The two brothers and sisters walked around the fairy shops at the Yuzhou Ferry, and spent half an hour shopping all the large and small fairy shops, all of which were missing, but none of the shops had quenched sword stones for sale.

Only then did Li Zijin realize how difficult it was to get the quenching sword stone.

I asked the little junior sister if she wanted to go to Yuzhou City, which is full of hot pot all over the mountains, there were still two and a half hours left, so she only had to rent two fast horses by the ferry, and it would take at most half an hour to come and go.

The two of them, brother and sister, still have two hours of kung fu to delay in the city.

It's enough to eat a hearty hot pot.

The girl in white who hadn't eaten the "seven up and eight down" hairy belly for a long time naturally kept nodding her head, and she was almost drooling.

The two spent two small full money, rented two fast horses from the shore, and rode to the nearby city of Yuzhou with a small stick of incense.

After arriving in Yuzhou City, Li Zijin dismounted and randomly found an old gentleman who looked older, he was playing music alone on the street, and the young man asked him if there was such a famous hot pot in the city.

Time is pressing, and it is too late to finish visiting Yuzhou City, so Li Zijin plans to eat the best.

Unexpectedly, the old gentleman laughed when he heard this: "Who doesn't know, Yuzhou is full of hot pots?

As he spoke, the old gentleman gave a thumbs up to his chest and praised their hot pot in Yuzhou City, which was all good.

The young man was dumbfounded, and could only thank the old gentleman, nodding and leading the horse away, his face full of doubt.

He did stop at the city's first restaurant.

When Fang was still across the street, he had already smelled a mellow fragrance from a long distance, and now that it was close, it was even more compelling, making people appetizing.

Then try it?

Then give it a try!

Li Zijin almost didn't hesitate, so he took the little junior sister into the backyard of the inn, and under the guidance of the shopkeeper, the two horses were temporarily tied to the stable.

The two brothers and sisters immediately went upstairs and sat down, habitually doing it on the edge of the second floor, facing the street, with good air and good scenery.

Needless to say, Li Zijin only said that his brother and sister made a special trip to eat hot pot, and asked the second junior of the shop to serve some dishes suitable for cooking hot pot at will, only saying that hairy belly must not be missing.

The little two is a person with vision, and he saw that the boy was wearing a sword and jade, dressed in brocade clothes, and had an extraordinary bearing.

I saw that the girl was peerless, with a graceful demeanor, a sword, a hosta, and a bookish face.

Xiao Er knew at a glance that these two were rare guests, so he naturally nodded and entertained thoughtfully, saying that the two guest officers like to eat hairy belly, and it just so happens that the two most famous signature hot pot dishes in the store are the same as the big knife waist slices, as thin as cicada wings, which melt in the mouth, and the other is the fine hairy belly, crispy and refreshing, full of chewiness.

Li Zijin smiled and nodded, the little two walked briskly, said to come when he went, and after a while, he took another handyman who ran to the hall, one holding a cauldron in his arms, and one holding a large plate with both hands on the left and right, full of dishes.

In addition, there are some local characteristics of Yuzhou City's fairy dishes, such as wonderful orchid, agarwood tofu, crispy beef hooves, flower fairy, etc., there are many kinds and too many to mention, and Li Zijin and Hongshao are dazzled.

The ingredients of the fairy family, into the hot pot of the world, are the combination of the fairy energy on the mountain and the fireworks in the world.

This hot pot tastes very good, as the old gentleman who played music alone on the side of the street said, the first hot pot in the city is this kind of taste, and this is just a hot pot restaurant at the foot of the mountain.

What if it's halfway up the mountain, what if it's at the top of the mountain?

A hot pot is not expensive, even if it is near the Xianjia Ferry, but in the end this city is still a mortal residence, even if those Xianjia ingredients are used, when the final account is settled, it is nothing more than eating a golden branch and jade leaf, this price is sky-high in the mortal world, but it is cheap in the mountains.

When leaving this hot pot restaurant, the shopkeeper also made a special trip to chase him out of the restaurant, carrying a pot of wine in his hand, and forced it into Li Zijin's hand, saying that it was the rule of the store, and anyone who ate a gold leaf had to give the other party a pot of Xianjia wine.

Li Zijin refused, seeing that the shopkeeper looked anxious, and said that the shopkeeper had explained, if he couldn't send it out, he would teach him to look good, so the young man had no choice but to accept the pot of Xianjia wine.

The shopkeeper smiled and turned to leave.

