Great Sui Guoshi

Chapter 448 It's the other way

The Northwest is connected to the Western Regions, and the commercial roads have been accessible since ancient times. The long commercial roads, Hu merchants pull the camel caravan, like the frame of a prison cart.

Occasionally, I heard jingling copper bells ringing at the end of the road ahead. I looked curiously at the direction Chang'an came from. In the dust raised up, an old donkey was slowly walking towards this side while gnawing the weeds on the roadside. The donkey On the back, a scholar sat leisurely horizontally, flipping through a drawing in his hand, raising his head from time to time to look at the winding mountains around him, and sketching on the paper with a brush in his hand.

The donkey's four hooves wanted to speed up, but the scholar stretched out his hand and tapped it on the head. He grunted twice honestly, and let out a rough breath. Passing by the camel caravan, the donkey saw the tall camel with its eyes, and raised its face. The neighing of acridine made the camels shake their heads in fright, trembling in panic, in the pulled vehicle, looking at a group of orchids outside' woo wa. ． ． ． ． ． ' The exclamation screamed, and they swayed into a ball.

"Not honest again!"

Lu Liangsheng rolled up the drawing and knocked it on the head, arched his hands and apologized to the Hu merchant who was pulling the camel, and urged the old donkey to leave quickly. In the shaking bookshelf, the small door creaked halfway open, and a pair of beans Large toad eyes poked out of sight.

"Liangsheng, hit it a few more times, this old donkey just needs to be cleaned up."

This is something I still remember the last time I rolled off the cliff.

The old donkey turned his head and neighed, shook his back, opened the small door, and the toad just shook it. The frog web supported the door frame, patted its belly twice, nodded and looked at the staring donkey's head, and laughed.

"How could this old man be unprepared!"

Surrounding Bai Huahua's stomach were two ropes that had been tied tightly long ago, and they had been shortened quite a bit. Even if she slipped and fell, she would be grabbed by the door at most.

"Hmph, do you really think this old man is a toad without wisdom?"

During the ups and downs and shaking, the camel caravan had gone away. Taoist Ha stretched his limbs and sat on the edge of the small door. The old god was looking at this desolation only in the northwest.

"The old man is back again, and the mountains in the northwest still look magnificent..."

"Then why not just build a house here for Master?"

Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting on the donkey's back, heard what Master said, put down the blueprint and said with a smile: "Then Master will be able to see the mountains in the northwest every day."

"Being a teacher is just talking."

The slightly hot mountain wind was blowing, and Toad raised his face contentedly, "...there is nothing to eat here, otherwise why did you leave when you were a teacher."

Ha ha.

Lu Liangsheng laughed lightly, and the master and apprentice talked one word at a time. The distant camel caravan stretched in the sky and quickly disappeared into the road behind.

The journey to Wujiang Mountain is still unknown. Others scattered to find the area mark that Zhu Erniang said. It may take a day or two, but once they find it, they can reach there in half an hour.

On the undulating back of the donkey, he looked at the wandering clouds in the sky. On the blue sky, a red dot dragged a long shadow, as if hanging outside the sky, but Lu Liangsheng knew that the thing was constantly moving towards the sky. Flying here, maybe it won't be long before more and more people will see it.

Thinking of the Wuyuan master, Lu Liangsheng also felt unspeakably complicated. Firstly, Yu Wentuo said that the other party was resisting the great catastrophe of heaven and earth. Second, the earth evil Yinhuo created by the Qihuo Sect back then kidnapped women and children for human sacrifices. , Indirectly involving countless people died for this. ． ． ． ．

As I was thinking about it, in the bright sunshine ahead, beside the road, there was an extra tea shed. The dirty flags fluttered in the wind, surrounded by a wall of loess, dotted with holes of scumblers. It was an old man with a hunchback. He took two bowls of tea that seemed to be unfinished by previous guests and poured them into the wooden bucket outside the shed. When he saw Lu Liangsheng walking by, he greeted him with a smile.

