Sword comes

(One more chapter tonight.)

The group slowly descended southward along the Longxu River and the Tiefu River, but they traveled more than [-] miles a day. Both Li Baoping and Li Huai were children with unusual foot strength. Although Lin Shouyi had worn out two pairs of straw sandals, He was also a child of a wealthy family, but he didn't want to complain and admit defeat in front of the two children surnamed Li. It's not too difficult to walk because of the load.

Chen Ping'an admired Li Baoping and the three children, so the word "study tour" and the title of "literary scholar" became more and more important in the minds of the straw-shoe teenagers.

Longquan County is subordinate to Yongjia County, Dali. A long time ago, all the dynasties in Dongbaopingzhou issued an edict together. If the prefectures and counties in the world have the word dragon, they need to avoid modification and replace it with other words. Now Longquan County is estimated to be stained. The light of Lizhu Cave was able to make an exception.

The place where Shattered Cave took root has shifted a lot to the south compared to the previous vacant position. The distance from Yefu Pass on the southern border of Dali, if the carriages and horses take the official road and post road, it will only take more than a month.

Zhu He is in Li's house on Fulu Street. He should have read many private books and knew a lot of outside affairs. Chen Ping'an would ask Zhu He for advice if he had something to do. On the other hand, Zhu He would also like to ask the young man about the rules and regulations of entering the mountains and the water. , I drink more times and talk less. Since Lin Shouyi drank the spirits in the silver gourd, he has been very close to A Liang, often asking him questions, and at the same time, he has a tendency to become a little alcoholic. .

In the small book box of Li Baoping, there is a painted version of the map book of counties and counties issued by the Dali imperial court. It is reasonable to say that only the provincial governor's office is qualified to archive the secret collection.According to the picture book, they will soon climb a mountain called Qidun Mountain. The mountain road is more than [-] miles long, passing through the four counties of Yongjia and Baiyun.

The group rested for a while at the foot of the mountain. Li Huai looked at the path that was no wider than Riding Dragon Lane, dumbfounded. After being shocked, he turned his head and cursed angrily: "Aliang! This is the post road you mentioned, the official horse specially built by the Dali court. Dao?! A broken road as thin as a chicken intestine is considered an official Dao?”

The post road, commonly known as the Guanma Avenue, connects all the counties and counties of a dynasty’s territory with each other. The post road is like the meridian of the human body. Once blocked, the blood will be blocked. If it is placed on the country, it will not work.

A-liang sat on a dead wood pier by the roadside, raised his head after drinking, and laughed and said: "The post roads are also divided into grades. At Yefu Pass on the southern border of Dali, there are three post roads leading to the north, Qidun Mountain Post. The road is the smallest, and is mostly used for porcelain, tea and refined salt. In the past, people came and went very lively, but now a Lizhu cave has fallen to the ground, blocking the original north-south passage. This post road is temporarily abandoned and not used. Now, many people's fortunes have been cut off, and many goods are stagnant at a waterway at the southern foot of Qidun Mountain, called Hongzhu Town. Well, most of the flower boats there are small boats of two or three people. At night, the lights are bright, and the sisters on the boat are very pretty, sitting on the bow or stern, with stripes of white flowers and thighs, just deliberately showing them to you, ordering a pot of wine and a plate of peanuts at the wine shops on both sides of the strait, without spending a fortune. Money can pay for a night."

The maid Zhu Lu hurriedly bent over and covered her young lady's ears, so as not to be sullied by the dissolute words of this disciple, she said angrily, "We won't spend the night in Hongzhu Town!"

Ah Liang pointed at Chen Ping'an next to him with the wine gourd, and said with a smile, "It won't last the night, we have to ask him, he is the God of Wealth in charge of our money bags."

Zhu Lu's eyes were sharp and murderous, as if Chen Ping'an dared to nod if she dared to kill.

Chen Ping'an thought for a while, and said with a serious face: "I must stay in the town to buy and supplement some necessary items. As for whether to spend the night there, it depends on whether the inn there is expensive or not. There are many of us, if the price is too high. It's just not fair."

Zhu Lu's face was gloomy and aggressive, "If it's cheap, we'll have to live in that dirty place with fireworks and powder? Chen Ping'an! Have you ever thought that my young lady and Lin Shouyi are both half Confucian children, or cliffs? How can the students of the academy live next to those women who are immoral, even if they can't see those disgusting pictures, they will always hear some unspeakable voices!"

Chen Pingan bit his head and replied, "We'll talk about it when we get to the town."

Zhu Lu was furious, and Zhu He stopped his daughter, "Just follow what Ping An said, don't jump to conclusions, and look over there, we don't have to spend the night in Hongzhu Town."

Zhu Lu pointed at Chen Ping'an, and said angrily: "Fortunately, you are not a scholar, otherwise those sage books are really shamed by you!"

