Chapter 84 Meeting an Old Friend in a Foreign Land

Under the sultry afternoon sun, the caravan of merchants walked on the road.

It was past the beginning of summer, and the mountains were getting hotter.

Every step the huge pack animal took made the ground tremble slightly.

Under the scorching sun, the merchants following the pack animals were sweating all over, and some could not stand the scorching sun.

But when they saw the boundary marker of Baishi City in front of them, they still cheered.

"Hahaha... we are finally getting to Baishi City."

"I'm going to take a cold shower after entering the city! Then have a good sleep!"

"I'm afraid you won't sleep alone... Hahaha..."

A burst of cheerful teasing broke out in the caravan.

However, although Lu Heng was not with them, the conversation between the men did not dare to be too explicit. They chatted a little, but did not dare to go deep into this topic. They just winked at each other and couldn't help but chuckled.

Not far in front of them, there was a huge stone tablet on the side of the road, with the big characters "Bai Shi City" engraved on it.

Below the three big characters "Bai Shi City", there were densely packed small characters engraved.

However, behind the boundary tablet, there was still a desolate road and uninhabited mountains and forests, and no trace of the city was seen.

Seeing that Lu Heng was curious about the boundary tablet, Huo Feng began to explain.

"This is the boundary marker of Baishi City. Once you step into the range of this boundary marker, you will be considered to have entered the protection range of the witch master of Baishi City."

"Although we are about a day's walk away from Baishi City, we will not encounter any more monsters on the next section of the road."

Huo Feng said, "Within the range of the boundary marker, there are patrol masters from the Fire God Temple to patrol everywhere to prevent the invasion of monsters."

"Of course, wild beasts are not within the range of the patrol masters. So there will still be fierce beasts entrenched."

"But within the range of the boundary marker, the villagers are all hundreds or even thousands of people. So as long as there are no monsters, ordinary fierce beasts rarely hurt people."

Lu Heng nodded, indicating that he understood.

After passing the boundary marker, the next road is much easier to walk. It can be seen that the road within the boundary marker will be frequently renovated, and there are few potholes.

And the further you go, the more people and farmland appear on both sides of the road. There are more people on the road, and it is no longer like before when you walked in the wilderness for ten days without seeing anyone.

On this night, the post house where the caravan stayed was no longer the kind of desolate and empty post house. Instead, it was a post house managed by someone and collected money, somewhat similar to the inn that Lu Heng knew.

But according to Huo Feng, there were no private post houses (inns) in this world.

All post houses were under the jurisdiction of the Fire God Temple, and there would be a wizard from the Fire God Temple in the post house to prevent evil spirits from mixing into the merchants.

The post house in the city was directly opposite the Fire God Temple, and it was only one street away from the Fire God Temple. At such a close distance, the demons with low cultivation could not hide themselves at all.

As for the demons with high cultivation, they did not need to hide in the crowd, so this management method naturally could not prevent them.

Because there was a wizard in the post house where the caravan stayed tonight, it was not convenient for Lu Heng to enter, so he said goodbye to the merchants on the road.

Although demon cultivators are divided into evil cultivators and righteous cultivators, demon cultivators who do not eat people, do not do evil, and do not practice magic can stay in the post house. Only those evil people who do evil and eat people and are full of evil spirits are not welcome.

But Lu Heng is in a special state. If he goes to the post station, the wizard in charge of the post station will see that he is a demon cultivator and will definitely open his magic eyes to observe. And once the wizard opens his magic eyes... Oh...

Lu Heng couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this.

The development of this technique of hiding the spirit is really important to him, but now he still has no clue.

Even though Lu Heng has a headache, he can't do anything.

After saying goodbye to the caravan, Lu Heng took Xiao Ai and Huo Feng and went straight south.

The further you go on this road, the more people there are on the road. Lu Heng is worried that he will meet curious practitioners on the road and cause trouble, so he plans to go through the wilderness and stay away from the crowd until he leaves the range of the boundary marker and then returns to the road.

Lu Heng and Xiao Ai have cultivation, and the rugged mountains and forests can't stop them. Huo Feng's horse can travel thousands of miles a day, and it is extraordinary. It can walk on cliffs as if they were flat ground. It is not difficult to carry Huo Feng through the wilderness.

Therefore, the three of them went directly into the mountains and forests and traveled through the wilderness.

At nightfall, they found a place with leeward wind to camp and lit a bonfire in the mountains.

This familiar scene seemed to have returned to the time when Lu Heng and Xiao Ai just came down the mountain. There was only one person and one wolf walking silently in the wilderness.

But now there is only Huo Feng beside him...

After stopping to rest, Huo Feng will try hard to gather the spiritual energy in his body. However, his Tao heart is broken, his spiritual energy is disordered, and his cultivation is lost. No matter how hard he tries, he can't do it.

But Huo Feng was not discouraged. After feeding the fat bird that kept calling in the cage, the young man smiled and chatted with the Wolf God about interesting things.

During the conversations in the past few days, Huo Feng found that the Wolf God was very interested in the mundane affairs of the world, so he took the initiative to share some of his experiences and experiences in the past few years with the Wolf God.

