[Seven Five] Sword Que Merry

After waking up from sleep, the rain gradually subsided. After driving for two hours, the sky darkened before we could find the station.It looks like I have to sleep out for a night.

Zhan Zhao still found a place near the river to stop the car, and everyone built a fire on the bank to bake some dry food.

"Eat this at noon, where can I eat it at night?" Bai Yutang was not used to eating bean cakes, and these days he was forced to eat a lot by forsythia, and he felt so tired that he saw a small river nearby, so he stuffed the bean cakes Give it a go, go straight to the river and wander around to see if you can catch two.

By the fire, Nian Yi was sitting and eating pancakes slowly, while Forsythia was opposite her, poking the fire with a branch boredly.Not long after, Zhan Zhao came back with dry firewood in his arms, sat beside her, and appraised with a nod:

"It should be enough to burn all night... Do you sleep in the car at night?"

"No need." Nian Yi took a sip of water, thinking that Forsythia would be in the car, and replied casually, "I'll accompany you outside."

Although her words were unintentional, Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, and just as he didn't know how to reply, Bai Yutang by the river came up with two fish.

"There are few people around here. In spring, there are many yellow-headed fish gathered in the river, but no one catches them." He knocked the fish unconscious one by one and threw them by the fire.

Lianqiao's eyes brightened: "It's great, I have fish to eat today!"

"Roast carefully." Bai Yutang smiled, "I'm afraid this is not enough, I'll catch some more."

"it is good!"

I took a few branches and sharpened them with a knife, and Forsythia happily took care of the fish scales with its head down.At this moment, Nian Yi also put down the bean cakes and leaned over to help. She had rarely cooked in the past, let alone grilled fish outside, so she struggled to thread the fish with a branch.

Lian Qiao raised her eyes to see her movements, and mocked casually: "Don't be a disservice to me if I haven't done anything, the fish scales haven't been removed yet, who will eat it when it's cooked?"

Nian paused for a moment, knowing that she was embarrassed, Zhan Zhao hurriedly took it over, and said softly, "I'll do it."

Seeing that Zhan Zhao cleaned up the fish for her, Lianqiao pouted in displeasure, and scraped the scales of the fish with her hands more and more fiercely. Sparks come.

After tossing for a while, four or five fish have been grilled on the fire, and the sizzling aroma can't help coming out.When going out, the seasonings are simple. Even though there is only a small bottle of salt, it tastes delicious when sprinkled on the fish.

After a meal, the four of them sat around the fire, and fell into the stiff state of the afternoon again.Because she was full of sleep earlier, she couldn't fall asleep for a while, Lian Qiao was playing with the stones under her feet, and suddenly pulled Bai Yutang's sleeve.

"It's not fun, can you tell me a story?"

Bai Yutang couldn't laugh or cry: "How old are you and still want to listen to stories?"

"Listening to stories has nothing to do with age!"

It's no wonder her master thinks she's frizzy. People who practice Taoism have to meditate and clean up when they have nothing to do. How can someone tell stories like her.

Hearing this, Nian raised his head and said calmly, "Have you heard ghost stories?"

"What kind of mess, I don't listen."

"There are more wandering ghosts in the wilderness than in the city." Nian Yiyou broke a branch and threw it into the fire, and said softly, "Especially a little Taoist like you who can't get up and down. Flesh and blood are much more cost-effective than theirs."

Hearing that she was trying to scare Lianqiao, Zhan Zhao turned to look at her and smiled helplessly.

"You you you...you are talking nonsense!"

"Nonsense? I'm a ghost, how can I talk nonsense about this kind of thing?" Nian Yi said calmly, still bowing his head and tinkering with the dry wood next to him, "You can't see ghosts with your naked eyes, but you don't know that you have eliminated so many ghosts. , has already caused trouble.”

Lian Qiao swallowed her saliva, "I...that was doing justice for the heavens!"

"Ghosts don't care if you act for the heavens or not. The decapitated ghosts, faceless ghosts, and Rakshasa ghosts are all powerful ghosts, and they like to eat little girls the most."

"I'm not afraid of them!" She raised her voice a little boldly, "Brother Zhan, you...you give me my sword."

Nian Yi smiled at her: "Didn't it be agreed that he would keep it? You are going back on your word."

"I don't care about me... I just want my sword!"

Nian Yi raised his eyebrows, looked at her with a little deep meaning, and then pretended to be surprised and said: "Miss Lian, it seems that there is really a ghost lying on your shoulder."

"You, don't scare me!" Lian Qiao grabbed Bai Yutang's hand, but didn't dare to look back, "I won't be fooled by you!"

Nian smiled lightly: "You will know if you look at it yourself."

