chewing dragon

Chapter 326 Bone Boy
On the south bank of the Forbidden Water, on a shoal far away from Yongchang City, an ox cart slowly stopped even though it was far away from the miasmatic white mist.

There were two people sitting in the front of the ox cart, a dog lying on the side, and an ebony coffin without a lid was pulled in the back.

"It's really strange that this forbidden water really has no intention of freezing at all!"

Yu Dayue stood up and looked at it for a moment, then lowered his head and said angrily to the old man Qi who was driving the car: "Master Qi, do we really want to use the coffin as a ship's messenger? Isn't this a ship's coffin? Just thinking about it makes me feel unlucky!"

"Besides, I, Yu Dayue, am a serious boatbuilder! As the saying goes, 'cutting wood to make a boat and cutting wood to make a raft', doesn't it mean I can't build a new canoe? Even if it's just a raft, it will be fine! It's sturdy and durable. !”

Old Man Qi was frowning at the poisonous white mist in front of him. When he heard this, he immediately snorted: "What's so bad about this coffin? Ebony can ward off evil spirits, and wouldn't it be a ready-made canoe when placed on the water? Not only can it The two of us can fit it in, and it will still be more than enough even if we add a few luggage and those corpses!"

"But if we were to build a boat from scratch, how tall and thick would a tree be? Can you move it, or can I move it? Even if it can be moved to the Forbidden Water, it only depends on the tree in your hand. A big ax that will last until the year of the monkey and the month of the horse?"

"As for the raft, you don't even know what kind of place it is. If it falls apart in the middle, we won't have anywhere to cry!"

Yu Dayue obediently listened to Old Man Qi's instruction, and then he chuckled: "When it comes to hunting, I can't compare to Grandpa Qi, but when it comes to shipbuilding, you can't compare to me!"

"Building a canoe is not as laborious as you think. You only need to apply thick wet mud to the areas that do not need to be dug out, and then use fire to burn the areas that need to be dug into charcoal, and the tree trunk can be easily Hollowing out saves time and effort!”

Old Man Qi hummed absentmindedly: "You are really capable! If you think it's unlucky, just build the ship yourself if you want. My old man is impatient to wait any longer!"

After saying that, he turned his upper body sideways and put an arm into the ebony coffin, as if to take something from it.

Immediately afterwards, the old man's face suddenly changed. He flicked his arm vigorously, but he pulled out a hemp rope from the coffin, and a white bone was tied to the other end of the hemp rope.

This white skeleton was quite short in stature. It should have been a child of only a few years old when it was alive. Not only did it not look scary, but because the bones of its arms and legs were so white and smooth, it actually gave people an inexplicable look. Share the love.

Old Man Qi grasped the hemp rope and held the skeletal child in front of him. He looked at it twice and couldn't help but said angrily: "Why is it you again? You can't stop eating secretly, right? Do you really think that my old man has a good temper?"

The bones of the child were tied to the neck with a hemp rope, and he was dangling in front of the old man. The bones in his body were grinding together, making a cracking sound.

What is particularly shocking is that this skeletal child is actually alive. With his chin open and closed, he says word by word to Old Man Qi: "Grandpa, give me some wheat to eat!"

"Which one is your grandfather? Don't mistake your relatives!"

Old Man Qi scolded him casually, but he didn't look really angry just by looking at his face. Instead, he turned around and threw it to Yu Dayue: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Why don't you take a good look at your brother?"

Yu Dayue subconsciously held the Skeleton Child in his arms, and his expression collapsed: "Master Qi, it's not my fault!"

"The first time we caught this little thing stealing wheat from corpses, I tore it apart in front of you, dug a hole and buried it. As a result, it came back alive and kicking the next day. Got it!"

"The second time, I smashed it into pieces and threw it into a dry well four or five miles away. I also put a wooden board on the mouth of the well, but it also found the door."

"The most recent time, I tied it with hemp rope and put it into a baggage. I tied the mouth of the baggage firmly, tied it with a big stone and sank it into the river. This...it only stopped for a few days. Why did it come back? Following!"

