Chapter 18 Chapter 1 The Girl and Noodle Soup Outside Chentang Pass

It's a long road, and I don't know where the township gate is. At the end of the Shang Dynasty, on the road from Chaoge City to Chentangguan, there was a tall young man walking slowly alone. Although the state affairs of the Shang Dynasty were getting worse and worse at this time, and the emperor of the Shang Dynasty, King Zhou, was still licentious and innocent, but there were still many famous officials and generals in the dynasty, supporting a country that was about to collapse, and lingering on its last days. On the avenue, it is still calm at this time. Near the village, you can still see small stalls selling all kinds of fruits and dry food. Occasionally, small groups of soldiers from the capital will come and go on patrol. Beside the road, lower your head, the soldiers will not embarrass the villagers.

As we walked, there was dust all over the avenue far away at this time. Hearing the sound of horses' hoofs, we knew that it was a large team.The young man looked back, then walked quickly to the side of the road, letting the cavalry of the official army pass by. The villagers on the road also avoided them one after another. Some even took off their straw hats, lowered their heads, and greeted the officers and soldiers respectfully. As the dust filled the sky and the sound of hooves gradually approached, everyone saw that at the front of the team was a general with distinctive armor. This general was not tall, but had a vigorous look on his face. He led a group of energetic soldiers, It is approaching without haste.

When the villagers saw the general, they all showed simple smiles, as if they were all relieved, and some people even whispered to each other. Standing proudly among the crowd, the young man overheard the conversations of the villagers, and knew that this extraordinary general was Li Jing, the guard of Chentang Pass.However, it doesn't matter to him who the guard is. Not long ago, he was just a casual person wandering in the mountains and forests. Although he has come to the city and the village now, he still doesn't have much concept of worldly things. Li Jing, the guard of Chentang Pass, rode his horse through the official road and looked at the simple and honest villagers beside the road, showing no expression on his face.But after walking a few steps, there was a sound of "Huh", and I couldn't help turning my head back.

Because he saw the tall and strong young man, standing proudly among the crowd, standing out from the crowd, looking a bit abrupt, and not very similar to ordinary villagers.Moreover, the young man carried an ancient copper sword on his back. "Hold on!" Li Jing shouted, and the soldiers around him stopped and looked at their commander in surprise. Li Jing ignored their suspicious eyes, and just rode his horse towards the tall boy. "juvenile." The boy opened his eyes wide, with a look of surprise on his face. "General." Li Jing waved his horsewhip, kept looking at the young man, and saw that his clothes were not gorgeous, but they were quite different from ordinary villagers, with leather around his waist, but shoes made of old vines on his feet.

"Young man, aren't you from my Chentangguan?" "No," the young man said with a smile, "I'm an idler in the mountains, and I'm here on my way, so I offended the general, please forgive me." Seeing that he answered politely and politely, Li Jing was a little happy in his heart, so he nodded with a smile: "Young man, I see that you are very handsome, and you intend to promote you to serve the country. Would you like to join our army and be one of my personal soldiers?" The young man was stunned, and then said seriously: "I am originally from the mountains, I don't know the etiquette in the world, and I don't know the rules of the world. I really don't want to cause trouble for the general."

Li Jing was originally an easy-going person, seeing that the young man had no intention of joining the army, he didn't come to force it, he just nodded. "Since that's the case, I can't force it, but the current country is so difficult that it naturally needs talents like you. If you change your mind in the future, you can come to Chentangguan to find me, you know?" The young man nodded, bowed his head and cupped his hands to Li Jing: "I know." "Very good." Li Jing didn't say any more, he swung his whip and was about to turn around and leave, but he turned around again as if remembering something.

"Young man," he asked gently, "what's your name?" The boy smiled slightly. "The child's surname is Sangyang, and his name is Wuhuan." "No joy, no joy..." Li Jing read a few words of the young man's name: "Sure enough, he is different from ordinary people." After a pause, he said seriously: "Young man without joy, remember my words, you can enter the customs if you have something to do See me. You should also be a capable person, so don't make trouble at Chentangguan, do you understand?" The boy nodded again, "Wu Huan knows."

