"I'll go tomorrow to see if there are any more lists that can be revealed, and if others have uncovered them, I'll reveal another one if it's suitable." Wu Nuxia said, "We've removed this one before we paid the reward for the previous one. The county magistrate will definitely be shocked by us, hahaha..."
"Do you need me to accompany the heroine?"
"Look at you..."
Wu Nuxia thought for a while and then said: "You earn money for your brains, I earn money for hard work, you earn money for Taoism, and I earn money for intelligence. I do what you do, and I do what I do. When I go out, I often go through the city gate. Yes, but you can rest assured if you go and see it by yourself, or if you feel sorry for not coming with me, you can come with me."
"Then thank you for your hard work, Heroine."
"I can't talk about it, I have an active nature." Wu Nuxia said, "But you might as well come with me, so that we can discuss it on the spot and make a decision on the spot if you like it, so as not to be overtaken by others."
"Anything can be revealed."
"You rock……"
"I heard that the apricot blossoms are blooming outside the city these days?"
"Yes, it's just outside the East City Gate. You can go and have a look. There should be a lot of people. Just follow them." Wu Nuxia said, "I don't have time. There are not many flowers and plants to see."
"Then I'll go take a look."
"Dangdangdang..."
The curfew gong sounded.
However, the West City is not as prosperous as the East City, and the people in the West City are not as laid-back as the people in the East City. After a tiring day, everyone goes home early to rest, and there is no one on the street.
The Taoist and the heroine, who were sitting at the door to relax and chat, also stood up and lifted the bench.
"correct!"
Wu Nuxia suddenly stopped:
"Didn't I look at two or three lists that day? Today this is just one of them. I remember there was another one about a mountain monster outside the city. It attacked passers-by and business travelers and ate a lot of people. I'll go check it out tomorrow. Let’s see if it’s exposed.”
"Hard."
"Then if no one exposes me, I will expose it?"
"Is it just a mountain demon?"
"Well, the mountain demon is not difficult to deal with. The difficulty is that the mountain is too big. It hides and is difficult to find. Officers, soldiers, hunters, and people from all walks of life have all tried to find it. They are very clever." Wu Nuxia said and took aim. He said, "Do you have the ability to find monsters just by smelling them?"
"No."
"That……"
"You can try other methods."
"Okay! It's settled then!"
"If you don't have anything, just expose other things and raise difficulties."
"Go to bed early."
Wu Nuxia carried the bench and entered the room.
The gong went out and the whole city closed its doors.
Song You didn't panic, found some flour, kneaded some dough, and heated up a pot of cake to eat.
…
This pancake is for dinner and breakfast.
Although he slept from morning to dusk yesterday and fell asleep very late at night, the Taoist was in good spirits. He opened the door, ate cakes, and watched people coming and going on the street.
The calico cat came down from upstairs again: "Taoist, are you going to see Xingfa outside the city today?"
"Almond blossom."
"Xinghua~"
"Yes."
"Miss Sanhua is with you."
The calico cat jumped up on the table and stared at him.
"Of course I want to be with Sanhua Empress." Song You ate pancakes and looked at her, "But Sanhua Empress has been sleeping day and night since she was hunting rats in Dongcheng, and her schedule has been... well, I can't say. Is it upside down or has it returned to normal? In short, Empress Sanhua probably didn’t sleep at all last night, right?”
"Yes!"
"Then you should have a good rest at home. When I come back this afternoon, I will send Sanhua Empress to Zhou Shilang's house to hunt mice."
"Then are you going alone?"
"Okay."
"A person will be lonely."
"It's good to be alone."
"It's good not to be lonely." The Sanhua Cat stared at him and thought for a moment, "Ms. Sanhua Empress will go with you."
"Ms. Sanhua, aren't you sleepy?"
"Not sleepy!"
"..."
Song You had a smile on his face for a while.
Before going down the mountain, it was hard to imagine that such a little kitten could give him so much warmth.
There seems to be no other reason.
Even the money at home was hidden in the mouse hole by her. She even took him to see it last night. It was hidden very deep.
"Then thank you, Miss Sanhua."
"It's fine."
"Why is the corner of Sanhua Empress's mouth a little redder? Where did she get it?"
The Taoist smiled and stretched out his hand to wipe it off for her.
"Miss Sanhua just ate a mouse."
"..."
The Taoist silently took his hand back.
There are three or four pieces of cake left in the pot.
Take it with you and eat it at noon.
The Taoist quickly put on his bag and went out behind closed doors.
Pass through the city and head towards the east gate.
After leaving the East City Gate, the terrain looks very different from that of the West City Gate. There are many mountains in the distance, and a beacon tower can be vaguely seen on the top of the mountain. Although it is still far away, you can already see the mountains full of apricot blossoms, which separate the continuous mountains. All dyed the white-pink color of apricot blossoms.
A loess road leads into the distance.
As Wu Nuxia said, there are indeed many people going out of the city to enjoy the apricot blossoms, especially not long after the end of the spring period. Many students are still staying in Changjing. The main crowd of flowers was filled with the sounds of people chatting and laughing all the way.
There is no need to know the way, just follow the crowd.
The cat walked in front with small steps. Only when it stopped to wait for him did it open its mouth and yawn, then shook its head to stay awake.
"Ms. Sanhua, are you sleepy?"
"not sleepy."
