Dragon Fate of Shan Hai Ji

Zhao Yuan thought about it seriously, and said, "Otherwise, we should beg them again."

Lin Qing looked up at the sky unbearably.She began to miss Du Shudai and Shang Jing very much again. Shang Jing knew ecstasy and mind reading. If he had it, it would not be such a trouble at all.

Le Yue tried to ask the neighboring shops and small vendors, but those people either closed their doors and walked away, or shook their heads and claimed that they had only come to Ziyang Town for the past two years and did not know what happened before.Le Yue turned around, found nothing, and finally turned back to the Shoucai shop.

After tossing back and forth like this, it was almost dusk, and the two of them, two dragons and one unicorn, simply sat side by side at the door of the longevity shop.Ying Ze carried a basket of steamed buns in his sleeve that he bought from a small stall next to him. Recently, he saw that Zhao Yuan, a junior, was quite pleasing to the eye, so he shared one of them.Zhao Yuan held the bun, tugged at Le Yue's sleeve, and handed the bun to him.

Pedestrians on the road looked sideways at them, not understanding why they were sitting there.A peddler selling gourd carvings passed in front of them with a cart. The wheels were hit by a small stone on the road, and several small gourd bones rolled out of the cart.Zhao Yuan stood up and bent down to help pick up the gourd.

The peddler thanked him, and asked by the way: "Little brother, why are you sitting in front of the longevity shop?"

Zhao Yuan replied: "We wanted to ask the owner of this store about someone, but he refused to tell us."

The peddler laughed and said, "Who insists on asking about the coffin shop?"

Zhao Yuan said: "We want to inquire about a businessman who lived here more than ten years ago. His name is Li Ting. I heard that only the boss here knows about it."

The peddler said with a clear face: "You want to inquire about what happened during the catastrophe more than ten years ago. Many people have come to this city to inquire over the years, but the people who lived in this city at that time almost died that time. Even for the remaining few, firstly, the day was too chaotic to remember, and secondly," the peddler looked around, lowering his voice a bit, "who dares to talk nonsense about matters related to the government?" He shook his head , Pushing the car away.

Le Yue stood up abruptly: "Forget it, let's go."

Zhao Yuan was stunned: "You didn't wait?"

Le Yue said: "What can we do if we wait, Lin Qing is right, she doesn't intend to tell us, she won't tell us no matter what, let's go."

Luo Lingzhi said: "Forget it, I don't think this family will come out of the store today, or else we can wait until tomorrow to ask."

Le Yue rubbed his chin: "Besides, we have nothing in our pockets now, so we still need to find a place to earn some travel expenses. Maybe, maybe, when we earn money, we can talk slowly and find out what happened back then."

Lin Qing clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Good idea, as expected of Le Yue."

The others were already used to this kind of admiration for her, even Luo Lingzhi just smiled and set off together to find a place where they could do odd jobs.

Ziyang Town is not considered big, and it takes half an hour to walk around almost half of the city.From the east of the city to the south of the city, there are many shops along the way. Unfortunately, it is getting late and many shops are closed. Occasionally, I meet two or three shops that are still open, and they also say that they don’t need odd jobs.After going around for a few streets, I ran into the gourd seller just now.Le Yue pushed Zhaoyuan to strike up a conversation with the peddler, who told them that the Fengqi Building in the north of the city seemed to be hiring handymen, so they could try their luck.

Zhao Yuanxi thanked the peddler diligently, and a group of people rushed to the north of the city immediately, and sure enough, they saw a large piece of red paper under the signboard of a restaurant from a distance, with the words "recruit handyman" written on it.

Le Yue happily ran towards the three pleasing characters, but found that on the opposite road, two familiar figures, one big and one small, were also striding straight towards the restaurant.

The enemy's road is narrow, and the narrow road meets each other. Le Yue stands in front of the restaurant and smiles: "Brother Sun, it's true that we don't meet each other anywhere in life."

Sun Ben smiled in surprise and joy: "Oh, it's Brother Le, what a coincidence, we are really destined."