Li Zijin opened the wine jug and smelled it, the aroma was strong enough, but it was not like a spirit, but it was like a light wine that was more suitable for women to eat, and there was a fragrance of flower tea in it.

It was still the old gentleman who was playing music alone on the side of the road, and when he saw the young man and girl coming and going in a hurry, he picked up a piece and asked with a smile: "Housheng, how does the hot pot taste in the restaurant?"

Li Zijin waved at the old gentleman and said, "It tastes very good, what Mr. said is true." ”

The old man dropped down and nodded, "That's good." What you are holding in your hand, called fairy drunk, is the fairy wine, quite popular with the fairies of the variety, the taste is light, heavy aroma and light wine, after eating, such as bathing in the fragrant bath, the body can linger for three days The fragrance of flowers does not disperse, it is a good object for gifts. ”

Li Zijin was stunned, and he didn't understand the meaning of the old gentleman's words at first.

Seeing that the old gentleman was so anxious that his beard was curled, he hurriedly mentioned the young man and said, "Ahem, old man, I happen to be going to a friend's house later in time, and it is inconvenient to go empty-handed." ”

The meaning of these words could not be more obvious.

No matter how obvious it is, you can't hang it on your face.

Li Zijin smiled and casually gave the pot of fairy drunk to the old man, "If Mr. likes it, I will give it to you." ”

Anyway, he doesn't like this kind of light wine, and the little sister is also a person who can't get drunk, although the Xianjia wine is good, it is also chicken ribs to stay in his hands, it is better to give it to this amiable old gentleman, after all, he has also inherited the "guiding feelings" of others.

got a pot of fairy drunk, the old man smiled and said hello three times, Li Zijin took Hong Shao to say goodbye, got on the horse and returned to Yuzhoudu.

Only at the moment when the two of them left the city, the old man in the city drove the colorful clouds, carried a pot of fairy drunkenness, and flew away.

When he returned to the iQue ferry, there was still half an hour left in the three hours that Xu Xi's steward said, but Li Zijin and Hong Shao were already the latest guests to return to the ferry.

Therefore, after the brother and sister returned to the ship, the fugue went off the shore and ascended to the sky.

After visiting the fairy shop at the ferry, Li Zijin and Hong Shao had not yet visited the fairy shop on the ferry, but when the young man proposed to take the little junior sister to walk around on the ferry, the latter waved his hand and said that he was tired today, so he had to go back to rest first and let Li Zijin go shopping by himself.

The young man was not easy to force, thinking about it, he went to the bustling streets and alleys on the ferry, trying to buy a quenching sword stone for the little junior sister.

The two brothers and sisters went their separate ways on the 10th floor of the iQue Ferry, one went back to the room, and the other entered the bustling long street.

Naturally, he didn't know that Hong Shao was in a hurry to go back and thread the needle and thread to make shoes for him.

The young man carried a sword behind his back, hung a jade plaque and a wine gourd on his waist, and climbed the stairs alone.

After nightfall, the lights come on.

The iQue Ferry is also like a small city, even much more prosperous than small cities like Jinhuai City and Hongzhou City.

Lively place, the world is the same, and the "city" is naturally indispensable in the gentle township of Goolan tile.

All the way is like a horse watching the flowers, all kinds of fairy shops are full of goods, and Li Zijin is dizzying.

The boy finally found a "serious" seller of fairy items from a bunch of fairy shops.

I went in and asked, if there was a quenching sword stone for sale, but it was directly blasted out by the shopkeeper, saying that if you don't buy anything, don't come to smash the field.

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Li Zijin was full of question marks.

It just so happened that the ferry steward, Xu Xi was also wandering on the long street, and the two looked at each other like this, Xu Xi took the lead in asking, "Why is Gongzi Li sad?"

The young man asked, "Dare to ask Steward Xu, on the iQue ferry, is there a quenching sword stone for sale?"

Xu Xile sighed, "Isn't that nonsense?"

Li Zijin was overjoyed and hurriedly said, "Of course there is?"

Xu Xi said: "Of course not. ”

Li Zijin rolled his eyes, Bai was happy, he was unwilling, and asked again: "Is this quenching sword stone really so difficult to get?" Now that he was on the ship, Steward Xu said that he couldn't buy it on the ship. The iQue Ferry is the largest of the Xianjia ferries that I have ever ridden. If you can't even buy the quenching sword stone here, where can you sell it?"

Xu Xi frowned slightly, glanced at the sword behind the young man, and asked, "Li Gongzi is really a sword cultivator?"

Li Zijin nodded, "Otherwise?"

