When we returned to the inn, it was already five o'clock in the morning, but the sky was still dark and the moonlight was fading.
Zhu Yuanyu was so sleepy that he fell asleep.
I woke up at dawn and it was already noon.
After dinner, I packed up my things and drove the carriage leisurely out of the city.
The next few days were spent in the countryside, and they were still far away from the next town.
Usually supplies are exchanged with villagers with money when passing through some small villages, and this time is no exception.
They arrived at a hospitable small village, and the villagers entertained them warmly.
At this time, the wound on Zhu Yuanyu's arm had also healed, and Tweetie was now willing to let him eat some greasy food. Previously, in order to prevent the wound from becoming inflamed, Tweetie resolutely refused to let him eat greasy food, fearing that he would not be left alone. scar.
Zhu Yuanyu couldn't explain the strangeness of his body to her, so he could only suffer from this loss and suffered for several days.
Although Qi Ao supported Cui'er, he would secretly hide the cakes and give them to Zhu Yuanyu when Cui'er wasn't paying attention.
At this time, Zhu Yuanyu was really grateful to Qi Ao, and even wanted to catch him and kiss him a few times as a reward.
The small village they arrived at was a very beautiful place, with green mountains and green waters, delicate flowers blooming in the fields, and some children running and playing around the fields with laughter and joy.
Zhu Yuanyu fell in love with this small village at first sight.
After entering the village, the curious villagers looked over one after another. They were unprepared and showed no malice. They fully welcomed Zhu Yuanyu and the other foreign guests.
The village chief and his family entertained them.
That night, they were satiated by the sumptuous dinner, which was unique to rural feasts.
Especially the pot of thick chicken soup, which just added fresh mushrooms, was actually more fragrant than the chicken soup he drank before, making Zhu Yuanyu never forget it before going to bed.
"If you really like to drink, Master, then I will ask the village chief's daughter-in-law for the secret tomorrow. Then, when you return to the capital, Master, you can still drink it from time to time."
Cui'er twisted a piece of face towel and handed it to Zhu Yuanyu. She helped in the kitchen for tonight's banquet, so she knew exactly who was responsible for making the soup.
Zhu Yuanyu shook his head, "No need, it's not that bad after all."
Cui'er didn't understand what he meant. They were both soups made with chicken and fresh mushrooms. How could the taste be different?
Although she thought so, she did not ask. She just said, "Master, do you want to wash your feet? I will fetch water for you."
Zhu Yuanyu waved his hand, "You can rest."
Cui'er took the basin and retreated. She slept with the village chief's daughter-in-law and granddaughter tonight.
Qi Ao blew out the candle, and the room instantly fell into darkness. Only the bright moon outside the room was still bright, and a trace of silver light shone through the crack in the door.
The only window in this room was open, but the moon was not visible. It was hanging high behind the house.
The room was quiet, Zhu Yuanyu opened his eyes in the darkness, not even the slightest bit sleepy.
Li Zhuangzhuang on the right was already snoring, but Qi Ao on the left was silent, as if no one had ever slept there. The silence made Zhu Yuanyu think that no one was there.
"Qi Ao? Are you asleep?" Zhu Yuanyu lowered his voice.
Just when he thought it was his delusion that the other person was already asleep, a deep male voice sounded softly in his ear——
"No."
"oh."
The two fell into silence.
A long while.
"Go to sleep."
It was the same deep male voice.
As if being hypnotized, Zhu Yuanyu suddenly felt sleepy, his eyelids became heavy, and he slowly fell asleep.
Then there was a steady sound of breathing from the left hand side, which was very regular.
A dreamless night.
The sound of roosters woke Zhu Yuanyu up, and he looked at the sky. At this moment, he noticed that there was already the sound of people walking in the small village.
What hard-working people!
Zhu Yuanyu said with emotion.
The places around him were already empty. Qi Ao and Li Zhuangzhuang got up early every morning to practice martial arts, and they were unstoppable.
This kind of perseverance makes some people feel ashamed, but they don't feel the slightest bit ashamed that they slept until midnight.
It's so shameless to be so thick-skinned.
