The two walked around in the woods like headless chickens, but couldn't get out. The sun had already set, and the surrounding fields were dead silent.
Hua Qiangu became anxious: "Leave me alone! Just walk by yourself, and you will be able to get out of the forest if you go straight to the north. If you stay with me, you won't be able to get out no matter how many times you go around!"
She thought that she was haunted by ghosts again, and when a ghost hit a wall, she thought that if Xuanyuan Lang left alone, he should be able to get out.
"You are stupid, you, this is not some ghost hitting the wall, this is the seven-star maze of the stinky bastard, the outside can't get in, and the inside can't get out. The bastard just wants to trap me, it's better to starve me to death , so that my master can't find it. It was injured by me, and I have the body protection of the real dragon's energy. He can't get close to me, can't kill me, so he can only use different methods to punish me and make me suffer more. Look at how I can fix him after I catch him!"
"Is there a way to break that formation?"
"I don't know how to break it. This formation is equivalent to the stinky bastard covering its bastard shell outside. The veins on its shell are the various formations of the five elements and eight trigrams, which change in thousands of ways. In fact, it is not very powerful. , just relying on these gossip formations to make trouble everywhere. But how did you get in?"
"I walked in when I heard your screams."
"What is a scream!" Xuanyuan Lang hit Hua Qian's bone with a chestnut, "I just called for help to see if my master can feel it."
Hua Qiangu innocently touched her messy hair, with her dirty appearance, maybe she really looked like a little beggar.
"The Yixuan gave me this thing, see if it brought me in." Hua Qiangu showed him Tianshuidi.
Xuanyuan Lang touched the palm of his hand, as if he was holding a drop of cold tears, and a trace of blood inside slowly spun, twisted, and fainted, as if it was alive.
"Although there is a lot of mana in it, why does it always feel like a monster? Why are you looking for that Immortal King? It is said that he only feeds on the tongues of dead people. He has a cunning, weird and changeable temperament. He is an out-and-out monster. .”
"No! He's a bit scary, but he's actually quite a nice person. He helps people who are in trouble and want to know the truth without discrimination. Give me this so I can go to Maoshan."
"Fart! Hearing you say that, it's become a pleasure to help others!" Xuanyuan Lang was speechless. For all these years, for the palace officials, the Immortal Pavilion is undoubtedly a more terrifying existence than any evil monsters or even reactionary forces.
How many unjust crimes and regicides, how many intrigues, how many reversals of right and wrong, all history can be rewritten by the emperor, and any truth and inside story can also be obliterated and covered up by the emperor. But the Immortal Pavilion, because of the existence of the Immortal Pavilion, nothing can be buried with the dust of history. Therefore, as long as officials and concubines, as small as eunuchs and maids, as long as they know some important things, they will all have their tongues cut off secretly by the emperor when they are buried.
When I was young and cried and grabbed my father's leg to prevent him from approaching the mother's body, my father just said: "The reason why a secret is called a secret is because it cannot be known by a third person. Langer, when you grow up and ascend the throne, you will not be able to get close to the mother's body." When the father dies of old age, remember to cut off the father's tongue and then incinerate it. This is a family motto passed down from generation to generation, don't ask why."
He didn't understand it very well, but he made up his mind from that day on, in this life he must be an upright, innocent man who can tell others everything. There is nothing to hide, and I am not afraid to give anyone an account! So there is no need to fear who will cut his tongue after death!
As long as it is a secret, it must not be a good thing. So, he doesn't need it!
Hua Qiangu didn't pay attention to his thoughts at all, just took the drop of water from that day and hung it around his neck again, muttering: "It's okay, I always feel that he is not a bad person, he won't harm me, otherwise he wouldn't need to help me. "
"What did you give him?"
"ah?"
"I said what price did you give him? The kind of mercenary."
"I didn't give anything. I just gave him my name and characters."
Xuanyuan Lang frowned, feeling even worse: "In the future, don't give away your horoscope to others. It will be too easy to kill you or control you when you meet someone with superb sorcery."
"Oh, I see." Hua Qiangu rubbed his belly, he was so hungry, he couldn't walk anymore.
"Anyway, after you go to Maoshan, throw this thing away as soon as possible, don't take it with you again, do you hear me?"
"Okay, okay—" Hua Qiangu shook his head helplessly, this person is really used to ordering others.
"I can't go out anyway, let's rest here for the night, I'm hungry."
"Okay, let's start the fire first, and I'll go see if there are any hares and pheasants that can be eaten. You go over there and pick up some branches!"
"Uh, it's so dark over there, there can't be ghosts, you'll die if you eat it..." Hua Qiangu hesitated, she was most afraid of the dark, and basically didn't dare to run around at night.
