We walked for nearly an hour before stopping, I have to say that although this group of thieves who rely on the mountain to eat the mountain are dressed in tatters, but the familiarity with the python mountain is indeed quite high, and the slightly dangerous places can be very cleverly avoided, which has caused a harmonious coexistence between humans and animals on this python mountain.

In front of us is a few thatched huts dressed in the same dilapidated as them, my bottom line against the bandits has been refreshed by them again and again, the thatched huts are not covered with clothes, blunt knives and even iron rods, a group of old and sick people, such people can also be called bandits?

The thatched hut in the middle was lit with smoke, and there was an old man standing at the door of the house, looking at least sixty years old, the average life expectancy of people who have not cultivated in this world is in their sixties, and this old man can also afford to live a long life. He saw that the bandit leader was back with a large army, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "Master, you guys are back so early today." Hey, where did these two dolls come from, and are they also new to the gang? Then I have to tell my brother to cook more wild vegetables, this is not enough for two more people. ”

Yes, people don't look at me and Ah Long as if they were dressed like children of rich and noble families, and they regarded me as having gone up the mountain to join the gang.

The bandit leader hurriedly waved his hand, "Uncle Wang, don't be busy, don't call Uncle Wang, we have good luck today, get some silver, two old Liu, let's go to the mountain to change some grain and meat, we haven't changed the taste for a long time, today we won't eat wild vegetables, let's eat stew." ”

The old man touched his head, "Then the master, what about this big pot of wild vegetables, isn't the amount of twenty mouthfuls all wasted, what a pity, it is estimated that it will be bad for a day and will not be able to eat, and it will be diarrhea if you eat it again." ”

The man was enlightened, held back his mouth and said, "Come on, this wild vegetable is fresh, and I have diarrhea when I eat it." ”

The bandit leader glared again, "I said that you are really everywhere in the open-mindedness, what is the matter with you." Stay where you are cool, you have a thing. ”

There was a lot of laughter in the audience, and the enlightened man also pretended to have nothing to do and dispersed with everyone. Then they went to do their own things, to collect firewood, to help in the kitchen.

The bandit leader said to the two of us, "Come, you two come with me to my room." ”

Then he turned to Kaiming, who was about to leave, and shouted, "Kaiming, you come here too." ”

Enlightened muttered, "Didn't you just want me to stay cool, and now you want me to come over again, I said what do you want to do?" ”

The bandit leader listened to the enlightened incessant chatter, so he had to glare at him again, and he stopped his broken thoughts.

The bandit leader led us into one of the most dilapidated thatched huts, and when I saw it, I began to wonder if it would collapse with a heavy rain or a strong wind. There wasn't even a decent chair in the room, just a few old tree stumps, and he sat down on one of them himself, and motioned for us to sit down. When we were all seated, the bandit leader spoke.

"Let me introduce myself to you first, my name is Zhong Qiang, I am the big boss of the bandits in the west under this python mountain, you have also seen our situation, these twenty-one brothers are all members of our group. Now it's time for you to talk about your situation. ”

I was thinking about how to better explain our situation so that I could get out easily, so Ah Long replied first: "Tell the big boss, we have fled from Youzhou and want to come to join you." "As soon as I heard Ah Long say this, I knew that something bad was wrong, and I would definitely not be able to bluff this bandit leader who was obviously very experienced in the rivers and lakes, I just wanted to explain. The bandit leader named Zhong Qiang spoke.

"Do you really think of me as a fool, if you really fled from Youzhou. You've been to a lot of places along the way, and you've seen very well what I'm doing here, you talk a lot, but your brain can say such things and go to us, you should be enlightened, this stupid son can do such a stupid thing. I ask you sincerely, I hope you can answer my questions truthfully, and you can save a lot of trouble with a little more trust, right?"

The enlightened son, who was called a stupid son, heard the words of the bandit leader like a cat with its tail stepped on, and shouted, "Why am I stupid? I am a person with ideals and dreams! People with dreams are amazing!"

The bandit leader did not listen to the enlightened words, but looked at me.

