You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 44 Taolin Village

The donkey cart moved forward and soon arrived near the village, but the donkey seemed to have smelled a strange smell and stood still, refusing to go in.

Zuo Chen tapped its head lightly, and the donkey continued to move forward reluctantly.

After arriving at the village entrance, Zuo Chen could also see the situation inside the village.

There are rows of wooden houses, neat roads, peach trees planted all around, and every household has lights on, making it very lively.

There are many villagers beside the road in the village, young and old, all looking contented.

Seeing the donkey cart coming, the villagers all looked at it curiously, but when they saw there were people on it, they became enthusiastic.

Soon, a young man came towards us. He was dressed like a farmer and had a simple appearance.

He walked to the donkey cart, saw Zuo Chen and Cai Yi on it, and said with a smile:
"Where does Miss Changhe come from?"

"Coming from Qingzhou, going to Youzhou, passing through Xuzhou on the way." Zuo Chen replied.

"This journey is not short." The young man was amazed and said with a smile: "The Taoist priest must visit our Xuzhou more. Our Xuzhou is a good place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, and the girls are also very pretty."

He looked at Caiyi again and his face turned red:
"But she's not as pretty as the girl behind you."

Caiyi was praised, but she didn't feel happy at all.

Now that Xuzhou is so desolate, the young man actually said that he wanted to travel around Xuzhou more, and also praised Xuzhou for its beautiful mountains and clear waters.

The mountains and rivers are almost being eaten up, so how can we talk about their beauty?

God knows what this young man saw.

"Is there something good happening in the village?" Zuo Chen asked, pointing deep into the village: "I see there seems to be a long table there."

There was indeed a long table in the center of the village, and there were quite a few people gathered there. The whole village was bustling right there.

Although it's the middle of the night and the noise is a bit strange.

"Hey! You two are finally here today." When the young man heard Zuo Chen's question, a smile immediately appeared on his face:
"A nobleman came to our village this year. Under his guidance, we planted peach trees and had a bumper harvest this year! We are now hosting a banquet for hundreds of families to celebrate. If you two are free, why don't you go to the banquet and have a taste of the peaches from our village?"

"No problem at all."

Zuo Chen got off the car directly, tied the donkey to a peach tree on the side, and tapped the donkey's head twice. The donkey, which had been restless and timid, suddenly seemed to have gained great confidence. The donkey's spine straightened up and its head was raised.

Caiyi felt it was novel and after a quick feel she discovered that Zuo Chen had attached an extremely weak trace of Qi to the donkey.

She was greatly shocked. She had not expected that this beast could be so shrewd.

Could it be possible that those who follow the Taoist priest can grow brains?
Can I become smarter?

Without thinking too much, Caiyi followed Zuo Chen, and it didn't take long for them to reach the center of the village.

As soon as you get here, the first thing you see is a long table with two neatly arranged rows of plates. The plates are all filled with large, neatly arranged peaches, bright red and juicy.

The place was crowded and noisy with quite a lot of people, young and old, strong and thin, talking animatedly and with smiles on their faces.

The young man brought Zuo Chen and Caiyi to the end of the table. As soon as they arrived, Zuo Chen saw four special young people sitting there.

Their clothes were completely different from those of the people in the village. The people in the village were all contented small farmers who could use cloth to sew clothes, but these four were refugees who had fled famine. Their clothes had patches on the left and holes on the right, and they were pale and thin, but had big bellies.

Three of them had already started to wolf down the peaches in front of them, with juice on their lips and red light in their eyes. The young farmer looked at them and said with a smile, "Several guests have already started eating, eat quickly, eat more, there is nothing else in the village but these peaches."

After that, he looked at Zuo Chen and the other two and said, "Please take a seat here first. The distinguished guests will come to the main table in a moment and the banquet will begin."

After saying this, he turned and left, his figure disappearing among the crowd of villagers, with no trace of his coming or going.

Zuo Chen came up to the three strangers who were eating peaches, stared at them, and then shook his head.

"Master? Are they beyond saving?" Caiyi understood what Zuo Chen meant now, but was a little confused.

At that time, Wang Erniu's head was twisted, but Zuo Chen still blew it back to him in one breath.

These three people clearly looked lively and energetic, but the Taoist priest shook his head.

"It's too late to save them." Zuo Chen said, "They look like they're alive, but they've actually been dead for a long time. At that time, whether it was Liu Laizi or Wang Erniu, they were either seriously injured or had just died, with their souls and spirits still inside their bodies. If I patch them up and give them a breath of innate Qi, I can pull their lives back from the brink of death.

"They can't do it. Their souls and spirits have been eaten up long ago. If I blow Qi, they will fall down on the spot."

His eyes fell on the last person again.

This was also a young man, not very old and looked the least hungry. He was thin but his belly was not round. Now he seemed to be in a half-asleep state, staring at the big peach in front of him with blurry eyes and drooling.

Zuo Chen came up to him and patted him on the shoulder. The young man immediately became much clearer.

He turned to look at Zuo Chen and asked:
"you are?"

"I'm a Taoist priest passing by. Who are you four? How did you get here?"

He tilted his head, as if thinking hard about his own name, and finally a look of realization appeared on his face:
"My name is Xiao Changcheng, and I'm from Changshan Town, Xuzhou. We came here to look for food.

"We seemed to have seen a village on the way, and this happened recently..."

Xiao Changcheng turned around and looked at his compatriots who came in with him. He saw that they were burying their heads in eating peaches, biting them hard and tearing them raw. They looked more like ghosts than humans, and he was horrified.

"What happened to them?"

He looked at the peach in front of him that was so red that it looked like it was about to bleed.

"What kind of peach is this? Why does it smell like... like meat?"

At this point, perhaps because he was extremely hungry, his stomach began to growl. Ben Qingming's eyes were once again filled with hunger, and he seemed to reach out to grab the peach.

Zuo Chen patted his head. Xiao Changcheng groaned and opened his eyes again:
Where are the bright red peaches that can move the table?
What was placed in front of him was clearly a bowl with a huge ball of meat in it.

The ball of meat was covered with blood vessels that were beating rapidly. The stench of rotten meat emanated from it and rushed into Xiao Changcheng's nose.

Looking at the tables on both sides again, there were no villagers sitting there. Instead, they were filled with incense burners, each with four uneven incense sticks inserted in it.

This is not a feast for the living!

It's the dead seat!

When the evil wind blew, Xiao Changcheng once again saw the bustling scene in the village, but he shuddered.

Feeling cold all over.

(End of this chapter)