The old demon of Montenegro wants to practice Taoism

Going out from the mountain behind this stockade is the mountain pass that Shanyangze and the others walked through last time.Now that it is March, more and more people go to the mountain to collect herbs, and there are also many literati and poets who come to enjoy the beautiful scenery. This stockade is the last supply place before entering the mountain. Basically, one-third of the people walk on the street. They are all foreigners, so Shanyangze and the others are not at all awkward to be mixed in.

The last time they came, they dressed up as herbal pickers who went into the mountains because they followed a few of the top and bottom Jin Yiwei.Now Shanyangze has gained a lot of experience, and knows that it is useless to bring Jin Yiwei in, so according to their image, this time they all pretended to be little scholars.

Although Guo Qian was very worried, Shan Yangze sent all the monsters back to Montenegro when he came out of the ancient Shu road, leaving only a letter in his arms, and repeated orders: "Go back immediately if you feel something is wrong!" The last time when Shanyangze came here, he recovered almost all his skills directly from a serious injury. Although he had doubts in his heart, he subconsciously felt that he would not suffer any harm here, and besides, he still had eight pieces left by Jiang Ziya. root bone.

The place where Shanyangze and the others live is a bit like a theme hotel. The wood used to build the house is all logs. The tables, chairs and benches in the house are either wood or stone, but they are all in a natural and unpolished state. The set of wooden tables, chairs and benches actually grew mushrooms after a rain.

After lunch today, a few people came out of the inn and wanted to go shopping in the street.

This period of time is the time when the number of people entering the mountain is the largest, and it is also the time of the year when the business of the village is the best.Shan Yangze and the others had only walked two steps before they were surrounded by a group of middle-aged men.

"Do you want porters? Hire some porters! My strength is great."

Shan Yangze shook his head, "We brought strength."

It's just that those people are still not reconciled.During dinner yesterday, Shan Yangze had a short chat with the owner of the inn, and it was relatively the most cost-effective business to bring a scholar-like person like them into the mountain.First of all, what they bring is basically dry food, and secondly, they will not go to particularly dangerous places, and to a certain extent, they are far less concerned about money than those businessmen who are careful about money. The boss also recommended two porters to him, but look at those The head immediately looked like a big black donkey, but finally gave up.

After saying a few words, seeing that Shan Yangze still refused to agree, those porters turned their target to the next person, but Shan Yangze saw a man about forty years old behind these porters, his expression was very sluggish, and he sighed With his hands behind his back, he bowed his head and left.

A few people wandered around the village all afternoon, ate a lot, and heard a lot of legends in the teahouse, so they planned to go back to the inn.But in a small alley, Shan Yangze saw the obviously older porter again.

He was holding a few steamed buns in one hand and a piece of pork in the other, and was being welcomed home by a woman holding a child.He noticed that Shan Yangze was looking at him with surprise in his eyes, but as Shan Yangze shook his head, the light in his eyes finally dimmed again, and he was welcomed back home by women and children.

Shan Yangze returned to the inn, but Yan Chixia still hadn't come.In the evening, they asked for some food and gathered in the governor's house to discuss the follow-up.

Strictly speaking, this stockade is not controlled by the imperial court. They only pay a little tax to the imperial court symbolically. It cannot appear in such a place.

"I'll leave after you go into the mountain." Wan Tong said, "Although there are a lot of people from outside this season, they don't live for more than a few days." After finishing speaking, he asked cautiously, "You estimate that it will take a few days to come out. ?”

When I entered for the first time, it took about four days to find Zhang Sanfeng. This time it must be deeper. There are no human footprints on the road inside, so it must be more difficult to walk. "At least two days." Shan Yangze added: " Come back in 25 days."

"When are you going to enter the mountain?" Wan Tong said, "We have stayed for two nights, and Yan Chixia hasn't come yet."

"Departure tomorrow." Shan Yangze said while counting: "It is the beginning of March now, we will go out for about a month, and it will be about the beginning of May when we go back to Montenegro." He looked at Wantong, frowned and said: "Listen The boss of the Qi family once said that climbing the snow-capped mountains is to avoid the summer."

But it is obviously impossible for them to wait for a whole summer, Wan Tong said: "I will write to them right away, and ask the caravan to keep a few good players who have crossed the mountain."

You have said almost everything you can think of.

It was completely dark outside, but occasionally there were one or two people talking in the inn, but they all lowered their voices, for fear of disturbing the guests.

What the few people had said was almost the same. Wantong stood up and was about to leave when he heard a commotion outside. The few people looked at each other. It must be said that at such a critical moment, they were all afraid that the accident was for the elixir of life. of.

The governor stood up, carefully pushed the window open a crack, looked outside, the flames filled the sky, "It's on fire!"

