"After meeting that person, don't take action without permission."
Thinking that the other party might be in the Golden Core realm, Qin Shouyan found it difficult. The three of them could only build the foundation. He and his junior sister were slightly better and had completed the foundation building, but after all, they had not yet overcome the tribulation, and there was still a big gap compared with the Golden Core.
Fei Xuan nodded and looked at the senior sister in white and blue clothes beside him. The woman responded lightly, put away the paper crane and jumped off the cliff with her sword, falling seven to eight feet, and landed lightly on the mountain road below.
"There are traces of the shaft here, but the surrounding mountains and forests are dense, and there is no smoke or farmland. The mud marks must have been crushed not long ago." The two people who followed down looked at the ground, and then looked at the white mist in the distant mountains. It was difficult to see people. Qin Shouyan took it back
He glanced at the junior sister beside him and then continued to move forward.
The three of them walked along the dirt road dug by the chariot shaft for a while, and saw a village gate standing between the cliffs on both sides in front of them from a distance.
Naturally, those who set up a stronghold here will not be ordinary people, but the three of them are not afraid that the other party will threaten them.
‘Bang!’
Qin Shouyan blasted open the slightly opened village gate with a palm, but the expected group of bandits did not rush toward them. Instead, the three of them froze in place when they saw the scene ahead.
"What are they... doing?" Fei Xuanze opened his mouth slightly and looked at the senior brother next to him.
The mountain breeze blew through the forest on the cliff, making the intertwined branches and leaves rustle.
In the empty area of the cottage below, more than twenty people were sitting on the ground, holding their knees with their hands, their eyes dark and dull, but there was nothing in the direction they looked.
There were very small sounds coming out of their mouths, and the three of them had to get closer to hear them clearly.
"...I've written it down, don't act anymore." "Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei, Zhang Fei..."
Just when the three of them were saying that 'Zhang Fei' might be the evil cultivator, among the people sitting on the ground, a burly man turned his head with difficulty, as if seeing a savior, and his dry and peeling lips trembled with excitement.
"Excuse me, could you three help me wait for the official report? I would be very grateful."
"What's wrong with you?"
Fei Xuanze went over and pulled the man over. The man looked haggard, as if he had been sucked in by a fox demon for a night. He was swaying when he walked and found it difficult to stand firm.
Was asked what happened.
The man suddenly woke up and subconsciously sat down on the ground. The hilt of the sword stretched out to the man's armpit. Qin Shouyan raised his arm and raised the man upright again. The hilt of the sword opened by itself, revealing a cold light pressing down on it.
The opponent's neck.
"Tell me, what happened to you, and who is Zhang Fei?"
The burly man felt the coldness on his neck, and his legs were trembling. He looked at the sword in front of him, and then he stuttered about what happened last night. At the end of the sentence, the old man cried with aggrieved "Wow"
come out.
"...How could there be such a person...forced us to watch a play all night and kept repeating it back and forth...and asked us who couldn't read a few words to memorize the story...If we couldn't memorize it, he would have us
Throwing it from the cliff...it's so scary...and taking away all the gold and silver in the village...leaving no way to survive..."
Qin Shouyan and Fei Xuanze looked stunned. This was the first time they had heard of such a thing. The cold woman next to them couldn't help but twitch the corner of her mouth, and quickly endured it.
"Then you carried it?"
The man pursed his lips, lowered his head and nodded silently, as quietly as a mosquito's voice: "I've got it."
"Then where did he go?"
"I don't know, but he pulled a Taoist priest into an ox cart and went down the mountain before dawn."
Qin Shouyan said "Yes" and asked his junior brothers and sisters to leave. When he reached the village gate, he picked up an unextinguished torch on the ground with his toes and flew to the village tower. When it touched the wooden pillars, it burned with a "boom".
"You'd better go down the mountain immediately. If the three of us meet you again and return to the old business, we will all be killed!"
The three of them walked out of the village gate and looked at the winding mountain road, probably still wanting to continue tracking.
The fire in the cottage was getting bigger and louder, and the noise of people was still coming. The golden morning light shone on Qin Shouyan's face. He walked in front of the two of them with an expressionless face, chasing them all the way out, and getting behind others, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable. But
It's not good to show it in front of my junior sister.
He stopped, turned around, and smiled gently again.
"That Zhang Fei has a weird temperament. Looking at these people, he must have used some evil magic. We can't just let it go!"
"Senior brother, don't worry, senior sister and I will definitely listen to you."
Fei Xuan held his sword and clasped his fists.
