Pingyang Town is an inconspicuous town shop in the far suburbs of Xianzhou City, about 100 miles away from Xianzhou, and the population of the town is several hundred households, most of which are farmers. There is only one street in the town, and there is only one inn on the street, and the shopkeeper's surname is Gao.

It was dark, and the lights were on, and the shopkeeper Gao personally came to a table with a plate of osmanthus cloud cakes, and said with a smile: "This plate of small snacks is a feature of the small shop, and today it will be given to two people, please use it slowly." ”

There are many cups and plates on the table, and the dishes are extremely rich, and although it is a small shop, there are many special dishes. The two people dining at the table, one is a man, with sword eyebrows and tiger eyes, but his clothes are extremely ordinary, and the other is a woman in a purple shirt, with a slender figure, a black and red complexion, uneven potholes, and a little ugly, it is Chen Yunsheng and Liu Xiaoshan.

Chen Yunsheng was anxious to go to Shibo, but after inquiring passers-by, he learned that Tianqiong Mountain was about a thousand miles away in the west of Xianzhou City, and because Lingyuan had to be restored, he could not escape, so he changed to walking, and passed by Pingyang Ancient Town and saw that it was late, so he spent the night at the inn of the high shopkeeper.

Chen Yunsheng has been practicing in the mountains for ten years, and when he first came down from the mountain, he has no experience in mortal life, so he seems a little wooden to treat people and things along the way. The black bones naturally can't show their heads, so Liu Xiaoshan is all on the road. Although this woman looks very mediocre, she is very sharp-toothed, and she is very familiar with all kinds of personnel principles, and she is even better at asking for directions and ordering food.

Chen Yunsheng couldn't help but move his fingers in the face of a table of exquisite dishes, you must know that he said that in addition to bacon or potato on the mountain, the two acres of cold-resistant wheat can only be produced when the harvest is good, and there is no fine workmanship, and he directly takes the wheat bran to his stomach.

However, because Liu Xiaoshan ordered too much food, and Chen Yunsheng didn't want to waste it, his stomach was now swollen and he couldn't move freely. Of course, he was not the only one with a swollen belly, Jin Ling was holding his round belly on the side, and he had fallen asleep soundly, but this monkey was caused by his own hunger.

Liu Xiaoshan also seems to be a woman who has seen the world, chatting with Chen Yunsheng a lot, but moving the chopsticks less. For the shopkeeper's most ugly osmanthus cloud cake, Liu Xiaoshan seemed to be quite fond of it, ate a few pieces in a row, and said to Chen Yunsheng while eating: "Brother Yun doesn't know, there are a lot of osmanthus flowers in my hometown, every autumn osmanthus is fragrant, the family will make osmanthus cake, the taste is not worse than here." ”

Chen Yunsheng looked at the dim sum on the plate, and his heart was a little sour. He lacked maternal love, and his father, who was not yet an adult, also left, and the family suddenly changed dramatically, and his second uncle, who usually loved him, became the one who chased and killed him, and only he knew the suffering. As the cultivation gradually deepened, this trace of sadness was hidden very deeply, and today it was unintentionally touched by Liu Xiaoshan, and his heart was tumbling.

Liu Xiaoshan saw that Chen Yunsheng was silent, and then asked: "Brother Yun is thinking of his family, I don't know where your family is, you practice very weekdays, right? Most of you can't go home at will." ”

"My family is dead. Chen Yunsheng raised his head and said to Liu Xiaoshan's gaze. Although he is a cultivator, he is not sure about the proposition of the reincarnation of life and death, but he prefers to believe that there is reincarnation in the world.

Liu Xiaoshan saw that his question was inappropriate, so he made a closed expression, seeing that Chen Yunsheng's gaze was a little more different, and then the conversation turned to cultivation, and she was quite interested in this topic.

"What kind of immortal method is Brother Chen's cultivation, I only saw the black bone seniors exerting their magical powers that day, and I never saw your skills, I think it must be even more unusual, can you tell my little sister about it. Liu Xiaoshan stretched out his spring-like fingers and made a gesture of casting a spell.

"That day, Brother Black Bone performed the Ice Pick Technique, a water-attribute Dao method. Ever-changing, mysterious. I'm so much worse, I'm going to put a fireball or something. ”

He looked at Liu Xiaoshan's fingers again, and then said, "Your ten slender ones are the most suitable for performing the water method. ”

"Then Brother Chen, can you ask the Black Bone Immortal to teach me two hands, so as not to encounter that kind of rude person again. ”

"This..."Chen Yunsheng put down the half-eaten chicken legs, "Cultivation depends on qualifications, if you are not qualified, it is useless to ask him." Come, eat this chicken leg, don't starve yourself. As he spoke, he tore off another chicken leg and handed it over. Liu Xiaoshan Muran took the huge chicken leg and put it on his plate, not eating it.

"On the mountain, if you waste food, you will be scolded by the master. Although you are not low, you are weak, so you need to eat more. Rest assured, as my servant, I will definitely raise you fat and strong. Chen Yunsheng pointed at Liu Xiaoshan and Jin Ling and said.

