At the door of the third house, Chuo Chuo knocked on the door and asked in as friendly a tone as possible: "Is there anyone there? We are travelers from afar. Please stay for one night. There are only three of us and we can sleep on the floor."
Ten seconds later, a vigilant little boy's voice came from inside: "Grandpa asked me to ask you, how many boys and how many girls are there?"
Phosphorus Rong suddenly noticed an inconspicuous little hole on the door, and she suddenly understood. "Two girls and one boy," Phosphorus Rong replied, "Tell your grandpa that my brothers and sisters are all good people, they are really just travelers. "A look flashed through the small hole.
After 20 seconds, the door finally opened. Behind the door was an old man with dark gray-yellow hair and dark gray-red eyes. His hand with gray nails was holding a kitchen knife. His pupils shrank when he saw the old man carrying a useless stick and a choked sickle on his back. He swung his knife and slashed at Li Rong. Li Rong was startled, and with a "pang" sound, the kitchen knife hit Li Rong's Dolan Shield. Chonchuo stretched out his hand and pulled Li Rong behind him, and Si Tong pulled out the useless sword. The stick was swung, and the old man missed the blow and stepped back to close the door, but the useless stick got stuck in the crack of the door. He was in a stalemate for a while. Li Rong smiled bitterly: "Calm down, old man..."
"How can you keep me calm when you all come in armed one by one?" the old man shouted angrily, "Why didn't you say they brought someone with you, this unlucky boy!"
"Grandpa, I'm sorry..." the little boy started to cry.
Only then did Li Rong understand: "No wonder no one opened the door before. It turned out to be this reason. I didn't expect it. Okay, old man, think about it carefully. If we want to break into your home and do you harm, we will have to go through so many troubles." What? Look at this big stick, if it hits the door of your house, won't it break open? Can the door be broken open and the window broken? So, we are really travelers, not bad people. We take two guys with us when we go out. Self-defense is understandable, right?”
The old man was silent for a moment, then slowly opened the door, still holding the kitchen knife: "No, I'm still worried. At least hand over your weapons to me, otherwise please leave."
Si Tong frowned: "This is too much..."
"Forget it, leave it to him." Phosphorus Rong persuaded, so the useless stick, cross sickle and Phosphorus Rong's Dolan Shield were all confiscated by the old man before he entered the house.
The old man put away the kitchen knife: "You may be really good people, but there is nothing you can do about it. This is not a peaceful place. If I wrong you, I have nothing to do but apologize. Also, our house only has one bed, so you can only sleep on the floor." .”
"It's okay. It's common to go out, eat and sleep in the open." Luo Rong smiled, "We have knocked on two doors before, and it's very touching that you are willing to open the door. Why are everyone so careful?"
"Isn't it because..." The old man hesitated, "Oh, this has nothing to do with you. Leave as soon as possible tomorrow morning. This is not a good place to travel."
It was still a while before bedtime, and the old man asked Lian Rong: "Have you had dinner?"
"Thank you for your concern. I've eaten." "Then you're in luck." "What should I say?" "Well, judging by your dress, you must belong to a wealthy family. You may not be able to eat what we eat." "Uh, Can you show us?"
Lian Rong looked at the dark and rotten wild vegetables in the pot: "Old man, that child is your grandson, are you going to eat this?"
"Haha, I am the one who eats this. The child is shameless enough to go to the neighbor's house to get food. Of course, if you can't get food, you have to eat this." "Don't you have any farmland?" "Yes, I just paid the protection fee." "Protection fee?" "Ha, you don't know. What we do here is the Chili Party. The Chili Party keeps our people safe, so of course they have to collect protection fees. For those of us who farm, the protection fee is food. It's a pity. I am an old man and a child, and I don’t have much food to grow. If I pay the protection fee, it won’t be enough for me to eat for a year. It’s really useless!”
This is a weird thing to say, but when you think about it carefully, it is very problematic. The food collected from the protection fee is not enough to eat, how can this be called "keeping the people safe"? Moreover, the old man actually complained that he was useless. Li Rong asked tentatively:
"Then...what will happen if you don't pay the protection fee?"
"Ouch, this is not okay, it's treasonous. Anyone who doesn't pay the protection fee will definitely be severely punished. If he really can't pay it, he can only sell himself as a slave to make up for his loss this year.
You're lazy." "How many people will come when they collect protection fees?" "Two or three people, what?" "Two or three people, what are you afraid of? How can several families join forces and still not be able to defeat them?"
"Haha, you're so naive. Not to mention that those two or three people are good at fighting. If we win, the gangsters will naturally send more and more powerful people down to resist and take jujube pills. You guys
Outsiders, that is, standing and talking don’t hurt your back. Okay, it’s getting late, and we farmers all go to bed early and get up early, so you can do what you want.” The old man led his grandson back to his room to rest, “You can stay in that room, inside
There's lots of hay, so it's a little warmer."
"Then I won't trouble you." Lian Rong thanked her.
