Lin Beichen took the wine bowl. The orange-yellow wine in the bowl swayed on the edge of being spilled as the carriage rocked.
"This damn weather is really terrible." The man cursed, then took a sip of wine, grabbed a handful of peanuts, peeled them and put them into his mouth.
Lin Beichen also took a sip of wine. The wine was spicy and choked. It was obviously not a good wine, but in this cold winter, having such a sip of old wine can sometimes really save someone's life.
Lin Beichen wasn't worried about anything wrong with the drink. With his ordinary cultivation level, poison would have no effect on him.
"Brother, are you familiar with the Caojia Village nearby?"
the man asked as he chewed some peanuts.
Lin Beichen unfolded the Tianguan map, looked at it briefly and then asked, "Are you talking about Caojia Village, five miles to the east?"
"Five miles away? To the east? No wonder we turned around several times and couldn't find it."
As he spoke, the man shouted outside: "Did you hear it, Lao Zhao? It's to the east."
"There's no road here, how do we go?"
"There is a path ahead that is blocked by snow. If you look carefully, you may miss it. There is no way to go to Caojia Village."
With the Sky View Map, Lin Beichen has a clear understanding of everything around him, especially in identifying roads. As for whether the deer is pointing to Caojia Village, Lin Beichen has no idea. It doesn't matter if he is wrong. He will give them directions. Lu, everything depends on the face of this bowl of wine.
"Oh, there is a small fork in the road ahead. You really can't see it unless you look carefully." The driver in front shouted happily.
"Brother, thank you for your guidance. Do you want to continue on your way or come with us to Caojia Village to take a rest? If you are going to the capital next, then come with us. We will go to Caojia Village to hit the top and continue on the road tomorrow."
Lin Beichen thought for a moment and realized that these two people didn't look like good people. He pointed out the way to the village. If these two people wanted to do evil, wouldn't he have brought disaster to the village?
Anyway, he was not in a hurry to meet up with Lao Huang and the others, so he stayed here for one night.
"It does seem a little late now, so I'll have the audacity to bother you two."
"Hahaha, it's too polite to say you're bothering me. Without you to guide us, we might have to sleep in the wilderness."
"You two must be foreigners. Why go to a place like Cao Village where birds don't poop?" Lin Beichen took a handful of peanuts handed over by the man and asked while peeling them.
"A foreigner? Haha, I'm not a foreigner. My surname is Cao, and my only name is Jie. I grew up in Caojia Village. Haha, I haven't been back for more than ten years. I want to bring some surprises to the villagers."
Lin Beichen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he heard a trace of murderous intent from this guy's mouth.
Lin Beichen immediately became alert and said with a seemingly honest smile: "Surprise? You must have brought a lot of belongings, right?"
Cao Jie smiled and shook his head.
"Are those various specialties? Or maybe they are silk and satin?"
Cao Jie shook his head repeatedly.
Lin Beichen asked again: "Is that the opportunity to get rich and the way to get rich?"
Cao Jie was slightly surprised and looked Lin Beichen up and down: "Brother is not an ordinary person."
In this era, the lower class people are generally very ignorant. I am afraid they have never traveled outside a hundred miles in their entire lives. They live in a small village or a small city. The things they know are only as big as a palm. Lin Beichen just said a few words What the words reveal is far beyond the ordinary people's knowledge.
"I used to work as a salesman for a few days, and I also traveled all over the country. My brain is indeed more flexible than ordinary people."
Cao Jie smiled and said, "That's it."
"What I brought back was not these things, but..."
At this time, the coachman coughed outside. Cao Jie immediately stopped talking, laughed dryly and said, "Stop talking about this, come on, let's drink."
Along the way, Cao Jie just drank. This guy had a good capacity for drinking. He drank at least one jar of wine since Lin Beichen got in the car.
About two hours later, it was already dark, and they finally arrived
A small village.
There are sixty or seventy households in this village, which is basically isolated from the outside world on weekdays. Every winter when the mountains are blocked by heavy snow, the village completely loses contact with the outside world.
The villagers live a primitive life of working from sunrise to sunset. The output of the fields is not high. They usually rely on hunting in the nearby mountains or fishing in the river to supplement their food sources.
In short, the villagers here live a life that is not very good even if they starve to death.
No one lit a lamp in the village, and it was pitch dark. The sound of horse hooves in the carriage attracted the attention of many people. The windows of several houses in front of the village were opened a crack, and the people inside looked out cautiously. With.
"We're here."
The driver pulled the reins and the carriage slowly stopped.
In Lin Beichen's eyes, he could clearly see that Cao Jie's eyes became extraordinarily bright, with a fierce and fierce light. It was obvious that this guy was full of resentment.
Cao Jie opened the door and walked out. He stood on the carriage and shouted loudly: "Folks, I, Cao Jie, am back."
The tranquility of the small mountain village was completely broken.
One house after another opened its door, and hundreds of people walked out of the house.
