Yunzhou, Gaoling City. It is more than 400 miles away from Linyin Mountain, and there are nearly 10,000 households in the city, although it is not too prosperous, but it is also a hundred times stronger than Linyin Village.

There is a place in the city called "Liyang Ju", which is the largest restaurant and inn in the entire Gaoling City. And today, not long after Xiao Er opened the door of the restaurant with a yawn, three people came. Or rather, two young men in white with an unconscious teenager opened their mouths to stay in the hotel.

Hearing this, Xiao Er was stunned, and he didn't know if he didn't wake up and was confused or something, he didn't want to let these three people move in, in his opinion, he brought an unconscious person to stay in the hotel early in the morning, and there was definitely a problem with these two people.

So he hurriedly ran out of the restaurant and called the shopkeeper of Liyangju. The shopkeeper's surname is Liu, he is over fifty years old, and although there is a hint of anger on his slightly blessed face, he is still quite energetic.

When Shopkeeper Liu walked to the front of the counter, the two young men didn't bother to say anything, they directly took out the silver and put it on the tent, and opened their mouths to charter the largest courtyard in the inn.

Shopkeeper Liu saw that the silver was quite new and the weight was sufficient, so he took it in his hand and weighed it. Suddenly, a smile appeared on his slightly chubby face, which was a smile he specially practiced in the spirit of "harmony and wealth". Then Shopkeeper Liu put the silver in his arms, brushed it on the back of Xiao Er's head with his backhand, and said angrily: "Why don't you take the two guest officers to the 'Qingfeng' courtyard to check in!"

As he spoke, he turned around again, and said with a perfect smile again: "Guest officer, please!"

After a few people entered, Shopkeeper Liu closed the account book that had just been pretended to open, walked to the door, and looked at the rising sunshine in his eyes, he was very happy in his heart, and thought happily: "There is an account early in the morning, and today's fortune must be bad!"

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The dreams are deep and chaotic.

The fragmented scenes are intertwined and constantly changing. It's as if a shining mirror has been shattered, countless fragments are scattered on the ground, and when you try to pick them up, you find that your hands have already been scratched with blood.

So, my heart hurts.

Until my heart is numb, and I feel no more pain. I will think, what happened just now?

As I looked around, I suddenly realized that I was in a dead darkness, and there was silence around me, without a sound. I can't even hear my own breathing or heartbeat.

Suddenly, in the corner of his eye, there was a glimmer of light. After being overjoyed, he hurriedly turned around and looked for it, but found nothing.

When the hope in the heart is shattered, fear, loneliness, anger and other emotions continue like a tidal wave, rushing up until they drown themselves.

He opened his mouth to cry for help, but he couldn't make a sound, and he struggled desperately, but it was useless. Just when I was at a loss in my heart, I thought of the word "death". There was a warmth from the wrist, which instantly swam all over the body, like a pair of powerful hands holding up the body, to take yourself away from this sea of suffering. And then, it did, and it just ......

There are a pair of eyes staring silently at you in the dark.

With a shake of his body, Cheng Linyuan suddenly opened his eyes, and there was a carved wooden bed and a light curtain of the tent. Although it is strange, there is no sense of oppression in dreams. He pulled over the futon that was clutching a corner and buried his face in it.

The soft futon gently hugged him with his undispersed body temperature, and when he exhaled his turbid breath and recalled the dream with palpitations, he found that he had looked back like a flower in the fog, and there was no trace to be seen!

After a while, Cheng Linyuan lifted the quilt and got up to get out of bed, looking at how damaged his cloth clothes were, but those scars had disappeared. Strange in my heart, and then look around, the celadon tea cup on the table of the eight immortals, the glazed dragon color plate in the sandalwood frame, the moire green bottle and so on abound. Regardless of whether they are genuine or not, in the eyes of him, a young man in the mountains, it is already extremely luxurious.

Just couldn't see the doorway, Cheng Linyuan turned his head and stopped thinking about it, raised his legs and walked to the wooden door.

The door was closed, and a faint light of day shone through the paper window. There was a sudden fear in his heart, but the hand on the door did not retract.

The wooden door opened, and the light of day rushed in, sweeping away the dull atmosphere in the room.

Looking up, the shade of the trees is light, and the flowers and plants are slightly moving.

