There is a small courtyard in front of the village chief's house, and in the early years, there were often chickens and ducks together.

But when it came to the era of famine, the rabbits died and the dogs cooked, and only an empty piece remained.

I heard that Leper Chen cooked the youngest son of the family because he had no food to eat.

After eating for a month, the stupid daughter-in-law of the family found out that her child was missing, and she cried for several days looking for Leprosy Chen. In a fit of rage, he cooked his stupid daughter-in-law too.

The stupid daughter-in-law was stupid and strong enough, mixed with some bark and rotten leaves, and then dried the internal organs, and ate it for more than three months.

Therefore, when everyone is yellow and thin because of lack of food, the two people here with ruddy blood are particularly eye-catching.

Leper Chen was covered in leprosy, and no one wanted to look at him more. The eyes were focused on Chang Xiaoyun and Chen Laoshi.

Every time Fu Honglei went hunting in the mountains, he would give some prey to Chen Qianqing.

This was taught to him by Chen Qianqing, because she was his future daughter-in-law, and he wanted to raise her.

Fu Honglei asked his father, and his father said, "Reasonable." ”

So when other people's families are gnawing tree bark and eating loess, Chen Laoshi's family still has meat to eat.

Fu Honglei can always find prey, even when other villagers dig three feet into the ground and find nothing, he can still catch prey.

So Chen Laoshi's family always has meat to eat.

Chen honestly said: "The villagers are hungry, let's divide some of them, no matter how bad it is, we can always save a few people." ”

Chang Xiaoyun said: "If you share their meat today, they will come to eat your meat tomorrow." ”

Chen honestly said: "Why is this? They are all uncles and uncles, who are kind enough to help them, how can they come to harm me, everyone has a conscience." ”

Chang Xiaoyun said: "You say, the bark is delicious or the meat is delicious." ”

Chen honestly said: "Of course the meat is delicious. ”

Chang Xiaoyun said: "They gnaw on the bark, gnaw and gnaw, and they get used to gnawing." They can also make a living by gnawing on tree bark. But if you give them a taste of meat, how can they still be willing to gnaw on the bark? At first, they will be grateful to you, but not for long. Until one day, you have no meat to eat, and they come back and beg you to share a little of it. If you don't divide it, they will hate you, and they will think that you have hidden the meat and want to eat it for themselves. But if you don't have meat, they won't ask for it, so they'll cut it themselves. At this time, it is the flesh of your body that is cut, the flesh of your child. A person has a conscience, but a person who is hungry is not a human being. ”

Chen Honest doesn't understand, he is an honest person, and he can't turn a corner about things that are too complicated. But he knew that his daughter-in-law, his wife, was full of poetry and books, and she knew everything, and he just had to listen to her.

So on this day, the villagers came hungry to ask the Taoist priest for help.

Chang Xiaoyun is very smart, very smart. She knew that she couldn't reason with this group of desperate villagers, so she tried to find a way to expose this demon.

But she's not smart enough, she's not smart enough to save herself. She had a good plan, but she overlooked one thing.

The villagers came hungry.

In addition to themselves, there are hungry wives and children at home.

They are definitely not reasoning.

The loess can be swallowed, how can it be reasonable with you.

She has thought of them enough to be affectionate, but in the end, in her heart, she still treats them as human beings.

They are here to find a hope, a hope to live, a hope not to starve again.

The Taoist priest closed his eyes and did not speak for a long time.

Chang Xiaoyun was unforgiving, and then asked: "Dao Chief, please give me some advice." ”

The Taoist priest suddenly opened his eyes, bounced up from his seat in fright, and then angrily scolded Chang Xiaoyun: "Bold demon woman!"

Chang Xiaoyun sneered in her heart and said, "Demon Dao!

The Taoist priest stood upright on the table and said to everyone: "Poor Dao specializes in psychic arts, and is not good at divination, so I had to go to heaven to ask the Supreme True Monarch again in the face of this demon woman's questioning just now." On the way, he met the bear king Daxian, knew my intention, and revealed a secret to me. ”

After speaking, he deliberately paused and secretly observed everyone's reactions, if the situation was not right, there would be no time to slip away.

Seeing that everyone was looking at the Taoist priest nervously, unaffected by Chang Xiaoyun's words, the village chief asked, "What is the secret, is it related to the drought in my village?"

"Exactly! It turns out that the Great Immortal of the Bear King came down to arrest this demon woman!" After speaking, the Taoist priest pointed at Chang Xiaoyun angrily.

Chang Xiaoyun said disdainfully: "Full of nonsense." ”

Chen Laoshi argued vigorously: "How is it possible, Xiao Yun and I are a married couple, we have been in love with each other for more than ten years, how can she be a demon woman!"

"Shut up!" the village chief said.

