Zhang Ran didn't expect this day to come so suddenly.

"Time flies so fast......"

After careful calculation, Zhang Ran has been in this Qingxi Village for nearly half a month, and this day is not long, at least Zhang Ran feels that he rode a tiger into the village as if it happened yesterday......

Mr. Wen went back to the room, and Zhang Ran was the only one left in the hall.

Counting the harvest that came down the mountain, first of all, a tiger that is getting smarter and smarter day by day, this guy is really a little weird, sometimes Zhang Ran even feels that it is like a person, not only can understand people's words, but even can observe words and colors and please himself.

Occasionally, when it could not hold back its wildness in the room, it ran out of the village to play alone, and whenever Zhang Ran thought it had escaped, it would always come back in the evening, and take the prey it had caught.

Over time, Zhang Ran, who was used to it, went out to play casually, but the rest of the people in the village were like a great enemy every time he traveled, and he never dared to collide with it......

Secondly, it is this quiet and peaceful rural atmosphere, Zhang Ran, who has not been in contact with human society for more than 20 years, has gained a long-lost sense of identity here, especially when he gets their attention after helping the uncles and aunts do farm work, Zhang Ran will always be immersed in this gratifying and wonderful feeling.

In the end, there was the thin boy named Xie Gan and his sister, although Zhang Ran still had no feelings for the little girl in her heart, but every time she blushed and came to bring food and water to herself and then ran away quickly, Zhang Ran could feel a kind of funny meaning.

It was as if he and she were really a peasant fiancée......

"Why don't you meet her tonight? And that hateful skinny boy, who is a friend anyway, should tell them about his departure tomorrow......"

Zhang Ran thought about it and shook his head again:

"Forget it, it was originally an oolong incident because I didn't understand the local customs, not to mention that I don't like her at all."

So, Zhang Ran thought of a compromise solution, borrowed Mr. Wen's pen, ink, paper and inkstone, Zhang Ran wrote a letter, in which he explained that he was going to the county tomorrow, and then wrote a few words of blessing at the end, and it was completed.

Finally, I folded an envelope out of paper and put the letter in it......

But when Zhang Ran thought about it, he couldn't help but laugh dumbly:

"I forgot that she couldn't read!"

That's right, that little girl didn't go to school, she couldn't read or write.

But this is also easy to do, as long as Xie Gan knows that kid, he will definitely read it to his sister when the time comes.

Looking at the blank envelope again, Zhang Ran suddenly became playful, and did not write any crepe sentences such as "so-and-so personally opened", but drew a stick figure comb on it......

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The next day, early in the morning.

Zhang Ran ended his practice that lasted all night and carefully sensed the situation in his body:

It was almost the same as expected when he first started practicing internal strength, after nearly half a month of nightly hard work, Zhang Ran's internal force had been piled up from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and even he didn't know how much internal force he had.

Zhang Ran took the time to ask Huang Yaoshi in the group, but Zhang Ran's internal force neither went through the meridians nor entered the lower dantian, so there was no way to measure its weight with the "year" of ordinary people, and even Huang Yaoshi, who was a five-peer person, couldn't answer how much internal force Zhang Ran had......

Despite this, Huang Yaoshi still let him continue to practice, anyway, as long as Zhang Ran has no discomfort, the growth of internal strength is always good.

Big is beautiful, more is good, save internal strength and it's over!

Opening his eyes, Zhang Ran took a long breath of turbidity, and the tiger lying in the corner also felt that the strange fragrance produced by the two-legged beast when it practiced was rapidly dissipating, so he also opened his golden eyes.

Whew~

The tiger roared, ready to go out hunting and play as usual, knowing that it was the king of all beasts that crisscrossed the mountains and forests, and it was too embarrassing to live in this village inhabited by two-legged beasts!

But just as it got up and was about to go out, Zhang Ran said to it:

"Don't run around today, we'll leave the village later."

The tiger was stunned and thought it was hallucinating, but the next moment, it roared excitedly.

Whew!

Finally, I don't have to stay in this ghost place where two-legged beasts are gathered anymore, and this king is going to be free!

Of course, the freedom here does not mean to leave Zhang Ran, in fact, the tiger is not only unwilling to leave, but wants to stay by Zhang Ran's side all the time, and he is getting smarter and smarter under the transformation of the strange fragrance very well understands how precious this strange fragrance is.

If it could, it would have liked to walk on these two legs every day, and inhale some of the fragrance he emitted!

"Let's go!"

Zhang Ran rode on the back of the tiger and walked out slowly, leaving only a letter with a comb on the envelope on the couch.

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At the entrance of the village, the procurement team is ready, ten strong guys are lined up, and everyone carries a big basket on their backs.

Mr. Muramasa handed a list of purchases full of goods to be purchased to one of them, and then saw Zhang Ran riding a tiger over.

The boys were a little scared when they saw the tiger, but after seeing the tiger for so many days, they were not scared and weak, but they were still vigilant.

The tiger yawned indifferently, it was not interested in all the two-legged beasts except for Zhang Ran, and Zhang Ran had been saying that he couldn't hurt people at will since he first arrived in the village, and the tiger's ears were about to become calloused......

"Zhang Xiaoyou is here."

The old man smiled, and then said:

"Follow these descendants, you can get to the county seat in five days at most, and you can leave on your own when the time comes, but there are many fierce beasts along the way, if you encounter danger, please also ask Xiaoyou to help in this half month."

