The old willow tree is dead, too dead to die any more.
The drunkard invited me to come with him, and then he took the drunkard's butcher's knife and began to chop at the trunk of the old willow tree.
I frowned and asked the drunkard: "What is this for?"
The drunkard smiled mysteriously at me, then cut the trunk of the old willow tree in half, and then said slowly: "You will know later, I will give you a good thing."
I didn’t know what the good stuff the drunkard was talking about. I could only watch helplessly as the drunkard cut the trunk of the old willow tree in half with a butcher’s knife, and allowed the black blood to emerge from the trunk...
The drunkard used a butcher's knife to remove all the branches on the trunk of the old willow tree, then peeled away the outer bark, and slowly smoothed the centermost stump inside.
Ten minutes later, the drunkard stood up with a satisfied smile on his lips.
I lowered my head and looked again, and found that in the drunkard's hand, there was a large wooden sword that was almost one meter long.
"Fuck!!"
I was in a daze for a moment, but the drunkard smiled very happily, as if the wooden sword he was holding was much more valuable than the peerless antiques from Christie's auction house.
"Is this for me? Isn't it a bit...low..." I stared at the wooden sword that the drunkard regarded as a treasure, and I couldn't laugh or cry.
"This is a good thing. If you don't want it, forget it."
"No, I want it!"
I snatched the wooden sword from the drunkard's hand. As soon as I took the wooden sword from my hand, I felt as if I was holding something weighing more than a hundred kilograms, and I almost broke both hands.
"Why is it so heavy?" I wondered.
"Hey, it's said to be a good thing. This is the essence of Liu Shen's work for thousands of years. Now it's all at your advantage..."
The drunkard blew on the wooden sword, and soon, the large wooden sword, which was about one meter long, turned into a small sword three or four centimeters long, but its weight remained unchanged.
"This wooden sword was formerly the body of Liu Shen. The quality of a thing depends on a person's temperament. I hope you can make good use of it." The drunkard said to me.
My heart moved inexplicably. In fact, this old guy, the drunkard, was really nice to me.
"Let's go." The drunkard patted my shoulder and said, "Go see Sanniang off for the last time..."
I nodded heavily.
When we returned to the top, the village had returned to peace.
In the center of the village, I looked up and saw that many villagers were supporting each other. The old, young, women and children who had been resurrected from the disaster had already fallen into new sadness before they had time to be excited.
It can be said that there were heavy casualties in Liucun tonight.
This village, which is closed to the outside world, suffered an attack on their beliefs tonight...
The corpses of the dead villagers were piled together. Women and children knelt on the ground and cried, while the old people looked at the corpses with blank expressions on their faces.
And next to those corpses, I saw the butcher covered in blood.
At this time, the blood on the butcher's body had long solidified, and his eyes were fixed on one of the corpses, which was his only relative in the world.
I walked straight to Tian Sanniang's side. Looking at her beautiful but pale face, I felt extremely heavy...
After a while, Deng Youde and the nurse came over with Xiao She.
Xiaoshe, who had also experienced the horror tonight, stared at Tian Sanniang motionlessly with his dark eyes.
Xiaoshe turned around and asked me: "Uncle, why is the beautiful aunt asleep?"
I glanced at Xiaoshe's innocent eyes, and for a moment I didn't know what to say...
"The weather was too hot, so all the uncles and aunts went out to sleep." Deng Youde quickly explained.
Xiaoshe nodded thoughtfully, then quickly ran back to the house and took out a quilt.
Xiaoshe covered Tian Sanniang with the quilt, blinked and said to me: "Uncle, the beautiful aunt always plays with me, Xiaoshe can't let her freeze..."
After Xiao She finished speaking, I felt a little sore in my eyes.
I patted Xiaoshe's head and said, "Xiaoshe is so kind. If the beautiful aunt knows about it, she will definitely be very happy..."
At the end of the sentence, I was speechless and choked up.
The drunkard on the side quickly patted my shoulder and comforted me a little.
I raised my head and looked at the butcher again, and found that in just a short while, the butcher's head was covered with white hair, and there was a hint of loneliness on his old face.
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Two days later, after taking care of all the funeral matters, I stood at the entrance of Liucun.
In addition to the small house, there were two more people who were leaving at the same time as me, namely Deng Youde and the little nurse.
In the past two days, through my coercion and inducement, that idiot Deng Youde has been successfully brainwashed by me and is ready to explore the ancient tomb with me.
As for the little nurse, I don't plan to take her with me. I asked Deng Youde to give her a sum of money and go back to her hometown to open a small clinic. It is better than suffering alone in this village.
Xiaoshe was lying on my back. It was early in the morning and the little guy hadn't woken up yet.
I looked up at the drunkard and butcher in front of me. Just the night before yesterday, I received a text message from Fatty Xia. Fatty Xia told me that he had received the signal from Sirius and was going to set off to explore the ancient tomb in three days...
Sirius has already sent a signal, obviously everything is ready, and I have to rush back as soon as possible.
The drunkard patted me on the shoulder and said, "Have a nice trip, little guy."
I nodded, "Shunfeng..."
After the drunkard finished speaking, I looked at the white-haired butcher.
The butcher glanced at me, as if he wanted to say something, but closed his mouth again.
I smiled bitterly and said to him softly, "Senior Butcher, take care."
After saying this, I signaled to Deng Youde, and then climbed onto the bullock cart prepared for us by the drunkard.
Deng Youde slapped the old scalper on the butt, and the old scalper bleated and quickly dragged the cart forward.
At this time, I heard a vicissitudes of voice coming from behind me.
"When you have time, come back and see Sanniang more often..."
When the voice fell, I paused for a moment, then turned back and nodded to the butcher.
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The speed of the ox cart is not very fast, and it took almost three hours to get from Liucun to the town.
And when I passed by the place where the bodies of Mr. Zhang Rui and Mr. Liu had appeared, I couldn't help but take another look.
Looking at that familiar place, I couldn't help but think of Han Yun.
I was ready to leave, but where did she go?
I shook my head, and the scene in the dark cave that day emerged in my mind.
At that time, I felt like I was in a dream. I did see a woman lying on top of me, but I had no confidence at all whether that woman was Han Yun or not.
Are you kidding me? That Korean woman hates me so much that it would be nice if she didn’t take the opportunity to kill me off. How could she use her own body to keep me warm?
[Author's digression]: The second update is here, keep coding, there will be another update tonight!