Ji Yuan didn't deliberately know who he meant, firstly, when he chatted with Wei Wuxing and the others before, he had already revealed that he might be out of Dazhen, but the time was undecided; secondly, his whereabouts were uncertain, which was more of a benefit than a disadvantage, and besides, it seemed quite hypocritical to go to a few places and tell people that I was going to go far away.

But a trip home is also necessary.

On the afternoon of the second day of the first lunar month, Ji Yuan had already arrived at home, and was writing on the bookcase in his room at the moment.

Although I didn't know the meaning of people, I still left a book in Ju'an Pavilion.

After writing, Ji Yuan put the pen down, picked up the paper and shook it, and the ink dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Yes, that's it!"

This book is left with a decree, there are dozens of words, if there is really a relevant person to find him, the decree will be moved by the pressure, see the book to estimate that it should not be easy to find where others are, but it is roughly to the north, and it is good to have a number in mind.

After Ji Yuan saw it, he didn't leave any expressive meaning after all, but just put the decree on the table and pressed it with a paperweight.

After doing this, Ji Yuan took a few old copper locks in the house, walked out of the door, and then locked the main house with a "click".

"Rustle...... Rustle rustle ......"

The branches and leaves of the jujube tree in the courtyard are automatic without wind, Ji Yuan looked at the jujube tree like this, and smiled.

"You can't move, and it's very difficult for the grass and tree spirits to get out of their original form, and it's bothering you to take care of your house. ”

After saying this, Ji Yuan walked outside the courtyard again, locked the courtyard door, and then deliberately took the umbrella and carried the bag and walked out along the small alley of Tianniufang.

Although Ji Yuan's presence in Ning'an County in recent years is not high, in the hearts of many people who know him, Mr. Ji Da's status is still not low, so if he is not too anxious, basically Ji Yuan will go this way every time he goes out, so that the villagers who meet him along the way know that Mr. Ji is going away.

Some neighbors of Tianniufang will say hello when they meet Ji Yuan, and when they see Ji Yuan with an umbrella and baggage, they will ask a question, and they will naturally get a reply that they will travel far away.

Out of Tianniufang, the Sun Ji noodle stall on the opposite street is still open, and the Sun family is hardworking, even on the second day of the Lunar New Year, they have never really rested all day.

However, when Ji Yuan passed, Sun Shusheng was cleaning up the things on the stall, and tidying up the tables and chairs and hanging them in front of the cart, it seemed that the stall was about to be closed.

Sun Shusheng is the youngest son of Old Man Sun, Old Man Sun handed over the noodle stall to him when he couldn't do it, although he was not as familiar with Ji Yuan as his father, but he still knew each other, and when he saw Ji Yuan coming, he also greeted him warmly.

"Mr. Ji, happy New Year, are you here to eat noodles?"

The Sun family knows that Mr. Ji lives alone, and many times the family does not open the fire, so he chooses to come to the noodle stall to eat noodles.

Although there have been a lot fewer in recent years, the words left by Old Man Sun are that if Mr. Ji has never come, Sun Ji Noodle Stalls will always leave a portion of chopped and lo mein.

"Good New Year, good New Year, you have to close the stall in advance, and there are noodles?"

After Ji Yuan finished the gift, he asked casually.

Sun Shusheng put down the small table that he was about to move, wiped his hands with a towel on his shoulder, and said with a smile.

"Yes, there is still a portion of haggis and noodles, and the charcoal stove has not been extinguished, if Mr. Ji wants to eat it, I will make it for you now!"

It seemed that he had just seen the umbrella and the burden behind him, so Sun Shusheng also asked.

"Sir, are you going to go away again?"

"Yes, this trip may go further, I won't eat the noodles, and say hello to the old grandson on my behalf. ”

"Okay, definitely bring it, then you go slowly. ”

"Hmm. ”

After Ji Yuanying said, he walked towards the city gate, this time he did not use the technique of flying, but walked all the way to the outside of the city and also stepped like a shrinking ground, the speed was fast but did not soar the clouds, and he planned to go directly along the ground all the way north, and after passing through Qizhou on the top of Jizhou, he went out of the Dazhen country.

This time, I walked for a long time.

About three months later, Ji Yuan, dressed in a gray shirt, walked alone in a wilderness of forest roads.

Since leaving the Dazhen border from Qizhou more than a month ago, the speed of calculating fate has been relatively slow.

Dazhen is mainly bordered by two countries in the north direction, one occupies half of the Tingqiu Mountain, and now the country should be called Zuyue country, many places directly border Dazhen, and there are occasional frictions between the two countries.

But Ji Yuan found that after passing through some important towns at the border pass, the back of this ancestral Yue country seemed very barren for a long time, and he hadn't seen people for a long time since he came out of the previous town.

Ji Yuan walked along the wilderness forest road, although many places on this road were almost covered with weeds, but from the width, it could be regarded as a certain main road, but there were too few people walking.

