7. Winter Clothes Festival

It's winter moon in a blink of an eye, and it's the Winter Clothes Festival.

Zhang Quan and his sister Pu'er went to the outskirts of Beicheng to pay tribute to their parents, and Chen Jiuge felt that he should also put incense on the second elder, so he went together.

Zhang Quan was carrying a heavy bag of winter clothes, and Pu'er was holding a bag of paper money.

Chen Jiuge was not idle, with a pack of incense candle ingots in his left hand and a food box containing five dumplings in his right hand. The little mouse on his shoulder scratched his little head, as if he didn't quite understand what they wanted to do.

When he arrived at the tomb mountain, Chen Jiuge saw that there were more than 20 people from five families in the hunter village buried here.

The heavy festive atmosphere ushered in the first heavy snow of the year. The wind was cold and the smoke was filled. The three of them knelt in front of the grave for an afternoon...

"Brother, it's not early, we... Let's go back!" she got up and straightened her clothes, patting the snowflakes on her body.

"Well, go back..."Zhang Quan came back to his senses.

"Squeak ... Squeak", the snack merchant pointed to the dumplings in front of the grave, and asked Chen Jiuge curiously, why he didn't eat them here. Chen Jiuge told it that it was reserved for dead relatives to eat, so it could not be eaten.

"Can a dead man still eat?" the little mouse couldn't figure out.

"I haven't seen a dead man eat yet..."The little mouse's curiosity was piqued, and he decided to stay and see what was going on. So he jumped off Chen Jiuge's shoulder...

"Don't run around, go home early...!"

Chen Jiuge was speechless, this little guy's thirst for knowledge was getting stronger and stronger, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

"Forget it, let him be, there shouldn't be any danger here, I believe it will come back when it has had enough!"

At this moment, a man stumbled out of the mountains and forests to the west, a dirty, exhausted man. As soon as they left, this man picked up the cold dumplings on the ground and stuffed them into his mouth, like a starving ghost reincarnated!

"Dead people are eating dumplings?.. The dead and the living look the same!"

The little mouse hid in the treetops not far away and watched quietly, seemingly excited, but soon realized that something was wrong.

"Obviously a living person, with breathing and heartbeat... This person... It's the bad guy in the ruined temple that day!"

The little mouse finally found something, and hurriedly ran in the direction of Chen Jiuge...

Soon, the three of them, who had just left, returned to the grave mountain.

”... Yan Jiang, it turned out to be you!"

Chen Jiuge looked at this beggar-like person, but he never thought that it was the bandit leader who was full of evil, a dignified martial artist in the early realm of the day after tomorrow, and actually turned into this ghost.

"Yanjiang dog thief, I didn't expect to meet you here today, it's really an eye-opener!"

As soon as Yan Jiang got up and wanted to escape, Zhang Quan stepped forward and kicked him to the ground. Then he was trampled on the ground, and he was about to kill him.

"Brother Zhang... Don't be impulsive!" Chen Jiuge grabbed Zhang Quan's right wrist, and then said:

"Why don't you ask..."

"And ask a fart... The enmity of his parents is not shared! Kill him first and then say..."Where can Zhang Quan manage so much.

"The official spares his life... The official spares his life! Got something to say...!"

Yan Jiang burst into tears, crying and shouting for mercy.

Chen Jiuge let go of Zhang Quan's wrist and asked:

"Yan Jiang, you say..."

"The villain... The villain and his brother are deep in the mountains to the west and meet a demon with a snake. He was captured alive and almost killed... Feeding the snake, the villain was locked up by him for three days, hungry ... I've been hungry for three days and just escaped..."

Yan Jiang curled up, trembling incessantly.

"Brother Zhang, it's getting dark, it's better to arrest him and go back for another trial..."Chen Jiuge persuaded, signaling him not to let Pu'er know too much.

"It's okay, the Huwei Dart Bureau is not far from here, let's go find Senior Li..."

