The Taoist walked ahead with a cane, and went up a high mountain.

The girl in the tricolored dress held a sugar cane about the same height as herself, and used it as a walking stick, and followed the Taoist, chirping and chirping as he looked into the distance.

"You're in Nush County, right?"

The voice of a Taoist came from front of him.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa......"

The girl's mouth was empty and she did not answer.

"Sanhua Niangniang has eaten sugarcane for a few days, and if she eats too much, her mouth will rot."

When the girl heard this, she just turned her head—

"Phew......"

Spit out the bagasse, continue to put the sugarcane in your mouth, take a bite with a snort, and chew non-stop.

"If Sanhua Niangniang eats like this, she will get fat."

"Boom Boom Boom ......"

"You can't buy sugarcane anywhere ahead, so let's save some food."

"Phew......"

“……”

The Taoist shook his head and continued to move forward.

The sky is clear on the one hand, but the sky is full of cumulus clouds, the clouds cast shadows, and the clouds pour sunlight through the cracks, and the light and clouds sprinkle spots on the flat land and the mountains, and then change and flow with the wind.

The Taoist walked on the mountain road, often bathed in the sun, and often shrouded in shadows, the shadows sometimes walked quickly on the ground, so surprised that Sanhua Niangniang was often stunned, and then took the sugar cane and looked up at the clouds in the sky, shook his head, and then ate while walking, and followed the Taoist in front.

There are houses and tea stalls on the side of the road.

Song You picked a place with a good scenery, surrounded by pastoral cottages, a piece of gold, he felt that it must be good to sit here basking in the sun and drinking tea, so he walked in.

"I want a bowl of tea."

"Okay!"

"But what do you have to eat?"

"Roast bait blocks, roast milk fans."

"What is it?"

"One made of rice, one made of milk."

"Let's have a try."

"Okay!"

The shopkeeper suddenly burst into a brighter smile.

Song You went out to unload his horse bags again, and asked at the same time, "Dare to ask how far away is the store's condensation?" ”

"This is the condensation, but we are here on the edge, if you go to the county seat, follow the road on the right, there are about thirty miles, and you will be there."

"Thank you."

There was another group of people in the tea stall.

It seems that the merchant is dressed up, the horses, mules and goods are outside in the shade of the trees, maybe the sun is too strong, they are also drinking tea here, and some people are lying on the table, drowsy and napping, hearing the voice of the Taoist can't help but cast their eyes at him, seeing that it is a Taoist, some people started to talk, curiously asked:

"Where is the gentleman?"

"Yizhou people."

Song You replied while unloading his bags.

The girl followed him with a sugar cane.

"What do you do to go to fisculpulation?"

"Traveling to the Taoist, traveling around, has always been where the scenery is good."

"It's so comfortable."

"What about you?"

"I'm a hard-working person, I've been running on this road for many years, doing some reselling business, how can I have a gentleman at ease."

"Those guys have been going back and forth a lot?" Song You came back and sat down and asked.

"yes."

"I heard that there is a strange thing in Xianning, that is, there are often people who don't know where they come from, claiming to live here, the landscape is the same, but they don't know the locals, and no one knows them, I don't know if it's true or not?" Song You continued to ask.

"There are indeed a lot of strange things in Xianning, this one that Mr. said is a relatively distant strange thing, and after the county officials heard about it at that time, they all went to confirm it in person, and it was indeed true."

"What about those people?"

"Naturally, they stayed in the fidel, and many of them are still alive, and often people hear about this legend, and they are curious, so they go to them to ask. They all answered. The merchant yawned and said to him, "Recently, a woman appeared out of nowhere, and the woman was very frightened when she arrived at Xianning, but fortunately a good Samaritan reported to the government for her, and when she arrived at the government, the government had long been experienced in this kind of thing, and knew that she was afraid that she would be like those people before, and she suddenly appeared out of nowhere, so she settled down." ”

The businessman's tone was casual, as if he was telling the truth.

"This woman later got married, and she was in the city, and she was well married, and people called her Xiao Chai Niang, and if the gentleman didn't believe her, he could go to the city to find her. Just ask where Xiao Chai Niang lives, and everyone will know. ”

"Little Chai Niang ......"

"Exactly!"

"How long ago was that?"

"Maybe seven or eight years, right?"

