Chapter Ninety-Two: Miasma Surges
Under the scorching sun, a horse-drawn carriage was slowly moving down a shaded path. Compared to the Great Sui, the trees of the Southern Dynasty were much greener. Many places outside the post in the Great Sui are actually a desolate, in Suzhou, Yangzhou and other areas in the south of the Yangtze River are fine, the further you go north, you will find that the green shade is more thin, not far out of the city will see a dusk in front of you.
The Southern Dynasty was different, the grass and trees of the Southern Dynasty were particularly lush and verdant, if it were not for the fact that these huge trees blocked the sun, I am afraid that the inside of this carriage would have been baked into a steamer by the scorching sun.
But even with these shades, it's not easy to get inside the carriage.
Jiang Lili did not sit in the carriage, but jumped out of the carriage and followed the carriage on the ground, looking left and right, and muttered: "Why did that kid disappear so quickly? It stands to reason that the speed of the carriage is much faster than he walks!"
Cheng Ru lifted all the curtains of the carriage, and when he heard Jiang Lili's muttering, he replied: "Maybe he is not walking the same road as us?" Let's go in the southwest direction, maybe he is going to the southeast, northeast, and due north, even if he walks in the south direction, we won't be able to meet him at all." ”
Cheng Ru said that it was not unreasonable, Jiang Lili admitted this fact, and only said that he was a little unlucky, and if he met Na Luo Sixteen again in the future, he would definitely give him some color to see.
"It's done, don't care so much, do you want to eat loquat?" Cheng Ru took out a loquat from the carriage, picked a bright-eyed one and put it in his mouth, and finally spit out the core and peel together.
It's okay if Cheng Ru doesn't say it, but when she heard Cheng Ru say this, Jiang Lili felt that her mouth was dry, so she said to Cheng Ru: "Throw two over!"
"Haole!" Cheng Ru picked two at random and threw them over, and then said beautifully: "When I passed through the places of Chen and Korea a few months ago, I thought that the countries of the Southern Dynasties were all the same, barren! I didn't expect to meet so many good things here, the loquat trees on the loquat trees were ripe and no one picked them, and even the stream in the stream was extremely sweet! It was really an exotic style. ”
As he was talking, there was a sudden gust of wind, although it was carrying some heat, but it was full of the fragrance of plants and trees, and Cheng Ru shivered comfortably.
After eating the whole plate of loquats, he took out a water bag and poured it into his mouth, burped, and asked casually: "It stands to reason that it should be the beginning of autumn now, why is the weather still so hot?
Saying that, Cheng Ru turned his head to look at the driving envoy, "Hey, you've been in the Southern Dynasty long enough, when do you think this autumn will come?"
The Yin Envoy was silent.
Jiang Lili glanced at the Yin envoy, with a slight suspicion in his eyes.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Cheng Ru leaned into the Yin Envoy's ear and roared loudly, "I'll talk to you!"
"Oh, oh," said the Yin Envoy, "you say, I'm listening!"
"You sound like there's a fart! Lao Tzu just asked you when the autumn of the Southern Dynasty will come!"
"Well, what do you ask?"
Cheng Ru frowned, "Are you deaf?
"No," replied the envoy, "I heard it clearly, what are you asking?"
Cheng Ru replied angrily: "I asked you why the autumn of the Southern Dynasty has not come for a long time!"
"Oh, you ask this. The Yin envoy finally heard clearly, "The weather in the Southern Dynasty is not much hotter than the Great Sui, and the Southern Dynasty is much hotter and humid. Spring and summer are long, and autumn and winter are ends. Although autumn is almost the beginning of autumn, it is still very hot. If you want to wait until the weather is cooler, you may have to wait until the white dew. If it is a special year, it is not uncommon for the sun to rest when the autumn equinox and frost fall. ”
Cheng Ru was surprised, "This Southern Dynasty is really a little weird, I said that now that the beginning of autumn is now, it should have passed the time when the loquat is ripe, and there are still so many loquat hanging on the tree!"