At this time, I bowed to the bandit leader and said, "I'm sorry, I apologize to you for what my brother just said, and I'll tell you all about our situation as it is." ”

The bandit leader just looked at me with interest and didn't say anything more.

"What we said before is indeed true, we used to work in a brick factory in Youzhou, because we were young and ignorant, we were framed by a trap, and an old gentleman who took care of us also died for us. We had to flee from Youzhou, but after we escaped from Youzhou, the people who framed us before wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots and chased them out of the city, if it weren't for the help of nobles to save our lives, we would have already turned into dry bones outside Youzhou City. After escaping that catastrophe, the life-saving benefactor asked us where we were going, and I said that I had a brother in Jingzhou, and I wanted to come to Jingzhou to see my brother, and then the life-saving benefactor took us all the way to the foot of Python Mountain, because the direction was different, the life-saving benefactor left. Then we stayed on Python Mountain for two days to find a way through Python Mountain, and you caught this road before we could find it. After I finished speaking, I looked at Zhong Qiang very calmly.

"I believe most of what you say that you may indeed be fleeing. But I'm very curious, a passer-by who met in Pingshui is willing to gamble on the risk of offending a local force for you to save the lives of a few of you irrelevant people, isn't it a bit of a feeling of universal sentient beings? Especially if you want a sixth-order cultivator like you to make an enmity with you, and you can still pit you like a lost dog, the power of the person will definitely not be too small, right?" The old and spicy Zhong Qiang still found out what I wanted to hide from my words.

I had to tell all the truth, "That's right, you have a point. In addition to the old gentleman who protected us when we were in Youzhou, there were actually three of us brothers. One of them was accepted as a disciple by the life-saving benefactor, so the master saved our lives in the face of his apprentice, and that big force was a big force in the eyes of a few of us young people, but it was not looked down upon by the masters, and he also took care of us along the way, and also taught us a lot of cultivation things, so that I broke through to the sixth order of cultivation, and I was actually a thin line away from the fifth layer of Great Perfection in Youzhou before. ”

Zhong Qiang frowned, as if he was thinking about something, "If you say that, I won't understand it even more, you said that the master who saved your life is of a very high level, and he said that he not only accepted your good brother as an apprentice, but also taught you some cultivation things and gave you some technical guidance on your move skills." And the reason you are apart is because of the different directions. I'll make an analogy myself, if I'm not reluctant to be a brother in distress in my twenty years, if a master can come to me now and tell me that he wants me to go with him, I will kowtow and follow with a thousand thanks without saying a word. And you, obviously have such an opportunity, even when you already know what kind of benefits you will get, you choose to separate from him. Isn't it much more important to learn from a master than what path you take? "Obviously, Zhong Qiang, the leader of the bandits, is still skeptical of what I said, but it should also be done, after all, a grassroots leader like him has to think more about being a person and doing things, otherwise a careless person may bring all the people behind him into a situation from which he will never recover.

For Zhong Qiang's question, I just shook my head gently, "You are not me, you don't know my way." I can learn from others and follow others, but I have to have my own path. At the age of eighteen, I may not know what I want, but I can clearly feel that I don't want anything. I can indeed walk faster, better and safer, but that will lose what I want, and it will go against my original purpose and become more than worth the loss. You may not believe it, but what I said is true, all we do is to get through Python Mountain. ”

After listening to my words, the bandit leader said, "I know what you mean, but it is a complicated matter to leave Python Mountain from here. There are three principles on Python Mountain, and even if I want to send you out of Python Mountain, it will be difficult. Okay, let's get to that for now. "Then he made a gesture for us to go out first.

