"Interesting stuff ......"

Song You stood in place, frowning and muttering.

Then he withdrew his gaze and walked away with his cane.

The mountains in front of us are covered with snow and ice, the sky is a huge and complete azure semicircle, and the ridges of the snow-capped mountains have a gentle curve, and there is no human population in sight.

In the snow, a line of footprints headed south, and a more chaotic line of footprints headed east along the ridgeline.

Although the Taoist didn't know what the little demon wanted to say, and he didn't know whether it was trying to hint at him or whether it wanted him to stay in Yuezhou and even the north for some purpose, he was a person who listened to persuasion, and he was originally going down the mountain to travel the world, so he felt that it was not a bad thing to spend more time walking this Yuezhou more carefully, so he really planned to go through Yuezhou more carefully - he originally planned to go out of Qingtong Forest to Tianzhu Mountain, and then go to Zhaozhou for the winter, but now he will go around one more circle.

Yuezhou is basically deserted, and it is really difficult to walk.

There are often white bones on the road, and the corpses were exposed in the wilderness more than ten years ago, and they should have been buried in the ground a long time ago, and they had to take time to help them.

Along the way, I met a few demons that were left behind by the Heavenly Palace, some of them were smelly and evil, and some of them also called for grievances.

However, I also found something wrong, most of which are not easy to find, and we must know from the spirit of heaven and earth that this place has been entrenched with great power. But that's all, except for the strangeness in the spirit rhyme, I didn't find any big demons or cultivators, which is the same as the situation in Qingtong Forest.

I don't know if the other party already knew that he was coming and deliberately hid it, or if the other party had already left or died and was no longer here, in short, it was not easy to find, it was time-consuming and laborious, and it seemed very rude.

There was only one White Bull King who could count the big demons in Yuezhou, who was almost the worst of the several demon kings born due to the war in the north, but he had been eliminated by the Heavenly Palace. Yuezhou is also a place with a rich spiritual charm and a long culture, and for so many years, like the southern region, there are ancient demons, which is really a normal thing. Since there are no rumors of the other party's troubles, it is almost enough for Song You to look for them like this, and it is not appropriate to delay the trip if he really rummages through the people's houses carefully.

I had to make a note and keep leaving.

And so it took more than a month.

When he left the territory of Yuezhou and walked to Zhaozhou, it was already the second month of the sixth year of Mingde.

Originally, it was supposed to enter Zhaozhou from the north of Yuezhou, but now it has become from the south of Yuezhou to Zhaozhou, crossing the dangerous mountains, passing the heavily guarded Xiongguan, and arriving at this Mozhu County.

Song You stood at the gate of the city, stopped, looked up and glanced at the word "ink bamboo" on the head of the city, then stepped forward to show the degree, and walked into this small northern city under the curious gaze of the city guard.

Mozhu County is located in the southwesternmost corner of Zhaozhou, which is the junction of the three states, and borders the southeast corner of Yuezhou and the northeast corner of Hanzhou, but the antenna and Xiongguan separate them, which is also one of the reasons why Yuezhou was ravaged by Saibei people more than ten years ago and Zhaozhou was not seriously affected.

Walking in it at the moment, although the streets are narrow and old, and the houses on both sides are also short, but it is close to the New Year, there are many people on the road, thanks to the fact that it is the morning, you can still see a lot of vendors setting up stalls.

Those who sell charcoal and firewood also sell water.

Selling eggs, selling dustpans, and what's even more interesting is that Song You also saw the people who wrap eggs for others.

Compared with the no-man's land in Yuezhou, even compared to the county seat of Yanzhou, and even compared to the county seat of Hezhou, there are many more people in Mozhu County, and they are all more presentable. However, compared with the county seat in the south, Mozhu County is much shabby, and many officials have been demoted in recent years, probably to Zhaozhou and the southernmost island.

The ground was also paved with stone slabs, and the horses' hooves clanged.

Occasionally, there are steps, and the horses go up carefully.

The Taoist asked for a long time, and then found in front of an inn in the middle of the city.

Thanks to the blessing of Dayan's economic development, and thanks to the fact that this Mozhu County is at the junction of three provinces, and the special product is used as a pen for ink bamboo, which is very popular with Dayan literati and scholars, and the inns and carriage shops in this city are also like a look.

Song You put the horse outside and stepped in.

The threshold is low and removable.

The entrance is a large courtyard, which is convenient for merchants to park in the horse, rather than a lobby, and only then can I find the store when I enter the yard.

In this year's inns, especially small town inns, in fact, most of the rooms on weekdays are long-term guests, such as candidates and official business trips, short-term merchants, most of them will choose carriage and horse shops or thatched shops. The carriage and horse shop is convenient to put the goods, which is convenient for merchants, and the thatched shop and the chicken feather shop are cheap and not strictly checked, and some can even not be registered, which is convenient for the people of the rivers and lakes.

Song You talked to the shopkeeper and spent a price cheaper than renting a house in many counties in the south, and set it for a month.

Then he came out again and led the horse in.

And the horses were placed in the yard.

The room is upstairs.

