Chapter 16: The Search for the Ruins
Bai Ling felt cordial when he saw Yuan Xi for the first time, and felt that everything was destined, as if Yuan Xi was his biological son who was conceived in October. Yuan Xi was originally hungry with yellow face and thin muscles, but after taking care of Bai Ling for two days, his face became very ruddy. Yuan Xi has never felt afraid of Li Qingxiu and his wife, and always wants to be coquettish in Bai Ling's arms.
Bai Ling said: "Our son is really loved, and he is also very smart, and he will definitely not be an ordinary person when he grows up." β
Since picking up Yuan Xi, Li Qingxiu has become a lot lazy, he used to go to the forest every day, but now he doesn't go, all he thinks about every day is how to tease Yuan Xi. Hearing Bai Ling's words, Li Qingxiu said excitedly again: "Our son is not simple, in that forest, there is a big tiger......
"I've said it hundreds of times, my ears can hear the calluse, let's get down to business, let's give our children a name!" Bai Ling said.
Hearing this, Li Qingxiu put his hands behind his back, coughed twice, cleared his throat, and said: "I have already thought about the name, our son has a fate with the tiger, so it is better to call it Li Zihu!"
Bai Ling grabbed the rattle next to him and threw it at Li Qingxiu, saying, "How can my son's name be so ugly?" After speaking, Bai Ling herself fell into deep thought, she felt that her son should have a loud name, and said to Li Qingxiu: "You see that you have nothing to do in your life, our son will be called Li Zimu! I hope that in the future, I can be a good official and be able to benefit the people, and my nickname is Huzi." β
Li Qingxiu also thinks that this name is good, it is both beautiful and meaningful.
Shen Sanjian saw the letter that Yiyao passed to him, and the more he looked at it, the more uncomfortable he became, he never thought that such a thing would happen. At this time, Shen Sanjian had only one thought, that is, to find the orphans of Yiyao and his wife, so that he could be worthy of his dead friend. After Shen Sanjian picked up the sword, he got up and was about to leave.
At this time, the shopkeeper was not happy, and said: "You can't go anywhere if you don't settle the bill, if you can't settle the bill, you can only go to prison." β
Shen Sanjian, who was already annoyed, was angry again when the shopkeeper said this, he grabbed the shopkeeper's collar, and a bully lifted the shopkeeper up. Seeing this, the guys who had just come over were scared, and the shopkeeper regretted it even more, because he understood that this time he really angered Shen Sanjian.
Shen Sanjian gently put down the shopkeeper again, and said to everyone: "I won't repay the debt, I will store the Dao Sword here today, and he will definitely come to redeem it one day." After speaking, Shen Sanjian turned the sword in his hand a few times, and then smashed it hard, and the sword was deeply embedded in the ground, and said to the shopkeeper: "When I talk about the ugly things ahead, no one is allowed to move my sword, just put it here for me as it is, and I will bear all the losses." β
After speaking, Shen Sanjian turned around and left, and everyone was dumbfounded. Shen Sanjian took a chopstick from the table, threw the chopsticks into the air after going out, and then jumped on the chopsticks himself, and the imperial object flew. The shopkeeper really looked stupid this time, and when he reacted, he slapped himself and said to himself: "Damn it, I didn't pass his test." β
Although Shen Sanjian drank a lot of wine, it could be seen from the time when he flew that ordinary wine would not make him drunk at all.
It didn't take much effort for Shen Sanjian to return to Tianyin Mountain, and he reached the top of the mountain directly. The two disciples guarding the door saw that it was Shen Sanjian coming, so they replied in unison: "Welcome Uncle back to the mountain!"
Shen Sanjian hurriedly walked into the gate, walked more than a dozen steps and turned around, and asked the two disciples guarding the door, "Are there any outsiders worshipping the mountain gate these days?"
The two of them said one by one, and Shen Sanjian said very irritably: "Who asked you to talk about these people, I mean an old woman with a baby in her arms, she should have come to me." β
The two shook their heads in unison, and one of them said, "Uncle, it will be the master's seventieth birthday in two days, so there are many people who come to celebrate his birthday, but I haven't seen the old woman you said with a baby, and she didn't even bring a baby." β
"Okay, I see, you two remember, if you meet an old woman who comes to me with a baby, you must stay. β
The two nodded in agreement, and after Shen Sanjian left, the two discussed: "What's wrong with Uncle Xiao, I've never seen him so rough." β
The other said: "You have been here for a short time, you know what kind of person is the little uncle, the little uncle is the most valued disciple of the ancestor, the faΓ§ade of our Tianyin Mountain, the person who has attained the Tao to become an immortal, and there is a very loud title "Sword Immortal". β
"It turns out that Uncle Xiao's name is still so big, no wonder there is so much age difference between Uncle Shi and the master. β
"You put your ears here, I know some rumors, do you want to know?"
