"Cough, cough!"
Under the shade of a tree, Zhang Qing, who had turned his red robes into white robes, opened his eyes and saw pairs of curious young eyes looking at him.
"You're awake!" The green voice obviously came from a child, and then Zhang Qing felt himself being helped up.
Leaning against the tree, Zhang Qing glanced at the river not far away, and nodded slightly at the fleeting fish tail.
Around him, seven or eight children looked at Zhang Qing, with some joy and some regret, and then saw Zhang Qing's eyes looking towards the river.
"You floated here from the river. We thought you were dead at the time. It would be great if you were dead, then we could take your things."
Some children spoke unintentionally, but they were quickly squeezed out by the children around them and replaced by someone who could talk.
"It's great that you're not dead. Do you have amnesia? Do you no longer remember where you came from or how you fell into the water? How about we give you a name."
Zhang Qing asked these children with some humor where they heard the story, and then told them, "My name is Jing, and I come from a place far, far away."
"What a strange name. Everyone in our village has at least two characters in their name, and the same goes for the town." An older girl said.
"It seems that you really came from far, far away." For a child, the town is far enough. As for further distance, it means that there are really many places to add.
Not far away, several adults wearing linen clothes walked towards here. It must have been called by a child.
"This is Xiaojia Village. If you walk more than ten miles to the east, you will find Xianshui Town. From Xianshui Town, if you walk north for a while, you will find Anning City. If you want to go home, the most convenient way is to go to the city. It’s safer too.”
The last sentence was spoken by a man looking at Zhang Qing with nothing else.
"Thank you, big brother, and all of you." Zhang Qing said to the adults, and then bowed his hands to the children, making the children blush and imitate him and salute in return.
Zhang Qing put his palm on his waist, crushed the jade pendant through his clothes, and then took it out and put it in the palm of his hand for the children in front of him to choose. The eyes of the adults on the side twitched.
"Master, this seems a bit too expensive."
Zhang Qing shook his head, "My life is worth more than this. By the way, is there any specific route from here to Xianshui Town?"
This is Zhang Qing's goal, and to the people of Xiaojiacun, broken jade is indeed valuable, and there is no reason to refuse.
"The young master came up from the water. Even if he has his own identity, it would still be troublesome if the town doesn't recognize him. Why not use the road in our village as a guide? There happens to be a team going to the town tomorrow, so we can explain the situation to the young master. "
Xiaojia Village cannot support people like Zhang Qing, so taking the road from the village to lead out will inevitably cause some trouble, but it will be much more convenient if there are people from the same village with you. The guards in the town are all acquaintances, so just asking I won't pay attention to it.
Although the migration of people in the Jiang Kingdom is troublesome, in fact, no one will care too much about one or two of them.
"That's fine." Zhang Qing had no reason to disagree. He stayed with a family that night. Perhaps because of the broken jade, the family was so enthusiastic that they even killed a chicken for the first time.
"It's nothing. The piece of jade the young master gave me can be exchanged for a hundred pieces in town." This is what the man from that family told Zhang Qing the next day.
Regarding this, Zhang Qing just smiled helplessly. The Zhang family's jade pendant fragments were actually reduced to the point where they could only be exchanged for a hundred chickens. If those elders were here, they might not have to lock themselves in confinement for another two months.
"Yin Yue died, and I didn't leave any flaws. Nothing will happen to the family, right? Besides, I have to find a chance to tell my family that I'm not dead yet. Don't set up a tomb yet."
"And that girl, I don't know how things will develop in the future, but I really can't control it now."
While thinking, Zhang Qing suddenly looked at the man aside, "What did Brother Xiao just say?"
Zhang Qing's sudden inquiry made the dark-skinned man a little embarrassed, "I just said that the broken jade given by the young master can help the family live a good life for several years, but it is a pity that it cannot be chosen by the immortal family like the village next door, and live a rich life. .”
"Is there also a legend about immortals in Xiaojiacun?"
"Of course there is, and the young master is going to Anning City. It is said that reality is enshrined there."
Some people in the team looked at Zhang Qing. They thought the immortal probably looked like this young master?
They are all people from two worlds.
"This is interesting." Zhang Qing smiled slightly.
After a while, Zhang Qing had left the team in Xiaojiacun, arrived in Xianshui Town, and then appeared in Anning City along the road.
In the Jiang Kingdom, Anning City is located in a fertile interior with almost no natural or man-made disasters, so everyone is at peace and people in the city are often smiling.
Especially in the past few days, there seems to be some festival, and there are a large number of vendors on the roadside. No matter what they sell, they will also sell some strange-looking masks.
"Sir, buy one. The Ghost Festival is approaching, why don't you join in the fun?"
"Ghost Festival?" Standing in front of a stall, Zhang Qing couldn't help but wonder, holding a silver-white mask that seemed to be reflective.
In the mortal world, this can actually become a festival?
Looking at the happy crowd around him, Zhang Qing suddenly laughed, "Boss, how much does this cost?"
Yes, even if there are indeed ghosts in this world, and there are many ghosts, so what, as mortal beings, there is very little they can do.
"Are there really ghosts in the world?" Walking among the crowd, Zhang Qing looked for the direction where the spiritual energy gathered, listening to the young children around him asking curious questions about his elders.
Then I found an interesting answer in the perfunctory words.
"Those who do bad things will go to hell after death and become ghosts. Some poor people will become ghosts who starve to death or drown to death."
"That ghost doesn't seem very scary."
Zhang Qing coughed almost subconsciously, with a strange look on his face.
Is this how the Zhao family promotes ghosts?
Ghost is not such a simple thing.
Catastrophes are accompanied by catastrophes. Two hundred years ago, there were shadows of ghosts in the chaos of Yunmengze.
Moreover, it is not just a simple ghost.
Heaven and earth are divided into two kinds of Qi, pure and turbid. It is said that when the heaven and earth first opened, the Qing Qi rose up and formed the thirty-three heavens. Therefore, the current immortal magic requires pure spiritual Qi to be refined.
The turbid air sank, sinking into the deepest abyss of the world, a place where there was no way to fall, forming the land of the underworld corresponding to the thirty-three days, in which there are endless ghosts.
The intersection of clear and turbid is the world on earth.
There are immortals in the sky, all things in the world, and only ghosts in the underworld.
However, the immortals in the sky and the ghosts in the underworld are all because of the human world.
Immortals are simple, ascended beings, while ghosts are also simple, but they are by no means what ordinary people call them. Ghost itself is not a lowly term.
But taking human beings as an example, if mortals with spiritual roots do not practice or become practitioners, they will sink into the underworld and become ghosts after their death.
Therefore, there are so many immortal cultivating families in the world of cultivating immortals, countless times more than sects like Jinlan Sect, because of this matter.
To be fair, which cultivator would want his blood relatives to become ghosts?
Once you enter the qi-entraining stage of practice and introduce spiritual qi into the body, when the time comes that life and death will not return to heaven and earth, this problem will no longer exist.
And the source of everything is actually the spiritual root.
Because they have spiritual roots, they are different from ordinary people no matter whether they live or die. People with spiritual roots can step into the world of cultivation and see the immortal gate in life, but after death, they will become ghosts who can practice cultivation.
In short, no matter what, as long as you have spiritual roots, you are destined to live an extraordinary life.
But this also caused more troubles.
