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What happened to Jin Suoyang and Yang Hua, Qin Gentian, who stayed at home alone and prepared breakfast for his adopted daughter, was still ignorant.

In fact, after he closed the kitchen door behind him and took off the cover on the water tank with a blank expression, he was first teased by a big blue crab shivering in his kitchen water tank. There was a pause in the hand.

But at the moment, he looked out of the window very cautiously and coldly, then narrowed his eyes and asked this big crab with an unusually strange appearance, why are you here?

It was so hard to come to Dongshan alone from the far away world before the New Year, and climbed into his water tank early in the morning to hide, but he could only wait for his own Dragon Lord to come in before he dared to come out trembling The rampant Jieshi first spat out a little white foam in his mouth, and then he was a little bit frozen with his tongue tied up on the water tank and said in a low voice,

"He... He Bo may have to stay with the little ghost master this winter to help see his wife. The little ghost master is almost 27 or [-], and if this drags on, it will be hard to find a girl of the right age in the ghost world... ...So no, the Chishui paperwork next to you in the new year will be temporarily done by the servants..."

"..."

"Before leaving, the little evil master couldn't get away, so he asked me to bring you some New Year's gifts... He also said that Dongshan is located in the north, so it's cold, so you should go back to the south for the winter, even if you... ...You still have to wait here for that person and don't want to go back... and give them some time to seal a letter from home. Since he and Master Changming met last time, they haven't seen you for more than seven or eight years, and I don't know what to say. I've always missed you..."

These two words, family letter, have obviously different meanings. When paired with the words of Rampant Jieshi, it sounds inexplicably sad. Qin Gentiana, who looked down at the pot of unboiled water in front of him, didn't make a sound for a while, just After being silent for a long time, he frowned and replied, yes.

Seeing that his family has always had a bad temper and doesn't like others meddling in his private life, Mr. Long really let go this time. The rampant Jieshi, who was prepared to scold him, was also a little surprised, and then squatted in the water tank Only then did he listen to Qin Gentian, who lowered his head and looked at his face in the water, with an indescribable expression, frowned and said again,

"...Zhang Changsheng is 28 years old this year?"

"Ah? That's right, you forgot all about it... The little lord is 28 this year, Master Changming has been married for two or three years, and he and his wife are planning to have a baby. Mr. Liao retired last year, and now He is also going to be a grandfather soon... But it is strange, as a mortal, his body has never looked old, and now he is still living all day long..."

"Then do I look old?"

"What, what?"

"What are you pretending to be deaf and dumb? Do you want me to repeat it to you personally?"

"Uh, uh, of course you... of course you..."

As if suddenly startled by this sudden question, Hengxing Jieshi probably didn't expect that the impatient Qin Gentian would suddenly ask himself this question, and then paused in horror.

Seeing him hesitating and hesitating for a long time, he refused to answer directly, and looked at himself with complicated and melancholy eyes. Qin Gentian, who stared at him coldly, seemed to understand the answer in his heart. .

For a long time, faced with the old people who used to be closely related to me, they have gradually gone away from me, and even lived a brand new, normal life, except that I am still here, idling and waiting. He didn't say anything else, just squinted his eyes and slightly tilted his head to look at it, afraid that he would give him some kind of rampage if he suddenly went crazy, and then poured a handful of Yang Hua into the pot noncommittally. Fengan, who loves to eat, opened his mouth and said,

"I will write the 'family letter', but I don't have time to go back for the time being. Let He Bo help Zhang Changsheng take a good look at him. Don't pick out his appearance. It doesn't matter if he is a person or a ghost. The most important thing is to help you take care of him. His little cleverness in lip service is of no use except to help him fool the idiots who don't have enough IQ in the world, after so many years...he really hasn't improved at all."

"..."

