The girl holding a candied haws, pigtails and a red skirt jumped over and looked at Ye Qing like a curious baby.
"Yes." Ye Qing smiled.
The people in this small town have very weak auras, no spiritual energy fluctuations, let alone divine power. They are just a group of ordinary people.
Ye Qing felt a little strange. The cultivation environment in the town was obviously good, but why were there no practitioners?
Under Ye Qing's spiritual investigation, he found that there were about two hundred people in the town, all of them mortals.
"Brother, you haven't eaten yet. Do you want to go to my house for lunch? The food made by my grandpa is delicious!"
The little Tanghulu girl invited me warmly, her big eyes full of expectation.
She seemed to rarely see outsiders, so she was very curious about Ye Qing.
"OK."
Ye Qing touched the little girl's head.
"Hmm."
The little girl resisted a little: "Brother, grandpa said, you are not allowed to touch your head. If you touch your head, you will not grow taller."
"Haha, just touch it."
Ye Qing rubbed her hair, and the little girl became angry.
However, a chicken wing suddenly appeared in front of her eyes.
There were many delicacies in Ye Qing's storage ring. When she saw the chicken wings, the little girl suddenly felt that the candied haws in her mouth no longer smelled good, and she did not resist Ye Qing's touch on her head.
Sure enough, in the world of children, if you have milk, you are a mother.
"My little friend, you are from out of town, right?" the old man with a white beard said with a smile.
He was stooped and carrying a medicine basket. He must have gone up the mountain to collect medicine and had just returned.
"Yes."
"We rarely have guests in Xiaoshi Town. Xiaohuan is very happy to see guests coming." The old man with a white beard looked at his granddaughter with a kind face.
"My little friend, since you're here, how about we go to the humble house to get together?"
The old man with a white beard extended the invitation with sincere eyes.
"Okay, then I won't bother you."
Ye Qing followed the white-bearded old man to a farmhouse.
During the chat, Ye Qing learned that the old man with a white beard was named Wang, and the girl who liked eating candied haws was called Wang Xiaohuan.
The sky is getting late, twilight envelopes Xiaoshi Town, and the mist is everywhere.
In the farmhouse, Mr. Wang prepared meals.
The food was very simple, consisting of three bowls of white porridge, one plate of white steamed buns, one plate of vegetables, one plate of peanuts, and a small plate of cooked beef.
The portions of vegetables and peanuts are quite sufficient, but the beef is a bit lacking.
Looking at the food on the dining table, Ye Qing fell into deep thought.
It seems that Uncle Wang's family is not doing well.
They live a simple life, and if it hadn't been for Ye Qing's arrival, they probably wouldn't have brought out the small plate of beef.
"Young man, I'm sorry for neglecting you." Old Uncle Wang put a piece of beef into Ye Qing's bowl.
"Wherever there is, as long as there is food to eat."
Ye Qing smiled, it had been a long time since he had eaten such ordinary food.
Practitioners often abstain from food and do not need to eat. Sometimes Ye Qing is greedy and eats delicacies cooked with the flesh and blood of various powerful monsters.
Mortal food is basically dross and has no nutrition.
However, Ye Qing took a bite of beef and drank green vegetable porridge, and felt that it tasted pretty good.
Maybe it's because of the novelty. It's actually quite good to experience the life of a mortal.
When Ye Qing was in Jizhou City of the Great Zhou Empire, wasn't he just a mortal?
The white porridge and vegetables in the bowl reminded Ye Qing of the days he spent with his sister at the Ye family in Jizhou City when he was a child. It was really nostalgic!
"Little brother, my grandfather's cooking is pretty good, right? Vegetable porridge is a specialty of our Xiaoshi Town. Do you like it?" Xiao Huan drank the porridge while talking to Ye Qing.
"I like it, it's pretty good."
Ye Qing smiled, and then took out some chicken wings and drumsticks, which were all raw meat. Ye Qing went out and prepared a lot of ingredients, mainly because the second senior sister often beat the autumn wind.
"Hey, little brother, can you do magic?"
Xiao Huan was stunned. Ye Qing took out the chicken out of thin air. She was naturally surprised that ordinary people did not have this ability.
"Little girl, do you want to eat roast chicken?" Ye Qing smiled.
"Okay, okay, long live my little brother!"
Xiaohuan was very happy. It was true that white porridge with green vegetables was a specialty of Xiaoshi Town, but she had long been tired of eating it. It had been a long time since she had eaten any meat.
The moment she saw the chicken, Xiaohuan's saliva couldn't stop flowing.
Ye Qing went to the kitchen, made a fire, and roasted the chicken legs.
Uncle Wang came to help and said that Ye Qing was a guest and he should not let the guest cook.
Ye Qing said a few polite words and invited Mr. Wang out.
The chicken he took out was not an ordinary chicken, but a monster beast with good blood. It might not be cooked under ordinary flames.
Not long after, Ye Qing came out carrying fragrant roasted chicken legs and wings.
What was a simple meal suddenly became sumptuous.
A smile appeared on the corner of Ye Qing's mouth, and he was in a good mood while enjoying the food.
Walking through the bloody storm and occasionally experiencing the life of mortals, it feels like washing away all the troubles.
"Young man, where are you going?" Mr. Wang suddenly asked.
"Just take a walk and relax." Ye Qing smiled.
"Well, then it's better to stay in a humble house for a few more days." Mr. Wang said enthusiastically.
"No, I'll leave later."
"Little brother, what are you in a hurry for? Isn't my house fun?"
“Fun.”
Ye Qing touched Xiao Huan's head, a bright smile appeared on his face.
After eating, Ye Qing said goodbye and left. When leaving, he gave Old Man Wang some broken silver.
The money that mortals use is nothing more than gold and silver. There is a lot of gold in Ye Qing's storage ring, which is basically useless.
However, he did not give the gold to Old Uncle Wang. Xiaoshi Town seemed relatively poor as a whole. If anyone knew that Old Uncle Wang had gold, they might be malicious.
Moreover, in a place like Xiaoshi Town, if you use gold to buy something, people may not be able to find it.
The few grains of silver Ye Qing gave him were a huge sum of money to Mr. Wang, enough for him to spend for a long time.
When Mr. Wang saw the broken silver, he was polite and could not refuse it, so he had to accept it.
"Young man, wait a moment."
After taking the silver, Mr. Wang hurried to the bedroom, took out a black stone and handed it to Ye Qing.
"Young man, this is a specialty of Xiaoshi Town. Please accept it if you like."
Ye Qing took the black stone and warmed it, it seemed extraordinary.
However, the black stone has no spiritual power fluctuations, let alone divine power contained in it. It is probably just an ordinary stone.
Ye Qing didn't think much and walked in Xiaoshi Town, his spiritual thoughts spreading out to find the secret place of Kongsang.
At the end of Xiaoshi Town, there was a mountain peak. Within the mountain peak, Ye Qing could faintly sense the existence of the barrier.
After breaking through that layer of barrier, you should be where the Kongsang Secret Realm is.
In Xiaoshi Town, in the farmhouse, Xiao Huan and Uncle Wang watched Ye Qing disappear.
Xiao Huan raised the candied haws in his hand and said with a smile: "Grandpa, this guy looks pretty good. He is a good person."
"Well, so I gave him the black stone, hoping that it would be of some help to him." Old Uncle Wang's temperament suddenly changed, no longer the rickety look, and he stood straight.
"Hopefully, my kind-hearted little brother will definitely be rewarded." Xiaohuan ate a candied haws and looked at the remaining chicken wings on the table.