Text Thirty-eight Narrow road meets in the autumn twilight

Tianbao and Sanniang returned to the Zuoxiang Cave Mansion of the White Ape Country by the same route, found the body of the singer, cremated it in the open space, put the ashes into a clay pot, carefully wrapped it in cloth, and carried it on their backs.

Seeing that he was serious, Sanniang asked, "Is this woman Yuan Gongzi's confidante?"

Tianbao shook his head: "I didn't know her before yesterday. Before she died, she was insane and mistook me for an older brother and asked me to take her home, and I agreed. My father said that the husband must keep his promises. ”

Sanniang disagreed: "You human beings have a lot of rules. If everyone is like you, how can there be so many disputes? The fear is that some people will obey and some people will not obey. ”

Tianbao said: "Others are others, I am me." ”

Seeing that he was serious, Sanniang chuckled and said no more.

The two returned to the bamboo forest, and Tianbao inadvertently saw a raging fire in the west: "There is a fire over there." ”

Sanniang said: "That's the dayless wood." ”

"Is it a tree?"

"Well, it's a tree that never dies. I don't know how long it has been burning, and it won't be extinguished by wind and rain. The fire was so big that no one could be approached three miles away, and birds could not fly over the daylight trees, and would be burned to black charcoal. ”

Tianbao was speechless: "I didn't pay attention during the day. Forever, it's perfect for you foxes to hide things. ”

When Sanniang heard this, she suddenly changed her face, and moved extremely quickly to choke Tianbao's neck: "How do you know?"

Tianbao rolled his eyes in a pinch: "I mean, I mean, you foxes will dig tunnels, if you dig a tunnel from the ground and hide things under the trees, no one will ever be able to steal your things." ”

Sanniang let go. Tianbao touched his neck with palpitations, thinking to himself, such an obvious thing, a fool can't think of it.

Speechless in the moment. Tianbao secretly thought, the demon is always a demon, and he must escape if he has the opportunity.

He followed Sanniang through the trees and walked towards the hill. In the black woods, there are fox soldiers from time to time, and some people who know Sanniang tell her loudly about the battle situation: "The old ape king has been corrected." ”

Sanniang sighed.

Out of the woods, Tianbao thought to himself: I don't want to come to this ghost place again. Although I can't guess why King Qingqiu wants Sanniang to send him home, the motive is not pure. I don't know if it's related to cloud pupils.

The two went down the hill and saw Xiao Wu standing at the bottom of the slope in men's clothes, as if waiting for someone.

Sanniang was not surprised, and said with a smile: "It is more convenient for me to change into men's clothes." He turned around and transformed into a middle-aged man.

"Little Fifth Girl will accompany me too?"

Xiao Wu stretched out his hand and patted Tianbao's buttocks: "Yuan Gongzi is really smart." ”

Tianbao was very angry and was about to have a seizure, Sanniang smiled: "Xiao Wu, don't make trouble, it's important to do business." ”

Xiao Wu smiled inwardly: "This is the serious business of the fox spirit." ”

Tianbao was taken to Quezhuang in a coma, and rode from Quezhuang for a long time to Qingqiu Mountain, and did not know where the dense forest was, and took it for granted that the dense forest was very far away. Who knew that Sanniang took him, turned around, climbed a mountain, and the sky was just dawning, and he had already arrived.

Although it was already dawn, there were many towering trees in the dense forest, and the early morning sunlight could not seep in, and the forest seemed dark, and the unknown birds were crying very frighteningly.

Sanniang suddenly said, "Shhh, someone." ”

The little five said grinningly: "In this deep mountain and old forest, how can there be anyone?"

Sanniang said: "I smell the aroma of wine." It's ape wine. ”

Xiao Wu snorted: "It's really! Could it be that there is a white ape that has escaped the net and is drinking here?"

Originally, the white ape is good at picking flowers and miscellaneous fruits to make wine, often picking flowers in spring and summer, fresh fruits are brewed into wine in the stone depression, the wine taste is peculiar, the fragrance is overflowing, and it can be smelled hundreds of steps away. The fox is also good at wine, this time to destroy the white ape country, a lot of ape wine was seized, and the fox soldiers heard that everyone could share the wine and drink, and they were all overjoyed.

A few people walked lightly along the aroma of wine, and saw a very strange situation: there was a horse-drawn carriage in the clearing in the forest, and there was a black coffin on the car, the coffin lid was lifted, and the body of a dry old man was lying in the coffin, looking hundreds of years old, three young people surrounded the coffin, a woman and a man were dressed in white, very handsome, and another woman in black was full of tears, and was holding the wine jar to pour wine into the mouth of the dead corpse, and there were words in the mouth: "Count, I'm late, this ape wine, let you drink enough today!"

Tianbao was taken aback, this girl was the girl in black who fought with the black horse on the mountain road a few days ago, fed it to drink Kunlun Tree, and said that she wanted to go back to Magpie Village first, who is she and why did she appear here?

Xiao Wu smelled the aroma of ape wine, couldn't hold it, and rushed forward to grab the wine like a whirlwind: "Such a good wine, feed a dead man, isn't it a tyrannical thing?"

She was so fast that Sanniang couldn't scream. The horse pulling the cart was startled, neighed with its head held high, and lifted its feet off the ground, and was about to lift the coffin to the ground.

The girl in black reacted very quickly, turned around, threw the wine jar upward, lightly grabbed the reins of the horse, stabilized the horse, jumped up to catch the wine jar, and on the tree next to it, she rushed straight out of the dense forest with the wine jar in her arms, and actually stood on the treetops.

Her extremely handsome light body kung fu made Tianbao dizzy, and she couldn't help but shout: "Okay!"

