Chapter 191: Meng Xin's First Path Cutting
A few days later, standing on the top of a small hill, I looked back at the tattered horizontal plaque hanging obliquely on the temple gate that vaguely recognized the words "Chaoyang Temple", and couldn't help but shake my head and smile bitterly.
I don't know what medicine Li Xuefeng gave me, the broken bones on my left shoulder miraculously recovered in a few days.
When I proposed that I could make a living selling medicine, Li Xuefeng laughed and said that everyone in Taoyuan Town knew how to prepare this medicine.
Selling medicine? will starve to death.
The food has been pretty good these days, but to my surprise, the person in charge of cooking is actually a small bottle.
At the first moment, I couldn't see the five old men sitting on the side and watching the little bottle cook, so I went over to help, but they disliked it and said, "Where is the reason for men to cook?"
Even though they say so, they still give a thumbs up when they taste my craft. Of course, my move also succeeded in gaining the friendship of the vial.
During the chat, I asked about the situation in this world, but Li Xuefeng said that there are about seven or eight hundred households in this Taoyuan Town, which is a big town, and there is only this one thief group around.
For the rest, he was vague, only saying that outside Taoyuan Town, there were reckless mountains and unfathomable forests within a radius of hundreds of miles.
Seeing that he couldn't say anything, I knew that they might have been here since they were born, and I didn't know much more than Taoyuan Town.
In the open smoke offering furnace in front of the Buddha statue, there are a large pile of gold and silver jewelry, jade, etc., and even a pile of silk clothes.
In the past few days, I have adapted to the environment here. At least, after a few weeks of running the immortal power in the dantian, I was already able to run, jump, and even fly.
When I used my immortal power for the first time and was suspended in the air, except for Li Xuefeng, the rest of the people raised their heads and looked at me, as if their jaws had dropped in shock.
I fell to the ground, picked up the vial, scratched her little nose, and then said to a few people with a smug smile: "It's just a little trick to carve insects." ”
Li Xuefeng said lightly: "Since your injuries have healed, of course you can't eat idle meals, you and the second and third of them go out to rob a robbery, even if you join my blood demon gang." ”
I smiled and said, "I still have something to do, so I can't be here with you." ”
The little bottle in my arms looked at Li Xuefeng with some fear, and kept giving me a look.
I smiled and said to her, "It's okay, you see, Brother Xu has magic." ”
Li Xuefeng said with a smile: "It's just immortal power, besides, your immortal power is still messy and not pure." The first time I saw you, I already found out that you have immortal powers. ”
I looked at him in surprise and asked, "Do you know fairy power?"
Xiao Bottler nodded at me and said, "Big brother is better than you, you can't beat him, last time those people who flew around, they were kicked by big brother and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy." ”
Li Xuefeng interrupted the vial and said to me seriously: "Scattered immortals like you can be seen everywhere, and without the support of the sect, you can only do casual work for others, and you don't even want to go to a big family on an errand." ”
I smiled and said, "You mean, it's not as good as being a thief at work?"
Li Xuefeng smiled and didn't answer me directly, but continued: "Besides, you don't even have a road guide, Taoyuan Town won't take you in." It's better to be a bandit here, eat and drink, and be free. ”
It took me a minute to figure out what a wayfinding is.
It turns out that Taoyuan Town also has an official government, and the official government of Taoyuan Town is appointed by the superiors, as for where the superiors are, Li Xuefeng does not know, only knows that outsiders must go to the government to report, otherwise they will be arrested and dealt with as fugitives.
The basis for reporting is the road guide, which is similar to the identity certificate, from one place to another, the original government must issue a road guide, and then report to the new government.
This is the family registration certificate of this place.
It took me another minute to think about it, and finally accepted Li Xuefeng's suggestion, and in this barren mountain temple thirty miles away from Taoyuan Town, I fell into the grass and joined the glorious and promising industry of bandits.
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It's the second day of my trip out to cut the trail.
I taught Li Ersan the new term cutting path, and when he heard this word, he raised his head and asked me innocently: "Brother Xu, why do you call robbery a cutting path?" ”
I said that robbery is a bad thing, and instead of cutting the path, it seems that we are very cultured.
He asked, "Why do you seem to be cultured?"
I said, "Because the eldest brother Li Xuefeng didn't say that our Blood Demon Gang is a group of thieves? ”
He nodded thoughtfully and said, "Okay, Second Brother Xu, let's go and cut the path, who will say that we are thieves in the future, Lao Tzu broke his legs, Lao Tzu is obviously a thief, and the robbery is called a thief who cuts the path." ”
Me: "......"
Yesterday, Li Ersan took me out to familiarize myself with the terrain, and then went hunting in the forest by myself. Before leaving, he also told me that he must catch pheasants when he sees them, and that the vial likes to eat pheasant feet.
And I basked in the sun for a day on the official road, and I didn't even see a pheasant feather, let alone a person.
So early this morning, I was alone again, with a single knife that Li Siwu threw at me, and went out to cut the path.
I didn't ask where my sword went, because when Li Ersan took me out for the first time, he said that the main reason why my eldest brother fell in love with you was that you were upright.
Since everyone has said so, I'm embarrassed to mention the sword again, after all, with my understanding of the heroes of the green forest, almost all of them come from Liangshan's one hundred and eight generals and countless film and television works that praise heroes and thieves when they were in the human world.
Besides, didn't Li Xuefeng say that the Blood Demon Gang is a thief group?
