The liveliness of Fengxia Town has reached its peak, with crowds surging, and people from the government and passers-by are fighting the fire with buckets of water. The fire was fierce, and there were many people watching the excitement around the black and smoky sky, and gradually the road was going to be impassable. This provoked an official to be furious and said: "Don't look at it! Why don't you come and put out the fire if you have arms and legs?" Having said that, it was still those people who took the initiative to help put out the fire.

The leading official was named Liu Jing, with a beard, thick eyebrows, big eyes, and a fierce and vicious look, and an extremely thick voice, and when he commanded his subordinates to extinguish the fire, he spoke like thunder, no wonder his subordinates did not dare to slack off at all. The chatter of the people around him made him very upset, and he always turned around and scolded them: "Look at the excitement!

The others looked at him like an angry lion, and they all walked away, but after a while they gathered.

The firefighting work continued until midnight, when the officials finally took a breath and sat down on the ground with exhaustion. And Liu Jing kicked them: "Get up, go back and report to the master, and then you have to catch the arson thief!"

After the officials left, most of the onlookers also left, and the ruins in front of them soon became the talk of the townspeople after dinner.

"Yo, that fire is so bad!"

"Isn't it! Such a big house burned down, and I don't know what happened. ”

"Are there dead people?"

"It seems that no one's body has been found. ”

"Weird, where have all the people gone?"

"Who knows? So it's a strange case! Apparently someone set the fire on purpose. ”

"Did you catch that guy?"

"Whew, it's not that you don't know the efficiency of our officials here, how can you close the case so quickly?"

"Haha, but I see that they are quite efficient when they extinguish fires!"

"No matter how efficient they were at that time, I'm afraid the entire Fengxia Town would have to be burned clean. ”

"Hey—it doesn't make a difference if you burn down the whole town now. ”

"How?"

"God, that's Cuixiang Building!

Fang Yunfei yawned, he slept comfortably in the carriage, and when he opened his eyes, it was almost noon. He suddenly felt that sleeping in the car was much more comfortable than falling asleep in the bed at home.

He lifted the curtain and slipped out. The coachman who drove the horse was called Xu Si, he didn't dare to close his eyes all night, he looked particularly haggard, he was originally in his twenties, but he seemed to want to be forty years old. Fang Yunfei had never cared about his subordinates, he just asked lightly, "Where are you?"

Xu Sidao: "After the small village in front, and then go due south, you can see Fengxia Town." ”

Fang Yunfei nodded and got back into the car. He cupped his forehead and said, "It's finally here." There is more helplessness in this sentence.

Fengxia Town almost occupied most of his memories, of which Poor Xiangyu accounted for a large part of it, poor Xiangyu was not in Fengxia Town at this time, and he felt empty in his heart. He knew that what he should go to was not Fengxia Town, but a place called Wanling Mountain. But he also knew that going to Wanling Mountain was equivalent to sending him to death. Although Hong Hanming and Qin Ping are both good at the rivers and lakes, who can guarantee that they will always protect themselves? He has never trusted others very much, and he has never had any confidants.

What he often does is drink a glass of wine in a glass and confide in some strange girls. He did this because he knew which girls weren't listening at all, and he was never afraid of them because they would forget what he had said to them after they had received a small amount of money from him.

Fang Yunfei sighed, and suddenly felt that he had become sentimental. Just as he was thinking about it, his stomach gurgled. When he thought about the fact that he hadn't eaten much at home with his aunt and mother last night, and that he had slept until noon, he couldn't help but feel empty and hungry.

He suddenly remembered that before leaving, his mother had brought him a bag of osmanthus cakes that she had made by herself, so he went out of the bag and prepared to eat a few to cushion his stomach.

He opened the bag and took out the packet of oiled paper. The oil paper was very finely folded, and he opened it little by little, and the pieces of snow-white osmanthus cake were like being made of the whitest snow in the world, and the tempting fragrance made Fang Yunfei's stomach scream.

