This remote village is much poorer than Wangjia Village. Except for a few wealthy people in the village, most of the houses in the village are yellow mud and stone houses, and there are very few livestock and poultry.
Looking at the poor village, Chai Jiangcui had some doubts in his heart. Although this village is remote, it is not far from the official road, and Ningzhou has been a major grain-producing state since ancient times. Logically speaking, it should not be so poor.
Liu Gu took Chai Jiangcui back to his home. Liu Gu's home was also a loess-concrete house, and there was only one elderly mother in the house.
When they got indoors, Liu Gu finally let go of Chai Jiangcui's hand and poured her a cup of hot water.
"As the old saying goes, a living person has a shadow and warmth. You should never look back when you call someone by your name at night. There are a lot of weird things happening these days, so you have to be careful. Did you just make the scholar laugh?"
The sound of tea being poured into the bowl is crisp and clear, and there are little splashes of water.
"Scholar, please drink some water."
"It's okay. Just be careful and you won't make any big mistakes. Thank you!"
Chai Jiangcui picked up the tea bowl and pretended to take a sip. Liu Gu continued:
"We are relatively poor. Scholar, please just stay at my house tonight. I happen to have a vacant room here. You can move in as soon as you pack it up."
"Thank you." Chai Jiangcui thanked him again, but Liu Gu's next words made her smell something wrong.
"Scholar, I'm not targeting you, but every village has its own rules. In our village, no matter what you hear, don't go out at night.
Don't ask why, this has been the rule in the village for decades, so please forgive me."
"Forehead……"
Chai Jiangcui was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said:
"No problem, I will abide by it. By the way, Brother Liu, what is the name of your village and where is it in Anpan County? What is the best way to get to Ningzhou City?"
The maps of this era were really rough. A county was only a small dot on the map. In many places, there were only one or two simple lines. It was impossible to tell whether it was a mountain or a road.
Chai Jiangcui, a roadie, held this kind of map, and there was no big difference between it and the other. She basically relied on asking for directions along the way.
"Anpan County?" Liu Gu frowned,
"We are in Shixi Village, forty miles west of Anpan County. As for your question about how to get to Ningzhou, I don't know.
People in our village have lived here for generations, and the farthest place they have been is Anpan County."
"I see, thank you for your work."
Chai Jiangcui held up her hand and thanked her again. She was coming from the west. It seemed that she had diverged somewhere and would have to go back and start over again tomorrow.
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It was late at night, and everyone in the village was sleeping deeply. Chai Jiangcui sat cross-legged on the bed, and the snoring of Liu Gu next door kept echoing in his ears.
Creak, creak, creak~
The sound of dogs gnawing bones sounded in the yard next door, clear and abrupt.
Chai Jiangcui, who was immersed in cultivation, moved his ears and slowly opened his eyes. His bright eyes were like stars in the night sky, clearly visible in the dark room.
Chai Jiangcui held the Shuiyue Sword with one hand and stood up quickly. He raised his ears and carefully distinguished the details of the sound.
You can’t be wrong! This weird sound is very similar to when Wang Youming bit the cock. The only difference is that Wang Youming was in a hurry at that time, while the one in the village seemed very leisurely.
Although Liu Gu told her not to go out, Chai Jiangcui never liked entrusting her safety to the unknown.
After unleashing an invisibility spell on himself, Chai Jiangcui gently opened the window and jumped out.
She wanted to see what it was that made the villagers of Shixi Village so fearful.
The sound of nibbling in the yard next door continued, with no intention of leaving.
Chai Jiangcui carefully touched the fence of the courtyard and saw clearly the appearance of the founder of the courtyard through the sparse bamboo fence.
Surprisingly, what was in the courtyard was not a ferocious-looking monster, but a fox with snow-white fur.
This white fox is slightly smaller than ordinary foxes. Its slender mouth and light green eyes give it an inexplicable sense of charm.
If the chicken blood on its mouth hadn't destroyed some of its beauty, Chai Jiangcui couldn't help but feel that this was a beauty that turned all living beings upside down.
Feeling the faint demonic aura on the white fox, Chai Jiangcui appeared and said in an indifferent tone:
"Isn't it you, the little fox, who made the villagers of Shixi Village set strange rules?"
Suddenly hearing Chai Jiangcui's voice, the white fox suddenly fluttered its fur and quickly dropped the food in its mouth, tightened its front paws, and looked at Chai Jiangcui warily:
"Who are you? How dare you disturb me from enjoying my delicious food?"
"Pfft—immortal? When did you dare to claim to be an immortal after cultivating a little bit of demonic power?"
Chai Jiangcui sneered. The demonic power of the fox in front of him could reach the early stage of god refining. He probably had some opportunity in the mountains and forest and accidentally opened his spiritual wisdom.
Although it is said in this world that as long as you are destined, you can embark on the path of cultivation. However, compared to the human race, cultivation is hundreds of times more difficult for alien races.
Even if many beasts accidentally open up their spiritual intelligence, they will easily go astray because they have no reference and cannot distinguish between good and evil. They either die in the hands of monks who eliminate demons and protect the way, or they are blinded by endless evil thoughts and lose their true consciousness.
I.
Chai Jiangcui's disdain made the white fox, who always thought highly of himself, very angry, and decided to teach the rampant human in front of him a lesson.
The white fox's body was full of demonic power, and its eyes became pitch black, like a bottomless pool.
The next moment, Chai Jiangcui felt a blur of flowers in front of her. Two tigers suddenly appeared, roaring and slowly approaching her.
If ordinary people saw this scene, they would not only be scared to death, but also scream and run away.
But Chai Jiangcui did not panic at all, but observed with great interest.
This fox must have seen a real tiger, but it is not strong enough, so it only has the shape of a tiger but no tiger bones.
This kind of tiger is like a flower in the mirror or the moon in the water. Once you calm down and observe, you can easily find flaws.
Zheng——
The Shuiyue Sword was unsheathed, Chai Jiangcuisu waved his hand, and the sharp sword light instantly scattered the two transformed tigers in front of him.
"!!!"
Seeing that the situation was not good, the white fox wanted to run away without saying a word.
But Chai Jiangcui's sword light was faster than it. As soon as he took two steps, the Shuiyue Sword was thrust straight in front of the white fox.
It had to brake in time, otherwise it would have to use its face to test whether the edge of the Water Moon Sword was sharp.