Chapter 74: fox demon 4
When Liu Chao woke up, he found himself lying on the grass with a sore neck. He remembered that he was knocked unconscious and dragged away from behind, and then...
Subconsciously, he raised his hand and touched his chest, and found that his heart was still beating vigorously, and he was relieved.
When he was knocked unconscious, he looked back and saw that the man had tiger stripes on his face. Liu Chao knew that the man was a man-eating monster and thought he would die, but he was still alive. .
"Where am I?" Liu Chao stood up and patted the dust on the corner of his clothes, then bent down to pick up the basket full of herbs, he looked around, When I found out that I was in an unfamiliar place, I was a little confused.
Could it be that Miss Ning had already gone to Liangshan to wait, and then did not see him go after waiting for a long time? It is not a gentleman to make a girl wait so long.
Thinking like this, Liu Chaomei's handsome face, like a crown jade, sweated in a hurry, put the basket on her back, and hurriedly walked along the forest path, but after a few steps, he Just stopped, because there are several forked roads in front of you, each of which seems to lead in a different direction. Liu Chao looked around blankly, stretched out half of his feet but didn't know where to go, his eyes kept looking left and right. , whispering softly, "This way, or that way?"
Just as he was hesitating, a very kind old grandfather's voice suddenly appeared behind him, "Master Liu."
Liu Chao was taken aback, as soon as he turned around, he saw an old man with gray hair and a cane standing behind him, looking at him with a kind smile, and his eyes seemed to be watching Is a Chinese cabbage useful?
"Old man, do you know me?" Liu Chao asked in confusion.
There is no one else here, and his surname is Liu, so he should not recognize the wrong person.
The old man smiled and said, "I don't know you, but my lady knows you."
"Your lady?" Liu Chao was stunned for a moment, then the figure of Ning appeared in his mind, and he asked tentatively, "Old man, can the lady in your mouth be Ning Qinger, Ning girl?"
Liu Chao hurriedly stretched out his hand to help him, but he was still slightly surprised when he heard what the old man said, but it made sense. After all, Miss Ning looked like a young lady who was raised up.
Seeing Liu Chao's move, the old man smiled more and more kindly, "My lady can't come because of something, and she can't go out again in the future, so I sent me to tell you, don't wait for her already."
The old man said slowly, "Some time ago, my young lady and my wife ran down the mountain to relax after some conflict. Now their mother-daughter relationship is as good as ever, the young lady should learn to play piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Ladylike."
Hearing this, Liu Chao felt a little disappointed, will he never see Ning girl again?
The two chatted and walked a long way without realizing it. When they were in the forest just now, they felt very far away, but someone led the way, and soon they saw an official road and a road not far away. The tea shed where the pedestrians were parked suddenly remembered something, and Liu Chao wondered again, "Old man, how did you find me in the forest?"
"Haha, didn't you say earlier that you would meet my lady at Liangshan Waterfall to watch the sunrise. In fact, walk a little further from where you just stood, and you will reach Liangshan Waterfall, so I Looking for the direction, I can find you naturally." The old man smiled heartily, even more kind and amiable.
He turned and joked with a smile, "It seems that Young Master Liu has a little difficulty finding his way."
The implication is that he is a lunatic.
Liu Chao blushed suddenly and looked even more handsome. He raised his hand and scratched his hair, looking rather embarrassed.
It’s a goodbye to see you off, Young Master Liu, let’s part here, you can walk along the official road and you will soon arrive at Xingping City.”
"No thanks, this is what my lady ordered." The old man waved his hand, turned around and walked leisurely into the forest.
Liu Chao stood on the spot, watching the old man's back, he couldn't help but chase after a few steps and shouted, "Old man, Miss Ning, does she have anything else to say. "
"One is different and two are wider, each is safe."
The figure of the old man is hidden in the forest, and the body gradually changes from the footsteps as she walks, and finally becomes a charming and graceful figure. She looked even more seductive in red, her red lips slightly opened, and she exhaled a ring of smoke, which spread out into a white mist like a fairyland on earth, shrouded in the mountains and forests, and her figure also disappeared. It can be said that she came and went without a trace.
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He walked to the tea shed and found a place to sit down.
