It turned out that the bird meat was not dead. He was on the verge of death and came back to life with my timely help, and regained his clear mind and pointed out the correct path back to Zuoqiu City. After eating and drinking, and the water level dropped, the two of us set off for Zuoqiu City.

Bird Meat struggled to get up with my support, but lamented to the remaining judge's pen in his hand: "The only thought left to me by my third master, if I lose one, I can't make a pair!" ”

I laughed at him, "Then don't look into the river, or you'll have suicidal thoughts!" ”

Bird Meat smiled bitterly: "I know that I am disfigured, and I regret that my handsome appearance has not been preserved." But, women still like money, right? As long as I can go back, I still have a lot of deposits! ”

"Cut, are you still thinking about courting your wife at this time?"

"Why not? The more I escaped, the more I felt tight! Otherwise, the next time I encounter this kind of thing, I can only report to the underworld as a virgin! ”

"Don't forget, you're a Yin cultivator! Do you want to continue to be a ghost after you die? I scoffed.

"That's right! Then I should hurry up and say goodbye to my virginity in my lifetime! Bird meat swore categorically.

Unlike normal living people, Yin Xiu is destined to not be able to become a ghost after he dies! Because the Yin cultivation that has cultivated Yin Gong is, from another point of view, actually an advance of Yin Shou in advance!

People have yang longevity, and at the same time, ghosts also have yin longevity. Yang Shou is the time when people live in the world, and Yin Shou is the time when ghosts stay in the underworld. It is said that the master of the underworld is in charge of the yin life of each ghost, and if he does not go to the underworld in time to reincarnate in time, his soul will fly away.

Of course, the difference between yin and yang is that yin life is very long, ranging from hundreds of years to thousands of years, and it can be extended by various methods. However, because Yin Xiu advanced Yin Shou when he was not dead, and converted some of it into Yang Shou, once the body died, the soul would also die, and even the opportunity to become a ghost was directly lost.

I listened to the bird's talk all the way and helped him along the way. With one more person with me, I'm a little more reassured, even if it's only a half-cripple. Bird meat is more familiar with all kinds of trade routes than me, and it is only less than three days away from Zuoqiu City, so I shouldn't be able to make a mistake.

But the problem of direction was solved, and food and safety issues began to bother us immediately afterward. I'm slightly injured, bird meat is seriously injured, don't say that if you encounter any ghosts and monsters, even if you want to go faster, it feels very difficult. Therefore, along the way, the two of us hid like frightened birds, for fear of encountering anything again, and did not dare to make a fire to cook and warm up at night.

On the third day, when the dry food was gone, I had to jump into the underground river to catch fish, and then nibble half of it with the birds to satisfy my hunger. And the fish can't be roasted by a fire, so it's eaten raw.

It took us four and a half days to finish the original three-day journey. When we saw that large area of Sawada from afar, we were extremely excited, and we felt that we had come back to life here!

The two of us eventually collapsed in front of the tower of the first Left Hill outpost outside of Sawada. Extremely tired, I said to the guards who came to check on us, "Help, help us inform Teng Boli, the head of the Teng family...... Let's just say that the sixth team was attacked by ghost bandits...... All but the two of us were killed......"

"Humph!"

Teng Boli blushed and turned away resolutely. Only I was left with the bird looking at each other, uneasy.

The two of us were carried back to Zuoqiu City and then fell into a coma for two days. The injuries on the body are actually only part of the cause, and more are caused by physical and mental fatigue. Therefore, when we woke up and reported the situation to Teng Boli, the head of the Teng family, we were both lying on the hospital bed.

From the departure trip to the return trip, from receiving the hospitality of Shilinzhai to being ambushed by ghost bandits, I recounted the whole process in detail. If there is a slight omission, the bird meat next to it will be supplemented. But in general, the "confessions" of the two of us are basically the same.

But Teng Boli's face became even more ugly after hearing this, and he walked away without saying a word. I don't know if he was deeply angry because of Bu Ye's betrayal, or if he suspected that the two of us conspired to confess and put all the blame on Bu Ye?

However, then his third brother, Teng Shuli, also came to visit me. From Teng Shuli's mouth, I learned that Teng Boli's anger was not directed at us, he was still deeply affected by the almost annihilation of this caravan, and the losses of the Teng family trading house were extremely serious!

You must know that the most important thing for the commercial houses in Yincheng is reputation. Doing business in the underworld is a life-saving business, and it is not uncommon to lose some goods and lose one or two people. Due to the high profits of this industry, these local losses can be fully compensated. But once there is no credibility, others will not dare to come to the Teng family's business house to entrust it!

