On the only passage connecting Nanba County to the outside world, there is an inn, this inn is in an excellent location, it takes exactly two days from the county seat of Nanba to the nearest town outside the mountain, and this inn is located on the midpoint, whether the guests from the south or the north, if they do not want to spend the night in the wilderness, they have to stop here.

The size of the inn shows the splendor of the place.

The inn is located in a mountain col of seven or eight acres on the side of the official road. Its main building is a tall and spacious two-storey restaurant. It is five feet away from the official road, and in front of it is a spacious courtyard.

There is a huge plaque hanging on the door of the restaurant, on which you can faintly see the four mottled characters of "Homecoming Inn".

There are 12 horse-tied stakes on both sides of the gate of the restaurant, and on the left side is a livestock shed, and at the back of the restaurant there are four spans of courtyards, each of which has about a dozen guest rooms.

The once glamorous restaurant is very old, only two of the tethered horse posts in front of the door are still in good condition, half of the livestock shed has collapsed, and there are three yards behind that have been overgrown with weeds half a person deep, and only one yard seems to be cleaned, but the courtyard wall has collapsed for the most part.

The shopkeeper of the inn, a dark and thin middle-aged man, sat at the door of the restaurant, staring blankly at the official road in the drizzle, and a crumbling stool under his buttocks, which made people sweat for him.

A woman in her thirties, in the inn, was wiping the tables and chairs that were cleaner than the rags in her hands, and muttered something, this woman was thin and looked good, but the thick gloom between her eyebrows said that she had not been robbed of her beauty by the years, and the sorrow of destruction. This woman is the innkeeper.

The shopkeeper's surname Zhou, more than ten years ago, he was in the limelight, his uncle was the leader of the largest medicine collection gang in the county, he relied on his uncle's power to drive away the original owner of the inn here, and now this inn was built in the same place. As soon as the inn was built, business was extremely prosperous. At the same time, he married the most beautiful woman in the county.

Less than a month after he got married, his uncle was killed in a gang fire. Gangs change hands. Then someone hit the attention of his inn. Just when he was cornered, the scourge of demon beasts broke out.

Although he kept the inn, it became worthless.

Once the scenery was not decent. The inn that has been making money every day has become a lot of people, Xiao Er, helpers, and they are dismissed one by one, and even the chef can't afford to hire them after the worst.

Only the couple was left in the inn struggling to survive. Shopkeeper Zhou opened a vegetable garden next to the inn to entertain guests cheaply and freshly. In addition to taking care of the vegetable garden every day, he sat at the door of the inn and stared blankly at the official road.

In addition to taking care of a flock of chickens, the proprietress is constantly wiping the tables and benches in the store, and likes to curse while wiping, cursing fate, cursing the shopkeeper Zhou, and cursing everything she looks in the eyesore.

In the past ten years, Shopkeeper Zhou has never waited for even a guest in this kind of weather, but such waiting has become a habit, a part of his life.

It was a rainy day, and it was dark very early, just after Shen Shi. The day is numb and faints. Shopkeeper Zhou, as usual, sighed deeply, got up and bent down to lift the chair, ending his wait for today.

Suddenly, his bending movements stopped, his dull eyes burst into bright light, and he grabbed the oilcloth umbrella that was ready next to him, and rushed into the rain like lightning.

Seeing him like this, the proprietress also threw down the rag and ran to the door of the inn, holding on to the door frame, and looking hard at the official road that was gradually shrouded in night.

Gotta gotta gotta ,...... There was a sound of horses' hooves, and the shopkeeper stepped forward in the mud.

After a while, the shopkeeper Zhou led a fat and strong jujube red horse into the yard, and he said to the guests on the horse as he walked: "Master, don't go down first, wait for me to lead the horse to the door, you go directly down to the stone steps, the mud on the ground is too thick, don't dirty your shoes." ”

Shopkeeper Zhou struggled to pull the horse to the door of the restaurant in the mud, turned around to help the guest dismount, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, the guest jumped from the horse to the stone steps.

"Mother-in-law, greet the guests, I'll go and feed the horses. With that, he pulled the red horse and walked towards the half-collapsed barn.

The gloom on the proprietress seemed to suddenly disappear without a trace, and she greeted her with a smile on her face: "Quickly untie your clothes, and the slave family will take it for you to dry." As he spoke, he reached out to help the guest untie his clothes. The guest fended off his hand, and although his face was hidden in the shadow of the hat, the proprietress could still feel his displeasure.

The guest first took off his hat, revealing a handsome and resolute young face, wearing a small Tai Chi crown on his head.

The guest's refusal just now did not have the slightest effect on the hostess, she took the guest's hat and hung it on the wall, and then took the guest's robe, which was a gray robe.

This dressed guest is Xiao Ziyang. It has been more than 20 days since he left Wenfu today.

After Xiao Ziyang left the Wen family that day, he returned to Shangyuan City, and after relying on the letters from the clerk to dot up and down, he entered the Taoist book in the name of Wu Tai, received the monk's disc, and made a few good Taoist robes in the largest tailor shop in the city.

He was not in a hurry to leave, but stayed in Shangyuan, and inquired in many ways, trying to find a suitable place to live in seclusion.

The place that Xiao Ziyang asked for was to be remote and quiet, and second, it was convenient to buy medicinal materials. He soon set his sights on Namba County.

Nanba County is located deep in the mountains, and its remoteness is even better than Xiao Ziyang's hometown. This place is a medicinal material production area, although it is decaying, it is naturally more than enough to provide the medicinal materials that Xiao Ziyang needs for his current cultivation.

Xiao Ziyang fell in love after hearing that this place had been attacked by demon beasts, according to some scattered information he got from hearsay, it seems that all immortal cultivators will find some places with abundant spiritual energy to cultivate, and places with abundant spiritual energy are often prone to produce demon beasts, since there are demon beasts here, then it means that this place is full of spiritual energy.

As for the danger of being attacked by demon beasts, this kind of thing only happens once in decades, and the chance of encountering it is not very high, and in order to cultivate the immortal decision, what is it to take a little risk. decided on the destination, and Xiao Ziyang rushed over day and night.

Seeing that Xiao Ziyang was dressed as a Taoist priest, the proprietress immediately changed her title, "Daoist, you sit for a while, and I'll go and fetch hot water for you." After letting Xiao Ziyang sit down in the hall, she hurried to the kitchen.

After about a cup of tea, the proprietress came out of the kitchen with a large wooden basin.

"I don't know if Dao Ye wants to use some wine and food. Seeing that Xiao Ziyang had washed her face, the proprietress asked while taking the cloth towel.

"After a day of dry food, I finally came across the store, so I naturally wanted to sacrifice to the Five Organs Temple, and I don't know what kind of food there is in the store. ”

"There are home-hung bacon, freshly killed chickens, freshly picked vegetables from the field, freshly steamed white rice, oh and two live fish. ”

"Stir-fry bacon, stew a chicken, pick up your favorite vegetables and fry two, steam a pot of white rice for me, and forget about the fish. Go pick up, I'm hungry. ”

When the proprietress saw that Xiao Ziyang had asked for so many meals, she agreed with a happy face, and went to the kitchen to get busy.