The shirtless man's name is Yu Yuan, from Huangsha City in the desert, and the two children behind him are his children, and they are the first time to go out with him to sell bacon, in order to see the scenery beyond the desert, and the two young people are following to help.

Yu Yuan is the city lord of Huangsha City, there is no city lord in this city, but Yu Yuan can usually lead everyone to make money, which can make everyone's life better, just like a tribal leader, he has unconsciously gained people's respect, so the city lord is also born.

Yu Yuan has been bare-chested in the desert all the year round, his skin is very dark, and his tendons and flesh look extremely strong.

After about an hour, the sky gradually darkened, and the group came to a place called Huangsha City.

Although it is a city, it is not much bigger than an ordinary village.

The buildings in the city are slightly different from the outside, and most of the houses here are made of sand and have little earth.

As the group walked around the city, Hua Wenxiang asked, "Why don't you move out of the desert?"

He felt that it was inconvenient to live in this desert and do anything, so why should he suffer this sin here.

Yu Yuan said: "Everyone is used to living here, and they are too lazy to move in and not go out to live." ”

The flowers are warm and fragrant, and the land is relocated, which is normal for people.

Yu Yuan said again: "In fact, the desert is not as bad as you think, the desert also has its unique charm, there is a forest not far from our Huangsha City, there is everything in it, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking." ”

Hua Wenxiang wondered, "There is still a forest in this desert?"

Yu Yuan nodded and said, "There must be five or six forests, some big and some small, and the one near Huangsha City is quite large." ”

The two of them and a cat really can't understand this desert, and if someone lives or not, there will be a forest......

Huangsha City at night is not lively, pedestrians on the road are three or three, after seeing Yu Yuan and his party, they greeted enthusiastically, asked whether this trip to Baifengzhou was smooth, and asked Yu Yuan's two children if they were happy to play this time, showing a simple farm style.

Hua Wenxiang asked, "Where is the inn here?"

Yu Yuan said: "We don't have an inn here. ”

In the desolate desert, where are there so many passers-by.

Yu Yuan then said, "You can live in my house for the time being." ”

Hua Wenxiang smiled: "It's been a long time to be bothered." ”

After arriving at Yu Yuan's house, the two young men said goodbye and left, and before they left, Yu Yuan gave each of them fifty taels of silver, which was regarded as the reward for this trip to Baifengzhou.

They go to Baifengzhou to sell bacon, depending on the price given by people, people like Hua Wenxiang, who have some money at a glance, will ask for more, and ordinary people will ask for less. Every time I go out, I can sell three or four hundred catties of meat, and most of the money from these sales must be distributed to the people in the city.

And Yu Yuan and the people who helped together took more hardship than other people, and never embezzled money.

There are less than a thousand people in Huangsha City, almost like a big family, people here do not distinguish between you and me in making money, and the camels in the city are all raised by people, each working together to help each other.

Every time Yu Yuan left the desert to sell camel meat, he would bring three or four people with him, and everyone would make money and live together.

Yu Yuan's family is relatively large, enough for a group of flowers to live.

He has a wife at home, in addition to the two children who went to Baifengzhou this time, there is also a newborn son at home.

Hei Qiu'er is surprisingly lazy, and it is even more so after eating, Yu Yuan's two children think it is interesting, so they keep talking to it, Hei Qiu'er has questions and answers, not cold, and looks lazy, as if an adult is a little impatient coaxing the two children.

Yu Yuan said: "There is still some bacon in the barrel, if you are hungry, you can eat it yourself, these don't cost money, it will be regarded as a treat for you." ”

Hua Wenxiang thanked him.

Yu Yuan stretched his waist and said, "I'm a little tired, so I'll rest first, I'm going to the forest early tomorrow morning, if you have nothing to do, you can go around with me." ”

Hua Wenxiang agreed, "Then Brother Yu will go and rest first." ”

Yu Yuan asked his wife to help take care of Hua Wenxiang and the others, and now he just wanted to take a good rest after being on the road for several days.

The next morning, Yu Yuan got up early, but found that Hua Wenxiang and they got up earlier than him, and at this time the two of them and a cat were eating bacon in the barrel.

