Since it is back to Chang'an, there is no need to go back to Jilu Prefecture. Go straight south from the grassland, first to Fengzhou, even if you enter the Guannai Road, it is the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty. After that, it went south to Yanzhou, pointing directly to Chang'an, all the way to the official road, fast and safe. But it's much more stable than the frontier.

(Fengzhou, in the area of present-day Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia, Yanzhou, present-day Yan'an, Shaanxi.) ）

The cold wind is steep, and the sun is half warm.

Li Bing and Anzi sat on the left and right wheels of the cart, Ying Lan'er sat on the cart with her knees crossed, the three of them talked and laughed, looking at the different ice and snow scenery all the way, and they were also happy.

"It's still early today, hurry forward, maybe we can still rush to the next place to stay, do we still have to stop in Fengzhou for a day?" Li Bing had just entered the gate of Fengzhou City with his horse, and asked the other two about their plans to come.

"Otherwise, it's better to stop in Fengzhou today. The horses were moving faster than expected, and they had been on the road for several days, and there was not much food or water, so they should be repaired. Yinglan'er checked the burden on the car, and said, "This horse is probably tired, let her rest too!"

"It's still early today, and every day is so hard, the horses are hard, and everyone is also hard. Anyway, it's the first time I've come to Toyosu, so it's better to see what to do and stay for a day. ”

In this arrangement, the happiest is naturally Anzi. He jumped out of the carriage and held the bun: "Okay, Brother Bing'er." This pretty rouge pulls the three of us every day, and she is not too tired. What a horse. Gai Ming'er, I must find her the same good horse and marry her. Give birth to a litter of ponies. ”

He smirked: "Isn't it a waste to give birth to such a good horse, don't you give birth to ten or eight?"

"Yes, yes, yes! ”

The three of them had just passed the city gate when suddenly a few shouts came from the front:

"Hey, stop, don't run!"

"Someone, catch the thief!"

As soon as the sound came, a basket of baked cakes was lifted into the sky and scattered to the ground.

A small man sprang out from the street stall, thin and ragged, his hair disheveled, his gray and dirty hair glued into strands, and his face completely obscured.

The little man fled all the way, the boss was in hot pursuit, and the two ran in the direction of Li Bing one after the other.

The man in front of him staggered, but he was not slow. Seeing that he was dirty, the pedestrians on the road not only did not stop him, but made way for him.

Looking at the baked cake in the little man's arms, Li Bing instantly understood what was going on.

Just when he ran closer, Li Bing took two steps towards the center of the street, slightly hooked the instep, and sent it to the little man's feet.

The thief who stole the cake was already unsteady on his feet, and when he tripped over this, he made a loud noise and flew half a foot away.

Before Li Bing stepped forward, the owner of the cake shop had already caught up and grabbed the little man's ragged clothes.

"You bastard, in broad daylight, on this street, how dare you steal?" The owner of the cake shop snatched two pieces of baked cakes from his arms: "You steal and steal, and you overturned my baked cake stall and ruined a basket of baked cakes for you?" After speaking, it was a punch to the little old man's high cheekbones!

"You!

The little man covered his face with both hands and kept begging for mercy. The voice is hoarse, and the shouting voice is hoarse. His clothes were in tatters, and he was torn by the owner of the bakery, revealing countless whip marks on his two arms.

Even Yinglan'er looked at that arm, but she was trembling, and she didn't dare to look at it again.

Li Bing's education since childhood is to recognize right and wrong. If the world wants to be stable, everyone must abide by their duties, and there are thousands of people in the world, so why do you have to steal or rob? Although it is unfortunate to be downcast, there must be reasons of its own. What's more, if you can do things like stealing, you will already have evil intentions, and if you don't punish them, you will incur even greater harm. All the people are in accordance with the law, meritorious service will be rewarded, and mistakes will be punished, this is the way to govern the country. Talk about the rules first, and draw a square circle, so that the country can prosper.

So when he saw someone stealing, he stopped without thinking about it.

