"Knock knock~!"

Li Xiuyuan knocked on the door of a family in this village with a few guards.

The one who opened the door was an old woman with white hair on her temples, a wrinkled face, and a sad face, and the old woman showed a little surprise in her eyes when she saw Li Xiuyuan and the others.

"We are passing travelers, passing by your village today, seeing that it is getting late, and we want to spend the night, I don't know if this mother-in-law is inconvenient. Li Xiuyuan gave a salute and said politely.

The old woman recognized Li Xiuyuan's polite appearance, guessed that it might be a scholar, and smiled a little helplessly: "Convenient, convenient, as long as a few people don't dislike the simplicity of the house." ”

"It's already grateful to have a place to live, how dare you be shabby. Li Xiu said from afar.

The old woman smiled embarrassedly, and only then invited a few people in, and then said: "There is a side room over there, although no one has lived in it for a long time, but it just so happens that I cleaned it up a while ago, and a few guests will stay if they don't mind." ”

She pointed to a simple side room.

"Well water, wooden basin over there, a few guests can use it at will, but the family has recently had rice grain, I'm afraid I can't entertain a few guests, and I ask a few guests to forgive me. ”

When Li Xiuyuan saw the shabby appearance of this old woman, he knew that this was a poor family, but the courtyard was cleaned up all around, and he could also see that this old woman was a very diligent person, such a diligent old woman, but her family was so poor, I am afraid that something will happen to this point.

"Please also rest assured that we will be responsible for eating and drinking, and we will definitely not cause trouble to my mother-in-law. He busied.

The old woman smiled a little ashamedly, said a few more words, and then turned back to the room.

Li Xiuyuanda: "Ma Dong, go to the wealthier people nearby and buy a stone of rice grain, didn't we buy a lot of game when we came here before, and we will cook it later." ”

Ma Dongdao: "Young Master, do you want to buy so much for one stone?"

"I can't finish eating and leaving it for this mother-in-law, it's the cost of the night's stay, this family looks quite poor, let's help it." Li Xiu said from afar.

"Yes, young master. Ma Dong replied and strode away.

For an ordinary family, one stone of rice grain is enough to eat for a long time.

A few people quickly, borrowed the stove, lit a fire to cook, and after a while, the smell of rice and meat spread.

"Fragrant, really fragrant, this game is a good taste when cooked, nothing is good on the mountain, just this thing is good, I never get tired of eating it on Wangchuan Mountain." ”

Wu Fei intoxicated and greedily took a few sips of the meat in the cauldron.

"Don't just eat by yourself, go add a bowl of rice, a bowl of meat, and send it to the mother-in-law, she hasn't eaten yet, add a little, take a bigger bowl,"

Li Xiuyuan said: "Forget it, don't go, your evil look will scare others, Niu Er, you are honest, you go." ”

"Okay big young master, let's go for the little one"

Niu Er answered, and sent a large bowl of rice and meat to the house.

After eating and drinking, the group fell asleep in the side room.

Li Xiuyuan didn't sleep, he sat alone on the couch and meditated with his eyes closed in the moonlight outside the window to regain his energy.

Not long after nightfall, he heard a loud bang on the door, and someone kicked it open, and an idle man walked in with a curse.

"Yes, is the stone back?"

Hearing the noise in the courtyard, the old woman who had been in the day hurriedly opened the door and shouted outside.

"Nonsense, of course I'm back, dead old woman, I'm almost hungry, do you have anything to eat?"

The idler, named Stone, walked into the room and sat down, and slapped the old table.

The old woman's wrinkled face showed a smile: "Yes, yes, son, you wait, I'll get it for you." ”

After saying that, the old woman hurriedly turned around and went back to the house, and brought out two large porcelain bowls from the cupboard, one porcelain bowl was filled with white rice, without a little wild vegetables, omnivorous, and the other porcelain bowl was full of meat, all of which were mixed with wild game from the mountains and boiled, and it was very fragrant.

