Yun Zhao had a dream last night.

I dreamed that I had become a generation of heroines, holding the Qingshuang sword, soaring through the clouds and mist, going to the sky and entering the earth, omnipotent!

When she told Yun Qi about this dream, Yun Qi was changing the herbs for his legs, and his legs hurt badly every rainy day.

Yun Qi's lips were still a little pale, but his smile did not decrease at all, and he reached out and combed her hair again, "According to what you say, what about Xiao Jiu? I remember that you always liked to dream of him as a nine-tailed divine fox in the past?"

Little Nine?

Xiao Jiu didn't see it, but there was a tall man beside him!

The little girl is young, her forehead hair is soft, and her tentacles are cute and piercing her heart.

"Ah, no, Xiao Jiu has become a man! I used to dream that it would become a nine-tailed divine fox, and this time it will become a man again......" Yun Zhao touched the little fox in his arms who was particularly sleepy after winter, and thought seriously, "I often think that if I grow up and get married, I will marry my senior brother...... Now that I think about it, my handsome little Jiu'er has grown up, and it is not bad to marry me. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the little fox flicked her tail and ran outside to sleep, as if she thought the little master was noisy.

Spiritual! Spiritual! Yun Zhao thought that Xiao Jiu was shy, and jumped up and shouted.

"I don't know what to be ashamed of at a young age...... Yun Qi pinched her red face, and was teased by her to burst into tears, and the little tears hung in the corners of her reddish eyes, looking clear and gentle, "It's okay for anything else, but if you really go to heaven and earth, don't forget to bring me, a crippled senior brother......"

"Hey, brother, why don't you say good things today, your feet will be fine, and you yourself used to say that they would be better. Yun Zhao was angry with him and gave him a blank look.

The young man in white looked at her delicate and cute, smiling and smiling but distracted, his eyes drifted to the distance outside the window at some point, and a little melancholy rose in his eyes, and gathered and dispersed like the mist on the top of the mountain.

I don't know if it's because the weather has become wet and cold again today, or because he has listened to some gossip from his disciples, he has always felt uneasy recently.

Some half-grown disciples discussed that the new Son of Heaven was young, and the regent of the curtain was a young empress dowager, and this empress dowager did not like Xuanmen and intended to suppress it.

Originally, he didn't pay much attention to it, but yesterday he heard a few elders discuss what monsters to go down the mountain to get rid of...... I just thought that I didn't know if my own sect would be targeted at this juncture.

It's not that he thinks too much, nor does he think that this small sect is so great and worth targeting, but that this queen mother's mind is really difficult to figure out.

As soon as the new emperor ascended the throne, there was news that there was going to be a war in the court, and the war was not unfought, but the new emperor's foundation was unstable, and he chose to start the war during the spring ploughing period.

Yun Qi stays all year round and likes to scrutinize people's psychology, but this time he can't figure it out.

So the uneasiness is probably because everything has been strange lately, the weather has not been in spring for a long time, the rumors of monsters that have suddenly come out are strange, and the queen mother with unknown intentions is also strange.

The mountains in the distance stretched, and the peaks faintly in the mist seemed to be the dagger tips hidden in the sleeves of the woman, and I didn't know when it would be revealed.

"Xiao Zhao," he retracted his thoughts, thinking that he should take care of the leather girls around him, "I heard from the uncles, it seems that something happened in the town." You won't be going out of the mountain lately, you know?"

Yun Zhao sighed in his heart, and said that he guessed well last night, and sure enough, there were monsters in the town. When his thoughts turned a thousand times, he pretended to be okay on his face and made a vague "um".

......

When the uncles set the day to go down the mountain, the town lost another pair of children, and the next day some people went up the mountain to ask the master to send disciples down the mountain.

The incense of Zuotianmen, decades later, has flourished again.

The people in the gate knew that it would be without further ado, so they set the nearest agricultural festival.

On the second day of February, the dragon raises its head, which is the day when the people worship the heavens and pray for good weather and rain.

When all things are mao, the five elements belong to the "wood", the elephant that grows, the hexagram is "earthquake", "earthquake" is the dragon, the yin ghost, and the evil spirit.

It's the best day to go down the mountain in recent times.

If you set a date, you will determine the candidate. The atmosphere in Zuotianmen was a little tense, the younger disciples were ignorant, and a few older disciples were full of sadness. Don't say it on the surface.,In fact, I'm still very afraid that the head of the house will draw me down the mountain.,Over the years.,Not to mention the monsters that eat people.,Even the bigger carnivores haven't seen a few.。

Of course, there are also people who are eager to try it.