"Sword cultivation still doesn't know how difficult it is to quench the sword stone? Li Gongzi is like this, which makes Xu feel that it is difficult to do it. Xu Xi quipped.

The boy didn't fight anywhere, turned around and left.

I didn't think that the ferry steward stopped him, and said with a smile: "What is Li Gongzi anxious about." The iQue ferry can't be bought, doesn't it mean that Xu doesn't know where to find the quenching sword?"

The young swordsman glanced at him, not daring to expect anything.

Xu Xi then smiled and said, "As a sword cultivator, did Li Gongzi ever hear of the 'Secret Realm of Mountains and Rivers' when he was wandering the rivers and lakes?"

When Li Zijin heard this, he became interested and asked, "Steward Xu is talking about 'Cave Heaven and Blessed Land'?"

The ferry steward shook his head, first looked left and right, then pointed to a teahouse, and said, "It's noisy on the street, why don't we go to the teahouse and talk about it, and wait for me and Li Gongzi to talk slowly?"

That's fine, Li Zijin nodded in agreement. The two immediately entered the teahouse, and the teahouse junior recognized Xu Xi and hurriedly called the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse is a plump middle-aged woman, with the posture of a middle-aged person, who can't stand up to an excellent figure, and knows how to dress up, full of charm, alias Lu Sanniang, the third in the family, and surnamed Lu, so he got this number.

Lu Sanniang recognized Xu Xi, and saw that there was a young swordsman in brocade clothes beside him, guessing that the young swordsman was not small, so he personally poured tea for the two.

When a woman bends down to pour tea, it is natural to avoid a number of ups and downs, a rare beautiful scene.

That Xu Xi is an old and serious person, how can he not squint.

He stared at the woman's chest almost all the time.

On the other hand, the young swordsman in brocade clothes is not very good, his head is about to be broken, but how he turns his head, then Lu Sanniang seems to be deliberately leaning in which way.

Xu Xi picked up the teacup and looked at Lu Sanniang, who was pouring tea for Li Zijin, with a playful smile.

The young man couldn't avoid it, and finally couldn't help it, put his hand on his teacup, and said, "Enough is enough." ”

Fortunately, Lu Sanniang's eyes were quick and she stopped her hand in time, so she didn't burn the brocade-clothed young swordsman, she complained with a sad face: "This son, how can you take this hot tea with the palm of your hand, this is unbelievable! If the tea is enough, just inform me, if I accidentally burn the son, I don't want to be embarrassed." ”

Li Zijin smiled awkwardly: "Yes, yes, it's hard work." ”

Xu Xi couldn't help but smile, and relieved the young man: "Okay, Sanniang, busy with your go, I have important things to talk about with this guest." ”

That Lu Sanniang threw a wink at the ferry steward, and said amorously: "Ouch, Steward Xu has not been in Sanniang's shop for a long time, it's easy to come once, and I won't notify Sanniang, if I hadn't notified me later, Sanniang wouldn't have known that Steward Xu was coming." ”

Li Zijin was dumbfounded, thinking about your guy's plan, called Wangcai?

This name is absolutely amazing.

Xu Xi coughed, and said: "It's that Xu didn't act well, and the next time I come, I will personally inform Sanniang." ”

When Lu Sanniang heard this, she smiled, twisted her waist, and left slowly with a teapot, and didn't forget to turn around and "smile" at the two of them when she left.

Xu Xi turned his head and smiled helplessly: "Women are trouble, right?"

The young man didn't speak, but after thinking about it, he said, "Not all women are troublesome, are they?"

The ferry steward smiled meaningfully, and did not insist on separating himself from a young man on the subject of women.

After all, at his age, he argues with young people like a man can't argue with a woman.

If a man quarrels with a woman, even if he wins, he loses.

Xu Xi took a sip of tea and said, "Let's stop talking about women, let's get down to business." ”

The brocade-clothed young swordsman had a speechless look on his face, and he didn't say that he wanted to talk about women?

Xu Xi said: "The cave heaven blessed land that Li Gongzi just said is rare in the world, and there are naturally not a few magic weapons of chance, but most of the cave heaven blessed land in the world has been occupied by the mountain immortal sect and secular dynasties, and has become their respective 'back garden', and it is almost impossible for ordinary casual cultivators to get a piece of the pie and ask for opportunities."

