0117. Act Bravely
Taibai Mountain is covered by virgin forest, with angry green waves and beautiful scenery.
Li Mu rode a green-maned horse and walked slowly along the official road towards the outside of the mountain.
Zheng Cunjian rode another green-maned horse, following closely behind.
This time Li Mu decided to go to Chang'an City and did not bring anyone else with him. Only Zheng Cunjian, a prisoner who was familiar with the situation in Chang'an City, followed him and acted as a human guide.
Chang'an City is located northeast of Taibai County, about 700 miles away.
From Taibai County to Chang'an City, there is only one official road built a hundred years ago. The road shuttles between the green mountains and ridges, like a white snake, twists and turns, and you can hear the singing of wild birds along the way. Alien beasts and wolves howl, giant trees tower into the sky, and rocks stand abruptly. The scenery is breathtaking.
Walking towards the outer reaches of the mountains, the terrain gradually becomes gentle and the mountains gradually stop.
The official road became wider.
There are more and more pedestrians on the road.
Li Mu has always been curious about this world that is similar to the ancient Chinese style on earth. He has been observing along the way, and occasionally chatting with some passers-by and chatting randomly, just for fun.
Zheng Cunjian followed behind and rarely spoke.
Because Zhao Ling, the little swan of the Taibai Sword Sect, refused to treat his leg injury, he was only treated by Huo Bodhisattva, a doctor at the county government medical center. The effect was naturally not as good as that of the pharmacist Zhao Ling himself, so until now So far, it has not been completely smooth.
At dusk that day, the two came to Ping'an Town, four hundred miles away from Chang'an City.
This town is about the same size as Taibai County, and even slightly more prosperous.
As night falls, the lights turn on.
Li Mu was sitting cross-legged on the bed in the inn room, practicing [Xiantian Kung Fu].
He was keenly aware that the further away from Taibai Mountain, the thinner the spiritual energy in the air became.
The level of aura in Ping'an Town is naturally incomparable to the county government that is currently shrouded by the [Tiangang Earthly Evil Formation], but compared with the normal areas in Taibai County, the aura is much weaker.
"Vegetation, mountains and rivers, rivers and waterfalls, spiritual birds and beasts, the earth's air...these are the sources of spiritual energy. In Taibai Mountain, the environment is primitive, the air is fresh, and there are very few traces of human activities, so the spiritual energy is richer, and the world outside the mountain , there are many traces of human activities and huge changes, so there is little aura.”
Li Mu felt enlightened.
The reason why there is no spiritual energy on the earth may be because the transformation and pollution of nature by humans on earth have actually reached a certain limit. The turbid air is full and it is difficult for the pure air to generate on its own. Therefore, many immortal skills mastered by the old magic stick, Various martial arts training methods, without the support of spiritual energy, are like trees without roots or water without sources, and it is difficult to show their power at all.
If the environment on earth improves, will spiritual energy gradually emerge?
In other words, tens of thousands of years ago... no, even thousands of years ago, when humans on earth had not entered the industrial era and the earth's environment was still in a relatively primitive stage, there might have been auras on the earth. ?
Li Mu had some enlightenment after practicing, so he simply walked out of the room alone and walked around the streets of Ping'an Town.
Walking among the streets with antique gray bricks and blue tiles, Li Mu seemed to be used to such scenes. Except for the fact that his thick short black hair was incompatible with the surrounding atmosphere and caused strange looks from passers-by, he had already Gradually I fell in love with this primitive yet lively and prosperous atmosphere.
"Wontons, the most famous Wang Mazi Wontons in Ping'an Town."
"The mutton guillotine noodles will make you want to eat another bowl after eating one bowl."
"Brown sugar sorbet...not sweet and free of charge."
The streets in Ping'an Town are very wide, with uneven bluestone paving. Most of the tile-roofed houses on both sides of the street are one-story. There are time-honored signs hanging at the entrances of various shops, and there are many vendors on the roadside using unique The crowd was shouting, and it was very lively.
Because it was night time, there were many food stalls on the roadside.
"Master, would you like a bowl of plain noodles? Zhou Ji plain noodles, a bowl only costs one penny..." An old woman with a white coarse sweat towel on her head greeted Li Mu with a somewhat flattering smile on her face.
Li Mu couldn't laugh or cry.
With his short hair, he was actually regarded as a wandering monk.
Judging from the age of this old woman, she must be at least in her sixties. She has gray hair and a curvy waist. She does not have the skilled smile of other vendors on her face. She does not seem to do business often.
"Brother, please have a bowl. It's delicious."
A thin little girl, wearing a patchwork of coarse cloth, was helping her grandma clean the tables, chairs and benches. Hearing this, she also cast an expectant look at Li Mu.
