The main way for monks to make money is through the practice of cultivating ghosts and exorcising ghosts. Things such as exorcism and subjugation of demons are something that can only be achieved by chance.
Fa Hai ate and drank all the way, stopped and walked, visited mountains and rivers, and felt very uncomfortable. He walked straight for more than half a month before passing through Puyang County and arriving at Shanyang County.
Shanyang County is already the border of the Song Dynasty. There are constant wars all year round, mourners are everywhere, monsters are rampant, and the people's life is extremely difficult. Along the way, Fahai personally prevented several human tragedies of exchanging children for food. Unfortunately, he was only a little monk.
, he is not the emperor of the world, he can only sweep away the snow in front of his own door, and cannot change the general trend of the world.
Sometimes when you have experienced too much, you become a little bearish.
So in Fahai, Shanyang County, I simply chose to stay out of sight. I walked through the mountains and forests along the way. I drank a few sips of spring water when I was thirsty and cooked a meal of game when I was hungry. I explored the secluded mountains and forests along the way.
, but it’s not that interesting.
Buddhism teaches that one enters the world first and then emerges from it, while Confucianism teaches that one must read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles. After Fahai’s long journey of thousands of miles, his experience and knowledge have increased a lot, and even his state of mind has improved a lot, becoming more ethereal and calm.
After more than ten days, Fahai has gradually approached his destination, Heishui Town, Heifengling, Luliang Mountains, Shanyang County.
Shanyang County is different from the fertile hinterland of the Central Plains. Just like its name, the further inland you go, there are towering peaks, cliffs, deep valleys, and hills everywhere. In such terrain, there are also many Great Wall checkpoints built to resist foreign aggression.
The most famous one is Heifengling Niangzi Pass, which has hundreds of thousands of soldiers.
Heifeng Ridge is located at one end of the Luliang Mountains. It is nearly a thousand miles wide. From the past dynasties to the Song Dynasty, Heifeng Ridge was the site of hundreds of battles. It has gone through thousands of major battles. Except for those who were buried in the soil, the bones of the fallen generals have been exposed.
There are countless generals whose corpses are not buried, so as soon as they enter the Black Wind Ridge area, every time after dark, there is a gloomy wind, ghosts and ghosts, and ghosts wandering around.
The people who survive in this place need a strong enough heart.
On this day, Fahai came to Heifengling, one of the five towns of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, Heitu Town, a hundred miles away from Heishui Town.
In Fahai's eyes, Heitu Town is just a small mountain village. It is incomparable with the Qian'an Town he has been to. There is only one official road in the whole town, with hundreds of households, and there is only one solitary inn and restaurant.
——Heroes Inn.
However, in such a small town, there is an endless stream of pedestrians coming and going, and most of them are people from the martial arts world with swords on their backs, as well as people from the cultivation world.
There is a custom in Heifengling that as soon as the sun sets in the west, people will immediately close their stalls and go home to eat, sleep and play with their wives. The people here do not engage in any other nightlife.
When Fahai arrived at Heitu Town, the sun had already set, and the land gradually turned dark. Apart from some hurried wanderers, there was not a single local in sight on the streets of Heitu Town. The town was in a state of depression, with only the occasional dark wind blowing and the branches rustling.
, which makes people feel even more eerie.
Fahai dusted himself off and walked into the only noisy building in Heitu Town - the Hero Inn.
Although he was fully mentally prepared, Fahai sighed again as soon as he entered the inn. From the outside, this inn was comparable to the Longmen Inn. Looking inside, he felt that the Longmen Inn in the movie was also good, at least not as good as this one.
break.
Air-leaking adobe walls, creaking doors and windows, dim light, damp and even muddy floors, tables, chairs and benches scattered in random directions, as well as three or five tough-looking waiters, and a female insect-like figure standing behind the counter.
Boss lady...
"Please come in, guest officer!"
Under the greeting of the tough waiter, Fahai found a relatively clean wooden table and sat down. Looking around, he found that there were not many guests, only about ten, all of them dressed as charlatans and chatting.
Sitting there eating, drinking, and talking loudly.
"The poor monk just saw many people coming in..."
Fahai couldn't help but asked a little strangely. He saw many hurried travelers entering this inn on the street. Why were there only so many in the lobby?
"Those senior people don't like to make noise, and they are all eating, drinking and resting in their rooms. I heard that they are going to Blackwater Town in the evening..." the waiter explained, and then said, "Sir, what do you want? Come on.
How about the hero package?”
"What kind of hero package?" Fahai was stunned.
"Two pounds of cooked beef, one pound of red meat." The waiter chuckled, "It's not expensive, only two taels of silver."
