Shuixiang County is different from the other four counties, its geographical scale is only half the size of Jiuxiang County, and the national palace is not in the city, but built on the Kunlun Mountain outside the city.

The national hall is the place where the lord of the country lives, and it is also the place where the Wuhe Kingdom holds a meeting of the monarchs and ministers to discuss national affairs.

The national hall was built halfway up the Kunlun Mountain, and was supervised by the foundry Beiyezi, who participated in the whole process.

On the top of Kunlun Mountain, there is a bronze tripod, which is rumored to have been left by Guan Qiu, the first alchemist in the mainland.

Guan Qiuyu was once the elder of the Alchemy Sect, and he was close friends with the foundry master Beiyezi.

It is rumored that Beiyezi still looked at the big tripod on Kunlun Mountain, so he promised the lord of Wuhe to build a palace for him.

These are some rumors in the market, which have not been recorded in the national chronicles.

The national chronicles are the same as the county chronicles, which are all records of the folk customs and traditional culture of a country and a city, and there will be some rumors in the market or small things in the streets and alleys, which are mainly written by the writers of the national palace.

The writer of Wuheguo is a handsome young man with red lips and white teeth, and a tall figure, but because he doesn't like to laugh, he is privately called a 'cold-faced handsome man'.

This cold-faced handsome man is named Xu Ke, a native of Xiancaizhou, and the reason why he came to Chunzhou a million miles away is to prove his knowledge on the one hand, and to accompany Princess Baisha on the other hand.

Princess Baisha was also a cultivator who had traveled to Xiancai Prefecture with her master, and her first encounter with Xu Ke was under the Peacock Bridge in Xiancai Prefecture.

At that time, Xu Ke worked as a boatman for a period of time in order to subsidize his family.

Xu Ke fell in love with this woman when he first met Princess Baisha, and in order to confess to Princess Baisha, he spent half a year writing a million words of weird novels that she loved to read.

By the time he handed over the novel to Princess Baisha, the princess was already preparing to leave Xiancaizhou.

After reading the novel, the first thing Princess Baisha said was the motivation for Xu Ke to come to the estate to serve as the writer.

Princess Baisha said, "Xu Ke, your writing is so good, do you want to go back with me and work beside my father." Be my father's writer, and you don't have much future here anyway. ”

She knew that his name was Xu Keke, and he knew that her name was Li Menglan.

Zhou Tianshen and the six of them walked along the official road and saw a lot of convoys going to Shuixiang County.

After inquiring, I found that not all of them were doing business for the recruitment conference, and some people were actually doing business for the reputation of the recruitment conference.

As soon as there were many convoys on the official road, the atmosphere instantly became lively.

Zhou Tianshen tied a golden wine jug around his waist, and carried his own small bamboo basket on his back, not forgetting to pin the short knife on his waist.

Based on what he had seen, heard, and thought in the past year, he could already conclude that the content of this book was indeed related to the path of cultivation, and that the content included all the ways of cultivation.

Zhou Tianshen's humanity is in the last part, a total of ten.

During this half a year, Zhou Tianshen carefully studied all the contents of humanity, and it can be said that he has benefited a lot.

When he came to Taihang Mountain, he found that there were many wild vegetables, mushrooms, and wild fruits that he had never seen before.

He has tasted them one by one, the taste is very delicious, the vegetable soup cooked with these wild vegetables and the meat of the pheasant are simply delicious in the world, plus the sake brewed by the small people, this is simply a delicacy in the world, even the little monk who does not eat meat has drunk a few more bowls of vegetable soup than usual, not to mention Zhou Tianshen and Tao Wujiang, who are not meat and vegetarian laymen.

Dao Wuxiang put his hands on his sleeves, hummed a little song, walked at the front of the line, his eyes glanced at the layman woman in the carriage next to him, his eyes were not shocked, and his heart was full of joy.

It's boring to ride all the way, and you can meet such a handsome young man in this wilderness, why don't you want to be looked at by him a few more times, anyway, he is a Taoist, and he doesn't have to be afraid of women, even if he doesn't quit women, he doesn't have to be afraid, and his own man.

