The weather was gloomy, and after entering the boundary of Hezhou, it began to rain in the spring to cover the foothills.

On the muddy mountain road, the old donkey carried the bookshelf, happily stuck out his tongue to catch the falling rain, trampled on the thin mud shot out, and fell on the robes and shoes of the scholars next to him.

Lu Liangsheng lowered his gaze and glanced at it, and the bamboo slip rolled up in his hand knocked the old donkey away.

"Don't be impatient. ”

All the way out of Nawei Mountain Town, most of the way was spent walking slowly, taking care of Lu Pan and others behind him, by the way, looking at these three volumes of "Wanchuan Mountains and Rivers Soul Guardian Record", analyzing how many similarities there are with the Ten Thousand Souls Circle in "Mountains and Seas Boundless", after all, there are tens of thousands of magic immortals in the world, there are always people who think of one place, and it is not surprising that the same similar thing comes out.

And among these three volumes, as far as the first volume that Lu Liangsheng is currently reading, at least two of them are similar to the magic circle of "Boundless Mountains and Seas", this is still not finished, if you read all the first volumes, and then count the middle and lower volumes, I am afraid it will be more.

Then these three books are very problematic.

A drop of water stain fell on the tip of his nose, the scholar raised his face, looked at the mountains filled with moisture, and the eight people behind him were more than ten steps apart, so they slowed down and fell to the side of the bookshelf behind the old donkey.

"Master, counting the hour, this place should have entered the boundary of Hezhou, where is that Luohe Town, do you remember?"

In the swaying bookshelf compartment, the toad Taoist chose a small robe with flower sleeves, heard the words coming in, put it aside, hugged the rope around his waist, leaned against the swaying shelf wall, and glanced at the foothill scenery outside the gap through the small door.

"Where do you know the specifics for the teacher, who will remember the name of the place in anger, they all flew directly over, and landed in that town from the sky, but it is not far away, anyway, it is at the border of Hezhou, and you may be able to find .....it if you walk around."

"Master is so sure?"

"How can you talk nonsense for the teacher, think that at the beginning, for the teacher, you will fly to the sky and the earth, and one foot is the three mountains and five mountains......" The toad Taoist paused and said: "....... Well, it's better to find someone to ask for directions. ”

Asking for directions?

Lu Liangsheng turned his head, and in the master's eloquent voice, in the distance he looked at, there was faint green smoke rising on the mountainside.

Dense branches hung with rain dripping down the muddy mountain road, and there were small courtyards of thatched huts on the mountainside, smoke wafting on the roofs, and the voices of children standing on the steep slopes of the mountainside shouting the words of their father coming home for dinner.

The man who had answered the child cleaned up the mud of the hoe, carried the kettle and walked up the ridge, and heard a clanging brass bell.

The farmer with a straw hat turned around, at the end of the muddy loess mountain road, turned an old donkey and walked slowly, next to a scholar in a green shirt and white robe shook the reins in his hand, and a Taoist priest who didn't look like a good person ran around on both sides of the mud road, looking around, behind the two people and a donkey, followed by eight big men with open chests and dense black hair.

This group of people didn't look like good people, the farmer hurriedly picked up the hoe, turned around and walked in the direction of home, Lu Liangsheng, who came from a distance, saw the farmer carrying the hoe and walking up the ridge to the ramp.

"This big brother, can you ask for directions? ”

Hearing the words, the man carrying the hoe, more than thirty years old, saw the scholar led by the group of people under the field bowing his hand.

The peasant glanced at the eight fierce men behind him, squeezed out a smile, and put the hoe down.

"This son, what is the matter with me?"

Although there are brutal and fierce people in the mountains, there are also honest men, Lu Liangsheng saw that he was nervous, and probably guessed a little, smiled and politely said a few words to him, easing the atmosphere.

"People in Fushui County, Xiaqi Mountain, called the villagers, just to ask for directions. ”

It turned out to be asking for directions.....

The peasant breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and when he saw that the scholar spoke gently and politely, he also let down his guard and walked over: "I don't know where Gongzi is going?"

"Big brother should live here, I wonder if you have heard of a place called Luohe Town?"

The farmer was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

"I know where it is, but why is Childe going?"

