On the other side, Senior Brother Xie wanted to run away, so he left quickly after getting paid.
His heart was beating violently, and he couldn't stop walking. It wasn't until he walked into the busiest market in the town and bought a bowl of boiling hot tea to drink, that the panic in his heart gradually subsided, and he began to take a look at Mrs. Liu. remuneration.
Lu Yangyang naturally didn't have hot tea to drink.
Standing next to Senior Brother Xie with her bundle in her arms, she happened to clearly see that the small box held in his palm was opened, and there was a whole layer of mung bean-sized pearls inside.
After picking up a pearl and looking at it carefully, Senior Brother Xie showed a gleam of joy on his face, and subconsciously glanced at Lu Yangyang.
Seeing that Lu Yangyang was still expressionless after seeing these pearls, he couldn't help cursing "I don't know much".
"This is a rare sea pattern pearl!"
He shook the box, showing off uncontrollably in his voice.
"See the wavy pattern on this pearl? Only a kind of clam in the depths of the East China Sea can produce pearls with this pattern! It's a pity that the ones in the box are a bit small, and they don't look round enough, like leftovers. But the amount of such a box is enough to go out and buy a shop in a good location. If Mr. Liu has a few running boats that often go into the sea, their family would not be able to get such rare goods."
Lu Yangyang is indeed ignorant, but no matter how she looks at it, she feels that the pearls in this box are similar to the marbles she uses for hunting birds at home.
Thinking of this, she carefully stared at the pearls in the box.
Um. It should be this kind of bead, with the same wave pattern on it.
But the beads in her house are all round and bigger, one can hold three or four in the box, put it into the slingshot to shoot birds, and it feels pretty good when you hit one.
But Senior Brother Xie saw Lu Yangyang staring at the box in his hand for a long time, and immediately thought of going elsewhere.
Afraid that she would covet the jewels, he reached out to cover the box, took out a small piece of broken silver from his pocket and threw it to her.
"Take it and go buy something you want, don't say that brother doesn't miss you."
Lu Yangyang was shocked.
Brother Xie actually gave her a piece of broken silver. This is really rare!
Although the silver was so broken that it couldn't be broken any more, she still doubted whether there was something wrong with it, and always felt that the silver in her hand was hot.
Fortunately, brother Xie has other orders.
He lowered his voice: "Remember, we just went for a stroll in the town today, and we went separately, we were not together, let alone went to Mr. Liu's house!"
Afraid that if he didn't explain the seriousness of the matter clearly, she would be confused, so he simply revealed the truth to her: "I won't hide it from you, that locust branch was probably planted by the door owner, the old man. We trade today." You broke into the yard rashly, causing damage to the locust branch, if the door owner finds out, you and I will die together!"
He bit his nails and said in a soft voice: "Fortunately, the master of the sect is retreating, and he is staying in his small building between the peaks. I brought some things on hand today, and I have used them in the Liu residence just before I left. Everything I saw People who have passed us will forget our appearance, and among the disciples of the Wangfeng Sect, there are more Xie than Xie. After a long time, even if the sect master goes out of the customs and investigates, he may not be able to identify me..."
Seeing that he had started talking to himself, Lu Yangyang quickly asked her curious things: "Senior brother Xie, how do you know that locust branch was left by the sect master?"
In normal times, senior brother Xie would never be willing to answer Lu Yangyang's academic questions, but now he feels uneasy and always wants to say something.
"It's the talisman you asked me to read. You just entered the mountain not long ago, and you haven't learned it yet. Sometimes, if you want to maximize the power of the talisman, you need the talisman drawer to use his own blood to leave his surname on the talisman." You won't be able to understand such profound things, you just need to remember to keep your mouth shut!"
I see.
Now the master of Wangfengmen is over seventy years old, and his surname is "Yu", so all the younger members of the Taoist family would like to respectfully call him "Old Master Yu".
It seems that she was not mistaken just now, the character "Yu" was indeed exposed on the triangular talisman.
But what exactly was sealed in the soil, so that the head of Wangfengmen could only suppress it by writing talismans in blood?
...
Not long after, Brother Xie remembered that he had to exchange bird's nests for money, so he sent Lu Yangyang to wait at the market.
Lu Yangyang nodded honestly.
But as soon as Senior Brother Xie left, she immediately took that small piece of pitiful silver and ran away!
If you want to talk about the happiest thing Lu Yangyang has done since he entered the Wangfeng Gate, it was meeting the mutton pie in the town at the foot of the mountain.
The pie dough is soft on the inside and crispy on the outside, the meat is fat and thin, and it is generous. The most wonderful thing is that it is filled with shredded radish, which not only removes the smell of mutton, but also relieves the greasy taste. She ate it once when she passed by for the first time , After a long time, I still think about it, and I have to buy it every time I go down the mountain.
But the business here is really booming, and the mutton pies are easily sold out, so she made a special promise to the pie seller before she left last time that she must leave one for her today.
——It's not that she only wants to eat one, it's that the money in her hand is only enough for her to buy one cake.
But, now that she knows that the senior brother gave her money to silence her, she dares to spend the money casually, and then she will have money!
Lu Yangyang went straight to the pie shop: "Ma'am! It's me! Here I come! I want two! Two!"
...
Lu Yangyang had just finished eating half of the first pie when Senior Brother Xie came back with his bulging purse. At the same time, he also brought the carriage that took them back to the mountain.
Before getting into the carriage, Lu Yangyang went to the front of the carriage as usual, and touched the "horse" pulling the carriage.
The one pulling the cart was not a real horse, but a strong wooden horse, which was used by someone to send the people in Wangfeng Gate up and down the mountain, so that they would not get lost or get tired. , I feel amazing.
