Usually heavy rains come and go quickly.
But this time, for some unknown reason, the rain continued for more than half an hour without stopping.
Moreover, Lu Jing and Xia Huai later heard footsteps and voices coming from outside the temple.
"Hey, there is a mountain temple here. Second uncle, let's go in quickly."
"But why is there a temple in this barren mountain?" Another person who sounded older was hesitant.
"Who knows, it might have been built in the early years when there were still people nearby. It has been like this for a long time. It should be abandoned now. It's just a good time to go in and take shelter from the rain."
At this time, a third person's voice sounded, "It's better to be careful. The world is so chaotic now. There's no chance that there are some gangsters hiding in it!"
"But it's raining so hard. We definitely can't go on our way. If we don't go in, will we just stand outside in the rain?" The young man who spoke first said, "Well, how about I go in and take a look first?" I’ll call you in when there’s no danger.”
As a result, he was stopped by the older man before he started, "It's better for me to do it. I promised your father before I went out that whatever you look like when you come out will be what you look like when you go back."
The young man wanted to say something more, but the man he called second uncle had already taken steps towards the temple.
He held a wooden stick in one hand and pushed open the temple door with the other. He carefully looked inside and was startled when he saw Lu Jing and Xia Huai. He subconsciously took a half step back and said with some anxiety, "You two... "
"We also came to the temple to take shelter from the rain." Lu Jing said.
After hearing this, the man's expression relaxed a little. He looked at Lu Jing and Xia Huai, a boy and a girl. They looked young and did not look like villains, so he handed them over.
"I am Li Fu, a native of Lijia Village, Shanyin County. I went to the mountains with my nephew and several fellow villagers to collect herbs. Unexpectedly, we encountered heavy rain on the way, so we wanted to go into the temple to take shelter. I wonder where you two are? It’s inconvenient…”
"It's nothing inconvenient," Xia Huai said, "This temple doesn't belong to us. We just arrived a little earlier than you. There's no reason why we won't let the people behind us in."
Li Fu was overjoyed when he heard this, "Thank you both, then I will call the others in."
"Please."
Li Fuchong waved to the three people who were waiting anxiously outside the temple and asked them to come into the temple to take shelter from the rain.
Lu Jing and Xia Huai moved to the other side to make more space for the group of herb collectors.
During this period, Xia Huai also walked around behind the mountain god statue to take a look at the old beggar, but found that the latter had disappeared.
On the other side, Lu Jing's attention was on the herb collectors who had just entered the temple.
The four of them, including Li Fu, were all wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, carrying a large bamboo basket behind their backs, and tied with hoes, sickles and ropes around their waists. They were indeed the typical dress of herb gatherers.
The youngest among them is about sixteen or seventeen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He should be Li Fu's nephew. There are two others, one is in his early thirties and has two fingers missing from his right hand, and the other has white hair. , looks to be fifty or sixty years old.
When these two people looked at Lu Jing, their eyes were a little dodgey.
But this doesn't mean anything. The four of them are obviously ordinary people who have never practiced any martial arts. When meeting strangers in the wilderness, it is almost certain that they will feel guilty and afraid.
On the contrary, Li Fu and his nephew performed much better than the other two.
Li Fu thanked Lu Jing and Xia Huai again, and then asked his nephew to walk around the temple to see if there was anything that could make a fire.
Finally, I found two desks and a few broken chairs, split them apart, piled them together, and made firewood.
When the flames rose, the chill on the four of them finally subsided. They took off their raincoats and sat in a circle around the fire, warming their cold hands and feet.
Li Fu did not forget to invite Lu Jing and Xia Huai to join him, but Lu Jing declined.
Li Fu's nephew saw that Li Fu had been deliberately trying to please the young man and woman next to him since he entered the temple. He felt a little dissatisfied. When Li Fu sat down again, he lowered his voice and said, "Second uncle, what do you want to do with them?"
Li Fu's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he immediately covered his nephew's mouth and said, "Zong Jie, be careful what you say."
Although the young man named Li Zongjie said nothing, his eyes were clearly unconvinced.
“It’s always good to be more polite when going out.”
Seeing that his nephew was still disapproving, Li Fu sighed and said, "We have to cross mountains and ridges to collect herbs, but others don't leave the main road alone and choose remote trails, and they are not afraid of encountering bad people and beasts... How can these two people be ordinary people?"
When Li Zongjie heard what his second uncle said, he already believed it, but he still couldn't help but asked, "Is it possible that they got lost in the mountains?"
Li Fu shook his head, "When the lost people see the four of you and me, they are either happy or wary. But look at them, their expressions are always the same, and they don't care what we do at all, so everyone should be careful what they say. I heard that those martial arts masters Sounds can be heard from far away.”
The other two people were a little worried about their own safety at this time. The white-haired old man glanced in the direction of Lu Jing and Xia Huai, and then said, "It's not suitable to stay here for a long time. Let's leave as soon as the rain stops." .”
After saying this, the four of them fell silent.
Those who took advantage of shelter from the rain ate dry food and those who rubbed their legs.
Lu Jingze and Xia Huai opened their respective bags.
Xia Huai found that there was a booklet titled "Thirteen Swords of Tianmen" in his package. Judging from the name, it should be a set of sword techniques.
However, Xia Huai comes from the Xijian Pavilion, which is known as the best sword sect in the world. He has seen many powerful swordsmanships, so he was not too surprised when he saw this book Thirteen Swords of Tianmen.
It wasn't until she turned a few pages that she couldn't look away anymore.
After a moment, he closed his eyes to point to the sword and started demonstrating it directly on the ground.
In contrast, Lu Jing was much more cautious. He opened his package bit by bit, as if he were dismantling landmines on the battlefield. He quickly glanced at it, but he didn't see any secret books inside.
Um?
Could it be that his previous plan to exchange internal strength for martial arts failed?
Although Lu Jing's internal energy was worthless and he wouldn't feel bad at all even if he was "eaten" by the old beggar, he had been busy for so long and he didn't expect that in the end he would just fetch water from a bamboo basket.
However, as Lu Jing looked closer, he finally found something that was not in the package before.
——That is a bracelet made of twelve Bodhi seeds.
Lu Jing was shocked.
[Gui Zi Zero Zero 1] Hasn’t he been giving away cheats? I haven’t heard that he can also drop equipment. Did he trigger some strange opening method?
Unfortunately, the old beggar in the temple was no longer there, and there was no one Lu Jing could ask. Afterwards, he studied the bracelet again and confirmed that there were no hidden skills on the bodhi seeds.
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Sorry, it’s just the first update today.
