In this dreamy night, in the second half of the night, it began to rain lightly. The people of the Qing Brigade gradually became sleepy, and slowly they only heard the sound of the breeze knocking on the window and the rain hitting the bamboo.

The next morning, when Zhang Xingyan woke up and went back to the hotel courtyard, he found that it was already a faint mist, the daylight was clear, and the mud floor in the courtyard was only slightly wet, and it was no longer obvious that there had been a rain last night. Only the bamboo shadow of the pink and white wall is sparse, and it looks extraordinarily green and clear.

At this time, the sky was already bright, and you could faintly hear the sound of merchants selling on the street outside the hotel, and the sound of pedestrians walking and greeting. Between breaths, I smelled the fragrance of pine wood burning in the hotel kitchen. It seems that all these things in front of us are still so ordinary and ordinary, and all the creatures around them are still moving forward leisurely according to their predetermined life tracks.

It's just that although the mundane in front of him is unremarkable, the young man who has experienced a night of dreaming hears the familiar hawking in the market and smells the cordial fragrance of pine charcoal, but his heart is full of an inexplicable gratitude.

was pacing leisurely in the courtyard like this, but Xingyan suddenly saw that the little girl who used to sleep lazily was now neatly dressed and playing in front of a stone shrine in the corner of the courtyard.

"Huh, Qiong Wei got up early today. What are you playing with in the morning?"

Seeing Qiong Wei get up early, Xingyan was a little curious, so he approached to watch. It's just that when he got closer, he found something strange - it turned out that this little girl was squeezing her eyebrows at the stone niche, sometimes widening her eyes, sometimes wrinkling her nose, sometimes pouting, and I don't know what she was doing.

Seeing this scene, her cousin brother hurriedly walked over and asked with concern, "Sister Qiong Wei, does it have a stomachache?"

As soon as she heard his question, the little sister who was busy frowning and glaring stopped and thought for a while, and then asked a little strangely: "Brother, don't I have a stomachache?"

"Uh...... Then why does it look so uncomfortable on your face?"

Hearing him say this, the little girl with a serious expression immediately smiled, and smiled sweetly at her hall master's brother: "No, brother, in fact, Qiong Wei is practicing to get angry!"

"Practice getting angry?"

Hearing her say this strangely, Xingyan was very curious, and hurriedly asked the reason. After asking, I realized that the root cause of this matter was still on me.

It turned out that the last time Xiao Qiong Wei was the last time that the jade-faced fairy monster who was wiped out in the end cast an evil spell, it was really her wish, and she grew up to be a magical and magnificent girl; although the time before and after was short, and the events during the period were thrilling, but afterwards, this incident became Qiong Wei's favorite story, and she had to pestering her to tell it two or three times every day.

It's just that although she wakes up that her brother's storytelling is very funny, the only thing that is not so good is that whenever Qiong Weixi diligently says that the good-looking big sister is herself, her solid-eyed hall master brother will give her a serious analysis, saying that the big sister should be a mountain god possessed by a god and changed -

Although Qiong Wei had already decided that she had to listen to her brother in everything, this alone made her very dissatisfied.

It's just that although she doesn't agree with her brother's point of view and thinks that she should be angry at this time, she tries hard a few times, and the little girl is depressed to find that she doesn't know how to pretend to be angry with the hall master's brother.

So this morning she got up early, went to the stone shrine with a bronze mirror, and practiced her anger with all her might.

After hearing Qiong Wei's words, Xingyan couldn't cry or laugh, and said: "Qiong Wei, since this is the case, you don't have to work hard to practice; ”

Hearing his promise, the little girl cried out: "Don't, brother!

“......”

Just when the boy didn't know how to answer, the graceful woman who was going out of the room, seeing them like this, couldn't help but lean against the door and laugh.

However, when she saw Sister Xue Yi also getting up, Qiong Wei suddenly asked a little strangely, "Sister Xue Yi, where did you go at night?"

Hearing her ask, there were two people in the hospital, and they immediately remembered the meeting in their dream last night, and their faces were a little embarrassed. When I was panicking, I heard this weird little girl continue: "Brother, Sister Xue Yi, I had a strange dream last night, I saw those fire-breathing mountains, and deep rivers, and the black hole can't see the bottom!"

Hearing her say this, Xingyan didn't care much, and only asked casually: "Qiong Wei, haven't you already had this dream many times?"

"But this time it's different. ”

Hearing his brother's question, Qiong Wei tilted his head and carefully recalled the scene in the dream, and then said seriously with a little excitement: "In the dream last night, Qiong Wei was already able to fly!"

"I dreamed that I was carrying my brother on my back, flying over those black rivers, flying over the fire-breathing mountains, all the way forward...... It's just that my brother came to my dream last night, but I didn't see Sister Xue Yi~"

- If it was in the past, after listening to Xiao Qiongwei's entangled dream language, Xingyan just laughed, at most it was just a few jokes. Only this time, the little sister's expectant smile on his face seemed a little reluctant.

Silent and silent for a moment, he thought for a moment, and then he felt that he had become a little fascinated by these ethereal dreams, and laughed at himself, and decided to go with the flow, and if something really happened, there might not be no way to resolve it.

So on this day, the relaxed mind of the master of the hall, did not rush to take Qiong Wei's two daughters on the road, but went to the market to hang out, taste the town's special snacks, and choose suitable jewelry and clothing.

