The sky was white, and the white rainbow in the distance gradually disappeared.

Xia Zhician put away the oil-paper umbrella, stepped on the slightly moist earth, and walked back to the temple that was burned to ruins.

In order to hide from the rain, Nan Er sat in the dark temple mountain gate, leaning against the stone wall, curled up as if he was napping.

He was woken up in the middle of the night, and then he killed corpses and zombies, and his physical exertion was very great, coupled with lack of sleep, so he kept napping.

The fire in the temple was extinguished by a sudden rain of the night, but the stone gables did not collapse, and some of them were still standing.

After being roasted by the fire, the gable still has a certain temperature, although the mountain wind is howling and the light rain is continuous, it can still bring some warmth.

Nan Er originally planned to borrow the mountain gate to shelter from the rain, but he didn't expect that he was almost knocked down by the fatigue after relaxing, and the sleepiness kept impacting his consciousness.

So he was in a daze, and his consciousness kept hovering between sleeping and not sleeping.

Xia Zhician looked at Nan Er, who was napping, and did not call him in a hurry, but found a stone nearby, sat down and waited casually.

Jiang Qin still left, she only came to say goodbye to Xia Zhichan, not to travel with him.

After she entered the realm of ascending the hall, her master's intention was to let her retreat on the mountain for a period of time to completely stabilize her realm. But Jiang Qin, who didn't say goodbye to Xia Zhiciao, was always restless, and even his cultivation was often distracted, and there was no way to concentrate completely at all. There was really no way for him, a mortal apprentice, so Jiang Qin was specially needed to go down the mountain to find Xia Zhicicada.

In fact, it is not necessary to leave immediately after meeting, but Jiang Qin is afraid that once she stays by Xia Zhiciao's side for a long time, she is unwilling to go back to Qing Xiu. And Xia Zhician also understood that the current situation was the best choice for her to let Jiang Qin go back, so he didn't keep her, but just watched her leave.

Only this time, there was a good goodbye.

The sky gradually brightened, and the black night was gently pulled away by a pair of hands, allowing the bright sun to slowly rise behind the mountains.

Xia Zhicicada was looking down and didn't know what to calculate, he suddenly moved his ears, and heard the sound of animals shuttling in the mountains and forests, and judging from the sound, it should not be a small animal such as a rabbit and a fox.

He didn't move, but stared in the direction of the sound.

"Yawn - it's dawn this day, that guy Xia Zhicicada won't take Fairy Chang'e to drill the grove."

The early morning sun shone down, waking up Nan Er, who was only shallow asleep, he rubbed his eyes and said casually.

"I don't have your dirty ......"

Hearing Nan Eryao's speech, Xia Zhician also frowned and said casually.

"Oops! You're here, ......."

When Nan Er heard the other party's voice, he realized that what he had just said was heard, and he just changed the subject and asked:

"Where's your daughter-in-law?"

"Let's go, go back to the mountain and clean up."

Xia Zhician glanced at Nan Er, and then looked at the mountains and forests on the side, although Nan Er couldn't hear it, he had already found that the animal that made the noise was getting closer and closer.

"What are you looking at?"

Nan Er followed Xia Zhicicada's gaze, but only saw the unchanged mountains and forests, he scratched his head a little puzzled, and walked in front of Xia Zhicicada to block the latter's sight.

Xia Zhician didn't speak, because he had already seen the figure that appeared from the mountain forest, but Nan Er had his back to him, so he didn't notice it.

Call......

It was the sound of breathing, and the branches around it were bent, and the dead branches were so wet from the night rain that they could barely make a sound when stepped on.

Nan Er felt the sound of breathing behind him, it was obviously not human, so he subconsciously drew his knife while secretly screaming badly.

Maybe it's really because he's too tired, and his perception hasn't recovered for the time being, after all, the physical and mental exhaustion can't disappear for a while.

When I turned around, I saw a horse's face.

Folklore has it that the bulls and horses are all soul-seducing messengers in the underworld, who are responsible for seducing the souls of the dead and taking them to hell to be judged by the king of Yama.

Call......

The nostrils of the horse's face expanded, and he snorted hard, and the exhaled air hit Nan Er's face.

Nan Eryi was in a trance for a while, and thought that he had burped, and the underworld sent a bull head and a horse face to hook his soul.

But he quickly stabilized his mind, and rubbed his sour eyes again to make his vision clearer. Only then did it become clear that the other party was not the legendary bull-headed horse, but just an ordinary horse.

After a few more careful looks, he found that this horse was actually the military horse that he had been riding since he left Jiangcheng, and when he looked back, he could still see the horse that Xia Zhician had been riding.

Good horses have spirits, although they sensed something terrible and left early, but when it was all over, they knew that they would return to their original place to find their master without being summoned.

"It's such a good horse, and you know how to come back to us."

Nan Er hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the reins, stroking the horse's mane while stroking his horse's mane while saying with a smile.

"The horses are back, so let's keep going."

Xia Zhician shook his robe, pulled his horse, and was about to turn over on the horse, but as soon as he sat on the saddle bridge, he heard Nan Er's complaining voice:

"No, I'm going to be on my way so early in the morning. Even if you are made of iron, you do not know thirst and hunger. I am made of meat, and now I am tired and sleepy, thirsty and hungry. ”

Nan Er didn't want to leave, he was now like a poor long-term worker who worked for the landlord's family for a day, and in the end, not only did he not have to eat, but he even planned to rely on the promised salary.

"There's nothing around here, and you can only endure it even if you are thirsty and hungry. Listen to me, and walk down the mountain road here, and in less than an hour we will reach a small village, where we will buy some food. ”

Xia Zhician didn't give Nan Er a chance to refute, he urged the horses under his seat, and ran down the mountain trail by himself.

