Su Huaijun

"Wen Heng, do you see a village in front of you?"

"It really is."

"Do you think we can find a place to live tonight?"

"It looks like a small village, and it's not easy to find a place to live. If we walk a little further, we might be able to reach the town." Wen Heng looked up at the sky, and said helplessly, "But it looks like we'll be there before dark. If you can’t get to the town, you can only spend the night in the village.”

That's right, even if some villagers are willing to take us in with good intentions, there are five of us in total, and the average villager's house probably won't be able to accommodate us. It seems that we have to spend the night outside.

Fortunately, we are used to eating and sleeping in the open on this road. The only downside is that there are more mosquitoes at night.

Now it's Shen's time, and the men who go to the fields in the village are also preparing to go home for dinner.

An old man was talking to the man next to him with a serious expression, and he didn't know what happened to him.

Wen Heng and I stepped forward and asked, "Brother, sir, is there a place in this village where we can stay overnight?"

The old man didn't seem to welcome us very much, without looking at us, he said, "No."

Although the old man is old, his body is very strong, and he speaks with a bit of momentum.

The old man had already left, and the man apologized: "You two are really sorry, my father has such a temper. You are from other places, right? It's getting late, why don't you two come and stay with us tonight?"

"Ah." I was still hesitating on how to speak.

Wen Heng said: "Thank you, brother, for your kindness. It's just that we have three friends traveling with us, is it convenient?"

The man was a little embarrassed when he heard this, but he thought about it and said, "Follow me first, and I will find a way for you."

"Thank you bro."

Most people in this village are surnamed Du, and the old man who spoke to us earlier is the village head here.

When he saw Brother Du leading us home, he had a very unsightly face, which made us all a little embarrassed.

Seeing so many guests suddenly coming, Mrs. Du turned her head and went into the kitchen again.

"You guys sit down first." Brother Du also went to the kitchen to help.

"Suddenly brought so many people here, and there are not enough bowls and chopsticks at home, so hurry up and borrow them from the neighbor."

Mrs. Du's attitude was only slightly better than that of the village head, and she was obviously not too satisfied with our arrival.

I asked in a low voice: "Why don't we go live outside? It's our fault to prevent their husband and wife from quarreling."

Others also found it reasonable.

Father Du said: "If you want to leave, then hurry up."

Brother Du just came out, and he said: "Father, why are you like this? What time is it, where can they live? Besides, there is a girl's house."

Mrs. Du put some meals on the table first, and she didn't forget to complain: "The family's rations are running out, and if this continues, you can't even afford food. You still have the heart to worry about others."

I quietly glanced at Tianquan, wondering if he had any thoughts after hearing these words.

Sure enough, he cupped his hands towards Brother Du and said, "We appreciate Brother Du's kindness." After speaking, he turned and walked out of the room.

We thanked each other and followed out.

"It's cool and unrestrained to use the sky as the quilt and the ground as the seat."

I led them to go outside, I remember walking straight out of the village, there is a forest.

"Wait, wait." A childish voice chased after him.

"Little sister, what's the matter with you?"

The little girl handed the basket in her hand to Wen Heng, and said, "Daddy asked me to give this to you."

Wen Heng lifted the cloth covering it and found some pastries inside.

"Thank you dad for us."

"Yeah." The girl nodded and ran back.

We found a place to sit down and eat, and Tianquan was still far away from us.

To be honest, I've always found it weird.According to Tianquan's temperament in the past, it is unlikely that he would come down to mess with me, but this time he took the initiative to follow, and I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in this gourd.

The sun was setting on the west mountain, and the warm rays of light entered the forest. Wen Heng put his hands on the ground and looked up. Through the leaves, he could see the sky that had been split into countless small pieces.

I said, "I'll take the basket back to Brother Du."

"I'll go with you." Wen Heng said.

"Then I'll go too."

The three of us walked back down the path and saw a rock squirrel and a chipmunk scurrying up and down the branches in a tree trying to grab a berry.

The chipmunk accidentally fell from the tree, Wen Heng stretched out his hand to catch it.

The chipmunk curled up in a ball, covering its eyes with its forelimbs, it was very cute.

I poked it, and then it put down its forelimbs, blinked at me, and ran away as soon as it was all right.

"Little guy, just run away without even saying 'thank you'."

Wen Heng said: "If it can talk, wouldn't it be very scary?"

I smiled and said, "Are you talking about Arlene?"

"Why do you always bully Arlene?"

Arlene nodded her head cooperatively.

I tapped her forehead with a fan, and said, "Little fox, when did I bully you again? I know how to pretend to be pitiful in front of Wen Heng."

"Hmph, Mr. Su doesn't know how to be sympathetic to women."

Arlene, this little fox must have seen that I can't reveal my identity at will, and there is nothing I can do about her.

"My son is not as knowledgeable as you little fox."

When we came to the door of Brother Du's house, I thought about it, took out two taels of silver from the purse and put it in the basket, and then put the basket in front of the door.

