Chapter 325: May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherds nursery rhyme refers to Xinghua Village.
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival.
Pedestrians on the road want to die.
May I ask where the restaurant is.
The shepherd's nursery rhyme refers to Xinghua Village.
Through the lush forest, birds were singing and flowers were fragrant on the road, surrounded by mountains and rivers. However, it was raining all the time above the head, and there was no sunshine. Not long after, a village with smoke from cooking stoves appeared.
In a shed next to a melon field outside the village, a group of men with mud-legged men gathered around to shake dice and gamble, shouting loudly, "One, five, and six".
A little shepherd boy was holding a buffalo in his hand, and he was sitting on the cow's back, watching the fun with relish.
“Excuse me, what kind of village is this?”
Today, a new villager from outside the village came to the forest outside the village road. He looked at the man who was addicted to gambling, and finally politely asked for directions to the shepherd boy who was sitting on the back of a cow watching the excitement.
“Hezhuang.”
The shepherd boy looked at the stranger who asked him for directions strangely and replied.
A very strange feeling.
The other party spoke the same ancient language as the old Taoist who burned paper, but this time he could understand the content of the words, which made people have an indescribable strange feeling, and always felt that something was strange.
"Thank you. This peach is my reward for asking for directions." The stranger who asked for directions threw a peach to the shepherd boy. The shepherd boy took the peach with bright eyes and said happily, "Thank you, sir, you are a good man."
When asking for directions, a stranger waved to the shepherd boy and said it was getting late and it would be dark soon. Go home early after grazing the cows and don't worry your parents.
The shepherd boy was about to speak when a young man in his early twenties among the gambling men got red-eyed and cursed in admiration: "I really learned all the ideas today, why do I always lose when I bet! Ah Zhi, there is
The Taoist priest has made a fortune-telling for you, saying that you are the reincarnation of the Toad Fairy. Come over and blow some fairy air on your cousin's dice, and let me shoot a leopard and kill everyone."
Amidst the laughter of a group of men, the shepherd boy came to his cousin, picked up the porcelain bowl with a top and bottom cover, puffed up his cheeks, blew hard into the bowl, and then handed the porcelain bowl back to his cousin.
When the little shepherd boy stretched out his hand to take the bowl, he saw clearly that he only had four fingers on each hand, and only eight fingers in total, two fingers shorter than ordinary people. He tried to puff up his cheeks and blew into the bowl with his eyes wide open.
When he is angry, he really looks like a toad.
Soon after, there was a cry of exclamation in the shed, and the dice was indeed rolled out as a leopard.
After Jin An asked the shepherd boy for directions, he continued walking towards the village. He vaguely heard the Toad Fairy blowing a few words. He looked thoughtfully and continued walking towards the village in front of him called Hezhuang.
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At this time, the sky above us was getting darker and darker, smoke was rising from more and more households in the village, and the aroma of firewood rice filled the air above the fields.
If it weren’t for the continuous rain above our heads and there was the sun, it would be a sunset scene right now, right?
At this time, an old man carrying a hoe on his shoulder, rolling up his trouser legs, and walking barefoot on the field ridge came towards me.
He was still holding his little granddaughter’s hand, talking and laughing.
When the old man saw Jin An, he showed a kind and kind smile, smiled and nodded to say hello.
Looking at the peaceful village in front of him, Jin An frowned more and more. He looked up at the top of his head. There was a divine light covering the world, creating an isolated Taoyuan Village.
With a deep sigh.
He continued walking towards the village.
When Jin An entered the village, many villagers along the way looked at him curiously when they saw him as a stranger. How strange and doubtful were the curious eyes?
But he didn't pay much attention to the sideways glances from these villagers, and just wandered around the village until he saw an old Taoist priest in khaki robes showing off to a group of thick-set rural women.
Palm reading on the right hand, I don't know what the old Taoist priest said, which made the group of middle-aged women laugh, but made the men around them jealous, and planned to give his mother-in-law a good meal tonight.
“Old Taoist priest!”
Jin An shouted in surprise. He was deeply afraid that he had recognized the wrong person, so he hurriedly approached the old Taoist priest, intending to get closer to see if he was the old Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest who was showing his right hand to the rural woman shivered. He turned around in ecstasy and shouted at the voice behind him. But the next moment, the old Taoist priest opened his mouth and looked like a man covered in jewels. He was wearing the same clothes as the silly son of a landlord.
The man wearing jewelry ran towards him happily with a peach tree trunk on his shoulders.
