Chapter 35: Meeting Senior Brother
After Li Zimu said goodbye to his master, he rushed to Tianyin Mountain non-stop.
As the saying goes: "People are iron, rice is steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry." Although Li Zimu was very anxious, he couldn't bear to scream.
Li Zimu sat on a tree with a crooked neck, opened the package behind him, and took out the dry food inside. Along the way, Li Zimu only cared about the road, and didn't look at the scenery on the road. Li Zimu looked from afar, and it seemed that a town was located there.
The gates of the city were guarded by officers and soldiers, taking stock of the people who came and went.
Li Zimu was a little curious, he wanted to see things and things he had never seen before, and he wanted to really feel the world.
At this time, although Li Zimu heard the master's warning before going out, this town seemed to attract him as if it had gravity!
Li Zimu put away the dry food, slowly walked to the city gate, and saw an old man pushing a wheelbarrow. Li Zimu stepped forward and asked, "Uncle, where is this place!"
The old man is also a warm-hearted person, stopped his wheelbarrow, wiped the sweat on his forehead with the towel around his neck, and said: "This place is called Qingshi Town, due to business relations, originally this is also a rich place, but half a year ago there appeared a scorpion spirit who can transform into a human form, for the trouble in the town, specially catch children, make people panic, the merchants have run away, making it so barren now! You see that the plaque on the upper floor of the city has been interrupted by the scorpion spirit!"
Li Zimu chuckled in his heart, thinking to himself what kind of demon is so vicious, specializing in catching children.
The old man said again: "I don't think the little brother wants to be a local!"
"Yes, uncle!"
"Listen to me, it's not early today, you can find an inn to stay, and leave here early tomorrow morning!"
"Thank you, uncle!" After speaking, Li Zimu wanted to help the old man push the wheelbarrow, but the old man wouldn't let him!
The old man said: "At first glance, the little brother is not an ordinary person, how can you be allowed to do this kind of work?"
Under the uncle's repeated insistence, Li Zimu didn't know what to say, and hurried into the city after thanking the old man.
When Li Zimu entered the city, his eyes lit up, because he had never seen so many shops selling things.
It is said that half of the eldest child eats Lao Tzu to death, although Li Zimu has just finished eating dry food, he is hungry again after smelling the fragrance!
Li Zimu casually found an inn, and as soon as he entered the door, he heard the shopkeeper complaining there: "Let that scorpion make trouble, now there are fewer and fewer people, I think this restaurant will be closed in a few days!"
The shopkeeper is still very eye-catching, and when he came up, he asked, "Guest officer, are you sharpening or staying in the hotel?"
Li Zimu didn't understand this sentence, so he asked, "Little second brother, what did you mean by what you just said?"
"Objectively an outsider, I must have never been out much!"
Li Zimu said in his heart: "How does he know that I haven't been out?"
Seeing that Li Zimu didn't speak, the shopkeeper explained again: "Hitting the tip of the tongue means to send the tip of the tongue, the meaning of eating, and living in the store means living!"
Before the shopkeeper could finish speaking, the shopkeeper shouted: "Zhuzi, what are you chatting about there?
Hearing the shopkeeper's reprimand, the shopkeeper said: "Call me formally, the guest officer, take a look for yourself, just call me if there is anything!"
Li Zimu thought to himself, if you are here, you must eat something before leaving!
He looked at the people sitting scattered in the lobby and chose a secluded place to sit down.
At this time, he didn't know that a man had already set his sights on him!
Li Zimu shouted: "Xiao Er, come to a bowl of clear soup noodles, don't eat meat!"
Although Taoist priests can drink wine and eat meat, Li Zimu is afraid of gossip, so he can only eat lightly.
The two people sitting at the table next to him were chatting, and it seemed that they should be passing merchants!
One of them said: "Brother Lin, these days have been getting worse every day lately! It's all because of that scorpion spirit, so we can't do business now!"
"Yes! The last batch of goods I bought has not been sold out yet, and if I can't sell them again, I will lose money!"
"Brother Lin, drink, don't worry about anything else!" After saying that, the two raised their wine glasses and touched them and drank them all.
Li Zimu gets goosebumps every time he sees someone drinking! He looked at the expression of someone drinking, and some people would have a very happy expression after drinking into their mouths, like Shen Sanjian, and some would frown after drinking hot. Li Zimu said in his heart: "The wine is obviously so unpleasant, why do so many people like to drink?"
In front of Li Zimu sat a man on the right side, the man was wearing a tiger skin coat, his body looked very rough, but his neck was very thin, and his face was bearded, but his skin was too white and tender! There was a sword on the table, a table of dishes, and a large jar of wine.
The man shouted: "Xiao Er, the wine glass is too enjoyable, bring me a bowl!" After speaking, the man stepped on one of his feet on the bench and waited for the shopkeeper.
After changing the bowl, the man poured a bowl of wine, drank it all, and shouted: "Happy!"
At this time, Li Zimu's clear soup noodles also came up, and at this time, he had no time to look at other people, so he lowered his head and ate his noodles intently.
The man poured another bowl of wine, then picked up the wine and walked to Li Zimu's next table.
The man said to the two merchants, "I heard that you two know about the scorpion spirit, can you tell me?"
The merchant surnamed Lin was just about to open his mouth to say, but another person surnamed Jia said: "Brother Lin, what are we doing with our wine?" The merchant surnamed Jia was also afraid, because he was afraid that the wall had ears, and these words would reach the ears of the scorpion spirit, and the lives of the two of them would be difficult to protect at that time.
