Cangqing Mountain, Yushu Peak, and fall into the water cave.

The moonlight was like water, pouring down from the rock cracks on the top of the cave. In the clear light, Chu Qing fell and sat on the stone bed. Her ice-blue clothes looked particularly bright, her fair face was slightly closed, and her thick eyelashes were trembling slightly, as if she was expecting and as if she was a slight nervousness.

The water droplets dripped from the rock wall on the side, slid intermittently into the water jar beside the stone bed, making a jingling sound.

Suddenly, Chu Qing opened her eyes, raised her hand and held the collar of her chest tightly, gasping for breath, as if she saw something extremely terrifying. The sweat beads oozing from her forehead were slightly shining with crystal light under the moonlight.

Is it late at night? But I feel like I've just sat there for a while.

Chu Qing was stunned for a moment, and slowly walked to the opposite side of the stone bed, almost like sticking her face to the stone wall, frowned slightly, gently stroked the huge word "天" with her slender fingers, and a cold and cold accident came from her fingertips. Nothing else was strange. After looking at the stone wall for a while, Chu Qing turned around and walked out of the cave. After searching around for a long time, she didn't know where Xiaojiu had gone.

The mountain wind blew gently towards him. Perhaps because he had sweated while meditating, Chu Qing suddenly felt cold and couldn't help but tighten her clothes and walked back towards the house under the moonlight.

After passing through the quiet bamboo forest, he came to the empty house, raised his hand and pushed open the door of the guest room and walked in. Chu Qing glanced. The moonlight shone into the window lattice, and the whole room was like a layer of light gauze, and the tables and chairs in the house were clearly visible.

Chu Qing walked to the table and lit the oil lamp. A warm feeling suddenly rose and flowed in the room.

"Gugu", my stomach suddenly screamed, and Chu Qing frowned. She remembered that she hadn't eaten anything for the whole day. She looked up and saw that except for the bed, table, chairs and furniture, there was nothing in the room, and there was bluestone floor and carved window lattice. What could I eat? In addition to disappointment, my stomach croaked unscrupulously.

"Go to other rooms to have a look." Chu Qing had an idea in her mind, and she was determined, and then walked out of the room with expectation.

The first thing I came to was Feng Shuzhu's study, because it was the first room she came into contact with. I knew there was no one inside, so I reached out and pushed the door in. Suddenly, the oil lamp on the desk actually lit up by itself, and the flames turned from yellow to blue after a few beats.

Chu Qing walked over curiously, leaned over and looked at the oil lamp carefully. Seeing that the lamp was about one foot high, it looked like fine copper, divided into three layers. At the bottom is a round lamp holder, connecting the cylindrical lamp body, and one inch upwards is a bulging oil pot. The upper part of the oil pot is connected to a tray. At this time, the flames in the tray were burning quietly. Except for the time being, it was no different from ordinary oil lamps.

Chu Qing twitched in a little disappointed way. She accidentally found a piece of rice paper full of handwriting on the desk. So she reached out and took it over and saw that it was Feng Shuzhu left it for her.

"Leave a bowl of fire dates, one can be eaten a day, and naturally fill your stomach."

As soon as I finished reading it, the rice paper was burned out of thin air in my hand. Chu Qing was so scared that she hurriedly threw it on the ground. Before she could finish it with her feet, the rice paper was burned out, but a large porcelain bowl appeared on the ground, containing red dates, each full, with a bright and sweet light.

Chu Qing's eyes flashed with surprise, squatted down, raised her hand to pick up Wan, and picked up another date, and looked at it again and again. As soon as she was delivered to her mouth, it suddenly melted. It seemed as if she had eaten nothing, but there was a hint of sweetness between her lips and teeth, and the hunger in her abdomen disappeared.

Chu Qing immediately smiled, as if she had found a treasure. In order to stay again, she got up and held the bowl of dates and jumped to the guest room. But she didn't notice that not far from her study, the oil lamp in the room was turned off again.

