After this long and gentle kiss was over, their faces were slightly separated, and their warm breaths were still entwined.

Zhou Rong's eyes stared directly at the person in front of him, seeing his rosy and watery lips kissed by him, he really wanted to lick his lips again.

He asked in a low voice, "How do you feel?"

Li Canran thought for a while, and said honestly, "I'm a little thirsty."

He knew that the answer Zhou Rong wanted to hear was not this, but at the moment, even he himself couldn't sort out his thoughts.

Leaving aside whether he likes it or not, he definitely doesn't hate it, otherwise he wouldn't let him kiss her again and again.

He is aware of his temper, but if someone can accommodate him, even if he has hurt him before, he may forget the pain because of the scar, and he will be coaxed easily.

He took out the water bag from the storage bag, raised his head and took a sip, and the pleasant cool breeze blew across his face.

He asked the people around him: "I forgot what the task was this time."

Zhou Rong had recovered at this time, suppressed his thoughts, and said slowly to him.

Quzhou in the east of the river is rich in salt mines. The local salt households dig wells to extract underground brine, and then set up stoves to fry salt. The finished salt produced is uniformly transported to Huaizuo area for sale.

However, something went wrong during these few times of transportation. The robbers on the nearby hills intercepted most of the salt cargo, and this was not a problem. A group of monsters.

Because these salt merchants pay the salt tax to the Demon God Sect every month, the Sect has to be responsible for this matter.

"Monster, what kind of monster?" Li Canran asked.

Zhou Rong said: "The strength is around the third level..." He paused here, "Spirit goose."

The goose should mean the goose.

Li Canran's eyes lit up, was it the kind of big white goose that he had seen before that was particularly ferocious and would bite anyone?

"That's right, I'll catch one and raise it."

Zhou Rong couldn't help but ask, "What are you raising it for?"

"The housekeeper." He said with a smile on his face.

When the two of them arrived at the border of Quzhou, it was already evening. As soon as they got off the cloud boat, they saw people from the Lin family who were receiving them.

A group of people walked and chatted.

The people from the Lin family briefly introduced how they do business, including how to collect salt, how to transport goods and so on.

According to what they said, in addition to paying regular monthly taxes to the Demon God Sect, they also had to spend money to buy salt quotations from merchants in the Huaizuo area, that is, certificates for selling salt, and they had to be exploited for their profits.The money received in a month was not much, and now the robbers came to share a piece of the pie, and their situation was even more difficult.

It was probably because there were only two young people who looked like disciples of the sect, and there were no elders accompanying them, and the tone of the man's speech had some obvious complaints.

Someone pushed him in the dark, and he restrained his confiding tone a little bit, but he still had a sad expression on his face.

Before stepping into Lin's mansion, Li Canran really thought that their life was difficult, after all, according to the vivid description of that person, their mansion was almost too poor to be solved.

But as soon as he walked in, he was immediately overwhelmed by the luxury of mansions and courtyards, and his eyes were almost blind.There are everything from rockery and rivers to pavilions and pavilions, and there are waves of young servants walking with their heads bowed and colorfully dressed maids passing by.

This shit is called no money? ? ?

Li Canran twitched the corner of his mouth, and glanced at the middle-aged housekeeper who complained to them just now with a condemning gaze, your family has no money to look like this?

The middle-aged butler spread his hands, saying that he really had no money.

"Brother Xie? Is that you, Brother Xie!" A surprised voice came from not far away, "Why are you here!"

Li Canran raised his head in response, and saw a tall young man in brocade clothes waving excitedly at him.

It turned out to be Lin Hong who hadn't seen each other for three and a half years.

Only then did he suddenly remember that Lin Hong had told him after being eliminated from the sect that his family was selling well salt, and he had given him a piece of Lin's badge at that time.

The butler hurriedly bowed and saluted, "Master."

"This is...Brother Zhou!" Lin Hong looked at Zhou Rong who was standing beside Li Canran, thought for a while, and finally remembered his identity, and his face was filled with joy, "Brother Zhou, you Still remember me?"

