On the way back to the mountain, Xiahou Lingyu asked with a smile: "Master, how did your old man know that the old ghost would definitely destroy that rice field? If it were me, I wouldn't have guessed!"

Wuxuan Zhenren laughed, with a smug face, "That old ghost is a person in the devil's way, moody, you don't let him do anything, he wants to do it, so the teacher deliberately invited him to the cliff halfway up the mountain to do it, and told him, don't ruin the farmer's harvest for a year, that old ghost must want to destroy that land! Fortunately, the teacher has taken precautions in advance, just don't let this old ghost succeed, the old ghost doesn't know what the plan is, and he will naturally go home after taking advantage!"

Wuxuan Zhenren suddenly made a bitter face, pinched his fingers, and counted, "It's bad, that old ghost guessed the teacher's thoughts, and killed a horse pistol, and really destroyed the rice field, sin, sin! Disciples, you go back to the mountain first, and go to see for the teacher." As he spoke, he turned into a rainbow light and went straight to the rice field. Xiahou Lingyu and Chen Yushu looked at each other and smiled, Master must be able to handle this matter properly, just go back to the mountain first.

On the edge of the rice field, Wuxuan Zhenren squatted on the ground with a bitter face, pointed at the old devil with dry bones with a whisk, and said angrily: "Old ghost, our two old guys are six or seven hundred years old together, and they are just doing it, talking and laughing and playing, but why do you bother this farmer's family, causing him to have no harvest and no grain to eat this year? Although you are cultivating the Demon Dao, you will also suffer retribution, harm others and yourself, why bother?"

The old devil with dry bones sneered, "Wuxuan, you stinky Taoist priest wants to play this kind of trick with the old man, and you are still a little tender! The reason why the old man took action to destroy this rice field is not because of the farmer, but because of you! If you deceive the old man, the old man will not let you have a good time! Don't you have the ability? Come on, come on, if you have the ability to restore this rice field to its original state, the old man will never come to harm this land again!"

Wuxuan Zhenren smiled bitterly: "Old ghost, why are you doing this? You know that the poor Dao does not have the ability to bring the dead back to life, and if the poor Dao has that ability, there is no need to practice hard in the Tongtian Temple! You demon Dao guys are really incredible, and they are so happy to do things that harm others and themselves!"

The old devil with dry bones sat on the edge of the field, looked at the rice fields that had been burned to the scorched earth, and said disdainfully: "Since you practice the Demon Dao, it must be a disaster to others to have fun, like you stinky Taoist priests, meditate every day to participate in Zen and enlightenment, boring to death, the old man disdains to do it." As for saying that those of us who have fallen into demons will inevitably go to hell in a hundred years, the old man has already thought about it, this is the same as the principle of repaying debts, the old man is willing!

Wuxuan Zhenren just shook his head, sighed, thought about it, stood up and left, and said angrily as he walked: "Old ghost, this kind of thing that harms others and is not beneficial to oneself cannot be done by poor Taoism, and poor Taoist apprentices can't do it!"

Seeing that Wuxuan Zhenren left angrily, the old devil with dry bones sat on the edge of the field and laughed, laughing and shedding tears, "Wuxuan, let you play clever again!" The old man knows that you are an old boy with a thief's eyebrows, and he must have hidden his careful eyes, but the old man will not let you get what you want!

The old devil stood up, patted the dust on his buttocks, and walked away with a black bamboo cane. After he left, it was about time for a cup of tea, and the rice field was green again. Wuxuan Zhenren, who was standing on the edge of the field, smiled: "Old ghost, you guy with a small belly, we have been fighting for so many years, when have you really won?

It was past noon, Zhongyuan Road, going to the official road to Zijunzhou, slowly walked one person and one ride. Tang Jiusheng sat on the back of the inferior horse, dozing off tiredly, the inferior horse was hungry and thirsty, and his steps were heavy. I didn't expect that it was only three or four days away from Shou'an County, and the two sides of this official road were as desolate as if they had gone through a war.

Tang Jiusheng walked more than a hundred miles, and he had already seen the towering Zijun Mountain in the distance. But except for a few abandoned market towns and villages on the side of the road, there was no population at all, and the desolate official roads and the occasional green trees on the roadside made Tang Jiusheng almost doubt his life.

Finally met the convoy of pedestrians coming from the opposite side, Tang Jiusheng asked these people, where is the next place where people can live, the team of pedestrians said that they are here to mine, someone told Tang Jiusheng, the next set

The town is still a hundred miles away. Tang Jiusheng was a little puzzled, how could the two market towns be so far apart?

