Jiajing Spiritual Records

Early the next morning, Su Xian Ninghuan went out.

On the way, Ning Huan asked curiously: "Where is that Sheren Town?"

"According to the clues left by Zhao Wanniang, it should be in a place called Qijiao Mountain." Suxian replied.

"Seven-horned Mountain——" Ning Huan sat on the horse's back holding the rein. The bumpy road made him a little drowsy. He yawned, looked at the road in front of him, and muttered the word "Seven-horned Mountain" in a drawn-out tone. , squinting his eyes for a while and nodded inscrutablely.

Su Xian turned his eyes to look at Ning Huan with a funny face, and asked: "Why, have you been to that place?"

Ning Huan shook his head: "I haven't been there." His dark eyes flicked across Su Xian's face, "But if I asked directly, you would definitely say 'there are many places you haven't been to. .”

There was a sense of grievance in that tone, Su Xian was silent for a long time, and there was no response for a long time.Ning Huan's round eyes twirled in their sockets, and after a while, he finally couldn't wait any longer, turned his head and asked, "You...do you have nothing to say to me?"

The second day when the two opened up their hearts, it was always... a little different, right?Ning Huan thought in his heart, will Su Xian admit his mistake softly?If Su Xian admits his mistake, knowing how bad his attitude towards him these days is, he can take advantage of the situation and establish a family law, eh!Let him know who is the master of the house.

Thinking about it this time, his chest unknowingly straightened up, Ning Huan pretended to be careless, but he happily speculated about Su Xian's reaction in his heart.

"I think you're right." The lazy voice came from the side.Ning Huan was taken aback.He turned his eyes and widened his eyes in disbelief.

"What's wrong?" Su Xian asked in surprise.

"Just...that's it?" Su Xian nodded.

Ning Huan took a deep breath, and after a long while, he slowly squeezed out a sentence: "Besides this, you...do you have anything else to say?"

"What else?" Su Xian raised his eyebrows in surprise, seeing Ning Huan's expectant face, he unconsciously rubbed his fluffy hair, "What else?" He seemed to think about it seriously, " Do you really understand me?" He looked at Ning Huan, asking for confirmation quite distressed.

Ning Huan's lips were tightly pursed into a line. "Heh." Ning Huan curled his lips angrily, "You are really..." Halfway through speaking, seeing the confused look on Su Xian's face, he suddenly felt powerless.Angrily, he led the horse to the front.It is better to believe that Suxian can talk about love than to believe that a sow can climb a tree...

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The weather was hot, and it didn't take long for both of them to sweat.After walking about three or four miles away from Beijing, they came across a simple teahouse on the way. The signboard outside the door said "Suxian and Ninghuan got off their horses and walked in."This place is far away from the capital city. Although it is not so crowded, it is still rare to see a few passers-by on the road.Apart from two people in the teahouse, there were only two or three guests sitting here and there.

After the two ordered tea and two bowls of plain noodles, Ning Huan laid down on the table sleepily. "How far is it from Sheren Town?" Ning Huan asked.

"Three or four miles away." Suxian replied, he took the kettle on the table, filled a large cup of herbal tea in the cup in front of him, and handed it to Ning Huan, "It will take about half a day to walk." arrive."

Ning Huan gulped down the herbal tea in one gulp, only then did he feel a little relieved.He looked up at the bright sunlight outside, and frowned slightly worriedly: "It's almost night."

At this time, there was a burst of bustling footsteps outside the door, and the shopkeeper led six people in.

"Do you still have something to eat here?" The leader was a middle-aged man with a full beard, his sharp eyes were like eagle eyes, and he asked after scanning around the store.

"Yes, yes." The shopkeeper responded hastily.

"Then bring us six bowls of plain noodles first, hurry up, we are still in a hurry." The man said roughly.Immediately, the six people sat down at the table next to Su Xian and Ning Huan.Su Xian glanced indifferently at the six strong men beside him, carelessly fiddled with the empty cups in his hands.

Seeing this, the shopkeeper was rather embarrassed, he wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, walked up to Su Xian and Ning Huan, and asked in a low voice: "Two guests, if you don't mind, can you wait in the small shop for a while?" .” The shopkeeper glanced uneasily at the left side, and the six strong men all had sharp knives on their sides, and they were not easy to get along with.I'm afraid that if I offend them, the shop will suffer.

"Nothing, the shopkeeper is busy first, and the two of us can wait." Su Xian replied.Ning Huan looked at Su Xian in surprise, he did not expect him to be surprisingly good-tempered this time.

The six people were really in a hurry, and left the shop in a hurry after eating the plain noodles.At this time, Ning Huan and Su Xian also brought up their faces, "I'm sorry for the long wait, it's really difficult to do small business these days—" the shopkeeper sighed, and in order to express his apology, he specially treated the two of them Two yellow and orange fried eggs were added to the plain surface.

When Ning Huan saw it, he moved his index finger, lowered his head and began to suck up the noodles.Su Xian put the eggs in his own bowl in front of Ning Huan: "Eat slowly." Ning Huan curled his lips in dissatisfaction, and lowered his head again.

Su Xian gave a soft "tsk", he looked at the shopkeeper at the side, and asked, "Have you heard of Qijiao Mountain, the shopkeeper?"

"Qijiao Mountain? Where are the two guest officers going?" Wei Wei, the shopkeeper, asked in surprise.

