Chapter 51: Small Town in the Grassland
"The 'God of the Grassland' was brutally murdered by his beloved people. Before his death, he cursed the grassland."
The sun will hang forever high above people's heads until it has burned away their sins, and everyone will be in the heat and unable to escape.
The grassland no longer has night and has lost time. They long for water and live in pain until they die.
Wu Enqi looked a bit puzzled after he finished speaking, and then said, "But I don't feel the curse. The place where I live has no bad things except the lack of night."
This is different from the story told by Yu Qing.
Yin Yusheng had never heard the story of the 'Sun God' on the train.
He was a little curious, "Is this a legend or did it really happen?"
Before Wu Enqi could answer, Ajiri's voice called him from outside.
He shook his head: "I don't know either. Eji should have prepared dinner. Let's eat first."
The dinner was very sumptuous, with all kinds of food unique to the grassland, including a roasted leg of lamb.
It was delivered by Ajili himself, and Ajis went out and never came back.
The host and the guests enjoyed the meal very much.
After dinner, Ajili sent them to a friend's house to rest. Although there was no night, they still had to sleep.
Before leaving, Yin Yusheng went to the toilet. Wu Enqi's house did not have a separate bathroom, so he usually just found an empty space to relieve himself.
He endured the discomfort and finished the class. When he was walking back, he met Arisleng.
The other party seemed to be standing there waiting for him intentionally.
After having contact with Wu Enqi and Ajili, Yin Yusheng felt that this family was quite normal.
So when he saw Ariseleng standing there in silence, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't, he took the initiative to greet him.
The other person stared at his face for a while.
Yin Yusheng felt a little embarrassed. He took the initiative to say hello, but the other party seemed to not want to pay any attention to him at all.
Just as he was about to leave, Arisleng suddenly spoke.
"While you live there, no matter what noise you hear after 11pm, do not go out and do not eat any food."
"Remember, it's nine o'clock in the evening. Don't get confused."
After saying this, he turned around and left without even looking at Yin Yusheng.
Yin Yusheng frowned. Although he felt puzzled, he still went back and told Yu Qing and Qin Zhi about it.
At this moment, Ajili was cleaning up the dishes and was about to send them off after he was done.
Qin Zhi said in a cold voice: "He is reminding us that it seems that the friend Wu Enqi mentioned is not a normal person."
Yu Qing nodded: "With me here, what are you afraid of?"
Yin Yusheng felt relieved after hearing her words, and then he saw that the little fox had disappeared.
He leaned close to Yu Qing's ear and lowered his voice: "Where did the vixen go?"
"I asked her to run something."
Yin Yusheng was about to ask her, but he caught a glimpse of Ajili coming over and stopped himself.
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting. I'll take you there now."
She smiled and walked in front to lead the way.
My friend’s house is not far from here. Unlike Wu Enqi’s house, the rows of adjacent self-built houses here look no different from a small town.
The residents here sat in the open space outside their houses, looking at the three people with calm eyes.
It was as quiet as a dead city, without even the sound of livestock.
Ajiri led them to a house and said, "Wait for me here for a while," and then she went in first.
After a while, the door opened again, and an old lady about sixty years old stood next to Ajiri.
She warmly invited Yu Qing and the others in.
"There are three empty rooms at home. You came at the right time."
Seeing the three people walking into the house one after another, Ajiri, who brought them here, had a look of pity in his eyes.
The old lady seemed to sense it and turned her head to look at her with a smile.
Ajiri pursed his lips, nodded, and turned to leave.
The door was closed, blocking the view of people outside.
The rooms the old lady arranged for them were three adjacent rooms on the second floor.
Counting from the stairs, Yin Yusheng lived in the first room, Qin Zhi lived in the middle, and Yu Qing lived in the last room.
Yin Yusheng was originally very scared, but he had the mark of the amulet left by Yu Qing on his body.
He walked into the room calmly. At most, he would order some dishes, but he didn't want to cause any trouble for Yu Qing.
Yu Qing closed the door and found the room was spacious and bright.
She opened the curtains, and the nearby residents seemed to sense something and looked over here.
After two seconds, they looked away again, some of them looking towards the entrance and exit of the small town.
Five people were walking together slowly. They were two men and one woman who looked to be in their twenties or thirties, a middle-aged man, and an elderly grandfather.
They are people of Xuanmen Taoism.
Yu Qing noticed the difference between the five people at just one glance.
They seemed to be aware that there were new people entering the town. The oldest man among them looked around and finally met Yu Qing's eyes accurately.
She did not try to hide her scent, so the old man could naturally spot her.
The old man quickly looked away and said something to the people around him, and then he saw five people enter one of the houses.
Residents in the town seem to be very confident and do not restrict their going out.
Upon receiving this news, Yu Qing drew the curtains.
The house fell into a dead silence, and the dark bedroom was dark.
…
They had been in the small town for two days.
Several people gathered in the old man's room. He sat on the bed. The three young men closed the curtains and checked around again. They stopped only after confirming that there was no problem.
The old man's name is Qiu Qiheng, and the man in his forties among them is his apprentice, Liu Runtai.
The other three are Liang Yuzhou, Cheng Yunbao, and the youngest and only female, Chen Yingyu.
The three of them are Liu Runtai's apprentices.
At this moment, Liu Runtai pulled a chair and sat down, looking at the old man on the bed, and asked: "Master, will that Xuanmen person really send us a message?"
Just now when they were still downstairs, Qiu Qiheng said that there was a new Xuanmen person nearby and exchanged glances with him.
Of course, he used the association's unique rhetoric, which others could not understand.
Hearing the sound, Qiu Qiheng raised his eyes to look at the closed curtains and said in a calm voice, "Here I come."
As soon as the words fell, a golden light like a shooting star passed through the glass window and finally floated in the air.
Cheng Yunbao, who was guarding the window, was startled and pulled open a corner of the curtain.
After a while, he turned his head and said solemnly, "They found nothing."
The residents of the town seemed not to see the golden light, nor did they detect even the slightest sign of something wrong.
He couldn't imagine that there was such a master outside the association.
When I thought about how he wanted to curse someone just now, I felt that the man must be young and impulsive, and did things without considering the consequences.
Cheng Yunbao felt ashamed.
"Don't worry, senior brother. You are also thinking about our safety." Chen Yingyu on the side spoke to comfort him.
I certainly don't know as much about the grassland as the locals do, so I'll try not to write about what I don't know. If there's anything inappropriate in the description, please feel free to give me some feedback.
(End of this chapter)
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