Watching this group of soldiers and horses leave, the young man couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.At this time, the pedestrians on the side of the road resumed their original bustle, and the vendors at the stalls also began to shout. This young man, of course, is Sangyang Wuhuan. Since he left the cave on the Wuming Mountain, he did not go to Chaoge City, but went in the direction of the princes of the four directions.He lived in the cave for most of his life. During the battle of the White Snake Demon, the old man who raised him did nothing to blow up the cave, and died together with the Demon Snake.Therefore, Wu Huan was once again a lonely and helpless person.

He didn't have much attachment to Chaoge, the capital of the Shang Dynasty, and the old man Wugui repeatedly warned him not to go back to the cave before his death, so Wuhuan began to wander between heaven and earth.The world is so big, I know where to go right away. After walking aimlessly for a few days, they arrived at Chentang Pass. After walking for a long time, she felt a little hungry. Wu Huan looked around and saw a stall selling noodle soup, so she went over and ordered a bowl. The hot noodle soup was handed over to Wu Huan, and Wu Huan was about to eat it, but saw a pair of black and smart eyes staring at him intently.

It was a thin and small beggar, she was only fifteen or sixteen years old, her face was dirty and black, her facial features could not be seen clearly, only two big eyes that were clear and sparkling could be seen clearly. Wu Huan smiled at her, ignored her, and planned to finish the bowl of noodles on his own.Suddenly, a strange sound came into his ears gently. "Goo..." Hearing such a voice, Wu Huan couldn't help laughing, and looked back at the beggar woman, only to see that her waist was slender, but she didn't know how to make such a clear sound of hunger. He shook his head with a smile, then handed over the noodle soup in his hand, the beggar was not polite, and seeing that she was afraid of being hot, she finished the bowl of noodle soup in two mouthfuls.

