This night, Wu Song and Pan Jinlian hugged each other tightly, sticking their heads to their toes, and their fingers were tightly clasped, but Wu Song slept peacefully and was not restless.

The next morning he got up, and the old woman knocked at the door as usual, and cried out, "Judge, breakfast is ready, and it is placed outside the door." ”

Squeak, Wu Song opened the door, but she was startled, she eased up a little, and said: "Official, there is something at the old woman's house today, and I will bring it at lunchtime." ”

Wu Song didn't ask her what was going on, and said, "I'm tired!"

The old woman looked into the room and sighed, "The roof leaked again, but fortunately it didn't hit anyone, let me have my son tomorrow..."

Wu Song didn't think it was wrong, looked at the tray, and couldn't help laughing, Pan Jinlian laughed: "Isn't there an extra chicken for breakfast today, look at you, you glutton!"

"Lady, you don't understand!"

Pan Jinlian heard him call himself a lady, and her pretty face was as red as a ripe apple, but she thought about it: "What is the name of the lady if he doesn't call me?"

"In my hometown, no, it should be said that I left Qinghe County for two years, there was a custom in the old days, every year the owner had to prepare a dish at the reunion dinner, called 'ruthless chicken'"

"How can chickens have feelings, let alone be ruthless. Pan Jinlian found it very interesting.

"The chicken is whole, and it is held by the owner himself, and the head of the chicken will be against a fellow, and the fellow will have a sad face, and he will not know the taste of a meal. ”

"I understand, the guy who is facing the head of the chicken must have been fired by the owner, so he is unhappy, so the chicken is called 'Ruthless Chicken'"

"Yes, today my old mother brought a chicken, and I thought of the custom, she is not going to fire my job, but my life!"

Pan Jinlian pursed her lips and said angrily: "Don't say such bad things!"

Wu Song smiled, didn't speak again, looked at the tray, in addition to a chicken, there was also a bowl of chicken soup, a plate of garlic, a plate of soy sauce, a plate of chili, very particular.

Wu Song fed Pan Jinlian chicken soup, tore open the fat chicken, dipped it in garlic soy sauce, sandwiched it with chili peppers, and ate it very deliciously.

More than half of the hour passed, and the time was coming, Wu Song packed up his baggage, thinking that there would be a fight later, he couldn't help but dry his mouth, thinking that there seemed to be a jar of rice wine used for cooking in the kitchen, and he thought about it, so he walked out of the room.

"Erlang, are you going to find a drink to drink?" Pan Jinlian said with a smile.

"Isn't it!"

Wu Song walked to the kitchen, and suddenly saw a figure flashing in front of the hall, it was the old woman's son, he entered the kitchen, Wu Song stopped, the old woman didn't want to know about her son, he couldn't go out rashly, but he went back, and he seemed to be a thief, very embarrassed.

"Mother, my son doesn't want to die!"

"How could his son die?" Wu Song was surprised in his heart, so he took two steps closer and pricked up his ears to listen.

"Son, my mother won't let you die, so you can hide in peace, don't come out, and after noon, you will be safe for a long time. ”

Wu Songxin said: "It turned out that her son was worried that the officials and soldiers would burn the village, so he burned him to death. ”

"Mother, how can you not worry, they let go last night, if they don't hand over people, they will burn the village, and the son will die if he goes out, and he will die if he doesn't go out!"

"You can rest assured, my mother has arranged for you to replace the dead ghost, go back!"

"You're talking about the ..... room."

"Shh.......h

Wu Song was stunned in his heart: "How did I become a substitute for the dead! Hehe, it seems that the head of the 'ruthless chicken' is really aimed at me!"

He flashed, hid, and when the man left, he peeked into the kitchen, and saw the old woman playing with a soup spoon in a pot of soup, which smelled like chicken soup, and she took out a packet of medicinal powder from her waist and poured it in.

Wu Song was shocked, Pan Jinlian had already drunk chicken soup just now, he didn't think much about it, he grabbed it in one step, grabbed the old woman's chest with one hand, and lifted her high.

The old woman's face was so frightened that her face was like earth, her legs couldn't stop kicking, and she said in a trembling voice: "Official, why are you?"

"Say, why do you want to hurt my wife!"

"Why did you take revenge, I was kind enough to take it in, why did you become your wife?"

Wu Song disdained to argue with the woman, grabbed her and went straight to the firewood room, removed the wooden barrel, the woman's face turned pale with shock, the whole person softened, Wu Song pulled the floor, reached out and grabbed the man, and threw him on the ground.

He let go of the old woman, pulled out the dagger from his leather boots, and pressed it against the man's chest, and the old woman immediately knelt down: "Good man, don't hurt my son." ”

"But Tang Niu asked you to harm me?"

"No, you are the benefactor of Liu'er, how can he harm you. ”

"Then you're going to hurt me!" Wu Song slashed the man's face with a dagger, and immediately blood flowed, so frightened that the man couldn't speak, and the old woman just cried and kowtowed.

"You take out the antidote and read it on Tang Niu's face, and you spare your son's life!"

"The old body is not poisoned, there is an antidote!"

"Well, I heard that the human heart can cure all kinds of poisons, so I will dig out your son's heart and eat the antidote!"

Hiss!

Wu Song tore the man's clothes, the old woman screamed, fainted, and woke up after a long time, seeing that her son's heart was still fine, and Wu Song's dagger did not stab down, but just looked at herself coldly.

"Good man, it's not poison, it's just a dumb medicine, and I found out before I gave it to you. ”

"Dumb medicine!"

Wu Song felt more shocked than he sounded like some strange poison, he let go of the man, and the man slowly turned over and knelt on the ground, not daring to make a sound.

"Why did you let me and my wife take dumb medicine? I just heard you say that I want to be your son's substitute ghost, you tell me honestly, I will spare him, if you are not honest at all, immediately let your white-headed man send the black-headed man!"

The old woman knew that Wu Song was extremely hard-hearted and didn't dare to lie, so she said, "Good man, you should have heard what the officials and soldiers were shouting outside last night, right?"

Although Wu Song didn't know what was going on, he was sure that the official army was not here to arrest him, so he nodded and motioned for the old woman to continue.

"Our village, called Tianshen Village, according to legend, is a barefoot fairy with a big foot, originally very quiet, like a paradise in troubled times, I don't know when, came to the official army, said that our village is rich in strange stones, the emperor ordered, to levy the flower stone gang!"

"What is the Flower Stone Gang?"

"The official army ships to transport strange stones, ten ships for a gang, so called Huashi Gang, since there is a famous Huashi Gang, our village has fallen into a nightmare, the official army came, as long as you see who has a strange stone in the house, immediately break in, paste a seal, say that the strange stone has been owned by the emperor, the family is responsible for guarding the emperor, if there is damage, it is a crime of 'great disrespect'. ”

"Later, it was not limited to strange stones, but if you had a little money in your house, the officers and soldiers would come in indiscriminately, and see the table with a seal, and see the pigs and dogs also put a seal, anyway, if there is damage, it is 'disrespectful' unless you have silver to give to them, and the seal will automatically fall off. ”

Wu Song nodded, thinking: "Although Zhao Ji doesn't know how to be an emperor, he won't be so unreasonable, and it is the officials below who take the opportunity to make a fortune." ”

"Although that made the gold and silver of the entire village go to the officials and soldiers, after all, as the ancients said, if the wealth is destroyed and the disaster is blocked, everyone will accept their fate, but then even their lives are gone, and almost all the men in the village are dead!"