Volume 2 A Dream in Huangzhou Chapter 11 Overnight at the Mountain Temple
After worshipping the mountain god, the group officially began to climb the mountain.
can only say that fortunately, the mountain is really not so steep, and there is still a road left by the predecessors, otherwise those scholars would really be finished.
Still, there were a few people who couldn't stand it anymore, and although they couldn't avoid being laughed at, they still chose to let the merchants put their bookcases on the goods pulled by donkeys.
After losing the bookcase, they are really a lot more relaxed, which Zhu Chuyu also feels.
In fact, his body is not bad, but it is not bad, it has nothing to do with being good, and he is already tired after so many days.
However, he seems to have climbed mountains often in the past, and Qin Zi has also learned martial arts for a long time now, looking at his movements and postures, the postures he uses are very clever to save physical strength while achieving the most relaxed posture.
This made him even more suspicious of this kid's identity, thinking that he could see at a glance that his shoes were caused by walking a long mountain road, and it seemed that this kid was not the kind of scholar who nested in a small town to study.
However, he didn't care as much as he did at the beginning, first, he had already figured out that this guy was almost certainly a mortal, and the possibility of hiding his strength was extremely small.
On the other hand, after getting along in the past few days, while Zhu Chuyu understands him, he also almost understands Zhu Chuyu as a person, no matter how special he is, his heart is definitely not bad, which depends on people's self-confidence, Qin Zi still has it.
After all, he doesn't look at people by experience alone, but he can observe more and more nuanced knowledge.
It's far away, come back to them.
The road to the mountain is destined to be boring, and what is even more boring is that, as Zhang Biao said, they did not encounter any danger along the way.
Sure enough, in this story,The protagonist is going to encounter something as soon as he walks the mountain road.,It's either a bandit or a monster.,That kind of plot is deliberately set up by unscrupulous authors in order to promote the development of the plot.,How can this kind of plot happen in real reality?,Don't underestimate the consciousness of our reality author.Kora!
Well, then there's not much to talk about along the way.
Boring time always passes quickly.
Zhu Chuyu was frightened for a whole day, and finally Qin Zi couldn't stand it anymore and told him that there was really a mountain god on this mountain, and then he relaxed a little.
Alas, it can only be said that sometimes knowing too much, but not having the ability is the most painful, but like other scholars, although they are very tired from climbing the mountain, they don't feel so much, they all take what Zhang Biao said at the bottom of the mountain as a joke.
The only thing that surprised them a little was that Zhang Biao didn't seem to be serious about not letting them leave the team alone, even if someone wanted to go to the toilet, the whole team had to stop and wait, and someone had to accompany them.
At that time, Zhu Chuyu didn't know that the mountain god was real, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to show it, and he showed it to Qin Zi.
Regardless, they were safe and sound along the way.
After walking for a long time, Zhang Biao suddenly smiled and said to them:
"There's the mountain temple ahead, can we rest over there?"
In fact, everyone is still a little puzzled, why do they want to stay overnight in the mountain temple?
After Zhang Biao's explanation, they finally knew.
It turned out that in the past, the bandit forces in Taiwu Mountain were rampant, and this area was included in the jurisdiction.
However, there are few bandits and the ruling area is very large, but they are too lazy to patrol every day, and only occupy a few official roads, so from time to time someone will sneak over the mountain from here.
The place where the bandits are raging must not be able to open a post station, and those mountain climbers have chosen to spend the night in the mountain temple, and for a long time, the people who have climbed the mountain have chosen to spend the night in the mountain temple.
After all, as long as you can get out in one day and one night, there is no need to build a post station, in case one day the bandits come over, it will have to be finished.
After listening to Zhang Biao's explanation, all the scholars expressed their understanding.
Sure enough, as he said, he didn't go far to reach the mountain temple.
This mountain temple is actually not small, and a team of people like them is estimated to be able to live in another team, of course, under the condition of putting the salute outside.
These merchants were apparently frequent visitors, and had long been familiar with the road, and sent a few men to lead the horses, and then a few others went out together to collect firewood.
Before leaving, Zhang Biao kept telling him not to separate, which made several people laugh, but he didn't refuse, thinking that Zhang Biao seemed to be like this every time he came.
"Brother Zhang is good everywhere, but he is a little broken-mouthed, he is not a child anymore, can he still lose it along the road?"
Qin Zi heard the muttering of the porter next to him, and said in his heart that it was true, Zhang Biao was lost alone when he was on the mountain in the past, and he encountered something.
As for whether he met it when he was with the merchants or with his master, Qin Zi didn't know.
From the very beginning, those merchant porters did not expect any help from these scholars, who "do not touch the spring water with their fingers".
Although in fact, many scholars must have often helped their families with things, but they didn't have much experience on this mountain, so they didn't dare to let them go out and run around, so they let them stay in the temple first.
Qin Zi was self-conscious, and he happily followed a few other scholars into the mountain temple, and he was not worried about what the mountain god would think if he had just had a conflict with someone else, and he was going to sleep in someone's temple.
It's just that when Qin Zi entered the temple, he found that there was no need to worry about these things.
He was a little speechless, these people are really strange, they can worship the mountain god in front of a big tree stump, but no one is willing to repair the mountain temple.
Yes, I didn't find it from the outside, this mountain temple is extremely dilapidated, and the roof is broken in several places, and no one has repaired it.