The Yin envoy smiled, and then said, "Actually, this is quite good, do you know Mozhou?"
"On the shallow Mozhou?"
The Yin Envoy nodded, "The weather in Mozhou is even more weird, it is said that there are some places where there are no four seasons, and spring is bright year after year. ”
Cheng Ru was even more shocked on his face, and then sighed, "How pitiful, I can't swim even if I want to, let alone hit a snowman." ”
The Yin Envoy just smiled and didn't speak again.
Cheng Ru was roasted by the slightly hot air, and he only felt that his eyelids were a little unable to open, so he took advantage of the comfort of having just eaten enough, and lay down in the carriage, and was about to fall asleep in a daze.
It's just that compared to the Great Sui, the road of the Southern Dynasty was really rugged, the carriage was bumpy all the way, and Cheng Ru was woken up just after falling asleep. He closed his eyes with this sleepiness, and felt that someone was shaking him vigorously, and when he opened his eyes, he knew that it was the wheel of the car that had pressed over a stone.
After repeating this seven or eight times, Cheng Ru was annoyed, "Don't sleep, don't sleep, what's the strength of this sleep?"
Jiang Lili sneered when she heard Cheng Ru complain like this, but she didn't speak, but she just felt a little funny.
If you don't sleep, you have to have some fun, Cheng Ru looked left and right, put his eyes on the cloth bag on Jiang Lili's waist, and smiled at Jiang Lili twice, "Give me your bag to play with for a while?"
Jiang Lili felt even more funny,"
Are you still a little kid? What's so fun about that? And you didn't feel a little bored after playing for so long the other day?"
This cloth bag is a thing that was scavenged from the sword cultivator surnamed Wu, originally Jiang Lili just regarded it as a useless thing, and after listening to Lu Jingtong's words, he was happy.
It turns out that this thing is called a hidden bag, which is a space of its own, looking at just a small cloth bag, in fact, it can hold a small room of things, so magical.
Cheng Ru took it in his hand and played with it for a day after knowing the purpose of this thing, and Jiang Lili only listened to Cheng Ru smirking in the carriage that day, "Look, it's in! Look, it's coming out again! Hahaha, it's so big that it can be stuffed!"
So much for.
At this time, Cheng Ru begged: "I'll see if I can put some loquat fruits in it, and see if it will rot when I take it out tomorrow." ”
Jiang Lili thought about it and felt that this could indeed be tested, so she took off the cloth bag and threw it to Cheng Rushi.
Cheng Ru took it with a smile, opened it, squinted at the things inside, and as soon as the thought turned in his heart, a small kettle appeared in his hand, "This thing is really useful, when will I get one to play." No, if you want to go to Yangzhou and Qionghu, you can play this kind of trick on the street, and you will definitely be able to earn a lot of money!"
Jiang Lili glanced at Cheng Ru and sneered: "Come on, don't think that the people over there have never seen such a thing, but I have seen such a small cloth bag on Zhang Wei's body, but his cloth bag looks much simpler, and there are not many such bells and whistles on it." ”
After hearing Jiang Lili's words, Cheng Ru frowned, and said extremely angrily: "He also has this thing? Why didn't he show it to us at the beginning? When I was in Korea, I wanted to eat a sip of his wine, but he was only willing to give me half a mouthful, I thought he was just a drunkard, but I didn't expect that he was also a stingy character in other aspects!"
In the end, Cheng added hatefully, "It's stingy!"
"That's not it," Jiang Lili said, "I thought it was his money bag, but then I realized that it was also a hidden bag, and it didn't reveal some of the bottom to us." If I meet him in the future, I will definitely ask him to pay back all the money he owed me for the wine!"
"Calculate more interest!" Cheng Ru replied while throwing a few red fruits into the cloth bag, and as soon as the thought turned, these fruits appeared in his hand again. Haha laughed twice, and after saying something funny, Cheng Ru suddenly said, "You said this thing can hide a person in it?"