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In the early morning, it started drizzling. Perhaps the sound of light raindrops disturbed Qingmeng. Chu Qing woke up with rubbing her eyes, looked around, then turned over and jumped out of the bed, slowly walked to the window, gently pushed open the window, and suddenly a wet air came to her nose with a fresh fragrance, which made her feel refreshed and refreshed.

Outside the window, the rain dripping down the eaves of the corridor was like broken beads, drop after drop, falling to the ground and flying away. The bamboo forest not far away was washed and added with greenery. Several bamboo shoots broke out from the soil in the forest, wrapped in brown-purple coats and light yellow ears, like tender dolls.

The rain has become smaller;

The wind has become lighter.

Chu Qing looked out the window in a daze, "Dingdong... Dingdong...", the sound like a spring water interrupted her thoughts. It turned out that the rainfall flowed down the eaves fell to the sky sea under the eaves (Note: The water tank placed in the ancient yard was used for water accumulation.) made a sound.

Chu Qing suddenly remembered the water cave in the back mountain, the magical "passing" wall, and the illusion she saw... She gently bit her lower lip, blinked her eyes, and after thinking for a few years, she made a resolute decision and walked towards the back mountain again in the slight drizzle.

After entering the waterfall cave, Chu Qing walked onto the stone bed again and sat down at the big word "天". With the rhythmic tinging sound of the spring water in the cave, the word "天" wall gradually moved away from him, and the symbols and texts around began to jump again, shaking and making a ball.

Gradually, Chu Qing's consciousness began to dissipate again, until the "pass" wall in front of her disappeared. A vast white area appeared in front of her, and then a barren desert appeared. Snowflakes fell all over the sky, like goose feathers, fluttering one after another. A woman in white stood in the wind and snow with her back to her...

"Are the poor scholars here? I know you are inside, come out soon, hehe, if you don't come out, I will eat all your dates." The voice came from outside the cave, a little old and a little naughty. When Chu Qing heard that she was about to eat all the dates, she felt anxious and immediately walked out of the illusion. She didn't stop for a moment, so she jumped out of the bed and walked out of the cave.

I saw an old Taoist robe wearing a blue cloth and a bun on my head standing not far from the cave. The old man in his sixties was standing, looking like a Taoist priest dressed up.

Chu Qing looked carefully and saw that the old man was about the same height as him. Although his beard and hair were gray, his face was as beautiful as a child. Especially his eyes were introverted, and he was straddling a brown cloth pocket in front of him. He was holding a fire date bowl while blowing his beard to play.

Seeing Chu Qing come out, the old man was slightly stunned, but turned his eyes around and continued to shout into the cave: "Poor scholar, come out quickly, why don't I eat your fire dates."

Seeing that he turned a blind eye to him, Chu Qing was very angry, but was curious, so she asked, "Are you looking for Brother Feng Shuzhu?"

"Feng Shuzhu?" After hearing this, the old man's eyes turned a whole circle, he seemed to suddenly recall it, and continued, "Yes, it's that poor scholar. I almost forgot about it for a long time. By the way, who are you, little girl? Is that poor scholar not in the cave? Where has he been?" He spoke very quickly, as if he had to finish all his questions.

Chu Qing heard him say a lot, and finally waited until she spoke. She suddenly felt aroused innocence. She did not answer the old man's question, but instead pushed her lips slightly and said, "Why should I tell you, who are you?"

When the old man heard this question and answer, he was not angry, but he even showed a naive and bright smile on his face, and said, "You little girl, it's really interesting. Let's do this. Whenever you answer me a question, how about I give you a fire date?"

Chu Qing thought for a while, her eyes immediately widened and she said angrily: "That was left to me by my elder brother!"

"Big brother? Then who are you? Why are you here? If you don't tell me, I'll eat a fire date." The old man said as he really picked up a fire date, put it in front of his nose, and did the action to eat it.

When Chu Qing saw it, she was very anxious because she knew that the fire date melted in her mouth, so she did not dare to snatch it rashly. After thinking about it, she could not tell the other party that she was a little demon who had just transformed into a human form. She was injured by the old demon of the wormhole and was healed here. In a hurry, she replied without hesitation: "I am his maid." After saying that, Chu Qing could hardly believe her ears, and she wanted to bite off her tongue, and regretted it. She said something bad, but she just said that the maid, as if she was very humble.

