Relief

Mrs. Zheng went around to the back door to dump sewage, and bumped into the neighbor next door who was poking around.

Both were embarrassed.

"What are you looking at?" Mrs. Zheng said angrily, "That's the master who came down from the mountain. My family will only receive him for one night, and he will go up the mountain tomorrow morning."

The neighbor nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes."

The Zheng family finally received Lu Hui and his party. The bodyguards bid farewell to everyone at the entrance of the town and went back to Jiangling.

Boss Zheng is the one who cooks, and Lu Hui took a few people to the back kitchen to pick up the food, and introduced to them: "Brother Zheng used to be a cook in the Zongmen, and he cooked for the true disciples of the inner sect, and his skills were quite good. He resigned after he got married. Some disciples remember him, and they will stay for a day or two when they go down the mountain to enjoy their mouths."

A burst of fragrance wafted out of the stove, Boss Zheng lifted up his apron to wipe his hands, sweating profusely, and smiled at several people: "That's right, I know many of your disciples very well. Brother Lv Er has lived here several times, and this Little brother, I also have a little impression."

What he said was Wu Li with a blank face.

Not only Wu Li was at a loss, everyone was at a loss.

Xie Zhixu said strangely: "Brother Zheng, did you remember wrongly? This is my senior brother from Qiongshan in Shu County. He has never been to Huangrenling before."

"what?"

Lu Hui smoothed things over with a smile: "There are too many disciples who come to eat, and it's normal to forget things."

Everyone stopped being entangled and couldn't wait to follow the scent and squeeze into the kitchen—in order to entertain guests, the Zheng family slaughtered chickens and pigs, causing a lot of blood.

For grilled pork, it is best to marinate the meat the night before to taste, but there is not enough time, so it only marinated for half an afternoon, and the smell is not inferior under Zheng Boss's method.Stir-fry with onion, ginger, pepper, fennel and other spices. After the meat is cooked, put it on the iron rack to continue heating. Use cotton rope to tie the pork to prevent the loss of gravy. At the same time, keep brushing the sauce in the pot, supplemented by cooking Whisk the sauce evenly with a stick, and the meat will be overflowing with a stick.

As soon as everyone wiped off their saliva, Boss Zheng opened another pot to boil delicious and thick chicken soup. As soon as the delicious aroma escaped from under the pot lid, several stomachs in the kitchen scrambled to express their hunger.

"The chicken soup is ready," said Boss Zheng, "Guests should eat some pot stickers first, drink some soup, and pad their stomachs."

While distributing the pot stickers in the bamboo basket, an unwelcome person walked in.

Xiang Heng put his hand in his left hand to smell it, and he sniffed it with his right hand. Seeing that everyone was sharing potstickers, he squeezed over and jumped in line to get two. He went out of the kitchen humming a tune.

However, no one in the kitchen stopped or scolded.After all, Lu Hui is a real senior brother, and it is not easy to make family scandals in front of outsiders. Yue Guanshan must have a lot of opinions on Xiang Heng in his heart, but he never chews his tongue behind his back.Wu Li has been very strange recently, and he talked a lot less, as if deliberately avoiding Xiang Heng and his party.

As for Xie Zhixu, he only noticed that Xiang Heng took two pot stickers.Why are there two?Know it without thinking.

He quickly picked up a bowl of chicken soup: "I'll go first."

The three people carrying the pot stickers on a plate looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Going to the courtyard to have a look, the cunning Xiang Heng found Feng Zhichang with two potstickers in his pocket.

This heartless guy.Xie Zhixu gritted his teeth with hatred.

Xiang Heng doesn't know what's going on, but he is very interested in Feng Zhichang, and he likes to show his face when he has nothing to do.It is known that Chang Ben doesn't like to be entangled, but he doesn't know what kind of person Xiang Heng is, he only thinks he is Lu Hui's junior brother, so it's not easy to put on face.Xiang Heng seemed to have won the acquiescence, and became more and more proud. He had smiling eyes again, and he was like a begging dog when he was flattering people.

