Jungnam Mountain

Zhongnan Mountain is not the southernmost mountain, and after Zhongnan Mountain, it is the boundary of Qingzhou. Zhongnan Mountain used to be very famous because it is said that there was a god here. Legend has it that hundreds of years ago, there was a loose cultivation in Zhongnan Mountain, which was not famous at first. The reason why he was later praised and known was not because of how glorious he had been.

Chen Xi and the others heard this legend when they arrived at Zhongnan Mountain, and they also found the place where this loose cultivator once lived. The reason why I heard that I found it was because this place was not disturbed by the abyssal beasts. Or rather, there is an incomprehensibly powerful force guarding here, and ordinary abyssal beasts are simply not capable of attacking here.

And this place has only a few hundred inhabitants, which is too little for the loss. Therefore, the abyssal beasts never came again after attacking once, of course, it was also because those abyssal beasts were the lowest level stragglers. If a powerful abyss beast discovers this place, it may be interested in the supernatural here.

Chen Xi and the others walked into a peach forest, and then found that the peach trees here were very strange.

From east to west, the easternmost peach tree has just sprouted, the peach tree to the west is blooming, the peach tree to the west is bearing fruit, and the peach tree fruit to the west has matured The scale of the peach forest is very large, covering an area of at least several hundred acres. Under the same environment, there is such a big difference. In other words, people who live here can eat peaches no matter what season they are.

The person who told Chen Xi the story about the loose cultivation was a child, who seemed to be only about six or seven years old. When Chen Xi and the others entered the peach forest, the child was watering the peach forest alone. This in itself is a very strange thing, a six or seven-year-old child watering hundreds of acres of peach groves.

But soon Chen Xi and the others discovered that the water canals here were surprisingly well developed and strong. The canals are made of stones, and the water from the top of the mountain is diverted. About every acre of peach orchard will have a water outlet, as long as the valve is opened, the water will flow into it automatically. Wait until about an acre is watered, close the valve, and open the next valve, and you are not tired. It's just that the peach orchard is too big, and it's surprising that this kid can stand the playful temperament and sit here alone and obediently watch the water.

"Outsiders. ”

The little boy grinned, "It's been a long time since I've seen outsiders coming." ”

Chen Xi smiled and said hello, Teng'er took out some candy from the bag and put it in the little boy's hand: "What kind of place is this?" ”

"Taoyuan. ”

The little boy was unsuspecting, peeled off a piece of candy and put it in his mouth, and said vaguely: "Thank you, sister, it's so sweet"

Fuji touched his face: "Your mouth is so sweet." ”

"Taoyuan?"

Chen Xi said: "Is the name of this place Taoyuan?"

The little boy replied as a matter of course: "There is such a big peach orchard here, of course it is called a peach orchard, is it called a pear orchard?

Chen Xi was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing. Seeing that Chen Xi was not angry, the little boy clapped his hands: "You are not bad people, if it were bad people, if I talked like that just now, I might have been beaten This place is called Taoyuan, and it has been called this name since hundreds of years ago." At that time, the gods still lived here, and these peach trees were planted by the gods. Later, I don't know why, the fairy left suddenly, but the people he saved or who were willing to stay here helped him take care of the peach orchard. Anyway, this place is big enough, we can plow the fields and make our own clothes, and we won't go hungry and won't be frozen. ”

"Immortals?"

Chen Xi looked at Teng'er, and said in his heart, Could it be that the gods still lived in Zhongnan Mountain? Teng'er shook his head at him, because he couldn't feel the breath of the gods here.

"What does a fairy look like?"

Fuji asked, taking the little boy's hand.

"It's a white-bearded grandfather!"

The little boy replied firmly.

Zhan Qing smiled: "Bragging, you haven't seen it, how can you know that he is a white-bearded old man." ”

The little boy said seriously: "I'm not bragging, everyone in Taoyuan knows that the fairy is a white-bearded old man." There is still a portrait of him hanging in the ancestral hall, if you don't believe me, I will take you to see it, oh no, I am watering, you can go by yourself. ”

Chen Xi asked again: "Casual entry and exit are allowed here?"

The boy asked, "Why is it not allowed? This is a place where people live, as long as they are people, they can come in." Patriarch Grandpa said that God left us here to protect us, and we are not qualified to enjoy it exclusively. Last time, there were a lot of particularly vicious monsters, and some people and monsters chased them, and they avoided them when they ran into us. Then they didn't want to leave, and now they live in the village, but they are not good, and they don't want to work with them when they come, but they want to eat and drink the best place to live, and even the house of the patriarch's grandfather was robbed by them. ”

Chen Xi's brows furrowed: "These people are fierce?"

The little boy nodded: "At first, I said thank you, but then I don't know how it changed." After a few days of coming, they said that the peaches were delicious, but they didn't bother to pick them themselves, so we asked us to pick them and send them to him. The patriarch's grandfather said that this was hospitality, so he had people pick it up and wash it and give it to them. They were too few, and they pushed the person who delivered the peaches to a big heel. ”

"So"

Teng'er asked a little distressed: "Since there are bad guys, why do you still want to bring us in?"

