Chapter 16: The Inn
The sun was slanting in the west, and he seemed to have seen the Li flag hanging on the cottage halfway up the mountain, and in front of him should be the Thumb Mountain where Wenshan was going, so he couldn't help but speed up his pace and wanted to arrive before the sun set.
As the name suggests, Wuzhi Mountain is five peaks like five fingers, but in fact, the five peaks are not under the jurisdiction of one force. They are inhabited by the Li, Miao, Zhuang, Wa, and Dai ethnic groups, and the five ethnic groups live on the five mountain peaks, and they do not interact with each other in old age and death. Among the 100,000 mountains, there are hundreds of Gus, hundreds of beasts, and hundreds of tribes, and the five tribes on the Five Finger Mountain are only one of them.
Thumb Mountain, shaped like a thumb, is the shortest of the five peaks, but it covers the most vast area and is very rich in products. Even Baiman Mountain and Daxue Mountain often come here to purchase the white berries produced in the mountains, so they are very rich, and gradually this place has become a gathering point for nearby Gu masters.
Wenshan finally arrived in front of the gate of Lijiazhai, which is different from the Miao family, and it is more quaint here. Even the front of the gate is full of old trees, and compared to Yumingdong, his gate looks a little childish, only enough for three or five people to walk side by side. A dirt road that is not wide, and is flanked by bamboo houses with cornices.
In fact, according to the legend, the Li and Miao people have an ancestor, that is, the great god of Chiyou, and the tribe of the great god of Chiyou has Jiuli also called Jiumiao, but there are only two left until now, which are the Li and Miao. Although the two ethnic groups are different, they are still the same in some customs, whether it is clothing, food, housing and transportation, there are many similarities.
Walking along the street, one book, reading, and novel xstxt is the square of Lijiazhai, unlike other cottages, the largest building is not the residence of the patriarch, but an inn, the name is very simple, called the Gushi Inn.
Wen Shan stood in front of the door and looked at the crowd on the street, some of them were mountain people returning home at sunset, and some of them were Gu masters who were mixed in. Most of them are wandering cultivators, and they are usually respected in the cottages, but their own strength is far inferior to the Gu masters in those sects, and their status is much worse.
There are not a few people in front of the Gu Master's Inn, ordinary people don't dare to disturb the Gu Master's life, in case they offend which Gu Master secretly goes to the Gu, and they don't know how to die. At this time, there was only Wenshan in front of the door, and many passers-by looked at this foreign boy sympathetically, but they didn't come to remind him that this had something to do with the living habits of the Li people, and they had always been very xenophobic.
Finding that there was nothing unusual on the street, and he couldn't find the location of the Gu set, Wen Shan strode up to the inn. The inn was very ordinary, just one counter, six tables, and a few people were eating the food on the table, and they looked up when they saw someone coming in.
"This is the place to entertain Gu masters, young man, you go out. "In addition to the customers, there is only one owner in the store, named Li Fa, a lean man in his forties, with dark skin and no smile.
He was specially assigned here by the patriarch of Lijiazhai, and he was a cook and a shopkeeper on weekdays. Although he was called the boss, he had to remember to be a man with his tail between his legs, no Gu master was something he could provoke, and he could exert his might on ordinary mountain people, so when he saw a young man appear in front of him, his first thought was not anger, but some excitement.
"How do you know I'm not a Gu Master?" Wen Shan smiled and asked rhetorically.
Li Fa was stunned for a moment, laughed loudly, and several Gu masters who were eating also put down their dishes and chopsticks and looked at the two of them with interest, "If you are a Gu master, I am the ancestor of Baiman Mountain, go to me and let me out." ”
In Wen Shan's eyes, Li Fa was gearing up, as if he was going to teach himself a lesson as long as he didn't meet his expectations, this kind of contemptuous look was what he hated, "Get out!"
This sound was exhaled using Gu force, and even the pedestrians on the streets of Lijiazhai were shocked, and Li Fa only felt that the darkness in front of him fell straight up.
Wen Shan didn't even look at him, and casually found a table and made it next to him. He didn't want to kill people, he just wanted to teach this innkeeper who looked down on people a lesson, otherwise he would have planted a Gu worm a long time ago to ensure that he couldn't survive and die.
The other Gu masters in the inn were also shocked, they didn't expect this to be the result, and their eyes looking at Wen Shan also became vigilant, and they all guessed that he was a disciple of a great force. They are just ordinary casual cultivators, and their strength is not very strong, otherwise they would not have used this Gu Master Inn to buy a property in Lijiazhai as early as possible.
When such people meet people who are not as good as themselves, they like to suppress and mock, and as soon as they find that they are not as good as others, they are honest, so they quietly watch Wenshan sit down, and there is not even a single one who is upset with Li Fa.
On the opposite side of Wenshan was a young Gu master in his twenties, dressed in a neat robe, without a trace of wrinkles, but it was very much in line with the image of a noble Gu master in the hearts of the mountain people.
At this time, his lips opened slightly, he didn't know what to say, he was originally a person who could speak well, and he also won the nickname of "know-it-all" among the Gu masters who were scattered around him, but his own strength was insufficient, and he didn't even have the realm of Xintong, just a little Gu master in the Gu Cheng realm, Wen Shan could easily know what he was thinking through the ability of Xintong. A situation like his is also the situation of most Gu masters in the 100,000 Great Mountains, and after Gu is completed, there is no follow-up practice so that he can't advance an inch.
"Are you still pretending to be dead?" Wen Shan took out a bamboo chopstick from the chopstick holder on the table, there was not the slightest greasy on it, and he could clearly see the texture of the bamboo, and threw it casually.
The bamboo chopsticks smashed on Li Fa's face, and then fell on the wooden floor with a crisp sound.
Li Fa woke up from his panic, remembered what had just happened, looked at Wen Shan in fear, and slapped his mouth twice, "The villain should be damned, he has eyes and doesn't know Yulong Mountain, I hope the adult can spare the villain's life." ”
"Don't look down on people in the future. Wen Shan said in a tone of lesson.
"Yes, yes......" Li Fa hurriedly nodded in agreement.
"I'm hungry, go get me something to eat. Seeing Li Fa admit his mistake, Wenshan was not embarrassed, he was really hungry, and after walking for nearly a day, a few wild fruits could not be satisfied at all.
"The villain will go and get it. When Li Fa heard this, he was pardoned and trotted all the way into the back kitchen. Today is his fault first, even if Wenshan kills him, Li Jiazhai will not pursue it, it is impossible to offend a Gu master for an ordinary person.