After dinner, Lan Ling'er called Lingyazi, came to Zhu Yu and Lantian Room, and said mysteriously: "When it gets dark, we can go to the bottom of the back mountain to play." ”

"Ling'er, look at your chatter, what are you going to do today?" Zhu Yu asked strangely.

"Tonight, Xie Fei Xie Yan took us to catch stone frogs, they said, we don't have this thing in the north, there are a lot of mountains and water in the south, and it tastes great to catch and cook it."

"Ling'er, you are about to become a gourmet, we can enjoy it with you." Zhu Yu said.

"Everyone hasn't eaten the muntjac in Zhongnan Mountain yet, I told Xie Yan and Xie Fei that in a few days, we will go to fight the muntjac." Lan Ling'er said with a smile.

It was getting dark soon, Xie Yan and Xie Fei came to the door with tools to catch stone frogs, and Zhu Yu checked it, there were seven or eight torches, hundreds of incense, and three or two cloth bags.

Xie Yan said that the torch is used for lighting, and the incense is lit to attract stone frogs, and the bag is naturally used to hold stone frogs.

The six of them went out, Luo Lin also followed, he heard Lan Ling'er say that he was going to catch stone frogs at night, so he said that he was going to go too, and Lan Ling'er told him to come over when he heard the movement.

Under the leadership of Xie Fei and Xie Yan, the five of them came to the backyard, walked through the platform for practicing martial arts, followed the flowing water, walked down hundreds of zhang, and came to the bottom of the qin.

At the bottom of the ditch, the ditch widens, the water slows down, and the ditch is a wide meadow, and the sound of autumn insects comes from the grass, one after another.

"In the past few days, the temperature in Zhongnan Mountain is not too low, and the stone frogs come out to make the last reserve of energy before hibernation, and when it suddenly cools down in a few days, they will burrow into dead branches and leaves or tree holes to hibernate." Xie Yan said.

"Therefore, this period of time is the period when the stone frog eats the most, is the most active and the fattest, not only to catch more meat." Xie Fei added.

Xie Fei and Xie Yan took out incense, lit it with fire, and inserted it in the grass by the river, one every other zhang or so, and about a hundred incense sticks, from the place where they fell into the water to the mouth of the basket.

"Can you catch a stone frog by doing this? How does this work? Rollin asked.

"When the stone frog sees the light, it thinks it's a firefly, and it will be attracted to it, and we used to shine a torch on it, and we can see the stone frog." Xie Yan explained.

After lighting the incense, everyone put out the torches and waited quietly by the river for half an hour, after hearing the sound of rustling in the grass by the river, Xie Fei said: "It sounds like there should be a stone frog looking for insects to eat, we can go over and catch it." ”

Xie Yan lit the torches one by one, and several people held the torches and went up the current to find the stone frogs attracted by the incense.

As soon as they turned around, the seven people found a total of more than 100 frogs. In this way, after looking back and forth three times, several people caught a total of three or four hundred stone frogs.

Xie Yan took the incense, and Zhu Yu, Luo Lin and Xie Fei each carried a bag of stone frogs and climbed back to the Taoist temple along the cliff wall.

Early the next morning, the quiet Taoist temple suddenly heard someone speak loudly: "I am Xie Hongyun's housekeeper, I want to find Xie Yan and Xie Fei, there is an accident in the city." ”

Hearing the movement, everyone went out of the house to check, and saw a man in his forties, wearing a finely sewn cotton cloth, leading a group of tall horses, talking to the disciples of the Heavenly Spirit Dao guarding the door.

"Uncle Xie An, speak slowly, what's going on in the city?" Xie Fei stepped forward and asked.

"The officers and soldiers in the city are fighting with the people, and there are people everywhere, and it is very dangerous for them to be at home, young master, young master, go back and have a look." Xie Fei gasped and said.

"Let's go, it's important to save people." Zhang Lingtian said.

At this time, some disciples had already pulled out all the horses in the stable, and all the masters except for the disciples of the junior disciples of Tianling Dao who stayed behind, everyone quickly took their weapons, and with Xie Yan, Xie Fei and Xie An, they rode down the mountain.

The way down the mountain was very wide, and these horses went up and down many times, and they ran with ease, and in a short time, they went down to the bottom of the mountain.

Zhu Yu remembered that before going up the mountain, he met the group of people chased by the officers and soldiers, it must have been them who rebelled against the officers and soldiers, entered the city, did a good job, and the officers and soldiers were defeated, so they opened a warehouse to release grain, ransacked the official mansion, and then left, if they didn't get it right, they might rob those big households, if so, Xie Fei and Xie Yan's family might be unlucky.

