The wheels of the donkey cart kept turning, and the bearings kept making harsh and unpleasant sounds.
"Gou Wa, drop some sesame oil on the wheels."
Li Huowang, who was lying on the donkey cart, said with difficulty. At this time, his neck had just been sewn up by Bai Lingmiao with an embroidery needle and covered with gold wound medicine, and now he couldn't sit up.
Not long after, the creaking sound weakened a lot. Li Huowang looked at the sky with a blank look, thinking about what happened a few nights ago.
The troubles of Zhengde Temple before have been solved, but his own troubles have just begun.
In his opinion, it was Dan Yangzi who killed those Buddhas after becoming an immortal.
But in the eyes of others, it was himself with a hideous and terrifying expression who pounced on them, drilled into the body of the Buddha and ate them alive.
There cannot be two perspectives on a world, so one of what he and they see must be false.
Li Huowang turned his head to the side, and Bai Lingmiao, whose eyes were entangled by cloth strips, held his hand tightly, refusing to let go for a moment.
With his eyes retracted, Li Huowang looked at the white clouds in the sky again, with a bitter smile on his face.
To be honest, because of his illness, even Li Huowang himself doesn't believe himself now.
Coupled with his bulging belly and blood on his face, everything shows that it was really himself who did it, not Danyangzi.
"Is Danyangzi really dead? Is everything just my fantasy?"
As soon as this thought came up, it was quickly overturned by Li Huowang.
"It is impossible for me to easily get rid of those huge Buddhas just by getting sick. In the final analysis, it is still Danyangzi."
"No matter what he has become now, the key is that he is still here, still staring at me." Li Huowang is very sure of this.
"It's just that I always thought that he was the immortal who came down to earth in person. Now it seems that he is actually possessing my body and acting."
"I previously assumed that Dan Yangzi was protecting me, and this conjecture has been confirmed, but based on my understanding of Dan Yangzi, a person like him would never help me out of kindness. He definitely helped me for other purposes."
Thinking of the strangeness he felt that night, Li Huowang had a vague guess in his heart, and he stretched out his fingers to scratch the soft palm.
"Tell me, has my temper become worse since I came out of Qingfeng Temple?"
"No, why do you ask that, Senior Brother Li?"
Li Huowang gently touched the back of her hand with his fingers, and did not explain anything, but silently said in his heart: "Why do you ask that? Because I am worried that Dan Yangzi, this shit, has nothing to live for!"
Although others did not say it, Li Huowang himself felt that there was a change in his behavior.
"Could it be that old Danyangzi wants to be resurrected through my body? So he protects me because he is also protecting his own body?" This terrible guess that made Li Huowang sweat exploded in his mind.
But he soon calmed down. This was just a guess.
Danyangzi must be dealt with, but the target is easy to set, and how to do it is the key.
Li Huowang felt very confused about this. Everything in this world is not clearly marked like a game. Everything is unfamiliar and you have to find it yourself.
After experiencing the turmoil in Zhengde Temple, Li Huowang no longer dared to easily contact any other factions here. After all, even the most kind monk temple has become so terrifying, and God knows what other places have become.
However, after thinking about it, Li Huowang found that if he wanted to live in this ghost place, he still couldn't avoid them.
Just when Li Huowang was thinking about these things, the donkey cart slowly stopped, and the sound of running water came from the side.
"Brother Li, I'll go wash your clothes for you." Bai Lingmiao said, gently pulled his hand out, picked up the bloody clothes on the donkey cart and walked towards the stream beside him.
Other people were not idle either, and tacitly began to look for firewood in the forest and started to make a fire to cook.
Li Huowang couldn't sit up now, and he could only rely on the sound to judge everything happening around him.
Soon, the aroma of cooked food drifted over, and Li Huowang's stomach gurgled, and his injured body urgently needed food.
"Brother, I'll feed you." Li Huowang felt that he was helped up and leaned on the furry arms.
Li Huowang already knew the name of this woman who was covered with black hair and looked like a chimpanzee. Her name was Chun Xiaoman.
This name is very easy to understand, because she was born on the day of Xiaoman, so she was called Xiaoman. Farmers named girls casually.
Xiaoman scooped up the horse meat soup with a spoon carved out of wood and brought it to Li Huowang's mouth.
One person fed another silently, and another person ate silently. Since the incident, Li Huowang found that others seemed to be more afraid of him.
Li Huowang could understand their fear. After all, staying with a man-eating monster would scare anyone.
After eating almost everything, Li Huowang whispered to Xiaoman: "Let Bai Lingmiao come back. If you can't wash it clean, don't wash it."
"Okay." Xiaoman gently put Li Huowang down and put the heavenly book under his head as a pillow.
Soon, Bai Lingmiao came back, and the blood-colored Taoist robe in her hand did not return to its original green color.
"Put it on the donkey's back to dry in the sun, and go to eat quickly. The food is getting cold."
"Yeah." Bai Lingmiao responded softly and crawled down. After carefully observing Li Huowang's wound for a while, she walked towards the campfire.
"Da Da Da" the familiar sound of horse hooves sounded from a distance.
The sound arrived before the person arrived. "Oh, hey, little Taoist! So you are here! I thought I would never see you again!"
When Lv Zhuangyuan's wrinkled old face appeared in front of him, Li Huowang knew that the Lv family had followed him.
"Oh, you, you..." He saw Li Huowang's miserable state.
"Nothing, just some minor troubles on the road, what's the matter?"
"Little Taoist, why did you leave without saying a word? Didn't we agree to leave together? Fortunately, you said you were going to leave before, otherwise I really couldn't find you." Lv Zhuangyuan said with a smile.
A free escort that was finally found can't be discarded so easily.
"Sorry, Mr. Lu, I'm injured, so I won't talk about the past, just do what you want."
"Hey, lie down, lie down." Lv Zhuangyuan didn't ask anything. After traveling all over the country for so many years, he certainly understood that the more you know, the more dangerous it is.
As the sky was about to set, the two groups decided not to leave. After all, there was a small river next to them, which was very convenient for washing and using water.
Li Huowang, who couldn't sleep, silently looked at the stars in the sky and thought about the things that happened during the day.
Suddenly, there was some movement on the right side of his body.
Before Li Huowang could react, a soft and small body lay silently in his arms and shivered.
Smelling the familiar fragrance, Li Huowang stretched out his right hand and patted the back, "It's okay, leave everything to me, leave everything to me."