115: Canyon Ghost Market
At night, it started to rain.
The rain was not heavy, fluttering wet the tile, gathered into water droplets, dripping and falling in the soil under the eaves, a small four-legged snake, jumped in front of the small puddle, climbed up the wall, and drilled under the eaves, and there was a little Taoist boy reading in the house.
The content of the book is exactly the cultivation experience compiled by Lou Jinchen.
In another room, Lou Jinchen, Guan Zhu, and Shang Gui'an sat there, and the three lights in the room were shining.
"If you want to go, I won't stop you, with your cultivation as the realm, there is nothing to say to you, but there is one point, I still have to tell you, don't be strong in everything, go to the Five Visceral Hall to sit and sit, the last time I wrote to ask if there was a Taoist temple of the Five Visceral God Sect in Haijiao, the sect replied to me and said no, but I think our Five Visceral God Sect is still very good." The Spectator said.
"Lord, your impression of me is becoming more and more biased, outsiders think that my Lou Jinchen is brave and ruthless, but in fact, although my Lou Jinchen loves swords, he is also a person who loves poetry." Lou Jinchen said.
Shang Gui'an next to him immediately echoed: "Master, I memorized a poem written by my senior brother: Ten years of sharpening a sword, the frost blade has not been tried, today I will show you, who has injustice!" ”
Lou Jinchen heard him reciting his own poem, and couldn't help asking, "How do you know this poem?" ”
"What Deng Ding told me after he came back from Wanghaijiao, I also copied it as my cultivation motto, senior brother, do you think that I have been practicing swords for ten years, can I have the ability you have now?"
The Lord couldn't help but sigh and said: "Look at it, the poems written are also this kind of poems of fighting and killing, and there is a great senior in the Five Organs God Sect who once said that the matter of gods and ghosts is not to fight and kill, but to make friends, and many people who ask gods to serve ghosts are because they have friendships." ”
Lou Jinchen scratched his head a little and said, "This is just a casual chant, it doesn't represent my personality." ”
"I know that Senior Brother also has a song 'Bright Moon', Senior Brother, what is your relationship with that Hai Mingyue looking at the cape?" Shang Gui'an asked again.
Without waiting for Lou Jinchen to speak, the Guan Zhu sighed again: "Qianjing is no better than other places, there are young people and elders from the family, the gate faction, and the royal family live, if you like women, you have to inquire carefully about their identities, the daughters of the family, the disciples of the gate faction, and the women of the royal family, don't provoke them, you need to know that if you provoke the juniors, they all have elders, and you don't, because you yourself are your own elders." ”
Lou Jinchen heard the words of the Viewer, and wanted to refute at first, but in the end he nodded, he could feel the Viewer's concern for him.
"Please rest assured, my building is not a good woman, I went to the capital, just to see the scenery of the capital, and by the way, to send relics to people. I know that when a foreigner enters Beijing, everything must be three points lower, and it is best not to be nosy. Lou Jinchen said.
"If only you knew it in your heart." The viewer still said uneasily.
Lou Jinchen has already decided to go to Qianjing, and he has been delayed here for a long time, and it is estimated that the grandson of the fifth master has passed the week.
He wrote down some of his experiences, and then went to the Qunyu Mountain and found Bai Xiaothorn.
Little White Thorn was sleeping on her stomach, surrounded by hedgehogs, as if waiting for her to wake up and tell a story.
As soon as Lou Jinchen appeared, she immediately woke up, which made Lou Jinchen wonder if she had been pretending to be asleep.
"Lou Jinchen, are we going to Qianjing?" Bai Xiaothorn asked in surprise.
"Yes, are you going?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"Of course I have to go, so I don't want to stay here and tell stories every day." Bai Xiaothorn said.
"Don't you like to talk?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"I don't like it anymore, I'm going to be a quiet hedgehog." Bai Xiaothorn said loudly.
"Very good, Bai Xiaothorn, you have come to your senses!" Lou Jinchen said: "What about your third aunt and grandmother? Go talk to them. ”
Bai Xiaothorn immediately moved her little short legs, and in the envious eyes of a group of hedgehogs, she went to find her third aunt and grandmother, although she didn't know what enlightenment meant, but she felt that Lou Jinchen was praising herself.
After another half a day in the mountains, Lou Jinchen left with Bai Xiaothorn.
It can be seen that Bai Xiaothorn is very happy.
Although she was happy when she came back, there seemed to be something that made her want to stay away these days when she came home.
