The rest of the journey was uneventful, and the two of them got along very happily.
I learned the meditation technique for three or four days;
Under Piao Xian'er's patient teaching, Fang Yuan discovered that Miaoying's invisible presence no longer flickered.
However, he can only become invisible for about five breaths, and no matter how hard he tries, he can't grow any more.
Fang Yuan was once joked by Piao Xian'er: "A real man in five seconds."
I have become quite proficient in the traction technique, thanks to Piao Xian'er's careful teaching and correction.
At Xu time on the fifth day, the two came to a cliff.
There was a thatched house on the edge of the cliff, and it was also a tavern. The lights were brightly lit in the tavern. The two people dismounted, but no waiter showed up to greet the guests.
Piaoxian'er whispered:
"Don't talk when you enter the store later. When it's time to eat, when it's time to drink, for the rest, just look at my eyes."
Fang Yuan nodded and followed Piao Xian'er into the store.
There were five people in the room, four of them eating and drinking around a table. The only shop owner turned out to be a one-eyed old woman.
Piao Xian'er took Fang Yuan and sat down at the only table in the store.
Ignoring the four big men who had been staring at them since they walked in, Piao Xian'er shouted to herself:
"Two pounds of meat, a basket of white flour steamed buns, and a pot of tea."
The one-eyed old woman glanced at the two men sinisterly, and then walked out with two large bowls under the counter.
"Bangdang..."
The one-eyed old woman came to the table and threw the plate with barbecue and steamed buns on the table.
"It's twenty taels of silver in total. You can only eat after you pay!"
A plate of barbecue and a few steamed buns cost two taels of silver, so Fang Yuan just fried them.
"Just these two shriveled steamed buns? For two taels of silver, the oiran can eat big meat buns with me."
Fang Yuan, who was about to stand up to argue after Piao Xian'er pressed the button, shook his head at him.
"Pay!"
Fang Yuan stared at Piao Xian'er with wide eyes, but what responded to him was Piao Xian'er's even bigger and brighter white eyes.
Helpless, Fang Yuan could only take out two hundred copper coins and angrily threw them on the table.
The old woman squinted her eyes and stared at Fang Yuan coldly. Fang Yuan was really frightened by the empty eye socket.
"boom......"
Piao Xian'er slapped her palm on the table, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.
The old woman glanced at Piao Xian'er, waved her wide sleeves on the table, and all the copper coins disappeared without a trace.
Immediately, the old woman staggered back to the counter.
Piao Xian'er cut off a piece of barbecue and ate it directly.
"Didn't the book say that you should be careful when traveling in the world, and you should eat something that has been tested with a silver needle?"
Although he thought so, when he saw Piao Xian'er eating, Fang Yuan, who was already hungry, also grabbed the barbecue and started to eat it.
After devouring for a while, Fang Yuan was soon full.
Piao Xian'er was polite and leisurely, cutting the barbecue into small pieces and chewing it slowly.
Another hour or so passed,
A pretty woman walked in outside the door. She was dusty, her gauze skirt was slightly ill-fitting, and she looked pitiful. She was carrying a bamboo basket behind her back, and inside the bamboo basket was a boy of about five or six years old.
Seeing the pretty woman entering the door, the four big men's eyes lit up, staring closely at the pretty woman's half-sultry, half-red eyes.
Fang Yuan couldn't help but lick his lips, feeling a little thirsty, so he took a sip of tea.
The pretty woman put a couple of pieces of silver on the counter, took the food and walked towards a bench in the store.
When passing by four big men;
The pretty woman's arm was suddenly clamped by a strong hand.
"Madam, why don't you sit down and share the same table with me? There will be fine wine and delicious food on the table."
The pretty woman looked frightened and said in denial:
"Thank you sir, I apologize for the inconvenience."
"Snapped......"
One of the strong men slammed the table and snorted:
"If you don't give me the respect of the four ghosts of Xishan, come here, or I will kill you and throw you under the cliff to feed the beasts."
The pretty woman was trembling, her face was full of fear, her body was trembling and she wanted to break away from the clutches of several people, but the four ghosts in Xishan refused to let her go.
