"Father," Gongsun Guangxiao sat in the old lady's room, staring blankly at the moon outside the window, as if talking to himself, "Don't say that Shengyan doesn't understand this, even I can't figure it out, how can a Taoist priest come over to burn our silk village." ”

"Are you sure it's a Taoist priest?" Gongsun Yu tried to think of something, and then asked the second son.

"I'm not sure, anyway, that Wang Zhutou, who said that he started with these people who made alchemy, seems to be the most suspicious Taoist priest. You said that this has been quiet for decades, and when it comes to Shengqiu Shengyan's generation, why is it so chaotic. Gongsun Guangxiao scratched his head after speaking.

"Do you know why our Gongsun family doesn't associate with these Taoists?" asked Gongsun Yu.

"I don't know, I've heard my grandfather say that you are not allowed to contact Taoists since I was a child, and it has been passed down for so many generations, why do you want to say, I really can't say how ugly I am. ”

Gongsun Yu took a sip of the tea in front of him, paused and said: "When I was also very young, I listened to what my grandfather said, saying that an ancestor of our Gongsun family died at the hands of a Taoist priest. ”

"How could it be?" asked Gongsun Guangxiao, his eyes wide.

"Hey, who knows when it happened, my grandfather said this, or did he say it unintentionally, I asked again, and he said that he didn't know more things, so he couldn't associate with Taoist priests. I wonder if it's true or not. ”

"If it's really a Taoist priest, why do you want to burn our silk village?" Gongsun Guangxiao still couldn't figure it out.

"What if it's not a Taoist priest, what if a Taoist priest is just for people?" the old lady asked rhetorically, "We have so many industries in Jiangnan, why does this thief keep an eye on the silk village?"

"I understand what you're saying, but I still haven't figured it out. ”

"There will always be a day when the water will come out, and Wang Zhutou will keep an eye on it, and if there are any movements, it will be dealt with in time. After Gongsun Yu said this, he didn't want to open his mouth again, and the father and son both turned their heads to look out the window in silence, and the moon was full, shining the world brightly.

"Old eight, why is that kid here again, what did the letter say?" said the tall man with an orange peel face sitting in the corner smoking a cigarette pouch.

"It's fucking weird, you don't have to do anything in the letter, just ask us to meet. ”

"Meet?" Orange Peel looked puzzled and stood up suddenly.

"Well, meet, about tomorrow night outside the city of Luoma Mountain, and draw a map. You see. When the tall man saw the orange peel face coming over, he reached out and handed the letter.

"I'm really fucking going to meet, okay, I want to see what this generous uncle looks like. ”

"It's a person who looks better than you, so you'd better not see each other. The tall man was puffing a cigarette in the corner and began to make fun of Orange Peel Face again.

Outside the city, Luoma Mountain is a huge area, like a horse chopping knife-like mountain range, the north side of the mountain is not far from the city, the south side is connected to a wide lake, stretching for tens of thousands of zhang from east to west. In the past, when the weather was good during the day, fishermen often pounced on fish in the lake, and the harvest was abundant. But at night this large area is inaccessible, only wild cats and wild dogs shuttle back and forth, for a long time, there are even legends that there are jumping corpses in the mountains, there are water ghosts in the lake, how evil how to spread, so that normal people if they are fine, resolutely do not come to this area at night, some timid people have to travel together during the day if they have to pass through this area.

The orange peel face and the tall man slept until the sun dried their buttocks during the day, and then they got up without washing their teeth or brushing their faces, and they went out to drink and eat meat with their hands with their hands like chicken nest-like hair, and Gongsun Shengyan paid them enough money for them to be chic for a while. The two of them have been eating in the store until it closes, and the store is embarrassed to chase them, after all, people have been spending real money here for many days, never saying anything on credit, ordering whatever is expensive, and eating whatever is good, so they have to rely on them. Seeing that it was almost midnight, Orange Peel wiped his mouth with his sleeve, asked the boss to pack another bottle of old wine and a roast chicken, then paid the accounts, and walked out of the city with the tall man.

When we reached the foot of Lok Ma Mountain, the road became narrower and narrower, and the weeds on both sides grew almost waist-high. The tall man scolded and complained, and at the same time kept an eye on the soles of his feet, for fear of stepping on the snake. It is said that thieves have the appearance of thieves, it is indeed true, these two people ran so far in the middle of the night, and they didn't make a lantern to shine brightly, and there was no moon in the sky, so they walked forward in the dark.

"I don't have to go up the mountain. "Orange Peel Face was afraid of going the wrong way, so he threw it all in the middle of the night, so he confirmed with the tall man.

"No, at the foot of the mountain, it's too far away, on the other side of the lake. The tall man lowered his head and kicked the grass, and he could hear that he was very unhappy.

"Give money when you meet, do you think this person has so much money that he has nowhere to spend it?"

"It's best to give it even if you don't meet, let Lao Tzu sleep in the room every day until he wakes up naturally, and when you open the door, you can see the little deflated three who gave the silver ticket. ”

"Hahaha......"

