man sanctified in death row vest

Zheng Xiu knew that Xie Luohe was longing to "return to a normal person".

But neither Xie Luohe nor Zheng Xiu knew what the so-called secret of "returning to normal people" was hidden in Nie Gong's treasury.

Before the national teacher of the former dynasty died, he only said "return to the secret of ordinary people".

But whether this "secret" is a secret book or an item, no one knows.

At the foot of the Tibetan Sword Villa, Zheng Xiu met Fan Yao, a poor man who was a monk or not a monk, and who had wasted 40 years in the world of this painting since his birth, and also revealed this secret.

From his words, Zheng Xiu deduced that there was an "exit" in Nie Gong's treasury.

If the true face of "returning to normal people" is an "exit", then everything can make sense.

The "cannibal painting" drawn by Gongsun Mo is equivalent to a ghost.Ghosts are the boundary between "Eternal World" and "Eternal Darkness". Since it is a boundary, there must be a path to connect with Eternal World.

Through the "exit", Zheng Xiu can leave here and return to his daily life.

Therefore, to a certain extent, he and Xie Luohe have the same fundamental purpose.

Now, Zheng Xiu also has a reason to look for Nie Gong's treasure house.

In order to "leave", in order to "return to normal people".

Before setting off towards Mount Ba, Xie Luohe sent the letter back to Yunhe Village by means of the ancient method of passing letters by flying pigeons.

"Flying pigeons travel 20 miles a day, and Ruo Ge is fast enough after receiving the letter. He can reach Lashan in about [-] days."

These are the original words of Xie Luohe.

The reason why Zheng Xiu notified Xie Yunliu of the location of "Nie Gong's treasure house" in this way was to rescue the monk.

If "returning to ordinary people" is really hidden in Mr. Nie's treasury, the monk must go with him.

Now Zheng Xiu can only choose to believe that after leaving here, through "returning to ordinary people" and "exit", whether it is Fengbei or the monk, they will come back and become them as usual.

Of course, Zheng Xiu was worried about many things.

For example, Feige didn't know the way, was shot down halfway, died suddenly in the air, Xie Yunliu was illiterate, etc., which eventually made Xie Yunliu unable to reach Lashan as scheduled.But the matter has come to this point, and Zheng Xiu has no way to guarantee that Xie Luohe's information will be transmitted back to Yunhe Village.So just to be on the safe side, Xie Luohe hired a courier in the city at a high price on the way, "expedited for eight hundred miles", and sent it to the place near Yunhezhai, where the bandits used to deliver news.

That's all.

Yanzhou has been a land of heroes since ancient times.

The boundary of Yanzhou is surrounded by mountains, forming a basin, and the terrain is dangerous.A long time ago, this place was not called Yanzhou, but "Yanguo".The rough-tempered Yan people even lived a life of ruthlessness and blood drinking for many years, until they were knocked out of the country by elite soldiers and cavalry, and belonged to the Central Plains.

Riding across the mountains and entering Yanzhou for the first time, a sudden heavy rain drenched the unprepared three people into drowned chickens.

Although it couldn't be seen on the surface, Zheng Xiu knew that Xie Luohe was really in a hurry.

She wholeheartedly wanted to find Nie Gong's treasure house, and in order to "return to a normal person", she went forward in the rain, one day and one night.

Until the next morning, the rain slowed down, in a ruined temple.

Xiao Tao had a high fever, and in a daze, she called "Miss" for a while, "Master" for a while, "It's so cold" for a while, and "Good or bad" after a while.

"She is sick and needs to go to the city to find a doctor."

If it weren't for Zheng Xiu's connection with [Prisoner] is not deep enough to enter the prison, he would want to do it by himself if he changed to [Medical Theory].

In this era, even a small wind and cold can kill a person if not taken seriously.

Xie Luohe silently added firewood to the fire.

Hearing this, after a moment of silence, she smiled: "What's the matter, Feng Bei, don't you want it anymore?"

Zheng Xiu was startled when he heard the words, and then an unknown fire surged into his heart, and he said angrily: "She is your personal servant girl!"

"Yes, servant girl." Xie Luohe said calmly, "That's all."

"If you hadn't traveled all night in the rain, would she have gotten wet like this?"

Since getting to know Xie Luohe, this was the first time Zheng Xiu spoke to Xie Luohe in such a sharp tone.

"Hehe," Xie Luohe said with a smile, "What does it have to do with you?"

"What does it have to do with me?" Zheng Xiu laughed angrily.

"For you, this place is just a dream. You never believe it. Then Xiaotao, for you, is like the person in a dream. When you die, you will die." Xie Luohe's eyes were bent into crescent moons: "So, what is it with you? Dry."

What followed was a long silence.

The rain stopped.

Zheng Xiu carried the dazed Xiao Tao behind his back, and tied it tightly with a roll of rags.The hotness of Xiao Tao's body passed through the clothes to Zheng Xiu's back.

"Then go find the Nie Gong treasure house by yourself."

Zheng Xiu left without saying a word, and took Xiaotao away on horseback.

