The field of Ousi is located in the east of northern Xinjiang, there is a small country there, the name is Ousi country, there are three towering mulberry trees in the east of Ousi country, people call it "silkworm mulberry wood", silkworm mulberry wood is as high as 100 thousand, does not give birth to side branches, is the most famous sacred tree in northern Xinjiang, and echoes with the fairy pen wood of southern Xinjiang.

Yun Luochen, Lisheng, and Luan Yeqiu rode on the official road leading to Ou Siguo, and Lisheng's face was covered with a light veil, which Yun Luochen specially instructed her to do, in order to avoid unnecessary trouble on the road.

"It's such a tall tree, it's magnificent. Looking at the silkworm mulberry trees in the east from afar, Li Sheng couldn't help but admire, this was the first time she had seen such a big tree.

Luan Yeqiu said with a smile: "There is an ancient legend about these three silkworm mulberry trees, I don't know if you have heard of it." ”

When she was about to tell this story, Yun Luochen answered inappropriately: "I know, I have read it in books before." ”

Luan Yeqiu glared at him with some dissatisfaction, "As far as you know, then you can tell me!"

"Uh......" Yun Luochen was a little embarrassed, "It's better for senior sister to talk about it." ”

"Don't talk about it, I'm not in the mood!" Luan Yeqiu snorted.

Lisheng hurriedly played the round and said with a smile: "It's better for my sister to talk about it, Luochen is stupid, I'm afraid it's not good, I haven't heard this story, my sister will tell it to me." ”

As soon as Lisheng said this, Luan Yeqiu's face immediately improved, "Okay, I'll tell Sister Lisheng." ”

"Once upon a time, it was a small village, and there was a young girl in the village who was not only beautiful, but also had a special ability to talk to animals. Once, when her father had been drafted into the army, and had not returned for a long time, the girl missed her father so much that she said to one of her white horses, 'White horse, my father has not come back for so long, and I am so worried about him, if you can take him back, I will marry you.' When the white horse heard her, he really broke free from the reins and ran out, and after a few days the white horse came back with the girl's father. ”

Li Sheng listened with relish and asked, "What about the future? The girl won't really marry a horse, right?"

"Of course not," Luan Yeqiu shook her head and continued, "After my father came back, the girl seemed to have forgotten what she had said to Bai Ma before, and never mentioned it again. But the white horse kept thinking about it, so he began to stop eating or drinking, and often neighed at the girl. The girl's father thought it was strange and asked the girl what was wrong with the white horse, and the girl told her father what she had said to the white horse. The father only has such a precious daughter, how can he be willing to marry her to a horse, he is afraid that the white horse will hate his daughter because of his daughter's rebellion, which will be unfavorable to his daughter, so he simply killed the horse as soon as he was ruthless. ”

Li Sheng frowned, "Ma also saved him, isn't this the revenge of the general?"

The father killed the horse, but he took a fancy to its skin, and wanted to make a dress for his daughter, so he hung it in the yard to dry. Once, when my father went out hunting, the girl saw the horseskin in the yard and couldn't bear it, so she confessed to the horseskin, but the horseskin suddenly came to life, and suddenly rolled up the girl and flew out of the door. On the way home, the girl's father saw that his daughter was swept away by the horseskin, and quickly chased after him, and after chasing for a long time, he finally caught up under a big tree, but the girl had turned into a white insect on the tree, and spit out white silk in her mouth, and the father was grief-stricken, thinking that this insect was the soul of his daughter after death, so he called this tree 'mulberry tree', which means that his daughter died here. ”

Lisheng sighed: "This girl is a little pitiful, although she has made mistakes before, she already knows that she has repented, and her sin will not lead to death." ”

Luan Yeqiu said with a smile: "Don't worry, the girl is not dead, just when this father is sad, a fairy suddenly floated down from the sky, she looks exactly like the girl, she said that she is the daughter of the heavenly wood god, and the insect on this tree is her incarnation in the world, please father don't be sad, and after speaking, he flew away and left." Later, people called this insect 'silkworm', and the word 'silkworm' was 'heavenly worm', which means a worm transformed by a fairy in the sky. ”

"It turns out that the origin of the mulberry tree and the silkworm is like this. Lisheng smiled and sighed, "This is indeed a very beautiful legend." ”

Luan Yeqiu glanced at Yun Luochen, "What you saw in the book is the same as what I just talked about?"

