Zhouzhuang is not a mountain village, but a small village.

Although its scale is not small, it is not prosperous at all, and dozens of families live in a poor rural area, and the whole village is scattered and clay houses are piled up together, and two gravel roads cross to form a cross shape, which completely cuts the village into four pieces.

There are also a few grocery shops, pawn shops, blacksmith shops, pharmacies, and roast meat shops on the two side streets, and there is not even a vegetable market at the entrance of the village.

The Night Streamer is hidden in such a poor village? Zhang He didn't believe it anyway.

But this is Zhou Zhuang, and it is such a lifeless place that Fairy Ling Yin asked him to come to.

The NPC old man was obviously a little old, and he had gray hair on his temples and deep wrinkles on his forehead, and all he entertained Zhang He was a small pot of yellow rice and a small plate of sprouts for rice.

To be honest, these things are really hard to swallow, and Zhang He would rather go back to the Nanjiang River to roast snakes and eat them.

But when he saw the dirty children at the door of the old man's house staring at the pot of rice in front of him, he didn't dare to face the clear eyes of the children, so he only said that he was not hungry, so the children ran to the courtyard happily with the rice bowl.

This village is really poor, so poor, so poor that Zhang He feels that everything he says is superfluous.

"The alliance leader and his wife have already turned into feather immortals?" The old man looked grayer at this moment, and his demeanor was even older, and he kept repeating this sentence in his mouth,

"Village chief, the festival mourns and changes." Zhang He could only comfort him like this.

The old man sighed: "In the past, when the alliance leader passed through Fenglingdu, the old man was still a woodcutter in this village, and the alliance leader knew that my Zhouzhuang bandits were constantly troubled, so he asked me to lead the way back to this village overnight, and the alliance leader and his wife waited here for three days and three nights, and eliminated a total of more than 50 bandits from all walks of life, since then I have lived and worked in peace and contentment, and he is happy, although it was more than ten years ago, but it is vivid, as if it happened yesterday......"

Zhang He said: "So, what about the night streamer?" ”

The old man said: "The sword has a characteristic, every time the moon is high and the wind is high, and the rain is continuous, the sword will naturally produce bright light, and the bandits from all walks of life know that the sword is in the person at a glance, so they dare not come to attack, but ......."

Seeing that his voice changed, Zhang He secretly screamed that it was not good.

Sure enough, the old man sighed and said: "A group of people from the rivers and lakes came here half a year, and they first said that they would borrow a sword for use, but it was originally the object of the alliance leader, how could I lend it?" Then they decided to pay a lot of money to buy it, and I couldn't sell it, who knew that after more than ten days, this sword was gone. ”

"Could it be that they were stolen by these people?" Zhang He was surprised.

The old man nodded helplessly: "After the theft, I didn't make a noise, and asked around for news of the sword." ”

Zhang He said: "Then did you inquire about it?" ”

The old man sighed and said: "Here to the north of the road 300 miles is the high god peak, according to legend there is a treasure buried in the mountain, is the late Han Dynasty Yellow Turban Uprising when the Chenzhou rebels raised, later the Chenzhou banner caused the imperial court elite soldiers to defeat the defeat, retreat to this Zhouzhuang when the mountain is exhausted, then someone proposed to open the treasure, in order to seek a comeback. ”

Zhang He listened quietly, he didn't expect that the Night Streamer Sword would have such a big origin.

The old man sighed: "Unfortunately, this treasure cannot be opened by manpower, but requires a specific key to the treasure to be opened. ”

Zhang He couldn't help but say, "What kind of key is it?" ”

"It's this Night Streamer." The old man explained, "This sword psychic recognizes the Lord, in the dark night to sing and shine, if there is no sword, must not open the treasure, so when the Chenzhou Righteous Army entered the treasure mountain and was helpless, tens of thousands of people can only starve to death in the mountains, only more than ten people barely survived, after several generations of change, there are now dozens of families up and down this village, I heard that my ancestors were women and children in the army at that time, was assigned to the neighboring states to borrow grain, only luckily escaped the great famine......"

Zhang He's heart was sinking little by little, and things seemed to be developing in the direction he was most unwilling to.

"According to what you said from the village chief, those people from the rivers and lakes obviously came for this treasure, so they borrowed the sword, and if they couldn't borrow the sword, they secretly stole it?" Zhang He analyzed.

The old man nodded weakly: "They have found the treasure and dug it out, but recently Gao Shenfeng has been in trouble, and the treasure has changed hands several times, I heard that this new group of people has entrusted the Jingshi's Baili Dart Bureau to escort this batch of treasures, and I believe that the sword of the alliance leader has fallen into their hands." ”

Zhang He finally sighed, he knew that he was in big trouble again this time, to be precise, big trouble.

Sometimes it will give you what you are afraid of, and it will not come to you what you want, and this opportunity in life depends on how you grasp it.

