Too Reckless

The Wu Peng boat passed through the wind and rain and came to the seaside of Macheng County.

Shangguan Lingye was wearing the imperial concubine's phoenix dress, and the golden light was too conspicuous in the market. At this time, there was no way to change her outfit by magic. She could only row the boat to a remote place outside the port, and the three of them disembarked and boarded.

Lu Chen still seems to be a Jianghu person who loves swords like crazy. After being instructed by Zuo Lingquan, he doesn't even say much, walks in front and leads the way, keeps using his finger gestures, imitating Zuo Lingquan's sword action just now.

Zuo Lingquan didn't bother, he supported Shangguan Lingye and observed the surrounding environment.

Macheng County is an ordinary secular city. There is no trace of cultivation. Outside the city gate, there are ditches everywhere to reject horses. There are people patrolling, but they are not wearing armor.

There were some people on the pier, but not many, all in ragged clothes, carrying knives and soldiers, and people in clean clothes were barely visible.

Zuo Lingquan and Lu Shen came to the vicinity of the main street of the county town from the trail. There are no complete houses on the streets, there are traces of fire everywhere, sparsely populated and like a ghost town.

In such a state of dilapidation, there are naturally no shops open for business on the street. As for the inn? The whole county is full of vacant houses, which requires something like an inn.

Lu Chen was accustomed to this, and after leading the two of them to a fairly complete residential house, he kicked the door directly and said:

"Just stay here first. The family fled out of the city last year, and there should be a bed in it. I'll just live in the front, and you can just say hello if you need anything."

Having said that, Lu Chen quickly returned to a yard not far away. After a while, he came to him with two dried fish and a bowl of rice:

"Brother Zuo, don't think it's too little. The county is short of food. I saved it. If it wasn't for the fact that I couldn't open the pot, I wouldn't go out to fish in the rain. You eat first, and then think of a solution when the rain stops."

When Zuo Lingquan saw the appearance of the county seat, he understood the situation of the people here. He couldn't refine the spiritual energy, and he had to eat to fill the consumption. He didn't refuse at the moment, and raised his hand to take it. Although Linglong Pavilion could not be opened, Zuo Lingquan always had the habit of carrying silver as a spare. He touched a piece of silver from his waist and handed it to Lu Chen as a thank you.

Lu Chen's life was indeed not easy. After pushing and rejecting several times, he still accepted:

"Brother Zuo is really polite. If you need anything, just say hello. Lu Mou who can help is obliged."

After Zuo Lingquan watched Lu Chen leave, he entered the yard with two dried fish and rice grains.

The courtyard is very messy, with a few objects scattered. It must have been searched several times. The doors and windows are open, and all the valuable objects inside are gone, only old and dilapidated furniture.

Shangguan Lingye was very weak, and was already a little sleepy when he came here, and said softly:

"This place looks too remote. It may not be easy to return to the Nine Sects. Let's rest for a while."

She turned around and walked into the main house from under the eaves, looking at the messy old room, there was really nowhere to settle, and bent over to start tidying up.

Zuo Lingquan was not injured. After putting things in the kitchen, he came to him, made the wooden bed with only thatch left, took down the tent and put it on it as a bed sheet, and took off his robe and spread it on the bed sheet.

Although it was still messy and damp, it looked at least clean, so it wouldn't make people unable to lie down.

Being a monk from Shangguan Lingye, it's not that he can't tolerate harsh environments, but it's better to be able to lie down in a clean place than to squeeze through the dirty thatch piles in the past. Seeing this, she smiled and said, "I'm interested." She lay down on her outer robe. He also took out the small dumpling buried in his chest, put it in front of his neck, and patted his side;

"You also take a break."

I don't know if this remark is a joke, or if I really invite Zuo Lingquan to rest in the same bed.

When Zuo Lingquan saw the grandmother of the concubine with a jade body, he really wanted to lie down together, but now was not the time. He helped close the window and shook his head:

"I'm about to lose my strength. Get something to eat first, otherwise, the more you rest, the weaker you will become. I'm going to cook, and Niang Niang has a good rest."

