Sword of Coming

In Yingchuan County, there were three horsemen driving side by side in the wind and snow. Following the directions of the map, they branched off from a relatively wide official road and turned into a small mountain road.

At noon, just because of the heavy snowfall, the three people's vision was blurred, which made the already rugged mountain trail even more difficult. Fortunately, the three people's mounts were not bad horses, but horses from the Taoist temple in the capital. It is said that he is a descendant of Shanjiao. Although his blood is thin, he travels through mountains and rivers like walking on flat ground. On this trip, apart from their respective customs clearance documents, the most important thing was the official document written by the Minister of the Ministry of Officials in the capital of their own country, drawn by the real person protecting the country, and then inspected and approved by the largest Taoist temple in Ruzhou.

Leading the first rider was a young woman wearing a black gauze crown and a thick and warm blue Taoist robe.

With curvy eyebrows and plump cheeks, his figure looks thin and plump, and he rides a light yellow horse.

A pair of embroidered shoes is slightly exposed, and the golden stirrup is tapped lightly.

There are two riders behind, a man and a woman. The man rides a black horse, dressed in blue and elegant Taoist robes, wearing a bamboo hat and carrying a sword.

The woman is tall and tall, her skin is already dark, and under the reflection of the snow, she is even more like charcoal, but she is dressed in a fancy dress, a carmine dress with gold and flowers, and embroidered luan on the cuffs.

As a servant girl, she is not very old, but her figure is too strong. There is a simple knife hanging from the waist.

She is also riding a tall horse with an old box hanging on each side. A box of clothes, a box of books.

There is also a priceless square inch, which the lady also gave her for safekeeping. It was a treasure bestowed by the old man of the family when the lady entered the cave.

With a square inch of things, they can travel lightly on this trip, except for the two boxes hanging on both sides of the saddle, which can be folded, food boxes, and bottles and cans. Put into the square inch together.

The woman who came to Changshe County, Yingchuan County to serve as the abbot of a small Taoist temple, named Jian Su, had just entered the cave at the beginning of winter last year, and she has no Taoist name yet.

Brother Chai Yu, character Yuanjia, Guanhaijing, Taoist name "Shengmo". His ancestral home is not in Nanshan Kingdom, which belongs to Yingchuan County, but Zhushi Country, where the Shimen Golden Coffin School Taoist Temple is located. The ancient trees in the country are towering, and it is very famous in Qingming Ruzhou.

The maid, Su Cheng, was nicknamed Huaqiao. He is an out-and-out "nymphomaniac", good at growing all kinds of flowers, especially peonies. In the capital, Jian's gardens are all well-known, and half of the credit goes to Huaqiao.

In the past year, the weather can be described as strange. First, there was a severe drought last summer, which was said to be once in five hundred years. The water gods and narcissus from all states in the world complained incessantly. I heard that many Hebos were directly exposed to the sun and their golden bodies cracked, and then winter continued. Blizzard, let’s say today is late spring, and the snow is still as big as a flower. Chai Yu supported the bamboo hat, put his hand over his mouth, and said: "Junior Sister, next spring, Jade Emperor City will issue Dao names as usual. When you go to the Taoist temple in Changshe County, please do not forget to draw up some favorite Taoist names, and it is best to send them to the Jingcheng family and the Shimen Zushitang before the fall of this year, so that both parties can do it for you early Prepare, help you plan and plan, strive for a dao name that you like, make sure you can pass it in the Jade Emperor City, exchange letters at least once, listen to senior brother's persuasion, don't think about some dao names that are too meaningful If you try your luck, it will definitely not pass. Although each Taoist official has three self-made Taoist names, which can be reported to Jade Emperor City, but the fourteen prefectures of Qingming, a grand event that can only be met in one year, people who pin their hopes on it There are so many Daoist officials in the world, millions of them, three of them each, adding up to tens of millions of Daoist names, one can imagine how difficult it is to win a title..."

Jian Su smiled and interrupted the brother's broken thoughts, "It's a matter of luck to 'discuss' the jade imperial city of Baiyu Jingyu. It's normal if you pass, it's a surprise. In the worst case, we can use our Nanshan country's own spare road numbers."

Whether the Taoist officials in each state have a Taoist name is a watershed. This means that the Taoist priest who granted the book found the master, such as the common man and the crown, with a character.

It's just that in Qingming Tianxia, ​​it's not easy to have a Taoist name.

The imperial courts of various countries have specially set up a special file library for recording Dao numbers. Every time the Jiazi is passed, it will be revised, updated and supplemented once.

Because all the Taoist temples in the fourteen prefectures and all the jungles in the ten directions belong to Baiyujing, the Taoist name of any Taoist official must not be repeated.

Therefore, every time the Jiazi deadline comes, it will be a grand event of "seeking Taoism" as many as crucian carp crossing the river. If you can get a Taoist name issued by Jade Emperor City and send an official document, it will be regarded by the Taoist officials as "getting the Tao". Dao", asking for a great auspicious sign, that's why Chai Yu and Jian Su called it "discussing Feng" in the chat. Moreover, the Taoist priest who founded the Jade Emperor City was also the head teacher of Bai Yujing, the first disciple of the Taoist ancestor, so the Taoist title obtained by virtue of this is of great significance.

Therefore, the name of the chief teacher, Kou, is like the "master" of the Taoist official Jiazi's heyday imperial examination.

In order to compete for and reserve the Taoist number, on the day of the beginning of spring, the Baiyu Jingyu Imperial City, which is in charge of the world's Taoist priests' genealogy and Taoist records, will "open the door" at Zishi, and the flying swords and colorful talismans are like a swarm of locusts. Covering the sky and covering the sun, they flocked here, just to help the Taoist officials in the dojo of their own dynasty to ask for a "beautiful" dao name that they had met early.

In the fourteen prefectures, many great monks who have long been in the upper five realms do not even have a serious Taoist name, just to "try their luck". As a result, they have failed to obtain the title more than a dozen times.

Huaqiao stretched out her hand to pat off the snow between the horse's neck and mane, and said, "Miss, the Taoist name reserved by the Imperial Court Ritual Department, from Baiyujing to our Ruzhou, has always been passed by the Chijin Dynasty. After being screened by several other great dynasties, we finally arrived at our Nanshan Kingdom. There are only a hundred or so Dao names left, and they are all picked up by others. They don’t look like Dao names anymore. I don’t even know some characters, but there are some three-character and four-character Dao names. Are they plausible? Those who are a little bit decent have long been snatched away by those two sects’ ancestor halls, or were The largest Taoist temples went through the back door with the imperial court, and quietly spent a lot of money to buy them. After a few makeshift Taoist names, they were all fought over and smashed."

