Chapter 32: That's How I Am
The bald old man put away his Zen staff, the chanting stopped, the little monk ran from behind, helped the old man to the carriage, and Bian Daochang and Lu Zhe, who were shocked by the old man's hand, did not dare to have the slightest slackness, hurriedly climbed into the carriage, drove the carriage, and left this place of right and wrong.
Seeing that the show ended, the crowd dispersed quickly, and no one cared about the corpses on the ground, because it would not be long before someone would come here to collect the corpses.
Meng Cheng and the others also left quickly, and it was best to rush to Jiuxiang County before dark.
Zhou Tianshen recalled the action of the bald old man just now, and always felt that something was wrong, he asked Meng Cheng, "Uncle Meng, is the old man with the Qinglong Zen staff just now from the Buddhist family? But why is his action so sharp, it is not at all the compassionate behavior of the Buddhist family? And is it really good for the Buddhist family to kill people?"
Meng Cheng looked down at Zhou Tianshen and said in surprise, "You actually know the Buddhist family?" It seems that you must have read a lot of books. ”
Zhou Tianshen smiled embarrassedly.
Meng Cheng looked ahead, the carriage walked unhurriedly, occasionally you could see a small bald head in the first carriage, looking left and right, and not forgetting to hold the small bowl, the little bald head was quickly pressed back to the carriage by an old and shriveled palm.
Meng Cheng said, "Now the Buddha, the Tao, and the soldiers are already legendary forces, and I'm afraid that you can only see the relevant descriptions in the book, and you can know this, which means that you are working hard." ”
Zhou Tianshen asked, "Legend, but the first two?"
Meng Cheng pressed his palms and motioned to Zhou Tianshen not to make a sound, until the carriage in front turned a corner and was completely out of sight, for a long time, Meng Cheng said, "Wuhe is divided into five counties, and there will be such a forest as a boundary between each county, and the county towns will not interfere with each other, unless the lord of the country summons him, the county lord will not meet in private." The group of people who fought before were all from Tianxiang County, and according to the rules, they were all under the control of Tianxiang County, but fortunately, they did not cross the line in front of them, so Jiuxiang County could not make a fuss about it. ”
Zhou Tianshen followed the direction of Meng Cheng's finger and saw a striking yellow line on the ground in front of him.
Meng Cheng said softly, "It's made of gold. ”
Zhou Tianshen was dumbfounded.
Meng Cheng said, "Ten thousand years ago, the Emperor Suo Yuan led the human race to defeat the invasion of the necromantic clan in one fell swoop, at that time, the Buddha, the Tao, and the soldiers still existed, but I don't know what happened later, the three families reduced their contacts with the mainland, and in the past thousand years, they have been completely lost. ”
Zhou Tianshen said to himself, "The "Tianshou Diary" says that the poisonous dragon was not destroyed, but was sealed in Yazhou, and I don't know if it will come out to bring disaster to the world in the future. ”
Nothing to say all the way.
When passing the yellow line, Zhou Tianshen deliberately took a few more looks, and found that it was indeed made of gold, and he sighed that no matter where he was, money was omnipotent.
Maybe it was because the fight scene was too bloody, Wang Duozhan didn't say a word along the way, and he was in a hurry with his head down the whole time, and this team also had to rush to Jiuxiang County before closing the city.
Jiuxiang County is the largest county seat in Wuhe Country, where not only the rich and noble merchants of the whole country are gathered, but also the surrounding sects are numerous, and there are also various sects and factions stationed in the city. Because there is only one country in the realm of Xianyang, the country of Wuhe, so the lord of this generation shows great tolerance for all sects, regardless of the size of the sect, as long as he holds the token of Wuhe country, he can rent a house in Jiuxiang County and use it to recruit talents for the sect.
Jiuxiang County covers a large area, completely beyond Zhou Tianshen's imagination, originally wanted to find an inn not far from the city gate to rest, but after walking for nearly an hour, all the shops have closed, and according to the more people, this is just entering the east entrance of Jiuxiang County, according to their speed, from the east of the city to the west of the city, across the entire Jiuxiang County, I am afraid it will take a month.
