Wang Yang, desert, Gobi, mountain official road in the rivers and lakes have four villains, Wang Yang is the first, the desert is second, these two are the most reluctant to go to the rivers and lakes, Wang Yang needless to say, no matter how capable you are, it is all nonsense to meet a big wave.

The desert is a little less unsettling, but the storm is also unbearable.

That's where the caravan came in.

It's not the first time that Su Mu has encountered a storm, and the people in the camel team are even more commonplace, irritable and shouting one after another to set up tents, although they are all excited, the work in their hands is not chaotic at all.

It was the first time that the slaves had encountered such a celestial might, and they huddled together, waiting for the tent to be set up quickly.

The thick grains of sand struck a qiē on the desert under the raging wind, and there was a clattering sound when they hit the people. Occasionally, when I look up, my face will be beaten and hurt.

Regardless of the invasion of the wind and sand, the girl in pink stubbornly raised her head, trying to find the figure she thought was the safest in her heart.

I saw that in front of the tent that had been set up first, Su Mu lifted the curtain and lowered his head to get in under the leadership of the leader of the camel team.

She ran over without hesitation, almost following him into the tent.

"Who told you to come in? A man scolded the girl.

The girl was frightened, shrunk and hid behind Su Mu.

Su Mu looked at her pitiful appearance, and felt a little unbearable in his heart, and said, "This place is also spacious, so it's better to let her stay here." ”

The chief had the heart to win him over, and he immediately complied with him.

When the wind and sand started, it was already a red sun in the west, and everyone was a little sleepy after a busy time, and there was a vigil in each tent. The rest slept.

The girl in pink slept in the corner. Outside is Su Mu. She listened to the whirring wind and the rainy sand, tossing and turning and unable to sleep, thinking all the time about how she could get him to buy herself as a maid.

Thinking about it, she grabbed her hair and sat up, the oil lamp on the pillar was going to burn all night, although it was dim, she could still see his face clearly, and she hadn't seen him seriously since the first time she saw him, and then she felt that he was very delicate. Like a scholar, but the murderous energy with which he moved his hand really made people unable to connect with this quiet face.

He has a few inconspicuous moles on his face, when she was a child, she learned physiognomy from her grandmother, and moles growing in different positions will predict future luck, how is his luck?

She leaned her head down, and before she could see the specific location of the mole, she stepped back with a bang, and Su Mu woke up.

"What are you doing on my face?"

"I want to see a few moles on your face. ”

There was a whistling outside the tent, but there was some restless silence inside, which made the atmosphere strange.

"Did you hear anything?"

The girl shook her head, shook her head, and said, "No." ”

Su Mu said vigilantly: "Knife." ”

He woke up the leader of the caravan. "Someone is approaching. ”

The leader listened closely, and sure enough, there was a slight metallic sound. He shouted, "Wake up, big head, go see someone." ”

The big head went out with an oil lamp and pants.

"Big brother, it's a man with a scarred head!"

The big head rushed in in a panic.

The leader immediately lifted the two iron whips and said only one word: "Kill!"

In the blink of an eye, Su Mu and the girl in pink were left in the tent.

Scarhead is also a caravan leader, the two sides are rivals, they are red-eyed when they meet, and they always want to find an opportunity to kill each other in the desert.

The two teams didn't say a word to face, and they fought each other.

Su Muyu called the young man to his side in a panic, and the girl in pink followed inch by inch.

That team of men and horses was all fierce, and they used outflanking tactics, but they didn't intend to let any of them go. Cut down when you see someone.

Soon, two people were killed, and they were solved by Su Mu and the young man one by one.

The wind and sand covered the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and he couldn't see the road clearly, he didn't dare to leave alone for fear of getting lost, so he had to watch them fight.

Suddenly, I heard a few women screaming in horror, and I saw several slave girls being stabbed to death in the dim wind and sand, and two people came to kill the slaves, and almost all of them were killed in a moment.

Su Mu frowned, he was a bit unaccustomed to seeing others kill defenseless people.

But he didn't go past the scuffle, because he couldn't tell who was who.

So he just wandered around, and whoever attacked him he would shoot back.

