The sound of dripping, the moon set and the sun rose, the night passed in a flash, and the next day, when the sky was bright, Xu Ke got up. He opened his sleepy eyes, looked at the bright morning sun outside the window, and remembered the gentle and lingering night last night, as if in a dream.

Rice Field Hime, who was lying next to him last night, was no longer in the room at this time, but there was still the fragrance of her girl on the pillow mattress. This burst of fragrance penetrated into Xu Ke's nose, Xu Ke suddenly felt that his face was hot, and his heart was embarrassed, he didn't dare to savor the dreamlike experience last night, so he hurriedly got dressed and walked out of the door.

The white-haired old man was sitting in the room, and when he saw Xu Ke going out, he hurriedly got up and greeted him with a smile: "Xu Gongzi is up! The rice field has made breakfast for you, and there is nothing to eat in the countryside, so please ask Gongzi to eat some!"

"Thank you, old man...... Uncle!" Xu Ke hurriedly bent down and thanked him. He originally wanted to call the other party "old man", but when the words came to his mouth, he still changed the sentence "old man". After getting along last night, Xu Ke seemed to feel closer to the owner of the house in front of him again. He wanted to find a closer name to express this subtle feeling of each other at this time, and after thinking about it, he had to call the old man.

"Childe is welcome, sit down!" The white-haired old man pulled Xu Ke to sit in front of a low table, and shouted to the kitchen: "Rice field, Xu Gongzi is up!"

In the distance, Xu Ke heard a young girl respond with a "......". Before long, he saw a graceful and pretty figure walking in in the bright sunlight outside the house. She walked into the room with a food plate and small steps. She is the woman Inada Ji that Xu Ke rescued from Baqi Island last night.

At this time, Inada Ji changed into a pale pink cloth dress, and her face was also washed with heavy makeup, no longer as bright as last night. This simple and elegant rice field Ji, with the warm morning sunshine, walked into the house, as if it also brought the warmth of the house...... Ji Lian of the rice field moved slightly, walked to Xu Ke's side, bowed to him slightly, and then put a bowl of delicate rice porridge on the food plate, as well as a few rice balls and some side dishes with porridge on the low table......

Xu Ke hurriedly stood up, and also followed the example of Daotian Ji, and bowed slightly to Daotian Ji. This scene of embarrassment, looking at the eyes of Inada Ji, the girl couldn't help but cover her mouth and sneer, turned around and took small steps, and ran out quickly with "tuk tuk".

Xu Ke scratched his forehead and looked at the back of Rice Field Ji in a daze. He only felt that it was a back that could give people incomparably warmth. At this moment, Rice Field Hime, like a happy bird, jumped with joy and quickly blended into the warm sunlight outside the house.

"Uncle, where is my second brother......? What about the other people in the house?" Xu Ke asked when he saw that only he and the old man were left in the house at this time, and the few masked black-clothed people who slept here last night were gone.

"Xu Gongzi, they left before dawn. Your second brother slept in the room on the south side, as if it were ...... Haven't gotten up yet. The old man replied.

"Uncle, my name is Xu Ke, you can just call me Xiao Ke, haven't you asked the old man for his name?" Xu Ke sat down, picked up the porridge bowl, and asked again.

"Ahem! Country man, useless laymen like us don't have to remember their names and surnames. The old man sighed.

Xu Ke knew that the old man didn't want to reveal his name, so he didn't ask anymore, but said: "Uncle, don't call me any 'son' anymore, I'm just a mortal like you......"

"Okay, okay, Xiao Ke, the porridge is cold, hurry up and eat it!" the old man hurriedly stretched out his hand and urged.

Xu Ke picked up the rice porridge that night, and saw that there were some vegetable leaves, chopped green onions, minced meat, and eggs in the porridge. The rice porridge is boiled just right, the rice grains are crystal clear, and its flavor is incomparably fragrant. Xu Ke opened his mouth and drank a few big sips, only to feel that the entrance was smooth and soft, the taste was refreshing, and he was serving a bowl of good porridge!

While Xu Ke was eating hard, he couldn't help but praise: "Uncle, I didn't expect that your family still has such delicious rice porridge!"

The old man smiled and said, "In our Mulberry country, what we drink is generally rice cereal and rice soup. However, when I was young, I also traveled all over the world, and I often heard people talk about the customs and customs of your country. I knew that you Qianguo people like to drink porridge, so I told the rice field, but I didn't expect that the rice field really boiled you a bowl of rice porridge. Xiao Ke, is the taste of this rice porridge acceptable?"

