"Did you know that Huangtian Sect is a religion with four gates and sixteen palaces..."
The tea picker wanted to tell something about the Huangtian Sect to prove the identity of the leader.
But the bamboo cutter didn't seem to be interested. He stretched and yawned: "We'll talk about the demon sect later. I haven't slept all night and I'm so sleepy. I'll take a nap for a while." After saying that, he sat on the ground.
, leaning against the wall, closing his eyes, and began to take a nap.
The tea picker angrily punched the air in front of him twice before he felt relieved, and then said: "Everyone needs a name. If you don't have a name, I will give you one." He said to himself regardless of whether the other party agreed or not.
He said to himself: "In the past few days, we have met each other many times. There is an ancient poem that says, 'When we meet in the world of mortals, we bow to each other with a golden whip'. It's a bit unpleasant to call it 'Golden Whip' or 'Golden Whip', so let's call it 'Golden Whip' or 'Golden Whip'."
With the sound of 'Red Dust', let's call you 'Hong Chen', the flood of torrents, the stars of stars."
Then he glanced at the bamboo cutter who had no reaction, and said dissatisfiedly: "What, you don't think it sounds good?"
The bamboo cutter seemed really tired. He didn't open his eyes and just grunted twice: "Call, call, call me Hong Chen."
Seeing how he didn't care, the tea picker felt even more angry: "What do you call Hong Chen? I'm calling you shit."
The bamboo cutter had no objection, and the tea picker lightly kicked his thigh: "Aren't you curious about my name?"
"what's your name?"
Said the bamboo cutter.
The tea picker raised his head high and said: "My Majesty Master, if you take the initiative to ask, I might tell you your name. Now it's like I'm forcing you to ask, so I won't tell you."
The bamboo cutter didn't ask further, and even snored lightly.
After running around all night and fighting hundreds of tricks with masters like Song Xiao, the bamboo cutter was really tired, his mind was dizzy, and he fell asleep after closing his eyes.
When he opened his eyes again, the bamboo cutter found that the tea picker had changed his appearance again, becoming a hunchback and wearing a red silk and satin dress.
When the tea picker saw that the bamboo cutter had woken up, he sneered: "You said I slept a lot, but you are the one who can really sleep. It's the second day after you sleep, you lazy pig."
"It's been a day?" The bamboo cutter was stunned for a moment, then said, "I'm not a lazy pig, I have a name - my name is 'Hong Chen'."
"Yes, Hong Chen." The tea picker finally felt relieved when he saw him receiving the name he had given him, and threw another red suit to him, "Change clothes and follow me. Xiangyun City can't stop us.
, but we can’t leave traces and attract trouble.”
Hong Chen began to change his clothes, but the red clothes embroidered with birds in gold thread were more cumbersome than he had ever seen before. It was very troublesome to put on. It took more than a moment to put them on. Then the tea pickers looked at him and laughed.
Stop. Hong Chen asked why he was laughing. The tea picker suppressed his laughter and said, "Nothing." Then he pulled a square red cloth and covered Hong Chen's head: "As long as there are other people around, don't talk or make a sound.
Don’t even take off this piece of cloth.”
Hong Chen nodded: "Okay."
The tea picker looked Hong Chen up and down, laughed again for a while, then picked up the bamboo basket and walked out of the room holding Hong Chen's sleeves.
On the way out, the tea picker stopped for a moment and said, "I thought about it, but I still have to tell you. My surname is Ji Mingcha, and people in the world call me 'tea picker'. My true identity is the leader of the Huangtian Sect, but you know it yourself."
That’s fine, don’t tell anyone else.”
Hong Chen said: "Just help me find the knife, I won't say a word more."
Ji Cha secretly rejoiced: Originally, he was just starting out, and he just wanted to make a name for himself by fighting with some second- and third-rate sects. But now that he has deceived Hong Chen, who has extraordinary martial arts but is very naive, maybe he can really do it.
It turned the rivers and seas upside down and stirred up the situation in the world.
"Ding-deng-deng."
The waiter at the inn heard footsteps coming from the stairs, and looked over and couldn't help but be surprised - when did the hunchbacked guest from the past few days become the groom? When did the bride who was holding his hand enter the room?
Ji Cha was very proud to see Xiao Er's surprised expression.
In the forest a few days ago, Hong Chen made himself very embarrassed. Now, he is asked to wear bridal clothes and be his wife for a few days, which can be regarded as revenge.
The two of them went to the backyard with the waiter. Just when Ji Cha was about to get on the donkey, he remembered that there was no reason for the groom to ride on the donkey and the bride to walk, so she could only give the donkey to Hong Chen, and secretly scolded Hong Chen several times.
.
Ji Cha led the donkey out of the inn and headed north to Xiangyun City.
This time we will go to "Black Cloud City" by water.
Originally the next destination was "Guiyun City", but when Ji Cha went to steal the bride and groom's clothes, he had already found out that the leader of the Chengfeng Gang in Guiyun City was frustrated after being defeated by the bamboo cutters a few days ago.
He sealed his sword and went into seclusion, taking the sword with him and hiding somewhere.
