When we arrived at the Valley of the Winds, it was already dark.

The corpses of the previous Xiao family's martial servants have also disappeared, leaving no traces in the snow. Maybe it was taken away by a fierce beast, or maybe there was a Xiao family who came to collect the corpse.

After paying homage to the hunter uncle, Chen Jiuge walked in the direction of the hunter's hut, preparing to spend the night there.

"Hey, there's a fire in the house!"

Chen Jiuge didn't dare to be careless, and stopped more than 20 zhang away from the thatched house.

"Snack goods, you go and take a look secretly. ”

Chen Jiuge was still very relieved about the mouse, because he couldn't catch up with the guinea pig.

"I want to eat dried fish!" I don't know when the snack seller started to catch this bad disease.

"It's all to blame Pu'er's girl, she always tempts her with food, and she doesn't teach her well!"

Chen Jiuge was a little angry and funny, took out a small piece of dried fish from his backpack and fed it to it, and swallowed it in one bite.

It didn't look like a mouse at all, but a bit like a tiger! After eating, the thief's little eyes were still staring at the bag of dried fish.

"I'll give you another piece, be careful if you eat too much and you'll gain weight. If you get fat, you won't be able to run fast, and if you can't run fast, you'll be caught and put in a cage!"

"But if you don't have enough to eat, you won't have the strength to run..."

I actually learned to be reasonable, and it is impossible to refute.

"Well... Go ahead, these dried fish are yours!"

“... You have to count when you speak... Don't steal, it's a shameful thing to steal!"

The guinea pig dug out this sentence from his memory bank...

Chen Jiuge was surprised, and there was a hint of familiarity.

"It's kind of like I taught it... Belch... When was it taught?"

After a while, the guinea pig ran back and told him that there was only one person in the house, it was Xiao Yan from Hidden Mountain Academy.

This Xiao Yan is only a side of the Xiao family, and he is not a member of the Xiao Mansion.

Chen Jiuge remembered the scene when he went to the Hidden Mountain Academy, so he didn't have a good impression of him.

Anyway, he is alone, there should be no danger, Chen Jiuge plans to go over and take a look.

Just as soon as he got close to the hunter's hut, he was alarmed.

"Are you here to get me back?"

Xiao Yan stood at the door of the hunter's hut and asked in the direction of Chen Jiuge, seemingly a little nervous.

"Who's going to arrest you?"

Chen Jiuge was asked inexplicably by him.

"You... Didn't you send it from the Xiao Mansion?" Xiao Yan asked again.

"Okay Xiao Yan, I just want to spend the night here, why did you come here?"

Chen Jiu Ge stepped forward and asked.

With the help of the faint light of the fire, Xiao Yan carefully looked at him over and over again.

"It's you... Chen Jiuge, you didn't die, you won the battle against that Jing Yao Master?" Xiao Yan seemed a little incredulous.

"Jingyun's dog head is right in front of the grave of the hunter's uncle on the opposite hillside!"

Chen Jiuge replied calmly, and then motioned for him to get out of the way so that he could let himself into the house.

Xiao Yan seemed to suddenly become a little excited, but he just suppressed his emotions immediately and politely stepped out of the way. Then said an even more inexplicable sentence:

"I'm going to check it out...!"

Then he followed Chen Jiuge's footprints.

"This guy... Running to see a dead man's head at night? What's wrong..."

Chen Jiuge instructed the guinea pig to follow and see what the hell he was doing, just in case. Then he took off his clothes soaked in snow and put them to dry by the fire. He took some dry food out of his baggage and ate it.

After a while, the mouse finally returned.

"You said he was crying and laughing, and he kicked Jingyun's head as a ball? Is there something wrong with your brain!?"

When Chen Jiuge was talking to himself, Xiao Yan also came back.

I saw that his face was full of joy, and he also gave Chen Jiuge a big gift, saying:

"Brother Chen, you are the benefactor of the younger brother, please accept the worship of the younger brother..."

Chen Jiu Ge immediately stopped him, and then said:

"Call me Xiao Jiu, Chen Jiuge, Jiu Ge, don't call me Brother Chen!"

