When they returned to Purple Cloud City, Hong Chen and Ji Cha both changed their clothes. Dressed in white trousers, with thick boots, a backpack, a dart flag, a hat with a curtain on his head, and a knife with a burlap wrapped in a sackcloth with a handle hanging from his waist, he looked like two hurried dart masters.

There were several times more officers and soldiers patrolling in Ziyun City than before, and when they saw someone on the street, they would stop and interrogate them. Several times, both of them were stopped by officers and soldiers, and the curtain was lifted to look at their faces. However, the faces of the two had already been smeared with a thick layer by Ji Cha with some kind of syrup and many powders, forming a fake skin, which was very different from the original appearance, and would not be recognized.

Ji Cha didn't take Hong Chen to live in Tianlin Inn anymore, but stayed in a small remote inn in the east of the city, with some stalls next to it. In the evening, the two went to a noodle stall and asked for two bowls of beef offal noodles. When Ji Cha eats noodles, he picks up the noodles with chopsticks, purses his lips, and sucks them into his mouth. Hong Chen only used chopsticks to grip the noodles, biting off and chewing one bite at a time.

Ji Cha smiled when he saw it: "You eat noodles like this, how can you taste the taste of soup?"

Hong Chen stopped his chopsticks, swallowed the noodles in his mouth, and said, "The sound of sucking noodles is not good, and the soup is easy to spill out and splash on yourself or others." ”

"Just eat it yourself, and don't care what others do. Ji Cha took a big sip of noodles and said while chewing, "This noodle soup is not like cold noodles, noodles are second, and soup is the first thing." Stir-fry the pot with water, add water and simmer, the essence is all in the soup, not in the noodles. When you eat noodles, you have to eat the soup and noodles together to have a taste and a feeling. Like the way you eat, the taste of white noodles is white after chewing for a long time, and the more you eat, the drier your mouth becomes, and the more you feel undelicious. ”

Hong Chen felt that what Ji Cha said was reasonable, so he learned from Ji Cha and sucked up the noodles. Hearing the sound of "sucking", a large bunch of noodles flew up from the bowl, throwing out a mixture of red and yellow soup, which was splashing on Ji Cha's hair opposite.

Ji Cha was furious and shouted, "You did it on purpose!" took out a cloth with his left hand to wipe the soup on his head, and raised his chopsticks with his right hand to poke into Hong Chen's bowl. Hong Chen hurriedly parried with chopsticks. The four chopsticks crackled and staggered for a while, and soon Ji Cha picked a wisp of noodles into his bowl, and said proudly: "The kung fu on the chopsticks, you are far worse than me." ”

After eating the dumplings, Ji Cha asked Hongchen to wait at the inn: "There are still four divine weapons left in this city, I will try to get them all in one night." Then let's go north to Tianzhou and go there to play. Tianzhou is the first state in the north, the place where the capital of Dayu Tianjing is located, the area is extensive, the materials are abundant, and there are more famous knives than Yunzhou, maybe there is the one you are looking for. ”

Hong Chen said: "But the famous knife in Yunzhou, haven't we finished collecting it yet?"

Ji Cha shouted in a low voice: "Where did you come from, so inflated? Others know that we are stealing divine soldiers in Manyunzhou, so won't they strengthen their vigilance." Maybe a large number of masters have been mobilized from Tianzhou to chase and intercept us. Maybe even the Sword Emperor of Cloud Mountain has already moved. The people of this Purple Cloud City, I didn't expect that we would come back, so the precautions were looser, and those cities that we haven't been to yet, I don't know how many nets have been arranged, waiting for us to jump. ”

Hong Chen thought about it and felt that this was indeed the truth: "When we go to Tianzhou, where will we go again?"

Ji Cha's eyebrows danced: "Haizhou in the east, Qiangzhou in the west, Qingzhou in the south, where can I go? People are in the rivers and lakes, the world is big, and the four seas are home." Have you ever seen the waves crashing on the shore and the sun rising over the sea and the sky? Have you ever seen the lonely smoke of the desert and the moon like a cold silver hook at night? Have you ever seen the flower boats and pavilions on the river? Have you ever seen the prosperity of Jiangdong? Have you ever seen a singer with a pipa in her arms, and a dancing girl in a neon dress? Legend has it that in the southernmost place, both men and women, like to wear tattoos and be naked, which has a unique style!"

Hong Chen listened with fascination. After leaving Taoyuan, I was repeatedly hit by a wall at the beginning, and even bought pancakes to be pitted with copper plates, which was not easy, but after being with Ji Cha, although I encountered a lot of thrills, I also experienced many previous encounters, and I never imagined the excitement in my life. Listening to Ji Cha's introduction again, he was even more excited, and couldn't help but hold the other party's hands: "Okay, where you go, I'll go together." ”

"Open up, open up, good meat. Ji Cha withdrew his hands, stroked his left shoulder with his right hand, and stroked his right shoulder with his left hand, shivering, "What you say sounds like a dog skin plaster on my body." I'll take you around for a while, and when you've collected enough divine weapons and refined enough pure gold, you'll go home. When the time comes, you can play by yourself, but don't pester me. ”

"Where is your home?"