Xu Ke smiled: "Hmm...... The taste is pure, the fragrance is incomparable, and it is exquisite!" he thought to himself, the craftsmanship of this bowl of porridge is almost catching up with my sister Xiaobei in Xu's house. However, for a person who has never tried the method of cooking in Qianguo, it is naturally not easy to cook such an authentic bowl of rice porridge.

"Okay, good, Xiao Ke, then you can eat more, I'll call your brother too, let him ...... together" The old man stood up with a smile, and was about to go to the south room to wake up Zhu Wuneng.

"Don't!" Xu Ke hurriedly waved his hand to stop: "Uncle, my second brother has a habit, when he sleeps, he doesn't like to be woken up, in case he is woken up, he will get angry for no reason." ”

"That'...... Alright!" the old man sat down again.

Xu Ke said in his heart, with my second brother's appetite, I am afraid that if I cook all the grain stored in your family, I will not be able to fill his stomach. It's better to just let him go hungry! Naturally, it is inconvenient for him to explain his thoughts to the old man.

Xu Ke clicked three times and twice, and after neatly and thoroughly solving the breakfast that Inada Ji had carefully prepared for him, he suddenly remembered the experience on Yaqi Island yesterday, and asked:

"Uncle, did you come to the island last night just to give a 'sacrifice' to the Basilisk, why are the villagers here so afraid of the basilisk, and why do you send your daughter to the island to feed the snake?"

Xu Ke's questioning seemed to evoke the old man's infinitely sad past, only to hear him sigh dejectedly, and said sadly: "Don't hide this young man, I already have three daughters who have been sent by them."

He went to the island and made a sacrifice to the Great Snake of Yaki. Rice field she ...... She's already my last daughter!"

"What!" Xu Ke couldn't help but exclaim.

The old man told Xu Ke about his bitter past over the years. It turned out that the old man also came from a wealthy family when he was young. He read poetry and books, and wanted to gain a reputation in officialdom, but later he was tired of the glitz and glamour of the world, so he and his new wife simply went to this seaside fishing village to live in seclusion. They had four daughters, and although the family lived in poverty, they were also happy. Unexpectedly, a big snake with eight heads and eight tails suddenly appeared on the beach, which was called the Yaqi Snake by the people. The basilisk often stirs up trouble and brings trouble to the village. In order to avoid disasters, more than a dozen fishing villages around the village agreed that each village would offer an unmarried girl to the Yagi Orochi every year as a sacrifice to the Orochi. And since the seaside village sacrificed the maiden as a sacrifice on the night of the full moon, the Yaki snake did not appear in the village anymore.

When he heard about this, he wanted to take his wife and daughter away from the beach. But the people in the village knew that their family had four daughters, and each of them was young and beautiful, so they refused to let them move out. When it was time to make sacrifices, the whole village would often recommend his daughter as a sacrifice to the Yaki Orochi. In a few years, his three daughters were all eaten by the big snake. He wanted to fight, but he couldn't fight the ignorant villagers. The old wife couldn't withstand the repeated blows, and finally fell ill and left. Leaving him and Inada Ji's father and daughter to rely on each other, he thought that the people in the village would leave a daughter for him to die when he was old and frail. Unexpectedly, for the first time this year, the village chief asked Inada Ji to go to the island by name. The village chief also said that he should rest assured, even if he has no daughter, the whole village will provide for him.

Last night, despite his kneeling and pleading, the whole village forcibly took Inada Ji away, and threatened Inada Hime with the life of her father if she escaped halfway. According to the rules, the villagers also smeared the rice field Ji with grease and powder, and dressed her up, which sent her to Yagi Island. The old man was sad in his heart, and in order to see his daughter for the last time, he had to follow everyone to the island, until everyone placed the rice field on the stone slab in the cave, and he said goodbye to the only beloved daughter in the world with tears......

Xu Ke listened to the white-haired old man's narration, and not only lamented the sad life of the old man, but also lamented the stupidity and ignorance of the villagers. He punched the low table and said angrily:

"Uncle, don't worry, this time my second brother and I are here to kill evil monsters. This Basilisk is full of evil, so let's go to the island and chop it into pieces!"

After that, he immediately got up, went to the south room, kicked Zhu Wuneng on the bed, and said, "Second brother, the sun is on your buttocks, hurry up!"

Zhu Wuneng smacked his lips, turned over, and wanted to sleep again, but Xu Ke grabbed his ears and forcibly pulled him away from the bed.

Zhu Wuneng got up angrily, touched his big belly, and muttered: "Big brother, I'm having a good dream, why are you urging me so early!"