Yun Luochen had to shake his head and smile bitterly, he saw the record of Ou Si Guo and Silkworm Mulberry Wood in the Hidden Scripture Pavilion, and the relevant content on it was only two lines of words, how could Luan Yeqiu tell such a rich story, and hurriedly said: "It's still a story told by Senior Sister." ”

The three of them were chatting gossiply, Yun Luochen saw an inn in the distance, and proposed: "It's not early, why don't we find a place to settle down first, and then set off early tomorrow morning?"

Li Sheng didn't speak, turned his head to look at Luan Yeqiu, Luan Yeqiu nodded and said, "Okay, go over and ask." ”

When the three of them came to the door of the inn, the boss was a thin middle-aged man, he was half-lying on the rattan chair outside the door, and when he saw the three of them coming, he did not immediately get up to greet him like the average innkeeper, but lay there leisurely, as if his back was glued to the rattan chair.

Yun Luochen walked up to the middle-aged man and asked, "Boss, how much does it cost to stay here?"

The middle-aged man didn't even look at him, and said casually absentmindedly: "One hundred wen in one room, one night." ”

"Hey, you open a black shop!" Luan Yeqiu rushed forward as soon as he heard this, and said loudly: "An inn like yours doesn't cost more than thirty wen a night, why are you so expensive here?"

The middle-aged man rolled his eyelids and glanced at Luan Yeqiu, and said disdainfully: "It's too expensive, you can't live if it's too expensive." ”

"You!" Luan Yeqiu was angry and grabbed Yun Luochen's sleeve, "Let's go!" I don't believe it, the inn in front can be darker than him!"

Yun Luochen frowned, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, he hesitated for a while, and was still pulled out by Luan Yeqiu.

The middle-aged man snorted coldly and said loudly in the back: "Girl, don't blame me for not reminding you, no further on, you won't be able to live in a store as cheap as mine." ”

Yun Luochen heard this, and was about to turn around and ask carefully, but was pulled hard by Luan Yeqiu, "Don't listen to him, I still don't believe it, hum, a hundred words, he can say it, what a profiteer!"

The three of them had to continue to move forward, and after only a quarter of an hour, Luan Yeqiu pointed to an inn in front of them and shouted, "Look, there is another one there." ”

As soon as the three of them got off the horse, a short and fat man with a black face trotted out of the inn all the way, and said with a smile on his face: "Three guest officers, but you want to stay in the hotel?"

Compared with the innkeeper in front, although this person is ugly, he is obviously much more enthusiastic, Luan Yeqiu is obviously very impressed by this person's hospitality, and the fire in his belly has dissipated a lot just now, and he asked lukewarmly: "Boss, how much does it cost you to stay here for a night?"

The black-faced fat man smiled flatteringly, "Girl, the conditions of the small shop are average, so the price is cheap, one room, only twenty wen a night." ”

Luan Yeqiu's eyes lit up, she had just heard the last words of the owner of the previous inn, and she was still a little worried in her heart, but now it seems that it was obviously the boss who was playing tricks.

Luan Yeqiu immediately said simply: "Okay, we want three rooms, take us to have a look." ”

"Okay!" The black-faced fat man was so happy that the two mung bean eyes were squeezed together, and he hurriedly led the three of them upstairs, Yun Luochen turned his head and saw that Li Sheng's face didn't seem to be right, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

Li Sheng shook his head and replied, "It's nothing, I can't say it, I just feel that there seems to be a strange atmosphere here." ”

"Strange smell?" Yun Luochen was a little confused, "What do you mean?

Lisheng shook his head, sighed and said, "Forget it, maybe I'm not used to wearing this thing, and it's a little uncomfortable to cover it along the way." She gestured to the veil covering her face.

Yun Luochen comforted: "Hold on for a while, and when you live in the room, you can take it off." After speaking, I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, it seems that I look too beautiful, and it is also a troublesome thing.

The three of them looked at the room, although it was a little shabby, but it was still tidy, and the price was indeed fair, so they settled down and lived here.