Some of the owners of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land have a lot of energy, and they are willing to collect immortal money from the Qi Refiners in exchange for their 'tickets' to enter the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, and if they get an opportunity from it, they will be taken away by them. But some owners of the Cave Heaven Blessed Land regard the Cave Heaven Blessed Land under their name as a forbidden place, and it is impossible for others to touch it. ”

Li Zijin drank tea slowly, nodded and said, "This is understandable." ”

Xu Xi said: "The 'Secret Realm of Mountains and Rivers' mentioned by Xu is actually not so many opportunities and magic weapons compared to the blessed land. But these secret realms of mountains and rivers are not the territory of an immortal sect or a secular dynasty on a certain mountain, they do not belong to anyone, they may appear in this state today, and they will migrate to that state tomorrow for some reason. The positions are not fixed, and naturally it is impossible for someone to guard them all the time. It is also called a secret realm because these secret landscapes come and go without a trace. ”

Li Zijin was very interested, and said with a few words: "But the reason why Steward Xu mentioned the secret realm of mountains and rivers must be that there must be a way to find them, right?"

Xu Xi smiled and said, "Xu doesn't have such a big ability, but ······ Among the qi refiners on the mountain, there is indeed a kind of qi refiner who is proficient in this way. They are good at the art of the dragon, dividing gold and setting acupoints, and it is said that they can judge the dragon veins with a compass in one hand, which can be regarded as feng shui. ”

Li Zijin blurted out: "What Steward Xu said, isn't it that Qimen Dunjia cave walker?"

When I was young, I read a few books about cave walkers in the county guard's mansion, and I only knew that they were good at robbing tombs, but I never thought that the so-called cave walkers, the caves they walked, turned out to be more than just tombs?

The books that Li Zijin read at that time did not mention that the cave walkers were a side branch of the qi refiners, and the young man thought that they were just ordinary people.

Xu Xi shook his head and said, "What Li Gongzi said is both right and wrong. The so-called cave walkers, tomb robbers are just one branch of it, and the cave walkers who are serious and focused on the secret realm of mountains and rivers, the ancient battlefield, and most of them disdain to dig people's ancestral graves. ”

Li Zijin said: "Mr. Xu knows the cave walker, and wants him to take me into the secret realm of mountains and rivers to find the quenching sword stone?"

"Yes, the quenching sword stone is not easy to find in the world, but in the secret realm of mountains and rivers and the blessed land of the cave, there is a great opportunity. It's just that the threshold for entering the Cave Heaven Blessed Land is higher, and the fight is fierce, with Li Gongzi's current realm, entering the Cave Heaven Blessed Land, not to mention the gains, not to mention, there is a possibility of dying in it.

It is better to enter the secret realm of mountains and rivers with the help of cave walkers, and there are also many opportunities, and you can't say that you can find one or two quenching sword stones. Xu happened to have such a friend who walked the cave, and he could introduce Li Gongzi, as for whether that person was willing to help, I can't guarantee it. Xu Xi said eloquently.

After thinking about it for a while, Li Zijin asked: "This is natural, Steward Xu is willing to recommend, which is already a great help in the next day, and he doesn't dare to ask for more." Dare to ask Mr. Xu's friend, what is his surname?"

The ferry steward smiled and said, "My friend's name is Xing Shen. If you can trust Xu, I will send a message to that friend in a few days. ”

Li Zijin said: "But my sister and I are going to Sangrou Prefecture on this trip. ”

Xu Xi said: "Xing Shen is also in Sangro Prefecture. ”

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Time flies on the iQue Ferry.

Two months passed in a flash, and Li Zijin and Hong Shao came to Sangro Prefecture in a blink of an eye.

On the young man's feet, he was wearing a pair of brand-new cloth shoes, in fact, Hong Shao had already embroidered those cloth shoes, but he had always been embarrassed to give them to his senior brother.

It wasn't until she was about to get off the boat that the girl mustered up her courage.

At that time, she held the cloth shoes high, lowered her head and closed her eyes and frowned, as if it was a matter of life and death, afraid that she would get a glimpse of the door for the first time in needlework, and the shoes she made would not be in line with her brother's wishes.

Who knew that as soon as Li Zijin took the cloth shoes from her, he was amazed, and he put them on at that time, praising the girl's good craftsmanship, and she would definitely not worry about getting married in the future, and said that when Hongshao reached her age, she would definitely check it for her personally.

After bidding farewell to Xu Xi, the steward of the iQue ferry, the senior brother and sister were at the Xianjia Ferry, waiting for one person.

The man had received a flying sword message two months ago, and a few days later he replied, promising to come down, and saying that he would personally pick up Li Zijin at the ferry at that time.