Zhou Rong was about to speak, but saw him hurriedly said: "Hey, let's not mention this, you are here to escort the caravan for my family this time. Go into the room and I will serve you tea."

They followed Lin Hong's heels to the main hall where the distinguished guests were welcomed in the mansion.

A parrot flew in and landed on the black wooden table.

"Go, go." Lin Hong stretched out his hand to drive away.

The parrot was unmoved.

Lin Hong called a servant to take the broken bird away quickly.

Li Canran suspected that he had heard it wrong, and asked, "What did you call him just now?"

"Are you talking about the rough envoy?" Lin Hong sat on the chair, smirked, and said, "Yu Zizhen, he is only worthy of being my servant."

Zhou Rong probably guessed a little about the grievances between the two back then.

For the fact that he was betrayed by Yu Zizhen and eliminated from the sect in the previous branch examination, Lin Hongji hated it to this day. It has been three years, and he has not forgotten it at all.

He also specifically revisited the situation for the two of them, "I haven't forgotten what the grandson said to me."

Zhou Rong: "What did he say?"

"I remember, I gave him my points card at that time, he looked at me and said, 'I don't know if other people can believe me, but don't believe me', after saying this, the grandson knocked me out It's gone." Lin Hong was heartbroken and scolded, "It's a pity that I thought he could be a brother before this."

After hearing this, Zhou Rong glanced at the person sitting beside him, and raised his eyebrows slightly, meaning that you still believe him?

Li Canran drank tea calmly.

Lin Hong asked: "By the way, how are you all doing now? Your cultivation must have skyrocketed. Have you been accepted as apprentices by the elders?"

His voice was excited, and it could be heard that he was still very enthusiastic about cultivation.

Li Canran told him some things that happened after he left the sect.

"Northern Territory is about to form an alliance?" Lin Hong was shocked for a moment, then curled his lips and said, "That has nothing to do with our Hedong."

All he cared about was having fun spells.

Li Canran saw that he was interested, so he showed him the spiritual speech technique he had just learned, and the two chatted cordially about whether it could be used to hunt wild birds.

Lin Hong finally got back to the topic, and said: "That's just right, I will go with you this time to transport the goods through the official road, and see if I can help you."

His current cultivation has just broken through the first level of the bigu stage, and he is still learning spells by himself. It is no problem to protect himself against a group of third-level monsters.

Li Canran nodded and agreed: "Okay, let's go together when the elders of the sect come tomorrow."

"Then I'll take you to see the guest room prepared for you. We'll stop talking here tonight and rest first." Lin Hong got up and said.

On the way to the guest room, Li Canran looked at the exquisite and spacious corridors and pavilions in front of him. As far as he could see, the flying bridge sills were connected with light and darkness.

It seems that these years, his little life is not bad.

When he came to the side hall, Lin Hong pointed to the room at hand, and said: "Originally, there were a few rooms prepared, but a few days ago, there was a banquet in the mansion, and they were temporarily requisitioned as warehouses. Now there are only two empty rooms left. If you..."

Zhou Rong said: "Don't bother, I'll just share a room with him."

Li Canran did not refute.

"Okay, then you guys have a good rest."

Lin Hong hummed a ditty and left, leaving the two of them alone.

The room is large and well furnished, more than enough for two people.

Xiao Zi got out from Zhou Rong's sleeve and looked around curiously.

A servant knocked on the door from the outside, it was the man called "Yu Zizhen" by Lin Hong, and he sent a map of the official road that he was going to leave tomorrow.

Li Canran took it and threw it to Zhou Rong, "Look."

"Aren't you watching?"

"I practice."

If he didn't break through to the golden core stage in a day, he would feel uncomfortable all over.

Seeing that he sat on the ground and began to practice cross-legged while talking, Zhou Rong became angry again.

"Why, you can't even cultivate?" Li Canran opened his eyes and said lazily.

Zhou Rong walked up to him, knelt down and looked at him, her voice sounded stiff, "...Aren't you going to sleep?"

