Ye Gui

Shen Tian Island is like spring all year round, even in the cold winter, the crops in the farmland are still luxuriant.As an island, the land is actually fertile black soil, where wheat and rice are grown.

The men and women working in the fields put down their work when they saw Baiqiao, and saluted with their right fists in front of their left chests.

The town is about the size of Anning County, and they are all houses built of blue bricks and stones. The roofs are very large, made of a mixture of mud and palm leaf straw, and the houses are covered like bamboo hats.

The distance between neighbors is not far or close, each household has no yard, the streets are paved with stone slabs, and the paths are dirt roads.

Baiqiao led the crowd up the stone road, and gradually the number of people increased.

"There is a market today!" Bai Qiao trotted through the crowd.

"Miss Qiao! Miss Qiao is back!" Surrounded by the crowd, she greeted her warmly.

"Miss Qiao is finally back, and we all miss you! Are you in good health? How are you doing in Dongzhou?"

"This is the ginseng fruit left for you."

"This is the sea fish we just caught this morning! Take it back and eat it with the Holy Maiden!"

"Try the coconuts from the coconut grove along the north coast!"

"You're going to tell us about the Dongzhou Continent later. The children are looking forward to your return!"

"Okay! After two days to settle down, I'll ask Bai Wang to pick up the children and go to the mountain." Bai Qiao took them with a smile and thanked them one by one.

"Miss Qiao, is this the heir you brought back this year?" An old woman leaned on a cane and walked in front of Lei Yan, "It's so handsome!"

Lei Yan and the others were surrounded by a group of people commenting, the little general was about to explode, Bai Qiao said: "Yes, but these are all dedicated to the Holy Maiden, don't read it!"

The crowd bowed to the saintess, not daring to make mistakes, and all bowed their heads and retreated.

"Isn't this Mr. Lu? It's been a long time! It must have been more than twenty years? I didn't expect you to be alive!" Someone recognized Lu Changhua.

"..."

Lu Changhua is a restless character. Twenty years ago in Shentian Island, he often went down the mountain to hang out. He visited the whole town, and there was almost no one who didn't know this lively Yusi.Later, he was really bored, so he ran the whole Shentian Island several times, wishing to know exactly which mosquitoes gave birth to larvae on the island.

He left so suddenly that everyone on the island thought he had offended the saint and was sacrificed or fed to the fish.

As night fell, oil lamps were lit in every house, and torches were placed at the gates facing the street, illuminating the entire main street brightly. Baiqiao led a few people and continued to walk up the mountain.

"The folk customs on the island are very simple..." Li Jingzhu said, he noticed that although the chickens and ducks had sheds, they all ran all over the street.In the bazaar we passed by just now, everyone was bartering, and we didn't see any yellow and white things.Moreover, all the houses have no yards, and the gates are not locked.

Bai Qiao proudly said: "That's natural. The residents on my Shentian Island have lived here for generations. Except for the saintess, the rest are descendants of the nearby islanders. Knowing how to farm and herd, it was the arrival of the first saintess who taught them these things, which improved their lives. Later, the ancestors of these people came to settle in Shen Tian Island. Everyone is a kind-hearted person, and they can share whatever they have. It's not like you people from Dongzhou, who have a heart-to-heart! Selfishness!"

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Hakuin with a strange expression.

Passing through the town, there is a stone archway. The stone road divides into two forks in front of the archway, one continues up the mountain, and the other goes west, disappearing in the dense forest.

The little general pointed to the deep pine forest and asked, "Where is the place over there?"

Several little girls under the age of ten followed them up and down, and one girl said, "You can't go over there!"

"What can't you go?" Another girl argued.

"Of course you can go, they are men, so you can't go!"

The other girls nodded: "Yes, yes! Men can't go there! If you go...you will die!"

Speaking of a group of white-clothed women coming from the town holding torches, the one walking in the front was Bai Wang: "Miss Qiao!"

Bai Qiao stopped and bowed to a woman: "Elder Lu."

With Bai Lu's white skirt hanging down, she nodded slightly: "Miss Qiao."

The little girls seemed a little afraid of this elder with a cold tone and a frosty face, so they stuck out their tongues and ran to the town down the mountain.

Bai Lu looked around and paused on Lei Yan's face, as if he was weighing something, stared into Lei Yan's eyes, but shouted: "Lu Changhua! You still have the face to come back!"

Lu Changhua was originally hiding behind Li Jingzhu, but when he was suddenly pointed at, the hand holding Li Jingzhu's back trembled, and he slowly stretched out his head: "Elder Lu, long time no see..."

Bai Lu said: "Come on, catch him and throw him into the shark tank!"

"Yes!" Bai Wang led his men to surround them.

Lu Changhua rushed behind Baiqiao. He had been treated badly by this woman before, and when he saw her, he got a headache and became nervous.

Bai Qiao sighed and said, "Elder Lu, this person belongs to my aunt, so how to deal with it should be up to my aunt, right?"

Bai Lu said: "Lu Changhua is full of tricks. As your mother's heir, he dared to hook up with the former saint." A cold light flashed in her palm, and the torch flashed to Baiqiao's side while the torch was shaking, pointing at Lu Changhua. magnificent.

Lu Changhua looked at her calmly, grabbed her wrist, and the long thorn barely stopped less than an inch from his chest.

