Chapter 20: Upstairs

The first rays of the morning sun rise, and the whole town is bathed in a faint morning light.

The black cat sneaked into the yard, ready to see if the big man who had ruined his good deeds last night was still there, thinking about how to sneak into the house and bite him secretly, when suddenly it saw an open window, and quietly leaned towards the window.

When I first climbed up to the window, I was stunned for a moment, and then I ran away as if I was flying, and I didn't even have time to scream, as if I had seen something most terrifying.

There was nothing terrible in the room, but there was a person standing, and that person was naturally Xu An, Xu An stood in the room and looked out the window quietly.

The scenery that can be seen outside the window is very limited, and you can only see the wall of the small courtyard and the high sky, compared to the sky, the courtyard wall seems very small, but today my own courtyard seems to be a little different.

When I opened the door and walked out of the house, I saw the yard full of neatly chopped firewood and the spotless floor cleaned for a long time.

A breeze blew, and suddenly his nose twitched, and he thought about something and then came to the kitchen with a slight frown.

The firewood under the stove was still slightly hot, and hot air came out from the cracks in the lid of the pot from time to time.

Lifting the lid of the pot, there was a big pot of boiled soup inside, the meat had been cooked very badly, and the soup had become very thick, Xu An picked up the spoon and stirred it, and then took a bowl and filled a bowl of soup.

He came to the courtyard with a bowl in one hand, sat on the steps of the door, and looked at the clothes drying on the clothesline for a long time.

I don't know how long it took, Xu An came back to his senses, looked down at the soup in the bowl that had become a little cold, and then picked up the soup bowl from the ground and poured it directly on the ground beside him.

Xu An didn't drink a sip, he still sat in place, which was really a bit of a waste.

After a while, some birds that were not afraid of people fell, and ate the meat on the ground with relish, perhaps because they felt that the taste was okay. Xu An looked at this picture seriously.

After a long, long time, Xu An stood up, put the bowl in the kitchen, and did not put another bowl of soup, returned to the yard and then looked at the pile of firewood in a daze, sighed helplessly, and said a sentence after a long time: "Take the knife away." ”

Cheng Wu walked alone on the path to Wangshu Tower, he held a woodcutter in his hand, which would make people mistakenly think that he was going up the mountain to chop firewood, although there was a lot of firewood to cut on Taiyin Mountain, but no one dared to give birth to such an idea.

The passage is very dilapidated, with deep weeds on both sides of the road, some of which have grown into the middle of the road.

There are clearly visible rut marks in the middle of the road, which are traces of the goods of grain and grass transported by various countries.

It is unimaginable that as a country, all countries have to pay grain and goods to a sect every year, not by force, but by people who have formed such a habit, and the so-called spending money to buy peace is nothing more than that.

As the most powerful Wangshulou in the world, many countries are very willing to make friends with them, and Wangshulou is not engaged in production and survival, and is also happy to accept these goods, as long as it remains friendly on the surface.

This passage will take a long time, not because Chengwu's cultivation is not high, but because no matter how high his cultivation is, he can only walk step by step when he sets foot on this path.

Because in front of it is Wangshu Tower, and this passage is the last section of the road to Wangshu Tower. It is a well-established fact that even taller people will not have tall buildings.

No matter how far the road is, as long as you keep walking, there will always be a time, so Cheng Wu is not in a hurry at all, just walk step by step.

After walking for a long time, the mountain peak in front of me is already close, it is indeed a high mountain, if ordinary people go up and down the mountain, it must be very inconvenient, and those ordinary people upstairs may not even go up and down the mountain once in their lives.

It's hard to imagine how Wangshu Tower was built on it, and how Yun Wangshu insisted on going up and down the mountain every day, just to come to Sanhe Town to drink a bowl of soup.

After walking for a long time, Cheng Wu saw the cold pool that he talked about from Xu An's mouth, which was basically the same as what he had heard, it was a very large and deep pool, surrounding the main peak of Taiyin Mountain, although the sky had warmed up in February, there was still a faint layer of mist on the pond.

The main peak where Wangshulou is located is in the middle of this pond water, which makes people feel that it should be artificially dug and cast in general, and it is not like a natural line, Wangshulou is like an island in the middle of the pond, there is a very long stone bridge above the pond, Chengwu walks on the stone bridge and looks at the pool water below.

After walking for a while, I finally passed the stone bridge, and what greeted me was a mountain road, and when you walked up the mountain road to the peak, you could see Wangshu Tower, but this mountain road was definitely not easy to walk.

"Are you Chengwu?" There were two disciples of Wangshulou standing at the entrance of the passage, and when they saw the big man in front of them, they asked, one of the two disciples was a little younger.

Although the two disciples were a little surprised to see the appearance of Cheng Wu's big man, they didn't doubt it, they didn't need to suspect anything.

"Yes. Cheng Wu saw the two disciples return, if there is no accident, these two people should be regarded as his senior brothers, but Cheng Wu has not yet entered Wangshu Tower, so he did not take the initiative to call his senior brother.

"We'll take you upstairs. The two of them didn't say much, but simply stated their intentions.

