The master said not to judge people by their appearance

"It seems that there is no..." The Western Region businessman changed his words after a while. He couldn't remember whether there were any footprints, but since it was a group of dead souls, there should be no footprints.

Xie Yunlan saw that the businessman from the Western Regions was not sure about this matter, so he didn't believe it. He had always been suspicious of the so-called haunted incident on Kunlun Mountain. Maybe he had to go up the mountain to check the truth about it.

After drinking, he and Shen Fan went back to the room. The accommodation conditions in this hotel built on the wasteland must not be comparable to the restaurants in the city. The bed was cold and hard. Xie Yunlan spread the clothes on the bed and fell asleep with Shen Fan one night.

The next day, Shen Fanlai couldn't get up in bed, and Xie Yunlan didn't bother him. He got up first and went downstairs. He found the shop assistant and asked where there was a guide who could lead them up the mountain.

The Kunlun Mountains are high and dangerous, with many mountains and mountains. If you go up the mountain rashly, you may get lost in the mountains, or you may stray into some dangerous place and ruin your life. Therefore, you must find a guide who is familiar with the mountain roads on this trip.

Usually there are many guides, and the local mountain people are willing to earn some extra money to guide these businessmen, but now it is winter, when the snow is at its heaviest, the mountain roads are dangerous and difficult to walk, and few people are willing to go up the mountain. It is rumored that no one dares to go up the mountain now, and the guy doesn't know where there is a guide who can go up the mountain. After thinking for a long time, he asked Xie Yunlan to go to a market not far away. There is a place where traders and mountain people trade. There are many people, maybe you can find someone who is willing to go up the mountain.

Xie Yunlan asked the waiter to deliver some breakfast to the house, and then went to the market. He walked around the market a few times and found a few local mountain people who were familiar with the mountain roads, but they were all rejected. The last one in front of him was , Xie Yunlan offered a high price that was almost irresistible. There was struggle and hesitation on the mountain people's face, but after a while, they still shook their heads.

Money is certainly exciting, but if you have money to earn but spend your life, then the gain outweighs the loss.

Xie Yunlan frowned. When he was worrying about how to go up the mountain, someone called him from behind.

"Brother, are you looking for someone to go up the mountain?"

Xie Yunlan turned her head and saw a man in his thirties. Judging by his facial features and accent, he should be from Xia.

While looking at each other, he nodded.

The man quickly said: "I can lead the way!"

"Are you familiar with mountain roads?" Xie Yunlan was a little suspicious in his words, after all, the man is not from the local area, he is from Xia from other places like him.

"Almost familiar!" The man didn't dare to vouch for it, he just said, "I often follow people up the mountain to collect herbs, and I know the way a little bit, as long as you don't go to a particularly remote place, I can lead the way!"

Xie Yunlan's trip was to investigate the army of dead souls on the mountain, and the second was to look for snow lotus. He might not go to remote places. The man's ability is still a bit weak, but there is really no one else at the moment, so Xie Yunlan agreed after thinking for a while. .

He took the man to the hotel and asked as he walked, "What's your name?"

The man said: "My name is Zhao Xing."

"Aren't you afraid of the ghosts on the mountain?" Xie Yunlan asked.

He didn't dare to ask so many people, but the man in front of him volunteered and jumped out. He actually had some doubts in his heart.

Zhao Xing said: "Scared! Why not be afraid! But if you go up the mountain and meet a ghost, you will die. If you don't go up the mountain and go home empty-handed, you and your family will starve to death. The whole family is waiting for me to support them. Now the business is so noisy that I can't do it. I have to find some work." no?"

"By the way, shopkeeper, you just said this number to the person who led the way." He gestured to Xie Yunlan and said anxiously, "Can I count this too?"

"Yes." Xie Yunlan has never been stingy when it comes to money. He immediately gave a small deposit and said, "The final payment will be paid after I leave the mountain."

Zhao Xing took the gold ingot and bit it with his teeth. After confirming that it was real gold, he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. He asked, "When will the shopkeeper go up the mountain?"

"Just today." While speaking, Xie Yunlan also walked back to the hotel, and he gave Zhao Xing another sum of money to buy some things for going up the mountain, while he went back to the house and called Shen Fan.

