Chapter 31: Sir!
The secluded forest and sea are in the soul array, and the old pine in front of the Broken Shou Bridge.
Judging from this limerick poem, the back of the Guigu Broken Shou Bridge should be the Soul Array. And in fact, it is.
After Jiang Han jumped over the broken bridge, he plunged into the Soul Killing Array!
Stepping on the seven-star step and crossing the nine-square grid, Jiang Han carefully shuttled through the forest sea in the Ghost Valley.
The Soul Absolute Array is a great killing array laid out at the entrance of this ghost valley seven years ago by the ghost doctor Gan Baicao personally wrote to the half-immortal Su Yutian to come out of the mountain and set up at the entrance of this ghost valley.
If someone accidentally gets lost in it, if no one rescues them, and they don't understand the mysteries of Xuanhuang, then no matter how high your kung fu is, you will definitely break your soul in this Soul Array! Jiang Han was accidentally trapped in it when he was in the Ghost Valley six years ago, and although he was later rescued by the people in the Ghost Valley, Jiang Han still has lingering palpitations during the danger.
As for why the Ghost Valley, which already had four ghosts, still invited the Half-Immortal Cloth to kill the Great Array, Jiang Han had no way of knowing, but counting it, the time for this Great Array to be laid down was not very long.
Even if Jiang Han had a lot of thoughts, even if he had already decided that he would never step into this ghost valley for half a step in the future, he also consciously or unintentionally kept the safe path of this Soul Array in mind. Otherwise, even if the four ghosts deliberately let him in, he wouldn't be able to break through this Soul Array, and he wouldn't be able to enter the Hundred Grass Hall, let alone see Gan Baicao!
The end of the Soul Circle.
When Jiang Han stepped out of the last ancient pine tree in the range of the large array with one foot, he suddenly had a feeling of breaking through the clouds and seeing the blue sky and suddenly opening up!
A flat and wide land, neat rows of houses. There are also fertile fields, beautiful ponds, and mulberry and bamboo forests at intervals. People come and go on the ridges of the fields to plow and work, men and women dress completely different from the modern urban group, and the elderly and children are all comfortable and happy here!
Guigu Baicaotang, here, is really like the peach blossom source written by Tao Yuanming in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there are mountains, rivers and homes, and they are happy, quiet and peaceful!
People who don't know about the Ghost Valley will definitely think that there is no one else in the Ghost Valley except for the four ghosts, that is, Gan Baicao and his few family members.
Not really!
The Baicao family has lived here for so many years, what do they eat, what do they wear, and what do they use?
The problem of human survival has always been a rather huge project, not like what is played on TV or written in novels, it is unrealistic to find an uninhabited desert island and live there for several years or even a lifetime without making any preparations.
Here, in the Ghost Valley, there are hundreds or nearly a thousand people!
In other words, this is like Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Spring, except for the absence of a peach blossom forest, everything else is strikingly similar!
In Guigu, some of them have lived here for generations, while others have stayed here because of the blessings of the sweet herbs. Of course, not everyone who has received the favor of Ganbaicao can stay, just like the person who entered Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Garden, when he told the county guard to send someone to investigate again, he couldn't ask for it!
Speaking of which, I have to mention the three conditions for ghost doctors to heal people, the three non-doctors in the Ghost Valley: those who are not in the rivers and lakes do not heal, those who do not forgive many bad deeds do not heal, and those who do not survive do not heal!
If you can't meet these three conditions, I'm sorry, you can't even enter the door of the ghost valley, no matter how pitiful you are, no matter how rich you are, no matter how powerful you are outside, here, if you don't meet the conditions, the ghost doctor won't even look at it.
Here, it's like a big family, a small isolated village, and the ghost doctor is the village chief here, the parent, and he says a word!
Think about it carefully, as a Jianghu person, as a Jianghu person who has not had many bad deeds, as a Jianghu person who has experienced life and death without many bad deeds, once he is reincarnated as a human being, what can he not let go? So think about it carefully, these three non-doctors in Guigu can really be described as painstaking and lonely, so it is not difficult to understand who will be able to stay here!
