Chapter Seventy-Six: Cuiyun Villa
The carriage is still heading southwest, and now the road is a little remote, although the road is indispensable to quench the thirst of sweet springs, and birds and rabbits are indispensable to satisfy hunger, but there are no people in sight.
"Is the country of Chu so barren? Why can't you even see a single figure?" Cheng Ru opened the curtain and looked out, but after waiting for Jiang Lili's reply, he found that Jiang Lili was leaning on the carriage and pretending to sleep, so he pouted, thinking that this person was boring.
He pulled up the curtain of the carriage, looked at the back of the Yin envoy who was driving the carriage conscientiously, and asked, "Don't you feel hot when you wear black clothes?"
The Yin envoy turned around after a while, "You said me?"
"Who do you think I'm talking about?"
The Yin envoy didn't turn his head, "I'm afraid of heat? I'm a ghost cultivator, the one who doesn't have a sense of heat and cold." β
Cheng Ru sighed, then became interested, and asked again: "By the way, aren't you a ghost cultivator? Why can you walk in the sun? I think Wu Zhou can't stand a little light and heat." β
The Yin Envoy's tone became proud, "Do you think I'm the same as those miscellaneous ghost cultivators? You don't even look at what I'm wearing!"
"What is it?" Cheng Ru pinched the black robe draped on his body, and felt a chill coming from this robe to his fingertips, and was suddenly surprised, "Ah, I can't feel it if I haven't touched it, why are you so cold?!"
The Yin Envoy snorted, "My cloak is a famous jade silk silk silkworm robe, which is woven from the silk of ice silkworms that are extremely resistant to cold on the snowy mountains of the Great University, and it has been shaped after decades of cultivation. This ice silkworm is born with a trace of innate yin energy, so this silk is also an extremely yin thing, its characteristic is that it can isolate yang energy, but also can converge the free yin energy in the air, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most precious treasure of ghost cultivation, it is hard to find! And my jade silk silk silk clothes are full of ice silk weaving, you can guess the value of my jade silk silk clothes, right?"
Cheng Ru looked envious, "This is yours?"
The Yin Envoy's tone was a little vague, "This is a reward from my lord city. β
Cheng Ru let out another oh and dragged out the tone for an extremely long time, "He gave it to you?"
The Yin Envoy was silent for a long time, "Hmm... The lord of the castle allowed me to wear this garment while I walked in the Yang World. β
"Isn't that yours yet?"
"What do you know?!" the Yin Envoy's voice suddenly became high-pitched, "This jade silk silk silk cloak is a treasure of ghost cultivation, and it is already a great honor for ordinary ghost cultivators to see it at a glance, what a great honor it is for me to wear it on my body! Hmph, don't talk to Xia Worm, that's it!"
Cheng Ru pursed his lips, "Cheng Cheng Cheng, even if what you say makes sense, why is it so loud?" After complaining, Cheng Ru asked tentatively: "Can you borrow me to wear it for two days?"
"Get out!" the envoy tightened his black cloak with extreme vigilance.
Cheng Ru made a grimace, only stingy, and when he was about to go back to the carriage, he suddenly remembered something, his eyes rolled, and he actually came to the Yin Envoy and hugged the Yin Envoy tightly.
"What do you want to do to the Yin Envoy?!"
"Just take advantage of the cool and make a fuss!"
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After traveling for dozens of miles, the carriage finally met a mountain villa, which was located alone in this mountain field, its scale was not small, and it had the grandeur of a rich lintel.
Several people stopped in front of the villa, looked at each other and then proposed: "If it's not too early today, we should be making beds these days, and we have also suffered from mosquitoes, or let's knock on the door and take a look."
If you can stay here for one night?"
Yin Envoy snorted coldly, "I haven't suffered from mosquitoes, I want to go to you, don't use me as a knocker." β
"Can I call you? Don't be afraid of the old and young in this family, it's a good sign. Cheng Ru took the lead in walking to the door of this house after a sour sentence, looked at the two lion heads cast in bronze on the door panel, and then looked at the big words on the top of the head like a dragon and snake, "Cuiyun Villa", thinking that the people living here can't be poor people, maybe they will also hold a banquet for their own travelers who come from afar!
Thinking about it like this, my mood rose a lot, and I quickly knocked on the door a few times, and shouted again, is there anyone?
After a while, I heard hurried footsteps behind the door, followed by the "creaking" sound of the door opening. Before the door was fully opened, a head poked out from behind the door, and it looked like a handyman in the villa.
Before he could speak, the man asked with a little vigilance, "Who is it and what is it?"
Cheng Ru pulled away a smiling face, "We are passers-by who came as far as the Great Sui, wandering along the way, suffering from the wind and sun. Fortunately, I met Guishan Villa here, so I wondered if I could spend the night here?"
The little guy was skeptical, "Really?"
"Naturally it's true!" Cheng Ru patted his chest, but he didn't seem to have any credibility because he didn't have a few taels of meat on his chest.
"Since what you say is true, then the despicable mountain villa naturally can't let the travelers who come from afar sleep in the wilderness. β
Cheng Ru's face was happy, but before he could thank him, he heard the little guy say in great embarrassment: "It's just that I can't make a decision on such things, so I'd better ask a few people to wait outside the door for a while, and I'll go and ask the steward before replying." β
After saying that, the little guy closed the door directly.