Because when Xiao Yan called him Brother Chen, that look, that tone really looked like he called Zhang Quan as Brother Zhang.

Or touched the scene and thought of the consequences of Brother Zhang being affected by himself. So... This big brother can't be easily been...

"Then the little brother will call you the ninth brother in the future!" Xiao Yan didn't ask why.

"You hate that Jingyun too?" asked Chen Jiuge.

"That Jingyun dog thief, it's really hateful...!" Xiao Yan gritted his teeth with hatred when he talked about this Jingyun, and cried as he spoke.

Chen Jiuge listened patiently to his crying, and finally figured out the ins and outs of the matter.

It turned out that this Jingyun had been refining medicine for Xiao Mansion. Moreover, the alchemy method is strange and evil, and requires a lot of human blood.

Three months ago, the Xiao government ordered blood relatives surnamed Xiao to donate blood on time every month. Xiao Yan and his father, brothers and sisters, are naturally among them.

Young people who have practiced martial arts, eat some medicinal food to replenish blood and qi, and they will make up for it after a few days of recuperation, but others will not be able to bear it! Especially his father, because he had suffered internal injuries in his early years and had not healed, was already frail, but as a result, he lost his body and passed away a few days ago.

Xiao Yan is very hard-working and clever, his family is in the medicinal herb business, and he has a talent for refining medicine. Just half a month ago, when the academy was on holiday, he was arranged by the Xiao Mansion to follow Jing Yun to do chores, pick up medicinal materials, and make a fire.

Early this morning, because of the matter of the ring, the Xiao Mansion was empty of defense. Xiao Yan took the opportunity to sneak into Jing Yun's room, stole his two copies of the "Hundred Grass Sutra" and the "Beast Sutra", and then escaped.

After escaping, I thought that it was likely to affect my family, so I began to regret it again, and I was hesitating in this hunter's hut whether to go back and confess.

But now it's okay, as soon as this Jingyun dies, no one will pay attention to Xiao Yan's stealing scriptures and running away. Chen Jiuge can be regarded as indirectly saving Xiao Yan and his relatives from danger, and avenging them!

"In the Xiao Mansion, there are hundreds of martial servants, if you need to use human blood, you won't have to be so ruthless to your clan?" Chen Jiuge was puzzled.

"It's not that dog thief Jingyun, what do you say that with the blood of people close to the blood, the effect of the refined pill will be even more significant after taking it!"

Xiao Yan said hatefully.

"And this matter, can you take out your "Hundred Herbs True Scripture" and "Beast Sutra" for me to see!"

Chen Jiuge's curiosity was aroused again, and Xiao Yan was also very happy, took out two scriptures from Huaicong and handed them to him, and said:

"There is no forbidden technique of human blood refining medicine in the scriptures, but the alchemy in this "Hundred Herbs True Scripture" is very magical, that is, most of the medicinal materials have not been heard of, and it is estimated that they have been extinct or changed their names!"

The "Hundred Herbs Sutra" is indeed very special, it looks tattered, and the paper is a little yellowed. The catalog is divided into several categories, such as herbal medicine and alchemy. Turning a few pages, you can also find between the lines that there are several annotations and experiences of readers, especially the herbal medicine chapter, which is full of pictures and texts, and you can know that it is not an ordinary product at a glance.

The more Chen Jiuge watched, the more fascinated he became, and the more he watched, the more incredible he felt. It was only when it was almost dawn that he reluctantly put the scriptures back to Xiao Yan's bedside and began pranayama meditation.

After a pillar of incense, he woke up from meditation and found that Xiao Yan was practicing his fists and feet in the snow. He didn't want to disturb him, so he packed his luggage, left the hunter's hut, and continued westward.

After a while, Xiao Yan followed with a fart, and asked:

"Chen Da... Brother Jiu, where are you going? If you are on the way, why don't you join the younger brother?"

Chen Jiuge didn't want to be a lot of burdens on the road, so he stopped and asked:

"You... Don't you want to go home?"

