Yinshan Lake is located in a place surrounded by barren mountains in Yuefu, on the edge of leaving Yangmo.↗,
The place is shrouded in white mist all year round, making it difficult to see even the most skilled fishermen.
It was already evening when Lin Xin and his party arrived at Yinshan Lake.
Surrounded by barren mountains, you can faintly see the white mist air flowing in the mountains. The mountains undulate into the distance until the outline is no longer visible.
Several carriages formed a square formation, and several bonfires were burning brightly in the middle.
Lin Xin stood beside a carriage and looked towards Yinshan Lake in the distance on the road ahead.
Wherever you look, everything is white, as if everything has been dyed black and white by the fog, and there are no other colors to be found.
"Master, why don't you come and have something to eat?" Gongsun Li walked up behind him and whispered.
"No, I have already used it with Lingling." Lin Xin turned around and said, "There is heavy fog around Yinshan Lake. There should be bandits and beasts hiding, right?"
"Yes, yes, but I don't dare to attack a large group of people. Besides, with a few of us here, even if there is, it will be easy to solve." Gongsun Li said disapprovingly.
Lin Xin accompanied them and had something to eat with the three worshippers. Then he got up and was about to go back to the carriage to accompany Xiao Lingling. She was still weak and had not fully recovered.
"Deep in the mountains, there is wine coming~" Suddenly a long folk song came from the mist. It was a man who seemed to be a bit old.
“After one bowl, you won’t forget it~”
The sound got closer and louder, and after repeating it several times, it reached a place not far from the phalanx.
"But is there a liquor store?" the person on guard outside the team called.
"Yes, yes." Two people walked out of the mist, carrying two wine jars. They were all yellow-brown earthen jars. They were sealed with white cloth stoppers, and you could faintly smell the aroma of wine wafting out.
“It smells so good!”
The experts in Zhuangzi couldn't bear it any longer. In this cold weather and heavy fog, two people immediately came to ask Taoist Lu Suo who was managing the team.
After Lu Suo heard what the two said, he turned to ask Lin Xin.
"Manager, the people below want to buy some wine to satisfy their cravings. I don't know."
Lin Xin stared at the two men carrying the wine. They were two rough men with dark skin, wearing gray cloth turbans. They were also ordinary farmers' commoners that had been washed white.
"It's foggy, so it's good to drink some wine." He nodded, "But first, bring the two wine sellers up and ask about the situation. In this wilderness, wild beasts are rampant, and only two people dare to carry the wine out.
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"I also think there is something wrong." Zen Master Sanyuan nodded. "Why don't we ask the poor monk on behalf of the village owner?"
"That's fine, I'm sorry to trouble Zen Master."
"It's not annoying." Zen Master Sanyuan took the two of them over and stood at a distance and said a few words to the two wine sellers.
Lin Xin couldn't hear clearly either. When he saw Xiao Lingling on the carriage opening the curtain and looking outside, he walked towards the carriage and prepared to tell her the situation.
Before I had gone far, I heard a loud shout from the other side.
"Go!"
Then the roar of Zen Master Sanyuan exploded, like muffled thunder.
Bang bang!
The two liquor sellers were beaten as hard as broken sacks and flew away. Both of them were holding two daggers in both hands. It was obvious that they had just taken the opportunity to make a sneak attack. They were forcefully beaten away by Zen Master Sanyuan.
Before either of them could even make a sound, their heads were smashed into a large dent on both sides.
"kill!"
Suddenly, a large group of figures suddenly rushed from all around, waving mist such as hatchets, hoes, and sickles, and rushed towards the phalanx to attack.
"He is really a bandit and a robber." Lin Xin walked to the carriage and helped Xiao Lingling get out of the car.
"I'm not so squeamish yet." Xiao Lingling said coquettishly.
"It's okay, it's just that I want to do this." Lin Xin felt sorry for this girl. He learned from Senior Sister Qihuang that Xiao Lingling is still a virgin, and because she used a secret method this time and overdrafted her body, it may also have a negative impact on her lifespan.
Influence.
So her original lively energy was gone, and instead she looked weak and coquettish every day. This was a sign that her roots had been hurt.
Every time he thought of this, he felt more guilty and pity for Xiao Lingling.
He helped Xiao Lingling get out of the car. He looked around. At this time, Zen Master Sanyuan and four or five martial arts masters recruited by the villa had rushed into the bandits, running rampant and killing a bandit with every blow.
There were dozens of gangsters, but they seemed to be too many. The Zen master led them to open the way by practicing Kung Fu. They rushed all the way and killed two people in and two out, and the entire bandit group collapsed.
Their weapons could not even make a mark on the Zen Master's body.
In a few strokes, the entire bandit was killed and fled in all directions.
"Capture some people and bring them back to Zhuangzi as slaves." Lin Xin gave the order.
The Zen master responded, and Lu Suo also sent several more people to cooperate on both sides and began to surround the fleeing bandits.
In less than a few words, more than a dozen bandits were arrested.
Lin Xin walked over and saw that the arrested people had been tied up tightly. He looked at the overturned wine jar next to him. The aroma of the wine overflowing from it was very tempting.
.My heart suddenly moved slightly.
“Where does the wine here come from?”
"My lord! My lord! Have mercy on me! I have an old mother above me and a three-year-old baby waiting to be fed. Without me, I am the mainstay of the family."
Bang. His words were interrupted by a kick.
The robber who shouted may have listened to too many storytellers, so his screams even rhymed.
Lin Xin also didn't expect to meet such a superb person. This was the first time he met a guy who would beg for mercy like this in real life.