What a good chance to get ahead, if you catch a monster, I'm afraid you will become a hero admired by thousands of people in the future.

Yun is one of the disciples who is eager to try.

"You save it, with your qualifications, just wait for Senior Sister and me to come back and applaud me!" Yun Zhao slapped his head and ran into the distance, grinning, "You're not as tall as me now!"

"You!" Yun was angry, "If you weren't born in the door, you are half a month younger than me, so I don't need to call you senior sister! My master said that female dolls grow faster than male dolls, and after this year, I will grow faster than you!"

"Then I'm also your senior sister!"

"You!" you ......" Yun was only ten years old, racking his brains to think of vicious words, "You are not worthy of the Qingshuang Sword at all, my senior brother said that your sword is fake! Such a good sword can only be used by really powerful people, you are not worthy at all!"

Yun Zhao was also angry at this time, "My sword is fake, but your broken iron sword is real? I see that you can't eat grapes and say that grapes are sour! I'm not good? Master Zun and Master praise me for being a genius! I want to see if it's the monster you killed or the monster I killed this time!"

As soon as these words came out, Yun Zhao was stunned, but Yun Zhao on the other side was also stunned.

The two stared at each other, and after a while, the eagerness and anger in their eyes somehow suddenly turned into a hit.

February 2 is just around the corner, and the final candidates for the next mountain are Yun Changyou, Yun Yan, and the third elder Yun Feng.

Yun Feng is older and has plenty of experience, while Yun Changyou has some understanding of the "monsters" that are rumored this time compared to other disciples, while Yun Yan often goes down the mountain and is more familiar with the people and paths in the town. Then he chose three young disciples to follow, and the head of the family explained: Don't force everything, do what you can.

It's ridiculous, it's obviously "monster hunting", but just in terms of selecting people, it has nothing to do with the "basic skills" of monster hunting.

On and off the mountain, there is a "war and chaos".

And Yun Zhao's ears were cocooned by her master's chatter.

"Xiao Zhao, don't go out of the mountain gate recently, if you are afraid alone, go to Senior Brother Yunqi to sit down, and wait for the master to come back and bring you snacks and cheese. ”

"Master, you've said it many times!"

Yun Yan looked really sad, and his brows were twisted into knots, "Master can't rest assured of you." ”

Yun Zhao's fingers rubbed on the hilt of Qingshuang's sword, full of concern, and nodded again in response.

......

February 2.

Yunfeng and others agreed to set off when the sky was just green, and after the people were gathered, they went to the head of the house to say goodbye, and when they arrived at the middle hall, the old man with gorgeous hair was waiting in the hall early, and he was turning his back to everyone at this time, and he didn't know how long he looked at the tablet of the ancestor like this.

"Master rest assured, this trip will be blessed by the ancestors. Yun Changyou said.

"When I was young, I also used to get rid of some monsters with my master......" The old man turned around for a long time and looked at the six disciples, "You must not take risks on this trip, do everything within your ability, and if you feel that something is wrong, you can come back and discuss it again." ”

"Disciple obeys the teachings!"

Not long after Yun Yan and his party went out of the middle hall, the door of the mountain house on the west side quietly opened a crack.

Yun Zhao had already washed and dressed in the dark.

With the Qingshuang Sword on his back and the fox Xiao Jiu in his arms, his furry head poked out from the crack in the door.

At this moment, the silence was broken by the call of a young partridge bird.

Yun Zhao locked the door and walked around to the back of the room, "Yun, your name is so ugly, are you really a little finch?"

Yun was already terrified when he did this, and his face turned red with ridicule at this moment, "Do you think it will be easy? If you are caught, I will die miserably! I don't even want to tell you the way down the mountain!"

"Okay, good, you're not, you're not. ”

The two of them were arguing, and then walked down the mountain from the hidden path behind the mountain house.

Before dawn, the road down the mountain was silent, accompanied by the sound of the two children stepping on the dead branches and the sound of the wind whistling in their ears.

Yun looked at the shadows of the trees on both sides, either dense or scattered, and he was a little dazzled, he felt as if he had seen a ghost.

He began to regret it a little, he was still so young, he had never even seen what a youkai looked like, in case he died at the hands of a youkai...... Doesn't it mean that the monster eats the head of a child, and his head is so small, isn't it a mouthful......

"Hey!

Yun Zhao was thinking about the monster, and when he heard Yun Qi's voice seemed to be a little wrong, he looked back at him.

- Senior Sister Yun Zhao doesn't seem to have anything to do, she doesn't seem to be afraid at all.

