In the cold winter, everything is depressed.

Zhang Jiao traveled all the way, and it was difficult to see people within ten miles, and many thatched huts scattered in the mountains and wilderness had been deserted and crushed by heavy snow.

Occasionally, he passed by the villages where there were still people, but the gates were closed, and there were people guarding the front of the village.

After seeing him from afar, a few strong men sprang out and stared at him with sticks and forks, and did not return until he had left the boundaries of their village.

In addition, what Zhang Jiao encountered the most was the bandits and rogues turned into homeless people.

They lay in ambush on the side of the road, either alone or in groups, and as soon as a small number of pedestrians pass by, they will take sharpened and charred wooden sticks, scaring them with stubble and trying to grab something.

Food, drink, clothing, and even hemp rope for belting......

As long as it can be used, they will grab it.

Zhang Jiao silently observed everything in front of him, looking at the last years of this dynasty that had fallen into the collapse of the world, looking for what he wanted.

......

On this day, as evening approached, the sky had darkened.

After turning a mountain bend, a small county town appeared in Zhang Jiao's eyes.

He soon came to the gate of the county seat, and countless cracks were cracked in the city wall less than two meters, and there was even a defect in the section on the right.

Zhang Jiao looked at the three big characters of Huayin County, which were almost unclear on the county gate, and slowly walked in.

The gate of the county seat was ajar, and there was no one guarding it. Only one post was erected next to the gate, covered with freshly glued hemp paper.

Zhang Jiao took a look, and the paintings on the hemp paper were not imaginary robbers, thieves, and murderers, but young and immature boys, and the oldest looked like they were only twelve or thirteen years old.

After watching for a while, Zhang Jiao walked to the city.

The town's roads are not much better than the muddy dirt roads outside the gates, full of potholes and piles of freshly melted snow.

Pedestrians step on it and splash countless muddy waters.

The doors of the houses on both sides of the road were firmly closed, except for a few small shops with the words "rice shop cloth shop" and the other open.

The road was empty, and there were hardly any people in sight.

The whole county is no different from a dead city, and you can't see half of its vitality.

Zhang Jiao looked around to see if he could find a place to eat, but after turning around for a while, he couldn't find a place to sell food.

Just as he was looking around, under the eaves next to him, a hunched man with a hunched back and curled up most of his body walked over.

He put his hands in his tattered black sleeves, revealing a mouthful of front teeth that were missing most of them, and looked at Zhang Jiao's white hair, and said with some trembling.

"Dao Ye, you, are you looking for someone or a place in Huayin County? Little Lai San may be able to help you a little. ”

He licked his mouth, his hunched back bent more and more.

Zhang Jiao looked at him, took out five copper plates from the bag on his waist and threw them into his arms, and said softly, "Take me to find a place where I can eat and rest." ”

Lai San immediately caught the five copper plates, and he was not too cold, so he stuffed them directly into the rotten clothes on his chest, and patted them with his hands.

"No problem, Dao Ye, you come with me, and keep everything you eat and live beautifully. ”

As he spoke, he walked in front, led Zhang Jiao to a small courtyard, and began to knock on the door.

"Sister Qiao'er, Sister Qiao'er, are you there?"

In a few moments, there was a sound of walking in the courtyard, and at the sound of the creaking bolt of the door being opened, a woman in a dark blue cloth shirt came out and scolded with her head and face.

"Lai San, what are you shouting at night?"

Lai San hurriedly stepped forward, his eyes involuntarily stared at her bulging clothes, and said with a sneer, "Sister Qiao, I won't bring someone for you." ”

After speaking, he stretched his neck to the side, and the woman named Sister Qiao immediately saw Zhang Jiao next to him.

She was first taken aback when she looked at Zhang Jiao's white hair, and then when she saw his smooth and pale face, her eyes suddenly became happy.

The previous pungency disappeared immediately, "Really, I didn't see you, Dao Chief, hurry up, please come in." ”

As she spoke, she was going to pull someone.

It's just that Lai San next to him immediately licked his face and walked over, his index finger and thumb kept rubbing, "Sister Qiao, do you look at me?"

Sister Qiao glared at him viciously, and angrily took out a penny from her purse and threw it over.

"Hurry up, hurry up. ”

Lai San picked up the copper coin on the ground, and immediately said with a smile, "Master Dao, then you have a good rest!"

With that, he turned and walked out, colliding with an emaciated figure.

"Have you seen my roots?"