The only option was to change the target to the "Steel-pointing Jade-breaking Spear" of the "Duan Yutang" in Wuyun City.
As for the Lengjin Dao in Xiangyun City, on the one hand, the security of the Golden Dao Gate has been strengthened, making it more difficult to steal. On the other hand, the Lengjin Dao itself is large and heavy, so it would be cumbersome to carry it around. Once the Yunzhou Weapon Chart is published
After you finish stealing the other items, you can make plans later.
After leaving the city, we walked five or six miles along the official road and arrived at the dock. The rolling river is wide and deep, and looks like black from a distance. It is named "Ye Mo River" and runs from northwest to southeast. It is the largest in Yunzhou.
of a river.
There was an endless stream of boats and ships in the river, and there were many merchants and pedestrians coming and going on the shore. Ji Cha found a passenger ship on the pier, and with one penny per person, he arrived at Wuyun City in one night and half a day. But the boatman wouldn't let him bring his donkey on board, so Ji Cha took him on board.
The donkey was sold to a passing farmer for five taels of silver, and then Hong Chen was taken on board.
The passenger ship was not big, just a cabin. There were already six people sitting inside, all wearing leather clothes and carrying bows and arrows. They seemed to be hunters traveling together. They were eating dried meat and drinking soju when they saw a hunchback groom and a bride coming to the boat.
, then he moved slightly and made room for them to sit down.
A hunter with a beard said loudly: "Brother, how much did you buy your wife for?"
Ji Cha stretched out the five fingers of his right hand and said hoarsely: "Five taels."
The hunters looked at each other and laughed.
Hunchbacks usually can't talk to their wives, so they have to buy her. She only bought it for five taels of silver. I'm afraid she will be an ugly woman with pimples on her face. No wonder the hijab is so thick.
Ji Cha felt his hand being pinched. He turned around angrily and found that it was Hong Chen who pinched him. Hong Chen's index finger scratched the back of Ji Cha's hand a few times, and it was the word "meat".
Ji Cha felt funny in his heart. It turned out that he was hungry when he saw others eating bacon. You, too, pretended not to understand and dozed off with your eyes closed. Suddenly he remembered that someone had treated him to fish. Wouldn't it look stingy for him to be so stingy?
So I took out some scattered money, bought a piece of air-dried beef jerky with Orion, and tore it into two long strips. I ate one piece for myself and the other piece for Hong Chen.
Hong Chen couldn't take off his hijab, so he could only tear the beef jerky into small pieces bit by bit and put it into his mouth. The beef jerky was a bit salty and he became thirsty after not eating much, so he wrote "Water" on the back of Ji Cha's hand.
"Character.
Ji Cha took out a gourd from the bamboo basket and shook it. There was still some water in it, but he had to raise his head to drink the water, so he asked Hong Chen to hold the hijab above his nose and feed him water himself.
The hunters couldn't see Hong Chen's whole face, but they saw that the lower half of his face was very white and his lips were very red. They whispered among themselves that this woman might have pimples on her forehead.
Not long after, two more people came on board one after another. One was in his twenties, wearing a blue shirt and white boots, like a passing scholar. The other was an old man in a shabby blue shirt, thin and frail, with a pair of energetic eyes.
At this point, the passenger ship was full, and the boatman untied the rope tied to the dock and rocked the ship.
Along the way, the hunters talked and laughed, talking about nothing more than how much the goods in their hands could be sold for in Wuyun City, or which eldest girl or young widow in the village was handsome, and what kind of happy and happy place there was in Wuyun City. Confucian scholars and
They had nothing to talk about. They just read a book and the old man closed his eyes and went to sleep.
Ji Cha felt a little bored, so he interrupted the hunters and said, "Hey, do you know what happened in Xiangyun City recently?"
The bearded Orion said: "The big thing? It's that Wang Yuanwei, the leader of the Golden Blade Sect, was killed by the killer of the Demon Cult. Rumors have been going crazy these days! Some people say that the Demon Cult may arrest people in Xiangyun City and use their brains to practice martial arts, so
Many people were so frightened that they quickly went out to escape the limelight."
Ji Cha said: "There's no need to dig people's brains with magic coaching skills. The people who spread this are either stupid or bad - maybe they are the coachmen and boatmen who want to take advantage of the opportunity to raise the market price."
The Orion hunters agreed and said that the small broken boat they were on now didn't cost a penny to go to Wuyun City. The boatman outside the cabin heard this and shouted if he wanted to sit on it, or if he didn't, he would refund his money and get out. Everyone in the cabin laughed.
, let’s not mention it again. Ji Cha told the hunters that the person who killed Wang Yuanwei might be the famous monster thief “Tea Picker”. The hunters in the mountains did not know who the tea picker was, and Ji Cha was so angry that he wanted to beat him.
At night, everyone fell asleep one after another, and the boatman also dropped the anchor and lay down in the cabin to rest. Ji Cha waited until everyone else fell asleep, then he lay on the bamboo basket and closed his eyes. While he was feeling sleepy and unconscious, he suddenly heard
There were some very strange sounds - it seemed like someone was stepping on the deck outside.