Speaking of which, the scenery of Laoshan is a bit cold compared to the Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi and Songshan Mountain in Henan that the group has been to before. Although they stand by the sea and dotted with water, they are definitely not "green". The vegetation is sparse, and the exposed boulders stand thousands of feet aside, and there is no soil. The grayish-white part of the overall color of Laoshan is much larger than green. Moreover, the group came up from the foot of the mountain, but they never saw a family on the way, which made the mountain look extremely lacking in vitality.

Although the Qing Dynasty, when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was rioted, people's livelihood was withered and the mountains and rivers and scenic spots were rarely visited, it was indeed as Pu Zixuan said, a deserted scenic spot like Laoshan still seemed too deserted.

Zhu Yuanliang was busy rushing all the way, and his fatigue could be described as "tired and running", and he was even less inviting to pay attention to the scenery around him. At this time, he suddenly realized: "If you don't say it, I really didn't pay attention to this problem... Could it be that since Tai Sui came to Mount Lu, the people who originally lived here have been demonized and absorbed by the monster?"

Pu Zixuan chuckled and said, "I agree with some of your words. We believe that only some of the people have encountered this disaster. After all, the number of minions that popped up from Tai Sui is roughly counted, not to mention that it has transformed some Shandong people from other regions along the way. Therefore, we all speculated that, after some of the people were killed, other people living here were unknown, and some people disappeared for some reason, so various rumors arose, and they were so scared that they moved away."

"Well, it makes sense." Zhu Yuanliang nodded and frowned again, "But where will they move?"

Chen Shuqing said: "We have not found the answer to this point yet, but what is certain is that there is no point in staying here at this time, so we have to look for it elsewhere."

"But we have no clues at all. Looking for this is not a needle in a haystack?" Zhu Yuanliang never raised his interest and said frustrated, "It's less than two months before the eighth day of the fourth month. If we spend most of our time on finding people with the surname Lao, wouldn't it be wasting precious time to practice?"

"This is exactly what we find most difficult..." After Pu Zixuan said this, he no longer had the desire to continue. It seems that even if Zhu Yuanliang did not come to interrupt their conversation, their topic would sooner or later fall into this dead end.

At this moment, everyone sighed again. Just when they were at a loss, Yu Xiangdi's words like a dragonfly flashed the water, which made everyone see hope: "That... Zhu Xianfeng, your words suddenly reminded me of someone."

Zhu Yuanliang looked at Yu Xiangdi and said in a daze: "I said a lot just now, which sentence did you mean?"

"What else can it be? You talk about those people with the surname Lao..." Yu Xiangdi stood up straight and said seriously, "This sentence reminded me. I thought about it carefully. Among the people I know, there are indeed no one with the character "Lao" in the name of "Laoshan", but there are some people with the character "Lao" with the surname "Lao". There are very few surnames, will it have something to do with Laoshan?"

As soon as these words were said, Zhu Yuanliang's eyes immediately had a light in his eyes. He moved to Yu Xiangdi as if he met a soulmate, stood side by side with him, and he also hooked his shoulders tightly with the Vajra Demon-Subduing Wrist, snapped his fingers, and said with a gaze: "Hahaha, this is a good brother! I'll just say that the people living in Laoshan must have the surname Lao?" Then he pointed to the others one by one, and said in a lesson: "You ignorant guys should make up for your common sense, haha!"

Yu Xiangdi was not happy with Zhu Yuanliang's support, but instead looked bitter and pushed the Vajra Demon-Subduing Wrist away from his shoulder. He said angrily: "You hurt me!"

Zhu Yuanliang immediately tactfully put away his irregular hands and feet and said happily: "Sorry, anyway, Brother Xiang Di and I have the same view! We should go find someone with the surname Lao!"

Pu Zixuan gave Zhu Yuanliang a blank look and said disdainfully: "There are so many niche and remote surnames among the Hundred Family Surnames, what's there to make a fuss about? I've seen it. Although the surname is Hu, the word "hu" is pronounced as a strange surname like "cat"! It's normal for those with the surname Lao, why do you have to be related to Laoshan? It's too far-fetched!"

Yu Xiangdi gave a smile of understanding and explained seriously: "If I were just the surname "Lao", I wouldn't have thought so far, but my ancestral home happened to be Shandong!"

