The firelight lit up the night sky and reddened the faces of the villagers on the ridges.

The expressions of those people were very complicated, and they were surprised, frightened, surprised, panicked—whatever the emotion, they could not avoid a word of surprise—and they watched in amazement at the flying locusts that filled the sky under the light of the fire, and one by one they threw themselves into the fire, and then fell down again. The sound of crackling kept coming, one after another, and a scorching smell began to diffuse. In the distance, there was a hysterical shouting and gong ringing, and with the sound of people running, they all became distant and faint in the red night firelight, like a slow motion through time and space, like a few words in a dream.

There was a dead silence on the road by the field, no one made a sound, not even the sound of breathing, and the people did not dare to come out of the atmosphere, so they watched in a daze as the flying locusts in the sky were thrown into the fire, scorched and fell.

Throughout the night, the firewood was added and the fire burned and burned, from dusk until dawn.

When the day dawned, there were no more locusts flying over, but the scorching smell in the air could not be dissipated for a while. The fields were full of people, most of them nearby villagers, and in the middle of the night they saw the flames rushing to the sky, so they ran over to see what was going on, but they never thought that they happened to see locusts flying up from the fields, and then one by one they threw themselves into the fire and were burned to death. So I was also shocked, and I didn't leave, and stayed until dawn.

The ground was black, all charred locusts, covered with a thick layer, and the clicking sound could be heard when you stepped on it, and the burnt locusts became a scorched black ash with it.

The fire was extinguished, and there was no one in the field to speak. Li Zheng trembled, walked up to Xia Hongsheng, stared at Xia Hongsheng directly, and suddenly fell to his knees as soon as his legs became weak. Those who came after Li Zheng, and those laborers who knew about it also fell to their knees together. Li Zheng's body trembled, his voice trembled, and he kowtowed to Xia Hongsheng and the others. The mouth still kept chattering: "Small, the villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, I don't know that it is the true immortal who has descended, please forgive the true immortal!" Please forgive your sins! ”

Li Zheng can still say a word. The people in the back didn't even dare to speak, they just kept kowtowing on the ground, banging the ground.

Xia Hongsheng turned his head to look at Youhime, and she and the female assassin suddenly took a step back as if they were frightened. looked at Xia Hongsheng's eyes with awe and panic, and a touch of fear. Xia Hongsheng could see that Youji's body was trembling slightly, as if he was afraid of him.

It's not just Yuhime. There are also Li Zheng, and the villagers behind Li Zheng. They are all afraid, in awe. They don't understand anything, they are superstitious about miracles, and they don't know what Xia Hongsheng has done. They only knew that Xia Hongsheng just ordered them to light the fire, and then said a word to those locust gods, and then the hordes of locust gods began to rush into the fire themselves. And then they were burned to death!

Fly-headed insects, scum people, dare to claim to be gods? Eat the blood and sweat of the people, scourge the common people, and don't quickly accept the guilt! -- These are the words they heard. So they knew that the young man in front of them, Lang Jun, let those locust gods confess their sins, so those locust gods really threw themselves into the fire and died!

That's the locust god! It's not something to be bypassed! How vicious the locust god is, they have just experienced it, but what about the young man in front of him. One word, just one sentence! Just let those locust gods throw themselves into the fire**! Who else but a true god can have such skills?! This young man Langjun - no, where is still a young man. Lang Jun, a young man in the village, when he is so old as the person in front of him, I am afraid that he can't even say a sentence neatly! But what does he talk and do like a young man?! It must be an immortal, only an immortal will live forever, and he will look like a young man!

Seeing that Yuhime couldn't say anything for a while. Xia Hongsheng smiled, turned his head to look at Li Zheng again, and said, "Lord Li Zheng, get up." Go back and order the fields here to be turned over, and bury all the charred things under the soil, and the next year the land will be fattened and strong, and there will be a good harvest. ”

"Blessing to Immortal Xie! Blessing from Xie Xianchang! Li Zheng and the group of people behind him kowtowed harder again.

Xia Hongsheng smiled: "Lord Lizheng, do you remember the bet you made with me yesterday?" ”

Rizheng was stunned.

A face suddenly turned ashen, and his mouth opened, but he didn't dare to say anything. Everyone else was stunned, and after a long while, a person suddenly knelt on the ground and suddenly crawled over, and when he reached Xia Hongsheng's feet, he kept grabbing the ground with his head, and shouted in his mouth: "Immortal forgiveness!" Immortal forgiveness! Li is a good person, and everyone in the village has been helped by Li Zheng! Ask the immortal to be gracious! Ask the immortal to be gracious......"

"Immortal Chief!"

"Ask the immortal chief to be gracious!"

All of a sudden, the group began to shout, kowtowing as they shouted.