Lin Qing said disdainfully behind Le Yue: "Tch, who has a fate with the bandit leader."

The smile on Sun Ben's face became brighter and brighter: "Who are you coming to eat Bawang's meal again?" Fei Xianfeng squatted at his feet, grinning and winking.

Le Yue said: "No, we are cash-strapped and want to come here to make some money. Brother Sun, if you want to eat, please let us go. You don't have to be polite to let us."

When he and Sun Ben exchanged greetings, Luo Lingzhi and Zhao Yuan walked to the threshold of the restaurant together, and the waiters at the door saw that they were well dressed, so they immediately gave way to the restaurant.

Zhao Yuan shook his head: "We are not here to eat, but to work."

The boy opened his eyes wide in surprise, and Luo Lingzhi said politely: "We passed by here, and we were so cash-strapped. We saw that your store is recruiting workers, so we came here to have a try, and I hope it will be convenient for the second brother."

The young man looked them up and down four or five times before saying: "You two young masters, please wait a moment, I will go in and ask the shopkeeper."

Le Yue, Zhao Yuan, Luo Lingzhi, Lin Qing and Ying Ze stood by the door and waited together, while Sun Ben also stood with arms crossed, Lin Qing frowned and stared at Sun Ben: "Hey, why don't you go in? "

Sun Ben smiled and said: "No hurry, no hurry."

At this time, the sky was getting dark, and the restaurant was already lit with candles, guests coming in and out for dinner, and the smell of food wafted from the door, Zhao Yuan's stomach could not help but growl.

Le Yue sniffed violently: "It's so fragrant, it smells like roasted pork ribs in sauce."

Ying Ze said, "Well, there's also salt-baked duck."

When the evening wind picked up, there was another burst of fragrant wind, and Sun Ben said, "This is stir-fried tripe."

Zhao Yuan's stomach growled loudly.A moment later, the boy led a middle-aged man in a royal blue silk shirt out, pointing at Zhao Yuan and Luo Lingzhi: "Second shopkeeper, that's them."

The second shopkeeper twirled his goatee, looked Zhao Yuan and Luo Ling up and down, and then looked at Le Yue, Lin Qing, Ying Ze and Sun Ben: "How many of you are together?"

Lin Qing immediately pointed at Sun Ben: "Only he is not with us."

The second shopkeeper showed a look of embarrassment: "At present, the shop is only short of one helper in the back kitchen. The daily salary is ten yuan. How many..."

Le Yue immediately said: "Boss, let's do it together, and only charge one person's wages. Just let us eat some leftovers."

Zhao Yuan followed suit and nodded: "Yes, we can have someone help in the back kitchen and someone in the lobby, and only charge one person's fee. It's very cost-effective." It recently learned the word cost-effective, and immediately used it flexibly.

Le Yue glanced at it appreciatively, and the silly dragon grew by leaps and bounds.

Seeing Le Yue's approving gaze, Zhao Yuan was secretly delighted, and was about to sell himself again in terms of quick hands and feet, hard work and other aspects.Sun Ben, who was standing aside with arms folded and cold eyes, said, "Wu Wen."

The second shopkeeper's eyes immediately turned to him, and Sun Ben stepped forward: "Five cents, one person's food."

Lin Qing said: "We also have five cents. Five cents, five people."

Sun Ben smiled and said nothing.

Le Yue laughed and said, "Brother Sun, you have earned a lot of money in Mengcheng, and you will not have to worry about living with this versatile flying pioneer. Why do you want to compete with us for this subsistence business?"

Sun Ben laughed heartily and said, "Brother Le is too self-effacing. Compared to me, several of you are more talented people. As for who you want to do this business with, it depends on what the second shopkeeper means?"

The eyes of the second shopkeeper were firmly glued to Sun Ben, Le Yue secretly shook his head at Zhao Yuan and Lin Qing, Lin Qing gritted his teeth, stomped his feet and said, "We don't need wages, we just need to take care of the meals."

