Xiaoshan squatted next to Lao Zhang's stall before dawn, watching Lao Zhang push the cart to open the stall, and Lao Zhang scolded him several times when he wanted to go up to help, "Look at your dirty appearance, don't disgust my guests." ”

In the morning, many people come to drink Lao Zhang's oxtail soup, a big bowl of five copper plates, add bubble cakes casually, and if you are lucky, you can even pick up a piece of oxtail.

Lao Zhang was busy for half a morning, and the two large pots of oxtail soup were almost swept away by the old customers in the town. He tossed the heavy money jar, closed the lid with satisfaction, and began to clean up the stall humming a ditty.

At this time, Xiaoshan, who had been squatting beside him, came up again, and touched a cloth bag with both hands, "Uncle Zhang, this is the bird egg I picked up on the mountain yesterday, can I exchange a bowl of soup with you?" He opened the cloth bag, and there were five bird eggs in it.

"Xiaoshan, where is your father? Could this be the bird egg you stole from your father?" Lao Zhang recognized the eight-year-old child.

"No, no, no, my father fell on the mountain the day before yesterday to chop wood, and now he is still lying in bed and has not gotten up, I just want to give him a bowl of hot soup to drink. Xiaoshan hurriedly explained, sweat breaking out on the tip of his nose.

"If you fall and get hurt and find medicine to eat, what's the use of drinking soup?"

Xiaoshan's face was flushed and he didn't speak, but his hands holding the bird's eggs were raised again.

"Hey, well, there's one last bowl here, for you, but I can't get my bowl back for you. Lao Zhang grabbed the cloth bag.

He knew the situation of Xiaoshan's family, the only laborer who could make money fell and was injured, and he was afraid that he would not have the money to watch Lang Zhong take medicine.

"I brought it. Xiaoshan carefully pulled a bowl out of his arms.

Lao Zhang poured the last bowl of oxtail soup left for himself to Xiao Shan, and said, "Recently, there are troops operating near Longjiao Mountain, so don't go up the mountain if you have nothing to do."

In the future, if you want to drink soup, wash yourself up, come to me, and put a bowl back when you are done, without having to change things. ”

"Thank you, Uncle Zhang!" Xiaoshan happily walked home with the bowl in his hand.

His home is in the northernmost part of the town, closest to Longjiao Mountain, but far away from the official road, relatively remote.

The aroma of oxtail soup kept getting into his nose, and Xiaoshan swallowed hard, although his stomach was empty, he was reluctant to drink it when he thought of his old father on the bed, even if it was a small sip.

Two teenage boys approached, and as they staggered past the hill, one of them suddenly stretched out his leg and tripped over it.

Xiaoshan's attention was all on the bowl of soup, and he didn't pay attention to the soles of his feet, and his body suddenly lost his center of gravity and threw himself forward.

The bowl full of oxtail soup flew out of his hand, and he watched the bowl fall to the ground with him, and with a "ping" sound, the porcelain bowl broke in half, and the bubble cake and oxtail soup were scattered on the ground.

"Soup, my soup!" he cried.

"Hahaha, this little poor ghost is crying again. The two boys turned around and looked at the hill playfully.

Ignoring the ridicule of others, Xiaoshan crawled to the broken bowl with his hands and feet, picked up half of the bowl, and used his other hand to pour the cakes and soup on the ground into the broken bowl, and two lines of hot tears flowed on the helpless little face.

"Hahaha, what a thing, take it to feed my dog, it won't eat it. The two boys were happy to see the fun.

At this time, two young men came from the north, and one of them shouted with thick eyebrows and big eyes: "What are you doing?

"What's the matter with you? "The two boys were the lips, but honest in their bodies, and they could not run when they approached them.

Xiaoshan only has cakes and soup on the ground in his eyes, and he doesn't care about bullying him and the people who help him talk.

He looked at half of the bowl in distress, and then at the cakes and soup on the floor, and found that the broken bowl really couldn't fit it, so he picked up a piece of cake and stuffed it into his mouth.

Bang, the cake in his hand was patted off, and he saw a head stretched out in front of him and said softly: "Dirty, don't eat it." Uncle will help you buy another bowl. ”

Xiaoshan sobbed and said, "Woo, Zhang, Uncle Zhang has closed the stall, buy, can't buy it, woo." Then he reached out and picked up the cakes on the ground.

Unexpectedly, the next moment he rose into the air, was helped up by the big-eyed youth, and then put on one more thing, "You can take this well, and you can buy something else." ”

He turned his hand and saw that the palm of his hand turned out to be a glittering gold coin!

"Ahh

The big-eyed young man wiped the tears from Xiao Shan's face with both hands and said, "Do you want me to go and arrest those two boys?" ”

"No, no, no, the one who trips me is the mayor's son, I, I don't care about him. Thank you, sir! With this money, I can find Lang Zhong for my father, you wait here first, and then I will take you home with me when I find Lang Zhong. ”

"Huh, why do you call me sir?" the big-eyed young man crouched down so that Xiaoshan didn't have to tilt his head to speak.

