Fairy, don't try to mess with my filial piety

When crossing the original border of Lihuo Country, there were more border guards here, guarding the area strictly and setting up camps.

It seems that after Ozawa's defeat, there are still restive elements in the country and the army is suppressing them.

There are no pedestrians passing by, how can the tea stall owner not run away?

When Chu Wuji entered Yunze Township, he found that nine out of ten houses were empty, and the group of gossipy women from before were nowhere to be seen.

Although the desolate little town was overgrown with weeds, it did not become deserted, but instead became quiet and pleasant.

"It's so peaceful here, with no ghosts around. I guess we can't find the ghost here. We'll have to rely on our luck."

"I've already told you to just charge straight ahead. Why bother coming to Yunze Township? If you run into the Lihuo Army, there will probably be ghosts collecting souls."

"It's also nice to just come and see Yunze Township."

As Chu Wuji spoke, he gathered up the Qiongqi evil wind and then released it.

A sudden strong wind blew up, bending the nearby trees and blowing down the abandoned buildings in the town, startling a team of patrolling Lihuo soldiers, who were checking the situation in confusion.

Chu Wuji and Goddess Tianhu were blown away by the wind and flew straight into the sky.

They did not resist the wind and let it carry them away like dandelions.

When he landed, Chu Wuzhi looked around and found that there was a big city with prosperous business nearby. This was definitely not Xiaoze Kingdom.

Ozawa State is in chaos.

The Fox Goddess put her knees together, rubbing her smooth, pink skin against his face, and said with a smile:

"You're still talking about me, young master. Look at what kind of character you have. I only ran through a few county towns, but you even rushed out of Xiaoze Country."

Chu Wuji didn't fly over the head on purpose. He wouldn't do such a time-wasting thing now.

He hurried back and said awkwardly:

"This isn't my fault. The name of Ozawa Country has the word 'Xiao' in it, and this place is really too small... I forgot to ask my aunt for the Fortune Seal, otherwise I would have definitely been able to hit the target in one go."

As it turned out, Chu Wuji didn't run far astray. After running back for a while, he saw the team fleeing from Xiaoze Country.

Chu Wuji was just about to go forward to ask for directions and find out which places were more turbulent when a convoy happened to stop.

They stopped by the roadside, brought out a dancing lion, placed it on the grass, and started a fire, ready to burn it.

"What is this doing?"

The Fox Goddess was curious. She scratched Chu Wuji's palm with her feet, silently gave orders, and urged Chu Wuji to come forward and ask.

Chu Wuji already had a tacit understanding and understood what he meant, so he quickly walked over to inquire.

Chapter 503 Sending the Lion Back to the Mountain

"How many of you are fleeing? You look like a troupe of actors, right?"

Chu Wuji walked up, keeping a friendly distance to avoid the other party becoming wary. In a turbulent environment, if someone inexplicably approached him, no matter how warm his smile was, it would be useless.

The group of people driving the donkey and horse cart looked at Chu Wuzhi in confusion. They didn't see where he came from, as if he suddenly appeared there and shouted.

But the other party did not come any closer after staying five or six meters away, and the members of the troupe had a good impression of him.

The foreman of the team came out. He was a middle-aged man with a haggard look, obviously from hard work. He said:

"That's right. We can't stay in Xiaoze anymore. Our team can only make a living in peacetime, and we will eventually have to leave our homeland..."

Chu Wuji looked at the dancing lion in the bushes, even more puzzled:

"Then why did you burn your dinner companion? I see the patch on it is still very new, it must have been recently mended, right?"

They were invisible to the Sky Fox Lady's existence, and the fox girl muttered:

"The children in the troupe were crying and looked so sad. There was no reason to burn the lion dance. Is it a custom?"

The middle-aged man guessed that Chu Wuji was here to borrow some water and chat with him, so he took a bag of water from the donkey cart, broke off half a pancake and handed it to him, saying:

"This is sending the lion back to the mountain..."