"Maid?" The old man widened his eyes, stretched his voice, repeated in surprise, and then said: "When was the poor scholar so generous? He actually had money to buy a maid? Oh, I haven't seen him for a year, and I didn't expect him to become a rich man." After saying that, the old man didn't think deeply, and handed forward his hands forward, handing over a bowl of fire dates, and then said: "Okay, little girl, I'll give you the fire dates."

Chu Qing couldn't believe the old man's sudden change for a moment. After hesitating for a moment, she reached out her hand timidly to take it. She really didn't expect that the bowl of food she had returned to her hands so easily. She smiled unconsciously, and she had just disappeared. She thought to herself that this old man was really interesting.

"Is that poor scholar really not in the cave? I came to play with him." The old man said, and looked into the cave again.

When Chu Qing heard this, she looked surprised. The old man of this age actually looked for someone to play with. She felt very funny in her heart, but she reluctantly controlled her smile and said, "Big brother is going to make friends, who are you?"

The old man didn't ask where Feng Shuzhu was going to make friends, but smiled and said happily: "My name is Yuan Wuxi, what's your name, that little girl?"

"My name is Chu Qing."

"Chu Qing... Well, this name sounds good." Yuan Wuxi repeated it, then smiled and said, "Can I take you to catch the crane?"

After hearing this, Chu Qing didn't understand for a moment, so she widened her eyes and asked in surprise: "Catch...the immortal...the crane?"

I saw Yuan Wuxi walking back and forth in front of him with his hands behind his back, searching around for a while, and then said, "Little girl, you don't know yet. That poor scholar has a big crane. It seems you have never seen it before. Humph, every time I come, it runs away in advance."

Chu Qing was a little confused and thought for a while and said, "You are talking about Xiaojiu, so what are you doing when you catch it?"

"Xiaojiu? Who is Xiaojiu?" Yuan Wuxi rolled his strange eyes and seemed to think for a long time, but it seemed that he didn't come up with a result in the end. Then he said, "Little girl, don't you know that the crane is very big. If you catch it, you can ride it on its back and fly to the sky. If you are sleepy, you can sleep." After that, he added: "Riding the crane to watch the sunrise, you have never played it."

Yuan Wuxi was portrayed in a slight manner. When Chu Qing heard this, she was also beautiful in her mind. She fantasized about riding on the crane's back, soaring in the sky, shuttled through the forest, and rushing towards the red sun, and her childlike innocence suddenly arose.

"But..." Chu Qing knew in her heart that the crane that Yuan Wuxi was talking about was Xiaojiu, but it seemed that the other party did not know about it, and she didn't want this strange old man to catch Xiaojiu. She stammered again, accidentally raised her eyes and saw the sky, immediately remembered the barrier, and then thought of how the old man entered the barrier. So she asked curiously: "The barrier was set up by the big brother here, old man... how did you come in?"

"The barrier?" Yuan Wuxi was stunned when he heard this, then looked around and said, "When will there be barriers here?"

Chu Qing slowly opened her eyes wide and said, "In order to let me practice here for forty-nine days, my elder brother..." Suddenly realizing that he had exposed an ulterior motive of his ulterior motives, he stopped halfway.

Yuan Wuxi's eyes were lively and he could hear Chu Qing's hidden secrets, but he didn't ask in detail, but stroked his beard and smiled: "In southern Xinjiang, I have seen locals train an animal called elephant. This animal is so big..." As he said, Yuan Wuxi compared it with his hands, and then said: "The elephant has a great power, but the locals can lock it with only a very thin iron chain." As he said that, Yuan Wuxi raised his little finger and shook it.

Chu Qing opened her eyes wide and asked curiously: "Why is that?"

"Hehe, because the elephant was locked with this iron chain when he was very young. For the little elephant, it could not break free of this iron chain, so when it grew up, it thought it could not break the iron chain." Yuan Wuxi said while secretly glanced at Chu Qing, as if he was saying, "Do you understand."

