The bluestone slabs are covered with moss, and after years of rolling, they have deep and shallow cracks, some of which have collapsed into several pits, and the area is full of rainwater, reflecting the mottled brick walls of the houses on both sides.
The women carried large wooden basins, washed their clothes by the well, and talked happily.
Suddenly a child was dragging his clogs, stomping on the puddles on the road and dashing all the way into the alley, his eyes lit up, and he shouted loudly, "The uncles and uncles in the escort bureau are back!"
In an instant, it seemed like a pot had exploded, and even when washing clothes, they wiped their hands and ran to the front yard with joy. More people shouted and scolded the idlers who were still sleeping. .
They are all ordinary people who do errands for the security bureau. They can't be called servants, but they have no fields and no land, and they have to support their families. There is nothing to do on weekdays, just waiting for the guards who are running away from the guard office to return, they have to be busy.
"It looks so real, just entered the city!"
The child still carried a piece of zongzi candy in his pocket, and narrowed his eyes with a smile, "I just looked so tired, so I came back quickly and told the aunties to light a fire to cook, eat a good meal, and sleep in the dark."
"Smart ghost, went to rub something good again."
The women twisted the baby's ears and cheeks and gestured to touch his pockets.
The child was in a hurry, clutching his pocket, struggling like a candy bar, calling out to his aunt and aunt, and finally escaped with his mouth sweet, and ran away in a hurry.
There were bursts of laughter from behind.
The child buried his head and rushed forward without looking at the road, and bumped into a wall of flesh.
He grinned and touched his forehead. He wanted to say something in a rage, but suddenly he was stunned. In front of him was a chubby little doll whose nose and eyes could barely be seen. He was wearing only a red apron and a braid on his bare head. The whole body is white and tender, more like a meat ball than a human being.
Where has the child carrying the dumpling candy ever seen such a situation, and screamed, "Monster!"
"Hmph." The fat man stood with his waist down, with a proud face of "You are smart, I'm a monster".
"Mother, there is a monster woohoo!" The child roared and ran back into the alley.
When a woman heard the sound and came out to see it, she immediately rubbed her coarse clothes nervously, hugged the mouth of the screaming child, and asked cautiously, "This young master..."
The skin is so white and tender, at first glance, it is pampered by a wealthy family, and the red apron is like brocade and silk, silky smooth, how can the poor people afford it.
Fatty ignored him, looked at the crying child with interest, and hooked his fingers at him.
"Wow... just like what the uncle in the teahouse said, a child with a red belly pocket that is whiter than tofu, a monster!"
The woman was embarrassed and was about to say something when she suddenly saw a hand carrying the fat man to the side.
A young man dressed in blue cloth and rough clothes, but he was born handsome and handsome, and he couldn't say that he was good-looking.
"No!"
Fatty struggled in the boy's hands, pouting and making a vague excuse.
"I, no!" Fatty raised his head and hummed angrily.
The syllables of the speech are a bit weird, with a whirring sound, as if something is burning, but it sounds like a fat piercing and ruthless to outsiders.
"It's our fault, isn't it, neglecting the young master." The woman said quickly in fright, and slapped the child on the head again.
The kid also knew that he was in trouble. He hid behind his mother, stuck his head out, and saw the little fat dun with two fat short legs, struggling to earn it, and couldn't help feeling sympathy.
He touched the zongzi candy in his pocket, gritted his teeth, took out one, and shoved it into Fat Dun's open hand.
"I'm sorry, I read it wrong, I'll give you something to eat."
Turned around and ran away.
"Hey, you child—" The woman was about to say something when she suddenly saw a familiar figure walking towards the alley, "Master Qu?"
Qu Hong came over to look at Xinxin: "Little apprentice, what's the matter, your fire boy got into trouble?"
Chen He was choked by the name.
He soon realized that the situation was indeed like two adults, grabbing their children and apologizing to each other.
"Master..."
Qu Hong didn't wait for him to finish, he greeted with a smile: "Aunt Li, this is my little apprentice and his baby, they all know each other, so there's no need to be like this."
Chen He was suffocated.
What is his family baby? This is not the first time. Since a certain time when the fire in the stone was about to go out for a walk and was discovered by Qu Hong, Chen He was forced to be "so fat" to the men in the security bureau. "The kid is very good," the mocking gaze turned a blind eye.
The fire in the stone also caused him trouble, jumping desperately,
In the past, I just went out for a walk to get some air, and for most of the time I didn't say a word and turned into its original form. I fell asleep in my dantian.
Even the few words that I can barely explain now are all taught by Qu Hongman carelessly. Anyway, I no longer scream and scream, and I can still pretend to be a mortal child, but it looks like a fat ball, probably on the volcano island in the South China Sea. There was too much spiritual energy in it, and it swelled up like blowing air, and there was meat everywhere.
"Master Qu's—"
The wife of the Li family exclaimed, her eyes widening, "Uh, Master Qu, your teeth?"
Chen He couldn't help but smile.
Qu Hong angrily touched his mouth, which was missing a front tooth.
It was an accident, the majesty was completely destroyed, and people would yell at him wherever he went.
In the cultivation world, there are pills that continue to connect broken arms, those that treat internal injuries, and those that nourish bones and tendons, but none of them have teeth.
Besides, he's not a monk now...
