After living on the mountain for many days and almost completely recovering, Yang Congyi prepared to say goodbye and go down the mountain.

On this day, after mentioning to the Taoist chief about going down the mountain, the Taoist chief didn't say anything, but just asked him how he was going to go after going down the mountain.

Yang Congyi also thought that if he wanted to get ahead, the best way was to participate in the imperial examination, and once he passed the examination, he could be directly awarded an official after passing the palace examination. Think of him as a person who has been studying since kindergarten, passed the college entrance examination and went to a first-class university, and has a whole learning career of more than 16 years, with his learning ability and foundation, it should not be difficult to participate in the imperial examination, but the key is how to get started.

Fortunately, he can now get close to a big man who is a Jinshi and a first, Lord Chen. Chen Daren is a knowledgeable army, although he is nothing in the eyes of high-ranking officials in the imperial court, but for the vast majority of people is still unattainable, high, he has a lot of power in his hands, military, political, financial, endowment, teaching, etc., and the most important thing for scholars is the power of the imperial examination, the entire Anqing Army five counties of the scholars want to participate in the imperial examination, must pass the state examination, and whether the state examination can be passed, to a considerable extent, by Chen Daren.

From Taihu County to Huaining, Lord Chen trusts and values him very much, and it should not be difficult to get Lord Chen's help.

But now Lord Chen is in trouble, and this trouble is the fugitives who fled into Tianzhu Mountain, if this problem is not solved, Lord Chen will not be able to keep his official position just after being promoted to the third level, and he will have nothing to rely on.

Now that the situation has deteriorated, and Captain He has led the forbidden army to destroy Nitou Mountain, it is difficult to say whether they will continue to attack, causing a full-scale conflict between the bandits and the forbidden army, judging from their purpose, this is very likely.

It is imperative that the problem of fugitives be quickly solved first, otherwise a full-scale conflict is inevitable, and at that time, Lord Chen's official position will be lost, he will have no one to guide him, and the road to the imperial examination will be full of unforeseen circumstances. If he doesn't win three years, he has to wait for three years, and so on, after three years, and after three years, and after three years, and then for three years, he can't wait.

Therefore, Yang Congyi planned to make a desperate bet, go deep into Tianzhu Mountain, go to the incense burner peak, identify himself, directly join the Zhongyi League, and borrow the power of the Zhongyi League to drive out all the fugitives in Tianzhu Mountain.

But now there is a big problem, Nipple Mountain was destroyed, someone should escape, if someone has seen him on Nipple Mountain, and also on the incense burner peak, then the trouble will be big, if there is no person from Nipple Mountain on the incense burner peak, everything is okay to say, make up a mix of it, but I'm afraid that if someone on the incense burner peak has seen him,

There is another problem, that is, the dagger that Brother Song gave him was lost, and it should have been lost in the river. Without the dagger, it is equivalent to without the recommendation of Brother Song, and the certainty of joining the Loyalty League is a little less. So the first thing you did when you went down the mountain was to look in the river and see if you could find the lost dagger.

Daoist Zheng had two life-saving graces for him, and all his calculations were not concealed in front of the Daoist, and they were all told the truth.

The Taoist chief listened to everything Yang Congyi said, and there were no words. She is a cultivator, she does not participate in the battles in the world, and she can't provide much help to Yang Congyi, she can only tell him which direction the incense burner peak is. In the end, he only asked the Qingchen Dao Chief to go down the mountain to help him find the dagger.

Without further ado, that day, the head of Qingchen Dao took Yang Congyi down the mountain and came to the place where he was rescued, looking for the lost dagger.

After many days, the river water has been crystal clear, and there is no sand and gravel in the river, but no silt. The depth of the river varies from deep to calf, shallow to the ankle.

Yang Congyi went into the water with his shoes, it was summer, but he was also comfortable in the water. When he turned around, he saw that the Qingchen Daoist also lifted his shoes and went into the water, so he smiled and said, "Daoist, thank you for accompanying me to find the dagger." ”

Qingchen said, "No, this is also Master's order." ”

Yang Congyi said: "Dao Chief, let's look up from here first." ”

Qingchen nodded and began to search the river.

