Chapter 15: Back to the City
The dense branches and leaves blocked the morning sun, which seemed a little cool, Yang Lin waited under the tree for a while, only to see the Lingbao rat running out of the hole, holding a piece of gold paper in his mouth, with a faint trace of strange aura on it, which was stronger than the aura, and ran back to the cave after throwing it down.
Yang Lin took it and looked at it carefully for a long time, but there were only some symbols drawn on it, and there was no text. I turned over the back and saw that it was a map, and I looked at it for a while, but I didn't understand it, so I threw it into the storage bracelet and waited for it to look at it later.
At this time, I saw that the Lingbao mouse kept moving the treasures out of the cave, but except for the gold paper, the others were some medicinal materials and the like, and the hole entrance was almost blocked.
When the Lingbao mouse came out again, he held a purple ginseng in his mouth, grabbed it with his paws, put it in his mouth and chewed it, stopped eating half of it, handed it to Yang Lin, grabbed Yang Lin's hair with his paws, and went to sleep.
Yang Lin looked at half of the ginseng, purple on it, thinking that it was some years, goodbye Lingbao rat finished eating, and fell asleep with a comfortable face, thinking about it, it may be that this Lingbao rat is usually feeding on these natural treasures.
Seeing that the Spirit Treasure Rat wanted to sleep, he hurriedly took it into his arms with his hand, and said softly: "You have to sleep anyway, I will put you in the spirit beast bag first, and it will be more stable for you to sleep in it!"
Seeing that the spirit treasure mouse stretched comfortably, there was no reaction, and he opened the empty spirit beast bag casually, received the spirit treasure mouse into the bag, and carefully pinned the spirit beast bag to the belt.
Turning around and glancing at the heavenly and earthly treasures on the ground, with a wave of his hand, except for the fragrance of spiritual grass floating on the ground, there was nothing on the ground immediately, and all the things brought out by the spiritual treasure rat had been packed into the storage bracelet.
I scanned the storage bracelet with my divine thoughts, and found that it was already two-thirds full, and it seemed that I still had to find another storage bracelet with more space.
Yang Lin searched around again, and saw that there was nothing missing, so he looked down the direction and ran down the mountain, and after walking for more than two days, the rations in the package had already been eaten.
After walking for a long time, seeing that the sky was about to get dark, and the shadow of a village faintly appeared in front of him, Yang Lin couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ran over. After entering the village, I found that there were many houses in this village, but there was no one on the road, and the houses were closed, as if something had happened.
Scanning a house on the left with his divine thoughts, and feeling that there were people inside, Yang Lin walked quickly to the door of the house, gently slammed the door with his hand and said, "Is there anyone?"
I slammed the door a few more times and shouted a few times, only to hear a sound of footsteps from inside the door, and an old voice from the door.
"Here, don't knock. ”
As soon as the words fell, the door opened, and a figure with white hair leaned out of the door, and the old man looked left and right outside the door, and saw that there was no one else, and hurriedly asked, "What is the matter with your young man knocking on the door, tell me quickly?"
Yang Lin saw that the old man was nervous, and hurriedly said: "Old man, I am just a passerby, passing by this road, there is no ration, can you lend me some rations to relieve the hunger in my stomach!"
When the old man saw that Yang Lin was good-looking, he just borrowed some food, glanced out of the house, and saw that no one else saw it, so he said urgently: "Even if you just borrow some food, come in and eat some, and leave early after eating." After speaking, he flashed inside, and Yang Lin also followed into the house.
The old man took out a bowl of noodles from the house that was still steaming, and said to Yang Lin: "This is what I just made, I wanted to eat it myself, you can eat it first when you are hungry, leave here early after eating, and I will make another bowl in a while." ”
Yang Lin saw that the old man was anxious, and he didn't shirk it, picked up the chopsticks and ate, and asked while eating, "Old man, what's going on here, why don't you see people walking around in the village?"
The old man sighed and replied: "It's nothing, it's just that a few days ago, many officers and soldiers came to the village, and after coming to the village, they searched from house to house to see if there was a young man and a golden mouse." said that this person and a rat are extremely vicious, and if they find it, they will report it to the officers and soldiers in the city as soon as possible, and there will be a heavy reward. The people in the village were frightened when they heard this, so they closed the door and waited for the wind to pass. ”
Yang Lin ate the noodles and nodded lightly, it turned out that he came to catch himself, it seems that it will take a lot of effort to enter the city this time.
While eating, he heard a noise outside, the old man walked to the back of the door, looked out along the crack in the door for a while, turned around and returned to the house, and said to Yang Lin: "Young man, after a while, you will say that it is my distant relative, and the group of officers and soldiers are here again, even if you don't have the golden mouse, I am afraid that they will have to interrogate in detail." Yang Lin nodded and continued to eat the noodles.
After a while, there was a sharp knock at the door, and the old man went out to open the door, only to see a soldier in full armor, standing at the door, shouting to the old man: "Do you see a young man and a golden mouse?"
"No, no. ”
The soldier pushed aside the old man in front of him with one hand, strode into the house, saw Yang Lin eating noodles, and shouted to the old man: "Isn't this a young man, how can you say no." ”
After the soldier finished speaking, he pulled out his waist knife, pointed at Yang Lin and said, "Who are you and what are you doing here, but you came down from this mountain." ”
Yang Lin looked at it with his divine thoughts, this soldier was just a mortal, he smiled, did not answer, and continued to eat noodles.