Cheng Linyuan's eyes turned slightly, quietly looking at the courtyard outside the corridor in front of him, and the shadows of the trees swayed.

On the stone table, a pot of tea, a few small cups, the smoke is already full of tea fragrance.

Yun Wanzhou, dressed in white, stretched out his arm to take two small cups and filled them one by one. Then he put one of the cups in front of the empty seat opposite, and took the other one and drank it all.

He pursed his lips, as if he had an aftertaste, then turned his head and beckoned to Cheng Linyuan, who was standing outside the door, and said, "Get up, how about coming and tasting this tea." ”

Cheng Linyuan nodded lightly, did not refuse, walked down the steps and sat in the empty seat opposite Yun Wanzhou, picked up the teacup and drank it all. Although the tea has been eaten, the fragrance between the lips and teeth is overflowing, and it does not disperse for a long time, and it is indeed a good tea.

He raised his head to meet Yun Wanzhou's slightly smiling gaze and said, "It's good tea." I've never drunk it, and it's not for me. ”

Yun Wanzhou had a smile in his eyes, and raised his eyebrows: "So, you want to leave?"

"Yes!" Cheng Linyuan said without hesitation. After a pause, he continued: "I don't know why I'm here, and I don't know who you are, but I have to go back to Zhuangzi, because..."

Cheng Linyuan's eyes froze, and he suddenly got up and clenched his fists with both hands and said, "What do you mean?"

Yun Wanzhou was unconscious, picked up the teapot and filled the two empty cups on the table, and said: "You don't have to think about it, I have no malicious intent, before my senior brother brought you back to Zhuangzi from the mountains, your grandfather had already been taken away, according to those villagers, your grandfather was voluntary." ”

Cheng Linyuan clenched his hands into fists, his forehead was faintly bruised, and before he could speak, he heard Yun Wanzhou say coldly: "The one who took away your grandfather is a person from the Demon Sect's Sanjun Palace." With that, he raised his head and his eyes flashed, staring at the young man in front of him.

Cheng Linyuan's heart tightened, his breathing was slightly short, although he didn't understand what Sanjun Palace was, but the word "demon" specially added by Yun Wanzhou clearly conveyed a message to him. He gritted his teeth, trying his best not to avoid the substantial gaze, and then said coldly, "Why should I believe you?"

Yun Wanzhou retracted his gaze, picked up the teacup and shook it gently, the tea in the cup shook with his hand, and kept turning, until a small whirlpool appeared in the cup, and the emerald green tea leaves rose and fell in it, sometimes like the rising sun rising into the sky, sometimes like a dragon exploring the water. Then Yun Wanzhou brought the teacup to his mouth and said lightly: "Because I don't have to lie to you." With that, he looked up and drank the tea.

After a moment of silence, Cheng Linyuan said in a hoarse voice: "I... Can you just walk around?"

Yun Wanzhou nodded slightly, raised his hand to brush the corners of his mouth, and said, "Yes." But if you want to go home, remember to go south along the main road when you get out of the Gaoling City Gate, which should be useful for you to hold. As he spoke, he took out a moire-embroidered silver and white money bag from his waist and placed it on the stone table. After a pause, he said lightly: "Of course, you can also let me send you back, at least you can walk a lot less." ”

Cheng Linyuan looked at him, glanced at the money bag on the stone table, didn't take it, turned around and walked up the steps and walked out of the Qingfeng Courtyard along the corridor.

Yun Wanzhou put down the empty cup with only the fragrance of tea, looked at the direction of Cheng Linyuan's departure and shook his head, then smiled faintly and nodded, I don't know what it means.

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Walking out of the gate of Liyang Residence, there was a noisy sound, and the excitement came to the face.

The streets of the city are crisscrossed with each other, and pedestrians move from one street to another. The houses on the side of the road are staggered and undulating. Various houses and shops can be seen everywhere on both sides of the road, and various sounds are mixed together. It seems to be an earthly picture scroll slowly unfolding in front of this mountain boy.

In the crowd of people who came and went, no one noticed that the young man with a slightly abnormal expression was busy with his own business. Cheng Linyuan walked forward along the road, and suddenly felt that the past years in the mountains were a little strange to him.

