The way to Gangyang City is not far away, but it is not close. Because Zhuge Chen is on foot, if he wants to enjoy the scenery along the way, it is naturally impossible to go fast.

On this day, it was still a sunny day, but it rained heavily in an instant. Even if Zhuge Chen had expected it, he took out an oil-paper umbrella from the mustard seeds to prop it up, but it was still because of the strong wind that he wet his white clothes. That's it, but the mud under his feet made him have to move forward slowly with a deep foot and a shallow foot. Although he can pave the way with sword qi, he still moves forward so carefully in pursuit of a piece of fun. It wasn't until it was late that he spotted an inn with lanterns hanging from the eaves not far away. Generally speaking, in this kind of place where there is no village in front and no store in the back, all the black shops that kill people and steal goods are opened. It is rumored that even the meat bun is stuffed with human flesh. There is a drug in the wine, and when mortals drink it, they will faint. Even if you are slashed with a knife, there is no pain at all.

However, for Zhuge Chen, who is already in the realm of pseudo-bamboo baskets, of course, there is no need to be afraid. At the moment, he just wanted to find a place to hide from the rain and take a hot bath to wash away his exhaustion.

Push the door and walk in, the inn is very lively, there are many people sitting on the chair next to the guest table, looking for a long time, Zhuge Chen found an empty chair, and he sat on it. And the shopkeeper also greeted him very warmly: "Objectively lucky, it happens to be raining, and they all come here to hide from the rain, and it is overcrowded." There's just one room left, do you want to stay here?"

Zhuge Chen nodded lightly, then took out the broken silver, and said very generously: "You don't have to look for it, it's already very good to be able to stay, so I should thank you Xiaoer." ”

In response to the guest officer's arrogance, the shopkeeper continued to be busy. It's just that when he left, the greed in his eyes was still detected by Zhuge Chen. It seems that this inn in the mountains is undoubtedly the black shop.

Smiling slightly, Zhuge Chen picked up the chopsticks on the table and ate meat while drinking. After filling his stomach, he went back to his guest room to take a shower and sleep.

At this moment, the door was opened from the outside, and a middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest walked in. The man had a beard and was full of energy, and at first glance he knew that he was also a cultivator. He didn't have a body of qi to hide, and under the wait-and-see, Zhuge Chen speculated that he should have just entered the realm of the Mandate of Heaven. Even if he is in the Taoist temple, it is not a mountain and wild cultivation, but for a Taoist priest born in this world, it is not easy to have this realm. It happened that the man sitting opposite Zhuge Chen had already eaten, got up and left, and made a vacant seat for the Taoist priest to sit on.

Zhuge Chen greeted each other with a smile and continued to eat. After a while, the shopkeeper walked up and said apologetically: "This Daoist, our inn is full today." You see...... If you just want to fill your stomach, this is the way to serve. But if you want to stay, it's a bit of a hassle. ”

The Taoist priest frowned slightly, and said: "There is no other way, don't worry, the money is double, as long as you can let me live." ”

The shopkeeper looked embarrassed, glanced at Zhuge Chen, and after a long time, he said: "It's not that there is no way, but I have to ask this son's opinion." ”

The Taoist priest glanced at Zhuge Chen, and didn't seem to understand what the shopkeeper meant. The shopkeeper then explained to him: "Our inn only has one room with two beds. It's just that it was ordered by this son, if the son agrees, we will arrange it for the Taoist master. If you don't agree, there's nothing you can do. ”

Unexpectedly, Zhuge Chen replied very simply: "It's not easy for anyone to go out." What's more, where do I use two beds by myself, doesn't this seem very empty? If the Taoist master doesn't dislike it, it's good to stay, as for the money. Think of it as making a friend, how about it?"

After thanking Zhuge Chen, Dao Ye said a few more words to the shopkeeper, and then took a step up to the second floor and transferred to the guest room.

Zhuge Chen glanced at the other party's back, said to himself that he was really a wonderful person, and continued to bow his head to eat meat.

By the time he finally filled his solitude, there was no one left on the first floor. Several big men at one of the tables seemed to be drunk, and their tongues were scratching their fists, which was nothing more than drunken nonsense full of rivers and lakes like the head of the six leaders. Zhuge Chen moved a chair to sit beside them, seemingly interested, but in fact, it was just to relieve his boredom. By the time the drinking party had dispersed, it was already midnight. Zhuge Chen, who was sitting next to the big man, was of course pulled into it in the end, I don't know how much wine he drank, although he didn't need to pay for it, but it was far from being happy. looked at the big man who was almost drunk down on the table, and finally went upstairs to rely on someone to support him. Zhuge Chen yawned, staggered up the steps, pushed open the door of the guest room, and fell asleep after preparing to take a bath.

