The salted fish attack made the master carry the cub

"Is there any difference in the cumulus view?" Zong Wu asked softly.

The young man was thinking of some words to prevaricate, at this moment, Ji Sheng came not far away.

"Have you found it?" The Taoist in white asked, his eyes were facing the land fairy.

"Eh? Why is it so lively?"

Qi Wushen said nothing, glanced at the sky, and said to the four people: "No matter what, I must go to the Cumulus Cloud Temple. It's getting late now, why don't you go back to the inn and talk about it in detail?"

After the test just now, Rongrong also realized that the little old man in front of him should just smell like a peacock demon, not the one who killed her parents.

The boy stroked her long hair to comfort her a few more times, and promised her that he would go to Cumulus to watch tomorrow. The little girl's mood was much more stable than before.

"Then let's eat first." Rong Rong said with a pout.

The young man smiled, and the four of them went back to the inn together, ordered some stir-fried vegetables at the second corner of the shop, and asked them to prepare them and send them to the room.

Before going upstairs, the boy also asked: "Bring some fresh fruits and vegetables, radishes, celery, anything is fine, the main thing is fresh."

Xiao Erben wondered that these three people ordered four or five people, and they wanted to add lettuce, but after all, he had money to earn, so he didn't ask carefully, so he ordered it to the back kitchen.

Several people entered the same room, sat around the table, and the land explained the situation when he inspected those fields one by one, and there was nothing strange in his words.

It is now spring and summer, and considering the busy work on the land, the few people did not stay longer, but agreed to check tomorrow and contact again if necessary.

They bid farewell, and when Ji Sheng saw that the food hadn't arrived, he took Rong Rong downstairs to remind him.

For a moment, there were only two masters and apprentices left in the room.

The young man lowered his eyes and thought deeply. Zong Wu sat at the table and looked at the young man's slightly green side face. He knocked on the table and asked, "So, what happened to the Cumulus Cloud Temple?"

Qi Wushen returned to his senses, looked at Master ignorantly and puzzled, and asked back: "What's wrong with Cumulus Cloud View?"

He said again: "In my opinion, there are also suspicious things in the farmlands in the south and east of the city. Master, we are running out of time. Why don't we check it separately tomorrow? The three of us will each go to one place."

Zong Wu's eyes were heavy, his hands were folded in front of his chest, and his eyes were full of scrutiny when he looked at the little apprentice.

If he was usually stared at by the master like this, the young man must have felt flustered, but after this period of contact, he felt that he was used to it, and he could even be bathed in the master's cold blade-like eyes without moving a muscle.

After a while, Zong Wu spoke again.

"Tight time?"

Although they came out this time, although they brought limited daily necessities, they had inexhaustible money, and there was absolutely no such thing as time urgency.

Unexpectedly, the young man pulled out a gentle smile, and said in a soft voice: "Master, count today's days, if the investigation takes another four or five days, when the poison of hopeful love breaks out, it will be just It’s going to be settled in this inn. It doesn’t matter to the apprentice, but I’m afraid of wronging the master, and..."

He walked to the wall and tapped lightly on the wall, the wall echoed quite a bit, and the young man said again: "Besides, the sound insulation of this inn is not very good, in case someone finds out..."

"Shut up." Zong Wu shook the intertwined hands, and the intent to kill was obvious in his eyes. At this moment, the door was opened from the outside.

Ji Sheng came in with a basket of melons, fruits and vegetables, and said, "There's no water."

As soon as he finished speaking, he picked up a cucumber with one hand, wiped it with his sleeve, and took a bite.

Seeing this, the little rabbit in his arms also jumped out, turned into its original form, hugged a carrot and began to chew on it.

The boy still had doubts: "Is there no water?"

Ji Sheng nodded and said, "Yes, there is no water. More precisely, there is no drinking water."

He said again: "The water from the well in the back kitchen is blood-colored, and we can't cook for the time being. Let's eat some fruit first."

When the Taoist in white was speaking, he had an expression of indifference, but the young man was keenly aware that something was different.

"Bleeding from the well, why are you all so calm?" Qi Wushen asked back with a slight frown, expressing his puzzlement to his friend who was still eating melons quietly.

Ji Sheng spread his hands, but said: "Then I don't know."