After lying on the bed for a while, Zhu Yuanyu slowly got up.
It wasn't that he didn't want to sleep, it was just that he was hungry. He seemed to smell the aroma of food vaguely. Who was steaming buns so early in the morning that it was so sinful?
After putting on his clothes and shoes, Zhu Yuanyu opened the door and walked out, taking a deep breath of fresh air, which was not available in the previous world!
In the past world, air pollution was already very serious. People had to wear masks when going out, and almost everyone had an air filter purifier installed in their home.
Even in the countryside, the air in this small village is incomparable.
Zhu Yuanyu took a few more breaths of expensive air, and then he was satisfied, as if he had earned it, and he was in a cheerful and bright mood.
"Master, why are you up?"
Look at what he said, as if he had never gotten up early before - Zhu Yuanyu rolled his eyes secretly.
I remember when he was studying, he was not the first one to arrive at school early every day. Even the class monitor who took the keys didn’t get up as early as him!
Why am I being suspected even if I get up early here?
Zhu Yuanyu's rare good mood was ruined, and he was very unhappy now.
Cui'er, who had gotten up early in the morning, carefully looked at the young master's face. She found that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, otherwise the young master would not have suddenly changed from smiling to expressionless; but she didn't know what she said wrong. What caused the young master's displeasure with the simple sentence "Master, why are you up?"
Cui Er grimaced, and now she wanted to pry open the young master's head and take a closer look, lest she would never be able to keep up with the pace of the young master's face changing, which was too fast.
Zhu Yuanyu glanced at her and turned back to the room.
Cui'er had no choice but to fetch a basin of water and carry it in as usual.
"Master, I have brought you some water. Please wash yourself first. I will bring you breakfast. I ate leek buns this morning! I remember that you love leek buns the most, so I also have some."
Zhu Yuanyuzai wiped his face carefully and reluctantly said "um", but the corners of his mouth rose again.
Cui'er watched quietly, then breathed a sigh of relief and went out to bring breakfast. It was not easy. The young master's temper was becoming more and more like a child's, so he had to be coaxed.
Zhu Yuanyu also felt that he was becoming younger, so he couldn't help but lose his face, and threw the towel into the basin, and the spray of water almost splashed on his chest.
However, when Cui'er came over with fragrant chive buns, Zhu Yuanyu still ate five of them, almost unable to walk.
Qi Ao, who had returned from martial arts practice, glanced worriedly at his bulging belly.
After breakfast, it was officially dawn.
Under the greetings of the villagers, they drove away in the carriage again.
When passing a tree, Zhu Yuanyu, who was lying by the window looking at the scenery, suddenly felt familiar.
Maybe he saw it wrong, after all, every tree is almost the same - Zhu Yuanyu thought.
But when the carriage drove for a while and then circled back to the small village, Zhu Yuanyu couldn't help but frown, and the strange feeling lingered in his heart.
Still the same villagers, the same scenery, the same air.
When the curious villagers gathered around and asked why they were back, Zhu Yuanyu didn't know how to explain it, so he could only smile and let Li Zhuangzhuang drive the carriage away.
once;
twice;
three times.
When the villagers looked at them asking "Are they stupid?", Zhu Yuanyu had no choice but to ask Li Zhuangzhuang to stop the carriage.
No matter which way they go, they will eventually circle back to this small village.
Can't get out?
Is it a ghost attacking the wall?
Is it a maze?
Or is it for other reasons?
Zhu Yuanyu couldn't figure it out, so he had to disturb the village chief's house again.
The village chief was not dissatisfied and received them very warmly.
What a simple villager, a good person!
Zhu Yuanyu stayed there without any burden, and stayed there for three days.
Three days later, they still couldn't get out of this small village.
The village chief remained the same and had no dissatisfaction, but his daughter-in-law had objections. Fortunately, Zhu Yuanyu had nothing but money.
Seeing the white silver coins, the village chief's daughter-in-law had no objection at all. She smiled at them and even planned to let them live there permanently. She made a very sincere plea to stay.
If Zhu Yuanyu and the others leave, the village chief's daughter-in-law will definitely be the saddest one.