Sun Ben raised his eyebrows and said: "Ah, the girl is really willing to let go, no matter what, I don't need wages, just take care of the food."

Lin Qing glared at him angrily, while Sun Ben smiled all over his face, obviously in a good mood.

The second shopkeeper bowed his hands to Le Yue: "Brother, I'm sorry, we really don't need so many people." He nodded to Sun Benwei, "This little brother, please come with me."

Why can't five people add up to one person?Lin Qing was not convinced, and wanted to reason again, Le Yue held her back: "Forget it, we can't grab him."

Sun Ben clasped his fists at Le Yue with a smug look on his face: "You guys, I admit it."

Le Yue and the others watched helplessly as Sun Ben and Hou Zi followed the second shopkeeper into the restaurant.

Lin Qing angrily complained that the second shopkeeper would not settle accounts, and would not do such a cost-effective job with one person's money to hire five people, which shows that he is a fool.

Le Yue said with a blank expression: "Join the second shopkeeper and don't invite Sun Ben to invite us, then he is a fool."

Lin Qing opened her eyes: "Why?"

Luo Lingzhi said gently, "Because he only needed one person to work. Between inviting one person to dinner and five people to dinner, of course he would choose the former."

Zhao Yuan scratched the back of his head, it turned out to be like this.

Le Yue sighed and said, "When doing business, of course start from capital. However, Lin Qing did a good job just now."

Lin Qing blinked: "Huh?"

Le Yue chuckled: "Sun Ben stole our business, but he didn't get paid tonight."

Zhao Yuan suddenly realized.

Lin Qing clapped her hands and said: "Yes. We are wicked enough, how happy!" She looked at Le Yue and smiled wickedly.

Zhao Yuan looked at the two of them and couldn't figure out why they were happy. Even if Sun Ben had no wages tonight, everyone still had no food to eat, no work to do, no money to take. Even Sun Ben was not as good as Sun Ben. Instead, the restaurant got a bargain from it. Just save money.What can Le Yue and Lin Qing be happy about?Luo Lingzhi saw its doubts, and said lightly, "It's just having fun in the midst of suffering."

Ying Ze bit the snack he did not know where he got it and said, "To put it bluntly, this is what ordinary people call harming others and benefiting oneself, poor and happy."

Zhao Yuan scratched his head again, the knowledge in the world is really boundless.

It may be that their figures who turned around and left in the twilight were too lonely. Just a few steps away from the restaurant, a voice behind them said: "Several, please stay."

Le Yue stopped and turned around, only to hear the young man rubbing his hands and rushing towards them: "You guys look like people from the Jianghu, I know there is a job, maybe you can do it."

The more joyful he is: "Thank you, brother, please give me your advice."

The little guy rubbed his hands again: "This business is still an official job. The magistrate's office in our city is recruiting night watchmen these days. It seems that there are quite a lot of people. You can go and try it out. .”

Le Yue suddenly felt pleasantly surprised, and hurriedly thanked the boy repeatedly.

Luo Lingzhi said: "This city is not big. For the night watch and watchmen, two or three yamen servants, one or two watchmen are enough. Why do we need to recruit more people and know martial arts?"

The young man's expression changed instantly, and then he returned to normal in an instant. He rubbed his hands and said, "How do we ordinary people know about the affairs of the government. Maybe it's because the princess of the West County who is next door invites relatives. There are too many people passing by the city. The county magistrate My lord is afraid of trouble."

Le Yue also said: "Yes, brother Luo, you are too cautious in everything, even if something happens, with how few of us, can you still be afraid?" road.

The magistrate's office is not far from Fengqi Restaurant, only one street away.

A recruitment notice was posted on the wall next to the county yamen, and a table was placed under the notice, with a master sitting beside the table and two yamen servants standing.

Seeing Le Yue approaching, the master raised his eyelids, and Zhao Yuan felt the sharp eyes of the two yamen servants sweeping towards them.

Le Yue and Lin Jing poked their heads together to read the list.

