As soon as the officials heard the words "the official is promoted to one level and the silver is rewarded with a thousand taels", their eyes lit up, and they all came to the spirit, roared, and rushed up, iron rulers, single knives or something, and greeted the "traitors under Li Chuang's men" together. For a while, chaotic and jubilant, you compete for me, and many of them stumble and drag their feet, lest others take away the credit.

Although there are many of these people, in the eyes of Master Qiao, they are like local chickens and tile dogs. It's just that the chickens and dogs are wearing a bad suit, and they are arrogant, but he doesn't want to cause more trouble, that is, he pulls out a soft whip from his waist, which is only a few feet long, much shorter than the ordinary soft whip and nine-section whip, and is not made of cowhide or cow tendon, only made of hemp rope, winding, picking, sweeping, hanging, extremely handy, rolling down a piece of weaponry, and then throwing it far away, trying to make them retreat in the face of difficulties. As soon as the men raised their knives and pens, they suddenly disappeared, as if by juggling, and they were all very surprised, and ran to pick them up with a smile, and joined the war group again, and fought bravely to kill the enemy, but no one was left behind.

Qiao Shibo felt slightly impatient, kicked up a pear wood table with a snap, blocked them, took the opportunity to coerce Bai Qian to jump out of the door, and said: "Eagle Claw Sun doesn't know what to do, the old man of Xihai won't play with you!" With each word, the voice was farther away, and by the time the last word was finished, it was already miles away. Ou Zhuzi and the other three were afraid of being left alone, and as soon as the old man surnamed Qiao left the store, he also went out of the store with him, "Uncle Qiao, Uncle Qiao" shouted one after another, and followed with a shout.

Chu Jiangqiu took the opportunity to adjust his internal breath, his chest was no longer so annoying and uncomfortable, and he stepped forward and thanked: "Thank you for your help, the big thief fled from the wind." ”

Sikong Tu was overjoyed and said with a smile: "These rice buckets will only scare and scare the people, where is the real ability?" Catch up, don't let your little lady suffer. ”

Chu Jiangqiu's face turned red, and he answered, looking down and seeing Niu Er curled up on the ground, stunned, thinking that he had something important to do at this moment, and he really couldn't spare time to eat in prison, so he said: "I don't have any offenses in this person, and I ask my lord to take it lightly." ”

Sikong Tu said: "Don't worry, my brother will take care of himself!" ”

Chu Jiangqiu actually didn't know that Niu Er had the intention of stealing horses, so although he had accepted it on his behalf and ate a few boards, he didn't wronged him too much. At this time, he saw that Sikong Tu had agreed, so he put his mind at ease, said goodbye to everyone, went out to find the big black horse, and turned over on the horse's back. Thinking that not long ago, the two of them were walking together, talking and laughing, and the scenery was beautiful, but now their whereabouts are unknown, and they don't know how life and death are, so they sighed secretly in their hearts. I remember that the man called himself "Old Man of the West Sea", and that his residence must be in the west, so he identified the direction, lifted the reins, and galloped away with the electric switch.

As far as Chu Jiangqiu's eyes could see, there were large tracts of desert fields that could not be dusted. Looking farther away, there were desolate piles of sand piled up into mountains, some of which were several feet high, and the wind swept up the dust all over the ground, covering the sky.

He was alone, and he had walked in the desert for a day and a night. Although the black cloud is a divine horse, but after a few days of long-distance running, its physical strength is gradually exhausted, and it is already struggling to support, if it is brought into the desert field, it is undoubtedly asking for its life. Therefore, Chu Jiangqiu fostered it in a farmhouse, and when parting, Chu Jiangqiu reluctantly patted its thin forehead - there was a white path in the middle of the forehead, which was its symbol - and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely bring your master back!" Heiyun was quite human, as if he understood his words, nodded his head, and left with the farmer silently, and when he turned around, Chu Jiangqiu seemed to see the tears in his eyes.