I thought they would go on like this forever, but something changed on the fourth day.
It's not that you can walk out, but someone walks in.
There were four people in total, two men and two women, and it was clear from their attire that they were not ordinary people.
Have you ever seen ordinary people wearing long swords?
And Zhu Yuanyu always felt that the auras of those four people were somewhat similar to his, maybe
Because there was no vacancy in the village chief's house, the four people were staying in the second adult family in the small village. Zhu Yuanyu saw it. The village chief's daughter-in-law looked disappointed, and she didn't know if she was regretting the money that had escaped.
It always felt like she had opened a new door.
That night, Zhu Yuanyu noticed something was wrong. The whole small village suddenly became very strange, and the surroundings were filled with spiritual energy, which kept leaking out as if a floodgate had been opened.
Zhu Yuanyu suddenly sat up from the bed, but did not wake up the two people around him.
This is not right!
He looked back and saw that the people on the left and right seemed to be in a deep sleep, their chests rising and falling together, and the sound of very regular breathing echoed in his ears.
"Qi Ao?"
"Zhuangzhuang?"
Can't wake up.
There was no other way. Zhu Yuanyu put on his shoes, opened the door and walked out. He planned to inspect the situation.
Just when he reached the entrance of the village, someone said quietly behind him: "Is this Taoist friend Yaxing out to enjoy the moonlight at such a late hour?"
Zhu Yuanyu was shocked. He didn't notice anyone standing behind him!
If that person had malicious intentions, I'm afraid he wouldn't be standing here.
However, he couldn't show his timidity and pretended to be calm: "Fellow Taoist, it's not so late to come out to enjoy the moonlight." As he said this, he slowly turned around.
He was actually one of the four men!
The man suddenly smiled and said, "You are so funny."
Zhu Yuanyu: "???"
"Tsk." The man smiled and shook his head, "Forget it, I won't tease you anymore. You can go back. Don't wander around in the middle of the night."
After that, he left.
Intuition told Zhu Yuanyu that the sleeping of Qi Ao and Li Zhuangzhuang was related to him or the remaining three people.
Just want to send him away? Not that easy! He wanted to see what despicable things they were going to do!
Zhu Yuanyu's temper got angry, and he immediately activated all his spiritual energy, and disappeared in an instant.
He followed the man quietly.
Following the other party, Zhu Yuanyu came to the woods behind the small village.
Walking through the woods, stopping at a cave,
Just when he was feeling strange about the cave, the man got in, and Zhu Yuanyu quickly followed.
When he heard voices, he saw three other people.
The man being followed glanced back suspiciously, but found nothing.
"What's wrong?"
One of the women asked, with a baby face but an angry look on her face.
The man shook his head, "Nothing."
Zhu Yuanyu breathed a sigh of relief and listened intently to their conversation.
"Are everyone in the village asleep?" another man asked, looking fierce.
"Don't worry, my spells have never failed." Another woman replied confidently.
The person being followed twitched his lips, probably thinking of Zhu Yuanyu who slipped through the net, but he didn't say anything.
These four people don't seem to be harmonious on the surface - Zhu Yuanyu thought to himself.
"When will it come out?" Babyface asked.
The three of them turned their attention to the person being followed, and saw him touching his nose and saying, "Tomorrow night."
"Are you sure?" the confident woman asked.
The man nodded and stopped talking.
The last four people left one after another, and Zhu Yuanyu waited for a while before slowly walking out of the cave.
What he knows now is: something is going to appear tomorrow night, and it is very likely to be something that causes the spiritual energy of the small village to grow rapidly, or maybe the solution to people's "cannot get out of the small village" is also in it.
Of course, this is just his speculation for the time being, and the facts will not be revealed until tomorrow night.
What he has to do now is to go back and have a good sleep. According to the information disclosed by those people, it seems that Qi Ao and Li Zhuangzhuang's sleep is not a big deal. I believe they will wake up at dawn.
If he doesn't wake up, he will definitely settle the score with them!
Zhu Yuanyu quickly returned to the room, climbed into bed and closed his eyes to sleep.
