It wasn't until the sun went down that Feng Nian ran into Xie Li again at Xie Li's house.

Xie Li was a little embarrassed. He took the investigators through the entire Xiejia Village, looking for any place where Xie Yu might be hiding. After walking for several hours, they found nothing. After returning home, he has been beating his two legs.

Xie Zhaotian was busy preparing dinner, so she asked her daughter to go to Xie Shun's house to clean up the dishes.

"Brother Xie Shun has eaten."

Feng Nian looked up, and saw a little girl with shofar braids bouncing over carrying a basket, her red face was beaded with sweat.

"Slow down, don't fall," Xie Zhaotian smiled and caught her daughter who was running towards her, and took her basket, "Then you can help bring something to brother Xie Shun, okay?"

"Okay." The little girl agreed loudly, she was only six and a half years old.

"Sister-in-law, let me go and see Xie Shun," Feng Nian stood up.

Since Xie Shun is willing to eat, it means that the situation has improved, maybe he can find out something.

Xie Zhaotian put the hot bowl and vegetables in the basket, and the little girl carried the basket and took Feng Nian to the room where Xie Shun was.

Xie Shun's room was very dark. According to Xie Zhaotian, even at night, Xie Shun refused to turn on the light, and would yell when he turned on the light. They had no choice but to let him go.

When Feng Nian approached Xie Shun's house, he yelled again, and threw out the food brought by Xie Li's daughter, including the basket. Make a "ping, ping, ping, ping, ping" sound.

Hearing the sound from the backyard, Xie Li and Xie Zhaotian rushed over, "What's the matter? Haven't you already eaten?"

Feng Nian shook his head, motioning for Xie Li to leave with someone. From the window just now, she saw a little boy wrapped himself in the quilt, only showing a pair of eyes staring outside.

Sitting down at the dinner table, Xie Zhaotian gave her daughter a chopstick of choy sum, and then said to herself, "After dinner, I'll bring Xie Shun something to go. I can't eat or drink."

Xie Li took a sip of his wine, breathed out and said, "Well, it's really not possible. I'll find some people to take him to the town hospital for a look. Xie Guaizi is the only son left, so don't worry about it."

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In the middle of the night, whenever there was a person walking around in the village, the dogs raised by the villagers would bark, but it was strange that none of the dogs barked when this man was walking on the village road majestically.

The man walked towards the side of the mountain along the muddy mountain road, which seemed to be in the direction of Xie Guaizi's house. But when he really reached the door of Xie Guaizi's house, he turned another corner and went deep into the mountain, until he stopped in front of the abandoned kiln house.

He struggled to open the closed door of the kiln with his hands, and when he opened a gap, a joking voice suddenly sounded in his ear, "How about I help you?"

As soon as he turned around, he found that there was someone behind him, that person came out from under the shade of the tree, it was Feng Nian.

"Why, if you can hide your breath, can't I?" Feng Nian saw a small figure struggling inside the kiln, it was Xie Yu.

Xie Shun also walked towards Feng Nian, "Since you found me, I don't need to hide anymore. After today, no one will know about me."

As soon as he finished speaking, countless tiles immediately moved towards Feng Nian.

Feng Nian didn't dodge, but went to meet him, those porcelain pieces hit **** the defensive shield formed by the spell.

"Let me guess, you are the original statue of the Water Emperor and Prince." Feng Nian walked through the rain of porcelain pieces, walking towards Xie Shun slowly.

When she mentioned the water emperor and prince statue, Xie Shun didn't hide the black air on his body at all, and burst out more black air directly, and the rain of porcelain pieces became denser. "Everyone in Xiejia Village deserves to die, everyone deserves to die."

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My name is Xie Jun, and my parents are both from Xiejia Village. But after the drought, my mother couldn't survive and she died. My father took me to the mountains to peel the bark every day, and the wild vegetables were dug up by the villagers. Slowly, all the bark in the mountains was peeled off, so we had to follow other villagers to dig grass roots, but the grass roots were harder to swallow than the bark.

Until one day, it finally rained heavily, and the land returned to its former vitality, but my father left me because of a sudden illness. I was an orphan.

The people in Xiejia Village saw that I was pitiful, so they invited me to take turns to go to each family's house for dinner every day. Every time I finished eating, I would always help them with the work I could. I will be eight years old in one month.

People in Xiejia Village have always said that it was the kindness of the Water Emperor that caused the heavy rain and made the people in Xiejia Village survive. Therefore, they wanted to build a Temple of the Water Emperor, and enshrined the Water Emperor, his wife, and the four brothers of the Water Emperor. All the princes are invited to come to the temple.

Every day, I would go to the temple to help move a few bricks, doing my best.

The six **** statues in the Water Emperor Temple were fired by a skilled craftsman in the village. His name is Xie Yihong.

I often secretly hid aside to watch him carefully shape the statues of the gods.

One day ~lightnovelpub.net~ he found me, grabbed me by the collar, and dragged me out of the corner, "Do you want to learn?"

I nodded heavily, "Yes, I want to learn."

"Why?" Xie Yihong frowned, he couldn't figure out why a doll who was not yet eight years old came here to learn these things secretly.

"In order to have enough food," I said out the actual thoughts in my heart.

"Come over at seven o'clock every morning from now on," Xie Yihong loosened Xie Jun's collar, and after leaving this sentence, he turned and continued to work.

From that day on, I followed Xie Yihong, helping him with what I could every day, handing him paint and wiping his sweat. Others also knew that Xie Yihong had taken in a new apprentice.

I followed behind the master, and finally I was able to eat every day. I have been carefully watching every detail of the master making the statue, and firmly remembered it in my heart. The master is not married, so he has no children. I have always planned to be filial to the master, and when the master is no longer able to do it, I will raise him.

Five statues of the Water Emperor Temple have been completed, and only the statue of the youngest prince of the Water Emperor has not been completed. But the master has been unsuccessful. No matter how hard he tried, the statue either cracked after firing, or the coloring was uneven.

The master frowned every day and kept adjusting every step, but after ten days, the statue of the youngest prince still failed to be successfully created.

The village head of Xiejia Village and other people came to urge the master several times, because the "Swimming Water Emperor Meeting" was about to start, and the six statues were indispensable. They gave the master an ultimatum. If the statue of the youngest prince is produced, they will hire another Gao Ming. For a master craftsman, this is a great shame and humiliation, and others need to complete his statue.