Li Canran raised his eyebrows, "You want me to sleep with you?"

Zhou Rong fell silent, and said, "I want to sleep with you in my arms."

His eyes were pitch black, like stars in the night sky, and his tone was light, afraid that he would be rejected.

"Okay."

Xiao Tong thought that his host would refuse, but he did not expect him to agree.

He... promised... yes...

Even Zhou Rong himself didn't expect that the person in front of him agreed so casually when he asked tentatively.

He blinked, "Really?"

Li Canran smiled and said, "If you have any other requests, please bring them up together."

Zhou Rong was stunned, and felt that his heart was also stiffened. This sentence didn't sound like agreement at all, but more like sarcasm.His eyes darkened, "I thought you accepted me."

Li Canran was startled, "Sorry, I just..."

Just now, he habitually returned to his indifferent attitude of rejecting others thousands of miles away.He is very clear about other things, but his feelings have always been in an extremely passive state.

"Forget it." He said softly, "Go to sleep."

Zhou Rong finally got his wish and hugged him into his arms.

……

Until the sun rose the next day, neither of them looked at the carefully drawn official road map.

Li Canran yawned and turned over, and looked at Xiao Tong in blank dismay.

Zhou Rong was still sleeping with his eyes closed.

Xiao Tong stared at him, and spoke first, with a serious tone, [Host, do you know what you are doing]

[What's wrong with me] He glanced at it lazily.

【You didn't come here to fall in love with him through time travel, have you forgotten what the mission is?】

Xiaotong had never spoken to him in this tone.

[Don't worry, I know what I'm doing] he said.

【Really?Don’t you know who Zhou Rong is? He will know the existence of the system sooner or later, what should you do when the time comes]

A trace of irritability flashed in Li Canran's eyes, 【I tell you to shut up】

Xiaotong felt a little wronged by being scolded, he twitched the corners of his mouth, held back his tears, and continued, [There is also the heroine of the original book, haven’t you forgotten, if Zhou Rong saw her and fell in love with her too]

Li Canran was speechless, and rubbed his temples a little dejectedly, 【I'm not tempted yet, not so fast】

It's just that Zhou Rong was too kind to him, so he couldn't resist his closeness.

Like moths swallowed by flames, some cannot escape.

……

The next day, the elders of the Zongmen and Yao Tianzhuo arrived on time.

A Simai elder who has never seen him before. He looks kind and likes to talk to people with his eyes squinted and smiling.

such as,

He smiled and pointed to the complicated corridors in front of him, and said, "Your mansion has spent a lot of money, right?"

He smiled and pointed at the rockery, "These seem to be very thoughtful, but they must be expensive after all. Your mansion is so angry."

The butler of the Lin Mansion who picked them up yesterday hurriedly laughed, "Haha, the elder said something, but they are just ordinary people's gadgets, so they are worth nothing."

He had a smile on his face, but he cursed in his heart: Old man, listening to this tone, he is either taxing or extorting money, and this encounter must be inevitable.

Although Yao Tianzhuo looked tired, he still dressed energetically. He wore a black Xuanbing sword on his waist, dressed in strong clothes, and looked very skilled.

"This is Yao Tianzhuo..." Lin Hong pulled Li Canran and whispered, "This is the first time I've seen a real person."

He was a little flattered that the strongest disciple of the line they had gossiped about before appeared in his house.

"It looks very powerful, as expected of him." Lin Hong exclaimed, "Is he still in the same vein now, who is better than you?"

Li Canran thought for a while and said, "I'm better."

Lin Hong: "Really?"

Li Canran said: "That's not true, I am now the Great Elder's direct disciple."

"Wow."

"I ranked among the top ten in the Northern Territory Baizong before."

"Wow, that's amazing, Brother Xie, you are really getting stronger and stronger."

"so far so good."

Lin Hong asked again: "Then how do you compare with Brother Zhou?"

Li Canran choked for a moment, and said vaguely, "Our strength is about the same."

Zhou Rong watched him boasting calmly.