When he opened his eyes the next morning, he saw that both sides were empty, and he finally felt relieved.
He did almost nothing this day, just absorbed spiritual energy.
When night came again, Qi Ao and Li Zhuangzhuang's deep sleep did not surprise him because he knew about it in advance.
The spiritual energy tonight is stronger than last night, as if it is about to reach its peak, which means that some treasure is about to come out.
Yes baby.
After a day of thinking, Zhu Yuanyu felt that this should be a sign that the baby was coming out of the mountain, and the four people came for the baby.
Zhu Yuanyu was thinking carefully about the countermeasures while heading towards the cave where he was last night. He planned to snatch the treasure, otherwise he would feel sorry for the days he wasted in the small village.
This is God's will. This is God deliberately keeping him in order to let him get the treasure.
Zhu Yuanyu recognized this truth, and he would not accept any other truth! deny! Ignore it!
Le Zizi walked to the cave and saw that the four people were earlier than him. Zhu Yuanyu was in a bad mood and wanted to beat them up.
But before he could take action, the four of them started to quarrel for no apparent reason. The argument became more and more fierce, and there was a strong tendency of a fight over a disagreement.
Zhu Yuanyu was happy to watch the show - the snipe and the clam were fighting, and the fisherman benefited.
It's a pity that he was disappointed in the end. He didn't start a fight. He must have known that a useless fight was pointless.
This made Zhu Yuanyu gnash his teeth with hatred. Since they didn't take the initiative, let him do it!
Just when he thought about it, the ground suddenly shook, and he was so frightened that he quickly held on to a big tree next to him.
The four people were also shaken and staggered, confused and confused.
Fortunately, the shaking stopped as quickly as it came.
"not good!"
someone shouted.
When Zhu Yuanyu saw it, he was also worried. It turned out that the cave was covered up when there was a shock.
At this moment, the spiritual energy in the air disappeared, and then suddenly burst out again, shooting straight into the sky!
A bolt of thunder suddenly struck the entrance of the cave.
Zhu Yuanyu was frightened for a while.
What the hell is this baby? It actually attracted thunder and fire!
The four people looked surprised and hurriedly used their own methods to remove the rocks and soil that covered the cave entrance bit by bit.
After a while, the entrance was finally revealed again.
The four of them rushed into the cave without thinking about whether the earthquake would happen again or whether they would be buried. They were really brave.
Not to be outdone, Zhu Yuanyu jumped in and disappeared in the blink of an eye, so fast.
When he entered, the whole cave was brightly lit. Walking along the front, Zhu Yuanyu finally saw the true face of the baby - it was a flower composed of transparent petals, the size of a palm, exuding an alluring fragrance.
etc!
An alluring aroma?
Zhu Yuanyu quickly held his breath. He finally discovered that the four people who walked in earlier than him looked a little weird, as if they were under an illusion?
Next, he witnessed a terrifying scene with his own eyes——
The four men began to kill each other.
In just a moment, the four living people ended their lives in a cruel way.
Zhu Yuanyu was stunned, a little unable to recover.
It wasn't until he smelled the alluring fragrance in his nose again that he realized that the fragrance seemed to have no effect on him.
After calming down, Zhu Yuanyu carefully walked around the four fragmented corpses and stood in front of the little flower that took four lives in an instant.
The closer you get, the more you find the beauty of the flowers, like flowers condensed by frost, pure and flawless.
But there is deep malice hidden behind it.
Zhu Yuanyu didn't know whether to pick the flower or not.
After thinking about it, he thought that instead of keeping it to harm others, it would be better for him to sacrifice his life and pluck the flowers.
He had a righteous look on his face, as if he was not going to hell or who else would be.
Wrapping his right hand with spiritual power, he plucked the flowers in a snap, uprooting them, leaving no way out for the Hua family, not even future generations.
Although he didn't know the purpose of this flower for the time being, Zhu Yuanyu still snickered because of his wit and luck.
"Hua'er Hua'er, from now on you will follow me. I will not treat you badly. You can eat whatever you want."
I don't know if it was an illusion, but the delicate flower trembled slightly.
