"Then what?" Heizi couldn't help but interrupt again.
"I'm afraid. It takes a lot of time for grandma to weave baskets. It takes two or three days to make one basket. How dare I go home if I just finish it all?" the shop owner said with a wry smile.
"Didn't your grandpa say he would take you to exchange for sesame seed cakes?" Heizi asked anxiously.
"What's there in the fields? Should I exchange it for a hoe?" the shop owner said, giving Heizi a rolling look.
Seeing that his grandson was unwilling to go home, his grandfather had no choice but to take him to a place selling sesame cakes to see if he could get one on credit.
But when the grandfather and grandson arrived at the entrance of the village, there was no sign of the man selling sesame cakes.
I had no choice but to take my grandson back home. As for the sesame seed cakes being robbed, I had no choice but to tell my grandma everything.
Unexpectedly, his grandma did not beat or scold him, but said that this was all destined.
He didn't understand what it meant at the time, but then strange things began to happen in the village.
"What's weird?" This time it was my turn to hold back.
"Many people in the village seemed to have rabies. They would bite everyone they saw and then die within a few days." The shop owner looked at me with a grimace.
The strange thing happened about ten days after the sesame seed seller left. At that time, he didn't know the heights of the world, and he followed his friends to the entrance of the village to see the dead people.
There was no way to verify the specific people who ate the sesame cakes, but he clearly remembered the two ruffians who robbed him of the sesame cakes.
Among the corpses lined up at the entrance of the village were the two ruffians who robbed him of his sesame cakes.
"There must be something wrong with the sesame seeds." Heizi said with his eyes widened.
"I don't know what the problem was, but from then on, I never dared to eat food from outside, so I started making my own food." The shop owner looked at us with a smile.
But at this moment, a very scary thought came to my mind.
"Boss, have you seen the man setting up the stall here?" I asked nervously.
"No, why..." The boss was still smiling at first, but he immediately understood what I meant and was stunned without being able to say what was wrong.
"You mean?" The shop owner's eyes widened.
"Why don't you come with us tonight?" I had to say it clearly.
"I was only six or seven years old at that time, and now I'm almost sixty. It's impossible, absolutely impossible..." The store owner kept shaking his head.
"It's okay, let's just hide and watch from a distance." Zhou Jiaonan naturally understood what I was thinking and helped persuade me.
"That's it, let's go see why her business is so good." Haitang also smiled at the boss.
"That's right, that's right. I was overthinking it. The woman looked to be in her early thirties at that time. How could it be possible..." The store owner comforted himself with a smile.
"Then it's settled, we'll pick you up later." I said and stood up.
"Okay, I'm going to see who can make the food stall so popular." The shop owner also stood up happily.
After bidding farewell to the shop owner, of course we had to make some preparations. Haitang Mudan and I closed the door and started drawing talisman.
Heizi and Zhou Jiaonan went to buy other things they needed.
The time for drawing the symbols always passed very quickly. As the sun was about to set, we drove directly to the snack bar owner.
"It's still early, let's have dinner at your place first." I stepped forward with a smile.
"I'm afraid you won't come, so I've prepared some side dishes." The shop owner is also a hospitable person.
The shop owner’s craftsmanship was really good. Heizi was very happy with his food, but I couldn’t swallow it. Before seven o’clock, I urged everyone to set off.
It was originally dinner time. Although this place was a town, the road was not so deserted.
When we arrived and took a look, I finally understood why the city was deserted.
There was already a sea of people in front of me, it was even more lively than a celebrity concert. All these people were queuing up here.
How many people are there? There were so many that we didn’t even have a parking space, so we had to exit and find a spot on the roadside quite far away.
"Why don't they drive?" Heizi's question always makes you wonder.
"There was a traffic jam before, but then no one drove here," the store owner responded.
"No wonder all the electric cars and bicycles parked on the roadside..." Haitang said thoughtfully.
One can imagine how persistent these people are in order to take a bite of the food from that stall.
"Is it enough to feed so many people?" Zhou Jiaonan looked at the crowd suspiciously after getting out of the car.
