The winding mountain trails like wild snakes were unusually deserted, with not a single soul in sight. The moist river breeze blew by in the distance, making the waist-deep weeds sway and rustle.
From the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain, there are several paths that wind around and are extremely narrow and steep.
Xie Fanjing, who was carrying a big bag, glanced at the peak with a guilty look. She thought seriously for a moment, then quietly squatted down, like a little ostrich, and lowered her head deeply.
"Chubby?"
Xie Fanjing took out a steamed bun from the big bag and took a big bite.
She puffed out her cheeks and slurred her words: "Pangpang, hurry up."
At the top of the mountain——
The white thatched grass is swaying, and several small thatched huts are arranged in an orderly manner. Bathed in the brilliant light, they are outlined with a shallow golden edge.
Everything was completely silent, not a single human voice was heard, everything was in silence, everything was silent.
After Xie Fanjing was bored and finished his third steamed bun of the day, the grass blades a few steps away suddenly shook slightly, the gravel shook open, the soil surged upward, and a huge cat head immediately broke out of the ground!
"Pangpang?" Xie Fanjing puffed out his cheeks, surprised and delighted: "Have you found it?"
The big cat's head was stuck on the ground, and it meowed feebly. It pushed its short legs hard, and a carp lunged, and the remaining half of it broke out of the ground.
With each passing day, the big fat orange that had changed its appearance for a long time shook its butt and shook off the fine grass blades and dust on it to the ground. It walked proudly for a few steps, rubbed Xie Fanjing's calf vigorously, and mouthed
Meow several times.
"Pangpang, have you got it?" Xie Fanjing struggled to swallow the last bite of steamed buns and clapped his hands: "My Yugui?"
"Meow!"
Fei Ju shook his tail. I don't know when, his tail actually wrapped around a piece of messenger jade. It was a thick yellow texture, and on the jade surface the size of a baby's palm, there were countless fine talisman lights, just like the dancing carp, densely packed.
.
"There are so many, I didn't even see them..."
As soon as Xie Fanjing opened it, his whole body collapsed.
She made a sad face, jumped up and down anxiously, and was so anxious that she said, "I didn't see any of the messages Baizhu sent me! But the teacher and grandpa locked me up here, and they didn't let me use jade."
Gui's! I, I..."
Xie Fanjing suddenly became silent and sulked secretly.
The fat man who had already grown into an orange seat rolled over a few times, with his feet in the air, his furry belly comfortably exposed, and his eyes narrowed.
"Hey, I just summoned him, but he ignored me..."
Xie Fanjing squatted down, rubbed her fat belly, and spoke carefully:
"Is he angry with me?"
"..."
The orange cat meowed helplessly, raised its paws, stuck out its butt, and suddenly began to write furiously on the ground.
Xie Fanjing leaned her head over curiously and saw a line of words carved on the ground.
"I can't explain this to you because I'm just a cat."
Xie Fanjing was stunned, then burst into tears and laughed. She just laughed twice when she realized something was wrong. She quickly covered her mouth with her hands and glanced at the peak.
Seeing that there was still no movement, Xie Fanjing and Orange Cat breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down.
"Let's go."
Xie Fanjing struggled to carry the big bag and whispered: "Hurry up, don't get caught."
The orange cat waggled its tail and jumped onto Xie Fanjing's shoulder. Xie Fanjing staggered under the weight and staggered a few steps.
She turned her head, and the orange cat looked at her innocently and pawed again.
"What's in the big bag?"
Passing through the thick, waist-deep wormwood, the orange cat suddenly rubbed Xie Fanjing's head hard, and used his true energy to spell out a set of words: "Is it money?"
"It's stuff from the kitchen, steamed buns, flower rolls, beef buns, dried fish, water chestnut cakes, rolls..."
Xie Fanjing, who was carrying a large bag, pushed aside the overgrown weeds and said through a message:
“It’s all food!”
"Do you want to eat?" Xie Fanjing blinked: "I took a lot of them."
"Here comes some dried fish!" The orange cat spelled out another set of words: "All the dried fish are mine!"
The shadow of a man and a cat sneaked out of Baimao Mountain and left the Twenty-Four Peaks. Within a short while, at the bottom of the Qingjiang River, a flying boat jumped out and cut through the water waves.
The flying boat was equally sneaky and did not dare to raise its head to escape the light. It first traveled for dozens of miles on the ground without making a sound, and then suddenly it soared into the sky, crashing through the clouds and disappearing without a trace.
And all this.
They were all watched calmly by the people at the peak...
Du Shaozhi, wearing a broad coat of clothing, stood under an old pine tree with his long sleeves fluttering. He calmly watched the flying boat cut through the river, and then sneaked away. From the beginning to the end, his expression was very dull, without any hint of joy or anger.