Jiang Lili was stunned, and said with a slight hesitation: "It should be possible, the space here is the size of a latrine, and it should be more than enough to hide one person, why don't you give it a try?"
Cheng Ru hesitated for a long time, and smiled, "This, let's find a rabbit or something to try, I don't want to go in and not be able to get out, how troublesome is that?"
"It's fine. Jiang Lili nodded, and turned his head to look for any living creatures around this path, but after looking at it for a long time, he couldn't see any birds and beasts on the trees, and only saw a beetle the size of half a fist at his feet.
"It's strange, I still heard a lot of birdsong around me, and when Lao Tzu wanted to catch one, I didn't see any of them, could it be that I ran away when I heard what Lao Tzu said?"
Cheng Ru was also a little puzzled, "I saw a rabbit when I was sleeping." ”
"Forget it, no matter. Jiang Lili grabbed the beetle at his feet and threw it towards Cheng Ru, "Come on, come on, you come and try this beetle." ”
Cheng Ru was startled, and almost fell off the carriage with one foot in the air, "What are you doing?"
Jiang Lili sneered, "You are really as timid as a mouse, even a beetle is afraid?"
"Why am I afraid?" Cheng Ru blushed and quibbled: "I was caught off guard by you, didn't I understand?"
"I understand, I understand!" Jiang Lili looked at Cheng Ru and teased: "No, the beetle is lying on the carriage, I have reminded you, this can't be caught off guard." Throw it in. ”
The beetle had two huge horns on top of its head, like a sharp pair of scissors, and Cheng Ru exhaled, making sure that the beetle was not moving, and then slowly stretched out his hand.
Just as Cheng Ruye's hand was about to touch the beetle, the beetle suddenly opened its wings and slammed into Cheng Ruye's head!
Cheng Ru let out a strange scream, hurriedly took two steps back, and finally stepped into the air, and the whole child fell headfirst down from the carriage!
Jiang Lili hugged her stomach and laughed.
Cheng Ru got up in disgrace, watched the beetle fly backwards after spun around on top of his head, and spat fiercely at its back, "Isn't your grandmother's a beetle?
Jiang Lili was still laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist.
Rubbing his neck, Cheng Ru breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately his neck was not twisted, otherwise it would be difficult to sleep. patted his ass again, Cheng Ru threw the hidden bag to Jiang Lili, and said, "If you want to try it, I won't try!"
Jiang Lili couldn't help but smile and said: "Don't, if you can hide the living thing, if you are afraid in the underworld, I can put you in the hiding bag, how much trouble will it be saved, right?
"! I've been away from the ghost town, and I'm still afraid of the underworld? After finishing speaking, Cheng Ru was stunned, and pointed to the carriageway that was getting farther and farther away: "Grandma's, that wild ghost ran away in our carriage!"
Originally, when Cheng Ru got down from the carriage, he seemed to feel that the carriage paused, so he didn't pay attention, and then he saw that the carriage did not stop at all, but kept running forward.
"Hey, hey, hey, your uncle! Don't stop yet!" Cheng Ru shouted five or six times in the direction of the carriage before he saw the carriage slow down.
Panting and running forward, Cheng Ru said to the Yin Envoy, "What do you want? I thought you ran away?"
The Yin envoy asked, "Aren't you in the carriage?" I remember that Jiang Lili has been following us all the time, why are you all going to the back now?"
Cheng Ru opened his mouth and was about to scold, but he didn't know what he thought, so he only snorted, "It's okay!"
Jiang Lili's brows tightened, and he stared at the Yin envoy tightly, "You don't know that we got off the carriage just now?"
The Yin Envoy was stunned for a long time, "When is it?"
Jiang Lili's face sank, "You really don't know? I've always felt that you are absent-minded these days, what are you thinking? Aren't you thinking about how you slipped away from me?"
