Ji Liao looked at the backs of Lu and Zhu who were walking away, then looked down at his hand that touched Long Ji's body, and sighed, "Hey, I really didn't mean it."
Then he patted the storage bag, and the magic talisman immediately appeared in his hand, stuck to his body, and disappeared from the spot.
The sky was getting dark, and a young man of about sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in rags and with a simple appearance, slowly walked out on a mountain path. It was Jiliao.
This path leads to a small village with about thirty households. While walking, you can vaguely see the appearance of the village. At this time, there are already smoke rising from the village, and several children of seven or eight years old are happily playing in the village. Fighting, old people sitting together in twos and threes, drinking hot tea and chatting, the whole village is surrounded by the afterglow of the sunset, showing peace and tranquility.
"Eh? This little kid, which family are you from?"
At this time, a deep voice sounded behind Ji Liao.
Ji Liao stopped and looked back, only to see an eight-foot-tall man walking slowly toward him from the path and looking at him suspiciously.
This big man wore a coarse cloth coat and carried a hatchet on his waist. He carried a pickaxe on his shoulder, and a neat bundle of dry firewood hung on the top of the pickaxe.
Ji Liao immediately put on a simple and honest smile, cupped his hands and said, "This uncle, I am a lost person, and I want to go down the mountain to ask for directions."
"Oh? Lost? Where are you from?" The big man stopped next to Ji Liao, looked at Ji Liao up and down, looked at his honest smile, and looked at his clothes that were already torn into strips of cloth. He immediately believed Ji Liao's words.
"Um...where did I come from?" Ji Liao casually pointed toward the distance.
The big man followed the direction of Ji Liao's finger and nodded without any doubt, "Oh, it turns out he came from the county seat." He glanced at Ji Liao's miserable state again, and then said, "Looking at you, maybe you are here." We have been walking up the mountain for a long time. If you are hungry, come down the mountain with me, have some food at my house, stay one night, and return to the county town tomorrow."
Ji Liao wanted to shirk it, but looking at the big man's appearance, he immediately smiled and said, "Thank you very much, uncle."
"Uncle, what's the name of this village?" Ji Liao and the big man asked casually as they walked down the mountain.
"Oh! This village is called Linshui Village. As you've seen, there are only a few dozen households, not a big one." The big man waved his hand and said.
"That's right, I've never heard of this village in the county!"
"Our village is just that big, and it's more than twenty miles away from the county seat. It's normal for you to live in the county seat and not know about it."
"I see, then what do you do for a living..." Ji Liao asked again.
"Let's go hunting. There are a lot of wild animals on this mountain. If you're lucky, you can get some good skins and sell them to the county town for some money."
Ji Liao and the big man walked slowly along the mountain path. Ji Liao found that this big man who grew up in the countryside had an extremely honest and simple character. Facing this foreigner, Ji Liao did not have the slightest doubt. This was because Ji Liao and he were just friends. After chatting for a few words, it was obvious that the big man asked him to come to his house for dinner. Without too many personal interactions, he naturally became less wary of people.
Although Ji Liao was only sixteen, he had experienced a lot of human kindness in the Ji family. On the second day after leaving home, he was chased by his own family. It can be said that Ji Liao was much older than him. A big man can see through people's hearts better.
During his conversation with the big man, he learned that his surname was Li and that he had a wife and two children at home. He also learned that the county seat more than 20 miles away from Linshui Village was called "Ningyuan County."
Back at his home, the big man surnamed Li shouted into the house, and a woman in linen clothes came out. Seeing that his man had brought a stranger back, she was slightly startled, but didn't say anything. What, just smiled and nodded at Ji Liao.
"Aunt Li!" Ji Liao bowed his hands to her respectfully.
After Ji Liao came out of Ji's house, he rarely showed such sincere salutes to others, but at this time he felt that this family was worthy of his worship.
It was already ten minutes into the night. Ji Liao was lying on the wooden bed in the side room, opened his eyes, turned over, and the wooden bed made a creaking sound.
The big man surnamed Li and his family had already squeezed into another room, leaving a separate room for Ji Liao.
Ji Liao gently opened the door and walked into the yard. He looked up at the starry sky. He saw that the moon was bright and the stars were sparse. A bright moon hung quietly in the sky. Countless stars twinkled in the sky like gems. There were all the continuous chirping of insects, as if they were playing a melody for falling asleep.
He looked back at the family who had already slept, smiled slightly, and disappeared immediately. On the wooden bed where Ji Liao had been lying, two ingots of silver were quietly placed.
