Chapter 5 (This chapter is free)

The two of them were walking around the forest like headless flies, but they couldn't get out. The sun had already set and the fields were dead silent.

Hua Qiangu was anxious: "Don't worry about me! You can walk by yourself and go north and you can get out of the forest. You are with me, and you can't get out of no matter how many times you go around!"

She thought she was plaguing ghosts again and hitting a wall with ghosts. She thought that if Xuanyuan Lang left alone, she would be able to go out.

"You are stupid, you are not a ghost to hit the wall. This is the seven-star maze of the stinky turtle cloth. The outside cannot enter, and the inside cannot get out. The turtle spirit just wants to trap me and starve me to death, so that my master cannot find it. It was injured by me. I have the real dragon energy to protect my body. He cannot get close to me and cannot kill me. So I can only mess with me in a different way and ask me to suffer more. Look at how I fix him if I catch him!"

"Is there any way to break the formation?"

"I don't know how to break it. This formation is equivalent to the stinky turtle covering its turtle shell outside. The veins on its shell are various formations of the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams, which have changed a lot. In fact, it is not very powerful. It just relies on these Bagua formations to make trouble everywhere. This formation is very powerful. I think it is difficult for my master to crack it, but how did you come in?"

"I heard your screams and walked in."

"What is the scream!" Xuanyuan Lang thrust a thunderous thunder and hit Hua Qiangu's head, "I just called for help to see if my master can feel it."

Hua Qiangu innocently touched his messy hair. His dirty appearance might really look a little like a little beggar.

"That person named Yi Jiujun gave me this thing, saying that he could break the talisman and take me to Maoshan." Hua Qiangu showed him the sky water droplets.

Xuanyuan Lang held it in the palm of his hand, as if holding a drop of cold tears, and a bloodshot slowly rotated inside, winding and fainting, as if he was alive.

"Although there is a strong magic power in it, why do you always feel like a monster? Why do you go to find that Yi Jijun? Legend has it that he specializes in feeding on dead people's tongues, has a cunning temperament, is weird and changeable, and is an absolute monster."

"No! He is a little scary, but in fact he is quite good. He treats people with difficulties and wants to know the truth. I can only go up to Maoshan if I give this to me."

"Bad! I've become a helping person after hearing what you said!" Xuanyuan Lang was speechless. For so many years, for the palace, Yikong Pavilion was undoubtedly an existence that was more terrifying than any evil demon or reactionary force.

How many unjust crimes and monarchs are killed, how many intrigues are involved, and how many incorrect things are reversed, all history can be rewritten by the emperor, and any truth and inside story can be erased and covered up. However, because of the existence of the Yikong Pavilion, nothing can be buried with the dust of history. Therefore, from officials and concubines to eunuchs and palace maids, as long as people who know some important things are buried, they are secretly asked by their father to cut off their tongues when they are buried.

When he was crying and pulling his father's legs to prevent him from getting close to his mother's body, the father just said: "The reason why secrets are called secrets is because they cannot let the third person know. Lang'er waits for you to grow up and ascend the throne in the future and the father dies in old age, remember to cut off his father's tongue and burn it. This is a family motto passed down from generation to generation, don't ask why."

He didn't understand very well, but from that day on, he made up his mind to be a man who stands tall and honest in this life, and he has nothing to say to others. There is nothing to hide, and he is not afraid of giving anyone an explanation! So after death, he doesn't need to be afraid of anyone cutting his tongue!

As long as it is a secret, it must not be a good thing. So, he doesn't need it!

Hua Qiangu didn't pay any attention to his thoughts at all. He just took the water droplets and hung them around his neck that day, and murmured: "It's okay, I always feel that he is not a bad person and will not harm me, otherwise there would be no need to help me."

"What did you give him?"

"ah?"

"I said, what price did you give him? The kind of profit-oriented person."

"It's nothing, it's just a name and horoscope."

Xuanyuan Lang frowned, feeling even worse: "Don't mess with your horoscopes in the future. If you meet someone with superb evil magic, it will be too easy to kill you or control you."

"Oh, I understand." Hua Qiangu touched his stomach, so hungry that he couldn't walk anymore.

"No matter what, after you go to Maoshan, you will throw this thing away quickly. Don't take it anymore, do you hear me?"

"Okay, okay--" Hua Qiangu shook his head helplessly. This person is really used to ordering others.

"Anyway, I can't get out, so let's rest here for a night. I'm hungry."

"Okay, let's raise the fire first. I'll see what hares and pheasants can be called to eat. Go there and pick up some branches and other things!"

"Uh, it's so dark over there. There's no ghost, right? I'll die if I'm eaten..." Hua Qiangu hesitated. She was most afraid of the darkness and basically didn't dare to run around at night.

