"Senior brother, can we get to Tongguan tonight?" As soon as I left the city, I began to endure the bumps caused by the dirt road again, and I couldn't help but ask Yuan Zhao for the distance. "Tongguan? It's still early. Yuan Zhao replied: "I guess I can arrive at noon tomorrow, but I definitely won't be able to arrive today." We'll have to find a post house for the night tonight. ”

Suddenly, I heard a "boom" sound coming from the roof of the carriage, could it be raining? I was guessing that with the rumbling thunder, as if in an instant, day turned into night, and a downpour of rain began to fall.

Yuan Zhao hid in the carriage, and his body was already wet. He wiped a handful of rain and said, "Let's find a place to shelter from the rain before we go." "Because the thunder was so loud outside, he said it three times before I could hear it clearly. "Can't you sit in the car and catch the car?" I thought on a whim, Yuan Zhao could pull up the curtain on the front door of the carriage so that he could sit in the carriage and catch the car.

"No, it's raining and hurting the horse, and what if the wheels get stuck in a puddle?" said Yuan Zhao in my ear.

"But there's no shelter from the rain around!" We just passed a village and town, where can we find shelter from the rain?

"There!" Yuan Zhao said excitedly, pointing to the front right, as if he had discovered something. With the help of a moment of lightning, I saw a small house faintly there. Yuan Zhao hurriedly commanded the horses to cross the muddy dirt road and drive towards that side.

When I got closer, it turned out to be a small temple, and as soon as the carriage came to a stop, I jumped down and scurried into the temple in three steps and two steps. Yuan Zhao braved the rain to untie the reins of the horses and brought in the two exhausted horses, while the carriage was thrown directly outside, to be washed away by the autumn rain. The two horses were obviously tired, their noses were spraying white gas, all their legs were trembling, and one of the horses fell to his knees on all fours. Yuan Zhao didn't have time to rest, so he hurriedly found some dry firewood from the temple, took out the fire sickle from the baggage, and began to light the fire.

"Senior sister, come over and bake clothes. Yuan Zhao put his soaked coat on a stick near the campfire as he beckoned me to come over and bake the fire. I hadn't been in the car all the time, so I hadn't been getting much wet, and I took advantage of the time to look curiously around the small temple, which was apparently in disrepair.

"Senior brother, which immortal's temple is this?" Yuan Zhao came over and glanced at the immortal statue on the throne and said calmly, "The land god's." "No, the land god will be so ugly? I looked at the statue with a blue face and fangs, how I didn't look like the kind land god in "Journey to the West". Yuan Zhao walked to the statue of the earth god, grabbed the two legs of the dusty offering table with both hands, and "clicked" and pulled it in half, took it to the bonfire and threw it into the fire, the flames suddenly jumped to the old high, and the temple was much brighter.

I reverently folded my hands together and said to the statue of the god of the land: "Immortals, please forgive us for being unreasonable, we are really short of firewood, and I have recently lent you for the table, and he will return it one day." ”

"You, don't bother with that. Yuan Zhao, who was pouring a bonfire, didn't even raise his head and said, "This great immortal can't even protect himself." ”

"Why?" Yuan Zhao's words made me a little confused, didn't the ancients believe in God very much.

"Over the years, the wind and rain in Guanzhong have been smooth, where have there been floods and droughts, and land temples like this must have been abandoned for many years. ”

Just as I was chatting with Yuan Zhao, there was a sudden noise outside the house, and I looked up to see five or six people who were drenched like chickens in soup running towards the temple. Yuan Zhao also sensed the situation and vigilantly held the saber in front of his chest.

"Big brother, come in!" a young man who had run in early stood at the gate of the temple and beckoned to his companions, and in a few moments several people all ran in, gathering around the fire as if no one was around. I was immediately disgusted, a bunch of things, no education at all. Yuan Zhao stood aside and looked coldly at this group of uninvited guests.

"Today's rain is really evil, so I can't even see the road clearly. The man who had been the first to enter said as he rubbed his hands. His bun had fallen apart, and the messy hair made it difficult for me to see his face.