……

After the third day, all the itineraries were ready, and when they started to set off, the elders who followed Simai sat on a monster and flew into the air far away.

A huge convoy was pulled by a few brown horses, on which were consigned salt fried by various stoves, divided into about a dozen sacks.

Of course, this amount is not enough, and more salt is packed in the storage bag. The outside is just for show, the purpose is to attract the robbers and the geese who smell the salt.

The official road is covered by the shade of willows on both sides. The road is fifty steps wide and three feet tall.

This batch of goods has to be transported from Quzhou to Zhuxi, that is, the Huaizuo area, and it will take about two days to travel.

Not wanting to attract attention, the three of Li Canran did not fly with the sword, but followed the convoy, sat beside the sack, and walked slowly towards Huaizuo.

Lin Hong showed them his talisman paper and parrot, and proudly said: "I practice with it every day."

Parrot:………

This is not an ordinary parrot, but a second-order spirit beast, a green-tailed parrot, so it can withstand his spell practice.

Li Canran took the talisman paper and glanced at it. The one on it was a spell related to heaven, but it was not drawn by Lin Hong himself.

Yao Tianzhuo lay on his back on the wooden board of the convoy, sleeping with his eyes half closed.He had just finished an urgent task a few days ago, and he was really tired.

He didn't even return to the sect, and rushed here again.

Zhou Rong also half leaned against the sack of salt on the cart, but instead of sleeping, he looked at the distant sky.

The sky is blue, with only a few floating clouds, and the air is fresh.

The elder flying on the monster beast in the sky has disappeared.

The natal swords of the three of them were all put back into the storage bags, and the fluctuations in vitality were all restrained, like ordinary people without any cultivation.

As for Lin Hong, he has long been used to being an ordinary person, so he is more skilled than them in concealing his cultivation.

The Huaizuo area is located on the border of Zhongzhou, so it is on the official road. Zhongzhou faces a large market, and the nearby salt merchants will all go there for sales. At that time, there will be a special general merchant to connect with them.

Lin Hong said: "The business is also very good this way. You don't have to worry about food and drink. It's much better than staying in the sect."

If he continued to stay in the Demon God Sect, he might just be an outstanding eight-vein disciple for the rest of his life, and he would have to endure the enslavement of the elders and senior brothers and sisters.

Lin Hong asked: "Will you make money if you accept a sect mission like this?"

Li Canran raised his eyebrows: "Why, do you want to inquire about the livelihood of the disciples of the Demon God Sect?"

Lin Hong laughed.

"There are rewards with spirit stones or martial arts." Li Canran still told him, "If you perform well, you will be rewarded even more."

As a disciple of the Great Sect, there is no need to worry about this.

Lin Hong asked: "Then have you considered the future?"

Zhou Rong heard the sound and looked over.

Li Canran: "In the future?"

"That's right, is it possible that you have been staying in the Demon God Sect and become an elder in the future?"

"It's not impossible."

Lin Hong persuaded with a smile: "Anyway, we should see the outside world more. It's not good to keep your head down and practice, you will be depressed."

The corner of Li Canran's mouth twitched.

Depressed?

You know a lot.

"I used to keep a parrot that I kept locked in the room and then died."

Lin Hong finished talking about the parrot, then returned to him, and said incredulously: "Actually, when I first met you, I thought you, brother Xie, didn't seem like someone who would practice hard, but I didn't expect you to I have persisted until now, and I have become the personal disciple of the Great Elder."

"Why not?"

"My intuition is quite accurate." Lin Hong said, "I think Brother Xie, you should be the kind of young master who plays around in the world."

Li Canran raised the corner of his mouth, he thought too, but there was no way.

Cultivation is fresh and fun at the beginning, but there will always be times when he gets tired, but he can't stop.

Lin Hong probably said he was tired, so he also lay down, squinting his eyes and began to rest.

Zhou Rong tugged at the corner of Li Canran's clothes, and pulled him to his side. They were very close, and on the side of the body where others could not see, the two of them clasped their fingers.