The little boy smiled sweetly: "Because the patriarch grandfather said that there is a big incident outside, if we don't accept the people who come here, they may die." So whoever comes, as long as it's a person, we have to contain it. ”

When he laughed, Chen Xi noticed that the corners of his mouth twitched unnaturally.

Chen Xi looked down and took a closer look, and found that he still had some bruises on one side of his face, obviously being beaten. An inexplicable fire burned in Chen Xi's heart, he stretched out his hand and gently stroked the little boy's face a few times, and the power of the stars easily healed this subtle injury. The little boy didn't notice anything himself, but he thought that this big brother was very good

In densely populated plains, villages of a few hundred households are not uncommon and not very large. However, in such a mountain, the size of a village with hundreds of households is somewhat surprising. Because the mountains are not suitable for building houses, the work of renovating the foundations to build houses is too large. The villagers of Taoyuan Village are all very simple, and when I heard the little boy tell me, no one even had a fight here, and they didn't swear.

"Grandpa the patriarch said that the gods are amazing. ”

The little boy sat on the edge of the canal and told Chen Xi and them, his eyebrows fluttering. Chen Xi They like to hear his stories, and he is very satisfied.

"At the earliest, it was the patriarch's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's grandfather Anyway, the grandfather many years ago was the first to see the immortals, and at that time, the peach orchard was not so big, only a few hundred peach trees. At that time, the ancestors of the patriarch did not want to drag down the descendants of their sons because they were seriously ill, so they came to the mountains to die alone. As a result, after eating a peach given to him by the gods, he was cured. It didn't take long for the descendants of the patriarch's ancestors to find the mountain, and they didn't leave, but stayed. ”

"At that time, the fairy they saw was a white-bearded old man. Later, the grandchildren of the patriarch's ancestors all became white-bearded grandfathers, and the immortals were still like that. Later, the grandsons of the patriarch's ancestors all became white-bearded grandfathers, and the gods were still like that. ”

When the little boy talked about this, Chen Xi suddenly understood. This once very famous casual cultivator, the reason why it is so famous is that it spreads. But I don't know why, since the fame has spread, why is there no sect in this mountain?

"Later, many people came here to ask the gods to teach them to practice, but the gods just didn't teach, no one taught. Those people did not give up, but ate and lived here and begged every day. Maybe it's because of this that the fairy is annoying, and one day he suddenly left here and never came back. After a long, long time, those who wanted to learn to practice couldn't see the gods come back, so they had to leave. And we just wanted to live here, so we stayed. ”

Chen Xi snorted, and the doubts in his heart were solved.

He asked the little boy, "Did the wound on your face come from the people who came from outside before?"

The little boy hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Don't tell Grandpa Sù Patriarch, they beat me, I didn't tell anyone." Because if I said it, the patriarch and grandfather would be angry, but the patriarch and grandfather also said that people should be friendly and there should be no contradictions. ”

The fire in Chen Xi's heart surged up again, he hadn't been so angry for a long time. There is no strife in this place, there is no hierarchy, everyone is friendly and friendly. The people here are not even wary and are willing to accept every outsider who comes here. But the hearts of the people outside have long been broken, and those who fled here before were demons or even abyssal beasts to the people of Taoyuan Village.

"Have you ever thought about calling back?"

Chen Xi asked the little boy again.

The little boy shook his head: "I didn't think about it, that person hit me, and my face hurts very much." If I hit back, he's going to be in a lot of pain, right? So it's not good to hit someone, it's going to hurt. ”

Chen Xi smiled and rubbed the little boy's head: "It's not good to beat people, you continue to water here, let's go in and see, where do you tell me where those outsiders live, we all come from outside and maybe know each other." If I do, I will advise them and tell them not to beat people again. ”

"Yes, yes. ”

The little boy immediately laughed: "They live in the highest part of the village, and there are many of them. But I heard from the patriarch grandfather that these people seem to have come from one place. When those outsiders hadn't become bad before, they told the patriarch grandfather that they were from Qingzhou. I don't know where Qingzhou is, but I kind of hate that place!"

He pointed to the village on the hillside: "The rows of houses at the top were all taken by them. The patriarch's grandfather said to stay away in the future, because those people can practice, and they are very powerful. If we provoke it, we may be in danger. The patriarch's grandfather also said that those people are all surnamed Zhao, as if they are surnamed Zhao?"

The little boy shook his head: "I don't remember very clearly. ”

"Zhao?"

Chen Xi suddenly thought of the Qingzhou Zhao family who had a bit of a holiday with him when he was practicing in Mantian Sect. Before Chen Xi left the Mantian Sect and went to Tianshu City, although several years had passed, presumably the people of the Zhao family would not be unfamiliar with the name Chen Xi.

The corners of his mouth twitched up, but it didn't look like he was smiling at all.