After rebirth, I made a fortune by setting up a stall

The other half of Shiwu Island is the most primitive mountain road, which can only allow one person to pass in a row, and the uneven muddy ground is not easy to walk.Zhu Xun walked ahead, turning his head to talk to Ning Yuezhi from time to time, "Ning Yuezhi, who gave you this name?"

After asking, he murmured again, "Ning Yuezhi, Yuezhi...the name is quite special."

Ning Yuezhi heard his murmur, his eyes narrowed slightly, "My father took it. My mother died of illness when I was seven years old. He raised me up and was strict with me. He had high hopes for me. One day surpass his achievements."

Zhu Xun heard the words, and his mood rose slightly.Ning Yuezhi has always been reticent, and it is rare to talk about his father at this moment for such a long paragraph. It is not difficult to see how important the other party is to him.

"Where does your father live now?" Zhu Xun turned around and looked at him, walking backwards slowly.

Ning Yuezhi met his gaze with deep eyes, "some accident happened, and he passed away very early."

"..." Zhu Xun didn't expect to get this answer, and was stunned.He shifted his gaze, trying to find some comforting words, "Yes, I'm sorry, I..."

"Be careful!" Before he finished speaking, Ning Yue's eyes suddenly changed, and he stepped forward quickly.Zhu Xun slipped his feet, but the next second, someone grabbed his arm and pulled him into his arms.

There was the sound of falling stones from behind.

"Walk well and don't get distracted."

The deep words came from above, and when you listened carefully, there was an unprecedented sense of coldness.The strength of the clenched arms is still there, and the tip of the nose is filled with a familiar, vague sandalwood. Suddenly, Zhu Xun realized something, raised his head and fell into the sea of ​​eyes of the other party.Just for a moment, he looked away in a daze.

"Did you twist your foot?" Seeing that he didn't answer, Ning Yuezhi showed slight worry in the corner of his eyes.

"No, nothing." Zhu Xun looked back, only to realize that he almost stepped on the ground and fell into the rock ditch at the bottom.He took a step cautiously to the flat ground, covered his lips and said, "Thank you."

Ning Yuezhi glanced at his feet lightly, and after confirming that he was safe, he said, "It's fine."

Zhu Xun subconsciously caressed his arm, and seemed to be able to feel the strength of the opponent's grip.He raised his eyes in surprise, and asked tentatively, "Ning Yuezhi, didn't you feel any discomfort when you pulled me?"

"..."

Zhu Xun got closer and asked more specifically, "When you grabbed me, didn't you feel cold all over? No, when ordinary people touch me, they feel..."

Ning Yuezhi lowered his eyes, and silently changed the subject, "You dropped something."

"Ah?" Zhu Xun looked at the ground slowly.The jade pendant that was supposed to be in the Naling bag fell to the ground at some point, and was even stepped on by him unconsciously.

Zhu Xun immediately picked up the jade pendant and wiped off the dirt on it.Immediately afterwards, a possibility suddenly popped up in his mind.

Since he got this jade pendant, the life soul that originally needed to be supported by spiritual power has spontaneously consolidated properly, and even the spiritual power in his body shows signs of increasing day by day.

Yu Yan once told him that Song Qing'an relied on this jade pendant to live like an 'ordinary person'... Now that I think about it, this jade pendant is indeed special.

Zhu Xun caressed the lines on the jade pendant, glanced at Ning Yue from the corner of his eye, and secretly guessed - he must have also been contaminated with the 'vigor' on the jade pendant.That's why when we met just now, Ning Yuezhi was not hurt by the hostility on his body and felt unwell.

"What did you want to ask me just now?" Ning Yuezhi caught his gaze and spoke at the right time.

Zhu Xun coughed lightly, "Oh, it's nothing, I figured it out." Before the lingering sound fell, he shook the jade pendant in his hand, with a smile on his lips, "This thing is really a treasure, you didn't want it at the beginning, but thanks big."

"Since it's a treasure, then put it away." Ning Yue quickly suppressed a smile in his eyes, and said not far away, "There are stone houses starting to appear over there, go and have a look."

Zhu Xun followed his gaze and responded excitedly, "Okay."

The two approached a stone house, which was overgrown with weeds and intertwined with spider silk, and a thick pile of dust was accumulated on the broken furniture, which seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

Zhu Xun took out a talisman at random, and used his spiritual power to throw it in the air.In less than half a minute, the talisman paper fell down without showing any abnormality.

Zhu Xun frowned, "There is no vision in this stone house."

"Look at the others." Ning Yuezhi said.

"Ah."

Zhu Xun walked quickly to several other abandoned stone houses, and tried the same method several times, and the results shown on the talisman paper were the same.

"Is the problem not in the stone house itself?" Zhu Xun rubbed his chin, puzzled.

"No hurry, let's look for the aborigines first." Ning Yuezhi continued to walk along the mountain and walked inward.Zhu Xun temporarily put aside his confusion and followed closely behind.

After the two passed through a bush, they saw a large group of stone houses.From the looks of it, it seemed to be a small village at first.It's a pity that the surrounding woods cover the sea view, and there are sea cliffs around the forest, which is a little less comfortable and stable than the northern peninsula.

Zhu Xun looked around and couldn't help sighing, "There are quite a few stone houses here, so there should be aborigines?"

"Ah."

The two walked along the small road in the village and found that the doors and windows of every house were closed and there was no smell of smoke.Zhu Xun took the liberty to push open a closed stone house door and asked tentatively, "Is anyone there?"

There was no one in the stone house.Zhu Xun's questioning voice touched the wall of the stone house, and there was a subtle echo, at an absolute slow speed-is there, is there, is there?

Zhu Xun and Ning Yuezhi looked at each other and stepped into the house.The latter skimmed the table with his fingertips and scanned around, "There is no dust on the table, it is very clean."

