In late autumn and September, the yellow leaves are scattered.

The cold wind is like a knife, blowing away all living beings.

A donkey cart carrying firewood and grass came from the north and squeaked on the ground covered with branches and leaves.

The old man who was driving the cart raised the leather whip in his hand and whipped it on the donkey's buttocks from time to time.

Lu Zhou, who was lying on the firewood and grass behind the donkey cart, yawned, put his hands behind his head, looked at the gray sky, listened to the sound of the whip in his ears, and counted silently in his heart.

"The 1365th ......"

The journey was too long and boring, and Lu Zhou was too bored to lie on the back of the donkey cart, but he knew that this was his last leisure time before returning to Shenzhou City.

"Mr. Lu, we can get to Shenzhou City before evening. ”

"Good. ”

"Mr. Lu, when I left the customs two days ago, I saw that the warrant you handed to the Northern Barbarian defenders seemed to be the brand of Lingyun Pavilion, didn't the monks of Lingyun Pavilion have supernatural powers?

"Because I have to let the people in Shenzhou City know that I'm back. ”

"Is there someone waiting in Shenzhou City?"

"I'll have it when I come back...... Shenzhou is now the city of Shuoguo, and it is not appropriate for the old gentleman to call him Beiban again. ”

"Oh, Mr. Lu, I'm used to saying this, don't be surprised. ”

"It's okay, I'll rest for a while, and you call me when you get to Shen Zhou. ”

Lu Zhou closed his eyes after speaking, and sighed silently in his heart, where did he count just now?

......

"Lu Zhou, if you let me go, I promise to be a man again. ”

"What do you think I'll do?"

"You also killed someone, we both did the same thing, you also have blood on your hands, even if you go back to the police station, you will be judged by a judge, we are grasshoppers tied to a rope. ”

"I'm not like you, I'm not that dirty. ”

"I thought you could let me go, I've had enough of being undercover, and you're also an undercover agent, you should be able to understand me and give me a chance?"

"How?"

"Let me leave and be a new person. ”

"You can be a new person in prison. ”

"So there's no talk to talk about?"

"You can talk to the judge. ”

"Do you want me to die? we two brothers, if we want to die, we must die together, and we ...... together."

Rumble!

Lu Zhou opened his eyes and looked at the dim sunlight in the sky, there was still firewood and grass for the donkey cart under him, and the sound of the old man's leather whip could be heard in his ears.

He let out a long sigh,

After so many years, he has summed up the lesson of being killed by the bombing in his previous life, that is......

Not cautious enough!

His eyes were those of a young man, there was not a trace of wrinkle at the corners of his eyes, and his face was sharply outlined, but his eyes were full of worries that did not match his age.

The old man who was driving the cart shouted and restrled the donkey cart.

"Mr. Lu, in front of you is Shen Zhoucheng. ”

Lu Zhou's eyes changed, and he regained the casualness of a young man, jumped out of the car, and threw the money bag tied to his waist.

"This, this is too much. ”

"This road is high and the road is long, and I'm sorry for you. ”

"It should be, it should be. ”

The old man cowardly accepted the money bag, with a look of sincere fear.

Not far away in Shenzhou City at sunset and dusk, the faintly heard bustling sound is as prosperous as when he left thirty years ago, and when you get closer, you can see the soldiers of Shuo Kingdom holding bright swords and halberds, and the killing spirit of the soldiers and the singing and dancing in the city are like two irrelevant ditches finally converging.

Seeing Lu Zhou drifting away, the old man's rickety back behind him slowly straightened, the old fingers swiped in the void, and a paper crane glowing with a ghostly green light appeared in his hand.

"Lu Zhou, the former Shenzhou Qingxi Academy, after betraying the sect, he entered the Qiancui Peak of Lingyun Pavilion, and has been practicing for more than 70 years. ”

The old man pointed to the book, and a piece of information about Lu Zhou was entered into the paper crane, and in an instant, the paper crane disappeared into the vast twilight.

Lu Zhou walked to the gate of Shenzhou City and looked back, his eyes were clear.

If he is tested in this way, then he will not come back?

When the old man caught the money bag, he didn't look at the amount of silver in the money bag, although the expression was in place, but in the eyes of Lu Zhou, who was proficient in the criminal psychology of micro-expressions, there were flaws everywhere.

It's just, I don't know which side it is?

Qianniuwei?

History of embroidery?

Or, Tea Division?

Just came back and encountered this kind of investigation, it seems that Shen Zhoucheng is not as calm as it seems.

Entering Shenzhou City, there are no yellow leaves floating in the city.

Lu Zhou first found an inn to live in.

Then, he looked at the setting sun, it was still early.

He came to the Qingxi Academy located in the south of the city, since Shuo Guo took Shenzhou City ten years ago, Qingxi Academy has become a crowd, although there are no weeds in front of the academy, but the dilapidated door can still see the decay here.

The people in the city want to flee to the south, who still has the heart to study and cultivate.

Qingxi Academy is a small sect of cultivation in Shenzhou City, with Confucianism and Taoism in its own right, there are many small sects like this in this world, whether it is the Northern Barbarian Shuo Kingdom or the Southern Zhou Kingdom that controls the world, these sects are all there, but they have changed their way of survival.