"I just……"

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly felt someone blowing softly under her ear, which made her goosebumps rise from fright.

"Wow——" Lian Qiao turned her head and saw that there was a dense mass of will-o'-the-wisps behind her that looked like a skeleton, and she leaned towards Bai Yutang's side in fear.

"Sword...give me my sword..."

I really didn't expect that a Taoist priest would be afraid of ghosts, aggressive during the day, but so timid at night.Nian Yi relentlessly wandered around in front of her with the will-o'-the-wisp.

"Okay." Zhan Zhao smiled helplessly, "Stop bullying her."

Seeing him speak, Nian Yi removed the will-o'-the-wisp from his palm and clapped his hands.

"It turns out that you are pretending to play tricks!" Lian Qiao gritted her teeth, she knew that she had just made a fool of herself, and she was full of displeasure, "I just said, where did the ghost come from?"

"That's not necessarily true. There are as many ghosts as there are people who have died. It's hard to guarantee that you won't encounter a few difficult people along the way." Nian Yi reminded her kindly, "Girl's qualifications are too low. In my opinion, you'd better go back to the mountains." Practice for a few years."

"Don't look down on me, I'm not inferior to you in terms of cultivation! Do you dare to compare!" Lian Qiao stood up, and she was about to roll up her sleeves.

"Okay." Nian Yi didn't evade, raised his hand and ignited a will-o'-the-wisp. "I might be afraid of you during the day, but you can't take advantage of it at night."

"Fight, fight, whoever is afraid!"

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao saw that things were not going well, so they hurriedly pulled them away.

"Okay, okay, if you have something to say, talk about it, it's all on your own..."

"Who is her own person!" Inadvertently, the tip of her hair started to burn, Lian Qiao hurriedly extinguished the fire, pointed at her and said angrily, "You..."

"I'm sorry." Nian Yi said lightly, "I just slipped my hand."

"You obviously did it on purpose!" Lian Qiao gritted her teeth, she could only look at Zhan Zhao, "Brother Zhan, you saw it too!"

Zhan Zhao was half helpless and half funny, nodding and no nodding, so he had to drag Nianyi to go elsewhere.

These two really can't stay together...

Staying away from the carriage, he found a large rock to rekindle the fire, and Nian Yi also helped him look around for dry wood.However, due to the rain, there are not many dead branches nearby, and the firewood may only be enough to burn until midnight.

Nian Yi sat down beside the boulder, looking apologetically at Zhan Zhao who was still busy.

"How about you go back? I wake up tomorrow morning and come to find you."

"It's okay." He squatted next to the dead branches and said while striking flint, "I'll go find some firewood later when you go to sleep."

"You don't need to bother, I'm not afraid of the cold." The fire was lit, and Nian Yi folded his arms and turned his head to look at him, "What if you are sick?"

Zhan Zhao didn't take it seriously: "When do you think I was sick?"

Seeing that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, he put away the flint, sat down slowly, looked at the flames and said calmly:

"Could it be that you think I'm troublesome? Do you think I'm bored?"

"No." Nian Yi hurriedly raised his head, "No, I never thought about it that way."

She smiled: "You are much better than them, I like being with you."

Zhan Zhao was slightly taken aback, and after hesitating for a long time, he reached out and gently rubbed her hair.

"Forsythia...she has wronged you these few days."

"It's okay." Nian Yi tilted her head and leaned against him, "It's fun to tease this kind of little girl once in a while."

He couldn't laugh or cry: "Really?"

She turned her head and smiled slyly at him: "But you have to stand by my side."

Zhan Zhao smiled and nodded: "Okay."

After traveling for five days, I finally arrived at the small town at the foot of Qilian Mountain on the evening of the sixth day.

The grassland is far more magnificent than imagined, with blue sky, clear water, and lush greenery everywhere. Where the sky and the earth meet, there are cattle, sheep, and horses, a piece of white flowers, like the clouds above the head, floating leisurely.

The town is located at the junction of the two countries, and the Han Chinese and Dangxiang people live here mixed together, with different costumes and different languages, but it is strange that they can understand each other.

There is a big house in the east of the town, which is magnificently built and very eye-catching.The owner of this house is surnamed Yang, he is a businessman who travels between the two countries. He used to be well-known in Jianghu, and he has a very good personal relationship with Bai Yutang.As soon as everyone arrived at the mansion, he put down the accounts in his hand and went out to greet them.

"Brother Bai! Long time no see, how is brother?"

In the living room, the servants brought tea, Bai Yutang waved his hand: "I'm just the same, I'm alone."

"What's wrong with being idle? I still want to be idle, but unfortunately I can't be idle." Yang Du shook his head and drank his tea, then looked at Zhan Zhao again, "I wonder if these people are..."