This was just a simple family, but the kindness of this family planted a seed of kindness in Ji Liao's heart.
After a long time, Ji Liao's figure appeared outside Ningyuan County. With a few moves, he flew up the city wall. The two armored soldiers hugged their weapons and leaned against the city wall, sleeping soundly. They did not notice anyone who was only a dozen steps away from them. In the distance, there was a young man in ragged clothes standing there.
Ningyuan County is not a big city. Although there are lights on, there are not many.
Ji Liao walked through the forest rooftops and finally landed in an alley. After walking out of the alley, he turned and stood at the door of an inn that was still open.
Ji Liao stepped in. There was no one in the hall. A waiter in gray cloth had fallen asleep on the table.
"Ahem..." Ji Liao coughed twice.
The waiter woke up immediately, and before opening his eyes, he said, "Guest guest is here, I'd better stay in the hotel."
When he opened his eyes and saw Ji Liao's appearance, his face instantly dropped. He didn't know where this beggar came from.
"You..." Just as he was about to say something to kick Ji Liao out, he saw Ji Liao's raised hand holding a large piece of silver. He immediately put on a smile and said, "Hey, sir. Please come inside!"
Ji Liao walked into the inn expressionlessly and said calmly, "Arrange a room for me and bring me some water."
"Okay, okay, I understand!" the waiter nodded and bowed.
At noon the next day, there was a knock on Ji Liao's door.
"Come in!"
The waiter from yesterday walked in with a new set of clothes in his hand. He smiled at Ji Liao and said, "Sir, these are clothes made according to your size. You can see if they fit. If they don't fit, please check." I’ll take it back and make some changes.”
"Put it on the table." Ji Liao said calmly.
"Yes!" The waiter responded, turned around and left, but he was very happy in his heart. He got a lot of money from this customer. The money was enough to buy dozens of the most popular houses in the county town. Clothes made of good fabrics, the guest just wanted a set of inner and outer clothes, and the rest was all his.
Ji Liao put on his new clothes and looked up and down. The size was good, and the style looked like a rich second generation in the world.
Ji Liao didn't care about this. He patted the storage bag with one hand, and the piece of silk appeared in his hand. After searching for a long time along the natural moat, he finally found Ningyuan County in an inconspicuous place.
"It turns out that it is more than 1,200 miles away from the end of the passenger boat, but the distance from the Purple Air Sect is not too far away."
Only then did Ji Liao realize that they had deviated far from his original route in the natural chasm. He looked at it carefully for a long time, ran his fingers back and forth on the silk, and finally redrawn a new route.
After doing this, he walked out of the room, walked to the lobby of the inn, and found a place to sit down.
At this time, there were already several tables of guests in the lobby.
"Hey, have you heard? Something happened to the Tianchi Passenger Boat in Tianchi?"
At this time, a person said to Ling Ren, who was at the same table.
Ji Liao raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect that something happened to the guest boat would spread more than a thousand miles away so quickly.
"What's the matter? Tell me quickly." The man obviously didn't know that something happened to the passenger boat, so he asked immediately.
"It is said that the passenger boat traveled in the natural moat for twenty-seven days and was about to come out. Who knew that there was a monster in the natural moat that day, and the passenger boat was shattered with a roar!"
"Isn't it? You can blow up the passenger boat with just one shout? What kind of monster is that?"
"Who knows? This information was obtained from the people who escaped from the passenger boat."
"real or fake?"
"Look, you still don't believe it. This Tianqian passenger boat was supposed to leave the Tianqian two months ago, but the passenger boat never came out. Later, the city lord of Tianqian City couldn't sit still and sent people to search everywhere. Only after a few hundred I found an escaped immortal cultivator inside and outside, and what I learned from that person’s mouth is absolutely true.”
"Hey, in a place like that, I'm afraid only immortal cultivators can escape."
"Many immortal cultivators have also died. The city lord of Tianqian City searched everywhere but only found a few dozen people."
"So many immortal cultivators have died..."
Ji Liao was slightly surprised and thought to himself, "It turns out that there is also a Tianqian City in Shendong, but I don't know if the Tianqian City on both sides of the Tianqian City has the same city owner."
However, these are not what Ji Liao cares about. He is surprised that it is already two months after the prescribed time for the passenger boat to leave the natural moat. There are only three days left, and he, Lu Zhu and others have actually traveled a full distance. More than two months were simply unbelievable. Although Ji Liao was frightened, he was also terrified. If he hadn't met Lu Zhu, he might have been buried in the moat.