There was nothing wrong all the way, and on the horse, Lou Jinchen asked her what happened.
"Lou Jinchen, do you know how much I envy you?" Bai Xiaothorn said with a sigh.
"What do you envy me?" Lou Jinchen asked, wondering in her heart if she wanted to say that her swordsmanship was exquisite, her magic was profound, and she could be good at poetry?
"I envy you for having no relatives, you are a person without grandma and aunt." Bai Xiaothorn shouted with envy.
When Lou Jinchen heard this, his whole person stiffened a little.
"Are you scolding me?" Lou Jinchen asked suspiciously.
"No, my grandmother nagged in my ear every day, saying that I should be an independent and wild white fairy, and not be raised in the vine every day. The third aunt also said that I was fat, and said that no other white fairy would like me in the future. Bai Xiaothorn said indignantly.
Lou Jinchen didn't know how to answer for a while, the key was that he didn't know what the hedgehog was thinking in his heart.
"Then, what do the other white immortals mean?" Lou Jinchen asked, he suddenly wanted to understand the thoughts of these white immortals.
"One by one, they knew that they wanted me to tell stories, asked me how much good food I ate outside, and some asked me how I got along with you, and said they wanted to learn from me." Bai Xiaothorn said: "I told them, to be a white fairy, you must be charming, attractive, only in this way, those human beings will take the initiative to come to you, at first they didn't believe it, until you came to me, they didn't believe it." ”
Lou Jinchen suddenly felt that what she said was not very good, but he couldn't find anything wrong for a while.
……
Qianjing is in the north, all the way north.
Originally, he also planned to go to Jiangzhou Mansion to have a look, after all, Deng Ding's family was there, but Jiangzhou Mansion deviated from the route of going north to the capital, so he didn't go.
He galloped all the way along the official road, the sword hung on the saddle, and there was a burden hanging next to it, and there was a Qiankun brocade bag in the baggage, the so-called Qiankun Mianxiu bag was exactly what described this bag, but Lou Jinchen felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in this splendid bag, although I don't know how it was made, but if it could only be the size of a sachet and not too heavy to hang around the waist, it would be the best.
Or sew it into the sleeve, wave the sleeve, and store those items in it, and there is a lot in the sleeve, which is the Taoist style.
On the other side of the saddle hung a vine, and Bai Xiaoxian lay sleeping in it, she was used to this kind of bump.
Lou Jinchen rarely cares about the head of the house.
He slept in the wilderness.
The road forked, and a wooden sign was hung on a large tree in the middle of the road, which read: "There are ghosts and monsters entrenched on the left road, please take the right road." ”
Lou Jinchen turned his horse's head and turned to the left side.
The road on the left can be seen to have been a wide road, but because there are fewer people walking, the road is deserted, overgrown with weeds, and unknown vines have eroded the road.
It was dusk, the sun shone on the face, a little dazzling, and the weather turned cooler in late autumn, and the evening breeze was slightly cool.
When Lou Jinchen came to a canyon, he immediately stopped, and he began to look at the canyon.
"Look at the black hole ahead, the dark clouds cover the top, but there are lights shining in the desolation, this must be a ghost market, let's go in and take a look." Lou Jinchen said.
The so-called ghost market, there are indispensable ghosts and monsters in it, and the monks who are mixed with it are also some evil cultivators.
But sometimes there will be some good things in the ghost market, and Evian, the seventh master of the family that Lou Jinchen once knew, said that her wishful hairpin was bought in the ghost market, so when he saw such a ghost market, he wanted to go in and have a look.
This ghost market is a canyon, on the left side of the road, and it does not block the main road, but it is also because of the appearance of such a ghost market, so this road is deserted.
Lou Jinchen didn't get off the horse, and the little hedgehog also came to the spirit, I don't know when she also liked this fun of exploring the unknown.
When he came to the mouth of the canyon, there were several large red lacquer characters on the stone wall.
"Shixia Village!"
It used to be a village.
The horse's hooves trampled on the stone floor, making a 'gurgling' sound, and the originally quiet 'ghost market' seemed to be alarmed.
Lou Jinchen raised his eyes and looked around.
The canyon was originally a village, because there were portals on both sides of the canyon, and small stone roads were carved out of the canyon cliffs, which led to every house on the canyon cliff face.
In those portals, some people sat in the dark, some were lit, some were standing 'ghosts', and some were 'paper people', as if waiting for customers to come to the door.
In the middle of the canyon, there were several piles of flames, but compared to this long canyon, the flames obviously could not dispel the darkness.