"Stop talking nonsense!" A man on the side kicked him over and cursed a few words, "What did the owner say when he asked you? How did you get the wine? Tell me!"
"Yes, yes, wine is made by villains!" This man has sinister features, sallow skin, a long and thin face, and messy hair that looks like he hasn't washed it for a long time. He looks like a monkey spirit.
"Did you brew it?" Lin Xinyiqi said, "How could you end up working as a bandit in the mountains with this skill?"
The man immediately started crying for his father and mother again, and started telling his story with runny nose and tears.
It turns out that this guy was in the city because his wife Hongxing, whom he had just married, cheated on her. He got angry for a moment, went to the door with scissors and stabbed both his wife and her lover to death. Later, in order to avoid the government, he fled to the mountains. Unexpectedly, he wandered around randomly.
, unexpectedly encountered a talking well.
"Talking well?" Lin Xin was stunned. The others around him were also stunned.
"This well can also talk?" Zen Master Sanyuan next to him was stunned.
"I think this guy is just making it up! Owner, why don't you kill him with a single blow!" the hero who just kicked his foot next to him spat rudely.
As soon as these words came out, the man immediately started crying and begging for mercy.
"Don't worry." Lin Xin thought. This world is mysterious and strange. Maybe he can encounter such strange things.
When the man saw Lin Xin's words, he immediately didn't dare to delay and hurriedly said the key things.
"My lord is wise! My lord is wise! The little man was frightened at that time and fainted. When he woke up later, he found that the well was gone. There was only a small piece of purple-red stone in the place. I picked up the stone.
, and then I unexpectedly discovered that if I put it in water for a night, I can get a continuous flow of wine!"
"Is there such a thing?" Lin Xinyiqi. "What about that stone?"
"Here it is." The man shrank and took out a thin purple-red stone from his clothes.
As soon as he took it out, someone snatched it away and walked to Lin Xin to offer it to him.
Lin Xin took the stone and held it in his hand to observe carefully.
"This is obviously an ordinary stone." Xiao Lingling was also surprised. At this time, she also came closer to observe.
"No" Lin Xin shook his head slightly.
The stone is spindle-shaped and somewhat irregular, with many honeycomb-like holes on the surface, similar to volcanic stone. The entire surface is purple-red, and is faintly covered with vein-like veins.
"When I was talking to Dongyue, I heard him mention this thing," Lin Xin said slowly.
"The owner of the village is indeed the owner of the village. He knows all these strange things!" Gongsun Li quickly flattered him.
Then a group of people around him echoed incessantly, expecting him to explain the origin of the stone. Even the man who was arrested was the same.
"Master, this thing can really turn water into wine?" Taoist Lu Suo didn't believe it.
Lin Xin is not sure either.
"My friend mentioned that there is something called tartar in the world, which can turn water into wine. But this requires a price."
"What price?" Xiao Lingling asked curiously.
Lin Xin shook his head slightly.
"The price is a human body."
As soon as he said these words, the arrested person's face suddenly turned pale and he looked a little stupid.
The people who gathered around also changed their colors.
"A corpse can sustain the use of tartar for a certain number of times. Although it is bloody, the wine turned into tartar is a treasure that can prolong life." Lin Xin shook his head.
"No matter what, this is an evil treasure." Sanyuan Zen Master said the Buddha's name.
"Yes." Lin Xin nodded. "However, apart from this effect, this thing does not necessarily have to use corpses." He smiled. "Of course, the premise is that this thing is really tartar. Bring water."
He asked someone to get a bowl of water and put the stone in it to soak. Then he put it on the carriage and left it alone.
"Leave these people here, leave a few people to watch, and take them back to Zhuangzi together when we come back." Lin Xin casually ordered.
He is not afraid that there will be rescuers behind these bandits. With this little fighting ability, they are not much different from farmers with weapons. He can succeed when encountering an ordinary convoy, but there is no chance of encountering a skilled warrior.
The team rested all night, and Xiao Lingling got up early the next morning to see the bowl of water with tartar.
"It's really wine!"
She said a little excitedly.
"Of course." Lin Xin said softly. He picked up the bowl of tartar water placed on the table in the middle of the carriage and waved it gently, smelling a strong aroma of wine.
"This wine, also called dead man's wine, is brewed from the essence of human corpses. It is naturally fragrant and delicious. But only we humans like to drink it, because according to what my friend mentioned, if other creatures see this wine, they will be very disgusted.
Because what they smell is not a fragrance, but a stench."
"It's amazing." Xiao Lingling nodded, looking at the drink with a mixture of emotion and disgust in her eyes.
The motorcade continued to move forward and soon arrived at the bank of Yinshan Lake.
There was heavy fog on the shore of the lake, and you couldn't even see the people around you, let alone looking for strangers from Yinshan. Even though they were far away, three or four meters away, you couldn't see the people around you.
The team must use thick ropes to connect people and cars together to prevent them from getting lost.
After walking for a while, we arrived at the lake. The fog was thick and the calm and clear lake water could only be seen along the rocky shore.
Lin Xin had his carriage parked between two old trees. He took out the sword box and carried the newly made talisman swords on his back.
The last Yanyang Talisman Sword was slowly sheathed.
Lin Xin gently hugged Xiao Lingling.
"Wait for me right here."
"kindness."
Xiao Lingling replied softly.
Leaving Zen Master Sanyuan behind, Lin Xin led the cableman, Gongsun Li, and eight experts, and slowly advanced along the shore of the lake, leaving traces at intervals along the way.
After walking along the lake for a while, a rather simple thatched house suddenly appeared in front of me. (To be continued.)