"No, ghosts are not monsters, how can they eat people? I stand up straight, and I'm scared to you so much that you're trembling and scared. I really don't look like a man!"

"I'm not a man..." Hua Qiangu muttered in a low voice, but was too lazy to explain. Dr. Zhang told him to be careful when going out alone, or to be safer to be treated as a boy. It is not necessary to emphasize it specifically. There is no difference between men and women, and there is no need for others to take care of because they are girls.

Hua Qiangu caught fire, and Xuanyuan Lang caught several pheasants in a short while.

Because he has been sleeping outside in the wind and open space with Luohedong in the past two years, Xuanyuan Lang has long been no longer arrogant as before.

"I'll give you my specialty skills." After a few seconds, I pulled out the chicken feathers, emptied my stomach and filled it with spices and seasonings I carried with me, then wrapped it with leaves and buried it under the fire.

Hua Qiangu was drooling when she watched from the side. She had been sleeping in the open for the past two months and had never had a good meal.

The night in Maoshan is quiet and quiet, and there is someone around you, so you are no longer as afraid and anxious as before. Hua Qiangu has not come into contact with many people. After his father left, he became even more lonely, but he has long been used to it. He has never had friends around him since he was a child, and the children in the same village have followed the instructions of adults not to approach her, for fear of getting involved in unlucky things. When he grows up alone, he hardly knows how to get along with strangers. He just thinks that others are good to me, so I am good to others. He doesn’t have to be too close to others. He may harm the other person, and it will make his heart weak and worry more. After all, in the end, he will be left alone.

But looking at the boy next to him with a childish look, for some reason, she felt extremely relieved and was not afraid of anything. She had never had such trust before.

"Will that turtle spirit hide nearby and look for opportunities to harm you?"

"He is not at the level of his level and is not qualified to touch a hair of me. The reason why I trapped me here was that my master also looked for me everywhere, and then he had the opportunity to escape further. Even if I went out, I couldn't find him, so the longer I trapped me, the better."

"If you deal with these things every day, you have to catch them, aren't you afraid?" Hua Qiangu couldn't imagine that if she became a Taoist priest, she would have to subdue demons and eliminate demons. She just wanted to have a small house to sleep peacefully every night. It would be great if there was no little ghost to bother her. Maybe she had no prospects, but she had such a simple wish.

"To be honest, of course I was afraid at the beginning. I have been protecting me from childhood to adulthood, and I don't have to worry about anything. When I really faced those dangers and horrors, I was so scared that I didn't know what to do. At first, I didn't understand his painstaking efforts, so why did I drive me out? I have been ignored for a year or two. Aren't you afraid that I will die outside like this? But later I gradually understood. Maybe that place is the most dangerous for me. He hopes that when I grow strong enough and I will never be afraid of anything again!"

Hua Qiangu looked at his twinkling eyes as bright as stars, and nobility and domineeringness were visible on her face. At that time, she didn't understand what the kingly wind was, but many years later, when she saw those eyes again, she couldn't say that she was shocked and surrendered in her heart, knowing that he could fully support the whole world with his own strength. What was even more valuable and touched by her was his unchanging world and innocent heart.

"Well, I went to Maoshan and hope that one day I will no longer be so timid. My father said that you should be fearless and respectful in life. If you try so hard to catch ghosts and demons, and experience yourself, you will definitely become a man who stands tall in the future!"

"Is there anything fearless in my heart? " Xuanyuan Lang murmured to himself, nodded vigorously, and said firmly at Hua Qiangu, "I will come to Maoshan to find you!"

"Haha, okay, maybe I was very awesome at that time!" Hua Qiangu looked up at the sky, never knowing how strange and changeable life was.

"What a beautiful moon! Is Maoshan very tall? Why is it so big? I'm hungry when I see it. Have you eaten well?"

"It should be done." Xuanyuan Lang turned the roast chicken out of the fire, and the fragrance was everywhere.

Hua Qiangu’s saliva was flowing: “There are still a few steamed buns, let’s eat them together!”

While the two were eating, they talked about their experiences and embarrassing things when they met ghosts, and they both laughed and leaned back and forth.

"I didn't expect that there are people who are so easily possessed by ghosts, hahaha!"

"Yes, that time, the hungry ghost was possessed by me for three days and three nights, and I couldn't drive away no matter how much I could eat. I almost ate all the food at home. I was just a big jar of rice, and I almost didn't get over to death. Finally, my father took six or seven jars of wine to fill me. I was drunk and fainted. The monk in the temple drove the ghost away. I made me gain several pounds of weight, and then I got drunk as soon as I was drunk when I was full. I also got a strange problem of getting sleepy when I ate."

Hua Qiangu yawned: "So I always eat 70% full and I dare not eat too much, but today this roast chicken is so delicious..."