Xiao Wu was very unconvinced, and his right foot was a little on the edge of the coffin, and he had to rush up. The young man next to the coffin saw that she had rammed the horse, causing the coffin to almost be overturned, and at this moment he stepped on the coffin again, extremely rude, and couldn't help but be furious, lifted his breath and leaned upward, and slapped Xiao Wuyi with a heavy slap.

Xiao Wu was shocked by the kung fu of these two, knowing that he was not an opponent, but he couldn't swallow this breath, and he looked up to the sky and roared, revealing his true body. It turned out to be a huge red fox.

She pounced on the young man.

The young man rolled on the spot, and the little five fox's tail suddenly became longer, wrapped him up, and threw him out, seeing that he was about to be thrown heavily on the trunk of the tree.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Sanniang hurriedly flew over to catch him and put him down gently.

When the maiden in the tree saw that the young man had suffered a loss, she jumped down from the top of the tree, raised the jar of wine over her head, and drank it all. There was at least a pound of wine in the wine jar, she was slender, she didn't expect to be able to drink very much, and after a while, not a drop was left in her mouth. Tempo was stunned.

She drank the wine cleanly and threw the wine jar away, which was impartial and just covered Xiao Wu. With words in his mouth, he drank again: "Fixed!" The wine jar immediately sucked firmly on the ground, as if it had grown on the ground, and Xiao Wu couldn't move in it, so he couldn't get out with all his might.

Sanniang hurriedly jumped forward and saluted the three people: "Lan Shaoxia and Jade Woman are polite." Xiao Wudao is shallow, vulgar for the demon, and I hope that the three of them will forgive their sins for the sake of my master. ”

The beautiful young woman known as the Jade Lady looked desolate, reluctantly glanced at the old man in the coffin, gently stroked the old man's face, and said softly: "Count, my mother is going to put the lid on, see you later." ”

Tianbao was terrified when she heard this, this young woman actually spoke so gently to a dead corpse, and she was also the mother of this hundred-year-old corpse!

The young woman obviously didn't want to be entangled here, and said gently: "Senior brother, Yuqi, we should set off, otherwise we won't be able to catch up with Quezhuang before the rain." ”

The young man was very obedient, came over stupidly, glared at Sanniang fiercely, helped Yuyao lift the lid of the coffin, and closed it very carefully.

Although Xiao Wu had been included in the wine jar by the black-clothed girl named Yuqi, the young man was still angry, and said coldly: "Why don't you stay in Qingqiu Mountain and run into this dense forest, presumably because the midsummer is coming, and the fur on your body is too thick and uncomfortable, right?"

Seeing that he was alluding to peeling his skin, Sanniang was secretly on guard, but still had a smile on her face: "Lan Shaoxia smiled." I heard that the young man and the jade woman are going to Quezhuang, these days my master is checking the remnants of the White Ape Country, there are roadblocks on the road, "Reach out and take out a token:" If the owner does not dislike it, you can take this thing as a token of customs clearance, so as to save a lot of tongues." ”

Seeing her deferential attitude, the man was a little angry, but he didn't accept the token, and said coldly: "When did I Huayangmen ever be afraid of King Qingqiu?"

Sanniang is still smiling: "The owner and Mrs. of the village are unique in the Three Realms in the art of astrology and divination, so they are naturally not afraid of my master." My master often said that he admired the two of them very much, and hoped to see them. If the two of you finish your business, it will not be far from Quezhuang to Qingqiu Country......"

Yu Yao interrupted her: "My husband and wife have retired to the world and don't care about the world. Yuqi, God has the virtue of a good life, you let that little fox go. He took the reins of his horse and walked forward.

The black-clothed girl named Yuqi also listened to the young woman's words very much, kicked the wine jar with one kick, and Xiao Wu rolled out.

Xiao Wu glared at them hatefully.

The husband and wife glanced at Tianbao and walked away slowly.

Yuqi took out a paper horse from her bosom, put it in the palm of her hand, blew a breath, and said something in her mouth, and in a moment, the paper horse turned into a real white horse. It was the white horse that Tianbao had seen yesterday.

She turned around and got on her horse and said, "Sister, brother-in-law, I'll take a step forward and sweep the barricades set up by the Qingqiu Demon Fox in front of you." She glanced at Tianbao, although she was surprised, but seeing that he had no sign of being kidnapped, she didn't bother to pay attention to him, and as soon as she whistled, the white horse immediately disappeared, and her posture was extremely dashing.

Tianbao was envious and wanted to open his mouth for help, so he went back to Quezhuang with them, opened his mouth twice, and never dared to speak, for fear of being killed by Sanniang and Xiao Wuyi.

When the carriage was far away, Xiao Wu asked Sanniang: "Sanniang, who are these people?"

"They are all apprentices of Huayang Zhenren. ”

Xiao Wu opened his mouth, and he wanted to say something but didn't say it: "No wonder ......"

Tianbao asked, "Sanniang, who is Huayang Zhenren?"

Xiao Wu hurriedly said: "Legend has it that he is an immortal. ”

"Is there really an immortal in this world?"

"If there is a demon, there will naturally be an immortal. The Holy Lord made it very clear yesterday. ”

Sanniang shook her head: "How can it be so easy to become an immortal? I see that the world says that he is an immortal, and it is also a rumor." When there was an accident in Maoshan that year, two little Taoist children were crushed to death. If he is an immortal, can he still let his own Dao boy die such a tragic death?"

Xiao Wu pouted: "I see that the person in the coffin is dead, if Bai Muyang can really come back to life, it will be similar to an immortal." ”

Tianbao thought to himself, he was half dead a few days ago, and he was rescued by the Bai family, although the old man in this coffin looked like he was dead, but the jade girl fed him wine, it must not be dead yet, and he was saved.