Chapter 106: Ask the Strange Land
Li Gon and Xiang Chong are both hunters near Taihang Mountain, but they have both been taught by their masters and learned martial arts. Both of them were cultivators of the Five Heavens, and when they had an argument with a merchant during a prey sale, they killed people in anger, and then fled to the mountains and fell into the grass. They all have some skills, and they also attracted some people to join, and they came and went, built cottages, gathered hundreds of minions, and became one of the several bandit forces on Taihang Mountain.
Ning Yufei saw the whole picture of the cottage, but he didn't see the magnificent cottage in his imagination, and it could even be said to be a little simple! There was a sign hanging at the door of the cottage, which read 'Mangdang Mountain'. As early as when he saw Fan Rui, he had already thought of this layer, and he was not surprised.
"Brother Fan, do you have to go so far away on weekdays?" Ning Yufei was a little surprised, it was almost an hour to go, and this back and forth was nearly two hours, and they had to do 'trading' every day at such a pace, wouldn't this cottage have all starved to death a long time ago?
Fan Rui also knew what he was talking about, and replied, "My Mangdang Mountain is dozens of miles in radius, and it is the sphere of influence of my cottage, but to be honest, the number of people in the cottage is insufficient, and we can only choose one direction at a time." Little brother, just look at my cottage, it's really not a good business. He said this with some implicit meaning, expressing his pain to Ning Yufei, he knew that the Zhuang Lou family had a big business, even in such an old age, as long as people said a word, their lives would be much better.
Of course, Ning Yufei couldn't hear it, and he could only regret it. "Then your geographical location is not good, why don't you change?" He is not good at observing words and feelings, he will say whatever comes to mind, and he has never thought about whether others are willing to listen.
Of course, Fan Rui is bold, he has half of the Western Xia blood, and he also has the rough mind of the ethnic minorities in the northwest, of course, he is also thick and fine.
Fan Rui invited Ning Yufei and the three of them to go in and arrange for someone to prepare a meal for entertainment. After arranging these, he answered Ning Yufei's question, "Mangdang Cottage has been around for a long time, I heard that the feng shui here is very good, more than a thousand years ago, Han Gaozu killed the white snake here, and then he was supported by tens of millions of people to become the emperor, all because of the feng shui here! Fan Rui has only been in the cottage for a day or two, but he is obviously very familiar with everything in Mangdang Mountain, and he is also the head of the way when he talks about these allusions.
"Oh, Brother Fan, is there anything peculiar about this Mangdang Mountain Cottage?" Ning Yufei immediately aroused his curiosity when he heard that this Mangdang Cottage had a long history.
"What is peculiar, what do you mean by this?" Fan Rui was puzzled, mainly because he didn't understand what Ning Yufei meant.
Ning Yufei said, "I mean, are there any particularly strange places in the cottage? ”
Fan Rui fell into deep thought, he obviously didn't know much about it, and he turned to Li Gon and Xiang Chong. "Second brother and third brother, you should know, right?"
Ning Yufei looked at Li Gon Xiang Chong, who was asking the fourth child for advice on the way of wine. "These two are Brother Fan's sworn brothers?"
Fan Rui patted his head, "Look at my memory, I didn't think to introduce it to you along the way, these two are my righteous brothers, we follow Liu Guanzhang in ancient times, and marry Jin Lan." This is my second brother, 'Flying Sage' Li Gon, and this is my third brother, 'Eight-armed Nezha' Xiang Chong. Before today, this Mangdang Mountain was the two of them in charge. The three of us hit it off at first sight, and I was the oldest, so they put the responsibility for this boss on me, the boss. Tell you, today is my first 'sale', I didn't expect it to hit my own people, this is really a big flood washing the Dragon King Temple!"
"Oh, then Second Brother Li, Third Brother Xiang, do you two know something?" Ning Yufei immediately changed his goal and turned to Li Gon and Xiang Chong.
Li Gon and Xiang Chong glanced at each other, and Li Gon groaned slightly, "Speaking of caves and secret rooms, I really found a lot, but if you want to say something strange, you haven't found any of them." He focused on caves and secret rooms, because there were many such places on Taihang Mountain, and they found a lot, but they didn't find anything strange.
"However, there are still strange places!" Xiang Chong on the side suddenly thought of a serendipitous discovery, and immediately said.
"Oh, Third Brother Xiang, please tell me in detail!" Ning Yufei's excitement came up, originally he was just trying his luck, but he didn't expect that under this question, he really got a positive answer, he was very happy in his heart, and he showed it on his face.
"Well, well, since the little brother wants to know, I'll tell you everything. Xiang Chong replied. At this time, someone brought wine and food and set it into a sumptuous lunch, and at noon, it happened that Ning Yufei was also very hungry, so he stopped the topic for the time being, and a group of people ate some wine and food first.
After Shao Fang arrived at the cottage, she ran around, of course, there were guards around the village, so that she could only wander around the village, at this time she was tired of playing, hungry, and came back to eat.
Fan Rui sat in the leader's position, holding a wine glass to toast, Ning Yufei and Shao Fang casually found a seat to sit below, but it was a coachman, the contemporary 'wine fairy' chose the fourth child to be supported by everyone, and sat in the first position below, he was entangled for a long time, and finally agreed to take out one or two wine-making recipes as a meeting gift and a return gift for this wine and dish.
During the banquet, Ning Yufei first fed his stomach, and then asked Xiang Chong the question of 'strange place' again.
Xiang Chong pondered for a while before replying: "Three years ago, I encountered a 'sale', I was alone, he was also a person, we fought dozens of moves, he was shot by my flying target, and ran away with an injury. I pursued all the way, and found a magical place in a hidden mountain forest more than twenty miles away, which looked like a very shallow rock cave from the outside, and could not even hide a person. But I walked along the trail of blood, only to find that the trail was broken there! I searched around but found no clue, and finally I had to give up. At this, he took a sip of his wine and paused.
Li Gon on the side said: "I have the impression of this incident, we were few people at that time, but we needed money very much, so we did things separately and did what we could." But that day, the third child took me there to see it, and finally found that the blood stains had disappeared suddenly, so I had a suspicion. As soon as I had my suspicions, I told my brothers to leave there, and made it a forbidden area for ten miles, and they were not allowed to enter easily!"