He picked up a piece and put it in his mouth, and the sweet osmanthus cake was still the same as he remembered. He recalls that the first time he ate osmanthus cake was when he was seven years old. That day he was playing in the yard, and when he saw his sisters gathered around and didn't know what to do, he went over to look, but they deliberately avoided him. The more he tried to see what was going on, the more they wouldn't let him see it. Then he began to cry in a hurry, and his sisters came to coax him not to cry and brought him a piece of snow-white pastry. After eating it, he thought it was very delicious, so he wanted to ask for more, and his sisters gave him three more pieces in order to keep him from making trouble. But he didn't eat enough, and he still wanted it after eating, and his sisters had no choice but to beg his mother Liang Yunyun to restrain him.

After Liang Yunyun found out, she first blamed him, but he was naturally unhappy, so he locked himself in the house and said that he would not come out. Liang Yunyun saw that he was losing his temper again, and was feeling helpless, but suddenly he had an idea again. She went to the kitchen and made a plate of osmanthus cake with her own hands. She brought it to Fang Yunfei's door and said, "Wow, what a fragrant osmanthus cake! It's so delicious, there is a kid who will be eaten by me if he doesn't come out again!"

Suddenly there was a shout from the house: "No, no, no!

So saying, the door opened. A barefoot child stood there, looking directly at the osmanthus cake in his mother's hand, and his saliva flowed out.

"Mother, I want to eat osmanthus cake!

Liang Yunyun looked at this seven-year-old child, felt very cute, and suddenly pretended to be angry and said, "No, no." ”

Xiao Fang Yunfei waved his two hands anxiously and said, "Why?"

Liang Yunyun glanced at his feet and said, "Osmanthus cake can only be eaten by obedient children, and naughty children have no share!"

He has been very smart since he was a child, and he knew that his mother would see him standing on the ground barefoot if he didn't give him food, so he immediately walked to the bedside, put on his shoes, washed his hands in the basin, and returned to the door and said politely: "Mother, I have put on my shoes and washed my hands, can I eat osmanthus cake for my good child now?"

Liang Yunyun touched his head and said, "Okay, good, reward for the good boy." ”

She took a piece of osmanthus cake for Fang Yunfei, and little Fang Yunfei happily took it, and ate it clean in a few bites.

After eating, he wiped his mouth, and his eyes lit up and said, "Mother, mother, mother, this is so delicious! It's even better than what my sister gave me!" Where did you buy it?"

Liang Yunyun saw that he loved him so much, and her heart was sweeter than eating honey: "It's delicious, right?

He opened his mouth wide in surprise: "Ah, my mother can make osmanthus cakes! Great, my mother will make it for me every day!"

Liang Yunyun said: "Only good children can eat it!"

Xiao Fang Yunfei said: "Then I have always been a good child, and I have always had to eat the osmanthus cake made by my mother." ”

He remembers that he ate a lot at the time, and he had a toothache, and then he didn't dare to eat more, but he still didn't forget the taste.

This smell actually touched his own memories, he thought of his mother, and suddenly felt a little heartache, he owed his mother too much. He found that he had unconsciously shed tears, he wiped his eyes, ate the osmanthus cake in his hand in three or two bites, and rewrapped the remaining osmanthus cake and put it back in the baggage.

At this time, the carriage also came to a stop.

Fang Yunfei thought to himself, "Could it be that we arrived so soon, don't we have to pass through a village?" He lifted the curtain on the side of the carriage and looked out, only to find that the carriage was parked on the road, and there were stones and weeds on both sides of the road.

Fang Yunfei was a little unhappy in his heart, so he got out of the car and wanted to scold Xu Si. But in front of him were only two horses, and there was still the shadow of Xu Si.

He suddenly felt a little flustered in his heart, looked around, but didn't see Xu Si's shadow, when did he leave? He left, and who has been driving the car? The more he thought about it, the more furious his heart became, so he didn't dare to continue thinking, turned around and went back to the car, picked up the sword, put the burden on his back, and got out of the carriage.

He circled the carriage and looked around, and the surrounding area was deserted, and the road here seemed to have no end, and he did not know where it was. The key is that Xu Siyou suddenly disappeared, and all this happened not only strangely and strangely, but also a little frightening. Fang Yunfei was very scared in his heart now, although he had already drawn out his sword, but his courage still hadn't grown up in the end, because this sword was nothing to him, and he didn't know how to use a sword at all.