Xiao Yan seemed to have expected Chen Jiuge to ask such a question, smiled casually, and replied:

"If you don't go back, if the younger brother stays in the hidden mountain, I'm afraid that he will only be a medicine shop for the rest of his life, and I have to look at the face of Xiao Fu!

“... Uh, Gangneung... Let's go together...!"

I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence? It seems that I can't get rid of it even if I want to! I knew it was like this, and I stayed up all night!

... ...

Seven days later, they arrived at the city of Xiangzhou.

After several days of fine weather, the official road was muddy and slippery, and it was difficult for cars and horses to walk. Today, several dangerous sections of the road in the southwest suddenly collapsed, and the government had to recruit migrant workers to carry out emergency repairs. The two were trapped in the city, so they could only find an inn to live temporarily, and this stay was another three days.

Every morning, the two of them would practice their fists and kicks in the backyard of the inn, and they would also learn a few tricks from each other, and then eat some breakfast together. Eventually, they will separate and do what they love best.

Xiao Yan compared the "Hundred Herbs Sutra", got some herbs back, bought a small medicine stove, and spent a little money to rent a firewood room in the backyard of the inn, which had been fooling around for three days.

And Chen Jiuge, after going out, he will hang out for a while. Wherever there is excitement and novelty, he will make it up. In the end, he will walk to a small library, and he will not come out until the library is closed.

As for snacks, at first, Chen Jiuge was forced to read and write together, but it didn't take long for him to lose his patience and jump off his shoulder...

"Don't run too far, we're not in the Hidden Mountains now, we're surrounded by strangers. Chen Jiuge admonished.

"I'm going to," the mouse replied.

It's really hard to say whether it's really going to or make excuses to slip away, this little guy has been getting more and more slippery lately.

If nothing else, such days will repeat themselves every day until the official road is clear and they leave.

... ...

Diagonally opposite the street of the library, there is a big restaurant, called the Four Seas Restaurant. Twenty zhang away from the restaurant, there is a fortune teller's hexagram stall. Compared with the bustle on the street, this hexagram stall is particularly deserted.

The fortune teller has a gray beard, is dressed in a sackcloth coat, and there is a three-foot dragon head crutch on the right side, but he is full of appearance.

At this time, a young man dressed in brocade and satin and obese (please refer to cross talk actor Sun Yue) led a little yellow dog and passed by in front of the hexagram stall.

"This son, do you want to come to a trigram, maybe you don't want money!" The fortune teller quickly got up and stopped him.

"Go, stay put... I don't have time to listen to your nonsense..."

The fat man looked up and glared at him, then tugged at the leash in his hand, trying to get around.

The fortune teller was interested and stepped aside. It's just that the little yellow dog suddenly became interested, sniffing around the fortune teller, and the fat man couldn't pull it away.

The fat man simply loosened the leash, and then jokingly said:

"The master's life is precious, not just anyone can calculate it. Why don't you always give our family a fortune?

The fortune teller gave him a blank look, then slammed his cane to the ground, and the little yellow dog was so frightened that he withdrew with his tail between his legs.

"If you don't look at it, you won't watch it... If you frighten our family and sell you old man, I'm afraid I won't be able to afford it!

The fat man gave him a roll of his eyes in return, and was about to leave with the little yellow dog in tow.

"Childe Yintang is gloomy, I'm afraid I'm going to be unlucky soon..."

The fortune teller cursed without saying anything, and then returned to the booth and sat down.

"Phew... You dead old man, you dare to curse the master! If it weren't for the fact that you are a lot older, it would be strange if I didn't beat you to death, master!"

The fat man was very annoyed and pointed at the fortune teller and scolded.

I saw that the fortune teller ignored him, but crossed Erlang's legs, picked up the book on the table and began to read it intently. The fat man scolded a few words, and seemed to be angry a lot, and finally "hummed" before leaving.

As soon as the fat man walked to the door of the restaurant, he suddenly dropped a wine glass from the third floor of the restaurant and smashed it directly on top of his head impartially.

"Ah...!" The fat man was instantly stunned, touched the huge bag on his head, and it took a while to come back to his senses, but fortunately there was no bloodshed.

