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Guobei County is adjacent to Yuncheng, although the distance is not far, but there is also a distance, Jiang Chen and Wang Erlang went down the mountain, first went to Erlang's house to take the horses, and then turned to Guobei County, and when the evening came, they came to a village, at this time the sun was setting, the sky was dark, but Wang Erlang did not plan to lead Jiang Chen into the village to rest, but frowned, and said: "How did you come here?"

"What?" Looking at the village in front of him, which was gradually shrouded in darkness, Jiang Chen couldn't help but smile and asked, "What's wrong here?"

Wang Erlang said: "This is a deserted village, because the land in the village is barren, and later because the river is dry, the rain is less, there is no harvest in the field, there is a famine for several years, most of the people in the village have moved away, and later, it is rumored that it is haunted, and even pedestrians do not want to go in to rest, so as early as a few years ago, this village is only an empty shell." ”

"Empty shells, aren't they?" Jiang Chen stretched out his hand and pointed to a thatched hut not far from the entrance of the village: "Look, isn't there someone there?"

Wang Erlang looked in the direction of Jiang Chen's finger, and sure enough, there was a small farm yard there, and in a thatched hut in the courtyard, there was a faint light.

"This?" he often goes to Guobei County, back and forth, and passes by here a lot of times, but it was all daytime, and he has never entered the village to see, but he really doesn't know that this is already a deserted village in the village, and there are still people in the village: "I heard that this place was already a deserted village a few years ago? How can there still be people?"

"If you want to know the reason, let's go in and have a look?" Jiang Chen chuckled, and then urged him to step forward, and Wang Erlang hurriedly followed behind.

The two soon entered the village, and before they came to the small courtyard, they each dismounted, and Wang Erlang stepped forward and knocked lightly on the courtyard door, shouting: "Is the master's house there? Xiaosheng and his friends passed by here, and when they saw that it was getting late, they wanted to spend the night, I don't know if it was possible?"

After half a ring, I heard a soft sound of "squeak", the door of the courtyard compartment opened, and a trembling old man walked out, he looked close to the age of antiquity, but his body was still quite tough, with a dilapidated oil lamp in his hand, and he didn't need to use a cane, he entered the courtyard, opened the courtyard door, and took care of Wang Erlang and Jiang Chen's appearance by the faint light of the oil lamp. ”

"Sorry. Jiang Chen and Wang Erlang answered, and then followed the old man inside, into the room, it was really very simple, in the huge guest hall main room, there was only a wooden bed, a table, a few benches and a few shabby tea bowls, but the cleaning was quite clean.

"The two sons, please sit down, the little old man's home is simple, so that the guests can see and smile. Entering the house, the old man warmly beckoned Jiang Chen and Wang Erlang to take a seat, poured a cup of tea for each of them, and sighed in his mouth: "It's just that Xiao Lao'er's village had continuous natural disasters in the early years, drought, flood and famine, and the people in the village walked and died.

Hearing this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart: So, it was because he was lonely and wanted to find someone to talk to, so he didn't eat the two of them immediately? As a cultivator of the Yang God Realm, how could he not feel the rich dead aura that filled the room?

However, Wang Erlang was just an ordinary person after all, and when he heard the old man's words, he couldn't help but feel sympathy, and hurriedly said: "Uncle, thanks to your acceptance tonight, when we leave at dawn, we will definitely be rewarded with a lot of money!"

"Ah, you're going to leave at dawn!" The old man may have been lonely for a long time, and between the words, full of reluctance, he turned around and walked to the kitchen next door, and said: "After a day's journey, you must be hungry, it just so happened that I slaughtered a two-legged sheep a few days ago, and there is still a lot of meat left, although it is not a good thing, but it can also be used to make up for you." ”

"Two-legged sheep, is there still a two-legged sheep in this world?" Wang Erlang was puzzled, but still responded politely: "Then thank you, uncle." ”

"No thanks, no thanks. The old man waved his hand again and again, trembling into the kitchen next door, picked up a knife from the stove and sharpened it, the knife did not know how long it had been placed, it had been rusted a large piece, the old man did not have much strength, it was very difficult to sharpen the knife, the sound of "Zhila Zhila" was piercing, in this silent night, it made people feel particularly terrible to listen to.