"The little one said that since three months ago, this kind of situation has happened from time to time. At first they were also very worried and thought it was a sin from heaven, so they went to invite the master of Cumulus Cloud Temple. After seeing it, the master said After saying the four words "be quiet, don't be impatient", he left. Sure enough, after half an hour, the well water that was dug out became clear again. "

The water well meets many needs of the people for food and life. Although this seems not so good, it has not caused any substantive problems after all.What's more, people in this city don't think of any important questions, so the young man naturally didn't ask any more questions.

Several people sat at the table, Ji Sheng and Rong Rong grabbed some fruits and vegetables to pad their stomachs, but Zong Wu and Qi Wushen remained still.

Rong Rong wiped out half of the basket of fruits and vegetables, and his stomach was full. Finally, he stopped crying, and lay down on the bed by himself, and fell asleep comfortably.

When the food was actually served, another hour passed, and the sky was already dark.

The food in the inn was oily, and Zong Wu couldn’t finish it after a few mouthfuls. The young man was a little bit hungry, and he didn’t feel much anymore, so he just ate a few mouthfuls.

At the dinner table, several people discussed the little girl's problem again.

Ji Sheng picked up vegetables with one hand and rested his chin with the other, moving his chopsticks extremely slowly, taking advantage of the gap between picking up vegetables, he asked Qi Wushen: "You just said that you will go to Cumulus Temple tomorrow, but let me tell you, actually It doesn't make much sense to go or not."

As soon as he mentioned the Cumulus Cloud Temple, the young man immediately felt his back go cold, he quickly laughed and said, "I didn't say to only go to the Cumulus Cloud Temple, I have to investigate, I have to investigate."

"But..." Ji Sheng just wanted to speak, but saw the young man winking at him wildly.

Qi Wushen deliberately changed the topic: "This is not important, so what you said just now is not very meaningful?"

Hearing this, Ji Sheng glanced at Rongrong, lowered his head, and whispered in a voice that could only be heard clearly at the dinner table: "Isn't it meaningless? You think, the little rabbit has already said it, her parents He was captured by the peacock demon to make medicine, and he died. You think his parents are kings anyway, and there must be people protecting them, and they have never beaten the peacock demon before, so how strong is the peacock demon?"

He said again: "Look at us again, we can't use our spiritual power now, so what if we really found those peacock demons? Help the little girl to avenge? I'm afraid we should be taken in first."

The boy put down his chopsticks and didn't speak. He naturally knew what Ji Sheng said, but...

He knew it was dangerous, but he still had to do it. After all, there was still nothing there.

"It's just an investigation, it shouldn't be a big problem if you don't start a fire." Qi Wushen said in his heart: If it really doesn't work, he can only go back to Jiuchongtian and bring some reinforcements.

After chatting with Master last time, he already knew that the fetus in Zong Wu's womb was not a demon fetus. It was only because of the involvement of love and poison in the process of conception that such a misunderstanding occurred.

Wait for another two months, the poison of love will dissipate naturally, and the grievances on Master will naturally be cleared away.

"Maybe." Ji Sheng also put down his chopsticks, he suddenly remembered something, and opened his mouth and said, "I don't know if the land that I met just now can help."

The boy picked up the teacup and rubbed his fingertips on the rim.

It is indeed a way to find help from the land fairy, but...

"Farewell." The young man thought of the old arms and legs of the land, and only felt that if there was a real fight, the old man might be sent to the Nether Mansion of the Styx for reconstruction.

"That's right." Ji Sheng changed the subject and said again, "It seems that the priests in Diyuan are not very good at fighting."

-

The three separated, washed and prepared to go to sleep. When the young man returned to his room, he found that the candle in Zong Wu's room was still burning. He knocked on the door lightly, and after receiving the answer, he opened the door and walked in.

The bean lamp was swaying, Master's long straight black hair was scattered on his shoulders, but his clothes were neat, although he had finished washing, he didn't intend to sleep at all.

The table in front of Zong Wu was empty, except for a teacup between his jade fingers, but that teacup was also empty, as if he was in a daze.

"Master, is there anything else you haven't done?" the young man opened his lips and asked.

"No." Zong Wu dropped two words, his tone was indifferent, but when he glanced at the young man, his gaze was a bit lazy, as if he was still brooding over the incident before the meal.