The master said in a loud voice: "Limited to young and strong men, those with martial arts are preferred."

Lin Jing frowned and said, "Why only men?"

The two yamen servants at the table sneered.

The master raised his eyelids and looked at her: "Little girl, you can sign up if you want." He raised his hand and pointed to the right, "Anyone who can move the stone drum will be hired. As long as you can move it, we will be hired." How about I break the rules and use you?"

Lin Jing squinted at the direction he was pointing at, and saw a drum-shaped stone carved into the corner of the wall, about the size of a round stool, with an iron handle on it, which seemed to be an object for measuring arm strength.Le Yue took the lead and walked to the side of the stone drum. With a little luck, he picked it up steadily.The yamen servant raised his voice and shouted: "Okay, pass."

The master raised his pen: "Name? Age?"

"My name is Le Yue, Le from Le Tian, ​​Yue from Wu Yue. I'm 17 years old." Le Yue rubbed his nose, "Does this count as being hired?"

The master smiled cordially and nodded, and took a pen to record: "Not bad, young man, seeing that you are young, your physique is not strong, but your arm strength is good. Have you ever practiced martial arts?"

Unexpectedly, this errand was obtained without any effort, Le Yue was extremely happy: "Yes, I have been practicing martial arts since I was a child."

Over there, Luo Lingzhi also walked to the side of the stone drum. His inner strength was far stronger than Le Yue's, and he easily lifted the stone drum with one hand.The master smiled more cordially, and also wrote down his name and age.

Lin Jing calmly stood watching from the sidelines, while Ying Ze ate snacks by his side as if no one was around.Zhao Yuan looked around and walked to the stone drum.

The master said kindly: "Little brother, I think you are not old, can you handle this stone drum? Your two older brothers have already been hired, so don't force yourself."

Zhao Yuan followed what Ying Ze usually taught, raised his head with the spirit of a dragon and said, "I can do it!"

It breathed a sigh of relief, concentrated all its strength on its front paws, grabbed the handle of the stone drum, and lifted it up...

It was unexpectedly light, and Zhao Yuan felt light in his claws, as if what he was holding was just a piece of paper or a feather.It was surprised to turn the stone drum over and over again, looked at it in front of its eyes, and then tried to raise it to the sky.

Behind the wooden table, the eyes of the two yamen servants stared straight, and the master's eyes were full of surprise and ecstasy: "Since ancient times, heroes have been born in youth, and the young hero is simply the reincarnation of the young King of Chu, Li Yuanba! Come on, young hero, first put Put down the stone drum and tell the old man, what is your name and how old are you?"

Zhao Yuan naturally didn't know what Li Yuanba, who was reincarnated from the young King of Chu, meant, but he could tell that it had been praised. This was the first time in history that it had received such warm praise, and it made him a little at a loss.It took a cautious look at Le Yue, then put down the stone drum, walked to the wooden table, and whispered: "My name is Zhao Yuan, and I am 16 years old this year."

The master looked at it with a smile: "Sixteen, young man, you are talking about false age, right? It looks like your real age is at most fourteen or five."

Zhao Yuan chuckled, and said in his heart, in fact, I am 94-[-] this year. "It happily stood beside Le Yue, and gently tugged at his sleeve. Le Yue grinned approvingly at it:" Well done. "Zhao Yuan smiled happily. Lin Jing looked at it coldly and felt that if there was a fluffy tail behind Zhao Yuan, it would definitely stand up and shake it twice at this time. I can't learn what it means to be domineering. "Looking at the little silly dragon becoming more docile every day, I really don't know whether to be happy or worried. His Highness Yingze is biting his snack, but also very melancholy. Obviously, during this period of time, his old man has been teaching this junior carefully, why does it not Less than a trace of arrogance? His Royal Highness Ying Ze thought for the first time, is this seat really old? The master recruited three people at once, and his joy was beyond words. He smiled and said to Lin Jing: "Miss , do you want to try it? "

Lin Jing said: "It's too easy for this girl to carry this stone drum." She walked to the gate of the county government office, stretched out her hand, and lifted it up.