Chu Wuji didn't take the rations in response to the foreman's kindness. He just took the kettle, took a sip, threw it back, and asked:

"Why send the lion back to the mountain?"

"Success and fame are achieved, so I send the lion back to the mountains. I took this lion dance with me and started my own company, hoping to make a name for myself and spread the reputation of my troupe. However, making a living was difficult. At first, I only performed lion dances, and gradually I began to take on opera singing. If the troupe is too diverse, others will think you are not authentic, and it will be even harder to make a name for yourself."

The middle-aged foreman turned around, glanced at his family and apprentices, and continued with a self-deprecating look:

"In the blink of an eye, I've had a child, an apprentice, and my hair has turned white, but my reputation has yet to be established... This lion is almost falling apart from dancing. I barely patched it up yesterday, and now it's time to send it back."

In the eyes of outsiders, the lion dance is just a prop, but for these opera troupes, it is equivalent to a signboard.

Some teams are well-off and make their lion heads in a grand manner, so once they are shown, others will know which team you are from.

I've been following a lion dancer for many years, and I've developed feelings for it no matter what.

"The country of Ozawa is unstable, and it's amazing that the foreman can support the team to this day."

Chu Wuji encouraged him and understood the group's action of burning the lion.

When he saw the apprentices from the troupe lighting the fire, he said nothing and just watched silently.

The grass in late autumn was almost dry, and once the fire was lit, the cold wind fanned the flames.

The sparks from the haystack suddenly turned into a crackling fire, enveloping the dancing lion in a sea of ​​heat.

The orange-yellow flames flickered and reflected on the lion's eyes, creating bright highlights, as if it was watching the troupe in front of it.

Although the flames were fierce, the luster falling on the lion's eyes was soft.

In silence, the dancing lion's internal bones gradually burned off, and the structure supporting its eyelids broke. The old lion closed its eyes in the flames, as if it was completely at rest.

Everyone in the team was in a sad mood, with thousands of thoughts in their minds. Suddenly they looked at the strange man next to them and found that he was also lost in thought and sad.

The foreman waved his hand in front of Chu Wuji and said:

"Sir, if there's nothing else, we're ready to leave."

Chu Wuji came back to his senses and said quickly:

"I have a friend who's lost in Ozawa Country. I'd like to go pick him up. Could you give me directions? Which areas are the most turbulent?"

Everyone in the troupe found Chu Wuzhi's words strange. After losing his friend, why would he go to the most turbulent place?

But this question was not difficult, and they quickly pointed out the direction:

"Following this official road into Xiaoze Country, there is a three-way fork. Except for the road on the right, the other two places are not peaceful."

Chu Wuji nodded and thanked him, and both parties left in different directions.

After walking a few steps further, Chu Wuzhi threw a silver ingot back, and the wind blew it into the troupe and gently hit the child on the head.

The child thought he was hit on the head by bird poop, but when he touched his hand, he found a silver ingot in the palm of his hand.

"Dad, Mom, I have a piece of silver to give me..."

The troupe members were worried about their future and their livelihoods. They had only lived in the small country and had never left. Suddenly, they heard the child's words, and they were surprised and delighted.

"Could it be that young man from before? He just drank a sip of water, how could he deserve such a reward... Where is the person? Where did he come from?"

The foreman stood up and looked around, but found that there was no one in sight.

......

Chu Wuji walked along the official road of Xiaoze State and said with a wry smile:

"It's really unlucky. How could I encounter such a thing at this time..."

The Fox Goddess knew his state of mind, and she touched his eyebrows with her delicate hands. Finding that he had a bitter face, she pinched it without any hesitation and said:

"What bad luck is there? I didn't encounter any evil spirits that needed to be dealt with. I just listened to the customs of the lion dance team along the way.

Are you starting to look sad now?"

Chu Wuji said:

"That's not the case. Farewells like this happen everywhere, but don't appear in front of me at a time like this.

Or maybe it's because I didn't bring the military seal with me, my luck has gotten worse."

