Chapter 22: The Stone Monster
Ning Jie took Zuo Tianyang and He Chong back to the mountain quietly, they didn't dare to enter through the main entrance, they climbed in from the wall in the backyard, and the three of them secretly hid in Miao Dongshan's bedroom. Miao Dongshan hasn't come back yet, so the three of them just need to find a place to hide first. Ning Jie hid in an empty box, He Chong hid in the closet, and Zuo Tianyang lay under the bed.
Miao Dongshan was busy arguing with his disciples in the hall, and he didn't come back until the second half of the night. When I entered the house, I fetched water and washed myself, made myself a cup of tea, and sat in the house worrying.
The servants heard that there was no movement outside the house, and they all came out to see Miao Dongshan.
Leng Buding saw someone in the house, Miao Dongshan almost shouted, but when he saw He Chong, he calmed down a little. He said, "He Chong, now that all the disciples can't tolerate you, what should I do?"
He Chong was very embarrassed, and he didn't know what to do. Ning Jie said: "Master, we just don't know what to do to find you." Give me an idea. ”
Miao Dongshan said: "What ideas can I have." If your master, or my uncle, is here, maybe there is something he can do. ”
Zuo Tianyang said: "Otherwise, let's take him to find Uncle Shizu, his old man will definitely be able to protect him." ”
Miao Dongshan shook his head, "He Chong has been on the mountain for three years, and Uncle Shi and his old man have never had contact with us, and we don't know where he is." ”
Knowing that this road would not work, the four of them were worried.
After a while, Zuo Tianyang asked the head of Miao: "Master, that old man Liu, where does he live, if he doesn't go there, it's the trouble he is looking for, and he has to solve it." ”
Miao Dongshan shook his head, he said: "Senior Liu is right, it's just that his apprentice said something that caused such annoyance." ”
Ning Jie said: "That's to get into trouble." Let He Chong go to him and let him solve it. ”
Miao Dongshan was still very embarrassed, Zuo Tianyang said: "Master, don't worry, you have to let him be anxious now, he must solve the problem." ”
Miao Dongshan thought, Qingshigou, I have heard of this place, I don't know where it is, if He Chong goes there, he may be able to escape this catastrophe.
Miao Dongshan calmed down, brought pen and paper, brushed and wrote a letter, asked He Chong to take it with him, and told him not to inquire about the way to Qingshigou around Qianfeng Mountain, and to find someone to inquire twenty miles away. He took out some silver taels from the cupboard and asked He Chong to take them with him. He told Ning Jie and Zuo Tianyang to let the two escort He Chong to the back mountain, and then hurried back, he was afraid that the two of them would follow He Chong too big and cause unnecessary trouble. Ning Jie and Zuo Tianyang felt justified and agreed.
The three of them took advantage of the night again to reach the back mountain in the dark, Ning Jie and Zuo Tianyang said goodbye to He Chong, and quietly returned to Xifeng to deliver a letter to Shen Peng. He Chong could only go down the mountain by himself. He didn't dare to walk the mountain road, he touched the grass next to the mountain road little by little, walked for a long time, and then walked to the waterfall halfway up the mountainside, at this time it was already dawn, in order not to let the disciples passing by here see him, he climbed to the top of the waterfall stone wall, hid in the grass and waited for dark.
By noon, the temperature was high, He Chong had not eaten three meals, he was hungry and thirsty, and the rising temperature was so hot that he was dizzy. There was no one at the waterhole at this time, and it was quiet around, so no one should pass by, and he wanted to come out of the grass, go to the waterhole to fish, and drink some water.
"Did you take us to the ditch? Or did you arrest He Chong yourself and deliberately lead us to look for it outside?"
"No, if there were, I would have shared it with you a long time ago, but I am your eldest brother, how can I lie to you?"
"I hope you don't have the truth much in your mouth, we can't, we have to keep an eye on you. Save you from calculating us. ”
This is Lu Wanjin, Gu Tiannan and Mao Ruifeng three people come here, these three guys He Chong doesn't like it very much, yesterday Lu Wanjin actually picked the leader and said that he wanted to drink He Chong's blood, and he also said that he wanted to be He Chong's eldest brother before, covering He Chong, which made He Chong very frightened and disgusted with him.
"What are you still looking forward to? He didn't recognize this voice, it should be Feng Wanshan, or Yu Qingyun's disciple.
"Don't be discouraged, it's not appropriate to be discouraged at this time, everyone is still trying to find He Chong. Lu Wanjin said, "Believe me, we can always find him, and then we can have the final say in the Liuyun Sword Sect." ”
"That's it, Bao Yichuan. If you don't want to look for it yourself, don't let everyone give up. "Oh, Bao Yichuan is Yu Qingyun's disciple, I heard that he is a grinding guy, and he is not taken seriously by Yu Qingyun.
