"Thank you, Taoist Priest, for your hospitality and staying overnight. I just have to go south and continue my travels, so I will stay here soon."
"Meow..."
"Thank you, Taoist Mu Yunzi. Wanjiang is very grateful."
"It is really a blessing for the people of Donghe County that the old Taoist priest is here. I think that with the old Taoist priest here, no demons and ghosts would dare to approach within a radius of ten miles." The maid said respectfully, "I admire you the most in my life. It is the old Taoist priest who is such a master of Taoism who can ensure the peace of the whole place."
"Oh, I don't dare..."
Mu Yunzi responded quickly: "The old Taoist has no cultivation skills. He relies entirely on Thunder God's miraculous power. It would be great if he is as powerful as the little lady said."
After saying this, he looked at Song You again and saluted.
"Since Fellow Taoist Song still has to travel around the world, the old Taoist dare not persuade him to stay, so he will send Fellow Taoist down the mountain."
"Thank you."
Song You also ignored the maid's words and returned the favor.
Mu Yunzi took them all the way to the mountain gate. Song You asked him to stay, so he stopped at the mountain gate. Otherwise, they would have to be sent at least to the bottom of the mountain and to the official road on the opposite side of the hill.
On the way down the mountain, Song You said to the maid: "I have received your admiration for Zhou Lei Gong. If I meet Zhou Lei Gong again next time, I will convey it to you."
"Taoist Master, please forgive me..."
The maid followed her master and said with a smile: "This slave has been holding back in Changjing for ten years. She is just playful and teasing. She has no intention of teasing the old Taoist priest. The Taoist priest should not meet me..."
As the cat walked, he turned to stare at them, his eyes shining brightly, as if he was watching the fun.
Song You said nothing.
There were two men dressed as officials walking up the mountain with a big belly. I don't know whether it was because they had been pampered for a long time and could not climb the mountain, or they were excited to talk. There was a bit of sadness between their brows. They stopped talking as they walked.
"The two old men are also pitiful. They have retired and returned to their hometowns long ago. It was the time when they were taking care of themselves and enjoying family happiness, but they died so miserably..."
"Both of the two elders were high officials in the imperial court. They were far apart but died one after another. Their methods are similar. I don't think it is the work of a demon. Is it possible that an enemy came to the door?"
"I heard that the head was torn off. It wasn't cut, it looked like it was torn off completely. There were huge scars all over the body, several in a row. It didn't look like they were injured by swords, but like they were caught by monsters." One of them said. The official described it vividly, "How could this be done by a human being? It was clearly caused by a monster!"
"But even if I invited Mr. Folk, I couldn't see the evil spirit."
"How much skill does Mr. Folk have? If he is a great monster, how can he find the monster with just a compass? Anyway, the monster can't escape!" The official said, "The Lei Gong Temple of Qingxiao Temple is in Aung. Zhou is considered the most efficacious. The master of the temple, Taoist Mu Yunzi, is also a master of cultivation. You and I are close friends, so I called you here for an excuse to worship the Lord Thunder together and ask, asking the Lord Thunder to bless us. , Don’t be like those two old men who suffered evil. I’m okay, dear brother, you are still young and have a bright future..."
"Shhhhh..."
The younger official held his mouth and pursed his lips towards the older official.
The older official looked forward.
I was dazzled by reading and couldn't see clearly. I squinted my eyes and stretched my neck forward and couldn't see clearly. I could only vaguely see two graceful women.
"Oh, dear brother, let me talk to you about business. Tell me how long it will take you to stop being seduced by beauty..."
He lowered his voice and spoke as the person coming down the mountain got closer and closer, and it gradually became clear in his eyes. That graceful figure, beautiful face, and earthly temperament, even though he had already reached the right place. At an age where I am not very interested in beauty, I still couldn't help but hesitated and said half of the words and swallowed them in my stomach.
The woman walked slowly past them without looking sideways.
The maid next to the woman was smiling and looked back at them, almost enchanting her.
The two slowly changed from clear to blurry again.
But their appearance, figure and temperament still remained in the eyes of the officials. They felt that they were not mortals, but immortals in heaven. Compared with them, all the colors in the human world turned into dust.
"Brother! Brother!"
By the time the official came to his senses, the two men had already gone far and reached the foot of the mountain.
Miss Wanjiang's carriage and coachman are waiting here, as are Song You and Sanhua Empress's bay-red horses, but there are a few more horses and mules beside them, brought by the incense burners.
The maid got into the carriage first, took out a simple ebony box, opened it and said to the coachman: "Forget it, I find there is no need for you to drive the carriage. I'm sitting outside anyway, and I think it's pretty good to drive the carriage." It’s fun, you better come in and rest…”
As he spoke, he pointed the open box at the coachman.
The driver didn't say a word, as if he couldn't speak. He just turned around and looked around. When he found that no one was looking at him, he suddenly exploded into a cloud of white smoke and turned into a frog.
"brush!"
The frog jumped into the box.
After some operations, Sanhua Empress was so curious that she almost stood up, stretched her neck, and stared at the frog in the box.
"Bang!"
The box was closed and thrown haphazardly into the carriage.
Miss Wanjiang was still standing by the car, with an elegant posture, and smiled at the Taoist and said, "Did the Taoist hear the conversation between the two adults?"
"I heard."
