Chapter 45: The Annam Inn
Liu Dianzong was so smart, he hurriedly made a gesture and said: "Please rest assured, with me, I will never let Ruyi's junior sister suffer a little grievance, nor will I let my junior sister make mistakes again, I promise!"
Seeing Liu Dianzong's sincere attitude, Master Canglang also put his mind at ease, and said to Ruyi: "Go and practice Taoism with Dianzong, remember the words of the teacher." Zhang Ruyi nodded in agreement, stepped forward, and said goodbye to Liu Dianzong Master, the two talked and laughed, and went down the Falling Immortal Cliff.
Mrs. Canglang looked at the backs of the two, and suddenly remembered the embarrassment of the stone in front of everyone that day, this time she did not smile, but pursed her lips, with a trace of bitterness.
The side hall of Chaoyang Palace.
"Master, how long will it take to get out of this retreat?" asked the Far Eastern Zhenren uneasily, standing at the foot of the stairs and leaning forward humbly.
On the stage, Zhang Zhenren's expression was grim, and he frowned and said: "For the teacher, this time I have participated in the essence of the Zhengyi Alliance's Wei Fu, less than a month, more than a few years, if successful, the Tao will be able to increase greatly, and the feather will ascend to the immortal, but if it is interfered with by the outside world, not only will it fall short, but it will also fall into the ghost path, so during the retreat, no one is allowed to enter the cold ice room in the back mountain, and those who violate the order will be killed." His voice was unfamiliar and rough, deliberately accentuating the tone of the last sentence.
Far Eastern Zhenren agreed in horror and withdrew from the side hall.
He stood outside the Chaoyang Palace, looking up at the starry sky, and sighed in his heart, he couldn't see through the master more and more, and didn't understand why the master suddenly chose to retreat in the cold ice room, you must know that there are already rumors on the rivers and lakes now, talking about the Miaojiang Wumen will soon replace the Taoist sects and become the first immortal cultivator in the world, as an apprentice, he does not dare to disobey the master, so he has to arrange it according to the master's wishes.
In the afternoon of the same day, the disciples of Lingyun Temple knew about the retreat of the master, and the next day, the whole people in the rivers and lakes knew about Zhang Zhenren's retreat.
The attic of the ice room, built next to the Youhai Hall, is a stone castle, and it is also a very quiet place in Lingyun Temple.
On the moon in the west, in the dead of night, suddenly, a black shadow flew out of the cold ice room, flashed a few times in the moonlight, and then disappeared into the palace group of Lingyun Temple.
After the black shadow flew away, a white shadow also flew up from the darkness, and disappeared into the moonlight with the black shadow.
Guizhou Buzheng Division, Duyun Mansion, Kaili Pacification Division, at the foot of Lei Mountain.
Miao Xinjiang centered on Lei Mountain is a barbarian land since ancient times, called "Nanban" in ancient times, during the Warring States Period, there is a Yelang clan to build a country here, this country has no other achievements, only leave an idiom "Yelang arrogant" to laugh for 10,000 years, this place is the throat of Yunnan, so the times change, the emperors of all dynasties have set up official offices in this place to guard, since the Yuan Dynasty began to implement the Tusi system, to attract the local indigenous Miao people with the policy of bondage. At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Guizhou Buzheng Department was set up, and the jurisdiction of Duyun, Liping, Sizhou, Sinan, Tongren, Zhenyuan, Shiqian seven mansions, and Guiyang, Anshun, Pingyue three military and civilian mansions, countless Miao sons and daughters built a village here to live, hunting by the mountains, fishing by the water, not doing agricultural business, not reading poetry and books, the Hongwu Emperor put the Han soldiers and civilians to guard here, and also brought the farming and commerce of the Han nationality here, and gradually changed the customs here, but only the witch wind of Miao Jiang has been prosperous for a long time, and there is a tendency to burn the plains.
Leishan County, at the foot of Lei Mountain, is much more lively than in the past, and the small village is full of "merchants" who come and go from the south to the north , they or Han or barbarian, with the accent of the official dialect of various places, settled in the village, neither sell tea, nor sell silk, wander around under the mountain during the day, meet people while asking the path of Lei Mountain, at night while the moon is dark and the wind is high, then change their night clothes, waiting for the opportunity to go to Lei Mountain to explore the way, Lei Mountain is full of Wumen organs, almost every day there are people of unknown origin in the body, abandon the corpse halfway, no one pays attention, Wumen disciples in order not to attract the attention of the government, they will be restrained, hastily buried, after a few days, the night into the Lei Mountain people actually do not decrease but increase, more and more, really make the Wumen disciples a headache。
In the evening of that day, a man wrapped in black came to the village, he was in a majestic figure, carrying a birdcage-shaped wooden box in one hand, covered with black cloth, and carrying a long stick-like object behind his back, which was also wrapped in black cloth, which seemed to be a weapon.
The man in black looked vigilantly, looked around, and finally walked into the only inn opened by Han people in Leishan County, Annan Inn.
Annan Inn has a total of two floors, there are tables and stools on the street, and there are dozens of guest rooms on the other side, the earliest special reception of the horse gang who came and went to and from the ancient tea horse road, and later came and went to the north and south, and the merchants who walked by land and water also increased, and the Annan Inn also changed its owner several times, only the plaque on the lintel is still there, and some broken inscriptions tell the replacement of prosperity and desolation.
"This guest officer, are you eating, or staying in a hotel?" A short man with a routine smile came to pour tea and reception, the guy is called Liu San, followed his father's military tun, came to Miaojiang, and later his father died because of the rebellion, Liu San abandoned his hereditary military status, fled here, and became a man incognito, he looked at this man in black, and was not very surprised, because he had seen a lot of strange people these days, and even monks and Mongolians from the Western Regions had also appeared here.
The man in black sat down on the street, put the birdcage-shaped box in the corner of the table, and said in a hoarse voice: "Eat the rice, live in the store, set a table for the first-class banquet, especially the stone pot roasted fish, and then clean up the good room." He reached out and took a silver ingot from his bosom and put it on the table, he hadn't tasted stone pot roasted fish for decades, and this time he could finally feast on it.
The guy hurriedly grabbed the silver in his hand, smiled sweetly, and said: "Okay, although this is a miasma land in the south, there is no seafood in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but there are delicious dishes in the mountains, objectively you sit down, I will go to the back kitchen to make you a table of first-class Miaojiang style dishes, stone pot roasted fish will be good immediately, you are satisfied!"
The man slipped away, the man in black took a sip of tea, glanced at the seats in the inn, at this time it was not too late, and there were not many people seated, those who had the same purpose as him, had already finished dinner, returned to the room and prepared to continue exploring Lei Mountain at night, he crossed the door of the Annan inn, and looked out, in the village, there were also many Han people, The shops opened by the Miao people, buying and selling the local products of the Miao region, are nothing more than wild things in the mountains, herbs in the forest, and the pedestrians on the street are gradually thinning, suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a white shadow flashing on the corner of the street, and then disappeared, he became alert, got up and went to the second floor.