The gloomy sky was full of dark clouds, which was exactly like Zheng Xiu's mood at the moment.

Bashan is located at the junction of the two states, and entering Yanzhou is only an excuse.On the border of Yanzhou, north of Bashan Mountain, there is a key place called "Licheng".This place is located at the junction of the two states and belongs to the center city of trade and economy between the two states.

The sky in Licheng follows Yanzhou, and it has always been rainy.

A day later, when Zheng Xiu arrived in Licheng, it was drizzling.

The common people who entered the city were all wearing coir raincoats. Near the city gate and on the bulletin board, there were nearly a hundred common people surrounded by three circles inside and three circles outside.

Riding on the horse, Zheng Xiu was condescending, and from a distance, he saw that the bulletin board was covered with notices, and the three characters "requesting security orders" were prominently written on the notices.

The gate of the city was guarded by troops, but Zheng Xiu looked like a poor scholar with a seriously ill woman on his back. After questioning for a while, the guards did not stop him and let Zheng Xiu enter the city.

It was almost noon, and Zheng Xiu had been riding a horse all night, his eye sockets were sunken, and he was quite tired.But he still endured the exhaustion, rented a room in the inn with the little money left, and settled Xiao Tao, and spent a lot of money to hire the best doctor to come and treat Xiao Tao.

Looking at the few pieces of silver left in his luggage, Zheng Xiu suddenly missed his rich life in the past, and laughed at himself that he never thought that he would be troubled by money.

"Mrs. Gongsun accidentally caught wind and cold. Fortunately, you came in time, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous."

After taking Xiaotao's pulse, the old man gave some threats as usual, prescribed several decoctions, and explained the decoction method in detail.

Zheng Xiu pushed open the paper window and borrowed a stove and clay pot from the inn.Not long after, there was an unpleasant smell of herbs in the house.

After feeding Xiaotao the medicine, Xiaotao muttered a few words and fell asleep again.

At this point, Zheng Xiu couldn't bear it any longer, lying on the bedside, with drooping eyelids, he fell asleep unknowingly.

In a daze, Zheng Xiu felt someone touching his nose.

Opening her eyes, Xiao Tao was blinking two bright eyes, blushing like a thief, covering the quilt secretly touching the tip of Zheng Xiu's nose with her fingers.When she saw Zheng Xiu opened his eyes and his fingers flicked away like an electric shock, she quickly closed her eyes and pretended that she was still awake.

"My lord, Xiaotao seems to have heard someone, someone, someone saying 'Mrs. Gongsun'."

The atmosphere between the two was awkward, after a few minutes of silence, Xiaotao opened her mouth and asked this strange question with a blushing face.

"You must have heard wrong."

Zheng Xiu said firmly.

"Is it."

Xiao Tao shrank into the quilt and answered sickly.

Zheng Xiu put his hand on Xiao Tao's forehead and touched it.

The fever is gone.

"I'll go out and buy you some food."

Zheng Xiu went out, weighed the broken silver in his arms, and sighed softly, guessing that this little money would be enough to pay for tomorrow's room fee.After going out, Zheng Xiu thought of a way to make money, found a lively place, and set up a street stall.

sell paintings.

There are people coming and going in the market, and the introversion is serious.At first, Zheng Xiu's small street stall was unattended. In desperation, he hung up a signboard - "Painted by Gongsun himself, the skill of a saint".

After putting out the signboard, soon, a young son stepped forward to ask in doubt: "Gongsun? Which Gongsun?"

"That grandson."

Zheng Xiu laughed.

"Another liar."

The young master sneered and walked away.

"again?"

Zheng Xiu was a little puzzled when he heard this.

After a full hour, Zheng Xiu finally made his first deal.

There is a son in the city, and his father will celebrate his [-]th birthday in a month.He blatantly complained to Zheng Xiu, saying that his father was not good at anything and preferred calligraphy and painting. He had two older brothers and a younger brother, and his father had three concubines and tens of thousands of acres of arable land waiting to be inherited.He cryptically said that if Zheng Xiuzhen can paint calligraphy and paintings that please his father, he will definitely be paid a lot.

He also said that he was not interested in his father's concubine, mainly because of the [-] mu of cultivated land.

"It's not necessary to pay a lot of money, one tael of silver, and the old and the old will not be deceived."

"Draw everything?"

"Do not draw faces."

"Okay, please start writing, sir."

Not all fuerdai are arrogant.

This man is very polite.

Of course, it is also possible that he is not rich enough.

Zheng Xiu thought, what painting is worth a tael of silver.After thinking for a while, Zheng Xiu drew a landscape picture, facing the sea, a white-haired old man, riding a cloud at his feet, heading towards Dongxian.

Inscription: Shoubi Nanshan, Yuhua Dengxian.

Signed: Gongsun Mo.

Zheng Xiu has painted the "back view" for Xie Luohe for nearly half a year, and his painting skills have improved to the point where he doesn't even know him before he knows it.As soon as the painting was completed, the rich man threw down a bag of silver, happily rolled up the scroll and left.

