Chapter Eighty-Five: Evenly Matched
I used to turn on the phone once a day to see if there was a call or text message coming in, so the phone was fully charged for more than ten days. And today I forgot to turn it off.
Putting down the pistol, I took out the phone, it was Ling Yunzi calling. Connected, she said you're in a certain town? I said yes. She said don't kill anyone, leave the rest to me! Then she asked the mayor's name and hung up.
I put away my pistol and phone, glanced at the shivering mayor, and walked out. Out of the office, I went in the other direction. Maybe I'm part of the dragon group, so no matter where I go, the road monitoring along the road or the cell phone signal will locate my location.
There are still a lot of Beidou satellites looking at me. In fact, my every move was monitored.
When I got out of the town, I took out the battery of my mobile phone and hid directly into the mountains. I don't believe that you can find me in the mountains and forests.
Walking north in the woods, when hungry they go to the river to catch fish to eat, poke sticks into the fish's mouths, and then barbecue them.
Not far from Anyuan County, Jiangxi, there is a Leigongba Reservoir. This is a Hakka settlement, and the surrounding mountains are all half-human-high tea plantations, and you can hear Hakka girls picking tea speaking Hakka. It gave me a little bit of a sense of belonging.
It's the middle of March, the weather is still a little cool, and the Hakka girls are picking spring equinox tea. The reason for staying here is that this Lei Gong Dam reservoir has fish catches, and there are no people living around the reservoir for a long time.
There is a place called Phoenix Gu not far away, which is densely wooded, which is very suitable for me to hide.
In addition to the cedar tree, there are many camphor trees, and the leaves of the camphor tree emit a very fragrant smell, which makes people feel refreshed and happy. A few white camellia trees dotted in the distance, and listening to the sound of the wind blowing through the masson pine trees made my whole body relax.
When the sun came out, I soaked in the stream and washed my clothes to dry. It is inaccessible, surrounded by primitive secondary forests, and there are no paths for collecting medicines. So I'm not afraid of being disturbed.
When I saw that there were a lot of chicken leg mushrooms under the camphor forest, I collected them with a straw hat and prepared to roast them. Sometimes I feel that my body is lacking in vitamins, so I go down to the tea plantation, pick a handful of tea leaves, put it in my mouth and chew it. It's that simple.
Eating fish can supplement protein, eating tea can supplement vitamins, and chicken leg mushrooms can supplement various amino acids. Every night when I go to bed, I pull up the hanging nets I bought at the market on the trees. Pull a rope on top of the hanging net and thread the plastic film through it, which can protect against rain, wind and mosquitoes.
When I saw that I could live, I began to practice, washing my whole body with the spirit of the instrument, every morning and evening for a week. After practicing, go down to the creek to take a bath and wash away the stickiness that comes out of the practice.
After practicing like this for half a month, I was surprised to find that my consciousness diverged farther. Sit on a big rock by the creek in the shade of a tree, and spread your consciousness from the creek all the way to the reservoir.
Every day, I explore the contents of the reservoir, and there are kings, fish, shrimp, mussels, snails, crabs, etc. Every critter can clearly sense it when it is foraging.
After practicing for a while, I used the wall-piercing technique to catch Wang Ba. Locked on to Wang Ba with his consciousness, he appeared next to it, and before it could react, he grabbed it and returned to the big rock.
At night, I ate the roasted king eight, and my throat was a little hot, so I went to pull out some weighing trees. This plant, called the Scales Tree, is actually a shrub. The bark has white spots, and its roots clear away heat and detoxify, which can treat sore throat.
I washed the roots and chewed them in my mouth, and a cool sweetness spread from my throat to my stomach.
One day I climbed to the top of the hill and saw a wild peach tree on a small slope, with a thigh-thick trunk and peanuts the size of peanuts on it.
I wonder if I should make a peachwood sword? If you think about it, forget it, and you haven't learned swordsmanship, and if you use a peachwood sword as a machete, you will be laughed at.
After two months in the mountains, the fat on my body was metabolized so much that I lost weight. People are also like African stowaways, jokingly, they are visa-free to go to Africa.
I remembered that the purpose of this time was to find Jiang Ming, and then start to leave. Now I don't walk slowly, I use the wall piercing technique to keep hurrying, and when I get tired, I force the aura of the machine spirit to my legs and run as fast as I can.
It was supposed to take me a week to walk, but I did it in a day and a half. When I appeared in the parking lot of the Pavilion Soap Sect, I was sweating profusely and collapsed a little. After resting for a few minutes, I walked to Chongzhen Palace.
The disciple at the door stopped me and said that the donor came in to burn incense? Please pay attention to the meter. I looked up and took off my hat, and this little junior brother pointed at me at you, you, you, and you, but he didn't call out my name.
My clothes are very dirty now, I haven't washed them for more than a week, and my body is even dirtier when I am in a hurry, and my body smells of sweat. The hair had not been cut in months, it covered the eyes, and the face was very dark. The backpack was also dirty and worn, and the shabby straw hat was in his hand, full of a beggar.
