Chapter 143: Patrolling the Mountains
Xiang Lu asked Wang Ergou and said, "A few days ago, you saw the beginning and end of the demon fire on the mountain?" Tell me more about it. ”
When Wang Ergou heard this, he asked him to tell him what he had said several times, so he said skillfully: "That day, I was chopping wood on the mountain, and the westernmost part of this lake was next to the mountain where I was chopping wood. ”
"When did that demon fire appear?"
"Don't worry! I was about to talk about it! I looked at the lush trees on the west side of the lake, and suddenly, I noticed that the water on the west side of the lake seemed to change color, and the sun reflected when it shone brightly. I was stunned, and after a while the light grew bigger and bigger, and it felt as if the lake was covered in something. I wondered if the youkai was coming out, so I was too scared to squeak. ”
"What's next?" Xiang Lu saw that things were strange and asked.
Then, even more amazingly, suddenly a fireball fell into the water, and the whole lake was suddenly ablaze, and the trees by the lake were scorched. The demon fire is rushing from west to east, and it seems to be rushing forward, I guess it must be caused by the fire demon swimming from west to east. ”
Xiang Lu smiled and said, "What you said today is very important!" ”
Wang Ergou was stunned and said: "Childe, do you want to go to hunt demons, but don't go." I was lucky enough to hide that day, otherwise I would have been burned to death. The day before yesterday, the demon fire started again, and it burned a painter to death. ”
Xiang Lu said: "How many times have you seen demon fire?" ”
"The people in our village have seen it more than a dozen times, but it was not as big as it is now, sometimes a little, sometimes a piece, and then it was all extinguished in a while, and it has only slowly become more powerful in the past month."
Xiang Lu thought to himself: I'm afraid that this demon fire was deliberately done by someone, but who are they? What exactly are you going to do? It should be the work of a Qingdao club, but why didn't they go to Luoyang to assassinate the martial arts, and they wanted to go to Bingzhou?
Xiang Lu got up and said goodbye to Wang Ergou, Wang Ergou took the silver and fell asleep happily again, thinking: You can make money by telling a story.
Wen Jun led the officers and soldiers to set off from the west of the city and searched all the way to the mountains, and at first they were excited in their hearts, but they got tired of it after two or three days, and they were about to go out of the border of the state.
"My lord, there are still seven or eight mountains twenty or thirty miles ahead, do you want to search them today?"
Wen Jun glanced at her subordinates and said, "What to search, it's annoying, what Sima said to Lu may not be all right, let Lord Ben be busy, let me go to the nearby county town to rest." ”
The officers and men were also tired, and when they heard about the break, they all agreed in unison.
So, Wen Jun led the officers and soldiers to a small nearby county town: Jinlin County.
When the county magistrate heard that the female official had arrived, he hurriedly vacated the mansion to let him rest, Wenjun had a big meal, and Meimei went to sleep.
And in the seven or eight mountains, a clear stream passes through the valley, and in the middle of the mountain in the secret place, there is a dark hole, on the right side of the stone wall carved with a cross and rice character sign, the entrance of the cave is covered with trees and other things, and from time to time there is the noise of some people working.
Wenjun was lying on the bed, thinking about the things of Zhongshan on the one hand, and the things about Princess Taiping and her husband on the other, and she was extremely irritable.
After leaving Ji to Chang'an, she gave full play to her spy expertise, and found Ling'er in Shangyunguan in a few days, she secretly found that Ling'er had a big belly, and thought: It turns out that Ling'er already has Xiang Lu's flesh and bones, and she came here to raise a fetus! No wonder she walks so freely, Ling'er likes a quiet and indifferent life, and it is natural to stay away from Luoyang's deception.
When Li Ji saw Qiu Shuang'er who took care of Ling'er, she was even more shocked in her heart, and said with a smile: I see.
Li Ji did not go to see Ling'er, but hurriedly left Chang'an and went north to Bingzhou to find Xiang Lu.