About half an hour later, Xingyan stood in front of a stall selling homemade fine silver jewelry, and watched with interest as Qiong Wei Xueyi looked through the stall with interest. Watching the two sisters keep talking to each other, exchanging opinions, and thinking about the wandering around just now, they suddenly found that they were gradually losing interest in bargaining. Yo, it must be another step forward in his Taoist cultivation.

felt that some enlightened teenagers were complacent and in a good mood, so they also bent down to look for jewelry for the second daughter. When he turned over a pair of silver and small earrings, and was about to recommend them to the second daughter, he only felt a sudden burst of * on his cheeks - after a while, when he came back to his senses, he found that it was the bright and cute little sister next to him, and he peked on his face coldly, and kissed himself in public!

Suddenly, the people around him, including the stall owner, all looked sideways with strange expressions on their faces.

Noticing the strange looks of the pedestrians on the street, the little girl who has been a little sensitive recently, turned back to those strange-looking uncles and aunts and said angrily: "I haven't seen my sister and brother in person!"

As soon as these words came out, the young man was embarrassed, and he was immediately amused by this unscrupulous fairy tale, and his face instantly burned red. When his mind was turning, the embarrassed young man hurriedly used his wits and made up a prevarication: "Don't blame, everyone, this girl is the child daughter-in-law set by my mother...... Hehe, hehehe!"

After saying that, the master of the Four Seas Hall hurriedly pulled the second daughter and fled in panic.

Without further ado, in the afternoon of this day, out of the market town, a few people went to the northwest. For they inquired in the town, and in the northwest of Yulim County, there were lakes and canals. The place where there is plenty of water and gas may be the hiding place of the lost water spirit of Shangqing.

After a long journey, the crowd gradually disappeared, and only the verdant trees remained, and beyond the fluffy canopy, you could vaguely see the rolling green foothills in the distance.

After walking for a while, the post road under his feet gradually became bumpy and narrow. In a short time, the three of them came to a dangerous place: the narrow dirt road under their feet plunged into two opposite hills, and the cliffs between the hills, like knives and axes, stood proudly, casting huge shadows on the people of Xingyan. The two cliffs, like two huge door gods, are looking coldly at the few small pedestrians under their feet.

Seeing such a steep mountain pass, Xingyan immediately put away his heart to watch the scenery and beckoned the second daughter to move forward carefully. You know, such a dangerous place is the best place for those bandits to plunder.

Just vigilantly moved forward, and sure enough, after walking more than ten feet, I heard Qiong Wei shout: "Look, there are two flower-faced uncles over there!"

Xingyan was startled when she heard this, and quickly looked in the direction of her finger, and found that in an inconspicuous grass on the side of the road, there were two charcoal-painted people sitting, each with a steel knife next to them, and the cold light flickered. Looking at their distinctive dress, only Qiong Wei in this world does not know that they are the heroes and strongmen who specialize in business. It's just that when he saw these two robbers, he was not so afraid. He thought in his heart, after many months of diligent cultivation and hard work, he should no longer need to be afraid of these ordinary little thieves.

And when he was looking, the two mountain bandits who were chatting on the side of the road, heard someone call to break the line of hiding, and had to take it, got up and dusted off the grass and dust on his body, picked up the steel knife, jumped out of the grass with a shout, and recited the road robbery mantra to these unlucky passers-by: "Bah~ I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, I want to pass by from here, and leave ...... to buy road wealth."

Hearing their cruel words, Xingyan was not panicked at all, and still had time to think in his heart: "Strange, why is this bandit talking not at all spiritual? ”

was thinking about it, but before she could answer, she heard that Xiao Qiongwei had already answered first, only to see this little girl exclaim when she heard this: "Wow, the two uncles have so high mana! It turns out that these two mountains were split by you, and you know how to help plant trees!"

As soon as these words came out, the two bandits looked at each other, not knowing how to answer. When he was hesitating, he saw this cute girl like pink jade in front of him, and clapped his hands and shouted: "Practice calligraphy and learn literature with my brother, Qiong Wei can also make poems recently! Although I am not as good as Sister Xueyi, I still want to read a poem I just made again!"

Speaking of this, without waiting for an answer, Qiong Wei took the crisp voice of the young warbler out of the valley, and began to read his own poem in a low voice: "This tree is climbed by me, and this road is seen by me." I want to pass by from now on, leaving you entangled~"

When Qiong Wei finished reciting this fierce robbery and poem like a song, her enlightenment teacher Zhang Xingyan hurriedly praised the poem's smooth syllables and encouraged her to make persistent efforts in the future-seeing them like this, the two mountain bandits were a little unsure. After glancing at each other, they saw that the leader arched his hand and said politely: "I am not embarrassed to read—well, in fact, my two brothers are not thieves, but just look at the mountain scenery here." ”

After saying that, the two of them put away the steel knife and went to chat in the grass next to them again. Seeing this strange situation, Xingyan didn't know whether what they said was true or false for a while, so he had to take the second daughter across the cliff and continue to move forward. As he was leaving, he recalled the situation just now, but he felt that there was always something wrong with this matter: this bandit in the mountains did things that wanted to make money and kill people, and those who entered this way have always been extremely vicious and vicious;

Thinking about their lazy behavior just now, they seem to be absent-minded, and they don't have any thoughts at all*. Thinking of this, Xingyan was full of hesitation: "Strange, how can there be such robbers in the world? Or do they have a good eye and see that a few of us are not good?—— or are they just hungry for a few days, so that they are weak to speak and dare not provoke?"

Just as he was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves coming quickly. In the blink of an eye, I saw a fast horse running on the road ahead, and a soldier on horseback was rushing towards this direction with a whip. Before Xingyan could hear the urgent shout of "the official family does things, dodge and dodge", this person and a horse had passed by him in an instant, and ran to a distance of more than ten zhang behind him.

"What's so urgent?"

Seeing this hurried appearance, Xingyan was puzzled.

At this moment, a terrible horse neighing was clearly coming from behind the opposite cliff that he had just passed!