When I heard this, I could see that the previous family letters and the like belonged to Bishop Xiao Chong, who had taught him for a long time, but his performance was still not particularly good. He just lowered his head guiltily, and looked anxiously at Gentiana Qin, whose face was uncertain, and Gentiana Qin, who was not in a particularly good mood because of someone, finally caught a punching bag and just used it conveniently, and he seemed very relentless directly. Continuing affectionately,

"Also, I don't care how imaginatively you and Zhang Changsheng have imagined my personal life here for so many years, but in short, I am not insane or insane, and I am not suffering from hunger strike and suicide all day long. , next time you stare at me with such sympathetic and pitiful eyes looking at the lonely old man, this year's Chishui clerk, I will let you have a good taste of working under me before."

"Your servant, I know my mistake...I know my mistake...I will definitely serve the Dragon Lord well in the next year...I will never be self-righteous, make my own decisions, talk about myself..."

In view of the positive attitude of confessing his mistakes, Qin Longjun simply let him go after "politely" intimidating his old subordinate.

And after thinking about it seriously, he raised his gray eyes and looked at the snow field outside the village. Qin Gentian, who obviously had no patience to talk nonsense with him, brought the topic to the real point with a slightly cold expression. ,

"It's been cold in the river for the past two days. You and I will stay on the shore to celebrate the new year before going back to Chishui... But when you came, did you see any strange things surrounding the village?"

"Ah? Yes, there is a group of white dwarves gathered together, singing in their mouths, and they all gather together with red eyes from hunger. They look horrible, far away, they seem to be caused by children's grievances. Some kind of ghost formed, the servants didn't quite see it... This is a big Chinese New Year, is there any trouble in the village?"

"Well, it's a little troublesome."

"Hey... look at your tone? Could it be that you have a big background, otherwise why... but how can there be anything in this world that can be crushed by a real dragon..."

Hengxingjieshi asked this question very cautiously, but it happened to be right in front of some of the situation Qin Gentiana was facing. Hearing the compliment in his glib old crab's words, he chose Qin Gentiana to stay in the village for the past three days. He didn't pay attention to him, just looked at the old chicken calendar hanging in the kitchen and said expressionlessly,

"Yes, but not many, and it depends on special circumstances."

"Special... special circumstances?"

"12 years is a reincarnation, do you remember that the red moon is the sign of the 'year'?"

"Remember... didn't you come here to wait because of this incident..."

"Well, but after I came here, I heard a saying from the local population that I had never heard before."

"what?"

"The year of birth brings Tai Sui, and animals selected by 'Nian' have the special ability to command 'Nian' to fulfill a wish for them, and even change the time. This year happens to be the last few days of the Year of the Rooster in the lunar calendar. The monster that troubles the whole village is the rooster man who only has a human-faced bird and mastered some kind of Xiangxi witchcraft... And, have you forgotten that although I am a dragon, there is another not-so-good dragon in the mouth of the ancients. A decent name?"

"Uh... You don't mean to say..."

"Dragon, dragon, and snake are all long worms. Long worms are born to be afraid of chickens, especially roosters. This year is the year of the rooster. I'm short of him in every aspect, so no matter what, I can't kill him immediately. But so far, He also seems to have nothing to do with me, so he can only see if he can wait until the New Year's Eve and see if his prototype will be revealed before facing him head-on."

Qin Gentian's words are obviously more stable and mature than when he was young, and he will not blindly ignore the strengths of others because of the arrogant personality of Longsheng, but rather hide all the sharpness under the scales and stand still a feeling of.

But I haven't seen him for many years, and I feel that my Dragon Lord is indeed getting older, and his personality has also settled a lot. Seeing his face and expression are more or less stained with traces of the years, he is in a complicated mood. During the process of discussing this matter with him, Jieshi helped him, and inevitably, some doubts and worries arose.

"Well...according to your current statement, this matter is feasible, but you are really going to help to the end this time? But isn't everything on the ground under the control of the ancestors of the local villagers? You crossed their road without authorization. Isn't it too good... and the emperor and father outside the [-]th year are on vacation, we have to take the Spring Festival holiday as usual, and this teacher is unknown, will we meddle in our own business..."