"Okay, pickles are two cents, three steamed buns nine cents, a total of eleven cents. You can drink this pot of boiled water as you like. If you want to drink tea, it will be charged separately." Second, I have seen too many guests. After I practiced my eyesight, I naturally knew that this guest did not have much trouble, so I pointed out the latter sentence in a friendly manner.
"Thank you, I'll just drink plain water." Liu Chao tilted his head and smiled. He took out the money bag from his arms and poured out eleven copper coins. Just handed it over to the second.
"Okay, wait a moment, I'll bring it to you soon." Little Er took the money, put the sweat towel on his shoulder, and walked quickly to the kitchen. After a while, he brought out the food Liu Chao ordered.
Unlike other dishes that are laborious to make right away, pickles and steamed buns can be prepared in advance, so there is no delay.
Thanks, Liu Chao was dressed in plain clothes, but elegant in his movements, and ate slowly. Although he looked poor, he didn't care about other people's eyes, but ate very satisfied.
In the middle of the meal, I suddenly heard a clanging sound, accompanied by a woman's delicate dripping sound, Liu Chao turned his head and saw three young men and women wearing lavender robes , sat down at the empty table next to him.
And all three of them are holding a navy blue long sword. Except for the handsome man with the most cold and silent face, who is obviously the leader in the team, the eyebrows of the others are full of Unbelievable pride.
Liu Chao just glanced at it quickly, then lowered his head and continued to eat his own food, without paying any more attention.
As soon as I sat down, the only woman in the team looked very disgusted and shouted coquettishly, "Little Er, put the best food here, if it is not delicious, you are the only one who asks. !"
"Okay!"
"Senior Brother Changsun, are you tired? Let me wipe the sweat for you. You don't even know how to take care of yourself." The young woman's name is Jiang Li. She looked at the man opposite her with full eyes, and even her voice was deliberately sweet.
Liu Chao next to her shook her body, and quickly put down the teacup and rubbed her arms, because she was so frightened that she had goosebumps. It turns out that not all women are as beautiful and cute as Ning, but some are also very scary. The presence.
Zhangsun Wen frowned deeply, he tilted his head to avoid Jiang Li's outstretched hand, looked at Jiang Li's deep eyes, cold and gloomy, almost inhuman, "If you have nothing to do , go back to the sect."
"Senior Brother Changsun, what's wrong with me, why are you so indifferent to me?" Jiang Li's face suddenly turned a little dark and immediately changed back to grievance, and his eyes looked at Changsun Wen's handsome handsome Yi turned his face in an attempt to get soft-hearted pity, but Changsun Wen remained unmoved.
However, he was repeatedly frustrated by the same man, which made Jiang Li stomp gently, a little unwilling!
Yan Chuan looks ordinary in appearance. He looked at Jiang Li with doting eyes and said with a smile, "Little Junior Sister, Senior Senior Brother has such a temper, don't take it seriously."
"This is about me and the senior brother, what are you talking about!" Jiang Li glared at him, and said the words of disgust bluntly, which was equivalent to stepping on Yan Chuan's face and trampling it. And without hesitation.
The corner of Yan Chuan's mouth froze, his hand on his knee clenched into a fist, and even the blue veins on the back of his hand burst out, enough to know how angry he was, but he let go after a while Relaxing and tensing up, he continued to laugh as if he had nothing to do with him, "What little junior sister said, but this time we went down the mountain mainly because we received an invitation from the city owner to solve the frequent loss of children. I heard that we also called other sects to look for it together. , I don't know who they are."
Jiang Li raised his chin, his eyes were mocking, and he said arrogantly, "Whoever he is, he is not enough to see in front of my Hengshan faction!"
After a pause, she patted the table and said angrily, "It's not enough for the city lord to invite us, but he also invited other sects at the same time, he just doesn't take us seriously, It's really abominable!"
The identity of the city lord is high in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of their Taoist cultivators, they are like ants. They go down the mountain to do this kind of boring stuff.
Just throwing away a few ordinary children is not a big deal. Anyway, ordinary people die when they die, and there is no value at all.
Hearing this, Liu Chao knew that these three people were all well-trained people, and the path here was only to solve the recent panic-stricken child loss thing.
Speaking of this incident, the loss of children has been happening since last month. It was not taken seriously until the city owner's children were also lost, so they hurriedly sent people to find.
The bodies of those guards.
So everyone is guessing, there must be monsters at work, and ordinary people can't solve it, so the city lord committed himself to ask the experts to come down the mountain to help.