The young man who was standing at the door closed the door and sat down at the table in a stately manner, completely ignoring the disturbance in the middle of the night.

"Then why isn't Master still asleep?"

He also imitated Zong Wu's appearance, leaning on the table with one hand, meeting Zong Wu's eyes.

The warm yellow candlelight reflected on Zong Wu's face, outlining the soft lines of his side face, that kind of beauty is in the middle of handsome and soft, if placed on others, it will only make people feel fragile, but placed on him It's just right.

"I find that you are getting more and more presumptuous now."

Zong Wu knocked on the table with a sleepy tone, obviously a bit sleepy, since he was pregnant, he has always felt sleepy, and he has walked a lot today.

"Presumptuous?" Qi Wushen laughed dumbly, "I just care about you, and I'm afraid that you..."

Cough, the boy suddenly noticed something.

Although they are all concerned, his concern for Master now is obviously different from the past.

how to say?In the past, the concern for the master was that nothing happened to the master, as long as he lived.

But now, he cares about Zong Wu to such an extent that he doesn't care about the details, and even when he has different opinions, he will directly help the master decide.

"Master, I'm not..." The young man seemed to want to explain, but was interrupted by Zong Wu.

"I don't sleep just because there are other people on the bed." He glanced lightly, and after a while, the boy remembered that Rongrong was still lying on the bed.

The little girl went to bed when she was full, and slept soundly.

"I'll wake her up." The boy got up and wanted to wake Rongrong back into his original form.

"No need." Zong Wu said lightly, "Go ask for another room."

The boy's gaze stayed for a moment, and he finally said "OK".

"Master, go to lie down next door first, and I'll go downstairs to look for that mistress."

Qi Wushen handed Zong Wu the key to his room, turned around and went downstairs to find someone, turned around, but there was no shadow of the young couple.

At this moment, there was a distant cracking sound, and from the corner of my vision, I saw a few bright fireworks blooming in the dark night sky outside the door.

When the young man walked to the door, the closed shops and residents on both sides of the inn also opened their doors one after another, walked out of the house, and looked up to admire the beautiful scenery of fiery trees, silver flowers and never-night sky.

"The lantern ceremony of Cumulus Cloud Temple this year is even grander than in previous years." It was the people talking about it.

"Who says it's not? Today is just a rehearsal. With such a big battle, the ceremony will officially start three days later. It won't be too lively."

"At that time, the whole city will probably pass by."

"Dengyi?" Hearing the two chatting, the young man couldn't help leaning forward and began to inquire.

"Can the two of you tell me in detail about the lamp instrument in Cumulus Cloud View?"

The two chatting were interrupted, and they looked at Qi Wushen at the same time.When the strange young face caught their eyes, they were a little wary at first, but seeing the soft and sincere smile on the boy's face, they couldn't help opening their hearts.

"Aren't you a local?" One of them asked Qi Wushen.

The young man nodded. They were indeed not locals. To be more precise, they were not human beings. They were gods who descended from the Nine Heavens.

"We, the master and the disciples, happened to travel here and saw that the clouds and atmosphere here are peaceful, and the wind gathers energy. It must be a treasured place for outstanding people, so we rested here."

The young man made up nonsense without changing his face and heartbeat.

He has a lot of experience in the matter of clichés, the first point of which is to ignore everything, and to come up directly is to boast.

Sure enough, the two of them were very helpful after hearing this, with smiles on their faces.

One of them even took the young man's hand, walked a few steps forward, and said, "Isn't that right? If you say that this man is an outstanding man with a radius of hundreds of miles, only our Zhenggu City can be worthy of these three words."

He raised his finger and pointed to an old pavilion not far away, and said: "Have you seen that small building? That place was a cowshed a thousand years ago, and the people who lived there were official slaves and beggars who were neglected." .But in that place, it is said that someone once kowtowed to the sky and then ascended! Do you think it is miraculous?"

"Cough—" the young man coughed lightly when he heard the words, and stopped the topic of the man continuing to run away, and talked about the original lamp.

The so-called Lantern Festival, whose full name is Repentance and Misfortune Lantern Festival, is an activity held by Taoist temples to pray for blessings and disaster relief, often once a year.