The black dirt on her face was washed away from her mouth by eating noodles, she looked really cute and funny, she wiped her mouth calmly, but her movements were quite delicate, as if she used it to wipe her mouth, no? Glossy sleeves, but a delicate Ropa. What's even more interesting is that she held the empty bowl in both hands and handed it back to Wu Huan, but she said something calmly that made Wu Huan dumbfounded. "I'm not full," she said seriously, "I want more." Wu Huan found it interesting, so he ordered two more bowls of noodle soup, one for her and one for himself.Unexpectedly, before his first sip of soup cooled down, the beggar finished the second bowl of noodle soup with a few more snorts. "More." She said briefly. In the end, she ate a total of six bowls of noodle soup. After the vendor arrived, he kept looking at her slender figure curiously, muttering, "I don't know where I changed the noodle soup". Wu Huan finished his noodle soup, paid the bill, picked up his bronze sword and bag, and walked leisurely. After walking a few steps, he faintly felt that someone was following him. He smiled slightly, and wanted to turn around and scold, but suddenly thought of an irrelevant past event. A few years ago, when he was still young, he met the two highnesses Yin Jiao and Yin Hong who were in trouble in the mountains. Wu Huan's memory of that past event is a bit vague, but he still remembers it occasionally because of that day. It was also the day when he took in a mountain dog to show his respect. Vaguely, Wu Huan could still see the interesting scene of Dai Li, who was just born, walking with his little paws in the mountains and forests and following behind him. That day when the snake demon changed, Wu Huan never saw him again. He had searched for it in the mountains and forests, but he couldn't find it, and he didn't know if it had returned to the mountains or died in a cave. of that explosion. But now the female beggar is of course completely different from him, but it reminds him of his old friend Dai Li once again.After thinking about it, the person lost his mind and stopped in his footsteps. The female beggar smiled and walked in front of him: "What are you doing? Are you in a daze?" Unexpectedly, when the female beggar passed him by, there was no dirty smell, but a faint fragrance.Wu Huan stared at her, not knowing what to say. "You're a good guy, I know that." Wu Huan smiled lightly, and ignored her, just walked forward on her own. "A good man should have a name, right?" The beggar chased after him, walking backwards mischievously: "I am also a good man, and I have a name too..." Wu Huan nodded, but did not stop. "Good man, what's your name? You tell me your name, and I'll tell you mine." "My name is Wuhuan." "No joy, no joy..." The female beggar applauded happily and laughed, her voice was clear and clear like a string of silver bells: "How could there be such a strange name?" "What about you? Didn't you say you would also tell me your name?" The female beggar mischievously stopped him from moving forward, while chirping: "My name is Hu'er, I am sixteen years old, and I am a good person just like you...Huh?" Listening to her words, Wu Huan was also surprised to see her suddenly stop talking. It turned out that it was the female beggar Hu'er who was looking at a small stall curiously.Wu Huan followed her gaze and found that it was a sachet stall selling girls' accessories. The female beggar Hu'er cheered, grabbed Wuhuan's hand behind her back, and walked towards the stall. Wuhuan had no choice but to follow her. The sachets on the sachet stand were of all kinds and styles, and behind the stand was a plump girl who was dozing off against the spring breeze. The female beggar Hu'er rummaged through the sachets in her hands, "This embroidery is poor, this is not good, this color is too dead, this needle and thread are not strong..." Because of her pickiness, there was not a single sachet that she liked. Wu Huan frowned: "Can you rummage through other people's things like this? Do you have money to buy?" Hu'er smiled coquettishly: "No!" She said with a smile: "But someone will buy it for me!" "I don't have that kind of money anymore," Wu Huan said bluntly, "I don't have that kind of spare money to buy things for little girls." Hu'er giggled, and threw the sachet back on the stall indifferently. "So you don't have any money! I thought you were some kind of supernatural person!" Hu'er said with a smile: "At first, I wanted to pick two identical sachets, one for each of you..." Wu Huan shook his head: "We don't have this kind of spare money, and we don't have such a good life." He leisurely put on his straw hat and put on his luggage: "If we want to have this kind of leisure, let's talk about it when we get rich..." The girl Hu'er rolled her eyes, and she didn't know what trick she used, but Wu Huan's backpack was already tied with two little people's sachets. The girl in charge of the store suddenly woke up from her sleep, and saw the fox took two sachets out of thin air, and was about to call out, but saw the fox smiled, and took out a small piece of gold from the pocket, "Huh " with a sound and threw it on the head of the spectator girl. Although the small piece of gold was not heavy, it still hurt a little when it was hit on the head. The fat girl didn't care about the pain, so she bent down to pick up the gold, and when she looked up, she realized that the beggar had already caught up with the boy. His back is already a few feet away... Wu Huan walked on the avenue for a while, and heard the fox calling behind him. "Hey! That little brother of 'No Panic'!" Wuhuan stopped in her tracks, pretending to be angry and turned her head to stare at him, but couldn't help the smile on her face. "My name is Wu Huan, don't you understand? It's not 'Wu Pan'!" "No joy, no flowers, no flowers, no melons, it's pretty much the same!" Hu'er laughed and said, "Come on, you're a good person, treat me to noodle soup, and I'll take you to a place." "Where?" Wuhuan wondered, "Why did you take me there?" "Because you are a good person, I want to repay you!" "I don't need you to repay." "I don't care what you think!" Hu'er laughed and said, "Since I was a child! As long as it's something I want to do, no one will tell me 'no'." Wu Huan wanted to sneer at her back, but Hu'er stopped talking with him, took his hand, turned around and left. Wu Huan frowned, and wanted to say something, but her palm was held together with her warm and smooth palm. He was tall, while Hu'er was just a petite girl, but at this moment, she didn't know why, and there was nothing she could do about it. Breaking away her hand, he could only let her carry it and run on the road. After running on the avenue for a while, he turned into a small path with long grass, which seemed to be an abandoned road that had been abandoned for a long time.Wu Huan stared blankly at the gradually desolate scenery around him, knowing that he was already some distance away from the avenue. "Hey!" He said a little puzzled, "Where are we going?" "Don't worry about it, just follow me!"