Recently, the black-scaled snake has shed its skin, and the whole snake is extremely irritable, and it often looks for bark and gravel to rub the old skin.This snake is Feng Zhichang's treasure, the poison king raised in the black swamp of Tangmen, Feng Zhichang and Tang Yu are both very caring, and they dare not take their eyes off the little snake all day long.

Someone came from behind, squatting in front of the pine tree in the corner of the courtyard, and looked at the little five snakes grinding on the bark with them, the blue snake's pupils were bright and bewitching.

"Is this the snake you raised yourself? Is it poisonous?" Xiang Heng asked with a smile, and was used to no one answering the question.He already knew that Feng Zhi often had a throat problem and couldn't speak, but he didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it. Instead, he felt an indescribable excitement all the more.

"I just went to the back kitchen, and I saw that the meal wasn't ready, so I brought you something to eat first, and you must be hungry on the way." Xiang Heng took out two pot stickers, took one by himself, and handed the other To Feng Zhichang's mouth, imprinted on the corner of his lips full of hints.

Feng Zhichang raised his head to avoid it, and looked at Xiang Heng strangely.

"What's wrong?" Xiang Heng squinted his eyes, "Don't you want to eat? What are you looking at me for?"

Li Liang and Suantou, who had been paying attention to the boss all the time, shivered, knowing that once their boss set his sights on some prey, he would show such a chilling smile.

Beside Feng Zhichang, Tang Yu, who is watching his nose and mouth and heart, is also silently reciting the name of the Buddha of Rebirth—his master usually thinks that someone is annoying, and if he wants to be out of sight, he will reveal that he wants you to die in the next moment. eyes.

However, no one died at the next moment, and a hand came in between the two people who were hiding the front.

Holding a bowl of chicken soup steadily in that hand, the oily surface of the soup was specially skimmed off. The ginkgo chicken was soaked in the broth, and the aroma was much more attractive than pot stickers.

"Have some soup to moisten the intestines before meals?" Xie Zhixu's tone was a bit stiff.He couldn't figure it out, Feng Zhi often gave himself countless faces every day, how could he be so good at dealing with Xiang Heng.

Feng Zhichang didn't pick up the chicken soup either, he raised his eyelids, glanced at Xie Zhixu lightly, and continued to look at his little snake.

Xiang Heng said: "Little brother, everything should be said first come first served."

Xie Zhixu said: "Yes, you, an outsider, also know that first come first come first."

Xiao Wu came down from the tree and slipped back into Feng Zhichang's sleeve.Tang Yu immediately pushed the wheelchair past the sarcastic two people, and gave Xie Zhixu a sympathetic look.What a fool, who can tell what comes first, first come first?

Wu Li took his own dinner to avoid the crowd, and went to eat in the carriage parked outside Zheng's courtyard.

After all, the Zheng family is a small family, and the courtyard can be crowded. If you want to live in a single room, you still have to go back to the carriage.He ate dinner alone, he couldn't stop talking and wanted to talk to someone, but he didn't want to go into the yard, Xiao Wu didn't have any eyesight, and he didn't stay with his senior as honestly as before.Alas, the child can't help the father when he grows up.

Someone knocked on the wall of the car outside, leaning against and raised half of the car curtain, revealing Yue Guanshan's face.

"The fourth child has come down. I will take him to rest in the woods at the foot of the ridge of the tomb, so as not to be watched by the townspeople."

"Hmm." Wu Li replied sullenly.

Yueguanshan smiled at him: "When we go up the mountain tomorrow, they use their feet, but we can fly."

"What do you mean?"

"You took your fourth child with you all the way, isn't it just for transportation?" Yue Guanshan's tone was very clear.

"Yo," Wu Li said, "you know quite a lot."

Yue Guanshan laughed and said: "Others don't mind, you and I don't know. You hide from the new gang of hooligans, and you even have a confrontation with Lu Hui."

Wu Li looked at him with a serious face, and suddenly covered his face with five fingers: "Say! Where did you hide the fool surnamed Yue!"

Yue Guanshan didn't hide, he let him stretch out his hand, and grasped his wrist precisely: "The one named Yue is not a fool. How can a fool make fun of you, a smart person."

"That's right, that's right." Wu Li withdrew his hand and frankly admitted that he was a smart person.