This style of play is undoubtedly a loss, first of all, it loses the opportunity and gives the opponent enough reaction.

Just as he was dealing with a bearded man, a cold sword suddenly stabbed behind his back.

The girl in pink kept looking behind Gu Xiaoshu, and from the moment the sword quietly stabbed her, she rushed over desperately.

The long sword cut a deep wound on her left shoulder, and the tip of the sword deflected a few points, just inserting into Su Mu's armpit.

Su Mu looked at the girl's painful expression and thought that she was seriously injured, he always gave her grace, but never repaid the favor, anyone who was good to him, especially someone who wanted the girl in front of him to be really good to him, he would cherish it incomparably, if she died under that person's sword, he would eat his heart raw.

A knife block, a knife stab, and the person was disemboweled.

He put medicine on the girl, bandaged it carefully, and said, "I will definitely take you out alive." ”

The girl felt his care, and the pleasure in her heart immediately covered up the pain.

Time is ticking, and the battle is clearing up quickly.

The night was deep, the wind and sand were gradually subsiding, and there was no light in the inky blue sky, but you could still clearly see a layer of blood soaked in the desert on the ground.

Su Mu stood with the leader, looking at the corpses all over the ground, sad and indignant.

Before leaving the desert, Su Mu took out a silver ticket of two hundred taels to buy a girl in pink, and the leader was grateful for his help and insisted on not taking a penny.

Su Mu's starting point for the battle was not for him, he didn't want to accept this love, and after the dispute, the deal was made at the cost price of one hundred taels.

Out of the desert, Su Mu separated from the camel team with only one bare-pole leader left in Huzhou.

The little boy he brought out was worried about his sister at home, said goodbye to his benefactor in tears, and left early.

Only the girl in pink remained.

He said to her, "You are free. Go home. ”

The girl looked at the curling smoke of the village in the distance. Said sadly: "Master." I don't know where my home is. ”

Su Mu said: "Don't call me master." Haven't you only been abducted for a month?"

The girl said: "Master, the situation is very complicated, I can't tell clearly." Anyway, I got lost when our family moved. ”

Su Mu said: "Isn't this quite clear, where did they move?"

The girl said, "I don't know, it seems to be the East China Sea." ”

Su Mu didn't believe it, and said, "What do you mean, the East China Sea is so big, and the adults didn't tell you where you moved before moving?"

The girl said with a crying voice: "I said earlier that I was going to move. I delayed for a year, and I said it once a year ago, and I forgot about it. ”

Su Mu was embarrassed and said, "That's it, you follow me to study for me, one tael of silver a month." A year later, you take that salary to your family. ”

The girl said, "Will you take me to my family now?" ”

Su Mu said: "No, I have something very important, and I don't have time to find a home for you." ”

The girl wrinkled her nose in embarrassment, and looked up at him weakly: "Master, I will do more for you." Would you give me ten taels a month?"

Su Mu coughed dryly, and said with his hands behind his back: "From now on, you have to learn one thing." If you disagree with my words, you can be silent or you can leave. Do you understand?"

The girl shook her head, the thick bangs that covered her eyebrows shook with energy. She really didn't know the distance and time criteria for leaving.

"You don't understand, you're not stupid. ”

He stretched out a finger and said, "I mean, I will only give you one or two a month, and if you are not satisfied, you will leave, and wherever you go in the future, you just can't follow me." ”

The girl nodded, and her bangs shook again.

Looking at the girl's lost eyes, Su Mu smiled kindly: "Too little, do you think I'm bullying you?"

The girl shook her head smartly.

"What's your name?"

"Nalan Manmiao. ”

Su Mu blinked his eyes and blurted out, "Huh?"

"Back to the master, my name is Man Miao, and my surname is Nalan. ”

Su Mu looked at her newly developed body, and there were indeed no obvious charming curves, and her graceful words were exaggerated.

