Traveling through the heavens starts from practicing swords in the palace

Chapter 142 141. The Ancient Tomb Owner
Miao Bold and Lin Buju just chattered in the dark, with the sound of colliding "flintstones" that might have been swapped out.

However, in the atmosphere of terror, the emotions of the partners are indeed easy to influence each other. With the reckless man Miao Bold by his side, Lin Pingzhi is not so surprised at last.

He calmed down for a moment. Although he was still scared, he still didn't believe in ghosts and gods. At this time, he asked loudly: "The two of us were trying to escape from the enemy's pursuit. We had no choice but to jump down from the creek next to Zhongnan Mountain and happened to come here." Tomb of the Dead.”

"I don't know if there is an owner living in the tomb. If there is anything offensive, please Haihan. The two of us are only staying here for a while. When the injury recovers, we will go out. We will not damage the inside of the ancient tomb." One table and one chair."

Hearing what Lin Pingzhi said, Miao Ludao stopped lighting the fire, and listened quietly to the reply from the "master" of the tomb that Lin Pingzhi said.

But after waiting for a long time, there was no reply at all.

At this time, Miao Ludao also realized that there should be no ghosts in the tomb, but there should be masters of lightness kung fu living in the tomb.

The two of them suddenly broke in and lit the candles, which disturbed the owner, so he extinguished the candles and secretly replaced the flints.

But even though it makes sense to say that, if someone is able to drop flint and steel without their knowledge, how high is this light work?
At this time, there was another "bang" sound suddenly, and it was identified by the sound that something was hitting the dressing table beside the two of them.

Miao Ludao fumbled on the dressing table for a while, picked up the thing that fell on it, and said in surprise, "Looks like a flint and steel?"

Lin Pingzhi's heart moved when he heard the words, and immediately after hearing the sound of stones knocking against each other, he felt his eyes light up slightly.It turned out that it was Miao Ludao who hit sporadic sparks with the flint and steel that fell on the dressing table.

After several attempts, Miao Ludao lit a candle with the fire, and the room was bright again.

The two had learned the previous lesson, and now they will carefully guard the candle flame. Miao Ludao found a woman's handkerchief on the dressing table to wrap the flint and hide it in his wet clothes pocket.

Lin Pingzhi really paid attention to the surrounding situation, but he could not see even the slightest life in the indoors and outdoors. Where is there anyone?

But the flint was indeed thrown in by someone secretly. It is estimated that the person heard Lin Pingzhi's extremely polite words, saw the hard work of the two of them, and felt compassion, so he threw the flint back again. .

And the two stones that Miao Ludao couldn't hit just now are indeed ordinary stones that are dark and not slippery, and it is absolutely difficult to light a fire.

Miao Ludao carefully laid Lin Pingzhi on the bed in the stone room by candlelight, found a chair and sat down, and said in a low voice, "Young master Lin, what do you think that man is from?"

Lin Pingzhi's right waist was injured. He was lying on the stone bed on his left side. He still felt pain in his waist, but he also said softly: "I don't know. I think Yang Guo, Yang Daxia, his wife, and their descendants lived in seclusion in this ancient tomb. Otherwise, others will find this place by chance like us, and they will never live here forever."

"Ordinary people will never have such a high level of lightness kung fu. They can blow out candles and drop flint and steel so easily in front of us."

"Hey, what we saw on the platform just now is full of female things, this person may be a woman—but it doesn't have to be just one person, maybe there are many people living in groups in this ancient tomb, it is not impossible .”

Miao Ludao sat cross-legged on the chair, he would be practicing Qigong, adjusting breath and meditating to heal internal injuries, he replied, "Then what shall we do?"

Lin Pingzhi sighed, and said: "There is no good way now, and we can only take one step at a time. Fortunately, this person gave us flint and steel again, and it seems that he has no malice towards us. Otherwise, with his light work, we He was seriously injured again, so there must be no good fruit to eat."

"However, there is one thing that is very difficult right now. If we don't solve this problem, we will definitely not be able to survive."

Miao Ludao hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?"

Lin Pingzhi said: "I'm hungry."