Not only the cumulus cloud viewing meeting is held, but similar activities are held in the whole dust area. They believe that by lighting lamps, wishes and blessings can reach heaven.

However, the young man knew that this was actually just a good wish for mortals, and the chance of the so-called blessing reaching the Nine Heavens was extremely small.

The way is natural. These gods in the sky care about evil spirits, evil spirits, and the change of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but they don't care about "who beat whom", "which official did something bad again", "why my wife has been infertile for many years "This kind of "normal" trivial matter in the operation of heaven.

"I also heard that this year's Lantern Ceremony will have the Lord Puyun sit in town and personally light the lanterns. Compared with previous years, there will be more links of holy water and returning pills. It is said that it can prolong life."

Another person also came and explained to the young man about science.

When he heard the word Huan Dan, the boy felt a "thump" in his heart.

When he was in Dust Realm, there was a trend of "alchemy" among the people. According to rumors, the elixirs refined can make people immortal and youthful.

Through the technique of yellow and white, transcending the six realms, even the Nine Heavens would know that this is a big joke, but there are some people who believe it, and many people died because of taking Huan Dan.

Many years after the boy's ascension, he heard that the Emperor Renjia at that time died of taking Huan Dan in the end.There are still people who believe in such a decadent idea after nearly a thousand years.

Unfortunately...

The young man remembered the news about the cumulus temple that he had investigated before. The information clearly stated that the temple master was a man of Taoism and had the potential to rise to the top. How could he make such a low-level mistake?Is it intentional to spread the idea of ​​taking food and returning pills in the city, or is it just stupid and dull?

The boy chatted with those two for a while, all about Cumulus Cloud View.In addition to that concept, in the past six months, several large-scale activities have been held, and there is nothing else.

In the night sky, the dazzling fireworks had landed, and the people who came out to watch the excitement shrank back one after another.

The boy didn't stay any longer, and after thanking the two of them, he returned to the inn.When he went back, Xiao Er had already returned to the high chair behind the counter. The boy asked and found out that he also went out to watch the fireworks, but he walked farther away, so he missed it with the boy.

"Do you want to open another room?" Xiaoer asked.

The boy nodded. Not only did he want to open another room, but he also asked for the vacant room in the corner on the right hand side by name.

The next second, the waiter said: "Do you think the room just up the stairs is okay? The room in the corner upstairs...is not very clean."

"Not too clean?" The boy asked suspiciously, "It's okay, I can clean it myself."

"That's not what I meant." Xiao Er lowered his voice and tugged at the boy's sleeve, "I didn't mean it cleanly, but it meant that people died there."

"In other words, there are ghosts."

-

dong dong dong-

In the room, Zong Wu, who had just closed his eyes, was suddenly awakened by a moderate knocking sound.

"Wu Shen?" He rubbed his sleepy eyes, got up and opened the door, thinking that the little apprentice forgot something in the room.

However, the door was open, but the dark corridor was empty, and there was no shadow of the little apprentice at all.

Zong Wu thought he had heard it wrong, closed the door again, and was about to go to bed, but suddenly found that the "dong dong dong" had not stopped.

He straightened his sleepy clothes, closed the door, and carefully searched for the source of the sound.

The sound of "dong dong dong" came from the wall.

More precisely, the right-hand side is closer to the wall on the inside of the hallway.

Zong Wu moved forward a little bit along the wall, looking for the source of the sound of hitting the wall.

As it got closer, the knocking sound stopped abruptly.

Zong Wu paused, and approached lightly to find it. In the dark room, a yellow light the size of a fist lit up on the wall.

The source of the yellow light was a small hole in the wall, but the hole was just covered by the curtain hanging over the bed, so it was not discovered when I moved in.

Zong Wu bent down and retreated slightly, intending to see the contents of the cave clearly. However, before he could bend down completely, something rolled out along the cave wall and fell to the ground with a "click". Where the light has gone out.

A flash of inspiration flashed across the fingertips, intending to find it faster, however, the faint light never went out.

He still can't use spiritual power.

Zong Wu leaned over to look for it, but heard a thin and gentle female voice coming from his ear.

"I got you, haha."

He frowned slightly.

Because the round thing on the ground is a blood-stained eyeball.