The shade of the trees on the ancient road and the wind swept into the tea shed, which made people feel a little hot at first, but for some reason it was cool to the bones after a whirl. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info everyone listened to the book and listened attentively, and all their attention was focused on General Yuwen strayed into a strange and unknown situation, although he knew that this matter had passed for many years, but when he heard the old man talk about the wonderful, he still couldn't help but sweat for Yuwen Qiu and his party.

The old man knew that everyone in the tea shed couldn't answer, but he still deliberately asked, and when he saw that everyone was silent, he continued with a smile: "When I arrived here, Yuwen Qiu suddenly felt like a numb heart. When he looked closely, he saw that the slanting boulder was surrounded by a large sea of purple flowers. Purple flowers are as tall as people, growing in artemisia grass, blooming flowers as big as sea bowls, each flower is six-petaled, petals are as thin as cicada wings, crystal clear, exuding a fragrance that everyone has never smelled. General Yuwen sniffed carefully, and found that the fragrance of flowers was as elegant as the hollow valley orchid, but it was as rich as musk, and more like the strange and palpitating smell of the bones buried in the rotting swamp. He looked around, and saw that it was noon, the sun was shining, and some impermeable thorns were growing among the pines, and the pines and thorns surrounded the sea of purple flowers, and there was no other way except the way from which the right people came...... The crowd seemed to enter a bowl filled with purple juice, and their bodies looked like diced meat soaked in purple juice. Faced with this scene, the person in this place is very easy to have an unhuman illusion. Seeing that there was no way out and he had to turn back, General Yuwen was secretly thinking to himself, but suddenly heard a loud 'rustling' sound from the flowers. Several people were frightened and raised their swords on alert, but the loud noise was only for a moment, and then there was no sound. General Yuwen has many years of experience in the battlefield, and he has a hunch that he can't stay here for long. He waved his hand and motioned for everyone to retreat, but at this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the crowd-tall sea of flowers again, and a fishy wind mixed with the strange fragrance floating in the purple flower sea blew towards everyone. The wind came so quickly and violently that it was like a web of great natural power, and everyone was astonished and despaired. ”

At this, the old man's expression became strange, and a pair of brighter eyes flashed with a strange light. After a pause, he suddenly lowered his voice and said, "The fragrance entered their noses in an instant, and it permeated their minds, making people think about it...... Oh, yes, the fragrance is slightly sweet, a pleasure that I have searched for in my dreams, but I have never been able to find. But the fragrance is full of bitterness, like a lover's unexpected encounter after many years of separation, the surprise of getting together. Alas...... This strange fragrance continued to circulate in their bodies, blending into the blood, not only for two or three breaths, but General Yuwen and the others had a feeling of despair that they were dying, unable to break free, and unable to shake off. ”

Everyone seemed stunned by the old man's description of the scene, and when they heard him let out a long sigh, they couldn't help but sigh as well. A young man who was sitting close to the old man asked with a pale face, "That...... What happened to the general?"

The old man sighed and said, "General Yuwen has not been heard from since. Deputy General An Zimiao waited for a few days and could no longer sit still. Although the loss of the main general before the battle was a major accident on the march, it was a major matter for everyone to lose their heads if they missed the counterinsurgency plan. Miao Zi'an didn't dare to slack off, so he repaired the book and reported it overnight, and reported the incident to Emperor Wen of the current dynasty. Emperor Wen was furious when he read it, and on the one hand, he urgently dispatched his son Yongzhou Mu Yang Guangxing to Fujun at night, and on the other hand, he sent dozens of martial arts masters from the inner court to Junwang Mountain to find the whereabouts of Yuwen Qiu and others...... A few years have passed, until Emperor Wen returned to the sky, and now the saint Yang Guang ascended the throne, and General Yuwen and his entourage still did not fall along with the hundreds of gold and silver they brought. Are they alive or dead, unharmed or wounded, are they still in the King's Mountain, or are they like the dry bones hanging from the black pines, leaving only black holes in their eyes...... No one knows anymore. ”