The people of Yunmen traveled far and wide, and their experience was quite extensive. After chatting with Huo Feng these days, although Lu Heng had no idea about the art of hiding his spirit, his knowledge was much richer.

If he were to talk to others now, he probably wouldn't make the same embarrassing mistake of common sense.

In the wilderness, Lu Heng and others camped and rested.

On the road, the caravan that separated from them rested at the post station outside the city for one night, and then set out early the next morning, arriving at the post station in Baishi City before dark.

Compared with the post station outside the city, the post station in Baishi City is much larger. Many merchants live in this post station until the goods they carry are sold out and new goods are purchased, and then they leave.

This process often lasts for a long time, and sometimes they even stay in a city for one or two months. Therefore, the post station is bustling, lively and noisy.

After Xin Sheng and others arrived, they found the manager of the post station. After registering and paying the fees, they drove the pack animals into the animal pen under the leadership of the manager.

Then everyone unloaded the goods on the pack animals into the house, agreed on a time to meet tomorrow morning, and then separated for a short time.

This Baishi City is prosperous and lively, and there is a brothel not far from the post station. Everyone in the caravan is a man of blood. Now that they haven't even eaten dinner, they laughed and went to the direction of the brothel.

However, Xin Sheng was old and had no interest in such things, so he did not go.

He took two old brothers who were also uninterested downstairs and went to the lobby to eat.

It was dinner time, and the hall was full of people, and there was no empty seat even on the second floor.

The only empty seat was a seat by the window on the second floor.

In the evening, the cool night wind blew in, and there was only a red-haired woman sitting by the window on the second floor.

In the noisy hall, the woman was alone, but there were five or six dishes on the table in front of her, which made people doubt whether she could finish so many dishes by herself.

Moreover, Xin Sheng and others watched for a while and found that the woman was more interested in wine than food. She drank the wine in the glass one by one, but only took the dishes a few times. It was obvious that she was addicted to alcohol.

Xin Sheng and others hesitated for a while, but finally did not dare to go up and talk to her to share the table.

This woman was so strange, and her temperament in her gestures was different from that of ordinary people. If they, as traveling merchants, disturbed her, they would not be able to afford it.

Therefore, Xin Sheng sighed and said, "Let's go back to the house and ask the kitchen to deliver the food directly to the house."

Xin Sheng's words were naturally echoed by the two old brothers.

However, just as they were about to go downstairs, a familiar voice suddenly sounded behind them.

"Eh? Isn't this Brother Xin Sheng? I didn't expect to meet him in Baishi City. It's fate."

This familiar laughter made Xin Sheng and the other two stop and look back.

In the hall, a bearded merchant had stood up and waved to them with a smile, "Brother, if you don't mind, why don't you sit down and share the table together?"

Xin Sheng looked at the bearded man in surprise, thought about it, and finally remembered his identity.

A smile appeared on his face, "Who was it I thought... It turned out to be Brother Liu, haha... You actually came to Baishi City too, what a coincidence."

With the two old brothers beside him, Xin Sheng smiled and walked towards the bearded man, bowed and said, "It has been three years since we parted in Qianzhen City."

When Xin Sheng and his two companions came, the companions beside the bearded man also stood up one after another, and everyone greeted each other.

Although the table was full, everyone still asked the waiter to add three stools and barely squeezed into a table.

For traveling merchants, they can get to know many interesting people while traveling all over the country. It is naturally happy to meet old friends in a foreign land.

After Xin Sheng and his two companions joined, the atmosphere at the dinner table became more lively.

Laughter rang from time to time, and everyone talked about some things they encountered after they parted, and their plans for this trip to Baishi City.

As the wine glasses mingled, the sky gradually darkened.

But no one wanted to leave. Even though the dishes on the table had been eaten, the laughter continued. Everyone drank until their faces were red and they were very happy.

As time passed, several groups of people were dining on the second floor. In addition to Xin Sheng and his friends who had not left, the woman in red by the window had never left.

She occupied a table alone, drinking leisurely and picking up one or two dishes from time to time. But because of her special temperament, no one dared to disturb her.

During this period, the kitchen staff took the initiative to heat up the dishes for the woman. The respectful attitude of the post station manager towards the woman made Xin Sheng and others confirm again that the identity of the red-haired woman was indeed noble and extraordinary.

Fortunately, they did not rush to disturb her...

In the midst of the laughter, someone asked about Xin Sheng and his friends' current situation.

Then, they talked about the monks that Xin Sheng and his friends had invited leaving now and looking for another monk to protect them in Baishi City.

And the strange wolf god they met in the wilderness.

When Xin Sheng and the other two talked about this, they all smiled and had great respect for the Wolf God.

When the others heard that Xin Sheng and his friends were lucky enough to be given wine by the Wolf God and the various magical properties of the peach blossom wine, they were even more envious.

Amid the laughter of the crowd, only the red-haired woman by the window turned her head slightly surprised and looked over here.

"Oh?" The red-haired woman murmured slightly surprised, "Wolf God?"

She smiled, but did not speak, just sitting by the window, leisurely drinking the wine in the glass, and smilingly listening to the merchants not far away talking about the extraordinary things of the Wolf God.

The word "fate" is really interesting.

The woman smiled and drank another glass of wine.