Chapter 116: Undercurrents under Pingwen Lake
Early the next morning, Zuo Chen drove a donkey cart and left Dongshui City with Caiyi.
"I wish you a prosperous military career, sir."
Sima said goodbye to Zuo Chen at the gate of the mansion and watched Zuo Chen go further and further away from here.
Zuo Chen rode the donkey backwards and could keep looking at Sima Liang.
At that time, a cloud blocked the midday sun and the direction of Sima's mansion. Only then did Sima Liang enter the courtyard and was nowhere to be seen again.
After leaving Dongshui City and making sure that there was no one else around, Caiyi dared to relax and said to Zuo Chen:
"Taoist priest, is it really okay for us to go to the gambling village like this? ?”
“Of course it’s no problem,” Zuo Chen said with a smile, “It’s not easy to get this group of people together, so of course I have to go and see what show they are going to perform.”< br>
Caiyi thought about it and felt it made sense.
She didn't think that any conspiracy could hurt the Taoist priest.
Even if the mighty king's eight thousand iron cavalry rushed towards the Taoist priest, Caiyi felt that the Taoist priest could easily block it.
A gambling village?
How many troops and horses can be produced?
How many cavalry are there?
Thinking of this, Cai Yi felt relieved.
After driving for a while, Zuo Chen asked Caiyi again:
"How has your cultivation been lately?"
"It has accumulated in your body. I have gained some strength.”
Caiyi immediately sat up straight and said seriously.
He glanced at Caiyi and sighed:
"It's been half a year since I followed you. Your accumulation speed is not good. You've been lazy recently."
"No!" Chang! I practice diligently every day!”
Cai Yi suddenly turned into a bitter face:
“Maybe I’m not talented, but I’m really not lazy. ! ”
Zuo Chen glanced at Caiyi and carefully recalled her daily practice, but in the end he didn't say much.
Indeed, from Zuo Chen's perspective, Caiyi did not delay his cultivation, and was even more diligent than he was on the mountain.
It's just that Zuo Chen only spent half a year on the mountain to reach the peak of Qi refining. Caiyi is still some distance away from the threshold of Qi refining.
Caiyi’s cultivation speed is a bit different from what he expected.
Concentrating his thoughts, Zuo Chen said to Caiyi:
"It's probably going to take a long time to get to Gambling Village. Originally, I wanted to teach you some life-saving magical powers, but now that you are not good enough, these magical powers will easily drag you down."
Caiyi heard Zuo Chen couldn't help but lower his head after saying this, looking a little sad.
“But, it’s not like I can’t teach you anything.”
Caiyi suddenly raised his head, looking very excited.
“The next thing I will teach you is the Awareness of Qi technique. This technique is the basis of the barrier insight. I haven’t studied the latter yet, but I use the Awareness of Qi technique more frequently. As long as you grasp it, you can see where the opponent is, and you can also roughly grasp the opponent's strength to avoid putting yourself in danger
"This is not a magic method, but it is suitable for you now. If something happens and I happen to not be around, you can use Guan Qi to take a look first. If the other person's aura is stronger than yours, you can turn your head Just run."
Caiyi nodded repeatedly.
This is her favorite way to save her life.
That's why she learned the latter from Juju Nimaru's Kenmaru and Soybean Pills.
It does look nice to spit a sword out of your mouth and nail it with spit, but Caiyi learns this thing mainly to make a living and make a living. Who is he trying to kill when he spits out a sword from his mouth?
As the donkey cart swayed, Zuo Chen preached slowly, and Caiyi took out a small book to jot down notes.
Master Donkey on the other hand pricked up his ears while chewing the carrot in his mouth, as if he was listening with great interest.
......
In a large dense forest, in a gambling village, a walking businessman leaned on a soft couch, kicked down two pairs of cloth shoes, and was alone wearing only foot bags.
In front of him was an altar of incense, with only one stick of incense on it.
The businessman seemed to be sleeping, looking at the incense stick in front of him with half-squinted eyes.
Suddenly his eyelids moved and he straightened up from the soft couch.
He immediately put on his shoes and put the bamboo basket next to him on his back.
Pushing the door open and going out, he saw three people standing outside the door.
The three of them dress up differently and their styles are very different.
Standing on the left is a fat man with a mustache, eyes narrowed into slits, a round hat on the top of his head, all dressed in brocade silk, and an emerald ring on his thumb.
What a wealthy family.
On the right is a dying old man, wearing a patched rag with his chest open. If you look inside, you can see his thin ribs and dirty skin. .
I kept covering the corners of my mouth with my hands and coughing, and from time to time I would spit out a mouthful of thick old yellow phlegm.
Standing in the middle is a village woman.
He looked very simple and not very pretty. He had a white headscarf on his head and a yellowish apron on his body. His palms were gray and thick, and his fingernails were still stained with dirt. He was obviously doing farm work. Take good care of yourself.
These four people seem to be completely unrelated, but at this moment they are all together.
"What do you say? Cough?"
The skinny old man coughed twice, and then asked the traveling merchant.
"I got the news. The man and the aunt are already on the road. It is estimated that they will arrive in the village in about ten days." "Haha, did you really get hooked?" The fat man smiled. : "Although practitioners of the Tao are very capable, they are still too wary of all the miscellaneous things in the world of mortals."