The merchant surnamed Lin saw that the merchant surnamed Jia gave him a look, and he also understood that the trouble came from his mouth, so he said, "Brother Jia, let's continue drinking!"
The man was ignored, and he was very unhappy, so he said: "I am a teacher of Tianyin Mountain, and this time I came down the mountain to catch this scorpion spirit!"
Li Zimu, who was concentrating on eating noodles with his head bowed on the side, stopped at once when he heard this sentence!
He said to himself: "The person in front of me is a teacher of Tianyin Mountain, so it is possible that he is his senior brother!"
The merchant surnamed Jia glanced at the man and said, "Don't think that we are far away from Tianyin Mountain here, just use the name of Tianyin Mountain to deceive, Tianyin Mountain is all cultivators, how can it be like yours? If the little brother next door is Tianyin Mountain, I still believe it!" After speaking, the merchant surnamed Jia pointed to Li Zimu.
The man raised his head and looked at Li Zimu, since Li Zimu stepped into the inn, he had noticed him, in other words, he was not paying attention to Li Zimu as a person, but the sword on Li Zimu's back!
The man put the bowl containing the wine on the table, pinched his waist and said, "Then you have to listen well, I am a closed disciple of the Tianyin Mountain Tianyin Guan Kujian Zhenren, and I am also a lay disciple!"
At this time, the businessman surnamed Lin couldn't help it, and suddenly in front of the man, he begged: "Strong man, I beg you to save my son!"
The businessman surnamed Jia was also frightened and said, "Brother Lin, could it be?"
The merchant surnamed Lin couldn't hold back any longer, tears came out at once, and said, "That's right, my son who has just been full moon was captured by the scorpion spirit!"
Li Zimu, who was on the side, saw the businessman surnamed Lin like this, and knew that the scorpion spirit was really harmful!
The man helped the merchant surnamed Lin to his feet and said, "Tell me what happened, and I will be the master for you!"
The businessman surnamed Jia was very thoughtful and said: "Strong man, I have offended a lot just now, and I hope that the strong man Haihan!"
"Don't worry about such a trivial matter!"
"Can the strong man go upstairs to the private room?"
The businessman surnamed Lin also understood that there were many people here, and it was not a place to discuss such things.
But the man disagreed, and said, "If there is anything to say here, I will carry it for you if something happens!"
Seeing that one of the men refused to go up, the merchant surnamed Lin gritted his teeth and said, "Strong man, the lives of my family of four will be handed over to you!"
The merchant surnamed Lin told the man what had happened, and the man smashed the table in a fit of rage and shouted, "This scorpion spirit, I will definitely beat him all over the ground looking for teeth!"
The side in front of them frightened the two merchants, and the two knelt down in unison and said, "Please ask the strong man to save Qingshi Town!"
"Well, you go back first, and I will go and rescue your child tomorrow." ”
The two kowtowed like pounding garlic, thanked the man and left.
The man returned to his wine table and went to eat his unfinished meal.
Li Zimu had already finished drinking his clear soup noodles, but he didn't plan to leave because he had met his senior brother.
Li Zimu didn't know what to say, he didn't know if he would believe it if he had to tell others, after all, he had never been to Tianyin Mountain.
After thinking about it again, Li Zimu was still ready to go up and ask. Li Zimu walked up to the man and said, "Hello senior brother, I am also an apprentice of Tianyin Mountain!"
The man was frightened by this sentence, and he thought in his heart: "It's over, now that I've met the real thing, what should I do?" But he looked at Li Zimu's expression and thought about it: "This kid doesn't want to be cheating on me! Oh, it turns out that he is a fake apprentice like me." ”
The man straightened his expression and said, "Are you? Why haven't I seen you on Tianyin Mountain?"
"Senior brother naturally hasn't seen me, I have lived with my master outside, and I haven't been back to Tianyin Mountain much, this is not my uncle's eighty-seventh birthday, I was ordered by my master to pay homage to my uncle. ”
"So that's the case, no wonder I haven't seen you, then sit down!"
Li Zimu sat opposite the man, and the man said, "Little Er, which bowl are you from!"
The shopkeeper hurriedly sent a bowl again, and the man blocked the bowl in front of Li Zimu, and was about to pour wine for Li Zimu.
Li Zimu thought of the bitter, sour and spicy taste again, and hurriedly said, "Senior brother, junior brother doesn't know how to drink." ”
Hearing this, the man had an idea and said, "Okay, I'll go to the back kitchen and ask you for a bowl of water, can you use water instead of wine?"
"Then there is Senior Brother Lao!"
"My own junior brother, what do you say thank you for?"
It didn't take long for the man to put a bowl of water in front of Li Zimu.
Li Zimu saw a layer of yellow liquid floating on the bowl, and there was a smell of sesame oil, but there was a faint smell of other flavors. Li Zimu asked, "Senior brother, what's on this?"
"Senior brother, I forgot to tell you, just now when I went to the back to ask for water, the master of cooking accidentally poured sesame oil in the water, and it was a pity to pour it, I see that my junior brother usually doesn't eat any oil and water, and my junior brother won't eat sesame oil!"
Although Li Zimu wanted to refuse, he thought that this was the water that his senior brother had poured out himself, and it was not good not to drink it, so he picked up Reagan's chopsticks and gently opened the sesame oil, and then drank the water below.
After drinking, Li Zimu realized that he was not drinking water, but wine!