Chapter 42: The town of Ganlu is miserable
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As soon as Ning Feng arrived here with the eldest girl, he glanced at it and immediately made a judgment.
Ganlufang is just a small shop, with a courtyard in the back, a simple shop in front, and a few tables outside for people to eat.
More often than not, they are in a hurry, buy and leave.
From the pastries placed on those tables, the pieces were verdant like jade, and Ning Feng knew that he had found the wrong place.
"Big Brother ......"
The eldest girl couldn't walk anymore when she came here, with her thumbs in her mouth, her voice was muffled, and her little head first raised and looked expectantly, and then lowered it shyly.
"Sit down. ”
Ning Feng smiled slightly, pulled the little girl, and sat down on the vacated table.
As soon as the two of them sat down, a young woman with coarse cloth and hairpins walked out of the shop, stood at the table and asked, "What do you want, this son?"
"Let's put it on the sweet pastry. ”
Ning Feng replied casually, glancing at the young woman.
Since this shop is related to Tianyunzi's arrangement, even if he is regarded as a disciple, he can't help but observe carefully.
The young woman looked like she was in her twenties, with a delicate face, her face facing the sky, her brows furrowed, and she seemed to have something unspeakable. While she was waiting for Ning Feng to answer, when the other guests were greeting, she still looked up in the direction of the town entrance from time to time, unable to hide her panic.
Fortunately, the name of the disciple did not fall to Ning Feng, and the young woman didn't notice his gaze at all, and hurried away after hearing the answer.
"Young lady, the last nectar green jade cake. ”
"Young lady, what about the snacks to take, the old lady at home is like this, you should hurry up. ”
"Young lady, you don't come again, my girl is going to lift your table, and I won't pay for the old man. ”
“......”
Calling out, the figure of the young lady and the young woman spread all over every corner of the Manna Fang, and she coped with the guests' urging, kindness, teasing, or reproaching, but as the sun sank westward, the sadness on Qingxiu's face became stronger.
"She's the only one busy in the shop?"
When Ning Feng saw the present, the more he felt that his judgment was correct, and the dumb riddle played by Master Tianyunzi fell on the Ganlu Fang.
He unconsciously muttered to himself, and the little girl opposite him was stuffed with pastries, and she couldn't speak.
Seeing her gesturing her hands and feet, she was reluctant to pull the pastry out of her mouth, otherwise she couldn't say clearly that she was in a hurry, Ning Feng felt funny and was in a good mood.
He reached out and wiped the cake crumbs from the corner of the little girl's mouth, handed over another bowl of water, patted her back, and finally went down.
"Sister young lady, two big brothers, and an old grandfather. ”
As soon as the eldest girl could speak, she immediately counted her fingers to Ning Feng.
"What about them?"
Ning Feng raised his eyebrows, and then thought of the sad look on the young lady's face that could not be hidden, and seemed to grasp something.
This question is not something that the little girl can answer, she shook her head blankly, whether she understood or not.
Ning Feng ordered her another plate of pastries, then got up and walked towards the diners at the table next to her.
Si Swenwen's scholar politely inquired, and he used no tea to inquire about the ins and outs of the matter.
"The young lady's surname is Han, and she is the child daughter-in-law of the Han family, and she is married to the eldest son of the Han family when she grows up. ”
"Ganlu Fang is the Han family's family heirloom industry, there are three fathers and sons in the family, guarding a manna well, with its special water quality and their research over the years, manna green jade cake is famous in all directions. ”
Ning Feng went through it in his mind, and flashed the information about the Han family's father and son.
The Han family's nectar green jade cake, in addition to a nectar well, also needs some kind of green jade vine in the depths of the Gobi as the main material.
Today, the two sons of the Han family, one older and one younger, panicked, and also went to the Gobi to find their father.
At this point, the diners sighed, as if they were very pessimistic about their ending. These people gather here, not so much to eat pastries, but to wait for news.
"It's only two or three days, why do they seem to think that Han Laohan is dead, and they are not even optimistic about the safety of the two Han family boys?"