"Forget it, who knows if it's beef or human meat you have here." Fahai said with a smile, "Just give me something lighter."
"Guest, please don't be joking. We are a century-old store here, and we are very good at it." The waiter couldn't help but twitched his face, and said with a guilty smile, "Then, please, please order a set meal!"
"Expert package?"
"A pot of water, a portion of Polygonatum odorifera, some fruits, just one or two to replenish qi and essence."
When the waiter saw Fa Hai nodding, he hurriedly shouted, "Give this guest a master's set menu..."
To put it bluntly, Huangjing is chicken head ginseng and tiger ginger. They are everywhere in the mountains here. They are not worth a few pennies. But in this inn, as soon as the word "expert" is hung on the name, the value will increase hundreds of times.
Looking at the dry set meal on the table, Fahai smiled bitterly. However, this Daxia Inn looked like a black shop. He really didn't dare to eat the meat, water and wine here. He was not afraid of being drugged, but was afraid of nausea.
.
It's all good to be at home, but everything is difficult to do when going out, and sometimes you have to make do with it.
"Xiao Er, what kind of hero package are you talking about? Why does this girl's red odor smell like something dirty?"
Just as Fahai picked up an apple and gnawed on it, a burly man at the next table with a big knife stuck in his back slammed the table and shouted angrily at the waiter.
"It's good to have some to drink, but why are you so picky?"
Before the waiter could answer, the proprietress who looked like Duolong behind the counter put down the pen in her hand and said angrily, "If you think the drinks here are not good, you can go eat elsewhere!"
"Within this Black Wind Ridge, there are zombies everywhere at night. There is only one inn like ours within a hundred miles. If you want to find zombies to eat, you can go out! Otherwise, let me eat your food honestly!!"
"Your daughter Hong is so disgusting..." When the wealthy guest heard this, he suddenly became a little weak and said angrily.
"Ner Hong, what other flavor do you want? Xiao Erzi, take out my mother's moon cloth (ancient sanitary napkin) and let him soak it for a while longer!"
"Pfft~"
Several tables of charlatans immediately squirted out the wine in their mouths, and Fa Hai also squirted out, bursting into laughter!
This inn is so tough! It’s worthy of being a hero’s inn~
"Uncle, I will demolish this black shop of yours!!"
There was a sound of the sword being unsheathed, and seven or eight Jianghu people stood up angrily and were about to attack each other with swords.
"Demolish the store? You are not the first, waiter, tell them, who opened this store?" The proprietress didn't even raise her eyelids.
Upon hearing this, the tough guy immediately pulled out a command flag from behind the counter and flicked it, revealing the two huge characters "Zhongli" on the flag.
"Zhongli?!"
Fa Hai was stunned when he saw this, and heard the waiter say proudly, "Our boss is none other than General Heifengsha Zhongli Kui Zhongli, the garrison general of Niangziguan in Heifengling. You guys dare to make trouble here, don't you think so?"
Did you make it out of Black Wind Ridge alive?"
Zhong Likui, a master of the seventh-level immortal military strategist, the garrison general of Niangziguan, has 300,000 soldiers under his command, and there are as many masters in the army as clouds. Within a thousand miles of Heifeng Ridge, he is the sky, and what he says is the king's law. Here it is black and white.
Two people who want to make a living must act based on General Zhongli's eyes.
"Humph, Zhonglikui is amazing!"
"If you don't want to eat, let's go!"
The crowd of Jianghu people suddenly shrank, and after forcing themselves to say a few words, their faces turned red with shame, and they slipped out of the door in embarrassment. They did not doubt what the waiter said, because no one in Heifeng Ridge dared to hit Zhongli.
Kui's name is so pretentious and deceitful, it's just boring.
"Want to leave? Pay the money for the drinks first."
At this time, a Jianghu guest had already walked to the door. The waiter immediately put down his command flag, jumped up, and chased after him with extremely fast speed.
But before he could catch the charlatan, a thunderous noise suddenly came from the door, and the charlatan flew back and fell hard into the lobby, knocking over the tables and chairs on the floor.
The Jianghu guest who fell on the ground had a greenish look on his face, his eyes were wide open, he was already dead, and his whole body was as black as coal, as if he had just been struck by lightning, which was particularly scary.
At this time, an extremely arrogant voice sounded outside the inn.
"You blind guy dares to block our senior sister's way. You deserve to die!"
Under the horrified eyes of the whole room, four young monks, one woman and three men, walked in swaggeringly.
"Um, it's the three of them?"
Fahai suddenly felt that the world was really small, so small that you would always meet people you didn't want to see. For example, when Fahai was in the capital, he always humiliated some of his childhood friends.