What's more, there is basically nothing in this temple except for the incense burner in front of the mountain god statue and the statue, and if you want to burn incense, you have to bring your own incense.
However, Qin Zi can understand this.
Among these people, it is estimated that there are very few people who really believe in the mountain god, and if there is anything in the mountain temple, eighty percent will be taken by pedestrians, or simply burned as firewood.
For sleeping in this kind of place, a few scholars unexpectedly didn't have much opinion, although there must still be opinions, but they are not so big.
It seems that the experience of rushing in the past few days has still sharpened their edges and corners.
Of course, in fact, there are many people who have suffered similar hardships before, only those scholars from small landlords' families, who have really not suffered much, and their progress can be clearly seen in the past few days.
Now that there is nothing to do, Qin Zi simply looked around and looked at this mountain temple.
The statue of the mountain god has been broken, and it can be vaguely seen that it should have been plated with copper or something, but it was scraped by someone.
Suddenly, he remembered something, and his mind moved, and he asked Mu Mu.
"Mumu, is this temple from that guy just now?"
Mu Mu seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then a sweet voice sounded in Qin Zi's mind.
"No, this temple doesn't have an owner, and you're so stupid, childe, this statue is obviously a person, but that one was a monster just now!"
"Huh?"
Qin Zi was stunned for a moment, in this way, Mu Mu did say something similar just now, the mountain god here is actually a monster?
He suddenly remembered what Elder Shen had told him, millions of years had passed since the Demon War, and now the difference between demon cultivation and human cultivation was actually very small.
So looking at it this way, it seems quite normal that there is a demon clan in Taiwu Mountain who cultivates the Incense Fire Divine Dao.
It's just that it seems to be out of innate prejudice against the demon clan, and Qin Zi has always been difficult to connect the mellow and deep voice just now with the demon clan.
Maybe in his eyes, the demon clan should laugh "unruly".
But he thought about it again, in a way, Mu Mu can also be considered a demon, although she has now become a wonderful creature similar to a sword spirit.
Thinking about it this way, his prejudice against the demon clan seems to be much better.
But then again, this mountain god is really interesting, he can actually allow his territory to have a temple of other people, and the most interesting thing is that it is also a mountain temple.
No, maybe he can also take away the incense of this temple, so that this temple can be allowed to exist.
Just when he was thinking nonsense, Zhu Chuyu began to make a mess again.
It seems that he just burned incense and was not addicted, and when he was outside, he asked the merchants for some more, and he actually wanted to worship again when he brought it in.
Seeing his "pious" look, Qin Zi looked a little funny.
This guy is real, to some extent, for the sake of profit, unscrupulous means, Qin Zi estimates that if he really puts the immortals, he can be useful, this kid is afraid that he will not worship all the immortals he knows.
After saluting decently, he actually came to Qin Zi's side.
"Brother Qin, why don't you go and worship too, I heard from people outside that the mountain gods here are very spiritual!"
Qin Zi was sure that this kid worshipped so seriously, eighty percent because he told him that the mountain gods here were real.
He held the book and looked at it casually, and said without looking back:
"I won't go, there are not many people in this world who can bear my incense."
This is indeed the case, he may have worshiped the ancestor of the Falling Sword Sect in his life, but he was a dead man, and he didn't accept incense, and when he worshipped the saint of the human race later, the other party seemed to confiscate it.
Zhu Chuyu thought that he was pretending to be forced again, and just wanted to say a few perfunctory words casually, but saw that Qin Zi had raised his head at some point, and looked at him with a mocking smile.
"Moreover, how do you know that the mountain god you worship is the mountain god here?"
Zhu Chuyu blinked: "......???!!! ”
"Can it still be like this?"
"That's right, the mountain god of this temple is only set up by people, and the mountain god himself didn't agree."
"it!" Zhu Chuyu was startled, and hurriedly ran back to the incense burner, taking advantage of the fact that several other people were not paying attention, he cut off the few sticks of incense that he had just inserted, and then turned his head and asked Qin Zi with an unlucky face:
"Is that okay?"
saw Qin Zi smile mysteriously again:
"Then I didn't say it, the pillar of incense you just burned, the mountain god can't receive it!"
Qin Zi said with an innocent face, which made Zhu Chuyu almost believe it.
Just looking at his expression like eating a fly, it is estimated that he will not talk to Qin Zi for a while.
That's fine, he's happy to be quiet.
……
The people who went out to collect firewood soon returned, and there was no one missing.
In fact, nothing happened all night, but Zhu Chuyu was a little nervous, and pulled Qin Zi to ask if the mountain god master would blame, looking at him like that, it is estimated that he will not be able to sleep well all night.
……
In the early morning of the second day, Qin Zi got up early in the morning as usual, holding a book and reading it.
This time, what he read was not a famous book, but some miscellaneous books, even if he read it himself, it was for Mu Mu.
After waiting for a while, almost everyone got up, and after a few days of traveling, few people would sleep lazy, after all, if they didn't do well, they would have to walk under the sun at noon.
It's just that this time there was an accident on the road.
Before the group had gone far, Qin Zi's nose suddenly moved, he didn't speak, and continued to follow the team forward.
After not taking a few steps, Zhang Biao suddenly motioned for everyone to stop, and said with a solemn face:
"It smells of blood!"