When the little monkey heard Chen Yunsheng mention himself, he immediately patted his round belly and squeaked twice, as if he was quite grateful for Chen Yunsheng's words. Liu Xiaoshan's brows condensed a black line, which was not obvious because her skin was already dark.

"I will not make you humiliated again, for you are my handmaiden. Chen Yunsheng suddenly said seriously. In his mind, the meaning of the word maid was far from the original meaning.

"Then I'm going to thank you. Liu Xiaoshan's tone was a little depressed, she originally said it casually, but she didn't expect that the other party had no intention of being humble, and her heart was broken when she called a maid.

"Does that cultivator want to eat on weekdays?" Liu Xiaoshan asked casually.

Chen Yunsheng pointed to his stomach and said, "Then what do you think I've been doing just now?"

Liu Xiaoshan suddenly felt that his question was a little silly, and smiled awkwardly: "I have heard of Bigu's statement, so I asked this question." ”

"If the cultivation is low, you can't fast, and when you reach a certain level of cultivation, you can clear the valley. However, it must also be in a place where the spiritual energy gathers, otherwise even if the cultivation is profound, not eating or drinking for a long time will damage the physical body. Chen Yunsheng replied.

"Xiaoshan heard that cultivators can fly to the sky and travel thousands of miles a day, I don't know if this is true or false?"

"I can't answer you with this, I can't fly yet. Thinking that the rest of the four elements of the escape method can all fly into the air, but he sadly chose to come from the soil, and the earth escape from the soil as a substitute spell, Chen Yunsheng was really a little depressed.

"Then can a person who cultivates immortals marry a wife and have children?"

"I really don't know what to do with this, I can find a female monk to try it in the future. Chen Yunsheng replied honestly, there was a blank in his mind about secular etiquette, so he didn't mind talking at all.

......

For this Liu girl, Chen Yunsheng felt very helpless. It turned out that in the mountains, they were only facing Jin Ling, Black Bone or Feiyunzi, or orangutans. There was only eye contact with Jin Ling, and there was basically no need to speak. The black bones are old-fashioned, talking about the past and the present, and most of the content they talk about is the strange things that happened in the world of cultivating immortals, spirit beasts and spirits.

Feiyunzi is the closest person to him, but he speaks the least, half of which is to ask for advice and cultivation, and the other half is sarcastic and teasing. The Liu girl I met today, from her family life experience to the method of cultivating immortals, from the customs to the Chinese clothes and food, there is no intention of stopping at all, where is like a little woman who has just escaped from a catastrophe, her family is ruined, and she has not recovered.

The two of them ate this meal for an hour, and the shopkeeper Gao occasionally passed by, and when he heard the two of them talking about something related to the cultivation of immortals, his heart couldn't help but move. After the two of them finished eating, he ordered his men to remove the dishes, serve two cups of tea, and said with a smile on his face: "Little Lao'er just heard what the two of them said about flying away from the sky, it must be that the two are also great cultivators." ”

Liu Xiaoshan said with a smile: "The shopkeeper has lost his eyes, where is the little girl a great monk, if you say that the big monk is of course the old brother opposite me." As he spoke, he leaned out and pointed his two fingers at Chen Yunsheng.

The shopkeeper saw that his guess was good, and immediately made a deep bow to Chen Yunsheng, and said, "Little Lao'er has been looking forward to a person who has advanced mana and cultivated immortals. I also hope that the monk can use the immortal method to save the people in my town. ”

"Well said, well said. Chen Yunsheng was a little surprised, wondering why he encountered such a bloody plot.

The shopkeeper sighed deeply and said: "Speaking of Pingyang Town, although it is a small town store, the people have been simple for many years, the neighbors respect each other like guests, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. There has never been a steal, a robbery. It used to be that the road was not left behind, and the night was not closed. At that time, he was praised as a ...... by the commander of Xianzhou"

"Can you get to the point? Chen Yunsheng couldn't help but interrupt the shopkeeper Gao's chatter.

The shopkeeper nodded and lowered his voice a little, as if he was afraid of being heard by others, "Every night, the children in this town disappear one after another, and most of these children are lost at night. Later, people took care of the children at home at night and did not let them go out, and the first two days were fine, and it seemed that no children were missing. ”

But then something even stranger happened, some of the town's children disappeared the next morning, even if they didn't go out at night, and the children seemed to disappear out of thin air. ”

"I asked a few villagers who had lost their children, and they said that they didn't hear anything at all, and they slept well, and basically the sky was bright as soon as they slept. The shopkeeper's brow condensed into a pimple.

"Didn't anyone see any strange phenomena in the town at night?" asked Chen Yunsheng.

"This ......" the shopkeeper pondered for a while, "Why not, the second king of our town who is on the shift has seen something, but unfortunately he has been frightened and gone crazy now, and he is a ghost and a demon all day long." As soon as he said this, the residents of the town were even more afraid to go out at night, and some of those with children at home had already packed their bags and went to other places to avoid the limelight. Hey, if this continues, this town will be deserted. The old face of the shopkeeper was full of sorrow and helplessness.