When the sky is too long, the sky is not necessarily darker. Chen Nian, who was hungry and thirsty, had no choice but to quench his thirst with green fruits, satisfy his hunger with lotus root slices, and continue to walk after a short rest. Muttered: "It's strange to say, after eating a fruit and some lotus root slices, I didn't feel that my hunger, thirst and tiredness disappeared at all." ”

Chen Nian wiped the sweat from his head with one hand, shook his hand, looked at the unobstructed dirt road in front of him, and remembered his father's arrangement: he had to rush to the inn at the foot of the mountain before dark, so that he could have a place to rest, otherwise he would have to use heaven and earth as a bed quilt tonight.

As we continued to move forward, the road ahead gradually widened, and the weeds and wildflowers on both sides of the road gradually became more and more diverse. The green weeds and colorful and clear little flowers are struggling to grow, trying to grow into what they want, at least when they grow into passers-by who are not so tired of it, maybe they can look at it twice.

As he walked, Chen Nian was hooked by the apricot grove next to them, this season is the time when apricots are the most green and sour, which makes people look at it and grow on their own with the sweet liquid in their mouths. The apricot tree when I was a child...

Looking back, the fields of Chenjiazhuang can still be vaguely seen, and there is nothing else just because of the golden rape flowers that enter the eyes, and the fragrance carried by the wind, which seems to be the smell of locust tree flowers.

Further, until the figure of Chenjiazhuang was completely invisible, the eyes full of gold, the fragrance of flowers were no longer visible or touchable.

Bowing his head and not looking at the sun, walking silently, Chen Nian seemed to feel that he could walk more today than he had walked in the previous month, the tired legs seemed to have been tied with a few catties of iron, and the feet that could no longer be felt, if it weren't for the occasional stepping on the stone and a trace of pain, Chen Nian would have felt that it was not his own feet.

Finally, Chen Nian found a stump in front of him that had his torso sawed off, and he couldn't wait to walk over and sit down, and hurriedly took off the boots made by his mother, so that his feet could breathe in the delicious air and feel the pleasant breeze.

At this time, Chen Nian, who was rubbing his legs wholeheartedly, didn't notice that there was another person behind him, a person wearing an earthy brown cloth shirt and robe, with long black and shiny hair draped behind him at will, this person's clothes seemed to be the style on Taoist books or murals, but there was no Taoist crown on his head, just a simple scholar, and he was wearing a square scarf on his head, which seemed to be not splendid, but plain cloth ornaments.

The man just looked at Chen Nian silently behind Chen Nian, and didn't do anything else. If a nearby villager sees this person, they will find that this person is similar to the statue in the temple on the mountain. A pair of red star sword eyebrows on a square face of the Chinese character, the nose is as tall as a mountain, and only the majesty is self-generated, which makes people secretly awe when they see this.

"Whose child, why is he alone in this wilderness, and why is he still sitting in my place?"

Chen Nian was caught off guard by these words and broke out in a cold sweat, his face turned pale with fright, and he didn't dare to look back, and said in his heart, "Before going out, my mother told me that if there is a voice behind you calling your name at night and in the wilderness, you must wait until you are sure that you are agreeing and then turn back."

"Whose child, why don't you reply?"

When the man's voice came again, Chen Nian heard it clearly and was sure that it was a human voice, and the voice was as powerful as his father's, and it was as deep and reverberated as his father's. Only then did he hurriedly stand up and turn around and replied: "I have seen Mr., I am from Chenjiazhuang, I am going to the school on the mountain to study and study, I just walked here and saw a stump here just to rest, I don't know if it is Mr.'s belonging, I hope Mr. forgive me." Chen Nian bowed to apologize

Seeing this, the man smiled and stroked his beard, which was not too long, with his right hand, "I am a watchman on this mountain, and I often come here, but there is no place to settle here, so I cut down the tree and made a stool for myself to rest." You have to go up the mountain to Mr. Zhou's school today, I'm afraid I won't be able to get there, there are at least fifty miles to the top of the mountain, and there is an inn not far in front of you, so you might as well go for a temporary stay tonight, and get up tomorrow to go. ”

Chen Nian hurriedly thanked him, and the man also stretched out his hand and touched Chen Nian and left laughing, but the man walked like a fly, and he disappeared in the blink of an eye.

The unitary hour has passed, and at the beginning of the day, the sky is already slowly getting dark.

"I've been walking for almost three hours, and according to my father's prediction, I should be at the foot of the mountain now, why can't I see the shadow of the inn until now, but the mountain is in front of me. ”

"It's really a dead horse running in the mountains, how often do you go back after so far,"

No matter how far the world is, the journey will eventually come to an end, as long as you don't stop, as long as you don't lose your mind. There is a former sage: No mortal can be a sage, and it is not dependent on the amount of reading.

Chen Nian's path is naturally the same, to go far away, to the inn, to go up the mountain to the school, although the purpose seems to be different, but the process must be the same. Departure to midway to finishing. It's just that the focus is different, and the view is different.

The time has come, and the weather is close to night, but if it is not so depressing at this time, the woodcutter in the mountains will go straight home when he sees this scene, and even find a nearby place to shelter to face the coming wind and storm. At this time, Chen Nian had no idea what kind of scenery he was about to see.

Chen Nian, who was in a hurry, finally met another group of people on this road. It was dark and far away, and he could only see a few figures, faintly about five people, Chen Nian hurriedly caught up to get together with those people, after all, at this time, he was alone in the dark light.

When I looked closer, there were four people, and they were large: a young man, a young girl, a middle-aged man with an upright figure, and an old woman.

Chen Nian walked to a distance of only five steps from the group of people, only to see that the middle-aged man immediately stopped and turned around to sweep Chen Nian, and then said, "Which friend behaved like this? If a friend wants to go first, we can give way. ”

Chen Nian didn't know how to reply for a while, but stopped five steps away from the man and looked at the man silently.

