"The grass is green, the rivers are picturesque, what a beautiful mountain and river!" a voice sounded very abruptly in a country road, startling the sound of frogs and the soft chirping of birds.

"Poof!"

A coquettish laugh suddenly came, but it was a cardamom girl who was only fourteen or fifteen years old who suddenly laughed.

"Young master, this West River is just a small river at best, how can it be compared to a river? What you said is not right!" The girl looked at the turbulent West River beside her, and said with a smile, like a spring water, which was extraordinarily sweet.

In front of the girl, a young man in a black brocade robe sat on a rattan chair, carried by a sedan chair in front and behind. And this person is Liu Muqing who came all the way from the ancient city of Mei.

Liu Muqing smiled but didn't care, and said, "Chunmei, you're going to return to your hometown, how about it, Gao is not happy?"

"I'm happy, thank you for the reward of the young master, if it weren't for the young master, how could I buy so many things, young master, Chunmei xiexie you!" After getting the news that Liu Muqing was going to Zuojiazhuang, she couldn't sleep with excitement, and what surprised her even more was that the young master actually rewarded her with many things, which made her feel like she was returning home.

Liu Muqing smiled again, those things are rare for ordinary people, but they are dispensable for themselves, at this moment he also deeply understands the feeling of local tyrants, thinking about the difference between the values of those local tyrants and office workers in his previous life, his psychological side suddenly became clear.

Zuojiazhuang, a village with beautiful mountains and rivers, close to the mountains, surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the traffic is not very inconvenient, so this place can be called an outstanding person, and the people in the village are also wealthy, of course, the premise is that you are willing to work and endure hardships. However, the same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, and there are naturally capable people in the village, and there are also people who are lazy and can't make a living, and Liu Tou's family is one of them.

If in the past, Liu Tou's house must have been deserted in front of the door, and even the neighbors were reluctant to come to the door, but today it is different, this deserted and broken yard turned out to be unprecedentedly lively, and after asking, I knew that it was Liu Chunmei, the daughter of Liu Tou's family, who came back from the city.

Liu Muqing stood in this dilapidated mansion, looking out of place with everything here, but he didn't care, and kept looking around, as if a traveler had come to visit.

Behind Liu Muqing, there was a pair of honest but somewhat flattering peasant men and women, both of whom were forty or fifty years old, with tattered clothes and thin faces, and their eyes looking at Liu Muqing were also full of fear and envy.

Chunmei stood behind Liu Muqing, her eyes fell on the pair of middle-aged men and women behind her from time to time, and before she knew it, her eyes had turned red, especially when she saw the younger brother who was already thin and unshaped, her heart was even more sad.

"Dad!Mother!, why are you still like this, do you really want to starve your little brother to death?" Chunmei couldn't help but say anymore, and for a while, tears were pouring down, which made people feel distressed.

This pair of middle-aged men and women are naturally Chunmei's parents, hearing Chunmei's question at this moment, I can't help but feel a wall in my heart, just want to refute but see the son in brocade, I can't help but be a little afraid, suddenly the two glanced at each other, and their eyes rolled and said: "Chunmei, it's not that my father and mother are willing to do this, this really can't blame us, you don't know ......"

As for the reason after that, Liu Muqing was not interested in listening any further, he looked down at the thin boy who looked like a hemp pole, and he was only five or six years old, and he was not as big as a three or four-year-old child, so it could be seen that he was caused by severe malnutrition.

"Do you sell this kid?" Liu Muqing suddenly squatted down and pointed at Chunmei's younger brother and asked, his eyes as if he was looking at a piece of goods.

When the middle-aged man and woman heard this, their eyes suddenly lit up, and they hurriedly said: "Sell, sell, sell!, this son is really good eyesight, I don't know...... How much can you pay? This is a single seedling of our Liu family, if the price is too low, I will never sell it!"

Maybe they wanted a good price, and the middle-aged man and woman began to keep boasting about their children's well-behaved and clever, etc., etc., but these became extremely disgusting in Liu Muqing's eyes.

Liu Muqing waved his hand and suddenly laughed, and asked, "How much are you going to want?"

"Ten...... Ten taels of silver, yes! We will never sell it without ten taels of silver!" The two looked at each other and quickly came up with a price.

Liu Muqing waved his hand and said to the person behind him: "Let them sign and draw the pledge, and give them ten taels of silver, from now on this little guy has nothing to do with your Liu family, Chunmei take good care of your brother, and when his body and bones are well, let him be a scholar for me!"

Chunmei was already crying silently at the moment, she understood that this was because the young master decided to buy the younger brother for the sake of her face, you must know that ten taels of silver can buy five beautiful maids in the ancient city of Mei. Thinking of this, Chunmei couldn't help but make up her mind, even if the young master asked her to die in the future, she would not hesitate to go.

After leaving ten taels of silver for this lazy couple, Liu Muqing no longer had any interest in staying here, glanced at the couple coldly, turned his head and left here. Don't say that you will leave them ten taels of silver, even if you give them a hundred taels, they will still starve to death when they get to Zuihou.