The figure grabbed Lai San's arm, and he was not too dirty, and he danced and gestured, "He is so tall, he is a strong ......"

"Yun Niang!!"

Lai San interrupted her and said loudly, "Yun Niang, I really haven't seen your roots, go back quickly, it's cold, your body is not good, go back quickly." ”

After saying that, he raised his hand, pulled out the arm that had been grabbed, and walked out quickly.

Only the emaciated figure was left in place, muttering to himself.

"Gen'er, Gen'er, where are you?"

Suddenly, she happened to see the new face at the door of Sister Qiao, and immediately rushed over like a demon, grabbing his shirt and begging.

"Dao Chief, Dao Chief, do you see my roots? He is so tall, he is strong, and he wears ......."

Sister Qiao next to her sighed and ripped Yun Niang's hands off, "Yun Niang, how can the Taoist know that we are all about to find Huayin County, and Gen'er is no longer here." ”

Yun Niang didn't seem to hear what she said at all, she just looked at Zhang Jiao pleadingly, and kept saying, "Dao Chief, have you seen Gen'er?"

Zhang Jiao looked at her eyes, slowly turned his head, and said softly, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen it on the way here." ”

The brilliance in Yun Niang's eyes suddenly dimmed, and Sister Qiao next to her immediately pulled Zhang Jiao into the courtyard and inserted the door bolt with her backhand.

She was about to speak when a desperate cry suddenly came from outside the house.

"Roots, my roots. ”

Zhang Jiao immediately stopped his pace and asked Sister Qiao beside him, "Is her child pasted on the notice at the city gate?"

Sister Qiao nodded, sighed and said, "In the past few days, several families in the city have lost their children, and we have been looking for a long time but have not found them. ”

As she spoke, she ushered him into the room and lit the oil lamp on the square table next to the kang.

With a smile, he said to Zhang Jiao, "Don't talk about this, Dao Chief, will you rest first? Or will I warm you up first." ”

As she spoke, she leaned over and stretched out her hands towards Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Jiao hurriedly waved his hand, discharged a row of copper coins, and put them on the small table and pushed them in front of Sister Qiao.

"Bring me something to eat first, do you think that's enough?"

Sister Qiao looked at the no less than 100 copper coins in front of her, her face suddenly flushed, and she muttered, "Enough, enough." I'm going to prepare it for you, and keep you eating, drinking, and having fun tonight. ”

After speaking, Sister Qiao quickly pulled the copper coins on the table into her purse, and then smiled at Zhang Jiao and walked out.

"Dao Chief, then you wait first, I'll be back soon. ”

Zhang Jiao sat on the edge of the kang, the fire of the bean sprouts in front of him flashed one after another, and there were bursts of heart-rending cries in his ears.

"Roots, roots. Where are you?, I can't find you!!"

"God, please, give me back the roots!"

The sound was like the cry of a cuckoo crying blood, and it continued to echo in Zhang Jiao's ears, and Yun Niang's instantly desperate and dim eyes kept appearing in front of him.

Zhang Jiao sat there, his figure in the faint firelight, and his reflection became more and more evil.

In the alley outside the courtyard, Yun Niang stumbled on the road, constantly shouting to the empty alleys on both sides, "Gen'er, Gen'er......"

A cold wind suddenly blew past her, blowing a few of her green silks and drifting into the distance.

Under the notice board at the city gate, Zhang Jiao's evil figure appeared leisurely.

He looked up at the portrait on the billboard, and the few hairs that were interspersed with his fingertips were broken and reduced to ashes.

"The twelve genera are relative to the hexagram, and the six stars in front of the horse should be auspicious. ”

An inhuman-like arm stretched out from under his left armpit, and his slender fingers pinched Xiao Liuren's broken palm mantra, with the constantly changing blood-colored hexagrams in his eyes, and the scenes were constantly replaying in front of his eyes.

"Huh, still alive!"

"Over here. ”

The figure under the sign disappeared in an instant, and a gray mist shot straight to the southeast.

A hundred miles to the southeast, in a deserted village.

The fat head and the thin head are staying by the fire with nothing to do.

While tearing off a piece of roast rabbit meat and drinking wine, he vented his dissatisfaction.

"Thin man, you say, when do we have to wait, when will the flag bearer come? I look at this group of 'Daozi' every day, I'm going crazy, you just let me personally send it to the main altar than wait here. ”

The thin man next to him was grunting with wine, and after hearing his words, he said disdainfully, "Do you still want to send it to the main altar?"