The young man sighed, "This is indeed a strange thing!" The old man nodded, pointed to the road in front of him, and then pointed to the King Mountain surrounded by clouds and mist in the distance, and said to everyone: "There are different opinions on this matter among the people in Guanzhong. Among them, the most popular is that this road is a divine whip abandoned by the Jade Emperor in the world, and the person who steps on the whip is dead, and what is even more terrifying is the god holding this divine whip. Legend has it that he waited on Junwang Mountain, not only did not allow mortals to approach him, but also used this divine whip day and night to whip the imperial capital Chang'an City. Hey, he whips endlessly until he whips it to ruins...... Perhaps Yang Guang, who was the pastor of Yongzhou back then, also left a huge knot in his heart that was difficult to untie when he was ordered to go to General Yuwen's camp to raise the army. Therefore, at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, he ordered the complete abandonment of this road, leaving it to the people, allowing people to step on the whip of the gods, and at the same time, in order to control the world, he ordered the digging of the Grand Canal. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he suddenly stood up and clapped his hands, facing the road outside the tea shed, as if singing: "The melancholy road returns to the people, and the road is not uneven." But the road is still the road...... Let it be stormy, frosty and snowy, and let it be narrow and wide ...... man and god."

Everyone listened to his interesting singing and applauded. The more the old man sang, the more energetic he became, shaking his head and singing happily. The people in the shed were laughing, and suddenly they heard the sound of horses' hooves splashing in the depths of the road. Everyone suddenly heard the sound of hooves, remembered the group of black-clothed men riding horses before, and suddenly felt a little panicked in their hearts for some reason, and they all stopped their voices and looked in the direction where the hoofs came from. I saw that in the depths of the rolling yellow dust, a white horse carrying a woman wearing a light gauze hat gradually approached.

In a few moments, the woman had already ridden to the pergola, and everyone saw that her jade hand was lightly raised, and her body was extremely stable. The woman sat down on the white horse, first straightened up her clothes that had been wrinkled by the wind, then looked into the pergola a few times, and asked crisply: "Ladies and gentlemen, can you see a man with a long scar on his face, passing by here with three people?"

Everyone saw that the woman's posture was curly and graceful, and although her face was separated by a light veil, she could still vaguely see that this person's face was extremely beautiful, and when she saw the horse stopped, her posture was extremely beautiful, which showed that she not only had excellent riding skills, but also seemed to have a superb martial arts.

In this very desolate place, how could they see such a woman, and suddenly hear such a beautiful and beautiful voice, and everyone was shocked. Someone replied first: "I didn't see the man with the scar, but I saw more than ten black-clothed riders passing by." ”

The woman let out an 'oh' and asked, "More than ten black-clothed passengers?" The man saw her answer, and replied excitedly: "Yes, but those people were wearing hats and couldn't see their faces clearly, so naturally I don't know if any of them had scars on their faces...... Seeing that the woman seemed to be thinking about something, she said again: "However, it seems that the black-clothed people are going to ...... Guest...... What a joy place to drink. The old man had just finished telling that bizarre story, and was about to hold up the prepared copper plate to ask everyone for some reward, when he saw the woman coming, he opened his mouth and provoked everyone to ignore him, and he couldn't help but be a little angry. But he is a businessman after all, because he was showing the way to the man in black, he accidentally got a broken silver leaf, and he was on the rise, when he saw someone inquiring about something, he stepped forward and said attentively: "This girl, those people in black are going to the Kelaixi Hotel in front...... Girl, you single woman, what are those fierce men doing......

Immediately, the woman interrupted him, raised the horsewhip in her hand, pointed to a three-way intersection connecting the road not far behind her, and asked, "In which direction did those black-clothed men come from?" The old man smiled and said, "If you ask them which intersection they came from...... This one...... This is for the little old man to think about it......" said in his mouth, a pair of dry and emaciated hands rubbed back and forth, but his eyes were firmly fixed on the package that the woman hung on the side of the saddle.

Immediately, the woman saw that he was deliberately spitting, and understood that he was asking for money, so she sneered and said, "You really can't remember......?" I don't want to ask......" After finishing speaking, he flicked the reins, and the white horse jumped up and was about to leave. When the old man saw that the money in his hand was about to fly away, he became anxious, took a step forward and said urgently: "Good girl, wait! Maybe the little old man will remember ...... in a while" Before he finished speaking, the woman shook her head, and did not say thank you, her legs were clamped, and she snorted softly, and the white horse under the seat jumped out like a flying arrow.

Everyone was taken aback at what the woman had thrown her hand on, and they all stood up, trying to dodge, but when they saw that these two things had landed on the table, they spun and spin, and instead of flying towards themselves, they all stretched their necks and went up around them, and were amazed.