Obviously, the business of the two nannies is not good.
A dining table of jujube wood with a broken leg, supported by two rough blue bricks, was placed in the corner of the street. There were a few gray porcelain bowls and a few pairs of bamboo chopsticks, all polished clean and shiny. At the old lady's feet was a simple flat table. On the bamboo pole, there are noodle boxes and seasoning jars on one end, and a simple small stove on the other end. There is a small iron pot on it, and the white noodle soup is bubbling in it.
Li Mu shook his head.
The noodles are plain and the soup is bland. It is really not competitive in this fragrant snack street.
Maybe the old man mistakenly thought that he was a wandering monk who did not eat meat but only ate vegetarian food, so he took the initiative to recruit him?
His subconscious shaking of his head made the old woman's face flash with a hint of sadness, and the thin little girl also became anxious and gently tugged on the corner of Li Mu's clothes, praying with a face full of words: "Brother, Eat a bowl, just eat a bowl, okay? It’s delicious..."
Li Mu saw a sad light in this little girl's eyes.
"Okay, let's have a bowl." Li Mu walked over and sat at the low square table made of red wood with one leg missing.
The little girl cheered: "Thank you, big brother."
"Sit down, master, sit down quickly...you'll be ready soon." The old woman's wrinkled face also showed a look of joy that was difficult to conceal.
While saying hello, she quickly turned around and went downstairs with trembling hands and feet. What she took out from the noodle box was light black and extremely rough hair. Her hands were covered with calluses and her waist was as bumpy as a building about to collapse. of mountain peaks.
Soon, the little girl brought a bowl of multi-grain noodles with bland soup and placed it in front of Li Mu.
There are a few vegetable leaves floating on the noodles, which look like some unknown wild vegetables, but they are also very fresh.
In the little girl's eyes full of expectation, Li Mu took the first bite.
"Brother, how are you? Is the noodles made by my grandma particularly delicious?" He looked like a kindergarten child waiting for praise from the teacher, full of expectations of being recognized by others.
Li Mu smiled and nodded: "Yeah, it's so delicious that I'm going to bite off my tongue."
The little girl immediately cheered.
The skinny little face was full of joy, as if he had heard the best compliment in the world.
Li Mu took another bite and swallowed slowly.
Actually, it tastes terrible.
For Li Mu, who is used to eating all kinds of delicacies cooked with artificial seasonings on earth, and who has been served by the county government chef and enjoyed all kinds of delicacies after coming to this planet, plain noodles with clear soup and little water, It's really a bit boring. Even the seasonings are made by the old lady herself from wild vegetables. It's hard to say it's delicious.
However, under the look of the expectant smile on the face of the thin little girl and the grateful look on the old woman's wrinkled face, Li Mu devoured the bowl of noodles in one go.
"Haha, it's delicious. Mom, please have two more bowls. I'm a little hungry today." Li Mu laughed.
"Really...really?" The little girl stammered, looking at Li Mu in disbelief.
Li Mu nodded seriously, as if he still had something to say, took out three pieces of silver from his body and handed it to her.
"That's great...Grandma, eldest brother wants two more bowls..." She jumped excitedly, took the silver, held it in her hands, carefully, for fear of losing it, and ran to the small wood at the end of the load. He took out a small money bag from the box and put them all inside. Then he counted it carefully with his fingers and said to himself: "Three more coins. If I save another three hundred coins, it will be enough."
Li Mu couldn't help but feel sad when he saw her like this.
I don’t know where the little girl’s parents have gone. For such an old man and a girl to have such a hard life on the street, the scene of the little girl counting money on her fingers has been in Li Mu’s mind for a long time. Disperse.
"Mom, let's have a bowl of noodles."
The fragrant breeze blew over, and a light and sweet voice came from behind.
A woman in white wearing a round gauze hat came over and sat on the other side of the maroon wooden table. With a click, she casually placed a long sword with a white scabbard on the table.
Li Mu couldn't help but take another look.
This is a young woman, probably young, with a slender figure. She is dressed in a white neutral robe as pure as snow and spotless. Her black hair is as thick as a waterfall, pouring out from behind the gauze scarf of her gauze hat. When it came out, her hair was crystal clear, and her facial features were obscured by the white gauze. The outline was vaguely visible, with a graceful curvature. It was her bare hands that were placed casually and quietly on the table. They were as fair as jade, and their skin was like gelatin, with a natural aura. A magical charm that catches the eye.
Li Mu could tell that this was definitely a beautiful woman with extremely outstanding appearance.
Unconsciously, he took a few more glances.
"Little monk, monks, don't look at anything inappropriate." The woman in white suddenly spoke.
Li Mu was startled and couldn't laugh or cry again.
He was regarded as a wandering monk again.