Ning Feng was puzzled in his heart, and wanted to ask again, but these people were secretive and refused to mention it again.
He didn't ask a question, he came back and sat down thoughtfully, and the little girl opposite didn't seem to notice that he had wandered around and was still fighting with the pastries.
The big girl's belly is bulging, she still takes a big mouthful, eats sweetly, and looks like a little flower cat.
Ning Feng looked funny, wiped her from time to time, relaxed and talked to this little girl, and time flowed out of his fingers little by little.
The sun is getting more and more westward.
"I don't know how far the master sent me away, and how much time it took on the road, I didn't know at a loss. ”
Ning Feng looked at the sunset in the direction of Zhenkou, and subconsciously stretched out his hand to cover his chest, where the five golden talismans were exuding warm heat, as if they were carrying a piece of warm jade.
Jindan real realm, Sun God Palace**, in that push, a send, when Changhong crossed the world, it was revealed.
Ning Feng thought about it, leisurely and fascinated.
At this time, the people in the manna workshop are becoming scarcer, and Han Youniang is no longer so busy, her beautiful face is full of sorrow, guarding the door, looking at the entrance of the town.
Ning Feng was about to go up to the front to see if he could find out anything, and suddenly-
"Daddy!"
"Dad~~ We're home. ”
"I'll send you home, you open your eyes and take a look~~~"
The rough voice, the muffled voice, the crying and grabbing the ground, the sadness overflowing, and the sound that was blocked in my heart came from the direction of the town.
Ning Feng stood up and looked.
At the entrance of the town, a wooden man, hunched over and carrying another person on his back, ran in the direction of Ganlu Fang.
The man on the back of the wooden man remained motionless, and his pale head rested on the man's shoulder, like a rag bag.
"Ah~Xianggong, Dad~!"
Han Youniang shouted to meet her, and the wooden man ran to the door of Ganlufang, his knees weakened, and he fell to the ground, and the diners around him who had not left were all surrounded by hula.
Ning Feng also wanted to step forward, but with a change of heart, he moved his position and blocked between the big girl and the mess.
"Big brother, don't block, woo, don't block. ”
The little girl danced with her little hands covered with cake crumbs, and she looked very dissatisfied.
"That's not for kids. Ning Feng shook his head, paying attention to the movement at the other end, and said softly to the little girl: "Come, you can pretend to eat the rest of the pastries at home, don't stay here, the family should be worried." ”
The eldest girl's mouth was flattened, but she obediently obeyed, and put the rest of the pastry, which was said to be a few pieces, and poured it down to the hem of her clothes, and walked outside with the pastry in her two small hands.
When she did this, she was still muttering in her mouth: "Big brother, is the old man also asleep, the eldest girl has seen it, many people are asleep." ”
When Ning Feng heard this, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he vaguely grasped something, and suddenly why Han Youniang had sadness in her eyes, and why the diners were so pessimistic.
He resisted the urge to ask, and watched the little girl who was reluctant to say goodbye leave the sight of the little girl who cherished the pastry in one hand and waved her arm in the other, and then turned around and walked towards the crowd.
Ning Feng cast a glass body, it was only a small step on the road of cultivating immortals, but its physique was far from being comparable to that of mortals, and it didn't take much effort to squeeze inward without much effort.
There, Han Laohan had already been put down, resting on a sheepskin mattress that had been around for years, the whole person was shriveled and thin, his limbs were like chicken feet, his mouth was wide open, and he was faintly filled with yellow sand.
"It's a death from dehydration. ”
Ning Feng could see at a glance that this old man Han seemed to have been basking in the scorching sun of the Gobi for a few days, and he clearly looked like a dried corpse, and there was no life at all.
"It's just ...... belly"
He rolled his gaze and fell on the stomach of Han Laohan's corpse.
The dry corpse has a swollen belly, as if it is a pregnant woman for several months, which is in stark contrast to the shriveled and dehydrated body, and it is impossible to see it.
"Old man Cheng is here, everyone let me, everyone let me. ”
Ning Feng was still wondering what was in Han Laohan's stomach, when a commotion came from outside the crowd.