"Yes, yes. His words were unanimously agreed by his companions around him, but a man sitting in the middle did not say a word, under the reflection of the firelight, his expression was calm, but it looked strange, although he was handsome, but I did not deny that from the moment I saw him, I was shocked by a domineering aura.

"Big brother, what do you think? I'm afraid we won't be able to get back to Luoyang on time. The man with the hair said something tentatively to him.

"That's not going to work, we have to get there!" said a few words of understatement, with an indescribable majesty.

"Big brother, look at this... It's raining so hard outside... Is it we..."The eyes of the bearded man scratching his ears and cheeks suddenly stopped on the carriage we had abandoned in the yard, and his eyes suddenly lit up: "Yes, big brother, we can take that car to hurry, our five horses plus these two in rotation, we should be able to reach Luoyang on time." "The man with the hair counted our two horses directly to their side.

"Master, that carriage is too small, isn't it? the five of us can't sit down at all," said one of his companions, hesitantly.

"Who said that you and your master will go together? you wait here until the rain stops before leaving, go to the front post station to find horses and hurry, and my eldest brother and I will go first. The man with the hair roughly interrupted his companion's words, and then leaned down and whispered to the still expressionless man, "Big brother, do you think this is done?"

He's such a weirdo, I thought to myself.

"Master, the post station in front is at least twenty miles away from here, isn't it..." Before the other companion could finish speaking, the man with the hair kicked him to the ground. "You dog minions still want to talk about the conditions, let you walk on foot, why don't you lead the horses quickly!" the remaining three quickly stood up and walked straight to our horses.

Isn't this a robbery? I rushed over with one lunge and shielded the horse with my arms outstretched.

"Do you know who we are?" several people yelled at me in annoyance, and not to be outdone, yelled in the same tone: "Get out of the way!"

"Hmph, here's someone who isn't afraid of death!" the man with the hair walked straight up to me, his hand pressed on the hilt of his sword, and I saw it clearly. "Boom-" Yuan Zhao drew his sword and protected me behind him.

"You really treat yourself as a dish, brothers, copy guys!" the man with the hair sneered, and was about to draw his sword. The moment he looked down at the hilt of his sword, Yuan Zhao's sword was already silently pointing directly at his throat.

"What do you want to do? Do you know who he is?" The three people around him held swords and looked at Yuan Zhao in horror.

"I don't know who he is, and I don't want to know. Yuan Zhao replied coldly. And the man with the hair also changed his previous arrogance, and stammered: "Brother, brother, don't be impulsive, I am also a person with status, and if you hurt me, you will not have good fruit to eat." ”

At this time, the man who had been sitting slowly stood up, and unlike the frightened expressions of the others, there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth. "Brother, we have something very urgent and would like to borrow your car and horses. As he spoke, he took out two gold bars from his arms and handed them to Yuan Zhao, "If I can, I am willing to buy your carriage and horse with twenty taels of gold." ”

"Thank you, Childe, please forgive us for not wanting to sell the carriage and horses. Yuan Zhao's eyes were still fixed on the man with the hair, and politely refused his request.

The man obviously did not expect the result to be like this, and after being stunned for a moment, he made a gesture of helplessness, and said with a smile: "Since my brother is unwilling to help me, then we have to brave the rain to hurry." There is a lot of offense today, please bear with me, brother, there will be a time later!"

Yuan Zhao also slowly put down the sword in his hand, and after being sure that there was no danger, the man with the hair and his henchmen hurriedly chased him out. Before leaving, the man with the hair seemed to remember something, turned to us and pointed at us and said angrily: "Wait, Lao Tzu will seek revenge on you one day!"

That man, it's weird... I muttered to myself. "There's nothing strange about it," Yuan Zhao put away his sword and said disdainfully, "It's just a few gentlemen who don't know the height of the sky!"

The rain did not stop until the evening, but fortunately the men and horses had already been well rested, so Yuan Zhao galloped the carriage down the muddy avenue with a whip, and finally arrived at the next post in the middle of the night. After eating some of the bread my mother had brought with me in hot water, I lay down on the bed. Who was that man? The handsome and majestic face appeared before my eyes from time to time, and just like that, I fell asleep in a daze......