"Master, what do you think the fat monk did when he kidnapped those children?"

“...... Maybe take it and eat it. ”

"Huh?"

"Hehe..... a joke for the teacher. ”

"Then Master ..... said that he might be the apprentice of the old bald donkey, who is that old bald donkey?"

The night breeze blew through the foothills, and on the mountain path, a lantern hung in front of the donkey's head.

Stampede Tread......

The donkey's hooves took small steps, and by the dim light of the fire, he walked slowly and leisurely, and in a shake, the toad Taoist sat cross-legged in the cubicle with his flippers around his face, and turned his face to cover it.

"The old bald donkey is the old bald donkey, what do you do with so much ask?!"

"Ask, love to talk about it or not. Lu Liangsheng smiled and glanced at the cubicle.

The webbed toad crooked its mouth, turned back, closed its eyes and sighed.

"Alas, for the teacher in the world, no one can be beaten, but there are also a lot of enemies, one day, besieged by several sects, they were beaten back, but I don't want to meet an old monk of the Ten Thousand Buddha Temple, this old bald donkey is very good at the Ming Zun Demon Seal, but if it is not for the teacher......."

At this time, the anxious Taoist ran back from the direction of the inn in a rage, kicked a stone on the ground and smashed it on a tree on the side of the road.

Lu Liangsheng looked at him and asked, "Is the porridge mussy?"

"What a paste, the whole pot is gone. ”

The scholar was stunned for a moment, not far from the inn in front, let go of the reins and walked over quickly, and Honglian also floated away to see what the situation was.

The toad who stayed in the bookshelf compartment looked at the two people who ran to the inn, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly.

...... His mother, you let the teacher say it, but after listening to it, you will leave!!

On the side of the inn, the light of the bonfire was still shining from the door, but the few mountain bandits who had been fixed on the ground by Lu Liangsheng with a silver dual-purpose spell had been stripped naked, drenched in blood, and had been dead for a long time.

The two families in the corner of the wall have long been missing, but the footprints made by the blood on the ground are large and small, and it can be seen that they walked out of the door.

The two families killed the bandits on the ground, collected everything and fled.......

"This great drought has forced people into evil spirits. ”

This is Lu Liangsheng's most direct feeling, on the side, Nie Honglian pouted and snorted when he heard his words, and the scholar turned his face sideways and squeezed out a little smile.

"I didn't say you were a demon. ”

Only then did Honglian's expression loosen, and her pretty face skimmed to the side, and she snorted again with an unknown meaning.

Soon, Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist dragged the corpse in the inn out to bury it, cleaned up the blood stains on the ground, took dry food, barbecued with the stock in Sun Yingxian's leather bag, ate a few bites casually, and lay down on the long table to sleep.

The two of them are toads, both of them have cultivation, and the cold wind blowing does not have much effect on them.

The next day, I packed my bags early in the morning and continued to set off, changing to the past, I was originally going to have a breakfast, but now the time for eating is saved.

"It's a pity, that pot. ”

On the way, the Taoist never forgot to say two sentences, his own side to save people, turned back and was saved by the person who took it, this mood is both depressed and has nowhere to vent, change to a person with a bad character, I am afraid that I have chased out to catch and kill people.

Lu Liangsheng could only comfort him with two words, because of a great drought, the world in the northwest really became muddy, and black and white were unclear.

After going down the mountain road, his vision became broader, and along the official road, Lu Liangsheng used the method of blinding his eyes to avoid the places where the victims were concentrated, and followed the long dragon to find Liyang City.

According to what Sun Yingxian said before, the few cultivators who asked for rain earlier settled here, and after a while, there was no effect after all.

Approaching the city, there are people far and near, a part of the victims who are unwilling to leave their homeland and wait for the relief of the government gather outside the city gate, when Lu Liangsheng and the Taoist people passed, the people were noisy, followed by a commotion, the city gate was slightly opened, and it was the people of the government who came out to give porridge.

"Liyang is a big city, and it seems to be much better. ”

People squeezed over, Lu Liangsheng helped a child who was squeezed down up, and said softly to the Taoist next to him, and he was slightly relieved in his heart.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the soup kitchen, he entered the city and found a nearby inn, the Taoist first went to find the group of cultivators, and Lu Liangsheng washed up in the room, changed his clothes, and finally felt a lot more relaxed.

There were no other guests in the inn, and there was little food in the store, so all I could take out was a plate of pickled cabbage and two bowls of gruel.

Xiao Er, the shopkeeper wrapped in a green turban, also had a dish on his face, and after putting down the food, he was a little embarrassed to speak.

"This guest officer, there is only this little thing, don't dislike it, other inns and restaurants are like this, and all the inn meals and dishes in the city have basically been taken by the government to relieve the victims. ”

Lu Liangsheng picked up the chopsticks and paused twice on the table, and said with a smile: "It's not in the way, just stutter, you can go and get busy." ”

"What's going on there. ”

When the man saw that the scholar was talking, he leaned against the guardrail and shook the rag on his shoulder.

"Now I hope that when it rains, even if it snows, it will be done, and it will survive until the beginning of spring next year, the land will be moist, and you can grow some food to give people a way to live. ”

"God will never give you a dead end, maybe the dragon that is flying in the clouds and rain is already on its way. ”

Lu Liangsheng said some comforting words while eating, and mentioned the word dragon in his heart, and suddenly thought of the Pudu Cihang who was entrenched in the imperial city, if the other party turned into a dragon, would it be a good dragon or an evil dragon?

After a while, the scholar chuckled to himself with pickled cabbage, shook off this idea, and asked Xiao Er about some trivial matters in the city.

"How many people are there in the city right now?"

"I don't know, anyway, I left a lot last year, but they were all big families, and I was afraid that the government would make them bleed, so after sending a batch of food, I moved my family south. ”

Lu Liangsheng nodded, put down his chopsticks, and wiped his mouth with a handkerchief.

"Yes, if you have a family business, you naturally want to leave, but I don't know how many people have died in a year's drought, and how many people will be left. ”

The shopkeeper Xiao Er was too bored, and when he heard the scholar's melancholy, his words suddenly fell out.

"I don't know how much is left, but in the past year or two, there have been a lot of things about losing children and women. ”

Losing a child?

Lu Liangsheng withdrew his gaze from the sparsely populated street outside and looked at the guy.

"Lost often?"

"Sure, No, not long ago, the youngest son of a family on this street disappeared for no reason. Xiao Er looked left and right, approached the dinner table, leaned sideways, and whispered:

"Childe, let me tell you, don't tell people, one night, when I got up and went to the thatched house, I saw a few ghosts, holding the child and running across the street, you also saw it, this place is close to the city wall, the little one went out to see what was going on, those people were under the noses of the soldiers, through the city wall, there was no shadow, so frightened that I quickly covered my head and fell asleep. ”

Xiao Er didn't notice that Lu Liangsheng's eyes sank, and he was still saying:

"I've heard people from outside come back and talk about one thing, people often go missing in the disaster, but during the famine, whether they are missing or dead, it's a normal thing, and no one cares about it at all.......

As he spoke, the voice of the shopkeeper sounded on the first floor of the inn.

"Visitor, a few upstairs, please!"

The guy on the second floor stopped talking, smiled at Lu Liangsheng, and put the rag back on his shoulder.

"Childe slow down, I'll go down to greet the guests first. ”

Not long after he went down, he trotted up again, and behind him, Sun Yingxian led the four of them over.