Lu Chen walked on the mountain road, gradually getting higher, the grass huts behind him, including the village below the mountain, gradually became smaller, and the stream flowing through Qingshuitang Village also looked like a small long snake. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It's quiet on the tea hills.

There was birdsong and wind, but it was still quiet.

There are many mountain roads, and from time to time there are forks in the road in front of him, Lu Chen will occasionally stop and think about it carefully, and then glance at the high place of the tea mountain, recall the direction of the torch that suddenly appeared not long ago, and then continue to walk forward.

About half an hour later, he stopped on a mountain path near the top. In front of him, under a spiritual tea tree far away, a dead branch fell, and its head was charred black, as if it had been burned.

Lu Chen stared at the branch for a moment, then walked over and squatted down next to it, picked it up and looked at it carefully for a moment, then suddenly touched his hand to the blackened end of the dead branch.

There was still some residual warmth on the branches.

He stood silently, his gaze sweeping around, the ground, the grass, and the woods.

There were messy footprints, trampling on crooked weeds, broken branches and broken leaves.

The mountain wind is blowing, and there seems to be a bit of chill on the high part of this mountain.

Lu Chen stood in place for a while, then walked forward with an expressionless face, walking towards the back of the tea mountain, the direction of the west foot of the peak.

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"Whoa!"

A splash suddenly sounded from the Qingshui stream, but the old Yu under the big locust tree was startled, raised his eyes to see, only to see the fish drift in the stream violently shaking non-stop, first stunned, then overjoyed, exclaimed and hurriedly desperately reeled.

But the fishing line was tense at first, and then suddenly pulled backwards, and a strong force came suddenly, and after only a muffled sound, the fishing line was disconnected.

Lao Yu involuntarily took two steps back, his heart sank, and when he was about to continue to do something, he saw a black shadow flash in the depths of the water, but it was gone in a blink of an eye. There was a ripple on the stream, like the wind passing over the water, and soon it slowly calmed down again. In the clear water, there is no abnormality anymore, and it is still exactly the same as before.

"Ahh ”

Lao Yu looked back, only to see a young man standing under the big locust tree behind him, dressed in a white robe, with delicate eyebrows, holding a folding fan, and a picture of mountains and rivers was drawn on the fan.

This young man looks very gentle with a smile, and he is also very good-looking, which makes people feel very comfortable and pleasing to the eye at first sight, Lao Yu's first feeling after seeing this young man is that this guy seems to look better than Li Ji a few days ago.

However, this person, he had never seen it before, seeing that he was not from Qingshuitang Village, and Lao Yu had never been a sociable person, he frowned at the moment, then turned his head without saying a word, continued to pick up the fishing rod, and sorted out the fishing line.

The young man behind him was not in a hurry, he looked at Lao Yu with a smile, and said after a while: "Uncle, have you been fishing here for a long time?"

"Hmm. Lao Yu wanted not to answer, but the young man's attitude was really good, and it always made people feel a little uncomfortable, so he subconsciously responded.

The young man took the fan and slapped it twice, looked at the sky, and said, "It's very uncomfortable on such a hot day, but I heard that some fish are different when it's hot, and they will surface instead, probably just like that." ”

Lao Yu was taken aback, looked back at him, and said, "Is that really the case?"

The young man smiled, put away his fan and said, "I also heard about it, but I don't dare to promise you." ”

Lao Yu thought about it, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll just continue fishing." ”

The young man smiled and nodded, and did not speak, but stood in the shade of the big locust tree, as if this floating life was leisurely, and it should be leisurely.

And Lao Yu didn't have any disgust, anyway, the young man didn't bother him fishing, but when he occasionally turned his eyes, he would suddenly find that in the distance, in some corners of this village and on the road, there were more figures, and the faces of those people seemed to be a little strange.

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Unlike Lu Chen, who had no worries, when the fat old horse was packing his luggage in the back hall of the tavern where he belonged, he found that there seemed to be a lot of things that belonged to him, or that he needed to take them away.

He packed one after another, bag after bag, until finally he couldn't stand it anymore, staring at half of the room like a hill of luggage, with a look of frustration on his face, and muttered: "Forget it, if this guy sees it, I'm afraid I will be scolded to death by him." ”

He shook his head, with a look of regret and pain on his face, sighed and kicked out a few bags of luggage, picked up a few more and put them aside, tidied them up for a while, and finally there were only three bags left in the middle of the room.

Then the old horse did not clean up, but went to a wall, first pushed open a cabinet with force, and then groped for a moment with his hand in the corner of the wall, and a secret door opened.

A bulging bag lay in this dark compartment, and from time to time there was a subtle crashing sound from inside, as if it were filled with many small pebbles. The old horse carefully lifted the bag, with a look of satisfaction on his face, touched it lightly with his hand, hugged it hard, and then walked back to the middle of the room, and stuffed it into the depths of one of the luggage.

After doing this, the old horse breathed a sigh of relief, and with a look of satisfaction on his face, he looked around, and was about to leave the room, when suddenly there was a clear knock at the door of the tavern in front of him.

"Bang, bang!"

Accompanied by a knock on the door, there was a very gentle-sounding young man's voice coming in from outside the door, and seemed to smile a little, "Is there anyone?"

The old horse turned around and looked at the door of the tavern outside, and for some reason, his brows suddenly furrowed.

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The sun is shining down, ten thousand golden rays, and the heat is incomparable, but the water of Longhu Lake behind the tea mountain is still as flat as a mirror, like a beautiful jewel inlaid on this mountain peak. Even when people get close to the lake, they will feel a little moist and cool in this hot weather.

The mountains are green mountains, the water is clear water, the mountain peaks are reflected in the water, and the lakes and mountains are beautiful.

Between the mountains and rivers, it was a quiet place, but at this moment, there was a noise coming from the shore of the lake, and two figures were on the shore of the lake, a man and a woman, facing each other.