Chapter Seventy-One: Digging for Treasure

Ah Lu followed the Taoist priest around and into a room. The room was very dark, and there was a smell of dampness.

But the outside of this room looks tattered, but inside there are many books neatly hidden.

The Taoist priest turned out a few scrolls on the bookshelf in the depths, touching the materials of animal skin and paper, and the color was yellow, it seems that they have been preserved for a long time.

The sheepskin scroll hung on the white gauze screen on the wall and unfolded, and the Taoist priest made a gesture of please.

Ah Lu looked at it, this map is too blank, isn't it?

Seeing that Ah Lu's brows were getting tighter and tighter, the Taoist priest sighed and stepped forward: "Girl, do you know how to look at the map? What are you doing in Jiu'an?"

Ah Lu was so disgusted by the Taoist priest that his self-esteem rose: "I will! Of course I will!" I originally wanted to see what places of interest and historical sites, who knew that this map in your Taoist temple was so big, I was shocked!"

The Taoist priest shook his head: "Are you here to play?" Then you go to Jiangyang Mansion to find someone to ask." What are you doing here?"

Ah Lu thought for a while and said: "I went to Jiangyang Mansion first, and the owner of Jiangyang Mansion Inn said that you have been established for hundreds of years, and it is also a place of interest, so he said that he could come and see it." He also said that you have ancient maps here, and you may be able to find more interesting places. ”

Hearing this, the Taoist priest snorted, and reluctantly pointed to the sheepskin map and said, "Counting their knowledge, this is a map of the southwest region drawn by our ancestor more than three hundred years ago. Jiu'anli is here, and our Taoist temple is probably here. This is the current Jiangyang, but at that time it was not built a city, it was a wasteland. ”

After the Taoist priest finished explaining the parchment scroll, he carefully unfolded a paper map. If it hadn't been expanded, Ah Lu really didn't expect this piece of paper to be so thin.

The priest hung the paper on a screen and covered it over the parchment scroll, then took a candlestick and illuminated the map from a distance.

The Taoist priest explained a little, and Ah Lu understood. The map is updated every five years, and the paper map is updated every time. It is made so thin so that the state of 300 years ago can still be seen after layering. With this set of maps, the changes in the southwest over the centuries are in your eyes.

However, when Ah Lu stacked it on the last map, she found that the mountains and forests had never appeared in this Jiu'anli and outside the gates.

This is too far from the one of Suo Ling's mother-in-law. It remembered that when it got the map, it asked if those small triangles were the mountains, and Granny Suo Ling did nod.

The Taoist priest saw Ah Lu staring at the piece outside Jiu'anli Pass, and came up again: "Girl, tell the truth, are you going to dig up treasures?"

Ah Lu was embarrassed: "I really don't want to dig up treasures, I'm just here to play with my young master." Besides, we don't lack food and clothing, what kind of treasure do we want to dig. ”

The Taoist priest laughed twice: "What does digging treasure have to do with lack of food and clothing, every year there are two or three waves of people who come to us to dig the ground sneakily, and they are all oily, could it be that they are full of food and have nothing to do, digging and digging to eliminate food?"

Every year, this is strange, from Jiangyang, the population of this area has obviously plummeted. If someone came to dig up the treasure every year, it would have been spread a long time ago, and everyone would have rushed over.

And when it came to digging, Ah Lu thought of something, so he said to the Taoist priest: "This Taoist leader, do you want this treasure yourself?"

Hearing this, the Taoist priest took half a step back: "What do I want treasure for?"

"What do you want treasure for?" Ah Lu sneered, "From the time I looked in, I found that you are really poor here. Look at your faces, haven't you opened meat for a long time? And the clothes, how many times have you mended? You just tell you the truth, do you want us to go to find the treasure together, and then divide the fish, rice and silver?"

The Taoist priest's face darkened again: "Nonsense." No matter how poor our Taoist temple is, it will not be like this. ”

Ah Lu snorted perfunctorily: "Since you don't want the treasure, and I'm not interested, then thank you for the map." ”

Alyu glanced at the map one last time, ready to leave. The Taoist priest stopped her in the courtyard: "Alas, alas, you are going like this? This map is for nothing? Thank you and thank you for the gift."

Ah Lu didn't think about giving money at all, and besides, he didn't say that he had to give money to see a map?

Seeing that she looked accustomed to eating and drinking for nothing, the Taoist priest waved his hand and closed the door, revealing the gloomy expression at first.

Ah Lu originally planned to pity them, and went out to ask Dong Junqin for sesame oil money, but now look at it, he has been surrounded by several Taoist priests before, okay, save money.

Taoist priest: "I've never seen an uneducated person like you!"

Ah Lu was bold and spread his hands: "Really, then I'm here today, didn't I just open your eyes?"

Daoist's eyes were about to pop out, and he clenched the bamboo pole and waved it at her. As soon as Ah Lu grasped it, his heart was on your bamboo pole, see if I didn't pinch it off.

However, the moment she got started, Ah Lu realized that something was not right, as if something had sucked her hand.

Ah Lu wanted to let go, but the harder he sucked the bamboo pole, the tighter he sucked.

At this time, the Taoist priest shook the bamboo pole, and Ah Lu was unprepared and hung in the sky with his feet in the air. As soon as he went to the sky, Ah Lu panicked, and was about to call for help, when suddenly another Taoist priest jumped up and stood on the top of the bamboo pole and looked at Ah Lu.

Then he reached out and groped for Alu without hesitation.

