[Old Nine Gates] The concubine is polite

"Go out along this track." Grand Buddha Zhang gave the route guidance, and Adjutant Zhang took the lead to explore the road ahead with his horse.

Not long after, as expected in the plot, two forks appeared on the one-way track that had been walking ahead.

Qi Ba got off the mule first, frowned and looked at the forked road: "Hey, Buddha, there are two forked roads here, which one should we take?" Seeing Buddha looking around, Qi Ba sighed: "Oh, this barren mountain and wild ridge, this But what to do. Otherwise, let me do a fortune telling." He bent down and took out the fortune teller from the bag hanger.

"Forget it, go this way." Zhang Foye drove his horse to the edge of a curved railway track.

Qi Ba was puzzled and called to stop Adjutant Zhang who was closest to him, and Adjutant Zhang turned around and urged: "Ba Ye, why don't you leave?"

Qi Ba was full of doubts: "Why did you go this way?"

The adjutant turned around, and replied like the number one fan: "Buddha, of course there is a reason for Buddha."

Qi Ba refused to accept: "What's the point?"

The adjutant couldn't answer, so he hesitated and said: "Well, anyway, whatever the Buddha says is right." After speaking, he drove the horse to catch up with the two masters who had gone far ahead.

Qi Ba was depressed: "Yes, what's the matter? Hey, please explain clearly, hi!" Although his head was full of question marks, Qi Ba, who was worried about being left behind, hurriedly dragged his mule to follow, never forgetting to ask questions when in doubt. : "Adjutant, ah, adjutant, you tell me you!"

In the evening, the four of them finally arrived at the mining town 160 kilometers north of Changsha City amidst the sighs of Qi Bayi Road.

"Qingguan Town?" Li Yan looked at the plaque at the entrance of the town and read.

The four got off their horses neatly, and Qi Ba twisted his waist: "I was bumped along the way, and I finally saw the town." As he spoke, he looked up and saw the dilapidated village and sighed: "Oh, it's so desolate, not even a single person can be seen. No. Now, that's great."

Li Yan and Adjutant Zhang looked at each other, signaling to protect Qi Ba, then looked at Master Zhang and waited for instructions, Master Zhang looked at the town calmly and said: "This town may be different, we will go in on foot, and be careful after entering. "

Adjutant Zhang tied the horse in a forest at the entrance of the town, turned around and followed the three people who had already entered the town.

This mining town was not only desolate, but also the antiquities were scattered everywhere. After visiting several houses, there were no villagers. The four decided to continue their investigation.I visited most of the village, but still found nothing.

"Hey, that's weird. Why does this nice town look like an empty town? Did something happen and we're late?" Qi Ba said and looked at Zhang Foye.

Suddenly a pair of mother and son ran out of a shop with hot and sour soup hanging at the door. The mother and son were both carrying burdens, looking panicked and sneaking. Zhang Foye motioned for the adjutant to ask, but the mother and son refused.

Standing on the sidelines not far away, Qi Ba found that Adjutant Zhang was unfavorable, so he recommended himself cheerfully: "Hey, Buddha, it seems that Adjutant Zhang is not easy to get close to her, or I will go? I think it is better than him Be kind." He said as he prepared to step forward.

"Don't go, wait for him to come back." Zhang Foye stopped him.

Qi Ba was puzzled, and then thought again: "Master Buddha, is there something wrong here?"

Li Yan, who still clearly remembered the second episode of the Old Nine Gates, explained for Zhang Foye: "Quiet, don't you think this town is too quiet? There must be demons when things go wrong. Old Ba, can you tell me?" Be careful, you skinny and tender, be careful not to be caught and eaten."

"Don't scare me." Qi Ba replied, poking his neck.

"Buddha, that woman is fleeing." Adjutant Zhang who returned from the successful interrogation immediately reported.

"Escape? Is it related to the train case?" Qi Ba asked.

Adjutant Zhang shook his head: "I'm afraid not. The woman said that there have been several huge mining accidents nearby, and everyone's life has been lost, so people have fled. They have no choice but to delay leaving until this time." of."

"Mining disaster?" Zhang Foye thought thoughtfully.

"Yes, that woman also said that the Japanese came here, but after the mining accident, the Japanese left."

"It's Japanese again." Zhang Foye sighed.

Qi Ba was delighted to hear it: "Hey, Master Buddha, it seems that you haven't taken the wrong place. This place should be related to the train case."

Zhang Foye looked at the ruined houses around him: "It seems that today, I will settle down here."

Qi Ba was surprised: "What, this, this, this, is this here?"

Zhang Foye was amused by his brother's stupidity, patted Qi Ba on the shoulder, and affirmed: "Yes." After speaking, he turned and left.

"Ayan, Master Buddha is not joking, why are people sleeping in this place?" Seeing Adjutant Zhang carrying luggage and following Buddha, and Li Yan who was still looking around the house, Qi Ba approached Li Yan to confirm.

"Buddha has always said one thing, and it's not like you don't know it." Li Yan patted the hat with long hair hidden on her head, and said with a playful smile.

"But it's fine with me as a big man, what should you do with a weak woman?" Qi Ba worriedly looked at the only delicate flower in the team.

