This woman was sitting among the other people. She was dressed in red and looked out of place with them.
Or, to be more precise, she was not incompatible with these people, but incompatible with this place.
I looked at her, and she looked at me. After a while, the woman laughed. Even though she was already over fifty, this smile stirred people's hearts like spring flowers blooming.
Although the elders in black robes beside them remained calm on the surface, their Adam's apples that kept shaking betrayed their truest thoughts deep in their hearts.
The woman laughed, and I laughed too, and the two of us laughed like old friends reunited after a long absence.
On the sidelines, little Zhuoma scratched her head, confused about the situation in front of her.
Or at this moment, Xiao Zhuoma was thinking: "Are these two guys sick? Why are they smiling so happily? No! It doesn't seem like it! These two guys must be sick! Moreover, they are still very sick. !”
The beautiful woman in red looked at me and smiled for a while, then slowly said, "Are you Hu Tian?"
I looked at the beautiful woman in red and smiled: "Oh? How come this sister knows me?"
The beautiful woman in red smiled and said: "Of course. Although I rarely move around the capital, I still have to show my face and do business. After all, I can be regarded as a half-world person, so the name Yiyuanzhai still attracts a lot of attention. Er. As for you, the young master of Yiyuanzhai, of course I also know about it."
I smiled and nodded, and said, "So that's it! That's good, it saves you the trouble of introducing yourself. Then I dare to ask sister, what should I call you?"
The beautiful woman in red smiled and said, "Master Hu, if you want, you can call me Liu Siniang."
When I heard the words "Liu Siniang", I couldn't help but be stunned.
Liu Siniang obviously noticed the subtle change in my expression, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "What? The young master of the Hu family has also heard of my name?"
I looked at Liu Siniang's star-like face, and after a while I slowly said, "Of course. How could I not know Liu Siniang's name is such a big one in Wanfu Tower? It's just..."
When I said this, I deliberately prolonged the ending.
Liu Siniang is a woman who knows how to observe people's emotions. When she saw me acting like this, she immediately smiled and asked, "It's just what?"
I smiled and said, "It's just that I wanted to go to Wanfu Tower to find you, but I really didn't expect that we would meet here."
When Liu Siniang heard what I said, she pretended to be surprised and asked, "Oh? Originally, the young master of the Hu family planned to go to the slave family?"
I nodded and said: "My friend was poisoned, and some people said that only you can cure it. However, something happened on the way, and I... I ended up here inexplicably... But this is not bad, at least we It’s considered fate.”
After Liu Siniang heard what I said, she wanted to say a few words, but was interrupted by Grandma Gama beside her.
Granny Karma coughed twice, and then tapped the ground twice with the crutch in her hand.
Seeing Granny Karma acting like this, Liu Siniang and I stopped talking.
After a while, Granny Karma spoke slowly: "The main purpose of coming to you this time is..."
When Granny Karma said this, she turned her head and glanced at me. When I saw Granny Karma suddenly looking at me, I couldn't help but feel puzzled. I thought to myself: "Well, why is she looking at me? Isn't that what they say?" The river god was killed! Could it be that you were trying to punish me? After all, this place was built by our old man. After all, I can be considered the second generation of the village. They won't just eat me alive, right? "
Granny Karma seemed to see what I was thinking, and frowned slightly at me. She didn’t say anything, but turned her head and said to the seven people in the room: “The main purpose of coming to you this time is to My master once told me that once the river god in Naihe is killed and the treasure in his belly is revealed, it will be time for us to take the next step."
After listening to what Granny Karma said, the ugliest one among the five elders suddenly asked loudly: "What the saint means is that the river god in Naihe was really killed?"
Grandma Garma didn't say anything. Little Dolma on the side rushed to say, "Of course! That's what I saw with my own eyes."
After finishing speaking, Xiao Zhuoma pointed at me and said: "That's this guy. He was the one who killed the River God! This wretched guy not only killed the River God, but also opened up the River God's belly and took out the treasure... This I saw it all with my own eyes.”
Hearing that little Dolma said that I looked vulgar, I immediately stopped and pointed at little Dolma and said loudly: "Hey, little girl, although you are still a child, you can't open your eyes and tell lies! Lying is a I'm going to be eaten by wolves! My uncle is so handsome and charming, how can he save his wretchedness? Where is his wretchedness?"
Little Zhuoma was obviously unconvinced, sticking out her tongue and saying, "It's just wretched! It's just wretched!"
