After the flames soared into the sky, the evil ghost completely disappeared from Zhuge Chen's sight. Along with it, there was also the Linglong Tower, and Zhuge Chen was able to see the light of day again.

Zhuge Chen, who had been exhausted after a hard battle, panted on the stone grinding plate at the entrance of Shiqiao Village, grinned and said to himself: "It's really difficult to deal with, fortunately, there is a picture scroll given by the city god, otherwise you can't wrestle with the evil ghost." ”

Thinking of this, he took out the scroll that had been attached to his chest. Because of the near-devastating fire view of Chang'an, the precious picture scroll has been burned and broken.

Zhuge Chen's grinning heart was distressed for a long time, and in the end, he could only sigh, and said respectfully after looking at the Chenghuang Temple in the south of the city: "Thank you Master Chenghuang, the kid is fortunate not to be dishonored." ”

He stiffened his body and jumped off the grinding plate, bowed to the end to Chengnan, and insisted for dozens of seconds before he straightened his waist again and sat on the ground and scolded: "I really can't do this kind of red tape, it's better to do less thankless things in the future, I don't want to be a bad person in the eyes of others." ”

He picked up a branch on the ground, drew it on the ground indiscriminately, and muttered: "How good it would be if you were still alive, Master Chenghuang, if you leave, won't there be another rotten good person in this world?"

He scratched his head as he spoke, and when he had rested, he walked down the village path, calling out the hiding villagers from house to house, and reassuring them.

When everything was done, he called the little boy who had pleaded with him and led him to a clearing.

At this time, it was almost dusk, and the sky was full of magnificent fiery clouds. The strong but not dazzling sunset shone on Zhuge Chen's face, forcing him to squint his eyes slightly to see what was in front of him. As for the boy, he had already turned his back and squatted on the ground with great interest and counted the moving ants.

Zhuge Chen reached out and touched the boy's head, squatted beside him and said, "What's your name?"

"Big brother, my name is Wang Hao. The boy replied in a childish voice, "My mother said that I must thank you, if it weren't for you, our village would really suffer." ”

Zhuge Chen symbolically waved his hand, and was about to say something hypocritical. But thinking that he was now with a child who was still a child, he didn't need those polite words accumulated over the years, so he changed his tone: "Wang Hao, have you ever thought that one day you can protect the village by yourself, instead of an outsider like me." ”

Hearing this, Wang Haozhi immediately turned his head to stare at Zhuge Chen and said excitedly: "Of course I thought about it, I didn't blow with you, I have never fallen behind in the fight in our village, and even some adults say that I am a natural hero!"

Zhuge Chen looked at the boy with a pure heart in front of him lovingly, and while putting his hand on his back to help him comb his muscles and bones, he said, "Really, in fact, I think so too." ”

"Does the eldest brother think the same way?" Wang Hao's eyes suddenly burst into a fine light, but it dimmed for a moment, "But I can't leave the village just to become a hero, when I think of my parents, my three sisters at home, I can only dispel the idea of leaving home." I've heard from those who have been to the rivers and lakes that the rivers and lakes are not as bad as I thought, and maybe one day I drowned in them and didn't even have a corpse to collect. That's why I can't go, because I'm the breadwinner of the family!"

At sunset, the boy snapped his fingers and put his family to his lips and counted them one by one.

After a long time, he suddenly turned his head to Zhuge Chen and said, "Then big brother, what are the rivers and lakes you traveled to, okay?"

Zhuge Chen got up and looked at the sky, exhaled a breath of turbidity, and said with a smile: "I haven't traveled to the rivers and lakes, so naturally I don't know what is good or bad. But I heard from my friends that the rivers and lakes are good, the wine is good, and the people are beautiful, and it is a good place for young people to visit. ”

He grabbed Wang Hao's hand and held it in his hand, and said to him: "Let's go, I'll take you to see something." After saying that, he took the boy and walked away in a flash, and came to the stone mill at the entrance of the village.

Zhuge Chen first looked down at the traces of his previous scribbles with branches, then squatted down and said: "Today, the eldest brother taught you a sword move, and when you learn it, you can rest assured that you can go to the rivers and lakes." ”

"Really?"

Zhuge Chen nodded: "Of course." ”

He rubbed Wang Hao's head again, and after making the boy's well-groomed hair into a chicken nest, he turned around and walked outside the village.

Wang Hao looked at Zhuge Chen's back, put his hand to his mouth to form an arc and shouted loudly: "Big brother, are you leaving, the village still has to entertain you." ”

Zhuge Chen shook his head and said, "I won't trouble you, thank the people in the village for helping me." ”

As Zhuge Chen gradually moved away, the boy finally couldn't stop crying, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Big brother, will we meet again in the future?"

