Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

Near noon, they arrived in Mengcheng.Mengcheng can be regarded as a relatively large city at the junction of Nanjun and Xijun.The streets in the city are wide, the houses are beautiful, and the market is prosperous.

It's a pity that they have nothing in their pockets, and they can only watch but not buy anything.

Zhao Yuan snuggled up to Le Yue's side, secretly pulled his sleeve, and stuffed something into his hand.Le Yue held it up to his eyes and saw that it was a handful of copper coins.

Zhao Yuan whispered: "When we were at the Shu County Inn, we helped to earn money by working."

Holding these copper coins, Le Yue felt very emotional in his heart. After all, the silly dragon has grown up and is already able to make money.Keeping it around is more and more helpful.

He put the money back into Zhao Yuan's hand, and lowered his voice: "You should keep it, I will ask you again when I need it, and be careful not to be known by Ying Ze."

His Highness Ying Ze, who was walking not far away, coughed majestically.

A crowd of people surrounded the corner of the intersection of the two streets ahead, it was extremely lively, and pedestrians kept crowding there.

Le Yue dragged Zhao Yuan, Zhao Yuan dragged Lin Qing, and a group of three went over to watch the fun, Ying Ze snorted, "Childish." Then he walked to the side of the flax cake stand.Luo Lingzhi stood far away and smiled at the end.

Le Yue led Zhao Yuan and Lin Qing to squeeze their heads into the crowd, with lively gongs and drums and deafening applause in their ears.

After the gongs and drums were finished, a voice overwhelmed the applause and said loudly: "Thank you, folks and folks, for your support! No matter whether there is a reward or not, just give it a good voice!"

The applause became more and more earth-shattering.

Le Yue was stunned for a moment, and looked at Zhao Yuan.

Why, does this voice sound familiar?Lin Qing had already bravely squeezed to the innermost circle before the two of them, and suddenly shouted: "Ah, Sun Ben!"

The performer is actually Sun Ben.

It really is Sun Ben, the lively and red-faced Sun Ben.He was holding a copper gong in his hand and clanging it. A monkey in clothes and a crown followed the gong and drum and did somersaults on top of Cuju, winning thunderous applause, and the copper coins fell to the ground like snowflakes.

The monkey picked up the money, turned around and bowed to the crowd, and the applause became even crazier.

No matter how you look at it, this red-eyed monkey is the winged monkey flying pioneer, but it has no wings.

A fat man opposite Le Yue and the others threw a piece of broken silver on the ground. The monkey immediately picked it up, bowed to it several times, and ran to put it into the small basin in front of Sun Ben.Sun Ben threw a ball, the monkey jumped up, and with an upside-down golden hook, kicked the ball just in front of the fat man.

The ball loosened in mid-air in front of the fat man, and it turned out to be a red cloth with the words "Gong Xi Fa Cai".The monkey turned over again, caught the red cloth, held it in its hands and fell to the ground, grinning at the fat man with its teeth bared, and held the red cloth up.

The crowd suddenly cheered again, almost shattering Le Yue's eardrums. The fat man took the red cloth, laughed so hard that he couldn't see, and threw another piece of silver.

The monkey jumped to pick up the silver and bowed again.

Shouldn't Sun Ben be in the Shu county prison at this time? Why would he be squatting on the streets of Mengcheng playing monkeys?Le Yue murmured, "Could it be that Sun Ben has a twin brother?"

Lin Qing said: "Then, Flying Pioneer also happens to have a twin brother who doesn't grow wings? What a coincidence."

Sun Ben poured all the money in the iron basin into a leather bag and put it in his arms.I knocked on the gong a few more times, clasped my fists together and bowed together: "Thank you, folks, for your support. I am here today. My younger brother passes by occasionally. Thank you for your care and love. There will be fate in the future, see you in Jianghu!"

While Sun Ben was talking, the monkey held a basket and took out handfuls of confetti and sprinkled them around.It caused the crowd to throw another bunch of copper coins wildly, and then dispersed in a mess.

Le Yue folded his arms, and Zhaoyuan Linqing just stood still.

Watch the monkey pick up the money, watch Sun Ben collect the money, watch Sun Ben and the monkey pick up the props on the ground and put them in the bag.Look at Sun Ben hanging the gong and hammer on both sides of his waist, and the monkey and the monkey each carry a burden.

The crowd has almost dispersed, only a few people who are still reluctant to part with the monkey's tricks are still looking around not far away.

Luo Lingzhi also saw Sun Ben and walked towards him slowly.