"It's going to be another hour......"

Nan Er reluctantly climbed on the horse's back, he had the strength to urge the horse, and the horse under the seat also reluctantly followed Xia Zhicicada's footsteps down the mountain.

He sat on horseback, and he didn't know if it was a sudden flash of inspiration in his head, and suddenly he felt that something was wrong.

"No, there is a village an hour down the mountain, so why did we stay in this ruined temple last night......

Nan Er sat up straight, his eyes looked at Xia Zhicicada in front of him, he hadn't said anything, the latter seemed to feel it, and deliberately urged the horse to run quickly.

"I ...... No, Xia Zhicicada, you step on the horse and stop me! ”

It's okay if he doesn't say it, as soon as he said this, he saw Xia Zhicicada, who was originally quietly speeding forward in front of him, waved his horsewhip, and the horse under the seat screamed violently, and directly spread his four hooves and galloped wildly.

This can be said to be a self-confession, Xia Zhiciao's actions are a manifestation of complete weakness in Nan Er's eyes. He didn't care about the hunger in his stomach, and urged the horses under his seat to chase after him.

He scolded as the horse ran.

But Xia Zhicicada, who was running faster and faster in front, was deaf and deaf, and let the horse pull away the distance between himself and Nan Er.

Originally, it was an hour's journey, but the two of them were stunned and rushed to the horse in half an hour.

There is a small wine shop at the entrance of the village, but because of the first day of the Lunar New Year, although there are people who open the door, there is no wine pretense, it seems that it is the wine shop's own people, and this is the wine shop and the place where the people themselves live.

Nan Er stopped the horse, he glanced at Xia Zhiciao's mount that was already bolted to the door, and could only walk inside unconvinced.

Although the wine shop is not open, there are still some simple drinks and food, and the back of the house is where he lives, and there is also a kitchen stove.

Nan Er was about to eat, but found that although he saw Xia Zhiciao's horse at the door, he didn't see Xia Zhician himself after coming in.

He held up his chopsticks and scratched his head a little depressedly.

……

Knock knock.

With a squeak, the dilapidated wooden door was opened, and the rough peasant man looked at Xia Zhicicada, who was standing at the door in extraordinary clothes, and asked with some doubts:

"You...... Who to look for? ”

"Passers-by, ask for a glass of water and wine to quench their thirst."

Xia Zhiciao's current location was at the other end of the village, and he didn't know what Dao method he used, and even Nan Er didn't find out when he left.

"Oh, passerby, come in."

Although the peasant man looked at Xia Zhicicada, who had an outstanding temperament and looked like a rich son, he did not refuse, but welcomed the other party in.

The farmer in the small village, although he can't read a word, treats people sincerely.

"Where did the little brother come from? How did you get to our little mountain village......"

Because it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, the man happened to sit in his hall and drink, and there were two plates of side dishes on the table.

He asked casually as he took a pottery bowl and poured a full bowl of wine for Xia Zhiciao.

"Me? I came from the mountains over there, and I only came here because I took the wrong path. ”

Xia Zhician was not in a hurry to drink, he first pointed to the direction in which he and Nan Er went down the mountain, and saw the peasant man with a surprised expression.

"What are you talking about, you're here to fight that man-eating mountain, not kidding, right? Little brother, don't you know, I don't know how many people have gone in and never come back to that mountain for decades, and they haven't even found their corpses. ”

The man said truthfully.

"Hahaha, the man-eating mountain is nothing to be afraid of."

Xia Zhician was laughing, and suddenly saw the curtain in the middle move, and a five or six-year-old boy came out of it, gnawing on his fingers while snotting.

"Little fool, what are you doing here, didn't you just eat?"

The man did not shy away from it, pointing to his child and saying to Xia Zhician:

"This is my son, who has been a fool since he was a child, and he can't speak, he can only shout hunger, and I don't know if he is the womb of a hungry ghost."

"Liu Dazhuang, you are the damn reincarnation of a starving ghost!"

From the back room came the woman's angry scolding.

"Hahaha......"

Xia Zhician looked at the man of the Liu family who blushed with shame, smiled and beckoned the stupid child to come over.

It's strange to say, usually this child doesn't even listen to his parents' words, and only runs over when he is hungry, but as soon as Xia Zhicicada beckoned, he obediently came over.

"Brother Liu, your son is not a fool, nor is he a starving ghost reincarnated. He, I think he is a literary and opera star, and he will be able to win the imperial examination in the future and become an official. ”

Xia Zhician said, patted the top of the child's head gently, and the sleeve robe of his left hand swung, as if a gust of wind was blowing out of the cuffs, and it landed on the child's front door.

"Hey, little brother, you're really good at talking. Our family is my grandfather's grandfather, who is a rough man who can't read a single word, how could he give birth to a son of Wenquxing. ”

The man only thought that Xia Zhicicada was joking, waved his hand and said.

Xia Zhician held the child's shoulder, asked him to turn in the direction of the Liu family's man, pointed to the man who was still drinking, and asked:

"Who is he?"

"My daddy."

These three words scared Liu Dazhuang so much that he even fell to the ground with the bowl in his hand, his eyes widened, and he hugged his son.

"Son!"

"Daddy......"

"Oops...... It's really ......"

The man carried his talkative son into the back room, and then he heard the child's crisp mother's voice, followed by the sound of the woman crying with joy.

waited until the Hanzi family was happy to finish thinking of Xia Zhicicada.

But I hurriedly went to look, only to find that the other party had long since disappeared.

The wine bowl on the table was empty.