In the land of Sichuan and Shu, the mountains on all sides are steep, it is difficult to climb over the steep foothills, and the rivers and rivers that flow against the river from east to west, and most boatmen are reluctant to cross the long peaks and gorges on both sides of the river, and there are many reefs at the bottom of the water.

And it was too late to go upriver to Hanchuan and then go to the hinterland of Xishu, so Lu Liangsheng still chose to enter Shu by land, from the hinterland of Nanchen to the west, after passing Xiangfan, it was already between the mountains of Sichuan and Shu.

At this time, the spring rain continues, and the muddy forests in the dense mountains and fields, on the mud roads in the mountains, the hoof prints are sold one after another towards the hills.

The old donkey carried the scholar sitting sideways, his tongue happily stretched out and retracted, and then the rain fell, and then, a frog flipper patted it, "Don't move!"

The toad Taoist held its long ears, controlled its balance, and looked around.

"Liangsheng, is this road going to Shuzhong?"

In the jingle bell and the copper bell, the old donkey went up the hillside, and the scholar on his back closed "The Boundless Mountains and Seas", waved the sleeves of his robe, swept away the falling raindrops, and looked at the master wearing a flower dress and short sleeves on the donkey's head.

"Master, don't you always overlook mountains and rivers?"

"Hmph, the teacher is older, and it is possible to see the difference. ”

As he spoke, the old man behind him poked a little bit on the ground with a wooden stick, carrying the raindrops that still fell into his slightly open eyes, stroked the white goat's whiskers, his lips moved quickly, he thought about it for a moment, and spoke again.

"Master, this road should be the road to Shu. ”

Soon, the spring rain for two consecutive days stopped in the forest, the sun broke through the clouds and cast the foothills, and for two days, a donkey and a toad rested and cooked under the trees next to the mountain road.

"Along this road, there are about more than 50 miles to Wanhe County, just enough to stay and rest. ”

Then his eyes fell on the half-blind king who was gnawing on the cake: "Can Chengen still go?"

"The disciple is also a cultivator, how can he not even walk this little way?" Wang Chengen swallowed the cake, laughed a few times, raised his white head, and looked out of the shade of the forest.

"Master, rest assured, Cheng'en will not slow down the journey. ”

The toad Taoist was holding a small bowl and drinking gruel, glanced at the old man, snorted, but did not speak.

Lu Liangsheng scooped a bowl of gruel and handed it to the half-blind, and he sat on the stone at will, drank a sip of porridge water, and suddenly stopped with his hanging arm, and faintly heard the sound of a car in his ears.

The king on the other side of the bonfire was half-blind, and his hearing was different from ordinary people, so he naturally heard it.

"Master, it seems that someone is passing through here, maybe it is a business trip. ”

Lu Liangsheng snorted, he thought so too, and not long after, the sound of people's shouting and whipping came from under the hill, like a wheel stuck in a mud pit.

"Work hard!" "One, two...... Go hard!"

"The push in the back, the horse can't pull it anymore. ”

"Simply unload the goods first, so that the carriage is light, so that we can go up, and when we get out of the mud pit and go up the hillside, we will load the goods again." ”

Hearing another shouting and neighing of pack horses, Lu Liangsheng walked to the edge of the hillside with a bowl, and saw two men below pulling the reins, or the rope on the cart, behind the carriage, there were two more people pushing, and on the cart, a pack horse wrapped in a turban shouted and waved a whip and kept pulling and pulling.

Listen to the accent, not from Shudi.

'There had just been a spring rain, and the road was soft and muddy..... It's kind of helping them. ’

Lu Liangsheng raised his right hand, and the wide sleeves brushed the carriage on the ramp below, and a gust of breeze swept slightly, and the four men who pulled the cart and pushed the cart suddenly felt relaxed.

"Hey, hold on!" "The horse is shocked!"

At this time, someone found a white-robed boy standing there on the hillside, his robe floating in the wind, and a bowl in his hand, which looked strange.

But still on the carriage to work, the pack horse will not go, the cart on the coachman is so frightened that he sweats profusely, slumps down and pans heavily, if the horse is frightened, panic and rush down the steep cliff of the hill, then this life is almost gone.

The four people at the bottom of the slope ran up at this time, and when they saw the coachman, the carriage was safely parked there, and they were also relieved.

"It's really blessed by the mountain god Grandpa. "Otherwise, I'm going to die." ”

"But it's really strange, I can't get up in the middle of the day, and I run uphill in the blink of an eye......"

After the four men and the coachman checked the goods, they remembered the son they had just seen, only to find that the other party had already sat under a tree on the side of the road in front of them, with a bonfire and an iron pot, and it could be seen that they were also in a hurry.

"Five bothered one-two. ”

When the five people came over with the carriage, Lu Liangsheng put down the dishes and chopsticks and got up with a smile and walked up to them, saluting them.

"Can you inquire below, Wanhe County can be passed by this road?"

The turning wheel slowed down, and the man who was driving the car on the side looked at the polite boy in front of him, and there was a blind old man next to him, as well as an old donkey, and he probably didn't think he was a wicked person.

He returned the salute and replied: "Exactly, Gongzi walks all the way from this road, which is Wanhe County, and he will be there in the afternoon." ”

"Those guys are also going to Wanhe County, right?"

Suddenly, an old voice sounded on the side, and the five people of the business traveler turned their heads to see that it was a blind old man with the scholar, his eyes were half-closed, and he was looking at the foothills and forests outside the hillside, and the white goatee was slightly caressing in the wind, quite a bit of fairy bones.

Originally, I wanted to reject the scholar's words, and I was a little hesitant.