The masters and yamen servants opened their mouths wide and turned into wooden sculptures and clay sculptures.

The huge stone lion at the gate of the yamen was picked up lightly by her as if picking up a flower, and shook it casually.Lin Qing innocently said to the stunned master and yamen servant: "Can I hire someone out of the rules?"

The master's face was like gold paper, and beads of sweat dripped from his forehead. After a while, he stammered: "Yes, yes..."

Lin Qing put down the stone lion, clapped her hands, and walked to the wooden table: "I still need to record my name and age."

The master picked up the pen with trembling hands, wiped the sweat from his forehead: "Yes, may I ask the name of the heroine?"

Le Yue, on the other hand, paid close attention to Ying Ze's movements. Just now both Zhao Yuan and Lin Qing made a blockbuster move. According to his old man's temper, he will definitely not fall behind. What if...

Le Yue saw Ying Ze walking towards the county government office, and seemed to have the intention of uprooting the house in the government office, so he quickly stepped forward and grabbed him: "Let us do this kind of thing."

Ying Ze snorted dissatisfied.

The master looked at them with a stiff smile: "Could it be that this little brother also..."

Le Yue hurriedly said: "No, no, he is still young and can't do anything. But he also wants to do his best for the government office. Master, we all work for the government office. The younger brother has no one to take care of him, so he can work Do you take it with you when you go?"

The master readily agreed, and sighed: "Young Xia's family is really full of strong men."

Two yamen servants led them to change clothes in the side room of the yamen.The pay for the night watchman was unexpectedly high, fifty yuan per person, one breakfast and one dinner.

The yamen servants took them to the warehouse to get a gong and gong hammer, two pairs of lanterns, candles and flints, and a few sabers.

Le Yue asked the yamen servants whether they would watch the night separately and patrol one area each, or would they patrol the whole city together.

The yamen servant said: "Naturally, the few of you will patrol the whole city together. You don't need to go to the alleys, just a few streets."

Le Yue smiled and said, "It takes a lot of work to walk from one side of the city to the other. Doesn't it mean that some places can't report on time when patrolling the whole city?"

The yamen servant said: "It doesn't matter whether it's accurate or not, the most important thing is Xun. If they are separated, even you alone Xun might not be able to stand up."

Le Yue listened to these words with vague suspicions, and while following the yamen servants to the side room where they eat and rest, they quietly inquired: "It's such a good job, no wonder you have to hold a stone drum to select people, otherwise the yamen would have already done it." Should it be overwhelmed by the applicants?"

The two yamen servants sneered, and one of them said: "Using stone drums is because my lord doesn't want to harm people for nothing. Even if you give a hundred coins a night, not many people are willing to do this job. It took more than half a month to recruit." , besides you few, there are only four or five people coming."

Le Yue pretended to look around and said, "Huh? Why didn't I see those brothers? Are you willing to take turns with us?"

The yamen servant sneered and said, "You won't be able to see them for a while. They are all lying at home. I don't know if they wake up in the year of the monkey."

Another yamen servant stopped and turned around, put his hand on Le Yue's shoulder and patted: "Brothers, you guys are going to watch the night tonight, and if you have some truths, I'd better tell you sooner, lest you see something at night, you won't be able to cope with it." Come."

He looked around, moved his head closer, and said in a very soft voice: "Although you are passers-by, you must have heard of what happened in this place more than ten years ago. You know this city. Why does it still look half-dead? Here... every night... is haunted."

Fengtong has always liked the evening in the capital.

Every street is noisy, and there is always an endless stream of people coming and going on the street.

And a high wall can separate a peaceful world from the hustle and bustle.Sitting alone in such a small courtyard, you are both in and out of the mundane world.

It's a pity that he is about to become the national teacher who gives him a headache, and it becomes more and more difficult for him to enjoy this contradictory tranquility and comfort at dusk.

The little boy in red rushed over like a rabbit: "Master, master."

