The next morning, the weather was gloomy.

On a green hillside, a man wearing a cloak and black veil slowly walked out of a cave and came to a mountain stream path. He looked around and saw that there was no one around, so he reached out to take off his mask, letting his mouth and nose breathe a few breaths of fresh air. When his lungs were relaxed, he looked up at the cloudy sky, looked at the land beneath his feet, and sighed.

However, even if she took off her mask, she would only reveal another layer of mask. This person was Su Sanniang, who had been wearing a fake beard and pretending to be Feng Yuliang. She had been staying in the cave behind her for the whole night.

Su Sanniang only stayed at the entrance of the cave for a moment, then went down the mountain stream and came to a stream. She bent over to face the water, twisted her head up and down, left and right, and looked at her reflection. It seemed that if she was not careful, the beautiful reflection would leave her.

After finishing the exam, I picked up a handful of stream water in my hands and brushed it on my face, washing away the dust and fatigue that had been around for a night.

After drinking a few sips of water, Su Sanniang suddenly heard voices coming from afar. She turned her head to look. As expected, she saw a passerby walking towards her, so she quickly got up and rushed back to the cave to avoid pedestrians.

Soon, a whistle sound came from Su Sanniang's mind. When she was upset, she heard a faint voice from the whistle: "Sanniang, Su Sanniang, you may hear my voice?"

Su Sanniang recognized that this was Pu Zixuan's voice, and immediately sat down, concentrated her luck, and replied to Pu Zixuan with her mind: "Tsk, who did I say it is? It turns out it is you! Pu Zixuan, it seems that you have learned some fur from the meaning that it is. I can hear it, but the sound is too small and the breath disturbs too much, it is not comfortable at all. You have to practice more."

Pu Zixuan didn't care about Su Sanniang's criticism and said excitedly: "Wow, you can really communicate in your mind! For the first time in your life, I can talk to someone so far away! Sanniang, am I more like a mature purifying messenger now? Hahaha--"

"Simply." Su Sanniang was too lazy to talk to Pu Zixuan, and said, "Tell me the serious business. If you don't have the serious business, then listen to me."

"Yes, yes!" Pu Zixuan immediately responded, "Zhu Yuanliang and I had already arrived in Huzhou last night. You Taiping Heavenly Kingdom people checked the people who entered the city very strictly. We finally got in and stayed in the city all night. We just wanted to ask you, where are you now?"

Su Sanniang struggled to overcome the disturbance, recognized Pu Zixuan's faint voice, and replied: "You have arrived in Huzhou? That's great. I am now in a cave in Guanyin Mountain outside Huzhou City, about seven or eight miles away from you. I need your help, come quickly."

"What? Did you encounter anything?"

"Yes, it's not very smooth. I sent a message to Chen Shuqing early in the morning. She said you were acting separately. She is currently in Jinhua Mansion, and you and Zhu Yuanliang are here in Huzhou. Unfortunately, I can't contact you on my own initiative. So I have been waiting in this cave to see if I can wait for your news."

"Okay, what do we need to do?"

"Sorry, you are not familiar with the sound of your thoughts now, and your voice is intermittent. You should come over and talk in detail. Come from Guanyin Mountain and walk along the mountain road. You can see the cave on the left in a while... Simply put, I seem to have been attacked by monsters..."

The last sentence did not reach Pu Zixuan's mind, and the sound of the two of them had suddenly interrupted amid the strong whistle and whistle.

Pu Zixuan in the inn said half happy and half sad to Zhu Yuanliang beside him: "It's successful. I contacted Su Sanniang, but she seemed to be in trouble and was waiting for us in a cave on Guanyin Mountain."

"Cave?" Zhu Yuanliang said in a daze, "If this Sanniang doesn't escort Hong Tianguifu well, what should she do in the cave?"

Pu Zixuan got out of bed and changed his clothes and said, "Don't ask, I must have encountered trouble. Unfortunately, I was still unstable when I was in my mind. I couldn't explain clearly for a while. When I got there, I would ask slowly." Then, he walked out of the room and shouted, "Shopkeeper, check out--"

Zhu Yuanliang also wore a cloak and saw the grief. He followed Pu Zixuan out of the room and said regretfully: "Oh, I'm also saying that I'm going to visit Taihu Lake today. It's all right. The important thing is."

The two left the inn, went up the street, and walked quickly towards the city gate on the west side.

The two were walking in a hurry. Suddenly, Zhu Yuanliang felt something hit on his back and immediately shouted instinctively: "Pu Zixuan, there is a monster attack!"

The two of them immediately turned around and saw that on the bustling streets, everything was as usual, just a zijiu woven on the ground in front of them.

Not far away from the opposite side, a boy with a disheveled face and looked like he was in his teens shouted: "Sorry, brother, can you help me pick up the ball?"

Seeing that it was just a child playing, the two of them felt relieved. Zhu Yuanliang hid the mechanical arm of his left hand, stretched out his right hand to pick up the Cuju, and took it in his hand to look at it.

Just as I was about to throw it back to the boy, I saw the boy with a nervous look on his face, "Uncle, didn't I tell you, can you ask the brother next to me to take it over for me?"