When he buried himself in the barrel, he suddenly found that the middle-aged Taoist priest was standing beside him. The other party's elusiveness really scared Zhuge Chen. If it weren't for the sudden thought that there was such a number one person, Bai Yi would have been thrown away with a sword qi.

"Before tomorrow night, I advise you to leave. The Taoist priest put the peachwood sword behind his back on the pillow and suddenly spoke.

Zhuge Chen washed his face, raised his head, frowned, and asked puzzledly, "Dao Ye, why is this?"

"I can't tell you, I wouldn't have reminded you if I hadn't stayed in your room. What does it matter to me whether you mortals live or die?" the Taoist priest said: "I can only tell you that this inn is far from being as simple as a black shop, but is the work of reckless demons. Even this heavy rain is inextricably linked to the demon. ”

Zhuge Chen hooked the corners of his mouth and said with a smile: "Since Dao Ye said so, haven't you thought that I am also here to kill demons and eliminate demons?"

Hearing this, Dao Ye turned his head, and an arrow came to Zhuge Chen's side, put his hands into the wooden barrel, and pointed at Zhuge Chen's wrist. When he found that there was no cultivator's qi, he walked back to the window with some annoyance, lay down in his clothes and said: "At the moment of life and death, you are still joking, are you really not afraid of death or what? A mortal, if you are so young, you will lose your life, can't you let your parents and elders send a white-haired person to a black-haired person? Listening to the Taoist priest's advice, I left at dawn and left directly. Along the way, someone told you not to look back, let alone talk. Fifty miles away, is Gangyang City. There are cultivators with a high enough realm there, plus they are full of yang energy, no matter how bold the demons are, they don't dare to go there to be arrogant. ”

"Thank you, but the rain has been falling, and by the time dawn comes, I'm afraid it will be past my calves. When the time comes, if you want to leave, there is no way at all. Zhuge Chen leaned on the barrel and stretched his muscles. And if someone were standing next to the barrel and watching quietly, they would be able to see that there were lotus flowers blooming on the surface of the water. At this moment, the middle-aged Taoist priest had already closed his eyes and accumulated charm. I didn't see that in the darkness, from the center of Zhuge Chen's eyebrows, there was a green lotus, which was about to bloom: "So boy, I can only rely on you, Dao Ye, to successfully eliminate demons in this inn." ”

There was silence all around, and it was clear that the middle-aged Taoist priest did not answer him at all. Zhuge Chen groped in the darkness to pick up his white clothes, jumped out of the bucket, put them on, and then went to sleep by the bed. Before closing, he said to himself: "There are demons in the inn, it shouldn't be a good thing to bump into me, right?"

......

On the first floor of the inn, the second shopkeeper who had already put away the dishes and chopsticks and had washed them was sitting on a chair, he squinted his eyes and looked at his shopkeeper, and said softly: "Shopkeeper, our master, what are you going to do when you tell you to come down?"

The shopkeeper was an old man with a gray beard and cloudy eyes. He buried his head in the moment, not knowing what to think. Then he took out an oil lamp from behind the counter, held it up to the shopkeeper's side, reached out and put the oil lamp in the shopkeeper's hand, and then walked in front to lead the way. The two of them walked through a dark passage through a secret door behind the counter, thinking about the depths. Along the way, you can faintly hear subtle sounds, which penetrate into people's hearts and seem to be able to bewitch everything.

When I finally came to an open place, I saw that there were corpses and bones, many of which had been very damaged by the erosion of time. These were innocent inhabitants who had died at the hands of the shopkeeper and shopkeeper, and had been carried here to feed the owner they had mouthed.

When I looked up, it was a stone statue, and it looked like a wild boar, so it was no wonder that it was so greedy.

The shopkeeper knelt on the ground, and so did the shopkeeper behind him. The former took the oil lamp from the latter's hand, held it high above his head, and said reverently: "Master, our two servants have done as you instructed, and have succeeded in bringing the heavy rain. Next, all you need to do is show off your powers to devour the last sacrifice in the inn, break the ban, and break the ban and break free from the statue. "Funny

"Well done. A voice in an urn sounded, and then looked at the wild boar statue, and at some point his eyes turned green: "When I walk out, I will definitely not treat you two badly." Thanks to your dedication, it would have taken at least thousands of years to get out of it. It's been a long time since I've tasted the delicious flesh and blood of those cultivators, and I'm really nostalgic. Every time I think about it, I can't get enough of it. Go ahead and prepare everything, and remember, there is no room for error!"

