Chapter 27 Village outside the city
Before leaving Qingzhou City, Liu Lezi took a stack of banknotes to Zuo Chen.
"Taoist Priest, I don't have any good treasures here, but you travel around the world and you always need some mortal things. These banknotes should be enough for you to go to Xian'er in the north." Liu Lezi gave the banknotes. , still wanted to hold Zuo Chen's hand, but was afraid that Zuo Chen's palm would be dirty because of his usual dart killing skills, so he moved his fingertips back.
When Zuo Chen took the banknote, he smiled sarcastically, his face turning a little red.
“Thank you, escort.”
Zuo Chen put the banknotes in his bamboo basket and accepted his kindness with a smile.
Liu Lezi felt relieved.
After packing his things and taking advantage of the daylight, Zuo Chen left the escort agency with a bamboo basket on his back. Caiyi was still greedily eating the chicken legs at the farewell banquet prepared by Liu Lezi for them. Zuo Chen saw Zuo Chen Chen was already about to leave, so he hurriedly pulled off a chicken leg, grabbed it in his hand and followed Zuo Chen.
Zuo Chen looked at the chicken drumstick in Cai Yi’s hand:
“Is it delicious?”
Cai Yi was a little embarrassed when she heard this.
"Taoist Priest, do I need to avoid eating grains to learn my skills from you? I only eat fruits from the mountains and drink dew from the treetops."
A few sticks appeared on Zuo Chen's forehead. Black line: "Look, I've been dining with you these past few days, but I've only been eating fruits and drinking the northwest wind?"
"What do you mean?"
"You want to take it?" Just get one for me.”
Caiyi: "..."
Does the Taoist have this kind of character?
"Then let me... give this to you?"
"That's not necessary, just take it and eat it." Zuo Chen declined.
"Oh." Cai Yi nodded, lowered her head and ate the chicken leg by herself, taking several bites. Seeing that Zuo Chen was still looking at her, her face became slightly embarrassed, she coughed twice, and finished her words: " Taoist priest, where should we go now? Should we go directly to the pass? There is no need for an ultimatum at the pass from Qingzhou to Xuzhou. Liu Laizi said before that if you go out from Qingzhou City, the gatekeeper will laugh for a long time, thinking that there is no Zhang in Qingzhou City to eat. If you want to come back, you won’t be able to get through the pass even if you put money in it. You have to go around deep in the mountains.”
"Don't go to the pass yet." Zuo Chen said: "There is a village ahead along this road. The young man I rescued before is over there."
"Taoist priest? You don't really want to Let the young farmer repay the favor." Caiyi was shocked as he held the chicken legs: "I'm afraid he can't even get the money!"
"In addition to money and food, you have other things on your mind. What?" Zuo Chen pressed his forehead, feeling regretful about leaving with Caiyi: "When I saw him that day, I could see that he had some ghostly aura on him. Those ghostly auras did not come from the ghost village that day. , so I thought about going to him to have a look after the matter was settled."
Caiyi wanted to say who doesn't have ghosts these days, but she remembered the young man's reckless behavior and finally said nothing. Fa, I started chewing the chicken legs honestly.
……
The young man called himself Wang Erniu before, and he was the second son of Widow Sun's family in Wangjia Village outside the city.
This Wangjia Village is one of the largest villages outside Qingzhou City. You can know the exact location by asking around in Qingzhou City, and it is very easy to find.
Rather than shrinking into an inch, Zuo Chen and Caiyi advanced slowly near Qingzhou City as if on an outing.
Going out of the city gate and walking along the official road, an hour and a half later Cai Yi started to complain that his feet hurt, so Zuo Chen took him to a nearby tea shop to rest.
After the tea shop owner collected the copper coins, he quickly made two pots of bad tea. However, Cai Yi was not a particular person and Zuo Chen had no idea about the quality of tea. The two drank happily and enjoyed the bowls. I ordered some offal and chatted while eating.
"The tricks I learned before were all the low-grade moves from street troupes and juggling troupes. I don't know if the Taoist priest has heard of the profession of a juggler. The old man who taught me before is a juggler."
Caiyi talked about her past over tea: "I have no father or mother. The old man said I jumped out of a rock. I don't believe him. He doesn't have much ability, and he just named me randomly. I don't believe him." Since I didn’t have a surname, I couldn’t inherit my surname, so I called me by the name of a magician.
“At first I wanted to call me Hong Yi, but Hong Yi also meant “Shen Gui”. , felt it was inappropriate, so he changed his name to Caiyi. After deciding on the name, he taught me fire, beans, pills, and suo. To put it bluntly, they were spitting fire, offering elixirs under the moon, soybean pills, and fairy suo. However, I was loose-tempered, and in the end I only learned how to spit fire, soybean pills, and elixirs. He Shenxiansuo only knows the principle, but cannot use it. "
"Where is your old master? " Zuo Chen asked.
"He's not dead. He ran away." Caiyi said this gloomily: "Maybe he thinks I'm capable enough, or maybe he thinks I'm too lazy and not worth teaching. He ran away a few years ago, and even All the money was gone."
After saying that, Cai Yi was a little depressed: "I played a trick on my life and got three taels of silver ingots, but when I woke up the next day, I didn't have a single copper left..."
Without continuing to talk about this matter, Caiyi turned to say:
"Taoist priest, what can happen to Wangjiacun?"
"I still think If you still can’t understand the fate of everything, let’s just go and take a look.”
After the two of them finished chatting, they took out their scissors and cut off a thin piece of silver and handed it to the shopkeeper.
The store owner took out a small scale and weighed it next to him. He suddenly smiled and said:
"You two are going to Wangjia Village. Then you have to be careful. Recently There is something strange happening in their village.”
“Something strange?” Zuo Chen asked, “Why don’t you tell me about it?”
“It happens that there are no other customers. I will say a few more words.”
The store manager was obviously a chatty person. Seeing that Zuo Chen wanted to ask, he suddenly started chatting:
Wangjiacun has a short history. It was first opened by an old farmer named Wang next to the city. A family farmed a farm, and then they married wives and gave birth to babies, and the babies married wives and gave birth to babies again. When there were more babies, they bought cows, and the fields they opened became larger and larger, and more and more people surnamed Wang were born.
From the Wang family's house to the Wang family's courtyard, and from the Wang's courtyard to the Wang's courtyard, finally Lao Wang died, and Xiao Wang and Xiao Wang planted two trees in front of the door. It became Wangjia Village.
The village is located next to the city and has a lot of interactions with the city. Sometimes the farm men in the village will bring some grain and meat to the city to sell, and exchange them for some trinkets from the city and bring them back to the village. people.
Day after day, Wangjiacun is living a relatively safe life.
However, during the recent period, few people came out of Wangjia Village.
“Aren’t I doing business on the edge of the city? Logically speaking, people from the village will come to my place to rest, but recently few people come out from there.
"I was so convinced that I asked the brave waiter to inquire. My waiter went there and was frightened back that afternoon.
"He said that a monk came to the village some time ago, ate fasting, chanted Buddha's name, and helped the village chief perform a ritual.
"Then the monk entered the mountain, and there was no one there anymore. See him come out.
"A few days later, the door of the village chief's house was knocked by a man in cassock in the middle of the night. The village chief thought it was the monk who had returned and wanted to open the door, but the amulet he had been given suddenly broke. He felt something was wrong and huddled in He hid in the house all night.
“Until early the next morning, Wang Lao’s dog next door was bitten to death by something.
"Open the intestines and rupture the belly!"
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(End of this chapter)