The old demon of Montenegro wants to practice Taoism

Although Shan Yangze felt that he was not afraid of these schemes, no matter if it was a black shop or a bandit, if he acted too relaxed, there would always be a feeling of being suspected of brainlessness, so he was very cautious and lowered his voice and asked Jia Wudao: "We Which room do you live in?"

Jia Wu turned his head and said, "I haven't been here for many years, I just pick a small inn nearby."

Shan Yangze still wants to ask again, but the streets in this small gathering area are not wide, and the open gates of the houses on both sides are sitting in twos and threes and come out to cool off after dinner. There was no expression, and he looked at their group of travelers with camels coldly, without saying a word.

Occasionally, curious children came forward to see their camels, but they were immediately carried back by the adults, and the gate closed with a "snap".

The governor twisted the reins of the camel in his hand again, quickened his pace, and wanted to find a place to rest early.

There are only two streets in the center of this gathering area, forming a cross shape. Jia Wu led them around and picked a small inn on the far side among the four inns.Different from other inns with two floors and a small yard, this inn has three rows of rooms, plus a wall, forming a rectangle, with a few wooden pegs in the middle, tying the horses and camels of the merchants. And donkeys etc.

Seeing that Jia Wu had chosen this inn, Shan Yangze couldn't help but look at him a few more times. There are four inns in total, and this one has the least amount of black air over his head. In other words, this one has the least number of guests who died.The Governor was still a little worried, and when he was about to enter the gate, he couldn't help but glanced at Shan Yangze, and saw him nodding, so he followed Jia Wu into the inn with confidence.

The two Jin Yiwei followed them to eat first, and the other two followed to see the livestock. The livestock are the most important thing in this place, and they are afraid of being murdered, so the livestock must always be watched.

Unlike the expressionless residents outside, the shopkeeper inside the inn is so enthusiastic that he can grin behind his ears. "How many rooms do you want? What do you want to eat? Our roasted whole lamb is famous far and wide."

Roasted Lamb?Shan Yangze remembered that Jia Wu said on the way that when you come to this kind of place, you can't touch meat at all, because you can't be sure whether he is feeding you real sheep or dead human meat.Thinking of this, Shan Yangze shook his head, and said: "It's drying all the way, let's have some light dishes."

The waiter's originally bright smile froze suddenly. He looked at these people earlier. Although the leader and the guards behind looked like they were running a business nearby, they looked unfamiliar, and the three of them hadn't come in until now. The person who took off the face covering looked like he was going out for the first time, so the waiter in the shop couldn't help but test it out.Those who dare to eat meat in a place like them, except for their peers, will only be taken advantage of, and of course the colleagues will let it go. Although they will not be hurt by them, there are still stumbling blocks behind them.

But this person wants light dishes, and he doesn't know whether he is playing the wrong way or really understands the inside story.The waiter in the shop froze for a while, and he couldn't tell unless he stared at him, but then he laughed even more unrestrainedly, and said: "We also have light side dishes, but you know, the green vegetables here are almost as good as silver. One price, the price of side dishes is not cheap."

Jia Wu frowned, stepped forward to take over the conversation, and said, "He's talking about pickles, just prepare steamed buns and pickles."

The waiter pulled down the rag from his shoulders, rubbed it casually on the table, and said, "Here we come. However," he pointed at the two tables next door, and said, "Those who ordered hot meat buns, how about you?" Don’t you come with two cages? You will have the strength to go on the road tomorrow when you are full.”

The governor patted the table impatiently, the waiter shrank his neck and shouted: "The customer wants steamed buns and pickles." After speaking, he went back to the counter.

Shan Yangze sat down and saw that the guests next to them looked familiar. They were the caravan led by an old man on the road. Seeing Shan Yangze looking at him, the old man smiled and said, "Go in. After entering the house, I took off the face towel, and it’s not too stuffy on such a hot day.”

Shan Yangze sighed, and said: "Cough, my face is hurt, I can't see the wind."

At this moment, the waiter in the shop brought tea, and Shan Yangze stopped talking to the old man.

In front of a cup of coarse tea, the governor frowned, but after a day of travel, his mouth was already dry and peeling, so he didn't care about any water or tea, and drank it after blowing it cold.

The table at the old man's side was already full of food, and now he was sitting and smoking while digesting food, so he couldn't help talking, seeing that the food at Shanyangze's side hadn't been served yet, he said a few more words. "Oh, I left late this year, I'm afraid it will be difficult to leave when I come back."

Shanyangze and the others don’t have this worry. Their destination is Gaochang. If it goes smoothly, it can be completed in a month. It’s still in the prime time of the power of silk, but they can’t say that, “Who says no, Tomorrow, when we leave the customs, we must hurry up."

Listening to Shan Yangze chatting with the old man sentence by sentence, Jia Wu wanted to stop him. After all, let alone helping each other on the road, eating the meat and blood of his companions abounds everywhere in case of distress. Trailing all the way or something, that's no joke.But after listening to a few sentences, Shan Yangze's mouth was quite strict, Jia Wu felt relieved and concentrated on eating steamed buns.