Shangguan Lingye didn't even want to move his fingers, closed his beautiful eyes and said:

"Thanks for your hard work."

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The swift and violent rainstorm swept across the ten-room and nine-empty county town. The only place where people gathered was the 'barracks' built under the city wall.

There were no more than 300 people in the barracks. In the turbulent times, the rebels swarmed everywhere, and only a small number of them were entrenched in Macheng County. The leader Jiang Heng came from outside the northern border. It is better to say that they are living in a group in this troubled world of cannibalism.

It was noon, and under the heavy rain, the military camp with wooden houses was full of mud.

In a shop with a tea shop sign, several men were sitting around a table, two of them wielding swords and one brushing guns, and a young man dressed as a scholar spoke softly inside:

"As the saying goes, 'The world will be divided for a long time, and if it is divided for a long time, it will be united'..."

"Su nerd, you picked up a robe worn by a scholar, and you really think you are a scholar? Do you only know a few words? Don't talk about these things, I can't get enough to eat now, and I can't find a way to get food, at most one We'll have to break up in a month..."

"One more month? The Qingjia Army in Ninghe has given an ultimatum. If they don't join the army, they will lead people to slaughter Macheng County. They have about 4,000 people, and there are more than 500 elites in armor, as well as bows and crossbows. , I think it's better to go to the top of the mountain to worship and sit in the smaller chair than to be **** and used as a shield..."

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Several people hold their own opinions, and they all say what the leader can hear.

As the leader, Jiang Heng, no matter how popular he is, he can't make food with his bare hands; but Jiang Heng has great ambitions, and he doesn't want to be the **** of the Qingjia Army who raped and looted three feet. At this time, there is no way to break the situation. Deaf and dumb, he came under the roof alone, looked at the sea in the distance, and prayed that God would open his eyes and float over a few grain ships or something.

He just stood alone for a while, and he didn't know if God had heard his heart. The grain ship didn't float, but Jiang Heng found that Lu Chen, a ranger who had always been alone, came over from the muddy ground.

Both of them were from Jianghu people, and they were trying to make a living in troubled times. Lu Chen didn't like to form gangs.

Seeing this, Jiang Heng thought he was here to surrender, so he walked up to him in the rain and said with a smile:

"Jiansheng Lu, what wind brought you here?"

Lu Chendao also simply said: "Do you still have any surplus food? Give me a few liters, maybe I can recruit an expert for you."

As soon as Jiang Yi heard that the food was borrowed, her face was not very good-looking on the spot, so she turned around and left.

"Wait, don't worry."

Lu Chen grabbed Jiang Heng, looked left and right, and whispered:

"The two of them were just picked up from the sea, and they said that the ship sank through here, but I think it must not be so simple. The man among them looks young, but his swordsmanship is superb..."

"Swordsmanship is better than yours?"

"What am I, Lao Zhu Lao Cao in the tea shop, plus me, three against one, I guess they can't last three moves."

"What are you kidding..."

"Who are you kidding? I'm serious."

Lu Chen pretended to be chattering, and got closer and said:

"I heard Mr. Shu say that every time in troubled times, there must be saints born. These 'sages' are all exiled immortals sent from the sky to save all people from water and fire. I caught those two people today, and they look immortal. He looks like an immortal descended to the world, especially the expert surnamed Zuo, swordsmanship cannot be practiced by humans at all, and at first glance, he is banishing immortals..."

Jiang Heng saw that Lu Chen was speaking very seriously, and his expression gradually became serious:

"It seems that there is such a saying... Where is the left immortal you said now?"

Lu Chen hooked Jiang Heng's shoulder and hooked it with his hand:

"First, take a bag of rice, 10 catties of meat, and two jars of wine. I'll give it to someone as a gift. Naturally, there are people who are skilled. If you are sincere, they may help you achieve great things. If you are not sincere, you may switch to the Qingjia Army."

