Vol 2 Chapter 184: Orphan

Chapter One Hundred and Eighty Four
After leaving the Xu family mansion again, Shen Shi walked all the way to Nanbaofang in the south of Floating Cloud City. When he passed the entrance of the Shenxianhui shop on the busy long street, he glanced inside, hesitated, but finally shook his head. I walked over and walked towards the Nantianmen Square at the end of the Long Street.
As in the past, Nantianmen, the place where casual practitioners gather and set up stalls, is still crowded and noisy. Numerous monks are arguing and debating for petty gains or all kinds of spiritual materials that do not know whether they are true or not. Every time Shen Shi sees this scene, he often feels that from another angle, the so-called monks who are superior and far above ordinary people are actually ordinary people, and they also have the seven passions and six desires of ordinary people.
He wandered in the crowd, looking aimless, and looking no different from most of the monks walking around. It didn’t take long before he walked to the middle area of ​​this casual repair market. There was something in a certain place. Stopped in front of the familiar stall. Eight years ago, when he was still a teenager, he found an ordinary black pot in a stall here, and discovered the clear heart chapter of the yin and yang curse of the demon clan’s secret method. A different way of monasticism.
Shen Shi turned his gaze, suddenly startled, but he saw that the person sitting at the stall at the moment was not the old man he had seen before, but another middle-aged man who looked wrinkled. At the same time, the man saw that Shen Shi stopped in front of his booth and immediately greeted him enthusiastically: "This young man, do you like the spiritual material here? Which one is the same? You can choose, I The things are absolutely good."
Shen Shi frowned, squatted down in front of his booth, glanced directly at the piece of silk cloth in front of him, and knew that six or seven of the top ten items were fake or inferior. The next few genuine products are also common goods. He shook his head, naturally not interested in these spiritual materials, but looked at the stall owner and said:
"Boss, let me ask, isn't this stall the old waiter? Why are the others gone?"
The man was startled, obviously he didn't expect that Shen Shi would actually ask about this. With a bit of suspicion, he glanced at Shen Shi and said, "What are you looking for?"
"You know him?"
The man nodded and said, "Well, it's a acquaintance."
Shen Shi was overjoyed and quickly said, "Then do you know where he is now?"
The man hesitated for a moment, he laughed, but shook his head, and said, "It seems that he hasn't been here for a long time. I don't remember clearly."
Shen Shi looked at him, and the man spread his hands helplessly, but his eyes flickered somewhat. After a while, Shen Shi sighed, took out a shining spirit crystal from his waist-wishful bag, and threw it away. .
The man directly grabbed the spirit crystal with a probing hand, suddenly opened his eyes and smiled, put it in front of him and took a closer look, he smiled at Shen Shi, and said:
"Master Xie rewards!"
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When Shen Shi left Nantianmen, he already knew something about Laohou from the man. In fact, this man did not know the current situation of Laohou very well, because he suddenly stopped coming to Nantianmen a long time ago. The stall sells spiritual materials. Fortunately, in the past, this person had always been in another stall near Lao Hou, so he was a little familiar with Lao Hou, and he actually knew the address of Lao Hou’s daily residence. Basically, he bought it from the spirit crystal This is something.
According to the address given by the man, Shen Shi walked all the way to the east of Floating Cloud City, which was near the former home of Houjia. In fact, after Hou Sheng worshiped into the Lingxiao Sect and became a direct disciple of the Ningyuan Realm, his father was more expensive than his son, and Lao Hou’s status in the Hou’s family was also improved. In this respect, it was somewhat similar to Zhong Qingzhu, but the Hou’s family did not Like the Zhong family's decline, there are many talents and talents in the door, so Laohou is not as beautiful as Zhong Qingzhu's mother.
It’s just that the Hou’s family suddenly fell and was divided up by other families of the inheritance that had been passed down from generation to generation. Lao Hou was also forced to move away. It was about that time that the life of Lao Hou began to undergo unknown changes, although he He was not implicated because he was alienated from the Hou family, but he never went to Nantianmen to set up a stall, and few people saw him again.
Shen Shi walked along the main street, stopped at a small alley a hundred meters away from the once-beautiful mansion, recalled lightly in his heart and calculated it, and found that Laohou’s abnormal condition should be the Gaoling of the day. Soon after the mutation happened in the mountains, that was when he discovered that his only son, Hou Sheng, might never come back.
Shen Shi sighed in his heart and walked into this alley. This alley is on the edge of the long street, but compared to the dirty and filthy alley where Ling Chunni Ganniang lived before, it is obviously much more lively, and many people live here. Most of the houses in the alley are dark and small, and most of the people who live here have a look of numbness and tiredness. There are only a few young bare-bottomed children who are still in this dark alley Playing around and chasing, swaying innocence and joy that is somewhat incompatible with this place.
Shen Shi passed the children, walked to the end of the alley, and knocked on the innermost broken wooden door.