Yang Congyi also silently began to search.

Turning over the rocks, pulling out the weeds and grass, at a glance, the places where the daggers might be hidden, all of them were not spared. The two of them are one left and one right, all the way upstream to find, the water is shallow at the beginning, and it is quite convenient to rummage, but the mountain streams, slow and urgent, there is a shallow place at a glance, and there is a deep pool that cannot be seen clearly. There may be a dagger hidden under the deep pool, so I can't let it go.

"Dao Chief, help me take off my clothes, and I'll go down and have a look." Standing on the edge of the pool with Qingchen Dao Chang and hesitating for a while, Yang Congyi took off his coat and jumped into the water.

The water in the deep pool is very cold, and you can still see the bottom of the river when the shore is five feet deep, and if it is deeper, you can't see it really, Yang Congyi had to dive into the water, but fortunately, he still has some water, not a landlubber. After going up and down the mountain and diving a few times, the bottom of the small pool was clearly visible, and there was no lost dagger.

After going ashore, the two continued to look upstream, and encountered a few deep pools, naturally Yang Congyi went into the water. Almost an hour later, they kept finding the place where Yang Congyi fell into the water, but they still couldn't find the dagger.

Yang Congyi stood in the water in a daze, how can this be good. The dagger is not big, but it is iron, and it sinks when it enters the water, and it is impossible to float away, and if it falls into the river, it must be in this section of the river. If he had lost it before entering the water, he would not have to look for it, the dagger that looked better on the outside would have been thrown on the road, and it would have been impossible for those bandits not to see it, and he did not want to provoke them now.

"Let's go back and find out." The Dust Clearing Daoist spoke.

"Okay." Yang Congyi dispelled the messy thoughts, or looked for it again, but he really couldn't find it, so he could only forget it.

The two went all the way back again, this time looking more carefully at the cracks and weeds in the rocks, and spent about the same time looking for it again, until they found the big stone that rescued Yang Congyi, but they still found nothing.

Yang Congyi was a little lost, but if he lost it, he lost it, when he didn't have a dagger, didn't he still get the approval of Brother Song and get a recommendation, even if he had nothing to go to the incense burner peak, it shouldn't be a problem, but with a dagger, he had a bigger grasp.

"Dao Chief, let's go back." Yang Congyi went to the riverbank and put on his shoes.

Qingchen Dao Chang asked in the river, "I haven't found it yet, haven't you looked for it?" ”

Yang Congyi smiled reluctantly: "Forget it, it is estimated that it was lost elsewhere, let's go." ”

Seeing this, Qingchen Daoist didn't say anything, went ashore and put on his shoes, and took Yang Congyi back to the cave on the mountain.

It was already afternoon when he returned to the mountain, and it was getting late, Yang Congyi decided to leave early the next morning, and also told Daoist Zheng, who nodded and told him that he could leave whenever he wanted, and let Daoist Qingchen take him down the mountain when the time came.

Tomorrow is going down the mountain, taking advantage of this small half a day, Yang Congyi thought about everything again, tried to get a full picture of what happened after entering the mountain, and deliberated on the possible dangers of this trip.

Needless to say, after Nitou Mountain sent four fugitives back to the camp, Lieutenant He County must ask the fugitives how they were captured, so that he will know all kinds of situations on Nitou Mountain, there is food and housing on the mountain, and more importantly, there are hundreds of bandits who have little combat effectiveness, and it is not a small feat to destroy hundreds of bandits. At the same time, they also supplied food and grass, improved accommodation, and pushed the Neng camp forward for hundreds of miles, waiting for the opportunity to destroy more bandits, such a good opportunity, they could not grasp it.

The fast catcher who returned from the camp once said that the 500 forbidden troops in the camp practiced every day, but Yang Congyi didn't care at first, the army was outside, there was nothing to do, and it was normal to practice every day. Now that I think about it, they should have been prepared and ready to do it a long time ago, but they haven't chosen a target yet. And Yang Congyi probed Nitou Mountain, captured four fugitives, and just found him a target that was not risky and could be very rewarding, and started to destroy Nitou Mountain, even if Lord Chen was held accountable, he could also say that it was because Nitou Mountain harbored fugitives and colluded with each other.