"This demon woman was originally a poisonous snake in the mountains, and by chance she accidentally ate the immortal grass left by the Supreme True Monarch in the world, and with her cultivation, she transformed into a human form. Zhenjun remembered that her cultivation was not easy, so he deliberately let it go. Who knew that she didn't know the current affairs, and possessed the eldest lady of the Chang family, and ate her soul and replaced it. When the Supreme True Monarch heard this, he was furious, so he sent the Bear King Daxian to investigate here, waiting for an opportunity to eliminate harm for the people. ”

The villagers were talking, and their suspicious eyes kept scanning Chang Xiaoyun. Chang Xiaoyun is naturally beautiful, and she is really a bit amazing like a snake and scorpion.

At this time, there were whispers in the crowd, but the room was not large, and these words reached the ears of everyone.

"I remember that when she first married into our Chenjia Village, my family's two old hens died inexplicably. ”

"I also remembered that once she passed by my old buffalo and touched the cow's head, and within half a month my old cow was gone. ”

"And my family's prosperity, that is, the old dog who has been with me for more than ten years, yelled at her twice that year, and disappeared that night. ”

The talk is getting louder and louder, and the content of what they are talking about is how Chang Xiaoyun poisoned their livestock.

The poultry in the village are often harassed by the rat wolf in the mountains, and it is impossible to prevent it, and in previous years, who lost a chicken and died a dog, stood at the head of the village and scolded two sentences and considered themselves unlucky. But now there is a scapegoat in the crowd, and she can't wait to throw any charges at her, and even one family said that their sow had a difficult birth because of Chang Xiaoyun's poisonous curse.

The pursuit of the truth is often difficult. Villagers who can't afford to eat don't like difficult things. They like simple solutions, for example, all of this is done by Chang Xiaoyun.

They are willing, and even hopeful, because of Chang Xiaoyun.

This is the easiest problem for them to solve.

It's just a matter of killing someone, how difficult it can be.

At this moment, they even forgot that Xiong Wang Daxian was a cannibal, but they could clearly point out the relationship between Chang Xiaoyun and the livestock in the village.

Chang Xiaoyun has a bad heart, she underestimated the cunning of the Taoist priest and the ignorance of the villagers.

She also has a back hand, which can refute the Taoist priest to the fullest.

But after all, she is a woman who comes out of the boudoir, and she can understand and explain any reason, but she never thinks about whether she has a chance to speak.

Some people are unreasonable.

There was so much money in everyone's mouths that she couldn't refute them all.

I had no choice but to say angrily: "Everyone here is the uncle and uncle of my man, and at this moment, I can really suspect myself because of a few words from outsiders." ”

Leper Chen has always had bad intentions towards Chang Xiaoyun, and took the opportunity to say: "You Chang Xiaoyun is a female streamer, and you are also an outsider, this is the place where the village is discussed, and there is no place for you to speak." ”

Chang Xiaoyun said: "You are indiscriminate, you bully your own juniors like this, how can you face your ancestors and ancestors after death." ”

"How to face the ancestors and ancestors is our Chen family's business. In order to protect our Chenjia Village and expel you as an outsider, our ancestors will not blame us. ”

"Yes!"

"That's it!"

"Get people with foreign surnames out!"

"Witch! Give me back my sow!"

Chang Xiaoyun's voice was drowned out, and no one could hear what she said anymore.

Maybe ten years later, maybe ten days later, when the riots are over, when people can fill their stomachs again, some people will think back to today, Chang Xiaoyun is right.

But crowd sentiment is a blind force, once ignited, it needs blood to extinguish it.

Seeing this, the Taoist priest knew that he had mastered the center of public opinion again, and he snickered in his heart, and remained silent on the surface: "Neither is it nor not." Expelled her, she changed her skin, and harmed the world as well. ”

The village chief said, "What did the Taoist chief say to do?"

The Taoist priest said, "The Bear King Daxian has a decree that this person must be cleansed, and he will be retreated from the poor path for three days, and then burned to the sky." before the drought can be stopped and the nectar can be rained. ”

The villagers shouted excitedly: "Burn her!"

Fu Yuxue is still sharpening her knife.

In two years, he changed seventeen whetstones.

Every whetstone is the heart of the stone. Like a snow ball that has been pinched, the weak parts are eliminated, leaving the hardest existence.

Every month, Fu Honglei would move a boulder from the mountain for his father. This mountain village has almost been polished by Fu Yuxue.

There was another person sitting in front of him at this time. a

A middle-aged man.

"The knife is blunt?"

"The knife is always blunt. ”

The young man said, "If it's a blunt knife, why polish it." ”

Fu Yuxue said: "A blunt knife needs to be sharpened." ”

After speaking, he glanced at Fu Honglei who was waiting beside him meaningfully.

