Yinshan Lake is located in a place surrounded by barren mountains in Yuefu, on the edge of leaving Yangmo.
It is surrounded by white mist all the year round, and you can't see your fingers. Even the most skilled fishermen are reluctant to come here to fish.
It was already evening when Lin Xin and his party arrived at Yinshan Lake.
Surrounded by barren mountains and steep mountains, you can faintly see white mist and airflow floating in the mountains, and the mountains undulate and stretch into the distance until you can't see the outline.
Several carriages formed a square formation, and several bonfires were burning in the middle.
Lin Xin stood beside a carriage and looked towards Yinshan Lake far away on the road ahead.
Wherever you look, there is a mist of white everywhere, as if everything has been dyed black and white by the mist, and there is no other color to be found.
"Master, don't you want to eat something?" Gongsunli walked behind him and said in a low voice.
"No, I've already used it with Lingling." Lin Xin turned around and said, "There is a thick fog around Yinshan Lake, there should be bandits and beasts hiding there, right?"
"There are, but I dare not do anything to the large group of people. Besides, with us here, even if there were, it would be easy to solve." Gongsunli said disapprovingly.
Lin Xin also accompanied them, had something to eat with the three priests, then got up and was about to go back to the carriage to accompany Xiao Lingling, who was still weak and had not fully recovered.
"Deep in the mountain, there is wine~~~" Suddenly a long folk song came from the mist, it was a man who seemed to be a little old.
"After drinking a bowl, I will never forget~~~"
The sound was getting closer and louder, and after repeating it several times, it reached a place not far from the phalanx.
"But there are wine sellers?" The outside guard in the line called out.
"Yes, yes." Two people came out of the mist, carrying two picks of wine jars, both of which were yellow-brown earthen jars. Sealed with a white cloth stopper, one can faintly smell the aroma of wine wafting out.
"Smells good!"
The experts in Zhuangzi couldn't bear it any longer. In the cold weather and heavy fog, two people came to ask Taoist Lu Suo, who was in charge of the team.
Lu Suo listened to what the two said. Turn to Lin Xin.
"Master, the people below want to buy some wine to quench their thirst, I don't know..."
Lin Xin stared at the two men carrying the wine. They were two rough, dark men with gray cloth hoods. The body is also the ordinary farmer's cloth that has been washed white.
"It's foggy, so it's good to have some wine." He nodded, "However, first bring the two wine sellers up and ask about the situation. Wild beasts are rampant in this wilderness, and only two people dare to carry wine out ... "
"I also think there is a problem." Zen Master Sanyuan nodded. "It's better for the poor monk to ask on behalf of the owner."
"Alright, trouble Zen Master."
"Don't bother." Zen Master Sanyuan led the two of them over, stood at a distance and said a few words to the two wine sellers.
Lin Xin also couldn't hear very clearly. Seeing Xiao Lingling in the carriage lifted the curtain to look outside, he walked towards the carriage, ready to tell her about the situation.
Before he had gone far, he heard a loud shout over there.
"Go!"
Then Zen Master Sanyuan's roar exploded like thunder.
bang bang!
The two wine sellers were beaten so hard that they flew sideways like broken sacks. Both of them held two daggers in both hands, obviously they took the opportunity to sneak attack just now. He was sent flying by Zen Master Sanyuan.
Both of them didn't have time to hum, and both sides of their heads were directly dented with a large piece.
"kill!"
Suddenly, a large group of figures rushed from all around, wielding mist such as hatchets, hoes, and sickles, and rushed towards the phalanx to attack.
"It's really a bandit." Lin Xin walked to the side of the carriage and helped Xiao Lingling get out of the carriage.
"I'm not so delicate yet." Xiao Lingling said coquettishly.
"It's okay, it's just that I want to do this." Lin Xin felt sorry for this girl, and learned from Senior Sister Qihuang that Xiao Lingling is still a virgin until now, and because of using the secret method this time. Excessive overdrawing of the body may also have an impact on its own life span.
So her original energy of being active and lively was gone, and instead she looked weak and delicate every day. This is the performance of being hurt to the root.
Every time he thought of this, his guilt and pity for Xiao Lingling grew.
Help Xiao Lingling get out of the car. He looked around, at this time, Zen Master Sanyuan and four or five Jianghu masters recruited by the villa had already rushed into the bandits, going on a rampage, killing a bandit every time.
There were dozens of bandits, but they seemed to be many, and they were led by the Zen master to practice kung fu to open the way. All the way on the rampage, killing two in and two out, the entire bandit group collapsed.
Their weapons couldn't even see the slightest mark on the Zen master.
After a few blows, the entire bandit was killed and fled in all directions.
"Catch some people and return them to Zhuangzi as slaves." Lin Xin ordered aloud.
The Zen master responded, and Lu Suo also sent several people here to cooperate on both sides, and began to surround the fleeing bandits.
In less than a few words, more than ten bandits were arrested.
Lin Xin walked over and saw that the arrested people had been tied up tightly. He glanced at the overturned wine jar next to him, the aroma of the wine overflowing from it was very attractive. Suddenly my heart moved slightly.
"How does the wine here come from?"
"My lord! My lord! Forgive me! My mother is my mother, and my three-year-old child is waiting to be fed. Without me as a pillar..."
Boom. His words were interrupted by a kick.
The bandit who yelled may have listened to too many storytellers, so the yelling actually rhymed a little.
Lin Xin also didn't expect to meet such a top quality, it was the first time he met a guy who begged for mercy like this in reality.
