The herdsman looked at his face, only about thirty years old, but probably due to the perennial erosion of the wind and snow in the Tianshan Mountains, so his face was like a knife, and the wrinkles on his face were also extremely deep, based on these characteristics alone, at first glance, it was no different from an ordinary fifty-six-year-old middle-aged and elderly person, and this person's face was cold, his words and smiles were unrelenting, and his expression was extremely stiff, looking like a piece of dead wood, but this face also lined with the cold wind in the mountains did not look so cold. The wind shapes people's faces, and people line the wind, and the two complement each other and can be called complementary.

Xiao Yao only glanced at it, and secretly thought in his heart: "This person seems to have crawled out of the 10,000-year-old ice cave, do all the border people who live in the Tianshan Mountains look like this?" So saying, he walked over to the man.

Unexpectedly, after the other party heard Xiao Yao's greeting, he just turned his head and glanced at him very indifferently, and then turned around and left. Xiao Yaotong inquired about it, and he already knew that the herdsmen here lived here, perhaps because they did not want their homes to be disturbed by outsiders, so they were not very hospitable, and coupled with the environmental impact, everyone was very cold, especially for outsiders like himself who rashly broke into the Tianshan Mountains, although it was not very hostile, but it was by no means among their welcome. At this time, Xiao Yao saw that the other party was really like this, smiled bitterly, and was not surprised, so he hurriedly chased after him, and said: "Big brother, the younger brother is from the Central Plains, and I want to inquire about some things, and I also ask the eldest brother to make it convenient, and stay for a while." As he spoke, he took out a silver ingot and handed it over, his attitude was still very kind.

The man glanced at the silver ingot, then at Xiao Yao, and said coldly: "What's the matter?" but his hands didn't take the ingot. Xiao Yao stretched out his hand in the air, and was in a dilemma for a while, let it be, not let it not, it was a little embarrassing, but his reaction was so fast, just a little hesitation, and then he smiled again: "It's the younger brother who is ignorant, the eldest brother has lived here for a long time, and this kind of gold and silver thing is naturally useless." The bitter cold in the mountains is not as good as a glass of wine. As he spoke, he turned around and walked to the side of the ox cart, found a good daughter red on the altar, opened the seal, and let it go to the man, and took this opportunity to put away the silver ingots in his hand.

When the herdsman saw this jar of wine, his face finally eased slightly, and his nose sniffed slightly, and suddenly, a fragrant aroma of wine overflowed with the cold wind. Xiao Yao knows that the weather here is cold, and the herdsmen usually bring a pot of wine to warm their bodies when they go out in order to resist the cold, which is an indispensable item in the daily life of the herdsmen, but there is no way to brew wine here, especially good wine, all of which have to be transported from the Central Plains, so this kind of thing is a very sought-after commodity in the market at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains. After Xiao Yao learned this, he thought that these border people did not welcome outsiders, so he spent a lot of money on this trip, and specially brought his good daughter Hong, intending to use it as a knocking brick. At this time, seeing that this trick worked, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and then said tentatively: "I don't know the eldest brother's surname? This is the authentic Shaoxing daughter Hong, the younger brother just saw you picking lotus in the mountain crevice, and the consumption of the body must have been very large, so it is better to take a sip of wine and refresh yourself." ”

When the herdsman heard this, he couldn't help but have a trace of coldness in his eyes when he looked at Xiao Yao, but he also had a little more inquiry. He looked at the altar daughter Hong, and finally spoke: "My name is Du Daxun." This boy doesn't look like a local, but he doesn't know what he's doing here?"

Xiao Yao smiled and poured out a bowl of wine and handed it to Du Daxun, and at the same time poured a bowl himself, the two touched it, and after drinking it all, he said: "The younger brother's name is Xiao Yao, and he is from the Central Plains. To tell the truth, I came this time only because I heard that there is a vulture palace in the Tianshan Mountains, more than 100 years ago, countless strong people were willing to surrender, and there was a bloody storm in the martial arts. When the younger brother heard this legend, he was really a little curious, so he came all the way here to find out. I wonder if my eldest brother has ever heard of the name of the Ethereal Peak Vulture Palace?"

Du Daxun drank all the contents of the bowl in one gulp, couldn't help licking his lips, and drank the remaining residue to a trickle, then he put down the bowl unsatisfied, and after thinking for a while, he shook his head and said: "Ethereal Peak Vulture Palace? This place is located in the Western Regions, far away from your Central Plains, how can there be a Central Plains Martial Arts Sect?" After a pause, he suddenly asked, "Are you also from Manichaeism?" As he spoke, another layer of frost was shrouded in his already softened eyes.

When Xiao Yao heard the words "Manichaeism", he couldn't help but move in his heart, and when he saw Du Daxun mentioning "Manichaeism", he turned cold again, and couldn't help but wonder: "Little brother is not a Manichaean, why did Big Brother Du say that?"

When Du Daxun heard Xiao Yao say this, his face slowed down again: "More than ten years ago, there have always been people in white clothes and white shirts, and people who claim to be Manichaean believers are also asking if there are any martial arts sects nearby, Han people or something, and then I looked for a few years, but nothing appeared, so I gradually left." When these people were here, they did all kinds of evil, not only robbing us of snow lotus, but also forcing us to help them find some ruins, and if they didn't comply, they would beat and kill. Since then, we have become wary of outsiders, for fear that the scene of the past will be repeated. If you're not, that's fine. ”

Hearing this, Xiao Yao immediately understood the reason why the herdsmen here were so indifferent to outsiders now, as for why the Manichaeans were also looking for the Vulture Palace, he couldn't guess for a while, so he simply stopped thinking about it, picked up the altar, poured Du Daxun full of wine, and asked: "Brother Du, do you know if there is a perennial mist-shrouded mountain nearby, but it is not very high? Or is it a legend related to the palace building that has been passed down on the mountain since ancient times?"

Du Daxun drank the wine and said, "There are legends, but they are all for children to play." When I was a child, I heard my grandfather say that there is indeed a peak in this mountain, on which lives the Queen Mother of the West, and some people have seen it with their own eyes, and there are often people on the peak, and they are all women, very strange, these women are the maidservants of the Queen Mother. ”

"I longed for a fairy master or a fairy as a wife, and then when I was picking lotus, I had the courage to climb the mountain with rope tools. When I got there, I realized, and although the peak was not very high, it was surprisingly steep. Later, there was a cliff on my current peak, and behind the cliff, there seemed to be a building peeking out of the mist. When I saw it, I thought to myself, 'This mountain is so steep and steep, but there are still people who can build houses on it?' I was very excited to think that the fairies lived on the other side of the cliff, but unfortunately I couldn't get over the cliff after trying many times, so I had to give up. I've been laughed at a lot for this. ”

When Du Daxun finished saying these things in one breath, he drank four or five bowls of wine. Although this daughter is delicious, the wine is also very strong, and when it comes to it, his tongue is a little spinning. When Xiao Yao heard this, he couldn't help but feel a burst of surprise, his heart pounded, and he forcibly pressed the joy in his heart and asked, "Brother Du, do you know what the peak with the cliff is called?"

Du Daxun said: "This place is called the Goddess Peak. ”

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