That peach tree is full of fruits.
“Little, little brother?”
“Is it really... you?”
The old Taoist priest was surprised by the whole peach tree carried on the opponent's shoulders.
Why does this peach tree look so familiar?
Aren’t they just those peach trees outside the forest?
The old Taoist priest took a breath!
He picked a few peaches but was smashed all over his head by the wild monkeys. He even lost one of his shoes, not to mention how embarrassed he was.
As a result, someone uprooted the peach tree and ran towards him happily carrying it.
Looking at the peach tree that had been uprooted and the old Taoist priest who was still recovering after being hit on the head by a monkey, I felt a sense of relief in my heart, not to mention how much relief there was.
When Jin An took off the beast-headed robe on his head, and then opened a corner of the robe that he wore inside out, revealing the five-color Taoist robe. After repeatedly confirming his identity, the old Taoist priest was convinced that the man in front of him was dressed in jewels and was dressed like the silly son of a landlord.
The person is Jin An.
“Little brother, why are you dressed like this? Little brother, you uprooted a peach tree and robbed it, and the group of monkeys outside the forest didn’t fight you?”
Meeting each other again after a long separation, I never expected to meet in this way. The old Taoist priest became happier the more he thought about it.
He is indeed a little brother.
I only dare to steal a dozen peaches.
The result! The little brother just robbed a peach tree and came back!
Just thinking about it makes you feel relieved.
Those monkeys must be so angry now that they can't sleep for three days and three nights, haha.
"It's precisely because they work hard with me. Anyway, picking a peach means working hard, and carrying a peach tree away is also working hard. So I just carried a peach tree away." Jin An's answer made the old Taoist give a thumbs up and said
In the past, Mrs. Ox, whose zodiac sign was Ox, did not dare to touch her little brother when she saw him. From now on, Mrs. Monkey, whose zodiac sign was Monkey, did not dare to touch her little brother when she saw him. There are cows on both sides.
Jin An was so happy to meet the old Taoist priest again in the ruins. He picked a peach and shared it with the old Taoist priest. Then he gnawed the peach himself. He looked around and saw no sharp sword. It seemed that
Chia Jian continues to wander in the ruins.
Jin An's eyes were a little downcast, but he quickly recovered. Among sword-cutting and old Taoist priests, what he was most worried about was the old Taoist priest with old arms and legs. The only thing he was not worried about was the sword-cutting skill. Even the old Taoist priest could do it completely.
Come down and sharpen the sword without any danger.
The grandfather and grandson ate the peaches they had snatched from the monkeys and began to describe their experiences in the ruins these past few days.
I don’t know if there are too many woods here, which distracts more vitality. The peaches here are not as magical as Shouting peaches. Apart from being able to quickly restore physical strength, keep the body warm, and not afraid of wind and air entering the body, they are not too magical.
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Through mutual narration of experiences, Jin An also learned that the old Taoist priest arrived at the river village one day earlier than him. He asked the old Taoist priest about the situation of the river village and what was going on in the river village.
The old Taoist priest arrived one day earlier than him and must have learned more information than he did.
When talking about the river village in front of him, the expression on the old Taoist priest's face suddenly became serious. He shook his head slightly towards Jin'an. There were many people here and it was not a place to talk.
At this time, the sky outside was getting darker and darker, smoke was rising from every thatched house, and the sound of a mother standing at the door calling her children to go home for dinner began to be heard in the village.
There are also thick-waisted women with wooden sticks in their hands, chasing naughty urchins all over the village and beating them. In the end, the urchins are led home with their ears pinched, and then they are beaten again when they are full.
In the fields outside the village, more and more farmers are carrying hoes and pushing canoes back to the village.
Among the children who were led home with their ears pinched, Jin An saw the shepherd boy he had asked for directions outside the village just now. The child shouted that a Taoist priest said that he was the reincarnation of the Toad Fairy, and that the Toad Fairy had been pinched.
It would be shameful to take him home with his ears covered. He is a Toad Fairy, an immortal. Immortals in myths and stories are all people with great abilities. When mortals see an immortal, they have to kneel down and kowtow.
As a result, the shepherd boy was beaten even more severely. His mother picked him up and beat him. He burst into tears and cried miserably. He was crying as loudly as he was just now.
"I make you the Great Toad Immortal, I make you the Great Toad Immortal. If you are the Great Toad Immortal, then I will be the Great Toad Immortal and his mother. The sky is big and the earth is big, and my parents are the biggest."
