"Shufen, we're meeting again." Yuan Yang walked forward enthusiastically and smiled: "Xiaohu's illness is fine."

"I'll be cured by your good illness, but the house has burned up, and there's no place to live now." Shufen looked nervous and could tell she was frightened.

"This is the mountain god who is getting angry!"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Shufen looked at the far mountain, "The village chief said that this is the monster in Huluxi setting fire, and it has nothing to do with the Mountain God. Don't talk nonsense and anger the Mountain God."

Haha, ignorant villagers.

Yuan Yang smiled and said, "What is the relationship between Zhang Chao and Gao Lan?"

“They are friends.”

"Did you know each other before?"

"I don't know this."

"Have Gao Lan ever written a letter after joining the army?"

“There are several letters in recent years.”

“What is written on it?”

"Where are there any good food, some good looking, some fun things, all of them."

"Didn't he say what he was doing in his letter? What friends did he make?"

"No! But I heard Mr. Zhang say that Gao Lan is selling private salt." Shufen said this with a look of worry.

Yuan Yang was a little angry, "He is crazy, just talk about this."

"I think it might be because I was greedy when I was a child." Shufen lowered her head and blushed across her face.

"Didn't you reply to him?"

“There was one last year.”

"One letter?"

Shufen lowered her head, "I can't even eat enough, so where can I get the spare money to send a letter?"

Seeing that Yuan Yang couldn't find anything, he couldn't hold back his face. He said to Gong Jinrong: "Look, that's all, this woman doesn't know anything."

Gong Jinrong asked: "Then what did you write to Gao Lan's letter?"

"Tell me about my life over the past twenty years."

"Where did you send the letter?"

"Yecheng."

Huh?

Gong Jinrong looked at Yuan Yang suddenly, isn’t that right? Yuan Shao’s base camp is in Yecheng.

Yuan Yang asked excitedly: "How many years ago did Gao Lan start sending a letter?"

"Just in the last few years."

Yuan Yang closed his eyes and thought, Gao Lan was almost the first to make a comeback in recent years, and time was right.

At this moment, Zhang Chao walked towards Shufen's house without any idea. He looked at the ruins on both sides and the crying women all the way and felt strange. The fire was a little different, and he couldn't tell which point was different.

"Mr. Zhang." Shufen called out Zhang Chao.

Zhang Chao was stunned and then realized that he had arrived at Shufen's house. When he looked up, he saw a black ruin that was still smoking, and only a lonely old pear tree was intact.

He finally understood something was wrong!

Zhang Chao glanced at Yuan Yang and Gong Jinrong and asked, "Why are you here?"

Yuan Yang smiled and took a step back without hiding his annoyance to Zhang Chao.

Shufen said: "The two gentlemen are asking about Gao Lan's situation. Why don't Mr. Zhang tell them that I haven't seen Gao Lan for a long time. When I met for the last time, I was still a teenage girl."

Ask Gao Lan’s situation?

Zhang Chao's heart skipped a beat, these two people were inquiring about his news.

He asked, "Are you very familiar with Gao Lan? Why don't I know?"

"Ask a little, how did you find out about the sacrifice of the mountain god?"

"I didn't find out, where are you?"

"We didn't notice it either. We won't say it anymore. We'll leave in advance."

Zhang Chao looked at the distant back and knew that he was abrupt. He shouldn't have exposed his purpose without any concealment. The reason why these reincarnators suspected that he was because he was inquiring about sacrifices.

His behavior is indeed suspicious.

When Zhang Chao saw Yuan Yang walking away, he asked Shufen: "With such a big fire outside, how could you be unscathed?"

This is the suspicion that Zhang Chao discovered. A big fire burned the entire village last night, but no one died!

Not only that, more than a dozen people died in the previous fire.

It is obvious that the dozen people who died were killed by puppets, not by fire!

This is the problem!

Shufen said: "I don't know, there was a big fire outside, so we ran to the yard, but there was no fire in the yard, so we avoided it."

A terrible thing!