Jiang Heng pulled up a team of hundreds of people, but he was not a fool with a lot of money. He frowned:

"Lu Chen, I respect you as a man, so I treat you nicely. Do you think I'm a three-year-old?"

Lu Chen sighed: "Anyway, it's not that I want to be the king and hegemony. Someone gave me a sword skill, which is enough for me to learn for the rest of my life. If you don't believe it, don't tell me about it. Borrow me a bag of rice first, and I'll take it for a couple of minutes. Heaven will go out to sea to catch two baskets of fish and return it to you."

"..."

Jiang Heng knew something about Lu Chen. He wasn't a swindler, but he was silent for a while. He probably felt that he was running out of ammunition and food, and being cheated by a few pounds of meat wouldn't change the situation. In the end, he turned around and said:

"Xiao Su, go get a bag of rice, ten pounds of meat, two jars of wine... and get an old hen."

Seeing this, Lu Chen patted Jiang Heng on the shoulder:

"As far as you know people, it can be a big deal."

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The dilapidated courtyard under the rain curtain ignited the smoke.

Zuo Lingquan was busy going back and forth in the old kitchen. Without dry wood and a fire source, he cut a broken window with a saber, and used the method of drilling wood to make a fire.

Since childhood, food and clothing have been worry-free, and the memories of past lives have almost been forgotten. Zuo Lingquan can't actually cook, but there is no problem in getting things cooked. Anyway, he can't operate without oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

The smoke from the cooking on the green tiles was curling up, and as the water boiled, the smell of boiled fish permeated the courtyard.

In the room of the main house, Shangguan Lingye closed his eyes and concentrated. Although he was mentally weak, he was in an unknown place and could not sleep. Just as he was thinking wildly, his chest suddenly moved slightly:

"grumble……"

A weak cry rang out.

Shangguan Lingye's bulging clothes arched twice, and the little white dumpling stuck his head out from the collar, turned his head to look at the kitchen, obviously woken up by the smell of boiled fish.

Shangguan Lingye opened his eyes, took the dumplings out and put them beside him, and said softly:

"Are you hungry? Linglong Pavilion can't be opened, and Xiaoyu can't take it out, so please bear with it."

"Gee~"

The dumpling just woke up and was a little confused. After tilting his head for a moment, he turned around on the bed, looking towards the east, west, northwest, and seemed to be distinguishing the direction.

After a long while, the dumpling made a "jiji?", probably saying, "Where is this place? Why is the country of birds and birds gone?"

It's a pity that Shangguan Lingye couldn't understand what the dumpling said, thinking that he was puzzled by the current situation, he just raised his hand and rubbed it, comforting:

"If you get lost at sea, don't worry, you'll be back in a few days."

"grumble……"

The dumpling was dubious, and he couldn't figure out why, so he didn't pay attention. He spread out his small wings and leaned on Shangguan Lingye's chest, putting on a pitiful appearance of 'birds are too hungry to walk', sighing.

Shangguan Lingye felt a little distressed. Although he was weak, he stood up, walked out of the main room with the dumplings in his hand, and came to the kitchen at the back.

The house is very old, and there are several leaks on the roof, which are covered with broken bowls.

There was firewood burning in the kitchen at this time, and the smoke mixed with the steam rising from the pot, and no one could see it clearly, only two boots could be seen moving in front of the stove.

Shangguan Lingye grew up in Xianjia, and since childhood, he had never had the opportunity to touch such a place where the fireworks were so strong, and there was a little novelty in his eyes.

She walked to the stove with the dumplings in her hands, and saw Zuo Lingquan holding a spoon, tilting her head to listen to the movement inside the pot, her expression more focused than the alchemy cultivator.

"I didn't see it, you still have dinner."

"Haha, the cooking skills are average."

Zuo Lingquan put down the spoon and said with concern:

"Why did you get up? Are you uncomfortable sleeping?"