Indifferent and calm, quiet and far-reaching, Jiang Han feels a peace and tranquility from the depths of his heart, the people here, the things here, everything here, are those deep hustle and bustle of the city outside, the surface scenery is hollow inside, the drunken gold fan but the walking dead urban people can not experience, and will never be able to experience.
Just like Tao Yuanming's sentence mentioned in the Peach Blossom Spring, "Not enough for outsiders!" is enough to say the true meaning here!
Six years ago, Jiang Han had experienced that even though he was only fourteen years old at the time! Now that Jiang Han revisited it again, he still felt that it was so intoxicating.
Even if he said that he would never set foot here again, he still broke his promise after all!
There was a reason why he had to go to Jianghan at the beginning, and there was a reason why he had to come this time!
In the Ghost Valley, beside the road in the fields, and on the vegetable garden, most of the people walking back and forth are dressed retro, but they do not show any surprise to the brightly dressed urbanites like Jiang Han, on the contrary, their eyes are full of kindness!
For them, sometimes people who come here to find ghost doctors to heal their illnesses also dress up like Jiang Han, because many Jianghu people also have their own industries in the city, but generally speaking, if there are Jianghu people whose urban industries are on the verge of dying, the ghost doctor's consultation fee is also very expensive!
It is easy to get 10,000 taels of gold, and sometimes even directly bankrupt those people. But Rao is so, and no one has ever refused in all these years!
Money and life, as long as you are a normal person, you will still be able to do true/false questions!
Perhaps the only thing that made them have some doubts was that Jiang Han didn't look like a person whose life was hanging by a thread.
Jiang Han saw a few familiar faces, people he knew six years ago. But he resisted the urge to say hello after all, even though their previous relationship was good.
After Jiang Han walked past the man, the man who had known Jiang Han six years ago raised his eyelids and glanced at Jiang Han's back, and said with a smile: "There is a way that good horses don't eat back grass, but a horse that eats back grass is not necessarily a good horse, but it's a pity, it's just a mess if you cut it and don't care it!"
After babbling a few words, the man lowered his head again and began to quietly peel the corn in his hand!
The aborigines of Guigu do not live in thatched houses, but brick houses, kilns they burn, and houses they build.
Although these so-called brick houses are very lacking in aesthetics compared with the metropolis, they are already commendable for the people of Jianghu!
All the way, all the way, all the way, finally came to the end of this small and small village! Jiang Han stopped in front of a house with a single courtyard blocked door!
This is a detached courtyard and all bamboo house, from the past, the door is open three, one hall and two rooms, surrounded by bamboo fences, in that group of brick houses are particularly eye-catching!
"Hyakkudo"
It is also a plaque made of bamboo, lightly printed with the three characters of Baicaotang. This is the god of the Ghost Valley, the belief of the Ghost Valley.
At the same time, this is also the dream place of countless heroes and rich people in the rivers and lakes and even in the city!
"Good knife technique!"
The three characters of Baicaotang on the plaque are not written with a pen, but carved with a knife, and after carving, they do not use the rest of the things to deliberately render, but only according to the new and old traces of bamboo to identify the handwriting, which is unique! The handwriting is staggered, like a pen walking dragon and snake, and the carving still hangs a faint edge today!
Six years ago, Jiang Han had seen this plaque countless times, but he hadn't looked at it very closely, but this time he was suddenly shocked: the person who portrayed this plaque was either a master with a knife, or a scholar of calligraphy and painting, or both!
"If you're here, why don't you come in!"
Before seeing him, he heard his voice first, Jiang Han's figure shook suddenly, his face was full of excitement, and a trace of intriguing guilt in his eyes flashed!
Stepping up the bamboo steps and crossing the bamboo railing, Jiang Han saw an old man sitting on the Taishi chair in the hall sipping fragrant tea!
The crane-haired and childish face, the red face, and the generous and rich purple robe make the old man look particularly spiritual!
