CH 26

"There... there... there... there's poop!"

"I'm not blind. Don't come closer. Are you trying to eat it? You may be stupid, but not that stupid."

"Shut up, there are people on the road."

"Okay, I'll listen to you, Senior Li."

Soon, Lv Zhuangyuan saw the people walking out of the forest.

When he saw their appearance, Lv Zhuangyuan couldn't help but shiver. No wonder his son just said there were ghosts. They were too scary.

There was a skinny man with a black and white face, an old woman with white hair, a strange man carrying another person with crossed legs, and even a man with hair all over his face.

Lv Zhuangyuan had traveled far and wide and had seen many things, but this scene still scared him.

"Dad, I'm scared." Lv Xiucai kept shrinking back, trying to hide behind his father.

"You're scared, but I'm not?" Lv Zhuangyuan cursed his son in his heart. If it weren't for the handsome Taoist and a few normal-looking Taoist disciples among this group, he would have run away already.

Lv Zhuangyuan bowed to Li Huowang and asked, "May I ask, Daoist, are these monsters you have subdued?"

As soon as he said this, he received a lot of hostile looks.

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"What did this old guy say? He's asking for a beating. Who are you calling monsters?"

Lv Zhuangyuan saw the handsome Taoist wave his hand to stop the black and white-faced monsters from talking, and he was even more certain of his thoughts.

"Excuse me, sir, where does this road lead to?"

"Wuligang! It's just ahead. Not far... hehehe."

After he finished speaking, Lv Zhuangyuan secretly burned the horse's butt with his cigarette and ran off with his luggage along the forest path.

"Hey! My horse! My horse! Catch up!" Lv Zhuangyuan pretended to be anxious and chased after the horse with the others.

They ran fast and left those things behind in no time.

They ran for an hour until they saw that even his son had vomited. Lv Zhuangyuan whistled and stopped the horse.

After stopping, he didn't care about his son and went to check on the horse pulling the cart. In this troupe, horses were more valuable than people.

By now, it was getting dark, and it was almost evening.

"What the hell were those things? They scared me to death." Lv Juren was sweating profusely and breathing heavily.

Lv Zhuangyuan kicked him and said, "Can't you see it's dark? Go find some firewood in the forest!"

Next to the forest path, a warm fire was lit, and they ate soft cornbread roasted over the fire. The sweetness of the food comforted their frightened hearts.

"When you're traveling, encountering strange things is nothing. The more dangerous the situation, the calmer you should be. Remember that." Lv Zhuangyuan said to the others."Dad, maybe those things aren't monsters, they look pretty human to me, and that little Taoist even called you 'old man'."

Hearing his daughter-in-law's words, Lv Zhuangyuan shook the water gourd in his hand.

"Who cares what they are, let's not get involved. Remember, when we're out, if we want to live longer, we should avoid certain things and not get involved."

This was Lv Zhuangyuan's philosophy of life, and no matter what, he had lived to such an old age by relying on it.

And he also planned to pass this on to his younger and elder sons, because when he got old, this theater troupe would have to rely on them to take over and perform.

Handing the water gourd to his nephew beside him, Lv Zhuangyuan looked at his granddaughter lying in his daughter-in-law's arms.

Watching her grind a small piece of steamed bread with her newly grown teeth, Lv Zhuangyuan felt increasingly happy.

He turned around and took out a salted duck egg from a round container on the cart. Carefully opening a hole, he brought the oil-dripping yolk to his granddaughter's mouth. "Come, come, baby, try this, it's so fragrant."

Watching his granddaughter suck hard, Lv Zhuangyuan's eyes narrowed into a line with his smiling face.

Although it was a pity that she wasn't a grandson, after all, she was his granddaughter from the next generation, and he cherished her very much.

Feeling that this was a good opportunity, Luo Juanhua immediately spoke up. "Dad, look, Cui'er is already so big, shouldn't she have some new clothes? It's not good for her to wear theater costumes every day."

As soon as he heard his daughter-in-law mention money, Lv Zhuangyuan's smiling face disappeared, and his features wrinkled together.

Just as he was about to refuse, he saw the loose theater costume on his granddaughter's body, and his heart softened again.

He took a few puffs of dry tobacco and walked to the front of the cart, taking out a long copper lock to open the box.

After searching inside for a while, he counted out fifty copper coins.

"Don't buy cloth in town, it's expensive. Wait a couple of days until we get to Wuligang, and ask around for who weaves cloth there. Go to their house and buy a few feet, remember to ask around and find the cheapest one."

"Also, remember not to buy linen, buy cotton cloth instead. Xiuer's skin is delicate, linen will make her uncomfortable."

"I understand." Luo Juanhua happily took the copper coins. She thought it was already good enough to get money for linen, but she didn't expect the stingy old man to be so generous this time.

The child was small and didn't need much cloth to make clothes, so maybe she could save some for herself this time.

After seeing his granddaughter finish the egg yolk, Lv Zhuangyuan gave the remaining egg white to the adults to share.

Although it wasn't much for each person, they were still very happy to taste the salty flavor. It was rare to have meat to eat.

It was already dark, and after finishing dinner, there was nothing to do. Listening to Lv Zhuangyuan tell a few old stories he had heard from somewhere, they were ready to go to sleep.Tonight, Lv Juren was on duty for the first half of the night. He had been walking all day and was already tired, but he forced himself to stay alert and watched the bonfire in front of him, making sure it didn't go out.

"Son, you can go to sleep. I'll keep watch," Lv Zhuangyuan sat beside his son and started smoking a dry cigarette.

"Dad, I'm not sleepy. You can go to sleep," Lv Juren replied with a yawn.

"Don't talk nonsense. Go to sleep. I'm an old man who needs less sleep," Lv Zhuangyuan said firmly.

As they argued in front of the bonfire, Lv Zhuangyuan suddenly covered his son's mouth with his hand and pointed to the dark forest in the distance.

"Hehe~" A sharp and thin woman's laughter suddenly sounded to their right.

Lv Zhuangyuan and his son looked over instinctively, but they couldn't see anything in the darkness.

"Hehehe~ Do you think I look like a human or a god?" The dark forest began to shake, as if something inside was about to come out.

Lv Zhuangyuan was suddenly scared and broke into a cold sweat. He knew from experience that something was asking for a seal from him.

He couldn't answer randomly, or else his family might be destroyed.

But the problem now was, what was asking for a seal in the forest?

The forest swayed rhythmically at night, making eerie rustling sounds.