"Nonsense, ghosts are not monsters, how can they eat people! Stand up straight, seeing you trembling like this, you really don't look like a man!"
"I'm not a man..." Hua Qiangu muttered in a low voice, but didn't bother to explain. Doctor Zhang explained that one should be careful when going out alone, and it's safer to be treated as a boy. There is no need to emphasize it specially, there is no difference between men and women, and there is no need for others to take care of you just because you are a girl.
Hua Qiangu started a fire, and within a short while Xuanyuan Lang caught several pheasants.
Because Xuanyuan Lang has been living and sleeping outside with Luohe River for the past two years, Xuanyuan Lang is no longer arrogant in the past.
"Let me give you a taste of my special skills." I plucked the chicken feathers clean, emptied the stomach and filled it with the spices and seasonings I carried with me, then wrapped it with leaves and buried it in the fire. Pile down.
Hua Qiangu salivated as she watched from the sidelines, she had been eating and sleeping in the open for the past two months, and she hadn't had a good meal.
The night in Maoshan is quiet and quiet, and there is someone around, so there is no fear and anxiety like in the past. Hua Qiangu didn't have much contact with people, and after her father left, she became even more lonely, but she had already gotten used to it. She has no friends since she was a child, and the children in the same village also obey the adults' advice and dare not approach her, for fear of getting into trouble with unlucky things. A person grows up hardly knowing how to get along with strangers. I just feel that people treat me well, so I just treat them well. There is no need to be too close to others, it may harm the other party instead, and it will make one's heart weak, causing more troubles, after all, in the end, you will still be left alone.
But looking at this young man with the same childish face beside her, she felt extremely at ease for some reason, and was not afraid of anything. She had never had such trust.
"Will that Wang Bajing hide nearby and look for opportunities to harm you?"
"He's not high enough to touch a single hair of mine. The reason why I'm trapped here is because the master will look for me everywhere, and then he will have a chance to escape further. Even if I go out, I won't be able to find him. , so keep me trapped as long as possible."
"I deal with these things every day, and I still have to catch them, won't I be afraid?" Hua Qiangu couldn't imagine that if she became a Taoist priest, she would have to hunt down demons and so on. All she wanted was a hut where she could sleep every night. She can feel at ease, and she will be fine if there are no brats to bother her. Maybe it's not promising, but she has such a simple wish.
"To be honest, of course I was scared at first. I have been protected since I was a child, and I don't have to worry about anything. When I really faced those dangers and horrors, I was really scared and didn't know what to do. At first I don't understand his painstaking efforts. Why did he drive me out? He has ignored me for a year or two. Isn't he afraid that I will die outside like this? But then I gradually understood. Maybe that place is for me It's the most dangerous thing to say. He hopes that I will go back when I grow up strong enough, and then I will really not be afraid of anything anymore!"
Hua Qiangu looked at his star-like eyes, with nobility and arrogance faintly visible on his face. At that time, she didn't know what the wind of the king was, but many years later, when she saw those eyes again, she couldn't express the shock and surrender in her heart, knowing that he could support the whole world by himself, and What is more valuable and moved her is his unchanging nature and pure heart.
"Well, I went to Maoshan to hope that one day I would not be so timid. My father said that one should be fearless and respectful. If you work so hard to catch ghosts and subdue demons, and practice yourself, you will definitely become An indomitable man!"
"Do you have no fear in your heart, do you have respect in your heart?" Xuanyuan Lang muttered to himself, nodded vigorously, looked at Hua Qiangu and said firmly, "At that time, I will come to Maoshan to find you!"
"Hehe, okay, maybe I will be very good at that time!" Hua Qiangu looked up at the sky, never knew that life is weird and changeable.
"What a beautiful moon! Is Maoshan very high? Why is it so big? I'm hungry after seeing it. Have you eaten yet?"
"It should be ready." Xuanyuan Lang turned the roast chicken out of the fire, and the aroma was overflowing.
Hua Qiangu salivated: "There are still a few steamed buns, let's bake them and eat together!"
As the two devoured their food, they chatted about their experiences and embarrassing stories about encountering ghosts, laughing so hard that they both leaned forward.
"I didn't expect people to be possessed by ghosts so easily, hahaha!"
"That's right, that hungry ghost was attached to me for three days and three nights, and I couldn't get rid of it. I almost ate everything I could eat at home. There was only a big pot of rice, and I was almost stuffed to death. In the end, my father took six or seven altars of wine to pour me, and I was so drunk that I passed out, and the monks in the temple drove the ghost away. It made me gain a few pounds, and after I got drunk, I became drunk and fell down. It's a strange problem of getting sleepy when you're full."
