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"What are you doing?" Xia Xin suddenly kicked me.

"I'm picking up my wallet," I said, getting up from under the seat.

I smiled a little helplessly. My smile was a little heavy. Because the four words on Xia Xin's sock made me feel a little uneasy.

I went along with what the middle-aged man said. "Second Uncle, where are you going?"

The middle-aged man said, "Go to the next county and look for your cousin." Kid, you're not much of a student. You dropped out of high school before graduating. I can't compare to a university student like you. But he got married pretty quickly. Didn't he just buy a house? My daughter-in-law will give me a grandson, I'll go take a look. Ah? Eldest Nephew, you have been in school for so many years, do you have a house? You don't have a girlfriend yet, right? I'll introduce you to one later. "

Everyone in the carriage looked at me with sympathy. I thought, Isn't it too late in the night for this middle-aged man? Was there a need to be so thorough in pretending to be relatives?

Xia Xin puzzledly asked me, "This is your second uncle? Didn't you pick it up from your foster-grandpa? "

I scratched my head and said, "Ah, yes, yes. This second uncle is my foster-grandpa's relative, and is not related to me by blood. "

Xia Xin counted with her fingers, "It's still not right. Didn't your foster-grandpa never get married before?"

I coughed. "Far away, far away."

Xia Xin answered with a blank expression.

At this time, the middle-aged man nudged the person sitting beside him: "You, change seats with my Eldest Nephew, we want to chat."

That person was a student. He had dyed yellow hair and wore earrings. There was even a cigarette in his mouth. He didn't even smoke. He just held it in his mouth. Of course, I knew that he was a student. The main reason was because he was just calling the head teacher to ask for a leave of absence, saying that his mother was sick, that he was currently in the hospital and didn't even have time to go to the toilet …

The student was rather unhappy. He asked the middle-aged man, "Why should I exchange with you?"

The middle-aged man said, "Just based on the time when you were on the phone, I peeked at your class teacher's phone." Then he gave out a string of numbers.

The student wordlessly picked up his bag and stepped aside.

I smiled at Xia Xin. "Let me say a few words to my second uncle."

Then I sat down next to my second uncle.

In the beginning, we talked about some of the family affairs that confused Xia Xin, but we talked until we didn't know what to say. Later on, we found out that the student found out that Xia Xin was a beauty, so he started asking for a phone number. Xia Xin didn't even have time to look over, so we started whispering to each other.

The middle-aged man said to me: "Eldest Nephew, do you see her socks?"

I said to the middle-aged man, "Can you stop calling me Eldest Nephew? Aren't we pretending? "

The middle-aged man said, "The war is as usual, the war is as usual. Otherwise, if he wasn't careful, his mouth would have been exposed. Right, let's exchange some information so that no one will see through us. My surname is Zhao. Everyone calls me Mr. Zhao. "

I nodded: "My surname is Hu, and I am Hu Chujiu."

Mr. Zhao asked me in a low voice: "Did you see her socks?"

I nodded my head, "There is a River Styx Inscription embroidered on it. What do these four words mean?"

Unexpectedly, when the Mr. Zhao heard this, his expression changed slightly. I asked uneasily, "What's wrong?"

Mr. Zhao said in a low voice: "I could only tell that she was not alive, I never thought that her socks would be embroidered with the River Styx question."

I was getting anxious. "What do these four words mean?"

The Mr. Zhao said, "I've heard of a rumor. They said that there was a type of people in this world, and they had a sense of justice. But they lived in seclusion deep in the mountains and did not come out. Instead, he practiced an evil technique all day. When the evil arts have been mastered, we will go down the mountain and capture some pretty and kind-hearted women, or some men with firm personalities and handsome faces. We will refine them into living corpses. "

I asked in wonder, "Is this kind of person a very righteous person?"

The Mr. Zhao said, "Listen to me continue. After a living corpse was refined, it would forget its past and would be completely loyal to its master. Then Master put on their socks, embroidered with the words: River Styx. Send them to arrest some wicked people. "Bring them back to the mountain."

"The mountains where these people live are dark and scary. There are more dead than alive. It was comparable to the Netherworld. Only by leading the way with a live corpse could they go up. Otherwise, they would undoubtedly die. Of course, those people who have committed heinous crimes, even if they were to go up there, they would only die. "

My heart went cold when I heard this. "You mean, Xia Xin is a living corpse? You want to take me back and put me to death? "

Mr. Zhao raised his eyebrows: "If that rumor is true, you probably won't live for more than a few days. Eldest Nephew, what kind of heinous act did you do? "

I said, "I didn't do anything."

Mr. Zhao actually nodded in agreement: "I also see that you have a nice face and do not seem like a bad person. That's why I helped you with so much stuff. Do you want me to cover for you later? Let's slip away while she's unprepared. "

Mr. Zhao said it well, but I was more tactful and said to him, "Mr. Zhao …"

Mr. Zhao waved his hand: "War is normal."