Even if their own men will never be as good as Ju Baishui who wrote "Tianshou Diary" and "Chat Xianghe" in their hearts, but no matter how bad they are, they can always deal with a young man in a Taoist robe, if they can't even beat him, then they will simply die.

In his eyes, worldly love is no different from pig dung on the side of the road, but he also understands that he will not have love.

From the first day of his memory, he was locked up in the house in Tianxiang County, in the cold and heat, only himself and the master who had just passed away.

At that time, he was not his master, but a poor man who was about to freeze to death, but before he was frozen to death, he was carried to the Misa by the monks, and finally became the gatekeeper of the Misha, and became the closest person to him.

The little monk thinks that this continent is full of poor people, otherwise how can there be birth, old age, sickness and death, only those who can't live will seek death, and only poor people will not survive.

His master was such a poor person.

Tao Wujiang, Liu Wei and Zhang Fu were all asked to help, and the three of them who could have turned around in Jiangmafang felt that they had received such a great favor from Xiaodu, if they didn't do something, they would always feel uncomfortable, and once this discomfort evolved into their own demons, it would be even more uncomfortable than not accepting this favor.

The six of them walked and stopped, looking at the scenery along the way, and they would not get bored.

I thought that the convoy would follow them quickly, but when they arrived at the Dragon Horse Workshop, they only received a letter from the River Horse Workshop.

The letter was written by Jiang Fu, and the general content was very simple, that is, after the six of them left, the group of killers who came to assassinate them turned back and attacked the convoy again, but fortunately, Lin Wanruo, who stayed in the Jiangmafang, rushed to support, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

At the end of the letter, they were told that the loss of the convoy this time was not very large, except for some injuries to the big boss and the fourth boss of the Minoru Dart Bureau, there were basically no casualties, and finally let them not worry about it, just go on the road with peace of mind, he had already informed Wang Fei, the chief steward of the Dragon Horse Fang, that he would take care of everything.

Sitting on the chair in the guest room, Zhou Tianshen put down the letterhead, and sat opposite Wang Fei, the chief steward of Longma Fang, who was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a kind face and decent manners, and was also an old man who had retired from the palace.

Wang Fei and Yan Yue said, "Jiang Fu has already told me everything, you can rest assured, from now on, Longmafang will be responsible for everyone's living and safety." I have already ordered that half of the personnel in Longmafang will escort you to Shuixiang County, however, there is one thing I need to confirm first, whether you have any contacts in Shuixiang County, Jiang Fu did not say this in the letter. ”

Zhou Tianshen shook his head and said, "When Yu Xiaodu left, he didn't say this. ”

Wang Fei pondered, "This is a bit difficult, if there is no connector, we are like headless flies in Shuixiang County, it is difficult to do things." ”

Zhou Tianshen looked at Dao Wuxian, the young man in the Dao robe was half-lying on the bed, looking at the beam, and said thoughtfully, "The connector may be waiting for us outside the city, he should have our information in his hand, as long as I show up with the little monk, he will take the initiative to find us." ”

Wang Fei refused, "This is not good, now that all the killers have been caught, who knows that they will commit murder again, and you can't be allowed to show your heads casually outside the city." ”

Dao Wu wanted to close his eyes, but he simply didn't want to, and said, "Then I can't help it." ”

Zhou Tianshen received the letters, put them in the bamboo basket, got up and opened the window, behind the inn was a sea of flowers, each petal had a pink figure on it, particularly petite, after seeing Zhou Tianshen observing them, they were in a mess, hurriedly hid in the stamens, stretched out a small head, and looked out.

Wang Fei walked to the window, looked at the flower elves in the sea of flowers, and said with a smile, "They are the flower fairies that I borrowed from the county lord of Huaxiang County to sow seeds for my family's flowers." Each of them has fifty years of Taoism, which is very precious. ”

Zhou Tianshen counted the number of flower elves, and there were sixty, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "There is a big mountain behind my house, and I have seen many cave beasts, but the elves have never encountered them, let alone this kind of flower elves." ”

Zhou Tianshen suddenly thought of the green-clothed young man, Tie Liu had said that he was an elf cultivated into a human form by a few branches, and at that time, he was only surprised, and forgot to ask him the type of elf, and he didn't know if he could meet the branch elf with smoke coming from the soles of his feet.