Seeing that the junior sister was still a little absent-minded, Chai Yu said: "There are often turmoil because of this, and many wealthy families are fighting openly and secretly over this, and are at odds with each other."

Jian Su reached out to catch the falling snow in her palm, and murmured: "Isn't the Taoist name also an external object? It is understandable for ordinary people to compete for fame and fortune, but we are Taoists."

Chai Yu shook his head, feeling very helpless, and was about to defend himself, so that his junior sister's thinking would not be so naive and unrealistic.

Jian Su obviously didn't want to argue with her senior brother about this matter, she already smiled and said: "I know, I know, I will definitely take care of it."

In addition, the Taoist names of all the Taoist officials of the upper five realms, even those who have passed away, are not allowed to repeat their Taoist names in future generations.

I heard that Zhangjiao Lu has been suggesting that the Taoist names of those Jade Realm Taoist officials in history should be opened to the outside world.

It is rumored that the head teacher also suggested that Bai Yujing could seal up the dao names of certain deceased earth immortals and keep them for a hundred years.

The descendant disciples, disciples, or family descendants of various dojos, if anyone succeeds in becoming an earth immortal in the future, they can fill in the vacancy, which is regarded as inheriting this dao title. Before that, the Taoist priest could also follow the procedure and have a step-by-step Tao name, but when he became an earth immortal, if he wanted to inherit the Tao name, he could go to Baiyujingyuhuangcheng and get it back in person. The Dao name of the Patriarch of the Dojo, or the ancestor of the family, and the two Dao names do not conflict, there is no need to choose, you can have two Dao names at the same time, just like the self-name and alias of a literati.

But it's a pity that neither of these two proposals was approved. The whole world knew that the only Taoist priest Bai Yujing who could reject Zhangjiao Lu's suggestion was Zhangjiao Yu.

I heard that there is no such particularity in Haoran Tianxia. Only some genealogical monks of the Daxian Mansion will have their Taoist names strictly reported and archived by the Zhongtu Confucian Temple.

The genealogical monks of the small sect, as long as they don’t make a fuss, they will enjoy it secretly when they get a bargain, and don’t publicize it to the outside world. Of course, don’t take that kind of "old" Taoist name that is too famous. Generally speaking, it’s nothing, Confucian Temple The academy couldn't manage it, and the local court didn't want to manage it. As for those so-called Shan Ze Yexiu, they can even take the Dao number at will.

Let's talk about the barbaric world, let alone mention it, it is a lawless place with no rules at all.

The maid Huaqiao was worried, "Miss, when Hong Miao left office, he left a big mess. There is no certainty about the identity of the female ghost who wandered around and violated the ban. This ghost has not been captured yet. The trace is unknown, we still have to be careful. Try to take the post road official road as much as possible, and avoid these mountain trails."

The ancient mountain roads are inaccessible, narrow roads, and horse-drawn carriages can't get up at all. The grooves between the mountain roads are mostly horseshoe potholes left by tea-horse salt merchants. Turning a corner, Chai Yu supported the bamboo hat on top of his head, nodded and said: "What Huaqiao said is right, we still have to be careful."

Jian Su smiled and said: "According to the county records, there is an abandoned gymnasium with a long history in the mountains. We have seen it, so we will continue to take the official road."

Chai Yu said helplessly: "Junior Sister, if I remember correctly, you seem to have said so about the Huangting Temple at the foot of Jicui Peak and the two ancient ruins that followed."

In Ruzhou, the largest scenic spot and historic site is the Huangting Temple built at the foot of Jicui Peak. Offering sacrifices to the ancestors, she is the deputy city lord of Nanhua City. She is honored as Mrs. Wei, her Taoist name is "Zixu", and she is the first female Yuanjun in the Qingming world.

Mrs. Wei is also one of the ten candidates in the world.

Among her direct disciples, there is a female crown bestowed by heaven, who is in charge of the blooming and falling of the world's flowers. According to the history books, she once had the act of "paying all the flowers to stay out of the mountains, and not to bloom in the world in spring", so she was almost detained by Yu Zhangjiao himself. In the Yanxia Cave of Zhenyue Palace, he thought about his mistakes, and the head teacher interceded for his help, and then traveled to the states of the world with that female crown, returned all the flowers to the world, and made up for his mistakes, so that he was spared this punishment.

Generally large Taoist temples, especially such and such palaces, often preserve a large number of inscriptions with a long history, such as the inscriptions on the reconstruction of a certain year and month, the inscriptions on property donations by pilgrims, or the inscriptions on mus that record family wealth, and there are other kinds of inscriptions. Incense inscriptions and so on that specifically record the inheritance of Taoism. Every time there is a temple fair, merchants gather and rub shoulders. Every Dharma meeting is a place full of immortals and mortals, and ghosts and monsters come together to listen to the Qingci Baogao of Taoist officials, the bells and drums are ringing, and the jade chime is melodious.

The three riders came to the dilapidated gymnasium in the mountains through the snow, and they were a little disappointed. Originally, according to the content recorded in the local county annals, there was an anonymous dragon and snake song inscribed on the wall of the inner hall of the gymnasium. It records an allusion of the fairy family. There was once a young woodcutter who strayed into this mountain by mistake. He was taught the magic of immortality by chance. Joining hands with Taoist couples to return to the mountains and build gymnasiums, the owner of the gymnasium is good at Danqing. He once set up a screen in his dojo, and painted a group of horses with his own hands. It is ever-changing and lifelike. A steed "jumps" out of the screen and turns into a spiritual creature galloping between heaven and earth, and the color of the horse on the screen will fade accordingly. After a hundred years, all the painted horses have turned into line drawings. The owner of the hall likes to play in the world, and often hides his name. He is the finishing touch on the dragon walls of the imperial palaces of various countries. In case of wind and rain, the stone dragons on the walls will shake their bodies and beards, soaring into the sky, or they are painted on the screen walls of wealthy families and on the desks of study rooms. Eagles and sparrows are so vivid that they are real when you see them, and you will know they are false when you reach out and brush them. According to legend, this fairy also painted dragons on white plain silk cloth and gave it to a certain king of the last subjugated country. Clouds and air lingered between the silk cloth and treasured it in the painting box, and there were often thunderous vibrations... Finally, the owner of the museum brought two The Taoist companions fly away together. In the rest of the empty gymnasium, passing woodcutters and traveling merchants all said that they could often hear horses raising their hooves on the wall at night, as if they were asking for water and fodder with passers-by staying here...

