Zhou Xuan's fourteen people went ashore from Hui'an Dongling, Lin Ji carried Zhou Xuan's handwritten letter, and went to Zhangzhou in the northwest under the leadership of a male guard of Pan Yujiao, and had to travel more than 500 miles in two days and two nights to bring back the secret letter of how Chen Kai responded. (Eye to the book)

  Hui'an is the main settlement area of the Shanha people, Pan's Shanha and Lan's Shanha are the most populous, since five years ago Lan Lianchang's sister Lan Xiangyu married Chen Si'an, the Lan clan is dominant in Hui'an, but the Pan clan still has tens of thousands of people, last year's Pan and Lan two clan disputes, Pan Yujiao lived here for three months, and is very familiar with this area, but now, she must also disguise herself as a Han woman, otherwise it is not good to be discovered by the Lan clan.

  The five warriors of Qingyuan took off their armor and pretended to be Zhou Xuan's servants.

  This is more than a hundred miles away from Quanzhou City, Pan Yujiao has to go to the outskirts of the city first to arrange for people to pick up the families of the five Qingyuan warriors, she left a male guard to guide Zhou Xuan and others, and another female guard followed her to the state city.

  Zhou Xuan lent the "Shine the Night Jade Flower Tree" to Pan Yujiao, and said: "This horse is running fast, in case of danger, the great patriarch can rely on it to get out." ”

  Pan Yujiao didn't push back, rode on the "Shine on the Night Jade Flower Horse", looked back on the horse, and said with a smile: "Thank you Zhou Jungong, I will be careful." "Take the female guard and leave.

  Zhou Xuan ten people were not in a hurry, they traveled more than 30 miles to the north, came to the town of Luoyang at noon, and dined at the restaurant in the town.

  Zhou Xuan is quite particular about eating. Now that you have money, how can you lose your stomach, there are many delicacies in Quanzhou, such as caviar porridge, mutton soup, white duck soup, etc., everyone is happy.

  Zhou Xuan claimed to be an insect merchant who came here to buy insects from Wu Yue, and asked the store if there was a worm market nearby?

  Wu Yue people are popular in fighting insects, especially the younger brother of King Qian, Shao Wujun, who is the most popular in Qian Weiyan, and there are not a few people who come here from Fuzhou to look for insects, so it is not surprising that the store is not surprising. said: "This guest officer, how can there be any insect market in this small place of Luoyang, in previous years, there was an insect market in Quanzhou City, and now there is a war with the Tang State, who still has the leisure to play cricket, alas, the war is in chaos!" ”

  Zhou Xuan asked again: "Shopkeeper, have you ever heard that high-quality crickets have been caught in this neighborhood?" ”

  The shopkeeper said, "This villain doesn't know. I only know that there are a lot of crickets in the area of Qingyuan Mountain in the north, and in previous years, the insect merchants from Wu Yue hired people to catch insects there. This year, because of the fear of war, there are fewer Wu Yue people. ”

  Zhou Xuan let out a "hmm", drank red rice wine, and was silent in thought.

  Yuan Hongdao's "Promoting Weaving" in the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Congyandi's "Cricket Illustrated Book" in the Qing Dynasty have all marked that Quanzhou has produced super fierce insects at the level of insect kings. This is an important reason why Zhou Xuan dared to bet on insects with the Snow Pig Prince. Zhou Xuan is confident that he can find a cricket that can compete with the "Green Robe Wen Chou", even if it is a little weak, it doesn't matter, with his insect breeding secret skills, it should not be too difficult to defeat the Snow Pig Prince, just a little good luck is enough.

  The four idiots didn't drink alcohol, so they hurriedly went to the small town pharmacy for lunch to buy all the flavors of medicine, fried the filter residue in the pharmacy, and then baked them into tiny pills in a small porcelain bottle in the oven.

  Not for three moments. Zhou Xuan and his party of ten people continued to the north. When it was dark and came to the southern foot of Qingyuan Mountain, Zhou Xuan remembered that the south of Qingyuan Mountain should be Quanzhou City. Why don't you see the shadow of Quanzhou City now? The guard who asked Pan Yujiao said that Quanzhou City was still sixty or seventy miles away in the northwest, and it seemed that the address of Quanzhou City in ancient Quanzhou and later generations was not the same.

  The weather is fine these days, the day is a round of red sun, the night is half a round of autumn moon and the sky full of stars, the autumn night in Quanzhou is refreshing and pleasant.

  On the way, I met a villager and asked if there were ruins in the vicinity, and the villager pointed to Qingyuan Mountain, saying that there was originally a Shanha village there, and later the people from the village migrated.

  After the villager left, Pan Yujiao's guard said to Zhou Xuan: "Zhou Jungong, I know that village, it is the village where my Pan clan people live, and they have been repeatedly bullied by the neighboring Lan clan village, and last year the patriarch of Panda asked them to move to Zhangzhou. ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Just go there and have a look, it's just time to catch insects at night." ”

  On the night of August 20, the moon had not yet risen, and everyone walked along the winding mountain road by faint starlight, and walked for about an hour before the moon rose, and it was much brighter in all directions, and the autumn insects could already be heard on both sides of the mountain road.

  The mountain road was difficult to walk, and everyone led the horses for another journey, and the guard, surnamed Pandi, pointed to the col in front of him and said, "That's the abandoned cottage." ”

  The village decays quickly if it is uninhabited, but in a year, this small village is full of ruins and broken walls, wooden buildings and bamboo buildings have collapsed, and there is a dead silence in all directions, only the cold moon obliquely shines.

