The land of Sichuan and Sichuan is steep on all sides, and it is difficult to cross the steep foothills and rivers from east to west. Most boatmen are unwilling to pass through the gorge where the peaks and gorges on both sides are long and there are many reefs at the bottom of the water.

Moreover, it was too late to go up to Hanchuan and then to the hinterland of Western Shu, so Lu Liangsheng chose to enter Shu by land, from the hinterland of Southern Chen, and after passing Xiangfan, he had already entered the mountains of Sichuan and Shu.

At this time, the spring rain is continuous, drizzling on the dense mountains and forests. On the mud roads in the mountains, the hooves are sold one after another and the other are sold towards the hills.

The old donkey was carrying the scholar sitting horizontally, and his tongue stretched out happily, then retracted, followed by the falling raindrops, and then a frog slapped it, "Don't move!"

The Toad Taoist held its long ears, controlled its balance, and looked around.

"Liangsheng, is this road actually coming to Shuzhong?"

As the ringing bells sounded, the old donkey went up the hillside. The scholar on his back closed the "Full Mountains and Seas", waved his robe sleeves, swept away the falling raindrops, and looked at the master wearing a flowery dress on his head.

"Master, don't you often overlook the mountains, rivers?"

"Hmph, I'm older, it's possible to see a bad person."

While speaking, the old man, who was poking on the ground with a wooden stick behind him, raised his eyes and still raindrops, fell into the slightly opened eyes, stroked the white goat's whisper, his lips stammered quickly, and he muttered something, and he thought for a moment, and spoke again.

"Master, this road should be the way to enter Shu."

Soon, the spring rain for two consecutive days stopped after leaving the forest. The sun broke through the gaps in the clouds and threw it to the foothills. Two days a donkey and a toad were resting and cooking under the trees beside the mountain road. Lu Liangsheng took out the map and carved paper. His eyes marked the direction he came, and he silently calculated how many miles he had walked in one morning.

"Along this road, there are about fifty miles to Wanhe County, and you can just rest."

Then he looked at Wang Banxia, ​​who was gnawing on the cake: "Can Cheng'en still leave?"

"I am also a practitioner of Taoism. How can I not even walk this path?" Wang Chengen swallowed the cake, laughed a few times, raised his gray head, and looked out the shade of the tree.

"Don't worry, Master, you will never slow down the journey."

Taoist Toad hugged the small bowl and drank the porridge. He glanced at the old man and hummed, but didn't say anything.

Lu Liangsheng scooped a bowl of porridge and handed it to Ban Zai. He also sat down on the stone at will, took a sip of porridge and water. Suddenly, his arms were hanging down and the sound of the carriage was vaguely heard in his ears.

Wang Banxia, ​​opposite the bonfire, had a different hearing than ordinary people, so he naturally heard it.

"Master, it seems that someone passes here, maybe it's a business trip."

Lu Liangsheng nodded, he thought so too. Soon, someone shouted from the bottom of the hills and the sound of whips twitching, as if the wheels were trapped in a mud pit.

"Try harder!" "One, two......Try harder!"

"The one behind you pushes, the horse can't hold it anymore."

"Just unload the goods first, so that the carriage can be light and you can go up. When the mud pit and the hillside are out, we will load the goods."

Hearing the shouting and the neighing of the pack horse, Lu Liangsheng walked to the side of the hillside with a bowl, and saw two men below pulling the reins, or the rope on the carriage, behind the carriage, two people were pushing and catching up with the carriage, a pack horse wrapped in a headscarf shouting and waving the whip and pulling it.

He is not from Shu.

‘A spring rain just happened, and the road was soft and muddy... I’m just helping them.’

Lu Liangsheng raised his right hand and brushed the carriage on the slope downward with wide sleeves. A breeze swelled slightly. The four men who were pulling the cart suddenly felt relaxed. The shaft that could not be pushed up was actually on the mud pit. The pack horse seemed to have taken the wrong medicine, and excitedly stepped on its hooves, pulled the cart body and rushed straight up the hillside.

"Hey, hold it!" "The horse was shocked!"

At this time, someone found a white-robed young man standing there on the hillside, with his robe floating in the wind, and he was holding a bowl in his hand, looking strange.

However, when the carriage was still on duty, the pack horse stopped leaving. The carriage caught up with the carriage and was so scared that it was sweating all over. She sat down and gasped heavily. If the horse was frightened and rushed down the steep cliff in a panic, then her life would be almost gone.

The four people below the slope followed and breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the coachman and the carriage parked there safely.

"It's really a blessing from Grandpa Mountain God." "Otherwise, I'll die."

"But it's really amazing. I can't get up for a long time, and I run uphill in the blink of an eye..."

After checking the goods, the four men and the coachman remembered the young master they had just seen, and found that the other party had already sat under a tree next to the road ahead, burning a bonfire and setting up an iron pot. It was obvious that they were also rushing.

"Five people disturb one or two."

When the five people came over in the carriage, Lu Liangsheng put down his bowls and chopsticks and stood up and bowed to them.

"Can you find out if Wanhe County passes through this road?"

The rotating shaft slowed down. The man who was driving the car looked at the gentle and polite young man in front of him. There was also a blind old man and an old donkey next to him. He probably felt that he was not a villain.

He bowed and returned the bow and replied, "That's right, the young master walked all the way from this road, and it was Wanhe County, and he could arrive in about the afternoon."

"Those who are also going to Wanhe County, are they?"

Suddenly, an old voice sounded aside. The five businessmen turned their heads and saw that it was a blind old man with the scholar. His eyes were dull and half-closed. He was nodding and looking into the forest at the foot of the mountain outside the hillside. The white goat beard gently stroking in the wind, which was quite a bit of a fairy-like Taoist bone.