The two of us left Zhong Qiang's room and stood in the open space in the middle of the thatched house, Ah Long looked at the thatched houses around him, then at the sky, and finally at me, "Brother Rui, why don't we escape." I don't think there are many of them, and it should be easy for us to escape when they eat or sleep at night. ”

I gave him a blank look, "Did you listen to the bandit leader just now, people are thinking about how to send us out, do you think they want to lock us up?" ”

Ah Long whispered in my ear, "Brother Rui, do you believe that he really wants to send us away? They are bandits, do you expect a group of bandits to send us away?" ”

I didn't know how to answer Aaron when he said that. What Ah Long said is also very reasonable, we have to try to believe that a group of bandits let us go or even help me, this possibility is very small, it seems that I really have too little experience in the rivers and lakes, and I have not seen the problem as deeply as Ah Long.

We sat in the open space and didn't talk again. I wondered if there was a better way to get out of Python Mountain, and Ah Long was still looking around and planning his escape route.

I thought about it for a while, but I didn't figure out why it came out. I saw Zhong Qiang walking towards us, "Don't sit here, let's go to the house to eat, thanks to the blessings of the two of you, there will be wine and meat to entertain you today." ”

Then we followed Zhong Qiang to the largest thatched house, only to see about 20 people sitting in this big house, Zhong Qiang arranged us in a table where only Kaiming and another person sat and turned around to arrange for others, Kaiming did not treat us as outsiders at all, saw that we just walked to this table and beckoned us to sit down, bring us bowls, chopsticks and cups.

"Brother, our broken village has nothing to entertain you, and if it weren't for your money, we would have to eat wild vegetables today. Speaking of which, thank you very much, you also let go of eating, don't be too restrained, if you're afraid of being embarrassed, think about it, you won't be embarrassed if you invite all of us to eat. You can see very clearly what our situation is, and you don't always think about being robbed by us, and you will be angry, just as we are beggars, you can come to help the poor and provide disaster relief. This is called an enlightened opening, everyone's chopsticks stopped, and they looked at him with straight eyes, looking at their eyes, fortunately, they couldn't kill, if they could kill, it was estimated that he would have died a long time ago. I don't know what he's thinking everywhere, but he can say this kind of thing...

After Zhong Qiang arranged everything, he returned to our table and sat down with a chair by himself. "You two can eat whatever you want. After that, we didn't have too much hospitality, so we ate by ourselves.

Kaiming looked at us as if he wanted to say something, but after glancing at Zhong Qiang, he seemed to hold back and didn't speak.

We saw that everyone was eating with their heads down, so we ate ourselves. It wasn't until we were almost finished eating that Zhong Qiang looked up at me and asked, "Do you drink?" ”

Aaron looked at me, and I knew he was waiting for my reply. Without much thought, I replied, "You can drink some." ”

Zhong Qiang got up and went to the corner to get a jar of wine, poured himself a large bowl and handed the jar to me, "Pour as much as you drink, I don't like to persuade others to drink, and I don't like to force others to drink." ”

I took the jar and poured myself a bowl and glanced at Aaron, who motioned for me to pour it full for him. After pouring it, I handed it to Zhong Qiang, and he casually put the jar at his feet. Then the bowl was lifted, and we hurriedly lifted the bowl as well. Watching him drink it all, I drank it all in one go, and then looked at Ah Long, and he saw that we had all finished drinking, and he drank it in one gulp, but the wine entered his throat and was directly stimulated by a momentum, and he spit it out. There weren't many people left in the room, and they all looked over.

Zhong Qiang laughed even more, "Hahaha, didn't you say that you are casual, what, you see that I can't save face when I drink it, so I have to drink it!"

Ah Long coughed embarrassedly, "Ahem, cough, well, I didn't want to dry it in one sip, I saw that you drank the wine in one sip, and then looked at Brother Rui, he also did it, then if I don't do it, I feel very ashamed, who knows that your wine burns my throat so much, I can't help it, and I vomit it out, which is even more embarrassing." ”

I patted Ah Long on the back, "Brother Long can't help it, I hurt you, hahaha." I couldn't help but laugh when I said that.

Zhong Qiang poured himself another wine, took a small sip and said to us, "Interested in chatting?"

I saw that Ah Long was still rubbing his chest, and replied, "Cheng, of course, we would like to talk to you." ”

Zhong Qiang looked at me and smiled, and asked, "Then what do you want to talk about?"