"Ahem... This... Ahem..."

The old man, who was weak and boneless, coughed a few times, but he couldn't smooth out the complicated emotions that surged with qi and blood. After coughing for a long time, he raised his hand and pointed to the carriage, turned around and asked in a trembling voice: "Senior sister, is it difficult... Could it be that this truckload is all your meat?"

"Or what do you think?"

The old woman chuckled, stretched out a hand to point at the six elders who were leading the horse, and pointed at the six elders who were leading the horses, and said, "Your senior sister and I are not well married, so I am not married to a pig killer." Therefore, there is no silver on the four walls of the family, only these pork. I had already calculated for you before I came, and this cart of meat was enough for you to eat for two months. Two months was enough time for us to get to Kyoto. ”

"Sister, sister, I just kidding, don't take it seriously. ”

The six old men who led the horses hurriedly bent down and laughed and begged for mercy. It's just that the two old men in the back of the car with "braised pork" in their hands are about to fall out. Let's not talk about whether this car meat can be eaten for two months, this car meat has not even been processed with the most basic marinating, and maggots can grow for you if you can't put it for four or five days, where can you eat it for two months?!

If you eat it for two months, you will be able to eat it.

Although the truth is so, in front of this senior sister, no one dares to say so. The old man, who was called the second brother, lightly rewrapped the oil paper and put it back in the meat pile. Then, he took two steps forward to the old woman's side, bent down slightly, tried to maintain a height with the old woman, and said carefully: "Senior sister, I'm afraid this matter is not easy to fix." ”

The old woman frowned and glanced at the talker: "What's wrong?"

"Huh. ”

The old man who led the horse interjected: "Senior sister, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive." Let's go to Beijing this time, we don't rent birds in Yueyang, we have to go to Xiangyang to rent them, isn't it just to save some money and get on the road?" he said, he glanced at the cart wrapped in oiled paper, and then wondered: "Look, if you take this cart of meat on the road, we haven't run out of the southern region before the horses run away." If you can't bring a horse, you can only ride a bird, but ordinary birds will definitely not be able to carry it. If we rent bigger birds, we don't have that much money. Senior sister, this thing is really not easy to fix. ”

The old woman narrowed her eyes suspiciously, and looked deeply at the old man leading the horse: "You don't plan to pay for my cart of meat, do you?"

"Uh..."

The sixth old man who led the horse was stunned when he heard this, he never expected that at this time, the old woman actually planned to pay for her carload of meat goods, which was simply speechless.

Unable to say anything in his heart, the sixth old man hurriedly raised his hand and explained: "No, no, no, senior sister, you must not think like this, you have good intentions, how can I thank you for being a small one? It's just, it's just, we don't have enough money in our hands to be a good bird..."

"Tsk, that's verbose. ”

The old woman was a little impatient, waved her hand and said resolutely: "Then don't be a bird, and prepare a few more fast horses." It's really not good, I see that your body is still strong, even if you run to Kyoto, there shouldn't be any big problem, right? I think back then, it only took half a month for us to run from Chunyang to Yueyang. Anyway, there are still a few months before the national exam, and those boys haven't arrived in Kyoto so soon, so it's good for us to accompany them all the way to the mountains. ”

"Ahem, cough, cough..."

The old man, who was weak, was suddenly frightened by the old woman's bold idea.

He hurriedly waved his hand and said politely, "Ahem... I can't help it, I can't help it, senior sister, you can spare my old life. I still want to live a few more years..."As he spoke, the old man's eyes flashed with a fine light, as if he suddenly thought of something, and quickly added: "Yes, we can't catch up with those little hairy heads without a whole bird." I just remembered that today Sanzang took the white horse into the northern city, and my second brother and I were guessing that we must have gone to pick them up and come north. The white horse of the Huasheng Temple can fly to the sky, if you don't catch up with them quickly, with that Xia Xun's ability to cause trouble, you will definitely be able to get into trouble for tens of millions of miles all the way. When the time comes, the gains will outweigh the losses, senior sister, you can do it and spare my old bones. ”

“......”

