The night was dark, and the smell of food floating in the air was strong.

The ordinary woman next to her carried the unique smell of cheap clothes after being scrubbed by cheap soap, which was even stronger.

The people in the middle passage who were in the late stage of building the foundation suddenly felt a little difficult to breathe, as if the gas was blocked into a bead in the throat, and they couldn't spit it out or swallow it.

He turned his head to look at the woman, trying to restrain the twitching of the corners of his mouth.

Should he tell her?

Of course not, not even the question itself should be in his mind.

But looking at the hazy light in the woman's somewhat cloudy eyes, feeling her heavy worry and nervousness as if she had a lifetime, the person in the middle passage froze.

The light in the woman's eyes was like two unparalleled swords, piercing his heart and digging out what he had buried in his heart for a long time, and was about to forget...... That box.

How many years ago was that?

It has been forty years since I established Zhongtongmen, so it was at least forty or fifty years ago.

At that time, he was still a spiritual guy, working in a small shop in the county, doing errands to help people deliver and pick up goods.

Oh, the name of that store seems to be called Zhongtong.

At the age of twenty, he married the daughter of the shopkeeper, and later had another daughter, and he also became a small boss in the neighborhood.

I thought that life would go on like this, until one day he took over a cultivator's business and asked him to personally escort a convoy to transport a magic weapon.

Although he didn't quite understand why the cultivator would ask a mortal for help, the reward was enough, so he took it.

Who knows, this is the beginning of a nightmare.

During the transportation, the goods were robbed, and he was seriously injured, but he saved a small life.

When he returned home after a lot of hardships, he found that his wife and daughter were being occupied by the evil young man in the county, and he went to look for the evil young theory, but found that the monk who entrusted him with the delivery was next to the evil young man.

It turned out that all this was a conspiracy of the evil youth, and in order to occupy his wife and daughter, he asked the cultivators to lure him away. And with a cultivator here, how can he, a mortal, take revenge?

Then, news of his wife's death came out - his wife, unwilling to be humiliated, committed suicide by throwing herself into a well with her daughter.

After learning the news, the people of Zhongdao sold the entire shop, left with all the money, and trekked through mountains and rivers to visit Xianmen.

But he was already in his twenties, and he had long lost hope of cultivation, and even the Jiupin Sect looked down on him.

The money was exhausted and cheated, and he fell in the mud of the mountain road in the pouring rain, feeling that death had overtaken him.

However, he did not die, and when he woke up, he found that he had fallen off a cliff and was lucky enough to fall into a cave.

In the cave, he found a fragment of his cultivation with a great sense of fate.

There are only two words left on the cover: "Ten Thousand Miles".

In any case, he grabbed the last straw and practiced the aura hard.

Three years later, he returned to his hometown and slaughtered the evil young man and the cultivator he had done three years earlier.

Later, after spending another year in prison, Bai Yujing found out the truth and released him from prison.

After he was released from prison, he was advised to reopen the shop, but he refused, because there was no longer his wife and daughter in his hometown, so what was the point of staying here?

So he left his hometown again, traveled while practicing, and finally established Zhongtongmen outside Qinghe County.

The word Zhongtong can be regarded as a kind of festival.

……

Madame Chu didn't know that the people of the Middle Passage were experiencing a war between heaven and man at the moment, and in fact, she didn't care about anything else.

Chu Banshan went out to buy vegetables early in the morning, Chu Yingying patrolled, and the father and daughter went out early.

At first, Mrs. Chu didn't think there was anything wrong, and it was not impossible for Chu Banshan to fool around for a day under the pretext of going out.

It wasn't until dinner time that even Chu Yingying didn't come back, and Mrs. Chu felt that something was wrong.

Preparing the meal, I went out to ask the butcher who sold meat, only to know that I hadn't seen Chu Banshan at all in the morning.

Mrs. Chu was a little worried, she didn't care about anything, and hurriedly went to find Chu Banshan's brothers on weekdays, but they had never seen Chu Banshan!

even found the yamen, and the shift change was quick to say that Chu Yingying had finished patrolling and went home as early as the shift change time.

Mrs. Chu was completely panicked.

In the following time, she ran almost the entire Qinghe County around, but found nothing.

The woman's eyes wept and dried.

This was the third time she had walked through the street, and she had seen pedestrians two days before, but this time she had not seen a single figure.

Except, the old Taoist priest who suddenly appeared in front of him.

However, for some reason, the thoughts in this Taoist priest's eyes seemed to be farther away than his own......

I guess I don't know anything.

"Thank you."

Mrs. Chu saluted politely, turned around and prepared to look elsewhere.

"Wait, wait."

The person in the middle passage suddenly stretched out his hand and subconsciously grabbed Mrs. Chu's shoulder.

Mrs. Chu's face changed greatly, and she quickly broke free and took a few steps back, looking at the people in the middle passage with wary eyes.

The people in the middle channel knew that they were abrupt, and hurriedly said, "I...... I haven't seen the men and women you mentioned catching fast. ”

Mrs. Chu's face was hesitant, she glanced at the people in the middle passage several times, confirmed that the old Taoist priest should not have malicious intentions, a trace of loss flashed in her eyes, and she made a blessing again: "Thank you, Daoist, I will go elsewhere to look for it." ”

The person in the middle passage closed his eyes, his face struggled, sighed for a long time, looked at Mrs. Chu's eyes and said slowly: "Go to Xiaoqing Mountain in the north of the county to find the head of Xiaojiang and ask him to make a move." ”

Mrs. Chu's body stiffened, and she looked at the person in the middle passage in a daze, and she didn't understand the meaning of his words.

The man in the middle passage shook his head, waved his robe, and the breeze rose and disappeared in place.

Mrs. Chu stood stunned for a moment, until a wine shop on the side of the street opened the side door, and the sound of Xiao Er pouring dishwashing water into the alley woke him up.

"Xiaoqingguan, Xiaojiangdao ......"

Mrs. Chu didn't understand why the people in the middle channel would say this to her, but the woman's intuition told her to do what the people in the middle channel said!

She wiped her face twice, and ran towards the north gate in three steps and two steps.

……

"Miss Chu and Chu Zhutou are missing?!"

In Xiaoqingguan, Jiang Chou frowned when he heard the news.

Chonglou handed Mrs. Chu a cup of tea, sat aside, squinted her cheeks, and her eyes were shining.

Jun Jue asked, "Mrs. Chu, you said that an old Taoist priest asked you to come to Xiaoqingguan?" Who is that old Taoist? ”

Mrs. Chu took a sip with her hands on the teacup, her dry throat was finally moistened, she swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, shook her head and said, "I don't know, but he is very old and has gray hair......

Listening to Mrs. Chu's description, Jiang Chou felt that this old Taoist priest seemed to be a little similar to the one he met on the mountain road last night?

"Daoist Xiaojiang, please save my daughter!" Mrs. Chu put down the teacup and knelt on the ground at Jiang Chou, about to kowtow.

"Madame doesn't have to be like that." Jiang Chou hurriedly supported Mrs. Chu and said seriously, "Chu Zhutou and Miss Chu are in trouble, so I naturally won't give up." ”

Not to mention anything else, just that day Mrs. Chu's chopped pepper fish head, he also had to help.