Later, he met an enthusiastic young man who told Tang Jiusheng that this official road had been abandoned, and Tang Jiusheng suddenly realized that he had taken the wrong path! Tang Jiusheng jumped off the horse, took off his burden and carried it behind him, and led the tired inferior horse forward slowly. The inferior horse suddenly lost a lot of weight and walked a little brisker.

Tang Jiusheng saw a clear river a hundred steps away from the official road, so he led the bad horse over and drank the hungry and thirsty bad horse first. The bad horse drank enough water, and snorted with satisfaction to thank Tang Jiusheng, Tang Jiusheng patted the bad horse's neck with a smile, and said to himself: "Man, there are still a hundred miles to go, you have to hold on!"

Tang Jiusheng walked a few steps upstream, drank some water, washed his face, and then filled the water bladder with water, lay on the pebbles by the river, pillowed his burden, rested on his back to the sky, and let the bad horse gnaw some grass by the river, it couldn't walk without filling its belly, and it couldn't carry it on its own.

There were slightly thin clouds in the sky, blocking the scorching sun, Tang Jiusheng, who was lying by the river, listened to the sound of the river, sniffed the moisture of the river, and squinted his eyes, Tang Jiusheng heard an eagle's chirp, turned his head sideways and saw Xiaoqing hovering in mid-air, Tang Jiusheng smiled, this little guy has been with him for a long time, and he has worked hard.

Tang Jiusheng suddenly noticed that Xiaoqing's posture was a little wrong, as if someone was coming from the official road in front of him. Tang Jiusheng sat up and looked at the official road, only to see five horses running over from afar, running all the way to smoke and dust. When the five horses ran closer, Tang Jiusheng found that the five rough men on horseback were indeed not quite right, and all five of them were carrying sabers.

The weather was hot, and there were two men who were shirtless, one with several black snakes tattooed on his body, and the other with a vicious cyan wolf head tattooed on his body. Looking at this posture, these people are by no means officers and soldiers, and nine out of ten are horse bandits.

The horse bandit with the snake tattoo on his body saw the river, the bad horses grazing by the river, and Tang Jiusheng sitting by the river. The horse bandit with the snake tattoo on his body laughed and said: "Hahaha, brother, do you see, there is a little white face there! He also has a horse, this is a fat sheep, brother, I haven't opened meat for a few days, it should be good to vent the fire with this kid with fine skin and tender meat!"

A few horse bandits laughed loudly, and the horse bandits with wolf heads teased: "Old bear, you take it easy, in case someone is a master, you will let the family get it again! When you cry with pear blossoms and rain, my brother will sing to you that the garden flowers are blooming!" The men laughed and leaned back.

The snake tattooed bear surnamed Ma Bandit was also amused, and scolded, "Get out of your way! Be careful that Lao Tzu will deal with you now! Just such a weak little white face, just go to any person, and you can get him with half of your body." ”

The horse bandit surnamed Xiong urged the horse to get off the official road, and went straight to Tang Jiusheng, these days the official army has been escorting pedestrians on the official road from time to time, they have not opened for six or seven days, today they forked into the abandoned official road, thinking if they could meet an unlucky guy who took the wrong road, the emperor lived up to his painstaking efforts, and finally met such a lonely unlucky ghost, how could he let go of such a fat sheep!

Tang Jiusheng saw this man with a cruel smile on his face, and rode over to him, Tang Jiusheng deliberately made a look of being ignorant when he had just entered the rivers and lakes, that Xiong surnamed Ma Bandit was very happy, it turned out to be a chick, it would be better to do it! The Xiong surnamed Ma Bandit approached Tang Jiusheng ten steps, stopped his horse, pulled out his saber, and shouted loudly: "Hey, boy, how much silver is on you, hurry up and hand it over! Otherwise, the uncle will kill you immediately!"

Tang Jiusheng nervously hugged his burden, and asked in a trembling voice: "What are you going to do? I'm going to call someone! Help, help! Someone is robbing!"

The four horse bandits on the official road laughed, and the horse bandits with wolf heads tattooed on their bodies coaxed: "Old bear, can you do it? Don't shout for a while, really call the officers and soldiers, we can only run for our lives!"

The horse bandit surnamed Xiong ignored the ridicule of the tattooed wolf-headed horse bandit, and sneered at Tang Jiusheng: "Boy, in this wilderness, it's useless for you to shout out your throat!

Tang Jiusheng was stunned

He stood up tremblingly and said, "Big brother, big brother, don't kill me, don't kill me, did I give you the burden, you won't kill me?"