"It's okay," he smiled dryly, "don't you want to talk, it's boring." ”

"I don't want to. Yun Zhao could see that he was scared and deliberately teased him.

"......" Yun was choked up, "I heard that you were picked up by the Fifth Elder on the way back to the mountain, right?"

"What?"

"I heard that you and Xiao Jiu were rescued from the mouth of a huge dog demon, right?" Yun saw that she had taken care of herself, and hurriedly asked.

Yun Zhao is so old, the most annoying thing is that others ask her if the "dog demon" is real.

"yes, it looks like the dog demon I saw around here might still be alive, or a ghost or something. She grinned.

“......”

"Yun Zhao, don't you really have a father?" After a while, he couldn't help it again.

"For me, Master is my father, maybe there will be a Master in the future. Yun Zhao suddenly felt that it was difficult to do, the master was stingy when others searched for it, would he not be able to find the master?

"Hey, little finch, I heard you have a father, why did they send you here and not come to see you?"

Yun was anxious all of a sudden, "Who said that my father and mother don't come to see me? My father and mother want me to learn the skills to glorify my ancestors, and the family business has not been good recently, so they don't have time to come! They often bring me things!"

"Cut. Yun Zhao didn't want to talk to him anymore.

The two of them walked for an unknown amount of time, and finally heard the sound of the market at the foot of the mountain, and walked a little further down, and saw the hot air coming from the steamer of the steamed bun shop.

"Senior sister, did you bring any money?" Yun swallowed, not counting that he would be hungry.

Yun Zhao looked at the bun shop, and suddenly slowly showed a smile, feeling as if he had pulled back a hundred percent, and the depression in his chest was swept away, "What's so difficult about this?"

I saw her pull Yun but walked to the steamer, smelled the aroma deeply, and when the person who paid in front of her left, she took two steps forward, and said to the aunt who sold steamed buns: "Aunt Yu is good!"

The woman named "Aunt Yu" noticed the two people on the side of the steamer, and when she saw Yun Zhao, there were several more folds on her face, and she hurriedly responded with a smile, "Hey! It's Xiao Yun Zhao! Where is your master?"

"My master went down the mountain to catch monsters, and my junior brother and I came to help!"

"Poor God, what can you little girl do, don't get hurt!" she said as she hurriedly took seven or eight meat buns from the steamer, wrapped them in oiled paper and handed them to Yun Zhao, "Quickly take it and share it with this little Taoist leader, and if you can't eat it, bring two to your master, good doll." ”

Yun was amazed, and Yun Zhao's status in his heart rose a little.

"Thank you, Auntie, I will tell Master to settle the bill!" Yun Zhao squinted his eyes and smiled cutely, and the woman who listened to the "auntie" was sweet in her heart.

"Good doll, what do you want you to settle with a few buns? You have to remember that your master had to hide far away when he caught the monsters!"

Yun Zhao responded sweetly, pulled Yun but thanked him again and again and left.

After walking for a while, they found a corner seat. One person ate two meat buns, and he was so full that he hiccuped at this time.

Xiao Jiu woke up when he smelled the smell, ate half of it in Yun Zhao's palm, licked his mouth, and fell asleep again after a while.

"The remaining two are in your baggage," Yun Zhao said, "and I'm hungry for a while." ”

Yun replied, "What are we doing sitting here?"

"Wait. ”

Yun was confused, as if he had forgotten that he had also come down the mountain with his own opinions, and after eating Yun Zhao's buns, his brain would only follow her at this time, "What are you waiting for?"

"Wait a moment and run into Master and them, sneak after them, or wait until it gets dark. ”

"Wait, why wait for dark?"

"You're stupid, monsters eat children, we're children," Yun Zhao seemed to look at the fool's gaze, "It's dark, so we don't need to look for it, it's coming to us!"

Yun looked at Yun Zhao's frank and clear pupils, and suddenly his legs and stomach cramped a little.

"Wait...... Wait for it to come to us?"

Yun Zhao rubbed the Qingshuang scabbard behind him, "I will definitely catch it and return to Zuotianmen!"

Meanwhile. In the Satenmon Gate.

"Xiao Zhao, are you in there?" Yun Qi's voice was not loud or small, and she was afraid that the little girl was still sleeping and startled her.

"Xiao Zhao, it's time to eat, get up. ”

"I'm in. ”

Yun Qi said to the disciple who was pushing the wheelchair behind him, "Open the door." ”

The old door creaked open, and the sunlight poured in with the flying dust, warming the air in the room.

Only the open quilt seems to have been cold for a long time.