It seems that in the past two years, there have been fewer and fewer times when everyone can reunite, but one day, Yongye and Mingzhe packed their bags and got on the military stagecoach to Shayang Town.

The Chinese New Year will be coming soon, the official road is empty, and there are no people in the fields on either side. In the border area, the farmers and hunters have stocked up on grain early, and they are busy at home to kill New Year's pigs and make new clothes.

Although Chishui City is a small county town, it is still much more lively than Shuanglian Town. At this time in previous years, the market town was crowded with people, and the villagers in the surrounding villages came with their families to buy New Year's goods. Since Xing Xie was ten years old, the teacher would ask him to move a small bench at the entrance of the courtyard, put pen, ink, paper and inkstone next to it, and then put a signboard to write Spring Festival couplets. The star evil is a small attraction to like, and full of poetry and books, the export into a chapter, a hand line of large characters is written upright and steady, quite meteorological, the price of a pair of ten copper coins is also the friendship price of the neighborhood, so the business is extremely hot, the most surgent time to ask for couplets can line up to hundreds of steps away, the teacher looked at the long queue outside the door, always smiled, and did not care to count carefully, grabbed a lot of copper coins and stuffed them into the cloth bags found out of nowhere.

The ancients were all inferior, but only reading was high.

The profession that can make money naturally does not know where it is in the eyes of the teacher.

It's a pity that I haven't been at home for two years, although the village in another country is also warm and lively, but it is still that small courtyard that can bring the feeling of home. Xing Xie was thinking in his heart about sending the little junior brother home, and then going back and forth to the capital, if everything went well, he could just catch up with Xiao Nian. It's just that I don't know if everyone can finish their own things before the year and get together this year.

But the world is unpredictable, the Western White Tiger General Wu Ling is definitely a figure that even Mo Lin has a headache, and the star evil is going to the capital, I am afraid that there is little hope.

Compared with the star evil who is preoccupied, the little junior brother is extremely excited, getting rid of the strict third senior brother and the stereotypical old gentleman in Shuanglian Town, away from the endless writing of notebooks, endless poetry books, and practice day and night, followed by the gentle and careful, obedient to himself Star Evil, such a day is simply happy to the sky.

The more he thought about it, the more proud he became, and the little junior brother's thin body gushed out with a wild and heroic spirit that only poets have, so he took out the wine pot that had been hidden from Shuanglian Town to the present under the stunned gaze of Xingxi, poured a big sip of it, and recited aloud:

"There is wine today and drunk today, and if you want to drink the pipa, urge immediately. Drunk and lying on the battlefield, Jun Mo smiled, and a red apricot came out of the wall. ”

Perhaps these few sentences are all the poems he has been able to memorize in the past half a month, and when they are put together, they still rhyme inexplicably, Xing Xie helplessly took the wine jug and put it in the baggage, untied a book tied around his waist, handed it to the little junior brother, and said seriously: "You are not old enough to drink, and reading more books will help you a lot." ”

The little junior brother looked at Xing Xie in shock, and found that the latter's eyes were gentle and firm, he grabbed his head in distress, and whispered quickly in a small voice: "What's the matter, why is it the same as that melon baby in the eternal night." ”

"What did you say?"

"Nothing. The little junior brother shook his head and hugged the scroll firmly, looking very well-behaved and cute.

The terrain of Zhenzhou is low in the west and high in the east, and after the plain near Cangyang, you will enter the Qishan Mountains in the direction of Xingzhou, where although there are many villages, the mountains and forests are dense, and there are many villages that are almost isolated from the world. The tax on farming and hunting was not high, and considering the sparsely populated and limited conditions in the depths of Qishan, both the officials and the villagers were living a difficult life, so they turned a blind eye to the annual taxes paid there. Originally, the imperial court intended to build official roads to connect the villages, and then move out some of the villages that were too remote, but the local feelings were deeply rooted in the hearts of most villagers, and they were unwilling to transfer.

