The morning glow rose, the mountain road was slightly frosty, and the rainy plum rain finally stopped the continuous meaning of the half moon under the clear starry sky last night.

Su Jing turned his back to the morning light and walked towards the village with a dusty face.

The village is quiet, with smoke curling and houses like roosters.

Su Jing walked to the top of the village under a few towering willow trees, stepped up the stone steps, and knocked lightly on the wooden door.

The girl in the cardamom years is like a daisy in the mountains, and she is moving.

Su Jing arched his hand and said: "This girl, she is playing in the mountains and getting lost, can she rest here for a while?"

The pretty girl opened a pair of eyes that were as smart as a clear spring, looked at Su Jing for a moment, and gestured twice to welcome Su Jing into the courtyard.

Su Jing followed the girl's steps and thought in her heart: "It's a pity, it turned out to be a mute." ”

Su Jing walked into the courtyard, swept his eyes slightly, and found that there was a cherry tree planted in the simple yard, and several clusters of pink cherry blossoms were blooming very delicately, and the stamens with crystal raindrops were hanging on the branches.

Su Jing suddenly felt something, and his eyes were searching, and he happened to meet the sharp eyes of an old man who was about fifty or sixty years old, on crutches, and had a clear face.

Su Jing arched his hand and said loudly: "This old man, Su Jing in the Jincheng Mansion, is polite." ”

The old man looked at Su Jing carefully for a moment before asking, "Why is Su Gongzi so tired?"

Su Jing knew that what he had encountered in the past few days was too shocking to say. So he said in a deep voice: "I went to the mountains to find a historical monument of my predecessors, but I don't want to get lost and wander into the wilderness." ”

With a suspicious look in his eyes, the old man glanced at the 'Biyi' sword in Su Jing's hand twice, and said, "Son, rest in the house for a while." ”

Su Jing walked into the slightly dim room, looked around, and found that there was a hunting bow and a few pots of arrows hanging on the wall, Su Jing secretly paid attention.

Fang sat down on a chair made of pear blossom wood, and the handsome and dumb girl served Su Jing a bowl of hot tea at the instruction of the old man.

The old man said in a low voice: "People in the mountains and wilderness, only coarse tea entertains the son, and the son is also invited to take care of one or two." ”

Su Jing took the tea bowl, and sure enough, as the old man said, some tea leaves floated on the surface of the water like grass roots and sawdust, which could be called coarse tea, but it was not an exaggeration.

Su Jing didn't dislike it, drank it all in one gulp, and said in a clear voice: "The old man is polite." ”

Su Jing opened his mouth again and asked, "I don't know where this place is, is it still Pingyang County?"

The old man said in a deep voice: "Childe, of course this place is in Pingyang County, but this place is close to the Yunling Mountain Range and belongs to Changshui County. There are still more than 100 miles away from Jincheng, and if Gongzi wants to return to Jincheng, I am afraid that he will have to go to the town here and take a carriage. ”

Su Jing said in his heart, he didn't expect that he was drifting along the river, and he was actually taken to Changshui by the sword immortal of the Fuyang Sword Sect, which is in the southwest of Pingyang County, as the old man said, it is a half-day journey from Jincheng.

I didn't return last night, I don't know how "Aunt Yun" should worry, but something else happened in Su Mansion.

As Su Jing thought, Su Jing did not return all night yesterday, Biyun was anxious, he didn't sleep well all night, as soon as the day dawned, Biyun went to see the eldest lady with a pair of red eyes, and the eldest lady heard that Su Jing did not return overnight, and after a fire at Biyun, she sent several family members in the house to look for it.

Although the eldest lady longs for Su Jing to die outside, these superficial jobs have to be done, and if they are true, they will have a bad reputation.

Su Jing thought that Su Mansion might be jumping around, but he was really thinking too much. In addition to Biyun's sincere worries, others didn't care about Su Jing's life and death at all.

Su Jing talked with the old man for a few more words, only to know that the old man in front of him with sharp eyes and different insights from the old farmers in the field had been in the prime of life, and he had been the general of the Yujing City in the middle of the city, and the left prison guard commanded a hundred soldiers.

In the end, although he was wronged and avenged, he was disheartened and left the army and returned to his hometown.

The mute girl who was busy in the kitchen was not his own daughter, but an abandoned baby he took in in the Panlong River fourteen years ago.

Su Jing said curiously: "Since my husband used to live in Yujing City back then, I don't know what Yujing City looks like?"

Su Jing's question seemed to evoke the old man's memories for a long time.

The old man coughed, and said with a slight hint of amazement in his voice: "Bai Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor."

This is talking about the ethereal clouds of Yujing, which is magnificent and magnificent. In fact, the capital of the Great Qianguo is Yujing, the back is Yiyao Mountain, overlooking the Hanjiang River Plain, digging the mountain and taking the stone and building, looking at it from afar, it seems to stand on the top of the misty half-mountain, this kind of ghostly workmanship, non-manpower can be built. ”

Listening to the old man's narration, Su Jing was not only fascinated, but the old man saw Su Jing's expression and said with relief: "Master Su, there must be a chance to go." After all, the place where the imperial examination hall was tested was in Yujing City. ”

It didn't take long for the delicate girl to enter the hall with the food, Su Jing had not slept all night last night, she was already hungry, and in the old man's greeting, she did not clean her hands, so she was impatient to start the chopsticks and use the food.

