Chapter 9: Hurry
Early the next morning, the family woke up early to prepare for the trip. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
The house is rented, and the furniture at home is also brought by the house, and after the house is returned to rent, there is not much to clean up, that is, a few clothes for each person, some personal belongings, and finally everyone only carries a small burden. Lin Xi thought about it and packed the pots and bowls and some dried goods such as shiitake mushrooms into the space, and he had to cook by himself before he arrived at the Holy Step, and he couldn't do it without tools and materials.
Grandma got up early to cook porridge for breakfast, and one person packed a few pieces of dry biscuits in case of emergencies on the road. Then the four of them split into two groups and set off in two different directions.
Seeing Lin Zhi and his grandmother's figure walking away, Lin Xi walked side by side with Xiaolan, who turned into a human form, to the market. Thinking that there were more pills to buy, he picked out some pills nearby after selling the spirit grass in Baicaotang, and took a bottle of each of them like hemostatic medicine, antidote pill, and healing medicine.
And told the acquaintance that his family was going to go to his relatives in the north, and he was going to leave in the next few days, and he would not come to sell spirit grass again in the future. Unexpectedly, the guy was a righteous man, and with the internal price, he took out a light yellow pill from the counter and gave it to Lin Xi.
This is a medicine called Liandian, which can sustain the patient for twenty-four hours without other medicine as long as the patient is still breathing. This guy is so caring, I thought I didn't have much friendship, I just said that, but I didn't expect this person to be so affectionate.
After the settlement, the guy brought a pile of silver tickets, but he didn't expect the formed ginseng to be so valuable, so there were still 90,000 taels of silver left.
Coming out of Baicaotang, the two came to the shop that sold talismans, and knew from the memory of the original owner that this shop was not the largest in Gu Chong City, but he was very talented in making talismans on the way, and he didn't need to support other talisman makers, so the price was relatively cheap, and the business had always been very good.
When I entered the store, because it was still early, there were no customers in the store, and the counter was placed at the entrance of the house, and there were various talismans on the counter for people to choose from. It may be the first business, and the boss came out from behind the counter enthusiastically and asked what kind of talismans were needed.
There has been a lot of delay in Baicaotang, and at this time Grandma should have finished her job and set off for the meeting point outside the city.
No longer to compare and select one by one, Lin Xi told the boss the name of the talisman he needed, and after a while, the boss took all the talismans he needed, and after Xiaolan saw it and made sure that it was correct, Lin Xi hurried out of the city with Xiaolan after paying the money. On the way, I bought some food and put it in the space.
When he saw that his grandmother and Lin Zhi had arrived, Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief, and finally met smoothly. At this time, it was noon, and except for Xiaolan, no one else could open the valley.
Take out the pots and pans you brought in the morning from the space and heat up the buns that Lin Xi bought before. I also used dried mushrooms and dried meat and a few handfuls of wild vegetables picked near the temple to make a pot of wild vegetable soup, grandma's craftsmanship was as good as ever, and everyone ate it happily.
After resting for a while after dinner, the group decided to set off. Gu Chong is about a day and a half away from the Holy Step, and there are some small villages near Gu Chong, among which Wanzu Village is the village that Lin Xi is optimistic about staying tonight.
Wanzu Village is about fifteen kilometers away from Gu Chong City, and it can barely be reached in three hours according to the speed of Grandma.
The sun in the middle of the afternoon is the time when it is scorching, and no amount of water can relieve the slightest heat, and the sweat on the forehead falls in drops, and I wipe it from time to time to prevent it from flowing into my eyes. Lin Xi and his party tried their best to walk in the shade of the trees on both sides of the road, and after nearly an hour and a half of walking, everyone's steps were a little messy, even Xiaolan couldn't stand the weather.
Seeing that there was half the way, Lin Xi took out the water bladder and distributed it to everyone, everyone didn't care about the image and neatness, so he sat directly on the ground, opened the plug of the water bladder and poured it into his mouth. After resting for a quarter of an hour in the shade of the trees, despite the heat of the weather, several people went on the road again.
When crossing the Tongwu River, Xiaolan said that he felt the fluctuation of aura at the bottom of the river, and looked at it, it turned out that someone had set up a formation at the bottom of the river, and a group of fat-headed and big-eared swallow fish were raised in the formation, and a group of people were in a hurry to go, so they didn't care.
Turning on the road leading to Wanzu Village, I finally met the first traveling companion, a middle-aged merchant surnamed Hu with a big beard, who went from Lingcheng to Shengbu City to collect purple gold flowers.
It's rare to meet a companion on the journey, and after a while, Lin Xi and a few people became familiar with the businessman, and they were affectionate with Uncle Hu, and after a while, the businessman's old bottom was set out.
Uncle Hu is a perennial purple flower vendor in Lingcheng, and this time he was also going to go early to grab more good goods, but unexpectedly, people were sitting at home, and disaster came from heaven. The mausoleum is at the foot of Wuqi Mountain, because of the deterrence of Yunhua Palace, the demon beasts on the mountain and the mortals under the mountain are also safe.
In the middle of the afternoon, Uncle Hu's youngest son was playing with his friends in the yard, and the adults in the family were busy. Uncle Hu's wife bought a live crucian carp at noon in the bazaar and kept it in a water tank with a missing corner of the yard, ready to cook it for the family at night. Unexpectedly, a big bird with red feathers, a tuft of black hair growing between its two eyes, and a body three feet long, looking like a pheasant, suddenly flew down from the sky, rushed towards the crucian carp in the water tank, and in a blink of an eye, it swallowed the five-pound crucian carp into its stomach.
Because the family is wealthy, the son of the Hu family is usually a little bully, usually only he robs others, but today he was robbed by a bird, this kid immediately became angry, beckoned his friends to rush up, and a group of children punched and kicked the big bird.
The child's fist has little strength, who knows that the big bird is a cautious eye, stretching its wings and sweeping towards the child, and instantly swept a group of children into pieces, lying on the ground without sound, the big bird flapped its wings and flew away.
By the time the adults found out, the children were still unconscious, and the best doctor in the city had not been able to wake them up. It wasn't until someone asked the monks in the city to check it out that they had been infected with a comatose poison that would never wake up the sick if they were not woken up within a month. After spending a lot of money, the monk finally used his spiritual power to wake up the children, and then he knew the cause and effect. Because of this, I also delayed the time to go to the Holy Step City with other merchants, but fortunately, I learned some kung fu and was safe along the way.
After listening to Uncle Hu's story, everyone looked at each other, thinking of the discussions they heard in the city, and they all felt that something big had happened on Wuqi Mountain. I don't know if Yunhua Palace has sent someone to investigate the reason, if it goes on like this, more and more towns will be affected, once the demon beast is out of control and rushes into the town below the mountain, the consequences are unimaginable.
Thinking of this, the joy of meeting his companions also dissipated, after all, the city is full of people who have lived together for a long time, no matter how much friction there is, I can't help but worry about them at this time, thinking of the kind and righteous Baicaotang guys, enthusiastic neighbors, Lin Xi secretly decided that he would send a letter to them as soon as he arrived in Shengbu City tomorrow, don't look at it as a trivial matter, and be sure to seek help from Yunhua Palace as soon as possible.