January 11, 2018

After a whole night of rest, Wang Jiu temporarily adjusted his travel route and walked straight from the rugged mountain road to the southeast direction for a thousand miles.

Leaving the steep mountainous areas, the speed of the few people did not significantly accelerate, because after crossing the continuous mountains of Teng Country in the east of Qingyun City, it was the so-called border area.

Two thousand years ago, the Li family led a team to go south from Liantian City to pioneer and ignited the spark of civilization in the chaotic and barbaric area. In the following two thousand years, the civilized area of ​​the Xiangzhou continent was expanded more than ten times, but this kind of development did not spread evenly. Thousands of miles southeast of Qingyun City, that is, the area south of Teng Country, including the Huahai Plain and the Huashan Mountains, was always the marginal area of ​​the Xiangzhou continent.

Poverty, backwardness, risk, and rarely visited. In general, this is the main feature of the marginal area. Wang Jiu took four young girls to walk in the marginal area for two days. There was no city or village to replenish, nor was there a straight and smooth road. During this period, he even encountered several sneak attacks of mountain spirits who were blind.

Even so, compared with the truly barbaric border, the Huahai and Huashan areas are much safer. Almost no demon can bypass the defense line of the civilized border and invade the civilized territory of human beings. In addition, most of the mountain spirits and wild monsters adhere to their duties and thrives silently in rarely visited areas. Only in a very small number of areas will there be active mountain spirits and wild monsters competing for survival space with humans.

The sneak attacks of mountain spirits that Wang Jiu and his party encountered along the way were at most considered pickpockets in transportation hubs. Compared to the wilderness areas where people were killed and set fire, they were too civilized.

"…So, what are the scenes of those truly barbaric borders?"

Shen Qingming asked with a hair of dead leaves.

Not long ago, while several people were walking through a forest, several half-human-high vine spirits were aiming at several people and whipping the poisonous vine strips like crazy. Because the incident suddenly had no signs, Wang Jiu deliberately did not remind him. Shen Qingming and others were in a hurry to deal with it. Even Li Wanqing just barely protected herself. She was facing the leader of the vine spirit, and her strength was much stronger than that of the miscellaneous soldiers.

Li Chaolu and Li Xinyu were also eye-opening. They could not imagine that in the civilized areas of their common sense, they would encounter danger so casually.

In their perception, this world is very different from two thousand years ago. Liantiancheng, Jinyucheng, Qingyuncheng... More than a dozen large cities shine the light of civilization in all directions like the sun in the sky. With it as a fulcrum, hundreds of secondary cities support the civilization network of Xiangzhou. Further down, millions of towns and millions of villages are densely populated, filling all the civilized fields.

In these areas, everything is orderly, peaceful and peaceful. At least it is impossible to be attacked by a vine spirit when passing by a forest!

It's simply, too unreasonable!

Compared to the embarrassment during the battle, the young people care more about this. I did nothing but was slapped in the face with a poisonous jingle. With their background and status, it is already very qualified to not be a yamen bullying male and female. How could someone take the initiative to find a door?

Among the few, only Li Wanqing, who has richer life experience, felt nothing about this. She just wanted to go over and hug her while Shen Qingming was deeply aggrieved. The other three were all indignant and had a little thought of setting fire to the mountain to take revenge.

At this point, Wang Jiu made a summary statement: "Facts, this is purely what you asked for. Your sense of existence is too strong. When you walk, you do not restrain your true energy fluctuations. In this woodland, it is like a torch, which can easily disturb the sleeping plants."

As soon as these words were spoken, the four of them fell silent. After a while, Chen Qingming spoke, "Is it our fault that he was sneak attacked?"

"From the perspective of the fungus spirit, your uncovered true energy fluctuations are the preemptive sneak attack."

Li Wanqing said: "Let's not talk about those three newcomers, I should have always been very careful to restrain my true energy fluctuations. Why is the leader of the fungus spirit?"

Wang Jiu said: "Your perfume is a plant spice extract, which has an aphrodisiac effect on the vine spirit. The leader is looking for it because in the vine spirit group, the leader usually mates first."

Li Wanqing was stunned: "Fuji, take heat to me, a human!?"

Wang Jiu said: "This is the most violent and unruly vinegar among all vinegars. It is energetic and not picky about food. It has always been known as Teddy in vinegars."

"So this is the Tan family vine spirit?!" Li Xinyu suddenly cheered in surprise, "If I had known this, I..."

Li Chaolu kicked out: "If I had known this, you would have collected seeds and brought them home to cultivate them, right?"

"I, I don't..."

"Do you think I don't know what you are thinking? The trip between the fat man's reincarnation of the Vineyard and the beautiful girl is right?"