But this matter is another story for Anzi. There are so many rights and wrongs in the misfortunes of the world. If he can live a good life, who wants to steal and rob? Since he was a child, he has lived a life of starvation, stealing things, being beaten, and being covered in injuries. The tragic situation of the little man in front of him is really sympathetic.

"Brother Bing'er, that person is so miserable. Let's go help him!"

"yes! Look at the wound on that hand. Ying Lan'er glanced at it again, and the owner of the cake shop was really angry, riding on the little man, punching and punching, and hitting strongly. The little man didn't dare to resist, so he could only protect his face and scream in pain.

Li Bing has been in the rivers and lakes for half a year, and he is no longer the son of the world who does not know the world. Seeing that this little man was so pitiful, he already regretted that he had tripped him, and it was better for him to escape.

He walked up to the owner of the cake shop and grabbed his old fist: "Brother Tai, you have also beaten this beating, and your anger has disappeared." Forget it, you see he's pitiful!"

The owner of the cake shop broke free of Li Bing's wrist and stretched out his hand to point at himself: "He is pitiful, I am still pitiful." The whole family has to open their mouths to eat, and if he steals a pancake from me, I won't do the same. Steal it, and knock over my basket, a hundred and ten baked cakes, scattered everywhere, stained with mud. How can you still sell it!"

After speaking, he was even more angry, and at the little man, he punched again: "Cheap bones!

Ying Lan'er knew that this matter would not be settled if she didn't spend some money, so she took out her purse immediately, counted dozens of copper plates, and handed them to Li Bing.

Li Bing checked the money in his hand again and handed it to the owner of the cake shop: "Although this money is not much, at least it will allow you to protect your capital." I also helped you stop this man. Brother, for my sake, forget about it! If you beat him to death, you have to go to the yamen. ”

The owner of the cake shop looked at the copper plates, even if he was reluctant to save his capital, but he thought that even if he beat this person again, he would not be able to get money. took the money immediately: "Well, since you are willing to help him pay, I also consider myself unlucky, and this matter is over." ”

After speaking, he turned to the little man's brain with a knife, and slashed it from his forehead: "See that you don't have a long memory, dare you come and grab it again!"

The man cursed, shook the copper plate again, put it in the cuffs, and then got up from the little man and left.

Anzi walked up to the little man, picked up the baked cake on the ground, and handed it to him: "You are also stupid." If you steal, you can steal, and you can still be discovered? If you are beaten today, you will have a longer memory, and the next time you steal, you will see the opportunity to do it again! How can you snatch something on the main street like this! You are so stupid! You deserve to be beaten. ”

Li Bing was laughed at by Anzi. Also go up and help. Pulling him up, he patted him with dust and ruffled his sticky hair. I was about to speak, but I was suddenly surprised and couldn't close my mouth anymore!

"It's you!"

Only then did he show half of his face, and he was recognized by Li Bing and the others. It's actually the head of the Valley of Joy, Venerable Rat!

Venerable Rat also recognized a few people, pushed Li Bing away, and hurriedly ran away.

Anzi and Li Bing had already died for him in the "Heavenly Gate" of the altar of the slaughtering people. Ying Lan'er had seen him in Qianhua Xingfang, and it was when the head of Huanxi Valley and the Medicine King Hall compared herbs.

The soles of the rat venerable's feet were smeared with oil, but he was injured, where did he run past Li Bing. As soon as he ran ten zhang away, he went around from the main street into an alley, and was grabbed by Li Bingyi.

Li Bing tugged hard, wanting to drag him down. But he inadvertently tore off the broken sleeve, only to see that the tendons of the Rat Venerable had been broken, and there were two scarlet wounds on his wrists.

No wonder you were able to allow an ordinary person to punch and kick you on the street just now.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me!" Venerable Rat was caught by Li Bing, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to resist at all, and let Li Bing hold his arm.

"Aren't you the head of Huanxi Valley, how can you be like this?" asked Yinglan'er first.

Li Bing and An Zi were both surprised, they only knew from the Mo family brothers that he was one of the Venerables of the East Four Halls of the Rong Sect, but they didn't know that he was still the head of Huanxi Valley. After both identities were confirmed, the conjecture of the third brother of the Mo family was confirmed. Sure enough, the drug and poison dispute in Qianhua Xingfang is also a ghost of Rongjiao.