Because they wanted to eat, they finally lifted the covers over their faces, revealing the lower half of their faces, needless to say, they were all white and clean, the old man looked at them and said: "This is the first time you go out. "

Shan Yangze said: "I used to go to Shang, but it was Qin Shu Road."

As soon as the old man heard it, he said: "Do tea business? That place is not easy to travel." The old man listed several cities on the way, exchanged a few words with Shanyangze, and said: "There is also Heishan Town, and three tea-horse roads intersection, you know?"

Shan Yangze felt that the old man was suspected of being a cliché, so he raised a little bit of vigilance, and said: "Everyone who has passed the Qin Shu Road in that place knows that although it is not on the main road, it is quite prosperous."

The old man smiled slightly when he heard this, and said: "I went with the owner once this year. No, I came here after walking the Shu road. The casino in Heishan Town, alas... The owner lost a lot of money, otherwise I would write I won’t be rushing here any longer.”

Speaking of the casino, Shan Yangze suddenly became interested and said, "The old man also gambled twice?"

The old man shook his head hastily, and said, "Where do I have that spare money? It's all for the boss to gamble. We watched from the outside, but the casino is really well built."

Shan Yangze nodded and said: "It's the third floor, it is said that if you go in, you don't want to come out."

Seeing Governor Jia Wu and the others finished eating the steamed buns, and the two Jinyi guards going to eat with their companions watching the livestock, Shan Yangze smiled and said to the old man: "You should also rest early, the road ahead will not be easy."

The old man nodded, sat down and continued to drink tea and smoke pipes.

The gate of the inn faces south, the south is the lobby and kitchen of the inn, the west is a wall, and the east and north are two rows of guest rooms in the desert area, which is considered to be the least sunny place. Shan Yangze and the others came late, and the north room has been destroyed. The old man was occupied by another group of merchants, so they had to take the house on the east side.There are no private rooms or single rooms like the Tianzi No. [-] room in this place. There are several beds in one room. Everyone sleeps together, which is safe and secure.

After entering the house, Jia Wu checked that there were no secret passages, and Shan Yangze also carefully checked who was not eavesdropping, and then said: "The old man has a problem."

The Governor was startled, Jia Wu also thought about the attire of the group of people, and hesitated a little: "It's hard to tell."

Shan Yangze said: "There was a problem with the casino in Heishan Town this year. At the beginning of the year, someone smashed the place and won for three months. If he went, he wouldn't know. Later, something happened to the casino and it closed. After that, the boss It has been involved in a major court case, and the door may not have been opened until now."

The supervisor tore off the cloth covering his head, and said, "So...the old man came after us? Could he be the guy who got away from Boss Ji's subordinates?"

The three of them didn't speak, the old man's team was also eight people, the old man was the team leader, and the rest were middle-aged men in their 30s and [-]s. It was not impossible to say that they were Boss Ji's subordinates.

Jia Wu looked at the old man's camels and horses in the middle of the yard, and said, "Would you like to take advantage of the night to see their salutes. They must carry valuable things with them, but the rest can still be seen." flawed."

The Governor nodded and said, "Wait until the time is over before doing anything."

Before he finished speaking, Shan Yangze interrupted him, saying: "No need, I have a solution."

The governor glanced at him, slightly puzzled.Shan Yangze winked at Jia Wu, Jia Wu turned around and walked a little further away, Shan Yangze leaned over and said in a low voice, "I haven't had time to deal with the ghosts I caught on the Jinniu Road last time." He took out a small black ball from his pocket and showed it to him.

The governor stood up in shock, and even dropped the stool. There are bones and ghosts in your arms, and you put a lot of things!

With Shan Yangze and these ghosts who don't need it for nothing, the governor also boldly let the Jinyi guards go to rest. After all, people who watch the night will still doze off, and there will be no mistakes in letting the ghosts watch the night.

One night passed, Jia Wuxuan's inn was really good, and Shanyangze and the others watched closely, even though someone wanted to sneak into their room, they still failed in front of the ghost hitting the wall.

When the sun came out in the morning, Shan Yangze and the others packed up their things and left the inn.

Shan Yangze said: "The things they carry are nothing unusual, although there are iron shovels and other things, but these things are also necessary in the desert."

Jia Wu nodded and said, "It's too hot at noon, and the surface of the sand can burn people. You have to dig down at least a foot before you can rest. Moreover, there are many caravans in distress along the way. Sometimes just by digging alone, they can dig A lot of unowned property."

"So it's still not sure." Governor said.

"The old man had a bad stomach last night, and he is still lying on the bed." At this time, Guo Qian, who had been in a bad mood because of the strong sun since he entered the next door, said, "Just now you went to lead the camel, I In the hall, I heard what the waiter told the shopkeeper."

"It's a little strange to say that." The governor said: "If Boss Ji's subordinates are hiding so deeply, how could they be so easily caught? Or fall on a few meat buns."

"This is just right, no matter where their destination is, one day is enough for us to get rid of them." Jia Wu said.