Walking in this small village, Chunmei led the way in front of her to walk towards the land temple she said, and there were many simple peasant uncles and Liu Muqing greeting him along the way, which made him feel a little happier.

Chunmei hugged her little brother all the way, her face was full of happiness as if she had forgotten the unhappiness just now, but the little boy in her arms was a little scared, even if he brought him a piece of shortbread, he didn't dare to eat it blatantly.

"Young master, when I get out of here, I will go to the Land Temple, I used to go there to play when I was a child, and I am very familiar!" Chunmei said with a smile to Liu Muqing on the rattan chair.

"Sister, are you going to the Land Temple?" The little brother who had not spoken all this time suddenly spoke out, although his voice was very low, but how could he hide it from Liu Muqing's ears.

Liu Muqing looked down at the little guy and said, "Yes, I heard that the land temple in your village is haunted, and it has also manifested spirits, so I came here to take a look, by the way, what is your name, little brat?"

"I ...... I didn't...... Name, Daddy...... Call me ...... Dog leftover!" The little brother was obviously very afraid of Liu Muqing, and as soon as he heard his question, he immediately stammered and couldn't speak.

Liu Muqing couldn't help laughing, and muttered: "It's easy to feed with a cheap name, and you will call the dog leftover in the future!" and then asked: "By the way, the dog leftover, you said the land temple just now, is there anything wrong?"

Gou Yu looked up at Liu Muqing, his smart eyes were as clear as a crystal pearl, and he plucked up his courage and said, "That'...... There...... There are ghosts, you ...... Can't go anywhere! I'll see you...... I've seen it!"

As soon as these words came out, it was like a yin wind blowing through everyone's hearts, and people felt a little gloomy under such a bright weather.

Chunmei hurriedly covered Gou Yu's mouth, and said a little angrily: "Gou Yu, don't talk nonsense, how can you see a ghost?" and hurriedly said to Liu Muqing: "Young Master, don't listen to your little brother, he doesn't understand anything, this must be what he said nonsense!"

Liu Muqing smiled and waved his hand, and said, "It's okay to listen, Chunmei, don't be afraid, since I said that I would include Gou Yu into the Liu family, I naturally mean what I say!" looked at Gou Yu and said: "Gou Yu, you go on to say don't be afraid, you said you saw that ghost? What does he look like, when did you see it?"

Gou Yu thought for a moment and said loudly: "He looks similar to me, he is a child, but his face is very white." One night I was hungry, so I wanted to go to the field outside the village to get some food, and when I walked to the entrance of the village, I saw him, and he seemed to be arguing with someone at that time, and I didn't dare to look at it and ran away!"

Liu Muqing looked at the dog leftovers, and when he saw the other party's serious look, he knew that the other party was not lying, and he couldn't help but think secretly when he was lying on the rattan chair: "Could it be that you are born with yin and yang eyes, it's impossible, this is too, aren't those only in movies and TV series!"

Gou Yu's words did not affect Liu Muqing's itinerary, on the contrary, he was even more interested, and he was still maliciously thinking, if it was really as Gou Yu said, there was really a ghost here, then he might as well arrest him and take it home and study it well, he had done a lot of preparation for this.

Land temple, covers an area of not much, but also three small tile houses, the temple wishes itself to have one, the other two are dedicated to the statue of God, the main seat is a clay statue, the face is very ordinary, is a kind and friendly grandfather, there are a few well-behaved relatives on his side, so the appearance is naturally in line with the aesthetics of the Zuojiazhuang people.

Liu Muqing wanted to come to the land temple, and Miao Zhu had already been notified, and he changed into a Taoist robe that he didn't know where to find it early, and he looked like a dog, but he also secretly wondered in his heart, and he didn't understand that Weishenme, a small mountain temple, would also attract princes and nobles from the city.

"Son, please come in, although our land temple is small but very effective, people in these ten miles and eight villages know that many people have come to us to offer incense and make wishes, such as the wife of Liu Butcher in Liujiazhuang, who wants to have a son, and sure enough, he gave birth to a son, and for example, ......"

Listening to Miao Zhu's non-stop sales, Liu Muqing couldn't help but smile and crooked his mouth, and asked: "I never knew that there were so many duties of the original land god, and even the matter of giving birth to a child was in charge, it seems that it should indeed be baibai, if I can achieve my wish, it's not that I can't reshape the golden body for him!"

"I don't know what Childe's wish is?" Miaozhu hurriedly asked.

Liu Muqing thought about it, and suddenly said with a smile: "My wish is that I want to never be able to cover my eyes again this day, and I want this ......."

Liu Muqing casually said Brother Monkey's rebellious words, and immediately stunned Miao Zhu and made him stupid. He couldn't help but smile and turned away, but he didn't pay attention, the second he turned to leave, the eyes of Mu Ran, a clay boy next to the land god, suddenly moved, as if he had come to life.