The four of them were tired of walking, and sat by the waterhole for a while, it was hot, the four of them drank the water in the waterhole, and after discussing for a while, Bao Yichuan still decided to give up and go back to the mountain. The other three people went down the mountain, and they had to find He Chong.
He Chong didn't dare to come out in the grass, fearing that more people would pass through here to find him.
Sure enough, in the evening, many disciples returned to the mountain from here one after another, and most of them decided to give up looking for him, thinking that he had run away or had run to a place where they could not find him.
In the second half of the night, He Chong came out of the grass and climbed down the stone wall, he planned to drink some water and leave. At this time, a muffled voice said, "There is a fish here, you can eat it." ”
When He Chong heard this, he was so frightened that he plunged into the water, but his pouting ass was still exposed, and he desperately tried to put his ass out of the water.
"Don't be afraid, I saved you. I'm not going to hurt you. ”
He Chong was still afraid, and the voice said it many times before he could distinguish what people were saying. Only then did he wake up, put his head out of the water, and looked around.
"No need to look for it, I'm by your side, right behind your ass. ”
He Chong turned his head to look back and saw a fish jumping on a big rock, but he couldn't jump out of the stone. At this time, he saw that the stone actually opened his eyes.
"Don't be afraid, yesterday you fell into the water, and I turned you into stone to hide from it. ”
He Chong listened to it and was very happy, he wanted to thank it, but he felt that the other party should be a legendary monster, so he was a little scared and disgusted.
The stone said, "Don't be afraid, I'm not a monster, I'm a stone monster." ”
"Ah, you're a stone monster, not a youkai. He Chong repeated this, but he was still worried in his heart, and the stone monster was also strange. But it's good to itself, and as long as it promises not to kill, let it go.
"Don't worry, I'm a stone monster who attained enlightenment thousands of years ago, and at that time, you Liuyun Sword Sect didn't have it. ”
"Huh, you're saying you've been here for a long time?"
"That's right, more than a thousand years ago, an immortal passed by here and enlightened me to cultivate immortals, and I attained the Tao. Now I can open my eyes. ”
"It's only been more than a thousand years since you can open your eyes? What kind of martial arts is this?
"It's the art of cultivating immortals. It's not your ordinary martial arts. ”
"Why did he enlighten you? You can't speak. ”
"I was able to speak by then. ”
"So, you're not going to kill anymore?"
"How can it be? Cultivating immortals can't do that in the first place, and if you do it, you can't cultivate immortals. ”
When He Chong heard this, his heart was finally steady, but he had a lot of questions.
"Huh, can you still speak, how did you learn to speak?"
"Qianfeng Mountain is a beautiful place, and this waterfall is the place where yin and yang meet, I absorb the essence of yin and yang here, and I can speak for millions of years. ”
"Huh?" He Chong had never heard of this, and he felt like he had fallen into a dream.
"You'd better eat something first. When you're full, you can't get away from here. ”
He Chong took the fish down, washed and peeled it, and made a torch to grill the fish. As he worked on it, he asked the stone monster about it.
"Why are you still here for so long cultivating immortals?"
"Back then, that immortal didn't really want to enlighten me, he said that I was not focused enough, my heart was impetuous, and I was easily interrupted by all kinds of things that made me curious. Cultivating immortals is too hard, I can't persevere, and if I want to cultivate, even if I get nourished by the essence of yin and yang, it will take a million years. ”
"Ahh It won't take a million years, and he would have been buried in the loess a long time ago, and no one remembers, it's incredible that the stone monster is still alive.
"Do you really need a million years, maybe it won't take that long?"
"Hey. The stone monster sighed and said, "I don't want to be so long, I really let the immortals talk, I'm just impetuous, easily attracted by fun things, and can't focus on cultivating immortals, so it takes more than a thousand years to open my eyes." ”
He Chong was even more surprised when he heard this.
"Then how can you help me?"
"Because you can talk to me. No one else could hear me at all. ”
"How come? I can hear it, how can they not hear it?"
"Because you have eaten the eggs of the heavenly birds and gained aura, only you can understand my words. ”
"It's a bird again. I'm annoyed by it. It's better to die in that valley in the first place. ”
"You don't have to worry, if you don't die, you will be blessed. ”
"Fu, just now?" He Chong is now hiding in Tibet, thinking where the blessing is, if he is blessed, he should live comfortably.
"Don't be in a hurry, as long as you can stay away from here, sooner or later you will have it. ”
The stone monster said very firmly, He Chong thought to himself, I hope, I also hope that I can be blessed. That would be worth it today.
The stone monster said, "Hurry up and eat and run for your life, and in a little while, it will be dawn." We'll see you later. ”
He Chong hurriedly ate the fish, drank some water, said goodbye to the stone monster, and hurried down the mountain.