After kowtowing, the shopkeeper couldn't hide his excitement, so he said in a trembling voice: "Please rest assured, master, I will not let you down when I wait for the servants!"

After walking out of the path, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper took a deep breath, which was relieved. Although from that statue, the two of them received many benefits. The shopkeeper not only has ten years of life for nothing, but also has a strong body like a young man. Many of the heavy jobs that have not been able to be done over the years can not only be done easily, but also without breathing. As for the second shopkeeper, he has gained a lot. Not to mention the path of cultivation in the chest, and to travel thousands of miles every day. Now it has only been a year since these two discovered the statue, and the shopkeeper is already in the realm of Tianlei.

In other words, it is an ordinary mountain and wild repair, so it can even be said to be a god speed. Even in the sect, he can be called a genius, so the attention of the sect tilts the resources in his favor. It is precisely because of this that these two people will do their best to work for a statue, and even grovel to call each other their masters. Even when they think about it in their dreams, they will feel that their future must be soaring. Where do you need to open a black shop in a place where there is no store in the village and live in great danger? One goes to the bustling city to spend his old age as an idle rich man, and the other is a blockbuster in the rivers and lakes, and I don't know how many fairies will be attracted to the blue eyes.

It's just that there is still this last way to go. But for the two of them, even if the immortals stop them, they have to be killed!

The shopkeeper glanced at the shopkeeper next to him, and said, "Little Er, listen to the master, the rain will not stop these days." Even if those people wanted to leave, there was nothing they could do. Let's treat them for two more days, and when the time comes, we will give them to the master, which will surely make his old man happy. Wouldn't it be nice to reward you and me with more when the time comes?"

When the shopkeeper heard this, he replied: "If you want to say that you are old, you have to be the shopkeeper." In the future, when I go to the rivers and lakes, I will definitely regard you as a role model. ”

"That's nature!" said the shopkeeper triumphantly, and then yawned and walked back to his room.

Looking at the back of the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper sneered, and said to himself: "The master said, you old guy is deliberately trying to kill me, monopolize my share of the credit, and do it secretly, I really don't know if it's possible? I've been working in this inn for almost seven years, and I can be regarded as doing my best, not to mention that you treat me as your own son, and don't treat me like a wild dog! If you don't admit it, don't blame me for being unjust, a few days before you are false and wronged, wait until you clean up these people in the inn, and see how Lao Tzu treats you!"

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The next day, Zhuge Chen got up early in the morning, opened the window, and saw that the rain was still falling. The creek outside last night has now become an ocean. If the inn hadn't been on a hillside, the rain would have been pouring in.

took the hairpin and coiled up his long hair, turned his head to look, and Zhuge Chen realized that the middle-aged Taoist priest woke up earlier, or had not slept all night.

"Why didn't you listen to you when you were told to leave?" the Taoist priest said coldly: "My life is really so worthless?"

"Dao Ye, don't be angry, look out the window, the rain is a disaster, even if I want to leave, I have to start from shipbuilding!" Zhuge Chen spread out his palms and said helplessly: "Let's not talk about me, how do you treat your life, is it worth it?" If you nod, it proves that you feel that you can take down the demons in the inn steadily, and I naturally don't need to worry." If you don't even know this sure, even if I leave, where can I go?"

"Sharp-toothed boy. The Taoist priest closed his eyes and no longer had a verbal dispute with Zhuge Chen.

Zhuge Chen didn't continue to talk about this, after all, it was useless to talk more, and the two of them had their own plans in their hearts. It's just that before going out, Zhuge Chen still kindly asked the Taoist priest what he wanted to eat earlier, and the Taoist priest waved his hand lightly, signaling that nothing was the best.

When he walked out of the house, Zhuge Chen came to the first floor, and the big men who drank with him last night until the second half of the night were also there, but their eyebrows were shrugged, and they didn't seem to have sobered up yet. I didn't drink much last night, so I sat in front of the door with a bench, sighing and feeling how bad I was when I went out and encountered a rainstorm. Then when they saw Zhuge Chen actually smiling, they were naturally a little surprised by the other party's carefreeness. But as a matter of common sense, it is usually only children who can smile in such a sad situation. Adults are running around for a living, and young people also have a lot of unspeakable things in their hearts. As for the elderly, there is nothing to worry about, but it may not be a good experience to see more and know it.

One of the richly dressed sons threw the wine jug at Zhuge Chen, and after being caught by Baiyi's hand, he asked, "Young man, where are you coming from and where are you going?" Why are you still so happy to be trapped in the inn because of the sudden heavy rain?"