Chen Pingan learned to read and write with Li Baoping and Zhu He along the way. Looking at Zhu Lu, who was righteous and awe-inspiring, the young man was suddenly defeated.

The culprit, A Liang, gloated on the sidelines.

Zhu Lu finally glanced at the jasper hairpin on the boy's head, feeling that it was an eyesore, and sneered: "The crown of the monkey!"

Zhu He shouted softly, "Zhu Lu!"

Li Baoping and Lin Shouyi frowned at the same time.

A-liang took a sip of wine, no matter how good the wine was, it was not very enjoyable to drink it all the time. Then he thought of the new brewed Xinghuachun in Hongzhu Town, and he was looking forward to it, thinking about how to cheat some money from Chen Ping'an. Been addicted to mouth.

Chen Ping'an hesitated to speak, but he finally did not speak, and silently led them up the mountain.

Just before entering the mountain, the straw-shoe boy bowed three times as before.

This is an old rule handed down by old man Yao, but he never explained the reason to Chen Ping'an, and Chen Ping'an has always followed it all these years.

A Liang scoffed at this, and even Chen Ping'an didn't want him to sit on a tree stump, and he never paid attention to it.

Chen Ping'an is not the kind of person who likes to impose his own preferences on others. After persuading him twice, A Liang has been doing his own way, so he will no longer discourage him, and there is nothing wrong with him along the way, and Chen Ping'an will not talk too much.

The next section of the long mountain road, although it is a post road paved with many bluestones, is quite difficult.

In the late spring season, there is no twilight in the mountains and trees, the vegetation is deep, the flowers and trees are in full bloom, and they are full of vitality.

The mountain road is curved and spirals up. No matter the size of the group, the legs are wrapped in cotton cloth to increase the strength of the feet. Each person has a wooden stick in his hand, and of course there are straw sandals woven by Chen Ping'an himself. Even the luggage has several pairs of sturdy The Zhuhe Zhulu father and daughter of the boots are no exception.

At first Zhu Lu was unwilling to live and die, disliked being too ugly and shabby, but later when he entered the mountain in a rainy day, the mountain road was muddy and his feet often slipped. Her father took the straw sandals in his hand and put them on silently. Li Huai was secretly happy, annoyed

The girl who became ashamed and angry stepped on the mud with all her strength. The martial artist at the top of the second realm stepped on it intentionally. Naturally, the force was heavy, and the mud was splashed on Li Huai's body on the spot.

The child came from a poor family and didn't bring a few changes of clothes at all. He immediately poked at the sad part and cried hard. The panting Lin Shouyi didn't want to get involved in this mess, and rolled his eyes when he stopped to rest.Zhu He is a simple-minded person. Even if he is a warrior of the Five Realms, he still patiently apologizes to the child, and promises to buy him a whole new set of clothes when he leaves the mountain and enters the town. But the only thing the child cares about is his own family. I was poor and pitiful. When I saw that the servant girl had such a bad temper, but there was a rich father by her side. The child only felt that he was being rubbed with salt from the wound, and cried even more heartbreakingly, and stepped on the muddy ground with both feet. It was like a little mud monkey. After coming and going, everyone became upset. Chen Ping'an went up to persuade him, but Li Huai didn't want to listen. Chen Ping'an was quickly implicated in yellow mud. I've suffered, but I'm not anxious, just a little helpless.

Zhu Lu took the opportunity to fan the flames, look, good intentions are not rewarded, Chen Ping'an, you can quickly leave such heartless things behind.

Li Huai cried even more.

Li Baoping yelling loudly didn't help either.

Chen Pingan thought about it, and finally had to ask tentatively, "Li Huai, how about I turn around and make a small bamboo box for you?"

The child immediately stopped crying, wiped away his tears and snot, and asked earnestly, "How old is it?"

Chen Ping'an replied: "It can't be too big, you are small, you can't feel heavy when you carry it on your back. If you don't agree, just pretend I didn't say it, you continue to cry, and then we continue to hurry, follow you or not."

Li Huai grinned and said, "It's okay, you must make it more beautiful! At least it should be as good-looking as Li Baoping's bookcase!"

Zhu Lu clicked his tongue and said, "The upper beam is not right and the lower beam is crooked. At a young age, I learned to be deceived and deceived. You can tell without looking at the behavior of your parents. What a good family style!"

Li Huai, who was about to get the bamboo box, winked and almost made Zhu Lu so angry.

Chen Pingan turned to Lin Shouyi and said, "Make a bookcase for you too?"

He smiled, "Anyway, it's just by the way."

Lin Shouyi was about to shake his head to refuse, but after hearing the next sentence, he hesitated and nodded.

