Seeing that Ji Que put away this ominous paper statue, Lin Xiangzhi couldn't help but worry: "You are very interested in this thing?" ”

Ji Que nodded and said, "I have a relationship with her." ”

After that, he told Lin Xiangzhi what he had encountered in the Song Mansion again.

In fact, he had reported this matter to Lin Xiangzhi before, but it was not as detailed as this time.

After Lin Xiangzhi listened, he was surprised: "Last time you said it too casually, I only remembered the big-bellied paper man and the big-ass senior sister, I didn't expect there to be such a follow-up." ”

"But you are carrying this thing, do you want to find fault?"

Ji Que hurriedly denied: "No, how dare you, have you ever seen a mortal go to the trouble of a god?" ”

Lin Xiangzhi shook his head and said, "I used to think that no one would dare, but now I think there is, and there is more than one." ”

"Who?"

"You, Ning Hongyu, and the honest Venerable who is still lying on the bed."

At this time, Lin Xiangzhi came back to his senses and muttered, "I just discovered that there are actually three iron-headed babies hidden in this small demon subdivision building at the same time. ”

According to Ji Que's speculation, Master Lu's concubine should have had a problem before she got married.

She put the red cloth over the idol, did she want the idol to marry her?

It can only be said that Master Lu is so blessed, if this little concubine was really replaced by this god at that time, then wouldn't he be in the cave room with a god that night?

This is Dong Yong alive, which makes people envious.

Merely......

When he took another look at the paper man, he thought it was still too ugly, no, to be precise, too terrifying.

He couldn't make it anyway.

It can be seen that the Lu family has great respect for Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi, and the carriage that sent them was sent dozens of miles outside the town before going back.

The second young master of the Lu family had a similar idea to the one-eyed Qinglong monk, and wanted to form a good relationship with people like Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi, and by the way, see if there was a way to cure his father.

After all, my father was completely unconscious from that night.

And Ji Que didn't think about this at all, because he was really not good at saving people.

If you have to be more serious, even if a good person like Master Lu doesn't faint, I'm afraid he will be knocked out by a righteous person.

Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi actually have a map on their trip this time.

It's just that the place they went to was too far away, and the map was very rudimentary, so it quickly became invalid.

After leaving Xilin Town, it ushered in the scene of barren smoke and vines.

Later, even the road became narrower and narrower, until it was completely flooded with wild grass.

They entered no man's land.

Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi couldn't help but have a feeling that there might not be a living person in this realm for many years.

And as they walked in it, they seemed very small, as if they would swallow up the wilderness as they walked, and there would not be even a bone left.

This kind of loneliness was something they hadn't encountered on their previous journeys, because at that time, they could occasionally see people.

And now, it is the sixth day since they left Xilin Town, and they haven't seen anyone.

Ji Que was fortunate to be with Lin Xiangzhi, if he didn't have the company of this beautiful cat-eared lady, he really didn't know how to solve this sense of loneliness.

"Hiccup."

At this time, Ji Que couldn't help but burp.

You say that there is not a single highlight of this desolate journey, and that is not either, at least they ate a lot of game.

Because of Ji Que's luck, wild boars, black bears, pythons and other wild animals often come to sneak attack, so they naturally became the source of food for Ji Que and Lin Xiangori.

The most outrageous time was that Ji Que and Lin Xiangweaving slept in one place, but when they woke up the next day, they found a pair of bear paws, followed the bloodstains, and then found a cave.

There was also a dead bear inside.

The bear had several broken bones in his chest and several fist marks on his body, which was obviously killed by Ji Que in his dream.

What touched Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi the most was that they actually found a jar of honey in this cave.

That "jar" is actually a hard husk.

Obviously, the honey was the savings of the dead bear.

Now that the bear is dead, this honey can't be wasted.

Although he got honey, Ji Que still felt a little outrageous, and couldn't help but look at Lin Xiangzhi and said, "That's how you sentry?" ”

Lin Xiangzhi was a little embarrassed and said, "I was too sleepy last night. ”

was so trapped that a bear sneak attacked and was killed by Ji Que, and she didn't even notice it?

Hayashi had begun to doubt herself if she was a cat after all.

After that, the two naturally ate bear paws.

The bear has four palms, but when it comes to taste, only one forepaw is the fattest and delicious.

Because the bear has to go into the hole to hibernate after winter, and on the eve of hibernation, there is nothing else to eat, so he has to lick his forepaw, because of this, the forepaw meat is particularly plump.