It took him more than an hour to go back and forth to the market, and it would be almost noon in a while, Shen Fan still didn't get up, and the breakfast was left untouched on the table, and it was cold.

Xie Yunlan lifted a corner of the quilt, and the person in the quilt shrank back immediately.

He realized that Shen Fan wasn't awake, but was lying in bed.

"Get up!" He patted the quilt.

"It's too cold..." Shen Fan's voice was a bit dull because he was stuffed under the quilt.

"You can't get up when it's cold?" Xie Yunlan was a little funny, he's such a big man... no, he's such a big dragon, yet he still stays out of bed because of the cold weather.

When Gao Zu offered sacrifices to the Dragon God and enshrined the candle dragon as the totem of the Great Xia, he probably never dreamed of this scene.

"Aren't you not afraid of the cold?" Xie Yunlan asked while trying to pull Shen Fan out of the bed. Shen Fan said he was not afraid of the cold last time in Yazhou.

"I'm really not afraid." Shen Fan said, he is really not afraid of the cold, he can even take off his thick cotton coat and walk in the snow and ice in only his single clothes, his body is invulnerable to cold and heat.

But he does also become lazy because of the cold weather. Getting up is not a fight against the temperature, but a fight between the will and the instinct, and the will is obviously defeated.

"Hurry up, I found a guide. It just so happens that the weather is fine today. Let's hurry up and go up the mountain today." Under Xie Yunlan's repeated urging and dragging, Shen Fan was finally snatched from the seal of the bed.

Xie Yunlan asked the waiter to heat up the breakfast, and after Shen Fan finished eating, he went to Kunlun Mountain together with Zhao Xing, who had bought something.

They didn't ride horses, and the mountain road was rugged and steep. Horses couldn't walk. Xie Yunlan left the horse in the hotel, and the group walked up the mountain. Zhao Xing led the way in front, Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan walked behind, he took Shen Fan's hand and walked At that time, he was slightly ahead of Shen Fan by half a step, first helped the other party to walk the road under their feet, and made sure that the snow was not loose before pulling Shen Fan forward.

After walking for two hours, the sky turned cloudy, and the weather on the mountain was like this. Not long ago, the sky was clear, but now the snowstorm is coming, Zhao Xing turned around and said: "Both shopkeepers, it seems that it is going to snow. Let's find a place to hide first!"

Xie Yunlan also had the same idea. Even if it wasn't snowing, it would be getting dark soon. The mountain roads were so dangerous that they couldn't walk at night, so they had to find a place to spend the night before dark.

He asked Zhao Xing, "Is there any residence nearby?"

He knew that there were some dwellings on the mountain, some were built by the mountain people who lived on the mountain, and some were built by people who picked herbs to rest overnight, but he was not familiar with the place, so he didn't know where it was.

"There is a house over there, we will spend the night there when we go up the mountain to collect herbs." Zhao Xing pointed in the direction.

Xie Yunlan asked Zhao Xing to lead them there. They will spend the night here tonight, and continue on their way tomorrow after the snow stops.

They were lucky and arrived at the wooden house before the snow fell. After entering the door, Zhao Xing immediately locked the door lock to prevent the wind and snow from pouring into the house. He then found the place where the firewood was piled up and brought a stack of firewood to the ground. .

The firewood was crackling, and the flames dispelled the chill of the wind and snow outside the house. The three of them brushed off the falling snow on their bodies and sat by the fire to warm up.

After warming his hands and feet, Zhao Xing found a pot from the house and set it up. He brought another jar of wine and poured it into the pot to heat it up. He filled a bowl for himself, and another for Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan. bowl, and said: "This is the medicinal wine brewed by the local mountain people, try it, it will warm you up."

After finishing speaking, he gulped down a big gulp first, and Zhao Xing let out a comfortable sigh as the scorching wine entered his stomach.

"He doesn't drink." Xie Yunlan refused the wine for Shen Fan, and picked up a bowl to taste it herself. It's really cold on the mountain, so it's good to drink some wine to warm up, but the taste of this medicinal wine is a bit strange, and he's not used to it. So after a few sips, he put it aside.