Lu Liangsheng knew that it was slaughtered by the master at the beginning, and the whole town was gone, which must be appalling, and it was reasonable for the other party to show this expression.

"I just heard about the past and wanted to see it. ”

At this time, in the small courtyard of the grass hut on the steep slope, a child dangled two pigtails, jumped out and stood above and shouted again.

"Dad, hurry up and go home for dinner, my mother is about to get angry. ”

"Come on!"

The peasant turned around and shouted, and watched the little girl go back, then turned back, took off the straw hat from his head, squatted on the high ridge, approached the scholar below, and lowered his voice.

"Childe, I can't go there, I told my ancestors that overnight, a town of people died, and there was blood all over the ground, and even the corpses could not be found. ”

"Is Luohe Town still alive?"

"The people are long gone, the house is still there, but most of them have collapsed, overgrown with wild grass, I was curious when I was a child, I went to the same village with my friends once, or during the day, the wind is gusting, I always feel that there are eyes looking at you everywhere, so it's not scary!"

Seeing that the scholar's face showed no fear, the peasant stood up and pointed ahead.

"Since the son was going, I couldn't persuade him, so I walked along this road, and when I reached the bend, I turned north and turned the hill in front of me, and saw a road, and then I saw a stone tablet half buried in the earth, and that was there. ”

Lu Liangsheng thanked the peasant man, followed the direction of the other party's guidance, walked the dirt road, climbed the mountain, looked down high, in the dense forest gap, he could see several paths intertwined under the mountain, to the foot of the mountain, next to the intersection, the Taoist who walked in front found half of the stone tablet buried obliquely into the soil, leaving only Luo, and half of the river character outside, climbing moss and mud on it.

'It's probably ahead. ’

Along the road where the stele is located, almost half a pillar of incense, the outline of a town can be seen in the distance.

The sun is pouring down.

Lu Liangsheng walked in here with the Taoist and Lu Pan, and the houses were crooked, and the broken walls were sprinkled with broken bricks and tiles, mixed with the open space of falling off and broken bricks, and the grass was overgrown, and insects were singing.

"Good life. What are we going to do here? Catch ghosts or catch demons?"

Lu Pan was also tired of walking, put down the burden on his shoulders, and sat down with a pair of broken bricks and tiles, and the other seven people also nodded, looking around, all of them were in ruins.

"Are there acquaintances here?"

"It's estimated that it's enough, there's nothing here, and even if there are living people, it's estimated that they have all moved away. ”

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey and walked silently past the eight people over there, looking at the collapse of the surrounding houses, the beams and trees that had been brushed off were crooked on half of the wall, the broken window lattices were full of cobwebs and stroked in the wind, and the crows made strange noises from time to time, which made people panic.

The Taoist on the side pinched his fingers, and when he was patrolling around, Lu Liangsheng, who walked ahead, came to the open area of the town and stopped.

"Master, this is it, right?"

The old donkey, who was following behind, also stopped, and the bookshelf on one side opened the small door.

"Wait for the teacher to come down first....."

The toad man slid to the ground along the rope, uncovered the rope, took up his flippers and walked to the apprentice's side to stand still, raised the toad's face, looked around, and then slowly closed his eyelids, as if he had pieced together the original appearance of the town in his mind.

"It's here, there's a street under your feet, it's prosperous, and there's ..... over there"

The rounded webbed head pointed in one direction, and the courtyard wall covered with vines collapsed next to here, "That's the man's house, and the gate is still collapsed for the teacher." ”

Lu Liangsheng also looked at the ruins that Master pointed to and pursed his lips.

"Master is back, what do you feel?"

"What's the embarrassment? It's been many years, and the resentment of the early years is gone. The toad man lifted the hanging frog web, probably because he didn't want to look at it anymore, and turned his gaze in other directions.

Lu Liangsheng looked at the ruined walls reflecting the sun, and the weeds everywhere were desolate, and suddenly raised his hand to bow around, uncovered the robe, walked to the bookshelf, and changed into close-fitting clothes and pants.

"Scholar Lu, what are you doing here?" the Taoist came back from other places.

The scholar took off his robe, smiled at him, walked to the nearest ruin, and picked up a stone.

"Atonement. ”