Leaving the black clouds, Chu Jiangqiu has another meaning. After he rescued Bai Qian, he brought her to find the black cloud, and at that time, the two of them would be reunited after the catastrophe, wouldn't it be another joy? Every time Chu Jiangqiu thought of this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a shallow smile. But this smile was like a sigh that couldn't be kept from Chao Luchen, and after a while, it quietly slipped off his face, replaced by a heavy thought: "Where was she taken?" ”

Along the way, he asked more than a dozen people where is the "West Sea"? However, this place is almost thousands of miles away from the sea, and a trip to it is like learning from the west, and there is not even a decent lake, let alone a "sea". Chu Jiangqiu still refused to give up, and kept looking for the west until the grass and trees were thinning, and his feet finally stepped into the desert field covered with yellow sand.

When the next day dawned, Chu Jiangqiu had already run in the desert for a day and a night. Since he was five years old, his father first washed with iron vinegar potion, and asked him to wear an iron hat every day and wear iron boots to learn to jump, so the body is full of true qi.

Chu Jiangqiu took a few deep breaths, his spirit was greatly lifted, and he hurried forward for a while, and by the glimmer of the morning light, he suddenly found that there seemed to be a line of shallow footprints on the sand.

Chu Jiangqiu was overjoyed, he bent down and took a closer look, sure enough, it was a person's footprints, separated by a few feet, this person took a big step, but after all, he still left traces on the yellow sand. Chu Jiangqiu raised his head and thanked the heavens, thinking: "I hope this is what Qiao Xihai left, it turns out that the West Sea is the Sand Sea, no matter how high his martial arts are, he has one person on his back, and he can't step on the sand without a trace after all." After a while, he thought, "Why is there only one line of footprints...... Yes, those three seemed to have low martial arts, although they called him uncle, they would not be treated well by him in the future, so they left them. ”

At this time, he was trapped in the sea of sand, calling the heavens and the earth not spiritual, and there was a little desert hope in his heart, that is, this line of footprints was indeed left by Qiao Xihai, so unconsciously, he was thinking about it. The wind and sand here are very large, and the footprints are clearly recognizable, so it should be not far from leaving. Chu Jiangqiu finished thinking about it, shook his spirits, didn't stop for a moment, and took a big step to catch up.

The desert was extremely cold at night, and it was extremely hot in the middle of the day, Chu Jiangqiu ran for a long time, and was so dizzy that he was roasted by the sun overhead, and he could barely open his eyes, so he took out a water bag and poured two mouthfuls of water, only then did he feel a little sober. At this awakening, I found that the footprints had become very faint, far away towards an abandoned earthen city in the distance.

His heart tightened, and he quietly walked towards this earthen city, looking at it was obviously in front of him, but this walk, it was half a day, and when he finally arrived at the city, it was dusk and the moon was up. I saw that it was almost all made of local loess, standing for hundreds of years, unable to withstand the erosion of wind and rain, the wall decayed, in disrepair, and has long ceased to be majestic, but only a few remaining walls are enough to block the wind and waves.

Chu Jiangqiu quietly turned around the two tall walls, and accidentally took a look at an old man who was sitting on the ground in the city. I saw that he was old and thin, his cheeks were deep-set, his beard was like silver hair, and half of his face was thickly covered, and the remaining half of his face was also full of surprise, his eyes widened, and Chu Jiangqiu looked at each other for a moment, and suddenly asked, "You, who are you?" "He didn't speak very fluently, as if he hadn't spoken to anyone for a long time.

Chu Jiangqiu saw that it was not the one called "Uncle Qiao", so he first put his mind at ease, and when he saw that he was old, he replied respectfully: "Old man, boy Chu Jiangqiu, I want to ......"