Come.
"Little Junior Sister, her thoughts are too easy to guess. Do you really think that we don't know about it? We just keep it secret so that she doesn't notice it!"
Light laughter came from behind, and after Du Shao, there were three people following.
They stood behind Du Shao with their hands lowered, with smiles on their lips.
The one who laughed was a young man wearing a crown of kudzu and a light moon-white robe. He narrowed his eyes and smiled softly: "Does she actually think that the teacher is not here, so she wants to drug us all?
God knows how hard I worked to hold back my laughter!"
"Don't talk about it, even that flying boat was repaired by me secretly, otherwise it wouldn't be able to fly."
Among the three, another young man in a yellow shirt smiled bitterly:
"After being soaked at the bottom of the river for so long, without a magic circle to protect her, the shaft frame was corroded. Unfortunately, I had to get up in the middle of the night to build a flying boat for her, just like a thief."
The two of them looked at each other, both dumbfounded.
The porridge we had in the morning was specially prepared by Xie Fanjing, and it was enough to charm a tall horse.
This vigorous escape was secretly planned by Xie Fanjing for nearly half a year, and the entire Baimao Mountain also accompanied her for half a year.
Seeing that the situation finally came to an end, both the Huangshan man and the Geguan man breathed a sigh of relief, as if a heavy burden had been lifted.
In the past six months, they have accompanied the acting and pretended to know nothing about it, but they were really exhausted mentally and physically.
"Senior brother, why didn't you say a word?"
The Geguan man smiled and turned his attention to a short-bearded man who was eight feet tall and tall and proud. He was carrying a large ruler on his back and his face was as dark as water. He stood behind Du Shao and remained silent.
"That dead cat..."
Seeing that his fellow junior fellow student took the initiative to start a conversation, the tall man with a short beard could not help but keep silent. He sighed and said:
"That dead cat was sneaked away in my big iron box. There are many valuable belongings in the iron box!"
Even if it's just worldly gold and silver.
But for him, who has always been a housekeeper and even stingy, this kind of behavior is tantamount to a painful experience.
Thinking of how just now, after pretending to faint from drinking porridge, the dead cat acted unscrupulously, jumping up and down like crazy on his own head, the short-bearded man gritted his teeth, and veins popped out of his forehead.
"I really want to catch that cat back and give it a good beating!"
The short-bearded man touched the big ruler on his back and said in a muffled voice: "I can't help but breathe this tone!"
"The three of us can't defeat that earth spirit. It's already in the fifth realm, and it can control the energy of the mountains and rivers in the world."
The man Ge Guan laughed dumbly: "Otherwise, the Xie family would not have sent it here to guard the little junior sister."
"..." The short-bearded man was speechless. He turned forward, faced Du Shao, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke in a serious and respectful voice:
"Teacher, disciple, is there something unclear?"
"Say it."
"When the Xie family sent their little junior sister here, they asked us to extend her life with our Confucianism and culture." The short-bearded man frowned and said:
"After the little junior sister recovered from her illness, the Xie family still asked the husband to continue teaching so that the little junior sister could not go out to the Twenty-Four Peaks without permission. However, the husband's attitude has always been ambiguous. Now he is even more indifferent and allows the little junior sister to run away secretly. If she is caught
The Xie family knows that students are only afraid of..."
The short-bearded man has always been aware of the transactions between the Xie family and his teacher.
With the concessions of the wealthy families headed by the Xie family, the young emperor of Zheng finally began to govern openly at a young age. In exchange, the literary spirit of Baimaoshan was used to extend his life and repair Xie Fan.
The disease of Taoism is deepened by the mirror.
This disease.
He had recovered half a year ago.
But instead of taking Xie Fanjing back to Changjin, the Xie family asked Du Shaozhi to continue to restrain her at Twenty-four Peaks and trap her in Baimao Mountain.
"Teacher is also compassionate." The short-bearded man smiled bitterly and said, "Are you actually going to consummate your marriage?"
"Marriage?"
Du Shaozhi sneered, and this tall and sturdy Confucian scholar shook his head:
"Although the Xie family and the King Kong Temple have been fighting openly and covertly for many years, it was just a fight between the ruling party and the lower class... Old Xie Xuan asked me to continue teaching her, just to make the King Kong Temple disgusted. To the new leader
The Governor is filled with worries, you said that I will make the marriage come true, this is a big fallacy!"
"You have become the fifth realm at a young age, and the immortal has become a confirmed hero. Do you think Xie Xuan will reject him?"
