Chapter 120: Heaven and Earth Change, Thunder and Chaos
Today's weather is very eerie, it is still a sunny day in the morning, and the sky is clear. But in a blink of an eye, his face changed, and the dark clouds pressed over densely, and the scene was breathless.
On this day, Yaoshan's situation was not very good, and he had a terrible headache, so he stayed in his room and didn't want to go out. There's not much to do anyway. The guests in the inn also know that Boss Zhang has a lot of capable people, and there are also a lot of thugs, and the backstage is very hard, and ordinary little thieves don't dare to make trouble here at all. Besides, there is a medicine mountain here, even if you don't use your own vitality, the strength of your hands is still very sufficient, and usually three or five people don't talk about it at all.
Today, the headache made his memory start to mess up. The past is like smoke, but now it is slowly drifting away. The pain made him unable to concentrate on what he was thinking, so he could only start his life today. For the present days, it can only be called living.
After a while, raindrops fell from the dark clouds, gradually turning from light rain to heavy rain.
Probably due to the rain, today is especially full of guests.
Luoshui City is located at the junction of the plains and the barbarian mountains, and trade from all over the world will pass through here. Therefore, it is common to see outsiders in strange costumes here, and the locals are not surprised. Therefore, the government has also increased the number of law enforcement officials here, and it is common to see patrols and arrests in groups of seven people on the lively streets and tiles, each of them is equipped with a three-foot-long knife, and there is a one-foot-long dagger on the back.
Therefore, the security in Luoshui City is relatively good compared to other places, and there are not so many big fights. Moreover, some of them will also have some righteous Taoism, which is useful for subduing those cultivators who know the law and break the law.
Of course, not all cultivators are good people, and there are also robbers of people's daughters and bloodthirsty thieves. In the face of this group of steely minions, it will really play a certain role in those people.
Luoshui City was originally a relatively calm place, and there were very few small fights in general.
Today, I don't know why, my heart is extremely depressed.
Heaven is not beautiful. The dark clouds came to this, and the lightning and thunder roared, and there was an artifact that could not be peeped at, which was prohibitive, but it also had a sense of sublimity.
The devouring spirit in Yaoshan's body continued to spread heat waves around his body, rolling in the air in his body at all times. Physical changes are also accompanied by mental changes. The irritability of Yao Shan Po is incomparable.
Click!
A burst of thunder fell from the sky, directly splitting the towering willow tree three or four feet in front of the door.
This willow tree is some years old, and the older generation does not know how many years this tree has experienced light and shadow. Four or five sturdy men could not be embraced. In the summer, when the weather is hot, some people often play chess and talk about common things here. And now it was instantly scorched by the thunder. It's a shame that the lush trees turned into char in an instant.
The diners sitting on the first floor of Luoshui City saw this situation and became unpredictable. The noise became louder. Yaoshan, who was already extremely bored, was even more irritable when he heard it, but it was not easy to say anything, after all, he was still sending people under the fence now, and he did not have such a big right.
"This celestial phenomenon is not right, something must happen!" said one of them as if he was a god-like star, as if he was the mortal star that connected the heavens and the earth.
"That's a big deal!"
"That's it!"
Just when the people in the hall were disturbing, a Taoist priest sitting in the corner drank tea and sighed by himself. Put the wide bag on the bench next to it, and a few bamboo poles full of the charm of the era put together a small book, which is the boxes that the Taoist priests usually carry, and you can also use the basket to block the rain when it rains.
The strip of cloth on the basket has four large characters written on it - "Immortals guide the way".
The Taoist priest sat peacefully in the corner of the hall, drinking tea alone, and there was only a pot of tea on the table, and nothing else. It seems that he is just looking for a place to rest.
There was a lot of talk in the hall, and there was thunder in the dark clouds in the sky.
Suddenly, someone with good deeds found such a wandering Taoist priest and stepped forward to inquire about the situation. The people around him gathered around the Taoist priest's table, hoping that he could say something that would suppress the speech around him and explain the current situation.