Feng Tong frowned and put down the tea in his hand, he was impatient to accompany the prince, watching him foolishly upset all the way, even more so after returning early.

The square book in Xiaotong's interest: "Master, the news just arrived, there is a new movement between the Dragon Clan and that Le Yue. Master, do you want to see it?"

Oh, so another group of fools has news.Feng Tong said lightly: "No need, just tell me the main points." A silly boy, plus an even more silly little dragon, can't make any big waves for a while.

The little boy bowed his head respectfully: "Long, Qilin, and Le Yue are going to participate in the princess of the West County's martial arts competition to recruit relatives. They have already arrived in Ziyang Town."

Oh, is Le Boy going to pay homage to his parents?Feng Tong took the square book from the boy's hand and opened it for a look.

The little boy asked in a low voice: "Master, do you want to take any countermeasures?"

Feng Tong said lightly: "No need for now." He stared at a certain page of the booklet, "However, send this booklet to Feng Wu later, and ask him to give me a copy of all the records of the Baili Scale in his hand. After all It was because he didn't do things cleanly enough back then that he left so much trouble."

The errand of night watch and shift watch in the county government office of Ziyang Town starts work every night at [-] o'clock, and only needs to ring the watch gong from the second watch to the fifth watch.

The ear room where Le Yue and the others had just changed clothes was specially prepared by the county government for them, where they could eat and rest.

The square table in the ear room is already full of meals.A plate of elbow flowers with sauce, a plate of scrambled eggs with leeks, a plate of vegetarian three silk, a plate of fried Artemisia root, a plate of crystal skin jelly, a plate of rice noodles, a plate of green vegetable tofu soup, and even wine jugs and wine glasses.There is a bucket of hot rice on the small stool by the table.

Le Yue grabbed the jug and shook it, it was full, and there was a strong smell of burning knives from the spout.

They had never seen such a luxurious meal during this journey, and Zhaoyuan heard his stomach growl louder.Le Yue is a favor and sincerely invites the two yamen servants to have a meal with them.

The two yamen servants, one named Song Shan and the other named Liu Ci, were straightforward people. After two or three glasses of wine, they began to chatter, telling them many rumors and secrets of Ziyang Town.

There is a very unique custom in Ziyang Town. Every night after the county government servants beat the gong and drum, all the shops are closed, and there are not even dogs on the street.Because, after the first change, it was the ghost hour of Ziyang Town.

Liu Cidao: "In the incident more than ten years ago, almost all the people in this city died, many families died of their families, and there were even people who passed by from other places, whose corpses could not recognize their names or names. People collected the corpse. The government later sent troops to clean up the corpse, and a strange thing happened. The corpse was obviously moved out of the city, and after a night, it returned to the city. It couldn’t be cleared. The government suspected that someone was doing something wrong, so they sent a few soldiers Watching the night in the city, it turned out that in the middle of the night, something even stranger happened... Guess what it is?"

Le Yue, Zhao Yuan and Lin Qing all forgot to eat their food, they bit their chopsticks and looked straight at Liu Ci, even Luo Lingzhi temporarily put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hands, only Ying Ze was still eating bowl after bowl Work hard.

Liu Ci took a sip of his wine, took a breath, and lowered his voice a little: "That night, a heavy fog suddenly appeared in this city, and in the fog, those few police officers found that all the lights in the city were all dimmed. It was bright. People were everywhere in the shops, restaurants, and streets. Those who died seemed to be alive, walking around the city, walking around, and on the second day, the fog cleared , the corpses outside the city have all returned to the city.”

The evening wind penetrated into the house along the gap of the window, blowing the flame of the oil lamp on the table to the left and right, and the dark figure swayed on the wall.

Zhao Yuan felt a faint coolness rising from his back.

Song Shan followed Liu Ci's words and continued, such a strange incident made the people in the government feel scared, so they invited the head of the most famous Xuandao sect in the world to solve the matter.

Le Yue frowned, and the corners of his mouth trembled involuntarily.

Could this head priest of the world's most famous Xuan Dao sect be...