However, compared to the Cangyang Wasteland, where there is no food to eat, Qishan, which is rich in products and full of natural treasures, can indeed be regarded as a paradise on earth.

The winding official road on the main trunk of Qishan is already very difficult to walk, and the little junior brother is looking around and jumping, and it didn't take long for the star evil to pull out of sight of the official road, and the star evil saw the little junior brother's elated appearance, and couldn't bear to sweep away his interest, so he let him mess around for a while, thinking that maybe the child would naturally be quiet when he was tired.

But this little child is a child who has stepped into the realm of enlightenment, his energy is more than ten times more abundant than that of children of the same age, and his body inherits the eternal night, tossing and turning, crossing the mountains and mountains, and getting rid of a monkey spirit who has returned to the mountains.

So after the little junior brother drank enough water with a small face, he wiped his mouth with his sleeve and said with a sad face: "Why is Senior Brother Xingxie so playful, you see where we have gone, I'm afraid we have to find a village around here to spend the night." ”

You don't have to go to the post station on the official road to live, the lights are usually turned off very early at night in the nearby borrowed villages, presumably the star evil will not let him read by the starlight, Meimei sleeps and plays again the next day, and the little junior brother's abacus crackles.

Unexpectedly, Xing Xie touched the little junior brother's head lovingly, and said something that made the little junior brother stunned: "I remember that the road is there, go now, it's too late to rush to the official road to find an inn to live in before dark, don't worry." ”

"It's all about the road, you're a monster. The little junior brother muttered in his heart, blinked a pair of dark eyes, and looked at the star evil aggrievedly.

"Tired of playing?"

"Yes!" the little junior brother nodded vigorously.

"Then find a village near you and stay for the night. "The star evil answered.

Before the little junior brother could cheer, Xing Xie stretched out a finger, and the white light bloomed on his fingertips, instantly shining a few zhang radius into a transparent light, "Senior brother will teach you to read at night." ”

"Oh. The little junior brother took Xingxie's hand in despair, and the two of them walked towards the nearest village with the lights flickering.

In winter, it gets dark very early, just after the time of Shen, the brilliant sunset is sprinkled all over the mountain forest, the orange and red light in the forest shuttles and interleaves, so that the land where the fallen leaves are piled up is also colorful, many nocturnal wild animals have reached the time to move, and the leaves and jungles are swaying, so lively.

The village was nestled in a nest under the ridge, and when Xingxie and the little junior brother walked less than a mile from the village, the faint sound of a baby sobbing could be heard in the forest, gradually becoming clear from far and near. Xing Xie asked himself if he should have heard it wrong, but it was hard for him to imagine why some villagers would leave their children here, you must know that abandoning babies without permission in the rural customs of the twilight is a great evil thing that will damage the yin virtue of the ancestors, and ordinary people will not do such things even if they smash pots and sell iron.

Hearing that Xing Xie was not the only one crying, the little junior brother instinctively thought of what Xing Xie would do next, and whispered: "I heard that many mountain spirits will pretend to be babies and cry in the evening, luring well-wishers to come to the rescue, so as to eat people, and some will turn into beautiful women, which is even more dangerous and abnormal. ”

"What you said is just a strange novel, there are very few people who have really seen it with our own eyes, and the teacher often teaches us to cultivate ourselves before cultivating, and we should not ignore it. "The star demon stood quietly in the mountains and forests, and began to lock on the baby's seat.

"What the senior brother said is reasonable, and the one who listens to the senior brother is. The little junior brother pursed his lips and said helplessly.

The five senses of the cultivator are much sharper than ordinary people, and it is not difficult to find someone in the dense forest, the two of them walked all the way, and soon found a crying baby in the depression less than a hundred feet away from the village, and the red fluttering child with a cold face was tightly wrapped in swaddling clothes made of flower cotton cloth, which was a distressing scene but made the hearts of Xing Xie and the little junior brother gush out of a cold air.