"Stop talking nonsense!" After a man next to him kicked him. Cursed a few words, "The owner asked you what to say!? How did the wine come from? Tell me!"
"Yes yes yes... wine is brewed by villains... villains!" This man has sallow eyebrows, sallow skin, long thin face, messy hair as if he hasn't washed it for a long time, and he feels like Monkey essence is almost the same.
"You made it?" Lin Xinyi wondered, "With this craftsmanship, how could you become a bandit on the mountain?"
The man immediately started crying again, and began to tell his story with snot and tears.
It turned out that this guy was enraged in the city because his wife Hongxing, who had just passed through the door, came out of the wall. He picked up the scissors and stabbed his wife and her lover to death. Later, in order to avoid the government, he fled to the deep mountains. , unexpectedly encountered a talking well.
"A talking well?" Lin Xin was taken aback. The rest of the people around were also stunned.
"This well can also talk?" Zen Master Sanyuan was stunned.
"I think this guy is just making up things! Owner, why don't you just kill him with a knife!" The man who kicked his foot just now spat in a reckless voice.
As soon as these words came out, the man immediately started crying again, begging for mercy.
"No hurry..." Lin Xin's heart skipped a beat. This world is mysterious and weird, maybe it is possible that he can really encounter such a miracle.
When the man saw Lin Xin's words, he didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly said the key things.
"My lord is wise! My lord is wise! The villain was also frightened at that time, and fainted. When I woke up later, I found that the well was gone, and there was only a small piece of purple-red stone in place. I picked up the stone , and then unexpectedly discovered that as long as you put it in the water overnight, you can get a steady stream of fine wine!"
"Is there such a thing?" Lin Xin was surprised. "What about that rock?"
"Here...here..." The man flinched and took out a thin purple-red stone from his clothes.
As soon as he took it out, he was snatched by someone, and he walked up to Lin Xin and offered it to Lin Xin.
Lin Xin took the stone and observed it carefully.
"This is clearly an ordinary stone." Xiao Lingling was also surprised to hear it. At this time, I also came closer to observe.
"No..." Lin Xin shook his head slightly.
The stones are Suoshu-shaped, somewhat irregular, and have many honeycomb-like holes on the surface, similar to volcanic rocks. The entire surface is purple-red, and faintly covered with lines like veins.
"When I was talking with Dongyue, I heard him mention this thing..." Lin Xin said slowly.
"The owner is indeed the owner, he knows all these strange things!" Gongsunli hurriedly flattered him.
Then a group of people around echoed. They all expect him to explain the origin of the stone. Even the one who got caught was the same.
"Master, can this thing really turn water into wine?" Taoist Lu Suo didn't believe it.
Lin Xin is not sure either.
"My friend mentioned that there is something called tartar, which can turn water into wine. But there is a price to pay."
"What price?" Xiao Lingling asked curiously.
Lin Xin shook his head slightly.
"The price is... human corpses."
As soon as he said that, the arrested person's complexion turned pale, and he was a little stupid.
The surrounding crowd also changed color a little.
"A corpse can maintain the use of tartar for a certain number of times. Although it is bloody, the fine wine transformed from tartar is a treasure that can prolong life." Lin Xin shook his head.
"Anyway, this is also an evil treasure." Zen Master Sanyuan said the Buddha's name.
"Not bad." Lin Xin nodded. "However, apart from this effect, it doesn't have to use a corpse..." He smiled. "Of course, the premise is that this thing is really a tartar. Bring water."
He asked someone to break a bowl of water and put the stones in it to soak. Put it on the carriage and leave it alone.
"Leave these people here, leave a few people to watch, and we will bring them back to Zhuangzi when we come back." Lin Xin ordered casually.
He is not afraid that there will be rescuers behind these robbers and robbers. With this little combat power, he is not much different from the peasants with weapons.
The team rested all night, and Xiao Lingling got up early the next morning to look at the bowl of water with tartar in it.
"It's really wine!"
She said excitedly.
"Of course." Lin Xin said softly, he picked up the bowl of tartar water on the table in the middle of the carriage, swayed gently, and smelled a strong aroma of wine.
"This wine, also called dead man's wine, is brewed with the essence of human corpses. It is naturally mellow and delicious. But only us humans like to drink it, because according to what my friend mentioned, if other creatures see this wine, they will be very disgusted. Because what they smell is not a fragrance, but a stench."
"It's amazing..." Xiao Lingling nodded, looking at the wine with emotion and disgust.
The convoy continued to move forward and soon reached the bank of Yinshan Lake.
There was a thick fog on the shore of the lake, and you couldn't see your fingers when you stretched out your hands. Don't talk about looking for strangers in the Yinshan Mountains, even if you are far away, you can't see the people around you at a distance of three or four meters.
The convoy must use thick ropes to connect people and vehicles together so as not to get lost.
After walking for a while to the lake, there was a thick fog, and the calm and clear water could only be seen along the rocky shore.
Lin Xin asked the carriage to stop between two old trees. He took out the sword box by himself, and carried the newly made rune swords on his back one by one.
The last Yanyang Talisman sword was slowly sheathed.
Lin Xin gently hugged Xiao Lingling.
"Just wait here for me."
"kindness."
Xiao Lingling replied softly.
Leaving Zen Master Sanyuan behind, Lin Xin led Lu Suo Taoist, Gongsunli, and eight other experts, and walked slowly along the shore of the lake, leaving traces at intervals along the way.
After walking along the lake for a while, a rather simple thatched cottage suddenly appeared in front of him. (.)