The governor nodded, and several people got on the camels and went out of the pass.

The result of not going out of Yumen Pass is that they will enter the desert from now on, bypassing Yumen Pass entirely, and then modify their route all the way to the northwest.Not long after leaving the small village, the low grass on the side of the road became more and more sparse, and the original gravel gradually transitioned to coarse sand under the feet.

Jia Wu explored the road at a distance of seven or eight zhang ahead, and the governor rode a camel to Shanyangze, and said with a little worry: "I thought I would hide my whereabouts only when I went, and when I got the things, I could pass through the Yumen Pass." After entering the customs, go all the way to the capital. However, if the news is really leaked by the queen mother...the queen mother also has some people in her hands. She also has a son, the current King Jian, who took over the Runing Mansion ten years ago in Chenghua. Although The vassal king is not allowed to leave the residence, but it is much more convenient to send people out to handle errands privately than when he was in the capital, and besides, he has the relationship with the Queen Mother."

The Governor took a sip of water, hesitated to speak, and said, "Your Majesty is extremely filial, even if Concubine Wan Gui is against the Queen Mother, she will lose eight out of ten times."

In other words, apart from Boss Ji's legacy, they might also meet the Queen Mother or King Jian's troops?Although he has no interest in the elixir of life, Shanyangze has always kept Guo Qian and Chengxian in mind. Shanyangze said: "It's hard to say what you can meet in the capital of Gaochang, but if you meet ordinary Man, I always have a way."

Hearing Shan Yangze's package ticket, the Governor was just relieved when he heard Jia Wu say in front of him: "Be careful, there might be bandits here!"

Shan Yangze hastily whipped two whips and rushed over, only to see bloodstains looming on the sand, because there was no wind, the traces of being dug were still obvious.Jia Wu glanced at the governor and said, "Do you want to dig it out?"

The governor shook his head and said: "Hurry up and hurry, the blood is still wet, it must be after a fierce battle, the gangsters also need to rest, they must have no energy to ambush us again, let's go through this section of the road."

Shan Yangze looked around and said, "Look, these footprints are heading north. We will not meet them all the way south."

Saying that, several people tightened their formation and rushed all the way into the desert.

Driving in the desert is very hard work, the sun is too strong, let alone people can't bear it, even Guo Qian who wrapped Shan Yangze's cloak around his body couldn't bear it.They left the inn at dawn, and only an hour after entering the desert, the sun seemed to rise into the sky, illuminating people drowsy and ghosts dying.

Shan Yangze didn't bother to hide it, he directly lifted the ghost from the camel, hugged him in his arms, and played a trick to send him to the essence of Montenegro to cultivate.Although Guo Qian was a bit reluctant, he couldn't resist Shan Yangze's brute force.

In order to reduce water loss in the desert, even words should be kept to a minimum. A group of people rode a camel in silence. , and Shanyangze’s divination from time to time, and God helped them, they passed a quicksand belt smoothly on the eighth day. In another day, we will be able to reach the capital of Gaochang."

The journey was so smooth that the worry in the governor's heart became more and more intense. Looking at the dilapidated city wall in front of which the boundary was faintly exposed, the governor said: "I haven't met a group of people so far. Could it be that they are all waiting for you?" Take what's ready."

It's just that this is guesswork after all. Looking at the city wall that is close at hand, several people worked hard and finally entered the outer periphery of the ancient city of Gaochang before sunset.

Jia Wudao: "Sometimes there are travelers from the past sleeping here, but everyone is in the outer city, and no one goes to the inner city. No one knows what's going on inside."

"No one in the inner city?" Shan Yangze asked.

"That's right, it takes an hour to go in and back. Moreover, it is said that in the two years when Gaochang City was first broken, someone went in, looking for scattered belongings, but they didn't come out. Jia Wu pointed to Shan Yangze and said, "Look, this city is not big. It can be seen for four miles at most. The north is the palace, but none of the people who went in came out, no matter whether they entered from the south entrance of the city or directly climbed over the wall. In the north of the city, there will be no more than eight thousand people going in, and it’s almost impossible to let it go.”

The governor's face darkened, and he said: "Let's find a safe place to spend the night first, and then enter the city after dawn."

Jia Wu searched for the traces of travelers, found a place covered by the wind, sat down and lit a fire, the camels were tied to one side, and the food was heating up on the fire. , that place is in the center of the palace, which is also the center of the inner city, but now the palace is in the north of the city. Should we search according to the palace? Or should we search from the center of the city first?"

There was no result after a discussion, so I had to rest first, and wait until dawn to go in and have a look.

Eight people lined up four shifts to watch the night. The first shift was Duzhu and Jia Wu.Just after midnight, when the governor was about to call Shan Yangze, Guo Qian who was leaning on Shan Yangze suddenly opened his eyes, completely ignoring the shouts of the people behind him, drifting into the in the dark.

Guo Qian's speed was extremely fast, Shan Yangze only reached half of his sleeve with his hand, he hurriedly chased after him, leaving a word: "Wait for me to come back." Then he followed Guo Qian and disappeared into the night.