Seeing the thief light in his eyes, the girl took two steps back vigilantly, and said timidly: "It's not graceful, it's Miao, three sounds, m-i-a-o." There are poems as evidence, Miao Miao is in her arms, looking at the beauty of the sky. ”

Su Mu sneered disapprerovingly, straightened his waist, and said, "I used to open a bookstore, but it was insignificant. ”

The girl laughed softly: "One meaning." ”

"Whatever it means, this name doesn't work, I'll give you a new name. ”

"Yes, yes. The girl clapped her hands and laughed. It was an honor for her to be named by someone she admired.

"Let's call it Little Ball. ”

"Why?" the girl's excitement suddenly collapsed, and she had the urge to cry, and for the first time she gave birth to a sense of resistance, this name is really ugly!

"My name is Gu Dashu, and your name is Nalan Manmiao, which makes people think I'm a subordinate when they hear it. Why do you want such an elegant name for a subordinate? ”

The girl's mouth was pouting and she could be a coat hooker, and she said dissatisfiedly: "Then I can call Nalan Xiaoshu, is Xiaoqiu'er a human name?"

"I forgot what I just said?"

"I didn't forget. ”

"How?"

"Silence or leave. ”

"Choose. ”

"I'm not leaving. ”

"Then shut up. ”

There are still two months before the preliminary test date mentioned by Tianyi Pavilion, so I am not in a hurry.

But even if they are not in a hurry, they still have to hurry, they came to the horse market, and when they were about to buy horses, the girl said that men and women could not kiss, Gu Xiaoshu laughed, "Joke, master, I am tired and plan to let you rub your shoulders and pinch your back and beat your legs, how can you do it without contact?"

"I can touch you, you can't touch me. ”

The girl bows her head, not shy, it is a low-key stubborn resistance. In just a few days, she understood that she touched a man simply because she needed, but a man touched her for something else.

"Well, I'll buy you a horse. ”

"I don't know how to ride a horse. ”

Su Mu's eyes suddenly met a cow, remembered a wonderful idea, and said excitedly, "I have a way." ”

Of course, there are not only horses sold in the horse market, just as the Yunni Bookstore where he was located at the beginning took into account eating, drinking, prostitution and gambling, there are also mules, donkeys, cattle and fat pigs here, all for the needs of the market.

The girl watched him wander in front of the cowshed. I don't know what she wants to do. She's a subordinate, and it's not good to talk a lot in the back. Only to watch him and the owner of the cattle point to a cow and ask questions.

In the end, he bought an ox with the broadest back, added two taels of silver and asked him to find a carpenter, made two independent seats side by side on the ox's back, and installed a simple pergola.

Xiao Qiu'er was very happy to see them busy, and felt that everything he did was for her.

Listening to Su Mu's enthusiastic introduction to the function of the ox cart, she suddenly asked an inappropriate question: "Master, you spent so much money on renovation, why don't you buy some more carriages?"

Su Mu's heart was clouded. was stunned for a moment, and then said:

"Can the carriage sunbathe? Is there such a romance?"

She nodded for a while: "Master, I was wrong. ”

Sitting on the ox cart, because the ox walks slowly, it is not bumpy, and the slight shaking is more comfortable, and the little ball said beautifully: "Master, where are we going?"

"East China Sea. ”

"Are you looking for a family for me?" said Ball's surprise.

However, before this kind of surprise could be stirred into a fragrant touch, it was washed away by Su Mu's next words: "Of course not, I'm going to the Heavenly Pavilion." ”

Xiaoqiu played with the fluffy ball hanging down from his chest, and couldn't hide his disappointment: "Oh. What is the master doing in Tianyi Pavilion?"

Su Mu half-squinted. Basking in the sun with his head up, a comfortable smile on the corner of his mouth. Said lazily: "Qiu'er, I think about it, don't call me master, I have to change to a more cultural title, you can also help think about it." ”

Xiaoqiu'er likes that she can play a role in front of her idol the most, so she hurriedly made a plan: "Then I'll call you a saint, right?"

Su Mu was quite satisfied with this title in his heart, but because of his face, he didn't want to be too shameless, so he pretended to deny it: "No, although I have read thousands of books, the sage is a little far-fetched." ”

Xiao Qiu'er naturally didn't notice his shameless words, and stepped forward with a smile and said, "Then I'll call you Lord, right?"

