Chapter 8 A Thousand Miles of Searching
One day, She Xiucheng said to his daughter: "Today is a big gathering, let Chongtian go to the market to buy some things for marriage!" When Niu Chongtian went to the market before leaving, the old man handed the blanket to Niu Chongtian and said: "The silver taels are inside, and the list for buying things is also inside, and the lady is afraid that the list will be lost and sewn inside." When you use it, you tear it open and take it out, take a good look at it, and look at it carefully. Niu Chongtian agreed, thinking in his heart: Don't tell me not to lose the silver, but tell me that the list is afraid of losing it, and sew it inside. Maybe I'm afraid that I won't know what to buy if I lose my list? Yes, I don't know what to buy if I have money and no list?
Niu Chongtian rode his horse and walked very fast, and he arrived at the big set in less than half an hour. He came to the door of a cloth shop, tied his horse, put a blanket on his back, and went into the shop. He went to the counter, tore open the cloth bag sewn into the inside of the jacket, and took out the slip. At first glance, it was not a list of things to buy at all, but a letter of persuasion to persuade Niu Chongtian to take the opportunity to leave the She family and not to go back to marry Liu Er.
The letter told Niu Chongtian the reason why he couldn't marry Liu'er, and advised him to give up his plan to marry Liu'er for the sake of Liu'er's life! If you have to marry Liu'er, it will bring disaster to Liu'er. In the letter, Master She earnestly asked Niu Chongtian to leave Liu'er far away, and after leaving the She family with the silver taels you brought, life will definitely be better. Let's leave, there will be a good girl waiting for you to marry her, and there will be a good life waiting for you to live! After reading the letter, Niu Chongtian's heart ached like a knife. He didn't know if what the master said was true. It is against heaven to say that Liu Er is a snake spirit and marries Niu Chongtian. Liu Er will be punished by heaven for violating the rules of heaven and will die. If so, I would rather leave her far away than marry her. But I'm really going to leave Liu'er, and I'm really reluctant. He thought about it, he had a headache, and he couldn't make a decision.
Niu Chongtian accidentally saw a fortune teller not far away, so he walked towards the fortune teller. Niu Chongtian just approached the fortune teller. "This young man, your face is gloomy, and you will be in great trouble. This was deliberately said by the fortune teller to Niu Chongtian. Niu Chongtian looked around and asked no one else, "Is Mr. talking about me?" "Yes, can you test the word first whether you believe it or not!" Niu Chongtian picked up the pen without hesitation and wrote a word "heavy". The fortune teller looked at it and said, "Ouch, you're about to die." "What then?" Niu Chongtian hurriedly asked. "The only way to avoid this is to run away. You see, the word 'heavy' is a thousand on the top and a li on the bottom, which means that as long as you run away for a thousand miles, you will be fine!" He thought: Let's go, don't worry about Liu'er, it seems impossible to continue to stay by Liu'er's side. The more he thought about it, the more troubled he became, and his mind was dazed and he walked into a small restaurant in front of him. Niu Chongtian asked for a bowl of noodles, ate and ate with tears in his eyes, and before he ate a few bites, he lay on the table in a coma. Soon two men came and put him into the inner room. Shi Deng reappeared, and he gave all the silver taels brought by Niu Chongtian to the proprietress of this small shop, and told them to take the silver taels and get away from here quickly. It turned out that the fortune teller and the proprietress of the small restaurant were all bought by the stone lamp. In this way, Niu Chongtian was captured by the stone lamp again.
This time, Shi Deng learned the lesson of the last time and wanted to send Niu Chongtian to a far, far away place, to a cave in the middle of the mountains. He had been there a few years ago, and it was a secluded place that few people knew about. He thinks it's absolutely safe there. He wants to train Niu Chongtian there to be a person like himself, to be his follower, his heir. After Liu Er felt that Chongtian had disappeared again, the first thing she suspected was the stone lamp. The two masters of Liu Er and Chongtian hurried to the Lotus Temple, and when they came there, they saw that this place had reached a point where it could not be maintained. From Xiao Daotong's story, he learned that Master Shilan had not returned for many days. Liu Er felt that it was true that the stone lamp was not there, but she said, "We still have to search again." Xiao Daotong said, "If you don't believe it, you can search for it casually!" Liu Er and the two masters did not find Chongtian in the Lotus Temple. They rushed to the place where Chongtian was gathering to investigate Chongtian's whereabouts. They asked almost all the shops in the market, and they all said that they had not seen anyone you were asking about. Later, they asked the fortune teller. "If you can tell you the whereabouts of yesterday, a tall young man with a square face and big eyebrows, you will be given five taels of silver. Liu Er said as she took out the silver. As soon as the fortune teller heard it, he knew that they were looking for the young man who was measuring the word "weight", but he had a ghost in his heart who couldn't say anything about the word measurement, and he wanted silver. He said, "There is such a person, with a sad face, who went to the restaurant for dinner. "Not a word about anything else. When they heard this, they felt that there was a way. Liu Er gave the silver and asked, "Which restaurant?" The fortune teller pointed his finger and said. When they came to the door of the small restaurant, they found a note on the door saying "This store is closed", and the door of the store was also locked. Liu Er thought that the problem was in this store, but no one was looking for it. It seems that this clue is broken. When everyone was at a loss, the medicine master said, "There is no one in the store, they did something unspeakable and fled." Where did you escape, how did you escape? We're going to have to investigate!" Liu Er reacted immediately and said. They came to the back of the hotel, and sure enough, there was a back door in the hotel. "Two masters, please come with me. Liu Er said and brought them to the fortune teller again. Liu Er said: "Mr. will give me a pen and paper to use, and give you two pieces of silver." "No, you've already paid that much money just now. The fortune teller handed over the pen and paper. Liu Er took the pen and drew the head of the stone lamp on the paper for a while. Both masters and fortune tellers said they were very similar. "This young man is really a magic brush, Liao Liao painted so beautifully with a few strokes. The fortune teller complimented. "Have you seen him?" asked Liu'er. "No, but I've seen it. He didn't come to tell his fortune, he walked past me, but I have a good memory, and I can remember it when I see it. "The fortune teller just says that the lie is over quickly. Liu Er knew that the fortune teller was lying. She continued to draw, and after drawing three in a row, Liu Er gave the fortune teller a copper plate. Liu Er and the two masters took the portrait of the stone lamp to find the whereabouts of the stone lamp.