"How ...... such a miracle is there"

Song You's eyes flickered and he muttered to himself.

"Hahaha......"

The merchant laughed, and even woke up his companions, muttering a few words to him, but he didn't care, and said with a smile to Song You: "Actually, I'm not from Nuan County, I came here to run business, and when I first heard about this kind of strange thing, I was surprised and inexplicable, I don't know where those people came from, could it be that there are other worlds besides our world?" Whenever outsiders come and hear such things, they are also amazed, especially many civil servants and officials, who have to look for and ask. After some people came out, they had nowhere to live and didn't know how to make a living, but they only needed to rely on these civil servants and officials who came to ask them about their hometowns, and after listening to their stories, they could also eat. But we listened to it a lot, and we got used to it. ”

"I'm determined to look for it."

"I have also seen that little Chai Niang, because she looks very good, she married Lang Jun of the famous cloth village in the city as a concubine, Lang Jun is quite fond of her, and it is said that she has an heir......"

The stall owner first served Song You a bowl of tea.

It's a pity that it's freshly brewed, not herbal tea.

The Taoist held the tea, while waiting for it to cool, while talking to the merchant, the girl sat next to him, her right leg stretched straight, her left leg on her right leg, holding the sugar cane and gnawing focused, especially this posture can also lean slightly on the Taoist priest, but also bask in the sun, every bite, the eyes will be slightly narrowed, it seems to be extremely happy and satisfied.

The bagasse was left far outside by her.

The bait cubes and roasted milk fans also came up quickly.

The bait is made of rice, like a pancake, which is slightly charred, coated with sauce, and salty, and the milk fan is made of milk and egg flour, and is coated with brown sugar, which is sweet.

Song You ate slowly, and when it was cold, he broke off a piece and handed it to his children.

"Sir is very interested in this matter!"

"Indeed, we have seen a lot of goblins and ghosts and heard a lot of stories about ghosts and fairies over the years since we walked the world, but we have rarely heard of something as strange as this." Song You replied, "Do you want to taste the taste of this bait and milk fan?" ”

"Sir, let's eat it ourselves, we've eaten it, and we're not used to eating it. However, the rice cable in Numa County is quite good. ”

"It's good ......"

"There's an even more interesting ...... about this"

"What? May be informed below? ”

"What's not to say?" The merchant was quite generous, and said to him, "I heard from those who suddenly appeared in the past, in the place where they lived, there were occasional people who came in, and occasionally people who disappeared and left, and I don't know where these missing people went, but they thought they were dead and suffering, but unexpectedly they came to us. ”

The merchant paused as he spoke, and his voice became mysterious.

"But I heard that little Chai Niang say, I have only heard of people coming in and people missing, but I have never heard of someone coming in and disappearing, only once."

"Ah......h

The sun was shining in the roadside stall, and the wind was blowing, and the Taoist sat in the tea stall, surrounded by the sound of children chewing sugar cane, and his eyes couldn't help but show a look of recollection.

"Which time?"

"It is said that there was a young Taoist priest who came there suddenly, from the 'outside', but in their place, only a few old people knew what was outside. When this person arrived in the village, the people in the village felt very strange, just as when those people came to us, we looked at them and felt strange. Many people came to see him and asked him about his 'outside', and one after another people invited him to his home to be a guest and give him warm hospitality. The first person to arrive was her home, brought back by her grandfather who had gone out to work. ”

The merchant paused for a moment and thought for a moment:

"It was said that the Dao man had some spells, and they had long felt that he was not ordinary, why, because other people came there from the outside, and after he came there, their reactions were completely different."

"Really......"

The Taoist is still remembering.

"There is one more thing, which is enough to show that the Taoist priest is not an ordinary person." The merchant said, "There were no peach trees in that place, but after the Taoist priest came, he went to the Taoist temple on the mountain one day, and said that he suddenly conjured a peach tree and produced a lot of peaches, because their family had entertained the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest asked the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple on the mountain to do the work for them, and gave them the peaches, and after they ate the peaches, they planted the peach pits in the village, and since then there have been peaches there." It's a pity that it didn't take long for the little Chai Niang to come to us, and the peaches planted haven't been eaten yet. ”

The fellow merchant, who was napping next to him, listened and lazily interjected: "It's a ...... drawn."