Fu Honglei is a good boy, Chang Xiaoyun said so, and Fu Yuxue also thought so.

This kid deserves this knife.

The young man said to himself, "My name is Emperor Que." ”

"I don't care what your name is. ”

"I can save you. ”

"I don't need you to save me. ”

"What about him?" Di Que looked up at Fu Honglei.

Fu Yuxue also looked at Fu Honglei.

"He doesn't need you to save him. ”

Emperor Que said: "When the prestige of the sword was spread on the rivers and lakes, I unfortunately missed it, and when I heard the name of the sword master, the sword was already hidden. ”

Dao Jue was indeed hidden, even if he had not been incognito, he didn't expect anyone to find Chenjia Village.

Emperor Que said: "I heard that the absolute sword is the absolute one who will never survive. There are no living people under the sword. The reputation of the sword is passed down by the living. ”

Fu Yuxue didn't answer, and continued to sharpen the knife, the blade was faintly reflective.

This knife is about to start.

Emperor Que said: "In the early years, there were often unsolved cases in the rivers and lakes, and martial arts masters went out late at night to expose corpses in the wilderness. There was only one stab wound on the corpse, from the left shoulder, down the slash, and the internal organs were cracked. The method is the same, and some people speculate that it is the same person. ”

Fu Yuxue was still silent.

Emperor Que said: "Later, a ranger happened to meet you and Songshan Arhat in a martial arts competition, the same technique, killed with one sword. So, those unsolved cases hang on your head. ”

"Yes. ”

"It's not. ”

"You know?"

"I know. ”

"You know what. ”

"I know everything. Emperor Que said, "The murderous villain, named Meng Ruhu, is a bloodthirsty outlaw. He kills people just to rob people of money. ”

Fu Yuxue looked at him with some surprise, but still didn't speak.

"This Meng Ruhu is your master. ”

"Yes. ”

"But he died by your hand. ”

"Yes. ”

"Why?"

Fu Yuxue suddenly smiled: "Don't you know everything?"

Emperor Que said, "But I don't know what you think. If I knew, I wouldn't have come here. ”

Fu Yuxue didn't know how he knew he was here, and he didn't know why he knew about the choices he was about to face, but he wasn't interested in any of that.

What can a dying man be interested in?

If so, he would not have died.

"He's killed too many people, he deserves to die. Fu Yuxue said.

"You've killed a lot. ”

"So I'm damned too. ”

There was a sudden silence, and both of them spoke again.

Fu Yuxue's knife was sharpened faster and faster, and the whetstone was actually cut out of layers of stone skin. That's because the blade is so fast, as soon as it touches the whetstone, it's already cut deep.

The whole whetstone suddenly thinned, and after a few back-and-forths, it turned into a pile of powder.

"Your knife is sharpened. Emperor Que said.

"This knife is not easy to sharpen. After speaking, Fu Yuxue held the knife in her left hand, the blade was upward, and then her right hand stroked the blade gently, just like stroking a lover's face, warm and moist.

Blood flowed from his palm, slowly soaking the blade, and the whole knife was bright red.

After groping back and forth a few times, he finally stopped.

Fu Honglei skillfully presented two towels.

One wipe, one hand.

Wiped away the bloodstains, and the pitch-black blade appeared in front of him again. It turned back into the blunt knife with no blade.

Emperor Que suddenly smiled, replaced the wine with tea, and toasted Fu Yuxue.

Fu Yuxue also smiled, and even took a cup of tea in return.

He knew that in this world, someone finally understood him.

The rivers and lakes don't understand him, the world doesn't understand him, the master doesn't understand him, Chang Xiaoyun doesn't understand him, even if Fu Honglei, who is dependent on each other, still doesn't understand him.

But the person in front of him who met in Pingshui and had a relationship with one side understood.

He was happy.

He smiled happily.

He cried happily.

Dry tears, mixed with blood, swallowed into the stomach.

Emperor Que left, and before leaving, he said to Fu Yuxue: "It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that Fu Yuxue is ruthless and ruthless, and there will be no survivors under the knife. It's a pity that those mediocre people in the rivers and lakes would know that it is precisely because you Fu Yuxue is a person who values love and righteousness that you are willing to take this notoriety. Under the black broken knife, only Meng Ruhu's soul was not wronged. It's a pity that the stories in the rivers and lakes only exist in the mouths of the people in the rivers and lakes. The story in the mouth, how can it be true. ”

Fu Yuxue looked at the back of Emperor Que leaving, for a long time, and said to Fu Honglei: "In the future, maybe one day, maybe there will be no day." You will be a knife. I hope you can be the knife of this man. ”

Fu Honglei didn't understand what his father said, but what his father said was always right.