Wang Erlang subconsciously tightened the tea bowl in his hand, but Jiang Chen listened to himself so beautifully, as if he had no sympathy at all, just watching the old man working hard in the kitchen.

"Old man-" Finally, Wang Erlang couldn't help it, he shouted in his mouth, put down the tea bowl in his hand, and was about to get up and go to the kitchen to help, but he never thought that at this time, Jiang Chen suddenly stretched out his hand and pressed it on his shoulder, he only felt as if a mountain was pressed on his shoulder, and the whole person unconsciously sat on the stool again.

"Daoist Zhiqiu, why are you?" Wang Erlang couldn't help frowning and asked.

"No, I just want you to sit here in peace. Jiang Chen smiled and said, "If you refuse to listen to me, what's the matter, don't you want to save your friend's life?"

"This?" Wang Erlang couldn't help but say: "I'm just watching my father-in-law work alone, and I want to go over and help him, what does this have to do with saving my friend's life?"

"Of course it does. The smile on Jiang Chen's face became even stronger, he looked at Wang Erlang, with a bit of playfulness on his face, and said jokingly: "If you are alive, you can naturally take me to save your friend, but if you die, I will be left alone, but I don't have the heart to run to Guobei County to save a stranger who doesn't know good and evil." ”

When Wang Erlang heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, and asked with a little stupidity: "Daoist Zhiqiu, what do you mean by this?"

"It's not interesting, listen to me, sit obediently, don't drink tea, don't eat meat, don't touch the stuff here, and soon, you'll know what's going on." Jiang Chen looked at him left and right, and did not have the slightest intention of immediately responding to Wang Erlang's question.

Out of trust and respect for Jiang Chen, although he had doubts, Wang Erlang still sat quietly in his place according to his words.

In the kitchen, the old man is busy, at this moment, he has sharpened the knife, is chopping meat on the cutting board, under the stove is alive, boiling a pot of water, he put the chopped meat into the pot, after a while, the water boiled, the meat is cooked, exuding bursts of fragrance.

"Gollum!" Although he was full at noon, he had been on the road for an afternoon, and Wang Erlang was already hungry at this moment, and he couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva when he smelled the smell of meat.

Soon, the old man coarsely cut the boiled meat, sorted it into a bowl and served it, and placed it on the table, two sheep's feet, a sheep's head, and a sheep's intestines.

"Eat, eat, don't be stunned, eat quickly. The old man urged Jiang Chen and Wang Erlang again and again, with a courteous smile on his face.

"This-" Wang Erlang swallowed his saliva again and again, although he remembered Jiang Chen's words, but the meat on the table was too fragrant, and he was too hungry, unconsciously, he had already grabbed the chopsticks.

"Huh?" With a deep groan, Jiang Chen glanced at him with warning, and said angrily: "What? I can't hold it, don't forget how I explained to you just now." ”

"You can't drink tea, you can't eat meat, you can't touch anything here. Wang Erlang answered honestly, but he endured it so forcefully, and his face couldn't help but show a little pain.

The old man asked strangely: "This son's words make people feel so strange, why can't you eat meat, can't drink tea, and can't even move things?"

Wang Erlang also asked strangely: "Yes, why?"

"Because-" Jiang Chen paused for a moment, and then said with a smile: "The food and drink here are not something that a living person can bear. ”

"Joke!" the old man snorted, "It is not something that a living person can bear, can it still be used by a dead person?"

"Yes, it's for the dead. Jiang Chen's eyes, with a touch of inexplicable indifference, stared at the old man tightly, "What, old man, have you been dead for too long, and you have forgotten that you are dead for a long time?" (To be continued.) )