"The dumpling was awakened by the fish, but the rice is not cooked yet, so let's feed it first."

"Gee~"

The dumpling was lying on Shangguan Lingye's palm, and he didn't even have the strength to lift his head. He just opened his beak and pretended to beg for dried fish.

Zuo Lingquan felt distressed when he saw this, raised his hand and lifted the lid of the pot.

A billowing white mist rose up, and as the mist dissipated, the steamed rice appeared in the pot.

At this time, the dumplings were no longer picky eaters. They jumped on the stove and looked into the iron pot, but saw a circle of dried salted fish stuck between the brown rice that had turned yellow. Maybe it was for the sake of presentation. The two fish With his head still stuck in the middle, the dead fish looked up at the sky.

"...?!"

The concubine, the concubine who was about to praise the man, smiled slightly stiff, then tilted her head and opened her lips, but she didn't think of the right words to evaluate.

The dumpling was roaring in a hurry, but when he saw the rice in the pot, he was stunned, and he stepped back, "jiji?" twice, which seemed to mean "suddenly not hungry, you eat first, don't worry about the birds" .

Zuo Lingquan felt good about himself, picked up a piece of salted fish with chopsticks, grabbed the dumpling, and brought it to the bird's beak:

"We have enough to eat, we don't need to be humble, and you can't eat much. Come on, open your mouth."

"grumble?!"

The dumplings were stunned and turned their heads to avoid them.

Shangguan Lingye stared at his eyes, and his expression was indescribable. After thinking about it, he helped to tear the fish pieces into small fish sticks. The two of them worked together and stuffed them into the mouth of the dumpling.

"Cuckoo..."

The dumplings, who would rather die than give up, were originally unlovable, but after tasting a piece, they unexpectedly found that the taste was not so terrible, and then they devoured it.

Shangguan Lingye pursed his lips and smiled, feeling that it was inappropriate for Zuo Lingquan to work alone, turned around to get the washed bowls, and used a spoon to put two bowls of salted fish rice.

Shangguan Lingye is still wearing a phoenix skirt, showing a graceful and gorgeous temperament from head to toe, and she is full of fairy spirit. She is holding a spoon and serving rice by the stove. The contrast of the picture is so strong that it can make people feel unreal.

Zuo Lingquan watched for a while, and wanted to praise a few words of kindness, but in the end he sighed:

"I remember the first time I saw the lady, the lady's personality was frighteningly cold, without the slightest hint of fireworks. It's less than a year before and after, and the change is really big."

Shangguan Lingye carefully pressed the rice and added two more pieces of fish to Zuo Lingquan, and replied plainly:

"What? Do you think this palace is not immortal enough, and it's boring?"

Dull……?

How can it be……

This slightly ambiguous sentence really stumped Zuo Lingquan. No matter how he answered it, it was inappropriate, so he laughed and didn't answer.

Although the food is not very tasty, it is full of weight, enough to fill the stomach, and the two of them don't care too much.

There were no tables and chairs in the house, so the two of them stood by the stove and started cooking, with the dumplings squatting in the middle, begging for food from left to right.

Shangguan Lingye hasn't touched the fireworks in the world for seventy or eighty years, and is not suitable for the occasion of eating with men. He actually showed a bit of shyness, turned his back to Zuo Lingquan, and began to eat slowly and slowly.

Zuo Lingquan was almost exhausted from hunger, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

If it weren't for the two people's clothes and the environment, they would look like a pair of hard-working mandarin ducks.

However, the troublesome thing is that the body of the practitioner is already different from the ordinary people, and the whole grains cannot support the consumption of the body at all.

Zuo Lingquan felt that he could only be full by eating one cow, and Grandma Shangguan could probably eat two; a bowl of rice and two salted fish, not to mention the half-step jade level of Shangguan Lingye, even the dumplings were not enough.