"Young master, the weather is hot, why not come in and drink a bowl of herbal tea to quench your thirst and cool off."

Lu Liangsheng pulled the rein and tilted his head: "Master, why don't you just eat here?"

The old donkey under him also stopped abruptly at the same time, and the bookshelf behind him was swaying. Daoist Toad came back to his senses, fell sideways, rolled to the door frame and hit it, turned over the door, was strangled by the rope, and his chubby body hung on the Outside the bookshelves.

"Hey mother..." Taoist Ha squinted his eyes, with an expression of "that's true", the puffy bi-webbed environmental protection wobbled on his chest, and bumped his head against the edge of the door from time to time.

After a while, my stomach rumbled, and I smacked my lips.

"Well, but the most urgent thing is to let the teacher down first."

Over there, the apprentice stretched out his hand and untied the rope. Lu Liangsheng held the master in his palm and put it on his shoulder. Just then he pulled the rein, and the old donkey walked towards the tea shop.

The furnishings inside are simple, such a roadside resting place, you can't expect too much, and there is only one old man guarding the shop. Seeing the scholar come in, he quickly invites him to sit down at the square table at the door.

"Looking at the young master's clothes, he must be from a wealthy family. There is nothing to eat in the small shop, only Hubing and herbal tea. Please make do with it."

The old man opened the door to do business, but he was very clear about it. He explained clearly what was in the store first, so as not to get stiff when it was served later.

"Don't dislike it, the mountains are high and the roads are far away, it would be nice to have a stutter."

Lu Liangsheng guessed the meaning of the store's words, and casually went to a pair of chopsticks and put them on the table: "Don't worry, old man, I'm also very hungry and thirsty on the way, you just bring it, but don't be disgusted, I will put this big toad on the table Let’s eat tea and pancakes together.”

"My son likes it, what can I say."

After finishing speaking, the storekeeper took a look, and the toad, who had been puffed up on the table, walked to the earthen stove with a smile, took the teapot soaked in the basin, and took a dustpan covered by a gauze tent, and counted a few pieces. The pancakes come out.

"Young master, you are alone and leading an old donkey, where are you going?"

Coming over, he put the pancakes on the table, and sat down on a nearby bench: "Listen to the advice of the old man, the northwest is desolate, the people are tough, and there are many bandits and road tyrants. You should be careful when you are out alone."

Lu Liangsheng broke open a pancake, put it in front of Taoist Ha, poured some tea and put it there, and nodded with a smile when he heard the shopkeeper's advice.

"Thank you for reminding me, old man, I know, but old man sets up a stall here alone, isn't he afraid of bad guys?"

"afraid?"

The shopkeeper stroked his gray beard on his chin and laughed.

"The old man is half buried in the soil, what are you afraid of? It's a big deal, just kick your feet. However, the old man opened a tea shed here, and he can earn a little money. It can also be used as a place for pedestrians and business travelers to rest their feet and quench their thirst. It's a blessing."

Speaking of which, he looked at the toad at the corner of the table chewing the mustard bread. The latter seemed to dislike being watched and ate, with bulging toad eyes staring at it.

The old man didn't see the eyes of the toad, so he acted like a big toad, and then sighed.

"Old people have only this ability. If they can't do big business, it is definitely not good to take by force. As the saying goes, if you take huge profits without virtue, there will be disasters; if you do good deeds and suffer hardships, you will have good fortune. Perhaps, old people can still To accumulate virtue for the younger generation, or the next life."

On the opposite side, the scholar who was chewing the mustard cakes stopped, and his eyes narrowed. Outside the tea shed, the wind was getting louder, and the birds spread their wings and flew away on the old bare trees.

A gust of sand and dust blew past the old banners, Lu Liangsheng quietly looked at the old man opposite, and slowly put down the pancakes.

"Old man, who did you hear this sentence from?"

Taoist Toad at the corner of the table raised his face, tilted his head to look at his apprentice, and then at the old man over there. For a while, he didn't understand what happened.