Seeing that Chen Nian was silent, the middle-aged man raised his eyebrows and narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Friend, how many of us are from the Yang Palace, and you still ask where your friend came from?"

Chen Nian felt that the person in front of him seemed to be absent from time to time, and seemed to be a little angry, so he hurriedly shook his hand and explained: "I didn't follow you, I was going up the mountain to find Mr. Zhou and go to the school to study, I am from the cave lake in Mochizuki County." ”

"It's not like I'm a little scared when it's dark, so..." Chen Nian seemed to feel that this statement was a bit bold, so he could only whisper.

"Hehe, there is such a timid person, so shy. Chen Nian only heard a voice coming from behind the middle-aged man, and the voice sounded like a little girl, which made Chen Nian feel even more hot on his face, and he had to be glad that it was night and others couldn't see his face.

Just when Chen Nian felt that his face was dull, another voice quietly came to his ears, "I'm sorry friend, my little sister is ignorant and doesn't think about it, I hope my friend won't blame me." ”

"Little sister, how can you talk like that, don't you apologize to this friend quickly. ”

Chen Nianyan's face seemed to burn a little slower, and when he saw that this person's words were sincere, he said: "It's okay, it's that I'm unsettled, and it has nothing to do with her words." After saying that, Chen Nian walked straight forward, and disappeared into the night past those few people.

Seeing Chen Nian's figure slowly disappearing in front, the middle-aged man and the old woman both breathed a sigh of relief, and the middle-aged man quietly withdrew the hand he had just stretched out to the spear behind his back, and the old woman also snuffed out the fingerprints he had just made. The two looked at each other and shook their heads, not speaking.

Seeing the two of them like this, the young man was secretly vigilant in his heart, he knew what the strength of these two people was, and it stands to reason that in such a small place, the strength of the two should be unstoppable, but just now he clearly saw that these two people attached great importance to the young man who had just walked by, almost in terms of opponents.

When the young man saw that the two men were silent, he did not ask any more questions. The four of them had to continue to hurry to the inn, even if the two people around them could only walk up the hill on foot, and abide by the rules of this place and dare not exceed the rules.

Of the four, only the girl was still muttering that the person was so cowardly...

Chen Nian, who was moving forward, didn't know that the four people behind him had different thoughts, but he was worried about why the inn hadn't disappeared yet, even a little white like Chen Nian could see that it was about to rain that day. Although I was a little irritable in my heart, I didn't dare to slow down my progress at all, unless I wanted to collide with a rain.

Finally, when Chen Nian was desperate, as soon as the mountain road turned a corner, he saw a brightly lit inn not far in front of him, the Fusheng Inn, waiting for him in front.

At this time, there were also raindrops the size of beans falling slowly in the dark night, Chen Nian noticed that something was wrong, and ran towards the inn. As soon as I entered, it was already raining heavily, and the smell of dust that had just been stirred up by the raindrops was dissipated and stirred up and dissipated by the rain before it could be fully raised.

Fortunately, there were still three rooms in the inn at this time.

"The inn is divided into heaven and earth on the third floor, and there are nine rooms in the sky, and one room costs thirty-third of the money on the body every night. There are fifteen guest rooms, and one of them costs one percent of the money per night. There are twenty-five guest rooms, and as for the cost, there is money to give money, one or two pieces of silver per night, and no money to live one night, and work for four hours during the day, and stay for nine days at most. ”

"Little guest officer, there is just one floor left on each of the three floors of heaven, earth and people tonight, which floor are you going to live on?" The sound seemed to be the sound of water from a mountain stream falling into a clear spring, and the person who spoke was naturally a person from the Fusheng Inn.

Chen Nian looked at the person in front of him, twenty-eight years old, willow leaves, phoenix eyes, cherries, small mouths, slightly round melon seed faces, and a straight nose like a knife blade.

Chen Nian looked a little distracted, and the girl was looked at like this by a boy, and her originally fair cheeks were flushed, and she was slightly annoyed. Coquettishly said: "You are a young man, how can you look at people like this..."

Hearing this, Chen Nian may have blushed and just receded, but at this time, he didn't have a red face but showed a simple smile.

Seeing this, the red glow on the girl's face became a little brighter, and she said helplessly: "You still can't stop it?"

Chen Nian had no choice but to withdraw his gaze and try not to let himself look at the girl.

Only then did I think about which room I lived in, "the size of the person, the size of the place, the size of the sky, it seems that there is no difference." ”

"Is there a big difference between these three types of rooms?" asked Chen Nian

"How much silver did you bring? The girl said angrily.

To be honest, Chen Nian didn't have any concept of this, and he heard the girl say that she didn't bring enough to go to Tianzihao, so it would be good to go to Tianzihao by herself.

"Then it's a celestial number. As soon as the words fell, the girl threw the Tianzi room card to Chen Nian.

"Third floor, go by yourself. The girl turned her head away from looking at Chen Nian, and was still whispering Chen Nian in her mouth, and there was still an afterimage on her face.

Chen Nian glanced at the wooden sign, which was a word "Jiu", so he had to go to the third floor to find it by himself.

As soon as Chen Nian went upstairs, four people came in the inn, a young man and a young girl each held an umbrella, and the middle-aged man and an old woman who were like guns did not have an umbrella so they were drenched.

Seeing someone coming in, the girl in the inn glanced at it, lowered her head and said casually: "There are two rooms, one place and one person." ”

The four of them could only ask for the only remaining guest room, the old woman and the girl went up to the second floor, and the young and middle-aged people who went to the first floor heard the girl sitting at the counter still muttering and scolding an impolite person...