"Yes, yes, yes! Draw out the peach tree! ”

The businessman said and laughed, this kind of fairy story, although not thrilling, but also interesting, even if it is not the first time to hear it, it is in retrospect, you will find it interesting to say it to others.

The Taoist looked at him with a smile on his face.

He has also become a story in the mouth of others.

How many years will this story be told?

“……”

The Taoist shook his head and smiled, and continued to sink into his thoughts while responding to the merchant.

How many years ago was that?

It's your first time in Changjing, right?

It seems like it was already ten years ago.

The Sanhua lady next to her was still gnawing on the sugar cane, chirping, and seemed to be listening to the wonderful stories in the businessman's mouth, but she didn't seem to listen, anyway, she didn't recall the past, and she didn't feel nostalgic for the past, just chewing the sugar water in the sugar cane one bite at a time, basking in the sun, and enjoying the time without worries now.

The Taoist's mind gradually calmed down.

After drinking his tea and eating, and resting enough, he put his bag back on his horse, said goodbye to the merchant, and went on.

"Jingle ......"

The bell rang farther and farther away.

The two figures, one large and one small, also disappeared.

The merchant yawned, moved his neck, and said to his companions, "It's funny, but there doesn't seem to be a peach tree either." ”

"I really haven't seen it."

His companion responded to him in a daze.

The merchant looked at those figures again, and felt that most of this person was the same as the Taoist in Xiao Chai Niang's mouth, and he was a master of Taoism.

……

A short walk forward, almost just a corner, a large lake appeared in sight.

Stratus clouds in the sky obscured the light, and the lake on the ground was vast, and the light was a little dim, but overhead, a beam of light shone down from the cloud hole, shining on the quiet and deep lake, and where the light shone, a small boat slowly sailed over the lake, which lit the eyes of this picture.

The Taoist walked along the lake with a cane, followed by the Sanhua Niangniang and the jujube red horse, whether it was a person or a cat or a horse, they all watched while walking.

On the other side of the lakeside path, the land is golden, shrouded in ever-changing light and shadow, with countless houses and slender staggered, and farther away is a row of green hills like a wall of sky, with a clear summit line on the top, although uneven but generally flat.

The shore is full of reeds, and ears are being drawn.

Birdsong is often heard in the lake, and the calls vary.

It's a picture of autumn.

It's really like a picture scroll.

Even the little girl couldn't help but put down the last sugarcane in her hand, turned her head left and right to look around, her face was serious, and she said to the Taoist: "Have we been to this place before?" ”

"I've been here, and I've never been."

"What is it that has been...... Oh, that's what you're talking about! ”

"Sanhua Niangniang remembered."

"Sanhua Niangniang is very smart!"

"yes......"

The picture in front of me is really familiar.

It was afternoon, near dusk, when it would be dark, and the smoke rose from the foot of the mountain.

It's autumn again, and some people are burning straw.

Smoke was burned.

In the twilight, the smoke was gray and blue, but it did not rush straight up, either it was suppressed by the wind and blown flat, or the village below was too far from the top of the hill to rise to the top of the mountain, so that it seemed to stay only above the cottages and houses at the foot of the mountain, and then it was pulled by the evening breeze into a line, spreading along the ground, like a thin veil over the village houses in the twilight.

The Taoist walked slowly without stopping.

"Ahh Yes! Yes! ”

There was a sound of birds, and a seagull flew up from the reeds, startling the Sanhua Niangniang.

Holding the sugar cane and looking up at this group of birds, I only silently thought in my heart that you are lucky, if there are no swallows, Sanhua Niangniang also has to use salt to make finches to store.

"This is in the painting!"

"The painting is here."

"The painting is here!"

"Did Sanhua Niangniang find out, the village is different."

"Sanhua Niangniang has found out."

"Sanhua Niangniang is really smart and has an excellent memory."

"That's right."

"Since Sanhua Niangniang is so smart and has such a good memory, why don't Sanhua Niangniang think about it and guess, is there sugarcane planted here?"

“！”

The girl's expression froze, and she felt that things were not simple.

The Taoist smiled and walked away with his hand on the reed.

The green mountains really haven't changed, the lake hasn't changed, and the Taoist people came to Nuan County for the first time, but it was like revisiting the old land.

(End of chapter)