After breakfast, Su Jing thanked the old man again, and was talking in the hall. Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door, and a big man with a strong figure, strong muscles, and a fierce face stepped into the house under the guidance of the delicate girl.

When the big man saw Su Jing, his face was stunned, but he still said angrily: "Uncle Yan, something is wrong." ”

"Tie Niu, what happened, why are you so flustered?" the old man changed his previous gentle voice and asked with Su Jing in a sharp tone.

The big man said in a hurry: "Uncle Yan, in Qi'er Mountain in the east of the village, a large number of tigers and leopards, as well as packs of wild wolves, suddenly appeared this morning, and they fled in all directions, and even rushed to the village. ”

When Su Jing heard this, his expression was shocked, and at the same time, he met the shocked gaze of the old man, and both of them had the same guess in their hearts.

A large number of wild beasts suddenly appeared in the mountains and ran for their lives, and even the kings of the forest such as tigers and leopards lost their territories and fled to the villages and towns.

Qi'er Mountain is close to the west of Yishan, is one of the extremely inconspicuous hills among the many peaks in Changshui County, the undulating trend of the mountains is only five or six miles, and the highest place is only more than ten zhang, it is more accurate to say that it is a mountain, it is better to say that it is a hill.

In the mountains of Qi'er, among the dense forests and weeds, countless wild beasts that once roared in the mountains and forests, above their necks, their hair stood on their roots, and the wind was born under their hooves, and they fled to the plains outside the mountains.

Followed by a group of about a dozen or so ghost pawns in black clothes and black armor, hidden in the black clouds, with hideous faces, took the fierce tigers and leopards who could not escape one by one.

Those jackals, tigers and leopards are extremely ferocious in ordinary times, but in this kind of eerie and ghostly capture, they have no power to resist, and let the ghost army in black clothes and black armor catch them in their hands and suck the essence and blood.

A ghost soldier with a fierce face and four eyes on his forehead put the sucked essence blood on the tip of his nose and just wanted to absorb it, but a burly blue-faced man behind him reached out and knocked away the action in his hand.

"Don't die, is this blood for us to enjoy? If those elders find out, you and I will have to suffer from the heart-to-heart oil. The blue-faced man shouted coldly.

The ghost pawn pursed his lips and said in his heart: "Those old ghosts are now unable to protect themselves, where can they have time to care about us." ”

However, in the shouting of the burly man, he collected the blood of the beast essence into the jade porcelain bottle he brought with him.

The ghost pawn complained to the blue-faced man: "Shi Chang, do you think this Yishan can block the advance of the official army?"

The blue-faced man pondered for a long time and said, "This matter is in the hands of the captains and elders, and we are doing what we are doing. ”

A hint of flattery suddenly appeared on the demon's vicious face, and he lowered his voice and said, "Shi Chang, our cultivation is low, so we have to plan early." ”

Nashi Chang knew that the ghost pawn in front of him had always been more clever, so he was also interested, and a few steps behind his subordinates, he discussed with this ghost pawn: "Chen Jiu, if you have any ghost ideas, hurry up and say it." ”

The four-eyed ghost pawn named Chen Jiu whispered in the ear of the blue-faced man with a mysterious expression at this time.

"No, the captain explained when he came, it is an eventful autumn, and there should be no more trouble. ”

The blue-faced man said with a frown.

"Shi Chang, if we can absorb the blood of the essence and yang of those mortals and enter the level of ghost generals, we don't need this "dog beating stick" in our hands to ask for food, and we can walk in the daytime.

The four-eyed ghost pawn had a treacherous look in his eyes, and at the same time shook a swarthy stick in his hand, and said to the blue-faced man.

When the blue-faced man heard that the ghost general was cultivating, he was not only a little moved, but when the ghost pawn Chen Jiu saw this, he made persistent efforts to tempt and said: "Shi Chang, if you and I are both ghost generals, we can walk during the day, the world is so big, where can we not go, why bother to suffer from the ghosts and handsome birds from all walks of life in Yishan!"

The blue-faced man's face twitched a few times, with a look of struggle in his eyes, and he said, "Let me think about it again......"

Seeing the look of the blue-faced man, the ghost pawn Chen Jiu knew that there was a play, and added a fire again: "Shi Chang, I am a fellow villager who works on an errand in the Ghost King Palace, and those elders of Yishan are under the siege of the imperial army, and it is said that they want to take away the resources accumulated by Yishan for many years, and they are ready to escape. ”

"How come I don't know about this?" there is no movement in the army...... "The chief couldn't help but ask.

Ghost pawn Chen Jiu's eyes turned a few times, and he said in a low voice: "Shi Chang, I heard that those elders want to use the eight hundred ghost army as substitutes for the dead ghosts, and we can't be martyred for them." ”

When the blue-faced man heard this, he gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "Lao Tzu has died once, but I don't want to die again, do it!"

Once the blue-faced man made up his mind, he had a vicious look in his eyes, and said coldly: "In this matter, too many people can't do it, too few people can't do it, and those who are not at ease must be eliminated." ”