As a result, when they arrived at the gymnasium that had long been in ruins, they saw nothing.

Not to mention the screen, even the horse picture on the wall of the side hall is full of chisel marks, and even many blue bricks have been pried away, probably carved into bricks and inkstones, and became the literati of later generations Let's make a clean statement on the desk.

Jian Su sighed: "It's a pity that it is abandoned like this, otherwise it would be more than enough to build a Fucheng Taoist temple here."

Chai Yu said with a smile: "If the records in the county annals are true, and the owner of the hall once personally painted Sulong as a gift to the former emperor, then as the new emperor, the founding emperor of Nanshan Kingdom would certainly not want to rebuild the gymnasium here."

Resting temporarily in the side hall, barely sheltered from the wind and snow by the dilapidated walls, Hua Qiao took out something from the square inch, started a fire, set up a pot to cook, and then warmed a pot of rice wine for Taoist Chai Yu.

Sitting on the small embroidered stool, Jian Su remembered something and asked, "What's the specific situation at the Lingjing Temple?"

"Miss, I finally remembered something."

The maid Huaqiao hurriedly put down the bowls and chopsticks, and took out a booklet from her sleeve. Finally, she had something to use. It was the content she had carefully sorted out from various channels. Recorded by her.

"As soon as Hong Miao, the former master of the temple, left, there were no Taoist priests in the temple. There were only a few resident Taoists. The name of the temple was Liu Fang. He was fifty-three years old. He was a local. He had lived near the Lingjing Temple for generations. , half of them belong to their Liu family's fields. It seems that the Liu family has an ancestral precept that each generation of Liu's descendants must allocate a little "incense fire field" to the Taoist temple. Do your best."

Jian Su smiled and nodded and said, "I'm very interested. When we get there, we will settle down in the Taoist temple first, and then we will pay a visit to Mrs. Liu, prepare a decent gift, and express our affection."

Chai Yu smiled and said: "Actually, Hong Miao, as the abbot Taoist priest, has never had a Taoist certificate. He is just a candidate Taoist official. It is the same situation as you Huaqiao. Being the temple master is an exceptional appointment."

Jian Su said: "It's not considered to be an exception. After all, Master Hong is an alternate Taoist official of Guanhai Realm. It is not a good job to come to Changshe County to be an abbot Taoist priest."

Huaqiao grinned, "Ma Zhong is Liu Fang's distant relative, and he entrusted his relationship with the concept of spiritual realm. In his resignation document, Hong Miao specifically mentioned that this Ma Zhong has a certain chance to practice. Of course , Hong Miao's resignation document also has an appendix, which does not need to be archived by the government. Naturally, it is deliberately left for the new temple owner's reference. It said that Miao Zhu Liu Fang had promised Lingjing Temple in his early years that he would allocate two acres of paddy fields to the Taoist temple. And a piece of mountain land full of persimmon trees, the mountain land has been handed over long ago, but the two acres of paddy fields have been dragging on all these years, and it is suspected of defaulting at first glance. Oh, poor mountains and rivers make troublemakers."

"Dianke Chang Geng is a local literati whose family has come down. When he was young, his family was rich. He was a famous playboy in the counties of Yingchuan County. He was used to living a comfortable life. Because he was not good at farming, his annual expenses were high. He is too big to make ends meet, and when he gets older, he will be in short supply. It is said that it is because Lingjing Temple owed him a debt in the early years. It is a muddled lawsuit. It seems that the amount is not small. It is not easy to pursue it later, so Chang Geng was allowed to enter the Taoist temple as a pawn, and he has been honest and responsible all these years."

"Chen Cong, sixteen years old. He is a relative of Dianke Chang Geng. They entered the spiritual realm in the same year."

"Lin Yu."

"Um?"

"呅, next to the handle, add a word of consideration. The family opened three shops in the county seat. They have a little money. They are considered a wealthy family. Their ancestors were all from the local county government. Because a few years ago, our Nanshan country Vigorously abolishing the redundant staff of Baishu's subordinate staff, Lin's father's generation couldn't get along, so they turned to business, and now they have a good relationship with the county government, so they can barely be regarded as local snakes, relatively reluctantly."

"Earth ointment. The earth ointment of 'Yang Qi steams, earth ointment pulsates'."

When Huaqiao said this, she also smiled. The rain urges the soil to move, and thousands of grasses and flowers bloom.

Jian Su asked: "Tuyou? Is that your real name?"

Hua Qiao nodded and said: "It's her real name, but in fact, this person comes from a mediocre family. His ancestors were foreigners who migrated from other counties to Changshe County. He once opened a martial arts gym for several years, but it will soon be unable to operate. Maybe he saved money. Only with some family background can the earth paste enter the Taoist temple."

Chai Yu smiled and said, "Surnames are rare."

Jian Su frowned slightly, and the more she listened, the more she felt that something was wrong, "No matter how small the Lingjing temple is, it is an orthodox Taoist temple that is recorded by the imperial court and funded by the local government. Did you go in?"

Chai Yu suppressed a smile, "It's not difficult to understand, Yingchuan County is not a big county at all, and Changshe County is the poorest one, and the place is remote. It is estimated that the Taoist temple is really too poor."

Similar Taoist situations are actually not uncommon. It's just that the younger sister was born in a wealthy family in a country, and she practiced cultivation since she was a child. Of course, she doesn't know much about this kind of local customs.

Just talking about the counties and prefectures within a country, every family has scriptures that are difficult to recite. Some counties are extremely rich, while some counties are so poor that they cannot be exposed.

Many prefectures and counties that seem to have a vast territory pay taxes every year, which may be far inferior to counties in other places.

Jian Su asked: "Did Master Hong write in the official documents, and did he teach them one or two ways to get started?"

Hua Qiao nodded and said: "Yes, but the effect is not good, maybe the only one who is a little bit close to Taoist officials is that Ma Zhong."

After all, it is not so easy to be a Taoist official. It is more difficult for those who do not have the roots of Taoism to obtain the status of a "second-class" Taoist official through the imperial examination and obtain a "turbid stream" Taoist certificate, and the requirements for literary talent are even greater. high.

Jian Su sighed, "Since Lord Hong Guan didn't take any one away from Lingjingguan after he left office, it can explain the problem."

Whether he is the embryo of a Taoist official, whether he has aptitude for cultivation, whether his roots are good or bad, Taoist temples all over the world, and every wealthy family have many secret inspection methods.

Jian Su asked again: "What are the temperaments of these teenagers?"

Hua Qiao hesitated for a moment and said, "Lazy."

