There were faint chirping of insects and birds in the forest, and Tong Ruoran said to Chentian as he walked: "In the past, when I was not the master of Xianyin Pavilion, my treatment was very low."
“Every item of clothing, food, housing and transportation is very simple.”
"For example, the incense needed to meditate on the piano is not sandalwood, but just some ordinary brass. The smell is very weak and has no effect at all."
Chen Tian was speechless.
Is this considered hardship?
However, Tong Ruoran seemed to start talking, and Xu Xu added: "Eating is also very distressing."
"The ingredients in the world are not very refined. Even the most expensive buffalo tenderloin has a fishy smell and I can't eat it at all."
"Then..." Chentian looked at the Dujiagou at the foot of the mountain and replied slowly: "Then you hadn't eaten grain at that time. If you were hungry, what would you eat?"
“There are pastries and snacks!”
Tong Ruoran smiled.
She clapped her fingers and counted in detail: "Hibiscus soft spring cake, Yunyan soup, mung bean clear water soup, amaranth porridge, Jingyang dense peach cake."
"These are delicious delicacies, who can't be full?"
"Uh, is this what you call suffering?"
Chen Tian was stunned.
"Isn't it?"
Tong Ruoran asked back, pointing to the clothes and said: "Then the fabrics I wore before were not dyed and were very rustic. This must be considered a difficult situation, right?"
Chentian didn't know how to answer.
I just recall the corpses of the refugees lying on the roadside. Not only did they die without a place to bury them, but the only half-clothes they had on them were stripped off by others.
It really complies with the Zen saying - once you walk in this world, come naked and leave naked.
Chen Tian shook his head, his mood was inexplicably complicated. He was about to take Tong Ruoran to walk faster when he suddenly heard a rustling sound coming from the mountain stream in the distance.
He stopped suddenly, so frightened that Tong Ruoran almost bumped into him.
She pricked her ears suspiciously: "The mountains here are shady and accumulate miasma, which breeds many mountain ghosts. They come out to make trouble when the moon is bright. It's normal."
"Is there anything else?"
"yes."
Tong Ruoran came close to Chen Tian and said with a smile: "Of course an extraordinary monk like Mr. can trade one against ten thousand."
However, Chen Tian was not in the mood to joke with her.
Because after he released his spiritual consciousness, he clearly sensed that the noise coming from the mountain stream was not a mountain ghost, but a civilian.
To be precise.
Probably a woodcutter.
Chen Tian flew away and stopped again after more than a hundred feet, fearing that his sudden appearance would scare the old man.
Despite this, when he heard Chen Tian's question, he still trembled violently and almost hit his thigh with an axe.
“I dare to ask the old man, how to get to Dujiagou?
Is it at the foot of the mountain?"
"...Are you a human or a ghost?"
"Look what you said."
Chen Tian smiled slightly and pointed sideways at his feet.
The woodcutter looked around and found that his shadow was extremely obvious, and he immediately relaxed his tense heartstrings.
"Young man, you are so brave!"
"You fool, how dare you go over the mountains with a girl?
Life is so hard!"
The woodcutter babbled a few words, put away his axe, and pointed to the brightly lit village at the foot of the mountain: "That valley is Dujiagou! Let's go quickly! It's still far away, and I'll run to death looking at the mountain!"
Tong Ruoran glanced at him and asked curiously: "I also know that it is dark now and there are ghosts and wild beasts in the mountains. Why don't you chop wood during the day?"
"Why do you ask?"
The woodcutter suddenly sounded the alarm.
He squinted his eyes and looked at the two of them, and found that they were well-dressed and clearly not ordinary civilians.
"Two noble men, are they from the Immortal Family?
This..." Chen Tian saw that his expression changed drastically, and he was obviously very panicked. He immediately waved his hand to interrupt him: "I overestimated my opinion. We are just passing by drug dealers. We heard that Dujiagou has beautiful mountains and clear waters, so we came all night to take a look.
look."
Chen Tian could make ten thousand excuses like this without hesitation, and he was not afraid of the woodcutter's questioning.