Du Shaozhi smiled faintly:
"Not to mention, that Bai Shu is a first-grade Vajra-like disciple, a son of the Buddha who was personally consecrated by the Vajra Temple. Such a good son-in-law, if I have a daughter, I can't refuse him."
"Then teacher..."
"Cizai and Luo Yuanzhen are dead, and the orthodoxy of Qingshen Temple and Landa Temple is already in danger." Du Shaozhi glanced at the stunned disciples, smiled bitterly and said:
"It seems that you don't know yet. Not only Cizai and Luo Yuanzhen, but also Ye Gong of the Shouwu Ye family and the leader of the Yuchen Sect also died. This time when they attacked the Nanchan Sect, everyone in the world died.
He killed four immortals! Not only Beiwei and Dazheng, but also Xichu will turn the world upside down!"
"This..." The short-bearded man looked at the two junior brothers blankly. They didn't know that the Beiwei families had worked together to attack the Diamond Cave. They didn't know that in this battle, the Diamond Temple was not damaged at all.
, on the contrary, he also killed four enemy immortals!
"I have already guessed Xie Xuan's thoughts clearly. This old man is just pretending to be noble and waiting for a price!"
Du Shaozhi sneered: "In that case, why would I bother to offend Baizhu by being a villain? He is already the new governor of the Zheng Dynasty. In the future, we will inevitably work together. Why should I give up the name of this villain in vain?
Xuantan!"
Such words made all the short-bearded men and others fall silent. They looked at each other, not knowing how to speak for a moment.
"Teacher, I have a doubt."
The man in a moon-white shirt with a crown of crown came forward, bowed with all his strength, and said in a harsh voice:
"Is the Vajra Temple so powerful that it can kill four immortals? It, it..."
"Shenzu Tong, the Six Divine Transformations of Buddhism, is far beyond my imagination." Du Shaozhi shook his head: "I need to re-evaluate the Vajra Temple."
"If the Xie family is married to the Vajra Temple, the connection between the rich family and the holy place will be even closer."
The short-bearded man frowned and said in a solemn voice:
"One is the leader of the twelve wealthy families, and the other is almost the leader of the Zheng Dynasty Holy Land. If their two families get married, the emperor and we will no longer have any space to stand above the imperial court!"
The short-bearded man's tone was extremely heavy, and he did not hide the worry on his face. Every word he said was extremely heavy.
"The situation has not descended to that point yet. I will have my own opinions on what to do next."
Du Shaozhi expressed relief and turned back to the house without saying much.
The top of Baimao Mountain was already covered with waist-deep wormwood. Seeing his husband's back walking away in the grass, the short-bearded man couldn't help but spoke again.
"gentlemen!"
Du Shaozhi stopped.
"Sir, who is the new governor?" The short-bearded man bowed from a distance and shouted: "Sir, I have seen him before. Is this person loyal or loyal? Does he want to control the situation or support him?
Sheji?"
"Taste?"
Du Shaozhi read the word gently, and then said something that made the short-bearded man suddenly change his color:
"Whether Bai Shu wants to fight for the dragon or support the dragon court, it is difficult for me to guess. With the current situation of Zheng State, unless a saint comes to this world, the nine tigers and leopards in the dynasty can retreat from the center.
Return the government to the emperor."
"We are now..." Du Shaozhi sighed silently: "We can only wait for the opportunity. No matter whether the white magic is fighting for the dragon or supporting the dragon, the situation in the court will not be worse."
The slender Confucian scholar strode away, his form slowly disappearing among the wormwood, and only his voice came from far away:
"If you want to make good friends with Baizhu and win over him, in my opinion, you might as well start with your junior sister and work on it slowly."
"Junior sister?" The short-bearded man smiled bitterly: "Sir, do you want me to blow pillows? My majestic husband, this is a bit difficult..."
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now.
Hundreds of thousands of miles away.
On the flying boat.
"Keep this big bun!"
Xie Fanjing, who had bulging cheeks, suddenly stretched out her hand and stopped the orange cat's fat paws. Her voice was unclear: "The beef buns made by the third senior brother are very delicious, I want to save one Atractylodes for eating!"
"Meow!" the orange cat barked dissatisfiedly, turned his fat head in an aggrieved manner, and bit into a piece of dried fish.
"Should we go back to Changjin? Or go to Chaisang?"
After half a stick of incense, the orange cat that had eaten a ball lay lazily on the ground, with its legs pointing upwards, like a soft cat insect. Its little claws moved, and it once again used true energy to form a set of words:
"Where are we going?"
"Go to Kongo Temple!"
Xie Fanjing swallowed the last mouthful of steamed buns and jumped up from the ground. The bright and beautiful girl patted her chest and held her head high proudly:
"I'm going to find Baizhu and let him see that I am no longer a little girl. I am an adult now!"