"They are very tired and lazy. They hide from daily schoolwork and Taoist affairs, and they hide whenever they can. None of them are diligent."

"Miss, they are not reliable anymore. It's okay. I will be in charge of these daily cleaning tasks in the future. I don't feel at ease if I let them do it."

Chai Yu said with a smile: "After all, it is a land of fish and rice. There are still many scholarly families who have cultivated and studied heirlooms. There is some literary luck, but they are scattered and not gathered."

Chai Yu said again from his heart: "Hong Miao and Tan Sou, who came to the Taoist temple later, are quite experienced in doing things, especially after Tan Sou's inspection of geomantic omen, presumably there is no big problem in Changshe County. stable."

Su Cheng grinned and said, "I heard that Tan Sou entered the cave at the age of 30. He is far behind our young lady, and he can't be considered a genius."

Chai Yu shook his head, "The Tan family has a profound heritage and is a well-deserved noble family in the county. Tan Sou is also the heir appointed by the head of the family. She is definitely not as simple as she appears on the surface, and she can't just look at the realm."

Chai Yu clearly remembered that the Patriarch of the Tan family was once a guest of the Golden Coffin Sect, and he was almost the least happy to welcome the master who was sent to him, and actually greeted a Jindandi who was considered a junior according to his age at the gate of the mountain. fairy. Furthermore, the Tan family is most famous for owning a private altar. This is extremely rare in the vast territory of Ruzhou. After all, in Ruzhou, there are no more than 20 Dharma altars of various branches that have the qualification of private records.

Jian Su said: "Hua Qiao, you will be in Changshe County when the time comes, and spend money to buy a house. I will find you when I am free."

As the abbot Taoist priest of a Taoist temple, he can completely decide whether the group of resident Taoists in the temple will stay or stay.

Don't mention the identity of the abbot, the Taoist priest who only talks about the scriptures, and the resident Taoist who is not even an alternate Taoist official, are like the difference between the officials in the yamen, the difference between cloud and mud.

But Jian Su felt that there was no need for a new official to take office three times, as long as the Taoist temple kept its original appearance. She just concentrates on studying and practicing Taoism over there, and they continue to dawdle, so don't bother.

Hua Qiao became impatient when she heard the words, and she hurriedly persuaded her own lady, "Miss, without me by my side, and no one to serve me, how can this work, absolutely not! Besides, in the Spiritual Realm, only Miss A woman, the young lady is still so good-looking. Those lazy people in the Taoist temple are not promising, but they also happen to be reckless at the young age. God knows what kind of dirty tricks they will do if they can't figure it out. The young lady is a Taoist cultivator. Of course, I’m not afraid that they will be messed up, but daily life is inconvenient after all, bathing, going to the toilet, washing clothes to dry..."

Chai Yu immediately nodded and echoed: "Hua Qiao is right. After all, men and women are different. It is best to let Hua Qiao place an order to practice in the Lingjing Temple. Just give some money. I believe the county government will not pursue such trivial matters. .”

Although he is not worried at all that there will be...competitors in the Spiritual Realm Temple, but when he thinks of those stunned youths staring at the scene of drying women's clothes on the bamboo poles, Chai Yu, who is a senior brother, feels uncomfortable.

No, when I get there, I have to let those young men from small places gain some insight and let them know what the difference between immortals and ordinary people is.

Jian Su teased: "You can't blame yourself. If you have the official status of Taoist official, I can take you to the post together, and you can talk about everything. It turns out that you are fine. When you are a child, you get sleepy when you flip through the book. Others just study. , You should be washing the book with saliva. If you are not too inexperienced, how could you not even get a Taoist letter, and you are still a candidate Taoist. If you are willing to put half of your thoughts on planting flowers and practicing martial arts on the endorsement , have already passed the exam."

Hong Miao, the former master of the Spiritual Realm Temple, belongs to this category. In fact, his realm is already enough, but he can't pass the final assessment, and he still can't get the official Taoist certificate issued by the court.

Huaqiao whispered: "It really doesn't work, I'll just find a Buddhist altar to buy a private booklet and forget it, miss, don't worry, I've saved some family money, I can pay for it myself..."

Jian Su stared and said: "They are all candidates for Taoist officials, and there is only one assessment of the Taoist Temple in the capital. How can you fall short? Can you pursue something?! It was agreed in advance that when you arrive in Changshe County, you will continue to endorse me honestly." Don't be lazy, I will check your homework every month, if you fail twice, you can go back to the capital obediently, and no one, including Grandpa, will beg for mercy for you!"

It is a "heretic" in Qingming Tianxia that a certain surname Dharma altar imparts private registers and issues Taoism certificates, but this is actually very common in the fourteen states of the world.

In addition, many mountaintop monks and Dao officials in history have established their own sects, built altars, and passed down the Dharma lineage, and the incense has continued to this day.

Tan Sou's birthplace, the Tan Family of Xinmi County, is listed here, and has a private altar.

Therefore, there is a saying in Qingming Tianxia that may or may not be taken seriously, "I would rather provoke the direct lineage of the sect than go against a certain dharma altar."

Just because without exception, the "ancestor" who has a private altar must be richer, and it is definitely not an ordinary "rich", at least a Taoist priest in the Jade Realm.

Some maverick monks are still just private Taoist priests when they reach the realm of the earth fairy, or even the upper five realms.

Although the Taoist priests given by various dharma altars will definitely not be recognized by Bai Yujing, but Bai Yujing intentionally or unintentionally opens up about it. Qingliu officials who serve in the imperial courts of various countries cannot hold any positions in the official Taoist temples, but there is no problem in calling themselves Taoist priests when they are away from home. When it comes to certain dynasties that strictly prohibit private records, and even regard all altars as rebels, these "wrong origin" Taoist officials can only take a detour.

In history, the largest altar of private registers is... a rice thief from the Yanzhou lineage!

But this matter has become a taboo topic for all Taoist officials in Qingming Tianxia.

Hua Qiao made a bitter face.

If I knew she would not talk about the private register.

The fancy words stopped.

Chai Yu flipped through the big and small matters in the booklet, and they were orderly. Don't look at Su Cheng's appearance... rough, but she is actually very careful.

The reason why she is wearing such bright red recently is really something she can't help, because in the busy city, passersby who ask for directions or strike up a conversation often greet "this strong man"...