Su Xian smiled and asked, "With the shopkeeper's expression, did any strange things happen in Qijiao Mountain?"

"It's not a strange thing." The shopkeeper pointed to the mountain hidden under the white mist in the distance and said, "That's Qijiao Mountain." He paused slightly, and continued, "Don't look at it now It’s as if it’s just a few feet away, if you walk another seven or eight miles in that direction, you’ll find that mountain is still ahead, and the distance hasn’t changed at all from now.”

The shopkeeper lowered his voice and said beside the two of them: "It is rumored that that mountain is not in our world, but in the sky." He pointed to the top, "I have opened this tea shop here for nearly twenty years. Over the years, there have been quite a few people who have come and gone to Qijiao Mountain to seek immortals and ask questions, but—" He glanced at Su Xian and Ning Huan with a little worry, "I have never seen a repeat visitor."

A complex look quickly flashed across Su Xian's eyes, he nodded and just smiled without saying a word.

"This Qijiao Mountain was not called Qijiao Mountain originally, it was called Bajiao Mountain." Looking at the mountains in the distance, the shopkeeper seemed to bring back some memories, "That is the story my great-grandfather told me when I was a child. Yes, it is rumored that a young dragon in the sky violated the rules of the sky and crashed into this octagonal mountain, breaking one corner, and from then on the octagonal became the current Qijiao mountain."

"Bajiao Mountain——" Ning Huan rested his cheeks and stared at the Bajiao Mountain in the distance along the direction of the shopkeeper's fingers. For some reason, there was a burst of bitterness in his heart, as if a hole had leaked in his warm heart, and the cold wind was blowing from there. "Bajiao Mountain——" Ning Huan lowered his eyes, murmured again and again in a low voice, tears fell on the table with "patta", blooming a little splashes.Ning Huan touched his heart helplessly, the heart was beating smoothly in the chest cavity, why am I so sad?Ning Huan thought blankly.

"Ning Huan?" A familiar soft call released Ning Huan from the shackles of confusion. "What's wrong with you?" Su Xian frowned, looking at Ning Huan anxiously and asked.

Ning Huan was stunned, his slender eyelashes trembling slightly, after a while he wiped his face vigorously, wiping away the tears on his face: "It's nothing." He said: "I just think that the dragon bumped into the Bajiao Mountain, and I feel that it must be very painful."

Su Xian obviously didn't believe this statement, he broke Ning Huan's jaw with an undeniable force, his eyes met, Su Xianfu asked again: "What's wrong with you?"

"Really!" Ning Huan pursed his lips and pushed Su Xian away impatiently, "Don't ask any more—Where... which man doesn't have those few days of sentimentality in a year." Ning Huan put the chopsticks in Su Xian's hands , urged, "Eat quickly, eat quickly, we can leave early after eating."

Seeing that Ning Huan soon returned to that heartless and heartless smile, Su Xian felt relieved even though the seeds of doubt had been planted.He pursed his lips and snorted angrily: "Ning Huan, do you think you are sick?"

Ning Huan twitched the corners of his mouth, but now he responded generously: "Yes, yes, I am sick, Mr. Su, hurry up and eat noodles, it is cold."

"Ah."

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After the two left the tea shop, they continued on their way.The road became more and more remote, and gradually the surrounding area was deserted.Ning Huan looked at the outline of the mountains in the distance, and his heart was just as the shopkeeper said, Qijiao Mountain was still standing in the white mist, and there was no change in distance.

The sun was gradually setting, and the remaining heat in the air began to dissipate, and there was a strange cold atmosphere around.The wind was blowing fiercely, passing through layers of lush vegetation one after another, as if a giant beast dormant in the dark was roaring wantonly.When the two got off the horse, Suxian looked around and said, "Zhao Wanniang said that Qijiao Mountain is here. It seems that we can only spend the night here tonight, and we will look for her after dawn tomorrow. "

This is not the first time for the two to stay in the mountains, Ning Huan nodded upon hearing this.

Not far from the forest was a flowing stream, Ning Huan rolled up his trousers and walked to the stream.The brook barely passed his knees, faintly shining with dots of green light under the moonlight.The water in the stream is very cold, as cold as a deep well that has never seen the sun. If it wasn't for the tiny black shadows swimming in the stream just now, Ning Huan would not have entered the water.The stones at the bottom of the water are also particularly harsh. These days, Ning Huan has practiced the ability to catch fish with his bare hands. He aimed at the black shadow in the water, stretched out his hand, and darted into the stream...

Ning Huan slightly widened his eyes, the gloomy white skull gleamed with green light in his hands, and the hollow eye sockets corroded under the moonlight were facing Ning Huan.Ning Huan was startled, and hastily threw the skull out of his hand.The sparkling green light in the stream was still flickering, and the stones under his feet seemed to be chilling too. Ning Huan staggered a step, and almost rolled onto the bank.

"What's the matter?" Su Xian was lighting a fire, and seeing Ning Huan's flustered face, asked with a puzzled expression.

"That...that stream is full of skeletons." Ning Huan pointed to the stream not far away, almost out of breath.

Su Xian was slightly taken aback, and after a long silence, he seemed to have thought of something, his face changed slightly, and he replied: "There is something wrong here, do you remember that Zhao Wanniang once said today that something happened on the way to Sheren Town. "