Wang Fei pondered, "Lao Huai Village, I have also been there, your nameless mountain is very big, it took me more than a year at that time, and I only walked to a tenth of the size, but these distances are enough to make me feel thrilled, I don't know what is hidden in the depths of the mountain?"

The two of you said a word, I chatted sentence by word, the young man in the Taoist robe was already lying on the bed and falling asleep, and the little monk drank cup after cup of tea, thinking about when to start eating.

Tao Wujiang and the three did not sleep in the same room as Zhou Tianshen and the others.

Seeing that it was not early, Wang Fei turned around and said goodbye, and the innkeeper who had arranged in advance brought the meat dishes and broth prepared in the back kitchen to the guest room, considering that the little monk was a Buddhist family member and did not eat meat, so he prepared a steamed bun and vegetable soup for him alone.

The three of them ate well.

In the evening, Wang Fei came to the guest room again and told them that he had asked the guy with the fastest legs and feet in Longma Fang to rush to Shuixiang County overnight to inquire about the identity of the connector, and estimated that he would come back at noon tomorrow, and he should be able to leave tomorrow afternoon, so they could wait with peace of mind.

Lying in bed, it was another solid night.

Early the next morning, Zhou Tianshen walked downstairs, the first floor of the inn was already half full, and the shopkeeper was standing at the door, not knowing what he was looking at.

Walking downstairs, Wang Fei walked out from behind the counter, found a place by the window with Zhou Tianshen, introduced him to the half of the guests, and said bluntly, "To tell you honestly, before you came here, they were our most noble guests here." ”

"The one wearing the golden gauze hat is a first-class family in Daoxiang County, the eldest lady of the Jin family, Jin Sha kills, the last word of the name is the killing of the murderer, the reason why it is such a name is because this aunt likes to kill people the most, and the people who kill are all negative people. ”

"On the left of the Jin family is the same family of first-class people in Daoxiang County, this time the family only came to the second son and the eldest daughter, respectively called the king and the concubine, the two were born on the same day, the relationship is the best, and the character is also the most compatible, I heard that the two are also the heirs of the family's 'world concentric law', this kind of heart has been inherited in the family for nearly a hundred years, many people have heard of it, but they have not seen it. ”

"Behind the two families is the second-rate family in Daoxiang County, the Bai family. The Bai family has made a step forward over the years, they were originally a third-rate small family, because they were related to the ephemeris room of the twelve-room, so they became a second-rate family in one fell swoop, and now they can be regarded as a leading figure in Daoxiang County. ”

"The last one is the Fenggui family in Daoxiang County, about the rumors about their family, I think the less you know, the better, after all, they are dealing with the necromantic clan, and they are not easy to mess with. ”

After saying this, Wang Fei drank a pot of home-brewed tea with a dry mouth, well, a mouthful of tea powder.

Zhou Tianshen asked, "The reason why you are telling me this is because you were so young that you were given air in advance?"

Wang Fei covered his mouth and pretended to be angry, and finally only threw down the next sentence, 'He is also good for you', and walked away.

didn't wait long, Dao Wuxiang and Forget Chan walked downstairs together, sat opposite Zhou Tianshen, the three of them asked for a bun and hot tea respectively, and after breakfast, no one went out.

After the guy with the best legs and feet came back at noon, Wang Fei specially took him to Zhou Tianshen's guest room.

The shopkeeper was a little stunned, and saw that the chief steward, who had always been majestic, was standing aside respectfully at this time, and thought that there was some big man from the palace, so he was about to kneel down and kowtow indiscriminately, Zhou Tianshen hurriedly stopped him, and sighed in his heart.