For so long, Lao Confucian has found that he is becoming more and more unable to see through Zhang Ran, and his internal strength cultivation has become a fan, his martial arts moves have become a fan, and even his identity and origin have become a fan......

Don't talk nonsense about people in the county, he is not blind, such a powerful young man can never be raised in the small land of the county seat!

Although the whole person is mysteriously like a riddler, after half a month of getting along, Mr. Wen can also see that his nature is probably not bad, and Zhang Ran's strong internal strength is really the only one he has seen in his life, and Mr. Wen is still very relieved to hand over these young men to Zhang Ran for protection.

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say!"

Zhang Ran arched his hand indifferently, if there was really something on the road, he would do his best.

Mr. Wen nodded, smiled and waved his hand, and said:

"I wish you all a smooth journey!"

……

Zhang Ran was still thinking, since he was going to purchase goods on a large scale, why not bring a few animals to pull the cart? This is both labor-saving and fast, isn't it more convenient than carrying a basket?

But after leaving the village for two or three miles, Zhang Ran understood......

"You call this an official way?!"

Zhang Ran looked at the road ahead in amazement.

This so-called official road, in fact, is just a rotten mountain road opened in the endless mountain forest, not only to climb the mountains and mountains, but also the road conditions are difficult to describe, some are soaked in mud by the mountain stream, some are full of potholes and stone roads, and there are half of the "heavenly roads" hanging on the cliffs......

There is only a road that you can't think of, and there is no road that it doesn't dare to open!

This kind of bad road still dares to be called "official road"? I'm afraid that the money for road construction has been greedy!

No wonder there are no animals or carts, and only human feet can walk on this road.

Regarding Zhang Ran's complaints, the young men in the same company had no choice but to say that this road has been like this since their grandfather's time, and even earlier there was no such road, and the villagers here basically have no communication with the outside world, and now it is good to have a way to go......

Zhang Ran had to sigh, no wonder the people sent out to purchase were all strong guys, and they were weak and couldn't go this way at all!

"This road is so remote, no wonder Mr. Wen said that there are many wild beasts on the road, and asked me to protect them......"

It would be strange if there were no wild beasts on this kind of rotten road!

However, despite all the unhappiness, Zhang Ran still followed behind everyone.

Cough! Anyway, it's not that he goes, but wouldn't it be beautiful to ride on the tiger and let the tiger carry him?

……

In this way, Zhang Ran and his party walked from morning to dusk, and finally found a flat place to settle.

The boys quickly cleaned up a clean area, and then began to collect firewood and prepare to start a fire.

After doing all this, they sat down by the fire and soothed their tired muscles.

"How far have you come?"

Zhang Ran sat on the tiger and looked at the mountains, only to feel that the outside of the mountain was still a mountain, an indescribable despair pressed in his heart, the last time he had this feeling, it was just half a month ago when he just came down the mountain, because he couldn't find the direction and jumped around.

A young man heard Zhang Ran's self-talk, and replied with a smile:

"Where are we now, we have walked twenty miles at most today, and there are still four days to go!"

Four days?

Zhang Ran sighed, which little genius opened up this official road in the underworld......

Can't you do some projects in the sun?

Night crept in, and the tired crowd soon fell asleep, and the bonfire burned quietly.

Originally, there should have been people taking turns to keep vigil, after all, the situation in the mountains and forests is complicated, and if you don't get it right, there will be any danger, but Zhang Ran saw that they were all tired one by one, so he just volunteered to come to the vigil.

Since taking the elixir, Zhang Ran has rarely felt tired, for half a month, he hasn't even slept, and he is practicing internal strength all the time, because the mysterious vitality is replenishing his essence and energy all the time, and under normal circumstances, he will not have any physiological negative conditions at all.

Getting off the tiger's body, Zhang Ran sat by the fire and posed in a five-hearted posture for practice, continuing to accumulate internal strength.

But this does not mean that Zhang Ran has relaxed his vigilance, in fact, his senses are extremely keen, and any abnormal wind and grass will wake him up immediately!

And the tiger also found a flat position to lie down, a pair of tiger eyes glowing green in the night, and the daytime walking did not make it feel tired at all, which is also one of the benefits of its long-term absorption of foreign fragrance.

It was waiting, waiting for Zhang Ran to come out of that strange smell.

Sure enough, as Zhang Ran entered the cultivation state, the familiar fragrance emanated from him again.

The tiger closed his eyes and intoxicated himself with a deep breath of aroma, with these two legs, this day is really comfortable......

But after a while, the tiger suddenly opened its eyes again, and it looked left and right suspiciously, and his intuition told it that something was attracted by the strange fragrance!

But no matter how much it looked, it didn't notice any beasts approaching.

It seems to be a delusion, so I'll just say, this king is here, which one dares to offend without opening his eyes?

The tiger turned its head back in peace of mind, just about to close its eyes and continue to enjoy the aroma......

Oh?!

Is this king dazzled? How could there be a black two-legged beast floating in the air, still sucking something at the fragrant two-legged beast monkey......

The tiger stupidly looked at a humanoid black shadow in a state of "floating" against common sense, and Zhang Ran, who was holding Zhang Ran, who was practicing qi with his eyes closed, inhaled a white "qi", but Zhang Ran, who was known for his strong vigilance, was unaware.

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