However, there is only one of the forepaws of a pair of tasty paws, and it is said that in addition to licking one paw in the hibernation hole, the bear has to use the other palm against its anus, so the forepaw blocking the "exit" has a faint smell.

This knowledge was naturally told to him by Lin Xiangzhi, the former eldest lady of the Lin family, after all, Ji Que had never eaten such a high-level thing.

And what he cut off happened to be a pair of bear's forepaws, and Lin Xiangzhi distinguished it and determined that the left side was only the essence of the bear's paws.

The bear's paw is very thick, and when the fur is removed, the plump flesh is revealed.

One person and one cat live while building a pot.

Soon, this bear's paw was divided into two, half boiled in soup and half roasted, which can be described as "one palm and two eats".

When roasting, in order to make it more flavorful, Hayashi Kaori poked many holes in the bear's paw with a sword, and then coated it with the newly obtained honey.

Soon, when the flame was a little bigger, the grease spilling from the bear's paw made a crackling sound, and the fragrance of burning cypress wood made people appetize just by smelling it.

When the skin of the bear's paw was roasted to a golden brown, and the fat mixed with honey flowed on it, Ji Que and Lin Xiangori couldn't help but eat it.

After biting down on this bite, Ji Que only felt that his whole person was glowing.

"Bear's paw is amazing!"

Lin Xiangzhi didn't have time to speak, so she just cared about eating.

After eating the piping hot roasted bear's paw, it is naturally a bowl of fragrant bear's paw soup.

As a whole bear paw entered the stomach, a person and a cat couldn't help but let out a soft sigh of satisfaction.

Fortunately, the extra meals from time to time at this time eased their sense of loneliness a little.

On the endless journey of finding his way, Ji Que couldn't help but think that if there was no fire in this world, it would be too terrible.

The firelight brings warmth, and it can also bring them the taste of fireworks in the world for a short time.

It's just that most of the time, this person and the cat still feel desolate and lonely, and they can't wait to stick together to seek comfort.

They walked like this, only in a general direction, and they couldn't remember the time.

Ji Que vaguely remembered that this should be the fifteenth day after they left Xilin Town, Lin Xiangzhi suddenly saw half a stone tablet among the barren grass, and said in surprise: "What is that." ”

Ji Que walked over, only to see a few words of Mohu engraved on the stone tablet, and suddenly his spirit was shocked, and he said, "It's a grave!" It's a dead man's grave! ”

"Grave!" Lin Xiangori's eyes lit up.

After that, the man and the cat jumped for joy in front of the grave.

If there is a grave, it means that there are people, and this means that they have finally walked through that large uninhabited wilderness.

At this moment, Ji Que deeply felt that the analogy was right.

The world is so desolate that the towns and villages inhabited by humans are like isolated islands scattered across the sea, and it is like a sea voyage to get from one place to another, and the road is full of mysterious unknowns and desolation.

Sure enough, continuing to walk along the graves one by one, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi found a small town.

This town is called "Linshan Town", which is very dilapidated, but it is inhabited after all.

Linshan Town is very closed, and after Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi came, they attracted the attention of many townspeople.

There is no such town on the map at all, neither the yamen nor the inn.

It's more of a larger village than a town.

The reason why Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi came to such a remote place was because they wanted to go to Changxuguan to find out the news.

It is in this direction that the long void is viewed.

But Ji Que inquired and found that the people here only knew about Qinghan Mountain, but they didn't know about Changxuguan.

And the information given by Ning Hongyu is that Changxuguan is in Qinghan Mountain.

Qinghanshan said that it was big, and it was not small to say that it was small, and this aimless search was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

It stands to reason that in order for Taoist temples to survive, even if they don't need the incense money of ordinary people, those Taoists still have to live, and they should also have some contact with people outside.

And only this Linshan town in this area is still populated, and the nearby villages have long been abandoned for various reasons.

It wasn't until they found a goddess in this town that Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi knew the location of Changxuguan.

This goddess is very old, blind, and her legs are inconvenient, but because she can drive away evil spirits and save people, she has a high status in the town and is very respected.

She is lukewarm to Ji Que and two foreigners, and her grandson also looks like he is above the top.