The horse bandit surnamed Xiong laughed sneeringly, "Hey, hey, you little look of fine skin and tender meat, the uncle is reluctant to kill you immediately, how can I make the uncle feel good!"

Tang Jiusheng nodded and said, "As long as you don't kill me, it's all easy! I have more than three hundred taels of silver in my baggage!" As he spoke, he threw the burden in his hand at the horse bandit surnamed Xiong. When the horse bandit heard that the burden was more than 300 taels of silver, he was really overjoyed, but he didn't expect that this sheep was really fat!

The burden flew towards the horse bandit surnamed Xiong, and it suddenly accelerated in the air, roaring, and the momentum was fierce. The horse bandit surnamed Xiong reacted quickly enough, and suddenly leaned back, flat on the horse's back, and the burden flew over with the tip of his nose. The horse bandit surnamed Xiong was taken aback, oops, what a point! The horse bandit just straightened his waist, and the burden drew a graceful arc in the air, and without warning, he flew back again, and directly knocked the horse bandit surnamed Xiong off the horse!

Tang Jiusheng sneered, slowly walked to the side of the horse bandit surnamed Xiong who fell off the horse, and picked up his saber that had landed, the horse bandit surnamed Xiong looked frightened, and involuntarily lay on the ground and fell backwards. The four of them who were watching the excitement on the side of the road reacted instantly, and I was really a master! The four of them pulled out their sabers and shouted to kill them, hundreds of paces away, and they arrived in the blink of an eye. Four sabers glittering with cold light slashed down from four different angles.

Tang Jiusheng waved his hand casually, and the three sabers landed with three hands, the speed of the knives was too fast, and when the three people who were cut off reacted, blood had already spurted out from their wrists, and the three of them yelled in pain, and the horse bandit surnamed Xiong lying on the ground had a face like earth, but he immediately reacted, and immediately knelt on the ground, kowtowing like pounding garlic, "Shaoxia spare his life, Shaoxia spare his life!"

Tang Jiusheng, who was expressionless, stabbed the horse bandit surnamed Xiong who was kneeling in front of him with a knife, and then swept up, the saber was rounded, and more than an inch of knife qi spread from the knife body, cutting down the three disabled horse bandits from their horses. The horse bandit with the wolf's head tattooed was like a ghost, shouted, turned around and slapped the horse and wanted to escape. Tang Jiusheng threw the saber in his hand like a spear, and the saber pierced the horse from tail to head, directly penetrating.

The horse fell violently, and threw the man with the wolf's head tattooed on his body off the horse, and the man was defenseless, and was immediately thrown to the ground. Tang Jiusheng slowly walked in front of the man with the wolf head, bent down, stepped on his face with his foot, and asked with a gloomy face: "Are you the five ghosts of the Central Plains?

The horse bandit with a wolf's head tattooed on his body howled: "Shaoxia spare his life!

Tang Jiusheng smiled quietly, "That's right, there is a wrongdoer, there is a debtor, finally let me meet you!

The horse bandit surnamed Qiu shouted, "Shaoxia spare your life, we only heard that there will be any princess of Pingxi to cross the border in the past few days, the government has sent many officers and soldiers to maintain law and order on the official road, we can't start on the official road, so we have to try our luck on this deserted official road!"

"Oh, I see. Tang Jiusheng picked up the saber of the man surnamed Qiu, and asked with a chuckle, "Do you know why I want to kill you?" The horse bandit surnamed Qiu shook his head in fear.

Tang Jiusheng said in a deep voice: "A few months ago, a few of you robbed people on the official road, among the robbed people, one of them was named Gao Chongyang, and the other was called Sun Jiangdong, and the dozen servants they brought were all hacked to death by you, and my two friends fought to the death with you, and they were both injured, but fortunately, there were passing officers and soldiers to help, and my two friends were able to escape with the two girls, and I came to help them avenge!"

Tang Jiusheng slowly stabbed the saber into the chest of the horse bandit surnamed Qiu, and watched him die in horror. I searched the bodies of several horse bandits, and found a few hundred taels of silver tickets and some scattered silver, as well as a few pieces of gold and jade. Tang Jiusheng smiled slightly, and said to himself: "Not bad, yes, I made an unexpected little fortune!"

Tang Jiusheng walked over and picked up his baggage, whistled, and the inferior horse ran over. Tang Jiusheng turned over and got on his horse, beat his horse and left the river, got on the official road, and walked slowly in the direction of Zijunzhou.

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