These villagers all had dull faces, looking at Cao Jie from a distance and whispering to each other.
Lin Beichen listened for a while and found out that Cao Jie's parents died more than ten years ago when he was still young, and several relatives took over his family property. Then Cao Jie left his hometown and disappeared.
It's not a great thing, it's just a child who works hard outside and finally returns home to avenge his enemies and get back what belongs to him.
This is the village chief coming out. This old man looks very old, with white beard and hair. He may not be in his seventies or eighties.
The surrounding villagers raised torches, and the old man stared with a pair of white eyes and said in disbelief: "Are you Cao Jie?"
Cao Jie chuckled, jumped down from the carriage, and landed in front of the village chief. His face almost touched the village chief's face: "Second Grandpa, are you out of sight?"
The village chief looked at Cao Jie carefully: "It's too dark to see clearly, but your voice and tone do sound like Cao Jie when he was a child."
"It's really Xiaojie. Xiaojie has a mole on his eyebrow. You see, the mole is exactly the same!"
The people around him immediately stared at Cao Jie by the firelight.
"It's really Xiaojie!"
"Xiaojie, you're back!"
Then the villagers began to greet Cao Jie enthusiastically.
Cao Jie sneered again and again: "You recognize me? I was driven away by you back then. You don't feel scared at all when I suddenly come back?"
"Xiaojie, we did it for your own good. We kept your house and land for you. We didn't touch it at all. The land was planted for you, and the money you earned was saved for you. You can walk around and take it with you. You go home and take a look."
The village chief became happy, grabbed Cao Jie's wrist, and pulled him towards the village.
Cao Jie did not refuse and followed the village chief to the door of a dark house on the edge of the village. ..
Sister Cao looked at the holes one after another on the mottled door and had mixed feelings for a while.
The door is still the same as when he left it.
Lin Beichen didn't pay too much attention to Cao Jie, but focused on the groom.
The groom sat on the shaft of the carriage, never moving, and his breath was deliberately restrained, like a flower that had shrunk into a bud and might bloom at any time.
The bloom may be beautiful purple and red, or it may be highly toxic black smoke.
The villagers also inexplicably felt the strange aura on the groom's body, so they did not dare to come forward to talk to him, and looked at it from a distance at a loss.
They have no experience dealing with outsiders.
The groom suddenly said: "Little brother, how long do you think it will take to kill all the people in this village?"
Lin Beichen said: "This village is like an ant nest. Killing them all is just a piece of cake. Can you tell me what mistakes they made and why they have to be killed?"
The groom chuckled and drank.
Taking a sip of strong liquor from the flask, he wiped his beard and said, "Your idea is somewhat naive. If you raise a group of chickens, will you kill them because they made a mistake? Of course not. The one who decides whether they die or not is Whether you want to eat chicken today depends on whether there are customers coming today, and whether there are merchants coming to collect chickens today."
"There are millions of reasons why this chicken will die today, but it has nothing to do with the chicken itself."
Lin Beichen asked curiously: "What does killing all the villagers mean to you?"
The horseman opened his mouth and said, "The village god of Caojia Village is very unusual. When every village god of people with the surname Cao in the past dies, they will lean over the new generation of village god. This village has a history of at least a thousand years. How strong do you think the village god of this village must be?"
"It turns out you covet the village god of this village."
The groom shook the whip in his hand: "There is no way, we have to make a living. Now someone collects village gods and sets levels for the village gods. The stronger the village gods are, the more valuable they are. How about it, little brother, join us and let's do a few things together. Tickets, you won’t have to worry about it for the rest of your life!”
"Invite me to join your team? I'm just an ordinary passerby. I'm afraid I'm not qualified to play with you!"
The groom laughed heartily: "Little brother, stop pretending. You are wearing a single suit in this freezing and snowy environment. You have no luggage and you are not in a hurry. If you say you are a passerby, you are really lying!"
"What's more..." As he spoke, the groom approached Lin Beichen and inhaled hard, smelling the scent on Lin Beichen's shoulders.
This move made Lin Beichen feel very uncomfortable.
"Brother, even though your clothes are in tatters, there is nothing human about you at all!"
Lin Beichen suddenly realized that with his cultivation level reaching his level, he was not afraid of the wind, cold or dust. Naturally, there would be no body odor on his body. Even if he was sweating profusely, there would be no smell.
The clothes on his body are all manifestations of supernatural powers, not made of real cloth, so there is no trace of humanity in him. This judgment is not wrong at all.
Lin Beichen had never thought that he had such a big flaw before. He was used to being an immortal and he didn't forget that people should have a smell.
"You can kill the village, but I'm afraid Cao Jie can't." Lin Beichen could see that although Cao Jie's eyes were fierce, he actually still had some attachment to this village.
If you really ask him to massacre the village, he will definitely not be able to do it.
The groom smiled and said, "I didn't count on him at all. With you here, little brother, we can take action. The chance of winning will be even greater!"
