She made fire by setting up a stall

Chapter 698 Interlude

At first, the old man himself didn’t believe that he could find red wood fruits in the outer suburbs of Shangjing where the four seasons are distinct.

He observed it for a whole month, and even dug up the grass and trees nearby to see the root system of the red tree fruit before confirming it.

To be able to grow here, there must be an unusual heat source underneath.

The old man thought twice and continued digging.

Hua Tianshi's hand almost touched the stone, but he didn't feel any particular heat. He sighed, "The heat of this strange stone didn't even dissipate."

"If it can diverge, can there be other living creatures around here?" the old man retorted angrily. He increasingly suspected that the young Hua Tianshi was out of his mind. Can such a reckless boy really find other Chimu fruits?

The more the old man thought about it, the angrier he became. If he hadn't known that killing these two boys would not help, he would definitely do it.

"Senior, do you know the origin of this stone? Does this stone exist because of the red tree fruit growing here?" Feeling the spiritual power fluctuations in the air, the old man asked again, trying to divert the old man's attention.

"How do I know?" The murderous intention in the old man's heart was mostly gone.

He only knew that there must be something under the ground. He had dug this stone before, but it was only separated by a thin layer of soil. The old man did not dare to touch it for fear of hurting the red wood fruit.

The redwood fruit was precious and the old man did not dare to move it at will. In order not to attract attention, he only used magic to hide the redwood fruit to prevent people or animals passing by from harming the redwood fruit.

Because the old man and Master Huatian were fighting here, the two started fighting and accidentally broke the concealment technique set by the old man.

Even though he used magic to hide it, the old man didn't feel at ease. He came over every now and then to take a look. This time he was further away from home and hadn't been here for a week. Unexpectedly, he came to see the red tree fruit before dark, but found that he had been covered by two people. The little brat was ruined.

"You'd better find another one. If something happens to my wife, I will make you pay for it!" the old man said with anger and pain.

"Senior, can I ask your wife what happened?" Without the stone, the redwood fruit withered completely, and there was no possibility of rescue.

Master Huatian wondered if he could find other herbal medicines instead if he knew what happened to the old man's wife, or if he could use other methods to save his wife.

The old man glanced at Master Hua.

Just when Master Huatian thought the old man wouldn't speak, he said, "My wife is also my senior sister."

Although the old man looked unkempt and unshaven, judging by his facial features, he was also a handsome boy when he was young. He added: "Back then, I was very competitive and offended that group of people. They wanted to kill me, but my wife blocked it with her body. They gave me a fatal blow, but I was unharmed, but my wife was seriously injured and unconscious. I tried my best to save her breath."

Life-saving in reality is far from as easy as in the novel about cultivating immortals. The reason why her wife has been able to survive for several years is not because he continuously transferred spiritual power to her, but because he stole the life-saving medicine from the master and left his wife hanging. Take a breath.

Because of this, the master expelled him and his wife from the school.

It is said that Chi Mu Guo can bring human flesh and bones to death. Even if they are dead, as long as one of the three souls and seven souls is still in the body, Chi Mu Guo can pull people back from the gate of hell.

The old man took out a torn book from his arms and threw it to Hua Tianshi.

"There are red wood fruits above."

Hua Tianshi opened the book and flipped through page after page. He went through most of the book before he found the red wood fruit.

The author who wrote this book was obviously not very good at painting. He painted a few leaves on a finger-long tree, with a small fruit sandwiched between the branches and leaves. The only thing that stood out was that the fruit was specially painted red with cinnabar.

Hua Tianshi recalled the appearance of the red tree fruit, then compared it with the book, and asked a little doubtfully: "Senior, how are you sure that the tree just now is the red tree fruit? This painting is different too!"

"What's the difference? They're obviously exactly the same!" The old man sat up, holding a withered red tree fruit in his hands, and emphasized, "The veins of the leaves are all the same."

"There are also red wood fruits that grow out, and they are all painted red." The old man pointed out specifically, "The fruit is the same as the red wood fruit in both color and shape."

Hua Tianshi was shocked by the old man's words. He looked carefully at the simple paintings in the book. He really couldn't see the veins of the plants in the paintings. Hua Tianshi handed the book to the old man again.

The old man frowned and looked at it for a while, but he didn't find any similarity between the redwood fruit tree in the picture and the one in the old man's hand.

Master Hua Tianshi quietly winked at the old man and asked the old man with his eyes, was this senior confused by the red tree fruit demon, so he caught a small tree that was somewhat similar and said it was a red tree fruit?

The old man glanced at the strange stone and said in his eyes, what about this stone?

There was also a redwood fruit tree held in the hands of the old man. It withered in a short period of time, which was not in line with the speed at which ordinary plants wither after death.

Hua Tianshi touched his chin and nodded, that's right.

Regardless of whether this tree is a red tree fruit or not, it is a fact that they crushed it and caused this small tree to wither.

They want to help the elderly as much as possible.

"Senior, have you seen Chimuguo before?" the old man asked.

Neither he nor Hua Tianshi had ever heard of it.

"Of course I have seen it." The old man frowned. That was when he was young, about seven or eight years old. At that time, an uncle in the division was seriously injured, and his internal organs were shattered. The master fed the division's only red wood fruit to Uncle Master.