Shi snorted: "Good rice meat, old woman, where did you get it, you can't catch up with such a good thing for the New Year." ”

"If you're hungry, eat it quickly, don't ask where you got it. The old woman smiled.

Without saying a word, Shi picked up the rice and was ready to eat, but he saw that a bowl full of rice was missing, and he said, "Why is this bowl of rice missing a piece and eaten by mice?"

"No, no, I didn't eat at night, so I took a small bite and didn't eat much. The old woman said.

Shi said angrily: "Dead old woman, you still have to come to eat my food if you haven't eaten enough, if you do this again next time, I will drive you out." ”

The old woman nodded resignedly, without squeaking.

Stone then buried his head in eating and drinking, a big bowl of rice and a big bowl of meat, eat so unpleasantly, sometimes eat the bones, feel the teeth, a mouthful of rice and meat all spit on the ground, look at the old woman next to the pain of the flesh pity, want to say a few words, but the words stopped at the side of the mouth, just silently squatted on the ground, picked up the rice meat that spit out, stuffed into his mouth and ate.

After he had finished eating, Shi threw the dishes and chopsticks on the table and said, "I'm full, go to sleep." ”

But as soon as he got up, he heard the sound of horses in the yard behind the door.

"Hey, this is a horse barking, how can there be a horse in the house?"

Shi Shi was puzzled for a moment, and hurriedly went to the backyard to take a look, but saw four healthy horses being placed in the backyard, which made his eyes light up suddenly, and he said happily: "Good horse, this horse can be sold for at least twenty taels of silver, this time his mother is rich." ”

After saying that, he wanted to take the four horses.

"Son, this is the guest's horse, I can't help it. The old woman hurried to stop it.

"Get out of here, dead old woman, what a guest is not a guest horse, this is my horse in my hands. ”

The stone was furious, and pushed the old woman to the ground, and was about to go and fetch the horse.

The old woman fell to the ground and grabbed his feet, crying out: "Son, I really can't help it, you stole someone else's horse, you will eat a lawsuit, and if you can't afford to pay it, you will die in prison, do you remember the crooked head in the next village? ”

Shi smiled and said: "That's right, this lawsuit can't be endured, since that's the case, then just don't do it, I'll go and call my brothers, and as a result, these guests will take away his property, so that no one will denounce it." ”

With so much money, it's worth it.

After speaking, he looked left and right, picked up a firewood knife on the ground, and prepared to go out.

The old woman was frightened, crying and shouting, clutching the stone, and not letting him do anything: "How can you do such a thing, this is murder for money, you can't do it." ”

"Damn, don't scream the dead old woman, if you call again, you will be heard. ”

When Stone heard the old woman screaming, he was afraid that the neighbors would hear her, so he was furious, and kicked the old woman several times, kicking her to the ground, trying to teach her a lesson and make her stop screaming.

The old woman snorted a few times, fell to the ground, and cried again, hoping to make a bigger fuss and put an end to such a wicked deed as the stone, knowing that if her son had done such a thing tonight, it would surely be doomed.

She couldn't let the stone do such a stupid thing anyway.

"Aren't you old woman afraid of beating, the more you beat, the louder you scream, you are thinking about bad things, right? ”

The old woman fell to the ground and cried and cried, "Come on, come on, help me." ”

"Damn, don't you hear, tell you not to scream, you still call, a handful of years, if you don't die, it's bad for me, because you dead old woman, Lao Tzu can't make a fortune all day long, how do you like to shout yes, Lao Tzu can't make your dead old woman shout. ”

Shi was a little panicked, afraid that he would really be heard and knew that the money had not been made by then, but he had eaten the lawsuit in vain, so he immediately became angry, picked up the firewood knife, and slashed at the old woman's head.

"Boom~!"

But just when he raised the firewood knife and was about to chop it, a thunderclap suddenly exploded in the sky, and the night that was still a bright moon instantly became cloudy.