The Taoist priest looked very tired, very thin, his eyes were prominent, his dull eyes were sunken in, and his cheeks were also sunken inward, but he looked like an old fairy who did not eat the fireworks of the world. The hair on the top of the head was a little gray, very thin, and looked very shiny, and it looked like it hadn't been washed for days. I don't know how I got the shabby uniform, but it has changed from the original turquoise blue to black now. The black color on both sleeves becomes especially noticeable, and it looks like you should use your hands regularly.
"Old fairy, what's going on with this situation now?" said one of the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked men.
As soon as the words fell, a thunderclap suddenly pressed down on this side. The sound was very deafening, as if there were two huge flints in the dark clouds, and each sound was like a pair of huge hands striking the two stones together. The violent sound shook the entire inn three times, shook the dust on the beams, and fell on the old Taoist's hand, almost in the old Taoist's teacup.
The old Taoist priest did not move, and raised his hand slightly, and with this raise of his hand, a strong wind seemed to blow on the table, directly blowing away the falling dust.
When the surrounding group of people saw it, they all opened their eyes in surprise.
"Old fairy, what is the situation on this day, tell us quickly!" Another big man with well-developed body hair asked the old Taoist priest shirtless.
Only then did the old Taoist priest raise his head, glance at the people around him, take a sip of tea, and slowly put down the teacup. A discerning person can see that the water in the teacup has not shaken at all, and it is smooth and steady.
Ten years can change a lot of people, including our usual good and dying partners. Time is really an elusive murderer, and I don't know when I will kill some people who were originally fine. With the passage of time, that person has also changed, and he is no longer the same person he was ten years ago.
What kind of person are you now? Yaoshan sometimes thinks of Fushui, Ge Fei, and Lingyu.
The old Taoist priest pointed to the strip of cloth on the book, and the strip of cloth read: "A hexagram and a penny of silver, no credit!"
Everyone also understood, and they took out the money and silver in their pockets, and each person could make up a penny of silver for a few pennies.
"The sky is changing, and the holy relics are about to come out!" The old Taoist priest calmed down a little, and then continued: "Look, there will be a big man appearing!"
"Who's that big guy?"
"Yes, yes, who's that big man!" the crowd asked.
The old Taoist priest didn't answer anymore, smiled slightly, and just repeated the sentence and said, "The secret of heaven must not be revealed!"
The scene paused for a moment, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what he said about the use of this. What kind of character is a big man, and how big a person can be considered a big man? Everyone has no answer, and they can't discuss the answer. The scene became noisy again.
The old Taoist priest looked around, as if he was looking for someone else. After looking around, he returned to his original appearance, not knowing if he had found it. The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the sky was gradually getting darker, as if it was night, and the young man in the inn had no choice but to take the lamp.
It was also at this time that someone suddenly shouted, "Old thing, look what you are talking about!"
Everyone turned their heads one after another, and the crowd that was originally huddled together carved a way for the man to go straight to the old Taoist's table.
The old Taoist priest didn't look up, just drank tea by himself. As if I hadn't heard anything about it just now. In the end, it is an old Taoist priest, and his cultivation with a calm mind is not ordinary, and he can completely ignore such direct provocations.
"You old thing, dare to come over and grab business!" Everyone saw that it was not a person, it was a few little ruffians in Luoshui City, who usually did not do good things, and the leader was named Wang Qiang, who led a group of people to eat, drink, prostitute and gamble all day long. It can be described as a major harm in the local area, and no one dares to provoke ordinary people.
When the old Taoist priest saw him, he didn't speak, but put a few coins on the table, which was considered a silver coin for tea. He took his own book in his right hand and was about to leave.
The little ruffians also stopped in front of him in an instant, and said very provocatively: "Since you are here to collect money, you have to hand it over to me, this is the rule of Luoshui City, you are new here, right?"
The old Taoist priest said lightly: "I have just arrived, and those who don't know are not guilty, and I hope that everyone?
"Hmph, pass, what you think is beautiful!" Wang Qiang said very arrogantly.
"It's okay to leave, leave twenty taels of silver as money to buy the road, otherwise you don't want to leave!" the little minion behind Wang Qiang said viciously.
Twenty taels was not a small amount, and at that time it was enough to buy three months' rations for an ordinary family. At that time, seeing that the old Taoist priest was poor, he couldn't take out twenty taels of silver at all.
