All night

Before dawn on the second day, Lu Changying was ready to set off. Before going, she only said to Xie Ningzhou: "Master Xie, regardless of whether Senior Brother Cheng will return safely or not, I will go for him this time—"

Xie Ningzhou cut off the conversation and said, "I know." Glancing at Xin Wan, he said calmly, "As long as Xie has breath, he will be kept safe."

Lu Changying was very satisfied, she nodded with a smile, mouthed "wait for me" to Xin Wan, took Huai Xue out of her sheath, and carried him away.

Xie Ningzhou said: "Isn't that the east of the island?"

Xin Wan said: "...he wants to go back to Zhu Mingfeng to steal... some pork from the old Huang's family."

Xie Ningzhou was speechless, thought for a while, and said, "Xin... Nephew, are you going to wait here for three days, or go back to Zhu Mingfeng first?" Although they brought food and water, other than that, there was only Some wild fruits can satisfy the hunger, and there is not even half a hare and a pheasant feather.Xie Ningzhou wanted to stay and wait for Cheng Xinyuan's news, but he only said that Xin Wan was someone who had never experienced hardship, and he always felt a little embarrassed on this deserted island.

Xin Wan said without hesitation: "I'll wait for him here. If Master Xie waits for Brother Cheng to return, he can leave first and leave me alone."

Xie Ningzhou was startled, and replied: "That's not necessary."

Xin Wan said: "If he doesn't come back in three days, I still have to wait. At that time, Master Xie will go first and don't have to accompany me." Also please thank the door master to send someone to Bai Zhize... Tell my master, just say that I am dead. Whether he comes back or not, I will always be with him."

Xie Ningzhou sighed, and said: "If Xie is lucky enough not to die at the hands of Fudofu, Xie will go this trip himself."

Xin Wan sincerely said "Thank you" and stopped talking.

Xie Ningzhou looked at the sky with some disappointment, and remembered in a trance that he had seen such persistence before.

Lu Changying came to the east of the island with pork, and took out the oil-stained pearl from his sleeve, and the black bird flew over, this time staying in front of him for a while, beckoning him to follow.At this time, Lu Changying could clearly see the appearance of the black bird, but it looked like an ordinary bird. The only strange thing was that it had four wings.

Lu Changying had a flash of inspiration, and said, "You are... Xuanniao?"

The black bird looked back and gave a "chirp", as if very surprised that he could recognize him, then stopped on his shoulder and rubbed against his neck.

Lu Changying smiled and said: "That's right, a blind cat bumped into a dead mouse." Xuanniao gave him a light peck, as if dissatisfied with being classified as a "dead mouse", but the peck was not too heavy. Lu Changying smiled, picked a small piece of meat from his pocket and put it in front of it. Xuanniao pecked at it one by one, chirped a few times, circled up, brought him to a dark hole, and beckoned him to go in.

Lu Changying casually threw the pearl to it, and Xuanniao reluctantly took a bite, and flew ahead to use the pearl's faint light to illuminate the way ahead.

One person and one bird walked for dozens of feet, and finally the eyes opened up. Dozens of bright pearls in the cave were scattered on the four walls, illuminating the surroundings quite brightly. On the central stone platform sat a man with white hair. It's extremely long, maybe three thousand feet, covering the whole body.

He raised his head when he heard the sound of the black bird, but his face was so blurred that he couldn't make out his face.Lu Changying knew that this was a trick he used because he didn't want to show his true face, so he didn't bother to tell the truth, and just said: "There is meat, do you want to eat it?"

The man waved his hand, Xuanniao put the pearl in his mouth back on the wall, and flew away.Lu Changying waited for the shadow of Xuan Niao to disappear, and then he heard him say: "This is just a lonely... one of mine, who can't eat."

Although he swallowed the word "孤" quickly, Lu Changying's ear was excellent, and he had already heard it clearly, but he didn't care about it, and sat down and said, "Then I will eat it myself."

The man saw that he was interesting, nodded, and asked kindly: "Is it delicious?"

Lu Changying said: "Of course, the pigs raised by Lao Huang are excellent. There is also a unique old marinade, which is a taste that no other place can make with all their efforts."

The man wondered, "Old marinade?"

Lu Changying said: "It's the juice prepared with soy sauce, various spices, etc., put cooked meat in, and it takes several hours to slowly soak in the flavor of the marinade."

"Then why can't it be done with all the effort elsewhere?"

"After the marinade has been used once, it cannot be discarded, it will be used continuously. Every batch of meat, when the taste of the marinade is thoroughly eaten, will also infiltrate the marinade with its own fragrance and oil. Over the years, the marinade will naturally become more and more fragrant. Old Huang Family Biography The old Lu who has been around for three generations, naturally cannot be imitated elsewhere."

Although the man couldn't eat it himself, Lu Changying described it so that he swallowed it verbally.

When Lu Changying heard it, she laughed and said, "Why bother? Where are you really? I'll take you there to have a good time."

The man shook his head, looked at him for a while, and said, "You are very interesting. I never thought that you would be so interesting..."

Lu Changying heard what he said, as if she knew herself from the beginning, she couldn't help but wonder: "You know me?"

The man raised his head slowly, although his face was still blurred, Lu Changying felt that his eyes seemed to see through the void, and heard him slowly say:

"Aren't you afraid that you won't be able to leave here in three days?"

Lu Changying said: "If you can't leave, you have to leave."

The man said: "If you are so decisive, someone must be waiting for you."

Thinking of Xin Wan, Lu Changying couldn't help feeling warm, and said with a smile, "You saw it."

The man said lightly, "Are you sure you will wait?"

"Of course I will wait."

"Even if these three days are extremely long?"

Lu Changying was startled, and said, "Isn't your day here twelve hours?"

The man nodded and said: "It's twelve hours." He took a sundial casually and said: "Although there is no sunlight here, this sundial is timed by the projection of sunlight. After three rounds, if that person is still waiting for you , I will let you go, how about it?"

Lu Changying knew that there must be something strange in it, but she couldn't see anything for a while, and said: "This sundial is indeed twelve hours, there is absolutely no mistake?"

The man said: "I keep my promises, and there is absolutely no mistake."

"You are only here to chat with me, and you don't send Xuanniao to assassinate him?"

"I have a golden word, absolutely not."

Lu Changying said, "Okay."

The man put the sundial aside, seemed to smile, and murmured: "It's rare..." He raised his head and said, "What year is it outside now?"

Lu Changying answered, and he said again: "It's been... many years. Is there any ominous sign recently?"

Lu Changying was stunned for a moment, and tentatively asked: "...Is it bad luck to have thunder during the day?"

The man said: "It doesn't count."

"Then what counts?"

"The fetish is alive."

Lu Changying thought that your standard is very strange. Thunder in the daytime is not considered ominous, but the presence of fetishes is counted, so she said, "There are indeed fetishes that will appear in the world, but it is said...after three months." After thinking about it Said, "Not really, as far as I know, he also appeared in this world decades ago. Is that also ominous?"

The man nodded and said, "Yes." Why, he didn't say anything.

The author has something to say:

I had a headache yesterday that I was about to vomit, and I couldn't hold on... Today I asked for leave and slept for a day, and I was resurrected with full blood