Chapter 30: A Night by the Brook (I)

It is not far from Huayin City to Huashan, but to go to Chang'an, it is a journey of more than 200 miles, Dugu Jian and Zhang Linxin didn't even bother to eat lunch, so they rushed all the way from Huayin City to Chang'an. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but when it gets dark, they have only walked more than half of it, and they are afraid that there will be sixty or seventy miles away from Chang'an City. At this time, if you continue to hurry, even if you arrive outside Chang'an City, I am afraid that the city gate has already been locked, and it will be difficult to enter.

The moon had already climbed to the treetops, and Zhang Linxin called out to Dugu Jian who was hurrying, "Brother Dugu!" Dugu Jian was in a hurry, anxious to rush to Chang'an City. At this time, I heard the girl's voice, and hurriedly stopped and turned around to look at Zhang Linxin. The girl snorted: "I don't have the strength, let's take a rest." Dugu Jian scratched his head, looked at the sky and said: "It's my negligence, let's go like this, it is estimated that we will not be able to enter the city when we reach Chang'an." Lin'er, then let's find a place to rest. As he spoke, he looked around and saw a ruined temple not far ahead, and said, "Lin'er, look, there is a temple there, let's take a rest there tonight, and then get up early tomorrow and continue on our way, how about it?" Zhang Linxin nodded.

It was not known which god and Buddha were enshrined in this temple, and the plaque and gate at the entrance of the temple were gone, leaving only a bare door frame. The two walked into the temple, only to see that the ground was full of dust, the surrounding walls were covered with cobwebs, the inside was empty, the statues of gods, incense cases, etc. were all gone, except for a few supporting pillars and some tattered sundries, there was nothing to worship, and there was no place to sit, and the whole temple was full of musty smell. Zhang Linxin covered his mouth and nose, fanned lightly with his left hand, and said softly: "Brother Dugu, let's go outside to rest, it smells so bad here." ”

Dugu Jian looked at this dirty and messy environment, and didn't want to stay here, so he nodded, turned around and walked out of the temple gate with the girl, and walked out of Lixu to the south, and found a place by the woods, and the two sat on the ground, ready to rest. Dugu Jian looked at Zhang Linxin and asked, "Lin'er, are you hungry?" Zhang Linxin was a little embarrassed, his face was slightly red, and he nodded. Dugu Jian patted his head: "Oh, look at my brain, we haven't eaten for a day, how can you not be hungry." As he spoke, he untied the burden on his back and opened it to see that only a piece of dry food remained. Dugu Jian picked it up and handed it to Zhang Linxin and said, "Lin'er, eat quickly." ”

The girl took the dry food, looked at the burden again, and asked, "Brother Dugu, have we finished eating the dry food?" Dugu Jian smiled awkwardly: "Yes, I should have bought some more when I was in Huayin at noon, but I was in too much of a hurry to go, so I forgot about it." Zhang Linxin handed over the dry food again, "Then you can eat, I'm not very hungry yet." Dugu Jian didn't answer, "Lin'er, I'm not hungry yet, you can eat." Besides, when I used to walk the rivers and lakes, I often encountered situations where I couldn't eat, and I got used to it, so let's eat. ”

Zhang Linxin broke the dry food in half, and handed over the big half, "Brother Dugu, I can't finish eating, half of the two of us." Looking at the girl's smiling little face, Dugu Jian had no choice but to take it.

A piece of dry food was not much in the first place, and the two of them ate it separately, naturally less, and neither of them was full, but they both felt even more hungry. Sure enough, Dugu Jian's stomach "gurgled" twice, and Zhang Linxin "giggled", but made him red-faced. Dugu Jian was also a little embarrassed, "Lin'er, I didn't feel much when I didn't eat, but I felt hungry after eating this time." Zhang Linxin moved his body and rested his head on Dugu Jian's shoulder, "Brother Dugu, you say, will we encounter this situation again in the future?"

Dugu Jian didn't answer immediately, raised his hand and gently hugged the girl's arm, looked up at the moon, and then said: "Lin'er, when we meet Gu Daxia, can I send you to Hengshan?" Zhang Linxin wrapped his hands around Dugu Jian's waist and asked rhetorically: "Brother Dugu, what about you?" Dugu Jian said: "I want to fulfill your father and my father's wishes, find the 'Mountains and Rivers Society Map' back, and hand it over to Marshal Yue." The girl seemed to think of something, her body trembled, raised her little face, and looked at Dugu Jian, "No, Brother Dugu, I want to go with you!"

"Lin'er, you must know that the treasure map is very likely to have fallen into the hands of the Five Colors Sect now, and if you want to take it back, you will inevitably encounter many dangers, I ......" The girl didn't wait for Dugu Jian to finish speaking, she pressed his mouth, and looked at Dugu Jian's eyes with a pair of beautiful eyes, "Brother Dugu, it is precisely because of this that I don't want you to take risks alone, if there is anything, the two of us will bear it together, okay?"

Looking at the girl's delicate face, Dugu Jian held her little hand on his mouth and replied, "Okay, Lin'er, I promise you, if there is anything, we will bear it together!"