"Boom, dong, dong." A deep knock on the door echoed, and there were a few numb gazes around here, but no one wanted to interfere. For some reason, Shen Shi felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, and There was no response in the door, he frowned slightly, wondering if the man in front of him gave him false news? Or is Lao Hou no longer living here now?
He knocked for a while, and there was still no sound in the door. Shen Shi couldn't help but feel a little anxious. With a little harder, the wooden door creaked, but it opened directly inward, and it was not locked.
As the door opened, an unusual stench floated out of the door. Although it was not particularly strong and choking, there was still a very uncomfortable feeling. Shen Shi paused and did not immediately walk inside. Instead, he stood at the door and took a look, and saw that there was a figure lying on the ground in the dark and small room.
He moved in his heart, hesitated for a moment or stepped in, walked to the person and pulled his body. When that haggard and scrawny face appeared in front of him, Shen Shi really did not recognize that this was almost the same as the dead. The person is actually Laohou.
This person did not really die, there was still a breath between his mouth and nose, and his breathing was weak, but it seemed that as long as he was left alone, he should die in this dark and dark room before long. .
And this person who looked like a skeleton and was old, from the only outline of his face, Shen Shi finally barely recognized that this was Laohou.
Looking at that face, Shen Shi didn't speak for a long while, although when he came here, he would somewhat think that the loss of his only son will cause some shock to Lao Hou, but after being lonely, he will fall to the point of being so heartbroken. , Or out of Chen Shi's surprise.
Perhaps, a son or a young man, after all, can't feel the feeling of an old man losing his life's beloved child.
Shen Shi squatted down beside Lao Hou, yelled softly, and said, "Lao Hou, do you remember me?"
In Laohou's muddy and hollow eyes, his eyes were motionless, as if he hadn't heard anything.
Shen Shi was silent for a moment, and then said: "My name is Shen Shi, I'm Hou Sheng's fellow apprentice brother, do you remember?"
Lao Hou's eyes suddenly brightened. It seemed that after hearing the word Hou Sheng, he suddenly received a little touch, and then slowly turned his head and glanced at Shen Shi with some effort.
His eyes were dull and weak, and soon after seeing Shen Shi's face, a trace of indifference and disappointment flashed, as if he was about to return to the former numbness and waiting for death.
But at this moment, suddenly something appeared in front of Lao Hou’s eyes. It was a puppy made of old cloth. It was very worn and even a little out of shape. It was a hind leg of cloth dog. And the tail on the buttocks, they have all fallen out.
This worn-out cloth dog doll was held in Shen Shi’s hand. I don’t know where he came from and where he took it out. It was placed in front of Lao Hou’s eyes. After seeing this cloth dog, Lao When the body suddenly shook, an incredible brilliance suddenly appeared in the eyes, it was the strength that came out of nowhere, and suddenly raised his head, and there were a few vague words in his mouth, but maybe it was too long. Without speaking, or losing strength, Shen Shi didn't hear exactly what he was saying.
However, there was no surprise on Shen Shi's face. Instead, he sighed softly and whispered:
"follow me."
Laohou slowly turned his head and looked at this unfamiliar young man, but soon exhausted the remaining strength of his body and nodded desperately.
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Liuyun City, Xujiaxiyuan.
"Have you seen the ten scenes of Tianhong in Tianhong City, are they really so beautiful and magical?"
Ling Chunni lay on the table in Zhong Qingzhu's room, turned his head slightly to look at Zhong Qingzhu who was sitting on the bed not far away, and asked with some curiosity.
Zhong Qingzhu shook his head and said, "It's not right, maybe that time, I will see five or six wonders. Although Tianhong's ten scenes are famous, some of them are not always visible."
Ling Chunni pursed his mouth, his eyes seemed to be a little longing, and he whispered: "When Shishi told me about this, he said that he had only seen three wonders when he was in Tianhong City. They were the sunset over Dragon Bridge. , The Great Wall Lanyue and The City That Never Sleeps, the other ones weren't seen because of the tight time."
Zhong Qingzhu said lightly: "These three are indeed the most common. As far as I know, there are about five common sceneries among the ten sceneries. The other three sceneries change with the seasons and can only be seen during a certain period of the year. In fact, the last two scenes have completely disappeared and will never be seen again."
Ling Chunni was taken aback, and said in amazement: "What?"
Zhong Qingzhu smiled, and said: "Imperial Palace Qiuyang, Hongjun Giant Pillar, these two sceneries were once among the ten sceneries of Tianhong, but after the battle between the monsters ten thousand years ago, the imperial palace of the Heavenly Demon Palace changed. In ruins, the huge pillar of Hongjun in front of the Demon Emperor Hall was destroyed, and what was taken was no longer the same as it used to be."
Ling Chunni nodded, and did not speak for a while, but her eyes flickered, as if thinking about something. After a while, she gently raised her head and suddenly called out, "Green Bamboo."
Zhong Qingzhu responded and said: "What?"
"Do you know how to get to Tianhong City?"