That Li Zheng suddenly burst into tears, wiped his tears and looked at the villagers who interceded for him, and then looked at Xia Hongsheng, but saw Xia Hongsheng looking at him with a smile, so he suddenly chuckled in his heart, and immediately became worried, so he hurriedly kowtowed again: "The villain has eyes and doesn't know Mount Tai, he collided with the immortal chief, the immortal chief has a large number of people, and he also got rid of the locust god for us, I should ask the immortal chief for guilt!" I just hope that after my death, the immortal chief can bypass the people of this village, and the little one begs the immortal chief! ”

Xia Hongsheng laughed and said, "Let's go, go to your house." ”

With that, he turned around and left.

Li Zheng hurriedly followed behind, and all the people around him followed. Xia Hongsheng didn't take the carriage either, anyway, the distance was not far, and it didn't take long to walk before he arrived at Lizheng's house.

asked for locusts from Yousa's hands, Xia Hongsheng went straight to the stove of Li Zheng's house, said to Li Zheng, "You are ready", and closed the door.

Lizheng's family burst into tears, and the old wife and son knelt in front of the stove and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

Li Zheng wiped a handful of old tears on his face, and pulled his old wife and son up: "Cry very much! Don't cry! It was a certain collision with the immortal chief first, the immortal chief did not implicate the blame, and still removed the locust god, which is already a heavenly kindness, and there is an agreement first, and there should be this in a certain life! Fortunately, now that the cow has become an adult, and the daughter-in-law has also had the seed of the cow, the old man has no regrets. Now, if you can exchange this old life for the help of the immortals, wouldn't it be a great thing? I'm afraid that even if I get to the Lord of Hades, I can also plan a good future! ”

Hearing Li Zheng's words, the family cried even more, and the surrounding villagers began to wipe their eyes.

After a while, he heard the squeak of the stove door, and Xia Hongsheng walked out of it, holding a bowl in his hand, and inside the bowl was a bunch of locusts, and there were salt foams on it. As soon as they saw this, the family cried even harder.

"Cry a lot!" Li Zheng snorted, and the frightened family quickly stopped their voices, but they still kept wiping their tears.

On the stone mill in the middle of the courtyard, Xia Hongsheng put down the bowl, pinched one out of it, and handed it to Li Zheng on the opposite side with a smile.

Li Zheng stared at the locust in Xia Hongsheng's hand, stretched out his hand tremblingly, took it, put it in the palm of his hand, and raised it to his mouth tremblingly.

Tears rolled out of Li Zheng's cloudy eyes, and slid down the furrow-like wrinkles on his face.

As soon as he gritted his teeth, Li Zheng closed his eyes and swallowed the locust in his hand into his stomach at once.

There was a cry in the courtyard again.

Ri was closing his eyes tightly and tilting his head up, as if waiting for something terrible to happen. Xia Hongsheng was smiling and staring at him funny.

After a while, Li Zheng opened his eyes, looked left and right, looked down again, and hurriedly pressed his hands on his chest and abdomen.

looked at Xia Hongsheng suspiciously, and before he could speak, Xia Hongsheng handed over two more: "Fang Cai is just swallowing it in one bite, this is not good." How did I eat yesterday? ”

Li Zheng showed despair, and then trembled and stretched out his hand to pass, pinched the two locusts handed over by Xia Hongsheng, gritted his teeth and stuffed them into his mouth and chewed them.

"Huh?" Li Zheng raised his head suddenly, stared at Xia Hongsheng incredulously, and grew his mouth.

"Come, Rissho-sama." Xia Hongsheng pushed the bowl in front of Li Zheng and said with a smile: "Chew it slowly, eat all of this!" ”

Li Zheng breathed heavily, and his hand slowly stretched out into the bowl in front of Xia Hongsheng.

"Immortal Chief, spare your life! Immortal Chief, spare your life! The old wife finally couldn't see it, pounced up, and knelt down in front of Xia Hongsheng: "Ask the immortal to spare your life!" Old woman, old woman willing to die! Ask the immortal to bypass the old woman's man! ”

As he spoke, he suddenly snatched the bowl from the stone mill, stuffed all the locusts in the bowl into his mouth, chewed it all up, and swallowed it all.

The bowl was empty, and Li was crying with his old wife. The villagers on one side also kept wiping away their tears, and the immortals were also ruthless, but they didn't dare to say half a word.

Time passed slowly.

The sun had risen overhead, and Rizheng and his old wife were still sitting in the courtyard.

The sun is in the west again, and Li Zheng and his old wife still have nothing to do.

The people around began to discuss, and Li Zheng walked to Xia Hongsheng with his old wife: "Immortal Chief...... This ......"

"What? Are you dead? Xia Hongsheng asked with a smile.

Li Zheng was stunned for a moment, looked down at himself, and then at his old wife, and then suddenly came to his senses, and then he was suddenly ecstatic, and hit his chest with a fist, shouting: "Villain...... It's okay?! Right! It's okay! I'm not dead! Hahahaha! I'm fine! We're all fine! Folks, the old man ate the locust god, the old man is fine! Folks, look! The old man is still alive, and the old man has nothing to do! (To be continued.) )