"I ...... Don't ask, let me go! The Rat Venerable suddenly knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing to Li Bing. The voice is hoarse, not at all the voice of the time when the sky is opened.

"Ah, you ......" Li Bing took a step sideways, still holding his arm, looking at his pitiful appearance, his head banging on the ground. Although I can't bear it, I still be careful, and the poisoning and death of Lord Deer is still in sight.

"What the hell is going on, how could you be like this?"

"I have no way out, you can let me go!" Venerable Rat was silent about what had happened to him, just blindly begging for mercy and acting with one hand.

After asking twice, there was no response, Li Bing was already a little angry, and raised his voice: "I can let you go, you tell me what happened first." If you don't say anything more, I'll send you back to Wuwei. The deer-sama has been poisoned by you, and is dead. Cloud Ambassadors are very interested in you. ”

The Rat Venerable was so frightened that he straightened up: "Don't ...... I said, I said, you asked me, I said. I just beg you to let me go!"

He paused: "Since the failure of Qianhua Xingfang, the Mo family brothers found out that behind my Huanxi Valley was the Rong Sect, and after it was widely spread in the rivers and lakes, Huanxi Valley was besieged by dozens of sects and has been wiped out. I just got away with it. ”

"So you are like this, you are also beaten by decent people, you deserve it!" Ying Lan'er thought of the evil things that the Poison School had done in Qianhua Xingfang, and thought of those dead disciples, and her compassion for the Rat Venerable was gone.

"No! I was hunted down by the disciples of the Lingshu Sect, but eventually escaped from Ganzhou. I originally wanted to go to my East Fourth Hall, Lord Leopard, and begged him to take me in, but I was caught by the people of the West Fourth Hall on the way. ”

"Xisitang, is it Venerable Kite, Venerable Eagle, and Venerable Elephant?"

The Rat Venerable looked incredulous: "You...... Do you know?" After speaking, he lowered his head again, and said suddenly: "This time in Qianhua Xingfang, and last time in Wuwei, our East Fourth Hall has messed up the affairs of the Lord twice. I guessed that the Lord would rebuke me. But he didn't expect that this time the lord actually issued a chase and kill order. We must exterminate the entire Dongsi Hall!"

"Why? Is it because you are not doing well? Rongjiao is really vicious!" "If you do something wrong, you will have to kill you?" Li Bing couldn't figure it out, and only thought that the Demon Sect was ruthless.

"Not really. No matter which hall it is, there are a lot of things that have not been done before, but at most a few reprimands at a time. This time, the Lord was angry because the people of our East Fourth Hall had a traitor and were known to the Lord. ”

"What mole?"

"The hall master of the East Fourth Hall, the nephew of Venerable Leopard, is also in the sect, and he is called Venerable Ibis. He found something that the Lord wanted, and instead of giving it to the Lord, he inquired about the Lord's secrets. This matter was noticed by the West Fourth Church and informed the Lord. The day was overturned, and an order was issued to completely exterminate our East Fourth Hall. ”

"On my way to escape, I happened to meet the Hall Master of the West Fourth Hall, the Tiger Venerable, and the Eagle Venerable. They seized me, picked at my tendons and feet, and fed me the poison I had prepared myself, and if I hadn't escaped earlier and prepared the antidote myself, I would have been blind, dumb and deaf by now. When Venerable Rat replied, he must have stared at Li Bing, as if he was speculating on his thoughts.

"Eat your own poison by yourself, you are really to blame! I can't blame others!" Anzi didn't have a good impression of the Rat Venerable at all, and he had already developed a disgust.

Venerable Rat sneered: "Yes!, who can you wronged by the path you chose!" After speaking, he shook his head with a wild laugh, and snorted coldly: "I have worked hard for the Rong Sect for 20 years, but I didn't expect that I would end up with such a result! Hahahaha! It's really sad and ridiculous!"

Li Bing saw his coy posture and felt even more disgusted. Ying Lan'er felt that there seemed to be a sour feeling in his smile, twenty years of loyalty, and finally became a rat crossing the street, so there must be a monstrous hatred in his heart.