"At this time, there is no business in the inn, and everyone goes home for the New Year, and the business will be better when the New Year is opened. My husband is a cultivator, and he must like to be pure, so he chose a room at the back of his husband, so as not to be woken up in the morning by the farmers selling vegetables below, and so as not to smell the smell of horse manure in the yard. ”

"Thank you."

"The small shop has meals, but you have to say in advance, you usually supply boiling water, hot water and bath water, you have to say in advance, and you have to collect the money separately, and the charcoal of the oil stove for the oil lamp is also collected separately, and you can collect as much as you want. There are shops and stalls selling meals at the door, if Mr. wants to cook by himself, he can also borrow the kitchen, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, firewood loss or something, look at it and give it a little. ”

"Make a note below."

"There is a teahouse on the left, not far on the right, hehe, there is a tavern, there is a girl, the gambling house is also over there, if the gentleman is idle and wants to have fun, you can also go and see." The shopkeeper smiled and said, "But the north is not very peaceful recently, although we Zhaozhou is better, but occasionally there are some rumors of ghosts, I don't know if Mr. is afraid, anyway, try to go out at night, our place is small, it is dark, except for taverns and gambling halls, there is no fun to find." ”

"I have to tell the store that there are two friends here, one is a beautiful boy and the other is a girl of a few years, and sometimes they may go in and out of the inn and come to find him."

"Got it."

"It's bothering the shopkeeper."

"Sir, have a good rest, call me if you have something."

After speaking, the shopkeeper withdrew with a respectful attitude.

Song You put down the quilt bag, as soon as he opened the blanket, he ran out of it a three-flowered cat, looked left and right, very curious, and then began to run around and sniff around, so as to understand this strange place, and then opened the side bag of the quilt bag, a swallow flew out of it.

Swallow's temperament is different from that of the three-flowered cat, and she feels guilty for this sneaky act of bringing herself into the inn:

"I'm sorry for the trouble, sir."

"Nothing."

Song You said to Yanzi and asked, "Then where do you live on weekdays?" ”

"I'm still not used to being in a house, so I see a big tree growing at the door, so I can live on the tree or on the roof, so that I can help my husband keep watch and watch his horse."

"It's fine."

It's not that the inn must not allow swallows to live in.

It's just that on this cold day, it is troublesome for Yanzi to explain, and it is even more troublesome to say that Yan'er is spiritual and obedient. Anyway, he knew that Yanzi usually liked to live in an open place, even if he slept in the wild, he had to rest on the top of the branches with an unobstructed view, he didn't like to live indoors, at most he would fly indoors when he had nothing to do on weekdays, so Song You didn't bother to talk to the store.

As for Sanhua Niangniang, she fell asleep in the quilt bag.

"It seems to stink ...... here"

Sanhua Cat turned her head and said to Song You.

"It's just a little musty."

"Musty!"

"Just open the windows and ventilate."

The Taoist went to open the window, and although he said that he would open the window for ventilation, he blew a breath and a strong wind blew.

The wind quickly swept away the musty smell in the house.

When Song You turned around, the three-flowered cat had already turned into a girl, and began to take out all the things to be used from the quilt bag, following his original appearance.

The shop has a clay pot and a thick bowl for drinking water, but I brought it with me, so I took it out and put it on the table.

The lantern was originally placed next to the quilt bag, and she took it to the bedside.

and put away their own coats, knives, and flags.

I know that every time a Taoist goes to a place where he lives, he has to write something, so he also has to take out pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

The little girl is meticulous, like a little adult.

I really have a bit of a Taoist feeling.

In fact, Song You knew that it was just the thinking in her heart that "Sanhua Niangniang is a mature and powerful big cat, it's time to take care of the Taoist". When ordinary cats grow up, they sometimes love to raise their owners in reverse, as if they can get a sense of accomplishment from them.

"Thank you, Sanhua Niang."

Song You said with a smile, and looked at the street outside by the window for a while, and the little girl had already studied the ink for him.

I had to go over and sit down, and spread out the blank paper as usual.

Originally, I was going to go to Zhaozhou to rest, this time coincided with the Spring Festival, the north was cold and snowy, not to mention the cold, the road was also difficult to walk, and it was advisable to wait for the beginning of spring before rushing. However, after listening to the deer demon say a few words, he was delayed in Yuezhou for an extra month, and now he only got here.

In the cold winter, it is the Spring Festival, the ice and snow, it is not suitable to hurry, so I will not go to the bustling state city, just live in this remote town for a month or two, and then continue to travel after the spring snow melts.

What you see and hear in Yuezhou should be well recorded.

Not only the colorful pond Yuelong Waterfall, not only the sacred bird flying across the night sky on the green tung forest, the Tianzhu Mountain where the god first went to the sky, and the corpses all over the ground, the storyteller and the spirit rhyme that he met, as well as the stream and river that can walk away from the ice, the dreamlike rime, and the three-flowered cat that is so cold that it gets into the chest every night.

The Taoist was very patient, writing page after page, and the handwriting was always calm and unchanging.

Sanhua Niangniang lit a stove for him, and she herself was afraid of the cold, so she thought that he was also afraid of the cold, so she pushed the stove to his feet, and called the swallows from the window to roast together.

(End of chapter)