A crack opened in the crowd, and an old man on crutches staggered in.
At the same time, there were cries all over the town, and white flags were hung high, and countless atmospheres of sorrow, pain, and despair hung over this twilight town.
"What's the situation?"
Ning Feng was stunned at first, and after thinking about it again, he understood, "Yes, it is estimated that the corpse is not only Han Laohan alone, but Han Da ran all the way and turned around first." ”
The words that the eldest girl had just said came to his mind, "...... Is the old man also asleep, the eldest girl has seen it, many people are asleep ......", the childish and ignorant voice revealed the great despair of a dilapidated and lonely family.
"Old man Cheng used to be a well-known old man in the county, and he will never be wrong about what he old man looks at. ”
"Hey, Old Man Cheng is old, and he came back to take care of himself, who knew that he would encounter this kind of thing. ”
"What time is this?"
“......”
Ning Feng's ears listened to the discussions around him, and saw Old Man Cheng walk in front of Old Man Han's body, squatted down with difficulty, stretched out his hand and pressed it, and then reached out to his mouth to look at it, shook his head and sighed.
"Old man, my father ...... him"
Han Da is a simple man, but he can't say the words, he can't stop wiping his tears, and Han Youniang next to him is also crying with pear blossoms.
"Just like them. ”
Old Man Cheng sighed and said, "I stopped for three days, and I came again." Your father was born and died, and his stomach was stuffed with sand, and he created evil. ”
"What's going on lately, what kind of demons have we provoked in Ganlu Town, except for the calm of the past three days, either people are sunburned to death, or people are frozen to death, and their stomachs are full of sand. ”
Old Man Cheng paused on crutches, and there was pain in his voice about not being able to protect Xiangzi, and hatred for demons.
"Sunburned...... Freeze to death...... Sand ......"
Ning Feng silently remembered in his heart, looking at the gloomy and misty Ganlu Town, the idea of tasks and experiences faded from his mind, and was replaced by the idea of solving the mystery, subduing demons and subduing demons, solving the people's upside down, and returning the peace and happiness of a family and a town.
From the discussions and lamentations of the people around him, he gradually figured out the situation.
It turned out that since ten days ago, the town of Ganlu has been in trouble. Every now and then, corpses will be found on the Gobi.
These corpses were all sitting in a circle, or they were sunburned to death like Han Laohan, or they were frozen to death.
In previous years, in the Gobi Desert, due to the large temperature difference between day and night, it was not strange to occasionally appear such corpses, but this time it lasted for many days, and there were many dead, including outsiders and townspeople, and the whole town inevitably fell into panic.
"There are no external injuries, and then they sit around in an abnormal state, and then they appear one after another, I am afraid that it is really done by some demon. ”
Ning Feng had just made a judgment, and suddenly an exclamation voice came from his ears.
"What?!"
Han Da cried out from the grief of his deceased father: "You said that the little brother has not come back yet?"
Opposite him, Han Youniang nodded weakly and silently wiped her tears.
"Ahh
"No, I'll look for it. ”
Han screamed, and was about to turn around and rush out, but he couldn't run two steps and fell to the ground softly, he had already overdrawn his body and energy.
Han Youniang cried and pounced on her husband and hugged her husband, not saying a word, and not letting go of death.
The surrounding townspeople all sighed: "What a sin, Han Er hasn't come back yet, it is estimated that he will not be able to come back, miserable, really miserable, two people died in a row, this Han family is broken." ”
The townspeople are not short of sympathy, but in such a situation, who would dare to leave the town again?
"Dead? Not necessarily. ”
Ning Feng's heart flashed in the process of what the old man said and stopped for three days, thinking of the three days when his master disappeared, he had an understanding.
He groaned for a moment, that is, in the blink of an eye, suddenly raised his head, lined up the crowd, and walked towards the entrance of the town.
The setting sun struggled at the end of the desert, and finally the afterglow pulled Ning Feng's shadow out for a long time, from one end of the town to the other......