This kind of people are often wanted cultivators, because when they were young, they committed a few murders, and they had some skills, and they were overly active in the Xianyang realm, and were blacklisted by Wuheguo, and in their later years, when they were tired of fleeing life, they would sign a spiritual contract with Wuheguo, abolish their legs, and use the rest of their lives as a guarantee, draw the ground as a prison, and be a watchman who does not care about the world.
Spiritual contract, also known as spiritual contract, is a kind of contract exclusive to the cultivator, the method is to take a drop of the cultivator's heart's blood, drop it on the exclusive rune paper, and then light the specially refined spices, put the rune paper on the spice and smoke for two hours, and finally write the name of the contractor at the bottom of the rune paper.
Even if the spirit contract is completed, as long as you dare to violate the spirit contract, the person who has the contract will turn into pus and blood in a quarter of an hour, and die a miserable death.
According to the records of the National Chronicle, there are a total of 160 people in the Wuhe Kingdom, most of whom are in the Renkui realm, and there are only a few dozen people in the earth fire realm.
If Wuhe is attacked by the enemy, these people are also not a small combat force.
This time Wang Duozhan was completely gone, crying and shouting to sleep, looking at the unreasonable Wang Duozhan, and then seeing that it was getting later and later, Zhou Tianshen directly smashed a chestnut on the little boy's head, the little boy covered his head, and forced himself not to cry, Tie Zishan covered his mouth and laughed on the side.
The county lord of Jiuxiang County once issued an order that closing the city means closing the door, and all the shops in the city must be closed for rest.
The people of the city had no objection to this.
It is rumored that the county lord of Jiuxiang County is a Heavenly Realm cultivator, and the cultivators of the Heavenly Realm are very popular in Xiancai Prefecture, not to mention that it is located in a remote village state, which is completely the existence of a hegemon.
Just when everyone was at a loss, a short man dressed plainly dressed and wearing a felt hat came to the mouth of a dim alley at the gate of the city, and the short man was holding a red lantern in his hand, and the words "happiness" and "blessing" were pasted on the red lantern.
The short man came up to everyone and asked with a smile, "Are you looking for a place to rest?"
Meng Cheng nodded.
The short man smiled, "Then please come with me." Haha, you don't have to be nervous, I'm the second shop of a newly opened inn in the east of the city, because since the store opened, there are no customers patronizing, so the county lord takes special care of us, and we can close the store a few hours later. ”
Meng Cheng turned his head to look at the watchman.
The watchman nodded, confirming that there was such a thing, for the sake of this inn, the county lord specially said hello to all the watchmen.
After a day's walk, everyone was already a little tired, and there was a lot of anger.
Meng Cheng asked the short man to lead the way, and everyone went with him, and after walking for nearly a quarter of an hour, everyone saw an inn with a red lantern hanging in front of the house.
The inn is called 'Rest'.
Zhou Tianshen rubbed the surface of his feet and asked, "Why is Jiuxiang County so big?"
The short man turned around and explained, "Jiuxiang County was only one-third the size it is today, but the land in the vicinity has been acquired by the current county lord, and it has become its current size. ”
The short man pointed to a coffin shop next to him, leaned sideways and said, "It turns out that there is a small hill called 'Tianjiao Mountain' here, and the county lord saw that it was an eyesore, so he ordered someone to bulldoze it, but I didn't expect that a three-story coffin was buried under the hill, and everyone felt bad luck at that time, and no one dared to open a shop in this place." Not a few years ago, there was a lonely old man who opened a coffin shop here to chat and get by, and the others saw that the old man had been safe and sound in the past few years, and was not affected by the yin qi here, so they dispelled those bad thoughts in their hearts and opened shops here. The place that turned out to be worthless was finally sold at a sky-high price. My shopkeeper saw that there were not many shops here, and he also had some spare money in his hands, so he also opened an inn here. ”
The short man walked while talking about the past, and soon led everyone to the inn, at the door of the inn stood a personable, slender tall and thin man, the man held a small teapot in his hand, drank one bite at a time, and saw that his little two had led a large group of guests, and immediately became overjoyed, and hurriedly took them to the second floor of the inn.
Now the inn does not have a single guest.
The innkeeper helped clean up the guest room, and Zhou Tianshen and they checked in quickly.
