It's a long way to go...

The carriage staggered for four days and came to a halt in the middle of a dense forest at the foot of a mountain.

Wang Tu jumped off the carriageway: "Little brother, let's spend the night here tonight." ”

Bai Xueyan nodded and said, "Okay, then you are going to eat, and I'll pick up some dead branches to make a fire." ”

The Great Zhou Dynasty had a vast land, but the population was very small, less than 20 million. As a result, many places are uninhabited.

Bai Xueyan and the three of them didn't even see the inn along the way. If it weren't for the abundance of items purchased by Wang Tu, the three of them don't know how many sins they would have suffered.

The fat girl skillfully took out an iron pot from the carriage, and a bag full of beef powder, as well as some chili vinegar and other items, and prepared to boil a pot of hot and sour beef soup to drive away the cold in the bodies of the three people.

The beef powder was bought by Wang Tu with a lot of money from the people of the Zataran tribe of the Western Regions who were engaged in the animal skin business.

The people of the Zataran tribe like to cut the meat of the cow into long strips, boil it, smear it with salt, and dry it until there is no water at all, and then grind it into a stone mill and put it in a bag sewn from cowhide.

However, making this beef powder is quite time-consuming and laborious, and only the bravest warriors of the Zataran tribe are qualified to carry it. Usually, the meat on a whole cow is only enough to fill a pillow-sized skin sac.

People who have been sleeping in the suburbs for a long time will have cold accumulation in their bodies, and if they do not get rid of the cold in time, they may become seriously ill. Although Bai Xueyan has deep witch power and no diseases, it has not yet reached the realm of being able to open the valley, and the sour and hot beef soup made by the fat girl tastes excellent.

Wang Tu and the fat girl were here to prepare to eat, while Bai Xueyan picked up a large pile of dead branches, tied them with hemp rope, and carried them on their backs.

Unexpectedly, he just wanted to go back, and suddenly vaguely saw a Taoist temple halfway up the mountain, and he was a little surprised and a little excited.

The existence of a Taoist temple means that it was once inhabited, regardless of whether it is deserted. In the barren mountains and wilderness, there is a place to shelter from the wind and rain, which must be much warmer than in a carriage.

There is a dirt path at the foot of the mountain that leads straight to the halfway point of the mountain. Bai Xueyan didn't care about the dead branches that had just been collected, and rushed towards the Taoist temple with arrows.

About half a cup of tea later, Bai Xueyan came to the door of the Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple is somewhat dilapidated, and the walls are carved with traces of time. Bai Xueyan pushed the door and entered, and found that there was nothing inside, and he didn't know which immortal he had once enshrined. He checked and found no danger. Hurriedly returned to the dense forest and asked Wang Tu to drive the carriage to the Taoist temple.

Wang Tu's face was embarrassed, and he hesitated and said, "Little brother, there is an unwritten rule on the road. That is, to rush at night, to avoid the temple, and not to enter the view. We'll stay here for the night, and we'll set off on our way at dawn. ”

Bai Xueyan was puzzled: "Why?"

"This..."Wang Tu didn't know how to explain for a while, he lowered his voice and said: "Little brother doesn't know, this Taoist temple in the barren mountains and mountains is very evil. If you encounter it during the day, it is fine, but you must not enter it at night, for fear of dirty things. ”

The fat girl was so frightened that the bread in her hand almost fell to the ground. Bai Xueyan said with a cold face: "It's nonsense, if there is really a monster, then I want to catch it and see what has changed about this monster." ”

Bai Xueyan is a master of art and bold, and he is a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, where will he be afraid of some rumors that are spread falsely. Wang Tu still wanted to persuade, but Bai Xueyan waved his hand, signaling that he had made up his mind, and there was no need to say anything more. Wang Tu could only sigh and give up.

The fat girl packed her things back into the car, and the three of them drove the carriage and came to the door of the Taoist temple in a short time.

Bai Xueyan jumped out of the carriage and opened the two huge stone doors of the Taoist temple, allowing Wang Tu to drive the carriage into the Taoist temple.

