The bonfires on the ground are bright and extinguished, the shadows of horses are building, and the figures of people are like ghosts.

"Hush-" After a burst of passionate neighing, more than a dozen horses emerged one after another.

Immediately, everyone was majestic and grim. One by one, their eyes were like knives, looking at a few panicked people on the ground.

Shopkeeper Xiao and the others didn't know why, and they were uneasy.

After a moment of whispering, someone gave an order, and everyone dismounted. Each gathered his horses and went to the side to take care of them, some people searched around with weapons in hand, and a few others walked towards the campfire.

Shopkeeper Xiao got up busily, a little at a loss. Ma Huo and Wang Er also looked at each other.

Among the people who came, an old man in a red robe and a long beard took a step forward, arched his hand to the shopkeeper Xiao, and said, "It's getting late, and it's inconvenient to walk!

Shopkeeper Xiao's face slowed down, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly returned the salute: "The same is out of the house, and meeting is fate!

When the old man bowed his head and led a few people to sit down around the bonfire, the corners of his eyes were slightly raised, and the essence in his eyes flashed, sweeping over Shopkeeper Xiao and the others. When he saw that the second king was holding a weapon, he didn't care.

"Old man, there is drinking water and dry food here, I don't know ......?" said the shopkeeper Xiao with a smile on his face.

The old man didn't say anything, just shook his head slightly, and his entourage had already sent water bags and dry food.

"Hehe! That's good! That's good!" shopkeeper Xiao laughed dryly, took a few steps back from the bored self-interest, and took a few steps away from the campfire before sitting down. Ma Huo and Wang Er also quietly moved back. The old man who drove the carriage guarded his carriage and did not dare to say a word.

"Ma Lao, everything is ready!" a loud voice sounded, and a young man in his early twenties walked over with a few people. Two of them followed him towards the campfire, and two others went to find a place on their own.

The young man has a paulownia-colored face, a straight nose and a square mouth, a pair of leopard eyes that are blazing, and a mighty appearance. After he finished speaking, he sat down beside the old man, stretched out his hand to tear open his shirt, opened his chest, rolled up his sleeves, took the water bag handed by his companion, raised his head, and splashed water stains. After drinking the water, he reached out and wiped his mouth, exclaiming with pleasure.

"Second Senior Brother, try this, this dried meat is more crispy after being roasted by the fire!" a white-looking man next to him handed over a string of dried meat.

The second senior brother took a big bite unceremoniously, nodded and hummed: "Not bad! It's delicious, and it's even more beautiful when you have wine!"

"Hehe, second senior brother, it's not too late to drink after you go back. "The white man is eighteen or nineteen years old, and he looks very shrewd. After secretly glancing at the red-robed old man, he said to the second senior brother with a smile.

The second senior brother laughed, and just wanted to speak, when a shout and scolding came from behind him.

"Country boy, get out of the way!"

The crowd couldn't help but follow the prestige. I saw two burly men, standing in front of a large rock far from the campfire, pointing at a country boy sitting on the ground. The young man, dressed in shabby clothes, could not see his expression clearly, but stood up silently, and without distinguishing between rebuttals, slowly walked to another place where no one sat down.

When the second senior brother saw it, he shook his head and smiled, turned around and continued to eat and drink.

Lin Yi found an open space away from everyone and sat down cross-legged with an expressionless face. The country boy who was driven away just now was naturally him.

When this group of people was eighty zhang away, they were noticed by Lin Yi. Until this group of people came closer, together with the panic of Xiao's shopkeeper, he looked at it in his eyes and pretended not to know.

There were a total of seventeen horses, and seventeen of them were all martial arts, and only one of them was familiar. It was when he was in Taiping Town, he was called the red-robed old man by Qin Buyou. Several of the people who guarded the four places were all sturdy men in their twenties, with brisk steps, sharp hands and feet, and familiar with the road, hidden in the night without making a sound. The rest were also young people of one or twenty years old, and groups of thirty-five and fifty-one sat around the open field, each drinking water and eating dry food. Except for the old man in red clothes, these people are carrying weapons on their bodies, and only the old man has a long and powerful breath, introverted spirit, and good internal skills, among these people, the martial arts are the highest.