It's a pity that the talisman that makes the horse move is contained in the stomach of the wooden horse. She dare not remove it now, so she can only satisfy her greed by touching it a few more times.
But before she touched her a few times, Brother Xie, who had already sat firmly on the carriage, began to urge her.
She had no choice but to quickly climb into the carriage with the pie in her mouth.
But when she got into the carriage, Senior Brother Xie began to think that the pies she ate tasted bad, so he opened the curtain irritably to get some air.
As soon as the curtain was lifted, he was again stunned by the black smoke from the barbecue stove in the shop outside, so he could only slump down on the curtain resentfully.
Unhappy things happened one after another, which made him even more unable to let go of what happened in Liu's courtyard.
"No."
After thinking about it, he felt uneasy, so he took out a purse from his arms, carefully took out a small talisman folded into a triangle, clamped it with two fingers, and stretched it out in front of Lu Yangyang.
"I want you to swear that you will never mention anything after we left the mountain today. If you violate it, an ugly scar will appear on your face, which will last forever!"
Lu Yangyang held the mutton pie in both hands: "Well, I swear."
As soon as her words fell, the talisman started to burn, and the flames seemed to soar into the sky. But in the next instant, the talisman paper was completely scattered into ashes. That's it.
Seeing the ashes falling on the ground, Senior Brother Xie was relieved a lot, and the corners of his mouth began to rise.
But before he could finish his smile, he suddenly closed his eyes and fell asleep without any warning.
Lu Yangyang turned her legs to the side to avoid being touched by him, and then continued to eat pies in a leisurely manner.
Along with the rattling of the wooden horse's hooves, not only at some point, tiny fireflies glowing yellow and white appeared in the narrow compartment of the carriage.
Three, five... Countless...
They quickly flew into groups and landed on Brother Zhijie's tightly closed eyes.
Not long after, those fireflies flapped their wings and flew up again, continuously dropping fine powder in the air.
Those powders flowed in the air like quicksand, slowly condensing into a piece of black and white ink painting.
In the painting, a majestic wild man with messy hair and beard is locked in a cage, with his hands and feet in shackles, holding a comatose skinny tiger in his arms, as if looking up to the sky and howling.
This scene was so miserable that it was beyond imagination. Lu Yangyang was stunned for a moment, swallowed the last bite of the mutton pie, and waved his hand gently towards the ink painting.
Immediately there were waves in the ink painting.
The savage hugged the tiger tightly, shook it, and shouted angrily: "My lord, wake up! Wake up! Don't give up, Yangyang will definitely come to save you! She loved lying on your belly when she was a child." Sleeping, and always lying on your chest looking for milk to drink!"
"..."
After a while, Lu Yangyang covered her face.
...
The "savage" in the ink painting is the reason why Lu Yangyang travels thousands of miles and hides his identity at Wangfeng Gate.
She came to find someone.
No.
Lu Yangyang looked at the cages and shackles in the ink painting.
Now it's not about looking for someone.
It's saving lives.
...
The matter started a month ago.
That day, Lu Yangyang was dragging the family's old scalper to plow the field, and suddenly found that there seemed to be a missing person in the family recently.
After asking the other three people, she confirmed that Duan Zhengming from their family had disappeared.
But to be honest, Lu Yangyang wasn't worried at all when Duan Zhengming didn't see him. After all, Duan Zhengming can be regarded as a member of her uncle's generation. Although he is not very reliable, but with a giant hammer swung, it is impossible for ordinary people to get close, not to mention that he has a tiger "big king" by his side. And the leopard "A Mao" has been following, they are all fierce beasts that eat people and don't spit out their bones.
So after seeing Duan Zhengming's life card standing upright in Zangshuge, she forgot about it and continued plowing her land, hoping that her sincerity in farming this year could move God and make this land An edible corn grew out of it.
But a few days later, Duan Zhengming's leopard, Amao, ran back by himself, with paint on his face.
Now that Lu Yangyang couldn't plow the land with peace of mind, seeing that other people in the family were busy, she didn't say much, just prepared some self-defense things and went out lightly, and started walking all the way with the compass used to find people. As a result, as soon as he left, he came to the site of Wangfeng Gate.
Wangfeng Gate! As the name suggests, it is located in the middle of the unnamed peak soaring into the clouds, and you can look up at the mountain.
But these are secondary to Lu Yangyang. The most important thing is that Wangfengmen is the only school in the Taoist school that uses "talismans" as weapons.
A month ago, Lu Yangyang knew nothing about "talisman", and no one in the family knew how to draw talismans.
When she was a child, she had seen someone draw spirit-seeking talismans a few times. The man gave her a few and taught her how to use them. They were so good that she wanted to use them every day.
Therefore, for Lu Yangyang a month ago, "talisman" is a mysterious and powerful existence. She would rather fight with those who rely on force to dominate the sect with real knives and guns than provoke the talisman masters of Wangfengmen .
It can be seen that the person-hunting compass is indeed pointing to the Wuming Peak where the Wangfeng Gate is located.
After trying many times, the result was always the same. Lu Yangyang had no choice but to wear the red rope on his wrist to suppress his spiritual power, changed into worn clothes, and rubbed a few handfuls of mud on his face to make himself completely inconspicuous. Walked into the Shanjiao Town under the jurisdiction of Wangfeng Gate.
But as soon as she stepped into the town, the copper needle on the tracing compass began to spin rapidly, so frightened that she quickly hugged it into her arms and squatted in the corner.
After turning countless times, the copper needle finally stopped slowly, but the compass no longer worked.
Lu Yangyang immediately took out a new spare compass from the bag, but this compass still didn't work.
Just when she couldn't figure it out, she met this Senior Brother Xie.