Wang Fei couldn't help but laugh and explained, "Big Ya, these three people are all guests of the horse workshop, you don't have to be restrained, just tell them what you have heard." ”

Big Tooth nodded and said, "I went to three horse houses before and after, none of them saw a squinting young man from Jiuxiang County, and said that they never knew what the escort mission was, and finally when I came back from the city and came to the teahouse in the Shuijin Market to rest, I overheard the guys there chatting, and also heard the name of Boss Xu, I hurriedly went to inquire, and when I inquired, it was him, but they only said that Boss Xuan only left a hat and a small bedbug, and the rest were never talked about again. ”

Wang Fei motioned for Big Tooth to step back and asked, "Could it be that the connector this time is Boss Yu himself?"

Zhou Tianshan nodded in agreement.

Or maybe there is no connector, Zhou Tianshen thought in his heart.

Several people did not delay any longer and quickly left in a carriage.

Zhou Tianshen noticed that behind them, there was a white convoy and a convoy without a driver.

It is the Bai family and the Feng Ghost family.

Tao Wujiang is a martial artist, he doesn't like to ride in a carriage, so he rode his horse to follow the convoy, and after noticing the strangeness behind him, he quietly drove his horse forward a few steps, came to the carriage window, and knocked on the window.

Zhou Tianshen opened the curtains, and Tao Wujiang asked softly, "Since they came out of Daoxiang County, they have been following us, do you need to warn them?"

Zhou Tianshen shook his head and said, "Maybe it's just a coincidence, the three of you pay more attention to it, don't misunderstand." ”

Liu Wei and Zhang Fu took Zhang Fu's paper crane and flew over the convoy, seeing Tao Wujiang shaking his head, he didn't land, but Zhang Fu pinched out a few paper figures from his sleeve and threw them on the paper cranes, and the paper figures with long fingers lay on the paper cranes, staring at the convoy of the Bai family and the Feng Ghost family.

Zhou Tianshen has unconsciously become the backbone of this team, Wang Fei is looking at the face of Yu Xiaodu, and Tao Wujiang and the three of them should also see his face, after all, Dao Wuxiang and Forget Zen are either sleeping or chanting, and they never ask about this, and Zhou Tianshen is dotting along the way.

Zhou Tianshen doesn't ask for too much, as long as the convoy walks safely and steadily to Shuixiang County, the guy from Xiaodu may be waiting for them outside the city.

The convoy of the Bai family and the Feng Ghost family followed far behind, no more, no less, and always maintained a distance of fifty zhang.

Zhou Tianshen was a little worried at first, but he was safe and sound along the way, so he didn't pay attention to it, and just regarded it as their family tradition.

The convoy set off from Longmafang and walked along the official road for a few days, and soon arrived at the Shuijin Market at the foot of the mountain.

Because of the proximity to the recruitment meeting, there will be a lot of convoys passing by these days, and in order to facilitate the convoy to pass, the vendors in the market have consciously moved their stalls back.

Zhou Tianshen and they set off this time, taking the big tooth, he and Zhou Tianshen took the same carriage, and when they passed by the teahouse, he pointed to the girl at the door of the teahouse and said, "It's her." ”

Zhou Tianshen noticed the hat on the girl's head and the small insect beside her, and under the sunlight, the shadow of a wine jug appeared on the hat.

He hurriedly got out of the car, asked the girl for the hat, groped up and down, and finally found a letter on the edge of the hat.

returned to the hat, returned to the car, opened the letterhead, the letter said that the connector of this escort mission was in a farmhouse in the west of Shuixiang County, because of the remote location, he drew a map behind the letterhead, and Xiaoxiao was already waiting for them there.

Put away the stationery, and the convoy drove into Shuixiang County.

As soon as he passed the city gate, Daya got out of the car and said goodbye, saying that he had finally entered the city and wanted to buy something for his little sister.

Wang Fei knew his character, and was afraid that he would spend all the money on his little sister, but he was reluctant to spend it on himself, and the task he was instructed to give him this time was good, so he gave him some more silver taels and asked him to buy more.

The convoy turned around the city and finally found a log cabin on a wasteland west of the city.

Zhou Tianshen and his entourage of six got out of the car, and Wang Fei chose to stay in the car.

Pushing open the wooden door, the dust fell from the door, just smashed on Zhou Tianshen's feet, a fishy smell came to the face, and the six people hid their faces, and by the morning light, they could vaguely see the situation in the house.