Fang Yuan couldn’t stand it anymore;
Just when he wanted to stand up, Piaoxian'er glared back at him.
There was a sigh from the old woman at the counter.
After some pushing and shoving;
The pretty woman was forced to sit down by the four ghosts of Xishan, and she was also forced to drink a bowl of wine with each of them.
The child sitting in the beauty's bamboo basket watched with wide eyes, but neither cried nor made a fuss.
Fang Yuan kept looking at the pretty woman, thinking that when the situation was really critical, he would do anything to force her.
Suddenly, the four ghosts in Xishan all covered their necks and groaned in pain.
It takes less than two breaths;
The four of them were frothing at the mouth and fell on the table, lifeless.
The pretty woman's originally cowardly look suddenly became fierce;
He took off the bamboo basket, put the child on the bench, and enjoyed the food on the table together.
At this time, a ghostly voice came from the counter,
"Alas, the four ghosts in Xishan have really become four ghosts."
"Ling Ying Shuang Sha, wipe your butt before eating, don't taint my shop."
The old woman's voice was filled with endless majesty.
The pretty woman hurriedly stopped what she was doing and changed her face to please her.
"I know, I know, I don't dare to dirty your shop."
As he spoke, he winked at the little boy next to him.
The little boy suddenly jumped on the table and grabbed a corpse.
The thin body actually grabbed the body that was several times stronger than him, shook it gently, and easily threw the body out of the window.
A burst of smooth operations,
The four bodies were all cleaned up, leaving only four people's money bags on the table.
Looking at everything happening before my eyes,
Fang Yuan broke out in a cold sweat behind his back. This pretty woman is the one who pretends to be a pig and eats the tiger. What she did just now was too reckless, and it was all thanks to Piao Xian'er.
The two pretty women continued to enjoy the delicious food left on the table, but their eyes glanced at Fang Yuan from time to time.
At this time, a voice talking to himself came out,
"Well, there are a lot of bed bugs in the deep mountains and wild forests. Fortunately, I have prepared insecticide. If any bed bug dares to appear in the store, I will kill it to avoid disturbing the distinguished guests."
The two pretty women shrank their necks and did not dare to look at Fang Yuan and the other two.
I don’t know how much time passed;
The one-eyed old woman suddenly walked out of the counter, took out a piece of green old bamboo, struck one long and two short,
"Da... da da, the time has come. The strangers are avoiding me, but the bridge is falling and the ghosts are on the way."
After repeatedly tapping and chanting three times, he asked darkly:
"Which of you will cross the bridge first? After the bridge, you don't care about your predecessors or the consequences."
The Spiritual Infant Shuangsha stood up first and said respectfully:
"The two of us will go through first."
The one-eyed old woman turned to look at Piaoxian'er and asked:
"What do you two think?"
Piao Xian'er nodded and said in a deep voice: "Yes!"
Immediately, the one-eyed old woman held a lone lamp and led the four people out of the house to the edge of the cliff.
The evening wind in the valley was biting, but it didn't move the oil lamp at all, and the light barely swayed.
Thick black mist emanated from the cliff;
Like a huge mouth of an abyss, it seems to swallow everything in the world.
The one-eyed old woman stood on the edge of the cliff, with her back to the four people, and danced with the lone lantern in her hand.
Not long after,
Two large blood-red lanterns rose from the top of the opposite mountain and flew slowly towards this side. The lanterns were painted with ferocious skulls. As the lights flashed, they looked even more terrifying.
Fang Yuan couldn't help but lean closer to Piao Xian'er, smelling her fragrance to feel safe enough.
The lantern floated in front of the one-eyed old woman;
Under the light of the lantern, a vine suspension bridge appeared in the void.
The Spiritual Infant Shuangsha took the lead to step forward, stuffed something into the old woman's hand, and then walked onto the vine bridge in a swagger. It looked like it was definitely not the first time to walk on this bridge.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the old woman motioned for Fang and Yuan to get on the bridge. Piao Xian'er pulled Fang Yuan up and strode directly towards the Tengqiao Bridge.
When the old woman saw the two people going directly onto the bridge, she quickly stopped in front of them and said solemnly:
"You two, buy money for the journey, two taels of silver each!"
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