"How do you know!?"

"After Aunt Wenjun received your application for loan, you were not at home when you sent the book, so please ask me to hand it over... If it weren't for the owner of the book, Aunt Wenjun, I would have burned it on the spot!"

"I'm wrong, please don't tell my mother."

"It's too late, mom already knows it. Please wait until you go back and be taught a lesson by her."

Wang Jiu ignored the two and continued to educate: "In addition, including Li Wanqing, the way to restrain the fluctuations of the true energy is too rigid, and the typical style of scholastic school is very poor in the face of complex environments. It may not be reflected in such relatively peaceful areas, but if it is in a chaotic and barbaric area, basically everyone is the train king."

Although I don’t know what the words in the prehistoric era of the Train King mean, several people understand what Wang Jiu wants to say. They each fell into silence and reflection.

It was not until the sky was getting late and the sun set, and Chen Qingming said casually: "...So, Ajiu, is this a vivid on-site teaching you prepared for us?"

Wang Jiu said: "Of course not. With your intelligence level, it is difficult to understand the joy of learning. If you organize on-site teaching, you will definitely feel bored."

“…”

“This is just the fun part I use to enrich the hike.”

Chen Qingming asked, "If I say this is not interesting at all, I will experience the sea of ​​fire next time, right?"

Wang Jiu gave a thumbs up: "You are smarter than your ancestor Shen Kaishan. He realized how interesting my design was until his hair and eyebrows were burned out."

"...Okay, we have now realized how funny you are. Can we set off to Shencheng as soon as possible?"

Wang Jiu said: "Of course, but in fact, we don't have more time to spend on the entertainment stage next time. It's only more than a month before Chen Ruoshi's birthday party, and our preparation time is quite limited."

"So you also know that we have limited time!"

Wang Jiu said: "That's why I combined preparations with entertainment to improve efficiency."

“…What preparation is this kind of hiking that makes people fallen leaves?”

"Considering your subtle relationship with the Shen family, I think a bad and long trip and a mess that can not only reflect our sincerity in traveling far away to celebrate their birthdays, but also please their sensitive nerves."

“…”

Wang Jiu said: "So we have to turn northeast along this river. We can arrive at Yulin Village about this evening, where we will be placed for one night, and sleep for two hours briefly. We can arrive in Shencheng before the next morning. I think that sleepy and greasy appearance will be more conducive to winning the favor of the Shen family."

Chen Qingming was convinced by the thinking circuit of this divine sword outside the sky, and could only be speechless. Li Chaolu looked intoxicated and murmured in a low voice: "Mr. Wang Jiu's far-sighted look is so handsome..."

Only Li Wanqing took out a map and searched for a long time but couldn't find the location of the so-called Yulin Village.

"The traditional map will not have that small village. You can only find a gluttonous word about the fish soup in a small fishing village two hundred miles south of Shencheng on page 174 of the local food guide in Shencheng."

"..." Li Wanqing pinched the map and opened her mouth, and she had nothing to say about the meticulousness of this sword spirit.

Wang Jiuze said enthusiastically: "It is said that only the fish soup made of fresh fish salvaged late is the most delicious, so if we speed up the journey now, we can arrive in Yulin Village at the right time for the meal!"

"It sounds like this journey has finally had a really interesting part." Chen Qingming said exhausted.

Under the command of Wang Jiu, the group accelerated their pace and finally arrived at Yulin Village, which was written only after the food guide that evening.

This is a small village with a population of only a few hundred. It was originally named Yulin Village because the local fresh fish is very famous, and it was later renamed Yulin Village.

The group claimed to be travelers who were traveling far away and found a private family to stay. After paying dozens of taels of silver, Wang Jiu successfully convinced the young and beautiful little fish mother in the house to catch fish for them in the night and presented delicious fish soup.

After drinking the fish soup, with the warmth in her stomach, several people gathered in the vacant warehouse of the house and prepared to start a short rest. Before going to bed, Chen Qingming also made simple embarrassing makeup under the command of Wang Jiu to cope with the actual test the next morning...

However, just as the few people were about to go to bed, a harsh buzz suddenly came, and then a panic noise in the village started to stir up.

Several monks immediately opened their eyes, adjusted their breathing, focused their minds, and prepared to deal with all changes. After a moment, the door was opened vigorously, and the cute little fish girl shouted anxiously: "Get ready quickly, come with me to take refuge in the village chief's house... Hey, are you all ready?"

Wang Jiu was wearing white clothes, and under the moonlight, he looked like a fairy descending to earth, but his face was extremely solemn.

"What's wrong?" Chen Qingming asked.
Chapter completed!