Although winter has passed and spring has come, the remnants of winter have not yet dissipated, and the weather is still cold as usual. Even so, there were still many birds of various shapes chirping above them.
"Zi Zi Lin, did we talk about it just now..." Lu Chun was about to ask the doubts in his heart, but was interrupted by Lin Zidai.
"Brother Lu, I don't know what will happen on the road ahead. Anyway, I have nothing to do, so why not go to the stream ahead to catch some fish for replenishment?" Lin Zidai pointed to the stream not far away.
Hearing this, Lu Chun glanced at the dark clouds in the bamboo house behind Lin Zidai and saw that it was still sleeping soundly. He also joked: "I'm talking about idiot Lin, I have never seen you so active in supplying supplies. Could it be that you have been assimilated by this black pig?" Right?" But he said it back and leaned towards the stream with Lin Zidai.
The stream here is just downstream of the place they passed before, so logically speaking, the conditions there should not be much different.
Lu Chun wanted to wake Wu Yun up and let him "get up" to work, but Wu Yun was so drunk that he didn't react at all no matter how much he shook. If he wasn't still breathing, he would be like a dead pig.
In desperation, Lu Chun had no choice but to go into battle in person. Unfortunately, he worked hard for a long time, but he didn't even touch half of the fish, and he climbed ashore while cursing.
The stream was so cold that Lu Chun's lips turned purple from the cold. While putting on his clothes, he complained: "Zi Zi Lin, don't just let me fish in the water by myself, you should also get active!"
Lin Zidai smiled when he heard this: "Since Brother Lu has nothing to do, then it will be in vain for me to take action! And they are already here. Brother Lu should pack his clothes first! We are about to hit the road..."
Lu Chun originally wanted to say something, but then he heard a wailing sound coming from a distance: "You pheasant, let me down quickly! You pheasant! Put me down quickly! Slow down!"
He shouted towards the cry and saw that the falcon that had just gone away had flown back from the top of the mountain. But what is different from before is that there is a figure under its sharp claws. This person is none other than Najia Orion Jia An.
This hunting falcon flew extremely fast, even if it brought a Jia Orion with it, it would not slow down, and it was in front of them in the blink of an eye. Then they saw its height suddenly drop, and its two sharp claws swung forward and threw the Orion in front of them.
Just as Jia Lihu had time to utter a exclamation, he hit the ground with a groan and rolled several times before he stopped firmly in front of Lu Chun and Lin Zidai.
Seeing that its mission had been completed, the falcon screamed a few more times, then flew into the sky and hovered not far above its head.
"You better not come down like a pheasant for the rest of your life! Otherwise, if I catch the chance, I will wrap you in a stone egg!" Jia Lihu had rough skin and thick flesh. He was not seriously injured, but it still hurt from being thrown like this. He grinned and cursed displeasedly at the hunting falcon above his head.
"Brother Jia, we meet again." Lin Zidai saw Jia Orion and said hello with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Jia Lihu quickly stood up and saluted Lin Zidai, then turned around and saw Lu Chun getting dressed by the river, and exclaimed in shock: "Brother Lu Chun can clean in such a cold stream. Your body really makes me admire you so much!"
Lu Chunzheng was depressed because he couldn't catch any fish. He was even more embarrassed when he heard Jia Lihu's words. He could only rub his arms and urge: "Stop talking nonsense and lead the way!"
"Lead the way?" Jia Lihu scratched his head and glanced left and right: "Where to go?"
"Didn't Falcon tell you?" Lu Chun was stunned.
"I don't understand bird language, who knows what this pheasant brought me for?" Jia Lihu coughed a few times, winked at Lin Zidai, then shrugged, looked up again, and saw the hunting falcon. Deliberately guiding him in the direction, his dark complexion instantly turned pale: "Ah! Could it be that... the direction of the weak water you are looking for is over there?"
When Lu Chun saw Jia Orion's face turned pale, he asked, "Old Jia, is there something wrong with this weak water?"
Jia Liehu was stunned for a moment, and then shook his head stiffly: "Brother Lu Chun, you don't understand what I mean. I'm not talking about the problem of weak water..." When Jia Liehu said this, he suddenly raised his head and glanced at the chattering around him. The bird suddenly lowered his voice and said, "We'll talk about this later, let's get on the road first!"
Lin Zidai saw something strange about Jia Orionhu, and hurriedly stepped forward and put his hand on Jia Orionhu's shoulder: "Brother Jia, since the road ahead is so difficult, do you need us to accompany you back to prepare?"
Jia Lihu glanced at the village chief's house through Lin Zidai's shoulder, and then pulled out a bamboo strip knife from behind: "It doesn't matter, I just carried this thing on my body when I was chopping firewood. Although this thing Far inferior to Dahei, but it’s enough to deal with the little troubles on the road.”
Seeing Jia Lihu's resolute attitude, the two of them nodded and followed him forward, but they were silent along the way. Every time Lu Chun wanted to speak to break the silence, Jia Lihu and Lin Zidai would excuse him with various excuses. Later, he simply stopped talking and became a quiet man with a long face.