There are not many people who were burned to death during the fire, not to mention the fire last night, let alone burning to death, you can’t escape the temperature!

Besides, the fire last night was too fierce.

Zhang Chao looked at the old pear tree in front of the door. Could it be that Gao Lan’s ghost was saving people?

This is too...

He asked Yuan Yang what he had inquired about, and it turns out that these two people were verifying Gao Lan's identity.

He asked, "You and Gao Lan have been two decades since they were respectively?"

Shufen nodded and said, "Yes, he was very thin at that time."

"Then how old is your son?"

"19 years old!"

Uh~ Gao Lan was not green! He was a little happy, and Zhang Chao didn't understand why this was happening.

"Your son is quite strong."

"Yes." Shufen recalled: "It was not like when we were young. The winters in those years were very cold, and crops could not grow in the fields. The wild head led me to dig wild vegetables all over the mountains to satisfy our hunger. We were only a few years old. We were afraid of the wild beasts in the deep mountains, so we could only find food on the outside, and we never had enough. Fortunately, sometimes we met the village chief in the mountains, and he would give us food.

Finally we survived those years. We were older. After the weather was warmer, the village chief distributed us a piece of land. Mangnae took me to farm and had a full meal for a year. But the next year, the locusts were catching all over the tree bark, not to mention the crops. So Mangnae took me into the mountains again. The mountains were desolate and nothing except bare trunks. We dug the roots of the trees in the mountains and caught fish in the stream. Many people died in the village. If Mangnae had not had the strength to find food, I would have died long ago.

The second year, we continued to work hard to farm. When the harvest was almost time, the locusts came again, and the wild head took me into the mountain again. In the third year, we had no seeds to plant the land, so we dug tree roots in the mountains and picked up insects to eat. But the locusts came again and couldn't bear it anymore. He sold himself to the passing soldiers, exchanged some copper plates and coarse grains, and when he heard the news, it was the letter five years ago."

Shufen's eyes were red, and her eyes were full of 16-year-old Gao Lan's face.

"Shufen." Gao Lan said to her with a large bag of coarse grains, "Mr. Chen and I went to join the army. Do you understand?"

Gao Lan kicked her heavily, and Shufen said excitedly: "The adults said that Mr. Chen is drinking military blood, don't go, okay?"

"I'm afraid of a hammer. Let's go, I'll help you bury the food in the ground and hide it. You can secretly take some out every night to eat, so that you can't let people see it, do you know?"

Gao Lan dragged the coarse grains to the wooden house under the old pear tree. He took out a bamboo stick and kept digging it in the soil. He paved it for a long time, a long time...

"I will set out tomorrow. You...you...you...live well in the future, get married and have children, and have gray hair until you grow old. Don't miss me. I am destined to live a delicious and spicy life. Mr. Chen said, take care..."

Gao Lan buried the grain in the soil and hid it. After a few more words of advice, he rushed to the distance.

Only then did Zhang Chao realize that Gao Lan and Shufen were still young when they parted.

Could it be that the soul of Gao Lan who saved Shufen's family from the flames?

this……

Shufen said: "Mr. Zhang, do you want to live there too?"

"What do you mean?"

"Before the New Year, Gao Lan asked someone to come to deliver the letter, but later the gentleman who delivered the letter lived."

Huh?

Zhang Chao was shocked and quickly glanced around him. He whispered: "Don't spread this matter, especially don't tell those two Taoists."

If the whereabouts of the sender were found by the two reincarnations, he would be in trouble.

"It was only then that I remembered this." Shufen looked at a middle-aged man who was silently paying attention to them.

When the middle-aged man saw Zhang Chao watching him, he came over and bowed, "I have met Mr. Zhang, the prefect of Guangling."

"Ah! You are the prefect." Shufen was startled.

Zhang Chao said awkwardly: "Not now."

At this moment, next to a ruin in the distance, Yuan Yang, who was monitoring Zhang Chao, nodded, "It is indeed the prefect of Guangling."
To be continued...