"This season..." Wantong frowned.

Needless to say, Shanyangze also understands that although there are many wildfires in the forest area, it is either a dry winter or a summer so hot that eggs can be baked on the ground. Now it is early March, Yangchun March, and it just happened two days ago. How could there be a wildfire after it rained?Most of them were arson, but for what reason, whether they were coincidence or something else, they don't know for the time being.

Shan Yangze frowned involuntarily, and said: "Clean up things, why don't we take advantage of the chaos and enter the mountain!"

Their eyes lit up, and they split up to get their luggage.

At this time, the shop waiter also knocked on the door, and said anxiously: "Guest officers, the town is on fire, you guys come out quickly!"

A few people packed up their things and went out, and the waiter in the shop didn't think it was strange. In a sudden disaster like a fire, everyone would take all their belongings with them.The waiter hurriedly led them to the courtyard in the middle of the inn, and said calmly: "It's still far away from us, but many houses in this town are made of wood or bamboo, so I'm afraid the fire will spread. You guys sit down first." , the shopkeeper has already sent someone to look at it, and there must be news in a while."

The courtyard was already full of guests. Although the fire looked far away, everyone seemed to be a little panicked. After all, this is a forest area. If it really caught fire, the fire would be faster than people running too much.

Shan Yangze heard the guests at the table next to them whisper: "If it really gets up in a while, shall we run into the mountains, or run out along the road."

The voice of the answer was a little trembling, "You see, the fire started from the outside, so we had to go up the mountain. There are water and rivers in the mountain, so we can definitely avoid it."

Shan Yangze frowned, stood up and walked to the door of the inn to see that many people outside had started to line up to put out the fire with basins and other things.But at present, it seems that the situation is not good.

Firstly, this place is built on the hills, and the roads are rugged and narrow, so many people can walk. Secondly, the water that can be drawn from the wells is limited, and the surroundings of several wells are already full of people. Thirdly, the houses are basically one room. The rooms are built next to each other, and the speed of fire is extremely fast.

Shan Yangze was watching, and Wantong also came over and stood beside him. Seeing this scene, Wantong immediately said: "We can't save him, let's go right away!" After speaking, he turned to greet the governor and the others.

A few guests said they wanted to leave, but the waiter couldn't stop them, so they let them leave the inn so easily.

Going up the mountain road, there are many people in the same company. When they met each other, they laughed and said nothing, but after walking two steps, they saw thick smoke billowing in front of them, and suddenly someone exclaimed, "This is intentional!" Fire! Burn us all to death!"

Seeing this, Shan Yangze gave Lawantong a wink at the governor, and they went into the woods.

Wantong was puzzled, rubbed his hands and kept saying "I've been planted", but Shan Yangze didn't seem nervous at all.

In fact, even if there is no Wantong, Shanyangze just planned to make up some random reason. They don't have enough water, but Shanyangze has it. He has more ways to ask for rain, or move well water.

Huai Shu came over and pulled Wantong, Guo Qian led the governor a little further away, and saw Shan Yangze standing in the middle, closing his eyes and seemed to be in samadhi.

Wantong just wanted to ask something, when he saw Huaishu hiss, "I'm begging for rain, don't make a sound." Wantong immediately smiled, and he remembered his majesty when he met Shanyangze back then.

But... his begging for rain was quite different.

Wantong can be considered to have seen the world. These old Taoist priests have prayed for rain three times, and he has seen it twice. Each time he fasted, bathed and fasted for three days. Then the altar, various sacrifices, etc., and then various incense burning prayers, and long mantras to be recited.

Shanyangze this... the roasted wild rabbit they ate at night!

However, the effect is very good. When Wantong was worrying about whether he would be disrespectful to the gods, black clouds floated down from the sky, covering the village, and there was a fire in the mountain. There were a few crackling sounds, and big raindrops It fell down, and after a while, the fire was extinguished. Although Wantong was completely poured, I was still very happy.

Shan Yangze opened his eyes and walked towards several people. He stood in front of Guo, smiled slightly, the corners of his mouth were only half raised, and suddenly heard a sound breaking through the air, "Be careful!" The Governor exclaimed, and immediately Ravanton turned over and rolled to the ground.

This thing is coming for Shanyang Ze!If he was an ordinary person, he would not be able to avoid it, but with Shan Yangze's hand reaching out now, he just grabbed the thing lightly, and the thing was caught in his hand.

It was an arrow with a blue light shining faintly at the tip of the arrow.

"Toxic!" the governor said.

Shan Yangze looked at the place where the arrow came from, but there was no one there.Who will target him?

Could it be that he just cast a spell to expose the target?

So, was the fire set off to lure him out, or...was he going to be silenced because he saved the fire?