Horses' hooves clatter, snow galloping.

The road of 100 miles, in the case of ice and snow, is not very fast.

Fortunately, these horses are all good breeds with fast feet, and they finally arrived at the Tiesha Mountain Guanyin River from the morning to before the sun sets.

"Phew~"

Yue Guanchao tightened the reins, and Song Siyuan saw him stop the carriage, lifted the sedan curtain and walked down the snow, picked up the map and said:

"Jade Bottle Town has arrived!"

In front of the two of them, it is the ancient town of Jade Bottle located at the foot of the riverside mountain!

Observe carefully, the Guanyin River has long been frozen into a ling, most of the river channels are closed by heavy ice, in the afterglow of the sunset, you can see the ice rippling golden light, the river is like a meandering dragon resting in the mountains, embedded in the white mountains and black ground, occasionally there are pines and cypresses that expose the rime, such as scattered green beads dotting the top of the riverside.

The golden dragon tail just probed into countless wild mountains, the east of the river is Guanyin Mountain, the west of the river is Tiesha Mountain, and several small villages are bred along the river.

The ancient town of Jade Bottle is located on the east bank of the Longwei River, which is the largest place in the area of villages near Guanyin Mountain, the outline of the ancient town looks like a maple leaf and peach blossom as a whole, and most of the houses are distributed along the mountain road and riverside, and the ancient buildings can be seen like clouds and pedestrians.

Everyone's eyes turned to Guanyin Mountain at the end of the ancient town!

This Guanyin Mountain is different from the peaks of the Iron Brake, and the Iron Brake Mountain has the image of the aggregation of multiple peaks, like a lotus flower.

Several peaks of Guanyin Mountain are almost distributed in a straight line, with ups and downs, alternating sizes, and stretching mountains, one end is close to the Guanyin River, and the other end blends into other wild mountains, which looks like the "mountain" character pen mountain where the brush is placed in the scholar's study.

In the highest peak, you can see the huge horizontal crack oblique crack mountain, there are ancient buildings and temples according to the mountain momentum, built into the cracks of the mountain wall, these ancient pavilions seem to be suspended in the mountain, only a few mountain roads wind into the mountain, probably the road to climb into the mountain.

When Sun Daqiao saw that he had stopped the carriage, he also got out of the carriage, looked at the town that stretched to the hillside and river, and said:

"At the foot of Tiesha Mountain, on the bank of the Guanyin River, the ancient town of Jade Bottle, more than ten years have passed, and it is still back."

Sun Daqiao's words made Yue Guanchao sarcastic: "You still have nostalgia for the past, hurry up and find a place to live, I look at Jade Bottle Town is not like a trade town, it is estimated that there is no guild inn like Songjiang Town, and the common people have to eat cats in winter, I don't know if they are willing to take us in." ”

Cat winter is a helpless move for the people in the north to deal with the extremely cold weather.

The winter in the northeast, from October to March and April of the next year, the Xing'an League, which is a little farther away, has only a few months of warm sunny days, and nearly half a year is in extremely cold weather, the common people of the old society can't do work at all, can't plant the land, if the heavy snow covers the mountains and blows the white hairy wind, it is even more impossible to hunt, and more will prepare enough food to eat in winter before the winter comes.

When the heavy snow comes, hide at home all day to warm up and not go out!

Ordinary people are no better than the landlord's house, the grain and meat are stuffed all over the pit and grain, and what can be prepared is nothing more than a few mouthfuls of food from their own house, and it is almost difficult to help outsiders, especially several people like them, and the rations for a few days are not easy to prepare.

"Don't worry, eldest nephew, when I came to Tiesha Mountain, I was dressed in tatters, even if I begged someone to take him in, no one dared to stay, I went to the temple on the mountain for the night, and I set off for Tiesha Mountain the next day, I don't know if the monk is still there, if you want to, maybe you can go to spend the night."

"Okay, anyway, the sun is about to set now, and we can get over it."

The winter night was cold, and they didn't dare to delay any longer, and came to the foot of Guanyin Mountain along the mountain road outside the town.

Although the mountain road was rugged and unsmooth, and the carriage turned around, it could barely get them to the ancient building in the horizontal gap, they stopped and dismounted, and walked along the stone slab to the mountain gate, and as everyone walked into the mountain crevice, they saw more and more things.

The transverse gap is not narrow, and not only can you accommodate the entire temple, but you can even see large shrubs on the temple and stone walls, which are not swallowed up by snow, but still retain evergreen vegetation.

Look closely, you can see the gray tile and red lacquer temple view hall room in the stone wall slipped out of the half-horned owl kiss, the archway of the mountain gate is in disrepair for a long time, the eaves are damaged, it can be seen that the beam frame is exposed under the tile, like a wound that never scabs, gloomy and dilapidated.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

Yue Guanchao knocked on the mountain door, and after a while, there was a sound in the door, and as the lacquered wooden door opened, an old monk leaned out half of his body from behind the door.

"Who are you looking for?"

Yue Guanchao looked at the old monk, the old monk's height was not high, only up and down his shoulders, his body was not dry, thin, fat, or fat, his bronze complexion was wrinkled, and he could see a scar on the top of his head, he was wearing a dark gray cotton coat, a variegated robe sewn from a hundred cloths, and the sandalwood beads in his hands had been soaked in pulp, full of oil.

Then look carefully at the old monk's facial features, thick eyebrows, single eyes, flesh hammer Buddha ears, white eyebrows, thick lips are blessed, the national character face has seen muscle relaxation, piled up on both sides of the nose to form two tear troughs, looking at an ascetic who often accompanies the ancient Buddha of the green light.

"Zen Master Gu Ming, I don't know if you still remember me!"