For seven hours, Lu Fan remained upright for seven hours, and told the woman everything motionlessly. The latter admitted in the process that he was the pure bamboo hermit they were looking for. No one would have thought that such a coincidence would happen in the world, but it is.

After talking about the purpose of this trip and the Gu Men Division, the bamboo spears and bamboo leaves around Lu Fan disappeared. He breathed a sigh of relief and fell to his knees with limp legs. Unexpectedly, since she broke through the shackles of the two star gods and successfully obtained the Tibetan Star God, she is really an enviable talent!

In the evening, the Jotake hermit entertains everyone in his bamboo hut, and although it is just a few simple meals, it is very delicious. After the meal, everyone drank tea together, because there were not enough chairs, the pure bamboo hermit sat on the edge of the bed with Erfan and the water ghost, and Zimir and Herbi sat on the chairs, and Lu Fan ...... Standing. Jingzhu said that he could squat.

"Sister Jingzhu, your personality is so cheerful, why do you want to live in seclusion alone?"

"It's a long story, I was born with bamboo, and I had the ability to control bamboo before I practiced, although the country of Fertile Fields was peaceful and stable, but the high-level of the state heard about me and felt that I was an unstable hidden danger, so they wanted me to participate in the border guarding work, so that I could be under their surveillance for a long time. ”

"Have you gone?"

Erfan's question was obviously too much, and if she went, how could she become a hermit?

"Go!"

Lu Fan and Zimir raised their eyebrows, did they really go?

"When I was 10 years old, I went to the border with my parents, where my abilities improved like never before, and then my parents died and I came here alone. ”

"You've been at the border for twenty years?"

Jingzhu had told Lu Fan before that she was thirty years old when she came here.

"Well, I still prefer quiet to noisy, so I built a ten-mile bamboo forest here, and I have been living here ever since. ”

"Alone, aren't you alone?"

Erfan asks the questions everyone wants to ask.

"Fortunately, when you are alone, you can sing and paint, so you won't be alone. And I also love to write, and in my lifetime, just write the story I want to write, and the rest doesn't matter. And I'm not always alone, every once in a while, I go to the villages and towns, and by the way, I exchange my paintings for something I need. ”

"This kind of life sounds really poetic, Sister Jingzhu, hasn't anyone been here all these years?"

"The people of the Fertile Country are not in the habit of going far away, this place is in the middle of nowhere, and no one will come. And even if someone knows my whereabouts, they won't be able to get here, this bamboo forest will move, if it weren't for your strength, you would get lost in it. Of course, some people with bad intentions have also broken in. ”

As Jing Zhu spoke, he glanced at Lu Fan, who clasped his hands to his chest and did not refute a word. Now that Jingzhu has promised him to go out of the mountain, he has no complaints.

Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Miduo hurriedly said:

"Senior, the current situation is a little tense, we may set off in two days, will you go with us to find the next hermit, or will you go directly to the Hundred Republic of China when the time comes?"

"Come with you, I'm here to help you persuade the next hermit. Or I can go to the top of the Fertile Country and ask them to prepare the army. Such a large-scale conspiracy war, the peace-loving country of Fertile Wilderness will not let it happen. ”

"No!"

Lu Fan shook his head and said:

"This war definitely needs the help of the Fertile Country, but it's not for you to go, and it's not now. It is precisely because of the great conspiracy of the Gumen Division that we need to be cautious, and we need to wait for everyone to discuss this kind of thing with the whole world, otherwise it will only startle the snake. ”

"When is it your turn to speak?"

Even if Lu Fan was right, Jingzhu was not angry with him.

"After so many years, your strength hasn't grown at all, just like that, you still want to argue with me?"

"I'm just telling the truth, don't look at your age, you're still like a child. ”

Lu Fan's tone was flat, and he spoke methodically.

"Humph!"

Jingzhu turned his head and asked Erfan secretly.

"Don't you think it's strange that he's so serious?"

"It's not surprising, my predecessors have always been like this. ”

"Really?"

Jingzhu glanced at Lu Fan suspiciously and made a grimace.

"I really doubt how you have cultivated to this day, since you have the strength of the Luo God. ”

"I'm talented, aren't you convinced?"

Lu Fan shook his head and said:

"Rest quickly, we'll leave early tomorrow morning!"

Although the time is a little tight, it is not too much to leave tomorrow. All five of them went out to sit cross-legged, and they were all war masters, who could practice through physical exercise and meditation. There was only one Jingzhu left in the room, and for some reason, the suddenly serious Lu Fan gave her a very handsome feeling.

"Huh...... Disgusting. ”

Jingzhu soon wondered, how could she have such thoughts? She lay straight on the bed, covered with a quilt, and slept with the breeze blowing between the bamboos.

As soon as she woke up, the five of them had already put on their backpacks and were waiting for her in the courtyard. Jingzhu washed, then sat in front of the mirror and combed her long hair in the mirror. She hadn't left here for a long time, Jingzhu was wearing a long-sleeved white dress, pinned a wooden hairpin, and waist-length hair draped over her shoulders.

"Let's go!"

Shizuki said, stepping out without any luggage.

"Don't bring anything?"

"No, I'll use the things here later, and I'll come back when the battle is over!"

"Okay. ”

I didn't care about these roads, I just walked side by side with her on the stone road. They were going to walk out of here slowly, even if it was a kind of home-leaving ritual for Jingzhu. Along the way, everyone was very quiet, until Jingzhu said quietly:

"The bamboo is blooming. ”

"Bamboo still blooms?"

