Orochi Longevity

Guanzhong is not too far from Yongzhou City. With the strength of a horse-drawn cart, it takes about five days to walk.

If Ling Xuzi turned into a wolf and traveled, it would only take two days to arrive.

The scholar in white and Ling Xuzi had many doubts in their minds. They felt that the disappearance of the black cat was not simple. They were afraid that things would change if it was too late, so they made a simple settlement for Xiaochong'er before rushing on their way overnight.

Before leaving, the women of Lanyanlou found them, handed them a money bag, and asked them to bring it to Luo Hui.

The women didn't know about the mysterious cat, nor did they know that after seeing Luo Hui's fate, the two cats said that she was in great trouble.

Snake naturally didn't intend to tell them, but just took the money bag and said that he would bring it as promised.

The two went smoothly on their way to Guanzhong. Neither encountered evil spirits to make trouble, nor was it bumped into by mortals, causing commotion.

When they arrived at the place indicated by Ruyan and the others, the two wandered around, and found that there were many abandoned old villages.

In that area, there are remnants of ruins that were burned many years ago, and the grass is luxuriant inside, which has become a habitat for poisonous insects and beasts.

In these villages, some places have been cleared and deserted, and there are lights in the houses.

The scholar in white and Ling Xuzi counted and found that thirteen villages in the vicinity had been hit by disasters, and they also found a huge pagoda tree in these villages.

There were traces of burning on the outside of the tree, but it was not completely dead, and many young sprouts emerged from its branches.

Through this big locust tree, the two judged that this place was the old house in Luo Hui's memory, her hometown.

But what surprised the two of them was that the village had long been deserted and there was no one there. Moreover, the two did not find the pond in Luo Hui's memory, nor did they see the beautiful lotus.

"Strange! That woman didn't go back to her home?"

"If you marry and follow your husband, you should be in the house of an oil seller."

So the two wandered around the nearby village for a while. They planned to find a family to spend the night and inquire about the whereabouts of the empress Huakui and the oil seller.

Ruyan's group of women all said that Luo Hui was born extremely beautiful, and they only returned to their old hometown three months ago, so they should be very eye-catching.

If you inquire carefully, it shouldn't be difficult to find the two of them.

"Boom!"

The two had just made a decision when a thunderstorm suddenly sounded in the sky. In the blink of an eye, the heavy rain rolled down, drenching the two of them completely.

"Beware of thunder."

The snake remembered that Ling Xuzi said that the sky thunders like to hit spirit monsters the most, and it frowned when it saw the lightning flashing in the sky.

The two immediately speeded up and quickly found a house with lights on, and Bangbang knocked on the door.

"Is there anyone? Come and open the door! It's raining too much outside, can we go in and take shelter from the rain?"

Ling Xuzi opened his mouth and shouted.

The room was quiet for a long time, and finally there was a rustling sound, and then the two saw a man open the door with a bang.

The middle-aged man looked very strange, his body was bent, his body was dry and thin, his eye sockets were sunken, he looked like a skeleton.

There was no anger on this person, after he opened the door, he turned his head and walked back:

"Outsider, it's raining heavily outside, come in and have a rest."

Welcoming the two into the main room, the man lit another fire to keep them warm.

The white-clothed scholar frowned and touched his arms. It felt as if there was a cold air floating towards him.

Seeing this, the man laughed dryly and said:

"My house is very weird...in summer...it is very cool. I lit many candles and charcoal fires, but it didn't work."

Raindrops outside the house were blown into the house by the wind, and the candles in the house danced wildly as if frightened, and the dilapidated and dark old country house suddenly flickered.

Under the light of the candlelight, the man's thin face looked extremely creepy.

The scholar in white and Ling Xuzi both frowned and looked at him, unmoved.

After finishing the charcoal fire, the middle-aged man said again:

"I'm going to cook some ginger soup for you... to drive away the cold."

The skeleton-like man talked to himself, and quickly got up and walked towards the stove in the yard. He didn't hold up his umbrella, and let the raindrops fall on him with a numb expression.

"This man is so strange."

Seeing the man leave, Ling Xuzi frowned.

"He lives in this deserted village, and he dares to open the door in the middle of the night for people to stay overnight. The village here...hasn't been robbed before?"

Ling Xuzi said that he planned to call people to the door first, and then throw some money in to let the host know that they are not bad people.

But the other party actually directly opened the door of the house and welcomed the two of them in, as if they were not worried about their problems at all.

"It's really weird."

The snake manipulated the lady in white to look around. It came here to find the black cat, and didn't want to cause any trouble.

However, the two found that the host was strange, but he was indeed just an ordinary person, and there was no strange aura about him.

Maybe he's just a weirdo with a good heart.

After all, the world is full of wonders, and it seems normal to meet some mavericks once in a while.

In this barren village, there are not many people living there. It was raining heavily outside, with lightning and thunder, and they didn't have time to find another place to spend the night.

So, the two planned to wait for the middle-aged man to come back and ask him about it.

If you don't find anything, you can always find it if you look for it one by one.

About half a quarter of an hour later, the middle-aged man came back with two bowls of smoking ginger soup. He let the rain wash into the bowls, and walked up to the two of them:

"Here comes the soup, please drink it."

Then, the man remained motionless, very strangely.

The two had no choice but to take the ginger soup, and the snake frowned when it started, it found that the side of the bowl was really hot.

Just now, this man was still holding on to the two bowls tightly, without moving.

So weird!

"Master, have you ever seen a couple? The man is an oil seller, and the woman is outstanding. They have only been back here not long ago."

"The time was about three months ago."

Snake suppressed his doubts and held ginger soup to inquire about the news.

Hearing the snake's question, the man turned his head to look at it in a daze. After a while, he shook his head and said:

"Never seen it, nor heard of it."

"The only person living here is me, an oil seller."

"I have a wife who is very beautiful, but we have been married for a long time. And we have always lived here and never left."

Is the man in front of you an oil seller?

Although what the man said made Ling Xuzi and the white-clothed scholar even more suspicious and surprised, they still asked:

"And your wife? Where is she? What's her name?"

The man said dumbly:

"My wife died of a serious illness three months ago...everyone calls her Lotus."

Three months ago... Lotus...

These two pieces of information sound familiar.

But the words in the man's mouth were completely different from what the two of them knew, and the two hesitated for a moment.

"Cough cough."

Just as the two looked at each other solemnly, they heard a cough coming from the back room.

"My mother should take medicine."

The middle-aged man got up immediately and hurried to the kitchen.