Sun Ben straightened the bags on his back and smiled heartily at them: "Are you all safe?"

Le Yue cupped his fists: "Brother Sun, the business is good. It's just that why did the arrested bandit leader become a busker?"

Sun Ben's white teeth gleamed in the sun: "You guys are passing by, of course I haven't heard of it, but I have actually been arrested four or five times in the county prison. Each time I only stayed for one night, this time because of my leg I was injured, so I stayed one more night." The monkey squatted next to Sun Ben's legs and made faces at them with its eyelids pulled.

Zhao Yuan remembered something, and hastily dug out from his bag the monkey's bag that he exchanged for Sun Ben that day, and handed it back to it.Zhao Yuan always carried it with him, never threw it away, and Le Yue thought it was too cumbersome.

The monkey creaked and squealed, snatched the bundle from Zhao Yuan, and squatted next to Sun Ben's legs to make faces at them.Zhao Yuan tried to smile kindly at it, the monkey scratched its cheek, took out a walnut from its pocket, and threw it to Zhao Yuan.It was not thrown hard at all, and Zhao Yuan could just reach out to catch it. The monkey squeaked and gestured twice, indicating that this walnut was for Zhao Yuan to eat.

The monkey was willing to express his friendliness, and Zhao Yuan was very happy.

Le Yue said with regret: "At that time, I saw brother Sun's generous appearance, and I felt sorry for you. I didn't expect you to escape from prison."

Sun Ben showed two more teeth: "If I didn't act like I was waiting to die, how could you leave in peace? This is a common trick in the art of war, and I can only blame you for not being able to tell the difference."

Lin Qing said: "You are not afraid that we will call someone to arrest you, the bandit leader who escaped from prison."

Sun Ben's face was indifferent: "Girl, just call out and give it a try. According to the speed of the county magistrate's office, I'm afraid the list of wanted people has not been finished yet. The Mengcheng government doesn't know about Sun Ben. Here, I'm here." Just an ordinary busker."

In the current situation, there was really nothing he could do about him, and Le Yue was not passionate enough to call Luo Lingzhi to beat up Sun Ben and carry him back to the magistrate's office.

Luo Lingzhi said: "Your Excellency has also suffered a lot in the county government. If you don't disturb the people of Shu County anymore, we can pretend that we haven't seen you."

Sun Ben raised his eyebrows and said: "I was planning to finish the vote and then stop. I will pay them back in the future, and then people in Shu County will know that I, Sun Ben, are not a bandit but a hero." !"

Le Yue nodded: "Very well, I wish Brother Sun to become a hero as soon as possible, everyone will have a long way to go, and go to our own rivers and lakes." Then he hugged his fists and walked away.

"Guys, stay for a while, don't you think that meeting again means that you and we are destined?" Sun Ben and the monkey followed closely behind them with their burdens on their backs, "Jianghu road, how wandering, destined people, the most rare, meeting each other , cherish it. We are already friends, how about going on the road together?"

Le Yue's mouth twitched, and Lin Qing said impatiently: "Whoever is friends with the bandit leader, let's go."

Sun Ben's face was full of sincerity: "The days of being a bandit are over, and you will find that I am the most loyal and friendly person, and I will not hesitate to stick knives on my spine. For example... ..." He moved closer, with a faintly curved mouth at the corner of his mouth, "In the prison, I was whipped countless times, and I didn't tell you that you were actually dragon riders. This little brother is One-stop business."

Le Yue narrowed his eyes: "Brother Sun, it doesn't matter what you said at the time. The few of us," he put his hand on Zhao Yuan's shoulder, "it was specially approved. If you don't believe me, you can ask the future national teacher, the prince's highness Mr. Shenfeng Tongfeng."

Sun Ben's expression changed instantly, and he returned to normal in the blink of an eye: "So how many people are from Zhongshun Palace?"

Le Yue shook his head: "No, we only listen to Mr. Feng's words."

Anyway, Feng Tong did know who they were, and it was not a frame at all to blame him for this matter.

Sun Ben said: "Then Feng Wu, the national teacher, do you know each other?"

Le Yue shook his head again: "I don't know."

Sun Ben smiled attentively again: "You must have gone to the West County to participate in the princess's wedding. To be honest, I will do the same."

Tsk tsk, there are quite a few people recruited by the Princess of the West County, ranging from princes and nobles to bandit leaders.

Sun Ben continued to persevere and said: "In this case, why don't we go together, so we can have a companion? Otherwise, I will invite a few of you to the restaurant for a drink first, and then discuss slowly."