Zhou Rong's palms were hot, and he tightly held the palms of the people around him.

He said via voice transmission: "Young Master Huahua in the game world?"

Li Canran smiled back and asked, "Do you think I look like you?"

Zhou Rong said: "Anyway, you are not allowed to leave me."

After a long time, he couldn't hear Li Canran's response, and when he was about to turn his head away, he heard exclamation from the people in the motorcade, "Here we come!"

The convoy stopped moving forward, and everyone jumped down, looking warily at the group of people who stopped them.

It was the gang of robbers I met a few times ago.

There is also a group of big white geese flying in the air.

Li Canran said: "I really want to raise a white goose."

Zhou Rong: "..."

【It's a spirit goose...】Xiao Tong corrected.

The group of spirit geese can fly, they have a third-level cultivation, they are very big, and they can sit on people. At this moment, they are all fluttering their wings and flying fiercely in mid-air.

Li Canran suddenly thought of a poem about disharmony.

Compete for crossing, compete for crossing, startled a pool of gulls...

At this moment, the leading robber in linen clothes spoke first, "Take out everything you're carrying, so that we don't need to be violent."

When he spoke harshly skillfully, a goose couldn't hold back his violent temper and flew over to peck people.

Only then did they take a closer look, the slender neck of the goose looked particularly elegant, the edge of the mouth was reddish, the eyes were like black gemstones, and the white fluffy feathers were very fluffy, it must be very comfortable to lie on.

It's just that the temper seems to be very irritable...

Li Canran thought, it was really too much for him.

Lin Hong flew over with a piece of talisman, just in time to seal the goose's mouth.

This group of robbers didn't expect that the convoy followed a few young monks, and after looking at each other, they wanted to retreat, but they couldn't do what they wanted, they came and left whenever they wanted.

The robbers were easy to deal with, and Lin Hong could kick them to the ground by himself, but this group of geese was more troublesome.

They are all at the third level, which is equivalent to the bigu period of human beings.

These bigu-season geese gathered together, and the scene was very spectacular.Seeing that the robbers were tied up, they lost their master's command and began to peck people randomly. Several bags of salt were pecked open, and fine salt like white snow grains began to pour out.

Zhou Ronghui's martial arts are all open and closed, if he continues with one move, I am afraid that these geese will all die.

Yao Tianzhuo's situation is similar to his. He knows all kinds of tyrannical martial arts. Facing these spirit geese flying around, he doesn't know what to do, so he can only reach out to catch them one by one.

Lin Hong's spells followed one after another. He hadn't been in actual combat so happily for a long time, like a prodigal young master.

Li Canran said, "Let me deal with the geese."

The Xingyi Soul Breaking Curse he had inscribed in Drunken Mountains and Rivers disappeared, and replaced it with the Demon Emanation Curse that Lin Hong had used before, which was just right for dealing with these monsters.

The Yanmo Curse, also known as the Black Pentacle Curse, is the fifth type of spell in the Heavenly Stem System, and it is mainly used to kill and ban monsters.

Different from the effects of the spells that Lin Hong used one after another, Li Canran flickered the knife in his hand, and quickly sealed the group of flying geese.

He didn't use all his strength, so the group of spirit geese were only sealed from the fluctuation of vitality, and their lives were not endangered.

At this moment, the robbers were all tied up with ropes and thrown on the ground, dejected, and several people kept begging for mercy.

They are to be left to the people in Lin's family to deal with.

Li Canran looked at a group of sluggish geese whose vitality had been sealed off on the ground, and had an idea, and said, "Why don't I raise them all?"

At that time, you will be able to drive a group of vicious geese up and down the mountain every day, with arrogance and high spirits, and you can also look after your home and nursing home, don't mention how arrogant you are.

Zhou Rong:?

He quickly found a reason and said, "Don't you want to practice?"

Yao Tianzhuo also persuaded: "The Great Elder will be angry."

"why?"

"The pharmacy that the Great Elder took care of was destroyed by a geese flying from nowhere, and he has never forgotten this grudge."

