It's late at night and people are quiet.

People who were traveling on the dusk mountain have already found their own places to sleep. The rich and powerful people have lived in the Taoist temple halfway up the mountain. Ordinary tourists can only find a flat and spacious place to set up their own tents. The people of the Sui Dynasty have always lived a relatively comfortable life. The strong national strength over the past century has also made the people develop a confident and somewhat lazy personality.

Going out for spring is not a privilege for the wealthy families.

The rich have the way to play the rich, and ordinary families have the way to play the ordinary.

However, few people choose to camp at the foot of the mountain, and most of them live in a small square paved with bluestone slabs in front of the Taoist temple on the hillside. The Taoist temple does not provide food, but provides hot water. This is also one of the reasons why the incense is soaring, because in this mountain, the Taoist priests in the Taoist temple live a very prosperous and comfortable life.

Almost everyone inside and outside the Taoist temple had already fallen asleep, but the three people at the foot of the mountain were busy digging holes. To be precise, two people were digging holes, and one person was sitting on a tree branch and leaning against the tree trunk was a bit bored.

“Dig deeper.”

The big dog didn't use tools, and put on the pair of gloves with steel thorns and started working. Not long after, a large pit of soil was dug out on the ground. He glanced at Fang Jie and waved his sword to dig the soil with a horizontal knife and curled his lips disdainfully, "If I dig two, you can't dig one well. It's better to rely on your own hands to do things."

Fang Jie wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "I only realized today that dog shoveling is not just a way to swim. I admire you. Without any handy things, I can't dig it deep until dawn."

"If you don't separate the body."

The big dog said seriously: "It is easier to dismember the corpse and divide it into many small pieces. In this way, there is no need to dig too deep for the hole. Just dig more."

Li Xian glared at him: "Why are you so cruel?"

Big Dog said: "I killed two and you killed two, cruelty is the same as cruel."

He looked back at Cui Lue Shang and said unhappily: "I say, Mr. Cui, even if you are not the main culprit, you are an accomplice, right? Can you help? Even if you kneel down and use the methods of the Buddha Sect to save them, won't they hate you in the underworld?"

Cui Lue Shang, who was a little lost, looked at the big dog, with no glory in his eyes. Fang Jie had handed him a short knife before, but he looked at Liu Yineng, who had been beaten by him, but he did not dare to take action. Later, when Fang Jie stabbed Li Yuan's neck, he moved to Liu Yineng with a trembling knife. He raised the knife and trembled for a long time before stabbing it. Perhaps it was because he was too nervous and panicked, he stabbed four or five times without even stabbing the vital point.

Blood was spraying out one after another, splashing his face, Liu Yineng but was not dead yet.

After Fang Jie killed Li Yuan, he couldn't stand it. He exposes Liu Yineng's back heart with one knife, and the center is straight, and it is not bad at all.

After killing four people, Fang Jie originally thought he would be afraid and tremble, but after he actually killed someone, he was surprised to find that he was so calm that he seemed to have done nothing. He even felt it carefully, but was a little disappointed to find that he was really not excited.

Killing was not a very exciting thing for him.

This made Fang Jie feel a little self-deprecating. When he was in Fan Gu, he firmly believed that he was a person who could not kill people. Even if he was not a kind person, he was at least a fierce person. But now after he had killed someone, he realized that he had always resisted killing because of the kindness he still had. Instead, he still had some resistance to killing in his memory. This was just an inertial thinking.

Just as they were sweating profusely, the back door of the Taoist temple on the hillside slowly opened, and two men in blue Taoist robes walked slowly to a huge rock protruding from the hillside. Among them, the old Taoist priest looked at the foot of the mountain and frowned slightly, and asked the chubby Taoist priest who was not young and looked only fifteen or sixteen years old around him: "A big evil thing, do you want to take care of it?"

The Taoist priest who was asking questions was at least fifty or sixty years old. He wore a Taoist crown to block the white hair but could not block the gray goatee. Compared with the young Taoist priests around him, he looked more respectful to the Taoist priests. But he used questions to the young Taoist priests around him, and his tone was very respectful.

This little Taoist priest is not old and very fat. He wore a very elegant Taoist robe on him, but it was tightened by the fat body, as if it was about to crack. So he seemed to be a little weak when walking and speaking, and I don’t know if it was uncomfortable by this outfit.

His face was very round, so white that there was no slight wrinkle. If you had to use something to describe his face, it would be the hot white flour bun that had just been out of the pot.

Not only is he fat, but he is also very short.

I don’t know if it was because he had not yet grown completely, his height was barely level with the old Taoist shoulders. He did not wear a Taoist temple, and his long black hair was casually tied behind his head, which had a smoothness that made women jealous.

"There are so many great things in the world, so you can care about them... Wouldn't you be exhausted?"

The young Taoist looked at the old Taoist and said angrily: "You called me up late at night just to let me see this? Isn't it just to kill someone... One day in this world will not die? Don't say that your cultivation level is going down the mountain is also a joke. Even if you become a god, you can fly... Can you stop all the evil things in the world every day? Is it possible? Can you?"

He asked three times.

The old Taoist blushed and smiled embarrassedly and replied, "Of course not."

"Then you just want to say nothing."

The young Taoist stared at him and said, "I'll write down this matter first when disturbing me when I sleep. If I bother me because of these trivial matters in the future, I'll drive you down the mountain."

The old Taoist said panic: "I won't know next time... By the way, every year when the Martial Arts Academy opens an exam, Zhenren Xiao will be invited to go... Last time I sent someone to invite you three times. Should you go this time?"

