"Two chivalrous masters, the shopkeeper of our store said, he invited the two of you to eat and drink tonight, you two beat away the monsters and saved dozens of lives, you two can order whatever you want. The shopkeeper had a hand towel on his shoulder, and bent over the table to serve Tang Feng and the others.

At this time, only Tang Feng and Nangong Bei were left on the entire third floor, Tang Feng tilted his head and thought about it, and said, "Two pots of good wine, just order snacks and food." The shopkeeper didn't work hard to bring two dishes of side dishes, a plate of peanuts, two pots of Qinhuai old wine, and half a catty of cooked beef. ”

Tang Feng threw a peanut into his mouth, and he asked Nangong Bei curiously: "Big brother, what happened after I left, why was the red-haired monster still poisoned, isn't he known as the successor of the head of the Kunlun Qi Sect, why was he wasted all his kung fu by others?"

After Nangong Bei checked the shoulder injury, he took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, opened the cork, and a fragrant smell wafted out of it. He poured out a pill the size of a soybean from it, opened his mouth to swallow the pill, and said, "I don't know if this old monster's claws are poisonous, take a pill to prevent it first." ”

After taking the medicine, Nangong Beicai told Tang Feng what happened afterward, including how Li Shixiu was poisoned and how Wuchen was snatched away by Li Kun. Tang Feng sighed when he heard this, and he asked Nangong Beidao: "The two ghosts asked you for the Soul Suppression Stone, how did you deceive it?"

Nangong Bei smiled and replied: "Wuchen's two apprentices are not bad-hearted, but they have some problems with their brains. At that time, after I asked them to release Miss Ji's soul, I used the Zixiao Dao technique to return Miss Ji's soul, but the Ji Mansion could no longer live in the future, and their family moved to other places to recuperate and escape the war. ”

Nangong Bei paused, looked at the Qinhuai River outside the window, and said: "After the people of Ji Mansion left, I took the two ghosts down into the stone room in the well, I expected that they didn't know the secret inside the soul stone, so I pointed to a pile of stones on the ground and explained to them. ”

"These two guys are so easy to deceive, no wonder they have a problem with their brains......" Tang Feng quipped.

Nangong Bei looked at Tang Feng and asked, "Let's talk about you, what adventures have you had recently, seeing that your cold qi has improved a lot, have you found that Qin Meiniang along the way......?"

Tang Feng took a sip of wine, and he told Nangong Bei about his experience in the past few days and the matter of the Living Corpse Cave, Nangong Bei was surprised when he heard it, and then exclaimed: "Hey, don't blame Li Shixiu for saying that your kid has a good life, so you got its cultivation tips and inner pills from the belly of the python, I said why does your kid look a little different." ”

Tang Feng lowered his head and was silent, and poured the wine in the cup into his mouth with one mouth; this Qin Huai's old wine was a little strong, which reminded Tang Feng of the few things in his heart. Nangong Bei looked at Tang Feng and said with a smile: "Why do you kid seem to have something on your mind, tell me." ”

Tang Feng had a bitter face, sighed and said: "Big brother, there are some things I don't want to say, I just feel a little absurd; since I came out of Yingzhou, I always feel that everything that happened was arranged by someone, from meeting Su Xiaoxiao to Yan Lao, and even meeting Shixiu you, the bizarre encounters that happened along the way and the three demon pills in my body, did you say that my life was arranged by someone?"

Nangong Bei pondered for a moment after hearing this, and asked Tang Feng: "Tang Feng, do you believe in fate?"

"Destiny ......" Tang Feng fell into deep thought.

"When I was a beggar, I thought I was born to be a beggar, and when I escaped from Nanji Village, the rat people killed me in the Foya Ancient Cave, and I thought I was dying early...... Lao Guo said to me at the time, my life will change after I enter his Yingzhou, but I always feel that all this is manipulated by someone behind the scenes......" Tang Feng said, his eyes confused.

Nangong Bei lowered his head and thought about it, and replied: "Tang Feng, I think it's a very simple thing, it makes you think about it." ”

"Oh? ”

"Those who have become beggars, but seek three meals a day, warm their bodies and fill their stomachs, will inevitably sigh in their hearts about the injustice of fate; those who have suffered from their misfortunes, but seek to settle down and establish their lives, will inevitably sigh in their hearts about the ups and downs of fate; but if you think about it carefully, where is your so-called theory of fate measured?"

"Where, of course, in my heart!"

Tang Feng replied.

"That's right, the heart is life. Taoism has clouds and is easy to have Taiji, which is to give birth to two instruments. Tai Chi is also sexual, and the two rituals are life, although there are two names, in fact, sex is the main one, and it is popular between yin and yang. However, there is no trace of nature, but there is a trace of life, sex has no birth and death, but life has birth and death, sex has no always, and life has always, sex has no movement, and life has movement......"

"You can stop, the Taoist theory is so broad and profound that I can't understand it at all. Tang Feng said.

Nangong Bei smiled, picked up the wine glass and said: "In life, you can't escape this life, old age, sickness and death, seven emotions and six desires......"

"If we can't find Qin Meiniang on this trip, how can we explain?"

Nangong Bei was stunned for a moment, and replied: "Can't find it?" That's the will of heaven, what else can I do, go back and tell the old men truthfully, there is a way to have its own arrangements in the dark......

Tang Feng and Nangong Bei pushed the glasses and changed the lamps, and the two pots of wine were drunk, and it was almost midnight.

In the water of the Qinhuai River, a touch of green floated on the surface of the river, and under the cover of night, a pair of dark green eyes stared at Tang Feng upstairs, it looked at it for a long time, and then sank down into the water and disappeared......

Tang Feng said to Nangong Bei: "Listen to the old bustard, Qin Meiniang is good to wear a purple dress, and she left with a few maids and a coachman. The most important thing is that Qin Meiniang has a cinnabar hemorrhoid at the center of her eyebrows, have you ever seen such a woman all the way to the north?"

Nangong Bei thought about it, shook his head again, and said: "I walked along the way, I didn't meet such a woman, it is estimated that she has crossed the river and gone to the north, let's cross the river early tomorrow morning to find it, if the "Xuanhuang Heaven and Earth Great Dan Reincarnation Sutra" can be found, it can be regarded as a matter of the master's heart, let's go." ”

After that, Tang Feng and Nangong went down to Qinhuai Tower in the north, and before leaving, Nangong Bei left a few taels of silver on the table.

There was nothing to say that night, and the next day dawned:

In the east of the ancient city of Qinhuai, there is a Longzang ferry, and a wooden boat is docked on the shore with a rope. In charge of the boat was a sixty-year-old man who lived by the river all the year round, and his skin was swarthy, as if he had rust.

A dirt road led from the city to the ferry, and the old man looked west, and in the distance pedestrians were walking in twos and threes, and it seemed that business had come early in the morning. The old man turned around and grabbed the rope in his hand and dragged the boat to the shore for a while while while crossing the river.

At this time, Tang Feng was holding a few buns in his hand, eating and walking.

Beside Tang Feng, Nangong Bei's eyes wandered, and he said to Tang Feng: "You kid don't just care about eating, you should look around, if that woman is in this city, wouldn't it save our brother trouble." ”

Tang Feng chewed the bun in his mouth, nodded, and said, "What's that called, leave it to fate, I'm fucking believing in my fate now." ”

With that, the two headed towards the ferry port east of the city......