Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Lake
Murong Yu couldn't help but tremble and hugged his arms tightly, "How can I be so panicked when I hear this, just now the old man said, the old immortal was there in the year he was born, how can he be seventy or eighty like that, if the old immortal wants to live until now, won't he become an old monster?" ”
"Are there still few monsters we've seen?" Zhou Mushu glanced at him, there was something he didn't dare to say, in fact, he felt that Lu Yuanyan himself was a monster. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"That's a lot." Murong Yu was easily trapped, and he was tricked in a circle, "Then this possibility is really there, what should we do?" ”
Zhou Mushu sighed and said, "What else can I do, wait for that old boy to come over tomorrow, and take us to Liujiaxiang to have a look before making plans." ”
"And what is his purpose in doing this?" Murong Yu was puzzled, "Since you don't have a child, let a group of children follow the surname Ji and be the descendants of his old Ji family?" ”
"Then why are you called Ji Bahuang." Zhou Mushu looked at the West Lake, playing with a match in his hand, "Could there be such a possibility?" ”
Murong Yu saw that he was mysterious, frowned, and said, "What is possible?" ”
Zhou Mushu threw the match in his hand on the table, "Look for a needle in a haystack." ”
"You mean...... "Murong Yu is very understanding," he wanted not to let people find him? So make a match. ”
"So to speak." Zhou Mushu said, but immediately overturned his own thoughts, "Then why didn't he just change his name?" ”
"You don't know." Murong Yu picked up a match, "My master said that people's names actually contain a lot, especially those in the Dao Sect, sometimes the name is often the simplest mantra, and it can't be changed just as soon as it is said." ”
"If that's the case, he has an explanation for hiding in Liujiaxiang, but who is looking for him?" Zhou Mushu only felt that he was unraveling the yarn in his head, and the result was that the more he unraveled, the more chaotic and messy it became.
Murong Yu could see more than a tendon than him, and rolled around the bed twice, "It's good to catch him and ask clearly." ”
The two of them slept so-so and comfortable this night, so-so because they heard that Liujiaxiang was a ghost place as soon as they got off the train, and it was quite comfortable because this Dongling Hall was so expensive, if it was not comfortable, Murong Yu would probably be able to tear down his signboard.
The two of them were not in the mood, they ate some breakfast randomly, and sat at the window of the hall and watched the crowd of people coming and going outside in a daze, compared to Zhou Mushu's childhood, there were basically no people with braids, and the Western-style pastry rooms of the commercial houses on the street seemed to have passed an era.
The pocket watch pointed to eight o'clock, Ji Bahuang was really invited, holding a fritter in his mouth, and actually pulled a donkey cart and parked in the middle of the avenue of the bungalow car, which attracted the attention of the ladies and ladies passing by, some of them were curious, and more of them covered their mouths with a handkerchief and walked away.
Zhou Mushu couldn't wait to find a crack to shrink into, he suddenly felt that he owed this old man by himself, but Murong Yu was still very excited, and when he went out, he hugged the flower donkey and touched it curiously.
The Eight Desolations of Partial Discipline waved his hand very enthusiastically, and his voice said, "Yo, two masters!" ”
The flower donkey chewed a radish and rubbed Murong Yu quite friendly.
Murong Yu said, "Where's your rickshaw?" ”
Ji Bahuang Shun the donkey's hair, "What do you want that thing for, the bun runs faster than me." ”
Zhou Mushu jumped on the donkey lane, "Isn't the price more expensive?" ”
"That's it." Ji Bahuang's eyes widened, and he put a rope to drive the donkey, "I can feed one carrot a day, and it has to get two, so the price has to be doubled." ”
Murong Yu didn't dislike it, he sat down in the haystack and said with a smile, "How do you call it a bun, it's a good name." ”
Ji Bahuang didn't talk nonsense this time, he sighed on the road and said, "The soldiers are in chaos, when it was still a donkey cub, I didn't join the gang, I couldn't eat enough every day, I couldn't wear warm clothes every day, and my favorite was hot buns, so I gave it such a name." ”
Murong Yu looked at the donkey's back worriedly, "Then can it run?" ”
Ji Bahuang slapped the donkey's buttocks, and the donkey staggered out with a "flutter", Murong Yu leaned forward, but fortunately he was pulled by Zhou Mushu, and he was shocked, "The little brother has eyes and no beads, and the donkey brother is extremely brave." ”
"That's right, my steamed bun ate four radishes this morning." Ji Bahuang drove the car and ran, and soon, the advantage of the little donkey cart came out, after passing the city, getting on the country road that the car couldn't drive, and there were still crowds of people cutting rice in the rice field, gradually, even the bird couldn't be seen, and it seemed that there were only three of them and a donkey left.
