Chapter 3 Destined People
As soon as Lu Qingwen and Gao Feng left, Ouyang Zhenfei gave me a thumbs up: "Senior brother is senior brother, there is a generation of grandmaster demeanor, it is more liliang to let them go than to beat them!" β
I was a little surprised, I didn't think that she could see so thoroughly at such a young age, so I nodded approvingly to her. Ouyang Zhenfei said again: "I think Lu Qingwen is interesting to you, no wonder she, if you don't already have a sister-in-law and a fox fairy sister, I also want to pursue you!" β
I had a black line on my head and gave her a violent shudder: "What does the little ghost know, nonsense!" β
Ling Fengpiao said very depressedly: "Didn't you see that the 'Ling Fengpiao' who is suave and invincible and famous is right in front of you?" β
Ouyang Zhenfei said angrily: "Sharp-beaked monkey gills!" β
Ling Feng was so angry that his face turned blue: "You ...... you"
"Alright, don't make a fuss." I stopped the two of them, no matter what Lu Qingwen's purpose was, the news that I had a jade talisman on my body must have spread, and the matter became more serious, "You also heard what I said just now, there will definitely be more people to chase and kill me, and in the future, I will be frightened and in danger, do you two still want to follow me?" β
The two immediately said in unison: "Yes!" β
I really had a headache for them, and said solemnly: "Then you must listen to me in the future, and if you dare to disobey, you will be expelled from the division immediately!" β
Ling Feng said, "I've always listened to you!" β
Ouyang Zhenfei was overjoyed: "So we passed the test?" β
I nodded, there is a spiritual seat of the master in the hall of my house, I light incense and candles, and ask them to officially kowtow to the master, and I will accept the apprentices on behalf of the teacher. I didn't say a word about the precepts of the master, first, I didn't have time to elaborate, and secondly, these two guys didn't play cards according to the convention, and my door rules could only be flexibly changed, and I could make them at any time when I saw the opportunity.
After the apprenticeship, we hurriedly packed up some more things and went on the road, taking the spirit tablets of the master and my mother with us.
We hid in the wilderness until dawn, stopped a pickup truck on the road, gave the owner some money to take us to the township, and we all hid in the back compartment.
When we arrived in the township, with Xiaoxue as a detective, we avoided all suspicious people from afar, got Lin Mei's ID card, and immediately got into the car to the county seat. I really wanted to make a call to the second master, Lao Lin, but I was afraid that he would ask about Lin Mei, so I really didn't have the courage to tell him that I lost Lin Mei, and finally didn't call his mobile phone.
Xiaoxue said that her "immortal mansion" is in the ancient city of Luoyang all the way to the north, so we take Luoyang. Unexpectedly, after arriving in Luoyang, Xiaoxue was dumbfounded, because Luoyang was no longer the Luoyang of more than three hundred years ago, and she couldn't find anything familiar. I didn't find any of the place names she said along the way to Taihang Mountain on the map, maybe the ancient and modern place names are different, maybe she said that they are all small places, and they are not on the map I bought.
I don't know the specific location I can't determine the route, and it is possible that the modern highway and railway were not built on the ancient official road, Xiaoxue was completely confused, and said afterwards: "I don't know the route by car, maybe I can still find it if I walk, not far, only four or five hundred miles." β
The three of us fainted, and it was not too far to walk four or five hundred miles, so how far would it be? We are resolutely not walking, in short, we are going north, and then we will look for it slowly when we reach the Taihang Mountain area.
Then we spun around like headless flies, and it wasn't until more than ten days later that Xiaoxue found the familiar mountains and rivers - we had been going northeast, and our destination was actually in the area where Taihang Mountain and Wangwu Mountain meet.
Thankfully, no one has been found following us, even if Lu Chengshan's eyeliner is staring at him, he must have been stunned by our unpredictable marching route, and he is still circling in circles hundreds of miles away.
It was the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and it was still quite hot in the south, but the alpine areas here were already cold, and the scenery I saw was very different from my hometown. As far as the eye can see, there are fault layers and canyons that go straight up and down, and there are few big trees between the cliffs and rock walls, which are bare, and the layers of rock are like the wrinkles of a centenarian, and the majestic smell of desolation is revealed. In most places, there is no road at all, and it is impossible to climb, and where it seems close, it can take more than half a day to get around.
Xiaoxue said: "There is a village not far ahead, it seems to be called Laozhaigou or something, after that village is basically uninhabited, we are hiding here absolutely no one knows." β
Ling Fengpiao shouted: "I'm so hungry, I'm so hungry, Sister Fox Fairy, let's change something to eat!" β
Xiaoxue said "Huh": "There is not much to eat, you foodie keeps eating, and most of it is eaten by you!" β
"What, didn't we buy a lot?" Ling Feng screamed, "It's miserable, how can we walk without anything to eat, and we have to live in this ghost place for a year, then aren't we going to starve to death?" β
I used to buy a lot of dry food and instant food, but during this time, I only cared about finding a way, and the "mobile warehouse" could only enter and exit, and I didn't pay attention to replenishing it, and I was almost exhausted. It's not realistic to go out of the mountains to supplement now, and if you don't supplement, you will have to hide in the mountains for almost a year, which is really enough.
