Lu Jing could feel that after the old man's words at the banquet, Xia Huai's heart began to waver.
After finishing the meal, the girl said to him, "I want to be alone with my brother for a while, okay?"
"Of course." Lu Jing had no reason to object.
From what they saw and heard in the village during this period, the folk customs here are indeed quite simple, and the atmosphere of harmony and friendship does not seem to be fake.
Just like the kind of paradise described by Tao Yuanming in junior high school textbooks.
Even if he is as cautious as Lu Jing, he doesn't think he will encounter any apparent danger here. He even has to admit that if there is no trouble in Dantian, it seems to be a good choice to live here for a while to cultivate his body and mind.
After Xia Huai left, Lu Jing had nothing to do and continued to wander around the village.
Although the banquet was over, the villagers did not disperse. Everyone collected the leftovers, washed the dishes, and then lit the lights and started singing and dancing.
I don’t know if his latent properties were working again. Lu Jing was also pulled into a dance by an enthusiastic girl. After that, a group of children surrounded him. Wherever he went, those children followed him. .
Opening her clear and bright eyes, she stared at him.
Seeing a look of embarrassment on Lu Jing's face, the girl who invited him to dance covered her mouth and said, "Don't worry, they are just curious."
"Curious if I'm from the other side?"
"No, they are no strangers to people from the other side, but this is the first time they see people who will not regret it." The girl giggled.
"There have been many guests in our village, and everyone has regrets that they want to make up for. We have also seen too many joys and sorrows, but your arrival... has not changed anything in the village.
"This is the first time I saw that stunned expression on Grandpa Zeng's face."
"Your great-grandpa is the village chief?"
"That's right." As the girl said this, she picked up the jug and poured another glass of secret wine, handing it to Lu Jing. After being rejected by the latter, she raised her head and drank it in one gulp.
"I bet you that he must still be thinking hard about you now. He is a good man, but his personality is too old-fashioned. He wishes that everything could be done according to the ancient traditions set by his ancestors.
"For Wuyou Village, we help the guests on the other side of the cave make up for their regrets. If they are willing to stay, then our village can also add new members, and if they choose to leave in the end, we also respect their The decision is that what Wuyou Village gave them will also be taken back...it's fair, right?"
"Fair enough, but isn't it too cruel?" Lu Jing frowned.
"There is no way. If you want to make up for your regrets, you have to pay some price for your comeback. This is a test in itself. You must have enough awareness and belief to get back what you have lost."
The girl paused, "Unfortunately, it seems you are destined not to stay."
As her words fell, the music started playing again, and then she put down her wine glass, twisted her waist, and rushed into the crowd again, dancing. The girl's passionate dance soon received a round of applause.
But at this moment, Lu Jing's eyes were attracted by the wooden sword in the hand of a boy next to him.
The wooden sword was red when Lu Jing saw it before. Because wooden swords of this color were relatively rare, Lu Jing couldn't help but look at it a few more times.
However, the red color on the wooden sword was already very light at this moment, and was returning to the original color of the willow wood.
Lu Jing walked up to the boy, knelt down, pointed at the wooden sword in his hand and said, "Is this your sword?"
The boy nodded and waved a few times in his hand.
"It looks really good. Did your dad make it for you?"
However, this time the boy shook his head when he heard this, and then said, "A young sister over there in the cave gave it to me!" As he said that, he took the wooden sword into his arms again, looking quite precious.
But Lu Jing's eyes flashed with surprise.
This red wooden sword reminded him of Lin Jinran, another scene among the Eight Scenes of the Academy.
Yang Tao once said that all characters who enter the forest will be dyed red without exception, but other than that there will be no other abnormalities, and the red will naturally fade away after a week.
In other words, just seven days ago, there were people in the academy who visited Biyou Cave.
However, starting from about three months ago, there were only newcomers like him and Xia Huai who had just passed the examination and were about to enter the academy to study.
Could it be that someone new sneaked into this forbidden area like them?
Who could that person be? Yan Yun?
Lu Jing shook his head and did not continue to guess. Instead, he directly asked the boy holding the wooden sword, "What is that young sister's name and what does she look like?"
"She said her name was Aoi, and she seemed... a little lonely." The boy, like most people in the village, was very polite and answered all questions.
However, his words left Lu Jing stunned.
Kwai was his guide, so after coming to the academy, he also inquired about some things about Kwai, and found out that Kwai was the most outstanding disciple of the academy over the years, and had become a fifth-level supervisor at a young age.
Moreover, she was appointed by Shaojian Guo. However, she was a former disciple of the academy and had been away from the academy for more than a year.
Lu Jing realized that he might have missed something before, so he asked, "When did you see her?"
Upon hearing this question, the boy who had been polite before suddenly shut his mouth, then turned around and ran away with the wooden sword in his arms.
Lu Jing couldn't help but frown when he saw this. He quickly turned to the other villagers nearby and asked about Kui.
The villagers also answered all questions, but when Lu Jing asked when Kui came, the villagers either shut up or said that they couldn't remember clearly.
But after a while, Lu Jing also mastered the skill of questioning, so he found another child who looked about eight or nine years old. This time, he no longer asked questions about Kui, but only asked if he had seen him before. A man with a Chinese character face and a height of about six feet who looks very serious.
And a man who is half a head shorter, a little lazy, but with unfathomable eyes.
The result was a positive answer.
At this point, Lu Jing had gradually begun to have some guesses in his mind. Without any further delay, he almost immediately ran to the previous small courtyard to find Xia Huai.
However, when he got there, he found that neither Xia Huai nor her recovered brother were missing.
Lu Jing was about to go out to look for him, but a figure that surprised him appeared outside the door.