The woodcutter was a little skeptical at first, but after taking the half ingot of silver he handed over, he immediately became convinced that he was a druggist.
"What a coincidence!"
"There happens to be a peach grove in Dujiagou. When the spring rains come, we can harvest a large amount of peach gum!"
The more the woodcutter talked, the more excited he became. He simply put away his ax and stopped chopping wood. He found the old man hiding in the dark.
The donkey enthusiastically led Chentian towards Dujiagou.
Chen Tian chatted with him while walking, laughing all the way.
I learned that the woodcutter's name was Du Jianian, and he was the pavilion chief of Dujiagou. He was said to have jurisdiction over more than a hundred households of villagers, but in fact he was equivalent to the head of a clan, with more responsibilities than rights.
He and Chen Tian had a pleasant conversation, but when he saw Tong Ruoran following behind him and not talking to her, he felt a little neglected and couldn't help but say: "Actually..." "I was stealing firewood just now."
"This kind of invisible activity must be done at night. If someone discovers it during the day, it will definitely lead to disaster."
Tong Ruoran was startled. An old man who was about to be sixty years old was not afraid of wolves, tigers, leopards, or mountain ghosts. He risked his life and got into the woods just to secretly cut some firewood?
And these firewood are all fresh branches?
Tong Ruoran couldn't understand and said in disbelief: "Isn't there anyone doing something nearby?
It’s hard to light these when you bring them back!”
"Girl, you speak very lightly."
Du Jianian sighed and waved his hand to survey the vast woods around him: "These barren mountains are all the property of the Yin family. Usually, animals have to pay taxes to drink some river water, let alone these?"
"As the chief of the pavilion, it's really embarrassing for you to catch me doing something like this now."
Tong Ruoran saw him smiling self-deprecatingly, and for a moment she didn't know how to comfort him. She buried her head in the moonlight and remained silent.
Chentian quietly held her hand and took over the conversation: "That peach grove should belong to Dujiagou, not the Yin family's property, right?"
"That's impossible to say."
Du Jianian squeezed out a bitter expression on his face and said quietly: "Although the peach trees belong to us, the fields belong to the Yin family. If the Yin family is unhappy one day, can we still pull the peach trees back?"
The repeated narrations made the atmosphere a little heavy.
Du Jianian was afraid of spoiling the interest of the two of them, so he abruptly changed the subject and started talking about his family's personal problems.
Chen Tian's left ear went in and his right ear came out, but he was thinking in his heart that the Yin family's tentacles had already extended into the northern region of Cangxi, and they were so heavy that the common people could not lift their heads, making it difficult to continue.
Underneath the Yin family's glamorous appearance, there is hidden evil and evil. Does it look like a sect of the Immortal Family?
If I make the decision.
Such dirty things will never be allowed to happen in this land again! Thinking of this, Chen Tian's Taoist heart stirred up again, and there was a faint tendency of enlightenment.
Du Jianian led the donkey and walked the last winding mountain road. Dujiagou was already in front of him.
He looked back at the dark mountain forest and said in surprise: "I'm really lucky today. I didn't encounter any mountain ghosts. How rare!"
Tong Ruoran glanced at the Qilong that had just awakened in his arms, and knew that it was its invisible pressure that scared the mountain ghost away from him.
But facts are facts.
Tong Ruoran, who has always had a high emotional intelligence, smiled and said to Du Jianian: "My good fortune is shining brightly. This is a good sign. In the future, life will become more and more prosperous."
"Haha, I appreciate your good words."
Du Jianian beamed, obviously very pleased with it. He looked at Tong Ruoran happily and then glanced at Chentian.
"Hey, what's the relationship between the two of you?"
"She is my sister."
"He is my husband."
"Uh--" Du Jianian looked at the two people who were talking about each other, puzzled, and his face was full of surprise.
Chen Tian also had a look of disbelief on his face. Is Tong Ruoran going to sing that?
If she doesn't want to take advantage of me, why does she call me her husband?