"Then you protect me." After teasing Qi Ba, Li Yan smiled and followed the two walking in front.

"Ayan, I thought about it, should you protect me?" No matter how much he thought about it, Qi Ba felt that among the four of them, he was the one who needed protection the most.

"I only protect my Buddha, you, please be blessed." Li Yan Chao Qiba secretly made a face behind Buddha's back.

The two were fighting, and the two were investigating the case. In a blink of an eye, the town was pitch-black. Thanks to the bright moonlight in the sky during the Republic of China, the four of them were walking in the empty and gloomy mountain village and town.

"Buddha, we have circled the whole town, and this place is too desolate." Even the upright adjutant complained.

"Hey, look, there are two lanterns lit in front. Strange, didn't the people here escape?" Qi Ba's sharp eyes saw two lanterns lit in front of a dilapidated house in front.

"After all, it's close to the mine, so it's possible that some young and strong men will stay here." Zhang Foye guessed.

"This place is desolate, there is no inn, only this kind of Datong shop, it seems that we can only live here tonight." Adjutant Zhang observed the details, but was interrupted by Qi Ba before he finished speaking.

"It smells so good." Qi Ba sniffed the smell of food in the air, followed the scent probe to look at the situation inside the dilapidated house, turned around and said excitedly: "Hey, Lord Buddha, someone is cooking something inside, let's go." Said He fell headfirst into it.

Zhang Foye grabbed Qi Ba's arm, frowned and said, "Aren't you afraid?"

When encountering food, Qi Ba said confidently: "Oh Buddha, as the saying goes, the sky is big and the earth is big, and the food is the biggest. I'm almost starving to death, so I don't care about so much." After speaking, he rushed inside again, but was stopped by Adjutant Zhang again.

"Hey, Lord Buddha, don't even think about it. We've come all this way without any clues. We finally ran into someone cooking here. Let's go in and make friends with him. Maybe we can get some clues." Come on, huh?" Qi Ba said happily, racking his brains and trying to persuade him to eat.

"Let me tell you, there are mixed fish and dragons inside. The enemy's situation is unknown now, and it is very dangerous to go in. Don't be caught unawares, and you will be slaughtered instead." Master Zhang awakened Qi Ba, who was not at all defensive, and explained patiently.

Qi Ba was also smart, and he said cheerfully: "Buddha, don't lie to me. With you and Adjutant Zhang here, you will definitely protect me." After saying that, he cupped his hands and rushed into the yard.

Relying on Qi Ba's boldness and helplessness, the three of them looked at each other and smiled, and then walked into the courtyard.

This courtyard is shaped like a Chinese character. There are about ten people busy in the open-air courtyard in the middle. At the entrance, two people are holding steamed buns while eating and talking. The three people on the left are squatting on the ground around a soup pot. The food was served on the table, and the two squatted under an unknown tree and ate dry food with soup.

As soon as Qi Ba walked into the courtyard, he clasped his hands to the three people sitting at the dining table with a clear goal: "Brothers, we are lucky to pass by Guibao Land." He did not forget to squat down and touch his stomach to show Said: "I'm really hungry, I hope the big brothers can help me."

Unexpectedly, the three of them put aside their heads and ignored Qi Ba's tricks. Qi Ba thought for a while, motioned to Adjutant Zhang to get some money, and respectfully handed the money he got to the one who seemed to be able to make the decision among the three: " Brother, here, take it."

It's a pity that the elder brother didn't appreciate it: "This money, one price per day, who dares to ask for it."

Qi Ba helplessly raised his head to look at Master Zhang, who knowingly took a handful of money from his waist and handed it over: "Then what about this one?"

The eldest brother looked up at Zhang Foye, and said with a bitter face: "It's not that we don't want it, look at the food in this pot, even our brothers are not enough to eat."

Zhang Foye looked at the situation in the yard, but Qi Ba reacted wittily, and said three times in a row to understand, and handed over all the money in the hands of Foye and the adjutant to the elder brother: "Come on, elder brother, this is all for you!" You, we, just want to drink soup for a change."

The elder brother in the black coat picked up a silver coin in his hand, blew on it and listened carefully, and was urged by Qi Ba: "Stop bragging, it's all true."

The big brother in the black coat glanced at the considerable amount of money in his hand, and said with satisfaction: "Okay, let's eat together."

After Qi Ba thanked them, he hurriedly asked the three people standing beside him to sit down and wait for the meal to be served. Unexpectedly, when the lid of the pot on the table was opened, a few miscellaneous vegetables were stewed in disorder, which made them lose their appetite.

Li Yan couldn't bear Zhang Foye to eat this kind of food, and wanted to say that he actually brought dry food in his package, but it was inappropriate to take it out under such circumstances, so as not to attract the attention of these villagers.

After a while, each of them got a small bowl of mixed vegetable soup, and Li Yan gave the vegetable soup to Qi Ba: "You eat, I'm not hungry."

"So kind?" Qi Ba glanced at Zhang Foye, then at Li Yan who was obviously unhappy, he should just bow his head and eat his own.