"Is it possible that someone is carrying a blood feud and seeking revenge against those elders, but he doesn't dare to imitate the Thunder Sword Saint and leave his name in an upright manner, and doesn't want to be discovered, so he imitates us monsters?"
"Who knows?"
"The high officials of the imperial court who retire from old age and return to their hometowns are indeed different from the Jianghu people. It is right not to dare to leave their names." Miss Wan Jiang shook her head, "It's just that many demons and devils in this world are all man-made. Our demon names are It was so corrupted..."
"..."
Song You was not surprised that she knew.
It turned out that she and Wu Nuxia both worked for Princess Changping, and the two of them did similar work. They were investigating information and collecting intelligence. It was just that their routes and directions were different. This great demon knew Wu Nuxia somewhat. It should be right. I think Wu Nuxia should know a lot about her.
"Don't worry, Taoist Master, Wan Jiang is a monster but not a human being. Now that he has regained his freedom, he will no longer care about human affairs. Wan Jiang will not tell anyone about this kind of thing. I don't think there are many other people in this world who know about it."
"What's more, knowing that the Jianghu woman is destined to be a Taoist, and the master admires the Taoist so much, how can he do something that the Taoist doesn't like?" The maid said with a smile, "That person also has some abilities. Even if someone notices those bosses, The person was not killed by a demon, and her head cannot be found.”
"You two, let's set off."
"Does the Taoist think we talk too much?"
"Do you think you're talking too much? We've all been quite quiet. Come to think of it, the Taoist Priest doesn't know what foxes are like..."
"..."
The Taoist silently put the quilt bag on the horse's back, patted the horse to comfort it for its hard work, and then walked forward with a bamboo stick. The horse and cat immediately followed, but the cat kept turning back and using He looked at the two people behind him with a very strange look.
The maid looked at the woman and exchanged glances.
Then the woman reluctantly got into the carriage, and the maid sat down on the wooden board in the front room with a smile, and whipped lightly with a whip.
"Danghuang..."
The carriage followed slowly.
When she caught up with the Taoist, she still kept talking. If the Taoist ignored her, she would talk to Mao'er. Sanhua Empress was polite, and this maid could often please her and chat with her. I drank their glutinous rice soup yesterday, and my cannibalism was short, so I heard their voices all the way.
Only when you pass by other pedestrians can you calm down.
Go all the way south to see the mountains and rivers and visit the palaces.
The maid seemed to have completely stopped pretending, and the woman was slowly revealing her true nature as a fox. This was something that the royal nobles and celebrities in Changjing had never seen before, and could never imagine.
…
A few days later.
The group has entered Fengzhou territory.
This place is not as wealthy as Angzhou, but it is far more prosperous than the north after the war. It has a large population and the city is prosperous. However, the Yin Qi is stronger. I don’t know if it is because of the arrangement of the Imperial Guard for many years, which has slowly increased the Yin Qi here. , or because it originally had a stronger Yin Qi, so it was selected by the Imperial Master.
At the same time, because ghosts from all over the world were escorted here, Song You could detect a faint ghost aura.
On the first night after entering Fengzhou, he chose to sleep outdoors.
The fox demon chose to sleep in the open with him.
That's not right, the fox demon has a carriage, and the carriage has a shed and a roof, so it can't be considered sleeping in the open.
That night, I encountered a ghost traveling at night.
The place where a few people stopped for the night was in a leeward place, not far from the official road, with a small lake in front. When he met this group of ghosts, the night was not yet deep. Song You had just finished eating. He sat on a stone and closed his eyes to concentrate on feeling the aura of this world. The Empress of Sanhua was still drinking her glutinous rice soup. The maid ran away somewhere, while Miss Wanjiang was sitting on a willow tree branch that bent toward the lake, very close to the lake and almost parallel to the lake. Her bare feet exposed two jade-white legs, and she didn't know where she was. Playing in the water or washing feet, the moonlight shines on the lake, making it sparkling.
The ghost escort escorted the ghost and approached slowly.
"There seems to be someone over there..."
"What the hell!"
"It seems like you haven't slept yet."
"Don't worry about it. The one who is leaving us is that we have to spend the night in the wilderness in the middle of the night without sleeping. Even if we are frightened, we deserve it."
"Why do I see a Taoist priest? And why is the spiritual energy of heaven and earth over there so abundant?"
"Hey! I'm afraid you're not an expert in cultivation?"
"My eyes hurt!"
"Me too! Don't look too much!"
"Then let's..."
"Be careful!"
The ghost officers suddenly became much more honest and quietly passed by the official road, taking aim at the scene here.
Some saw the Taoist priest sitting cross-legged on the stone practicing, some saw the calico cat next to him who was drinking glutinous rice and looking up at them, curious but not frightened, and the calico cat sitting on a branch, playing with the water. The woman turned to look at them. The more she looked, the more surprised and scared she felt.
At this time, the Taoist also opened his eyes and glanced at them.
The spiritual energy of heaven and earth that had just been gathered lingered around him without concealment or restraint. It seemed to the ghosts to be shining, making the Taoist sitting cross-legged by the lake in the mountains more like an immortal than an immortal.
After being glanced at by such a person, I immediately felt like my soul was shaken.
Fortunately, the Taoist only glanced at them a few times. When he saw them walking along the official road, he closed his eyes again. The ghosts breathed a sigh of relief. They didn't discuss in a low voice until they were far away. Who is it? Should I report it to the National Master?
(End of chapter)