Hong Chen asked curiously.

Ji Cha waved his hand and said, "I am the leader of the Emperor Heaven Sect, and of course my family is the head altar of the Emperor Heaven Sect." Of course, if you perform well along the way, and for the sake of your martial arts, I may be able to reward you as a Dharma protector, hall master, helmsman and so on. ”

That night, after leaving Hongchen for the time being, Ji Cha patronized four sects in a row and stole four divine weapons. There was also a small episode in the middle, when Ji Cha stole the last sect, he just put the sword in the box and was about to jump off the wall to leave, but he was bumped into by the head there. Ji Cha took the needle and wanted to shoot, but the head turned his head directly, turned his back, and said, "Oh, why can't my eyes see all of a sudden?"

Ji Cha was strange in his heart and didn't stop. When he went out of the city with Hong Chen on the second day, he heard from other people on the road that it had been rumored in Ziyun City that bamboo cutters and tea pickers, one was the rejuvenating leader of the Demon Sect, and the other was the protector of the Demon Sect, with very high martial arts and ruthless shots.

After the carriage was hired, Ji Cha got into the car and cursed to Hong Chen in a low voice: "I was deliberately framed by someone and took over the pot that killed the king of the Golden Dao Sect, Yuanwei, this is okay to say, but Huang Xiaosheng's death is my business? Everyone saw that he was killed by Lu Xingwei! Also, what kind of thing is this person who is not yin and yang? Raised by dogs, it is really raised by a group of dogs, barking everywhere!"

Hong Chen was a little happy and said, "Actually, this is also a good thing. Others know how powerful the two of us are, and when we show up, they are afraid and take the initiative to give things away, so they don't need us to do anything. In this way, there will be less fighting, less right and wrong, and everyone will be happy. ”

"According to you, we don't need to steal it, just go to the door and hand over the post, tell the people that 'the tea pickers are coming to cut down the bamboo', and then they will send the divine soldiers and invite us to drink tea and eat, isn't it wonderful?" Ji Cha said this, he laughed and scolded again, "Confused, do you think you are the Son of Heaven? If the Son of Heaven is recruited, they dare not give it up, and boast everywhere, proud of it." But just the two of us, if people accidentally bump into it, their hearts will be coaxed, their knees will be weak, and they may kneel, but if they know in advance, they will have to invite many people to deal with it. ”

"That's right. ”

Hong Chen remembered that when he arrived in Xiangyun City, there were many spies from the Golden Dao Gate in the city, and there were also disciples sent by Yunmo to help in the Golden Dao Gate. It is estimated that when he went to Xiangyun City, his whereabouts had been discovered, and the Golden Daomen was prepared in advance.

This principle is the same as catching a bamboo rat, you have to take advantage of its unpreparedness to reach out from behind to grab the tail, otherwise to catch it head-on, the bamboo rat will hide and escape, maybe you have to bite back. Sometimes the same is true when catching crabs in a creek, one at a time from behind, and if you catch them from the front, your fingers will inevitably suffer a little.

The wheels and bones rotated slowly, and in a day and a night, the two of them walked hundreds of miles on the official road, and finally passed through the border area between Yunzhou and Tianzhou, and arrived at the first city in Tianzhou near Yunzhou - "Tianwei City".

The carriage stopped in front of the south gate of Tianwei City, Ji Cha and the coachman calculated the fare, Hong Chen raised his head, and saw that the city gate was as high as four or five zhang, and there were many people wearing iron and black armor standing on the city tower, and there were many red and gold-edged flags on the thick city wall, and only one word "Yu" was written on it.

Ji Cha was still arguing with the coachman about the tip of two taels of silver. Hong Chen looked at the city gate, only to see that there were many people in and out of the city in bright clothes, sitting in a car with carved railings, riding a horse without a single hair, such a person walked on the street of Yunzhou for a long time and could not see one, but this time Hong Chen saw a lot.

A large group of officers and men on horseback passed by. These officers and soldiers were more burly than Hong Chen had ever seen, and the horses they rode were taller and more powerful, the armor they wore was black, and the horses they rode were also black, rushing straight into the city like a torrent of black. At the end of the ranks of officers and soldiers were strange-looking carriages, like wooden cages, in which some unkempt and bloodied men sit.

Hong Chen pointed to those carriages and asked Ji Cha, "Why are those people's carriages so broken?"

Ji Cha glanced at it and said with a smile: "Then where is the carriage? That's the prisoner carriage." Inside, they are all prisoners who have been caught by officers and soldiers, and it seems that they are still escorted by the forbidden army themselves, and I don't know what kind of felons they are.

When Hong Chen and Ji Cha walked into Tianwei City, all he could think about was those who were locked up in the prison car. After walking a hundred steps into the city, and turning around, I saw that the blue and black city walls were towering and stretching, like a fence that trapped bamboo rats, enveloping the whole city, and suddenly felt as if something was pressing on my chest, and even breathing was a little difficult: this city was like a huge cage.

(End of Volume 1: "Jianghu")