Suddenly, a pheasant fluttered and flew down from a tree not far away, and Dugu Jian took out a steel dart from his arms, and threw his hand at the pheasant, right in the neck of the pheasant. I saw that the pheasant fluttered a few more times, and then fell to the ground, and did not move. "Lin'er, it seems that God is kind to us and sent us a chicken to eat. Zhang Linxin stood up and praised with a smile: "Brother Dugu, your dart throwing technique is so powerful!" Dugu Jian also stood up, walked over and picked up the pheasant, looked at the girl, and said jokingly: "This is the secret weapon technique of the Hengshan faction, if you want to learn, worship me as a teacher." ”

"Bah, don't be ashamed, you still want me to worship you as a teacher!" Zhang Linxin grimaced and stuck out his tongue at Dugu Jian. Dugu Jian pulled out the steel dart on the pheasant's neck and said, "If you don't apprentice, forget it, there are many who want to worship under my door!"

"Are there a lot of little hairy children?" the girl answered, Dugu Jian couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to avoid this topic, he jumped onto a tree, took advantage of the bright moonlight to look around, pointed to the south not far away and said to Zhang Linxin: "Lin'er, I think there should be a stream not far away, let's go wash and peel this chicken, so that we can have a full meal." Naturally, the girl agreed. The two of them walked a short distance south, and sure enough, there was a small stream. Dugu Jian took out the steel dart, took off all the pheasant and the belt hair, disemboweled, washed and peeled it in the stream, and handed it to Zhang Linxin.

He himself took out the Bichao Treasure Knife given by Yan Qing, walked to a big tree, and slashed at the tree, the big tree that was a little thick fell to the ground with a bang, the whole section was smooth and flat, and Dugu Jian praised: "I didn't expect the treasure knife given by Brother Yan to be so sharp, it's really a good knife." Zhang Linxin came over with a pheasant and said with a smile: "If Brother Yan knew that you used the treasure knife he gave him to cut down trees, he would definitely ask for the treasure knife back." ”

Dugu Jian used the treasure knife to cut off all the branches, split the trunk in sections, and replied: "If Brother Yan asks for it, it will naturally be returned, and neither of us can use the knife technique, and the treasure knife is in our hands, and it can only be a pearl." As he spoke, he cut out several large, smooth, flat planks from the trunk. Dugu Jian spread the wooden planks on the ground, and went to the vicinity to pick up some dry firewood and dead leaves, and gathered them in a pile. He took out the fire, lit the dry wood, pierced the pheasant with a branch that had stripped off the bark, and roasted it on the fire.

Zhang Linxin sat on the stump, watching him do all this, but his mouth kept talking: "Brother Dugu, you cut so many planks, do you plan to use it as a bed for me?" Dugu Jian looked back at the girl's smiling face, his heart moved, and he joked: "Of course not, that stump is enough for you to sleep, and the plank is for me." The girl was not annoyed, stood up, spread out the plank, lay down directly, looked at Dugu Jian, and said with a smile: "It seems that our Dugu hero is going to sleep on the stump tonight!"

Dugu Jian looked at the girl, didn't say a word, took the almost roasted pheasant to his nose and smelled it, put it back on the fire, and continued to roast. After a while, the fragrance was already coming through, and he tore off a chicken leg and handed it to the girl. Zhang Linxin sat up and took the chicken leg, took a bite, and said, "I know that Brother Dugu is the best for me." Dugu Jian smiled and took the whole chicken off the branch, handed the other chicken leg to the girl, and then tore the pheasant in half, half of it was put on the branch, and the other half was taken and eaten.

This pheasant is not small in addition to the bones and meat, the girl ate two chicken legs, and then she was full, and Dugu Jian ate the rest of the whole chicken. The two of them went to the brook again and washed up, adding some firewood to the fire. Dugu Jian looked at the girl whose face was already a little tired, and said, "Lin'er, just lie down and sleep." Zhang Linxin nodded, then lay on the plank and slept with his clothes. Dugu Jian sat on the stump, took out the martial arts book left by his father that Zhang Feng handed over to him, opened it and looked at it.

In fact, he has read this booklet several times, and it records Duguyun's internal strength and mental method, the 'fairy sword' sword technique and a set of palm techniques called "Cloud Piercing Palm". There is not much content, but it is the essence of Duguyun's martial arts, and Duguyun relied on these kung fu to crisscross the rivers and lakes and rank among the four major swordsmen.

Now, Dugu Jian studied under Liu Qingzhou, and he is already the true inheritance of Hengshan Sect's kung fu, plus he is already extremely intelligent, and he has been walking in the rivers and lakes for several years, except for his internal cultivation is slightly shallow, he is already a first-class master. There is also the swordsmanship that he learned from the secret cave of Wuyi Mountain - "Wind and Thunder Kyushu", in the world, he can surpass him in swordsmanship, and he is afraid that he can count it with one hand. After he got this martial arts secret book left by his father from Zhang Feng, he naturally wanted to learn his father's kung fu to comfort Duguyun's spirit in the sky. But unexpectedly, more than half a month has passed, and he is only getting a glimpse of the door.