"There is no official position, it is not suitable. ”

"Then I'll call you sir, right?"

Seeing that what she said was getting farther and farther away from the saint, Su Mu smacked his lips and said with a slight color: "I can see it, you don't have much culture." ”

Xiao Qiu'er was still active, and said, "Then I'll call you young master, right?"

Su Mu waved his hand indiscriminately and said, "Then young master." What did you just ask me?"

"What is the young master doing in the Heavenly Pavilion?"

Su Mu cocked Erlang's legs and said seriously: "I want to become a cultivator who is unique in ten thousand." Do you know what the Celestial Pavilion is?"

"I know, my grandfather said that the Heavenly Pavilion is the place where wine bags and rice bags are produced, young master, are wine bags and rice bags cultivators?

Su Mu raised his head and closed his eyes, and sighed faintly: "Qiu'er, you don't look stupid, but you're actually stupid." Wine bags and rice bags are all idiots who are lazy and lazy in this world, can my gold-like quality be a fool, young master? I don't know if your grandfather is a wine bag and rice bag, but since he said that, he has his reason, and the Tianren Pavilion in my heart are the elite of the world's elites, because they are mysterious and powerful. People live for their fame and profit, and in the end they are all for being strong, and only when they are strong can they be respected and enjoy the world. Young Master, I used to think that I was very strong, and I almost forgot that there are a large group of people in this world who are stronger than me, how can such a good person as me tolerate a large group of people who are stronger than me under the same sky? So I want to go to the Heavenly Pavilion to be a stronger person. ”

Nalan Manmiao lifted the pergola, and without hesitation his adoring gaze washed him over and over again, and said with a shining gaze: "Young master, you know a lot. ”

"Needless to say. You should also read more books and strive to reach half the level of the young master, otherwise how will I take you out in the future? I am such a smart person, I can't bring a stupid girl with me, right?"

"Got it, young master. ”

Nalan Manmiao flattened her mouth aggrievedly, wanting to argue that she was not stupid, but forget it, grandma said that men like naïve girls, because naïve girls are silly and cute, which can make men feel that they know a lot, and then show off more and more in front of girls, satisfying the self-strength in their hearts. She admits that she is very naïve, but she is not stupid, the young master said that she is stupid because she doesn't understand the meaning of wine bags and rice bags, but she is still young and has read few books, so she just doesn't understand the meaning of wine bags and rice bags. If she understands everything, points out in front of the young master, and talks eloquently, doesn't it seem that the young master is stupid?

She heard a story from her grandmother when she was very young. The story of an old man and two young people. A young man saved an old man. A young man was rescued by an old man, and they both liked the old man's daughter, and when the grandmother asked herself, who would the old man marry his daughter? She did not hesitate to say that it was the young man who had saved the old man, and the grandmother said no, but the young man who had been saved by the old man. She said that people always remember their kindness to others, and think that they will remember it deeply and always think about repaying it. This creates a sense of pride and satisfaction from the heart. In the face of the young man who has been saved by the old man, the old man will feel that it is a great achievement in his life, and then marry his daughter to him, which will increase his great image in his heart, then the old man will always bathe in the position of a high benefactor, like in the clouds, fluttering like a fairy. And marrying his daughter to the young man who saved him is a different state of mind, he will always feel that he is a head short in front of his son-in-law, and marrying a daughter is not a grace. It's about repaying the favor, and such an almost flat result is equivalent to a void for the old man. Although this can make up for the gratitude of the benefactor in the heart. But in the general style of life, everyone is selfish, and the young man who saves people will eventually lose to the young man who is saved.

This story makes her understand what kind of animal a man is, and she believes that men may need a capable woman very much, but what they need most is a woman who needs them. She also believes that if there is a woman who understands a lot by the young master's side at this time and teaches the young master a lot of things, and she is only responsible for affirming the young master's idea, never teaching him anything, on the contrary, she has always been in the position of being educated, and in the end, the woman who taught the young master a lot of things will definitely not be able to win herself.