"Oh, let me introduce you." He looked at Zhan Zhao, "I'm sure you've heard of this one. He's the one called Nanxia by people in the Jianghu."

"Ah, it turned out to be Hero Zhan." Yang Du hurriedly got up to salute, "It's really a blessing for Sansheng to meet Hero Zhan."

Zhan Zhao clasped his fists in return: "Mr. Yang is overrated."

"What's your name, Mr. Yang? It's too outlandish. I'm older than you. My name is Big Brother Yang."

"Okay." Zhan Zhao said with a smile, "Brother Yang."

Then Bai Yutang pointed to Nianyi and the two over there, "This is Lianqiao, a disciple of Taoist Master Qingxu of Panyun Mountain, and that is Shi Nianyi, Miss Shi."

Yang Du nodded and saw them one by one, and suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, my virtuous brother said in a letter that he was helping a friend find someone nearby. I don't know if it's..."

"Oh." Bai Yutang laughed hurriedly, "It's Miss Shi's old friend."

Nian nodded and answered, "His surname is Liu, and his name is Liu Yu. Do you know him?"

"Liu Yu..." Yang Du frowned, pinching his beard thoughtfully, "I know all the Han people in the town, and there is no one with that name."

"Really?" She was a little bit disappointed, "He may be over seventy now, maybe it's his destiny."

"Hey—no hurry, no hurry." Yang Du waved his hand, "There isn't one in the town, maybe there might be one in the nearby villages?" He was very optimistic, and immediately responded: "Girl, don't worry, it's up to you On me, I will ask for you tomorrow."

Nian nodded and saluted, "Thank you very much."

"You're welcome." Yang Du took a sip of his tea. "Speaking of which, your trip is also a coincidence. Tonight there will be a bonfire in town. There will be fine wine, mutton, and singing and dancing. The two girls will definitely like it."

"Really? There's roast lamb?!" Forsythia's eyes sparkled immediately, "Where is it? When will it start?"

Unexpectedly, she would be so excited, Yang Du laughed loudly: "It's still early, there is still more than an hour, just outside the town, wait for me to order the accounts in my hand, and I will lead you there later."

"That's a good feeling!"

Bai Yutang looked at Lianqiao with downcast eyes, smiled slightly, and clasped his fists: "Thank you, Brother Yang."

The Yang's guest room is very spacious, the four of them packed their luggage and rested for a while, and it was getting dark.

The grassland under the night is especially mysterious, the moonlight is as bright as water, and the boundless sky is full of stars, it seems that you can grab a lot of them with your hand.

On the edge of the large ranch to the west of the town, raging flames rose high, and people sat beside the fireworks, talking, laughing, eating and drinking.As the fine flames hovered in the sky, the aroma of roasted lamb permeated the air, making people move their index fingers.

Lianqiao pulled Bai Yutang straight into the crowd and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

There are loud vocals and music in my ears, and I seldom go to places where there are many people when I read a book. Even this year's Lantern Festival, I just set up lanterns with Zhan Zhao on a secluded hillside. Extremely cramped.

Zhan Zhao was sitting by the fire talking to Yang Du, when he raised his eyes and saw that she seemed to want to go back, he couldn't help calling out.

"Nian Yi, come here."

Nian Yi hesitated for a moment, but walked obediently to his side.

Yang Du was drinking, and hurriedly handed her a roast leg of lamb from the side.

"The girl is not very used to it? Come, eat some mutton to warm up your body." Looking at her weak quality, Yang Du only thought of her as a lady, and had never seen such a scene.

Nian Yi thanked him, took the leg of lamb, thought about it with his head down, made two copies and gave it to Zhan Zhao.

The latter smiled slightly, didn't say much, and accepted it with pleasure.

The two just sat like this, eating a leg of lamb with their heads down. No matter how you look at it, the scene is harmonious.

After eating, Nian Yi silently took out the handkerchief to wipe the corners of his mouth and hands, and then naturally reached out to wipe it for him.Even though he knew someone was there, Zhan Zhao didn't want to take away her kindness, so he let her wipe it carefully with some embarrassment.

Yang Du squinted his eyes to drink, pretending to look around.

Not far behind, there was a lot of noise around the campfire, as if someone was dancing.Just as Nian Yi was about to take a look, he suddenly felt a black shadow falling over his head, a young man dressed as a foreigner was bending over to look at her, and opened his mouth to say something she couldn't understand.

"What?" She didn't understand.

Yang Du put down his drink and said with a smile: "Little girl, he praised you for looking good and invited you to dance."

The author has something to say: silently come to a transitional chapter. . .