Hunger is a very abstract concept, but sometimes it is very concrete.The abstraction lies in the fact that hunger is a concept that is difficult to quantify, but the concreteness lies in the fact that we can feel it personally.

Being able to feel hungry is often a very happy thing, because it means that we have not lost the joy of eating.

But of course hunger often represents pain more often, such as when losing weight and fearing calories.

Another example is when Lin Pingzhi and Miao Ludao are in the stone room of an ancient tomb, knowing nothing about the surrounding environment, and still have doubts about the owner of the ancient tomb.

Therefore, they can only face up to their own hunger and rely on willpower to suppress it.

Miao Ludao is a very open-minded person, he said at this time: "Mr. Lin, it's okay to not eat for half a day. Our Taoists have a saying called Bigu, which pays attention to not eating the five grains, and only absorbs the essence of the sun and the moon. "

"The Taoist priests in the various Taoist temples on Mount Taiyi, the longer they can fast the grain, the more they will show their abilities - this is the embodiment of the great success of the golden core in the body. The dignitaries in Chang'an City invite Taoist priests to do things, sometimes for seven days and seven nights. It is a common thing not to eat the grain. Afterwards, these dignitaries all boasted, 'The Taoist priest is really a god, and what he asks will definitely come true'. The money given is more."

"I'm not boasting. In Taiyi Mountain, if we talk about bigu kung fu, my master is naturally the best. It's just that he doesn't take on this kind of work recently, so gradually no one knows his ability."

Lin Pingzhi couldn't help but said: "You Quanzhen taught a great martial arts sect, how come this generation has become like a charlatan. Your master is not so good at bigu kung fu, it is obviously because of his deep internal strength that he can withstand hunger."

"As for the great achievement of the golden elixir, it's even more nonsense. I'm still at the peak of Nascent Soul. Isn't my stomach still growling with hunger?"

Miao Ludao shook his head - of course Lin Pingzhi was lying on his side and couldn't see him shaking his head - he shook his head and said: "Mr. Lin, you are a bit boastful. If you are really in the Nascent Soul realm, then you are already a semi-immortal. How can you still be hungry? What you should be thinking about right now is opening the heavenly gate with your sword, overcoming the tribulation and ascending to heaven, but you shouldn't just be thinking about eating as a mortal."

Hearing what he said in a serious manner, Lin Pingzhi was annoyed and funny, and said: "I want to taste the delicacies of the mortal world in my half-immortal body. Why, can't I? What's so good about being an immortal? Absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon, to put it bluntly, isn’t it just drinking the northwest wind? Even if you can find a Taoist companion, it’s still in name only, and the same room is afraid that the essence will be leaked and hinder your practice. It’s no different from an eunuch and eunuch. Happy and happy? Let’s understand how to live these decades, what to eat, drink, whoring, why do we need to prove Taoism and seek longevity?”

Just as Lin Pingzhi was talking, he suddenly heard footsteps going away. He couldn't see it when he was lying on his side on the stone bed, so he asked again: "Miao Daudao, where are you going? This is someone else's land, the master gave us convenience." Let us light the candles, that is already extremely polite, you must not provoke others, and you must drive us out when the time comes."

Miao Ludao had already walked outside the stone room and responded: "I understand what Mr. Lin just said."

Lin Pingzhi said in astonishment: "Have you realized it? What have you realized?"

Miao Ludao's voice gradually became inaudible: "I'm not going to eat grain anymore. I'm going to find something to eat."

Lin Pingzhi didn't know whether to laugh or cry, it seemed that the Taoist had a set of words, but was very honest.

When I was about to stop him, I told him that if I found anything to eat, remember to pack it up and bring some back. There was someone here waiting to be fed, but I found that he had already gone away.

Fortunately, after some dialogues, I gradually became familiar with the environment here, and I no longer felt creepy.

Naturally, the stone bed was not comfortable, but it was smooth and tidy.Lie on it when you are tired, but you can get used to it.

There is almost no wind in the ancient tomb, but there is always some air current surging, which makes the candle light flicker, teasing people's eyes and making them drowsy.There was no one to talk to at the moment, and when a person was thinking about something, he always wanted to play, so he fell asleep again.