Later, Zhang Quan escorted the mountain bandit Yan Jiang to the Huwei Dart Bureau, and asked Chen Jiuge and Pu'er to go back to the county government to call people. In fact, he had already entered the mountain before the people of the Beast Sect.

... ...

"Xiao Jiu, Brother Xiao Jiu, just let me go with me, I will also catch the big devil with you!"

"No, that devil has done a lot of work, but the actual cultivation is still unknown. I suspect that he is already in the late stage of the day after tomorrow or the peak realm, and you can only add chaos if you go!"

Chen Jiuge had been in close contact with that demon that night, and his aura was not much weaker than Li Hongming at the peak of the day after tomorrow.

"Isn't that brother in danger?" Pu'er became more and more worried.

"Sister Pu'er, don't worry, Brother Zhang has experienced a hundred battles, and there are seniors Li, there should be no danger!"

Chen Jiuge originally wanted to report the information to Cheng Yuecheng, but Cheng Yue was still in retreat, so he could only lead a group of officials to track him down to the outskirts of the city.

The sky had already darkened, Zhang Quan escorted Yan Jiang and asked him to lead the way, Li Hongming, Ruan Xiaoshu, Lin Sanhu, and seven or eight disciples of the Beast Sect followed. After more than an hour, I finally found the hiding place of the adversary.

It is a small hidden cave, surrounded by weeds, and it is where the bandits used to hide. There was a faint smell of herbs mixed with the smell of blood, and it seemed that the demon Jingyun had indeed stayed here.

"The villain was tied up here before, along with my two brothers..."

Yan Jiang pointed to a broken rope and two corpses on the ground.

Suddenly, there was a muffled sound from the mouth of the cave...

"Oh no, uncle... The entrance to the cave is blocked, and we can't get out!" the disciples shouted in panic.

Li Hongming tried to use his palm power to split the boulder, but the boulder did not move at all, but hit up countless dust.

"Uncle Shi, what now?" asked Lin Sanhu from the Huwei Dart Bureau.

"What else can we do, put out the torch first, otherwise we will be suffocated to death before anyone comes to save us!"

Li Hongming had a big heart, so he found a place to sit down, and then took out the wine gourd on his waist and became addicted to alcohol.

The whole cave became pitch black, and you couldn't see your fingers.

Zhang Quan didn't seem to be in a hurry, and touched Ruan Xiaoshu's side and talked with her without saying a word.

At first, he could talk a few words, but after talking too much nonsense, Ruan Xiaoshu couldn't bear him, and finally didn't say anything at all, leaving him alone to talk to himself.

Zhang Quan didn't withdraw, and muttered: "It's like a bear is blind, this is hibernating?"

"Hey, yes, you said it's this season, why doesn't the devil's black snake hibernate?" Zhang Quan asked with a raised voice.

Everyone was afraid of provoking this chatter again, so they didn't say anything.

It's finally quiet in the cave...

I don't know how long it took, but there was a faint "Hey... Hey," the shouting sound.

"There's someone outside, it looks like we're supposed to be saved..."Zhang Quan was the first to speak, but still no one paid attention to him.

The waiting time was always long, and after half an hour, the boulder at the entrance of the cave was slowly pried open with a small opening, just enough for a person to enter and exit.

When they came out of the cave, it was already dark...

Li Hongming patted the dust on his body, touched the bone whistle hanging on his neck, and kept blowing it towards the sky.

After a while, there was a whistling of falcons in the sky.

"There's a situation on the hill over there...!"

After Li Hongming finished speaking, he rushed in the direction of the falcon...

The heavy snow overnight has turned the entire mountain forest into a white expanse. Coupled with the steep mountain road, a group of disciples and officials of the Beast Sect were quickly left behind.

Only Zhang Quanruan, Xiaoshu, Lin Sanhu and Chen Jiuge barely followed, and there were little mice.

......

"Jingyun, see where else you can escape this time..."

Li Hongming shouted, drew his long sword, and flew towards the figure on the mountain.