Until Lin Xiangzhi stuffed a large ingot of silver into her hand, she pinched it, and bit it with the only three remaining teeth in her mouth, her face changed in an instant, and she hurriedly said: "Grandson, hurry up and serve tea, serve good tea!" ”

Located on a hill to the west of the town, not far from the town, Changxuguan has a poor reputation in the town because it is indeed in a state of seclusion.

The goddess remembered that a few decades ago, there were Taoists who would occasionally come to the town to buy some things, but later, those Taoists did not even go down the mountain, and they were isolated from the world.

If it weren't for Ji Que mentioning it, I'm afraid that the old natives would have forgotten that there was such a place.

"Remember, it's in that col."

With her long memory, the goddess gave such an answer.

In order to end this matter as soon as possible, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi only rested in the town for one night before setting off.

The Taoist temple is in the mountains, and the road is not easy to walk.

No, to be exact, there is no road.

Some of the mud tunnels in the past have been submerged in the grass as the years have passed.

The so-called "looking at the mountain and running a dead horse", the col mentioned by the goddess does not seem to be far away, but it is another matter to walk.

Along the way, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi could clearly feel that there were more poisonous snakes around them.

They had only been walking for an hour and a half, and had already killed nine vipers that wanted to attack them, and had eaten four.

Finally, in the afternoon, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi finally found the Taoist temple in the mountain.

The Taoist temple is located in the middle of the mountain forest, with mottled red walls and a lot of fallen leaves piled up on the black tiles, which looks very old.

It's a little bigger than Ji Que imagined.

The mountain gate of the Taoist temple is open, and it looks quite secluded in the mountains and forests.

The plaque hanging on the lintel of the view is dark and black, and the three words "long beard view" on it are a little confused, giving people a kind of decaying atmosphere of the years.

The sunlight is shining on it, and it seems to be a lot deserted.

Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi tidied up their appearance and walked to the view.

Walking through the mountain gate, there is a courtyard.

In the center of the courtyard stands a two-person high stone furnace, and two stone cranes are withered at the corners of the furnace.

If it weren't for the fact that a lot of fallen leaves had been piled up in this courtyard, exuding a musty smell, this Taoist temple would still have a bit of a dusty fairy smell.

After the courtyard is the main hall of the Taoist temple, the top of the main hall is hollow, in the form of a patio, the sunlight is slanted down, so that most of the temple is bathed in sunlight, and does not appear dim.

A statue of a celestial statue about three feet tall stood there.

Strangely, this statue has no head, or only a chin.

The beard carved in stone under the chin is long, like a waterfall, almost to the knees of the statue.

"Long virtual view, long virtual view, is it taken from the meaning of "long beard", indicating that the beard of the enshrined Tianzun is very long? ”

Ji Que thought like this, but still didn't see a Taoist.

"Anyone?" Lin Xiangzhi couldn't help but ask.

Her voice quickly echoed in the temple, a little frightening.

A moment later, a little sweeping sound sounded in the back of the hall, which was a response to them.

Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi walked through the main hall and soon saw a Taoist with a broom in hand.

The Taoist man stood under a mulberry tree like a canopy, and his blue robe was very elegant and clean, but the first thing you noticed at a glance was his beard.

His beard is long, almost knee-high, so at first glance you always feel like he's sweeping the floor with his beard and broom.

At the same time, the Taoist is very thin, giving the illusion that all the essence of his body has been absorbed by the beard.

At this time, after the Taoist saw Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi, he couldn't help but give a salute and said, "It's difficult for a distinguished guest to visit Xiaoguan, may I ask what happened to the two laymen?" ”

Ji Que immediately replied with a salute and said respectfully: "Ask the master Chen Li about some things." ”

The long-bearded Taoist said gently: "It's Chen Li." ”

After walking through the barren mountains and forests for more than half a month, and finding the right person in this deep mountain and old forest, Ji Que and Lin Xiangzhi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

It has to be said that in the era of no navigation, it is not easy to find the right place and person.

A man and a cat were quickly ushered into a room.

There are only a few futons and a few scriptures in the room, which should be the place where Taoists usually meditate and practice.

So the three of them sat on the ground like this.

"May I ask what the two laymen asked?"

Ji Que looked at the thin Taoist and replied, "I want to ask about a tree?" ”

"A tree?"

"Ginseng fruit tree."

These four words seemed to have a magical power, and Ji Que noticed that when he said these four words, the eyes of the originally kind-looking Taoist suddenly became much deeper, like a bottomless dry well.