Chapter 172: Suspicious
More than ten zhang away, Ye Bai saw a middle-aged woman standing at the entrance of the village, looking from afar, with an anxious expression.
Although this woman is dressed plainly, she is quite beautiful, dignified and generous, and it can be seen that she was also an extremely beautiful and moving woman when she was young.
"Mother!"
When Yue Ye saw the woman, his eyes turned red, and he rushed over and threw himself into her arms.
The woman looked him up and down for a while, but found no injury, patted him lightly on the back, said a few words in a low voice, and looked at Ye Bai with a complicated expression. The son sneaks out to find his father, only to bring back a man he doesn't know, and anyone else would be suspicious.
Yue Ye noticed his mother's abnormality, and whispered: "Mother, this senior saved my life, and said that he has news from my father to tell you." ”
The woman's delicate body trembled, tears suddenly appeared in her eyes, she walked up to Ye Bai, and said with a salute: "I've seen my seniors! Thank you seniors for saving Ye'er, if you don't dislike it, please go to the house to sit." ”
"Yes!"
Ye Bai naturally would not refuse, the most important purpose of his trip was to find out what this Nanfeng village was.
The population of the village is not large, there are only a few dozen people, Ye Bai glanced over, and found that their temples were bulging high, their spirit was restrained, and they all cultivated good martial arts true qi, and when they saw the woman entering the village with a stranger, their expressions were a little panicked, and the woman whispered a word to Yue Ye, and after Yue Ye listened, he hurriedly ran to the oldest looking old man with a white beard and whispered a few words.
After hearing this, the old man glanced at Ye Bai in disbelief, and then ordered everyone to disperse.
Yue Tianxing's house is located in the most central part of the village, and several other families have faintly formed a posture of arching and guarding him, and the building is more spacious and larger, it can be seen that the Yue family has some status here.
Lift the bamboo curtain and walk into the door, you will see all kinds of bamboo furniture printed into your eyes, fragrant, simple and elegant.
"Senpai, please take a seat!"
The woman invited Ye Bai to sit down, served the fragrant tea of the mountains and fields, and asked respectfully: "I don't know where the seniors saw the husband, what is his situation now, I hope the seniors will tell me!"
Although this woman had anticipation on her face, her eyes were extremely calm, obviously she had recovered from the joy of her son's safe return, and she was a little suspicious of Ye Bai, how could a person without any martial arts background be able to walk in the mountains, save her son, and get news of her husband.
Ye Bai didn't care, smiled slightly, his right hand was weak, and the cold iron spear appeared in his hand out of thin air.
The woman's face suddenly lost color, not because of the cold iron spear, but because she was shocked on the spot by Ye Bai's technique of taking things from the void in his hand, and it took a long time before she said: "Senior, is it an immortal master?"
Such a method, except for the monks, no one else can do it, the woman also had to wander the rivers and lakes when she was young, how much she heard of some legends of monks, at this moment when she saw Ye Bai's movements, a lot of old memories suddenly flashed in her mind.
Ye Bai handed over the spear and said noncommittally: "Your husband was killed by a guy named You Ziyuan, and before he died, he asked me to send this gun back to Nanfeng Village and give it to Yue Ye." ”
The woman took the spear and rubbed it a few times, and in an instant tears rained down and sobbed softly. didn't show too much excitement, and it seemed that this ending had been expected for a long time.
"Madame's Day!"
Ye Bai said softly, he is now nearly a hundred years old, he has seen too many things about life and death, his Dao heart is gradually transparent, although he has some sympathy in his heart, but he does not have too many words of comfort.
"Thank you Immortal Master, this spear is passed down by the teacher, the husband was alive, regarded as a treasure, once said that the gun is in the person, the gun is lost, half a month ago, You Ziyuan suddenly came here, and the husband left, the little woman gave birth to an ominous premonition, there is a lot of disrespect for the right talent, please forgive the immortal master!"
The woman's pear blossom brought rain and made a salute.
At this moment, she no longer doubted that Ye Bai had other plans, although her husband was a top master in the rivers and lakes, but compared to the high-ranking monks, it was not worth mentioning, and there was no treasure worthy of the other party's covetousness.
"I don't know why my wife and the other villagers moved to the Guyuan Mountains to survive, this is not a peaceful place. ”
Ye Bai saw that the woman had calmed down, and finally asked the right question.