Looking at the stacks of hay in front of her, Lian Rong looked at Chuo Chuo and said with a smile, "It's been a long time since you slept so poorly, right?"
Chuo Chuo pointed at Si Tong: "She is what you should be concerned about now."
Only then did Li Rong react, "Sister?"
Si Tong looked at Li Rong depressedly: "Can you understand what it feels like to sleep among the mummies of your compatriots?"
Phosphorus Rong sighed, "Boy boy, you have to think about it this way. Don't your plants have to take root in the soil and absorb nutrients from the beginning? These nutrients are not created out of thin air."
"You mean, let me think of hay as food?"
"The reaction is very fast..." Li Rong looked up at the sky, "If this still makes you uncomfortable, I don't mind if you get into my arms and hide."
"go to hell!"
In the end, Si Tong fell asleep obediently, but he slept between Li Rong and Cho Chuo.
In the early morning, the old man got up quietly and left the house without anyone noticing. He came to the door of a house where the lights were still on and knocked on the door rhythmically: "Dong, dong dong, dong, dong, dong, dong~ dong dong,
The person who opened the door was a man with dark gray aqua hair and light gray eyes: "Uncle Lin Zhong?"
"Yue Tao, three people came to my house tonight, fully armed. I tricked them into handing over their weapons." The old man handed over the useless stick, cross sickle and Dolan's Shield. "After they came in, they asked me a lot about walking.
The Carp Party's issue also made me resist, but I didn't dare to agree. I kept bragging about the Carp Party's good deeds. Now they are sleeping in my house. What should I do?"
Yue Ba thought for a while and said, "Come in and talk in detail."
So the old man explained the whole thing in detail. Yue Bao analyzed: "They surrendered their weapons so readily, old man, I'm afraid that's a big deal. To put it simply, they should think that they can subdue you without weapons, so they must
They have extraordinary skills. As for them saying they are travelers, I don't think it is credible. The Niandian area is famous for its unrest, and you would never go here if you were traveling. Therefore, they may have ulterior motives, and maybe they are just gangsters.
They want to find out our information."
"Then... what should we do?" "Don't be afraid. They dare to disarm because they don't know the existence of our self-defense force, let alone our reputation in the village. Although they can't fight against the gangsters on the surface,
, but it will be very satisfying to play a villain tonight and make them suffer a heavy loss. Mother, please go and call the brothers, light a torch, be careful, and surround Uncle Lin's house!"
"Okay." An old lady got up and went out the back door.
Then he said to Lin Zhong: "Just follow me, let's go and observe first."
Arriving outside Lin Zhong's house, Yue Bao asked quietly: "Which room are they sleeping in?"
"The room where I stack hay." Lin Zhong pointed.
"The hay house..." Yue Tao muttered, "This terrain is not bad." At some point, a group of team members, each holding a torch, crept up. Looking at Lin Zhong's wooden house, Yue Tao said: "Uncle Lin, the most important thing now is
The best way is to burn the house and the people together. Don’t worry, we will help you rebuild it.”
Lin Zhong panicked: "This can't be done, my little grandson is still sleeping in the room!"
Yue Bao waved his hand: "There is nothing we can do. If we let them return to the Gangsters safely to report the news, more people will die!" When the team members saw the signal, they threw the torches towards the hay house.
"No!" Lin Zhong quickly stepped forward to put out the fire.
Behind him, Yue Ba sighed softly: "I'm sorry!" He knocked Lin Zhong unconscious with a knife and called the team members to take care of him.
The fire gradually became fiercer. The boy was most sensitive to the nightmare of this plant and was the first to wake up: "Get up quickly, there's a fire!"
"What's going on?" Luo Rong was sleepy. When he saw that he was surrounded by fire, he woke up immediately. The flammable hay guided the fire and quickly swept towards the three people, and the billowing smoke threatened their breathing. Luo Rong quickly
Calm down: "Get down quickly and lower your center of gravity. Si Tong, break down the wall; Chuo Chuo go to the old man's room to save people, and of course get back the weapons!"
"Understood!"×2.
Si Tong used the energy to escape the fear that was perfect in the middle period, and kicked him: "Hey!" The wall was smashed open, and the shaky wooden house that was burned by the fire also collapsed. A blackened beam was heading towards
The top of Si Tong's head was smashed down. Si Tong looked at the wooden beams that were completely burned by the fire, screamed, and dove into Phosphorus Rong's arms regardless of the image: "Fire!"
Phosphorus Rong was startled: "Damn, I forgot that you are afraid of fire!" As the wooden beam fell, the entire roof collapsed. Phosphorus Rong had to press on Si Tong to prevent the fire from burning Si Tong. A hot
The carbon hit the back of Phosphorus, burning him so hard that one Buddha was born, two Buddhas ascended to heaven, three Buddhas passed away, and four Buddhas entered Nirvana. Zhenmu's cultivation in the middle period was not enough to withstand such high temperatures, and the cloth armor given by Liao Xin was not designed.
It was designed to withstand the sheer heat: the cloth armor remained intact, but the heat penetrated in mercilessly.