He wanted to ask Ming the path to the West Sea, so as not to wander around in the desert and get lost, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by the old man: "What do you think, you must be trying to steal my food, aren't you?" ”

When he said this, Chu Jiangqiu realized that there was really a big cauldron in front of him, and there was a fire underneath, and it was gurgling inside, and he didn't know what was cooking, and a smell of umami filled the air, making people salivate. There was firewood under the pot, and there were some piles of wood next to it, all of which were dead poplar trees nearby, which had already dried to the core, and were the best materials. It seems that what Chu Jiangqiu broke into by mistake is this old man's "home" in the desert.

Chu Jiangqiu smiled secretly in his heart, he was indeed a little hungry in his stomach, but even if he was not good, he would not go to the point of grabbing an old homeless man's food, so he explained: "No, I just need to ......"

The old man didn't pay attention to him, as soon as he leaned over and picked up the pot, the water in the pot was boiling, and it was bubbling with white gas, he was not afraid, he hid behind the earthen wall with the pot, his steps were extremely fast, he jumped and jumped, and he was extremely handy, Chu Jiangqiu only felt that there was a flower in front of him, and he disappeared.

Chu Jiangqiu saw the appearance of him grasping the iron pot and his light footwork, and suddenly remembered someone in his mind, and shouted in a lost voice: "You are Jin Laotong's senior!" ”

He said that Jin Laotong, is the first apprentice of Sichuan Qingcheng Mountain Zhenwu Guansonghe Zhenren, after Yicheng went down the mountain, and his wife Chen Bijun together called "unparalleled, male and female", in one or two decades, across the rivers and lakes, fighting all over Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi provinces without resistance, broke a lot of fame. In particular, Jin Laotong's stunt "Hundred Tribulations and Thousands of Lives", is elusive, ruthless, and accustomed to locking and closing the opponent's moves. However, although the two have high martial arts, they have a perverse temperament, and they often act arbitrarily and arbitrarily. Therefore, the martial arts people in the northwest provinces, when they heard the name of "unequaled and unmatched, male and female", few people were happy, and most of them frowned and shook their heads, shouting bad luck, and avoiding them, and some people even secretly called them "lawless, male and female".

It was only twenty years ago that the two husbands and wives inexplicably disappeared together, and no one has seen them since, as if they had never been seen in the world. For a while, there were many words, some said that they were designed by a powerful opponent, and the two were killed at the same time overnight; Some say that they were tired of the vendetta in the martial arts, and went out to sea to become a pair of fairy couples on a small island in the extreme east; There are also conclusive words, the Tao is to see them give birth to children and daughters, and then their temperament changed greatly, and they don't want to be contaminated with grievances and grievances on the rivers and lakes anymore, so they live in seclusion in the mountains, and no longer ask about the world. All of this, inconsistently, has been passed on with interest for a few years, and slowly no one remembers the former "unparalleled, male and female".

Chu Jiangqiu remembered that when he was a child, when he heard adults talk about their miraculous deeds, he was just sensible, but the names such as "Jin Laotong", "Hundred Tribulations and Thousands of Lives", and "Male and Female" had already been firmly remembered in his little mind, and now the characters in his memory suddenly appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help but be stunned, and couldn't help but exclaim.

This old man is indeed Jin Laotong, but after hearing his name, he frowned and pondered, muttering to himself: "Who is Jin Laotong?" Who is Jin Laotong? It seemed that this was a person he knew very well and was very close to, but he couldn't think of anything. It was as if there were always some vague traces in front of him, teasing him, but as long as he reached out to grab it, he suddenly fled without a trace, and he could no longer be found.

Chu Jiangqiu already knew a little in his heart at this time, this martial arts monster who once crisscrossed the rivers and lakes must have experienced great changes in his life, so that he became upside down, sometimes sober and sometimes confused. And I can't even remember my own name from the past.

Chu Jiangqiu knew that he was Jin Laotong, so it was inconvenient to disturb him anymore, so he said loudly: "Senior Jin, I'm leaving, I'm leaving!" After that, he deliberately made some noises, and strode away from Tucheng, not knowing where to go, just blindly moving forward.