Yu Yuan smiled: "When you finish eating, let's go." ”

After a while, before they left, Yu Yuan's two children came out, the two children, the boy named Yu Shan and the girl named Yu Liu, said in unison: "Dad, we are also going to the oasis." ”

Yu Yuan's appearance was originally a cold man's image, but in front of his own pair of children, he looked extremely gentle, "It's okay to go, but you have to listen to your father on the way." ”

The brother and sister hummed in unison, on the journey to Bai Fengzhou, the brother and sister were very happy, living in the desert, they suddenly went out to see the outside world, this freshness for the two children, it is simply the most interesting thing in the world, and the feeling of Hua Wenxiang when she came out of the forest is the same.

Yu Yuan's wife also woke up early, and he made a lot of steamed buns for several people as dry food on the road.

People in the desert are usually reluctant to eat camel meat, and generally eat pasta such as steamed buns.

After that, Hua Wenxiang and the others rode Yu Yuan's camel and followed him to the forest in the desert.

Hua Wenxiang took Yu Shan, Yu Yuan took his daughter Yu Liu, and Tu Yuelian took Hei Qiu'er, and the group went west in the desert in the early morning.

Hua Wenxiang asked, "What is Brother Yu doing in the forest?"

Yu Yuan said: "Go and pay tribute to a friend who died. Those who die in our desert will be buried in the oasis. ”

Hua Wenxiang didn't know how to talk for a while.

Just when he was a little embarrassed, he suddenly saw a group of people in the distance, but because it was too far away, only he could see it vaguely.

A moment later, those people appeared in their field of vision.

It is a group of people dressed in mourning clothes, and the first two people are holding wooden signs with the words "Silence" and "Avoidance" written on them.

Behind them was a middle-aged man who was fighting against white flags, and behind them was a group of young men and women wearing linen and filial piety.

Along the way, it was all white paper money thrown by this group of people, scattered and scraped everywhere.

Yu Yuan drove the camel to stop where it was, saying that he would wait for the group to leave before hurrying.

After these people left, Hua Wenxiang said: "The customs in the desert are not much different from those outside, but these people don't seem to be from Huangsha City." ”

Before they left, they didn't notice any of the funerals.

Yu Yuan said: "This is a person from Dawei City not far away, I heard my wife say yesterday that this is the eighteenth person who died over there, before I left, there have been dead people over there, and now it has become a rule, and one person dies every day." ”

He motioned to a few people to walk and said, "We have a good relationship between the two cities, and we often go out to do business together, but recently there is a strange thing in Dawei City, saying that the dead will return to the soul, and then go to kill the people close to them, at first where people would believe this absurd thing, until there was an open coffin autopsy that people were completely frightened, when the body was still in the coffin, and the body was also decomposed, obviously a dead man, but the dead man changed from lying down to lying on his stomach. ”

Hua Wenxiang wondered: "There is still such a strange thing?"

Yu Liu, who was in Yu Yuan's arms, said: "Daddy, don't say it, Liu Er is afraid." ”

Yu Yuan soothed: "Liu'er is not afraid, there is a father." ”

Hua Wenxiang's expression was complicated, and Tu Yuelian glanced at him, feeling that he was going to be nosy again.

Yu Yuan said: "I have to go to Dawei City in the evening, and a friend of mine died not long ago. ”

Hua Wenxiang said: "The person who is paying tribute to Brother Yu today is also from Dawei City?"

Yu Yuan nodded, "Dawei City has spent a lot of money to invite many exorcist Taoists in the past few days, in fact, there are not so many funeral customs here in our desert, and it would be good if the dead people were buried directly in the oasis before, and they were not as particular as they are now, but those Taoist priests said that it was because they didn't pay attention to the dead that they would make the dead resentful, and they would come back to their souls, saying that these are self-inflicted sins and cannot live, and I am sorry for the ...... of those who died." ”

Hua Wenxiang said helplessly: "Those Taoist priests are full of nonsense, this matter is definitely strange, I estimate that there is a chance that there are evil people who are making trouble in secret." ”

Yu Yuan asked, "Do you still know this?"

Hua Wenxiang was slightly ashamed and said: "I'm barely half an exorcist, so I'll go to Nadawa City with Brother Yu tonight to see if I can help them." ”

Yu Yuan was a little incredulous and said, "I really don't see that you still know how to exorcise ghosts at such a young age?"

Hua Wenxiang said with a smile: "The cultivation is not high, and it is just a casual cultivation." ”

(End of chapter)