But Zhang He couldn't help but admire this NPC old man very much: "Village Chief, your old man would rather suffer from poverty than use the sword to discover that treasure, which shows that you are high-spirited and bright, and let us juniors be ashamed." ”

The old man smiled bitterly: "When the alliance leader saw that the road was uneven, he drew his sword to help, and he didn't use the sword to dig up the treasure, but handed the sword to me to keep and deter the bandits. What's more, how many years have passed, and the Han Dynasty has long since fallen, so what's the use of us taking out the treasure? Today's imperial court is not without action, today's emperor is working hard to rule the world, peace and security, if the sword and soldiers rise again, how many people in the Southern Dynasty are scattered, and their families are ruined, why is this difficult? ”

Zhang He was silent, what the village chief said was indeed quite reasonable, but he had gone through a lot of hardships along the way to come here, could he just watch the Night Streamer Sword being transported away by the Baili Dart Bureau like this?

Fortunately, the old man continued: "Young man, since the alliance leader and his wife have already passed away, and the blue girl has entrusted you to come and retrieve the sword, the old man is incompetent and has not been able to take good care of this sword, I wonder if you can retrieve this sword for the alliance leader on behalf of the old man this time?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the system sound sounded: Distinguished player, do you accept the task of Zhou Zhuang?

Zhang He is really a little hesitant this time, the system is prompting to take the task, so the difficulty of this task is probably not small, but since it has come, why not take a risk? You must know that wealth and danger are sought.

Of course, although I was a little gloomy in my heart, I had to answer the words beautifully: "The alliance leader and the fairy are both kind to me, and it must be my duty to retrieve the sword, but I still have to consult the village chief for many details." ”

The village chief said: "The old decay should tell each other. ”

Coming out of the village chief's house, it was already dark, and Zhang He asked about the situation that should be asked, and at the same time, the village chief also gave him a martial arts cheatbook, which was said to be left by Feng Fei back then, and it was useless for him to keep martial arts, but in fact, Zhang He could understand that this cheats book was equal to the deposit for this mission, once you took this task, you must complete it, otherwise you give up halfway or interrupt for some other reason, then the system is likely to deduct your surname, and even take back martial arts.

"Grafting", use requirements: moisturizing the domestic power of +50 level, range 20*20 meters, the number of enemies requires at least two units or more, consumes 5 points of internal power per second, and the effect: transfers 20% of attack damage.

This is a book of internal strength, and it is also an intermediate martial arts, which can be said to be an auxiliary type of practical martial arts, with this cheatbook, there is at least some security against multiple enemies.

It's just that Zhang He still can't be happy, because now through the village chief's information, he already knows that the Night Streamer Sword has currently fallen into the hands of the Baili Dart Bureau, and the time limit given by the system for retrieval is ten days.

That is to say, if the Baili Dart Bureau sets off tomorrow, and he can't get the sword back before leaving Fenglingdu, Zhang He's task of taking the sword is basically a failure, because Fenglingdu is a traffic point, no matter who gets the sword and leaves from there, there are a variety of routes, if you want to track down, it is not only extremely difficult, but also very time-consuming.

What's more, the time limit is ten days, and such a long time also indirectly shows the difficulty of this mission, so there is not much time left for Zhang He.

But the problem is that I want to get the Night Streamer Sword back from the hands of the Emei Sword Sect and the Baili Dart Bureau, which is almost the same as pulling teeth out of the tiger's mouth, and even more difficult than this.

You have to know how many forces in the open and dark are currently staring at this red goods? None of the people involved in this turmoil are fuel-efficient lamps.

Life and death sentence, six doors, Emei Sword Sect, Fengyun Palace, Golden Palace Family, Moon God Sect...... The origin of these factions is bigger than the other, so big that it is simply outrageous, to take the sword away under the control of these forces, is it to fight a bloody way? Or outwit Tiger Mountain?

Zhang He under the starlight showed a contemplative expression.

At this time, the children in the yard had already eaten up the pot of rice, chasing and playing one by one.

They also learned from the swordsmen in the rivers and lakes, holding bamboo poles and branches to wave indiscriminately, one of the older children Wang waved a long bamboo pole, standing in the middle of the courtyard with a golden knife and shouting: "I am Guan Yunchang of Jingzhou, I will come to trick the thief on the order of Uncle Liu Huang, and I will capture ...... if you don't hurry up."

Zhang He's eyes lit up, he finally thought of the general direction of solving this matter, at this moment in the night a milky white carrier pigeon fluttered its wings and flew over, Zhang He took off the pigeon ring and looked at it, the expression on his face had a slight hint of relief, because the note had already passed the information, Ma Junmei and Hua Feihong were rushing in this direction, the fat man and his family followed, and Zhong Shuman had left because of important matters, and had set off in the direction of Jingshi.

To complete the task of the Night Streamer Sword, it is indeed impossible for him to do it alone, but after having a helper, it is different, the soft one can't come to the hard one, and the hard one can't be outwitted, even if it is stealing or robbing, you have to get this sword, otherwise the hard work along the way will be completely wasted from exile from Sichuan to Chenzhou.

(To be continued)