Hua Qiangu yawned: "So I've always been 70% full from meals, and I didn't dare to fill up, but today this roast chicken is really delicious..."
As he said that, he actually staggered and fell backwards, fell asleep, and held a chicken wing in his hand. The piece of chicken he had just bit into his mouth hadn't even had time to swallow it, and half of it was exposed outside.
Xuanyuan Lang laughed so hard that his stomach ached, he squatted in front of her and saw her greasy mouth, with a happy and satisfied expression on her face, full of food and sleeping, a warm place in her heart seemed to be melting away.
Pulling the chicken out of her mouth, he didn't mind wiping her mouth and face with his sleeve, revealing a white and transparent baby face.
"You really look like a girl." Xuanyuan Lang saw that she was dressed like a man, and she was focused on going to Maoshan to practice Taoism, so he decided that she was a boy.
He took the chicken wings in her hand and continued to gnaw, leaning against the big tree, afraid that Hua Qiangu would sleep uncomfortable, so he put her head on his lap. Looking at the bright moon in the boundless sky, he also slowly fell asleep.
Early the next morning, while half asleep and half awake, someone kicked him to the ground.
"Master, don't make noise, let me sleep again..." Xuanyuan Lang rolled on the ground for two and a half weeks, hugged a soft object beside him and continued to sleep.
There was another kick behind him, and there was a roar like a thunderbolt from the blue.
"Stinky boy, you can sleep soundly lying here, get up quickly!"
Xuanyuan Lang reluctantly opened his eyes, and when he realized that Hua Qiangu was hugged in his arms at some point, he jumped up in fright. He turned around and looked at the master who had made him think like crazy for the past two days.
"Ah! Hedong! You finally found me!" The excited one cried out in tears.
The blond man in front of him kicked up again, and he dodged deftly.
"How many times have I told you to call me master!! Do you know how to respect the master! I don't know how I, Luohe East, handed over your unworthy apprentice, but was fooled by a bastard, and spread the word about my I lost my face!"
Suddenly felt something was wrong, and kicked the unknown object under his feet.
"What is this again?"
Xuanyuan Lang hurriedly protected Hua Qiangu: "He's not me, don't kick around, it'll be ruined later. Hey, why does this guy sleep like a pig? He won't wake up even after he's like this!"
Luohe squatted down a huge body, he was as tall as Xuanyuan Lang, like a hill.
Rolling over Hua Qiangu's eyelids, feeling her pulse: "It's all right, I just lost a little energy, and I'm a little weak."
Xuanyuan Lang turned pale with shock: "How is it possible! I have been here all night, and I didn't find any evildoers!"
"It's not some evildoer, it's that thing on her neck." Luohe River pointed to the drop of sky water.
"I knew this was not a good thing, and it even sucked human blood!" Xuanyuan Lang's desperate luck was about to destroy that Tianshui drop.
"Don't, don't, don't!" Luohe Dong hurriedly took his hand, "Don't break it, this is a good thing. It's just a breath of energy, it won't kill you. Hey, wake up, wake up!"
Hua Qiangu felt a big hand patting her face, and opened her eyes in a daze, feeling so comfortable, she hasn't slept so comfortably at night for a long time.
Hey, what is this thing in front of you? Is it a ghost
Looking at the fierce face in front of her, Hua Qiangu took two steps back in fright, trembling all over. Luohe Dong has blond hair, bearded face, saber eyebrows flying horizontally, eyes like copper bells, and a mouth that roars like a lion, which is indeed terrifying enough. Therefore, many demons and ghosts are usually frightened when they hear their voices and see their people.
"Don't be afraid, this is my master." Xuanyuan Lang held her in his arms, so thin, he suddenly wanted to keep her by his side to protect her.
"Master, you know that you look like Zhong Kui, so don't get so close to scaring people, okay? He was the one who saved me yesterday, otherwise I would still be hanging on a tree by that bastard who kills thousands of knives in the sun and rain! Look at me He won't reveal his bastard shell!"
Luohe River slapped something on the ground.
"Grandpa's waiting for you to go, he doesn't know which den in the East China Sea to enjoy the happiness!"
"Wow, bastard!" Xuanyuan Lang picked up the lid-like thing on the ground, and stroked the scriptures and gossip diagrams on it little by little.
"Have you collected it already?"
"If I don't catch it first, how can I find you? If you dare to be so reckless next time, you can feed me monsters. Don't say that you are my apprentice and shame me. I have taught you for nothing all these years! "
"Your uncle, I wanted to catch him with my own hands to avenge him! It's good luck!" Xuanyuan Lang took the shell and knocked here and there.