"Brother, junior brother has eight hundred taels of silver here, brother take it to his body!"
"Brother, the younger brother has a few granges, why don't you give them all to the elder brother!"
"Brother, younger brother has a good wife and beautiful maid here, why don't you give it to my brother to make a warm quilt!"
"Brother, the younger brother has killed all his wives and children in the family, and burned down the ancestral industry, so I will live that life of licking blood with my brother from now on!"
I babbled wildly, crossed two or three ridges, jumped over four or five boulders, and bypassed six or seven cliffs, and finally came to the side of the official road.
"Tut-tut, productivity is extremely low. ”
Lying on a boulder on the side of the road, looking at the sun in the sky, I bit half of the grass root and muttered to myself.
Yes, there is still half of it, which has been eaten by me, and this grass root is actually sweet.
The first time I saw Guandao, I was shocked.
"Why is this called a road?" I asked myself.
It was a dirt road only about 1.5 to 2 meters wide, and the road was full of mud and stones, and a few deep ruts cut the road even more miserably.
In the end, I came to the conclusion that this world is a world with extremely low productivity, and if I bring in a Divine Realm Master, I can be an emperor.
But there is no emperor here.
When I asked Li Xuefeng which country this was and who the Holy One was today, he said what is the country and what is the emperor?
"We only have the government here, and the lords of the government usually don't care about anything except collecting taxes and registering road guides. Li Xuefeng said.
"Then why are they chasing the thieves?" I asked again.
Li Xuefeng smiled and said, "Because the thieves robbed the government of the money." ”
I'll go.
This is an anarchic world.
Even if you kill someone, as long as no one stands up for the deceased, then you can still get away with it.
Even if you are a bandit, as long as you don't rob the government and the family's money, then they won't care about you.
Unless you're an outsider, and you're the one with no guides.
Then the people of Taoyuan Town will definitely attack it in groups.
"In Taoyuan Town, there are dozens of immortals from sects, and there are also immortals from the government. ”
Li Xuefeng said seriously.
Yes, I guessed it right again.
Several members of the Bloodevil Gang are all outsiders, and there is no way out.
I didn't ask about their past, it's my basic literacy as an old shark who has been floating in the human world for decades.
Although they are bandits, the Bloodevil Gang usually only robs outsiders, so the big families and the government in the town turn a blind eye to them, and the Bloodevil Gang also pays taxes.
"What? Why do you pay taxes?" I asked, surprised.
The people in the government told Li Xuefeng that as long as you pay taxes, the official road to the town will be handed over to you, and finally encouraged Li Xuefeng seriously: You must take care of it.
But this is the only way to enter Taoyuan Town, and few people have walked it all year round.
In desperation, Li Xuefeng and the others had to go to the town from time to time to steal some big families, as long as they didn't know who did it.
"But didn't you say you're the only thief group in Taoyuan Town?" I keenly pointed out the loophole in his words.
"And not the only thief. Li Xuefeng said with a smile.
I can't ask anything from Li Xuefeng, this is the reality that I have already made clear.
Of course, none of this is my focus.
What I care about is how to go to the town openly and ask the people in the government, after all, they should know more about this world than Li Xuefeng.
I was thinking about how to get the guide, and the sound of horses' hooves came from the official road.
I grabbed a single knife, turned over and got off the boulder, jumped to the middle of the pipeline, and shouted to a carriage and several knights who were coming towards me: "I drove this mountain, I planted this tree, I want to pass by here, and leave to buy road money." ”
After speaking, he flung back the hair tied into a ponytail with straw rope with his hands, held the single knife in his arms, and hugged his hands together.
At the same time, I made a One Piece POSE: stand on one foot, put the other foot through the support foot, clubbed the toe on the ground, and looked down at your own foot.
The rider and the car in front stopped.
I only heard a woman's voice coming.
"This little thief is very interesting, don't be embarrassed by him. ”
The voice is very soft and good, with a bit of Wu Nong's soft language.
I raised my eyes slightly, and saw that the curtain of the carriage had lifted a corner, but I couldn't see anything in the black hole.
With the sound of horses' hooves, a middle-aged man dressed in a samurai costume rode up to me.
"The Bloody Gang's face is tight, brother. The middle-aged samurai asked.
"Hehe, since you know that the Blood Demon Gang is cutting the path here, let's stay and buy road money quickly. I sneered.
With a click, the knight dropped a sack and rode back to the carriage.
"All the money has been given, and you won't let it go?" said a young samurai.
I stretched out my hand, and the bag "swished" into my hand.
Then turn sideways and get out of the way.
There was a "huh" in the carriage, and the middle-aged knight approached the carriage, bending down and not knowing what to say.
The middle-aged knight rode up to my side again and asked, "Little brother, which sect are you from?"
I smiled and didn't answer.
The middle-aged knight smiled, stretched out his hand and handed me a wooden card, and said, "My master said that if the little brother is tired of the life of a bandit, he can come to Taoranju in Taoyuan Town, and my master will give the little brother a future." ”
I reached out and took the wooden sign, put it in my arms without looking at it, and said in a deep voice: "Bandit is a promising job, but thank you master." ”
After speaking, he looked at his nose and nose, and his nose looked at his heart, and he was silent.
As the carriage passed me, a female voice in the carriage chuckled softly, "I have a guide there." ”
I turned my head suddenly, but I saw only the rear of the black carriage, which was gradually moving farther and farther.