"It should be enough. There weren't many people when I came..." Heizi realized that he had let slip and quickly looked at the shop owner. Fortunately, there were so many people talking that the shop owner didn't hear Heizi's words.
"Ahem, what are you doing? Line up..." We wanted to squeeze forward to see what was going on, but a middle-aged woman immediately started scolding us.
"Sorry..." I had no choice but to laugh and pull everyone back to the back of the queue.
Heizi found a small mound and climbed up. He raised his binoculars and looked at it for a while before waving to me.
I quickly climbed up and took the telescope from Heizi.
"Hehe... there are still people maintaining order..." The team initially pulled up a colorful ribbon to block the crowd, and some people came out to monitor whether anyone jumped in the queue.
The open space in front of the queue should be where the vendors do business.
At this moment, everyone was looking eagerly into the distance, waiting for the figure selling snacks, just like animals in a zoo waiting to be fed.
I raised my hand and looked at my watch. It was only half past seven.
The sky was getting dark, the crowd was starting to get restless, and the street lights on the roadside slowly turned on.
There happened to be a light on where people were waiting. The vendor must have been placed under that street light.
Time passed very slowly, and at 7:59, the crowd became restless again.
"Coming, coming..." the person in the front row shouted.
I quickly grabbed the binoculars in Heizi's hand and saw a beautiful woman pushing a stroller on the road.
I quickly waved to the shop owner, and Heizi pulled him to the small mound where we were squatting.
The shop owner took the telescope with a smile, but after just one glance, he was completely stunned.
"Impossible...impossible...she must be at least eighty years old..." The shop owner's hand holding the telescope began to tremble, and he murmured to himself.
"Is it her?" I couldn't help but grab the shop owner's binoculars.
"It's her, it's her. I'll never forget her look in my life..." The store owner was a little excited, and his voice naturally rose a few degrees.
Originally, compared to the noisy crowd at this moment, the shop owner's voice was nothing at all.
"Xiaotian..." Heizi called me nervously.
I quickly looked in Heizi's direction, and the vendor happened to be looking towards us at the moment.
Logically speaking, she couldn't see clearly from a distance of several hundred meters, but she seemed to have noticed our identity, leaving the stall that was not fully unfolded and running away.
"Run away, chase." I turned around and glanced at the three women and Dahei, jumped off the mound and chased after them.
But now it's not just us who are chasing us. After queuing for so long, these people are naturally not willing to give in. They are also chasing us.
At this moment, there are people around us, so we can't use force, and we don't dare to use the cloud-chasing kick here, so we have to squeeze forward with the flow of people.
I finally squeezed out of the crowd, but the woman was nowhere to be seen.
At this moment, the people waiting in line were still cursing, and some of the stronger ones were still running forward.
"Unlucky, the wait was in vain..."
"Why did you leave so suddenly..."
"Are you worried that there are not enough ingredients because there are so many of us?"
"Yeah, yeah, maybe I went back to get the ingredients."
"Hurry up and get a good seat first when you go back."
People who were strangers to each other now felt like they had been acquaintances for many years because of this meal, and they started discussing around us.
I don’t know who took the lead, but everyone turned around and hurried back. We walked in the opposite direction, and it was miserable to be squeezed back and forth by the crowd.
The few young people who ran ahead probably noticed it, and they turned around and ran back.
"Ask them..." Heizi said and was about to step forward.
"No need to ask, I definitely didn't catch up. Even if I did, I wouldn't tell you." I pulled Heizi with a wry smile.
Because of these people queuing up, I felt completely bewildered.
We continued walking forward, and the road began to fork in front of us, but I couldn't feel any breath at all.
I had no choice but to squat down and persuade Dahei earnestly.
No matter how much I talked until my mouth went dry, Dahei remained unmoved.
"She is harming people. Have you forgotten our mission? If you don't chase her, don't follow us again." I finally got angry.
"Woof woof..." Dahei finally barked twice.
"Can't beat..." came Wei Yucheng's translation.
