This night, Yang Yi slept for a long time.

When I woke up, it was already bright and the sky was very clear outside the temple gate.

It's a good day!

Yang Yi stretched and sat up from the hard ground.

Suddenly, Yang Yi found a small three-foot-long snake crouching beside him.

Yang Yi suddenly jumped up in fright.

But after being shocked, Yang Yi realized that it was just a dead snake.

This is strange, why is there a dead snake next to him for no reason?

And this snake is very poisonous at first glance, and if you are bitten by it, you are afraid that it will not be good.

Thankfully, he was fine.

Yang Yi looked at the dead snake and suddenly felt hungry.

Breakfast is still to be eaten.

He went outside the temple to find some dry firewood, gathered in the temple, and made a fire.

Then, he cut off the head of the black snake, carefully removed the venom glands, pierced it with a branch, and roasted it on the fire.

It didn't take long for the smell of cooked meat to come out, but this smell was ...... It's not fragrant.

Yang Yi didn't have salt and seasonings, and the roasted snake meat was fishy and light, but it was only used to satisfy hunger, so he didn't pay so much attention to it.

After eating the snake meat, Yang Yi picked up his tattered package and prepared to go down the mountain.

But as soon as I stepped out of the temple gate, I ran into two people!

It's a young man and a woman.

The man was only about twenty, dressed as a scholar, dressed in white, and had a gentle temperament.

When the scholar saw Yang Yi, he was also a little stunned for a while.

And the woman was about the same age, wearing a light-colored long skirt embroidered with plum blossoms, and her face was white and dignified. The person was a little shy, and when he saw Yang Yi, he hid behind the scholar.

Yang Yi looked at the two who suddenly appeared with some vigilance.

After all, he had reason to suspect that these two people might be transformed by some kind of monster.

So, Yang Yi settled down, looked at the scholar intently, and found that he was delicate in the five elements, pure in popularity, and a human being, not a spirit, just an ordinary scholar.

Yang Yi was relieved.

"Barren mountains and wilderness, I don't know what the two of you are doing here?"

Yang Yi took the lead and asked.

The scholar was a little stunned, but when he saw Yang Yi's polite words, his voice was gentle and beautiful, which made people sound like a spring breeze. Although he is dressed in coarse cloth clothes, his appearance and temperament are very dusty, and he can't help but feel close.

So the scholar hurriedly returned the salute and replied.

"Hello brother, we are here to enter this temple to make a vow!"

Wish?

Yang Yi glanced back at the temple and said, "The temple is empty, and I don't even know which god is enshrined, who do you wish for?"

"Huh?"

When the scholar heard this, he hurriedly pulled the girl to the temple, and when he saw that the statue was gone, only a pair of clay feet stood on the high platform.

"You still make a wish, that means you made a wish here before, which god was enshrined here at that time?" Yang Yi walked over and asked curiously.

After all, I stayed here for one night, and I still have to figure out whose house I live in.

"This is the City God Temple, and it is naturally the City God who is enshrined. The scholar said, "I just never thought that today I would be so ruined." ”

It turned out to be the City God Temple......

"Then what do you want to pay back today?" Yang Yi asked again.

"This ......"

The scholar suddenly wanted to speak and stopped, as if he was a little embarrassed to speak.

And the beautiful woman beside him wearing peach blossoms blushed even more, lowered her head, and didn't dare to show it.

But the shyness and joy on his face can't be hidden at all.

Yang Yi instantly understood.

These two must have been the object of the wish in the first place!

Is it possible to come to the City God Temple to worship?

And now they may have married as they wished, so they came to repay their vows.

Just look at this woman's dress, tied on the top, green silk hanging shoulders, long hair sprinkled on the vest, it is clear that she is dressed as a girl who has not left the cabinet......

Could it be...... Elope?

"Alright, two, don't pinch it. Yang Yi said, "Since the city god is gone, there is no need to worship, and if there is no one on the mountain, it is better to go down the mountain as soon as possible." ”

"Whoever wants to worship, who wants to worship. The scholar took the hand of the woman next to him and said, "My sister and I had a bumpy journey, and we went through many things before we finally got white. It must be the blessing of Lord Chenghuang that we can get our wish, and we must worship. ”

The scholar plucked up his courage and said sincerely, and although the woman was still blushing, she also agreed.