When he walked somewhere, Ji Yuan suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at a place on the side of the road where the weeds were particularly thick, and thought about taking two steps closer.

Ji Yuan reached out and swept away the grass, revealing two white bones with some pieces of cloth stuck to the back.

"Fortunately, I don't need much food and water, otherwise ordinary people would have walked this road without enough supplies, and they would have been able to cross it. ”

Whether it was Yin Si taking away the yin soul, or becoming a lonely soul and a wild ghost, in short, there was no soul energy left on these two white bones, and it was not clear how they passed away, so Ji Yuan could only sigh and leave.

After another half a day, something that might be a building complex finally appeared in Ji Yuan's blurred vision, and the speed under his feet couldn't help but speed up a little, but the closer he got closer, Ji Yuan's brows gradually wrinkled.

It's not a small village in front of me, but I can't see how many people are angry, I thought it was because of the distance, but when I got closer, I couldn't smell too much popularity with my nose.

It seems to be deserted. ’

Ji Yuan entered the village, looked left and right, many houses looked dilapidated, weeds were overgrown in front of the village and behind the village, and there were no chickens and dogs in the streets and alleys of the village, let alone people.

After walking into the village for a while, he didn't see anyone, and Ji Yuan didn't go deeper, but turned back to a big house without a yard at the head of the village.

There is a well in front of this house, Ji Yuan has seen it, there is well water in it, well ropes and wooden barrels are also there, and the house is also complete, which can shelter from the wind and rain.

"Squeak... Squeak... Squeak......"

With the turn of the shake handle, a bucket of well water was taken up by Ji Yuan, and he took it out to look and sniff, the well water was very clear, and there was no unclean smell.

Ji Yuan reached out and picked up some well water, and drank it "gurgling", feeling clear and quenching his thirst.

"Whew...... This place ......."

Exhaling a breath, Ji Yuan looked at a low dilapidated small temple about a few dozen meters away from the head of the village, it was the land temple in the village, and there was no divine light left, and he didn't have the intention of trying to detain the land with the god of restraint.

In a desolate place, it seemed that the sky was getting dark very quickly, and Ji Yuan only rested for a while, and the surroundings had already become gray.

Shun some firewood from a dilapidated house around, Ji Yuan plans to rest here tonight, at least there is a roof, tomorrow will be a sting, judging from the sky, it is likely to rain at night.

A lot of the furniture in front of and behind this big house that was easy to take away is gone, not even the pot on the kitchen stove has not been left, and there are traces of burning in the hall, presumably left by other passers-by.

There was a big hole in the roof of the kitchen, and Ji Yuan simply went to the hall of the house to pile up firewood and light it, although the door here was transparent with window paper, but it could be closed.

Ji Yuan found a remnant stool and sat down by the fire, and inserted a piece of dry cake with a stick, one end stuck in the hole in the foot of the stool, and the other end was picked up by the fire to bake.

While waiting for the cake to be baked hot and soft, Ji Yuan took out a book to relieve the boredom, it was the book that I hadn't read for a long time, although I had already read every one of them, but I had been practicing during this time of rest, and if I read this book again today, I should relax.

"Boom ......"

The spring thunder sounded, Ji Yuan looked up at the door with a book, and the lightning writhed to cut the night sky.

"I think it's the first thunder of the year, right?"

"Boom ......"

The thunder outside seemed to echo Ji Yuan's self-talk.

However, Ji Yuan was immediately attracted by other things, in addition to the sound of thunder and wind, he faintly heard the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves, accompanied by some conversational Chinese approach.

Ji Yuan suddenly felt a little funny, it seemed that there had been several times, he stayed in a desolate place at night, and it was a rainy night, and he could always meet some people, but this was not bad, and it was finally considered to be crowded.

"Huh?"

Just thinking like this, Ji Yuan suddenly smelled something strange, and looked at the cake in front of the fire, it was indeed not mushy.

Outside the abandoned village, seven or eight people were slowly approaching with two horses, and everyone's faces were full of exhaustion.

Two horses were holding people on their backs and the other was full of things, and on the back of the horse in front was a little girl of eight or nine years old, and before she reached the crossing in front of the village, the little girl called out.

"Second master, second master, there are people in the village, there are people in the village, I see the fire, there are people in this village!"

The others were refreshed when they heard this, and they could indeed faintly see the firelight when they looked at it, but now the sky was not completely dark, and there were some dilapidated houses, so they didn't see much just now, but now that they saw it, the pace under their feet couldn't help but be faster.

"It's not a deserted village after all!" "It's good to have someone, change to something thin." ”

"It's better to have wine!" "Hey, hey, hey......."

"Stop talking nonsense, let's go. ”

However, when the group entered the village and saw the many dilapidated houses, the sense of anticipation in their hearts gradually decreased, but they still moved in the direction of the firelight.

When I walked to the outside of a large mansion that was still intact, I saw a fire in the hall there, and a man sitting on a stool was looking out.