I don't know how long I slept, Lin Pingzhi felt pain in his waist, he groaned, he seemed to wake up, but he still remembered the scene in his dream that he was about to lift Ren Yingying's veil, so he fell asleep again in a daze.

In my dream, I felt a hand gently pressing on my waist, causing a sharp pain to the wound.But there was also a cool feeling - it seemed that this person had applied some kind of medicine to his hands, and the pain suddenly became much less.But in the end, it was a beautiful dream that caught the troubled and troubled Lin Shao escort, he never got up in a half-asleep, half-awake trance, and regarded it as a dream.

After a long time, Lin Pingzhi had many children in his dream, and finally he was consummated, so he stopped sleeping and opened his eyes satisfied.

But when he opened his eyes, it was still pitch black.He was taken aback for a moment, then rubbed his eyes to recover his ability to think, and realized that the candle must have been burned out.

He called Miao Bold, but no one responded, and he couldn't hear the movement around him. It seemed that the enlightened Taoist priest had gone out to beg for food and hadn't returned yet.

Without this teammate, Lin Pingzhi couldn't get up, so he could only stretch out in boredom.After stretching, I suddenly felt that the injury in my waist was much better, and I tried to sit up on the bed with my hands. Although the wound still caused severe pain, it was able to exert my strength after all.

He tried to get out of bed and stand up again, and even took two steps. He found that as long as he pays attention to the range of movements, he can do it with pain. He couldn't help thinking: "It is said that the muscles and bones will be hurt for a hundred days. Then the old man hit my right hand with his fist." Waist, I only think that even though my martial arts strength and physique are different from ordinary people, it will take three to five days to move. I didn't expect to be able to walk after only one night's sleep. It is expected that if I raise the general for another day, it will be much better. "

Then he thought again: "Just now in my sleep, I felt a hand rubbing my waist, and something seemed to be applied on it. Isn't it a dream? Someone really gave me medicine, so I recovered so quickly?"

But no matter how he thought about it, it was hard to figure out whether it was a dream or reality, and there was no trace of medicine on his waist. He was a person who could think about everything, anyway, it didn't matter, so he waved it away.

Enduring the pain, he walked a few more steps, trying to touch the dressing table to see if there were any candles, but then remembered that the flint and steel had been wrapped by Miao Ludao, and it was useless to find it, so he had to give up.

Fortunately, Miao Ludao's voice sounded at this time: "Young Master Lin, why is it dark here again? Do you feel uncomfortable lying down because of the dazzling candlelight, so you extinguished the candle with a high air force?"

Lin Pingzhi could not help laughing when he heard that his conjecture was well-founded, "Yes, I accidentally used too much force with my volley palm and wiped out the whole candle. Quickly check to see if there are any candles on the stage. Light it up quickly.”

While talking, he found a fire shining outside. It turned out that Miao Ludao was holding a candle in his hand.

Miao Ludao walked into the stone room, handed something to Lin Pingzhi, and said, "Mr. Lin, you are starving too, eat quickly!"

Lin Pingzhi took it and found that it was a porcelain bowl, which was filled with white rice, and there were vegetables and meat on it.

He was already starving, and he didn't care where the food came from. He took the pair of wooden chopsticks handed over by Miao Ludao and started to eat hungrily.The green vegetables were ordinary cabbage, but the meat was hard to tell what kind of meat it was. I just felt that it was not the meat of ordinary poultry such as pigs, sheep, and cattle.Although it doesn't taste very good without seasoning, I was very hungry at this time, but I still ate it with gusto.

Miao Ludao turned into a magician, and after Lin Pingzhi ate for a while, a jug appeared in his hand, and he said, "Drink some water, although we drank a lot of water when we dived from the stream, we still should drink water after all." I'll be a little thirsty."

Lin Pingzhi was satisfied with eating and drinking, so he praised Miao Ludao: "Sure enough, I saw you right. You are indeed a talent that can be cultivated, and you will become a great tool in the future. Where did you get this food? Could it be you?" I met the owner here and asked him for some food? Otherwise, how could he have food prepared at this time and enough for the two of us? "

Miao Ludao scratched his head and said, "I didn't even see a single person. I just left here and found it was pitch black outside. I wanted to come back at that time and go out with a candle to find my way. But when I thought you were still inside, If I take the candle away, it will be very inconvenient for you."