Meng Cheng negotiated the price with the innkeeper, because it was the first time to come to the inn, so as long as one or two taels of silver a night, Meng Cheng took out two taels of silver, and told the young shopkeeper to prepare the meal tomorrow morning, they will leave early tomorrow morning, and the enthusiastic shopkeeper said that tomorrow he will personally take charge of the spoon, and he will definitely let the heroes eat well on the road.
Meng Cheng thanked him.
The young shopkeeper walked to the first floor, put the silver taels in a drawer on the counter, lay down on a chair, hummed a little song comfortably, and drank weak tea.
The short man brought a plate of fried peanuts and a small pot of sake from the back kitchen, ate and drank by himself, drank three glasses, the short man put down the wine glass, poured a glass for the shopkeeper, put it in front of the young shopkeeper and said, "Young master, you also drink some wine, don't hold a broken teapot all day long, what a joke." ”
The man slapped his palm on the short man's head and said, "What do you say? This is my grandfather's most cherished treasure, and if others want it or not, what should you do quickly, don't always bother me." ”
The short man was bored and said, "Still soliciting?"
The man slapped him again, and said angrily, "What are you talking about, it's so ugly, besides, do we still have extra guest rooms in our house?" I'll tell you to go to bed quickly, get up early tomorrow to cook for the guests, and if the guests are not satisfied with the food, I will deduct your wages." ”
The short man walked aggrievedly to the backyard and returned to his room, snoring.
The next day, before dawn, the short man got up and prepared breakfast for Zhou Tianshen and them.
When Zhou Tianshen and the others had breakfast and were about to leave, the short man prepared a carriage for them, and Meng Cheng thanked the innkeeper for his kindness and led them to the west of the city.
The short man made a bitter face, saw that the shopkeeper was rejected and was still smiling on the side, and asked, "Young master, we will earn a total of one or two taels of silver, and your carriage will be given away for ten taels of silver, are we so worthy?"
The young shopkeeper smiled, "I like this." ”
The young shopkeeper walked into the inn, and the short man continued to solicit guests at the door of the inn.
Zhou Tianshen and the others went all the way west and rushed out of the city.
Three days later, Zhou Tianshen and their families came to a teahouse, the teahouse had just opened, there were not many people, they found two tables by the window nearby, ordered two pots of tea and some melons and fruit snacks, and ate carefully. There are five tables of guests in the teahouse, and there are five people sitting at the table two tables away from them, four men and one woman, all dressed in white, wearing long swords at their waists, carrying a brown wooden box behind them, and in the middle of the table sits a woman wearing a hat on her head and also wearing a brown wooden box behind her.
Zhou Tianshen gave the others a look, and everyone turned their heads to look.
Tie Zishan ate a piece of sugar cake, it was sweet and greasy, hurriedly drank a large bowl of herbal tea, put down the tea bowl, and saw a bald old man standing at the door of the teahouse, Tie Zishan reminded everyone, "The old monk just now." ”
The owner of the teahouse was an old woman who looked good-looking, and the old woman saw that the bald old man was reluctant to enter the teahouse, so she came to the old man with a pot of freshly brewed herbal tea. The bald old man groaned Amitabha Buddha and handed out the bowl, and the old woman poured the herbal tea into the bowl and turned to leave, as did the bald old man.
There is a carriage parked on the side of the street, the coachman is two young men, under the carriage stands a little monk with a round head and a round head, the bald old man handed the bowl to the little monk, the little monk took a sip, and then returned it to the old man, the old man sat in the carriage, and the carriage walked slowly forward.
Except for the woman in white and Zhou Tianshen's table, the remaining three tables of guests all sat far away, and there was a man sitting alone in the corner of the wall who was the most mysterious, because although there was tea and melons and fruits in front of him, he never took off the black mask on his face, and the man with his hands on his chest carried a short knife behind him, the short knife had no scabbard, the knife surface was cold and cold, there was no blade, and it looked more like a long ruler.
About half an hour later, the heat outside still did not improve, so Meng Cheng ordered two more pots of tea, gave some more silver taels, and asked the shopkeeper to buy some wine and food at the inn opposite, and they planned to have lunch here before leaving.
After lunch, the weather was still hot, many people dozed off, it was obvious that now was not the time to hurry, so Meng Cheng asked for four rooms on the second floor of the inn and rested there.