The people rode all the way to gallop, and in a short time they came to a city that looked very large, with a wall more than three feet high and two feet at its two feet.

At this time, the city gate was wide open, and people continued to drag their families from the city, carrying their belongings, and pushing small carts out of the city, apparently fleeing for refuge.

Looking at the city again, there was smoke coming out, obviously the house was burned, but fortunately the smoke was not too big, everyone slapped their horses into the city, and saw that there were many corpses lying in the city, some were officers and soldiers, some were people in red turbans and gray clothes, and even a small number of men and women in civilian clothing.

It was clear that there had been a catastrophe in the city before, and it was not known which side had won the killing.

Xie Fei and Xie Yan led everyone, turning around three times and two times, to the gate of a compound with a closed gate.

Xie An dismounted and slapped the door hard, but there was no response from inside the door.

Xie Fei simply lifted his breath, flew into the courtyard, and shouted loudly: "Father, mother, it's me, Xie Fei." ”

Xie Fei called three or four sides, and then someone pushed the door out of the hall, the first few were the family members with steel knives, and the one who came out behind was Xie Fei Xie Yan's father Xie Hongyun.

Xie Hongyun looked like he was in his fifties, of medium height, slightly chubby, with a red face and thinning hair, but he looked very energetic.

"Father, are you okay at home?" Xie Fei asked worriedly.

"It's okay, it's okay, Xie Yan and Xie An are outside, right? Let them in. Xie Hongyun said as he asked the family to open the door.

When the door opened, I saw a large group of people outside the courtyard, all of them leading horses, and the one who took the lead was Master Zhang Lingtian.

Xie Hongyun asked the family to go out and lead the horse into the courtyard for everyone, bolt it, welcome everyone to the courtyard, and then to the door, looked at both sides, saw that there was no one on the street, closed the door, led everyone into the hall and sat down, and let the family serve tea.

"The night before yesterday, a group of robbers came out of nowhere, inside and outside, into the city, the officers and soldiers defending the city were defeated, and fled east with the people in the official mansion, these people not only robbed the official warehouse, but also robbed a lot of big families in the city, fortunately, my Xie Jiaqiang was high and thick, and the thieves did not rush in." While drinking tea, Xie Hongyun said.

"I don't see any officers and soldiers in the city, and there are no thieves, so it should be fine!" Zhang Lingtian said.

"I heard that the thieves have gone to the northwest, and I don't know when they will come back." Xie An said.

"That's it, Old Fellow Xie, you still take your family and go to my Heavenly Spirit Dao to hide for a year and a half, and let your subordinates take care of business matters." Zhang Lingtian said.

"It seems that this can only be done first, but there are many officers and soldiers, thieves and civilians killed in the city, Xie An, I will pay for it, you take people to hire some people and cars, collect their corpses, and then we will leave." Xie Hongyun said.

Xie An was ordered to go out, called five or six family members, and hired people to hire chariots and horses to collect the corpses, and in the afternoon, everything was done, and the corpses were gathered in the open space outside the official office and hastily buried, only to wait for the officers and soldiers to come back and dispose of them.

Xie Hongyun left Xie An to take care of things at home, took his family and gold and silver, and followed Zhang Lingtian, Master Kongkong and others to Zhongnan Mountain.

Zhu Yu said to Master Kongkong that he wanted to take a walk around the city to see if there were any people in need of help, and let everyone go first, and then he would go back to the mountain.

Hearing Zhu Yu say this, Lingyazi, Lan Ling'er, Lan Tian and Luo Lin all said that they wanted to stay.

"Then you must pay attention to safety, and return to the mountain as soon as possible after checking." After Zhang Lingtian finished instructing, he took everyone to leave the Xie family and rushed to Zhongnanshan.

Seeing everyone leaving, Zhu Yu and Lan Tian, Lan Ling'er, Lingyazi and Luo Lin walked out of the Xie family's compound and came to the street.

The five people walked several streets, only to see three or two pedestrians, a inquiry, only to know that some of the people in the city went out of the city to avoid the military disaster, and some people hid at home to watch, and the thieves had indeed abandoned the city and left, since this was the case, a few people could not help the people in the city, so they had to turn back to Xie's house, say goodbye to Xie An, ride out of the city, and rush to Zhongnanshan.