Unconsciously, a pot of rice was clean, and the two of them ate at most half of it; the dumplings were still unfinished, and their black eyes stared at the iron pot, as if they wanted to eat the pot.

Although it is not enough to eat, there is something in the stomach, and the body always recovers a little.

The most important thing now is to return to the Nine Sects as soon as possible, and at worst, find a place with spiritual energy to restore strength.

After Shangguan Lingye finished his meal, he took water from the well to wash up and took the dumplings to the steps, looking at the Feng Shui weather around the county town, hoping to find some clues.

It's a pity that everything I can see is desolate, and I can't see anything after looking for a long time.

After Zuo Lingquan tidied up the kitchen, seeing that Shangguan Lingye's actions were no longer affected, he wanted to go out to inquire about the news, and by the way, find some food to come back to recover his strength.

He rummaged through the yard to find a shroud, which Shangguan Lingye used to cover the rain and the eye-catching palace skirt, but before the shroud was handed to Shangguan Lingye, he heard some noise from the street in the distance.

"there……"

"It's not a **** thing..."

Shangguan Lingye's face was calm, but he was very sensitive to changes in the surrounding environment. He was alert when he heard the sound. He looked out from the courtyard wall to the street, and saw a few men wearing red hoods, running in one direction. .

Zuo Lingquan took his sword and came to the door to look, but he didn't see why, but found that the young man Lu Chen was carrying a lot of things, turned from the street into the alley, and his face was not very good-looking.

After Lu Chen Yaoyao saw him, he put away his emotions, raised his hand and gestured to the bacon hen he was holding:

"Leader Jiang of the Rebel Army heard that you fled here, and gave me some rice and let me bring it to you. Leader Jiang is a good person, but there are hundreds of mouths waiting to eat, and there is not much food..."

"What's so funny..."

It is said that no merit is not rewarded. Zuo Lingquan was so relieved that his face was really unbearable. He greeted him and gave a hand. After a few words of thanks, he asked:

"Brother Lu, what happened on the street?"

When Lu Chen said this, the emotion on his face showed again, he shook his head and sighed, and said with anger:

"Someone just found out that a family at the port was killed. That family was the family of the Rebel Army. There were five people, all young and old. Except for a girl who was not at home, all the others were dead. I just went to check, all the deceased He was nailed to the back of his head, tortured before he died, his tongue was pierced, his ears were pierced, and all his limbs were twisted off; the bloodstains were very new, and the murderer's hand was at most half an hour ago, and there was still writing in blood on the ground, but there were not many in the county. A literate person, can't understand the meaning, and now the rebels are searching everywhere, but they haven't found the murderer..."

As Lu Chen spoke, he looked at Zuo Lingquan's robe imperceptibly, apparently looking for blood.

All the people left in the county town were acquaintances. Only Zuo Lingquan had just arrived, and the time of his appearance was very consistent with the time of the incident. It was not surprising that he was suspected. Zuo Lingquan naturally didn't mind.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard, Shangguan Lingye heard this narration from afar, her clear eyes slowly cooled down—she had been in charge of the Demon Slayer Division for 80 years, and she was already familiar with this method of killing.

Pulling the tongue out, piercing the ears, nailing the Fengfu point in the back of the head~www.wuxiahere.com~ are all to close the six senses, so that after death, the soul will not quickly dissipate from the body; torture is used to inspire people Hatred and resentment are more likely to turn into ghosts after death.

These are the basic techniques for evil monks to refine their souls or make corpse puppets.

Shangguan Lingye has dealt with this kind of thing all the year round, and has left a mark in his heart. He hates this kind of incident, and guesses who the murderer is, so he can't sit back and ignore it.

"Where is the crime? Take us to see it."

Zuo Lingquan estimated that the murderer was the alien cultivator whom he met in the cave, and he frowned as well, signaling Lu Chen to lead the way.

Lu Chen didn't think that the two of them were murderers, so he dared to come to the door. He didn't say much at the moment. After putting the food in the yard, he took the two out of the alley together...

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