Le Yue cheered up: "Brother Sun wants to invite us to dinner? Hehe, how dare you, we have a lot of people, so I should invite you."

Sun Ben said boldly: "I can still afford a mere meal of wine. I will pay for this meal. Don't compete with me."

Le Yue smiled and said: "Oh, Brother Sun said so, I'd rather be respectful than follow orders."

Sun Ben led them to a decent restaurant. Along the way, Zhao Yuan exchanged the copper coins in his arms for Ying Ze at the wonton stand.Sun Ben waved boldly and asked for a private room, and asked Xiaoer to deliver the menu to Le Yue and the others, asking them to order whatever they wanted.

Le Yue held the menu and said, "Brother Sun, it's good to have a simple light meal, why is it so extravagant?"

Sun Ben said: "As a person, I like to drink good wine and eat good food. In life, you can only enjoy yourself if you eat and drink well! Today you must pick up the most expensive ones. If it is cheap, you will not give me face!"

Le Yue exclaimed: "Brother Sun's personality is appreciated so much." Zhaoyuan Linqing and Ying Ze nodded together with their chopsticks in their mouths.

An hour later.

After Ying Ze finished scraping the last spoonful of wild ginseng and black-bone chicken soup in the soup bowl, Lin Qing called the waiter to order: "Another roast leg of lamb outside the Great Wall, a Huaiyang salted duck, two pork knuckles in sauce, a bowl of pork ribs with garlic... "

Le Yue interrupted her loudly: "You don't want these dishes. Legs of lamb, salted duck, pork ribs and so on are too cold and vulgar. Aren't you sincerely not giving brother grandson face and making him look bad?" Xiang Xiaoer Hook your fingers, "First, Su Wu herds the sheep. The mutton inside only needs to be the hamstring slices. It must be thin and thick. Don't be thin, don't be thick, don't be fat or thin, understand?"

Xiao Er immediately bowed and nodded.

Le Yue said again: "Let's have a lotus pond drunk crab, made with 20-year-old Huadiao wine. Then, a bird's nest pigeon cup. It seems that I haven't ordered this rich and auspicious egg. Try it first before serving it. A Siamese suckling pig with dangshen and honey..."

Luo Lingzhi interjected, "The pomegranate wine rice balls from the Western Regions seem to be pretty good."

Le Yue immediately motioned to Xiao Er: "Here's a portion."

Sun Ben stared at Ying Ze and said, "Young master eats really well, hehe..."

Lin Qing said: "Oh, he eats roasted game all the time recently, which may hurt his stomach. He didn't eat much today."

Ying Ze bit a roll of crispy duck burritos that Zhao Yuan had just handed him, and said, "Two suckling pigs."

Le Yue immediately said to Xiao Er: "Change to two."

Sun Ben laughed until his eyelids trembled.

Xiao Er left the private room with a large list full of writing.

A sparrow flew to the window sill and chirped twice, and the monkey beside Sun Ben jumped up and rushed towards it.

The sparrow fluttered its wings and fled in a hurry, but the monkey jumped out of the window and fell straight down the stairs from the window.

Sun Ben yelled: "Flying Pioneer!" He plunged his head to the window, and jumped down like the wind in the direction where the monkey was falling.

Le Yue went to the window to see people coming and going downstairs, and Sun Ben and the monkey had disappeared.

Zhao Yuan looked at the table full of dishes in astonishment: "Then what shall we do?"

Lin Qing snorted, "I knew the bandit leader couldn't believe it!"

Luo Lingzhi said calmly: "The only plan now is to sell ourselves to restaurants."

Le Yue said: "Oh, this young man deliberately scared him away, but he didn't expect this kid to run so fast."

Luo Lingzhi still said calmly: "Brother Yue, next time you plan to plan, think about the consequences first."

Le Yue waited tragically for the younger brother who was waiting on the side to report the amount of the meal, so that they could officially sell themselves.

The second brother quoted an expected sky-high price, and looked at them with a smile: "Which master will pay the bill?"

Sun Ben's escape aroused the vigilance of the shopkeeper. Le Yue vaguely saw a few burly figures at the door. He cleared his throat and was about to speak.Ying Ze cut off his words: "I'll do it."

Le Yue turned his head in astonishment, and saw Lao Long take out a shiny golden ingot from his sleeve, and slapped it on the table: "You don't need to look for it."

Gold, gold ingots!

Why does Yingze have gold ingots?Le Yue got up immediately, supported the old dragon with his own hands and left the restaurant calmly and quickly.

