Chapter 97 Freshman

After Chen Jiu washed his blue shirt, he planned to go north from Suluo City. He bought a donkey. As for why he didn't buy a horse, the reason was simple.

Donkey meat is delicious.

The man in green shirt led his donkey, and before he left the city, he met an acquaintance.

It was the "ghost hand" Cao Xie, who was walking towards him. Without saying a word, he took out five ugly cow coins and said to Chen Jiu, "Chen Daoyou, can you give me a ride?"

Chen Jiu frowned, "I don't kill people casually."

Cao Xie was stunned for a moment, and explained: "Hey, what I mean is, can you send me to the Zongmen, Daoist Chen? I've offended someone, and I'm a little scared."

Chen Jiu asked, "Where is your sect?"

Cao Xie replied: "Just go north all the way, it's not far."

Chen Jiu nodded, "That's the way, I don't want any money, you just go with me."

Cao Xie frowned after hearing this.

Hey, why don't fellow daoists want money? Why are you on the way? Why did he want to go north?

Na na na, why is this?

Chen Jiu ignored him and started to walk out of the city with the donkey.

Cao Xie hurriedly followed.

Chen Jiu suddenly asked: "What happened to the woman on the ferry?"

Cao Xie was stunned for a moment, then came to his senses, and replied: "That woman, she seemed to be picked up by a golden core monk after arriving at the shore. I have met that monk once, and her background is too big. It seems to be from the Han Han sect. The chief disciple is named Gu Sanchong."

Cao Xie sighed again, "Hey, when can I become such a great monk?"

Chen Jiu didn't speak, and led the donkey and Cao Xie out of the city together. The two walked not in a hurry, watching the mountains, rivers, trees and flowers along the way.

Sometimes Cao Xie would ask Chen Jiu to peek at the girl taking a bath.

Chen Jiu kept shaking his head while holding the donkey. After Cao Xie got to know him well, he gradually let go, and he just pulled him away.

As a result, another girl found out, and Cao Xie was yelled at. Chen Jiu was fine, and the girl even gave him a sneak peek.

The two ran away in despair, and after that, Cao Xie often muttered, "Hey, why?"

Chen Jiu was speechless. After all, Brother Cao was indeed a bit shabby, and he could see it, so he didn't say anything to attack others.

The little donkey didn't live long, and was burned by the greedy two.

The donkey has also retired.

Sometimes the two of them passed by the barren mountains and often saw corpses. Cao Xie would go there, cremate the corpses, and then hold the ashes and mutter aloud.

"Hey, I'll give you your ashes."

The reason for this, Cao Xie also explained to Chen Jiu, the corpses on the barren mountains and mountains are mostly vendettas, with strong resentment at the time of death, there is a high possibility that the corpses will change, and after cremation, they will die safely.

Cao Xie seemed to have a very special feeling for the affairs of these mountain villages. When he met Chun Geng, he would lean over to take a look, and then instruct others how to plant rice seedlings. If he was in a hurry, he would roll up his trousers and help that person do it.

Cao Xie also told Chen Jiu later that he was originally a villager who had planted the land for half his life, but was called in by the army and was lucky enough to survive on the battlefield. Zongmen, this is what it looks like now.

In Cao Xie's own words, he is just a bumpkin bumpkin.

Sometimes Chen Jiu would tell him with a smile that he was also lucky, that he had acquired a good talent, but he had no skills, and was used to being lazy and not enterprising, and he deserved to be unable to protect anything later.

When the young man said this, he laughed very sadly.

Cao Xie was stunned for a moment, and comforted him: "It's okay, I am the same, if I was capable enough, I wouldn't have been away for decades at the beginning, it's rare to be free, I wanted to go back to fulfill my filial piety, but the grass on my parents' graves grew three years old. Zhang is tall, grandma has such legs."

Chen Jiu smiled, "I didn't see it, but you are actually quite a nice person."

Cao Xie also laughed and said, "If you can really tell whether a person is good or not, that would be great."

Just how is this possible?

That's why I say people are unpredictable.

When the two of them reached ten days, there was a flying sword across the sky, and they went straight to the north, but they disappeared in an instant.

Cao Xie sighed, "Hey, sword repair is majesty."

This "na" is his mouth habit, sometimes he says it and sometimes he doesn't, it doesn't have any special meaning.

Chen Jiu didn't speak. He felt that something in the distance in front of him was pulling his heartstrings. Sometimes his eyes would dance with golden light without warning, suddenly big and small.

Seeing this, Cao Xie gave a thumbs up, "That's awesome."

The further north the two walked, the stronger this feeling became.

After Chen Jiu killed a monster on the side of the road, he finally knew what this feeling was like.

It's the Demon Subduing Master.

There was a demon ahead, and he had to kill it.

Chen Jiu's eyes are already golden pupils, his blood is throbbing, longing for a transformation, not just a "god man", but also others.

In ancient times, demon subduing masters were not called demon subduing masters, but demon eaters.

In the next few days, they often met monks, and they also traveled north.

When the two of them reached the bank of the river, they would see some short white cloths floating along the river. Every time Cao Xie saw these white cloths, he would be silent for a while, and then cursed, "Malaba!"

Chen Jiu asked the reason softly.

Cao Xie said angrily: "There are many towns around here, especially in rural areas, where sons are extremely preferred to girls. There is only one girl in the family. If the reborn child is not a boy, she will be wrapped in a white cloth and thrown into the river to drown. "

Cao Xie didn't say more, and he couldn't bear to say it.

In fact, many girls are wrapped in white cloth and thrown into the water as soon as they are born before they open their eyes.

Who would have thought that death would greet birth.

Standing by the river, Chen Jiu picked up the white cloth that was flowing slowly, dug a grave, and buried the white cloth in it, which was regarded as a clothes grave.

When the two walked upstream, they happened to see a sharp-mouthed middle-aged man holding a baby wrapped in a white cloth in his arms, about to throw it into the Huai River.

Chen Jiu stopped him.

The sharp-mouthed man turned his head in doubt, not knowing what was going on.

Chen Jiu asked word by word, "Why did you throw it away?"

The sharp-mouthed man frowned and asked back, "I won't lose it, so you can raise it for me?!"

Cao Xie yelled, "What a fool, what if I come to raise it? You bastard!"

The sharp-mouthed man snorted, as if he didn't bother arguing with them, he hurriedly said, "Okay, here you go."

Like throwing away dirty waste, he anxiously handed the baby into Chen Jiu's arms, then turned around and left.

Chen Jiu was holding the baby girl, she seemed very sensible, she didn't cry at all, just exhaled quietly.

The girl is not young, judging by her age, she should be several months old.

Chen Jiu touched her head. There were bruises there, which looked hideous and terrifying on the girl's head.

Does she not want to cry, or dare not cry?

Cao Xie waved his hand and cut open the neck of the sharp-mouthed man, blood spattered out.

Chen Jiu held the baby girl in his arms and shook it gently.

The baby girl's eyes were wide open, and she looked at him timidly.

Chen Jiu smiled at her.

The baby girl cried "Wow".

The cry was loud and echoed by the river.