After that, he picked up the fishing net on the table again, "The color of this fishing line is different from old to new, and there are still unused balls of thread on the side, obviously it was repaired not long ago."

"The same goes for the scented tea in the bowl." Zhu Xun took a look at the brown color and judged, "It hasn't been more than a day."

——Still, not, surpass, pass, one, day.

The conversation between the two kept echoing in the stone house, and the echoes were sometimes blunt and sometimes sharp.It was clear that the sky was bright and the sun was shining, but the sense of weirdness still couldn't stop pouring out.

Looking at the dimly lit back room, Zhu Xun felt a little weird.

Just as he was about to move closer, he suddenly remembered Ning Yuezhi beside him, and immediately stopped and said, "Ning Yuezhi, don't go in, wait for me outside."

"Wait." Ning Yuezhi stopped him, "Look at this first."

Zhu Xun turned sideways and cast his gaze in the direction he said.They entered the room in too much haste just now, so they failed to notice—a small altar was placed in the corner inside the door, only the height of a child.There was a red candle on the stage, the candle light was flickering and flickering, and there was a lot of candle oil under it.

And in the center of the altar, there is a humanoid puppet.

"Long hair, red clothes..." Zhu Xun murmured, he bent down to take a closer look, and his face suddenly changed, "No, why does this puppet have no face?"

no face?

Ning Yue frowned slightly, he thought for a while, and said, "Go and see other stone houses."

"Ah."

The two went to several nearby stone houses before and after, and the situation was exactly the same.The furnishings in the house are neat and intact, even the red candles and dolls on the altar are almost the same.There are obviously traces of life in the stone house, but at this moment, there is no one in sight!

"There must be something strange in this village." Zhu Xun took out a few more evil charms and planned to try.

Knock, knock, knock...

The knocking sound of the wooden fish comes with the wind, empty and melodious.

The movements in Zhu Xun's hands paused, subconsciously distinguishing the source of the sound.Ning Yuezhi reacted faster and said calmly, "Come with me."

"Okay." The two walked along the path, and at the end of the path was a low stone temple.Looking from a distance, I saw a crooked figure kneeling on the straw mat, beating the wooden fish reverently.

After searching for a long time, I finally found something.

Zhu Xun took a breath and approached, "This old man..."

"It's been a long time since an outsider came to this village." The other party said in a hoarse voice.He stopped knocking, stood up from the straw mat, picked up the wooden staff on one side, and walked out of the temple slowly, "You two, what are you doing?"

"Old man, forgive me." Zhu Xun glanced at Ning Yuezhi who was beside him, approached first, and asked politely, "Are you the only one in this village?"

The old man squinted to distinguish Zhu Xun's appearance, and his expression paused slightly.He chuckled and responded, "In this village, you can see as many people as you can."

His eyes drooped slightly, he looked at the jade pendant in Zhu Xun's hand, and said slowly, "This jade pendant looks familiar to me."

These words had nothing to do with the purpose of this trip, but Zhu Xun was still distracted, "Old man, do you think you are familiar with this jade pendant?"

"When I was young, I heard it said by powerful people, so I knew a little bit about it." Leaning on a cane, the old man recalled carefully, "Jade pendants with patterns like this are rare and precious, and they are gifts for newborns from the three major families... "

The old man looked at the jade pendant with cloudy eyes, but there was piety in his eyes that Zhu Xun could not understand.

"A new life is a happy event. They will take the first drop of new blood from the child's body after birth, and use ancient secret techniques to seal it in the jade pendant. At critical moments, the jade pendant will stimulate a steady stream of vitality, which can protect the life of the family's children."

After the old man finished speaking, he coughed twice, "But if you believe this, you will believe it, and if you don't believe it, then you will not believe it."

Zhu Xun clenched the jade pendant tightly and said nothing.The so-called rumors in the old man's mouth corresponded one-to-one with everything he had experienced recently.If this jade pendant really belonged to an ancient family, then the spiritual power it possessed would make sense.

"Old man, I believe it." Zhu Xun put the jade pendant into the spirit bag, and asked carefully, "But, I still have two things I want to ask you. Where have all the people in this village gone? Also, you go door-to-door on the altar. The Faceless Marionette is..."

"It's getting late, the sun is about to set." The old man waved his hand and answered irrelevant questions.He turned sideways, looked at the empty village, and said leisurely, "If you don't leave, it will be difficult to travel later."

"Hey! Old man..." Before Zhu Xun could say anything, the old man walked tremblingly towards the temple with a cane.Ning Yuezhi, who had been silent all this time, stepped forward and said in a low voice, "It's really getting late, let's wait and see tomorrow morning."

Half of the island is surrounded by cliffs, and there is no lighting, so it is easy to be dangerous when it gets dark.

Zhu Xunsi could only nod his head at this point. He looked at the old man's strenuous steps and said, "Ning Yuezhi, please help the old man. I have a special constitution and it is not convenient."

Elderly people are inherently weak, Zhu Xun is not sure that the other party will not be affected by his hostility.

Hearing the words, Ning Yuezhi stepped forward to support the old man silently, and brought him into the temple.When I entered the temple, I realized that there was a huge wooden statue standing in the temple, which looked like a faceless woman with long hair and red clothes.

The old man put the crutches aside, bowed slowly to Ning Yuezhi, and said in a solemn tone, "I never expected to see the two young masters in my lifetime."

Zhu Xun was standing outside the temple, unable to hear this.

Ning Yue's eyes were slightly condensed as he scrutinized the old man's appearance.

The old man rolled up his sleeves, revealing the brand marks on his arms, and said in a low voice, "I will never forget the life-saving grace of the two young masters."

The author has something to say: a strange village~

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