The old man and the young man also gathered around, and they were amazed to see that two things had fallen on the table, and they spun rapidly.

Everyone waited for a while, and when they saw that these two things did not stop at all, they couldn't help but cheer. When the old man saw this, he smiled, put two fingers on the table and pressed them gently, and muttered: "What is this, why don't you stop and let the little old man see it clearly?" Everyone didn't know why, but they looked at it, and it turned out that there were two five-baht copper coins on the table. The old man seemed to be very disappointed, muttering non-stop, and everyone was bored and dispersed.

The young man had practiced martial arts, and when he saw the woman on the white horse riding forward, he raised his hand casually, not only letting the two copper coins thrown fall on the table impartially, but also spinning non-stop. Because in order to perform this technique, you must have the skill to be extremely accurate and wonderful, but to practice this skill, if you don't have more than ten years of hard work and accurate eyes to practice hidden weapons, there is absolutely no way to do it.

Just imagine, if a woman throws it casually, its strength is great, and the copper coin will fly out of the table and fall to the ground, if the strength is small, even if the copper coin falls steadily on the table, it will not rotate so non-stop. And what surprised him even more was the old man in front of him who set up an herbal tea shed. He pressed lightly on the table with two fingers, and the force immediately passed through the table, removing the force of the copper coin's rotation, making it impossible to continue to rotate. This kind of internal strength of fighting cattle through the air requires extremely superior internal skills, which are more than ten times higher than the techniques thrown by the woman.

The young man was thinking to himself, but he saw a man in the pergola pointing into the distance, shouting at everyone with a frightened face. Everyone followed him, and saw that the sky in the northwest direction was dim and abnormal, and where the heaven and earth met, a dust of hundreds of feet high had risen at some point. The dust was billowing and moving, like a huge yellow earthen wall, slowly advancing towards this side.

Everyone didn't know what the situation was, but they saw that the yellow giant wall was advancing all the way, and although the speed was extremely slow, it swallowed up the trees and rocks in an instant like a devastating devastation along the way. When the old man saw this, he panicked, pointed to a huge hill with mountains and rocks, and hissed and shouted, "Sandstorm ...... The sandstorm is coming, hurry up and run to the side of the rocky hill!"

When he shouted, everyone woke up like a dream, and rushed out of the pergola in a panic. Some urged their mounts, and some threw away their belongings and ran in the direction of the rocky hill. The old man saw a bulky fat merchant running and was reluctant to give up the heavy package in his hand, stepped forward and flew up, kicked out the package of about 100 catties, and shouted: "Sacrifice your life and give up your wealth?" The young man had jumped on the white horse mount at this time, and when he saw that the old man was left behind because of saving the fat merchant, he lifted the reins, jumped to his side, lifted him on the horse's back, clamped his legs, and galloped on the white horse.

The wind raged wildly, and it blew for three hours before it slowly stopped. After the wind stopped, the weather began to become depressed instead of refreshing. However, in the midst of the most depressing weather, a young man was galloping along the road on horseback.

When he came from Chang'an, the young man rode a white horse and wore a robe of Xuanyi, which was extremely chic. But after these three hours of ghost weather, the horse is no longer a white horse, let alone a person. The young man was none other than the young man who lifted the old man on his horse when the wind came.

After the strong wind swept over, he and the old man hid in the rocky hill. When the wind stopped, he found that not only were the people who had been drinking tea and listening to books with him in the pergola gone, but even the old man who had been hiding behind the boulder with him had mysteriously disappeared.

The wind swept in, flying up a thick layer of loess, dyed the white horse all over the body mixed yellow, and immediately the young man was barely better, but after a dark robe was splashed with loess, it was like a rice ball rolling yellow soup dust, embarrassed.

He ran all the way forward, slapping the dust that fell on him. Although he was lucky to stay alive, he didn't even care about the endless road in front of him, but the more he walked, the fatigue that hit him still made him can't help but look around at the place where he rested.

As the weather became hotter and hotter, the young man looked up at the sky, and saw that the sky was clear and high before the wind came. Mountains in the distance seem to be in front of you, but they seem to be out of reach. The surrounding sky, no matter near or far, resembles a pot of yellow rice porridge that has been stirred, and the dim yellow and deep color can't help but make people angry. He had never encountered such a sandstorm before, and it felt like everything that had happened before was like a dream. Along the way, he couldn't help but secretly take luck, fortunately he was not swept away by the wind. He urged the horse out of the rocky hill, couldn't help shaking the reins in his hand, and said to himself: "How could this kind ......of ghost weather happen to me?" It's all this season, and the autumn tiger is still going to be powerful!"