Chapter 449 A Wisp of Breeze

"Aren't many people supposed to know this? My lord...your expression...doesn't seem right."

The shopkeeper wiped the corner of the table with a rag, while Taoist Toad on the other side turned his face to the toad, and the sound of the Dharma passed to the disciple's ears.

"Good life?"

The wind whimpered and whimpered outside the tea shed. Hearing Master's words, Lu Liangsheng came back to his senses, picked up the pancake in front of him, broke a piece and put it in his mouth.

"What the shopkeeper said is that many people should know this, it's being rude."

"Don't be abrupt, don't be abrupt, take it easy, young master."

The old man stopped chatting, and got up to wipe the other tables. Lu Liangsheng smiled, looked at the master next to him, put his index finger between his lips and gave a 'shush', picked up the chopsticks and continued eating cakes and drinking tea, waiting for the bill At that time, put a few copper coins into the hands of the shopkeeper.

"By the way, old man, the second half of that sentence should not be 'There must be good fortune', but 'There must be good rewards'."

"Is that right?"

The shopkeeper thought for a while holding the few copper coins, and sent the scholar to the door, saluting: "Thank you for reminding me, my lord, I almost remembered it wrong, and if I tell others, I'm afraid it will make a joke."

The old man murmured to himself and turned back to the tea shed. In the words of 'what's wrong', he stopped suddenly, turned around, and saw the scholar who should have left standing outside the shed and did not leave.

Asked suspiciously: "What else is there, young master?"

Outside, Lu Liangsheng put the master on the old donkey's head, grabbed it with his cross arm, and the Moon Misty Sword flew towards him and fell into his hand. The shopkeeper stumbled back two steps in fright and knocked over a stool.

"Young Master, Young Master, what are you doing?!"

Lu Liangsheng put his finger on the hilt of the sword, and with a long groan, the sword light rushed out of the sheath, flew into the air and hung on the side of his shoulder.

Lu Liangsheng was deeply impressed by these words back then. When he was a child, he went to the market with his parents and listened to an old man say it at a stall.

"That sentence hasn't changed at all. It's not a 'good report' at all. It seems that the old man not only didn't remember it clearly, but he doesn't seem to say it often."

The wide sleeves flicked away, and the palms turned into sword fingers.

"Pretending to be a ghost, go--"

The floating moon raised the blade hummingly, and the moment the sword tip pointed directly at the teahouse, it turned into a stream of light reflecting the sunlight, and the airflow squeezed it away, splashing dust to both sides, and directly sank into the teahouse.

boom--

The whole building shook violently, and the air waves spread and impacted in a circle. The tables and stools in the shed moved out horizontally, and were instantly torn apart.

The smoke and dust raised slowly dissipated, revealing a mess, and there are two rays of light shining, the silhouette of the old man is still standing there, in front of the raised palm, the cyan light is rippling, firmly resisting the light emitted by the Moon Misty Sword. The sword intent that came out.

"Qixia Mountain Lu Liangsheng, do you want to be so smart..."

The old man squeezed out hoarse words, and with his slightly arched body, his feet moved back a little along the ground. While the arm resisting the tip of the sword trembled slightly, he smiled at the scholar opposite.

next moment.

There was a strong wind in the tea shed, and the debris on the silent ground moved. For a moment, the mess on the ground whirled in mid-air, and the collision of ping-pong-pong covered the figure of Resisting Yuelong. Lu Liangsheng raised his hand and grabbed it, dragging the fairy sword inside. Faguang flew back and drove away in front of him, and the air waves visible to the naked eye mixed with dust poured out overwhelmingly, covering the surroundings.

The old donkey raised its hooves restlessly, and the toad on its head flapped its webs and said, "Don't move!"

Seeing the dust billowing around, as if feeling something strange, he tilted his head and drank.

"This kind of concealment, can I hide it from the old man? Liangsheng, to the right!"