Bai Lu snorted coldly: "Lu Changhua, do you think this is Baishan, or Dongzhou Continent? The spiritual power of Baishan is useless here, you are not my opponent at all! Why don't you just catch me?!"

Lu Changhua pinched her wrist: "Elder Lu, will you let me live if I capture you without a fight? Don't you want to throw me into the shark pond to feed the fish? But then again, I have been here for so long before, every time you When you see me, you say you want to feed me to the fish, am I still alive and well? I don’t think you even thought about killing me, do you?”

Bai Lu struggled to free his hand, and Bai Qiao stood between the two of them. Bai Lu said angrily, "Miss Qiao, are you determined to protect him? Don't forget, he didn't even think about it when he left." You! You have been crying for so long..."

"Shut up!" Bai Qiao shouted.

Bai Lu and the other women in white were taken aback, and Bai Lu said, "Miss Qiao, are you talking to me?"

Bai Qiao's eyes drifted away, he didn't dare to look her in the eyes, he lowered his head and said, "Elder Lu, Xiaoqiao made a mistake, and he spoke out in a hurry, please don't blame Elder Lu."

Bai Lu glanced at the clenched fists on both sides of her body, knowing that she was unwilling, and said with a soft smile: "Where is Miss Qiao, you are the daughter of a saint. If the previous saint can't be found, you will be the next one." Saintess, how dare I blame you..."

Bai Wang looked at Baiqiao worriedly. She had a close relationship with Baiqiao and loved her as sisters. Because Baiqiao was a collateral lineage, although her status was much higher than that of the islanders, her aunt and she were still not the best to inherit the position of saint. The best candidate, ever since the former saintess Bai Wan left, she has often been stared at by Bai Lu and the elders.

The mountain wind blows the woods, making the sweltering weather a bit cooler.Thinking of Bai Yin standing aside, Bai Qiao inexplicably gained confidence, clenched his fists and said loudly: "Since Elder Lu knows that my aunt is a saint, he shouldn't do it for me. No matter what crimes Lu Changhua committed before, he can give you The only one he condemned and punished was the Holy Maiden, could it be that Elder Lu is coveting the Holy Maiden's heir? Or does he simply want to be the Holy Maiden?"

A big hat was put on top of Bai Lu's head, and everyone was staring at her, so she naturally wouldn't put away the long thorn with her backhand just because Lu Changhua was charged with such a big crime, and lowered her eyes and said, "Bai Lu dare not. Lu Changhua has ulterior motives, Bai Lu is just worried that this person has other plans when he returns to the island."

Bai Qiao said: "Lu Changhua, I will leave it to the Holy Maiden to make a decision. Elder Lu will not bother with this matter."

Bai Lu raised her head and stared into Bai Qiao's eyes. Neither of them backed down. After a while, she said, "Let's go!"

The woman in white followed Bai Lu along another road towards the dense forest.

When Bai Wang passed by Bai Qiao, he stopped, squeezed her hand, and said in a low voice, "Miss Qiao, you are amazing!"

She winked at Bai Qiao, and Bai Qiao's tense body relaxed, and he couldn't help laughing.

Several people waited for Bai Lu to enter the dense forest before continuing to walk up the mountain.Lu Changhua said: "This woman is becoming more and more vicious. She used to punish me every now and then. If it weren't for Ah Wan and Ah Qing protecting me, I would have died countless times... Fortunately, Xiaoqiao was protecting me this time." Me, thank you Xiaoqiao!" He leaned over and walked with Baiqiao.

Hearing his mother and aunt's names mentioned at the same time, Bai Qiao burst into anger: "Protecting you? I'm not protecting you! I just want my mother to chop you into a meat paste with my own hands to vent my anger! "

"Little bridge..."

Lu Changhua wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Bai Qiao: "I don't want to hear what you have to say, tell me what you want to say!"

"Ah... Xiaobaiyin, Ahyan, Xiaozhuzi, I regret it!"

"Master, what do you regret?" Li Jingzhu could probably see that although Bai Qiao always spoke ill of Lu Changhua, he still protected him at critical moments.

"I regret coming back here... You said that if Ah Qing is still angry and chops me up with a knife, then I might as well hide in Dongzhou and not come back..."

Bai Qiao heard it in front of him: "Hmph! I knew that there is no such thing as a good man in the world! What kind of promise is there for nothing! He doesn't even have the courage to apologize in person, what kind of man is he!"

Li Jingzhu smiled and said: "Master, didn't you say that you would come back and ask Master some questions?"

Everyone knew that Lu Changhua's regretful words were just words. If he didn't really want to come back, he wouldn't have been wandering in the sea looking for it for so many years, let alone trying to enter Haowan Pavilion.

The hustle and bustle of the town at the foot of the mountain gradually faded away, and the mountains were full of vigorous pines and cypresses. Except for the torch in Mr. Bai's hand, there was only moonlight and starlight left. The wind passing through the forest gave people a sense of remoteness and tranquility.

At the end of the mountain road, the majestic mountain gate can already be seen.

Hakuin even felt that this place was more mysterious than Baishan.

Before Lu Changhua could answer, he saw a person walking down the mountain road, wearing a moon-white long skirt and a plain white mist gauze. His blue hair was tied behind his head with a wooden hairpin. Banxian.

"Mother!" Bai Qiao rushed forward and threw herself into the woman's arms.

Bai Qing hugged her, and was stunned for a moment when she saw Lu Changhua, then quickly tore off the hairpin and stuffed it into her sleeve.