Lin Yi was sitting under the boulder, in the dark, and when everyone first arrived, no one cared about him. He was now in the middle of his own world, and he sat there like a stone, and even the old man did not notice the abnormality of this country boy.

However, these people instead attracted Lin Yi's attention. Among the horses these people rode, there were ten horses behind the saddle and carried small wooden boxes made of sandalwood, which were very exquisite. After checking them one by one with his divine sense, the wooden box contained a piece of jade that had been cut quickly, but what he saw unexpectedly made Lin Yi stunned, and there was a jade in the wooden box that had aura fluctuations.

Lin Yi hurriedly used his divine sense to penetrate the wooden box and carefully identify it. The jade was easily penetrated by the divine sense, and in the jade with a long ruler and a thick palm, a small piece of stone core containing spiritual energy was actually wrapped. The stone core is crystal translucent, and the aura is majestic, just like the spirit stone in his own bag.

This amazed him!

How could these people carry spirit stones with them? Why was this spirit stone different from their own body, but wrapped in jade? Of the wooden boxes carried by the ten horses, only this piece of jade contained spirit stones.

Like peeping into other people's privacy, Lin Yi was a little uneasy. While he was pondering the origin of these men, someone came to chase them away.

The group looked around for a flat and dry place to rest, but Lin Yi didn't care about this. When the two of them approached him, he was still a little puzzled by the other party's intentions.

The speaker was a young man of seventeen or eighteen years old, with a dark complexion, detailed eyes, eyes like beans, shrewdness and unruliness. He pressed his hand to the hilt of his sword at his waist, and a sneering sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, scolding the country boy who had taken up the space in front of him to get out of the way.

Lin Yi was angry in his heart, but he didn't bother to argue. He buried his head in the place and made trouble.

There was a sneer behind him, and he didn't hear it. It's just that he secretly wondered in his heart, who are these people? What are they doing with the spirit stones? Thinking of all the things he had encountered before, Lin fell into deep thought for a while.

The next day, before dawn, the men on horseback had already left. Lin Yi and Shopkeeper Xiao all the way, and also set off after him. At noon, several people stopped to rest for a while, and then continued on their way. After a while, the shopkeeper Xiao showed joy on his face and said in a cheerful tone:

"There are still more than ten miles away, and you can reach Tianping Town. This trip turned around safely, everyone has worked hard, and there will be another red envelope when you turn around, haha!"

"Then thank you Shopkeeper Xiao!" the old man and the sloppy two people who were driving the car were also very excited.

"Brother Lin, there is a fork in the road not far ahead, which is the road to Xiaotianao. Shopkeeper Xiao twisted his body and said energetically.

"The shopkeeper is right, it is only more than ten miles west, and there is a mountain village. The old man who was driving the car also chimed in.

Lin Yi smiled and nodded in thanks. For some reason, when the place of Xiaotianao was not far away, he was pulled by something inexplicable in his heart.

After breaking up with a few people, looking at the path between the hills in front of him, Lin Yi's feet were a little soft.

Taking a deep breath, his face became more solemn, and he slowly walked forward.

The road of more than ten miles is very close, and it is only a cup of tea to walk from one end to the other.

The road of more than ten miles is also very long, and in the past 16 years, I have not seen the end of the road, what is it like......

Xiao Tianao is a place he has always been reluctant to think about, and it will only appear in dreams...... Parents......

The road is lined with hills, trees, and streams...... Lin Yi didn't know, and he couldn't see it.

Only the path under his feet stretched forward, pulling him forward like a lost soul, step by step.

I don't know how long I walked, maybe I reached the end of one step.

Lin Yiran stopped. His eyes stared ahead.

Surrounded by green hills, smoke curls and a few dogs bark.

A small mountain village is in view......