The old woman turned her head slightly, squinted her eyes, and looked at the old man who spoke suspiciously. Obviously, the old man's temporary words failed to convince the senior sister. At least, she wasn't entirely convinced. Suspicious, the old woman reached into her arms with one hand and groped for a while, and then took out a tattered gossip compass from her arms. When I saw the old woman take out the compass, the four old men around couldn't help but take two steps closer, poke out their heads, and cast their eyes on the old woman's hand...

"To the north, sure enough, out of the city. ”

"That kid seems to be injured, and his breath is much weaker..."

But see, this gossip compass is not only tattered, but also very strange.

It does not have eight trigrams and eight palaces like a normal Bagua compass, but has eighteen hexagrams like eighteen squares, and the outer edge of each grid is carved with a pattern. It's just that of these eighteen palaces, fourteen of them seem to have been burned by fire, scorched and tattered, and they can no longer be seen in their original appearance. The remaining four squares are relatively intact, arranged around the center of the circle, each forming a hexagram. Three of the grids emit wisps of silver light, as if the palace grids are inlaid with precious stones, which is very beautiful. There is also a grid that is also glowing with silver, but it is very dim, as if it can be extinguished at any time, faint and uncertain. In the middle of the compass is a common yin and yang taiji diagram, and in the center of the taiji diagram is suspended half an inch in the air a very delicate silver sword. The silver dragon handle and cloud tattoo are like a miniature version of the Pure Yang Dao Sword. At this time, the tip of the little sword was facing the north steadily, emitting a faint red light, trembling slightly.

"You see... Ahem, I didn't lie to you, senior sister. The sword points to the light red light in the north, that is, it goes north 5,000 miles away, within 10,000 miles. This must be flying in the sky to have this speed, and Mo Xian is injured, his breath is weak, I'm afraid he is in trouble. Looking at the appearance of the little silver sword, the weak old man rose up and shouted.

"Sasha..."

The old woman ignored him and put the compass back in her bosom. Then, he reluctantly turned back, looked at the truckload of meat that he had worked hard to bring all the way, and pondered for a long time, wondering, "Hey, how can this be done..."

"Senior sister, don't think about it..."

Seeing that the old woman had softened her heart, the old man who was called the second brother grabbed the momentum and hurriedly climbed up: "Senior sister, you listen to my advice." Today, unlike in the past, five cents can stump heroes. Over the years, we have cut off contact with Xianxing, and we have been incognito, and no one has ever taken the moon stipend. We're not businessmen, so we don't have any money saved. This trip to Beijing was still four hundred taels of silver that Liu'er got in exchange for the restaurant. Four hundred taels of silver, it seems like a lot, but it's barely enough for a few of us to survive for a while, whether we can get to Kyoto or not, if we get on this carriage again, we will really starve to death halfway. So, in my opinion, let it be given up. ”

"Haha..."

Before he finished speaking, a strange laugh suddenly appeared.

The hunchbacked old man, who had not squeaked all the time, somehow suddenly burst out laughing, and it was very strange to laugh gloomily.

The second old man glared at the hunchbacked old man fiercely, and shouted angrily: "You smoke that tendon?"

"Haha, give. ”

"Hmmm. ”

The hunchbacked old man was still smiling, just smiling and laughing, and his withered hands in his sleeves suddenly shook off like a trick! A gray package the size of a watermelon was thrown out by him with a "swish", and smashed coldly at the nine old men leaning on the carriage!

"Oh, kid's trick. ”

"Wow!"

These nine old men are also powerful, although they look sick, but their reaction and skills are good.

The hunchbacked old man was only seven or eight feet away from him, and throwing away the bag was a matter of blink of an eye, and the package was about to hit his head on the head. But seeing that his face still didn't change, he even had time to laugh. As he spoke, the old hand he held around his waist suddenly lifted it up suddenly! Lightning and flint, in an instant! When he finished speaking, the smashed package had been firmly grasped by him.

"Huh?"

It's just that the next moment he grabbed the package, it felt strange. It's too heavy, heavy. And the contents of the package were too hard, hard as stone. He thought to himself, could it be that the hunchbacked old man really had a brain cramp, and he walked here from Yueyang with such a large bag of stones just to smash himself?