Lin Pingzhi felt a little sorry to hear that he was so particular about it, and said, "You can actually come back and tell me, and take half a candle away, then I won't lose light, and it will be more convenient for you."

Miao Ludao said: "I actually thought about it at the time, but I just thought that anyway, I'm just going out to try my luck when I'm very hungry, and it's not sure that I can find something to eat, so why waste candles."

"So I walked forward in the dark, only walking in one direction, and memorized the number of steps, so that no matter whether I found food or not, I could return the same way. Otherwise, this ancient tomb seems to be huge, with many rooms. Maybe I won’t be able to return to this stone chamber.”

"Fortunately, I only walked for a while, and then I saw a bright light coming from a place. I followed the bright light and found it was another stone room. Mr. Lin, do you know what is in that stone room?"

Lin Pingzhi said: "Since you ask that, the layout of this stone room must be different from ours. This room is a women's boudoir, so is that room a man's room? There is no dressing table in the room, but there are bookcases. Some idle books, in this depressing place of the ancient tomb, read occasionally to pass the time."

Miao Ludao shook his head and said, "Mr. Lin, your guess is very reasonable, but it's a pity that you didn't guess it."

He stopped being pretentious and continued: "There are several sarcophagi in the stone room. I was going to open the sarcophagus to see what was inside, but I thought that before I left, Mr. Lin, you said that we were guests and we should not do anything to offend the host. I gave up on the matter and did not open it. But I saw many candles burning in the tomb chamber, and thought it would be expedient to use a candle for lighting."

"I took a candle and walked out of the tomb where the sarcophagus was placed. I walked forward and walked around for a long time this time, but I couldn't find a place with light. Instead, I went to many stone rooms, opened the door and went in. I saw either It's empty, there are only a few futon tables and chairs here and there, but it doesn't look like our bedroom is inhabited."

"But at last I saw a candle light in another room. I hurried in and found that there were tables and chairs inside. There were two bowls on the table. It was the bowl you were holding in your hand, Young Master Lin. There are vegetables."

"At that time, I guessed that this room was the restaurant of the owner of the ancient tomb. This point must be his or their meal. Now the meal is ready to eat. I don't know why and went out again. I just came in."

"So I thought about meeting the owner of the ancient tomb. I might have to try to ask them for some food. Since they live here all the time, it won't be too difficult to cook. Just make two more bowls. I have some broken pieces on my body." Silver can also be used as banknotes. In fact, they may not be stingy people, maybe they have the right to treat us as banquets."

"But I looked around and couldn't find anyone, so who could I ask for it from?"

"I also imitated Mr. Lin, you said to the air, the two of us are really hungry, we just saw the food, so we took it first and ate it first, I hope the master will be happy. After saying this, I am really too hungry. No matter what, I ate a bowl of rice upside down, thinking that my master would bump into me and scold me on the spot, saying that I was a blatant thief, so I will admit it."

"However, no one showed up until I finished eating. I remembered Mr. Lin, you must be very hungry too, so I brought another bowl and brought it back for you."

Hearing this, Lin Pingzhi couldn't help being moved, and said, "Miao Daoist, you are a person who values ​​friendship, I will keep it in mind. Then you came back?"

Miao Ludao showed a dazed face, and said: "I came out with my rice bowl, and went back the same way by relying on the direction I remembered in my heart. My master often praised me for my memory, and I always remembered what I taught me once, but this meeting will also lead me to the future. Remember it clearly, I guess it will not be much different.”

"However, this ancient tomb is huge, with many rooms and the same appearance. It's almost a little bit worse. I went back from memory, but I still lost my way. I just kept circling around and couldn't find it."

"I don't know how long I've been around, and the candles in my hand are all burned out—thanks to my being careful, I took another candle in the dining room, and lit it to find the way, but I still couldn't find the place where we are now. Stone Chamber."

"At this moment, I felt a sound in front of me. I heard the sound and rushed forward. Just as I reached the sound, there was another sound in front of me. After going back and forth several times, I suddenly realized: Could it be that someone was using the sound to lead the way? So I followed the sound. Walk in the same direction. After walking for a while, I recognized that it was a route that I had memorized in my heart just now, and I found it by myself without the need for sound guidance.”