"It's also a little more reassuring to worship. The woman's voice was gentle.

As he spoke, the two took out the incense they brought, lit it and inserted it on the high platform, knelt on the ground, and bowed down reverently.

After the two of them knelt down, they went down the mountain with Yang Yi.

On the way, after the two gave each other their names, they started chatting.

The scholar was simple-minded, and when he saw that he could chat with Yang Yi very well, he talked more.

Yang Yi finally knew the story of these two people.

Of course, it's not Yang Yi's good gossip.

It is this scholar who only feels full of happiness at the moment and is very willing to share it with others.

As everyone knows, sprinkling dog food on people is very unfavorable, so Yang Yi can't share his happiness.

This scholar's name is Ning Yuan, and his home is in Mingzhou, which is hundreds of miles away from Cangzhou.

And this woman's name is Zhou Zhifu, and she lives at the entrance of Shiling Village at the foot of this mountain, and there is a huge willow tree by the river at the entrance of the village, and there is a wine shop under the willow tree.

This wine shop was opened by the Zhou family.

A year ago, scholar Ning Yuan traveled to study here, and met this Miss Zhou family when he settled in the wine shop, and the two fell in love at first sight.

Ning Yuan stayed in Shiling Village under the pretext of staying and went to talk to him every day, and within a few days, he completely captured the heart of this Miss Zhou.

There is a pavilion at the entrance of Shiling Village, and the two often have private meetings in the pavilion.

After coming and going, the relationship quickly warmed up, and he made a lifelong plan in the City God Temple on the mountain.

At this time, news came from Ning Yuan's family that there was something important at home, and Ning Yuan was asked to return to Mingzhou as soon as possible.

As a result, the couple in love had to separate.

When Ning Yuan left, he told Zhou Zhifu that he would come back to her in a year, and the two met in the pavilion.

A year passed, Ning Yuan came as promised, and sure enough, he saw Zhou Zhifu under the pavilion.

She waited in the gazebo day after day, and finally waited for her lover to return.

Ning Yuan and Zhou Zhifu walked in front, and Yang Yi was behind the two. Ning Yuan said all the way, but Zhou Zhifu just smiled.

After telling this story, Ning Yuan and Zhou Zhifu looked at each other hand in hand, their eyes full of sweetness.

And Yang Yi's eyes are full of lemons.

But suddenly, Yang Yi seemed to feel that from behind this Ning Yuan scholar, there seemed to be a black qi coming out of his head.

Wisps of black sand mist.

This black qi is very weak, if Yang Yi doesn't look at it carefully, he can't see it at all.

What's going on?

Yang Yi looked at Zhou Zhifu again.

The same is true.

Yang Yi hurriedly closed his eyes and "asked" the source of the black qi of the golden villain.

The answer is that this is a sign that ordinary people are about to die.

As the master said, the Yin Hall is black, and there is a disaster of blood and light.

Yang Yi wondered, these two people obviously looked good, why did they have such an omen?

Is it really a show of affection and a quick death?

I don't know if there is a way to save it.

Yang Yi thought so.

By this time, the three of them had already descended the mountain.

Although the mountain road is not rugged, it is not smooth after all, and Ning Yuan and Zhou Zhifu, who walked down the mountain, already felt that their legs were very sore.

And it just so happened that at the foot of the mountain, there was a tea shop.

There are more than a dozen guests in the tea shop, who are gathering in twos and threes, eating tea and chatting.

"Hey, this tea shop...... I didn't have it here before. Zhou Zhifu said suspiciously.

"Maybe it's a new one! This small tea shop is doing very well. Ning Yuan said with a smile.

Then he turned his head to Yang Yi and said, "Brother Yang, it's quite hard to walk such a long mountain road, why don't you sit down and drink a cup of tea and eat some snacks together?"

Yang Yi looked at this tea shop, and his eyes were full of brilliance.

After a while, he nodded to Ning Yuan, "It's okay!"

Then, Ning Yuan took Zhou Zhifu and walked into the tea shop first.

Yang Yi looked at this tea shop and muttered in a low voice, "It's time to eat again." ”