On the way back, Wen Heng asked me, "How about we help them?"

Just now we heard Mr. Du saying that the harvest in the field has not been good in the past two years. I don’t know where the animals have bitten a lot of crops. Even the harvested crops are always stolen, but they can’t catch anyone. Very distressed.

"The matter in this field is not about catching monsters, can senior brother agree?"

"'Slaying demons and demons, punishing evil and promoting good' is the purpose of Mount Shu. Helping the common people is also a good deed. Senior Brother should not have any opinions."

Qin Yin really has no objection, but he said that we will help if we can, and if we can't help, we can only do so, and we won't stay here for too long.

"Tomorrow morning, we will go to Brother Du to understand the situation. With us here, this matter will be resolved."

I suddenly remembered Wen Heng's dream I saw in the bronze mirror. With his passion, even if he can't punish evil in the future, he can promote goodness and concentration.

There were many mosquitoes at night, and I couldn't sleep well, so I went to Tianquan.

"I said why don't you sleep with us, that's why."

Tianquan quietly put up the hood to keep the mosquitoes out.

He said: "You are a fairy, can this question stump you?"

"Aren't I afraid of being noticed by Qin Yin?" I stretched out my hand to show him, and said, "Look how my hand has been bitten."

"I don't see Arlene like you."

"She uses spells to make people aboveboard, so naturally she doesn't have this trouble. Pity me, who has delicate skin and tender flesh, and is most likely to be bitten by bugs."

He flipped his hands and conjured something like a round pill, and said, "Throw this incense into the bonfire, and those mosquitoes will not dare to approach."

"How many things did you bring down? Why do I think you are like a treasure house?"

Tianquan laughed and said, "If I'm not fully prepared, how dare I follow?"

With this incense, I really had a good night's sleep.

The next day I woke up and stretched comfortably, and the faint fragrance was still around me, gradually dissipating in the morning air.

"Huai'an, where did you find so many fruits this morning?"

"Fruits?" I saw that there were indeed a lot of berries beside Wen Heng.

I said, "Is it Arlene who found it?"

But Arlene was still sleeping next to Wen Heng.

It's really strange, could it be that the chipmunk came to repay his favor yesterday?

I took one and put it in my mouth, well, it tastes good.

Tianquan walked up to me and kept staring at me.

I asked puzzled, "What's wrong?"

He sighed and asked, "Wuwei?"

"Isn't that what Wuwei is doing?" I groped towards my waist, only to find an empty bag.

Too bad, I fell asleep and lost Tianquan's Wuwei flute.

"It was still there last night, why did it suddenly disappear? Don't worry, I'll find it for you right away."

In fact, I was the one who was in a hurry, Tianquan was not in a hurry, it was very easy for him to get back that flute.

"You'd better go and help Brother Du first, I'll just find the flute myself."

"Okay. Come to us when you find it."

"Yeah." He walked away leisurely.

But that's right, you can only use the fairy method when you go far.

Thanks to the good habits we developed in Shushan, we woke up early before Brother Du went out to the fields.

We explained the reason to him.Brother Du said: "It seems that the young masters have never done farm work, so you can't help with this matter."

"Although we don't know how to do farm work, it's always no problem to catch thieves."

We followed Brother Du and his father to the field and walked around.

Brother Du looked at the dishes and sighed, "It's like this again."

Several holes were bitten on those vegetables, and it was not insect bites at first glance, and some of them were directly dug out.

I turned back to Wen Heng behind me and said, "That chipmunk must have done something good."

"It?" Wen Heng didn't quite believe it.

Brother Du asked, "Do you know who did it?"

"Um." I thought for a while, and said, "It must have been bitten by some animal. Don't worry, let's find a way."

I pushed Wen Heng back.

Father Du said: "I knew it, how could those sons of theirs do this. They must have come to play."

"Huai'an, where are we going?"

"Go find the chipmunk."

"Finding in the forest is not the same as looking for a needle in a haystack?"

Wen Heng is right, the forest is so big, it is really not easy to find a small chipmunk.

"Is the matter resolved?" Tianquan came towards him, he had already found his flute.

He handed me the Wuwei flute and said, "I'll take it this time."

On his shoulder was a rock squirrel, the same one that had robbed the chipmunk of berries yesterday.

"What's up with this rock squirrel?" I asked.

Tianquan took it into his hands and said: "This little guy stole Xiao."

I leaned over and asked, "Do you know where that chipmunk is?"

Tianquan chuckled and said, "Oh, it seems that this little guy has stolen more than that."

As soon as Tianquan finished speaking, the little guy ran away.

It is much more familiar with this forest than we are, so it ran away without a trace.

"Where did it go?"

Arlene and I listened with pricked ears.

"This way." I ran into the woods.

The little guy was running so fast, we couldn't catch up at all.

Arlene transformed back into her real body and ran up the tree.

After a while, we couldn't even find Arlene.

"Huai'an, what should we do?"