Uncle Zhang said that there are troops operating near Longjiao Mountain, and you are from Longjiao Mountain, and you look like soldiers. ”

"Oh, I'm not a soldier, well, not a soldier on your side, and I don't see an army in the mountains. By the way, do you have to pass through this town when you come down from Longjiao Mountain?" the big-eyed young man glanced back at his companion, who spread his hands.

"No, the biggest road in and out of Longjiao Mountain is on the side of Bafang Town, and the road to the mountain in our Stone Town is relatively difficult, and most people don't pass from here. Xiaoshan looked at the two young men curiously.

Both of them were in their twenties, tall and muscular, and they spoke to him slightly higher, looking younger.

"Thank you, little friend. Go find Lang Zhong and leave us alone. ”

"No, Daddy hasn't seen you, how can I return the money to you in the future?" Xiaoshan wanted to take them home and ask his father to write down their names.

"Hehe, you don't have to pay back this money, just the reward for answering my question. The big-eyed young man stood up.

"No, no, no, how can you reward so much for a few questions! Daddy can't earn half a year's firewood. ”

"Little brat, let you go, don't talk nonsense!" the other young man became impatient.

"Hey, don't scare him. The big-eyed young man touched Xiaoshan's head, "I am an official who is much older than the town, and the little money in your hand is the expenses of my servant for a day, and you look down on me if you are too much to appreciate." ”

"Ahh

What is the official who is much older than the town, and why is he looked down on him if he was too much?

By the time he came to his senses, the two young men were gone.

"This kid is a bit like Xiaohua. ”

The two youths returned to Longjiao Mountain by the same route.

"What are you looking for with a child?" Ding Kui, what are you looking for?"

"Didn't I tell you, enemy, I want to see who brought me here. The big-eyed young man was Ding Kui, "Brother Yu, do you feel accurate? Didn't you say that the group of people went this way?"

They found a campsite on Longjiao Mountain, and after Ao Yu's inspection, they confirmed that someone had stayed there recently, and when they left, they took the road to Toshi Town.

"The smell of a crowded place is too mixed, and I feel that the town is broken. Ao Yu originally tracked down a breath, but after going down the mountain, he couldn't find it.

"So, let's go back to the mountains and go around, the enemy can't send such a few people, we must weave a net to wait for me. ”

Ding Kui found it according to the content of the second first-level secret language, and knew very well that this was a trap, so he deliberately arrived half a day in advance, who knew that he had pounced.

"Maybe after a while those people will come back again, you didn't hear the kid say that there was an army moving around. "He's hell-bent on finding the person who cracked the Level 1 Secret Language.

"Maybe someone lied to you. Ao Yu retracted the dragon soul and confirmed that no one was following them.

"No way! That's a sincere boy, and it's not a lot to give him a reward, just a gold coin. Ding Kui didn't think he would look away.

"You're stingy, what is a gold coin enough for? ”

"Originally, I just wanted to buy him something to eat, but then I learned that he was a child with a father, so I couldn't give too much, what if I squandered it for his father?

You can't blame me for not encountering enemies, and I hope you will do a little more to save the reward you will definitely not have, but there is not a single enemy! ”

Ding Kui promised to give Ao Yu a heavy reward for a trip to Longjiao Mountain.

"Did someone else see through your scheme? Knowing that you would not be fooled, he removed the man. Ao Yu habitually put the blame on Ding Kui's head.

"That's even more impossible! The arrangements have already been made, why don't you wait for the appointed time to pass before leaving? It's not half a day. "What did Ding Kui say, his heart was still a little empty.

The more Ao Yu thought about it, the more unhappy he became, so he frightened: "Aren't you afraid that people will concentrate their forces on Ruan Xingzhu's side? ”

"Hehe, Xingzhu will not be in danger, it's a big deal that the mission fails, and the rebels don't have the ability to leave so many master masters. "Ding Kui is really not afraid.

"What? Who else did you send?"

Ding Kui waved his hand and said, "I didn't send it, there must be many masters among the people who escaped from Hailin Prefecture." The rebels were able to break through the county of Liguo, which means that the masters of those families did not participate in the war, and the only possibility is to protect their families and escape.

Think about it, how many sixth-level fighters can there be in my family, but others don't? My family can still hold Hengfu City, is it so easy to break through in Luguo County? Although I don't know what caused those masters to leave, I know that they are not dead. ”

"Since there are masters in other people, then you still send someone to answer it?" Ao Yu listened to the more he didn't understand.

"You don't understand this, attitude, attitude, do you know? My people guide them to Zhongwangzhou, I have to put on a welcoming posture, not only to send someone to answer, but also to send a master to send cronies, to let them know who is the master of Shaodian Country. ”

Ding Kui thinks more than Yang Chao, not only to recruit masters, but also to change everyone's concept of focusing on Zhenjing.

"It gives me a headache just thinking about it. Ao Yu shook his head, "I only know who wins and listens to whomever wins." ”

"That's because the number of dragons is too small, if there are human numbers, hehe, how many adult dragons can the dragon god beat?"