According to me and Bird Meat, the two survivors who survived the death, Bu Ye, the most experienced leader in Zuoqiu City, actually betrayed everyone and left the entire caravan and ran away?

Whether this kind of extremely explosive news is true or not, as long as it spreads in the city, it will be a devastating blow to the credibility of the Teng family's firm!

And it turns out that whenever everything becomes bad, it always needs a scapegoat to take the blame. Bu Ye is dead, and no one can hold him accountable. But Bird Meat and I were the only ones who came back alive, so it was only natural for us to take on this role.

Because my injuries were minor, I was almost recovered after a few days of rest, and I was able to get out of bed and walk around again. Bird meat needs to lie in the dormitory for half a month longer.

The six teams were all wiped out, and I was temporarily a laid-off idle person, wandering around the city every day without anyone paying attention to me. The people in the dormitory of the trading house avoided me and Bird Meat like a plague god, and it was obvious that they didn't really believe the two of us, and probably thought that we were smearing Bu Ye. After all, Bu Ye has also been in Zuoqiu City for decades, and his character has always been a serious and responsible old leader, where can it collapse so easily?

As a result, rumors are flying all over the two of us. Now it's a bit of a problem, according to the news that Bird Meat is lying on the hospital bed: there is no caravan willing to take us in at the moment!

He has been in the business house for a long time, and he still has some connections, at least more popular than me. Every day one or two people came to visit him and bit his ears from time to time. So his news has always been more reliable.

According to him, the other team leaders in the Teng family firm have made it clear that they will not accept us two unlucky bastards. And Teng Boli has been having a headache recently because of the aftermath, and he has no time to come over to deal with us properly for the time being. We are now in a state of "unemployed".

But then, the two of us didn't even get our normal basic salary on time every month, which is a bit weird!

So, I really felt very unhappy staying in the dormitory of the commercial house, so I simply moved out and temporarily lived in the abandoned stone house at the construction site of the "Tian Laolu Nursing Home".

The stone house was left by the previous owner, and the contractor who undertook the work from me had no intention of dismantling it, so he temporarily used it as a warehouse for storing tools. I didn't dislike it, I said hello to him, cleaned up casually and moved in.

Although the conditions are a little more rudimentary, for the dart master who often runs caravans and needs to sleep in the wilderness, there is a roof and four walls to cover it, and there is nothing to be faulted with. At the very least, I can take advantage of this stable rest time to eat a few more yin meals, make up for it, and reward myself for my grievances from taste and cultivation.

When I am idle and bored, I go to the creek in a daze, play with the small fish and shrimp in the water, or simply help the construction team to work and strive to build the nursing home as soon as possible. After a month of doing nothing, I actually began to vaguely understand Tian Laolu's state of mind, if you wait for death in the underworld like this, it is indeed a very pleasant thing.

But this dull life soon came to an end with the recovery of the bird's injury.

He came to me with a head full of gauze and a cane, and as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to talk to me about finding a new job together.

I laughed at him: "Who wants to hire you, who is still limping as you are now 'wearing linen and wearing filial piety'?" ”

The bird gave me a blank look, and pulled the gauze off my head, revealing the scar on my face that had been stitched up. Although the scar has scabbed, it is inevitable that it will break. However, this guy is already more obscene, and with a scar, he looks tough.

"Well, you should have a successful plastic surgery!" I gave him a "thumbs up" with satisfaction.

"Can you stop paying attention to my good looks?" As he spoke, Bird Meat involuntarily took a picture of the stream and looked at his new look, "Seriously, do you still want to find a new job?" ”

"Nonsense! I'm dying of poverty now! ”

That's a big truth. After eating yin meals for a month, my own savings have been spent, and I have to temporarily "embezzle" some of the donations left by Tian Laolu.

"But can you do it with your legs?" I still pointed to the cane in Birdmeat's hand suspiciously. In fact, I don't even remember which foot was so badly injured when he came back that he still needed crutches after a month of recuperation?

"Hey! My legs and feet are fine! Bird Meat smirked, jumped on the spot twice, and played with the cane in his hand again, "This is something left by Bu Ye, and it was found when Manager Teng asked me to clean up the old immortal room." I excused myself with a leg injury and needed crutches. ”

"Cut, you steal a cane too?"

"Hey! Every time I follow a master, I can inherit something, and Bu Ye can be regarded as half of my master, right? Taking him with a cane is nothing! ”