The further we walked, the thinner the chirping of birds around us became. Eventually we could only hear the footsteps of a few people and Lu Chun's heavy breathing. If there was anything else that could attract the attention of a few people, it would be the hunters hovering above their heads. The falcon will occasionally make a hoarse guidance sound.
The group of people moved forward, and soon they finally walked out of the forest, and the scenery in front of them became clearer. What appeared in front of their sight at this time was a cliff like an ax blade, which evenly split the road in front of them into two forks, leading to the distance in a crooked way.
Jia Lihu looked around and found that no birds had followed them since they left the forest. Then he finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked a few people to sit down. When the falcon overhead saw them stop, it landed on a dead branch protruding from the rock wall and looked down with a burning gaze.
"Brother Lu Chun, it's not that I don't want to take you to the direction of the weak water, but if you two are not in a hurry, I suggest you two find another way..." Although the hunting falcon above their heads is not close to them, Jia Orion Hu He lowered his voice quite a bit and said with a serious face.
"I'm talking about Lao Jia, you..." Lu Chun was about to shout at the top of his voice, but Lin Zidai suddenly pulled him from the side and signaled with his eyes, so he lowered his voice: "Ahem, I said Lao Jia, why are you always so nervous? That black pig is sleeping soundly, even if you play gongs and drums next to it, there will be no problem?"
As Lu Chun spoke, he picked up a stone from the ground and threw it into the bamboo house. As expected, the dark cloud did not respond at all, not even the slight snoring sound was interrupted.
"If Lin guessed correctly, Jia Xiongji should be afraid of the birds on the road, right?" Lin Zidai saw Lu Chun's move and did not stop him. He just threw the stones in the bamboo house casually.
"Niao, what's wrong with the bird?" Lu Chun recalled carefully, but he didn't find anything strange about the little guys on the tree. However, he was just stunned for a moment, then he realized what he said, "Oh... what do you mean? Is there something wrong with the village chief?"
Then he patted Jia Lihu on the shoulder again and said earnestly: "Old Jia! I have to talk about you here. People say that the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is not easy to get along with. How come it is the relationship between mother-in-law and son-in-law that is in trouble here? The village chief said he doesn't care about you, why can't you let go..."
"He is not the village chief." Before Lu Chun could finish speaking, Jia Orion suddenly said.
"So what if he is not the village chief? He is not the village chief..." The more Lu Chun thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, "He is not the village chief? What do you mean?"
Jia Lihu clenched his fists, his eye circles suddenly turned red: "The real village chief is dead!"
"Ah?" Jia Lihu's words were not difficult to understand. Lu Chun's hair stood on end when he heard the words. If Lin Zidai hadn't pressed down on his leg next to him, he would have jumped up in shock: "Jia...Old Jia, don't be joking. , do you mean that the person who was talking to us just now...is a dead person?"
The more Lu Chun thought about it, the more frightened he became. No wonder the village chief didn't let him light the oil lamp just now. It turned out that he had become a ghost! But Lu Chun clearly remembered that when the village chief called for the hunting falcon, the "ghost" was standing in the sun again, and he felt confused in his heart.
Lin Zidai was afraid that Lu Chun's abnormal behavior would attract the attention of the hunting falcon above him. When he saw that Jia Orion in front of him was still in an unstable mood, he could only help and explain: "Brother Lu, Brother Jia wants to say that he just talked to us The village chief he was talking to was actually someone else pretending to be him."
"Hey...why do you only speak half of what you are saying!" Lu Chun finally breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked in confusion: "Old Jia, since you knew he was pretending, why did you ask us to come over? What on earth are you doing? What’s your intention?”
"I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to frame you two. I just wanted to know what he wanted to do by pretending to be the village chief?" Jia Lihu finally came to his senses. He was afraid that the two of them would misunderstand, so he hurriedly explained.
Regarding the matter of Xinghuo Sect finding the village chief, he didn't even reveal a word about his adopted daughter, let alone others. But suddenly one day, the village chief suddenly found Jia Lihu and told him everything that had happened to him. It was only then that he learned the name Xinghuo Gate.
At that time, Jia Lihu was very curious as to why the village chief told him these things at this time. The village chief said that he had often felt frightened recently and that he might not be around for long. He told him these things in the hope that he would open his eyes and not be blinded by illusions. Then he was asked to move out of the village and live a good life with his daughter.
Jia Orion didn't understand it at first, and was ready to persuade the village chief to open up more. But after that day, when he returned to the village, he suddenly found that there were many flying birds here, with different styles, fluttering colorfully in the sun, but their eyes revealed the same cold light.
When Jia Lihu saw the village chief again, although the latter's voice and smile remained the same, a sense of strangeness arose spontaneously.
Although the village chief in front of him is no different from yesterday, he is no longer the same person as yesterday!
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