"This old man looks like a master....." "That's right, just now our car fell into the pit, could it be this old man who casts immortal magic?"

"The bad guys can't see it. ”

"Anyway, it's just two people, so there's no need to hurt ....."

Listening to the five people talking for a while, Wang couldn't help but straighten up his half-blind body, and his eyes were even more mysterious.

"The old decay happens to know some strange skills, the fortune of a few people going out, I know at a glance, if you go to Wanhe County, you might as well take the decay, how about it?"

The five men looked at each other, and it was really nothing to bring an old man, and it could be counted as a hexagram, and the fortune of divination was not bad.

"Master, Cheng'en is in their carriage. ”

"Go, go, go. ”

Lu Liangsheng didn't have anything to care about, watched him get into the carriage, exchanged a few words with the five business travelers, got on the old donkey and followed them along the carriage, almost close to dusk, and arrived in Wanhe County.

The city wall that is not too high stretches on both sides of the city gate, and between the wall battlements, you can see soldiers in full armor patrolling past, not far from the city wall, the carriage coming from the official road stopped, and the king came down with a red smile on his face, and said goodbye to the five people, quite a master's demeanor.

"Remember the old words, don't drink for two days, and don't quarrel with anyone. ”

After hearing that the other party was leaving, he turned around and ran towards the old donkey nearby, took the wooden staff thrown by Lu Liangsheng with a smile, followed behind the donkey, and entered the city gate with the word 'Wanhe' written on it.

Relative to the silence of the forest, the city is lively and noisy, as if in a different world.

In the middle of the low eaves on both sides, the long street is bustling with pedestrians, stepping on the green and wet floor tiles, men accompanying their mother-in-law to walk through the streets, pushing the wheelbarrow, children look enviously at the roadside stalls inserting a row of colorful sugar people, the blue-background flags in the past, the noisy people in the tea shops, the guys carrying the long-spouted teapots, pouring a table of tea customers, walking to the door and shouting loudly in the unique dialect of Shu to attract passers-by on the street.

"Drink tea, Wanhe Xinpi honey tea, come to drink it, it's tight, the entrance is a little bitter, it's sweet, it's not good, I don't charge you Wenwenzi's money. ”

Accustomed to listening to the southern and northern dialects, as soon as he arrived in Shudi, hearing the words here, Lu Liangsheng felt a little big, and some words could still be heard clearly, but some unique words could not be solved by painting spells.

There are also Shu specialties on the street, leading the old donkey and the big apprentice to walk around the street, looking for an inn to enter, fortunately, the shop guy can speak southern dialect, so as not to let Lu Liangsheng and Wang Ban be blind.

He handed over the old donkey to the man and took him to the backyard to send samples, fed some fine food, and opened a two-bed room.

In the bookshelf, the toad man dragged the cigarette stick out of the small door of the cubicle, yawned, smacked his mouth, and drooped his eyes to look at the apprentice who made the bed.

"When are you going to eat?" and then order some Shu specialties and let the teacher taste them. ”

"Do you want to go down together?"

Lu Liangsheng laid out the quilt, waved away some dust that might exist on it, went over to wash his face, turned around and said, the toad climbed onto the bed, lay on it, rubbed the pillow with an arch and stretch, and raised his hand and shook it with the scholar on his back.

"If you don't go for the teacher, you don't have to scare others. ”

"What about Seung-eun?"

Looking at the other bed, Wang half-blindly hugged the quilt and had fallen asleep.

Lu Liangsheng shook his head, opened the door with a creak, and walked to the hall on the first floor.

"Guest officer, what do you order? Local cuisine, or hometown cuisine? We can cook it for you at home, I don't like many people, and I will serve it to you in the room later." ”

Remembering the master's advice just now, Lu Liangsheng sat down at a table next to him and said, "Try the dishes of Sichuan and Shu." ”

The guy was about to report the name of the dish, and suddenly at the gate opposite, another guy ran in panting with a basket of vegetables, went straight past Lu Liangsheng's table, and pointed to the shopkeeper who was dozing off with his chin on the counter, and pointed out the door while talking.

"Shopkeeper.... Plum..... Li Langzhong is back and is sitting in the hospital......"

The shopkeeper who was originally awakened wanted to get angry, but when he heard it, he lifted the hem of his robe and rushed to the backyard, Lu Liangsheng glanced at it with some curiosity, and asked the guy who went to report the name of the dish next to him.

"What's wrong with your shopkeeper?"

"It's not my shopkeeper, it's my shopkeeper's father who is sick. The guy put a rag on his shoulder, and said without much thought: "Li Langzhong is famous in our city, and he has good medical skills, and he was invited by the county guard to see a doctor a while ago, and now he has only come back, and the shopkeeper is in a hurry to take his father over to see a doctor." ”

"I see. ”

Lu Liangsheng nodded, after a while, the dishes were all ready, he asked the guy to go to the guest room for him, and he was also a little curious about Langzhong, so he inquired about the location of the clinic, followed the address that the guy said, the long street crowds came and went, and one side of the edge was full of people, among which many patients who coughed and groaned, their faces were pale, or their eyes were red and they were supported by their families, waiting for treatment outside.

It was originally not a strange scene, Lu Liangsheng frowned slightly, and the Xuanyuan sword scabbard on his waist as a hanging ornament was shaking.

He looked at the door of the medical hall and clearly felt a yin qi.

"A ghost?"

Under the cuffs, the two fingers together, the moment he pinched out the law, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind him.

"Lu Gongzi?"

Lu Liangsheng spread out his fingers, and when he turned around, he was dressed in black, with a sloppy beard, and two long knives crossed behind his back standing at the door of a shop.

The hat was raised slightly, and the face revealed was Zuo Zhengyang