and took a sip, then handed it to his choking companion. Ding Ye took a few sips, then patted his chest and smoothed down the thing stuck in his throat.

Ding Ye ignored Yun Xuelan's middle finger raised at him, and he asked curiously: "The people in this village are strange, you talked to the old man before, and he ignored you. Now he asked his granddaughter to bring us food, which made the gods chatter. Eh, by the way, what is the origin of your jade toad, his master is the person you are looking for? Ding Ye asked a basket of questions in one breath, but Yun Xuelan just smiled mysteriously and said that everything will be clear tomorrow, and then closed his eyes and cultivated. The black-felt boy lay on his back, put his felt hat over his face, and soon began to snore faintly.

Around the time of the ugly, Yun Xuelan was alarmed by the sound of Suosuo and opened her eyes. The boy had already extinguished the bonfire, leaving darkness. The boy looked to the place where the voice had come from, and a dozen dark shadows were taking advantage of the moonlight towards the village.

The eyesight of the group was naturally not as good as that of Yun Xuelan, who was a martial artist, and they didn't notice that there was a pair of eyes staring at them playfully under the remnant wall. One of them was a little excited, but he deliberately lowered his voice and said, "It's a horse, two horses." It seems that outsiders have come to this mourning village. It just happened to make a few buddies make a windfall. ”

Another somewhat deep voice scolded: "Sixth, don't act rashly. People who can ride horses in Daxia are either rich or expensive, and all the stagecoaches in Daxia have a brand and need to be registered with the government. If we take the horse away and track it down in the future and find out to us, won't it harm our village? ”

"Big brother, don't make a big fuss. The voice that spoke first retorted with some disdain, "What are you afraid of, with Sun County's order in his pocket, how could he watch us have an accident?"

"Yes, eldest brother, what the sixth said is right, Sun County ordered us to rectify the people in this mourning village, we were all petty before. If it was just because this village almost lost his black yarn hat because of what happened ten years ago, he wouldn't have hated this village so much. It must be that he has something to do with the people of this village that is unknown. Lord Sun is not easy to say, we have to share his worries, it is better for us to do nothing this time and burn down the village. A gloomy voice said, and the more it came later, the more sinister it became, as if it was about to light a fire now.

"Third brother, don't come nonsense. I've heard that this mourning village has always been secretly protected by Yunyin Mountain Villa. The sound of an urn sounding the sound of an urn.

"Fourth, you can't be stupid, if they really have anything to do with Yunyin Villa, why don't Yunyin Villa intervene? But now, I'm afraid that Yunyin Villa will also feel that this mourning village is an eyesore. In the past ten years, don't say a champion, not even a single person has come out, and a village where the school has been burned down, Yunyin Villa has long been abandoned. The person known as the third brother said.

Although everyone was far away, the conversation clearly reached Yun Xuelan's ears. When he heard that a few people had really decided to burn down the village, ignoring dozens or even more old and weak women and children in the village, his face finally became gloomy.

He sighed helplessly, if these people just came to make trouble as the little girl in the green cotton jacket said, and the whole village was not at peace, Yun Xuelan would only teach a few people a small punishment. He's not a murderer after all. Before leaving, Mr. Zhongli, who had never spoken much, explained a few things to the young man. Coming here to find someone is also one of the important purposes for the boy to leave Yunyin Mountain Villa this time. Zhuangyuan Village is of great significance to Yunyin Mountain Villa and even the entire southeast Yin Xunzhou. As one of them said, Yunyin Mountain Villa did send people to secretly take care of Zhuangyuan Village, but there were very few people who knew about it. But it wasn't what the man said, Yunyin Villa ignored the now declining and dilapidated Zhuangyuan Village. It's just that for various reasons, it is not possible to protect the village and its people in a big way. In this way, the attention and suspicion of some people will not be drawn to the village. And the Sun County Order that a few people said before arranged for them to target Zhuangyuan Village everywhere, which was a trick for people with a heart to test Yunyin Villa. If Yunyin Villa can't hold it first, worrying about the prosperity and safety of the village, and sending people to protect it, then it will be in the hands of some people, and the previous Taoguang Yanghui will fall short, and the forces that oppose the villa will definitely take action at all costs against Zhuangyuan Village, and the blow to the entire Yun family can be described in a few words.

It's just that now the time is ripe, or the situation of Yunyin Villa at this time forced Mr. Zhongli to make a dangerous move and use the chess piece of Zhuangyuan Village. Use the forbearance of these ten years to gamble on the future of the teenager and the future of Yunyin Mountain Villa and even the entire southeast Yin Xunzhou. It's just that the one-armed old man is not sure whether Yun Xuelan's trip will be able to get his wish.

Yun Xuelan took out the bloodthirsty divine bow that had not appeared for a long time from the mustard seeds. The boy just pointed his bow at the approaching crowd, and with a few slight flicks of his fingers on the bowstring, several screams rang out from the crowd. The chaotic crowd lit torches. In the firelight, everyone saw a figure walking slowly. The group that thought it was an ambush was relieved to see that the other party was only one person.

A burly middle-aged man stood in the middle of the crowd, already pulling out the hunting knife hanging from his waist in his hand, and he reminded in a cold voice: "Be careful, this person must be a martial artist." ”

Behind the man, a fat man with a double axe said angrily: "A child whose hair has not yet grown, let me chop him up and feed it to the dog." As he spoke, he rushed to the young man in green shirt regardless of it.

"Fourth brother, come back!" Before the reminder voice behind the fat man fell, a cyan light and shadow flashed in front of the person holding the double axe, and then everyone saw a headless corpse running forward a few steps, and then "Bang, poof" The axe and body fell to the ground one after another.

Before everyone could react, a black shadow fell from the sky and flew straight towards several people. One of the men armed with a hatchet subconsciously slashed at the flying object. Before the middle-aged man at the head could speak, the head that had been split in half rolled to the ground.

The man who drew the knife took two steps back with a defeated face, and the knife in his hand fell directly to the ground. He muttered vaguely: "Four, four, fourth brother." ”

"Who is Your Excellency?" asked the middle-aged man with a hunting knife in a deep voice. But all that answered him was the footsteps of the Tsing Yi figure moving forward. The middle-aged man spoke again with some reluctance: "I don't know if Your Excellency has settled here, disturbing the honorable driver, I hope you will forgive me, I will leave now." With that, he waved his hand behind him, and the group stepped back. But the footsteps of the people who came did not stop because of the retreat of the crowd.

As if unable to bear the oppression brought by the person in front of him, one of the people in the team rushed forward with a shout. Moments later, the man's body was raised, a white arm poked out of the back of the heart, and the body was thrown to the ground like garbage.

Suddenly, everyone heard the whisper of the person in front of them, and the voice was extremely low, as if it was something "You woke up, it turns out that you also want to kill these damned people"

The middle-aged man led by him roared in a low voice, "pretending to be a ghost", but as soon as he spoke, a black shadow flew out of the man in green shirt. After a few breaths, a small black beast came out of the chest of the last corpse, licked the blood from the corner of its mouth in satisfaction, and jumped back into Yun Xuelan's arms. The boy took out a talisman and threw it at the corpse, then turned and walked back to his sleeping companion.

In a dilapidated house in the village, a voice sighed softly, playing with a topaz toad in his hand, but his sigh could only be heard by himself.