I could only change my words. "Second Uncle, what do you do? How do you know this? "

Mr. Zhao's face was a little blank. "What do I do?" He knocked his head and sighed. "To be honest, I can't remember. I may have had a car accident and lost my memory. However, I should be able to sense some things in the past.

I got scared listening to it, this Mr. Zhao, could it be that he is a live corpse? After being refined by the people on the mountain, he had forgotten about the past.

So I slipped my wallet under the seat. Then he wanted to look at his socks while he was picking up his wallet.

Who knew that before I could kneel down, Mr. Zhao would already reach out and pick up my wallet.

I was helpless and could only accept it.

I asked the Mr. Zhao, "If I meet someone who suspects that they are alive, is there any other way besides looking at their socks?"

Mr. Zhao said, "Of course there's still more. For example, touching the heart, dead people have no heartbeat. Their blood is like a tide, and the water is rising and falling, and the clouds are long and long and long and fading. "

I looked at Mr. Zhao in a speechless manner, feeling that this person didn't seem to be in a good mood. Such a person was unlikely to be a living corpse. But who knows? Isn't it enough to play my uncle in Golden Toad Temple as a fake?

I wanted to reach inside his shirt and feel for his heart. But the request was a bit abrupt, and I didn't know how to begin.

I was deep in thought when someone tapped me on the shoulder. Startled, I jerked my head back. It was the conductor.

I opened my wallet and bought myself a ticket. Then, it was Mr. Zhao's turn.

Mr. Zhao started to feel around him, touching his shirt and shirt pocket to feel his pants. He touched his pants and looked for his backpack.

As he searched, he also said, "Eldest Nephew, don't give me money. I brought some money with me. In order to make up for the cost of the ticket, he sold three hens who laid eggs. Eldest Nephew, please don't give me money. "

Everyone in the car was watching, so I had to pull out a one hundred.

The conductor asked me for eighty. Mr. Zhao took it and stuffed it into his pocket: "This child, I already said you don't need to pay. Why aren't you obedient?"

I'd like to change my seat back now.

All along the way, I tried to find an opportunity to touch the Mr. Zhao's heartbeat, but to no avail. At noon, Xia Xin told me to get out of the car.

I looked at the Mr. Zhao and he nodded at me. "I will get off too."

After sitting in the car all morning, we were all a little tired. My original intention was to find a roadside stall, whether it was eating Shanxi chopped noodles, Hebei hand-rolled noodles, Anhui plate noodles, Wuhan hot dry noodles, Sichuan basil noodles, Lanzhou ramen noodles, Beijing fried noodles, Henan risotto noodles, or North Korea cold noodles.

However, the Mr. Zhao insisted on finding a restaurant to cook some food. This made me feel unhappy, because no matter if it's Xia Xin or the Mr. Zhao, they don't seem to be people who will pay. The one who pays the bill in the end will definitely be me.

Right now, Xia Xin has saved my life, and it is very likely that Mr. Zhao has saved me from Xia Xin, so I didn't want to go against them for a bowl of noodles, so I had no choice but to enter a restaurant.

Xia Xin went to wash her hands as Mr. Zhao picked up the menu and ordered a few dishes. Starting from the most expensive ones, it was all dirty.

I couldn't help but complain to the Mr. Zhao: "Are you trying to mess with me? Did I get all this money from the wind? "

Mr. Zhao said: "I saved your life, and you won't be able to endure if I make fun of you? It's better to say that every loyal person in the butchering of a dog has a heart of a scholar. "

Seeing that I was about to get angry, Mr. Zhao patted my shoulder and said, "Eldest Nephew, didn't you want to verify her identity? You can't touch her heart, can you? "

I was actually considering if I should touch Xia Xin while she was asleep tonight … If I didn't have a heartbeat, I would have run and earned my life. If you have a heartbeat... Then I'll make a profit after touching it.

Mr. Zhao didn't know what I was thinking, he patted me on the shoulder and said, "Actually, there is no need to go through so much trouble. Do you recall if she was like that? "

I nodded.

At this time, the first dish had arrived. I began to persuade the Mr. Zhao cordially, "Let's eat first. We'll carefully observe when she arrives."

Mr. Zhao didn't move his chopsticks and rejected his offer: "No no no, we should wait for her to come. I think she is very particular about people."

I thought about the sound of Xia Xin's snoring when she was eating. I really felt that she was not close to being particular about food.

At this time, Xia Xin had already washed her hands and returned. Mr. Zhao and I hurriedly called out to her. "Quickly, eat."

Xia Xin glanced at the dishes and said, "Let's go. I won't be eating these things."

My face changed.