Judging by the timing, it should be that shortly after the first group of hunters returned, they mobilized their troops and horses to carry out the operation. If you don't carry too many supplies, the battalion to Nitou Mountain is enough for a five-day trip, Nitou Mountain strictly prohibits bandits from going down the mountain, and the defense on the mountain is not tight, the five hundred forbidden troops rush to the mountain, you can easily break the defense of the front village, and it doesn't take too much effort to take Nitou Mountain.

Once the forbidden army enters the front village, then the left and right villages can be found at the first time, if the forces are enough, they can also organize forces to counterattack and block, form a confrontation in the middle of the low place, once the two sides fight fiercely, the left and right villages have time to evacuate from the back mountain. If there is a disparity in strength, the bandits give up counterattacking and just want to flee for their lives, they are fast enough to evacuate some people. And once the bandits retreat into the back mountain, the mountains are high and the forests are dense and the roads are narrow, the forbidden army will definitely not be able to catch up, and they should not chase them, and if they guard the back mountain, they will be able to completely occupy Nitou Mountain, and there is no need to spend that strength at all.

In this way, the forbidden army will be able to completely control Nitou Mountain on the day of the attack on the mountain, so when Yang Congyi sent back to escort the second batch of two fugitives back to the camp of Qianshan Temple, Qianshan Temple should have been empty, and when they go to Nitou Mountain again, they will encounter the next group of fugitives on the way. These three teams of more than 30 catchers went to Nitou Mountain, with their shrewdness, they would definitely not return to the mountains to find Yang Congyi and them, and it would be a long time to go again. And the dozen or so catchers who camped near Fairy Peak, when they heard the sirens all over the mountain, they must also be alert, and they will not be wiped out. As for the other people, it is estimated that it will not be much better.

According to the calculation of time, when they broke into the village to arrest the fugitive, they should have already aroused the vigilance of the bandits, otherwise they would not have been chased by fifty or sixty people for so long. The forbidden army attacked the village, the bandits scattered and fled, when there were Nitou Mountain bandits on the Fairy Peak, and then there were people who claimed to be Nitou Mountain to go to defect, they would definitely be recognized, not only their identities were exposed, but also the identity of the Hutou Rock that Yang Congyi had used could no longer be used. As soon as the Nipple Mountain incident came out, the matter of catching and searching the mountain was exposed, and now the atmosphere in the mountain must be tense, and all the faces that appear will be suspected, even if you are careful, walking through the mountains full of bandits will inevitably expose your whereabouts, and what identity he uses has become a problem.

If you can't even reach the incense burner peak, you don't need to say anything later, just don't go down the mountain. Of course, it is impossible not to go down the mountain. In the same way, going to the incense burner peak is an adventure, if you can't even go to the incense burner peak, what risk do you take, and what kind of world do you have to change. Therefore, this trip, there is no hesitation, no matter how much danger there is.

Early the next morning, Yang Congyi said goodbye to the two Taoist leaders and saluted respectfully: "Thank you to the two Taoist leaders for taking care of them these days, and they are very kind, and they dare not forget each other." If one day the Taoist wanders to the earthly world, he will come to me. ”

Zheng Dao said: "There should be that day." ”

Yang Congyi was about to leave, but he heard Zheng Daochang say again: "Qingchen, you give the donor a ride." After arriving at the incense burner peak, you can go to the pig's head peak to settle down, and I will look for you later. ”

Yang Congyi felt that it was too troublesome, Qingchen Dao was still young, and he felt awkward to let a little woman escort him.

Daoist Zheng couldn't shirk it, and after Daoist Qingchen cleaned up a little, he directly let them go down the mountain.

Yang Congyi thanked him again, and after bidding farewell to Daoist Zheng, he left with Daoist Qingchen down the mountain.