When he was talking about this, Lin Pingzhi just finished the meal, took a sip of water, and said: "So, it is certain that there are people in this ancient tomb, and judging from the behavior you described, it should be They are humans, not ghosts. I guess these two bowls of food were left on the table intentionally by this person for you to find."

Miao Ludao agreed: "I thought so too later, otherwise there would be no reason to put the food on the table and not eat it, but to wait for me to get it?"

Lin Pingzhi said: "In any case, it seems that we are still welcome in this ancient tomb, so we can stay here for now."

Then he said loudly to the outside: "Thank you for taking me in, so that the two of us have a place to stay, and I am grateful for the delicious food you gave me. I am really grateful."

After waiting for a while, there was still no answer. Lin Pingzhi said again: "Your Excellency doesn't seem to want to meet the two of us, so we won't thank you for your kindness in person. It's just that the two of us have injuries. I need to raise generals here for a few days, occupying this stone room, I am really sorry. I still need to ask the master to prepare meals for two more days, and I still have some belongings on my body, so I will definitely reward you with a lot of money."

He knew that the other party's behavior was definitely not someone who was greedy for gold and silver, but he did eat and live in other people's homes.

What's more, he thought that since there are people living here, the stone room they are in is naturally a women's boudoir. It is expected that one of the owners of the ancient tomb must be a woman, and this person is unwilling to show up to meet each other, but he gave himself two The person is not small to help, and it is quite in line with her status as a woman.

Lin Pingzhi couldn't help but think of the hand rubbing his waist when he was sleeping.Is it a dream or reality?Could it be that there is really a woman's slender hand helping to heal the wound?

This fact is a bit strange, Lin Pingzhi can't understand the details, looking at Miao Ludao next to him, he saw a melancholy expression on his face.

Lin Pingzhi said: "It's okay, you don't have to feel too guilty. This is called emergency avoidance. Let alone the master's acquiescence, even if he doesn't allow us to eat and live here, we have no choice but to force it. What's more , I think the owner of this ancient tomb is not a person who cares about every detail, and he doesn't care about our food and lodging here."

Miao Lu hummed, and said, "Young Master Lin, I'm actually not that sorry."

Lin Pingzhi said: "Then why do you seem a little depressed?"

Miao Lu said oh, and said, "Because I'm not full."

Miao Bold is not only courageous, but also has a big stomach.Lin Pingzhi thought that he didn't eat enough because he brought a bowl for himself, so he felt a little sorry, and said, "When we get out, please go to the best restaurant in Chang'an City to eat the most expensive dishes."

After a pause, he said, "Well, I will go to the biggest brothel in the city with you then."

Miao Ludao's eyes lit up, and he said, "Young Master Lin, you want to invite me to Cuihong Tower?"

Lin Pingzhi said: "You boy is not a good person. As soon as I mentioned the biggest brothel, you knew it was Cuihonglou. It seems that you have been there before?"

Miao Lu said embarrassingly: "I have never been there before. I wanted to go a few times before, but I really didn't save any money. I knew it would cost a lot, so I didn't dare to go in."

Lin Pingzhi said indifferently: "If it's about money, then it's not a big deal."

Miao Ludao was overjoyed and said, "I've seen that the young master is like a rich family, so he is not short of money. By the way, young master, after I go out, there is one more thing I want to trouble you for."

Lin Pingzhi said: "What's the matter? Just say it, there are many things you can't do in your Quanzhen teaching, and I can help you. Is it because someone bullied you, and your master doesn't allow you to fight back, and you want me to help you?" Venting your anger? Hey, I'm good at this. I was helping people in Xiangyang City some time ago. But the ending was not very auspicious."

Miao Ludao shook his head and said, "It's not about fighting."

He expressed a twitchy expression and pondered for a long time, and finally plucked up the courage to say: "Somehow, when I met your sister last time, I always felt that I had some affinity with her and wanted to make friends with her. I don't know about you, Brother Lin."

Lin Pingzhi's reply was straightforward and very refreshing.

roll.

(End of this chapter)