"We still have to walk for a while to reach Changshan. Why don't you, Lady Sanhua, come to the robe?"
"Okay~"
Song You took off his belt and put it on the ground. The cat obediently got in and let him lift it.
This quilt was also made in Changjing a few days ago, not the one sewn on the quilt bag. But they are similar. This bag has two pockets. One pocket is used to hold some coins and small belongings, and the other pocket is used to hold the calico cat. It can be said that it is specially made for picking her up.
The Taoist moved forward slowly, admiring the spring light.
The cat was very sleepy, but he also stretched his head out of his clothes, squinting his eyes to look at the world, and occasionally looking up at the Taoist.
In addition to students, there were also many scholars and even women along the way, both married and unmarried. Some were accompanied by followers, and some were just traveling with a few women.
We can also get a glimpse of Dayan's openness.
I remember coming to Changjing at the beginning of the month. Although spring had already begun, it had not yet passed the Waking of Insects, and the weeds on the roadside were still the withered yellow color left over from last winter. Now, when I walked out of the city again, it was close to the vernal equinox, and I could see spring mountains everywhere.
When I stopped, I had reached the foot of the long mountain.
The mountain with the best apricot blossoms is called Changshan, and it is also the highest mountain seen from the city gate.
It is more than twenty miles from Changjing to Changshan.
People who go out of the city to enjoy the flowers in spring should start early, pack their bags and walk leisurely to Changshan. At noon, they find a piece of grass to spread out a cloth, sit down to eat something, drink some wine, enjoy the flowers and recite poems. It's time to return to Changjing City and spend a beautiful day in this era.
It was also because the scholars in Changjing loved to go to Changshan to enjoy flowers. The previous dynasty had allocated funds from the court to build stairs, corridors and pavilions on Changshan to facilitate people to climb and rest.
Along the way, the Taoist saw countless flowers and plants, and there were also peach and apricot flowers on the surrounding hillsides. But when he reached the foot of Changshan Mountain and looked up, he realized that the apricot flowers he had seen before were too sparse and ordinary, and he realized why there were so many Changjing people. You have to come here to see it even after traveling so far.
"Are we there yet?"
The cat's voice is very small, afraid of being heard.
"arrive."
"Put me down."
"Aren't you sleepy?"
"I want to see flowers too~"
"good."
The Taoist put the cat down.
I don't know whether it was because I was sleepy or because I had been huddled in the robe for a long time. When I landed on the ground, I took a few steps and fell down.
The Taoist shook his head, smiled, and stepped up.
I saw that Changshan is steep and steep, which is the natural danger of Changjing. After climbing this mountain, there will be troops stationed on the mountain behind. The steep part of the long mountain is afraid that only apes can climb it. The rocks are exposed, but such a steep peak is covered with apricot flowers. There are so many, clumps after clumps, that the continuous mountains are dyed white. pink.
It’s probably hard to imagine for those who haven’t seen it.
In the past wars, countless soldiers fought with the enemy here and fell off the cliff. However, in this land stained with blood and buried with countless bones, such beautiful flowers bloomed.
A long corridor goes from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside, and then down from another place.
On the roadside, there are people admiring flowers, reciting poems, painting, drinking, chatting, and some carrying baskets on their backs with cooked food, working tirelessly up and down the mountains to sell to idle people.
People also come here, and demons also come here.
A cat lover teases a calico cat.
A Taoist man invites a Taoist to drink.
Others stopped him to ask for fortune telling.
The calico cat was so sleepy that he yawned and staggered while walking, but he was very strong.
…
In a pavilion somewhere on the mountainside, someone was about to paint.
The woman holding the pen wears a veil, which not only covers her face but also protects her from the sun. Many noble families do this when traveling. She is accompanied by a maid and an entourage. Drawing paper is spread out on the stone table in the pavilion, and inkstones and paints are ready. Okay, I originally planned to draw the close-up view in front of me, the pavilion pillars and tile eaves, and an apricot blossom sticking out, which is also beautiful, but at an inadvertent glance, I saw the other side.
A young Taoist and a calico cat.
There is a thin red rope around the calico cat's neck, with a small wooden ornament hanging on it. It looks particularly well-behaved.
The Taoist walked slowly, probably to accommodate the cat beside him, but the cat seemed not to wake up, was in a daze, and fell over, swaying every step, yawning all the time, but still following the Taoist closely.
She walked away as soon as the Taoist left. The Taoist stopped to look at the flowers, and she also squatted down and looked up.
A man and a cat walked past the pavilion and walked away into the distance.
I don’t know what he said to her when he stopped.
Maybe to persuade her to take a rest.
So I didn't care about one person or one cat, so I sat down on the stone steps on the mountain. I happened to sit under an apricot blossom branch sticking out, with my back to the pavilion, and it was not too close.
When the woman looked from here, she could only see her back.
The Taoist robe worn by the Taoist is already very old, but the old clothes are a perfect match for the Taoist, and they are the most natural to wear. The calico cat next to him sat upright, with its tail wrapped around its legs. It was a little distance away from the Taoist, but when it got sleepy, it couldn't help but fell to the Taoist's side, its body twisted.
The wind blew and the petals fell.
The cat was attracted by the bees, then raised its head to stare at the petals falling from the sky, and then leaned against the Taoist and rubbed its head.
When people look at it, they just feel natural and harmonious.
The woman holding the pen also fell silent for a moment.
I was amazed by it in my heart.