Drinking is just to warm the stomach but not satisfy the hunger, so after drinking the wine, Zhao Xing went outside to dig a handful of clean snow to melt, put the frozen dried meat and bread into the pot, sprinkle some salt, and boiled the pot of meat lump soup .

This soup is not delicious, but it is also very good as a food to satisfy the hunger in this world of ice and snow, at least it is warm.

Xie Yunlan gulped down a few bowls, but Shen Fan held the bowl for a long time without moving. Zhao Xing asked strangely, "Why doesn't this shopkeeper eat?"

"He's not used to it." Xie Yunlan knew Shen Fan very well, knowing that the other party would definitely not be able to eat this rough food, so he specially brought some delicate pastries, and he put the pastries on the fire to heat them until they were so hot. Then handed it to Shen Fan.

Zhao Xing was amazed. Those who went to Kunlun Mountain were all for making a living, so how could they be so picky.

He inquired curiously: "Why are the two shopkeepers looking for Xuelian?"

Xie Yunlan told him that the reason for going up the mountain was to find Xuelian, but he didn't say why he was looking for Xuelian. According to common sense, it was to find Xuelian to sell money, but these two really don't seem to be short of money.

"My sister is sick and needs snow lotus treatment, so he came with me." Xie Yunlan said while drinking the meat lump soup.

Zhao Xing: "Sister?"

"Cousin." Xie Yunlan said.

Zhao Xing gave a thumbs up and said in admiration, "The shopkeeper is so loyal!"

Traveling thousands of miles to Kunlun in this winter, you dare to go up the mountain with the risk of being haunted by ghosts, just to treat your cousin’s illness.

Xie Yunlan smiled, he was not only for Yuzhen, but also for the so-called army of dead souls.While eating and chatting, he inquired about Zhao Xing: "By the way, I heard that the army of dead souls has killed several families of mountain people. Where do those mountain people live?"

He wanted to go to the scene of these crimes to check them out.

"It's quite far, don't worry!" Zhao Xing obviously misunderstood Xie Yunlan's meaning, he said, "I took you this way specially, the army of dead souls has only committed crimes in the south of the mountain so far, we are in the north of the mountain, It's out of their range!"

"That's good." Xie Yunlan looked rejoicing, he didn't want to reveal his true purpose in front of Zhao Xing, after all he didn't know much about Zhao Xing's details.

Tomorrow, I still have to think of a reason for Zhao Xing to take them to the south.Xie Yunlan thought about it, and began to make the bed and prepare to sleep.

There was only one bed in the wooden house, not big enough for two people to sleep. Zhao Xing consciously gave up the bed to Xie Yunlan and Shen Fan, and put his clothes together on the floor near the fire to sleep.

Xie Yunlan asked Shen Fan to sleep inside, and after Shen Fan lay down, he covered him with a cotton coat. There was no bedding in this wooden house, so he could only sleep with clothes covered. Although Shen Fan said again in the morning that he was not afraid of the cold, Xie Yunlan felt that it was just He was being stubborn, so he gave most of his cotton coat to cover Shen Fan, making sure to wrap him tightly.

However, Shen Fan was not satisfied with this, cotton clothes were still not comparable to bedding, he wanted something warmer, so as soon as Xie Yunlan lay on the bed, he hugged him.

Xie Yunlan reflexively wanted to push him away, Shen Fan couldn't understand Xie Yunlan's resistance, he said: "It's not the first time."

Xie Yunlan: "..."

Although it is indeed not the first time, not even the second time, but I don't know how many times, it sounds strange for Shen Fan to say this.

He glanced at Zhao Xing and saw that Zhao Xing was already lying still, as if he was asleep, so he coughed lightly and said, "It's not about the number of times..."

It was because he would blush whenever Shen Fan approached him, and he could control himself when he was awake, but he didn't know what he would do when he fell asleep.

"What's the problem?" Shen Fan looked at Xie Yunlan's flushed ears and asked innocently.

"Yes..." Xie Yunlan couldn't make up a reason for a moment.

However, Shen Fan had already taken the opportunity to hug Xie Yunlan up completely. He wrapped his hands and feet firmly around Xie Yunlan, feeling the gradually rising body temperature, and rubbed his head comfortably against the other's neck.

Xie Yunlan's body temperature was getting higher and higher.