Looking back, the military seal has been on my aunt for a long time, and my aunt has been on his hand for a long time. It seems that everything has been smooth sailing all the way. He even overcame such a big obstacle on the way to find Yu Shi's concubine.

Now that my aunt is not around for a moment, I have been unlucky twice. First, I rushed through the small swamp country, and then I encountered the situation of sending the lion back to the mountain.

The Fox Goddess laughed and scolded:

"This isn't bad luck, it's just that when you're in a bad mood, everything you see is bad~"

"I don't know if finding the underworld will be easy. If it's nothing special, we can just clock in and leave."

"Let me make a prediction in advance. Young Master has been to the underworld and found no clues there. He is now regretting not bringing the military seal with him."

Chu Wuzhi hugged the fox girl's calf and walked along the official road for a while. Before he saw the center of the turmoil, he met the Yincha.

It seems that finding the underworld is not that difficult.

The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons were walking side by side. They were not the same two I met last year. I wonder if they had replaced them.

Behind the two ghost messengers, there was a large group of lonely ghosts, connected by chains, riding on the cold wind to the underworld to be imprisoned.

Chu Wuji abided by the discipline and followed the team at the end with the Fox Goddess in an orderly manner.

As the two ghost messengers were walking, their bodies froze. They first looked at the fox girl, then at the young man who served as their mount, and seemed to be unable to speak.

In the eyes of the Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Chu Wuji was being haunted by a ghost fox and wanted to ask them for help.

"Brother, you have these... eight or nine fox tails on your body. We can't take care of them. How about you take care of yourself? It's not easy for everyone."

[Yes, we are all trying hard to live! ]

Chu Wuji couldn't help laughing. How could he have encountered the ghost messenger twice and he was always like this? He didn't play any pranks and said frankly:

"We plan to visit the underworld and chat for a while before leaving. We have no intention of committing any harm. You two can rest assured. Just lead the way."

The Ox-Head and Horse-Face were still worried, but they knew they had no power to choose.

The man in black robe seemed to be asking for directions politely, but in fact it was no different from giving an order or notice.

【Okay, come with us.】

"Well, you two should walk faster, I'm in a hurry." Chu Wuji urged calmly.

The Ox-Head and Horse-Faced Demons looked at each other.

In the past, they always said these words to those rogue ghosts, urging them to walk faster. They never thought that one day they would be urged by others.

Horse-faced Dao:

[Excuse me, are you two seniors going to the underworld for any special purpose? The King of Hell was newly appointed a while ago, so he might not be as familiar with the various circumstances as we are.]

The new King of Hell?

Chu Wuji didn't expect to get any clues about Guixu from the King of Hell, so he decided to confirm it himself.

He didn't want to chat, but the Fox Goddess couldn't sit still. She said:

"The new King of Hell, did he perform great deeds in his lifetime?"

[It's hard to say. He was originally a lazy guy. He risked his life to kill a demon, and then became the King of Hell. He's really more evil than evil, and it makes the ghosts angry.]

"Demon? What demon?" The Fox Queen doesn't mind gossip.

Chapter 504 Return to the Old Place

Niu Tou glanced at the jade hairpin on Chu Wuji's waist, which seemed to be a fairy item, and said:

[Young Master, are you from the Immortal Clan? Only Immortal Cultivators are so ignorant of worldly affairs, but judging by your cultivation path, it doesn't seem like that.]

It's no wonder that the Bull Head was confused. The impression Chu Wuzhi gave to outsiders was that of an unlucky guy who was unfortunately captured by the ghost fox and used as a mount. He had a clear goal of finding the underworld here, so he should have a clear and thorough understanding of the situation here.

However, his various characteristics were similar to those of an immortal cultivator, which really confused the two ghost messengers.

"I guess so. Just talk to Queen Fox about the demons and don't change the subject." Chu Wuzhi said.

Niutou automatically translated this sentence in his mind, and imagined it as a scolding tone: