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After Dezi finished offering incense respectfully, the group of people walked outside the temple.

Dezi also said hello to Taoist Hu in the temple and said he was leaving, but the other party was busy tinkering with firewood and did not raise his head.

"Don't blame me, you two. Daoist Hu came from the north. I heard that the whole family starved to death due to famine, and their wealth was plundered by the Qi army. That's why they became a Taoist." Dezi apologized softly and said sympathetically. , "After a big change, he has a weird temperament, but he is very good, he can repair the roof, and anyone in the village who leaks water and rain in the house should ask him to look at it."

Meng Qi raised his eyebrows slightly. He thought of several reasons, but he didn't expect that this Hu Daoist used this method to win the favor of the villagers.

Mo Li understands better. The cold houses in the north are all solidly built, and the roof is afraid of snow pressure, but the situation in the south is different. There is always a period of heavy rain and light rain in a year.Regardless of whether the family is poor or rich, it is necessary to repair the house every year to prevent water leakage, and many patients with falls and injuries among the people, eight out of ten are caused by the roof.

Falling, generally will not fall to death, unless the head hits the ground.

But those who were so seriously injured that they had to spend money to see a doctor were not in good condition.

Among them, those who were not rescued in time, those who had no money to continue treatment, and those whose wounds suppurated... If they are lucky, they will be disabled, and if they are not good, they will die directly.

Therefore, if there are only one or two leaks, the common people would rather put an earthen jar or basin to catch water at home than go up to the roof easily.

If there is a craftsman in the village who can repair the roof without money and is willing to work, everyone is really willing to accept it.

"All the children in the family starved to death due to famine? Is it the severe drought in Yongzhou in the past three years?" Meng Qi asked seemingly casually.

If Daoist Hu dared to go on the roof casually, he might not know martial arts...

"That's right, it hasn't been long since Daoist Hu came, and he said that he doesn't need to build a house. He can just live in the mountain temple alone as a monk, and he can help clean up on weekdays." Dezi explained with a dry smile, a little embarrassed, " Although the temple does not need to be repaired, the cleaning work still needs to be done. You can’t ask the mountain god and his old man to live in a place full of dust and cobwebs, and you have to pull out the weeds to prevent the yellow skin from making a nest with mice and ruin the temple. Before, each household in the village took turns cleaning."

Meng Qi nodded, that's why.

"Old man?" Dezi noticed that Meng Qi had stopped, and he turned his head wonderingly.

It was getting dark soon. Although sailing is not difficult, boarding and disembarking are made of wooden boards, and if one is not steady, it is easy to fall.

People are old, and it's dark and eyesight is not good. Dezi was about to urge him, but found Meng Qi fixedly looking at a courtyard wall of the mountain temple.

The low wall collapsed for a while due to the rain, and later the villagers piled it up with bricks. The Hu Taoists were sneaking over the wall from here, as if they were going to the forest behind the temple.

The collapsed courtyard wall is located at the corner, and there is a big willow tree blocking it. At this moment, the sun is setting, and the light is not in this direction.If Meng Qi hadn't been staring over there, Tokuko would have been unable to spot the figure.

"Hu Taoist? What are you doing?" Dezi shouted.

The Taoist who was climbing over the wall was startled, he didn't lift his right foot, he tripped over the bricks, and fell straight into a dog eating shit.

Tokuko hurried over to check the situation.

It was only then that Taoist Hu discovered that the three people who should have left a long time ago were still standing by the pier—it was said to be a pier, but it was actually two bluestone slabs and a stone pier to which a boat was tied—I don’t know if it was the two old men who walked away. Slow, or Tokuko was too wordy, and it was getting dark, so he looked around slowly and caught himself.

"Oh, it hurts me to death... Dezi, what are you yelling, people are frightening to death." Daoren Hu held his broken nose, furious.

This fall caused back pain and leg pain, and my face was disfigured.

Meng Qi smiled indistinctly.

Mo Li frowned slightly as he watched Taoist Hu fall down.

Then the two looked at each other, and came to a tacit conclusion: this Taoist Hu knows martial arts, but he just pretended not to understand.

——When he fell, his body was extremely stiff. He originally had a movement of jumping up, but he reacted quickly when he was halfway up, so he abruptly interrupted the movement, allowing himself to fall down in a state of embarrassment.

That's all right, it's just that this person is not cruel to himself, and he doesn't pretend to be thorough.

When he fell with his face on the ground, he tilted his head at the last moment, avoiding the bad luck of collapsing his nose.

Meng Qi Moli thought at the same time, if he fell by himself, he would be able to fall without any flaws and not hurt his face.

——Master Meng Guo boasted that he had top-notch acting skills, while Doctor Mo was proficient in medical skills, including how to fake injuries.

Dezi seemed displeased when he was scolded by the Hu Daoist, and asked directly: "If there is a door and you can't leave, what are you doing over the wall? I said it a long time ago. When you go into the forest to dig wild vegetables, don't climb over the wall to save trouble. The wall of Master Shanshen's house can't be easily overturned, and now he fell down, where can I get a doctor for you?"

"I'm fine, please ask a doctor!" Taoist Hu said angrily.

Dezi couldn't wait to hear this, so he waved his hands and said, "Then I'm leaving."

Daoist Hu didn't dare to look up at Meng Qi, he yelled and went back to the temple by detour.

Meng Qi didn't stop him, and the three boarded the boat just like that.

Dezi was holding the boat pole, his face was still a little ugly, Meng Qi asked suddenly: "Didn't you say that this Taoist is not bad?"

"...He's acting weird today." Tokuko said with a sullen head.

Meng Qi just smiled and said nothing, standing on the boat with his head admiring the scenery of the lake and mountains under the sunset.

The ink carp kept paying attention to the mountain temple on the bank.

After a while, a pigeon flew out of the woods behind the temple.

The pigeon was going to the mountains. Meng Qi rubbed his fingers in the sleeve of his robe, and said with a half-smile: "This spy has a very good identity, but he is a bit stupid."

Mo Li said without any surprise; "If everyone under his command were smart and capable, Ayan Puka would not be what he is now."

"No, no, Ah Li didn't understand what I meant." Meng Qi put his hands behind his back and said confidently, "This mountain temple is so special. That strange cognition will make the old people in the village suspicious like us."

"so?"

"If the old man is still living in the village well, and the one who stays in the mountain temple is such an incompetent idiot, then it means that Ayan Puka has ulterior motives. The spies are just reporting and telling Ayan Puka that we have arrived , the legend about the mountain god is the clue he left for us, asking us to dig out the dragon's veins according to this clue."

Mo Li frowned upon hearing this, and then quietly glanced at Tokuko who was punting the boat.

If things are as Meng Qi said, then there is something wrong with Dezi who took the initiative to lead them along the way.

The yelling just now seemed to prevent Taoist Hu from entering the woods to find pigeon coops without knowing that he was exposed. Later, he went to help Taoist Hu. It seemed to blame but actually helped to explain why he had to climb over the wall.

"Ha, don't worry, doctor. He should be a real villager. At most, he would charge a little money to take outsiders to visit the mountain temple and then say what he said just now. So you and I couldn't find out what was wrong with him at first. Until Taoist Hu made a fool of himself." Meng Qiong continued with great interest, "But judging from the reactions of the villagers, they really believed in the efficacy of the mountain temple, so what Dezi said may be true. It's been fun."

Mo Li couldn't figure out what was so interesting, he said in a deep voice: "Since it was Ayan Puka who left us the clue, there must be something misleading. If someone pushes it step by step, it may finally lead us to Fei The place where Heshan Dragon Veins haunts, and using my identity as Dragon Veins to lure Feihe Mountain Dragon Veins to show up, I am impatient to accompany him to solve puzzles."

"Well said!" Meng Qi gestured to clap the doctor's hands.

The taboo of a counselor is to follow the path that others have set for you.Even if the truth can be discovered in this way, it is not enough, because the same thing may be distorted due to the lack or addition of certain clues.

By that time, the Feihe Mountain Dragon Vein had been found, but there may have been conflicts or misunderstandings between them and the Feihe Mountain Dragon Vessel.

Mo Li glared at Meng Qi secretly, there were still people on board, so why clapping hands carelessly.

Meng Qi let go of his hands pretending to regret.

"When we got to the village, we asked Tokuko who the knowledgeable old man in the village was.

"The old man must say a place, or a person, and he said he heard it from there. This news should be true, because I am not easy to deceive, and Ayan Puka wants to do something later in the itinerary. .

"We pretend we're going to visit that place or that person tomorrow, and leave tonight without saying goodbye.

"But we don't go, we go directly into the mountain, change our appearance to find the dragon's veins, and let Ayanpuka's people wait there!"

Meng Qi finished the above four sentences in one breath, then narrowly winked at Mo Li.

Ink Carp: "..."

The 87-year-old sanctimonious old national teacher suddenly abandoned his graceful posture and winked his eyes, he really looked like a dishonest old man who was not ashamed.

***

Swordsman Sukasa walked alone on the road.

He was wearing a gray gown, a bamboo hat covering his head to his feet, and a saber at his waist. People saw him and immediately ran away from him.

They can't afford to provoke people from the rivers and lakes like this kind of knife-head licking blood.

Su Li had just emerged from a dense forest, and he sent Blacksmith Wang's family a hundred miles away. Because they were afraid of being watched by Xiliang people, they kept walking along remote trails.In the end, they found a small village that couldn't be more remote. After settling down with Blacksmith Wang's family, Su Li went straight to the mountains again.

Guessing that no one would be able to chase him, and no one would be able to find Blacksmith Wang's family from the direction he appeared in, Su Li ended his life of eating and sleeping in the open and turned to a populated place.

It was evening, and the swordsman who had been walking all day had a dry throat.

As a killer, he knows many taboos.

Su Li only drinks running water, which is from the upper reaches of the water source, and he doesn't even drink river water in summer, unless he encounters a mountain spring.