Ah Lu really wants to cry without tears, and even said that he is not poor after doing this kind of thing?

It's a pity that Ah Lu really has no money, not even a stygian coin. The Taoist priest didn't get a son after touching it for a long time, so he had to shake his head at the one holding the bamboo pole below.

The Taoist priest holding the bamboo pole did not stop, so he asked, "Let's see if there are anything else of value." ”

So the Taoist priest above ripped off Ah Lu's collar.

Outside the Taoist temple, the three of them circled again and again, making sure that no one was following. At least not yet.

Nanqin returned to the door of the Taoist temple, and it was still deserted inside: "Little master, are you sure it's okay for Ah Lu to go alone?" Although the demonic spirit is not heavy, but in addition to Ah Lu's strength, he is really ...... in other aspects."

Dong Junqin: "Our three breaths are too strong, and the little demon is sensitive, I'm afraid that I will run." ”

Mu Baofeng echoed: "That is, if the killer is in any corner and sees the demon again, it will really be unclear." ”

Nanqin: "Did you get bitten by a snake for a while?"

Mu Baofeng: "Be careful to sail in the same boat." ”

Nanqin: "Do you have to be so careful, you don't want to sleep with me for thousands of years." ”

Dong Junqin: ......

Mu Baofeng: "Don't talk nonsense, why hasn't Ah Lu come out yet?"

As soon as Mu Baofeng said this, Dong Junqin felt that it was wrong, Ah Lu had indeed been in for too long.

Just as they were about to enter, the door of the temple slammed shut.

The three of them immediately cast a spell, but the strange thing is that although the barrier at the door is not strong, they can't open it.

Dong Junqin was worried about Ah Lu and was anxious, and Mu Jifeng was competitive because the spell was useless. Only Nanqin took a few steps back to re-observe the terrain.

Half a ring, she said behind her: "Little master, you go in from above!"

Dong Junqin didn't like to climb the wall before, and felt that it was detrimental to etiquette, especially a high wall like this. But I don't know if it's close to Zhu and red and black near ink, Nanqin is a little, he went up without thinking about it.

And when he went up the wall, he saw a Taoist priest picking Ah Lu's collar.

Although the dart guest had instructed him not to use spells, Dong Junqin couldn't take care of it in a hurry. Five flying needles pierced the hairy hand Taoist priest with a thud.

The Taoist priest was so focused on finding valuable things that he didn't pay attention to Dong Junqin at all. So as soon as he was in pain, he fell directly down the bamboo pole and pressed his butt on the Taoist priest who was lower.

Ah Lu was empty, and finally remembered that he was also a person with weapons, so he took out the "leftovers" and stabbed them in his palms and bamboo poles.

Not to mention, this "leftover" is so easy to use, it frees her hands at once.

But when Ah Lu followed Dong Junqin to the ground, the faces of those Taoist priests suddenly changed, and a few waterholes appeared on the grass.

Without waiting for Dong Junqin to make a move, the Taoist priests bowed like fish and jumped into the waterhole and disappeared.

At this time, the two people outside also opened the door, or the door disappeared. When the four of them looked around the entire Taoist temple again, they found that there were some high walls and halls, and only a few houses that were about to collapse.

And the plaque engraved with the three characters Luo Tongguan has long been lying in the grass with broken arms and legs, soaked in muddy water.

Aru looked back at the wall of the cloister full of history, and it was already blurred.

Mu Baofeng: "The Taoist priest is a fake Taoist priest, and the monster is a real monster." We underestimated the enemy. ”

Nanqin didn't dare to agree: "Me and Ah Lu, I am two full demons and one full ghosts, and it doesn't matter if I am insensitive to demonic energy." You and the little master didn't feel it, it seems that these demons are not simple. ”

Ah Lu was unwilling to stay in the void for a long time, and found the house in the backyard according to his memory, which was more dilapidated than the front yard.

The three of them went in with her to see, and there was indeed a screen and many moldy books scattered around, but there was no map.

Mu Baofeng: "That's it, it's a big deal, let's go into the mansion and steal a map." ”

Ah Lu waved his hand: "Don't be, we are an imperial businessman, a famous family, a demon clan, and a female ghost, and when the time comes, we will not steal anything but be surrounded by three outer layers of people in the Qishengmen." ”

Dong Junqin: "Ah Lu is right. Futai definitely can't go. But Aru, what did you just see in there?"

Although everything just now was an illusion, since the demon was a real demon, Dong Junqin believed that what Ah Lu saw and heard was not necessarily fake.

After he mentioned this, Ah Lu ran to the "door", pointed to an empty grassland in front of him, and said: "That monster showed me the map, if it is true, then there were no mountains and forests here at least three hundred years ago, so there must be no caves." But the monster always asked me if I was here to dig for treasure, and said that every year people come to this area to dig the ground, and I think there are not only holes in the mountains, but also in the underground. ”

Dong Junqin: "Underground potholes?"

Ah Lu nodded: "I remember that there is a small river outside the border on the map, which flows into Jiu'anli all the way, and then comes out from the northeast of Jiangyang Mansion. But about 100 years ago, this water vein was broken from Jiu'anli. But the northeast exit of Gangyang Province is still there! The river may have been turned into an underground water vein. If there is an underground water vein, there must be an underground cave. ”

Nanqin: "But where are we going to find that pit?"

Dong Junqin thought for a while and pointed to his feet: "Here it is." ”

When Mu Jifeng heard this, he immediately understood what he meant. Since the demon can quickly escape here, it means that there are holes in the ground here, no matter how big or small.