After crossing the rivers and heading north, entering the northern border, the spring rain finally stopped.

On the mud road in the deserted mountain, an old donkey carried the scholar lying on his side, happily stepped up the small slope, and the sun shone through the gaps in the clouds. Lu Liangsheng narrowed his eyes and raised his hand to cover it with the "Mountain and Sea Chart" for a while.

He felt a little regretful that day when he didn't meet a big fish in the river. It was normal for the sperm to be born in the river. According to the ship's man, he saw it when he was young. Perhaps he was seriously injured and died in a fight with the monk. He sank into the bottom of the river and was eaten by fish and shrimps.

And that practitioner has never lacked any in the world. If he had not died, he would probably have no high level of cultivation now.

As for the monster who lurked at the bottom of the river last night and wanted to trick people into eating, a blue crab with only a little spiritual consciousness threw fish on the boat, just like a man fishing with bait.

"The green crab is full of evil, and it becomes black when it passes through the water. I don't know how many people drowned in the Qinglan River every year. I urged it to eat it and became vicious. Fortunately, my intelligence has not been fully opened and I don't know any magic. However, it also confirms my guess about the picture and encyclopedia of this book..."

The scholar's "Mountain and Sea Map" just turned to the last page, with a painting of rivers and rivers on it, and a big crab lies at the bottom of the river and looks up at a small boat on the water.

There is a text next to it, saying:

"The rivers are waving, the dragon is the longest, and the dragon is the second... The shrimps and crabs are the most common. They eat and sink to the bottom of the body every day, and they have spiritual spirits. However, their anger increases drastically and their nature is vicious. People do not avoid convulsions when eating."

The old donkey had already crossed the hillside, stepped on his hooves, and walked past the shade of the tree. Lu Liangsheng lowered the book, stood up and sat down, and yawned.

"Master, isn't you the official road you are following? Why did you run to the wilderness?"

In the bookshelf compartment, the small door was pushed open, and Taoist Toad changed into a short-sleeved flowery dress. Mu Chenyang stretched, and then his expression was stunned for a moment.

"This old donkey!"

The donkey's head squirted from the front, and continued to walk forward happily.

Soon, I got off the ramp and rested by a river. The toad untied the rope and jumped off the bookshelf, stood in a blue rock and looked around, then took out the small scroll on his back, sat down, and carefully gestured with round web fingers on it.

"It's okay, follow this mud path and go around the mountain and continue to move forward. After twenty miles, you can go back to the original road to the east."

Lu Liangsheng squatted by the stream, rinsed his mouth with a gurgling spit out of the cracks in the stone, and turned his face to the side.

"Master, are you sure?"

"Hmph, when did you deceive you?"

When the toad said this, his mouth twitched, and snorted again, rolled the map scroll and put it behind him, hugged the double webbed to see the morning mist in the distant mountains and forests, and coughed dryly.

"......... This land in Northern Zhou Dynasty was traversed for many years, with mountains, rivers and rivers under the feet of the master. What else do you don't know? How could this journey go wrong?"

"Master Toad is starting to speak loudly again." Hong Lian's voice sounded in the scroll. She recovered quite well during this period.

The Toad Taoist jumped off the Qingyan, whistled, called the old donkey, and climbed up the compartment along the rope.

"Is it a big talk? I will know later that I am waiting for you, a little girl, to apologize."

Wow...

Wringing the towel out, Lu Liangsheng listened to his master and Hong Lian, washed his face, took a deep breath of the smell of the stream, and let out a deep breath of turbid air.

"Master, how far is Qishan from here?"

"No sure."

The toad sat on the edge of the compartment, hanging his legs and tapping, looking back at the apprentice walking over.

"You don't know how to fly the clouds and mist. You can use shrinking the ground to form an inch at least five or six days, or at most ten or half a month."

On the other side, Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey back to the mud road. The dark black-patterned gourd on his waist swayed and walked into the bamboo forest ahead. The green green bamboo stretched out, and the wind blew, and the bamboo leaves flew and fell on the body of a person and a donkey.

While moving forward, his steps suddenly stopped. Lu Liangsheng thought of some possibilities, continued to walk forward and asked:

"Master, you said that Qishan has your cave and there are many magical medicines. If you give some to my parents and sisters, can you let them enter the practice?"

"impossible."