For behind the babies roamed five jackals with green eyes, and the abdominal cavity of these beasts contracted violently with rage, and from their mouths came a foul saliva and an irrepressible low roar that rushed out of their throats.

The little junior brother was a little stunned in the face of the fierce beast, he tugged at the sleeve of Xingxie's coat, and the latter just carefully wiped the dirt left on his face when he was playing, and then found a clean place to put down the burden, took out a black iron drill from it, and held it in his hand as a club.

"Senior brother...... That's ...... Jackal, ah...... "The little junior brother vaguely guessed what the star evil was going to do, although the cultivator's body was very comparable to the energy of heaven and earth, but in the memory of the little junior brother who had just turned ten years, this good-tempered senior brother seemed to have been beaten since he was a child, and he had never seen him attack anyone.

Xing Xie took a few steps forward, protected the baby and the little junior brother behind him, and said softly: "Senior brother is a cultivator in the middle realm of the Ming Dao, and there is no need for the little junior brother to worry. ”

The jackals in the mountains and forests are infested together, they have rich experience in encircling and suppressing their prey, and even faintly and secretly combine the way of the art of war, but now the star evil has not moved, and the two jackals are lying on the ground and making a pounce in a charged posture, and the remaining three are silently moving behind the star evil.

These jackals have dull coats, and they are the most ferocious of the hungry wolves.

The star evil eyelid drooped, his clothes fluttered up, he stepped on the fallen leaves and swept forward a few feet, and the iron chisel called "Liyun" turned into a flying black shadow and struck at the two jackals in front of him, and all five jackals reacted at that moment and began to move like a whole.

The two wolves in front of them quickly retreated, and the three wolves behind jumped up and pounced on the empty door behind the Star Demon. Xingxie's toes touched the ground, his waist stopped castration, and the white light of his left hand spewed out, using his hand as a blade to slash through the stomachs of the three wolves behind him, and the blazing heat made the wolves fall to the ground in pain, and the abdomen was full of green smoke, with bursts of burnt meat fragrance. At the same time, Star Demon's right hand shook rapidly, and he shot three inches away from the cloud and pointed at the center of the jackal's eyebrows on the other side.

The pointed jackal bowed down and dodged a blow, and the second wolf in front jumped on its back, and the person stood up and bit the head of the star evil, the star evil's expression was calm, and the movement changed again, and the left hand turned the blade into a palm, and pressed the wolf head with fangs on the ground.

In an instant, the Star Evil abolished the combat power of the three wolves with a flowing movement, and suppressed the fourth wolf to the ground, revealing the cultivator's demeanor.

But there were five jackals.

"Don't come here...... I'm afraid...... I'm afraid ....."

The little junior brother who held the baby tightly in his arms looked at the jackal who had escaped the two attacks of the star evil and came to him out of nowhere, and involuntarily retreated backwards. Hearing this, Xing Evil's heart trembled, and he pressed the wolf's head into the soil with the force of his hand, making it faint, and then turned around and rushed towards the little junior brother.

The only remaining jackal was extremely cunning, and when he sensed that the star evil was coming quickly, he no longer hesitated, and flew towards the little junior brother.

Can you catch up? There is a fire burning in the heart of the Star Evil.

"I'm afraid...... I'm afraid ......"

At this time, the wolf kiss was less than a few inches away from the little junior brother's face, and the corner of the little junior brother's mouth full of panic suddenly hooked a cruel smile, as if the target of the hunt should be the jackal.

"I'm afraid I'm going to hammer you to death. ”

I only heard the deafening thunder of the little brother's immature body, and he raised his pink fist and smashed it into the jackal's face, so the hungry wolf was smashed alive from the nose bone, and fell to the ground softly, without any life.

The little junior brother waved his fist at the corpses on the ground like a demonstration, and spat on the ground fiercely after following the example of those military ruffians in Shuanglian Town.

"Gua Wazi. ”