Su Mu looked at the sky, felt the leisurely steps of the big yellow cow under his buttocks, and said dissatisfiedly: "Ball, there is hay in the bag behind, take a bundle and hang it on the cow's head, you can see that you can't eat it, so you can go faster." There are still thirty miles in Qingfeng Town, let it die or live, and we can only sleep in the wild when it gets dark. ”

The little ball jumped down, picked up a branch of the right length on the side of the road, tied the hay according to the law, and the ox immediately opened its mouth to bite it, and the speed under his feet was indeed good.

Seeing her with a burst of novelty, she said to him excitedly: "Young master, you are so smart." ”

"That's because you're so stupid. ”

She smiled noncommittally, not at all annoyed.

"Take a little direction, and I'll take a break to recuperate. ”

Walking on this wide official road, they enjoyed the caress of the sun all the way, and before they knew it, three hours had passed, the sun had set, and Su Mu had already fallen asleep.

Little Ball also slept.

The ox cart left the official road and went deep into the woods. It originally had a sense of direction, but when the bundle of hay hung in front of it, the sense of direction was focused on the hay, and when the wind blew, the hay was crooked, and the cow was crooked.

A thunderclap woke the two of them up.

Su Mu opened his eyes vigorously, looked at the woods and said, "Qiu'er, where is this?"

Xiaoqiu'er rubbed her sleepy eyes and said in a daze, "I don't know either." ”

Su Mu grabbed the reins and said, "What else do you think I can expect you to do?"

It's raining.

Su Mu tore open the pergola and said, "This is called taking precautions." ”

Xiaoqiu'er glanced at the paper-thin canvas worriedly, and laughed dryly and didn't say anything.

In the evening, a tired big scalper walked into Qingfeng Town.

There is a leaking pergola on the back of the cow, and under the pergola sit two wet and expressionless chickens who are more tired than the big yellow cows.

Passers-by laughed.

Su Mu has been washed away by the rain and has no shame, and just wants to find a place to live and take a hot bath.

He looked at both sides of the road a little sluggishly, and saw a pennant from afar, and he went to the Listening to the Rain Inn.

At this time, the rain did not stop, and there was a brisk crackling sound when it fell on the roof tile stone road, which was the best sound for the literati to pretend to be sad.

Xiao Qiu'er also saw it, and on dozens of miles of wilderness roads, she was ravaged by the rain, and she said weakly: "Young master, what a cheap name, can we live?"

Su Mu said: "Stay, it's its business to be cheap, and if you don't live, it's our cheapness." ”

In the small town of the mountains, there is only a small inn, the thunderstorm does not stop, and the travelers gather here, and even the guest rooms are gone. A lot of people lay on the floor in the hall.

The mountain wind is howling, the night rain is pouring, the thunder and lightning are flashing, the inn hall is brightly lit, everyone whether they are peddlers and pawns, or foot performers, or dignitaries, all sit together, and a bonfire is lit in the middle.

Su Mu took out the notice and asked a person dressed outside: "This big brother, do you know how to get to the Heavenly Pavilion?"

The clerk pointed to the lower left corner of the notice: "The notice is clearly written, so that everyone gathers in Orange County." ”

"Orange County is more than three hundred miles away from the East China Sea, and what I want to ask is where the Heavenly Pavilion is. ”

The staff smiled: "The first time you go to the exam? Yes, how old are you, naturally it is the first time." I think it was the first time I took the test when I was your age. ”

He laughed at himself: "I failed the exam three times in a row, and when I want to take the exam again this year, the year is close to the destiny of heaven, and I am entangled in mundane things, and I have distractions, alas, it is too late."

"Little brother, everyone knows where the Heavenly Pavilion is, but everyone doesn't know where the Heavenly Pavilion is. ”

"What do you mean by that?"

"We all know it's in the East China Sea, but who knows where it is?"

"You've taken the test three times and you don't know where?"

"The East China Sea is boundless, there are countless islands, and the Heavenly Pavilion is an immortal gate, so it is effortless to come up with some tricks, not to mention the secular people, even the outer disciples who walked out of the door don't know its specific location. And I, I'm ashamed, I haven't even seen the gate of the Heavenly Pavilion. ”

Su Mu suddenly said, "Oh yes, you didn't get in." (To be continued......)