At the bottom of the canyon, on the ground in front of the row of stone caves, there were stalls with all kinds of strange objects on them.
Lou Jinchen rolled over from his horse and fell, and the little hedgehog climbed onto his shoulder.
He came to the first booth and crouched down.
First glanced at the stall owner, this is an old man wearing a small black hat, thin and unlooking, when Lou Jinchen looked over, he just raised his eyes to look at Lou Jinchen, a pair of eyes with green light.
Lou Jinchen pressed the impulse to 'look at each other' in his heart, looked down and began to look at the thing that was on the table, it was a stone, he reached out and picked it up, his hand was cool, and he knew that it was very hard when he touched it, and asked, "What kind of stone is this?" ”
"The Netherstone." The old man in the black hat said.
"What is the Netherstone?" Lou Jinchen doesn't understand these materials at all.
The old man glanced at Lou Jinchen with green eyes, but did not answer, obviously disdainful of answering.
Lou Jinchen didn't chase and ask, he looked at one of the pieces of jade again, and wanted to reach out and pick it up, but the old man took out a black wooden stick from under his clothes and pointed it on the jade, and said, "If you don't understand, don't take it." ”
"Yes, these things are expensive for you, I won't touch them, just look at them." Lou Jinchen said.
He looked at the objects on the hide, none of which he could read, and got up and continued to look at the next man.
The things on this stall, Lou Jinchen can see, are all wood, and there are layers of yin qi wrapped on them, and some of them are carved into human shapes.
"Young man, do you want to buy a locust statue?" The seller was an old woman with a missing front tooth and a bit of a leaky speech.
"Does the locust statue say anything?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"There's a tree ghost in this locust tree." Said the old woman with missing front teeth.
"What's the use of that?" Lou Jinchen asked.
"The tree charm can be refined into a soul hook, can be refined into a stand-in, can be used as a messenger, can be sacrificed as a 'spirit', and can be used for a lot of use." The old lady said with a smile.
Lou Jinchen became interested in these knowledge points, but he didn't know how to refine them himself.
He looked again, but there was nothing interested, so he turned around and changed the house.
There are all kinds of books on the stall of this family, and the books are copper books and silver books, some of which are stacked on top of each other, and some of which are broken.
He wanted to pick it up and look at it, but the stall owner said, "I can't flip through this thing, and if you want to flip it, you need to pay for it first." ”
This rule, Lou Jinchen encountered it for the first time, but when he thought about it, the other party might be afraid that people would write down the content at a glance, but if he gave money to read it, he found that there were useless things written in this book, that is, he was cheated of money.
Still, he asked, "What do you charge here?" ”
"I only take money for incense."
Lou Jinchen looked at the other party again, but the other party suddenly covered his face and said hurriedly: "Your eyes, don't look at me like this." ”
At that glance, Lou Jinchen had already seen that the other party was not a person, but a scarecrow, and the spell on the other party's body seemed to have been broken by his inadvertent inquiring eyes, and the whole person became tattered.
One of its eyeballs was eerily black, and Lou Jinchen found that the pair of eyes seemed to come from the Eyeless City.
When the scarecrow revealed his true nature, he immediately retreated into the dark cave house.
The person next to him who was reading a book woke up suddenly, this was a young man with a pale face, with a frightened look, put down the copper paper book in his hand, got up and left.
Lou Jinchen shook his head, then squatted down to look at those copper paper books, now that the stall owner is hiding, he can read them casually.
At this moment, Lou Jinchen heard the sound of a sword in his ears.
When he turned around, he saw that his horse was actually wrapped in a cloud of black gas and headed towards a cave.
The sound of the sword was a light sound emitted by the stimulation of yin qi.
With the sound of the sword, the black qi that enveloped Lou Jinchen's dark horse not only did not converge, but became more intense.
"Is there anyone who steals in front of his master?" Lou Jinchen stood up and said with a sneer.
Lou Jinchen walked over, and the scarecrow behind him hurriedly collected his stall.
Wrapped in black air, Yima seemed to be lifted up by countless imps and headed towards the cave.
Lou Jinchen just stood at the door of the cave, and didn't go in immediately, when he heard a voice in his ear saying: "If you want to return your luggage, you can give a hundred incense money." ”
"Do I have to spend my own money to buy my own things?" Lou Jinchen asked coldly.
"It's not your stuff anymore." The voice in the cave said.
Lou Jinchen sneered, and suddenly, he felt something in the hole, as if he wanted to eat his horse.
(End of chapter)