I was so angry that I said, "Hey! You little girl..."
As I said this, I rolled up my sleeves and was about to catch little Dolma. Little Dolma dwarfed and slithered behind Liu Siniang, saying loudly: "Ama! This wretched guy bullied me!"
When I heard little Zhuoma call Liu Siniang "Ama," I couldn't help but froze for a moment.
Liu Siniang stretched out her hand to hold little Zhuoma in her arms, patted her head with a doting look on her face, then looked at me and said with a smile: "Young master of the Hu family is laughing. This girl of mine has not been with me since she was a child. She I have been growing up with my grandma. I have a wild temperament and neglected discipline, so I am so rude. Don’t be offended by the young master of the Hu family..."
As she said that, Liu Siniang bowed slightly and saluted me. I waved my hands hurriedly and said, "It's okay! It's okay! She is still a child, what bad intentions can she have! It's just a joke..."
As soon as I finished speaking, Granny Karma next to me said, "Have you finished talking? Can we talk about business now?"
I hurriedly said: "Sorry, mother-in-law. It's my problem. I won't talk more. Please continue..."
Grandma Garma looked at me and then glared hard at little Dolma.
Little Dolma was stared at by Granny Karma, and she lowered her head feeling guilty. But who would have thought that this little girl turned around and stuck out her tongue and bared her teeth at me, with a provocative expression on her face.
I looked at little Dolma's weird expression, and there were ten thousand grass mud horses floating in my mind, but I couldn't get angry, so I could only ignore her and focus on Granny Karma.
Grandma Karma said solemnly: "The gold coins have seen the light of day. Do you know what to do next?"
The ugliest elder said in a deep voice: "I know, I know...but..."
Just before the ugliest elder had finished speaking, an extremely noisy sound suddenly came from outside the door.
The next second, a young man hurriedly rushed into Granny Karma's house. He shouted loudly: "It's not good... it's not good... something big has happened...!"
Granny Karma looked at the young man and asked, "Gengren, what happened? You are so flustered?"
The young man named Gengren shouted in panic: "The water is rising! The water is rising! But the water is rising!"
Gengren's words surprised almost everyone present. Liu Siniang stood up and asked in surprise: "What on earth is going on? Why did the water suddenly rise in Naihe?"
Gengren said with a cry: "I don't know! I don't know either! The water is rising very fast. Most of the village has been flooded. Several elders..."
Before Gengren finished speaking, a roar came from not far outside the house.
"No! This sound is the sound of water splashing against rocks or buildings when the water rises!" After hearing this sound, I couldn't help but be shocked.
The next second, I didn't care so much. I picked up Liu Siniang and Xiao Zhuoma who were closest to me and turned around and ran outside.
As I ran, I shouted: "Run! There is no time to study the cause of the rising water now! Run to higher ground!"
After saying that, I was the first to rush out of Granny Karma's house.
Granny Karma's house was built in the middle and back of the village. The terrain here is higher than other places. Although the water is not small, it will take some time to flood it.
After I stood at the door and roughly determined the direction, I turned around, pulled Liu Siniang and Xiao Zhuoma, and ran towards the highest group of rocks behind me.
But before I ran a few steps, some black-robed elders behind me shouted: "Stop! You can't go there! This is the forbidden area of our Naihe Village! Anyone who intrudes will be killed!"
I shouted loudly: "Do you want to go there or not! You'll die if you stay here anyway, so it's better to break into this forbidden area. My fate is up to me, and I won't know until I break in to find out whether I am alive or dead!"
After saying that, I ignored the objections of Liu Siniang and Xiao Zhuoma, grabbed them and ran to the so-called forbidden area.
Maybe it’s because my words are highly inflammatory, or maybe it’s the human survival instinct.
Within three seconds, those Naihe villagers who were still hesitant all headed towards the forbidden area as if they were crazy.
Although these guys are thin and small, they run as nimbly as monkeys, jumping up and down, fearing that they will accidentally become the last one, and be driven out by the surging river water to die unjustly.
I didn't care about the guys behind me, and just dragged Liu Siniang and the two of them up.
People often say that it is easier to go up the mountain than to go down. But now, I found that going up the mountain is not that easy.
The road that originally didn't look that far away made me run out of breath. Just when my lungs were about to explode, the three of us finally reached the so-called forbidden area.
But what surprised me was that although this place looked like a group of rocks from a distance, when I got to it, I actually found that it was the stone gate of an underground palace.