"Don't take it lightly. That Taoist can kill Dahuang by himself, he must be a land god, and he must be a land god who has been in the country for a while. As for the aunt, she can also withstand the torrent of iron cavalry by herself, guaranteeing the bottom line It’s also the middle stage of innateness.” The village woman advised from the side: “You still have to prepare well.”
“Don’t worry.” It's already set up. In addition, I still have the Jiuer Walker in this paper basket. Today's preparation has already achieved 30% of the scenery of Kyoto back then. If I can't kill that Taoist, I'm afraid I can only recreate the Kyoto formation. "
Speaking of this, the businessman seemed to be laughed at his caution: "If there is another capital master in this world, we deserve to die."
Several others also laughed. got up.
No one thinks that Taoist priests are really as capable as the former capital of Kyoto.
After the conversation, the businessman looked around twice and frowned:
"Where did the flower-faced man go?"
"He found a room by himself. The door of the house is sealed. Before entering, he told me that he was going to play a big shot this time, so he had to be prepared first.
The flower-faced man lost his heart last time, and it has been used as one of the nine stages of the Dragon Array.
The traveling businessman thought that seeing this heart, the handsome man would come and show off his pretty face at this meeting, but he didn’t expect to see him at all.
"Xiao Huanxi is really not easy to get along with. Ahem." The old man seemed to have deep resentment towards the flower-faced man: "His behavior is too weird and he only relies on his own preferences. I would rather get along with him. He didn’t want to cooperate with those weirdos in the village, and he didn’t want to touch Xiao Huanxi. "
No one said anything to him, mainly because everyone knew that the old man had some issues with Xiao Huanxi.
This old man used to do a lot of business, and he was not very serious. However, Xiao Huanxi came to his door on the way, and his business was cheated, and he was involved in the Beggar Gang.
Although he spent more than ten years building a reputation in the Beggar Gang and personally killed the little Huanxi back then, the old man no longer had any good impressions of this sect.
Had it not been for the ridiculously high strength of the flower-faced man this time, the old man would never have agreed to cooperate with them.
In his words,
Xiao Huanxi is a bitch!
"There is no way, this Huarangjun is Xiao Huanxi's You Changqing, he must have some skills. Maybe he has hit the edge of the land god, and having him here can be regarded as an insurance. If there is really no Taoist priest who can be killed, he can still protect us and run away," the walking merchant sighed.
"I hope he can keep his promise."
"He is already the one who keeps his promise the most among Xiao Huanxi."
The businessman thought about Xiao Huanxi's overall behavior and could only Such an evaluation.
A few people chatted politely for a few more words, and then the businessman waved his hand and dismissed a few people to leave:
"Everyone go to your own high platform to take a look, don't miss anything. Things, if something goes wrong with the person who opens the altar, it will be a joke.”
Several people agreed and patted their chests to ensure that nothing would happen before leaving.
Looking at their retreating figures, the traveling merchant turned his hands behind his back and muttered to himself:
“Master, is it really appropriate to spend so much energy on dealing with this Taoist priest?”
……
The donkey cart moves leisurely along the road.
On the way, Zuo Chen found several firewood cutters to make sure there were no problems with the map given by Sima Liang. After confirming that there was nothing wrong with the map, he walked forward along the path.
Most of the terrain in Youzhou is relatively flat. Following the developed road, there are either woods or village fields on both sides.
Today the donkey cart came out of a nearby forest, and what came into view was the endless plain.
It is autumn, the wild grass turns yellow, and the wind blows, and the grass turns into waves. Just in the sunset, the sky turns into gold, and the clouds are dyed red.
“Oh my god! It’s so beautiful!”
Caiyi stopped practicing Wang Qi Shu, looked at the surrounding scenery, held it in for a long time, and finally squeezed out this sentence.
"...I will buy you some poems and songs in the future. Otherwise, when you see this kind of scenery, you can only say this sentence."
"Taoist priest, don't talk about me, you don't Don’t you have anything to say?” Caiyi pouted.
"Who said I have no words?" Zuo Chen hummed, and it was finally his turn to copy: "Outside the long pavilion, beside the ancient road, the green grass stretches to the sky."
"... said Long, now the grass is yellow ”
"Talking too much."
The donkey cart continued to move forward. According to the map, it should be a town, mainly based on animal husbandry, the main meat and livestock land nearby.
As expected, after walking forward for a while, I saw several farms not far away.
But immediately, Zuo Chen saw some commotion at the gate of the farm.
"Hey! Stop fighting! Stop fighting! I just saw how beautiful the chicken was and wanted to pick it up and touch it, not steal it!"
"Who believes it? I'm asking for a beating!"
Seeing the commotion over there, Zuo Chen also asked the donkey to walk in that direction.
When I got to the door, I found a village woman beating the old man with a broom.
The scene was overwhelming.
"Old man?" Zuo Chen, who was watching the excitement, suddenly heard Cai Yi's murmuring and exclamation from behind, and then turned his head to look at Cai Yi.
He was surprised to find the latter.
Zuo Chen reacted for a moment, and his expression became a little strange.
Could this be...
The one who adopted Caiyi before?
(End of this chapter)