Huaqiao complained: "Miss, the incense in Changshe County's Spiritual Realm Temple... means there is no incense! Poor is really poor! If it hadn't been renovated two years ago, we would have to drink the northwest wind this time, literally. The kind that makes sense! A heavy snowfall collapsed several houses, and Hong Miao begged his grandpa to sue his grandma for a few donations from the local gentry. He only said that the Taoist temple next door to Changshe County, how could it be It’s such a stretch, it’s not that the Lingguan Hall and the Taoist Lecture Institute, which cover an area of ​​several acres, were expanded last year, it’s really hard to compare people, and it’s a waste of money compared to goods!”

Generally speaking, Taoist temples will have temple property, and there will be incense money donations for scripture lectures and ritual ceremonies. If there are many faithful men and women, Taoist temples will not be short of money at all. The abbots of some Taoist temples are slightly more famous and can also serve as tutors. Taoist temples are equivalent to having their own French descendants. But Changshe County's Spiritual Realm View has everything it wants, and everything it lacks!

Leaving aside the renovation by Hong Miao, since a good man rebuilt it in the early years, it seems that no one has added a tile to the Lingjing Temple for two or three hundred years.

Jian Su couldn't help laughing, and said with a smile: "From another perspective, this remote Taoist temple named Lingjing was really solid when it was built. The builders at that time must not have cut corners?"

Chai Yu drank wine, as expected of a junior sister, her heart is really big.

Jian Su said: "This is not very good, there is no need to greet and send, but it will be clean."

She left Beijing this time because she was hiding in peace.

Otherwise, with her family background and aptitude for cultivation, if you want to go to those imperial Taoist temples that enshrine the emperor and empress dowagers to copy the Taoist scriptures, it will be done in one step. It is still a bit difficult, but if you want to say that Jian Su's great-grandfather is willing to help with the operation of the Ministry of Officials, coupled with the icing on the cake of the Shimen Golden Coffin School, let Jian Su go to work in a certain big mansion, the imperial court ordered to build a Taoist temple, and seek a job. There is still no threshold for "leisure and beautiful jobs" that do not seek real power.

Chai Yu remembered something. For some reason, it seemed that the large-scale Taoist temples in various countries, down to the government level, seemed to be expanding the Lingguan Hall, which was in full swing.

"The snow has stopped."

Jian Su said: "Then continue on the road, try to find an inn in Xu County next to Changshe County before dusk, get up early tomorrow, go to the Taoist Temple in Xu County first, and then we will hurry to the Lingjing Temple. "

On the central axis of the Taoist temples in various places, the buildings are similar. After passing the mountain gate, there is the Lingguan Hall. The main hall is dedicated to a Taoist ancestor and three Baiyujing masters. There is a slight difference. In the Patriarch Hall, the former often changes the portrait of the head teacher to the "original surname" Patriarch who founded his own Taoist temple. However, the supporting halls on the east and west sides and the Taoist temples of different countries are different. They often worship different Taoist gods and immortals. And feet.

Chai Yu took out a few bags, "Junior Sister, take them all, you will need them in the future, the dough is what I asked for from a female martial artist from Yashan, she passed by the boundary of our master's gate once, it was me We met by chance, according to Yashan's seniority, her master is that Mrs. Qi."

A bag of gold leaves, a bag of broken silver, and a well-made "dough".

Before this trip, my junior sister had never touched anything yellow and white in her life.

Jian Su smiled and said: "Gold and silver, I will accept it, as for this face, forget it, and I am not a martial artist, so I am so shameless?"

Chai Yu smiled and said: "It can always save a lot of unnecessary troubles."

Hua Qiao clicked her tongue and said in amazement: "Madam Qi, Master Zhijie! She is our Master Lin's second disciple!"

The whole Ruzhou, no matter if they are Taoists or warriors, they are all proud of having a "Master Lin" in their family.

This Kong Wu's powerful maid, she always dozes off when she hears anecdotes about gods from all walks of life, but when she talks about those martial arts masters in Ruzhou, she is full of energy.

Jian Su exited the dilapidated Gymnasium, turned around and gave a slap in the face.

After descending the mountain and entering the official road, the three riders galloped all the way to Xu County, where they found an inn to settle down.

The county government of Changshe County has received an official notice from Yingchuan County that the new abbot and Taoist priest of Lingjing Temple will arrive here today.

For a county magistrate, the county magistrate must be a Taoist official, but the county magistrate Han has always had a mediocre relationship with Lingjingguan, and has almost never had any contact.

The main reason is that Hong Miao, the former master of the temple, was an alternate Taoist official. He has been in charge of the spiritual realm temple for so many years, but he has never visited the county government. Come to the door, do I have to go to the Lingjing Temple to find you? There is no such rule!

Because I heard that Jian Su, the abbot of the Taoist temple this time, is a son of a rich family from a high gate in the capital. , the local government knows well that there is no need to make the relationship between the two parties too tense, so this time the Changshe county government still gave Lingjing Guan a little face, and let the county magistrate and county lieutenant come out at the same time. They are all recorded by the Ministry of Officials, and they must be from alternate Taoist officials. If it is those big counties, ordinary Taoist officials don't have enough family background, so they don't even want to be the county magistrate or county lieutenant.

Early in the morning, two distinguished guests came to the Spiritual Realm Temple. If I remember correctly, it might be the first time for them to set foot in the Taoist Temple.

The snow is not cold enough to turn the snow into cold, yesterday was another heavy snow, today the teenagers in the Taoist temple were as cold as quails, drooping their heads, putting their hands into their sleeves and stomping their feet.

After all, there were two high-ranking officials and lords present in the county government, and it was not easy for the teenagers to openly take out the charcoal cages to keep warm.

Lin Bing felt that the opportunity was rare, so he bravely stepped forward, stood at the door of the living room, and bravely called the county lieutenant who was sitting by the brazier inside the room, and called Uncle Huang.

All of a sudden, Huang Xianwei was stunned. Where did the relatives come from?

Instead, the county magistrate stroked his beard and smiled, "He's the son of shopkeeper Lin, yes, he's our local resident Taoist priest, keep up the good work, study hard here, and try to win an alternate Taoist official, which can be regarded as a glorious family lintel." gone."

Lin Bing's face was flushed, and his expression was abnormally excited. Unexpectedly, the magistrate of the county magistrate recognized him and was very tactful. He didn't dare to disturb the magistrate of the magistrate's rest. He replied softly, then retreated, turned around, and walked back to the corridor under the eaves. The boy only felt warm all over.

Seeing that Lin Bing was able to chat with the county magistrate, Ma Zhong and Tu Yao were very envious, and Tu Ya hurried to Lin Bing's side, asking this and that in a low voice.

Lin Bing asked, where is Chen Cong? Ma Zhong replied angrily, he is a thief, he is a ghost, he waited here for a while, and then hid in Chang Bo's house to warm up.

