The backward crawlers' chasing posture is very strange: they are bent over backwards, face forward, with their hands on the ground, crawling backwards using both hands and feet.
A moment later, another scream rang out, and the elderly sorcerer slowly collapsed to the ground, his face full of resentment.
The bloodstained hand of the wanderer had pierced through the chest, clutching the heart of the old sorcerer... a still-beating, steaming heart...
After killing the elderly sorcerer, the backward-walking man straightened up with a snap and then slowly walked away backward.
As they walked, Zhao Youliang's photo with the coffin nail stuck in it landed right on her foot, and she was carried away and disappeared into the vast night.
When dawn broke, the first thing Zhao Youliang saw was a dog's face.
Despite the dog's eyes being full of concern and sympathy, it still startled Zhao Youliang.
"Oh my god, Dog, Dog Bro!"
In his violent reaction, Zhao Youliang's head hit the incense table, and he immediately burst into tears from the pain.
While rubbing his head, he asked in confusion, "No way, how did I end up sleeping outside all night?!"
"Oh right, I just came to offer incense yesterday and something scratched me and even choked me."
"Hey Dog Bro, did you scratch me?!"
The wrongly accused big yellow dog gave Zhao Youliang a disdainful look, and after confirming that the other party was not going to die for the time being, it wagged its shriveled butt and went out.
In the big yellow dog's mind, the female dogs on the street were clearly more attractive than Zhao Youliang.
Seeing the big yellow dog's "guilty" look, Zhao Youliang became even more certain that the old rogue was the one who had scratched his face all over yesterday.
So he shouted loudly in a respectful and smiling tone.
"Dog Bro's gone? Going to eat shit?"
Enjoy your meal!
Completely unaware that he had escaped death, Zhao struggled to open the shop door after the big yellow dog left.
A cold wind blew in his face, and Zhao Youliang instantly felt much more energetic.
"Holy crap! I don't know what we did to offend that thug, he actually attacked so hard!"
As Zhao Youliang looked in the mirror and applied alcohol to disinfect himself, he felt like crying.
"This time I'm disfigured, I don't know if it will leave a scar."
"What if it leaves a scar? Won't it be even harder to find a wife in the future?"
Just then, a silvery laugh came from outside the door. It was Sister Yingchun, the pretty widow who ran a barbecue restaurant, who came over with a swaying gait, carrying a lunchbox... and stood at the entrance of the shop.
She clearly knew the rules of the paper-making shop.
Such a seductive scene naturally caused Zhao Youliang, a naive young man who had never seen the world, to have his nose bleed... without even realizing it was flowing into his mouth.
His lecherous look made Sister-in-law Yingchun blush slightly.
"Hey kid, where are you looking!"
Zhao Youliang then realized he had lost his composure and hurriedly wiped the blood from his nose to cover it up.
"Sister, would you believe me if I said this blood was from a dog scratch, not a nosebleed?"
Sister-in-law Yingchun, with her straightforward personality, immediately burst out laughing upon hearing this.
"Scratched by a dog?"
"What, are you fighting with a dog for poop? Otherwise, why would it scratch you?!"
Zhao Youliang was taken aback by the rebuttal and quickly changed the subject.
"What brings you to my house so early, ma'am? Is something the matter?"
Upon hearing this, Sister Yingchun immediately shoved the lunchbox she was holding into her hands.
"The customers ordered pan-fried dumplings yesterday, but they drank too much and didn't eat a single bite."
"I figured I'd save you the trouble of doing it, so I brought it all to you."
"Eat it while it's hot, I'm leaving!"
After saying this, Sister Yingchun turned and left, not forgetting to give Zhao Youliang a word of advice.
"You can't beat Big Yellow at all, so why do you have to provoke it!"
"You scratched me like this... Remember to get your rabies vaccine later, just in case it's not!"
"People say that if you get rabies, you're doomed; there's no way to save you!"
Hearing that Sister Yingchun was so concerned about him, Zhao Youliang quickly shifted his attention away from her slender waist and full hips.
"Okay, okay, I'll go at dawn!"
"Big sister, thank you for your concern..."
He still couldn't bring himself to say the word "heart," so Zhao Youliang immediately changed it to "The dumplings are really delicious."
Despite Zhao Youliang's quick agreement and promise to get the rabies vaccine at dawn, he was actually unwilling to spend the money.
After all, he had already transferred all his money to his adoptive father and sister, leaving him with only three hundred yuan... Now he doesn't even have three hundred yuan left, and he bought some rice, flour, and cooking oil yesterday.
"Forget it, we're worthless bastards, we're not going to die!"
"Didn't you see the weeds? They're the cheapest, right? But who's ever seen all the weeds die out!"
While trying to comfort himself, Zhao Youliang clutched all the money tightly and stuffed it into his pocket.
It was as if they were trying to bury all their meager savings deep inside.
"Damn it, why is the rabies vaccine so expensive!"
"If it were just a few dollars, we'd definitely splurge a little..."
When money was mentioned, Zhao Youliang couldn't help but think of his cousin, Wang Youcai.
"Where did this child go? He hasn't come back for two days!"
"No, I need to ask Granny Liu to do a divination when it's completely light out. I really hope nothing bad happens!"
Zhao Youliang is still an "outsider" and has no idea that asking about rice and fortune telling are two different "professions".
Fortune telling is for the living, while spirit mediumship is for the dead...
Zhao Youliang couldn't bear to eat all the dumplings, so he deliberately left the biggest one and placed it under the "small dumplings" tablet.
Of course, I also didn't forget to put one for each of the two characters: "Hui Wuming" and "Huang Family Brother".
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