Kun Dao next to her has sharp eyes, this little junior sister has a good memory, she said Are you Senior Brother Chen? As soon as she spoke, a bunch of junior brothers and sisters gathered around her "Hula" all looked around me, pointing and pointing, but they didn't dare to recognize it.
"I'm Chen Daheng, where is your senior brother?"
"Senior brother is in the back mountain, he is practicing in the reservoir!"
"Can you take me there?"
"Yes! Come with me! ”
On the way, this Kun Dao asked me, Senior Brother Chen, how did you do this. I said I had no money, so I came here begging for food. Kun Dao laughed "poof" and said Senior Brother Chen, don't be funny, you have all the ability, how can you have no money. Kun Dao is a female Taoist.
I asked her what Jiang Ming was doing in the reservoir. She said she was practicing breath-holding. We didn't come up from the reservoir for a few hours, so we waited so much that we almost called the master to come and catch people.
It turns out that Jiang Ming is also practicing? Me and he are improving, huh? I wonder what happened to the fat man?
Kun Dao said that the senior brother brought all the books on swordsmanship and lived by the reservoir, without disturbing anyone, and only sent him a meal of coarse grain every day. She secretly went to see the senior brother a few times, practiced swordsmanship day and night, and dived at noon.
Swordsmanship? Shall I also learn swordsmanship from Jiang Ming? This fight is a punch every time, unpleasant, and without any beauty.
It's evening and the sun is about to set. Walking to the edge of the reservoir, I saw a man dancing a sword in the sunset. With each swing of the sword, a leaf fell from the neem tree next to it. The footwork is very elegant, and the body is light.
Kun Dao next to him was stunned, only to see her cheeks crimson and stars in her eyes. It seems that Jiang Ming has captured her heart again.
We stood in the distance, quietly watching Jiang Ming. I had a bold idea. I have fought a lot with others, but I haven't fought with Jiang Ming and the fat man. I don't know which of the two of us is the best?
I looked at Kun Dao and said you help me hold the bag, and I'll go and put down your senior brother. Kun Dao covered his mouth and smiled, saying that only the master can put down the senior brother, you? Then with a disdainful expression, she reached out and took my bag, and continued to look at Jiang Ming.
It's the mule that the horse is pulling out to slip around, and she is looked down upon by Kun Dao, so I'll go up and her senior brother.
I instantly appeared in Jiang Ming's back and smashed a punch into his back. Kun Dao in the distance shouted "ah". Jiang Ming took a few steps forward and swung his sword to stab. I spread the aura of the machine spirit in my legs and wrestled with him.
Jiang Ming stabbed me with his sword from a tricky angle, and I moved a few steps through the wall before reaching out my fingers to flick his sword crookedly. At the same time the other hand slammed into him, and he avoided it, and returned his sword to cut my arm.
The two sides fought for more than a dozen moves, and finally he was punched in the chest by me. I saved three points of strength, but the fist that hit my chest felt like it hit an iron pillar. He was knocked away by my punch and floated towards the reservoir, taking a few steps backwards on the surface of the water, splashing a lot of waves.
I instantly moved into the water, reached out and grabbed his ankle and pulled it. "Poof" Jiang Ming fell, and at the same time he stabbed me in the water. I let go of his ankles and swam with him in the water.
Jiang Ming's sword slashed, bringing out a trace of sword qi, which was several meters long, separating the surface of the lake. The movement in the water is not flexible, I am the same as him, but I can appear behind him instantaneously with the wall piercing technique, so he is behind him.
When he surfaced to breathe, I punched him in the water, sending a thigh-thick jet of water at him. Broken by his sword, the water column parted to both sides and did not hit him. I moved around him again, and kept hitting the water column, and he scrambled to break the water column.
Finally I was back on shore in an instant, panting and drenched. Kun Dao ran over, looked at the lake, and shouted, Senior brother, where are you? Then Jiang Ming made a leap ashore.
Jiang Ming, who was soaked through, had a long beard, and the whole person seemed to be ten years old. However, his eyes were very sharp, and the sword in his hand was also pierced with a reservoir fish weighing seven or eight catties. He stared at me and said you're improving too?
Jiang Ming has matured, he doesn't like to joke as much as before, and there are fewer swear words and yellow jokes. Everyone goes through their teenage years, and everyone grows old and matures over time.
I said that I have also been cultivating for more than two months, by the way, your sword is the Dongbin Sword? He said yes, since he took the Dongbin Sword last time, he has been keeping it in the palace, and he has no time to learn swordsmanship. When he came back from the South China Sea this time, in addition to learning swordsmanship, he also learned to hold his breath and fight in the reservoir.
Nanhai almost didn't come back that time, it was an eternal pain for him, and why shouldn't I?
Jiang Ming handed over the sword and fish to Kun Dao, and said Senior sister, you go back and call someone to come over and move all the things in the grass house back to the palace. Kun Dao nodded happily, and then walked away quickly.
He took me up to a large rock behind the cottage, which had a great view of the entire reservoir. He said that as soon as he came back, he stayed here for three months and lost twenty pounds.
In the distance, a group of white cranes are foraging, forming a beautiful scenery that combines movement and stillness under the sunset.