The two officials and lords are drinking tea here, but it is a pity that they are on business and cannot drink.

In the end, when it was noon, the figure of the new temple master still couldn't be seen, so he muttered, don't go straight to the county government office to worship the mountain, right? No, if that's the case, both of them are direct confidants of Han County Magistrate, and there must be a subordinate official who came here to inform them, so they are still on the way to the Taoist temple? The Spiritual Realm Temple is too small, and Chang Geng, who is in charge of dealing with people, does many errands, such as cooking and cooking. Since it was time to eat, the old man made a quick lunch and added a few dishes. I just dealt with it a few times casually, and then continued to move to the living room to wait for the new temple master who was said to have an excellent background. Ability, relying on a good family background alone is not enough.

From early in the morning, until it was almost dark, and the figure of the new temple master could not be seen, no matter how good the patience was, it was exhausted.

Dianke Chang Geng boiled water again and again, and changed the tea leaves again and again. If the two county magistrates continued to drink like this, with the little family background of the Taoist temple, they really could only drink water.

With a dark face, Captain Huang stretched out his iron tongs to stir the charcoal fire, and said softly: "This is too embarrassing, Brother Qin, what do you say? People from the capital are amazing, they don't follow any rules."

The old man said indifferently: "Wait another half an hour, we won't wait when it's over, we'll leave when the time comes, and we really won't serve you anymore. Don't go to our county government if you have the ability."

At dusk, Miao Zhu Liu Fang and Dian Ke Chang Geng stood in the corridor outside the living room, chatting softly. Liu Fang said that Yang Mazi's family had just killed a pig. Let's have a drink or two.

Chang Geng rubbed his hands and nodded, saying again and again that it's a good feeling, it's a good feeling.

Turning his head and glanced at the extremely ugly faces of the two officials and masters in the room, Liu Fang shook his head lightly, and said in a low voice: "It's still the same, life is hard."

Guanzhu Hong is not good at managing relationships, but Lingjingguan and the county government have maintained a superficial politeness, and now the new Guanzhu has already beaten up the entire county government before he even showed up. Face. How will we get along in the future?

Chang Bo laughed and said, "It's a good thing that County Magistrate Han didn't come today."

Liu Fang sighed heavily, "Our Taoist temple will wait to be put on small shoes in the future. The new temple owner may not be afraid of this, but it is hard for us permanent Taoists who do not rely on both sides."

The relationship between a Taoist temple and the local government is that the former relies more on the latter. Some poor Taoist temples cannot maintain their daily life by relying on the incense of the people. A lot of money comes from the appropriation of the county government. Can give or not, give more and give less, anyway, it's all the way, it depends on the relationship between the Taoist temple and the local government. Unfortunately, the concept of spiritual realm is in this list.

The horse has no night grass and is not fat, and the Lingjing temple is in the hands of Hong Miao. It is the idea given by the staff member Chang Geng, a Taoist temple, so that a Taoist temple can at least issue two Taoist robes for young people to wear in winter and summer every year. With Taoist incense money? It is only said that the last time all parties raised money to repair the Taoist temple, it was Chang Bo who helped to go out and make contact. It is estimated that this is why Hong Miao, among the comments to the resident Taoist, has a "honest duty" to reciprocate the pianist Chang Geng.

In the words of Chen Cong, if a pilgrim is willing to throw two copper coins into the merit box, there will be thunder.

In Miaozhu Liu Fang's eyes, Chen Cong is a lazy kid, but he is smart, and his usual conversations are interesting, and he can relieve boredom.

Looking at the honest and honest young man, he is actually bad and full of ideas. It seems that he has persuaded Guanzhu Hong, saying that relying on others is worse than relying on himself. Our Taoist temple is not very popular. Guanzhu, you can try to burn high incense ?

In the twilight, the hill where the Spiritual Realm Temple is located is just an inconspicuous hill, but the old pagoda trees on both sides of the road still look good.

The three got off their horses together at the foot of the mountain, and Jian Su led the horse away, raised her head and said with a smile: "The scenery of the Taoist temple is much better than I imagined."

Hua Qiao said helplessly: "Miss is too easy to talk to."

Chai Yu squatted down, stretched out his hand to wipe off the thick snow on the road, then grabbed a handful of dirt, twisted it with his fingers, sniffed it, and nodded, the water and soil here are okay.

Hua Qiao is not surprised by this, the young lady's brother Yu is actually very close to the young lady, but the young lady doesn't seem to have any ideas about this fellow senior brother.

On the other side of the Taoist temple, the two county magistrates were actually about to go back to the house, and they were holding back their breath. When they went out, they saw three foreigners walking towards them.

Lin Bing's eyes lit up immediately, and based on the positions of the three of them, he guessed that his new temple master was the young and beautiful...sister in the middle? !

Is she the new master of our Spiritual Realm Temple? ! The young man only felt that he had hope in his life. From now on, he would get along with such a beautiful woman day and night every day, so he had to put his heart into his studies sooner or later!

Tuyou asked curiously, "Which one is the master of the temple?"

Ma Zhong stared blankly at the fairy who seemed to be walking out of a New Year painting.

Chen Cong took a quick glance at their clothes, hehe, these three horses are so handsome, you can't see them in the county town!

Jian Su handed the reins of the horse to the maid beside her, and chatted with everyone, "Jian Su, the new abbot of Lingjing Temple, has met all the fellow Taoists."

Chai Yuben wanted to introduce himself, but after thinking about it, he decided to give up. Chai Yu, a seventh-generation disciple of the Golden Coffin Sect, and as the direct preacher of the Patriarch Hall, was actually very intimidating when he came to the local county government of his country.

The maid was flamboyant, deliberately put on a fierce face, and glanced at the young man. Fortunately, they were all laymen with turbid breathing.

Lingjing Temple is not the kind of descendant temple that has been passed down from generation to generation. It can open the door to entertain the people of the Sifang Yunshui Taoist, but it is so poor that there are no fellow Taoists from other places visiting here to bother you. Are you hungry every day and staring at you?

Chai Yu planned to live here for a while, anyway, it was under the guise of going down the mountain to travel, so that he could accompany his junior sister on a journey of mountains and rivers.

Dianke Chang Geng hurriedly returned a handsome Jishou, and pulled Miaozhu beside him, "Dianke Chang Geng and Miaozhu Liu Fang welcome Jian Guanzhu. These two masters are from our Changshe County. Mr. Cheng Qin, Mr. Huang, the county captain, the two lords have been at our Taoist temple since the time of Chen, waiting for the master. There is no need to wait any longer. Seeing that it was getting late, the county magistrate of Qin County made an appointment with the county captain Huang Waiting outside, the Taoist temple is not big, and when it gets dark, if there is no words on the mountain side, I guess Guanzhu Jian will have a hard time looking for it."