When the spring flowers bloom, the scenery by the ferry is pleasant, the sea and the sky are connected behind you, and there are thousands of pear blossoms in front of you.

There are talented and beautiful women who chant poems, and there are fairy couples who travel in the clouds.

The scenery of Sangro Prefecture, compared with the barrenness of Honghu Prefecture, is like an unknown village in the depths of the mountains to the bustling capital in an instant, with a sharp contrast.

Being in Sangrou, the boy seems to be able to clearly perceive the abundant aura of heaven and earth with every breath.

Practicing in this state must be twice the result with half the effort.

Just when Li Zijin closed his eyes and felt the comfort of the spring flowers, the two of them came to him.

A blind Taoist with a rickety figure carrying a basket behind him, and the contents of it made a loud noise,

Beside the blind Taoist, there was a beautiful girl, with a slender posture and a gentle posture, and she was also not idle on her back, carrying a bamboo basket, but in the bamboo basket, it was different from the basket with miscellaneous objects behind the Taoist.

Among the girl's bamboo baskets, there was only one thing, which covered the entire bamboo basket.

The yellow paper talismans were stacked on top of each other, and they were two feet high.

"Childe's surname is Li?" the beautiful girl took a step forward and asked softly.

The young man opened his eyes, looked at the two of them, and nodded slowly, "It's down, I don't know who the girl is?"

The girl smiled and said, "The slave's name is Zhuang Die, and the one behind her is my master, and he is also a friend of the Xuxi steward of the iQue ferry. That letter, or the slave and maid do it for the master. ”

Li Zijin suddenly realized, presumably the blind Taoist behind the girl was Xu Xi's cave walker friend, Xing Shen.

He smiled and said: "It was the girl who did it for me, I said that the handwriting is beautiful and elegant, unlike the man's handwriting, the girl's handwriting is really good." ”

Zhuang Die gave Li Zijin a blessing and said with a smile: "Childe is smiling." ”

Li Zijin returned the salute with a fist at the girl.

Although the man was blind, Li Zijin also bowed to him and said: "Under Li Zijin, this is my junior sister next to me, named Hong Shao, who has seen Xing's seniors." ”

The blind Taoist smiled and "looked" at the girl in white, nodded and praised: "It's a beautiful embryo, Zhuang Die, look at others, and then look at you, it's really embarrassing." ”

Li Zijin was stunned, turned his head to look at the girl named Zhuang Die, and asked suspiciously: "This?"

Before Zhuang Die could speak, Xing Shen smiled and said: "The old man is blind but not blind in his heart, how can he see people clearly with his heart?"

Li Zijin nodded and said, "What the predecessors said is very true. ”

Although the senior brother had already explained that the more capable the immortal, the more eccentric the temper might be, but Hong Shao looked at that Xing Shen, he was still a little panicked, his vest was cold, and he involuntarily leaned towards the senior brother, who patted her on the shoulder and reassured her that it didn't matter.

Zhuang Die was counted down by his own master, but his face never changed, and on the side of his body, he made way to the young girl, spread out one hand, and said: "Li Gongzi, Miss Hongshao, it's getting late tonight, it's better to go to the house to rest for the night." Recharge your energy, and wait for tomorrow morning to discuss the matter of the secret realm of mountains and rivers?"

Li Zijin nodded and said: "It's better to be respectful than to obey your fate, everything is arranged by Senior Xing." ”

When passing by the blind Taoist, the young man also asked him if he needed to help him carry the basket, but Xing Shen smiled and waved his hand and said: "The old man can see the road clearly, maybe, you can see the road ahead better than the boy, how to go?"

The man smiled meaningfully and walked forward.

Zhuang Die gave Li Zijin an apologetic look, saluted again, and then hurriedly followed Xing Shen.

"Senior brother, that blind man is not like a good man, and besides, is he really blind? Hong Shao was a little worried.

Li Zijin shook his head and said: "Hong Shao, don't be rude, the monks on the mountain, there are many people with eccentric personalities, and not all good people and evil people are written on their faces, otherwise wouldn't everyone stay away from the wicked, and how could they be harmed by evil? That senior Xing Shen, who is a friend of Steward Xu, is worthy of our trust." In the future, you must not judge people by appearance. ”

The girl nodded slightly.

The two brothers and sisters followed Xing Shen and Zhuang Die and stayed in Xingfu.

However, Li Zijin was chewing on Xing Shen's last sentence, and he always felt that the "road ahead" mentioned by Xing's predecessor did not refer to the road to the secret realm of mountains and rivers.

Where is the road?