Xu Ke smiled and said, "Second brother, get up, let's fight the monster!"

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At this time, Na Yi Helong and his four subordinates were nowhere to be found, and according to what the old man said, Xu Ke guessed that they must have gone back to the valley. Xu Ke pulled Zhu Wuneng and didn't wait for him to eat something, so the two said goodbye to the old man and walked straight to the beach.

Daotian Ji didn't dare to talk to Xu Ke, she saw that Xu Ke and the two were about to leave immediately, so she hid behind the door and secretly watched Xu Ke's back gradually move away. Thinking of the lingering feelings last night, the heart of the girl Rice Field Ji couldn't help but beat suddenly, and her face was already crimson for no reason......

Zhu Wuneng has water beads on his body to help, and he can enter the water without getting wet. The two of them jumped into the sea, each of them used their skills, tread the water, and in less than half an hour, the two of them had already run to Yagi Island.

Revisiting the old place, Xu Ke had no intention of enjoying the scenery, so the two went straight to the ghost brake cave in Lushan. Along the way, Zhu Wuneng kept shouting, blaming Xu Ke for not letting him eat his stomach first. Xu Ke comforted Zhu Wuneng and said that as long as he killed the basilisk, he would go to the mountains to fight a bear and roast the bear's paw for Zhu Wuneng to eat.

The two walked into the cave, Xu Ke saw that the cave was still dark during the day, so he picked up some dry branches and firewood, bundled them together to make a torch, lit them, and went straight into the depths of the cave.

Xu Ke walked past the spacious stone room where Daotian Ji lay last night, and there were traces of yesterday's fight next to him. The big snake was nowhere to be seen, Xu Ke pulled out the double-strand sword, Zhu Wuneng carried the three-toothed nail rake, the two of them were on guard, and then walked inside.

Along the way, the ground was full of damaged bones, and I didn't know whether it was a human or an animal, and under the reflection of the torches, it was shocking. The more the two of them walked into the depths of the cave, the more they smelled the pungent fishy smell of the big snake, mixed with the smell of carrion of humans and beasts......

At this time, Zhu Wuneng sighed: "The smell in this dead snake cave is so bad, fortunately I haven't eaten today, otherwise, I really can't stand it, Old Zhu, I will vomit wildly!"

As they spoke, the two of them had reached the end of the cave. It turned out that this cave was really not deep, and it only took half a moment to reach the end. The innermost part of the cave is also a very spacious place, densely covered with all kinds of broken bones, and there are some snakeskin snakes next to it. However, at this time, the basilisk was not in the cave, and he did not know where he went.

Because the smell in the cave was really unpleasant, Zhu Wuneng had to cover his nose, Xu Ke also covered his face with his sleeves, and the two turned around and retreated outside the cave.

Neither of them expected that when they arrived on Yagi Island, they did not find the Yaqi Snake. Since he couldn't fight the monster, Zhu Wuneng immediately thought of the important thing in his stomach. At this time, it was past noon, and Zhu Wuneng had been on an empty stomach since he got up

When he got out of the hole, he immediately shouted and screamed to catch a bear to eat.

Xu Ke smiled at his second brother, and immediately led the second brother to the dense forest on the mountainside. However, there is a small deer mountain on this island, where can the big bears be hunted? Xu Keqian patrolled the mountains, and from time to time saw hares, squirrels and the like jumping back and forth, he secretly shook his head, and said in his heart, how can these little heads and legs be enough for the second brother's appetite?

Xu Ke and Zhu Wuneng searched back and forth in the mountains, and after looking for an hour, they finally found a huge wild thing, but it was a black-haired boar with a body of more than a foot long. Xu Ke didn't have time to think carefully, took a step forward, and the double-strand sword in his hand suddenly flew out. He didn't need to rely on his sword energy, the sword that blew gold and sharpened iron, the blade of the sword passed over, and immediately cut off a huge pig's head of the mountain boar.

Xu Ke looked quite embarrassed after seeing that his prey was actually a wild boar. He hurriedly asked Zhu Wuneng: "Second brother, this is a mountain boar, ...... you Can you eat it?"

Zhu Wuneng's stomach was already rumbling with hunger at this time, and when he saw that Xu Ke had finally hit the prey, he was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed the pig's body and dragged him down the mountain. As he walked, he replied: "Why can't you eat it? Who said that my Lao Zhu doesn't eat pork? First of all, those two front legs are mine!"

Looking at Zhu Wuneng's figure dragging a black pig down, Xu Ke scratched his forehead, and couldn't help but wonder: "Second brother, don't they all say that you are the ...... 'that'?"

