Qinchuan City has been a well-known land of fish and rice in China since ancient times. It has always been a famous granary in the south of the Yangtze River and the birthplace of beggar chickens. Even beggars have chickens to eat, which shows that Qinchuan has been rich since ancient times.
The sky has begun to get brighter, and a brand-new car has been wandering around the towns of Qinchuan City all night.
"Brother Qi, what are we looking for? I've been wandering around all night and I'm tired."
Liu Silong, who was driving, also stopped on the side of the road and looked at Zhang Qilu expressionlessly. She also needed an explanation.
Zhang Qilu was holding the buns he had just bought in his hand. Just as he was about to speak, Li Xiaoxiao snatched the buns away from him and swallowed them in three or two mouthfuls.
Zhang Qilu was helpless and said with a faint smile, "There are 32 towns in Qinchuan with a population of one million. Looking for someone here, let alone the three of us in a car, even if there are ten times more people, we won't be able to find him in a short time."
At this point, Zhang Qilu took another bun and was about to put it in his mouth when he was snatched away by Li Xiaoxiao who was pouting.
Zhang Qilu could only smile bitterly and continue, "Smile, let me ask you, why did they come to Qinchuan after they captured Zishan's younger brother."
Li Xiaoxiao thought for a while and said, "I caught a child, so he probably ran home and hid."
"Yes, several groups of people went to Zishan's house that day. These people would have a lot of worries if they captured Zishan's younger brother. It would be best to go back to their hometown and hide, and then see if they can use this child in exchange for something. What benefits.
Last night I used [Qi Observation Technique] to see that there are two places where Jianghu people gather in Qinchuan. One is Zhaojia Town in the north of Qinchuan, and the other is Bishui Town in the south. "
At this point, Zhang Qilu finally ate the buns and breathed out comfortably, "Zhaojia Town is ahead. Let's go and have a look."
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Zhaojia Town is surrounded by mountains and rivers and consists of more than a hundred small villages. Zhang Qilu asked Liu Silong to drive the car to the center of the town. Zhang Qilu and others were immediately attracted by the scene in the town.
A female beggar with a dirty face and an unclear appearance, and a six or seven-year-old child, were begging for food from door to door in various shops in the town. The child she held in her hand had dull eyes. The woman beside her bowed when she asked him to, and knelt when she asked him to.
"This flower girl is no ordinary person." Zhang Qilu said with certainty.
Zhang Silong said on the side, "She is a philanderer. She must have abducted the child."
At this moment, a child was kneeling on the ground in a restaurant, and several waiters in the store were kicking the woman and the child out. When the woman saw that others were driving her away even if she couldn't get the money, she took out her anger on the child, went up and started slapping the child, one click to the left. He hit the child to the right and slapped the child more than ten times in a row, causing the child's face to swell instantly. The shop owner felt that the child was pitiful and couldn't stand it, so he could only take out some change and send him away.
The vicious woman who wanted the money seemed to have noticed something and led her child out of the town.
"Xiaoxiao, let's go take a look." Zhang Qilu looked at Zhang Silong again and said, "You have a rest in the town and wait for us to come back."
When she left the town, the poisonous woman seemed to know that someone was following her. She walked faster and faster. Li Xiaoxiao, who was following behind, pushed her wheelchair and gradually became farther and farther away from the people in front of her. After crossing a small wooden bridge, after another round and round, the two people in front of them disappeared.
"Xiaoxiao, go and take a look."
"But Brother Qi, what should you do?"
"You don't have to worry about me."
"Okay, I'll go then. Brother Qi, be careful." Li Xiaoxiao said no more, and the man who jumped forward was already a few meters away.
Suddenly, a big hand covered Zhang Qilu's mouth and nose, and a pungent smell came. Before Zhang Qilu could react, he felt his world spinning, and his eyelids fell asleep.
...
I don't know how long it took, but Zhang Qilu seemed to hear a soft call. It was not loud and did not reach his ears, but it seemed that it was transmitted directly to his mind.
"Child, come in." A kind and warm voice sounded again.
"It's Grand Master." There was a cave entrance in front of him. The entrance was small enough for one person to barely pass through. He stepped over the boundary monument at the entrance and walked straight into the cave.
There is a cave in the cave, a row of bookshelves, some simple furniture, a small altar, and a portrait of a Taoist hanging behind the altar. The Taoist in the portrait is immortal, but the appearance of the Taoist is vaguely unclear.
"Don't call me Grand Master, call me Grandpa." said the old Taoist priest sitting on the futon in the middle of the cave.
"It's grandpa." Zhang Qilu sat cross-legged on the futon opposite Lao Dao and looked up at Lao Tao. Lao Tao had white eyebrows and white beard, and a maroon hairpin casually passed through his bun. Looking at the old Taoist face again, he has a childish face and craned hair, looking like an immortal.
"Have everything been packed?"
"Take care of it... There is something unclear about my grandson. Why are you helping that person, that person is about to achieve great things, but now you are so hard on you?"
"Silly boy, it's just a title. He just wants me to stay on this mountain for the rest of my life. It's just that he doesn't have great freedom, and he has no other ill intentions. It's not hard work, so there's no need to think too much."
"But grandpa, if you hadn't helped him build this thing, how could he have accomplished such a shocking feat? It only took him a few years to conquer the capital." As he said this, he looked at a square object in the corner of the cave. The object was made of wood. Three feet long and wide, it looks like a square wooden box. Each side of the wooden box is engraved with a spell. Zhang Qilu has seen these spells before.
"The way of talismans may seem mysterious and profound, but in fact it has its own rules. Once you understand them, you don't need to be too rigid in the form.
It's like depositing money in a bank, and the talisman is like the banknote of equal value given to you by the bank. The key is that you have the money yourself and know where the bank is. "
"Then grandpa, is it like the treasure note issued by Taizu?"
"Call Grand Master." The old Taoist looked serious at this moment and began to teach.
"It's the Grand Master"
"The treasure banknotes are debt notes issued by Taizu based on his reputation. There is no gold or silver support behind the treasure banknotes. When Taizu is gone, his treasure banknotes are like rootless duckweeds, losing their value little by little. This is also No wonder he, when the new dynasty was first established, money was needed everywhere, but where could the money come from after so many years of war? He had to use the entire dynasty and their royal family as a guarantee to issue this treasure banknote." The old Taoist patiently explained to the younger generation.
"You are familiar with the other parts of the talisman. What you need now is how to find those roads, which are the money exchange houses."
As he spoke, the old Taoist slowly stretched his hand to the top of Zhang Qilu's head.
"Remember to learn and apply it, don't be limited to the form."
A flood of knowledge about talismans continued to hit Zhang Qilu, and Zhang Qilu's consciousness began to fade again.
Immortals caress my head, knotting my hair and receiving immortality.