Zhuge Chen curled the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a heartfelt smile, and sent the sound into a line into Wang Hao's ears: "Yes, in the depths of the rivers and lakes, so you have to practice that sword move well." Not only to see me again, but also to be able to protect my family and village. ”

The boy at the entrance of the independent village wiped away the tears on his face, nodded heavily, and cheered himself up: "Well, I will!"

......

The reason why Zhuge Chen left in a hurry was entirely because Liu Muxue had already gone to Shiqiao Village to find him after the war. But he shirked it, and only said that she should go back first.

But the woman who was already powerless was still so stubborn, so she followed him all the time, but she deliberately hid her breath so that no one else found out.

Zhuge Chen, who has always been unforgiving, still wanted to be poor, but after seeing the miserable white face of the woman in Tsing Yi, he dispelled this idea, and instead reached out to support Liu Muxue and walked with her on the bluestone road in the city.

Turning to an alley where there was no one, Liu Muxue was about to kneel down as soon as she pushed Zhuge Chen away, and said with words in her mouth: "Thank you Zhuge Gongzi for being able to come to the rescue, your great kindness and great virtue The whole city must be unforgettable!"

Taking advantage of the fact that the other party was not kneeling on the ground, Zhuge Chen hurriedly grabbed Liu Muxue and said with a wry smile: "Don't, it's so vulgar." If you really want to thank me, treat me to a drink, besides, how can you be so sure that I have solved that evil ghost, in case I am in trouble with him, you will not be able to lure the wolf into the house!"

Liu Muxue smiled and said nothing, and pointed out the clear air in the south of the city to Zhuge Chen.

Zhuge Chen, who was helpless, had nothing to say at this time, so he could only sigh: "It's not a good thing for a woman to be too smart, what if you can't get married?" So you have to learn to pretend to be confused, compete for the first place in everything, and don't like it." ”

"What about you, aren't you smart?" Liu Muxue asked with a smile, like a charming little fox: "But why did you teach that boy sword moves, according to your temperament, you shouldn't take such a relationship to heart." ”

"You guessed wrong, if I am really the person you said, why do you have to take Wang Chongyun with you. You know that guy, he doesn't have a door in his mouth. Just put a son like me to count him as good luck, change to someone else, and peel off his skin in three days. Zhuge Chen forced his spirit to joke and spoke, and while holding Liu Muxue forward, he quietly wiped the sweat on his forehead: "I don't have any extra thoughts about teaching the sword trick to the boy in Shiqiao Village, it's just just boring and wanting to have some fun." Think about it, if that boy in ten years can sit in the position of the monarch of the rivers and lakes, then I, the enlightenment teacher, will have more face, right?"

Liu Muxue stared at Zhuge Chen, and said with some surprise: "I didn't expect you to have such a bad side, you can think of such a thing as a monarch of the rivers and lakes." That chair is so easy to sit on, why are the sword moves you taught so mysterious?"

Zhuge Chen pretended to look at the woman in Tsing Yi who had been hooking his shoulders with disdain, and said quite arrogantly: "I'm not blowing, judging from the strength of my sword, I am said to be the monarch of the rivers and lakes, I am afraid that even the co-lord of the world is in the pocket of my anonymous disciple." ”

As he spoke, Zhuge Chen snapped a sword finger, barely mobilizing the only pitiful qi that was now in his body, which was like an empty shell. turned into Kunlun and Mount Tai and put it in front of Liu Muxue's eyes: "Oh, take a good look at this Kunlun sword, is it enough?"

Although the mountain in front of you is small, the momentum contained inside is majestic. It is conceivable how powerful Zhuge Chen would be if he tried his best to use this sword move.

Liu Muxue stared at her long eyes, and asked with a little surprise: "You are the pseudo-bamboo basket demon that you defeated with this?"

"Of course not, how could I possibly teach that kid that kind of bottom-of-the-box move. Zhuge Chen shook his head and said with a hippie smile. But before he could be triumphant, he almost fell to the ground.

In fact, his current situation is not necessarily much better than Liu Muxue, or even worse. Originally, the fire view of Chang'an was his last hole card now, and it was very difficult to use it even when he was still at the level of the Mandate of Heaven. What's more, the cultivation of the Mandate of Heaven obtained by virtue of the picture scroll is not his own after all, so he deceived the heavens, and as for deceiving his body, he is a little ridiculous and generous.

If he hadn't had the last moment to throw the scroll in the raging fire and force himself back to the base, this hole card would have even been able to drain his whole body. If that time really comes, the best result will be to lose one's cultivation and become a wasted person.

After this battle, he knew the gap between himself and those immortals who were high up in the world. A pseudo-bamboo basket almost killed him, and if he really faced a bamboo basket immortal, I am afraid that he would not even have a chance to live.