The fat man didn't care about his taunts, and continued to complain, "Why do you have to choose this shitty place? I don't even have a bitch, I'm going fucking crazy." Every day when I open my eyes, I see that they are all with handles. ”

As he spoke, he squinted at the dozen or so boys huddled in the corner of the room and snorted.

"I knew that I was kidnapping two little ladies at that time. ”

After hearing his complaints, the thin man on the side suddenly smiled mysteriously, and said with a smile on his face, "Idiot, what's wrong with the handle, the one with the handle is the best, haven't you heard that three flats are not as good as a round?"

As he spoke, he threw the wine bag in his hand over, and looked at the boy in front of him with a wicked smile.

As he spoke, the thin man walked to the children's pile and picked out two delicate-looking ones and brought them over.

"Fatty, I'm going to open your eyes today, guide you, and let you know why I'm your big brother. ”

He ripped off the two boys' pants.

The two boys, who suddenly felt cold under their bodies, immediately screamed, although they didn't know what the two weirdos were doing first, but they instinctively felt that something bad would happen, and they immediately struggled.

The fat man looked at his eldest brother's style, turned his head disdainfully, and poured a sip of wine.

"Man, what's the fun?"

The thin man smiled mysteriously as he stepped on the two boys who were constantly struggling.

"Then I'll make you a woman. ”

He reached out and took out two pieces of yellow paper from his sleeve, cut the eyebrows of one of them with the nail of his little thumb, dipped his hand in the blood from the boy's eyebrows, and wrote four words on the yellow paper.

Parade.

Hook the soul.

Then light two pieces of yellow paper and throw them in an east-west direction.

"Welcome the oriental wandering gods, hook the soul of the west. ”

"Huang Wang's family is not coming soon. ”

Bursts of mist rose from the east and west directions in his low shout, and in the sound of chains, a woman with a beautiful face slowly drifted along the mist.

The thin man looked at a woman with a blank and uncertain figure, and suddenly three fingers were cocked and pressed on the tip of her brow and nose, as if pulling silk threads to pull her down to the boy who was still dripping blood from the center of her eyebrows. Then the palm was discharged, and the woman's soul was instantly injected into the boy's body.

The thin man immediately recited the incantation, and there was a cacophony of incantations like mosquitoes and flies.

The boy's body gradually plumped up, and his face gradually changed to that of Huang Wang.

In the blink of an eye, a delicate beauty appeared in front of them.

The thin man raised his head at the fat man and suddenly whispered, "Wake up." ”

The groggy beauty slowly opened her beautiful eyes, she looked at the two strange-looking men in front of her, and immediately let out a coquettish scream.

"Help!"

The fat man next to him listened to her cry for help, and suddenly the evil fire surged, and he no longer cared about this was a magic technique that hooked the soul and blinded the eyes, and immediately grabbed her, and was about to pick up the gun and get on the horse.

Zheng !!

At this moment, bursts of cold air mixed with the strong smell of Chinese medicinal materials were mixed with bursts of gold and iron, and they hit the necks of the two of them straight.

The fat and thin man immediately flashed, surrounded by red light, and swept away the calamus leaves like sharp blades.

The two of them stared ahead, only to see a young man in a dark robe emerge from the doorway.

A leaf of calamus that was like a sharp blade immediately flew back into his sleeve.

Fat Tou Tuo looked at the Taoist priest who suddenly appeared in front of him, how could there be the obscenity in his eyes, he watched the Taoist withdraw the calamus in his sleeve, and gently touched the neck with a trace of red marks, with a faint fear in his expression, but he said disdainfully.

"Stealth method, grass head sword. ”

"Who should I be, it turned out to be the dead leftover species of Laoshan, no wonder I always feel that someone is peeping in the dark for the past two days, why, now I have to give it up?"

"You shouldn't have come out for him, right? This is not a real woman, what are you anxious about? Don't you really be a chick, right?

As he spoke, he was about to step on the "beauty" on the ground.

The young Taoist priest was about to stop him immediately.

But at this moment, a figure suddenly appeared strangely between the three of them.

The three of them immediately became vigilant, staring at the illusory figure in front of them, and the evil aura around them was permeated.

Zhang Jiao turned around slowly, glanced at the child in the corner of the wall, and then looked at the fat and thin head in front of him, the corners of his mouth slowly cracked back, revealing a wicked smile.

"Found you. ”

In the midst of countless overlapping sounds, the entire deserted village instantly disappeared into the gray mist.