"Senior Meng, please take the two brothers back to rest first. The others will work hard for a while, and we will continue the search." Cao Junwu said loudly, "This thing is very dangerous. If it goes to a crowded place, The consequences could be disastrous."
"My senior brother is right, we must not let it go!" Wei Dongting was the first to stand up in support.
Others also nodded in agreement, but their enthusiasm was greatly reduced compared to before.
After all, the two injured brothers just now are a lesson learned from the past.
"Don't worry, everyone. We don't need to be too far away this time. If something happens, we can rush over immediately to provide support." Cao Junwu continued to boost morale.
Wei Dongting also followed suit.
After that, the group formed a team again and began to search around.
Shao Zilong and I waited for the others to set off before finding a direction where no one was around.
"What do you think that thing is?" Shao Zilong asked with a frown.
"You ask me, who should I ask?" I said.
"Don't you know how to do calculations? Hurry up and do the calculations." Shao Zilong said.
I said forget it.
"Let me just say, there is no use in learning this thing." Shao Zilong was quite pleased.
Seeing that the night was getting darker, I turned around and walked in another direction.
Shao Zilong doesn't care, he will follow me wherever I go.
I walked all the way without realizing it.
"Where are we?" Shao Zilong suddenly reacted, "We should be far away from them, right?"
I said nothing and continued walking forward.
Shao Zilong had no choice but to walk a few steps quickly and follow him.
Not long after walking, he let out a sigh and shouted, "Where is that place?"
I saw a large building sitting on the top of the mountain ahead, brightly lit, shining in the dark night.
"Are you hungry?" I asked him.
"It's okay if you don't say it, but when you say it, I feel my stomach growling. I should have eaten more bowls of fish noodle soup at Begonia!" Shao Zilong.
"Can you eat it?" I said with a smile, "Then go there and see if there is anything to eat."
"What a great idea!" Shao Zilong praised.
We both quickened our pace and rushed forward.
"Oh, what a big Taoist temple, so impressive!"
Arriving in front of Caoxian Temple, Shao Zilong exclaimed.
At this time, Caoxian Temple was still very popular, but there were no pilgrims. It was completely different from the busy scene before, and it seemed much deserted.
"You two, please stay."
As we were about to walk in, we were stopped by a young Taoist priest at the door.
"Is it closed?" I asked doubtfully.
"That's not true." The Taoist priest laughed, "Our Caoxian Temple keeps burning incense all night long and never closes its doors. However, Qinglong Mountain has been uneasy recently, so the temple has issued a notice asking everyone not to come to offer incense."
I was suddenly enlightened.
No wonder there are so few pilgrims here, that’s why.
"It's not peaceful? Oh, is there a tiger, or is the mountain haunted?" I asked in surprise.
The Taoist priest smiled and said, "That's not the case. It's just that wanted criminals have recently appeared in the mountains and are being rounded up. Once they are caught, we can recover."
"That's right." I nodded and said with a sad face, "Then what should the two of us do? We don't dare to go down the mountain right now. It would be terrible if we run into a wanted criminal."
"Yes, yes." Shao Zilong nodded in cooperation, his expression was very frightened.
"This is indeed..." the Taoist priest pondered.
"Otherwise, can we stay in the Taoist temple for one night and wait until dawn before going down the mountain?" I suggested.
The Taoist priest frowned slightly, "I'm afraid it won't be easy..."
"Are you having trouble?" I scratched my head, "How about we squat at the gate all night?"
"That's what you said!" Shao Zilong glared at me, "How big is this Taoist temple, so impressive, so compassionate, how can we let us spend the night at the gate?"
"Oh, my fault, my fault." I quickly admitted my mistake.
The Taoist priest coughed and said, "Then... then you two come in with me. I will arrange a place for you. How can I let you stay outside for the night?"
"Look, what I said is right, right?" Shao Zilong patted me on the shoulder.
"Yes, yes, you are right." I nodded repeatedly.
The Taoist priest hesitated for a while and then took us into the Taoist temple.
Master Zhang and I had been here once before, but it was nothing. Shao Zilong was amazed along the way and kept saying "magnitude".
"You two can just spend the night here."
The Taoist priest took us to a wing room. The furnishings inside were very simple but very neat.
"Thank you very much." I smiled and touched my stomach again, "We haven't eaten anything all day and we are so hungry."
Seeing me staring at him, the Taoist priest had no choice but to say, "Then I'll take you two to have some vegetarian food."
"That's a good feeling." We both followed him with smiles.
After passing through several courtyard doors, we came to a dining room.
It was empty with no one around, but the aroma of food wafted out from the back kitchen.
The Taoist priest led us to the back kitchen, where we saw a lot of steaming hot meals prepared in many varieties and with lots of variety.
"The lights in our Taoist temple stay on all night, and there are usually many brothers and sisters who come to eat." The Taoist priest also specially explained.
I said, "Understand, understand."
He followed Shao Zilong to serve the food and returned to the dining room to sit down and eat.
The Taoist priest said he would go and guard the door, so he went back.
"I'll go see if there's anything else delicious." Shao Zi finished a plate of food and ran into the kitchen.
After a while, only the sound of footsteps was heard.
I thought it was Shao Zilong who was back, but when I listened carefully I realized something was wrong.
I saw a beautiful young woman coming in with a plate. There was only a piece of rice cake and a bowl of vegetarian soup on the plate, and she found a place to sit down.
Under the slightly dim light, the woman's skin was even more reflected than snow, cold and clear.
The other party chewed slowly and finished a piece of cake and drank the vegetarian soup, then took the plate and left again. He didn't even look at me the whole time, as if there was no one else around.
As soon as she left, Shao Zilong came back with a large plate of vegetarian food.
Before he could sit down, he suddenly made a sound and sniffed, "Why does it smell like a woman?"
"Does your nose belong to a dog?" I was amused.
"Brother's nose is as sharp as a dog's!" Shao Zilong sat down and said, sniffing carefully again, "Who was here just now?"
I said she was a young beauty, but I didn’t recognize her.
"This smell..." Shao Zilong looked around, "Where is she sitting?"
"What are you doing?" I pointed to the place where the woman had been sitting.
Without saying anything, Shao Zilong ran to the chair where he had been sitting before and smelled it several times before coming back with a frown.
"What's the problem?" I asked him.
It would not be wrong to say that Shao Zilong ran there just to smell the girl's scent.
"Aside from that girl's body fragrance, which smells pretty good, it seems to be mixed with something else."
Shao Zilong's tone was also a little uncertain.