The bun still ran fast, kicking up the mud all the way, Murong Yu swayed in the car and said in horror, "You won't drag us there to kill and rob, right?" ”
Ji Bahuang took a sip and said, "Old man, although I am a bandit!" But there are also gangs! There is also a way to steal, if I didn't promise you at the beginning, I can really do this, but if I agree to do it again, it will be a fucking smear to the Qing Gang! ”
Zhou Mushu said, "You have backbone. ”
"Of course." Ji Bahuang patted Mantou's buttocks, and Mantou ran faster and faster as if encouraged, and finally ran through a wasteland, stopping at a clear lake before noon, with a wooden bridge on the lake, and you could see the bamboo forests at the foot of the mountain not far away, and some rather tall but dilapidated tiled roofs.
Murong Yu took the lead in jumping down from the donkey cart with his bag on his back, and took out a carrot from Ji Bahuang's cloth bag and fed it to the bun, the bun "crunched" and ate a fine light, and burped with satisfaction, Murong Yu patted the bun, "Good job, brother." ”
Ji Bahuang cried with a sad face, "This is my ration!" ”
Zhou Mushu took out two real buns from his bag and threw them to him, "If you don't say that this place is a deserted town, I must think it's a fairyland on earth." ”
Ji Bahuang didn't refuse, put the bun into his bag and said, "I don't dare to go in, you can see the town's archway after crossing this bridge, you can become an immortal yourself." ”
"Bandits, look at your cowardice." Murong Yu threw off his backpack and took the lead in jumping onto the plank bridge.
Ji Bahuang shrunk his neck, turned around and left with the bun, Zhou Mushu hurriedly followed, he had a bad premonition just after stepping on it, the wooden planks under his feet were quite brittle, and it felt a little like the rocks in the cave in the Vicious Dog Ridge, and he could see the turquoise lake below from the cracks of some damp moss, and there were some unknown aquatic plants with teeth and claws floating in the water.
Murong Yu took a few steps forward, and the steamed bun behind him suddenly slammed his head, and hissed wildly at the top of his throat, startling a crow in the bamboo forest.
"Huh, huh! What are you crazy about! Ji Bahuang was kicked by the bun, and almost didn't fall into the mud, at the same time, Zhou Mushu looked sideways, his pupils shrank suddenly, and shouted loudly, "Xiao Yu squatted!" ”
People will react in a very short time, Zhou Mushu's tone was completely commanding, so Murong Yu didn't have time to think about it, and immediately squatted down almost reflexively, at the same time, a black body like light and shadow brushed over his head, and his movements were extremely fast, and he couldn't see what it was, but he only knew that after the figure crossed over, there was a splash on the water that was more than a foot high, which meant that whether it was a fish or a snake, the size of that thing would definitely not be small.
Murong Yu sat paralyzed on the bridge, Zhou Mushu hurriedly pulled him up and dragged him back, Ji Bahuang was already stupid, and said in a daze, "That, that, that...... What the hell?! ”
Zhou Mushu dragged Murong Yu out and fell to the ground from a distance, "Do you see what it is?" Snake or worm? ”
Speaking from experience, he could only think of these two creatures now.
Murong Yu's face turned pale, nodded and shook his head, "I don't know." ”
Zhou Mushu took out the piece of jade in his pocket and stuffed it into his hand, "Calm down." ”
Ji Bahuang was quite polite, wiped the sweat from his head, and cautiously came up, "Second master, I have already said that this place is evil, and the farmland is ten miles away, so it's still too late for us to leave now." ”
Zhou Mushu wanted to keep him as a helper, but he didn't want innocent people to be implicated, so he looked at the lake hesitantly, although it returned to a calm turquoise color, but who knows what is hidden underneath?
Murong Yu took a few deep breaths, and finally relieved, "It's not a snake or a bug, it's a row of palm-sized water ghosts." ”