As the flames burned, the pieces of yellow paper gradually turned into black ashes and soared upwards on the heat.
Li Huowang had a complicated expression and looked at everything in front of him.
"Li Zhi, Li Zhi, I have burned the paper money you asked for. I hope you can receive it."
As soon as he finished speaking, Li Huowang saw black ashes swirling in front of him, as if in response to what he had said.
At this moment, Li Huowang suddenly understood the thoughts of those superstitious people.
Compared with the extremely cruel and despairing one, everything disappears after death, and you can turn into a ghost and continue reincarnation after death. It is really a beautiful fairy tale.
After throwing the last pile of yellow paper into the fire, Li Huowang stood up and patted the ashes on his body.
"Let's go to the town and find an inn to rest for a while. Everyone is soaked to the skin."
Just as he was about to leave, Bai Lingmiao's words from the side made him turn sideways. "Brother Li, Sister Xiaoman is missing."
After Li Huowang observed the crowd for a while, he did not find the woman suffering from hirsutism.
"Oh, I remember, she told me before that her home seems to be nearby."
No one responded to these words. After what happened before, everyone knew what Xiaoman planned to do after returning home. For a while, the already somewhat depressing atmosphere became even more depressing.
"Well, Senior Brother Li, how about we go find her? Maybe we can stop her." The smiling Gouwa put his hand into his bamboo hat and scratched his greasy hair.
Li Huowang glanced at him and walked in the direction of a plaque hanging on the inn.
"First find an inn to settle down. Xiaoman's hometown is nearby. She must be familiar with it. She will come to us when she is finished."
This sentence made Bai Lingmiao, who was about to say something, quiet down. She grabbed the hem of her clothes with both hands and followed silently.
The sky was gray and it was raining lightly. She did not cover her eyes with a cloth, her pink pupils were full of sadness.
The dry guest rooms were quickly opened. Some people washed their hair and took baths. When everything was ready, they all gathered in the lobby to eat.
I don’t have much money left in my pocket, and the dishes on the table are mediocre. Most of them are vegetarian dishes. The only ones that can be called meat dishes are bitter melon and scrambled eggs, and fried peppers with lard residue.
But everyone enjoyed the meal for no other reason than the lard in the dish was real, it smelled delicious and tasted very hungry.
Today is the Tomb Sweeping Day. There are not many people staying at the inn for dinner. The waiter running errands nearby is chatting with someone who is settling accounts.
"Hey, scholar, do you know? I heard that there is probably going to be another war on the border."
"Don't talk nonsense, you know what? What qualifications does a bad boy have to talk about national affairs?"
"I don't like hearing this. Although I am a small waiter, I am still the best informed. I heard that this time, the four of us are planning to fight eastward."<
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"East?" Li Huowang, who was eating normally, pricked up his ears. To the east is the boundary of the pass.
Li Huowang doesn't have many acquaintances there, and the only ones he worries about are those in Lu's class.
But when he thought of the very smooth Lu Zhuangyuan, he felt relieved. The old man was very oily, so he should be fine.
The waiter's voice began to lower. "Xiucai, let me tell you, some time ago, all the people doing business there rushed back. They must have heard some news."
Li Huowang shook his head while he was eating. This place was in such a mess. There were evil spirits and thieves. These people above were not busy managing people's livelihood, but they still had time to send troops to fight. It was really stupid.
The excited waiter was about to continue saying something when his eyes suddenly lit up and he hurriedly walked towards the door of the inn.
"Hey! This girl! Are you inviting me in, for a job or to stay in a hotel?"
Hearing the noise, Li Huowang and the others turned their heads at the same time, and saw a woman holding a short knife and wearing a black gauze hat walking in.
There were not many people dressed up like this in the whole town. When he saw the back of the man's black hairy hands, Li Huowang easily guessed the man's identity.
"Waiter, bring me some bowls and chopsticks, and let the cook behind me add two more dishes."
"Okay! Here we go!"
Li Huowang bumped the fool beside him with his elbow. The silly brother took a few mouthfuls of food and squatted down from the table with the bowl in hand to eat.
Xiaoman walked over to Li Huowang and sat down.
The black gauze hat was taken off, revealing the black hair on her face that was soaked with tears.
After Li Huowang took a breath, he took a few mouthfuls of rice. He smelled a faint smell of blood from Xiao Man.
"The chopstick bowl is here~~ Oops! Oh my god!!"
Waving away the frightened waiter, Li Huowang placed the bowl and chopsticks in front of Xiao Man. "Eat."
Xiaoman, with a painful expression, looked at the empty bowl in front of him, as if he was reminiscing. "He also sold my sister. My sister was sold to an old man in his fifties. She just died in childbirth at the beginning of the year."
There were only the sounds of chopsticks hitting dishes and the sounds of chewing and swallowing on the table. No one spoke at the moment.
"He is scum! I hate him! I can't wait to eat his flesh and drink his blood!"
Xiaoman gritted his teeth and squeezed out these words from between his teeth.
Hearing this, Bai Lingmiao, who was sitting next to her, leaned over with a distressed look on her face, stretched out her white and jade-like hands and hugged her gently.
"My mother persuaded me, saying that no matter what, he was my father, and that killing my father would lead to God's punishment, but I would rather suffer God's punishment, and I would kill him too!"
He poured a few spoonfuls of green vegetable and tofu soup into his empty bowl with a spoon. Li Huowang picked up the bowl and poured it into his mouth. He said softly as if chatting: "The God of this place is not discerning."
The table gradually became quiet, and the others sat quietly, watching Xiaoman silently.
There was a hint of anger and sadness in their eyes. Everyone was a drug addict, and they could sympathize with Xiaoman's situation.
No one can be sure whether they have been sold by their family before arriving home.
When the anger in Xiao Man's eyes receded, only deep confusion remained in his eyes, "My home is gone. I demolished it myself. I don't know where to go next."
"Stir-fried donkey meat, braised river fish~! Dear guests, wait patiently!" The waiter put down the two dishes and left as if running for his life.
Li Huowang took Xiaoman's empty bowl, filled a bowl full of white rice, and pushed it in front of her. "Eat."
After speaking, Li Huowang used chopsticks to pick out a fish bone from the braised fish as a toothpick, and while shaving his teeth, he walked towards the guest room on the second floor.
When other people saw this scene, they dispersed in twos and threes, and soon only Bai Lingmiao was left alone in the entire lobby to accompany Xiaoman.
Tears slipped from the hair on Xiao Man's face and kept dripping on the rice.
She tremblingly picked up the chopsticks, picked up the bowl, and ate the rice that was filled with tears.
The more she ate, the more tears she shed, and eventually she burst into tears while holding the bowl.
This chapter has been completed!