Chu Qing was curious when she heard this, but still couldn't figure out what it had to do with the barrier. Seeing this, Yuan Wuxi stroked his palm and laughed, "Haha, haha, I said you little girl, you are really honest and cute. The barrier of the poor scholar is that iron chain."

When Chu Qing heard this, she thought for a while and suddenly realized, "Ah, can you, do you mean that the barrier has disappeared long ago?"

Yuan Wuxi finally stopped laughing, and then said, "Well, it's not bad, you're not too stupid."

"That old man..." Chu Qing frowned slightly, as if she had something to ask.

But Yuan Wuxi ignored it at all, but waved his hand and said impatiently: "Oh, I said little girl, don't just talk about old men. I'm so uncomfortable. Call me Yuan Wuxi." Before Chu Qing answered, Yuan Wuxi looked up at the sky again and said anxiously: "It's getting late. I think we'd better leave quickly. The poor scholar will not let you go when he comes back."

One sentence reminded Chu Qing and Xiaojiu that she might be back soon, but she didn't know much about the old man. What if it was an evil demon here, Chu Qing thought so in her heart, and suddenly said in a hurry: "But I still have to wait for my elder brother here, why don't you go and find that crane first?"

When Yuan Wuxi heard this, he was willing to defend himself, as if he was very anxious, and he made a move like the wind. He stretched out Chu Qing's arm and said with a smile: "Don't let it go, let me go."

Before he finished speaking, Chu Qing felt that her feet were empty and she had already flown to the clouds. When she looked down, Yusun Peak was getting farther and farther away from her. Suddenly, the white area in front of her was passing through the thick clouds and could no longer see anything.

He was injured and could not use his magic power, so he had to let Yuan Wuxi fly in a dizzy way. After a few hours, not only did the crane not find it, but even the fire dates left by Feng Shuzhu were lost to him.

As the dusk gradually rose, Yuan Wuxi seemed to be tired of flying, and fell beside a mountain stream.

Chu Qing looked around and saw the stream rippling and the shore was rugged. When he went far away, he could not identify the specific location of the wild mountains and ridges.

Yuan Wuxi let go of Chu Qing and came to the stream alone. He held the water in both hands and drank a few sips, washed his face and said, "Ah, it's so refreshing." He turned around and saw Chu Qing pouting, holding the remaining few dates in his hand, as if he was angry. He turned his eyes and said, "Little girl, after flying for so long, aren't you thirsty? Why just come and drink a few sips of water? The stream is so sweet."

Chu Qing didn't answer, but deliberately turned her head elsewhere.

Yuan Wuxi smiled "hehe" and said, "I don't have the poor scholar's fire dates, but it seems that there are a lot of delicacies and wild games in the mountains." After that, he walked up the stream.

When Chu Qing saw Yuan Wuxi leaving, she was anxious and shouted: "Yuan Wuxi, where are you going? Where is this!"

Yuan Wuxi stopped hearing the sound, turned around and smiled, "I want to catch wild game and settle for dinner." Then he looked up and looked around, patted his head, and then said, "Oh, it's been too long, and I don't even remember the direction. I have never been here." After that, he actually walked forward.

When Chu Qing heard this, she had to follow him after she was so much. The two of them left in front of each other for less than a stick of incense. Yuan Wuxi suddenly shouted in front of her: "There is a house here."

Chu Qing followed him and looked up. There was indeed an ancient house not far from the stream. The walls were broken and the two black courtyard doors were covered with paint, and there seemed to be no lights inside.

Yuan Wuxi walked forward, stretched out his hands and pushed open the door. When the two entered, they saw that the yard was full of dead grass and leaves, and the ground was half a foot thick. The original path was buried in weeds and difficult to identify. There were several peach trees planted in the yard, and three houses were facing each other. The roof of the atrium hall was collapsed, and the room was covered with dust and cobwebs. The door on the east side had rotten and only half of it remained. The mountain wind whirled and the door on the west side was covered with empty space.