With the mixed vegetable soup in hand, the three of them gradually talked together under Zhang Foye's intentional communication.

After eating, Qi Bachao, who remembered to inquire about the news, raised his thumbs up to the big brother: "It's really delicious. I'm lucky to meet you three big brothers today, otherwise we would be hungry."

The eldest brother comforted: "It's okay, eat more."

Seeing the eldest brother talking, Qi Ba continued: "By the way, that, we walked all the way and found that this village is quite desolate. Are you from this village?"

One of the three people in the yard, wearing a gray coat, replied: "We are not from here. Who wants to stay in this place where the birds don't shit, and they don't even stutter." His complaint was echoed by his companions.

"Yeah, these days, it's the same everywhere." The boss in black said with emotion.

Qi Ba answered: "It's really hard work for you."

"I can't help it. It's hard to live in this world. It doesn't matter where you go." Gray Gown also sighed.

"Then I dare to ask you, what do you do for a living?" Adjutant Zhang asked a question at the right time.

"Just do some casual work, fool around, wait for the mine's notice, and wait for the sky to eat." The gray coat replied.

"Then, have you ever seen a train passing here?" Adjutant Zhang continued to probe.

The adjutant's question seemed to touch the taboo of the three of them. The three of them looked at each other and remained silent. Adjutant Zhang tried again and was interrupted by them: "We are all rough people in this village. We have never seen a train. Brothers, Let's finish eating, go back to sleep quickly, eat slowly first." The three stood up in a hurry, greeted Qi Ba and the others and went back to their room.

Holding the bowl, Qi Ba secretly approached Zhang Foye: "How is it?"

Zhang Foye sneered: "Normal people will be curious when they hear us talking about the train, but if you look at the three of them, I think there must be something wrong with the people in the room."

"And you don't even care what the four of us men are doing in this desolate place. You're obviously guilty." Li Yan, dressed as a man, glanced at the empty bowl in Zhang Foye's hand, and pulled it down immediately. Face: "Eat it all, what if you eat up your stomach?"

"Miss, I don't have anything to eat. This one is pretty good. If I don't eat it, would I be hungry?" Qi Ba sighed as he rubbed his stomach that was not full at all.

"Whoever said that there is nothing to eat, you don't even ask me. If it weren't for the quick action of Lao Ba, I would have brought out the dry food I prepared." Li Yan took out the dried meat and some dried meat from the package angrily. The easy-to-preserve pastry was placed on the table: "Eat it, I know that the three of you must not be full. If I didn't worry about you still asking for news, I would definitely prevent you from coming in to make trouble for yourself."

"It's still my wife who is considerate." The adjutant's typical love for the house and Wu, the Buddha is amazing, and the wife is naturally capable.

"Okay, don't drink their soup, drink this." Li Yan handed each of them a bamboo tube filled with cold boiled water.

"Ayan, what's in your package? The equipment is quite complete." Qi Ba looked at Li Yan's bulging package in surprise.

"You can eat too." Grand Buddha Zhang took a pastry from the table and handed it to Li Yan.

Li Yan took it with emotion, and stared straight at Buddha's handsome side face while eating, feeling in his heart: "The beauty is delicious."

Being stared at, Dafo Master Zhang turned around and faced Qi Ba, eating dry food.

"······" Li Yan was slightly embarrassed, looked at Qi Ba who was eating happily with strange eyes, and said to himself: "Could it be that my rival in love is really this old eight?"

After the meal, Zhang Foye led the three of them into the room where the villagers were sleeping, and seeing that the villagers had gone to bed, the four walked lightly and tried not to disturb them.

"Buddha, what kind of world is this now? We can't even buy food if we have money. If it weren't for Ayan's dry food, we would be hungry tonight." Once entering the house, Qi Ba glanced at the villagers and couldn't help it complained.

Zhang Foye didn't respond. He carefully observed the villagers who had already slept peacefully on the bunk, and then swept the shoes on the ground one by one, his face gradually became solemn.

"Hey, Lord Buddha, tell me, are these people Japanese..." Qi Ba was always outspoken, and whenever he had a question, he asked questions. Lord Buddha glanced at the villagers on the bed and raised his hand to prevent Qi Ba from continuing to ask.

Suddenly a villager came in: "Sleep, sleep, don't disturb other people's sleep." He didn't forget to blow out the candles on the table before going out.

I still remember when watching the TV series, Master Zhang Dafo handsomely sat on the stool and closed his eyes to rest, guarding the other two people to sleep peacefully with an absolute posture. When he was a member, Li Yan felt extremely uncomfortable: "Buddha, you should go to bed too."

"It's okay, you go to sleep." Zhang Foye looked at Li Yan's worried eyes and comforted him in a gentle voice.

Li Yan pursed her lips, and still stepped forward to hold Zhang Foye and said: "Foye, you know my ability, I am not inferior to anyone in terms of vigilance, you can sleep peacefully, recharge your energy, and you will be better tomorrow Protect me and Eighth Master."

Zhang Foye raised his head and looked at Li Yan for a while, seeing that Li Yan was unwilling to give in, he sighed and said with a smile: "Okay, thank you for your hard work, Yan."