As he said that, he really shakingly fell backwards and fell asleep. He also held a chicken wing in his hand. He had just bitten a piece of chicken in his mouth before he could even swallow it, and half of it was exposed outside.

Xuanyuan Lang smiled so much that his stomach hurt. He squatted in front of her and looked at her mouth with oily mouth, with a happy and satisfying expression of sleeping with fullness. Somewhere in his heart seemed to be about to melt.

He pulled the chicken out of her mouth, and then wiped her mouth and face with her sleeves, revealing a fair and transparent baby face.

"It's really like a girl." Xuanyuan Lang saw her dressing up and was devoted to going to Maoshan to practice Taoism, so he decided that she was a boy.

After taking the chicken wings in her hand, she continued to chew on her back, leaning against the big tree. She was afraid that Hua Qiangu would feel uncomfortable sleeping, so she rested her head on her legs. Looking at the bright moon in the vast sky, she slowly fell asleep.

The next morning, I was kicked to the ground half asleep and half awake.

"Master, don't make noise, let me sleep..." Xuanyuan Lang rolled on the ground for two and a half weeks, hugging a soft object beside him and continuing to sleep.

There was another kick behind him, and a bolt from the blue.

"Boy, you lie down here and sleep well. Get up quickly!"

Xuanyuan Lang reluctantly opened his eyes and found that he had held Hua Qiangu in his arms at some point. He jumped up in fear. He turned around and looked at his master who had made him think like crazy for the past two days.

"Ah! Hedong! You finally found me!" The excited one screamed and burst into tears.

The blonde man in front of him kicked up again, and he skillfully avoided him.

"How many times have I said it, Master!! Do you understand, respect your teacher and respect your Taoism? I don't know how Luo Hedong taught you a dissatisfied disciple. He was fooled by a turtle spirit. When it was spread, I threw away my face!"

Suddenly I felt something was wrong and kicked the unknown object under my feet.

"What's this?"

Xuanyuan Lang hurriedly protected Hua Qiangu: "He is not me, don't kick him randomly, it will be broken afterwards. Hey, why is this guy sleeping like a pig? He is still like this and still not awake!"

Luo Hedong squatted down his huge body. He was as tall as Xuanyuan Lang, like a hill.

Flipping through Hua Qiangu's eyelids, Tantan: "It's okay, I just lost some energy and was slightly weak."

Xuanyuan Lang was shocked: "How is that possible! I was there all night and I didn't find any monsters causing trouble!"

"It's not a monster, it's the thing on her neck." Luo Hedong pointed at the Tianshui Drop.

"I knew this was not a good thing, but he even sucked human essence and blood!" Xuanyuan Lang was so angry that he was about to destroy the sky water drop.

"No, no!" Luo Hedong quickly grabbed his hand, "Don't break it, this is a good thing. Just suck some essence, it won't be dead. Hello, wake up, wake up!"

Hua Qiangu felt that a big hand was patting his face, and he opened his eyes in a daze. It was so comfortable. He hadn't slept so comfortably in the night.

Hey, what is this thing in front of you? Is it a ghost?

Hua Qiangu looked at the fierce face in front of him and took two steps back, trembling all over. Luo Hedong had blond hair, bearded face, eyebrows flying across his face, eyes like copper bells, and mouth like lions roaring. It was indeed terrifying. Therefore, many demons and monsters usually felt scared when they heard the sound and saw them.

"Don't be afraid, this is my master." Xuanyuan Lang hugged her in his arms, so thin, and suddenly he wanted to keep her by his side to protect her.

"Master, you know that you seem to be Zhong Kui, don't get so close to you. Alright? He saved me yesterday, otherwise I would have been hung on the tree by the turtle spirit with a thousand-killed sword to the sun and rain! I won't take off his turtle shell when I catch him!"

Luohedong threw something on the ground.

"Grandpa, he doesn't know which nest in the East China Sea to enjoy the happiness!"

"Wow, turtle shell!" Xuanyuan Lang picked up the thing like a lid on the ground and stroked the scriptures and gossip pictures on it little by little.

"You've already collected it?"

"If I don't catch it first, how can I find you? If you dare to be so reckless next time, you can feed me the monsters. Don't say that you are my apprentice to lose my face. I've been teaching you in vain for years!"

"Your uncle, I originally wanted to catch him with my own hands to take revenge! That turtle is lucky!" Xuanyuan Lang knocked the shell with the shell.

Luo Hedong kicked him in the butt again: "Damn you, damn boy! You have learned all the good and not bad people! You are swearing and looking careless. How do you take me back to work with you?" Luo Hedong asked Cangtian speechlessly, not knowing whether his teaching method was too failed or his apprentice was too unsatisfied. How could he turn a noble and restrained prince into a competitive country boy in just two years? He must be demolished by him when he returns.
To be continued...