The young man shook his head secretly, and saw that after the four hooves of the white horse under his crotch stepped down, he had no strength, and the bursts of dust that were splashed were dry as if they were about to catch fire, causing the white horse to be anxious, constantly chewing on the iron, sneezing, panting, and foaming at the mouth. The white horse was like this, how could the young man bear to urge it anymore, and he was tired and thirsty, when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves faintly behind him. Looking back, he saw four healthy horses behind him, which were running fast and thundering, rushing towards him from far and near.

On such a hot day, there were still people in such a hurry? The young man hurriedly tugged at the reins in his hand, and gave way to the side of the road with the white horse.

In the blink of an eye, the four strong horses that were rushing like thunder had approached.

The young man saw that first was a man with a scarred face in black, followed by a reckless man, a Taoist with a slender figure with a long sword on his back, and a lonely face, and finally a woman who was extremely ugly. Four healthy horses passed by the young man, and a puff of loess dust was kicked up. Because there was no shelter on both sides of the road, as soon as the four horses passed, the dust splashed naturally fell on the young man's head and face. The young man saw that the four of them were hurrying by themselves, ignoring the yellow dust raised behind him splashing himself, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, shook his head helplessly, brushed the dust, and was about to urge the horse to hurry, but saw the black-clothed scar-faced man who took the lead after galloping his horse for forty or fifty feet, he suddenly shouted, turned the horse's head, and hurriedly got off the road with the other three, running all the way to the open mountains.

The young man looked strange, but the weather was so hot and humid, how could he care about where these people went. He clamped his legs, and the white horse neighed, and ran forward with great reluctance. The road is not just because it has sunshine, air, moisture, sweat droplets, and tears of joy and sorrow. In the eyes of people, the road contains life full of strength, wealth and hope, so no matter how difficult the road is, as long as the person is alive, he must continue to walk.

About half an hour later, the young man finally saw a hotel from afar, and his dusty cheeks could not hide his excitement. He shook the reins of the white horse, straightened his somewhat sore body, and urged the tired white horse to run towards the hotel.

The hotel is not too big, but it is a blessed place in the hot weather.

When he was about to arrive at the front of the hotel, the young man raised his hand to look at the pergola, and saw that dozens of tall horse-tied posts were lined up on the wide ground outside the store. Wiping their sweat, the two shopkeepers stood under a flagpole half a foot thick with a yellow flag more than 30 zhang away from the tethered horse stake, looking at the passers-by.

The young man raised his eyes and looked at the three gilded characters of 'Kelai Xi' on the banner, and said secretly in his heart: "Isn't this hotel exactly where the black-clothed people asked the old man in the tea shed before?"

Guests are happy, this kind of weather has to meet this store, how many people don't like it?

Now that he had seen the foothold, he was overjoyed, so he slowed down his horse and let the white horse walk freely towards the two-storey Kelaixi Hotel.

The hotel is made of ancient and stable mahogany. Although there are no colorful paintings in the hotel, the flowers and trees reflect each other, but it still looks quite imposing from a distance. Before the arrival, there was a faint noise of joy in the hotel, the sound of knives and spoons jingling flew in, and the sound of pushing the cup and changing the lamp came, which was lively like the weather in June, which made people feel refreshed.

The young man drove to the front of the shop, and through the open window, he saw that there were many people sitting around the loose table on the first floor. Some of these people are well-dressed businessmen, some are peddlers and pawns who are in a hurry, and some are women from all over the world with heavy makeup...... In fact, at this time, no matter how simple the clothes are, let alone the tone of the north and the south, there is no confidant at the end of the world, and the confidant may not be at the end of the world! In the face of the hardships of life, putting on a few side dishes, pouring a few glasses of spicy old wine, no matter whether you know each other or not, open your heart and enjoy your words, isn't it also a good way to soothe yourself and comfort others!

Although the joy of wine flags and brands is all passing by the eyes, there are few people in the world who can refuse to be drunk again and again in their lives, and talk about the heroic and wonderful of the four seas. People are familiar with joy and sorrow, here has turned into a bowl of turbid wine, you raise a glass, I did it, call him famous and dusty, call him princes and grass people, drunk the world together, to laugh at the red dust and mundane things.