Because he was thinking about the appointment to go to Menling Village, Zhong Kui woke up half an hour earlier than usual. Before Liu Wengen came, he took out the cloth bag and the short-handled sword scabbard stuffed under his pillow to look at it.

He reached into the bag and seemed to have a few copper coins. He twirled them in the palm of his hand and carefully counted eight coins. The scabbard of the short-handled sword shone with a cold blue-green luster under the light.

Liu Wengen appeared at the door of the ward. He was here to pick up Zhong Kui from the hospital.

Regarding Zhong Kui's situation, the hospital naturally used the professional medical ethics of saving lives and caring for the injured to protect the patient's various privacy rights.

During Zhong Kui's treatment in the hospital, although many media tried to interview this mysterious patient, they were all sternly rejected by the hospital.

Perhaps it was due to the extraordinary times and various obstructions that reporters, who are naturally curious about new things, were tired of hiding and being severely rejected. Therefore, when Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen walked out of the hospital, it went unexpectedly smoothly.

, they didn’t meet anyone who came out to stop them.

Looking at the world beyond the ravine, it turned out that the situation was like this. Zhong Kui saw that the streets, pavements, walls, and even telephone poles were covered with large-character posters.

There is also the phenomenon of crowds in mountain villages, with very different people. These awesome people are coaxing the crowds. They look up in an orderly manner and look at a man holding a loudspeaker and wearing a green military uniform and shouting loudly.

There was a man shouting something with a loudspeaker. Although I couldn’t understand what the man was talking about, I felt he was very powerful.

There was another scene that amazed Zhong Kui, that was the legendary acrobatic performance on the street.

Zhong Kui saw people performing acrobatics, including men, women, old and young. Strange people, they were not in groups, but appeared scattered. One would appear one after another, and then another.

One appears, but they are not in the same direction. Some are going from east to west, some are going from west to south, and some are going from south to north.

The props of these acrobats are very simple, with a round wheel at the front and back. They sit on a triangular cushion in the center of the wheel, kicking their legs steadily and moving forward slowly.

Zhong Kui, who was looking around in the back seat of the car, also heard a childish nursery rhyme coming from the corner of the street: "The foreign horse rolls at both ends, and the ground mouse sits in the middle." This nursery rhyme was quite interesting, so he decided to write it down and take it home.

Lingcun, taught Vanilla to sing.

Vanilla was very smart, and Zhong Kui secretly taught her the things he had seen his mother-in-law do with divination using copper coins. Unexpectedly, the girl learned it as soon as she learned it, and her serious manner made him laugh for a while.

After Zhong Kui thought about it for a while, he lowered his head and looked at the car he was sitting in. It actually looked like the cars used by those acrobats. He couldn't help but laugh, but he understood the meaning of the nursery rhyme.

Doesn't "a foreign horse, rolling on both ends, with a ground mouse sitting in the middle" refer to people, riding this car, with two round wheels? Then the "ground mouse" is a person... Haha! How interesting.

Of course, Liu Wengen, who was pedaling, didn't know what Zhong Kui was laughing about in the back seat. He didn't have time to ask, so he had to pedal vigorously to carry him to Tongchuan County.

When he was about to arrive in Tongchuan County, Liu Wengen told Zhong Kui that the armed forces minister of Tongchuan County was named Zhong Hansheng and that he would go to see him later.

Chung Hansheng looks like he is in his mid-forties and is about 1.8 meters tall. He is not tall but looks very strong. He has a pair of bright eyes under his thick black eyebrows.

When Zhong Hansheng heard that Zhong Kui's surname was also Zhong, a look of surprise flashed across his face, which was instantly covered up by loud laughter. He held a pair of thick, warm hands tightly, and his face was slightly cramped.

Hands of young man with nervous look carrying food.

"Haha! We were probably a family three hundred years ago!"

Zhong Kui smiled shyly and didn't know how to strike up a conversation with this senior cadre of his uncle. When the other party warmly shook his hand, his face was so thin that he was so embarrassed that it turned red to the roots of his ears.

"Zhong Kui just came out of the hospital, and his body is still recovering. However, I decided to bring him a little earlier to see if I could help him recover his memory." Liu Wengen patted Zhong Kui and said to Zhong Hansheng.

Zhong Hansheng joked and said loudly to Liu Wengen and Zhong Kui in a bright and loud voice: "Well, there is a problem. There is no housing in Menling Village now. I will ask Murakami of Donghua Village to arrange a place for you. If you don't mind, you can go temporarily

Stay for a while. As for the rest, you don’t have to worry about it, all expenses will be borne by Murakami.”

Liu Wengen hurriedly said politely: "No! How can I be embarrassed?"

Zhong Hansheng's smile became even brighter, and he said in a bold tone: "Hey! It's just a small matter of adding two pairs of bowls and chopsticks. You're welcome."

There is no house in Menling Village? Zhong Kui listened in confusion and looked at Liu Wengen and the Minister of Arms who were chatting with each other with puzzled eyes.

Under the arrangement of the Minister of Armed Forces, Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen had lunch at the guest house, and in the afternoon they rushed to the home of the village director who was going to harass them.

After receiving the arrangement from the Minister of Armed Forces, there was no reason why the village director would not obey immediately. In the afternoon, he took the two of them to Donghua Village and found a bachelor's home.

This bachelor fellow's home is located in Donghua Village, which is far away from Menling Village and Threshold Village.

At 3:10 in the afternoon, the four of them climbed mountains and waded in rivers and finally arrived at the home of a fellow villager in Donghua Village.

There is a river at the door of the fellow villager's house. The river is very deep, and a rope bridge paved with black rotten wooden boards leads to the other side. Seeing that the wooden boards were overwhelmed, Zhong Kui walked to the rope bridge while Liu Wengen and Zhong Hansheng were talking.

Try stepping on the bridge with one foot. The rope bridge is constantly swaying left and right due to gravity, and makes a "squeaking" swaying sound.

The door of the fellow's house was closed, and it seemed that he was not at home. Because Zhong Hansheng had something urgent to do, he handed Zhong Kui and Liu Wengen to the director of Donghua Village and left.

The village director told them that the family's surname was Xia Lai. It turned out that the old man was not a bachelor, and something happened later...

Liu Wengen saw that the village director didn't want to tell Old Man Xia's story, so he couldn't ask further questions. The three of them stood at the door of Xia's house and waited for Old Man Xia to come back.

Sure enough, after a while, an old man carrying a hoe came down from the river.

The old man has a wrinkled face, and judging from his dark skin, he looks like an old farmer who is used to doing rough work.

Old Man Xia had a hunched back and looked like a bad old man who didn't hold back on his words or smiles. His old face seemed to hide a lot of bitterness and sorrow.

As expected, Old Man Xia didn't speak much. After some negotiation with the village director, he hurriedly let Zhong Kui and his wife into the house.

In the evening, Old Man Xia asked Liu Wengen to help slaughter a hen that was laying eggs to entertain the guests from afar. This is also the habit of rural hospitality and generosity. Even if you are short of food and clothing, you cannot neglect the guests from afar.

rare guest.

During the meal, Liu Wengen made another cheesy talk. While picking up chicken nuggets and chewing them vigorously, he kept saying: "We are not guests from afar. We are fellow villagers, so we don't have to be so polite."
Chapter completed!