Seeing the slim young female crown in front of them, the anger in the hearts of the two officials disappeared instantly.

As for the decent words of Dian Ke Chang Geng, they were also pleasant to the ear.

The Little Spirit Realm Temple has produced talents, but in the future, they will often communicate with each other, drinking tea and discussing the Tao with Master Jian.

Chang Geng's culinary skills are not bad either, so he asked the yamen gatekeeper to send some seasonal vegetables to the Taoist temple later. Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors, and the incense of the Spiritual Realm Temple is not allowed by our county government?

Jian Su smiled apologetically and said, "Jane Su doesn't have a Taoist name yet, but I have met Qin Xiancheng and Huang Xianwei. I'm sorry to keep the two adults waiting for a long time. This is an official document, please read it."

She took out the official document from her sleeve and handed it to the two county government officials.

Qin County Prime Minister took over the official document, the sky was dark, the old man glanced through it with narrowed eyes, nodded and said: "Confirmation is correct, on behalf of the Changshe County Office, I would like to congratulate Master Jian Guan on his appointment."

In the official document, it is clearly stated that one day he must rush to the Lingjing Temple to take up his post, but Jian Su never thought that the county government would ask two officials to come to the Lingjing Temple to greet him, let alone that they would be here early in the morning. while waiting.

She thought about it for a while, and said with a smile: "It stands to reason that when I'm here for the first time, I should take the initiative to visit you at the county government."

Jane Su reminded with her heart: "Hua Qiao, let's see how I talk to them next. If necessary, you can ride a horse to the county seat later and find a bigger restaurant."

Chai Yu did it on purpose. In the final analysis, she still hopes that her junior sister can return to the master's gate to practice. She really wants to practice her Taoism in the world of mortals, and at least choose a Taoist temple close to the master's gate.

The Golden Coffin Sect is one of the top three avenues in the country, but it has been squeezed out by the two previous sects in recent years. If the sect is placed in the entire Ruzhou, it can be regarded as the bottom of the third-rate fairy house. Daoist Zhou may have "heard" more or less "heard" that there is a golden coffin sect in Nanshan, but I guess he can't even remember the name and Taoist name of the head. sect? The other two fairy gates, in fact, do not belong to the local ashrams of Nanshan Kingdom in the strict sense. Just because there are vassal hills outside the ancestor mountain, and the mountains and rivers border Nanshan Kingdom, they are regarded as guests by His Majesty the Emperor. On the other hand, "born and bred" The head of the Golden Coffin School did not even become a true protector of the country. It's not that the Nanshan Kingdom's imperial court is unwilling to support the Golden Coffin Sect, but it's really inappropriate to fight against those two behemoths who are located on the "side of the couch" of a country.

Junior sister never pays attention to these inside stories, even if she hears about them, she just ignores them. However, Chai Yu, as a reincarnated disciple of the Golden Coffin School, is deeply respected and loved by his master. As long as he enters the Longmen Realm, he intends to let Chai Yu be sent to the Ministry of Rites of Nanshan as a servant, and he will hone in the officialdom for several years. If there is any sign of alchemy, immediately return to the mountain gate to retreat. As long as the alchemy is formed, Chai Yu will be able to take charge of the Ministry of Industry of a country at the same time as the peak opening ceremony is held.

The two officials still politely declined Guanzhu Jian's dinner invitation, saying that they still need to go back to the county government office to inform the County Magistrate Han of the matter immediately, and some procedures need to go through the process in each room of the county government office.

Jian Su sent them all the way to the foot of the mountain. The Taoist temple was really simple, and there was no memorial archway.

There are no stables in the Taoist temple, fortunately Miao Zhu Liu Fang said that there is a place to take care of the horses in his village at the foot of the mountain, and Hua Qiao was not at ease, so they walked together with the horses.

Hearing that the temple master had already had dinner, Dianke Chang Bo secretly heaved a sigh of relief. The meal at noon had eaten up a lot of the Taoist temple's wealth. Jia, I didn't move my chopsticks much, it's cheaper. Those bastards who start to gobble up when the officials leave the dining hall, don't look at the temple. I wish Liu Fang is old, and I don't eat less. When I leave the table, I burp and go to the living room. On the road, I walked slowly, stretching out my hand and pulling out the shredded meat from the gap between my teeth. Today's meal is almost the same as that of the New Year.

Chang Bo led the new Taoist priest to a room, worried that she would have a grudge, so he specifically emphasized that the bedding, washbasin and other items in the house were all newly bought by the Taoist temple from the county.

Jian Su smiled and nodded, and thanked the old man who knew everything. She had a good impression of this pundit. She was indeed... honest and responsible.

When the old man arrived in the house, he stood by the door all the time. When Jian Su sat on an official hat chair, the old man said goodbye and did not forget to close the door gently.

Jian Su stretched her waist. Compared with her family in the capital city, she was in the Shimen dojo. Everything she saw and heard here was new.

There was a legendary immortal in the Nascent Soul Realm in her ancestors, and her great-grandfather, who is now the head of the family, is a golden core earth fairy, but the realm so far, in the words of the great-grandfather himself, is already that kind of exhausted. At the point where the energy is exhausted and the lamp is exhausted, let alone the Nascent Soul Realm, it is the second floor of the three floors of the Golden Core Realm, so don't even think about it in this life. So the outside world praised him as a young golden elixir, but the old man said that he was a veritable old golden elixir.

In any case, Jian Su's great-grandfather, who became a Jindan Dixian, still belongs to the family's well-deserved ancestor of Zhongxing. That patriarch, the process of attaining enlightenment was shrouded in clouds and mists, and it seemed to be a bit unspeakable, so that there was no record in the family and genealogy biographies, and in Nanshan country back then, no matter whether he entered the middle five realms, formed alchemy, or even became Nascent Soul I have never really put my mind on establishing a school or spreading leaves in the officialdom of the court. I just closed my door to practice and didn't accept many disciples. So when this patriarch passed away quietly, there was no The Jian family, which formed a climate, soon declined all the way, until Jian Su's great-grandfather, who was called a genius in heaven, practiced smoothly and succeeded in forming alchemy with the help of the ancestral scriptures that no one could understand. Only then did the Jian family start to revive their family traditions. Jian Su's grandfather and two uncles successively passed the examinations for Taoist officials, and the Jian family thus gained a firm foothold in the court of Nanshan Kingdom.