There was a wild cat whining in front of me, and the sound was like that of a crying child. The tall man suddenly stopped, pointed to the glittering point of light not far away and said to the orange peel face, "Old six......"

The orange peel face also stopped, looked in the direction of the tall man's finger, stared carefully, and confirmed that it was phosphorus fire. Only then did the two relax and continue to walk forward.

"Soon, aren't you?" said after a long walk, their trouser legs and shoes wet from the dew hanging from the grass, "bring me a chicken leg." The tall man said to the orange peel face.

"The moisture is so heavy, it should be almost there. ”

Finally arrived at the location demarcated on the map, and the orange peel face and the tall man looked at each other in the dark, how the hell are they looking for someone. A road with no end in sight, plunged into the dense forest to the left, there is a not too high fault in front of the right oblique, under the fault is a wide lake, and behind it is a dense mountain forest, not to mention a person, even if he comes seventy or eighty, he can't see if he doesn't take the initiative to speak. The tall man opened his mouth to shout, but as soon as a word came out, he was covered by the orange peel face.

"It's so strange, let's go back the way we came. Orange Peel said in a low voice.

When the tall man heard this, he immediately felt that something was wrong, and the hair on his entire scalp was about to explode, and his whole body was full of goosebumps. If the master who entrusted the pot to make up the pot had any other thoughts and prepared an ambush early, I am afraid that the two of them would have to rot in this wilderness to feed maggots.

The two hurriedly turned around, but before they could take two steps, they heard a calm greeting from under their feet, although the person who came seemed to be quite young when they heard the voice: "Is it Xu Lao Liu and Xu Lao Ba introduced by Huang San?"

Originally, the tall man was so frightened that his shoes were about to fall off, and when he heard this sound, he first looked at his feet, a solid piece of land, he stomped a few feet, the soles of his feet hurt, and it was impossible to hide people in the ground. The tall man twisted his neck back and looked, black and dark, except for the shadows of the wild grass were dense shadows of trees.

"You...... Who you are, I can't see you. The tall man felt that what he had heard was the voice of a human voice, and he was no longer as afraid as he was about to lose his life just now, but his voice still trembled when he opened his mouth to ask.

Orange Peel's face was calmer than him, and he pointed to the surface of the lake with his finger in front of him, and the two of them vaguely saw that there were layers of water waves on the lake not far from their feet, and after a while, a canopy boat emerged from below the field of vision, the boat was not big, it was the kind of ordinary fishing boat, there was no light in the cabin, only the sound of the man in black hitting the water when he shook the oars.

"You called us to meet, why didn't you show up and shout from so far away?" asked Orange Peel Face in a voice that the other could hear.

"You and I are not far apart, but only five or six feet, and now in the dead of night, let alone talking, you can hear me farting. There was a burst of ridicule from the cabin, and it turned out that it was not the man in black who was rocking the oars.

Listening to the other party's momentum, the tall man and the orange peel face didn't know where the other party came from, and they couldn't decide whether they should have a seizure or not, so they had to wait for the other party to speak first. In the dark night, a short man carrying a bottle of wine, and a tall man holding something like a roast chicken in his hand, stood motionless in the direction of the lake.

"You can't do anything. The young man continued, "If you still have oil in your kennel, dispose of it as soon as possible." The tone of the sentence sounded stern and irrefutable, and it was completely an order.

"Why do you speak to our brother in such a tone? What if I don't listen to you?" asked the tall man in a loud voice.

"I rely on my silver ticket, you know better than me who Huang San is, without you, Xu Laoliu and Xu Laoba, he will also introduce me to Wang Laowu, Zhang Laoqi, and Li Laojiu. If you have a good life, you will sulk with money, and I think this is how your life will be. "The people in the cabin speak with confidence.

"Do you think we can't find you through Huang San?"

"Huang San doesn't know me either, and even if he does, he won't tell you. Don't play the trick of scaring a three-year-old child in front of me, if you can find me through someone else, you'll come here tonight to meet you?"

Orange Peel Face and the tall man were exposed to their hole cards, and they didn't know how to refute at all, and at this time they were like leaky balls, and they just wanted to quickly listen to the people in the cabin, and then go home and sleep with their heads covered.

"I'll give you two choices, one is to act as if I didn't say this, you can do whatever you want, and when the time comes, the boat capsized and crashed, don't blame me for not reminding you. The second option is much more interesting. At this point, the voice suddenly stopped.

The tall man couldn't help but ask, "What's the second option?"

"Hahaha, I heard that Xu Lao Liu knows cultivators, so in three days, I will tell you how to meet the cultivators you introduced by sending a letter, and the rest of the things have nothing to do with you. Of course, there will be a lot more money than the previous ones. ”

"Believe it or not, it's up to you. The last words came from the cabin, and then as the sound faded away, the small canopy also rowed across the lake and headed straight to the opposite shore.