  The Pan clan guards muttered and cursed Lan Lianchang, saying that Lan Lianchang had caused their Pan clan people to leave their hometowns.

  Zhou Xuan said to Fei Qing and the others: "You guys just rest in front of this village, Mr. Fourth and I went in to catch crickets, and we won't come out until the second half of the night." ”

  Zhou Xuan and the four idiots entered the barren village, each carrying a small leather bag, which contained a small shovel, a bamboo tube and a net cover, which was the simplest tool for catching crickets.

  Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "Fourth, this reminds me of the insect hunting competition with the third brother in the abandoned temple of Lushan last year, where were you hiding at that time?" Aren't you afraid that I will catch that greenback insect Yiyang Wei Yan? You still say I'm used to cheating, hehe! ”

  The four idiots' faces were slightly hot, and they said, "What else does the master do with those things!" Hurry up and catch insects, don't the princess lose to the snow pig if she doesn't win. ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Okay, let's go hunt separately, see who catches the ground worm well?" ”

  The four idiots said "um", walked a few steps with the leather bag, and then stopped and turned back and said, "Master-"

  Zhou Xuan asked, "What's the matter?" ”

  The fourth idiot said: "When I went to buy medicine and boil medicine at noon, Fei Qing followed me. ”

  "Oh!" Zhou Xuan groaned: "What does he want to do?" It won't be that he wants to avenge Gong Chengshu! ”

  The four idiots said: "That Fei Qing seems to just want to find out what I'm doing, and there is no other malice." ”

  Zhou Xuan thought for a moment. smiled: "I understand, the Snow Pig Prince is afraid of losing, so he ordered Fei Qing to monitor our insect hunting-"

  The four idiots said angrily: "What does he want to do? ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Naturally, we caught a good worm, and Fei Qing found a way to let it go or kill it." ”

  The four idiots bit their silver teeth: "He dares, I want his life." ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Don't be reckless, the fourth child is employing people now, I don't want to fall out with the Snow Pig Prince and them, hehe, and see what I will do-come." Let's sit down and rest, it's not yet time to catch insects. ”

  The two of them sat down side by side on the granite in front of a broken building, Zhou Xuan took out two green-skinned pears and ate them one by one, and said: "Don't throw away the pear pit, it can be used to attract crickets." ”

  The four idiots said: "I know, I saw you chew a wild fruit and put it on the side of the bamboo tube on Lushan Mountain last year——"

  Zhou Xuan smiled: "Fourth, fourth, you steal the teacher!" ”

  The four idiots said: "The master's insect trapping skills are indeed clever, and he constantly uses low-grade crickets to attract high-grade crickets." I've never heard of this insect trap, and I'm going to try it tonight. ”

  Zhou Xuan said: "Okay." See what level of bugs you can catch today? ”

  At this time, it was about the beginning of the year, and the crickets that were generally of higher grade would not start to chirp until after midnight to attract female crickets to interact with them, so Zhou Xuan and the four idiots had to wait for a while. The two of them each found a messy corner of the wall where there might be insects. Then he walked back and sat on the flat granite.

  Zhou Xuan felt that it was necessary to talk to the four idiots, and he should know more about each other, so he talked about his childhood cricket catching and almost being bitten by a snake-

  The four idiots listened with a smile and asked, "The master is the prince of Australia, why is there no one to guard him?" ”

  Zhou Xuan said "uh", and said in his heart: "Hehe, I am the prince of Xinzhou Yongfeng ^H countryside." He said, "I'm naughty." I got rid of the guards a long time ago. Acting Alone - Fourth, you also tell me something about your childhood. ”

  The four idiots let out a "hmm". Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly realized: "I don't say." ”

  "It's just the two of us here, so why talk about it."

  Zhou Xuan sighed: "Okay, if you don't say it, you won't say it, alas, it's hard to find a confidant friend to say something confidant." ”

  The four idiots glanced at Zhou Xuan, and said lightly: "The master Mo provoked me, there is nothing to say, since I followed the master, I have forgotten all the things in the past." ”

  Zhou Xuanxin said: "I don't understand what you five idiot rangers are for?" In the past, I was an assassin for money? Where are the first idiots and the second idiots? ”

  Zhou Xuan diverted the topic and said something about fighting insects.

  At this time, the four idiots saw a gray squirrel jumping against the root of the wall, and a question in her heart was aroused: "Why did the master use rat whiskers to make weeds and insects, I tried it later, but it was harmful." ”

  Zhou Xuan said with a smile: "That rat needs to be soaked in a special medicinal soup, this time it's too late to make it, let's talk about it when we get to Xingwang's Mansion - fourth, do you dare to catch mice?" ”

  The four idiots "snorted" and said: "I don't blink when I kill people, let alone mice!" "I am very dissatisfied with Zhou Xuanchang treating her as a woman.

  The autumn moon moved closer to the middle of the sky, and midnight came, and there was the chirping of crickets on the side of the broken wall and in the rubble.

  Zhou Xuan and the four idiots acted separately, Zhou Xuan found himself to place the bamboo tube on the pear core, but he didn't find any crickets, shook his head, and walked slowly around the village, listening to the chirping of crickets.

  There is a collapsed bamboo building area in the west of the village, with rubble and rubble, and traces of burning fire, which is unusually quiet here, and I haven't heard a single insect for a long time.

  Zhou Xuan felt very strange, the terrain here is higher, dry and messy, it is impossible to have no crickets, is there a powerful fierce insect, so no other crickets dare to chirp in this territory? But after waiting for so long, I didn't hear any movement, even if I didn't open it easily, the insect king of the Golden Mouth would still be chirping on such a clear moonlit night.

  (Eye to the book)