When Zhong Kui left the temple, Xiao Huya took the children to make slingshots in the woods not far from the temple. He found a piece of iron wire found from somewhere, and a piece of rotten thin iron wire that might not be used. Old

He couldn't tie up the wooden branches, and he was so anxious that a thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead.

The children don't know much about Zhong Kui, but they are afraid of his unattractive face.

After Zhong Kui woke up, only Little Huya dared to speak to him, while the other children stood timidly at a distance, not daring to come near.

At this time, Xiao Juhua is like a little housekeeper, using Zhong Kui to scare the disobedient children whether they come or not.

Zhong Kui walked quickly, thinking to see if he could catch up with Xiao Qing who had just walked out of the ruined temple. As he walked to the intersection of Donghua Village, he was stunned. One road led to Old Man Xia's house, and the other road was in front of him.

There is a huge old locust tree, which leads to the storage room of Donghua Village. The storage room is in the past of Donghua Village, and Donghua Village is relatively densely populated.

Donghua Village is also a slightly better village among the three typical poor villages in Tongchuan County.

Donghua Village may be a little closer to the county seat, so its population is relatively larger than that of Menling Village and Threshold Village. There may be several reasons why its population is larger than that of the other two villages.

One is that in today's chaotic era, there are so many people begging for food, and some people disdain the days of living without a fixed place. As the saying goes: if you move a tree, you will die, and if you move people, you will live. Now that you are here, you can feel the simple and humane feelings of the mountain village.

Seeing the beautiful scenery here, you might as well settle down. Anyway, you can eat from a big pot and earn work points by working. As long as you have the strength, you won't starve to death.

Another reason is that in the spring and autumn when no family planning was implemented, when the fertility rate was high, men and women would just have sex at home. One by one, they would have big bellies, and they would unequivocally give birth to cubs one after another like a sow.

A nest of children came, wailing and mouthing for food. Whenever the adults went to work, they would be followed by several children of all sizes, like piglets and their mothers.

The children who followed the fields were playing with the mud on the ridges with small pestles, while the adults were weeding in the fields, watering seedlings, etc. As a result, every household had several children, and the house was noisy all day long.

Just imagine.

The root cause of poverty may be overpopulation, or more likely, people's consciousness has not yet fully awakened, and they are still living in muddled and ignorant imaginations.

Without further ado, let’s take a look at what will happen when Zhong Kui goes to Old Man Xia’s house!

Zhong Kui's walking made a loud noise, causing the singing birds to flutter and scatter in all directions. The wild chrysanthemums all over the mountains and plains were already withering, and a small bee with a pointed butt was buzzing around with a pair of transparent flowers.

The little wings hovered in the petals of the chrysanthemum and refused to leave for a long time.

Not interested in enjoying the scenery along the way, Zhong Kui's mind was still stuck on the scene that just happened in the ruined temple.

Is Xiaoqing really not a vanilla? She walked so fast that she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Zhong Kui turned around and glanced back at the old locust tree at the intersection of the mountain that was getting further and further away from him. He imagined that Xiao Qing was hiding under the old locust tree and peeking at him secretly.

Obviously knowing that conjecture is impossible, Zhong Kui inadvertently felt a pain in his lips and teeth after seeing Xiao Qing. He didn't know why he felt this way. The more he thought about it, the more confused he was. When he was bored, he stretched out his hand to pull

Take a piece of prickly grass blade, hold it in your hand and bring it to your mouth, raise your lips and blow a sharp and loud whistle.

Who exactly is Lai Xiaoqing? I can’t tell you now. I’ll explain it later.

Zhong Kui went to Old Man Xia's house just to find out the cause of Lapi's death, and also to find a place where the children could be placed.

Old Man Xia's house is a single family house, several miles away from the storage room in Donghua Village.

On weekdays, when Old Man Xia was still alive, he rarely interacted with the villagers, let alone after his death, who would have enough time to look at the house of an impoverished family.

At that time, people were very afraid of Juehu families. What is Juehu? Juehu means that this surname has declined in this generation and has completely disappeared from people's sight.

Speaking of this, there is another saying; in rural areas, having many children and grandchildren is a blessing. It does not seem to matter whether you have money or not. The key is to have three meals a day, and to have a field and food to eat is a big deal.

At that time, filling one's stomach was a big deal, so don't worry about it. Don't believe this, otherwise, later on, some people who were doing business in the county would quickly put down their business plans after hearing some rumors.

Baba went to the countryside and allocated one-third of an acre of land to do the work.

Later, someone started to curse; when I carried your mother, it really meant Gua Wa Zi (in Sichuan dialect), which means fool. Damn, it’s not good to do business in big cities, so I went to the poor mountains.

Ka Tou came to divide a few acres of land and became a farmer with his face facing the loess and his back turned to the sky.

Okay, let’s stop talking about this; Zhong Kui is approaching Old Man Xia’s house.

In another place, there were also two people approaching Old Man Xia's house.

These two people are master and apprentice Chen Zhiqing and Liu Wengen.

One side relied on the strength of the feet, and the other side pedaled along the way. Of course, the pedaler reached the foot of the mountain leading to Old Man Xia's house first.

Zhiqing and Liu Wengen rode their own cars. They left their cars at a fellow villager's house at the foot of the mountain and hurried up the mountain.

I don't know if there is some tacit understanding with Zhong Kui, but Zhiqing always feels that he will meet him when he comes to Xia's home this time. This feeling is very subtle, as if he has a sensitive sense of touch.

Zhiqing didn't express this feeling because he was afraid of some evil opinions. If he said too much, it wouldn't be effective!

Liu Wengen was in high spirits and kept chattering along the way.

They talked about everything; they talked about Zhong Hansheng's incident, and said that the movement seems to be in a sluggish state recently, and they didn't see the scenes of those activists making trouble.

Zhiqing knew that Wengen liked to inquire about such trivial matters, so he acquiesced to his nagging. Because his heart was hanging on Zhongkui, he nodded occasionally as a reply along the way, and had no extra thoughts to think about other things.

The mountain road was very difficult to walk on. They were wearing semi-rubber shoes, which also had a lot of green climbing grass clippings and yellow mud stuck to them. When walking down the slope, a small river came into view of Zhiqing and Liu Wengen.

Yes, both of them sighed with relief.

"We're finally here." This was Zhiqing's sigh when he looked at the river.

"Hey, hey!" Liu Wengen laughed dryly, stopped, and bent over to look at the shoes. Because they were too heavy under his feet, he had no choice but to stretch out his hands to support the branches, pull the branches, break off a branch and use it to poke the yellow on the shoes.

Mud.

The iron cable bridge is still there, but the green plants planted under the bridge have withered and faded. Old Man Xia's home is like an uninhabited tomb of the living dead, and the courtyard gate is shaking in the wind as if it is silently narrating something.

Zhiqing looked around and saw a black mass curled up inside the courtyard dam.

"It's a scammer." Wen Gen exclaimed, already pushing open the half-open door of the courtyard, and walked straight in.
Chapter completed!