The water ghost had never heard of it, so he spoke.

"Well, bamboo changes roots once in sixty years, and the roots will give birth to flowers, and the flowers will bear fruit, and the fruits will die, and they will come back to life. ”

Shizuki looked up and explained:

"Those that look like ears of wheat are bamboo flowers, and as long as one bamboo blooms, the whole bamboo forest will die. ”

"Why?"

"The bamboo is separated on the surface, but their roots are tightly intertwined in the ground, and this ten-mile bamboo forest seems to be huge, but in fact it is just a living group. The race needs new life, it must blossom and bear fruit, and so there is a seed. The old bamboo dies and turns into nutrients, and the new bamboo shoots are born under their conception. ”

Jingzhu said very slowly, as if telling the great truth of life.

"The Star World is also a bamboo forest, and Gu Mensi is now a bamboo flower, but we are lucky enough to prevent it from blooming!"

Lu Fan said, walking a step in front of Jingzhu, his black hair was still combed back, and he looked very mature from the side. When a woman reaches a certain age, the criteria for choosing a man are not only handsome or figure, but the stability and maturity of the other party. It just so happens that there are both of these things.

Although Jingzhu has the strength of Luo Shen, she does not have the feeling of rejecting people thousands of miles away like an unknown layman, on the contrary, she is inexplicably close to her own people. Looking at her gaze at Lu Fan, Miduo thought of tomorrow's dream, and didn't know how she was now.

In the distant new world, Tomorrow Dream is doing the same job as usual, and at the same time preparing to select a new general, she has no apprentices, and there are no particularly optimistic juniors, so she needs everyone to help her choose.

Someone persuaded her, saying that just after the battle of Kuangshi, everyone was reorganizing their mentality, and it was obviously a bad practice to change to a general now, but tomorrow dream said that it had been approved by the head of the world, and she insisted on changing, she knew that she could no longer be a general. Whether it is her current physical or mental state, it can't support her, she is already exhausted physically and mentally!

The second team began to walk forward on the road to the South China Sea, and their speed was only a little slower than that of the first team, which had Nikoladin's presence after all. He is a Star Shaman, and he has a teleportation star array to use.

Obsidian 2023

July 23rd

Moses Emperor Toto returned to the tranquility of the Fuyue Mountains of the Hundred Republics, and when he entered the city, Kungo was entertaining the lord of the Hundred Kingdoms.

The lord of the Hundred Republic of China is an old man dressed in white cloud silk, he has a kind face and a regular sitting posture. Although his eyes are cloudy, his expression is ruddy, and he speaks clearly.

"Kunwu, when I lent you the land, I was strongly opposed by the minister, but I still helped you win the good place of Jinghe. Now they think that you have provoked a bigger war and want to drive you away. To stay, you have to get their consent. You also know that although there are few people in the Hundred Republic of China, the number of people is not exaggerated to only 100 people, and if you want to stay here for a long time, you need to personally give the ministers an explanation!"

Kun Wu sat opposite the old man, personally made tea for him, and said sincerely:

"Don't worry, Uncle Min, I will soon go and give the minister an explanation. ”

"Won't you do it today?"

"Of course you can, it's just that they just escorted Beichen Xihe back, I have some things to explain, and when the explanation is over, I will go over overnight. Uncle Min, you know, I have millions of people in my hands now, and I don't have your ability to govern the country, so there are a lot of cumbersome things that have been accumulated, and if I don't explain them to Toto, I'm afraid there will be chaos!"

"You're getting better at talking. ”

The lord of the Hundred Republic of China took a sip of tea and said with a smile:

"You're good at making tea!"

"Uncle Min has won the award, I know that you love tea, so I usually learn from Jade Hibiscus. ”

"Thanks to your heart, I'll go back first when I finish drinking this pot of tea. Come back tomorrow, young man, don't spoil your body. ”

"Now is the time to fight, and the body can't be taken care of!"

"It's really difficult for me to rule one country and you rule the whole world!"

"Fortunately, we have Uncle Min's support, otherwise we don't even have a place to stay, all the time, thank you Uncle Min, bothering you. ”

The base camp of the Gerd army was originally on an isolated island in the East China Sea, where the soil was poor and natural resources were scarce, and it was impossible to survive for a long time. If it weren't for Uncle Min's support for him, I'm afraid that the Gade Army would have died a long time ago, and even if it was difficult to survive, it would not be as large as it is now.

"Thank you for yourself, your sincerity, and your ten days of waiting in winter touched me, otherwise there would be no white castle and quiet things. Over the years, you have also given me a lot of wealth and materials in the Republic of China, so I came here in person this time. Those ministers are too stubborn, don't blame them, they haven't talked to you, their brains have never been as open as mine, so they are always confined to this country, and have never thought about this world!"

"Naturally, there is no blame. ”

"By the way, the bamboo forest in my palace has bloomed, this is a bad omen, you have to take every step!"

"Got it, Uncle Min!"

After drinking the last cup of tea, Uncle Min said:

"The old man feels that Toto, he has just come back, it is really hard, in order not to make him wait longer, I will leave first!"

"Congratulations to Uncle Min, I'll send you out of the city!"

"No, no, the old man has his own guard, you can do your job!"

Uncle Min opened the door and left, and did not delay, Kun Wu watched him leave. Then, a flaming Toto ran in.

"I heard that you have a new plan with Guangqi Wangshu?"