Chapter 30, Gao Laozhuang
Jiangbei is indeed much colder than Jiangnan, and as soon as he crossed the river, Xu Ming felt a greeting from the north: a cold wind blew him to the core, and a trace of sleepiness disappeared.
Xu Ming and Tang Jinling walked north along the official road, and arrived at Luzhou City, an important town in Jiangbei Prefecture, in the evening.
They found an inn to stay, and when they finished eating in the hall downstairs, Xu Ming heard the table next door talking about the same thing, it was a matter in a Zhuangzi under the rule of Luzhou Town.
"Have you heard, Master Gao's daughter has a strange disease, and I invited more than a dozen famous Lang Zhong within a radius of 100 miles to see it, but they didn't find a famous name. "Then if you are sick, I think you have fallen into evil! Old man Gao has a good reputation, and he gives porridge when there is a famine, and he releases grain when there is a disaster. Why did Miss Gao suffer from this disaster! This is really a bridge repair and road repair double blind, murder and arson, children and grandchildren!" "I've heard, yesterday there was a wandering immortal chief passing by Gao Laozhuang, maybe God sent it down to save Miss Gao from this difficulty!" "Have you ever cured Miss's strange illness?" "I don't know, but I heard that Immortal Chang has a cat that is really beautiful......"
"That cat has blue eyes!" a young man in a shabby shirt at the next table was talking to his friends and neighbors when he suddenly felt a strange force turn his shoulder. He looked at the man with a delicate face in front of him in a bit of a daze.
Of course, this man is Xu Ming. The young man wanted to be furious, but he saw Xu Ming's eyes shining with green light, like a hungry wolf, and dressed like a rich man, so he had to answer honestly: "I don't know, I'm also hearsay." ”
"Where is this Gao Laozhuang you are talking about?" Xu Ming asked impatiently.
The young man pointed in the direction of the northwest: "Go out from the north gate and follow the official road to the northwest, and you will arrive after a while." ”
Xu Ming left the inn without looking back. "The store was embarrassed and we checked out. Guan Chunuan retired from the room, settled the meal money, and hurriedly chased out.
Xu Ming ran extremely fast, if it weren't for Guan Chunuan's cultivation of a more advanced body technique, he almost didn't even look at Xu Ming's shadow. Rao is like this, when Guan Chunuan caught up with Xu Ming, he had already arrived at the north gate of Luzhou City.
The north gate was about to close, and two guards were chatting at the door.
"Why don't you go back first, it's not safe at night, I'll just go alone." Xu Ming looked back at Guan Chunuan, who was panting.
Guan Chunuan shook his head: "I don't want it, I'll go wherever you go." Xu Ming nodded, didn't say much, and walked out of the north city gate by himself, and Guan Chunuan hurriedly followed.
When the two arrived at Gao Laozhuang, it was already completely dark, and they could see the flickering lights in the village from a distance. The wind was very cold in the early winter night, and Guan Chunuan subconsciously hugged his arms. She looked at Xu Ming, who was looking at the three big characters "Gao Laozhuang" on the door of Zhuangzi with a strange look full of expectation and indescribable.
"Is there anything wrong with this Zhuangzi?" Guan Chunuan looked at Xu Ming with complicated eyes.
Xu Ming shook his head: "No, it's just that a familiar BGM suddenly appeared in my head." ”
"What?" "Children don't need to know so much!" Xu Ming turned over and entered Zhuangzi. "Cut, if you don't say it, you won't say it!"
Gaojiazhuang is quite big, but the house outside the high-ranking staff is not difficult to find, and soon, Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan touched the outside of the high-ranking house.
Guan Chunuan said to Xu Ming a little nervously: "I feel like we are thieves like this." Xu Ming nodded: "I also feel like this." ”
Guan Chunuan's voice trembled a little, and he didn't know whether he was cold or excited: "It's the first time I've been a thief." Xu Ming nodded: "It's the first time for me, don't be afraid, let's slow down......" "Ahh
It was already quite late, but the lights in the mansion were still bright, as if they were entertaining guests, and the sound of wine glasses colliding could be heard in the distance. Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan lightly touched the outside of the living room, and made a hole in the window paper to look inside.
Guan Chunuan looked at the side face of Xu Ming, who was nervous and a little expectant in the dim light, and couldn't help asking: "Why don't we come in directly from the main gate to visit, Gao Yuanwai is a good person, we shouldn't refuse to visit." ”
"Good question. Xu Ming was stunned for a moment, and his face turned red, "It's not good for us to disturb people at night!"
Guan Chunuan looked at Xu Ming: "But I feel that it's even worse for us to sneak in like thieves at night." "How many times have you said it, this is not a thief!" Xu Ming's face was flushed.