When we arrived at a relatively quiet street corner, Le Yue asked in a low voice: "Your Highness, where did you get that ingot of gold?" The old dragon tabooed the word robbery, so Le Yue used the conservative word.

Ying Ze said proudly: "If I don't need to take it, don't I have no money to use? It's just a mere alchemy, even ordinary little immortals can do it."

Le Yue's face twitched: "You old man..."

A roar came from far behind them, and several figures with sticks in their hands chased after them: "Stop those liars who use stones as food money! Don't let them run away!"

Le Yue calmly shouted: "Run!" and ran away.

Le Yue ran all the way out of Mengcheng, and stopped when he reached a secluded forest outside the city. He had never been so glad that he knew how to do light work.

Zhao Yuan and Luo Lingzhi also ran out of breath, Lin Qing and Ying Ze used magic to escape, but they were still refreshed.

Le Yue sat under the tree and heaved a sigh of relief, shame on him, his reputation as the young hero of Le Yue was ruined by a meal of the overlord.

A voice above the head laughed and said: "I thought you were really upright chivalrous men, but I didn't expect that you are also using stones to fill gold and silver, cheating and abducting people, and I am the same as the bandit leader who robs the people."

Le Yue raised his head and saw Sun Ben standing on a branch not far away with his arms folded. The monkey was hanging upside down on the branch and sticking out its tongue at them.

Le Yue ran extremely tired, too lazy to regret or get angry: "This time I lost to Brother Sun again, I am ashamed."

Sun Ben smiled and said: "I admit it, I have to go to Xijun first, and there will be a period later." He took the monkey and jumped up, stepped on the tree and left.

Lin Jing looked at his back and gritted her teeth: "If there is no such broken rule that you can't hit mortals, I will definitely make him colorful."

Le Yue swayed his legs and leaned against the tree trunk: "Don't worry, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and one day he will be planted in our hands."

Zhao Yuan felt that what Le Yue said sounded like a bandit.But he appreciates it.

After walking for more than a day, the city gate with the words Ziyang Town on it finally appeared in front of my eyes.

Le Yue looked at these three words, and there should have been countless emotions in his heart, but there was nothing.

In Ziyang Town, the streets are clean, and the streets are bustling with people coming and going.

After more than ten years of recuperation, the traces of the tragedy of that day have long faded, but the prayer gods and temples surrounded by incense on the street show that those innocent blood have not been forgotten.

The donation stone tablet in front of the temple is engraved with the name of the donor line by line, the top line is a certain widow, one hundred words.Taoist Xianghuo explained to them that Ziyang Town was robbed because of Bailiqi, so now people in the city don't use Baizi and Lizi, and use Bailiqi instead.

Luo Ling said: "Replacing 'li' with 'reason', is it to accuse the king of Baili County of rebelling against the law of the king and his ministers?"

Taoist Xianghuo sighed: "There is no absolute truth in the world. Who can say whether it is right or wrong?" He said that more than 100 years ago, this city was built by the county king Bailishi to accommodate the hungry people who fled here because of the flood.At that time, everyone was grateful for Bailishi's kindness.A hundred years later, the city and its people suffered a catastrophe because of Bailishi.It may indeed be God's destiny, as it should be.

Zhao Yuan whispered to Le Yue, "I don't think destiny will let the people of Yicheng be so miserable."

Yue Yue said with a blank expression: "Of course it's not the destiny, but the people on the throne believe in the destiny too much. Just because of some prophecy about the founding of the country, the entire Bailishi was destroyed."

Zhao Yuan was stunned.

Luo Lingzhi explained to him in a low voice, hundreds of years ago, when the dynasty was first established, Emperor Taizu built the capital, and after the palace was completed, the emperor was very happy, so he invited a legendary expert to do a fortune-telling. Calculate how many years the capital city and the imperial palace will be inherited.

After the expert divination, Emperor Liu Fei said a few words and left in a hurry.The first two sentences of these few sentences are indeed quite effective, so the latter sentence will kill the entire Baili family.

——Qianqiuye, the ancient city, started from the dragon, became chaotic from the phoenix, and broke through hundreds of miles.

Lin Qing murmured: "No wonder the emperor wanted to cut off his sons and grandchildren. He exterminated the whole family just because of a word that he didn't know if it would work. It's too vicious. Her muttering voice was not too low, and Taoist Xianghuo's face turned pale immediately, and he repeated the Taoist name: " Don't talk too much, don't talk too much. "

Le Yue said in a low voice: "Hey, don't talk nonsense. It's okay if we were arrested and beheaded. It would be bad if we hurt the Taoist priest and other passers-by."

