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"It is said that many monsters who wanted to become spirits had to come here and pick a holy lotus to avoid the severe punishment of the heavenly thunder. Those of us who were sent here were specifically used to pollute this lotus."
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"People from the imperial court sent many people here, and killed three of them every year. This way, the lotus land would become unclean. Then, the monsters would become impure."
Xiao Yu: "No wonder when I was a kid, I saw so many lotus leaves growing in the ditches between the fields here. It turns out this used to be a lotus pond!"
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"Yes, we didn't eat lotus roots grown that way. Later, when the country sent educated youth to rural areas, they ate everything they could, digging lotus roots from the ditches in the fields every day. They weren't good at all. Many people ended up with boils on their bodies after eating them. It was scary."
Xiao Yu was surprised that such a thing could happen. He looked at Zhou Yanzhi beside him.
Zhou Yanzhi kept a faint smile and said nothing.
"Uncle Tree, you're busy, let's go for a walk. I'll take him to the river. I heard a lot of people come here to fish."
"There are not many fish in our river. Every year, people from upstream put drugs in the river, so any fish would die early." Uncle Tree said with disdain.
A few fields away, a man from another field seemed to have found an opportunity to interrupt and said, "The village of your uncle Anli is really bad and doesn't care about people. I really don't know how such a village could produce a literary star. Back then, your uncle wanted to divorce your aunt and marry someone else."
Xiao Yu: ...ah, this, this, this...
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Rural people tend to be careless when chatting, and the conversation will easily fall apart. Xiao Yu just smiled and said nothing. Of course he knew about this, but as a junior, he just listened and didn't care.
But this old man was not careful with his words and soon started talking about the war between their village and the opposite village before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
"...Back then, our ancestors founded a sect. It was because the village across the street saw that our ancestors were doing well outside and started looking for trouble every day. In the end, someone was killed and they reported us to the county. Then they came and ordered us not to practice martial arts anymore."
Uncle Tree glanced at him and said: Just blow it!
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"The Hong family was smart. They hid some martial arts secrets. When their daughter got married, they gave them to their son-in-law as a dowry. Although the son-in-law was incompetent, their grandson eventually rose to prominence. Now that your Xiao family has you, the tail behind your buttocks will also rise up in the future."
Xiao Yu-_-||: ...
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Xiao Yu felt he couldn't listen any longer, so he quickly pulled Zhou Yanzhi away. As they walked away, he could still hear the old man talking to himself in a loud voice, but the old man from before, Tree Master, ignored him and continued to work on his own.
"Haha!" Xiao Yu laughed dryly, "It's quite interesting."
Zhou Yanzhi raised his hand and brushed aside a strand of hair that had blown into his eyes, then smiled and said, "Let's keep going."
"Um."
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It didn't take long for the two of them to walk the whole circle at their pace. When they were halfway there, the old man with the tree on the other side of the slope took the lead and ran away with his hoe.
——Maybe he was annoyed by what the other old man said.
The other uncle, whose name Xiao Yu didn't know because of his seniority, also left when the two of them were about to complete their circle.
Zhou Yanzhi and Xiao Yu looked at each other and took out their invisibility talismans. When they passed by a patch of thatched grass, they turned invisible.
The invisible Zhou Yanzhi jumped above the fields and quickly made hand gestures.
Following his hand gestures, Xiao Yu, who was floating high in the air, saw circles of golden lines appear in the fields below.
These golden lines spread very widely and soon reached above the village.
Xiao Yu: Could it be that the place where the village was located was actually a high mountain in the past?
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