The room was staggered, singing and dancing, sitting in the middle was a kind-faced old man, at this time because of excitement and alcohol and his face was flushed, he raised his wine glass to a middle-aged man on the side and said: "In this case, then the family affairs of my two families are so decided!" "Everything is up to Brother Gao!" The man also pulled the old man's arm excitedly, "Brother, don't worry, Cuicui marries, I promise to let him eat and drink well, if he suffers a little grievance, there is no need for the old brother to ask for the guilt, I will personally tie up the rebel son to ask the old brother for guilt!"
The old man smiled and shook his head: "No, no, I can't trust my brother?" Cuicui has always been a heart disease of mine, and I was infected with a strange disease a few days ago, but thanks to an immortal chief who traveled here, he cured Cuicui with immortal magic!" The man picked up his wine glass: "That's also caused by the old brother's Hongfu, the immortal chief specially sent by God to solve the old brother's problems! The immortal stayed for one night, and he had already left this morning, and I couldn't keep it, and I refused to accept the gift, and it made me feel so uncomfortable!"
Xu Ming listened to it for a long time, but he didn't hear any more useful information, and then he heard the immortal chief in their mouth go all the way north. Xu Ming stood up with some disappointment, pulled Guan Chunuan and prepared to leave, when a tile suddenly fell in front of them without warning.
"Smack!" the sound of the tiles breaking was particularly harsh in the silence of the night.
"What a person!" In an instant, the guards of the high mansion surrounded them with sticks. Xu Ming and Guan Chunuan hid behind a pile of bamboo baskets. "Have we been discovered?" Guan Chunuan asked Xu Ming with a bit of a thief. Xu Ming frowned: "It shouldn't be, it's not us they're looking for, it's the people on the roof!" "There are other thieves out of us!" "They all said that we are not thieves!"
"Since you've all discovered me, I won't hide it!" a tall, muscular figure jumped from the roof and landed gently on the ground. A strong demonic wind tossed the people to the ground. "What a strong demon power!" Xu Ming's pupils shrank and looked at the shadow in front of him, "This is the great demon of the Yuanying Realm!"
Suddenly, many people with torches rushed into the courtyard, and one of the leaders pointed to the black shadow: "Don't be arrogant, this is Gao Laozhuang, not a place for you monsters to spread wild." ”
The firelight illuminates the courtyard, and the appearance of the youkai is also illuminated. Guan Chunuan looked at Xu Ming, who was staring at the monster a little stunned, patted him on the shoulder, and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you?" Xu Ming looked at the monster in front of him who had nothing to hide under the firelight, and muttered to himself: "It's really Brother Pig! Tianpeng have you been demoted to the mortal world so quickly?"
The fat-headed, big-eared, pillar-like pig-nosed monster sneered, but his laughter was very much like a pig's cry, which made people really unable to raise the emotion of fear, he looked at the person in charge: "I know you, the head of the family who came to see the family care home, Yin Zhaokun, but you are just a Dan, what can you do with me?"
"We'll find out if we can try it. Yin Zhaokun kicked his feet and flew towards Brother Pig.
"Why did they fight without saying a few words?" Guan Chunuan looked at the two of them fighting in the courtyard, and all kinds of spells flew around in the courtyard. "Maybe it's the plot!" Xu Ming frowned as he looked at Yin Zhaokun, who was gradually exhausted.
At this time, the senior staff who had drunk a lot of meat and vegetables finally sobered up and walked out of the house. "Stop fighting, you guys don't fight!" shouted at the two people who couldn't fight.
Yin Zhaokun pinched the trick with his left hand, made a palm print, took advantage of the momentum to retreat, and came to the front of the senior officer. Brother Pig raised his right palm and waved it gently, and the originally imposing palm print was instantly dissolved, and Brother Pig didn't even move.
"This Yin Tou is not Brother Pig's opponent at all!" Xu Ming looked at Brother Pig who didn't move his feet after a wave of fights, and shook his head: "Brother Pig obviously wants to lure out the high-ranking people, otherwise, with his peak strength of Yuan Ying, it only takes one palm to defeat this Yin Tou of the Dan Realm!"
Gao Yuanwai arched his hand to Brother Pig and said: "Fierce Immortal Chief, please don't be difficult for the old man anymore, the Immortal Chief's forgiveness is difficult to obey!"
Brother Zhu, who was standing in the middle of the courtyard, looked at Gao Yuanwai: "Cuicui obviously said that she was going to marry me!
Gao Yuanwai said with some humility: "A few days ago, Cuicui had hysteria, and she couldn't count the nonsense she said!"
Brother Zhu's eyes turned red: "I don't believe it, I want to listen to Cuicui himself!" "This." The senior officer looked at Brother Pig with a hesitant expression.