Yu Dayue lowered his head and looked at the skeletal child in his arms. His face was as black as the bottom of a pot: "Isn't this little thing too difficult to kill? How about... Mr. Qi, could you use those luminous hairs?"

Old Man Qi immediately glared: "Thank you for speaking out! Why don't you use your own coffin nails?"

"It was just hungry, so it had no choice but to steal two grains of wheat, and it didn't do anything harmful. You, my brother, can't stand it anymore, and insist on killing it? You have such a vicious heart..."

Hearing this, Bai Gu'er immediately turned his head to Yu Dayue and continued to speak word by word. His tone was actually quite happy: "Brother, give me wheat to eat!" Yu Dayue was also a bitch, and his teeth were itching with hatred. , when someone called me brother, his face immediately changed from gloomy to clear: "Hey! Back then, my sister was also such a small one, she threw herself in my arms and screamed that she was hungry..."

However, Old Man Qi didn't care to listen to this man's thoughts and remembrances. Instead, he stood up quickly, bent down to fumble around in the coffin, and then took out two more little white sheep, one in each hand.

The two little white sheep were grabbed by his neck, but they didn't seem to notice it. Their mouths kept opening and closing, chewing a few grains of wheat with a green and black luster.

Old Man Qi could clearly see that although the two little white sheep had fur, they only had teeth and bones in their mouths, without tongues and flesh. They were obviously not serious creatures.

He couldn't help but let out a laugh, turned around and glared at Skeleton Boy and said, "Where did you get a job as a sheep herder? You just came here to steal some food, and you even brought two little ones with you!"

Hearing the sound, the white-bone child turned his head to Old Man Qi again, and was a little more affectionate than he was with Yu Dayue: "Grandpa, give me wheat grains to eat!"

Now even old man Qi lost his temper.

Back then, his grandson was also such a little one, often hugging his trouser legs tightly, crying for his parents, clamoring for meat...

Well, the child stopped crying and fussing later on, but spent the whole day either digging pits in the back hill or sharpening knives in the front yard silently, which made people anxious just to watch.

Old Man Qi is a rough-hearted man and has a stupid mouth. If he hadn't asked Master Meng to teach him, he really couldn't imagine what his grandson would have become...

"Hey! What a sin! What kind of hell is this Yuzhou? Even if the baby dies, he will not be able to live in peace!"

Old man Qi cursed, threw the two little white sheep off the ox cart, picked up a square bucket from the ebony coffin, and jumped to the ground.

The wheat in the square bucket was corpse wheat obtained from the old man who bought the coffin. The grains were full and firm, but had an abnormal green-black color.

Old Man Qi reached out and grabbed a big handful, stuffed it into Yu Dayue's hand, and did not forget to scold: "We are not short of half a bushel of corpse wheat, so don't be stingy, you don't act like a big brother!" "

After that, he grabbed a small handful from the square bucket again and threw it to the two little white sheep at his feet.

After doing this, Old Man Qi held Fang Dou in his arms and walked cautiously towards the forbidden water.

The closer he got to those legendary miasmatic white fogs, the more solemn his expression became. It felt as if he was being watched in secret by countless jackals, tigers and leopards when he was walking alone in the mountains.

When a certain invisible boundary was crossed, Old Man Qi suddenly felt a strong warning sign in his heart, as if he would be killed by a beast if he took another step forward.

He immediately stopped, with a faint tiger spirit exuding from his body, and shouted in a low voice: "Those who are crossing the river are offering corpse wheat as a sacrifice. Please do it for your convenience!"

Before he finished speaking, he had already picked up a few grains of corpse wheat and threw them into the mist ahead.

In an instant, the miasmatic white mist surged violently, and something invisible seemed to be whizzing past in it, and the few grains of corpse wheat suddenly disappeared before they even had time to hit the ground.

But strangely enough, the mist blocking Old Man Qi's face actually became a little thinner, and the malicious prying eyes in the mist also disappeared a lot.

Old Man Qi's tense expression suddenly relaxed: "This Shimai is really effective!"

Yu Dayue, who was behind him, was worried because he was holding the Skeleton Child and leading two little white sheep. He was overjoyed when he saw this: "It's done!"

(End of this chapter)