Uncle Master's injury was originally fatal. After taking the redwood fruit, in less than ten days, Uncle Master's face became rosy and he could walk freely.

It was so surprising that the old man kept remembering it for decades.

"It's because we are ignorant."

The old man and Hua Tianshi tried their best to comfort the old man, and then asked the old man to take them to see his wife. In order to be able to easily come to the mountain to look at the red tree fruit trees and take care of his wife, the old man and his wife lived in the nearest village.

On the way, Hua Tianshi asked again: "Senior, you didn't send your wife to the hospital?"

The old man glared at him again, "If I couldn't feel the spiritual power in your body, I would have doubted whether you were a Taoist."

If his wife's condition was in a hospital, she would definitely have to sleep in the intensive care unit, and there would be time limits for daily visits.

Before his wife was seriously injured by him, he felt that his ambition was the most important. In the past, his wife had accommodated him, but later she fell asleep to save him. He gradually felt that having someone by his side to accompany him was the most important thing.

His feelings for his wife seem to be getting deeper and deeper as he takes care of him day by day.

After taking the master's secret medicine, his wife will not die, but she will not wake up. The reason why the old man is willing to take the old man and Master Huatian to see his wife is that he has no hope of letting the two of them help him. He also wanted the two of them to do him a favor.

The old man also hired a widow with a child in the village to look for his wife when he was not at home.

In addition to the widow, he also set up a formation around the courtyard.

The old man withdrew the formation and just entered the door. The woman who was looking after his wife came out with a basin of water. When she saw the old man, she quickly wiped her hands and prepared to cook for him.

The old man waved his hand and asked her to go back first.

The woman walked to the door, stood still for a moment, and then came back. Her eyes were a little red, "Brother Lu, can I borrow some money from you?"

When looking for someone to take care of his wife, the old man naturally makes sure that the person is of good character. The woman has taken good care of his wife these years and has never asked him. On the contrary, the old man will take the initiative to give the woman an extra month's salary during holidays.

For villagers, money is the most practical thing.

"What happened to your son?" The salary he offered the woman was not low, enough for both mother and son to live on.

The woman usually lives frugally, and she must have saved a lot over the years.

When she has no money herself, if she can ask for a loan, it must be something bad happened to the son she cares about most.

"It's my Xiaoqiang. He, he injured his classmate at school. The child is in the hospital. I heard he will have to stay for several months. I don't have enough medical expenses."

Later, the woman explained that her son stabbed a classmate with a penknife, and the classmate's parents called her door and demanded 50,000 yuan from her.

Fifty thousand yuan thirty or forty years ago was an astronomical figure to ordinary people.

The family said that if they didn't pay the money, they would sue her son and put her son in jail.

"My Xiaoqiang is a good boy. He couldn't bear to hear me being scolded, so he took action. If he goes to jail, I won't be able to survive."

According to the woman, her son had been bullied at school because he had no father. In the past, her son had always tolerated it and didn’t say anything about being beaten or scolded. This time, the child called her a broken shoe in front of the whole class. , also said that she seduced several men, and even said that she and the old man were not clear about each other, and her son suddenly became violent and attacked each other.

The child was tall and fat, and there were two little followers. The woman's son was no match, so he was held down and beaten. Before leaving, he mentioned the woman again.

The woman's son got up, rushed back to his seat, grabbed the penknife, and stabbed the child in the lower back.

"I really had no choice. After paying for the medicine for the past few days, I had less than 5,000 yuan left, so I gave it all to them. They said that not only would I have to give 50,000 yuan, but also the money for the child's medicine in the future. I have to pay.”

"How is the child's injury?" the old man asked.

"I didn't see the child with my own eyes, so his family gave me the hospital's injury appraisal report, saying that a kidney was injured and he would be unable to live without medicine for the rest of his life. He could no longer be tired, and it would also affect his future marriage and childbirth. Child." She went to the hospital, but was kicked out before she could even enter the ward.

The woman was just a rural woman who was illiterate and had little knowledge. The family blocked the door aggressively, smashed up her home without saying a word, and then threw the appraisal certificate on her face.

The child's mother wanted to do something to her, but the child's father and his brothers stopped the child's mother.

No matter how hard and tired the woman was in the past, as her son grew up day by day, she felt that there was hope for the future, and she always had a smile on her face. Ever since someone came to her door, she had always been enveloped in a layer of sadness.

She herself didn't care, but when she couldn't do it anymore, her son would have to be responsible for the child, and mother and son would never be able to escape in this life.

What the woman didn't say was that just the night before yesterday, when she was tossing and turning, she heard the sound of the door closing in her son's room at around two o'clock in the night. At first, she thought her son was getting up at night, but then she heard a slight sound of the door opening and closing.

The door of her house is old and makes a grinding sound when it is opened or closed.

She ran out in a hurry and saw her son walking out. The woman caught up with her son and her heart sank when she saw the desperate look on his face.

Later, she dragged her son back and after questioning, she found out that her son wanted to go to the hospital and kill the child directly.

Her son said that he could only have one person by his side for the rest of his life, and he could not let his mother be dragged down from now on.

The woman knew that this matter could not be solved. She also knew that her son had only temporarily given up the idea.

"Brother Lu, I will definitely pay you back in the future. Can you lend me a little first?"

(End of this chapter)