Then he threw his neck up and scolded upstairs:

"Which one of the eight calves threw the wine glass?

Immediately, the windows on the third floor were opened. Then jump down from top of it, one, two, three... A total of five people came. These five people are all burly and bear-backed. And his face is red and full of alcohol, and he is not easy to match at first glance.

One of the big men replied in a humming voice:

"It was thrown by Lao Tzu! Fatty, say, what do you want?"

The fat man was frightened by the posture of these people, and he was instantly intimidated.

"Smash... Hit the head... Head up!"

The fat man rubbed the big bag on his head, his expression was like crying and laughing, and even the little yellow dog he was holding was so frightened that he hid on his back.

"How big do you think it is?"

Dahan said with a disdainful expression and a playful tone: "Do you want Lao Tzu to let you smash it once?"

Another big man behind him actually cooperated to pick up a brick from the ground, took it in his hand, and then handed it to the fat man.

"No... No... It's okay, I... It's all right!"

How could the fat man still have the guts, he hurriedly waved his hand and refused with a smile.

"It's okay? It's okay... Fatty, would you like to come upstairs with us for a drink? Shall I give you a compensation?"

The big man patted the fat man on the shoulder and said with a mouthful of wine.

"No... No, I really don't have to make amends! I'll go first..."

The fat man was so frightened that he took two or three steps back, and then fled away with the little yellow dog in his arms.

"Huh... Hah! What a fucking bag..."

The big man laughed, and then shouted at the brothers to go upstairs and continue drinking.

The fat man paused a block away and let out a long breath.

"Whew... What a fucking bad luck... I'm not afraid of them, sir!"

"Uh... By the way, the fortune teller just now said that I was going to be unlucky..."

Only then did the fat man realize that he should have met a real master just now.

"I have to go back to that master and make a good divination..."

So he returned along the road, came to the hexagram stall, nodded and began to make amends.

"The kid offended the master just now, the kid has no eyes, he deserves it, and he suffers by himself. I also ask the master to help the kid make a hexagram regardless of his previous suspicions..."

After speaking, he took out a large ingot of silver and put it on the hexagram stall.

"Heh... Oh, it's okay, it's okay!"

The fortune teller smiled evilly, it seems that he caught a fat sheep again today...

... ...

"This dead fat man is quite generous, and his shot is ten taels of silver, hehe!"

The fortune teller was in a good mood and closed the stall early. Then I also entered the Four Seas Restaurant and sat down at a random table. I ordered a few snacks, ordered a pot of good wine, and ate it.

"Yo, you've drunk a little wine and eaten meat, it seems that you have a good business today!"

It was the big man who was buzzing, and his brothers were coming downstairs, and it seemed that they were going to leave after eating and drinking.

"Hehe, TOEFL TOEFL!"

The fortune teller pretended to be polite and arched his hand, and then continued to eat and drink.

After the men left, the fortune teller began to mutter:

"Isn't this the Five Bears of the West Cave Mountain, why did you come here?"

"Ahem... Cough... cough" was so distracted that he actually choked on himself, choking so red that his face was red, and his lungs almost coughed out.

"Something is wrong, why does the old man feel a little uneasy?

The fortune teller slowed down for a while before he came to his senses, then took out three copper coins used for divination, threw them on the table, and looked at them carefully.

"The Great Murderer... This... Isn't Old Man Mo going to be unlucky?"

If you have a whim, then something will definitely happen next. But this fortune teller, no matter how you look at it, he doesn't look like a capable person.

"Master... Master!"

At this time, there was a sixteen or seventeen girl standing at the door of the Four Seas Restaurant, and when she saw the fortune teller, she shouted excitedly: "Master, I can be regarded as finding you!"

"Why did this girl come here at this time, no, I can't see her for the time being, lest she be implicated!"

The fortune teller quickly took out a piece of broken silver and put it on the table, and then fled quickly through the back door of the restaurant without looking back.

It's just that his luck seems to be particularly bad today, and he just escaped from the restaurant not far before he ran into trouble.