Zhong Kui did not bother Old Man Xia with his murmurs. He was as silent as a well-behaved sight dog, lying quietly beside his master. In addition to listening to the stories told by the old man with his ears raised, he also had to be alert to all kinds of movements around him at all times.

News of a plague outbreak in Menling Village spread like wildfire, but was immediately strictly prohibited from being revealed by certain people.

Menling Village is banned, people inside are not allowed to go out, and people from outside are not allowed to enter.

Menling Village became an isolated island and lost contact with the outside world.

Old Man Xia wanted to see his daughter several times, but was mercilessly blocked on the mountain road leading to Menling Village. The people holding the checkpoint were some activists, wearing uniforms of grass-green military uniforms, with serious expressions and scrupulously checking passers-by.

, Anyone who wants to enter Menling Village cannot pass.

In the last month of the plague outbreak in Menling Village, the people at the checkpoint changed their attire and all wore black masks, revealing only a pair of bony eyes.

Looking at this situation, no one dares to think about going to Menling Village to find out what's going on, and no one dares to take risks alone to confront these guys.

Old man Xia missed his daughter more than food and tea, so he finally caught the only rooster in the house and gave it to that important figure in the village. Only then did he get the opportunity to take a look, and this opportunity was also

You can only peek from a distance on the hillside.

Old Man Xia came to Menling Village early with others to a high place where he could view the entire village. It was the high place where Zhong Kui saw that the village looked like a boat!

What Old Man Xia saw was that the village was in a chaotic and noisy state. People were running around in panic, and he also saw many people chasing a girl.

The girl didn't cry, but ran as fast as she could. Old man Xia felt very sorry for the girl, so he called the people watching from a height to help save the girl.

Old Man Xia really wanted to take a look at the girl he had saved, but unfortunately, the time allowed for him to visit relatives had exceeded. Those people wearing black masks ruthlessly ordered him to leave the place quickly.

Half a month later, Old Man Xia learned that everyone in Menling Village had died of the plague, including his daughter.

That night, Old Man Xia couldn't sleep. He remembered that when his wife gave birth to her daughter and passed away, she repeatedly told him to love her and make her happy.

Old Man Xia, who never shed tears easily, cried profusely that night. When he was tired from crying, he went to sleep. In his sleep, he saw his daughter, who had come home to fetch water for her father.

From that day on, Old Man Xia's water tank was always full.

"Have you ever been to Menling Village again?" Zhong Kui, who had been frowning and silent, asked.

"I went there. The reservoir in the village dried up and a lot of sand was filled up. Later, many strange willow trees grew. My daughter's home collapsed after a heavy rainstorm."

Zhong Kui frowned and said to himself: "The reservoir is filled with sand?" Then he suddenly remembered something and looked at the cluster of new shoots in the ground thoughtfully and said: "There is really no one in that village.

Survivors? Also, where are their bones? I went to the cemetery in Menling Village, but there were no bones there."

Old Man Xia smoked his cigarette pot and said noncommittally: "Maybe their bones were buried in an unknown place! I tried to find my daughter's bones, but I couldn't find them."

Is there a problem with the filled reservoir? Zhong Kui thought to himself, his eyes still staring at the bud in a daze. The girl that Old Man Xia just talked about must be Vanilla.

Is it possible that everyone in Menling Village died? Zhong Kui fell into deep thought. Then he turned to look at Old Man Xia seriously and said, "Are you sure everyone in Menling Village is dead?" He looked at Old Man Xia.

With a dull look on his face, he hurriedly added: "Of course I am an exception. Maybe I am destined to escape this disaster, otherwise I wouldn't be able to talk to you now."

Zhong Kui saw from a close distance that one or two of Old Man Xia's sparse eyebrows were particularly long. He once heard his father say that if a person has long eyebrows, it is a symbol of longevity.

"Who gave you those skills you do?" Old Man Xia avoided the topic Zhong Kui asked, but deliberately made a roundabout way and gave a secret hint.

"My ability?" Zhong Kui said with a confused look.

Old Man Xia's face was like a tree branch, with pits and bumps, and beads of sweat were hidden in the wrinkles. As long as the wrinkles stretched a little, the sweat beads would automatically roll out. At this moment, he had a peaceful expression on his face.

He looked at Zhong Kui with a warm tone and asked: "The medicine you prepared... and you dug earthworms in the soil in the middle of the night to make medicine primers. How do you know so much at such a young age?"

"Well! My father gave it to me." As soon as he mentioned his father, Zhong Kui's face darkened, and his heart ached like being pricked by needles. At the same time, he felt that Old Man Xia was not a simple person, and he was actually secretly

Observe his actions. How could he sleepwalk later?

"Yeah! I've heard about how good your father is, but I never had the chance to meet him. He once came to our village to behead a dead man, and his character is absolute."

Zhong Kui, who was deep in thought, felt sweet in his heart when he heard Old Man Xia commenting on his father. To be honest, it was really hard for him to hear someone praise his father so much. He immediately felt that Old Man Xia was very kind, and the distance between him and him became much closer.

The mountain wind blew whistlingly, causing the mottled white hair on Old Man Xia's forehead to tremble. At night, driven by the wild mountain wind, the sky and sun appeared in the villages and forests filled with smoke.

When Old Man Xia stood up, he glanced at Zhong Kui and slowly uttered a sentence: "Tiger and leopard cannot be ridden, and people's hearts are separated from each other." When he said this, he looked careless, as if he was talking to himself.

He was talking to himself, as if he was saying something to the person next to him. Then he picked up the belongings on the ground and added: "I heard people say that there were screams in Menling Village that night. Later, there were rumors that Menling Village

There was not a plague in Ling Village, but a psychotic lunatic who killed all the remaining people in Menling Village overnight."

When Zhong Kui heard this, he felt nervous. He hurriedly followed Old Man Xia and asked, "Is the madman a man or a woman? When did this rumor happen?"

Before Zhong Kui asked, "Ahem!" Old Man Xia coughed twice in succession. Just after he coughed twice, two people appeared from the way they came. One was Zhong Kui's acquaintance.

The survey captain Chen Zhiqing, and the other is the Minister of Armed Forces Zhong Hansheng who has returned.

Zhong Hansheng brought Chen Zhiqing here, mainly because he saw that Liu Wengen was in a bad mental state and was worried about Zhong Kui.

So Chen Zhiqing, who had just arrived in the county town from City A, asked Zhong Hansheng to see Zhong Kui immediately.

When Zhong Hansheng saw Zhong Kui staying with Old Man Xia, but the other three were not present, he naturally wanted to ask. As soon as he asked Zhong Kui, he told him how the three of them were joking and chasing each other.

What Zhong Kui said made Zhong Hansheng unable to step down, and caused Chen Zhiqing to be very dissatisfied with Liu Wengen and Zhong Hansheng.

Chen Zhiqing was very dissatisfied with the unauthorized arrangements made by the Minister of Armed Forces. No matter what happened to Liu Wengen, as long as he was good, he should not leave Zhong Kui at this moment.

The whereabouts of the three people are now unknown, and Zhong Hansheng is very anxious. It is really a panic that hits the slow doctor, but Old Man Xia said calmly: "It's okay, they have legs and feet and they know how to get back."
Chapter completed!