"It's nothing!" the Yin envoy smiled: "Where am I so stupid? My wisp of innate yin qi is still in your hands, if you don't give it back to me, I won't be able to move an inch until I die, how can I slip away?"
Jiang Lili asked coldly again, "Then what are you thinking?"
The Yin envoy hesitated for a long time, sighed, and was about to speak when he suddenly stood up suddenly, floated into the air, and sighed It turns out that we have all come here?
"What's wrong?" The Yin Envoy's movements were too abnormal, Jiang Lili hurriedly asked.
"It's a big deal!" the Yin Envoy's tone was a little heavy.
Jiang Lili raised her eyebrows, "What's the matter?"
"Miasma!"
"What?" asked Cheng Ru, poking his head out of the carriage.
"Miasma!"
The Yin envoy hurriedly drove the carriage, "Hurry up, turn around, go back!"
Cheng Ru was frightened by the Yin Envoy's actions, and took advantage of the time when Jiang Lili and the Yin Envoy were not talking, and hurriedly asked, "Eh, what the hell is going on?"
"Don't ask, let's go!" "The envoy raised his whip and jerked it on the horse's buttocks, "Drive!"
The horse was in pain, spread its hooves and ran wildly ahead.
Jiang Lili stretched out his hand to hold the carriage, and with a hard effort, the whole person spun in the air for a week and then landed on the car board, "What's wrong?"
The Yin envoy replied: "I originally thought that there was still half a month to go, but I didn't expect that it would only be three or four days before I arrived at the place." ”
"Where?"
"This is the miasma forest I am talking about, and the stream that enters the underworld is in that forest. ”
"Are we in that forest now, and why don't I smell the miasma?" asked Cheng Ru.
The Yin Envoy shook his head, "There is still some distance, but it is not far away. The miasma I was talking about earlier is coming out of the miasma forest, and people here are used to calling it a miasma tide, and it happens once a month at about this time. ”
"Miasma tide?" Cheng Ru turned his head and looked back, and saw that the originally clear forest in the distance had become extremely dim, and a lot of yellow-green gas was spreading wildly towards this side, and his face suddenly changed, "This is the miasma tide? No wonder we didn't find a living creature on the road for a long time, so we only saw a beetle, and finally ran away! It turns out that they already knew that there would be miasma during this time! Grandma's, she didn't even notify us, and she was really stingy!"
Saying that, Cheng Ru turned his head and glanced back again, only to see that the miasma tide was surging madly towards him, and it seemed that he also saw a few fledgling chicks in the tree that had not been plump foaming at the mouth and planting them from the tree!
Cheng Ru swallowed hard, "It won't catch up with us!"
The Yin Envoy was silent for a moment, "Maybe it will... Drive!"
"It's not that maybe," Jiang Lili's face was heavy, "they're already here!"
"It's over, it's over, it's over... Cheng Ru was flustered, "Let's finish! What should we do? Is there anything that can prevent this miasma? But I've heard that as long as people inhale this miasma, they will die of foaming at the mouth and spitting! The gods are incurable! It's over, it's over, I may not live long!"
"Shut up!" Jiang Lili yelled at Cheng Ru.
"Howler!"
Jiang Lili looked at the miasma in front of him that was getting closer and closer, his face was solemn, and he licked his lips gently.
This yellow-green gas is like the evil hand of the forest reaching out to this world, the source of the darkness of the forest, which wants to crush the throats of all living creatures, bury their bodies in the dirt, and use them as the nourishment that the forest craves.
The miasma was getting closer and closer, getting closer and closer, Jiang Lili violently pulled out the Tiger Spirit Knife, jumped off the carriage, and took a deep breath, "First knife!"
The branches are swaying, and the wind is blowing under your feet.
The wind swaggered and swept wildly towards the miasma.
The miasma stopped its momentum and stepped back slightly.
Jiang Lili gasped and jumped into the carriage, "Let's go!"
Dust-free.