After buying a cage of steaming meat buns and a bowl of fragrant Yandi delicacy "Liquid Corn Soup", when Zheng Xiu hurried back to the inn with two bags of oilcloth bags, a familiar figure wearing a bamboo hat, He lowered the brim of his hat and stood quietly.

Zheng Xiu curled his lips, stepped forward, and took off the opponent's hat.

A bunch of black ponytails were tied up high.

Zheng Xiu was taken aback.

"Is Xiaotao feeling better?"

Xie Luohe asked with a smile.

Seeing Xie Luohe in Licheng, Zheng Xiu didn't know whether to be angry or amused for a moment, so he pushed back the bamboo hat and the familiar ponytail.

"I want you to take care of it?"

Zheng Xiu ignored Xie Luohe, went upstairs to eat and drink with Xiaotao, decocted medicine, and changed his soaked clothes.

Ding.

An arrow nailed to the windowsill.

Zheng Xiu glanced at it and ignored it.

The second shot came in again, made a half-bend in a weird way, and was nailed to the head of the bed.

The sleeping Xiao Tao twitched her eyelashes.

Zheng Xiu leaned out of the window and gestured to Xie Luohe who was still standing at the entrance of the inn with a longbow on his back: "What the hell are you doing?"

Xie Luohe hooked his fingers towards Zheng Xiu.

After going down, Xie Luohe said to Zheng Xiu: "My brother will arrive in Licheng in about three days."

Zheng Xiu frowned when he heard the words: "What do you mean?"

"Look for Nie Gong's treasure house."

Xie Luohe said concisely.

"You only see Gong Nie's treasury?"

"Yes." Xie Luohe nodded calmly: "I said, when I find Gong Nie's treasure house, I will return her to you."

Zheng Xiu was silent, turned his head and returned to the inn.

Xie Luohe looked at Zheng Xiu's back from behind, pulled his hair behind his ears, and said softly, "Then, are you now Zheng Xiu...or Gongsun Mo?"

Seeing that Zheng Xiu was silent, Xie Luohe sighed softly: "I won."

Zheng Xiu turned around and walked to Xie Luohe with a blank face: "What about Xiaotao?"

"Don't worry, I have already spent money to hire someone to guard secretly, and I just need to come back before dark."

Hearing this, Zheng Xiu noticed that around the inn, there were quite a few people from the world whose temperaments were incompatible with the surroundings, and they glanced at the window of Xiaotao's room from time to time.

"Xiao Tao is an ordinary person, no one will do her any harm, you don't need to worry too much."

Xie Luohe flicked it with his fingers, and flicked it on Zheng Xiu's forehead.

"So you followed all the way?"

Only then did Zheng Xiu notice that Xie Luohe still had the same clothes, dry and wet and dry, never changed, and his boots were covered with mud and dusty.

"Otherwise?" Xie Luohe rolled his eyes: "Do you really think I'm such a ruthless person? Let me see by the way, whether you will take advantage of people's danger and do things like beasts."

Their horses are stored in the stables next to the city gate.

Xie Luohe even fed the horses enough. When the two mares saw Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe walking side by side, they neighed and panted heavily, and were extremely excited.

Riding on the horse and leaving the city, Xie Luohe walked along and said, "When you were taking care of Xiaotao, I already asked the 'mountain walkers' near Bashan Mountain. There are indeed several caves in Bashan Mountain. The inside is winding and changeable like a labyrinth, and there is no way out. Maybe there really is a road leading to Nie Gong's treasure house hidden inside."

The so-called "mountain walker" is a rare side door.All the year round, he used his agility to cross mountains and ridges, digging for unowned treasures in the mountains for a living, most of which were rare medicinal herbs or rare animals that grew in the deep mountains.

You must know that the more inhabited the mountains, the steeper they are. If there is no plank road up the mountain, the hikers can only rely on their hands and feet to climb among the rocks, and if they are not careful, they will fall off the cliff, which is extremely dangerous.

As expected of Xie Luohe, Xie Luohe actually inquired about all this information while he was taking care of Xiaotao.

Zheng Xiu counted with his fingers, and Licheng was not far or near from Lashan Mountain, it was nearly twenty miles away.However, there are no villages near Bashan Mountain, and Licheng is the nearest town to Bashan Mountain. It is reasonable to place Xiaotao in Licheng.

Xiaotao is an ordinary person after all, Zheng Xiu doesn't know what will happen in Mr. Nie's treasury, so it is reasonable to place Xiaotao in Li City temporarily.Thinking of this, Zheng Xiu didn't refute Xie Luohe's arrangement, and followed Xie Luohe to Mount Ba.

Speechless all the way.

Two hours later.

Zheng Xiu and Xie Luohe came to the foot of Mount Ba.

Bashan is not high, it stands like three fingers in the thick fog, and the top of the mountain is looming.

Bashan Mountain is steep, with dense forests and thorns growing in the forests.

The Xieluo River found a way, and most of the thorn bushes were cut off with a hatchet. This is obviously the way that the mountain walkers have traveled.