The three of them left the scholar's house and went around and around the winding country road, and finally arrived at the butcher's door. It's just that there are no "Access Instructions" on the door here.
Li Heping glanced at the two apprentices, "The butcher is responsible for delivering meat to the wedding banquet, but I went out after entering the king's house last time and didn't have time to come back to see. The butcher's family may have some clues, but the butcher is good at using knives. , is very murderous, and his house must be very dangerous. From experience, it is best not to enter common edible livestock such as pigs, chickens, sheep, etc.”
At this time, it's time for the apprentice to come on stage.
Yan Yueming was immediately alert, "I am a sheep."
Li Heping: "I am a pig."
Both of them looked at Li Zheng.
Yan Yueming suddenly remembered that he still didn't know Li Zheng's age, and couldn't help but ask: "What is the senior class?"
Li Heping: "Tiger, butchers can't eat tiger meat, right? It's okay for a tiger to come down from the forest and eat him."
As expected of a senior. Yan Yueming calculated his age again. If he was born in the year of Tiger, he would be about 28 years old this year. What a mature and charming age.
Li Zheng turned around gracefully and was too lazy to talk.
When he entered the butcher's house, Li Heping took his lamb apprentice and walked forward. Yan Yueming looked back at the courtyard wall worriedly, and couldn't help asking: "Aren't we waiting for seniors?"
The old god Li Heping was here, "Don't worry, he will catch up later, we have other things to do. Didn't Wang Fu's family hold a flowing water banquet? The flowing water banquet was held outside his house, who would go We can all eat it. We want to enter his home, go to his home to congratulate him, and get gifts."
Yan Yueming: "Money?"
Li Heping: "The gift money must be something that is already circulating in the gap. Things outside are useless."
As he spoke, Li Heping dug around in the grass on the roadside and found a broken bowl, then led Yan Yueming to a three-way intersection. He put the broken bowl on the roadside, pulled Yan Yueming to squat down, and started begging.
Yan Yueming: "Is this useful???"
Li Heping: "Listen."
"Ding!" A crisp sound of impact reached his ears. Yan Yueming looked down in shock and saw a copper plate spinning in circles in the broken bowl, as if it had just fallen in.
Li Heping: "This road is the main road in and out of the village. There is a wedding banquet today and there are many guests coming and going. Everyone is happy to celebrate, and of course they are happy to be a good person for a day."
Yan Yueming didn't expect that he could play like this in the gap. The sound of the copper plate falling into the broken bowl was really nice. He couldn't help but become more focused, staring at the bowl and waiting for the second copper plate to fall.
After a moment, "Ding!"
Hey, here we go again.
"Teacher, look -" Yan Yueming turned around, where is the person?
Looking around again, Li Heping was already sitting under the bamboo shed next to the stone mill. This stone mill was probably put here for public use, so a bamboo shed was built here and two long benches were placed.
Li Heping sat there, taking out a cigarette from his backpack and lighting it, leisurely and contentedly.
In the end, Yan Yueming was the only one begging. He was not unbalanced. He would rather beg on the roadside than face the butcher's knife. At least this was something he was capable of.
But just when he had saved 6 copper coins, a strange noise suddenly came from the distance. Before he could distinguish what it was, the voice of teacher Li Heping followed closely, "Run quickly, the dog is coming."
"Ah?" Yan Yueming suddenly raised his head and looked around. I saw a strong native dog with a black back and yellow fur rushing out from the corner in front, its galloping hooves kicking up dust all the way.
Yan Yueming's scalp was numb, so he grabbed the copper plate and ran away quickly.
At this moment, he seemed to be back to the time when he was doing physical training a few days ago. Every teaching plan of the teacher is indeed meaningful. Look, isn’t this useful?
What about the teacher? The teacher is a fat man who is flexible and can reach the roof in three strokes, five divisions and two divisions.
Yan Yueming has only practiced for three days, how can he go to the house and unveil the tiles now? He could only run down there desperately, and while running, he could still hear the teacher on the roof teaching on the spot.
"Begging is a good and effortless way, but the dogs here are naturally at odds with the beggars, so be careful of getting bitten."
I already know!
Yan Yueming screamed in her heart, opened her mouth, took a breath of wind, and then shut up. Li Heping was still guiding, "Xiao Ming, do you know what dogs are afraid of?"
Yan Yueming: "I don't know!"
Li Heping: "The dog in the countryside is fearless, but it is definitely afraid of the butcher's knife."
Butcher? Senior!
Yan Yueming's eyes suddenly lit up like light bulbs, as if he had seen the only hope in this life, and he ran towards the way he came. Li Heping urged from behind, "Run away, didn't you eat in the morning?"
Yan Yueming was desperate and aggrieved, running so hard that he was speechless. He did not dare to look back, and he had no time to look back. He could only go forward, forward, and forward. Constantly squeezing my lungs and legs, hanging myself with the thought of "the senior is right in front", I couldn't even hear the barking of dogs, and only the whistling of the wind was left in my ears.
Finally, Huangtian paid off and saw Li Zheng walking slowly at the end of the road.
Li Zheng was still elegant and calm. He went to the butcher's house for a walk. Not to mention his clothes, even his hair was not messed up.
"Senior, help me!" Yan Yueming ran so fast that he almost stopped him. Fortunately, Li Zheng helped him and held his arm tightly.