There was a wooden table in the room, the legs of which were covered with cobwebs, and three men sat apart, two of them with their heads up, bleeding from their seven orifices, and on the table in front of them lay a porcelain plate with a stinky grilled fish, which was crawling with maggots.

The other person was Yu Xiaodu, I saw him smiling and drinking, pointing to the chair in the room and saying, "Sit casually, you're welcome." ”

Zhou Tianshen stood at the door and asked him to come out, and he reluctantly walked out of the wooden house, his palms blocking the sunlight, and explained, "We're all late, and the connector is dead." ”

Zhou Tianshen looked at Yu Xiaodu's side face and asked, "Do you know the murderer?"

Yu Xiaodu moved his limbs and said, "The eldest sister of the Xianyang Realm Killer Realm, the hand of the Black Widow, heh, I don't know how Li Xiao will deal with this matter." ”

A few people got into the carriage, Wang Fei and Yu Xiaodu said hello, and then led their people back, Tao Wujiang and the three of them also retired, and the original convoy of more than a dozen carriages was now only four people left.

Yu Xiaodu and Zhou Tianshen sat outside the carriage, one holding a wine jug in his hand, and drove the carriage to the national hall, on the way, Yu Xiaodu explained to Zhou Tianshen the relationship between the black widow and Li Xiao.

Yu Xiaodu said with a smile, "Black Widow's original name is Zhang Ximin, and she is Li Xiao's childhood sweetheart, and the two have been privately engaged for life under the Queqiao. It's a pity that the world is impermanent, Li Xiao's father has already found a good match for him, for his own future, he didn't dare to disobey, so he abandoned his childhood sweetheart, and his current wife raised eyebrows, and now he has a daughter, Princess Baisha. ”

The carriage came to the east of the city, where there was already a long queue of convoys, and there was no edge in sight, and they all came to participate in the recruitment meeting.

Zhou Tianshen asked, "Since you know the identity of the killer, you must know her whereabouts." ”

Yu Xiaodu put away the wine jug and said lazily, "Not only I know, but even Li Xiao knows, but what can be done? Since you have failed others, you have to bear the consequences, this is the eternal truth." Alas, I think let's find an inn to live in, the time is not enough, the city gate is not open, and no one can enter Kunlun Mountain. ”

"Not even you?"

The head of the young man in the robe sticks out of the carriage, holding a string of sugar gourds in his hand.

Yu Xiaodu looked behind him and said angrily, "If it weren't for you, I would still be drinking at home." ”

Dao Wu wanted to change into ordinary clothes, sat between Zhou Tianshen and Yu Xiaodu, ate sugar gourds, looked at the white clouds in the sky, and muttered, "I don't know if I can be like this in the future, without restraint." ”

Yu Xiaodu tapped his fingers on the back of his hand and said, "Don't worry, there is no harm in entering the city for you this time." ”

After waiting for half an hour, the long queue did not move at all, and no carriage was seen driving out of the procession, so Yu Xiaodu scolded and drove the carriage to the nearby inn.

After staying in the inn, I waited for five or six days, during this period, Shuixiang County added nearly 100 convoys, because Shuixiang County did not have such a large living area, and the later convoys all lived on Taihang Mountain, for a while, Taihang Mountain was brightly lit, and I couldn't sleep at night.

Finally, on the day of Kaicheng, in order to prevent commotion, the lord of the country specially issued an order, each convoy was only allowed to enter Kunlun Mountain, and for this reason, the guards of the national palace were specially dispatched.

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Halfway up the Kunlun Mountains

A huge white jade square is inlaid in it, and behind the square is a golden palace, called the National Palace.

There is a black stone pillar in the center of the square, the stone pillar is carved with complicated ancient texts, each ancient text is guarded by a golden crow around it, and under the stone pillar sits a young man holding a particularly large brush in his arms, the young man's body is full of ink, and in front of him is a pile of messy books.

On the steps in front of the national hall, three people stood.