Their analysis is that Shi Lantern can't go through the front door if he does something bad, so he must have left quietly through the back door, and in order to slip away, he will definitely take the car. Even then, someone might see it. So, they decided to inquire at the back door of the small restaurant. I asked the people on both sides of the small alley, and after no result, I inquired along the road. The three of them asked people along the road from the back door of the small hotel if they had seen this person, but unfortunately they responded to them by either shaking their heads and waving their hands or saying that they had not seen them. After inquiring and inquiring, I don't know how many people I asked, I finally found out about a person who had seen a stone lamp. The man said, "The man in the portrait rented a car in this place, and in addition to the man in the portrait, there is a young man." They sat in the same car and walked forward. Liu'er asked, "What kind of car did he rent?" and the man told Liu'er that they said it was a car pulled by a horse with a shed. The news made them happy. They confidently went in the direction of the covered carriage, and went in search of the cart and the man. Along the way, they kept inquiring and really inquired, and someone saw that the carriage with the shed was going west. Master Herb Collector said, "I guess the stone lantern may have gone to the deep mountains and old forests in the west. I know the herb pickers there. Where to hide, they may know. I went straight there and asked them for help. With that, he went alone. The martial arts master is Liu Er's friend and the hero of the snake. He said to Liu'er: "I am going to mobilize our kind and act together." Rest assured, we will find Chongtian soon. I'll go first, too. After Liu Er and the two masters separated, she insisted on the general direction unchanged, looking for the carriage as she walked. Along the way, countless people have said they have never seen it. Liu Er was not discouraged, she believed that as long as she persevered, she inquired all the way about the car that Shi Deng was riding. As long as you can find that car, you can find Chongtian. In fact, the car is hard to find. I've seen a few of the same carriages, but I've never seen the one that Stone Lantern has ridden. On the morning of the seventh day of the search for Chongtian, the hard work really paid off, and the carriage that delivered the stone lamp was finally found. The coachman looked at the portrait of the stone lamp handed over by Liu Er and said, "The person you inquired about took my carriage seven days ago. Liu Er asked again: "There should be another person in the car, right?" "Yes, there is a person who is with him, and this person seems to be a little stupid." Liu Er was convinced, and knew that the stone lamp had lost his soul to the heavy angel again. Liu Er asked the coachman to send her back to the place where Shi Deng got off at that time, and promised to give him more silver taels. The coachman readily agreed. From the morning to the second half of the morning, I hurried non-stop and came to the foot of Mashan Mountain in Mengxian County. The driver told Liu Er that this was where they got off the bus. Liu Er paid the coachman two taels of silver. The coachman is gone.
Liu Er was worried again, how should she go on the road in front of her? Coincidentally, when Liu Er was hesitating and didn't know which path to take, the medicine collector came. He also brought a local herb picker. The local herb picker pointed to the mountain in front of him and said to Liu'er: "There is a little-known cave in this mountain on the southern halfway of Hemp Mountain, where the terrain is dangerous and hidden, and it is impossible to find it without a familiar passer-by." Led by a local herb picker, they went straight to the goal. On the way, as they walked, they heard a "rustling" sound in the forest. Liu Er knew that her own kind was around, which also showed that the martial arts master was also coming. After a while, I really saw the martial arts master, who was waiting for everyone in front! The martial arts master saw Liu Er and told her, "According to my friend, the stone lamp is still in the cave, but there is no Niu Chongtian in the cave. "Chongtian is not in the cave, where will it go?" Liu Er was stunned for a moment, then became worried again, and asked puzzled. The martial arts master couldn't answer. The medicine collector was a little anxious and said, "We can't delay any longer! We have to divide the troops into two ways, and my brother and I will go to the cave to slaughter the stone lamp." Liu'er, go back and find Chongtian!" The martial arts master agreed. Liu Er nodded in agreement. After Liu Er left the two masters, she was very confused and always muttered in her heart, did Chongtian slip away, or was she ...... by the stone lamp So she didn't dare to think about it anymore, but she couldn't help but think about it. The two masters soon came to the cave. The inside of this cave is relatively spacious, with a place to sleep, a place to cook, a place to practice self-cultivation, and a place to practice. When they came there, they saw Shi Deng meditating there alone, and he didn't react to anyone who came. They came to the stone lamp and looked down at the stone lamp, and found him dumbfounded. When Shi Deng saw someone coming, he said, "I don't move, I'm obedient." "The stone lamp has been poisoned by his lost soul and has lost his ability to control himself. The medicine collector said after observation. The martial arts master asked Shi Deng, "Where is Niu Chongtian?" "I don't move, I'm obedient." "Stone lamp is still the same sentence. "What is this going on? He was stupid, and the clue was broken again. The martial arts master asked disappointedly.