Someone came out of the courtyard with dinner and went to another carriage next to it.Wu Li probed to see if there was anyone else who didn't want to see people as much as himself.

"Xiao Wu is delivering food to your second child." Yue Guanshan said.

Xie Zhixu's back was hidden behind the curtain of the car.

"Did you eat?" Wu Li asked.

Yueguanshan: "No."

Wu Li opened the food box containing the pork, the two clapped hands tacitly through the car window, and Yue Guan Shan threw his arms into the car.

Qingyuan Town is backed by the wooden ridge of the tomb. It is actually a mountain. Looking up, the top of the mountain is not in the sky, and it is impossible to recognize the height.The wooden ridge of the tomb is the ladder to enter the mountain, and the thousand steps lead directly to the mountain gate.This is the only way up and down the mountain.

In the evening, everyone crowded into the courtyard of the Zheng family, looking at the majestic Huangren Ridge behind the courtyard wall, they saw a few black spots breaking through the fog on the mountain road at the tomb.

"I'm back." Lu Hui said lightly.

Several black dots zoomed in rapidly, like a gallant horse betting on Qianzhangpo, they slid down the mountain path in the blink of an eye, and disappeared behind the courtyard wall.

"Run so fast, isn't there someone chasing after him?" Yong Lan couldn't help but said that he was the Hufu kid in Xiaoyunwei who liked to sleep on the ground.

After a short while, there were several slaps of stone slabs outside Zheng's courtyard, and three figures jumped over the wall and fell into the courtyard.Yanmen and Ningwu were so tired that they stuck out their tongues like ghosts, it was all thanks to Shu Yin who brought them back with one hand.

"These two boys can't do it. They haven't had enough to eat. They can't even run away from the gatekeeper." Shu Yinzhi complained to Jing Bubi in disgust.

"I'm kidding." Jing Bisheng said apologetically.

"No, we can't blame us... the emperor, Ling's gatekeeper... is simply a devil!" Yanmen complained panting.

"That's right, that's right!" Ning Wu echoed with lingering fear.

The two of them helped Shu Yinzhi go up the mountain to explore the way.The Qingshui River and the Modi River originate from the wooden ridge of the tomb. They flowed for hundreds of years and were dyed red overnight.

"How is it?" Lu Hui asked, "Have you entered the sect yet?"

"Go in, go in." Shu Yinzhi drank the chicken soup, and narrated the information he found after entering the mountain.

The sun and the moon are unknown in the mountains, everything is as usual, and there is no massacre as the people in the town guessed.The only change is that the mountain gate has indeed begun to strictly control the entry and exit of personnel. The gatekeeper is still the old man, but the patrolling guards are replaced by fresh faces. Shu Yinzhi didn't see those guards, so he can only be sure that they are not disciples of the sect.

The three of them sneaked in, but they didn't expect that these guards were well-trained and patrolled closely. They were discovered when they came out of the mountain, and they chased and fled all the way.

"Didn't someone follow you?" Jing Busheng was also a guard, so he was keenly aware of the problem immediately.

"No, no," Shu Yinzhi said proudly, "We took the old man around the mountain, and we came down after being exhausted and paralyzed."

Everyone: "........."

Yanmen and Ningwu, who fell to the ground in large characters, shed tears of heroes.

Shu Yinzhi said: "I have connected with Eldest Brother, tomorrow he will be waiting at the mountain gate and take us in."

Several people showed relaxed expressions, saying that it seems that the situation in Huangrenling is not too tense.Only Lu Hui was still frowning, and Shu Yinzhi elbowed him, signaling to speak up if he had something to say.

Lu Hui pondered for a moment, grasping the crux of the problem: "The patrolling guards have changed...Did Senior Brother tell you who they are?"

"Eldest brother doesn't know either," Shu Yinzhi said solemnly, "However, these guards who don't know where they came from were sent by Feng Jing, and they are only ordered by him."

Feng Jing was the former commander-in-chief of the imperial army who was sent by the higher authorities to oversee the manufacture of weapons in Huangrenling.Although Shi Renyu, the senior brother of Huangrenling, said he didn't know, he clearly pointed out the identity of the guards.

It seems that although there is no dispute in the mountains, the situation is not much better.