The old man's face was expressionless, and he couldn't recognize any emotion, he put down the teacup he had tasted, and turned his head to look at Jiang Han in the hall quietly!
"Sir!"
Jiang Han respectfully snorted at the old man, without the slightest slack.
As long as you arrive in this ghost valley, no matter what you ask for or what you want, when you see this sweet herb in this hundred grass hall, you have to call out respectfully-sir!
This is the rule, the rule of the Ghost Valley!
"Coming?" said Mr. Baicao lightly.
"It's coming!" Jiang Han was also calm.
"Do you remember what I said to you when you left five years ago here, and what did I say to you?" said the gentleman in the same tone.
"Remember!" there was a hint of guilt in Jiang Han's voice, but only he could feel it.
"Then what are you doing here!" Mr.'s tone froze suddenly!
Jiang Han's expression paused slightly: "I need the Extreme Northern Heavenly Silkworm!"
"Nope!"
Mr. Mokukusa's answer was so crisp that he blurted it out without even thinking about it.
And from beginning to end, no matter how Mr. Baicao's voice changed, his eyes always looked at Jiang Han calmly, but Jiang Han had already taken the lead in looking away.
In his eyes, Jiang Han only felt that he was naked, and he couldn't hide anything at all, even his hard-wrapped heart seemed to be naked in front of his eyes!
"I listened to my heart back then......"
"Don't give it!"
This time, Gan Baicao even deprived Jiang Han of the right to finish his words, and refused even more simply! After speaking, he picked up the antique teacup on the table and tasted the fragrant tea!
Jiang Han, who had already bowed his head, suddenly raised his head, and stopped talking, as if he was hesitating about something, but finally he still spoke: "I heard that Qin Zheng once sent people to the Ghost Valley back then, and it seems that no one who came has ever gone back to ......!"
Jiang Han carefully controlled his words, his heart was tense, this time, he was playing with his life!
When he said this, Jiang Han had been paying attention to Mr.'s expression, but Mr. didn't react at all! So he continued: "Then, I heard that Sir, you asked the Half-Immortal Su Yutian to set up a Forest Sea Absolute Soul Array in the Ghost Valley!"
Finally, Mr. raised his eyelids and glanced at Jiang Han, his eyes were clear, and there were no waves in the ancient well, and soon, he lowered his head again and continued to taste tea.
Thirty seconds passed, Mr. was still drinking tea, Jiang Han's palms began to sweat; for a minute, Mr. did not slow down, gently blowing the mouth of the cup, without looking at Jiang Han, Jiang Han's forehead at this time was already covered with fine beads of sweat; two minutes, Jiang Han's vest was completely soaked!
"Are you threatening me?"
"Whew~!"
Jiang Han finally breathed a sigh of relief, he was not afraid that he would admit it, he was afraid that he would not say anything, that was the real horror!
"I have a reason to do it!"
The gentleman raised his eyes and glanced at him again, and said lightly: "The Extreme Northern Silkworm is in the seventh white box in the Xuan Pavilion, its lifespan is not long, if you use it to make it, you need to hurry!"
Hearing Mr. this, Jiang Han immediately knelt down and said solemnly: "The master is above, please accept the apprentice!"
Knock! Knock!
Jiang Han immediately rang his head three times, his voice was dull, and none of them were ambiguous!
"Are you apologizing?"
There was some disdain on the gentleman's face.
"I'm not wrong, why apologize! It's just that what I owe you will have to be returned after all! Five years, I only need five years, and if I am still alive after five years, I will definitely come back, and when the time comes, it will be up to the master to keep me or kill me!"
After saying that, Jiang Han knocked his head three times again, and immediately got up after kowtowing, and no longer glanced at Mr. Baicao, but turned around and left without looking back!
When Jiang Han took the silkworm and was gone, Mr. Baicao, who was still sitting firmly in the Taishi chair in the hall, had a strange smile on his face!
"Hahahaha! You little bastard didn't think you would have today! If only my mind was here, seeing this kid eat deflated, that girl would be very happy!"
At that, there was a hint of melancholy on the gentleman's face.