A tall man wearing a golden dress, embroidered with a golden crow on his clothes, a heroic woman standing next to the man, the woman raised her chest and raised her head, a long sword hung from her waist, and the scabbard was inlaid with beads of different colors, and the heroic woman was holding a spear in her hand.

Behind the two of them stood an old man with fairy wind bones, the old man was dressed in cloth, neat and clean, with a long white beard hanging down on his chest, and a brush in his hand.

The man is Li Xiao, the lord of Wuhe Kingdom, the heroic woman is Li Menglan, the princess of Baisha, and the old man is the master of Princess Baisha, and he is also the national teacher of Wuhe Kingdom.

Princess Baisha took a step forward, stood shoulder to shoulder with Li Xiao, tiptoed at Xu Ke in the square, and complained, "Father, if you don't want the marriage between the two of us, just say it, why are you so difficult for him, it's not that you don't know his character." ”

Li Xiao smiled gently, just like an ordinary father treats his little girl, and said softly, "I just know his temperament, so I will let him translate the ancient text on the Golden Crowpillar, but I know your temperament better, if one day, you feel that Xu Ke is not worthy of you, what will you do?"

Li Menglan smiled freely, "My man is not worthy of me, then he is not worthy of being my man." ”

Li Xiao smiled at the black and white immortal master behind him, and sighed, "Your temper really hasn't changed at all, I think you're lazy again and don't listen to the immortal master's teachings." ”

Hearing this, the old man was terrified, but there was a faint smile on his face, and he bent down with his fists and pleaded guiltily, "The lord of the country must not say that, my old bones can't withstand the princess's toss, it's really me who dragged down the princess's cultivation." ”

Li Xiao didn't let the old man get up, but put his hands behind his back, his fingers were closed, and he lifted up, and the old man only felt a gust of wind coming out of his armpit to lift himself.

Li Xiao showed off to his daughter, "I shout all day long about how strong my skills are, I don't think it's as good as me, an old man who works behind closed doors, immortal master, I have a good hand, according to what you say about forgetting things, this should be called shame and courage." ”

The old man smiled, "The lord of the country really tortured the old man, I was just a joke at that time, if you continue to say this, I really have no face to stand here." ”

Li Menglan also came to cheer for his master and said, "Father is really, if you are like this, Master and I will never come back." ”

Li Xiao coughed dryly, even if this matter was over, he pointed to the young man in the square and said, "Xu Ke is a talent, but he can only be a talent, the key is his heart, which is too stubborn." ”

The old man echoed, "What the lord of the country said is right, in fact, Xu Ke is very talented for this kid and is willing to work hard, but there is one point, he loves to admit death, and his brain does not know how to be flexible, so he is a little stunned when it comes to dealing with things." ”

Li Xiao turned around, faced the gate of the National Palace, and said with a smile, "This kind of character is very similar to someone. ”

The old man and Li Menglan came to Li Xiao in an instant, as if they were facing a great enemy, but what they were thinking about did not happen, Li Xiao pushed the two away and said, "Don't worry, I won't die this time, he is much more peaceful than usual." ”

Li Menglan said disdainfully, "Cut, you didn't lock him up here, why would he be angry at you, if it weren't for Master's desperate cultivation in the Heavenly Realm, you would have been left with no bones." ”

"Menglan. ”

The old man shouted loudly, Li Xiao waved his hand, indicating that he didn't mind, and finally said helplessly, "The recruitment conference is about to start, you go down first to prepare." ”

Li Menglan hugged the spear and said, "I said in advance, if I am the champion of the recruitment conference, then you are not allowed to get involved in the family affairs between me and Xu Ke. ”

Li Xiao nodded, and Li Menglan turned to leave.

The old man said, "In addition to their own country, the Fuxi Gang, the Xiangyun Country and the people of the Sorrowful Banner will also come, those people are not easy to deal with, if they really marry Menglan, are you willing to do it?"

Li Xiao looked ahead, what he was thinking in his heart was unknown, and he just said casually, "Menglan won't lose." ”

The old man clenched his fists and left.

After the two left, Li Xiao, who was alone, walked into the national hall on foot.

After a long time, the roar of wild beasts was heard in the palace.