Unexpectedly, Xu Ke's low muttering was still listened to by Zhu Wuneng. I could only hear Zhu Wu shouting from afar: "Big brother, don't listen to their nonsense! My old Zhu is not a pig! I am a god general of the Heavenly Court, and I used to be in charge of 100,000 heavenly soldiers, but I am majestic!"

It's just that Zhu Wuneng muttered again, but Xu Ke couldn't hear that sentence. Zhu Wuneng whispered to himself: "Senior brother, I didn't go down to earth this time for you?!" I just fell for the trick of the Queen Mother of the West, and accidentally cast a pig's body by mistake! I think back then, my canopy was a jade tree in the wind, and even the fairy Chang'e was impressed by my charm......

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The two dragged the boar's fat body to the seashore. Xu Ke asked Zhu Wuneng to pick up some dead branches and sticks. He picked up the double-strand sword, relied on the sharpness of the sword, and only brushed the ground a few times, and cut off all the pig's legs, shaved and descaled, and put them in the sea water to clean.

At this time, if the old dragon king of the East China Sea saw that one of his famous swords was actually used by Xu Ke to remove the hair and descale of the wild boar, it is estimated that he will be so angry that the dragon's beard will tremble and raise thousands of miles of wild waves in the sea.

Xu Ke grew up alone since he was a child, and mountain barbecue is also his specialty. He built a stand with a wooden stick, hung two pork legs on the support, and made a fire, which he turned over and baked.

At this time, the two of them did not bring barbecue seasonings with them. Xu Ke had to scoop up some seawater from time to time and pour it into the pork, giving off some salty and fragrant flavor. As the fire continued to bake, the fat of the wild boar meat overflowed from the skin of the meat from time to time and fell into the fire, and the smell of the meat made Zhu Wuneng salivate, and he couldn't wait to break off a piece of meat and put it in his mouth to chew......

Xu Ke was busy for more than an hour before he roasted the two front legs. The pork leg is grilled on the outside and tender on the inside, the skin is crunchy, the meat is delicious, and the fragrance is incomparable. Zhu Wuneng held it in his mouth, hurriedly opened his mouth to chew, swallowed hurriedly, and applauded loudly while eating meat.

Xu Ke only tore off a few pieces of meat, and handed over the other front leg to his second brother. The two finished eating the front leg and roasted the hind leg again......

After eating this barbecue, Zhu Wuneng was finally satisfied. He held his stomach in his hands and was addicted.

At this time, the sun was setting in the west, and before I knew it, it was sunset again.

The two walked around Yagi Island again, but there was still no trace of the big snake. Xu Ke saw that if he waited any longer, it would be dark, and he thought that it would be no good for him to fight the big snake at night, so he had to cross the sea again with Zhu Wuneng and return to the village where Daotian Ji was.

As soon as the two stepped into the village, they were taken aback. I saw that the walls of the whole village were crumbling, the grass and trees were burned, the houses were completely destroyed, and the whole thing was ruined.

Xu Ke really didn't expect that when he left in the morning, this fishing village was still full of smoke, and it was peaceful, but in half a day, it turned into a scorched earth. He hurried to the door of the old man's house, only to see that the three tiled houses in which the old man lived had collapsed, and the furniture in the houses, along with the beams and rafters, had also been burned......

"Uncle, uncle......" Xu Ke shouted anxiously. He hurriedly pushed away the clod of soil beside him, looking for the old man's traces.

"Unexpectedly, we went to the island to find that Basilisk, and the basilisk actually attacked this village!" Xu Ke couldn't help but secretly resent.

"Yes, we must have rescued the woman that the villager used to sacrifice, annoyed the basilisk, because it was revenge today, we should have waited for it in the village, cough!" Xu Ke sighed secretly, regretting it in his heart.

"Uncle!" Xu Ke shouted, and finally found the white-haired old man in a corner where the broken wall was closed. It's just that Xu Ke's call, the old man couldn't reply anymore. At this time, his mouth and nose were bleeding, his eyes were facing the sky, and his breath was gone, and he had obviously been out of breath for a long time.

Xu Ke hugged the old man's body and couldn't help but say sadly: "Uncle, we're a step late, uncle, wake up!"

At this time, Zhu Wuneng, who was behind him, stepped forward and pulled Xu Ke's shirt and reminded Xu Ke: "Big brother, look at his left hand!"

Xu Ke stopped his grief and carefully inspected the old man's body, but saw that although his eyes were facing the sky, his head and face were still tilted to the left, and his entire left arm was stretched out straight to the left.

Looking down the old man's left arm, there was a well......