The old man hurriedly said in a trembling voice: "This military master, this is my nephew, I came here to see Lao Er, not from the mountain." ”
The soldier stared at Yang Lin for a while, and slowly put down the waist knife, "Even if you don't come down from the mountain, you may not be a good person." I have been looking for it from village to village every day, and I am a little tired, so what water and wine do you have here, and use it to quench my thirst. ”
When the old man heard this, his face was full of timidity, and he shook his head and said, "I don't know where to look for the food I say, and where to get the water and wine. "When you have finished speaking, you have to salute.
Seeing that the old man was kind-hearted, how could he see him being insulted by this soldier, Yang Lin hurriedly stepped forward, helped the old man up, and said softly: "Why do you bother, take a rest first, and I will solve this matter." ”
Yang Lin helped the old man, turned his head slowly, stared straight at the soldier with his eyes, and a faint spiritual pressure spread.
The soldier only felt a tightness on his body, unable to move, the waist knife in his hand was no longer able to hold it, and fell to the ground with a clang, and he was already stunned, knowing that this might be the demon coming down from the mountain, and hurriedly said: "Don't be angry, real people, I am also acting on orders, I am just thirsty, and I don't mean to embarrass the old man." ”
Yang Lin didn't answer, he only listened to the fact that there were still many soldiers outside, who were searching themselves door to door, and suddenly had a plan, stretched out his hand to choke the soldier's neck, and with a little force, he saw that the soldier's neck was crooked, and then he lost his breath without making a sound.
Looking back at the frightened old man, Yang Lin couldn't help but shake his head, and said softly: "Don't be afraid, old man, I am a young man from this mountain, but I am not a bad person as they say." After I leave for a while, you help me bury this soldier, I have dozens of taels of silver, you take it first!"
Reaching out to his bosom, he took out the silver that had been left over from the previous days and put it in front of the old man. When the old man saw it, he knew that Yang Lin would not harm him, but he couldn't bear to see the soldier's tragic death, and he was afraid in his heart, so he didn't know what to say.
Yang Lin didn't answer, he stretched out his hand to take off the soldier's clothes, put them on himself, and put a helmet on him, if he didn't look carefully, he really couldn't see who it was.
He also found the silver in the soldier's clothes, put it in front of the old man, and said softly, "I will go now, don't worry, they will not find anything." If I am found out by them, I will slaughter them and I will not let them make trouble here. You can take this silver, live a good life here, he said that he is free, I will come to see you again!"
The old man could only nod at this time, only hoping that the young man would leave sooner so as not to get into trouble.
Turning around and walking out of the house, Yang Lin saw that the soldiers outside were walking out of the houses they were searching, some with happy faces, and some with scolding voices from time to time, I don't know which family was in trouble.
Yang Lin bowed his head and was silent, mixed in with the soldiers, and did not speak, at this time the sky was already a little dark, only to hear a man full of armor and riding a tall horse standing at the entrance of the village and shouting: "Have you found anyone, if not, gather quickly, we will go back to the city." ”
When the soldiers heard the shouting, they ran out of their homes, and in a slightly chaotic queue, Yang Lin followed the soldiers and ran towards the horseman. Yang Lin swept through the crowd with his divine thoughts, and saw that the person riding the horse was a cultivator in the late stage of qi refining, presumably the officials in this team, and the others were mortals, and he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh in his heart.
The cavalry non-commissioned officer led the way in front, and the soldiers behind followed all the way to Tieshan City, Yang Lin mixed in the team, because the sky was dark, but no one found it, but from time to time someone looked at him, Yang Lin only used his hand to pull the helmet under it, covering his face.
After walking for an hour, the sky was already dark, and the Iron Mountain City gradually became visible.
At the gate of the city, a monk in green clothes sat on a Taishi chair, closed his eyes and recuperated, and several soldiers checked the people who came by, and when they saw the officers and soldiers who had gone out come back, they came to the horse riding sergeant and shouted: "Have you ever found the young man and the demon rat today?"
"How can it be so coincidental, Xu was eaten by demon beasts in the mountains, and he searched the villages every day, and he didn't know when it was a head. Let's go, go into the city and have a glass of wine to relieve your fatigue!" Seeing this, the soldiers guarding the city gate stepped aside and let the group of soldiers into the city.
When this group of soldiers just entered the city, the monk in Tsing Yi on the Taishi's chair opened his eyes suddenly, stood up in a leap, and said to the soldiers guarding the door: "How many of you know that there are people who cultivate the truth in this team?"
When the guards heard this, they whispered a few words to each other, and one of the soldiers walked up to the monk in Tsing Yi and said, "My lord, among the soldiers in this group, only the one who rode a horse in front of him has practiced some exercises, and the others have not practiced, I wonder if there is anything wrong with the adults?"
The monk in Tsing Yi said to a few soldiers guarding the gate: "You quickly close the city gates, and then go to the other city gates separately and order the city gates to be closed."
Afterwards, I went to the city lord's mansion as soon as possible, and borrowed a few cultivators from the city lord's wife to guard these city gates, and if I saw someone breaking into the city, I would definitely leave him. After speaking, he flashed suddenly, and the figure had already entered the city, chasing the group of soldiers who had just entered the city.
As soon as a group of soldiers walked into the city, Yang Lin suddenly bent down and shouted, "I'm in a hurry, go first!" After speaking, without waiting for the horse riding non-commissioned officer to agree, he ran towards the roadside alley.