It was obvious that this woman was a little annoyed by Li Mu's appraising gaze.
After all, this world is not the earth, and the etiquette and customs are much more conservative. For a monk to stare at a young woman like this, it will indeed be misunderstood.
"I was distracted." Li Mu smiled and didn't explain much.
Such an indifferent gesture seemed to make the woman in white disappear and she smiled softly.
"A monk, you are young and have a good heart." She spoke, and her voice was as sweet as pearls sliding and hitting each other on a jade plate. It was extremely pleasant.
Li Mu was startled, and then realized that this woman in white must have just seen him endure the bad taste, but after finishing eating, he ordered two more bowls of noodles, deliberately taking care of the business of the two grandsons.
Oh, this woman in white is also a warm-hearted person.
So, she followed suit and ordered a bowl of noodles.
Li Mu smiled and nodded and said nothing more.
The little girl quickly brought out three bowls of plain noodles.
The woman in white slightly lifted the white gauze covering her face, revealing a delicate face as flawless as white jade.
Li Mu felt his eyes light up, as if everything around him suddenly lost color.
Is there such a beautiful woman in the world?
In his mind, this sentence immediately popped up uncontrollably.
In front of him, the face under the white gauze had eyes like stars, lips like painted elixir, clear facial features, fair skin, and no flaws. Compared with the image of a beautiful woman in the strict sense, Li Mu couldn't tell for a while. There's something particularly good about it, but it just gives people an irreplaceable and incomparable feeling.
Just taking a look at it, Li Mu felt as if he had been electrocuted.
For a moment, he couldn't help but be stunned again.
The woman in white noticed Li Mu's gaze, but did not pay attention. Instead, she picked up the chopsticks and began to eat the noodles gracefully. Her movements were gentle. She did not look like a woman from the world with a long sword, but more like she had received aristocratic etiquette. Like a royal princess soaked in influence.
"Damn it, even watching her eat noodles is a pleasure."
Li Mu finally came to his senses.
Now he finally understood the meaning of a word - beautiful and delicious.
"Brother, the noodles are ready." The thin and dark girl saw Li Mu in a daze and couldn't help but remind her softly, "If you don't eat it, it will be soaked."
Li Mu immediately blushed, made a hesitant sound, took the bowl of noodles next to him, lowered his head, and started eating in a panic.
Shame on you.
Li Mu scolded himself in his heart, but he didn't expect that he would also be shocked by the woman's appearance.
However, there were no distracting thoughts in his heart, let alone any thoughts of getting close to and pursuing the woman here.
The reaction just now was probably just the instinct of a male creature.
After taking a few bites of noodles, Li Mu silently started to use [Xiantian Kung], and his mind quickly stabilized.
Li Mu finished two bowls of noodles, and the woman in white across from him had just finished a bowl of noodles.
She took out a gold ingot, about ten taels of silver, stuffed it into the little girl's hand, and said, "No need to look for it."
"Ah?" The little girl was a little frightened, with a confused look on her face, holding the money blankly and not knowing what to do.
The old lady on the side was also startled and said quickly: "This can't be done..." After saying that, she quickly took the gold ingot from the little girl's hand, stuffed it into the hand of the woman in white, and said: "One. A bowl of thick noodles, girl, you gave us too much, we dare not ask for it, just give us a penny."
One hundred penny is only one tael of silver.
This ten-tael gold ingot is probably worth tens of thousands of yuan.
The woman in white was so generous that she frightened the pair of nannies.
Li Mu watched on the side and couldn't help but shake his head.
I also knew that the woman in white definitely meant well, but there was something wrong with the way she expressed it.
Maybe ten taels of gold is just a drop in the bucket to her, but to most of the vendors in Pingan Town, it is definitely a huge sum of money, given to such a pair of nannies who can be said to be at the bottom of the class and have no ability to protect themselves. I'm afraid that such a huge sum of money will not only fail to help them, but may cause them some unnecessary trouble.
Li Mu could now conclude that this woman in white was born in a wealthy family and grew up with a golden key in her mouth. She did not know the sufferings of the world, especially the rules of life of the people at the bottom of the class, so she acted so unexpectedly. move.
For example, although Li Mu was kind-hearted to help the two mothers, he did not give money directly, but ordered two more bowls of noodles. This was a kind of kindness that gave the other party dignity, and at the same time, the help was within the range of what the other party could bear. , and although the woman in white also ordered a bowl of noodles, what she gave was far beyond the scope of a bowl of noodles, a bit similar to charity.
Moreover, even if it is charity, it has exceeded the highest limit.
Everything must be reversed.
At this time, people around the stall had already noticed what was happening here.
Especially some hot eyes fell on the big and bright gold ingot.
Sure enough, the sound of footsteps sounded.
