The western part of Shuzhou is a reckless lofty mountain.

Here, the terrain gradually rises to the snowy plateau to the west.

The further west you go, the more majestic the mountain becomes.

From afar, those peaks that reach into the sky are covered with snow, which does not melt all year round.

Halfway up the mountain, Ning Xiaotang and the three of them each rode horses and stopped on the mountain road.

The three of them saw endless mountains.

In the distance, you can also see towering snow-capped mountains.

Those snow-capped mountains are like gods on the horizon, majestic and majestic, but they bring people a kind of tranquility and tranquility.

Shen Yueyue opened her mouth and sighed: "What a beautiful mountain!"

Then, he glanced at Ning Xiaotang beside him again and asked, "Brother Ning, are we going to the Snow Mountain?"

Ning Xiaotang said: "Let's go to the village below first." ”

Only then did Shen Yueyue discover that in the valley five miles away, among the lush trees, a cottage was faintly established.

If you don't pay close attention, you won't notice it.

An hour later, Ning Xiaotang and the three of them came to the cottage.

On the gate of the cottage, there is a plaque engraved with the three big characters of "Aoki Village".

The gate of the stockade was open, and there were constantly mountain people coming in and out, and even occasionally foreign caravans, driving horse-drawn carriages into the village.

The three of Ning Xiaotang entered the cottage with the flow of people.

The scale of Aoki Village is not small, and hundreds of houses have been built large and small.

A gravel path that runs through the entire stockade.

On both sides of the path, there are restaurants, blacksmith shops, inns, and other shops.

Ning Xiaotang and the three of them came all the way to the front of the inn.

The inn is not big, with a two-storey wooden attic.

After entering the inn, there were not many people inside.

After all, it's just a cottage.

Even if there are foreign business trips, there will not be too many of them.

Seeing a guest coming in, the inn's shopkeeper immediately stepped forward to greet him warmly.

Because there were not many customers, there were still many rooms available in the inn, and Ning Xiaotang and the three of them directly opened three rooms.

Opposite the inn is a restaurant.

Maybe it's time for dinner, and a lot of people gather in the restaurant.

Putting down their luggage in the room, Ning Xiaotang and the three of them also came to the restaurant.

In the restaurant, there is also a storyteller, who is preparing to tell a story.

The customers are eating while looking at the storyteller.

The storyteller was a white-faced Confucian in his forties, with a wooden crown on his head, gentle and elegant, and a gray Confucian robe that was almost white.

Ning Xiaotang and the three of them sat down, waiting for the food to be served, while also looking at the storyteller.

I saw that the storyteller picked up a piece of waking wood on the side of the table, and knocked on the table with a "pop~~", making a loud sound.

Immediately, I heard the storyteller slowly speak: "The chest is full of Tibetan literature and ink, and there is poetry and books in the belly." The contemptible Li Moke is known as the pen of the flower. Today, the story I want to tell is about a strange case that happened on the rivers and lakes 50 years ago. ”

"It was a big case that shocked the six doors, and it was also a strange case that frightened people in the rivers and lakes. The story takes place in our Shuzhou, it was a dark and windy night......"

The storyteller's voice slowly echoed in the restaurant.

And the eyes of those customers in the restaurant all looked at the storyteller Li Moke for a moment.

Some of them even simply put down the chopsticks in their hands, stopped eating, and listened intently to what Li Moke said.

The meal was quickly put on the table, and the three of Ning Xiaotang listened to the story while eating.

The story of that storyteller, Li Moke, is wonderful.

The customers in the venue almost wanted to pull their ears out, and they all concentrated and couldn't take their eyes off it.

However, for the three of Ning Xiaotang, although the story is unusual, it is not so much that they don't even eat.

After all, the three of them had even been to the Demon Sect and even the Void World. The story told by Li Moke only made the three of them feel a little new at most.

After the three of them finished eating, the story told by the storyteller Li Moke also happened to end.

I saw him stretch out his hand and pat the waking wood on the table, and slowly spoke: "Today's story ends here." Thank you for joining us, thank you!"

"Well spoken!"

"Yes, that's good!"

"It's been a long time since I've heard such a wonderful story. ”

The diners in the restaurant applauded.

At this time, a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl came out from behind the counter, the girl was dressed as a mountain man, with a headscarf wrapped around her head, petite and exquisite.

She held a copper plate in her hand, and as she walked among the eaters, she said, "Friends, if you think the story is good, please give you a silver coin!"

The girl's voice was clear and gentle, and it kept ringing in the room.

When the diners heard that they were going to be rewarded, they turned their heads and continued to eat. To the words of the girl, the right assumed that I did not hear it.

Seeing this scene, the storyteller Li Moke's face couldn't help but turn green.

Soon, the girl's angry voice sounded: "Hey, hey, you all said good stories just now, why do you want to reward money, it's all like a wooden man!"

Some of the diners, perhaps ashamed of what they said, reluctantly took out a few copper coins and put them in the copper plates.

But more of it, still pretending not to hear.

Seeing that there were only a few copper coins, the girl was angry, and her silver teeth were clucking: "There are only a few...... It's only a few copper coins!"

When the girl walked to Ning Xiaotang's side, Ning Xiaotang's clenched right hand had moved to the copper plate at some point.

Then, Ning Xiaotang let go of his palm, and a piece of broken silver slipped from his hand and fell into the copper plate.

Ning Xiaotang withdrew his palm, and a calm voice sounded: "Yueyue, Miss Ning'er, let's go." ”

Seeing the broken silver in the copper plate, the girl's eyes suddenly lit up, and her face was happy. Then, she looked at the backs of Ning Xiaotang and the others, and hurriedly thanked: "Thank you three friends, thank you!"

......

The night was getting darker, and in the inn, Ning Xiaotang was closing his eyes and recuperating.

Suddenly, his ears moved.

When he heard the content of the voice clearly, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Opposite the inn, in the restaurant.

Li Moke's annoyed voice sounded: "Hey, Mu Qingluo, what about half of the good ones, why are there only ten copper coins?"

The girl's voice was gentle, and she said, "Those guys who don't pull out a dime have already been rewarded with a few copper coins, how much more do you want?"

Li Moke said: "Mu Qingluo, don't think I didn't see it, there is silver today!

The girl said, "Yes, there is silver." But Li Moke, you use my venue, do you want to pay for the venue?"

Li Moke exclaimed: "What, do you still need a venue fee? Mu Qingluo, the conditions negotiated at that time did not have this article!"

The girl said: "Who said no, you didn't hear clearly at the time!"

......

Hundreds of miles away, a huge mountain range stretches east and west.

On the mountains, the snow is covered with snow, and the cold wind is howling.

Behind a boulder, a fire burns.

Next to the fire, seven or eight figures were gathered together, baking the fire to keep warm.

These people were men and women, dressed in uniform white clothes, and all carried long swords in their hands, and seemed to be members of a certain martial arts sect.

"Senior brother, we have chased all the way down, it has been almost seven or eight hundred miles, and the speed of that monster is too fast. ”

"I don't know how my sister is doing now?"

"Don't be discouraged, we will definitely catch up with that monster and rescue our junior sister!"

......

On the ridge more than ten miles away, the cold wind is biting, and there is a white expanse everywhere, and this is the world of snow.

Under the cold moonlight, a huge figure was running quickly on the snow.

The figure was almost a foot tall, covered in long white hair.

And on its shoulders, it carried a petite woman's body.