——Even if you have martial arts, diarrhea will still kill you. Su Li never joked about his own life.

Seeing a tea shed by the side of the road from a distance, Su Li touched his pocket, there was still some coins left there, which should be enough to buy a bowl of herbal tea.

As soon as he stepped into the tea shed, the buzzing voices inside suddenly stopped.

The porters dressed as coolies stared at the swordsman and sat in the corner, facing the wall. After asking the store for herbal tea, they didn't say a word. They didn't look like they were going to make trouble at all, and their voices slowly recovered.

The porters sat on the ground, taking off their coats and fanning the wind.

"Oh my god, it's really hot."

The porter, who was yelling and complaining, raised his neck and poured another bowl of tea.

While drinking, he spat out thick tea stalks, cursing: "What's wrong with the store, put all the branches in as tea?"

"Where can it be? It's all blown down by the wind." The old man in the tea shed smoothed things over with a smile.

"Hey, it's a hot day, is there wind outside?"

The big man pulled the old man in the tea shed and wanted to make a fuss, but it turned out that he was using too much force, or he had washed his clothes too many times in the hot weather, and the old man in the tea shed had a big tear in his old coat, and everyone was dumbfounded squinted.

The coolie ran away, but the old man in the tea shed scolded him angrily and asked him to pay for his clothes.

The other coolies were happy to watch the excitement, and the leading clerk stomped his feet and cursed, "It's getting dark, if you don't deliver it at noon tomorrow, you will all be punished by the yamen."

The swordsman's ears twitched slightly, thinking that these are servants?

When the yamen is short of manpower, they will confiscate corvee from the people, sometimes build roads, sometimes build embankments, and more often transport things to Linxian or the state capital.Summer is not the time to pay grain tax, and there are no rivers in Yuzhou that need to build dams. The carts behind the tea shed do not seem to be particularly valuable, but just a lot.

"What are you afraid of when it's dark? We don't send money or food. It's just fodder. Will strong men and bandits come after us?"

"That's right, it's dark and we can hurry!"

The porters were chattering, and the petty official was so hot that his face looked like steamed crabs, and he shouted hoarsely, "Don't be lazy, go!"

A group of people dawdled on the road.

Su Li pondered for a while, then resolutely finished his tea, and quietly followed.

In the past, the swordsman didn’t even bother to take a look at the matter of expropriating hard labor and transporting fodder in the Yamen. Now he knows that Engong is actually from Xiliang, and Xiliang’s power has been accumulated for a long time. The yamen sent so many fodder for cattle and horses, something must have happened!

An hour later, the swordsman heard the confrontation between the two sides of Jingzhou. The navy of Qi Dynasty and King Jing's navy on the south bank were about to fight. Food and grass supplies from Jingzhou and even Yuzhou began to be sent to the navy camp.

Two hours later, the swordsman got the latest gossip, a gangster who claimed to be Meng Qixing wanted to rob Fengwei Escort's red goods.

No one knows whether the Fengwei Escort has red goods, but the Fengwei Escort is actually Jinyiwei. Not only the former Piaoping Pavilion killer leader Dao Ke Su Li, but also everyone on Yuzhou Road knows about this.

Many real Jiangyang thieves are gearing up to try it out. The people who keep the Fengwei Escort can't go to the capital, and the whole world will know that they have good things.

Confused and unable to find Fengxing Pavilion, the swordsman decided to take a look at the largest and most powerful sect near Yuzhou.

Three hours later, the swordsman overheard the rumors about to spread from the Chunshan faction. It was said that Meng Guoshi ordered people to steal the Qi Dynasty navy deployment map, and brought the map to King Jing, and then King Jing was assassinated again.Meng Qixing, the Jiangyang thief, is Meng Qi. He has secret affairs with the Jinyiwei of the Qi Dynasty.

But the truth is not like this.

The truth is that the Chunshan faction took money from a mysterious force to help them obtain a map of the Qi Dynasty’s navy deployment, so they found a traveling businessman named Huang Liu. The fall of the Shanli Emperor's Mausoleum was caused by Jin Yiwei of the Qi Dynasty and the legendary master Meng Guo, and they suspected that the death of Elder Songya was also related to Meng Qi, so they asked people to pretend to be Meng Qi, and then revealed the name to Huang Liu.

How did the swordsman know, because when he came to the Chunshan faction, Headmaster Ying happened to receive a letter from that mysterious force, in which he scolded Headmaster Ying bloody and asked him why he wanted to He pretended to be clever and blamed others, but fortunately he used the name of Meng Guoshi undeadly.The head of Ying was furious, and simply ordered people to go out to spread the latest "secrets of the rivers and lakes".

Then he sat on the roof of the Chunshan faction and tried his best to figure out what happened. The swordsman was found by Qiu Jing, the owner of Fengxing Pavilion.

Pavilion Master Qiu told him that Meng Qi and Mo Li really crossed the Yangtze River, and Meng Qi also released the Jiangyang robbers.

Sukasa: "..."

It took him three days to send Blacksmith Wang's family to find a place to hide. Why did you do so many things?