"Thank you both. Cheng Wu thanked the two of them and didn't say anything more, and followed behind the two honestly.

The steps of this mountain road are built very gently, the table is very clean, and the comparison with the passage when Cheng Wu came is still obvious, it seems that someone often cleans here, but I don't know how long it will take to clean this passage, and how long it will take to clean it again.

Everything upstairs in Wangshu doesn't seem to be measurable by manpower, and it will make people think that all the people living upstairs are a group of immortals.

The three of them didn't see any other disciples along the way, and even the birds became much less because of the high level.

After turning a corner, Cheng Wu saw an old man, the old man had gray hair and eyebrows, his clothes were tattered, and even one shoe was missing, one foot dragged a broken shoe, and the whole person looked crazy.

The old man's hands were covered with thick calluses, especially the tiger's mouth, which seemed to be like sweeping the building, holding a broom and sweeping at will on the mountain road.

His sweeping posture was really not serious, like chasing flies, and after sweeping twice, he sat on the ground and began to be in a daze, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, the old man suddenly laughed, and then continued to sweep the building, and the two disciples who led Cheng Wu sighed helplessly, as if they felt that they had really fallen into eight lives when they met this old man.

No one spoke, as if they couldn't see, the two disciples led Cheng Wu and walked up, and when they passed by the old man, the two disciples pinched their noses and walked a few steps quickly, very disgusted by the stench emanating from the old man's body.

"I'll trade this for your knife. ”

When Cheng Wu walked past the old man, the old man suddenly spoke, and the old man's voice was unpleasant, as if it had been squeezed out of his throat.

He didn't ask when he spoke, but simply described, I exchange a broom for your knife, do you like to change it, I think if it weren't for the madness, he should have been a very proud person when he was young.

Cheng Wu frowned when he heard this, although this knife is not very useful, but if he holds a broom, it is useless, and he is not going to Wangshulou to sweep the floor.

"It's just a knife for chopping wood, if the old man likes to give it to you. ”

The old man did not speak again, but sat down on the spot and thought carefully about something.

Cheng Wu put the firewood knife on the ground next to the old man.

The three of them ignored him and went up.

Cheng Wu didn't ask the old man who he was, because he could see that the two didn't like the old man, and it was better not to ask too much when he just went upstairs, but Cheng Wu really couldn't understand why the old man wanted his own knife.

This knife was taken by Cheng Wu from Xu An's shop, his big knife has been broken into slag in the battle between Xu An and Chang Geng, and it should not be too much to take him to put the firewood knife, in fact, Cheng Wu took it away when he sat in the yard and thought about it very seriously, and finally decided to sneak it out before leaving, if he let the boss who slammed the door know that he may not have to jump high.

"You shouldn't have dealt with him, that's a crazy old man. The younger disciple couldn't help but say.

"Who is he?"

"That's the sweeper, who is responsible for cleaning this mountain road. ”

"He swept such a long mountain road alone?"

"There are a lot of such sweepers, I don't know how many, they usually live in caves. ”

"Li Xuan!" the disciple in front of him said heavily.

The disciple named Li Xuan quickly shut his mouth.

Cheng Wu also stopped talking, carefully observed the surrounding situation, and found that there were indeed many large and small caves along the way as Li Xuan said, and it was hard to imagine that those building sweepers actually lived here.

When they were halfway up the mountain, the two stopped, and Cheng Wu carefully observed the surrounding situation.

I don't know how high it is from the ground, and it is already difficult to see the pool of water on the ground from here, but why do you have to stop? Cheng Wu suddenly felt that something was wrong, was it really as Xu An said?

Although Cheng Wu thought so, he couldn't do anything, because this was in Wangshu Tower.

After a while, Cheng Wu heard the sound of the stone door opening, looked to the left and found that there was actually a hidden cave here, the stone gate was very hidden, if it wasn't opened actively, no one would even be able to find out that there would be a cave here, could it be that Wangshulou was not on the mountain, but in the mountain?

As the cave opened, two middle-aged people walked out, and the two disciples didn't say anything when they saw this, and then walked up, Cheng Wu's heart was full of doubts, and he became more and more confused about the situation.

"Let's go. A middle-aged man said to Cheng Wu.

"What is this?" asked Cheng Wu.

"Talk less. ”

After saying that, the two middle-aged men began to lead the way in front, and Cheng Wu had no choice but to follow behind, and his feeling became more and more bad.

The cave was very humid and quiet, even the sound of dripping water on the top of the cave could be heard clearly, and he didn't know how many turns he had made, Cheng Wu only knew that he was walking down.

The two people in front only cared about leading the way in front, but they were not afraid of sneaking away by themselves, in fact, no one could sneak away in Wangshulou, which was absolute confidence.

There are a lot of glowing stones on both sides of the passage, and the polishing is very smooth, so the light in the whole passage is not very dark, Cheng Wu naturally doesn't recognize those stones, but he can also know that this kind of stone can be put in such a long passage, Wangshulou is not only strong, but also financially strong.

After walking in the cave for about half an hour, Cheng Wu finally knew where he had come.

Because there was a stone door in front of him, and three words were written on the stone door.

Forget the Worries!