What Hengxing Jieshi said made some sense, but it was obvious that Qin Gentian hadn't thought of this before, so he just took the conversation slowly and stared at the statue of the ancestor god that was juxtaposed with him on the wall of his kitchen and sneered road,

"The clay figurines in the local Fancun ancestral temple have collapsed for more than ten years because of the earthquake. Without the clay figurines watered by living water, those old ancestors have no way to use their real bodies to manage other people's affairs. …In the final analysis, it is useless to count on these old men who can’t walk, we still have to figure out a way first, otherwise the corpse will be cold.”

"... Cough, don't say that, after all, they are all old seniors who have lived in the family for a long time, and we can't say such things in the New Year... But if you say that, then the minister must listen to it without hesitation. Yours..."

The dissuasion by the rampant Jieshi did not make Qin Gentian want to show the slightest respect for the ancestor god on the wall. After all, no matter how old he is, for some people who once saw him as disliked, he would be evil at every turn. He still doesn't intend to give any face to the evil, stinky old man.

Seeing that the cooked powder in the pot was about to open, and the Yang Hua at the door was about to finish washing, Qin Gentian, who was about to end this conversation in a hurry, quickly pulled out an old and yellowed book from under the stove, which was similar to the household registration of a local villager. The things in the file were thrown to the rampant Jieshi who was squatting in the water tank.

"This is……"

"The history of the rooster man, I got it from the village committee, you are my Chishui document for the next year, this book records the local evil

You were supposed to keep the book of Sui’s name and origins closed. These days, before the old children outside the village have completely gone crazy, you will transform into a human form and help me go down the mountain to look for it. Here... I There are still some private matters that must stay here, and there is no way to leave the village for the time being. "

Gentiana Qin, who didn't even look at him, spoke in a flat and flat manner, as if he was talking to people normally, and no one could detect other meanings beyond what he said at all.

And because his own Dragon Lord nodded seriously, and noticed that the yellow file bag was obviously old, the rampage Jieshi was slightly stunned, and then he was slightly pressed on an old newspaper clipping full of ruins and burnt pictures, and quite He paused for a moment on one of the lines in doubt.

[In the first month of 1994, a fire broke out in Xiaoshi Village, about five to six kilometers away from Fan Village, when firecrackers lit chicken coops. All 165 people in the village were killed in the flames except one survived. 】

[Shi Musheng, who has been locked up in a chicken coop by his parents for many years and has severe facial deformities, sits at the entrance of the village and stares blankly at the charred corpses of his relatives. No one knows where his future will be. 】

[He originally had parents, the elderly, sisters and brothers in his family, but it is said that there is only one cousin who also suffers from mental disabilities who has supported him for a long time, and this cousin Shi Shuisheng, who is three years younger than him, was killed in the fire that night also died. 】

[However, according to fellow villagers in other surrounding villages, Shi Musheng not only suffers from facial disabilities, but also has serious mental problems. A few days before the New Year, his parents just arrested him from the mountains. Zhongxie wanted to marry a hen in the mountain. Under the beating of his father and uncle, Shi Musheng was bound hand and foot by the villagers and brought back. He was detained until the night when the fire broke out on New Year's Eve. 】

[When asked about the situation of the fire that night, Shi Musheng, who lowered his head, responded silently. Because the burning situation at the scene was too serious, Shi Musheng, who was chained by his parents and locked his hands and feet in the kitchen, also responded that night. He didn't have the ability to go out and set fires, so in the end, he could only be characterized by the accidental fire caused by the excessive humidity in the chicken coop, and Shi Musheng has completely disappeared from the public since then. 】

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[The picture below is accompanied by a back view of the young Shi Musheng, skinny, kneeling on the ground and burying his face in fear. 】

【Photographed in Dongshan County on April 1994.4.28, [-]】