"Haha, Aunt Cai, if someone gives you money, just take it. Why don't you want it?" A cheerful voice sounded with unabashed ridicule.
A few of them, who looked like scoundrels wandering the streets, came to the noodle stall with playful smiles.
The leader was a man with a horse face and a thick frame. He held two shining steel balls in his right hand and spun them around. When he smiled, he showed yellow teeth. He was the one who spoke just now.
"Ah, Mr. Ma..." When the old lady saw this group of people, her expression immediately changed.
The old man looked frightened, timid and didn't know what to say.
The little girl was also extremely frightened and quickly shrank behind her grandma, holding her clothes tightly with her little hands.
"Haha, you are really poor. A bowl of noodles is ten taels of silver, so the price is reasonable." Huangya Ma smiled cheekily and grabbed the gold directly from the old woman's hand, weighed it casually, and laughed. Said: "Since you don't accept it, I will collect it for you, Mr. Ma, and I will treat it as the monthly payment that your Aunt Cai paid this month, hahaha!"
"No, no, no, Master Ma, this... this is not the old woman's money, I..." Aunt Cai looked terrified, wanting to say something but not daring to say it, looking extremely pitiful.
"That's not grandma and I's money, it's the fairy sister's money. You can't take it, give it back to her." The little girl hiding behind her grandma clenched her fists and mustered up her courage. There was a tremor in her voice, but in her heart His concept of right and wrong still made him say such words.
"You know what a stinky girl with no father or mother is looking for death, right?" A scoundrel raised his foot and kicked over a bench.
The little girl was so frightened that she burst into tears.
"Put down the gold, kneel down and apologize, and then get out." The woman in white spoke.
"Ah?" The horse-faced yellow-toothed man was stunned, his eyes fell on the woman in white, and then he leaned over with a playful smile and said: "Hey, I didn't expect that such a stunning little fairy came to my Taiping Town. I just watched you eat it. Face, I almost didn’t bring out the soul of my buddy... You can also put down the gold. As long as you accompany us brothers, little fairy, and have a meal of fancy wine, our brothers can pour you a piece of gold. What? How's that?"
Several other rogues immediately burst into laughter.
A sharp light as sharp as a knife flashed in the eyes of the woman in white under the veil. Even through the veil, a ray of light could be seen.
It was obvious that she had murderous intentions.
Li Mu's heart was moved, he stood up and said: "Amitabha, these donors have no way to bring blessings and misfortunes, they can only bring it upon themselves. Please leave, lest you cause death without knowing it." Since you have been misunderstood. If he thinks he is a wandering monk, he might as well just play the role to the end.
The reason why he stood up and spoke was because he didn't want the woman in white to actually kill someone here.
Li Mu believed that the woman in white had an extraordinary origin, and she definitely had the strength to instantly kill several rogues who could not harm the table. He also believed that after killing these rogues, the woman in white could definitely leave easily, and no one could do anything to her. But the problem is, after the woman in white clothes kills someone, how can Granny Cai and grandson stay out of it?
Not to mention the investigation by the government, even the other gangsters in Ping'an Town, venting their anger are enough to plunge the lives of Granny Cai, grandma and grandson into the terrifying Shura Hell in an instant.
This woman in white is used to being high and mighty, and her way of solving problems is completely commanding, which is obviously not suitable for resolving disputes between ordinary people in a small town.
Seeing Li Mu speak, the woman in white endured it and did not take action.
On the other hand, the rogue leader with a horse-faced face and yellow teeth turned his head and sneered, staring at Li Mu, his tone full of threats, and said: "Little monk, how many brains do you have, how dare you interfere in the affairs of the elders? Two days ago , a foreigner was meddling in other people’s business without thinking of his own abilities, do you know where his body is now?”
"Haha, that foreigner has developed inner energy and is known as a martial arts master. What happened? We caught him with smoke, lime and animal traps, chopped off his limbs, and gouged out his eyes and tongue... …”
"That's right, right now, his body has been chewed clean by the wild dogs in Zhenxitou, hahaha!"
Several other rogues smiled proudly.
"Amitabha, put down your butcher knife and become a Buddha on the spot." Li Mu looked calm and looked like an enlightened monk, and said sincerely: "The donors have committed serious sins and should repent, otherwise, catastrophe is around the corner... "But in fact, Li Mu had murderous intentions in his heart.
These scoundrels are so cruel and vicious that they really deserve to be treated with such disregard for human life.
"Stinky bald donkey, you fucking Luo Liba Sui is looking for death, aren't you?" The horse-faced yellow-toothed expression became vicious, and he yelled: "You are shameless, so why don't you get out of here? Brothers, take off your clothes first. This bald donkey had two legs, and they were made into bacon and fed to him."
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Two chapters in one, good night everyone