"If you often walk around the rivers and lakes, there's no way you won't suffer." Qu Hong laughed at himself. Although it wasn't a tooth that was smashed by someone, it's not surprising that the big apprentice and the young apprentice are in love with each other.
In vain, he boasted that he saw everything in the world, but he didn't expect it to be like this.
Qu Hong was not in a hurry to jump like thunder, he knew that Chen He must have a different relationship with Shi Feng now.
— The one that initially made him admit his mistake was similar to Shi Feng, but the breath disappeared after a few days.
——Last time I met the big apprentice and took care of the younger apprentice many times, and looked at Chen He's eyes.
Isn't that enough to make Qu Hong stunned? No matter how much doubts there are, I can only swallow it back and watch it calmly.
After half a month, Qu Honghuan's "little apprentice" was different from the original, with two points of sincerity and no longer dealing with ridicule.
Over there, the lady of the Li family looked at Chen He and muttered in her heart that this young man seemed to have a lot of background, but she dared not mention it, she knew Qu Hong's ability, not to mention the escort, the whole town on the streets and alleys knew that Qu Ye was a storyteller. The other arena experts.
It is not as exaggerated as the knight of the night thief Qianhu who controls the flying sword.
She hurriedly saluted and patted her child who was eating zongzi candy: "Why don't you take this little brother to wash and eat?"
Put the fire in the stone into the barrel to take a bath
Chen He's scalp felt numb when he thought about the scene, and he quickly declined: "Don't bother, he's... he's in the skin, it's not good if he touches something, I have to keep an eye on it."
Chen He seldom dealt with mortals. He followed Qu Hong these days and encountered many troubles.
After making excuses one after another, Chen He was so worried that he could not transfer Zhan Yuanqiu from the East China Sea.
The wife of the Li family thought that Chen He was just a courtesy, but Qu Hong finally spoke out to save the scene: "Sister Li, go ahead, you just got back with a lot of things to do, so I won't bother you."
"It's done! Today is a coincidence. The market is open, so I can go shopping in time. There is your favorite old yellow wine, and fresh Yellow River carp." Aunt Li said cheerfully.
Qu Hong nodded: "Go to the front yard to find someone to pay. This trip is a bit tiring, but I made a lot of money."
Aunt Li was even more overjoyed. The men in the escort had no restraint in spending money. Qu Hong took care of them. As long as there was money left, he would squat in the small town and stay in the small town. Much better when away from home.
"Fish!" Fat Dunshi Zhonghuo said with his head raised.
"You don't eat."
"fish…"
Chen He was worried: "Forget it, I'll throw one for you to bake later."
Shi Zhonghuo was satisfied, struggled down, and then looked at the dumpling candy in his hand.
"You're going to lie to other children's candy, well done." Qu Hong patted Fat Dun Shi Zhong Huo's shoulder hard.
Chen He:…
Fortunately, the fire in the stone is the metamorphosis of heaven and earth, not a real child, otherwise I don't know what Qu Hong will teach it.
Shi Zhonghuo could hear good intentions and bad intentions. He laughed until his flesh trembled. He carefully stuffed the zongzi candy into the pocket on his stomach, and rolled out of the alley like a ball to play.
"and many more."
"Hey!" Qu Hong stopped with a cigarette stick and said casually, "Little apprentice, you are too nervous, it knows the importance."
Chen He was very skeptical of this statement. What happened to the real fire of Samadhi was burned, and the fire in the stone was naturally violent.
When Aunt Li was far away, Qu Hongcai said with a special meaning: "The fire in the stone recognizes you as the master, and the intellect is like a child's, just like those magic weapons that give birth to the intellect, it obeys your words and acts for you. Control. You can't believe the fierceness of the Samadhi True Fire, can't you even believe it yourself?"
"It's only a good thing to cause trouble?" Chen He asked back.
Qu Hong folded his hands and said slowly, "But it vaguely knows right and wrong, doesn't it? From the magic weapon of psychic, you can see its main heart. Fire in the stone is stubborn and irritable, but not cruel and cunning."
Chen He was silent.
Qu Hong's eyes pressed closely, and he said sharply, "You have a heart for it!"
Chen He was speechless, of course he had a knot in his heart.
He really can't call Fire in the Stone bad, but it's not bad either, because when Chen He revisited the memory of the Chen family in Yunzhou being burned to ruins, he discovered the abnormality of Fire in the Stone.
Before being wiped out by Shi Feng, the fire in the stone, in the fire in the stone in the Chen family pond, has the memory of the previous life.
It was also that it deliberately leaked its breath, which attracted the attention of the demon cultivator, and the news that the true fire of Samadhi was in the Chen family in Yunzhou caused Shi Feng to take Chen He out of Heiyuan Valley.
It even planted a trap in the Chen family, waiting for Chen He to step in.
Every time he saw Shi Zhonghuo's subconscious fear of Shi Feng, Chen He would think of the things it had done.
This became a thorn in his heart, making Chen He reluctant to hit the fire.
"It merges with your true essence and is part of your cultivation." Qu Hong said solemnly, "Shi Feng's fire in wood has no intelligence, you are different, you are so alienated from fire in stone, How are you going to ascend? Do you want to breed inner demons, completely obliterate the intellect of fire in the stone, and turn it into a fire again?"
Chen He sighed secretly: "Please master teach me."