"The old immortal is really ghostly...!" Jing Yun unhurriedly drew his saber and blocked the blow casually.

"En?" Li Hongjing felt a little surprised, this traitor Jing Yun was much stronger than he imagined. Don't dare to be careless, quickly take another breath of true breath, and fight with it.

Just as the two were fighting with all their might, another masked man suddenly appeared from behind Li Hongming and stabbed Li Hongming with a sword.

Li Hongming was shocked, narrowly escaped the vital point, and his left arm was scratched. Then he was slashed upside down by Jing Yun's palm, and he spat blood and fell on the hillside.

"Don't hurt my uncle..."Lin Sanhu and Ruan Xiaoshu rushed forward and blocked in front of Li Hongming.

Zhang Quan picked up the injured Li Hongming, quickly tore off a strip of cloth from his body and bandaged the wound on his left arm.

"I can't think of it... Jingyun's nephew's cultivation is not under the old man... The old man is capsized in the gutter today!"

Li Hongming suppressed his internal injuries a little, and stared at Jing Yun with a bitter face.

"Why should Uncle Shi bother with each other... My nephew and nephew betrayed the sect, and I was not forced by you!My little black is just that I didn't look at it for a while, and I killed three untouchables by mistake, and I haven't harmed a good person over the years...!"

It seems that Jingyun doesn't think of himself as a bad person.

"Livestock... Using the blood of a living person to feed the medicine snake, you are still using strong words!" Li Hongming scolded.

"Hmph! A bunch of hypocrites who are hypocritical, why do you say that I, Jingyun, am a rebel and a demon? Feeding medicine beasts with human blood, the founding ancestor of our Beast Sect is not nothing..."

When Jing Yun said this, he was immediately interrupted by Li Hongming.

"Shut up... If you secretly practice the sect's door control technique, it will only bring disaster to the martial arts and the Beast Sect!"

"Isn't it just a tattered cheatbook, if you want me to give it back to you?" Jingyun teased.

"Senior Li, there is no distinction between good and evil in the exercises. As long as it doesn't fall into the hands of the wicked," said the masked man, tearing off his face towel.

"You're... Who?"

Li Hongming didn't expect this masked face to make such a move.

"He is Gu Changhe of Xiao Mansion!" Zhang Quan replied on the side, this person is the head of Xiao Mansion in Yinshan County, and he is also the peak realm cultivator of the day after tomorrow.

"The younger generation is here as a guarantee to ensure that Brother Jing will not feed the medicine snake with a living person in the future, how about it!"

Although Gu Changhe called himself a junior, he did not have the slightest humility.

"That medicine snake, I'm afraid it's already Dacheng, so you said that, right?"

Li Hongming looked at the surrounding disciples and Zhang Quan, and knew that he couldn't help these two people today. If it weren't for the fact that there were a large number of disciples and officials at the foot of the mountain, maybe I would have to give my life here today.

"That's it, the old man is old, and he can't take care of your juniors' affairs. Shu'er Three Tigers, let's go..."

Zhang Quan and Chen Jiuge didn't expect that the case of arresting the devil would be such a result.

After the medicine snake is completed, Jing Yun, who is at the peak of the day after tomorrow, will naturally use the blood of the medicine snake to refine the medicine, and then impact the innate one. Coupled with the help of the Xiao family, it seems that the probability of success is very high.

And after the congenital, right and wrong, good and evil have their own martial arts hall and six doors to manage.

Zhang Quanxin was unwilling, and sprinkled all his anger on Yan Jiang. On the way back, he would kick it after taking a few steps, anyway, this Yan Jiang would be a dead man sooner or later.

When there were still five or six miles away from the west city of Yinshan, that is, near the broken temple, Chen Jiuge suddenly left the team in advance under the pretext that he had a stomachache and wanted to find a place to make it easier.

With his current strength, he was enough to protect himself in the suburbs, so everyone left him behind and entered the city first.