The top view of Qidun Mountain is extremely bizarre, like a huge rice drying field common in a small town. The ground is flat, and when it is placed here, it is like a fairy slashing the towering mountain with a sword.

The children were so excited that even Zhu He looked out to the north, and he was quite relaxed and happy, and could not wait to make a few long whistles.

Chen Ping'an is a person who is used to seeing mountains, especially the last trip into the mountains, walking through the mountains step by step, but now he looks relatively calm.

Tonight, we are going to spend the night on the top of the mountain. Zhuhe and Zhulu started to set up a tent. Li Huai and Lin Shouyi ran to pick up flammable firewood. Chen Ping'an and Li Baoping used stones to build a stove to cook. The grains and dried vegetables were almost eaten. It was indeed necessary to find a place for supplies in the busy market. For this reason, Chen Ping'an saw the medicinal materials on the way, so he took them off and put them in the back basket, because he was familiar with the way through the mountains and mountains, and his legs and feet were neat, even if he needed to detour. Climbing the cliff, you can keep up with the team very quickly, without delaying the trip. Now that you have saved a small half of the rare herbs that are dried in the back, it is a little bit to try to save a little bit.

After eating rice with a few plates of pickled vegetables, A Liang started to rebel, and together with Li Huai, he tapped the white bowl with chopsticks, shouting that he wanted to eat meat.

Chen Ping'an nodded and said that he will make a few traps tonight and see if he can catch a few mountain jumping pheasants tomorrow morning.

There are snakes and snakes, rats and rats, and all animals on the mountain are like this. Chen Ping'an is no stranger to this. As long as he observes carefully, it is easy to find some routes for beasts in the mountains and forests to forage for food and drink. Traps, not complicated, practice makes perfect.In the evening, the sky was full of colorful clouds. After the young man left the mountaintop and Daping alone to try his luck, it didn’t take long for the colorful clouds around the mountain to gather and disperse, and the speed was extremely fast, like the face of a stubborn child, but everyone did not feel that the mountain wind was swift and violent. , At the same time, the originally upright and refreshing scenery of mountains and rivers brings a gloomy feeling of being covered with haze to those who are interested.

This made Zhu He feel heavy immediately. He tried his best not to disturb the three schoolboys who gathered to recite books, nor to say hello to the daughter who was sitting alone by the cliff in a daze. He took out a yellowed ancient book in his arms, turned to the "Kaishan" page in the middle, stopped his finger near the "Zuoyangjue", and carefully browsed the bright red text that was as tiny as a teenage boy. Turning a page, there were two patterns, one The painting has the appearance of a hill, but the bottom of the mountain is like a knot of bamboo shoots, and the blank space next to it is annotated as "Taishan Talisman", and the other is a mysterious gesture of hand seal.

Zhu He's expression was solemn, and he recited intermittently, constantly deepening his impression, "Take a swipe of the east of the mountain and the soil of the south, the best character is Nian Yue, and the character for Nian Shan is also good", "Burning a talisman for worshiping the mountain, and stepping on the top With the word Gang, you can take a breath and borrow a mountain from the mountain god and the land, and the air is connected to the earth..."

He closed the ancient book and carefully put it back into his arms. Zhu He took out a piece of yellow paper from the pile of yellow talismans in his sleeve, and began to follow the records in the book to grab a handful of soil in the east and south of Shiping, and twist out an ancient form. The word Yue, that is, Yue, goes up the mountain and goes to prison.Zhu He was about to rub the yellow talisman presented by the ancestor of the Li family in his hand, when he was suddenly shocked. It turned out that A Liang was squatting next to him at some point, and the latter was holding a jug and said with a smile: "You have it in your hand. That ordinary material for entering the mountain, the person who wrote the talisman's talisman technique is not bad, but with the talisman, one step cannot be missed. The material of the paper is as important as the root of a human being, so it can't bear the weight of the word 'Yue'. So I advise you to write a Yue character, so you don't have to ask the gods and annoy the mountain gods."

After all, it was the first time that Zhu He came into contact with the legendary mountain spirit monster, and he was a little nervous, and said softly: "Senior Ah Liang, does this Qidun Mountain really have that land or mountain gods entrenched? Then why is there such a heavy Yin and evil aura? "

A Liang took a sip of wine leisurely, and sneered: "Who told you that the land of the mountain god must be a good-natured person?"

Zhu He was stunned, "Otherwise?"

Ah Liang said: "I just said casually, God knows whether the host here is good or bad in hospitality."

Zhu He suddenly woke up and said: "No, Chen Pingan is not on the top of the mountain alone!"

Aryan nodded.

Zhu He hurriedly said: "Senior Ah Liang, you go to Chen Ping'an, I will continue to complete this trick, how? Stuff, I really don't know what to do."

A Liang got up with a smile, swaggered away, and said lightly, "Then be careful."