"I am a member of the Dayan clan, my ancestral home is here, and a distant cousin seems to be going to get married, so I want to go to Gangyang City. Zhuge Chen, who didn't need to be pre-arranged when talking nonsense, said: "I was originally here to play, and my cousin is not inferior to me." It's the same from late to early, as long as this heart is known to the other party, it is enough. Anyway, we're already trapped here and can't get on the road, and it's a day to be sad and happy. There is no one among you who has great powers to stop the rain, so why should you be sad one by one?"

Although the truth is such a truth, there are really few people who can really be persuaded by this sentence and are not worried. However, after Zhuge Chen said it, many of the guests in the inn kept nodding their heads, thinking deeply. And the boy who threw the wine jug laughed even more, patting his thigh and saying, "I didn't expect that in the small inn, I could meet a wonderful person." It just so happened that my home was in Gangyang City. When I returned from a long trip, I wanted to rush back directly, but I just stayed in the inn for a day and encountered this rainstorm. When the rain stops, you and I can go back together. ”

Zhuge Chen agreed with a smile, and then came down to the wine table at the invitation of the son-in-law. All the expenses are naturally paid by this son-in-law. Look at the other party like that, it should be a big family and a big business, and he doesn't care about these two small money at all. Under the other party's inquiry, Zhuge Chen also said a lot of interesting anecdotes about Dayan, which made the other party unable to close his mouth. Beside Brother Gongzi, there were several maids who also covered their mouths with handkerchiefs and chuckled.

Listening to the whispers of the people around him, Zhuge Chen knew that this son-in-law was the only son of the city lord of Gangyang City, and he had been pampered since he was a child. If it is an ordinary second ancestor, it is estimated that he is a person with a stubborn temperament. But this person is the opposite, knowledgeable and good at making friends, so he is famous far and wide. Of course, not everyone can become the guest of honor of this son, at least he has to have a skill, or just like Zhuge Chen, he speaks every word into the hearts of the people. Of course, if Brother Gongzi knows Zhuge Chen's true identity, he will definitely be more convinced of his vision of knowing people. When I meet people, I will brag about how powerful I am, and I am afraid that there is only one person in the whole world who can salvage the magic at such a young age, right?

In fact, Brother Gongzi regards Zhuge Chen as a wonderful person, why doesn't Zhuge Chen himself think so?

When he was in the Zhuge family, he saw the most than the son of the family. One by one, when facing the subordinates, they are arrogant, eager to step on each other's faces, forcing the other party to kneel and talk to themselves, in order to show the dignity of being the master. However, in the face of him, everyone grovels, and is typical of bullying the weak and afraid of the hard. is such a person, Zhuge Chen is naturally not good at saying anything, but he will not give the other party any good looks. Even if they meet on the road again, they only nod their heads symbolically after greeting each other.

And the boy in front of him is very humble, not like a son, but closer to the elegant scholar. Although this is in the world, far less than the heavenly cultivators, but reincarnation is certainly one skill, but whether or not you can be famous and emaciated is another skill. Zhuge Chen has some research on this, but he has never broken it.

From morning to noon, the two have been chatting, drinking wine to tea when they are thirsty, and when they are tired, they look at the pouring rain outside the door to relieve their boredom. It wasn't until Brother Gongzi felt tired that he was ready to take a nap according to his routine. Before going upstairs, he invited Zhuge Chen to eat and drink together in the evening, and then left the wine table with the maid. Before Zhuge Chen could rest, the big men who drank wine last night as if they didn't want to die found him again, one of them patted him on the shoulder, sat next to him, grinned and said: "Boy, the amount of wine is good, let's continue when it's late!"

Zhuge Chen replied: "A few people are late, and someone has already made an appointment with me." ”

"Yo he, I didn't expect you to be a beloved character. Dahan picked up the teacup, took a sip and cursed something, clear soup and little water, you just drink this? Then he poured the tea in the cup on the ground and said, "It's not a problem, there are more people, it is more lively." It just so happened that a few of us also wanted to make friends with the only son of the city lord of Gangyang City. It would be better if he could be on his side, mixed with an official and a half-job. Seek nothing else, but eat and drink, and we will be content. ”

Zhuge Chen raised his head, glanced around, and made a joke: "A few people with big shoulders and round waists, if it is an ordinary family, I'm afraid that in a month, they will be able to eat on the four walls, right?"

Dahan stretched out his hand and gave Zhuge Chen a punch, and his strength was naturally well controlled: "You kid can still speak." ”