The sky was pouring into the clouds. At this time, the mentioned 'Zhang Fei' was driving an ox cart, driving slowly on the dirt road at the foot of the mountain several miles away. The crazy old man was holding a beautiful puppet in the car and shouting loudly.
When sleeping, one foot is dangling outside.
Chen Yuan yawned, and as the car swayed, he glanced at the fat Taoist priest who was cautiously holding his arms around him.
"It's okay to go around showing off and cheating. I happen to be short of people here. Come and help me attract visitors."
The fat Taoist moved his body and turned his face to one side: "Humph, I am the benevolent and virtuous Heavenly Master..."
"One month and five taels."
"I am a disciple of the dignified Heavenly Master, how can I do such an actor's trick!"
"Twelve."
"I am a monk and a Taoist!"
"Twenty taels!"
The Taoist looked at the two fingers that Chen Yuan pointed out, opened his mouth and then closed it. When he was hesitating, the voice came again: "Twenty-five taels!"
"Two..." The fat Taoist stretched out two fingers with difficulty and looked at it, took a breath and turned his face away, "Forget it, it must be a great fate to run into you again and again."
"Thirty taels."
The fat Taoist turned his face, his smiling eyes narrowed so much that he could hardly see.
"My boss, I am Sun Zhengde, where do you think we should go next?"
Chen Yuan laughed and cracked his whip, but did not answer directly, but was rather curious about the other party's origins.
"You speak your truth, what kind of disciple of the Heavenly Master are you? How come you don't know how to do magic?"
The fat Taoist priest named Sun Zhengde rolled his eyes in his slits, wiped down the sleeves of his robe and looked serious.
"Of course. As for spells..."
"You didn't learn at all. Are you still pretending in front of me?"
Chen Yuan's eyes turned cold, which made the Taoist chuckle twice. He crossed his legs in embarrassment and said sheepishly: "This Taoist...is indeed from the Tianshi Sect, but...it is just in the Tianshi Sect.
Working in the kitchen..."
Chen Yuan thought about several possibilities, but she didn't expect such an identity, so she couldn't help but smile.
"Aren't you afraid of being caught and deceived under the name of Tianshi Clan?"
"The Celestial Master's Gate is gone, I took advantage of the chaos and escaped."
At this point, the Taoist did not need Chen Yuan to ask. He sighed and continued: "The barbarians from the north are wreaking havoc in the south. How can there be any intact eggs under the soldiers' front? There are also priests in the opponent's army... They can't compete with each other. With the help of the army,
After breaking the Tianshi sect's feng shui and driving the people up the mountain, the leader did not want to affect the people, so he had to let everyone in the sect go down the mountain with the sect's rules, continue to kill demons and eliminate demons, and contribute to the peace of the world. After the world is stable, he can return to the mountain gate.
I took advantage of the chaos and came out at that time. I thought it would be peaceful here, so I came all the way here."
After hearing the whole story, Chen Yuan somewhat admired the leader.
The two talked about some things about the north. As for the monastery, the fat Taoist was also talking nonsense and couldn't take it seriously. After a while, the dirt road became stable, and there were a lot of farmland on both sides, with patches of green and yellow rice.
Swaying gently in the wind.
Farmers were busy in the fields, taking their families with them to weed out insects and pull weeds. From time to time they would scold the children who were rubbing the mud. When they saw the bullock cart coming on the road, they just glanced at it and continued their work.
Logically speaking, if you are so diligent, the crops in the field should not be like this.
When Chen Yuan was wondering, at another fork in the road behind him, a donkey cart came swaying. Chen Yuan put the cart at full speed and saw that the donkey cart was full of buckets, and there were a few men beside it.
Use a cloth to soak up the water stains that came out, and then twist it into the bucket.
The men were all covered in sweat, and it was obvious that they had brought the water back from all the way.
"There happens to be a village ahead. Let's go over and put on a show."
From a distance, you can see that at the end of the road where the donkey cart turns, there is a village filled with smoke. At the entrance of the village, people of all sizes are carrying their own buckets and basins, waiting for the donkey cart to come and fetch water from house to house.
“Great!”
Chen Yuan parked the cart and ox at the entrance of the village, and while watching the villagers over there diverting water, an old man saw the big green ox pulling the cart, half-closed his eyes, tremblingly came over with a cane, and carefully touched the cow's head.
"This cow is good...it must be a little old. Its horns are warm but not cold, it has less hair and more bones, and it has all six teeth. It may have thirteen joints in its spine...This gentleman, is the old man right?"
The old man's eyes were dull and his speech was calm.