Cheng Ru was silent for a long time, but he didn't hear anyone reply, so he stomped his foot hatefully, "I thought that such a luxurious mountain villa was full of rich people, but I didn't expect that there would be such a caring person!
On the contrary, the Yin envoy was extremely happy, and said with a strange smile: "Who knows whether you are travelers or bandits, and people have a little bit of vigilance?"
"Bandits, do you look at my white and handsome face like a bandit? At a glance, others will know that Lao Tzu is gentle and elegant, and he is a wonderful son who is rare to see in a thousand years!" Cheng Ru retorted: "I see, it must be that you are wearing this black body, so that people can't see their faces clearly, so that the little guy is hesitant!"
The Yin envoy opened his mouth, but he couldn't be noisy, and he didn't bother to pay attention to him, but he just said don't want to hit my jade wisp of gold silkworm clothes, and then turned his head and didn't say anything more.
After waiting for a long time, he still didn't hear footsteps from behind the door, Cheng Ru opened his eyes wide and looked inside, while muttering: "Didn't this little guy lie to us!"
Jiang Lili was a little impatient, "Otherwise, we can just climb over this wall, and we don't bother to talk nonsense with them!"
"I think it's okay!" said the Yin envoy: "Except for this bald monk, we are not easy to mess with, if you dare to hang us like this, we must also make them suffer some hardships!"
Jiang Lili was a little moved, and Cheng Ru hurriedly ran back to persuade him: "No, those who dare to build a mountain villa in this wilderness must not be waiting for idlers, we still have important things to do on this trip, if we get into trouble, it will not be good!
Yin and Yang sneered strangely: "I think you're just scared!"
Cheng Ru raised his eyebrows, crossed his waist and was about to give Yin some color to see, when he heard a high-pitched "squeak" sound behind him, his face was happy, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that the gate of this villa had been opened, and there was a capable old man standing at the door in addition to the original little guy.
"A few sons came from afar, forgive the old and frail and sick, and don't blame them for being late. Originally, the Despicable Villa should have directly invited a few sons into the village, but recently there have been some strange things in the villa, so I have to be cautious. β
Cheng Ru smiled, "It's okay, it's okay, the old gentleman can already give us a lot of face to greet in person, how can we still blame it?"
The old man smiled, "A few sons, please." β
After handing over the carriage to the little man, the men walked towards the villa. The villa is located halfway up the mountain, and the uphill is a very long Yellowstone road, although not steep, and it is no wonder that the old man took so long to reach the door.
The Huangshi roadside is verdant, you can hear the joy of birdsong and the murmuring of the stream from afar, and then look up at the red glow in the sky and a few remnants of the sun sprinkled on the ground, and with the breeze winding from the mountain stream, you can only feel that this mountain villa is really a wonderful place to recuperate and enjoy the family.
Although this old man is old, he is not old and sick as he said, although he did not walk like the wind when he went up the mountain, but his face did not appear tired, "The old owner of the village spent a lot of money to ask someone to survey the site, and it took several years of hard work to build, and it has been more than a hundred years ago. At the beginning, the old owner built this Cuiyun Villa in order to have a place to retire with peace of mind, and now after such a long time, there are many young children in this Cuiyun Villa, and it is really a willow tree. β
"The source of living water, it should be like this!" Cheng Ru took over.
The old man nodded, and suddenly asked, "I just heard that the little guy from the village said that a few sons are from the Great Sui?"
Cheng Ru nodded and said, "Exactly, my surname is Cheng Ming, um... He was a pedantic scholar. This surname is Jiang Lili and has been practicing martial arts since childhood. Several of us are from Yangzhou City, Great Sui, and this trip is to travel the world and increase our knowledge. β
"Yangzhou City, that's a good place. The old man muttered in a low voice and then noticed the Yin Envoy who was following several people, and after hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Who is that personγγγγγγ β
Cheng Ru hurriedly replied: "This person is the subordinate we brought out from home, and someone should take care of him along the way, right?" This person's surname is Li, and his original temperament was quite lively, but a fire a few years ago destroyed his face, and since then he has put on this black robe, not showing his face, and has become more and more secluded. However, people are excellent, and they are also organized, and they never overstep their bounds. β
The old man sighed, "It's also a hard-working child." β
In the end, the two didn't talk again, and walked towards the top of the mountain step by step.
Jiang Lili walked next to Cheng Rushi, from the first step into this villa, he felt a little bored in his heart, but he couldn't say the reason, and there was a dark feeling that made him uncertain.
Suddenly, he felt the Tiger Soul Knife behind him tremble slightly, and a thrill in his heart stopped, turning his head to look around.
"What's wrong with Gongzi Jiang?" the old man noticed Jiang Lili's abnormality and turned around and asked.
After carefully checking the surroundings but not finding anything abnormal, Jiang Lili shook his head in annoyance and only said that it was okay.
When he was about to move forward, he suddenly saw a clear sound from the top of the mountain, like a sword intertwined, like a tiger roaring and a dragon groaning.
It's fleeting, and it's a glimpse.