Under suspicion, the ninth old man immediately took down the package, opened the slipknot, and looked fixedly...

"Ahem..."

"Seven... Qi'er... You're going up to the mountains to be a bandit?!ahem..."

This is not good-looking, but at first glance, the old man who is so weak that his bones are too weak to cough again.

But seeing the inside of the package, the gold is shining, one by one, reflecting the scorching sun. What kind of stone is this? It's clearly a whole package of gold! No wonder his first instinct was to think that the hunchbacked old man had gone up the mountain to become a bandit. Not to mention him, even the old people on the side were stunned by this bag of gold.

The hunchbacked old man shook his head mysteriously: "Can you get so much gold by going up the mountain to be a bandit this year?"

The old man who led the horse could not confidently grab a gold ingot, put it in his mouth and bit it, and the two tooth marks were immediately printed on the gold edge. Needless to say, this is real gold and not so real gold. However, the problem came again, he held the gold ingots between his three fingers, glared and asked: "You didn't rob it, where did it come from?" Don't tell me that you have the head of the trade, and you earned it yourself. No one would believe such nonsense. ”

"Hey, hey. ”

The hunchbacked old man grinned and shook his head again: "I really don't have the head to make gold, but I can pick it up." ”

"You fart!"

This kind of answer does feel like some.

One tael of gold is equal to one hundred taels of silver, and this heavy bag has two or three hundred taels to say the least. Two or three hundred taels of gold is a shocking fortune for ordinary people. If you want to say that you have picked up a few pieces of gold, maybe some people will believe it, but if you say that this big bag of gold is all picked up, you will only believe it.

"Qi'er, you'd better make it clear to me. ”

The second old man obviously didn't take the hunchbacked old man's words seriously, he raised his face with a solemn face, and rebuked with righteousness: "Under our pure yang sect, we take benevolence, righteousness and morality as the foundation of our life. I'd rather starve to death than do something that violates your conscience by stealing chickens and touching dogs! If you come by the way, give it back to me at once, and we'll be waiting for you here. When you return the gold to others, Senior Sister and I will not pursue this matter again!"

"Hey..."

To be honest, no one believes it, and that's a humiliating thing.

There was no way, the hunchbacked old man had no choice but to put away his hip-hop smile, and also condensed a serious look, raised three fingers to the sky, and said in a positive voice: "Heaven and earth are for example, and the three clears are above." Second brother, senior sister, this is really what I picked up a few days ago, I really didn't lie to you. ”

"You're still stubborn, aren't you?"

The old man leading the horse frowned, thinking that the hunchbacked old man was stubborn and hard-mouthed. Holding on to the reins, he pointed to the bag of gold that the weak old man was holding, and shouted: "Where can you pick up such a bag of gold? If it is really so easy to pick up, why can you pick it up, why can't our brother even see it?"

"Hey..."

After a short break, the hunchbacked old man laughed again, and this time he laughed much more proudly than the previous times: "You can't blame me for this." If you live in the north of the city, you will definitely not see the spectacular golden rain from the sky, and how can you pick it up if you can't see it. I live in the west of the city, and the moon is the first to get near the water, if it weren't for the fact that my robe was broken a few holes that day, how could I pick up such a point with my skills?"

"Uh..."

Hearing this explanation, everyone was stunned.

Everyone seemed to smell something from it, and although they didn't know what the hunchbacked old man was saying, at least there was some reason, and it didn't look like he was lying.

The old woman still asked, "Let's be clear, why can't you see it in the north of the city, but you can see it in the west of the city?"

"Hey, hey. ”

The hunchbacked old man laughed again, and his rickety back was about to be straightened by his laughter.

After laughing for a while, he said: "Because, on the tenth day of the first lunar month, the little baby of the Xia family went to ask the sky to welcome his relatives, and the gold that was not exchanged was only sprinkled at the feet of Wentian. Ha ha. You deserve to starve to death in the north of the city..."

“......”

The crowd was speechless.