"Uncle?" Zhu Yuanliang immediately turned fierce and scolded, "Hey, you kid, I am the same age as him. You call him brother, but you call me uncle? Am I that old? Also, why do you want him to give it to you? Am I that fierce? Are you afraid that I will eat you?"

"Hahaha..." Pu Zixuan laughed, "Fatty, your scar face and this strange outfit would be strange if you don't scare other children. Well, it's not a big deal. Give me the ball and I'll give it to him."

Pu Zixuan was about to reach out to get Cuju, but Zhu Yuanliang felt emotional. He raised his hand to avoid Pu Zixuan, walked towards the boy, raised Cuju and said, "Call me brother, I will give you back."

I didn't want the little boy to stop talking or take Cuju, but his face was gloomy, as if he had something to hide.

Seeing the little boy reacting like this, Zhu Yuanliang was immediately disgusted with his rudeness. He threw Cuju to the ground, turned around and walked towards Pu Zixuan and said, "It's so unlucky, let's go."

When Zhu Yuanliang walked to Pu Zixuan, the little boy shouted timidly: "Can that brother over there play with me for a while?"

If it were normal, it would be better to accompany him to entertain, but Su Sanniang was waiting for the two of hers in the cave. Pu Zixuan didn't want to waste time, so he waved his hand and said, "Next time."

As he was speaking, the two patrols of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rushed over and scolded the two and the little boy, "Hey, what are you playing on the street? Now the whole city is martial law. If you have nothing to do, go home soon!"

The little boy didn't dare to say more when he heard the sound, picked up Cuju and turned around and ran away.

Pu Zixuan bowed and said, "Sorry, two sirs, we are about to go out of the city to do business, so we dare not stay on the street for too long."

The patrol said: "You have to think clearly that it is a special period. It is easy for you to leave the city, but it is not that easy to come in again."

Pu Zixuan understood that Huzhou is currently one of the few territory in Zhejiang Province that is still controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Due to the urgent war, entering the city requires layers of interrogation. If Su Sanniang did not ask for help, the two of them would not bother to fight wits and courage with the officers and soldiers. However, once they met with Su Sanniang, as Su Sanniang's "Sand King", it would be easy to enter the city as Su Sanniang, so they responded: "I know, sir, we have our own qualities." So they stopped talking and called a passing carriage on the street and took the car to the direction of Guanyin Mountain.

...

When the two arrived at the foot of Guanyin Mountain, they called the carriage to leave and walked up the mountain path. After about a stick of incense, they saw a cave on the left. Pu Zixuan shouted to the cave: "Su Sanniang, we are here, is this cave?"

Shaoqing, the tightly wrapped Su Sanniang walked out of the cave, still looking around, seeing that there was no one else, she took off her veil and asked the two of them, "Can you see clearly my face?"

The two were confused by Su Sanniang's strange outfit and questions. Pu Zixuan wondered: "Apart from this fake beard, I don't see any problems."

Su Sanniang let out a sigh and asked again: "Does any tricky monsters have you encountered along the way?"

Pu Zixuan said: "If you don't meet monsters on the way to Guanyin Mountain today, but since you arrived in Zhejiang, there are indeed many strange things. In Changhua County, we met a child monster. When we arrived in Hangzhou, we met a mother and son monster. They are all difficult monsters with weak physical bodies but difficult to deal with."

"Then, are these monsters all human-shaped half-demons, and they are like small trees, and they cannot sense the demonic energy?"

Pu Zixuan said in surprise: "Yes, so, you have met Sanniang, too?"

Su Sanniang said, "Oh, it's a long story. I arrived in Tianjin first to resist the monsters that cooperated with the Qing demons, but I encountered three different monsters in the past and afterwards."

"What three types?" Zhu Yuanliang asked.

"That day, the battle against the city in Tianjing happened to be the full moon night of June 16th. We fought from night until the early morning. First, a monster bird attacked on the city wall. This monster should have come to my heart. With my current strength, even on the full moon night, it is no problem to deal with this monster. Later, the Qing demon blew up our city wall. After the army entered the city, I found that there were a few demonic auras in their army, not coming to me, but to be a large beast monster that assisted the Qing demon to attack the city. Later, Li Xiucheng, the king of Zhong and I broke through the siege and arrived on the mountain road, and met another boy. He was the kind of half-demon who could not sense the demonic aura. He claimed to be a monster named Hongyasha sent to kill me. Fortunately, he was captured by me. Now he was still in a mud shape and wrapped in me. He was in this cave to help me cover up the purification power."

"Red Yasha?" Pu Zixuan said in surprise, "That's right. Red Yasha has indeed sent many half demons to continue to chase us. The few half demons I mentioned just now were also sent by Red Yasha! But Sanniang, since you have already captured him, why should you stay in this cave again?"

Su Sanniang looked around carefully again, and finally stopped in front of the two of them, and said seriously: "Now, look at my feet and you will understand."

The two looked at Su Sanniang's legs and saw that the black cloak covered his entire feet, only a pair of white shoes were exposed, and there was no other abnormality. Zhu Yuanliang wondered: "Have your feet been injured?"

Su Sanniang said, "That's not there, but you didn't notice that something was missing on the ground?"
Chapter completed!