Luan Yeqiu took out a bag of silver coins from his baggage, and as soon as the black-faced fat man heard the sound of the silver coins clanging, his eyes immediately lit up, and he immediately took out a piece of tissue paper from his arms and handed it to Luan Yeqiu, "Girl, you first look at the rules of our hotel here, if you have no opinion, you sign this contract and press a handprint." ”

"You live in a hotel, why is it so much trouble compared to other places?" Luan Yeqiu complained a little impatiently.

The black-faced fat man smiled and said: "Girl, forgive me, the rules handed down by our ancestors have not changed for decades, so you can bear with me." ”

Luan Yeqiu took it and looked at it, what was written on it was nothing more than some things that were not allowed to make loud noises at night and damage the room facilities, and there were also the names and handprints signed by the fat man himself, and he looked at it hastily, then handed the paper back to the other party and said, "No problem, I'll sign it now." ”

"Okay, come with me. With that, the black-faced fat man led the three of them to the counter in the main hall, took out a pen and ink and handed them to Luan Yeqiu, and then put the contract in front of her and spread it out, motioning for her to sign it and press her handprint.

However, no one noticed that the contract that the fat man had laid out was no longer the one he had shown to Luan Yeqiu before, and when he reached under the counter to get the pen and ink, he had secretly changed it, but because the content on it didn't seem to have changed much, Luan Yeqiu didn't notice anything abnormal.

Luan Yeqiu quickly signed it, also pressed the handprint, and then took out the bag of money, took out six silver coins from it and put them on the contract on the table, and said to the fat man: "Boss Pan, this is sixty yuan, three rooms, one night, right." ”

The fat man didn't rush to answer her, but picked up the contract and looked at it, he saw two names in the lower right corner, one of them was "Pan Ximin", which was his own name, and the other was "Luan Yeqiu", with a red handprint next to the name, he smiled with satisfaction, and then glanced at the six silver coins on the table, and said to Luan Yeqiu with a smile: "Girl, you are mistaken, it's not sixty wen, it's six hundred." ”

Luan Yeqiu's face sank, "Boss Pan, you're kidding!"

Pan Ximin smiled and said: "Girl, don't get me wrong, out of these six hundred texts, five hundred and forty texts are deposits, and when you leave, they will be returned to you, don't believe me." ”

He stretched out the contract he had just signed in front of Luan Yeqiu, and pointed to the last line of words: "In order to avoid the damage and loss that guests may cause to the inn, nine times the deposit will be charged before staying at the hotel, and it will be refunded in full when leaving."

Luan Yeqiu thought about it, anyway, it would always be returned at that time, so he didn't think about it anymore, counted the remaining silver coins in the money bag, took out some of them, and handed the rest to Pan Ximin.

Pan Ximin was so happy the moment he took the money bag, revealing a mouthful of uneven black teeth, and at this moment, Lisheng, who was standing a little bored, accidentally removed the veil on his face, and a beautiful face was immediately exposed in the lobby.

Pan Ximin just subconsciously glanced at Lisheng and immediately turned his gaze back to his hand, a pair of mung bean eyes staring at the money bag in his hand, as if he was afraid that it would fly away in the next second.

Li Sheng picked up the veil on the ground and hurriedly put it on, only to find that no one seemed to be paying attention to her, and breathed a sigh of relief.

She suddenly found that Yun Luochen was staring intently in one direction, which was where the innkeeper behind the counter was, and she was a little puzzled in her heart, why did Yun Luochen stare at him?

Only Yun Luochen himself knew the reason, because since he met Lisheng, the man who saw Lisheng's appearance for the first time, none of them could be completely indifferent. He also believes that it is absolutely impossible for a normal man to see such a face for the first time without a reaction at all.

You must know that even the well-informed Master Long Yin showed a moment of surprise when he first met Lisheng in Ying Longtang.

However, the owner of the inn in front of him, at the moment when the veil of Lisheng fell, he glanced at it in the Ming Dynasty, but immediately withdrew his gaze, as if he was just looking at something very ordinary.

Mu Yun's Notes:

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Overseas North Longitude": The field of Ousi is in the east of the big heel, and a woman kneels on the tree Ousi. Sansang has no branches, and in Ousidong, its wood is hundreds of feet long and has no branches.