"What a blessing. I have a place to stay tonight. You can live there, little girl, and I will live in this room in the east." Yuan Wuxi pointed to the west wing and then pointed to the east wing.

Chu Qing didn't answer, and took a few steps forward, pushed open the door behind her. With the afterglow of the setting sun coming in from the window, she saw clearly that this looked like a daughter's room, indoor bed, dressing table, and chairs were made of sandalwood, with exquisite patterns. There was a diamond-shaped water-milled bronze mirror on the dressing table, and a small treasure-shaped jewelry box next to it.

When Chu Qing saw this, she walked up curiously and reached out to open the jewelry box. It was empty inside. She felt a little disappointed. She suddenly heard a "bang" sound from the atrium hall, as if something was falling off the roof.

Chu Qing walked over curiously, and saw that it was the rafters of the collapsed main hall, which fell down due to decay and was blown by the wind. At this time, he heard the door of the east wing creaking with the mountain wind. He looked inside and found that Yuan Wuxi had disappeared, but he didn't know when he left.

It was already late at this time. Looking outside the house, I saw dark clouds rolling in the sky, as if the rain was about to come, and the light was dim. Chu Qing turned back to the house and searched for a long time. Finally, a dusty oil lamp in the corner was lit. Seeing the spider webs all over the house, she thought she would spend the night, so she went to the yard to find some weeds tied together to make a broom, and simply cleaned the room. After everything was done, she felt bored and sat in front of the lamp. She was stunned for a long time. Suddenly, she felt hungry and ate a fire date. Seeing that there were only three left in the bowl, she simply took them out and put them aside.

Suddenly, the whole room flashed, and then a "boom" thunder came. Before he could react, he heard the thunder outside the house, the strong wind mixed with heavy rain, washed the roof angrily. The rainwater falling from the broken window lattice instantly gathered into a river on the ground. Because he was afraid that the rain would wet his shoes, Chu Qing quickly picked up the oil lamp and jumped onto the bed. He didn't know that his feet had not stood firm yet, but he felt that his feet had fallen into the empty space. He caught off guard. His eyes fell into the hole with the broken bed board. He didn't have time to scream, and he felt that he had fallen to the ground. He touched the ground with his hands. The ground seemed to be covered with hay, and the oil lamp in his hand was also thrown aside.

Chu Qing was about to reach out to pick up the oil lamp, but she heard a "leap" sound. The poured oil lamp had ignited the hay around her. The hay seemed to be burning at the same time, illuminating the surroundings. The flames burned up along the wall of the cave, as if they had spewed out of the collapse of the top of the cave. The flames on the ground also burned to Chu Qing's feet with the full hay. Chu Qing was quick to learn, and used both hands and feet in panic, pushing the hay under her feet away, and retreating to a corner.

All this happened in an instant. Before Chu Qing could think, she heard a "boom" sound again. The wall of the cave on the side that was scorched by the fire collapsed, revealing a dark, bottomless hole. There seemed to be a powerful suction force inside, which sucked the remaining flames in the hole in one go.

Chu Qing was so scared that she hugged in the corner. Her watery eyes stared at the hole exposed at the collapsed side wall. It was deep and dark, and there was a faint unknown sound from it. The sound was old and long, floating in the air, and it seemed to be getting closer and closer.

When he was still in a state of fear, another sharp wind gushed out from the entrance of the cave and came towards him. Chu Qing was so scared that she quickly closed her eyes and covered her ears with her hands, but she felt the sound of the wind whistling past, as if some terrible demon was released and escaped from her side.

After a moment, another warm current flowed out of the hole and floated gently, wrapping around Chu Qing's face, warm like a mother patting the baby's hand.

Chu Qing secretly opened her eyes in surprise and saw the glorious and brightness coming from the cave that collapsed on the side wall. It seemed quiet and peaceful inside, but she was still scared, so she curled up and waited quietly for a long time. Seeing that everything was nothing unusual, she carefully spread her hands and feet, slowly stood up, stood at the entrance of the cave about three feet away, hid on the side and took a quick look inside, and a brilliant brilliance reflected in her eyes.
Chapter completed!