The audience who gathered together at the beginning is now beginning to be upset for the old Taoist. They all said, "Aren't you bullying people?"
"Who can take twenty taels!"
The old Taoist priest looked helpless, turned over the pockets of his clothes, and took out all the silver on his body. Wang Qiang looked at it, only a few coins of silver, and a little bit of copper coins, which looked very poor.
Wang Qiang glanced at it with great disdain, the corners of his mouth on one side were cracked to his eyes, but he also reached out to take the money and silver in the old Taoist priest's hand.
It was at this time that a big man in the crowd suddenly rushed out, pointed at Wang Qiang's nose and scolded: "You are really a bird~ beast, how can you treat a poor old Taoist priest so well!"
"Yo, there are still nosymen!" said the thug behind Wang Qiang. As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to hit the big man.
The big man was not a vegetarian either, he rounded his fist, and immediately knocked the little gangster back a few steps, and his actions were very fast, and the little gangster didn't react at all to receive this blow.
Seeing this, the other ruffians became agitated, after all, fighting is their job, their specialty. picked up the tables, chairs and benches around him and smashed them at the big man, and three or four people also surrounded the big man, just about to do it.
At first, the big man could still resist one or two, but three punches were difficult to defeat four hands, and gradually he couldn't parry and was defeated.
The little ruffians are very vicious, and they will make a dead move when they see that it is profitable, so that the big man will not have a little reaction time. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a combination of fists and feet.
When the guys in the inn saw this, they hurriedly stepped forward to persuade them to leave. But Wang Qiang pulled all those young guys over at once, and said, "Whoever dares to stop it, there will be no good life in Luoshui City in the future!"
The old Taoist priest couldn't bear to be beaten so hard, and muddy tears flowed from his eyes, knelt down to Wang Qiang, and said, "Please, let him go, I will give you all this silver!"
Wang Qiang saw that the old Taoist priest was so cowardly, and he was even more arrogant. He wanted to teach the people in Luoshui City a lesson and set an example for them. In that case, there won't be so much trouble collecting money in Luoshui City in the future, and the small merchants and vendors will be obedient.
The young man in the inn saw that the situation was not good and couldn't intercept it, so he hurriedly ran to Yaoshan's room and reported the incident to Yaoshan. On weekdays, Yaoshan is not afraid of anyone, and he is an outsider, so it is best for him to come forward to solve this kind of thing.
The audience just now knew that Wang Qiang of Luoshui City was powerful, and they didn't dare to step forward to stop it. Seeing that the big man had been beaten and covered in blood, he was about to choke his breath in a while.
Yaoshan heard his subordinates say this situation, and he didn't care about the physical pain, so he hurriedly ran over. Looking at the tables and chairs that had been smashed a lot, he shouted to the surrounding Dasheng: "Stop!" His voice was like a thunderclap, and the tables and chairs in the hall trembled slightly.
Wang Qiang saw that Yaoshan was coming, but he was not afraid, pointed at Yaoshan's nose and scolded: "It's none of your business, hurry up and get out of Lao Tzu, otherwise Lao Tzu will clean up with you in a while!"
Yaoshan didn't want to waste so much tongue with him, and the howl just now made the pain in his body gradually lessen. The giant beast in his body was also released little by little, but he didn't know about this situation yet.
Yaoshan glanced at Wang Qiang, looked at the beaten man, and saw that those little ruffians saw that they hadn't stopped yet, picked up a bench on the ground, and walked over there.
Wang Qiang definitely wouldn't let Yaoshan solve the predicament so easily, and hurriedly ran in front of Yaoshan.
He thought that Yaoshan wouldn't dare to do anything to him, so he didn't have any defense, so he rushed over.
Yaoshan didn't eat him, looked at the direction Wang Qiang was rushing from, and directly threw the bench in his hand on Wang Qiang's face, directly knocking him to the ground. The blood on Wang Qiang's forehead suddenly flowed. He didn't react for a while, and the thugs were also stunned, and they all froze in place.
"Who broke the table?" Yao Shan shouted to the people around him, "Lose money!" and turned to the young man at the inn and said, "Go and report to the official!"