"How did you join the Rongjiao? I remember that Huanxi Valley is a famous and decent family in Ganzhou for a hundred years!" Ying Lan'er said.

"Twenty years ago, I was a disciple of the Valley of Joy. I was obsessed with poison, and I fought with my fellow brother, and gave him dumb medicine, and was rejected by the head of the sect and expelled from the Valley of Joy. I was going to go out of Ganzhou and go back to my hometown, but at that time, I met the Lord!"

This word was mentioned three or four times, Li Bing raised the corners of his eyebrows, and asked, "Is the Lord you are talking about the leader of the Rong Sect?"

"No...... No, Rong Sect Master, I've never seen one. The Lord I am talking about is the Left Soul Envoy, one of the two envoys of the Rong Sect. He is in charge of the Sixteen Venerables of the Rong Sect. But even with him, I've only met twice. ”

Li Bing's brows tightened, still trying to find fault in the words of the Rat Venerable. This person is cunning and has to be guarded against: "Rongjiao has two envoys, four caves, eight disciples and sixteen venerables. How come it is that you are not a person from the Four Caves and Eight Disciples, but a Left Soul Envoy?"

"There are strict rules in the Rongjiao, and the behavior is hidden. Not to mention that I have never seen any of the four caves and eight disciples, even the sixteen Venerables, I can't recognize them all. ”

He looked at Li Bing and didn't mean to continue to ask, and said, "At that time, he asked me: 'Will I be willing to leave like this?' I was at the end of my rope at that time, so I naturally agreed.

Later, he took me to a village where there were two owners and asked me to work there as a hard laborer. At first, I was reluctant, but it didn't take long for me to realize that one of those two people was very powerful. I only studied with him for a year, and I was confident that I was more powerful than my master.

A year later, the Left Soul Envoy sent someone to contact me and say that the time had come, and gave me a lot of people. I returned to the Valley of Joy, forced the master to abdicate, and became the head myself.

In the next few years, Zuo Soul Envoy didn't have anything important except for occasionally sending some patients to me for treatment, but kept giving money to people, and Joy Valley grew a lot bigger than before. It wasn't until five years ago that he came to me with two sick people and said that I was going to heal them first, and that the three of us would come back together to find some scriptures. Strange to say, fifteen years have passed, and the appearance of the left soul envoy is actually the same as before. ”

He said that he was weak, and it seemed that he was really destroyed by the punishment of Xisitang, and he only had this breath left, and after speaking, he actually sat down on the ground tiredly.

"One of those two is Venerable Leopard, who has become the hall master of our East Fourth Hall. For the next five years, I followed Venerable Leopard to work my life. Go everywhere to find the whereabouts of the "Three Phases Sutra". I once asked Venerable Leopard what the use of this thing was, but he only told me not to ask, and not to ask, and to do things with peace of mind. I did the same, and I didn't dare to go beyond the rules. ”

Li Bing had already learned some information about the "Three Phases Sutra" from the three brothers of the Mo family, that is, it was divided into three types: black, white and yellow, with seven silk books of each type, with a total of 21 pages. He immediately asked, "How many pages have you found in the past few years?"

"There is only one page, white silk book. It was for this page. There was also a 'Butterfly Venerable' who died. Oh yes, the Ibis Venerable, the nephew of the Leopard Venerable, is the place to take her place. ”

"Click~!" As soon as he finished speaking, at the corner at the end of the alley, there was a sound of a dead branch being trampled off.

"Who is it?" A chill stretched along the end of the alley, and the Rat Venerable was already loud, and he was not lightly frightened by this movement.

In the corner, a person walked out, with a pink skirt and white yarn, fluttering clothes, a silk scarf covering his face, and holding a blue short sword.

Flying smoke red silk and white hat, a sword Lingyun smiled Hansheng, this person is the descendant of the flying smoke sword, the Venerable Kite - Ni Shang.

She walked slowly from the corner of the alley, her elegant body was like a lotus flower blooming under her feet.

"Have you seen Venerable Butterfly?"