The later person leaned his ear over because of curiosity, and the other said: "It is rumored that the ancestor was going down the mountain to play, and when he saw the little uncle with immortal bones, he accepted him as a closed disciple, and the ancestor was nearly seventy years old at that time. At that time, Uncle Xiao was only seven years old, and when Uncle Xiao was twelve years old, there were few opponents on Tianyin Mountain, and Uncle Xiao was an existence like an ancestor who surpassed his master. β
The later one was skeptical, because he had seen Shen Sanjian just now, and he felt very ordinary, so he asked, "If the junior uncle is so powerful, why doesn't the senior ancestor make him the head?"
"This is the most powerful thing about Uncle Xiao, I said earlier that Uncle Xiao is a person with immortal bones, a person who can become an immortal, and people are not here at all. When the ancestor drove the crane to the west, the little uncle was only seventeen years old, but the mausoleum that had been guarded for seven years by the ancestor at that age was in the mountain behind us. I also heard, of course, this is also what I heard others say, Uncle Xiao and the fourth prince of the demon clan, Yiyao, still have a personal relationship. β
Hearing this, the one who came later was not happy and said, "What! Isn't it just a scum who colludes with the demons?"
"You, what do you know, you know who the four princes of the demon clan are, he is the strongest of the demon clan, the famous sword demon today, Uncle Xiao can fight with him, it can prove how strong Uncle Xiao is, because ordinary people are not worthy of fighting with the four princes of the demon race, because Yiyao is a little arrogant. β
At this moment, the little Taoist priest who sent a message to Shen Sanjian passed by the door, and when he saw these two people chatting, he reprimanded: "The two of them are not on duty well, what kind of system is it to turn heads and ears?"
The two lowered their heads and said, "Senior brother, just now Uncle Xiao asked us if there was an old woman who came to him with a baby, and we are reminiscing." β
The little Taoist priest who delivered the message said in his heart: "Uncle Shi really kept his promise, he came here so early, the task taught to me by the master is completed, and after the master leaves the customs, he will definitely reward me." Although he was very happy, he still said seriously: "Don't talk nonsense during duty time, don't make an example." After saying that, he went in to find Shen Sanjian.
Shen Sanjian was looking for his senior brother, but he couldn't find it, and just as he was about to leave, he saw the little Taoist priest who sent him a letter, so he asked, "Where is your master?"
The little Taoist priest bowed his head very humbly and said, "Hello uncle, the old man is in retreat and cultivating, and he will be able to get out of the customs in two days." β
Shen Sanjian said: "You remember, if there is an old woman who comes to worship the mountain gate with her baby in her arms, you must keep them no matter what, and when I come back, remember to take good care of them." β
Before the little Taoist priest could agree, Shen Sanjian took his Dao sword from his hand and said, "I'll use your sword first, and I'll return it to you." After saying that, Shen Sanjian went away with his sword.
The little Taoist priest looked at Shen Sanjian, who had already left, and remembered what he hadn't said, so he shouted loudly: "Uncle Shi, remember that it will be the master's birthday in three days, and you must remember to come back." β
After leaving Tianyin Mountain, Shen Sanjian went to Yiyao Mansion.
His speed was very fast, and when he came out of the restaurant, it was already in the afternoon, and the distance was very long, so he didn't dare to rest and had to travel day and night. Due to Shen Sanjian's speed, it was like a meteor at night.
Finally, in the early morning of the second day, Shen Sanjian arrived at his destination and saw Yiyao's mansion. Yiyao's mansion has long ceased to exist, and now all that remains is a ruin, and only the remnants of the wall can be faintly seen.
Seeing this situation, Shen Sanjian's heart seemed to tremble, he had a lot of words in his heart but didn't know how to say it, he looked carefully at everything left in the mansion, and tried his best to imagine the lives of Yiyao and Ji Yue before their deaths.
Shen Sanjian tried his best to find the remaining things in the ruins, hoping to find some clues, but he turned the bottom but found nothing.
Shen Sanjian shouted loudly: "Brother Yi, Ji Yue, where are you, can you give me a hint?" Because the sound was too loud, it alarmed a leopard spirit, and the leopard spirit smelled human smell, and when he saw that it was a human, he was much bolder.
This leopard's cultivation is not shallow, it can already transform into a human form, the leopard spirit said: "It's really a rare guest, a group of people just came some time ago, and here is another one, the staple food has been eaten for a long time, and I want to change to some game to eat, and today you can enter the belly of the leopard master is also a blessing for your third generation." β
Shen Sanjian heard the point, and he heard the leopard spirit talk about what happened a few days ago. So he asked, "Have you seen everything that happened some time ago?"
The leopard spirit said proudly: "At that time, the fight was chaotic, it was just dark, if it weren't for the leopard master, I would have died a long time ago, why do you ask so much? Anyway, you will soon become my belly food." β
Shen Sanjian said again: "Let me ask you one last time, what happened that day?"
"You're really interesting, I've said it, you're my food, how can there be so many words about food?" After speaking, the leopard spirit turned into a leopard again, and suddenly pounced on Shen Sanjian.