"What?" Hearing the word "Shandong", Pu Zixuan became a little more serious and hurriedly asked, "Who is that person? Who is from Shandong specifically?"

Yu Xiangdi smiled faintly and said, "It's not one person, but two people, and you are very familiar with them."

Pu Zixuan was even more puzzled: "Both of them have their surnames? Such a coincidence? Are they two brothers?"

At this point, Pu Zixuan suddenly remembered something and widened his eyes and said, "Can they be the two little guys Jue Fang and Jue Xing?"

"Yes, you finally remembered it." Yu Xiangdi smiled, "From your memory, I told you that these two brothers don't even have a common name. They only know that their father's surname is Lao, and they are from Shandong. Their father died of war and his mother died of illness. It was their mother who took them to Shaolin Temple before she died and asked Abbot Huiyuan to raise them and grow up."

"Haha, who remembers so much? The Shaolin Temple is all called by the Dharma names. Even if you occasionally mention their common names to me, I'm too lazy to remember them, and it's a waste of my brain... Let's talk about it, where are they from Shandong?"

Yu Xiangdi said, "Their past was not important at first, so I introduced it very briefly. Now I have to say a few more words. I heard from their mother that the two brothers were from Tai'an Prefecture, Shandong. Although Laoshan was not mentioned, if their ancestors left Laoshan more than a hundred years ago, they could be considered as their ancestral home to Tai'an."

Pu Zixuan originally hoped to hear the word "Jiaozhou Prefecture" from Yu Xiangdi, but unexpectedly it was a small Tai'an Prefecture. He was a little disappointed and said a little disappointed: "That's still not proof that their ancestors fled from Laoshan to Tai'an Prefecture?" Then, he asked Chen Shuqing: "Xiaojiu, Pujiazhuang is very close to Tai'an Prefecture. You have lived for so many years. Do you know about Tai'an Prefecture?"

"Do you need to emphasize my age?" Chen Shuqing glared at Pu Zixuan, and then explained in a straight voice, "Of course I understand. I remember that since I became sensible, until I left Pujiazhuang, the place name "Tai'an Prefecture" was not in my memory. Sixty years later, I came down the mountain and this place name appeared. I was curious and learned about it. Only then did I know that in the short thirteen years of Emperor Yongzheng's reign, the place name in that area changed very frequently. In the second year of Yongzheng, Tai'an Prefecture was promoted to Zhili Prefecture, and in the twelfth year of Yongzheng, Tai'an Prefecture was promoted to Tai'an Prefecture. Why did he frequently think about that area? Have you ever thought about it?"

"During the Yongzheng period?" Pu Zixuan grew up in surprise, "Isn't that the more than ten or twenty years after Pu Songling's death? In this way, after Pu Songling's death, there must have been some drastic changes in that area, which made the emperor uneasy!"

Chen Shuqing smiled and said, "Yes, there is a saying that 'If Mount Tai is safe, the world will be safe'. Emperor Yongzheng must have known something and took action against that place frequently. The biggest possibility is that it brought about a large number of immigrants and caused the population to expand, so that it had to be upgraded continuously to strengthen their rule."

Pu Zixuan suddenly realized: "Can we make a guess: back then, Tai Sui absorbed Pu Songling's corpse energy and came to Laoshan to find its kind, which brought a catastrophe to the Laoshan people. Among these Laoshan people, there were purification envoys, that is, what they believed to be "immortals", but they could not find the source of the disaster. So in the next 10 or 20 years, they had to take their tribe members to migrate helplessly. And with their understanding of the history of "Xu Fu to the Sea", they came to our Pujiazhuang to find the legendary Tai Sui in order to improve the power of purification, but they could not find it. So they came to the nearby Taishan area and settled, causing the population to expand there and forced the court to strengthen its ruling methods..."

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanliang suddenly felt energetic, "Oh, brother, you are so smart! I fully agree that those people surnamed Lao in Tai'an Prefecture are descendants of those who escaped from Laoshan! It seems that we should go to Taishan, Dongyue, to find the fairy track!"

This time, no one has objected to this.

"Oh..." Su Sanniang didn't say anything. At this time, she jokingly concluded, "It's really 'three cobblers are the ones who are Zhuge Liang'. Everyone has put together some of their own experiences, and it seems that they have really pushed the truth out. I hope everything is as Pu Zixuan said."
Chapter completed!