He shouted, "Xu Si!"

But no one responded for a long time, except for a few birds fluttering and flying by, there was no other sound, and the silence was suffocating.

He was getting more and more afraid of who was playing this joke on him, maybe that person was not joking with him at all, but wanted his life. He thought about it carefully, and he didn't offend anyone. He didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he immediately put his sword in his sheath, got into the carriage, and prepared to drive his own horse and chariot, and hurried out of this hellish place. He had never driven the carriage, and for a long time he had been shouting, and the horse seemed to be fixed on the ground, and did not move except for the occasional twisting of its head and panting.

He was in a hurry, and sweat was soaking through his clothes. He suddenly thought that he needed a horsewhip to drive a horse, but he looked around and didn't see the shadow of the horsewhip, so he cursed: "His grandmother's Xu Si!"

He couldn't find the whip, and he couldn't shout, how could he drive the cart? In a hurry, he suddenly drew his sword, aimed it at the buttocks of the two horses, and stabbed it gently. The tip of the sword seemed to touch the horse's buttocks only slightly, and the two horses were in great pain, and their hooves were flying. He quickly put his sword back into its scabbard, grasped the reins of the horse, and pulled it left and right, and the carriage turned to the left and then to the right on the road, and gradually moved away.

Fang Yunfei finally stabilized the direction, but the speed of the carriage gradually slowed down, and no matter how he shouted and shook the horse's reins, the speed still couldn't go up. Fang Yunfei gritted his teeth, and stepped on the wounds of the two horses just now, and the two horses really felt pain again and ran apart.

He didn't care whether the direction was right or wrong, he just wanted to finish the road quickly, but fortunately he finally saw that there seemed to be a small village ahead, so he said with peace of mind: "It seems that there is no wrong way." When you get to the village, you are not afraid. ”

As he was thinking, the carriage gradually approached the village.

The village was indeed small, with a dozen low houses that could be counted at a glance, and the village looked extremely desolate, like an abandoned orphan.

What made him even more unbearable was that he thought that he would be able to be bold when he arrived at the village, but he drove the carriage away for a while, and he looked around carefully, as if it was really an abandoned village.

"What bad luck!" he spat and frothed at the ground.

He shook the reins of his horse, and prepared to rush to Fengxia Town in one go, he remembered that Xu Si had said that after the village, he could reach Fengxia Town by walking south. Although he was not good at discerning the direction, it was noon and the sun was due south, so he turned his horse's head with great difficulty and drove in the direction of the sun.

It was almost time before he saw a stone erected next to the road with three red characters engraved on it: Fengxia Town. These three made him feel very relieved, and he shouted, "Boom." With both hands shaking the reins, the car continued to walk in the direction of Fengxia Town. At this time, he didn't care whether the car was going fast or not, as long as he didn't stop, because he couldn't be more familiar with Fengxia Town, he could tell the street shops there one by one like a few treasures, and he was not so familiar with the things at home.

He breathed a sigh of relief, he found that he was already covered in sweat and his hair was about to fall out, but he just wanted to lie down for a while.

He didn't go into the carriage to lie down, because he didn't like the feeling of sitting in the carriage at all now, especially the feeling of not knowing if there was anyone outside the carriage to drive for you, and he felt more and more that there was nothing wrong with relying on himself in everything, and he couldn't trust others.

Fang Yunfei lay down, his head just stuck into the curtain of the car, and in an instant, he was cold, and he even wanted to scream!

Because he had come across something, something that should never have been—a pair of feet! a pair of living human feet, against his head!

He screamed and tried to get up, but the foot was on his forehead, and he couldn't move.

He was so frightened, he was so scared that he was about to cry, he didn't have the heart to think about how this man got into the carriage, he just prayed that this man would not stomp on his head. He didn't want to die, he didn't want to die so badly.

After waiting for a long time, he was not dead, and there was no movement since the man's feet were placed on his head, only the carriage continued to walk in a bumpy way.

He half-squinted nervously, he was so scared that he didn't dare to open his eyes just now. Now he finally saw the man clearly.

Could it be Xu Si!

He held the whip in his hand, the tail of which hung straight down his face.