Big dreamer

"Wangqiu, why did you come out?" When the middle-aged man saw this, he dropped the rubble in his hand and rushed towards the man without caring about the situation.

The man called "Wangqiu" seemed to be seriously ill and his walking was a little unsteady. After being supported by the middle-aged man, he stopped and looked at Shen Luo.

His eyes looked back and forth at Shen Luo for several times before he said:

"Little brother, something bad happened to our family. We fled here to treat my illness. We really don't have much food. We managed to catch some game a few days ago. If you don't mind, come and share some."

"Wangqiu..." the middle-aged man shouted hurriedly.

"The world is difficult, and it is not easy. If you can survive, you can be considered to have gained some virtue." Wangqiu shook his head gently and said.

"Now that you're like this, there's no point in accumulating evil virtue..." The middle-aged man looked bitter.

"Thank you." Shen Luo bowed immediately.

"Let's go, come in with us..." Wangqiu said, and with the support of the middle-aged man, he turned and walked towards the inner courtyard.

Shen Luo's eyes turned slightly, looking around at the scene in the courtyard, with a slight smile on his lips.

He followed the two people in front of him, walked through the collapsed central courtyard, came to the relatively well-preserved backyard, and walked into the bright main house.

Walking to the door of the house, Shen Luo wrinkled his nose slightly and smelled an indescribable weird smell, a bit of damp rot, and an inexplicable fishy smell. All in all, it made him very uncomfortable.

As soon as they entered the house, there was a bonfire burning in the center of the dilapidated house. Three or four people were sitting around the fire. They all raised their heads and looked at Shen Luo.

Those people were in ragged clothes, and there was a layer of gray-black scabs on some of the exposed skin on their arms and cheeks, which looked like some kind of serious skin disease.

In the eyes of these people, anger accounted for less than one tenth, and the rest was full of despair and death, looking numb and confused.

When Shen Luo was stared at by them, she felt uncomfortable all over. She smiled and arched her hands towards them.

When those people saw this, they didn't look away, or even blinked.

"This is... By the way, what do you call the little brother?" Wang Qiu asked.

"We are sinking into Jia Cheng." Shen Luo said quickly.

"Brother Shen is also a poor man who has suffered a lot. We can help him as much as we can." Wang Qiu explained to several people.

After hearing this, those people withdrew their gaze. One of them even moved his buttocks a little further inside, making some room for Shen Luo.

After Shen Luo sat down, he noticed that there was an iron pot on the bonfire in front of him, with some unknown meat stewed in it. Some blackened broth was tumbling in the pot. Braving the thick mist.

"Brother Shen, don't dislike it. These are the fox meat that we brought in a few days ago. In order to save it, we smoked it and roasted it. We used it to make soup and eat it these days." Wang Qiu explained when he saw this.

"It doesn't matter. It's not easy to stutter at this time of year. How can I be picky?" Shen Luo shook his head and said.

After that, he looked around again, and saw a simple wooden frame placed against the wall on the other side of the room, with several gray-white fox furs hanging on it, with some dark brown stains on it. bloodstains.

The eyes of the fox fur have been gouged out, leaving only a pair of round holes, revealing the mottled color of the wall behind.

"It's hard to find other animals near Caishi Town, but there are a lot of foxes. People who lived here used to believe that those animals were the guardian immortals, and even set up statues for them as offerings. Now everyone here is dead, and the foxes are It's better to run all over the mountains and fields to save my whole family." The middle-aged man took out a piece of dark meat from the pot and said.

Shen Luo watched him tear off strips of dark red meat from the meat, smelling the strange smell around him, and couldn't help but feel a little nauseous.

"Brother Shen, don't be stunned. Aren't you already starving? Eat something. It doesn't matter." Wang Qiu advised after seeing this.

"Then I'm welcome." Shen Luo said, and was about to take the meat from the pot, when he suddenly heard a strange noise coming from behind him.

He stopped, turned around and looked behind him. He saw a large lacquered wood box placed against the wall behind him, with a brass lock locked on it. If you didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to notice the carvings on the lock. There is a subtle rune pattern.

Shen Luo narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the runes carefully, but saw the box suddenly jump and a strange noise came from inside.

"This is..." Shen Luo said in surprise.

"Oh, I just caught a little fox yesterday. I didn't want to kill it for the time being, so I locked it inside." Wang Qiu replied casually.

"You little beast, you've been locked up all night, and you're still not alive." The middle-aged man snorted coldly, stepped forward, and kicked the box.

The box shook violently, and the movement inside became quieter.

"Sigh, it's hard for people to live in this world, and it's hard for these animals to live, it's not easy..." Shen Luo sighed.

"Hey, I didn't see that, you still have a heart of Bodhisattva, so don't eat the meat in this pot, you will starve to death, you short-lived ghost." Hearing this, the middle-aged man sneered and cursed.

"Don't be rude, cough..." Wang Qiu scolded, and couldn't help coughing.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I'm just saying too much." Shen Luo waved his hand and said.

"The sky is getting dark. After Brother Shen has eaten, don't rush on your way. Just stay here at night and don't go out again." Wangqiu said.

"I'm very satisfied if I can get some food. How dare you continue to disturb me? After I eat, I will leave by myself." Shen Luo thought for a while and said deliberately.

"Brother Shen, I didn't mean...ahem...to scare you. This Caishi Town is not safe at night. There are all kinds of monsters and monsters outside. If we accidentally encounter them, we will have to pick up your body on the road tomorrow. ” Wang Qiu said hurriedly.

"What? Is there a monster?" Shen Luo pretended to be surprised.

"The Sanjin Courtyard here used to be the ancestral home of a wealthy family in this town. There is a Bagua mirror hanging at the door. It seems to be of some use. Those ghosts and ghosts have never been seen entering this courtyard. You can stay here for one night. , even if it’s not too late to leave early tomorrow morning,” Wang Qiu continued.

"That being the case, I won't be stubborn anymore. I'm going to disturb you all a little bit." Shen Luo's expression did not change when he heard this, and he responded, but he secretly thought in his heart:

"It's really a lot of lies. Although there is a Bagua mirror hanging outside the gate, there is no mana fluctuation at all on it. It's because someone set up a magic circle in the yard where you just came in. That's why the monsters don't dare to approach, right?"