In the small compartment, the toad Taoist man was carrying his short legs, and the frog webbing bounced and a bamboo leaf floated away.

"Not everyone can enter the practice of cultivation, you know that, but it is still possible to prolong your parents and sisters' life. There are also many in the teacher's cave."

The sound paused.

"Well... maybe just enough three."

Well!

Lu Liangsheng was stunned for a moment, then laughed, subconsciously reached out to get the gourd, and then he realized that there was no alcohol inside.

I'm a little uncomfortable without alcohol.

"Master, you're on the way, hurry up!"

According to the geographical location described by Taoist Toad, after passing through the mountains and forests in front, it is an official road. Normally, after going north, you will face Ningzhou, and only seven or eight hundred miles away from Qishan. You can walk along the way and sometimes you can see mountain villages and towns. But after a long distance, there are barren mountains and wild ridges between your sight.

"Master, I'm afraid I've taken the wrong path."

"Never mind, I missed the past, traversing three mountains and five mountains..."

In the afternoon, the clouds were dim and the sky was exposed, and I went up to an official road. A little further away, I could see the fields on both sides of the road. Lu Liangsheng led the reins over and was walking up the ridge of the field and carrying a hoe.

"This father-in-law, can you find out about the road?"

Hearing the words, the farmer carrying a hoe was over fifty years old. He turned around and saw a scholar holding a donkey and robe standing by the roadside.

The old farmer smiled and put down his hoe, leaned on his feet, and wiped the sweat from his face.

"I heard from the young master that he had the accent of Chen Chao from the south, right?"

Lu Liangsheng was stunned and replied.

"That's how can the father-in-law hear it when he is in Chen Fushui County, Xianan?"

Most farmers spend their lives peacefully. From childhood to adulthood, they rarely leave the village. The county is one acre and three cents of land. Even travelers traveling from south to north will not often stay in the same village.

"Young Master, don't blame me. Except for some business trips in the north, there are few people from the south here. Today, a few of them came and asked for directions, so I asked."

"I see."

Lu Liangsheng made a polite sentence with the old farmer, and then asked where he was going.

"Chao Ningzhou? Qishan?"

The old farmer shook his head and did not dare to speak nonsense.

"I haven't heard of it, but Shunyuan County is not far ahead. You can go there to ask."

Following the direction the old farmer pointed, Lu Liangsheng bowed and thanked him, led the old donkey eating grass by the roadside, and quickly left. After almost half a stick of incense along the official road, he saw the outline of a county town from afar.

The sunset dyes the west clouds red.

The rammed earth wall was not long and covered with holes of bumblebees. Some places were peeled off and pits were sank. The soldiers of Northern Zhou at the city gate yawned lazily and watched the four scholars looking around with their bookshelf on their backs.

"This is Shunyuan County. Well, it's a bit dilapidated."

"It should be understandable to the remote small county, let alone the four of us are studying for research in order to visit Wang Sheng, so why bother to care about a county town?"

"What my brother said is, what I said."

…………

"The city gate is closed!"

The soldiers guarding the city saw that Shi Chen was almost the same, howled, and called on their companions to return inside. Just as they were pushing the city gate to close, a scholar led the old donkey and slipped in quickly, got off the back of the donkey, and bowed politely.

"I'm sorry, I almost missed it."

"Forget it, it's okay."

If you don’t hit the smiling person, the soldiers saw that he was a weak scholar who was dressed in a worn-out manner, and it was rare to ask about it.

"Thank you all."

Lu Liangsheng thanked him and walked over to the soldiers who looked kind-looking and asked:

"Brother, please ask me if you want to go to Ningzhou?"

"Chao Ningzhou?"

The soldier was stunned for a moment, then looked at his companions around him and laughed out loud.

"You scholar, why are you running around without knowing the road? Here, Taien Mansion is under the jurisdiction of Chaoningzhou. If you want to go to Chao Ningzhou, you have to pass through here first. It will take at least two or three days to go. It's getting late. Come into the city sooner and find an inn to rest. Let's get on the road early tomorrow morning."

Well……

Lu Liangsheng was stunned and felt very bad. According to the place name mark on the map, from the place where he went ashore, he followed it for at least dozens of miles, and he went astray.

"Master...what do you say?"

cough……

In the compartment, the toad coughed a few times and looked at one side.
Chapter completed!