The fairy world collapsed, and the down-and-out gods were laid off and re-employed.

It was July, and the golden wheel was high at noon. The heat was unbearable, and the heat wave surged up, making people sleepy and weak. Occasionally, the wind blows, stirring the air even more dull.

Not many people are willing to come out at this time. The vendor simply left the stall and hid in the shade to rest.

The coolies spent a penny or two to buy a bowl of herbal tea, sat in the tea shed and chatted to pass the time, waiting for the hottest hour to pass and continue working.

The tea shed was bustling with people, people from all over the world doing whatever they wanted. One of them, an old man in his fifties, was talking so eloquently that the young people around him were stunned for a moment.

"When I caught Mr. Huang's ghost, it was much more dangerous than you are now." He picked up the tea bowl and drank half of it in one gulp. "We children were arranged to hide in the trees for sneak attacks. I saw with my own eyes that the adults tried their best. It was no use, but was beaten to pieces. Our Mr. Yu, who played the strings and sang, was beaten to the point where he vomited blood and was almost beaten to death..."

He held the bowl and took another sip.

"Tell me, tell me, what happened next?" the person next to me urged.

He wiped the water stains from his mouth, "At the critical moment, Master Jiang held a simple knife and cut off both of its arms without saying a word. Then he said to the ghost father Huang, 'You dare to come to Dongyao to act wild, you You are just thinking too much. If you are going to die here today, I will let your whole family go.' When Father Huang heard this, he wiped his neck with the plain knife."

"Wow~~" the young men exclaimed: "This is more powerful than the general in the novel told by the storyteller."

"What the storyteller said is all false. I have witnessed it with my own eyes." The old man waved his hand and refilled his bowl of herbal tea.

"Then when did she catch monsters? I've never seen one in my whole life."

"I have something serious to do." The old man rolled his eyes at them, "Everyone is like you and is not up to date day by day."

"I saw her secretly catching loaches in the pond in the next village last year, but she was carried away by another god. But I have never seen that god before, and it doesn't look like Dongyao's. Is she a good friend?"

Old man:......

Another person pushed the person just now, "You have completely forgotten what Master Mo taught you. You told me not to arrange others, so you might as well just arrange it for my junior sister."

"I'm just guessing, there's no arrangement."

The old man coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment, "Don't talk nonsense. Our place is more peaceful than the capital now. What do you want others to do? Besides, people are so busy on weekdays, can't they just relax... I'll tell you What are you looking at while talking?"

The old man saw that the young men in the tea shed were staring behind him intently. Even the boss pouring herbal tea was looking outside and didn't even notice that the water was spilled.

Seeing this, he also turned around to look, and his eyes instantly went straight.

I don't know when a beautiful woman came to the street. Almond eyes, peach cheeks, willow-leaf curved eyebrows, there seem to be thousands of styles between the eyebrows.

She smiled at the people in the tea shed, and their bones were brittle. Then she walked into the tea shed with lotus steps and asked in a voice that sounded like running water from a mountain spring, pleasant to the ear.

"Where are there available rooms for rent?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the boys came forward one after another and said they would lead the way. The girl thanked them with a smile.

After several inquiries, the girl finally rented a small bungalow in Jiudao Hutong. The landlord was a woman in her twenties. Seeing that she was alone, she was a little curious about her origins.

She said that she was from another province, her name was Gu He, and her husband's family had divorced her because she could not have children. The family felt that she had brought shame on the family, so they gave her a sum of money and kicked her out of the house.

The sad and plaintive expression on her face when she spoke made the landlady feel pity for her, and she immediately recognized her as her sister, so that she could come to her if anything happened in the future.

Gu He had tears in his eyes and was very moved. After that, she lived here.

Because he was pretty, well-mannered, and had a good temper, he quickly won the favor of everyone. On weekdays, when she goes out, there will be a bunch of children behind her. She also liked these children very much and often bought them snacks. The landlady advised her to save some money, but she always said it was okay, since she couldn't spend so much anyway, so she just regarded it as a good deed.

The landlady has two children, one is six years old and the other is just over 100 days old. Sometimes her husband does business for several days before coming back. Sometimes he is too busy, so Gu He will go to her house to help take care of the children.

That day, she coaxed the landlady's youngest daughter to sleep and asked: "Sister, I found that there are quite a lot of children here. Many places I walked along have been turned into wastelands due to wars, and there are not many adults, let alone Meet the little kids.”

"What's the use? They are all making a fuss." The eldest sister hung up the wet clothes to dry. "Take my big one for example. One day when I go out in the streets, I will either get bruises or scratches on my clothes."

"It's normal for children to be naughty." She said with a smile: "The more children there are, the more children prove that our place is peaceful. Their commotion is better than war."

"Oh, that's right. Think about it, we ordinary people have never had a peaceful life. I heard my father say that our ancestors were caught up in the battle between immortals and demons. Now that the immortals and demons are no longer fighting, it is our mortals' turn to fight on our own. Those emperors and generals will attack here today and there tomorrow. You think we, the common people, have provoked whomever we want. There will be no benefit to us if we win, let alone if we lose."

The eldest sister finished drying the last piece of clothing, poured out the water in the basin, and leaned the tub against the wall to dry. He sat on the bench again and prepared to chop wood.

"Actually, there was no peace here ten years ago. I was still young at that time, and I heard that the enemy army was going to invade. My parents and I hid in Dongyao Mountain."

"and after?"

"Later, their group didn't come in, and the fighting stopped."

"Why?"

"I don't know." The eldest sister split the firewood, "I guess the head of the mountain is angry. I heard they said that she flew out at night and took away the souls of the two emperors and took them around the 18th floor. Hell, it stops on both sides."

Gu He laughed like a silver bell, "Is that headmaster really that awesome? Why did I hear that she had a quarrel with someone in the street because they didn't give her five cents in change?"

"Is this... a personal hobby?" The eldest sister also laughed, "But thanks to her, there is no war here, and there are not many monsters?"

Gu He's hand paused for a moment, "Are there no monsters here?"

"No, anyway, I have never seen monsters more than three times as I have grown up. I guess I won't see any monsters since I was a child." After the eldest sister finished chopping the firewood, she picked up the firewood and turned back to Gu He and said, "Sister , you can help me take care of it for a while, and I will cook. You can eat at home in the evening. Don’t leave. Your eldest brother will go to another place to collect the bill and will not come back for two days. We will sleep in the same room and have company at night. "

"Hey, okay."

In the distance, I could hear the third watch of the ritual drums playing. The landlady was in a daze in her sleep and felt someone moving outside the window. But because I was too busy during the day, I was too sleepy to open my eyes now. I turned over and got ready to sleep again. I casually touched the child lying next to me, but I only felt that my hand was cold.

She woke up instantly and found that the child was missing. When she looked back, Gu He, who was sleeping next to her, was gone. At this time, through the window and in the moonlight, she saw a "person" covered in feathers standing under the poplar tree outside the courtyard.

It has disheveled hair, a bird's head, and a baby's cry when it opens its mouth. It held her little daughter in her arms and followed her eldest son around the yard.

The eldest sister covered her mouth, trembling and unable to make a sound.

As if noticing her gaze, the monster suddenly turned his head and grinned at her, "There really are monsters..."

After that, it flew out of the yard with the two children.