Xiaoxue said: "Let's go to the village in front of us to buy some rice noodles, seeds and condiments, and then grow our own vegetables in the future, and then hunt to supplement meat." β
I was a little hesitant, I didn't want to be seen nearby, but Ling Fengpiao and Ouyang Zhenfei both strongly agreed, and Xiaoxue also promised to confuse the villagers who were trading and make them forget that we had been here, so I reluctantly agreed.
After walking more than ten miles, I came to the edge of a large rift valley, and saw a small river in the middle of the valley bottom, and there were some houses on the higher side of the riverbank, about seventy or eighty households, and some farmland along the river bank at both ends of the village. Everything seemed normal, but I had a sense of uneasiness that the village was enveloped in an imperceptible black air, and that it felt particularly desolate and bleak.
Xiaoxue was very happy: "Great, this village is almost exactly the same as when I left, so intimate!" It's still a remote village, not polluted by modernization......"
I was a little surprised: "Are you sure it was like this three hundred years ago?" β
"yes, that's still wrong!"
Ouyang Zhenfei was very excited: "Wow, living fossils!" β
Ling Feng said: "Regardless of him for hundreds of years, as long as there is something delicious, it is best to roast the whole sheep, I want to eat meat!" β
I'm even more uneasy, no matter how remote a place is, it won't have changed for three hundred years, right? At least there will be more houses......
There is a path on the cliff face, the stone steps are smooth, and the middle is slightly subsided, which shows its age. We walked down the stairs, and when we approached the village, we saw a group of people gathered around the village, as if they were arguing and coaxing, my shili was better than Ouyang Zhenfei and Ling Fengpiao, and I saw that there was a person in the crowd who looked like a monk.
I am now extremely wary of both monks and Taoist priests, so I immediately stopped: "Don't go down, let's turn back immediately!" β
βweishenmeοΌβ Ling Fengpiao and Ouyang Zhenfei asked in surprise.
"There are people gathering below to make trouble, we can't buy things quietly, don't approach places of right and wrong, this is the thirty-eighth precept of this door." I casually made up precepts to restrain the two of them along the way, and even I forgot how many there were.
Xiaoxue was surprised and said, "That monk looks like a compass, the villagers are going to beat him!" β
"Compass?" I was really stunned for a moment, could it be that Xiaoxue was talking about the compass, a disciple of Master Zeshan?
Ling Fengpiao and Ouyang Zhenfei were also inexplicable, not knowing what the compass was, but Ling Fengpiao immediately became excited: "Someone beats the monk?" Okay, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, let's go see the excitement! β
Xiaoxue said: "It looks a little mature, but it's really the compass." β
Three years ago, Master Sawasa Shan in the snake intestine was kind to me, Kompasu gave me the precious relics and blessed me, and then Lin Mei and I got the help of the relics many times, if it is really Kompa who is in trouble, I must help. But how did the compass end up here?
We sped up and walked down, and after a while we arrived outside the village, the monk in the crowd had big ears, dignified appearance, and a solemn expression, although he was very young, he looked quite a monk, and it was the compass three years ago! However, his face was covered with dust, his hair was half an inch long and unshaved, and his monk's robe looked old and dirty, and he had not been washed for about ten days and half a month, and he did not seem to be doing well.
There were thirty or forty people in the village, most of them men in the prime of life, who were angrily pushing the compass and scolding:
"Knock him out!"
"Thief bald donkey, dare to talk nonsense if you are kind enough to give you food, get out!"
"If you dare to come back, I will kill you!"
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In the face of the menacing villagers, Compass still looked very calm: "I won't go, you are all dead people, dead people can't run around......"
"Phew!" A villager's stick hit Kompa on the head, and Compass hurriedly covered his head, but blood flowed from his fingers.
"Stop!" I let out a loud shout and stopped the villagers who still wanted to hit people.
Compass looked up at me and was stunned for a moment: "This, this...... Isn't this Zhang Shizhu? β
He can still recognize me, it seems that he has not been knocked unconscious, I smiled and said: "Farewell for three years, the master will not be harmed!" β
Compass hurriedly saluted: "Amitabha, I am a little monk, not a master. β
When the villagers saw that I was friends with Kompasu, they were suspicious and wary of me, and obviously did not welcome me. But I have experienced a lot of things recently, and my expression and temperament have naturally become stable and calm, and my eyes are sharp, but I have also suppressed them and dare not move.
I quickly took out a piece of yellow paper, drew a hemostatic charm with my finger volley, and pressed it on the compass's wound, and the bleeding stopped. I glanced around, and found that there was something wrong with the complexions of these villagers, but I couldn't say what was wrong, remembering that the compass had just said that they were all dead, but I was afraid that there was something wrong with these people. I arched my hand: "Which one is the village chief, I have something to say." β
A fashionably dressed young man in his early twenties squeezed out of the crowd and said a little shyly, "I, I'm the village chief." β
I was a little surprised that a remote and ancient village actually had such a young and modern village chief, which is really shijie.
Xiaoxue also conveyed a message to me at this time: "This place is weird! β