I was a little hesitant to say that I wanted to reject the scholar.

"This old man looks like a master..." "Yes, our car was trapped in a pit just now. Could it be this old man who used the immortal magic?"

"The bad guy can't see it."

"Anyway, there is no need to harm two people..."

Listening to the rustling of the five people, Wang Banbing couldn't help but thrust his body, and his eyes were even more mysterious.

"I happened to know some magical skills and the fortunes of some people going out. I can see it at first sight. If I go to Wanhe County, I might as well bring me with me. How about it?"

The five men looked at each other and it was really nothing to bring an old man with him. They could also count a divination, and their fortunes were good.

"Master, Chengen is here to take their carriage."

"Go and go."

Lu Liangsheng had nothing to care about. He watched him get on the carriage, talked to the five merchants, got on the donkey and followed their carriage along the mountain road, almost at dusk, and arrived in Wanhe County.

The not-so-high city wall stretches out on both sides of the city gate. The soldiers in full clothing and armor can be seen patrolling the battlements. Not far from the city wall, the carriage from the official road stopped, and Wang Banxia smiled and said goodbye to the five people, which was quite a master's demeanor.

"Remember my words, you must not drink alcohol or quarrel with others within two days."

After hearing the other party leave, he turned around and ran towards the old donkey nearby, took the wooden stick thrown by Lu Liangsheng with a smile, followed behind the donkey, and entered the city gate with the word "Wanhe".

Compared to the quiet forest, the city is bustling and noisy, as if it is a different world.

Among the low eaves on both sides, pedestrians on the long street were bustling with people, stepping on the wet green floor tiles, and the man accompanied his wife to the streets. On the wheelbarrow, the child looked at the rows of colorful sugar men inserted into the stalls on the roadside with envy. The blue-bottomed flags and the tea shops were noisy. The guy carrying a long-mouthed teapot filled a table of tea guests. He walked to the door and shouted loudly in the dialect of Shu.

"Why are you drinking tea? Wanhe Xinbian honey tea, you're here to drink it. It's so tight that it's a bit bitter. It's sweet. It's not good. I won't charge you Wenwenzi's money."

I am used to listening to southern and northern dialects. When I arrived in Shu and heard this, Lu Liangsheng felt a little overwhelmed and could still hear some words clearly, but some unique words cannot be solved by painting magic.

There are also specialties from Shu on the street. I led the old donkey and the eldest disciple to stroll a street on the street and found an inn. Fortunately, the shop guys could speak southern dialect so that they would not let Lu Liangsheng and Wang Bansha go in the dark.

He handed the old donkey to the servant to send samples to the backyard, fed some fine food, and opened the room where two beds. Wang Banxia seemed to be paralyzed, covered her head and poured her back on her, stretching her waist comfortably.

In the bookshelf, Taoist Toad walked out of the small door of the compartment with a cigarette pole weakly, yawned, smacked his lips, and looked at his apprentice who was tidying up the bed with his eyes hanging down.

"When will you have a meal? Order some special dishes from Shu later and let me try it."

"Master wants to go down together?"

Lu Liangsheng put on the quilt, waved away some possible dust on it, washed his face, turned around and said, the toad over there climbed onto the bed, lay on it, rubbed the pillow with one arch and stretched out, and raised his hand and shook it.

"I won't go to the teacher anymore, so I won't be scared by others."

"What about you?"

Looking at the other bed, Wang Banzai was already asleep while hugging the quilt.

Lu Liangsheng shook his head, opened the door with a squeak, and walked to the lobby on the first floor. At this time, it was time to eat and not much, and there were only a few tables of people to eat and drink. When the shopkeeper saw the scholar going downstairs, he hurriedly came forward.

"Customer, what should I order? Local or hometown dishes? We can cook them for you at home. There are not many people, so I will take them to the room later."

Thinking of the master’s advice just now, Lu Liangsheng sat down at a table next to him and said, “Try the dishes from Sichuan and Shu.”

The guy was about to register the dishes when suddenly, at the gate opposite, another guy ran in panting with a vegetable basket, crossed Lu Liangsheng's table, and was dozing off at the counter with his chin. While talking, he pointed outside the door.

"Shopkeeper...Li...Doctor Li is back and is in the clinic..."

The shopkeeper who was awakened was still trying to get angry, but suddenly heard it, lifted up his robe and rushed into the backyard. Lu Liangsheng looked at it curiously and asked the guy who went to sign up for the dishes next to him.

"What's wrong with your shopkeeper?"

"It's not my shopkeeper, but the shopkeeper's father is sick." The guy put on a rag on his shoulder and said without much thought: "Dr. Li is a famous person in our city and has great medical skills. He was invited by the prefect of the county town to see a doctor a while ago. Now he is back. The shopkeeper is anxious and goes to take his father to see a doctor."

"I see."

Lu Liangsheng nodded. After a while, the food was served. He asked the guy to go to the guest room for him. He was also curious about a doctor, so he inquired about the clinic and followed the address the guy said. There were crowds coming and going around in the long street. One side of the edge was filled with people. There were many patients who were coughing and moaning, with pale faces or red eyes being helped by their families, waiting for treatment outside.

In an originally not surprising scene, Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, and the Xuanyuan Sword Sheath on his waist was shaking as a hanging decoration.

He looked to the entrance of the clinic and felt a yin energy clearly.

"A ghost?"

Under the cuff, the moment the two fingers pinched the magic trick, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Young Master Lu?"

Lu Liangsheng dispersed his fingers and turned around and saw a sloppy figure wearing black clothes and a sloppy beard. He stood at the door of a shop with two long knives crossed his back.
Chapter completed!