"Is this a high-ranking man beating a mandarin duck?" Guan Chunuan asked Xu Ming quietly. Xu Ming looked at the two groups of people facing each other in front of him, and shook his head with a serious expression: "It's not that simple. ”
"Cuicui, Cuicui!" Brother Pig saw that Gao Yuanwai hesitated and refused to call Miss Gao, and shouted loudly: "I'm Pig Pig, I'm coming to see you!" The tone was full of expectation and joy, but Xu Ming wanted to laugh when he heard it.
"Brother Pig!" Gao Cuicui rushed out from between the crowd and looked at Brother Pig. Brother Zhu's tall body suddenly trembled, and tears rained down: "I knew Cuicui, you didn't really want to marry the kid surnamed Li!"
Gao Cuicui shouted at Brother Pig: "Brother Pig, let's go, I don't like you, I'm going to marry Gongzi Li!"
Gao Yuanwai breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly asked someone to pull Miss Gao away, and arched his hand to Brother Pig: "Immortal Chief, you also heard it, Cuicui said that she doesn't like you, please go back!"
"Is this Gao Cuicui's true words?" Guan Chunuan looked at Xu Ming and asked, "Does Gao Cuicui really dislike him or was he forced?"
"It should be true, but there should be some misunderstanding in this, otherwise Brother Zhu wouldn't have said that Cuicui wanted to marry him. Xu Ming looked at the pig demon who was kneeling on the ground and pounding the ground hard, and suddenly felt uneasy. Xu Ming's feeling has always been very accurate.
Brother Pig, who was kneeling on the ground, slowly raised his head, his two bright red eyes shining strangely in the moonlight and firelight.
"There's a problem, there's a problem with this pig demon!" Xu Ming pinched out a trick on his chest. A stronger and stronger demon wind spread around Brother Zhu, and the people under the family were blown down one after another, only Xu Ming, Guan Chunuan, Yin Zhaokun and a few people who were supported by Gao Lao barely stood still.
When I looked into the middle of the courtyard again, the pig demon was gone. He flew into the sky. "Impossible, impossible......" The pig demon's eyes were red, he looked at the people on the ground, and slowly raised his left hand: "Wind and thunder seal." ”
Xu Ming, who had just cast a trick to shield his eyes, watched Yin Zhaokun block it with his body, and reluctantly took the pig demon's trick, and Yin Zhaokun, who was lying on the ground in embarrassment, finally couldn't hide. He looked at Guan Chunuan: "Now there is a good opportunity to help us clear our name." We can pretend to be a traveling monk and rescue them so that they don't think we're thieves. ”
Guan Chunuan looked at Xu Ming with a serious face and nodded subconsciously. "But we are originally monks who have traveled here, not thieves, why is the senior brother still in the play?" When Guan Chunuan secretly slandered himself, Xu Ming had already unlocked the obstacle, and he and Guan Chunuan jumped high, like immortals in white robes in the moonlight.
"The two of us traveled here and saw that there were monsters making trouble, so we came to save each other. Xu Ming looked at the people of Gaojiazhuang and the pig demon who were a little stunned, and pretended to be unfathomable.
When the pig demon saw Xu Ming and the two, he suddenly became excited: "I understand, you and the previous witch shaman are in the same group, you don't know what spell you cast on Cuicui, so that she doesn't like me anymore, it's you and you!" The pig demon shouted loudly, picked up his fist and smashed it.
This punch was menacing, and it was hard to catch, Xu Ming used his body to dodge this punch.
"Are you just going to hide!" The pig demon turned his fist into a palm, "Wind Thunder Seal!" A palm burst out, accompanied by a thunderous explosion, this is the Wind Thunder Seal Technique that has been completed!
Xu Ming couldn't hide this time, and there were ordinary people outside the high-ranking people behind him. Xu Ming pinched out a spell with his left hand, and threw out a spell with his right hand: "Dustless Spell!"
The spell and palm print collided in midair, and the explosion emitted a dazzling light. A black figure rushed out of the light, and Xu Ming subconsciously raised his hand to resist. In the next second, Xu Ming was hammered to the ground from the sky by the pig demon.
"Senior Brother Xu!" Guan Chunuan shouted anxiously as he looked at Xu Ming, who was blown to the ground. Xu Ming staggered up from the ground and patted the soil on his body: "WD."
MD, it's quite strong!"
"You're in the Dan Realm, it's okay to eat my punch?" The pig demon obviously didn't expect that although Xu Ming seemed embarrassed, he didn't suffer any damage. Xu Ming took out the sword that Gao Dazhuang gave him from the Qiankun bag, and when the sword was unsheathed, the sound of "Zheng Zheng" was like a dragon's roar, and the sword body trembled, as if he knew that there would be a bloody battle below.