Looking up, the walls of Gaoling City are very high, and there are many mottled places on the walls as far as the eye can see, and I don't know what happened under this city wall.

The city gate in front of them was more than three feet high, and many farmers and villagers carried goods in and out, some of them were smiling, some were ugly, but the same was that they were careful about the goods they carried on their shoulders, as if the things on their shoulders were the lives of a family of old and young.

Without stopping, Cheng Linyuan only felt a darkness above his head, and after walking for more than a dozen days, he passed through the city gate. As far as the eye can see, there are flat rivers within a radius of several miles, and occasionally trees are scattered in groups of three or five.

The long official road has no end in sight. Although separated by a wall, the outside of the city is actually a bleak place, which is completely different from the lively atmosphere inside the city. Although there are many people walking along the official road, it is not worth mentioning compared to the vastness of the land.

Cheng Linyuan stood quietly by the city gate and looked at the never-before-seen scene in front of him, speechless for a while. Pedestrians on the road came and went in a hurry, his mood suddenly calmed down, in the past sixteen years he actually saw the world outside the tree-lined village for the first time, but also the first time to seriously watch people come and go, look at countless unfamiliar faces, look at thousands of worldly customs.

Outside the city, the wind suddenly rose, and the slanting sun gradually disappeared under the distant horizon in the whistling sky, and the sky was already full of clouds.

Before you know it, it's dusk. Cheng Linyuan took a deep breath, retracted his gaze and turned around and walked back to the city gate.

It's getting late, and the cool breeze is occasionally rising. There are no fewer pedestrians on the road than during the day. The remaining vendors on both sides are also mostly selling snacks and snacks.

Cheng Linyuan smelled the faint aroma and suddenly felt hungry in his stomach. He was stunned for a moment, and then laughed in a low voice, and he didn't know if he was laughing at his stomach. At that moment, he quickened his pace slightly and walked along the road towards Oak Yangju.

When he was not far from Liyangju, he saw a little girl in shabby clothes squatting on the ground in the alley next to the road and sobbing quietly, and a young man of the same age as himself next to him was comforting her, and kept saying: "Xiao Wei don't cry, my brother will bring something from the inn for you to eat later, don't cry or cry..."

Cheng Linyuan was stunned in place, he quietly looked over there, although the sky was getting darker, he could still see that the little girl who was squatting was hungry, and although the young man was comforting, his voice was getting lower and lower.

He was embarrassed in his heart, and the expression on his face couldn't bear to flash. At the moment, I quickly ran back to Liyang Residence, and walked through the corridor to the Qingfeng Courtyard.

Lanterns have been lit on the corridor in the courtyard, and the stone table in the courtyard is full of all kinds of delicacies. Yun Wanzhou sat at the table, and was not surprised at all when he saw Cheng Linyuan coming back, but said, "Hungry, come and eat." ”

Cheng Linyuan stepped forward, and a fragrance poured into his nose. When had he ever seen such a well-prepared dish, he swallowed his saliva secretly, and reluctantly looked away and said with a bit of pleading: "You... Can you lend me some silver taels?"

Yun Wanzhou raised his eyebrows, his eyes flashed with surprise, and then disappeared. He nodded, took a silver ingot from his purse and handed it over.

Cheng Linyuan took it and whispered, "Thank you," and then ran out quickly. Under the shadow of the lamp, the young man's back was inexplicably stronger.

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In front of the Liyang Residence, Yun Wanzhou stood with his hands in his hands, quietly watching Cheng Linyuan buy some snacks on the side of the road with the silver, and then ran to an alley and handed the snacks to a little girl who was squatting. Without waiting for the girl to speak, she shoved the remaining silver into a young man next to her. The young man was stunned, quickly shook his head, and was about to open his mouth when he saw Cheng Linyuan smile and turned around and ran away. The young man's outstretched hand stopped in mid-air, as if stunned, and then he withdrew his arm with his head down, clutching the silver tightly. After a pause, he led the little girl back into the alley.

At that time, the sky was dark, and the moon was outside the sky, hanging high like a mirror.

Cheng Linyuan ran to the door and saw Yun Wanzhou looking at him, he bowed his head slightly and kept walking. As he passed by Yun Wanzhou's side, he said softly, "Thank you." ”