Lu Liangsheng pinched the dharma decision, and the Moon Misty Sword with light blue dharma light moved around, piercing the swirling smoke and dust, and the moment it sank halfway, there was a sound of gold and iron colliding. exploded.

Dust surged, and the brown-skinned bird's claws touched the sword's edge.

Yue Hao flew out with a cry of "Ouch", Lu Liangsheng used his mana to pull it back into his hand, and saw a sharp claw that looked like a thousand-year-old tree flash past in the tumbling dust.

There was a sound of flapping wings in the ear.

"Demon..."

"It's still a demon who has attained enlightenment!"

Lu Liangsheng pulled out a sword flower, held the sword behind his back with one hand, and quickly changed the five fingers of the other hand, pinching out several spells.

The Five Elements Dao Law. The Wind Strikes!

Indigo Thunder Divine Fire!

Faguang flickered from the fingertips, and besides the swirling smoke and dust, the sound of the wind became louder, and the sparse vegetation and the soil on the ground flew into the sky together, rushing towards the dust here.

moment.

The smoke and dust covering Lu Liangsheng's surroundings rolled violently and blew away in one direction. In the cloudy sky, in the blown dust, a black and white feather wing brushed past it, and a crane screamed into the sky.

Boo! !

A red-crowned crane broke through the smoke and flew to the sky, suddenly there was a loud thunder, and the electric snake pierced through the gap in the clouds and rushed down.

"Haha, Lu Liangsheng, it's just lightning, but I can't do it!"

As soon as the wings fluttered, the flying figure immediately turned to another direction and accelerated towards the other direction. The next moment, a long scarlet tongue shot into the air, wrapping around the slender crane's feet.

Daoist Ha, who was standing on the donkey's head, was taken aback for a moment, seeing the involuntary tongue popping out, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

'He Qimian's...'

Then, with a flash, the short figure was pulled upwards, dragged below the crane like a kite, fluttering up and down, stumbling and shouting loudly.

"Liangsheng, save me!"

Lu Liangsheng patted the back of the old donkey, and when the latter spread its hooves and chased under the gradually flying crane monster, the scholar grasped the hilt of his sword and was about to ride up the sky. .

"Decree, gods and ghosts from all directions, punish evil!"

A few yellow talismans hung in the sky and stroked, and the side with 'Chi' written on it exploded with a bang, and the golden light showed huge golden patterns of the characters, like a wall standing upright.

Boo!

The crane demon sang, influenced by Taoism, his body stiffened for a moment, the disgusting tongue wrapped around his feet was also loosened at this time, his short body danced wildly, grinning and dragging "ah!" Ah ah..." The long sound, hanging tongues fell from the sky.

"Old Toad!!"

The Taoist who landed in mid-air quickly dug out the yellow cloth pocket at his waist, opened his mouth and ran quickly, counting where the Taoist Toad landed, and stretched out his hand to pick it up for a moment.

The black shadow falling vertically, staggered away from his hand, and fell into a lump with a bang.

The Taoist: "...Old Toad, it's half a step less in this way, do you believe it or not?"

"you......"

Toad drooped its tongue, raised its face with difficulty, pointed at the Taoist with trembling frog webs, and said "... Get lost!", its head drooped, and Da Lala lay on the ground.

Above the sky, cloudy clouds gathered, lightning snakes fell crazily, and the shadow of a crane in the middle shuttled among them, bypassing a falling lightning, retracted its wings, fell to the ground and turned into a beast on all fours, and rushed towards the sword-wielding beast behind him. Lu Liangsheng, who flew over, roared, as if mocking, turned his head, and rushed out.

However, what was reflected in the bottom of his eyes was a dark and fat figure pushing straight from the opposite side like a chariot, his feet galloped wildly, and when he fell to the ground, the soil collapsed and dust was splashed.

At this very moment, the rake with its teeth bared across the sky, and with a bang, the ferocious beast's head tilted, its eyes bulged, and its vigorous running body flew straight out, knocking over a rock, and fell to the ground behind it. Rolled a few times before stopping.