After Wang Tu got out of the car, he surveyed left and right and said: "Little brother, the Sprinkle family sees that this place is relatively clean, and there is thick hay in the corner, it doesn't look like no one lives." But in this barren mountain and wilderness, there are a large number of wild beasts, and ordinary people can't survive at all. ”

"And there are no necessary daily necessities here, and eighty percent of the bandits use this place as a temporary stronghold, where they share the spoils and hide them. Just be careful, you and I will take turns keeping vigil tonight just in case. I keep watch for the first half of the night, and my brother keeps watch for the second half of the night. ”

The experience of life is a wealth, and Bai Xueyan has also inspected the Taoist temple, but he has not seen anything wrong. And Wang Tu just briefly checked it, that is, the head of the analysis was Dao, which made Bai Xueyan gain some more knowledge.

Bai Xueyan found a large number of dead branches and firewood, and Wang Tu found a well behind the Taoist temple and fetched a bucket of water. The three of them quickly cooked on the fire, boiled a large pot full of fragrant hot and sour beef soup, and one of them filled a big bowl and soaked some dough cakes and ate a big meal.

After eating and drinking, the fat girl spread a cotton mattress on the hay and fell asleep with Bai Xueyan. Wang Tu sat by the fire with a knife, took out a bag of peanuts, and drank it himself.

I don't know how long it took, Bai Xueyan felt a little chill on his body, and subconsciously opened his eyes.

The fire had been extinguished, and it was pitch black in the Taoist temple, which gave Bai Xueyan a faint sense of foreboding.

Before Bai Xueyan went to bed, he had prepared a large amount of firewood. Unless Wang Tu was absent for a long time, the fire would never be extinguished.

Of course, it is common sense that freshly cut down trees cannot be burned directly, one is not easy to ignite, and the other is that a lot of smoke will be generated. Therefore, the freshly chopped wet wood will be placed next to the fire to bake, and after the dry wood is burned, the wet wood is basically dry.

"Fat girl, wake up, something is wrong. ”

Bai Xueyan looked at the place where the fat girl was sleeping, and found that the fat girl was nowhere to be found, and suddenly panicked. He touched the fat girl's futon and felt a cold place in his hand, obviously the person had been gone for a long time.

"Wang Tu, fat girl, where are you?"

Unknown things always make people afraid, Bai Xueyan faintly regretted not listening to Wang Tu's words and entered this Taoist view.

But there is no regret medicine in the world to sell, don't regret if you are wrong, because it is useless to regret it. At this point, he could only find a way to find Wang Tu and the fat girl and leave here quickly.

He took out the fire twister, lit the fire again, and carefully inspected the Taoist temple by the light of the fire. But he didn't understand the five elements of yin and yang, nor did he understand the technique, where could he check anything. The Taoist temple is still empty, and Wang Tu and the fat girl seem to have evaporated from the world, disappearing strangely.

"Someone pretending to be a ghost, hurry up and hand over my friend, otherwise I will dismantle your temple. ”

Bai Xueyan was so angry that he searched inside and outside the Taoist temple, but he still couldn't find Wang Tu and the fat girl, and he was suddenly a little angry. He has a stubborn temper and will never give up until he achieves his goal, and it is impossible to get him to give up looking for someone. Even if he digs three feet into the ground, he has to find the whereabouts of Wang Tu and the fat girl.

He used the magic dragon invincibility trick, and just wanted to completely destroy the Taoist temple, he suddenly found two rows of shallow footprints on the ground, leading to the deepest part of the Taoist temple.

A place that no one lives in and cleans all year round, no matter how clean it is, is only relative. Although the Taoist temple occasionally comes here to sleep, it is relatively clean, but there is still a lot of dust on the ground. And once a person walks over the dust, it is inevitable that they will leave traces.

Bai Xueyan followed the footprints to the end of the Taoist temple, and found that there was a rectangular imprint on the ground at the end. If Bai Xueyan guessed correctly, this is the place where the statue of the god is placed, and it has been placed for a long time, so that there are traces on the ground. Later, for some unknown reason, the idol was removed.

The footprints disappeared at this point, and Wang Tu and the fat girl obviously encountered something wrong here.

The more critical the moment, the more you must be calm. Bai Xueyan squinted his eyes, took a deep breath, tried his best to calm down, looked around carefully, and suddenly found a bronze oil lamp on the wall at the end of the Taoist temple.

The oil lamp was extremely abrupt, as if to tell the visitor that this was the mechanism. This made Bai Xueyan surprised.

He didn't even see a mural along the way, but there was an extra oil lamp here, didn't it clear that there was a problem? Could it be that it was a trap?

Bai Xueyan was puzzled, but he didn't choose many things, even if he knew it was a trap, he could only do it without hesitation. No matter how dangerous it is, he has to break through.