Luohe Dong kicked him on the ass again: "Fucking you bastard! You have learned all the good ones and not the bad ones! Swearing and acting like a fool, how do you want me to take you back to be with you? I'm on a mission!" Luohe Dong asked the sky speechlessly, wondering whether his teaching method was too failed or this apprentice was too incompetent, how could he turn a noble and restrained prince into a competitive spring wild boy in just two years What? It must be dismantled by his father when he goes back.
"Oh, oh, I'll just pay attention in the future. By the way, master, his name is Hua Qiangu, and he is going to Maoshan to learn as a teacher. You should write him a letter of recommendation! Let Daoist Qingxu accept him as an apprentice!"
"Enen." Hua Qiangu nodded at the side, looking at him gratefully.
"Damn, you're a pig! Have you ever seen your master write a word besides a talisman? I can't even write my own name. What kind of recommendation letter!"
Xuanyuan Lang and Hua Qiangu looked at each other, speechless at the same time.
"Then what should we do?"
"There are many ways, for the sake of saving you, let me help." He took out a snail-like object from his arms, knocked it twice, and shouted loudly.
"Old Daoist Qingxu! I, Luohe East, sent you an apprentice. If you don't want to accept it, I will accept it. I've been busy recently, so I'll come to drink with you next time!"
Hua Qiangu and Xuanyuan Lang put down their hands covering their ears with helpless faces.
"This is a sound transmission conch, you can show this to Qingxu old Taoist and he will know!"
"Master, that, that..."
"Damn it, you're going to be coy about me anyway, let your fart go!"
Xuanyuan Lang looked at Hua Qiangu who was happily holding the sound transmission snail: "We are all here, why don't we go to Maoshan with him?" I don't know why I suddenly felt reluctant.
"No!" Luohe Dong frowned, "Your father sent an urgent letter last night, telling us to rush back. The world has changed recently. I don't know if something happened in the palace! We have to leave immediately!"
He didn't care about it for two years. If he was in such a hurry, something must have happened.
Xuanyuan Lang held Hua Qiangu's hand and said: "Master and I have to go back quickly, we can't send you up the mountain, you should be more careful! If there is anything wrong, just take that Gouyu and ask them to help you at any government office. Or let them send a letter saying they want to find me! You know?"
"Okay!" Hua Qiangu looked at him gratefully, "Don't worry, I walked all this way alone, nothing will happen!"
"It's a pity that you are a boy..." Xuanyuan Lang lowered his head and muttered.
"Actually, I'm..."
"Otherwise I'll take you in and marry you!" Xuanyuan Lang joked.
Hua Qiangu was so frightened that the second half of the sentence got stuck in her throat and dared not say any more.
"You worship me as a brother!" He had never experienced such an abnormal heartbeat at first sight, trying hard to think of something to maintain the bond between the two.
"Okay! Brother Lang!" Hua Qiangu smiled with relief. Can't help holding Xuanyuan Lang's hand tightly, does this mean that from now on, she will finally have a relative in this world
Luohe Dong frowned slightly, but didn't say anything, just urged.
"Okay, farewell is over, let's go!"
"Well, Qiangu, there will be a time later!"
"Okay, there will be a period later!"
Hua Qiangu watched in astonishment as Luohedong untied the gourd from his waist, and it turned into a big one floating in the air. He pulled Xuanyuan Lang to sit on the gourd, and then flew into the air.
Xuanyuan Lang looked at the smaller and smaller figures below and tried to wave to him, feeling sore in his heart, even though he had only known each other for only a day. But I don't know why he just thinks he is important.
"As soon as I finish my work, I will go to Maoshan to find you! You wait for me!" Xuanyuan Lang shouted to her.
"Okay—" Hua Qiangu watched him get farther and farther away into the clouds. Holding the sound transmission conch sadly in his heart, he was ready to continue his journey. Digging haha, Maoshan is right in front of you! She will be a priest soon! Then in the future, I can fly in the air like Brother Lang and his master!
"Boy, you'd better not get too involved with her, it's bad for you!" Luohe Dong had already seen that Hua Qiangu was a girl, but he didn't say anything.
"Why?"
"She is an unlucky person, anyway, it's best not to see her in the future!"
Xuanyuan Lang looked at the floating clouds beside him and said coldly: "I don't care about these things, I want the world to be in my hands, and I'm afraid I can't reverse this small universe!"
Luohe Dong's body trembled, and he turned to look at him, feeling very relieved. Xuanyuan Cang, you did not hand over your son to me for nothing!
(Quanben Novel Network)