The woman recalled: "The immortal master doesn't know, the family teacher is a bright ancestor, there are three apprentices, the first husband is the eldest, You Ziyuan is the second, and the little woman is the third, the first husband and You Ziyuan are extremely qualified in martial arts, any martial arts exercises, can be integrated, easy to come, but the first husband has no intention of fighting in the rivers and lakes, You Ziyuan is very ambitious, after leaving the teacher, he set off countless bloody storms on the rivers and lakes, and was finally expelled from the door wall by the teacher. ”
"You Ziyuan knew that the teacher had two secret books that had not been passed on to him, and after his martial arts were successful, he chased and killed the teacher everywhere, and the teacher was overwhelmed, so he took us and more than a dozen servants to hide in the Guyuan Mountain. Although there are many monsters in the mountains, as long as they are not too powerful, we can still handle them. ”
Ye Bai's pupils shrank, and he nodded subconsciously, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the woman didn't mention the matter of the three of them's teacher, Bright Ancestor, planning to use those two cheats to worship the immortal gate.
"How long have you been here, and haven't any other monks from the village been here?"
Ye Bai's doubts deepened in his heart, you must know that even if the demon beasts are eliminated, if some evil sect monks see mortals in the barren mountains, I am afraid they will not let them go, after all, it is also common to use mortal bodies to practice some methods that violate the harmony of heaven.
The woman said with a strange look on her face, "It's been about eight years, and it's strange to say that the Immortal Master was the first monk to set foot in our village. ”
"Huh?"
Ye Bai was suddenly slightly stunned, he had lived in the Guyuan Mountain Range for eight years, and no monk had ever come, according to reason, this was absolutely impossible, most of the monks were thoughtful, and when they saw such a strange thing, they would definitely come to find out, maybe there was still a mind about what treasures there were here, how could they not be aware of it.
Ye Bai frowned and groaned for a while, without a clue, then stood up and said goodbye.
"If it's getting late today, the immortal master might as well stay, stay for a while, and then go on the road tomorrow. ”
The woman's face was sincere.
"It's good!"
This Nanfeng Village is full of fog, and Ye Bai's curiosity is great.
The woman took Ye Bai to the guest room and left in a hurry.
Ye Bai's divine sense attached to the woman, seeing that she went out to find Yue Hai, and told him the truth about Yue Tianxing, this kid was also strong, he stopped his tears after crying a few times, clenched his fists and said that he would practice martial arts diligently and protect the village.
After comforting her son, the woman went to tell the old man she had seen when she entered the village, and after the old man comforted him, he also sighed again and again.
Seeing that the woman was not abnormal, Ye Bai no longer paid attention, closed his eyes and meditated, and at dinner time, the woman came to invite him to dinner, but he also refused.
The sky gradually darkened, and the night in the mountains came earlier than usual, and soon, except for the insects and birds outside the house, there was no human voice.
When night fell, Ye Bai's divine consciousness spread out of the bamboo window like a mist and spread to the entire village.
Nanfeng Village was as silent as death, except for Yue Ye, who was meditating and cultivating, everyone else entered the dreamland, and even Yue fell asleep with tears on his face.
Ye Bai swept through the houses, but unexpectedly found nothing, the entire village seemed to be really just a mortal village.
With a little doubt, his consciousness was about to retreat like a tide.
Suddenly, the wind sounded, and two figures fell on the open space outside the village like ghosts.
"Big brother, it's this village, I saw from afar, there are a few women with good looks, all of them are mortals, today you and my brother, just open a meat open, practice every day, and they are about to get sick. ”
One of the short men laughed.
"Since you are a mortal, why wait until it gets dark, where have you practiced your guts?"
Another tall man scolded softly.
The short man hurriedly said: "I want to come during the day, I don't know what formation is set up near this ghost village, I didn't go around for a long time, I even attacked for a long time, the sound became one, and the people inside didn't react, so I had to ask you to come over and do it." ”
The tall man was shocked and said, "How can this be? Second brother, you shouldn't be fooling me, how can a mortal village be able to block the attack of a mid-foundation building monk?"
After a pause, he said, "Second brother, you are not mistaken, this is really a mortal village?"
The tall man immediately noticed the anomaly, and his face became serious, and he was obviously much more cautious than the short man with a lewd face.
Don't talk about him, even Ye Bai, who was peeping on the side, was in a cold sweat, when he entered the village, he had also carefully checked, and he didn't notice it at all!
Is the whole village just a fantasy, or is it a ghost realm?