Thinking of this, he sighed again, and couldn't help but think of his previous eventful years. How good it was at that time, relying on the God King Body to break the mirror was like drinking water, but now? The Great Dao crack of the self-slashing God King Body is still left in his body, and if he doesn't solve this trouble, he will become an immortal on the mountain road in this life.

Fortunately, he already has an idea of how to solve this hidden danger, as long as he can win the championship at the Ten Thousand Races Meeting and obtain the boundless flower, he will be able to eradicate the hidden danger very much.

Thinking that by then his cultivation would be able to advance day by day, Zhuge Chen's face showed a smirk.

Before he could fully immerse himself in the fantasy of the future, he was pulled back to reality by a tingling pain in his waist. As soon as he wanted to speak, Liu Muxue, who retracted his hand from his waist, preemptively said: "What do you think, so fascinated, it doesn't look like a good thing." ”

The woman in Tsing Yi continued: "Let's talk about what to eat tonight, I don't have the strength to cook." ”

"What?" Zhuge Chen shouted: "You still have to cook yourself with Tie Ying Dart Bureau and Drunken Xiao Tower, obediently, you really don't have a lot of skills." ”

gave Zhuge Chen a charming white eye, Liu Muxue said: "Don't be poor, I'm going to starve to death." ”

Zhuge Chen thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go to that noodle restaurant at noon, although the façade is not very good, but the taste of that noodle is still good." ”

Before Liu Muxue could reply, the young man in white picked her up and ran up.

After a while, the two of them sat in the small shop where they ate at noon, and the shopkeeper couldn't help but smile when he saw Zhuge Chen, and finally brought a small plate of sauce beef and put it on the table.

Zhuge Chen smiled and said: "How is the shopkeeper's business today, is it still prosperous?" Zhuge Chen said and asked for two jars of wine, and poured a bowl for the shopkeeper who was smiling and looking at the two of them.

The shopkeeper, who was old but had a good amount of alcohol, drank the bowl of wine and said: "Business has actually been good for a while, not to mention supporting a large family, and there is spare money to buy two new clothes for my grandson." If I want to say that it was still comfortable during the peaceful years, if it had been in the days when there were daily wars in the past few decades, how could people still have the heart to come to my small noodle restaurant?

Speaking of the emotional shopkeeper, he asked Zhuge Chen for a bowl of wine, Zhuge Chen was also angry, and directly pushed one of the jars in front of the shopkeeper and said: "If the shopkeeper drinks, it will be treated as a kid who invites you." After speaking, he poured a bowl for Liu Muxue and sent it to him, but unfortunately people didn't hear it, and directly moved the wine bowl back.

The shopkeeper looked at the two of them, and he didn't speak, but called the shopkeeper to his side and gave a few words. After a while, the shopkeeper brought a cooked duck and several plates of side dishes with wine.

Zhuge Chen and the shopkeeper immediately looked at each other and smiled, and after seeing the meaning of the other party's non-drunkenness, they immediately got together and talked, like a pair of year-old friends.

In terms of drinking, Zhuge Chen is definitely a complete wine piscal. As long as the other party has the right appetite, no matter what his identity is, the young man in white always has to try it with the other party. People say that they spit out the truth after drinking, but when it comes to Zhuge Chen, who has a good wine, there is only nonsense that does not disturb people.

After silently eating the beef noodles in her bowl, Liu Muxue helplessly glanced at the old and young people who were chatting on the side, and couldn't bear to leave Zhuge Chen to go back to the dart game alone, so she was bored and could only think about it with her arms on her back.

For some reason, the heroic posture of the young man in white fighting a sword suddenly popped up in her mind. Maybe it's because women love to think cranky, and she even thought about the future of herself and Zhuge Chen. Living in a forest where there is no contention with the world, marrying a wife and having children, and loving each other.

Thinking of this, she covered her flushed cheeks like a thief, and glanced at Zhuge Chen, who was boasting to the shopkeeper with a big tongue next to her, before shaking her head and leaving this thought behind.

The shopkeeper who had been standing at the door of the back kitchen had straight eyes at this time, where had he ever seen such a beautiful woman, just an immortal in the sky. Not to mention kissing Fang Ze, even just leaning over and talking made him feel that he was tyrannical and domineering.

Accustomed to reading those martial arts novels circulating in the market, he only thought that the woman was a fairy who appeared in the world by chance, and sooner or later he would go back, and it was a kind of happiness for someone like himself to see it.

There were four people in a room, and the shopkeeper looked at Liu Muxue intently, and Liu Muxue peeked at Zhuge Chen from time to time. And the two people who never left their mouths, as if they were detached, holding chopsticks and pointing at the table, only immersed in their own world, ignorant of the outside world.