Forget it, Li Canran felt a little regretful.

Lin Hong said: "Brother Xie, let me raise it for you. You can come and see it anytime."

"I'll raise one myself," he said.

To be honest, he has always wanted a spirit beast of his own.

Zhou Rong knew that he had made a step back, so he didn't say anything.

Li Canran first gave the leader of the robbers a bag of Lingyuan stones, which was equivalent to buying the group of spirit geese from him.

The robber's eyes flickered for a moment, as if hesitating, but he couldn't hold back the momentum of the people in front of him, so he handed over the beast control cards of the group of geese.

Li Canran then chose the most pleasing to the eye from among the many geese.

Worried that he would be disappointed, Zhou Rong said, "I observed it just now, and the one you picked is not very good at flying."

All the other geese were fluttering around, but it stretched its neck and walked unsteadily on the ground.

It's a goose through and through.

But it is the most fierce, Li Canran thought, although it can't fly, what does it matter.Anyway, he can fly with the sword, and he doesn't need to find a monster to carry him.

"That's it." He said decisively.

The remaining geese were also his, but they were temporarily taken back by Lin Hong.

The matter of the kidnappers was settled smoothly, and there was no need for them to stay here anymore, they could go back to their ancestors.

The elder of the four veins flying above his head has never shown up, and he doesn't know if he went back first.

……

On the way back, Yao Tianzhuo took the cloud boat with them.

He sighed faintly, and only then did he say what he was holding back in his stomach, "Something happened to the Qi family."

Zhou Rong asked, "What happened?"

Li Canran also looked over and found that his expression and state were not quite right.

Yao Tianzhuo said: "The Qi family was wiped out overnight."

"What?!" Li Canran frowned, and hurriedly asked, "Is it the Qi family from Wuling City?"

"Exactly."

Zhou Rong had a little impression.

He remembered that when he first came to Yimai more than three years ago, he and Li Canran followed Kong Ling and the others to Wuling City in the Northern Territory to collect taxes.

At that time, it was Qian Zhemao and Dong Yu who went to collect the money, and the rest of them did not follow, but wandered around the city casually.

It stands to reason that the Qi family represented the face of the Demon God Sect in Wuling City, and now they have been silenced overnight, which means that someone wanted to slap the Demon God Sect in the face.

But this method is a bit too cruel.

Yao Tianzhuo said in a deep voice: "There is a person in the Qi family who is a distant relative of Kong Ling, and he was also killed."

Zhou Rong immediately thought of the previous incident in Baiyang Prefecture, and asked, "Is it for the alliance in the Northern Territory?"

Yao Tianzhuo nodded slowly, and said: "There are elders in the sect who guessed this way, but they are not sure if it is true, and now the murderer does not know who it is."

Li Canran asked: "Who would have the possibility?"

"Some people say that it's the small sect that killed the suzerain's son before. They want to take revenge, but I don't think so." Yao Tianzhuo said, "At that time, the Demon God Sect gave them a large amount of Lingyuan Pill, which was considered to be flattened. They have been compensated. As for the others, it is possible for several big sects in the Northern Territory."

He went on to say: "But now they have all come forward, and they all declare that this matter has nothing to do with them, and the elders can't find any other evidence."

Li Canran suddenly asked: "Where is Kong Ling, is she okay?"

When Zhou Rong heard that he was the first one to ask Kong Ling, he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

Yao Tianzhuo said: "She's fine, but she went home from the sect to recuperate."

"Cultivate your body?"

"Yes, she..." Yao Tianzhuo struggled for a while, but still said, "Maybe it's sad, and she didn't tell me when I asked her, so I can only think so."

Li Canran nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Kong Ling had helped him with the matter in Baiyangzhou before. At that time, he could see that there was something wrong with Kong Ling's state, but he didn't ask in detail. He didn't expect that she would go back to recuperate so soon.

Zhou Rong said lightly: "Let's discuss it after returning to the Demon God Sect."

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There are [-] words left, I will make up tomorrow

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