Lin Qing stuck out her tongue and said nothing more.

Le Yue apologized to Taoist Xianghuo, and then asked, "Master, how long have you lived in Ziyang Town?"

Taoist Xianghuo said that he was from Ziyang Town, and his family was poor when he was young, so he had no choice but to give him up to Qingfeng Temple.During the calamity of Tucheng, he was ordered by his master to go out of the town to do errands, but fortunately he escaped the catastrophe.When he came back, the other people in the audience either died or escaped, and he was the only one left.The Taoist temple later became this blessing temple.

The Taoist's tone was very flat, but Zhao Yuan, Le Yue and the others could not help but feel heavy when they heard it.Le Yue said: "Then may I ask you, sir, do you know a businessman named Li Ting who lived in this city during the time of the Tucheng calamity more than ten years ago?"

He Jizi once told Le Yue that his father Li Ting was a fairly well-known businessman, maybe people in this city still remember him more than ten years later.

Taoist Xianghuo thought for a moment, then shook his head: "Poverty Taoist has no impression."

Le Yue let out a sigh of disappointment, and Daoist Xianghuo said: "There was a big inn in the city back then, and people of some status and wealthy merchants usually stayed there when they passed by the city. A guy named Ma Fu picked it up by chance. I have given my life, and now I am opening a longevity shop at the same day inn, and you can ask him about it."

Ma Fu's longevity material store is in the southeast corner of Ziyang Town.

The street where the Shoucai store is located is very wide, and it is a very bustling market. Le Yue followed the guidance of Taoist Xianghuo to find the corner of the street. From a distance, he saw a soul-calling banner waving in the wind.

That must be Ma Fu's coffin shop.

Le Yue came closer, but there was only a young man squatting next to the soul-calling banner, stacking a bundle of yellow paper neatly. In front of the shop was a plaque with "Old Horse Incense and Candles for Longevity", and outside the door hung a bunch of gold foil paper stacked into a Yuan Bao.

Zhao Yuan was very curious about this, and couldn't help but want to touch those strings of paper ingots with his paws. Linqing tugged at its cuffs secretly: "This is something that mortals burn to the dead, so don't move around."

Why do mortals burn these things to the dead?Zhao Yuan kept this question in his stomach.Le Yue walked up to the young man and asked, "My little brother, may I ask, is the owner of this longevity shop called Ma Fu?"

The boy stood up and rolled over a pair of natural triangular eyes: "Are you buying birthday cakes or joss sticks?"

Luo Lingzhi said in a harmonious voice, "We just came to see Ma Fu and wanted to find out something."

The boy looked at them one by one, rolled his eyes again, and raised his voice towards the shop door: "Dad, someone is looking for you!"

Someone in the store responded vaguely, and not long after, a middle-aged man with his hands in his sleeves, his back arched, and a tired face walked out slowly from the store door.

The young man pointed to Le Yue and the others, and said concisely: "Father, these people came to you and asked you about something."

Le Yue stepped forward and clenched his fists: "Dare to ask, are you Ma Fu?"

The man raised a pair of three white eyes exactly like the boy's and nodded.

Le Yue's heart couldn't help beating faster: "I... would like to ask Boss Ma, do you still remember a businessman named Li Ting who lived here more than ten years ago during the Tucheng disaster?"

Ma Fu trembled when he heard the words "Taocheng Tribulation", took a step back and shook his head: "I don't remember, I don't remember anything. I don't remember..."

Le Yue wanted to ask again, but Ma Fu suddenly turned to the boy, and scolded: "Xiao Fa, you prodigal son, why are you squatting at the door for funerals! It's a bad day! Close the shop!"

The young boy Xiaofa replied resentfully, rolled his eyes, and walked into the store one after the other with Ma Fu carrying a yellow paper tie. Le Yue chased after him: "Boss Ma, think about it..." Bang, a A door panel was closed heavily in front of the tip of his nose.

Le Yue knocked on the door twice, and Lin Qing said: "It's useless, you can tell from his appearance that he doesn't want to talk about it."

Le Yue lowered his head dejectedly, turned around from the door, and Zhao Yuan rubbed against him and tugged at his sleeve.

Lin Qing said: "In my opinion, let's just rush in, tie up the father and son, scare and scare them, and see if they say anything."

Le Yue remained expressionless: "No way, aren't we becoming bandits by doing this?"

Luo Lingzhi also said, "It's very inappropriate."

Lin Qing spread her hands: "Then what should I do?"