"Don't go, don't go!"

The young Taoist waved his hand and said impatiently: "Three senior brothers, one of whom has become the leader of the Taoist sect, pretending to welcome and send him off all day long, one has disappeared for ten years without a trace, and the other has been hiding in the palace as a watchdog and cannot be free... Who is as casual and happy as me? Life... What is pursuing is the great way of nature, what is the great way?"

He looked at the old Taoist and said seriously: "You can make your own decisions when eating, drinking, defecating, urinating, and sleeping. This is the Great Dao."

The young Taoist turned around and returned to the Taoist temple. When he was about to enter the door, he turned around and told the old Taoist: "The number of tourists has increased in the past few days. The meat, eggs, fresh vegetables in the temple are not enough. You go down the mountain to buy some tomorrow morning..."

He looked at the foot of the mountain, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes: "If the meat is chopped, it is actually impossible to tell whether it is human or pork? No one can eat it by making it into buns, right? Even if we don't admit it, it's okay?"

The old Taoist was so scared that he took the young Taoist's hand and walked into the yard: "You should sleep, you should sleep..."

"Tomorrow I will remember to bring me the snacks from Songji, the pastry cakes, the five-spice melon seeds from Xiangcheng. There are also Chen Ji's smoked pig legs, the sausages from the old blind man's house, and..."

The sound gradually faded away, and the Taoist temple returned to calm again.

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Under the mountain

Cui Lue Shang held the soil and covered Liu Yineng's body. When he saw Liu Yineng's expression of death, he was so scared that he fell to the ground again: "What should I do? If someone found out, my future will be gone in my life. My father doesn't know how much gold and silver I gave me and sold me so much favors to help me find the opportunity to enter the Martial Arts Academy, but I ruined my future myself... If my father knew about it, wouldn't I break my legs?"

"Prosperity!"

The big dog gave him a blank look and said angrily: "Everyone has been killed. Are you regretting it now and you are afraid that there is nothing to use?"

Cui Lue Shang wanted to wipe off the sweat from his forehead, but wiped his face with mud: "But this matter cannot be hidden after all. Many people know that the five of us were visiting Mushan together. Li Yuan and the others agreed that this amusement was to practice it for me. But if only I went back to Xiangcheng and the four of them did not go back, the government could easily find out that I killed them."

"It must be impossible to hide it."

Fang Jie pulled a dead body over and threw it into the pit, looked at Cui Lue Shang and said, "You don't need to hide this matter at all. After burying their bodies for a while, you will immediately return to Xiangcheng. If the city gate is opened tomorrow morning, you will hurry home and tell your father clearly. The fault of this matter is not you, but Li Yuan and the others want to kill you first... Your father will naturally help you find a way. We will wait for you outside Xiangcheng, and we will go on the road together to Chang'an, and we will have a look after you."

Fang Jie buried the soil and said, "I won't hide it from you now. I am not called Shang Guohen, nor is it a businessman in Fan Gucheng. I am the border army scout who recommends to take the exam at the Martial Arts Academy this year. My name is Fang Jie. Since it is our fate, we will be together, and the exam at the Martial Arts Academy can be considered as a guide."

"You are also a candidate from the Martial Arts Academy!"

Cui Lue-shang was shocked and couldn't help but look carefully: "Didn't you lie to me?"

"I have deceived you this incident? I have deceived you now. I have deceived you when you have arrived in Chang'an?"

Fang Jie smiled and said, "Just don't interfere in this matter. Let's go back to Xiangcheng now. It will be dawn in about two hours. You rode your horse back to dawn and just entered the city. When you go back, you will discuss it with your father. I guess your father will send you out of the city as soon as possible that day."

"real?"

Cui Lue Shang couldn't help but worry, "What if my father arrested me and detained me?"

"Your father is willing to spend a lot of money to get you into the Martial Arts Academy, how could you see you ruin your future if you don't want to spend a lot of money? Go!"

Fang Jie patted his shoulder and said, "I promise nothing will happen."

Cui Lue Shang thought about it and made some sense. He didn't want to stay here for a moment, so he simply stood up, hugged his fists and said, "I will turn my head and run away again."

After Cui Lue Shang's figure disappeared, Mu Xiaoyao jumped down from the tree branch and walked to Fang Jie, looked at Fang Jie seriously, and then asked seriously: "You killed these people not just because you want to kill people, right?"

Fang Jie nodded: "Yes."

"It's not just to help that stupid guy once as you said, right?"

"right!"

Fang Jie nodded again, then looked at Cui Lue Shang's disappearance and said in a calm tone: "I am just a small scout of the border army. I have no noble background and no tough backstage. Even when I arrive in Chang'an City, I will inevitably suffer many hardships and have difficulty walking... Although the Cui family in Xiangcheng is far less well-off than the Cui family in Boling, it is also a famous family. Having such a friend by my side will always save some trouble."

"So you've been calculating that stupid guy from the beginning?"

The big dog asked in surprise.

Fang Jie smiled and said, "I am helping him and myself... Isn't it? Doing good to others is doing good to yourself. This seems to be from the Buddhist sect, but it still makes sense."

"If it is possible, it would be better to make friends with a few powerful people. In any case, candidates like me will not go too smoothly in Chang'an City. I will naturally not miss it if I can find a few helpers. I remember when I left Fangu City, I told you that I depended on you and Chen Qing and sang seven of them three years ago. I depended on you two in the past three years, but in the future... I will rely on myself more."

"You took it away for fifteen years."
Chapter completed!