Only then did he stabilize himself, and then hurriedly complained, pointing behind him: "There is a dog——"
Eh? Where is the dog?
Li Heping's voice suddenly sounded from above his head, "The dog was lured away by me long ago."
Yan Yueming looked up and saw Li Heping reappearing on the roof next to him, his chubby body still flexible. He jumped down, clapped his hands and said, "Xiao Ming, don't worry, the teacher is here."
How could Xiao Ming not be worried? He ran so hard that he burst into tears. Now he really believes that the teacher can scold the principal for ten miles. If he is missing one centimeter, it means he has eaten too little breakfast.
Li Zheng didn't need to ask, he knew what happened just by looking at the state of these two people.
"Having fun?" he smiled.
"Ahem." Li Heping said seriously, "What about you? Did the butcher's family gain anything?"
Li Zheng: "The butcher's meat is not authentic."
Yan Yueming was shocked, "Is it human, human flesh?"
Li Zheng glanced at him, "What do you think?"
Yan Yueming shook his head quickly, "I don't think so."
Li Zheng was in a good mood when he saw that he was cowardly but dared to guess, and was still hiding behind him and refused to come out. "It's indeed not human flesh, it's just selling dog meat."
Speaking of dogs, Yan Yueming thought of the dog just now and asked: "Whose dog belongs to it? It doesn't look like a stray dog. It's not that dirty, it's very strong, and it can run very fast." "
Li Heping pointed to the north of the village, "The dog is indeed not a stray dog. It lives in a house near the foot of the mountain. That house is a rare thatched house in the village, and it is surrounded by a fence."
At this time, Li Zheng glanced at the sun.
It was about a quarter to seven in the morning when they entered the gap. It was daytime in the gap at that time, but because time passed at double speed, even though they had only been in for more than an hour, the sun in the sky had already begun to set in the west.
Evening is coming.
The cold hits and the temperature drops sharply.
Li Zheng: "It's almost night, we have to find a safe house first."
Yan Yueming took out the six copper coins he had covered all the way, "Then let's... go to have a feast?"
The home of Wang Fu, who is hosting the wedding, is in the easternmost part of the village. According to Li Heping, he has seen it and the feng shui is the best there. The single-family house with three entrances and a large courtyard is very impressive in this small mountain village.
But the closer he got here, the more fuzzy feeling he felt in Yan Yueming's heart. His little animal instinct came online again, reminding him that the closer he got, the more dangerous it was.
Especially when he caught a glimpse of red silk hanging on trees and on the roadside.
Those red silks were particularly bright red, and the closer they got to the house, the more they became. There are some wedding coins and flower petals scattered on the ground, and further forward, there are more red lanterns.
Big red lanterns were hung high, happy words were posted on the door, and the air was filled with the smell of fireworks.
In front of the Wang's residence is an open space paved with bluestone slabs. Thirty-eight tables of running water mats are placed here, almost filling the open space. There were both fine wine and delicacies on the table, and the dishes were piled up into a small mountain.
The fragrance floated from far away, making Yan Yueming's mouth water.
But this is wrong.
Although Yan Yueming loves to eat, he is not a glutton, let alone in a dangerous gap. It hasn't been long since he finished breakfast, so he won't be hungry so quickly.
This feeling of hunger made Yan Yueming almost immediately think of the ghost movies he had watched. The protagonist ate delicious food, and finally discovered that the food turned out to be a ghost. It was actually... yuck.
Yan Yueming immediately recited the Great Compassion Mantra silently in his heart and used metaphysics to drive away ghosts.
After reading for a while, he forced himself to look at the dishes and chopsticks on the table. His eyes swept back and forth across the tables. He was pleasantly surprised to find that one of the dishes and chopsticks was clean. He hurriedly pulled Li Zheng's arm and asked: " Senior, can I sit in that seat?"
Li Zheng met his sparkling eyes and walked with him by accident. I realized something was wrong when I got to the place, why should I accompany him? But he had already walked over, so it didn’t matter anymore. He nodded to Yan Yueming, “Sit down.”
Yan Yueming sat down and felt happy. He was also pleased with his little progress today.
Li Heping looked at them from a distance, folded his arms and lit a cigarette.
When did the practice of falling in love with each other become popular on Huayuan Road? Is Li Zheng's stinky disciple so kind? But Yan Yueming is really quite interesting, haha.
Thinking of this, Li Heping also decided to show his love for the teacher. He walked over and patted Yan Yueming on the shoulder, "How are you? Are the rules summarized by the teacher correct? I will do this in the future and make bold assumptions. Be careful when asking for confirmation.”
Yan Yueming smiled and nodded to him, just as he expected. But his eldest disciple immediately glanced over with a cold look, looked at the cigarette in his hand, then raised his hand to grab Yan Yueming's backpack strap and picked him up, "Let's go."
Li Pingqi knot.
Isn’t it just a cigarette?
"Hey, I still have something to say." Li Heping had no choice but to put out his cigarette and chase after him, "The wedding banquet in Wang's house was very weird. I walked around in it, and there were lights and decorations everywhere. , but there was no trace of the bride’s existence.”
If you have nothing, what kind of wife do you have?
Yan Yueming didn't dare to think about it, but he couldn't help but not think about it at all. He could only pray secretly: There must be no ghosts.