The shepherd boy was carried home by his mother and was beaten until he cried loudly along the way. When passing by Jin An, the shepherd boy recognized Jin An and forgot to cry. Instead, he smiled at Jin An with a long string of snot bubbles hanging from his nose.
He shouted happily: "Master! Master! Thank you for the peaches! When I become the Toad Fairy in the future, I will return you a hundred or a thousand peaches..."
Before the shepherd boy could finish shouting, he was beaten even harder and cried even harder.
“Smile, smile, I think your skin is getting thicker and thicker. I was still too gentle. Go home and let your father continue to beat you.”
At this time, the shepherd boy’s mother saw the old Taoist priest, greeted him politely, and then continued to carry her son home.
Jin An saw that the cousin who brought Qingzi to gamble with dice was also beaten wildly by a couple with a pole. He scolded him for bringing an ignorant cousin to gamble, which really embarrassed the old Song family.
He scolded you and wanted to beat you to death for being an unfilial son.
The young man did not dare to resist, and was beaten until he was running away with his head in his arms.
This is really a lively village, full of human fireworks. This is called human flavor. This is a human flavor that has not been seen since entering the ruins. It is in sharp contrast to the dead ruins outside. Jin'an looks full of people.
The village is very interesting.
“Little brother, do you know that shepherd boy?”
The old Taoist priest raised his hand and pointed at the shepherd boy who was being beaten and carried home by his wife, and said in surprise.
So Jin An briefly explained what happened when he entered the village just now. After hearing this, the old Taoist priest slapped his thigh and said with surprise that it seemed that he had found a place to stay tonight.
The shepherd boy and his family are honest, hospitable villagers.
When the old Taoist priest brought Jin An to stay overnight, the shepherd boy's parents had long known the old Taoist priest who had been wandering around the village for a day. They warmly and hospitably allowed the two to stay and prepared a sumptuous dinner.
However, the old Taoist priest did not let Jin An go to eat these dinners. He politely said that he had already eaten on the way here and he only needed to arrange a room that could shelter from wind and rain.
Then they started chatting all over the place with each other. The old Taoist priest got more and more excited as he talked. He heard about the customs and experiences of various places, as well as some thrilling experiences, which amazed the country couple who had lived in a small mountain village for generations and had never seen the world.
Even the little shepherd boy on one side, holding the peach given to him by Jin An, ate it with gusto and listened intoxicated.
This peach was given to him by Jin An.
Rural people went to bed early at night. As the night progressed, the villagers in Hezhuang began to gradually extinguish their candles and go to sleep. At first, the little shepherd boy named Song Zhi clamored to live with the old Taoist priest, saying that he wanted to continue listening to the old Taoist priest's stories.
, naturally his mother gave him another beating, and then he went back to sleep by himself.
As the lights of hundreds of houses were extinguished, the people in Hezhuang gradually went to sleep, and the village became very quiet, so quiet that there was no barking of dogs or the chirping of night insects and birds.
It’s too quiet.
It was so silent that there was no sound.
It was not until the two were alone that Jin An finally found out what was going on in this village.
Alas, there was a sigh in the dark night. The old Taoist priest did not answer immediately, but led Jin An to see it and believe it. When the old Taoist priest brought Jin An to the kitchen, the original leftovers in the pot turned into river mud.
, the bacon strips hanging on the beams also turned into river mud.
Next, the old Taoist priest took Jin An to a river outside Hezhuang that passed around the village.
At night, the sound of the gurgling river became clearer and clearer. It was already late at night, and an old man in a coir raincoat and bamboo hat was swimming upstream in an old boat, as if he was going against the will of heaven.
The old man raised his skinny palm, grabbed a handful of river mud, and shaped a small native into the shape. He blew a breath at the little native, and the little native came to life.
The villager I just met in Hezhuang today.
The old man continued to pinch the native.
Each time he breathed on the natives, the natives would come to life and turn into villagers and come ashore.
One native after another was pinched out.
Blow out one breath after another of fairy air.
Those natives came to life, then walked ashore into the village and became Hezhuang villagers.
Including shepherd boys and their parents.
After pinching the villagers, the old man began to pinch birds, insects, butterflies, and monkeys... These seemed to be the reappearance of the old man's childhood memories, and he still did it despite knowing that he was going against the will of heaven.
Just to make up for the regrets in my heart.
“Little brother, this is the truth that the old Taoist discovered in this village.”