Lu Zhou stood in the courtyard, and the voice of Li Muru preaching the scriptures came from the house, exactly the same as thirty years ago.

The sound of the sermon stopped abruptly.

The door opened, Li Muru walked out, followed by four disciples and his daughter Li Zhilan, Li Zhilan saw Lu Zhou standing in the courtyard with a look of surprise in her eyes, and after the consternation, worry surged up.

"Lu Zhou, you still have the face to come back!" one of the disciples shouted angrily.

This man's name is Huang Dacheng, his face is full of beard, and his eyes are as sharp as an eagle.

"The guy who deceived the teacher and destroyed the ancestors, after hiding for so many years, finally dared to come back. ”

"I heard that you went to Lingyun Pavilion, and now you have become a lackey of the Northern Barbarians?"

"Shameless people, sell their ancestors for glory!"

The former senior brother, you said a word, it seemed that you wanted to drown Lu Zhou with spit, but none of them dared to step forward and make a move.

At that time, Lu Zhou was the highest cultivator among the disciples of Qingxi Academy, thirty years have passed, who knows what kind of cultivation he is now?

Li Zhilan rubbed the corners of her clothes uneasily, but she didn't know what to say before her father spoke.

Li Muru looked at Lu Zhou with a cold gaze.

Lu Zhou looked at Li Muru with an indifferent expression.

Finally, Li Muru spoke.

"Back then, I abolished your cultivation, but I didn't expect you to escape to Lingyun Pavilion, and now it seems that in the Taoist temple of Lingyun Pavilion, you have not achieved any results in cultivation. ”

Only then did the surrounding disciples know that Lu Zhou had been abolished for cultivation, and thinking about the appearance of each of them who only dared to squirt a moment ago, they couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

Lu Zhou looked indifferent.

"It's enough to have the identity of Lingyun Pavilion. ”

"Relying on the snobbery of Lingyun Pavilion, do you think you can stand on your feet, the Northern Barbarians pay more attention to strength, and the cultivation of the Jiedan Realm is only afraid that it will take a lot of effort to do eagle claws, so you better go back to your Taoist temple and continue to cultivate." ”

"I'm not here to discuss cultivation with you. ”

"And what are you going to do?"

"I'm back. ”

"With your current cultivation in the Dan Realm, you can't threaten the old man. ”

"What if I enter the Governor's Palace?"

After speaking, Lu Zhou smiled, turned around and left, walking very slowly, but never stopped, although he heard the former brothers behind him barking like dogs to teach himself, but he knew that no one dared to make a move.

Because he is now a disciple of Lingyun Pavilion, Shen Zhoucheng is now the territory of the Northern Barbarian Shuo Kingdom, and no one dares to do anything to the disciple of the first sect of the Shuo Kingdom, let alone an official who is about to enter the Governor's Mansion.

The wind stopped, but Lu Zhou felt a little colder.

Back at the inn, he asked Xiao Er to take a pot of wine, tried it with a silver needle first, and then took another antidote pill before drinking it in the courtyard.

Halfway through the drink, a girl walked into the courtyard, wearing a light green shirt, and walked quickly from the gate of the courtyard, but saw that her eyebrows were crooked, her little nose was slightly upturned, and her face was like white jade.

It was Li Zhilan, the junior sister I saw in Qingxi Academy half a day ago.

"You're here. ”

Li Zhilan didn't say anything, just looked at him.

Lu Zhou smiled: "Don't stare at me like this, I'm very thin-skinned, I know your intentions, but we are really not suitable." ”

Li Zhilan still didn't speak.

"I haven't seen you for so many years, and my sister is deaf?"

Li Zhilan's face was slightly red, and she glared at Lu Zhou angrily.

Lu Zhou said with a smile: "I was not deaf, do you want to sit down and drink two glasses, some things are embarrassed to say now, and after drinking, I can speak faster than anyone else." ”

Li Zhilan said: "I don't drink. ”

Lu Zhou's eyes narrowed slightly, and even the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes smiled: "If you don't drink, will you make a special trip to find me?" Don't say that you didn't run from the south of the city to the north of the city for me, junior sister, it's been so many years, don't forget me, you are a good woman, there are better ones waiting for you." ”

"I just wanted to ask you, do you really want to make eagle talons for the Northern Barbarians?"

"Senior sister, don't say it so ugly, how can it be called an eagle's claw, a good bird chooses a tree to perch, judging the situation is the self-cultivation that a monk should have, and besides, it was Li Muru who drove me out of the sect, do I still have a choice?"

"My dad ......"

"That's your father, not my father, are you still drinking?"

"Don't drink it. ”

"Alright, let's go back to our room. ”

"Back to the room?"

"A moment of Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold. ”

“......”

Li Zhilan doesn't drink, so naturally she won't go back to the room with Lu Zhou, but she is very disappointed, the senior brother who used to be admired in her eyes has now become this kind of person who only knows how to take advantage of the situation.

Lu Zhou picked up the wine jug, poured out the last drop of wine, shook it, and the smile in his eyes was also shaken.

When the master said "Go back to Taoism", he should be referring to......

Shenzhou City's abandoned Qingxu Temple, right?