But in the generation of Jian Su's father's generation, it began to be ineffective. None of the brothers in each house had the qualifications for cultivation, let alone passed the entrance examination for Taoist officials.

It wasn't until Jian Su came into existence that this predicament was changed, and the family could be said to be proud again.

But regardless of men and women, children of aristocratic families, when they are old, they can't get around the matter of marriage. The Jian family has always regarded itself as a scholarly family. Avoid, plus Jian Su's monastic aptitude is good enough, Jian Su's parents are not in a hurry, but those parents and grandparents in the family ancestral hall are a little bit concerned about this, and want to help her find a good family, except for a few Jingcheng Junyan, who is already an official Taoist official, is also like Jian Su's brother Chai Yu in the Golden Coffin School, isn't he a good match right in front of him?

So when Jian Su took the initiative to ask to go to another place, and finally chose to be the abbot and Taoist priest of the Lingjing Temple in Changshe County, Yingchuan County, senior brother Chai Yu followed.

In fact, at such a young age, Jian Su can serve as the abbot and Taoist priest of a government-run Taoist temple. No matter how shabby the Lingjing Temple is, the face of the Jian family alone is still not enough. The Patriarch Hall of the Outer Coffin School has secretly contributed. In fact, the number of abbots in any imperial-built or government-run Taoist temple in Nanshan Kingdom is a contest between the Golden Coat School and those two sects.

Jian Su is only nineteen years old now, and she is already in the Dongfu Realm when she is less than twenty years old. She has successfully entered the fifth middle class, which is like a carp jumping over the first dragon gate.

The key is that Jian Su is talented and intelligent. She has been reading the family's collection of books since she was a child. She often has unique insights into the dozen or so rare Taoist books that are not widely circulated when she was young.

Therefore, at the age of fourteen, she was admitted as a Taoist official who passed the examination in the capital of Nanshan Kingdom, and her ranking was extremely high. In the capital, this matter was still quite a sensation.

To use an analogy, among ordinary masters, it is equivalent to someone who passed the imperial examination at the age of fourteen and ranked first and third.

It's a pity that Jian Su's practice of breaking through the realm is still a bit slow, and it is still a little bit far from the real genius "Tao Seed" on the mountain.

Otherwise, there will only be more people who come to ask for marriage with the Jian family, and it is estimated that they have already crossed the threshold.

It is a good thing to have an earth immortal in the family. The descendants of the family often have a broad vision, and the more promising they are, the less arrogant they will be.

Jian Su stood up and hung a scroll on the wall. The portrait was a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a traveling crown, sitting cross-legged on a futon.

Inscribed on the painting is a Qingci poem written with cinnabar, with eight characters at the end, which mean something like a message, "Leave the country, sit and forget, and practice the Tao honestly."

The signature is real Qingxiao. This is the Dao name of the Yuan Ying Patriarch of the Jian Su family.

What a wonderful meaning this dao number has.

But Jian Su consulted the archives of the Ministry of Rites of the country, and there has never been such a Taoist official in the history of Nanshan Kingdom.

Now the Taoist official with this Taoist name, Jian Su has been famous for a long time, and he can be called thunderous. It's just because the other party is a Taoist official of Hongnong Yang in Youzhou.

There was a sound of pushing the door behind her, and Jian Su looked away. It was Hua Qiao who returned to the Taoist temple. Take it out and put it on the table. Dozens of Taoist classics taken out of the bookcases and bamboo boxes, because there are no bookcases in the house for the time being, are also placed on the table, and there is a whole set of porcelain tea sets. As well as some precious letterheads secretly made on the mountain, which belong to the "beauties" of paper, and ordinary rich people can't afford them, not necessarily because they can't afford them, but they just can't.

A set of pastel flower nine storage plates, used to display melon and fruit snacks.

Fortunately, the room is not big, and this desk by the window is quite big.

The maid even took out the hammer and nails that had been prepared long ago, and they jingled. It turned out that she had chosen the hanging position of the vase on the wall. Flowers can be placed in the porcelain vase. The wall vase shape of the half-moon vase was originally designed to hang on the wall. .

Don't look at Huaqiao's tall and burly person, but she is actually ingenious and ingenious. Let's just talk about the sachets she wove by herself, which are the favorites of the girls of the Jian family.

There is an ancient inkstone on the table, which is very close to the celadon wall vase, and the inscription is "The fragrance of the inkstone falls from the vase and returns to the characters".

Luxurious families who are suddenly rich and wealthy, and scholarly families who are farming and studying heirlooms, after all, each has its own decoration style.

Huaqiao took a few steps back, looked at the wall vase, then leaned closer to the wall, supported the vase, and muttered, "Miss, I will go to the county seat tomorrow to help you re-purchase some winter and summer bedding, mosquito nets, and This bed is too small, why don't I find a handy carpenter to spend money to order a bed? I will abide by the agreement, and I will not reveal my martial arts realm and family traditions here. At worst, I will hire a car to go to the foot of the mountain. , I deliberately chose to come here in the twilight, and I will carry it up by myself, anyway, it is only a few steps up the mountain road, and I can climb over the wall and enter, so that no one will notice!"

"No, it's not like traveling in Spring and Autumn. Grandpa has a catchphrase, Taoist priests are not poor, whoever is poor."

Jian Su shook her head with a smile and said, "Besides, you can move such a big bed up the mountain, how can you move it into the house?"

Looking at the decorations on the table, Jian Su laughed at herself: "It's not really poor, it's not too bad to hide and enjoy the blessings."

Hua Qiao glanced under the desk, and said in her heart, "Hong Miao said, there is a family talisman secretly pasted by Tan Sou under the desk, which can last for several months. Miss?"

Jian Su said with a heartfelt voice: "Be careful sailing for thousands of years, just keep this talisman."

She sighed softly, there is no officialdom anywhere outside the mountain.

This favor is owed. Jian Su couldn't help but appreciate it.

Hua Qiao nodded, a little depressed, "Miss, when I look at those young men like Lin Bing, my eyes are not right. When I look at Miss, there are coals in my eyes."

Jian Su smiled and said, "You know again?"

Hua Qiao suddenly remembered a face, "Pay special attention to that young man named Chen Cong, he looks quite upright, his eyes are treacherous, and he hides a lot of thoughts."

Jian Su joked, "Maybe you have malicious intentions?"

Hua Qiao shook her head and said: "That's not true, it can be seen that he is the only one who is not so reincarnated as a pervert, and pays more attention to the young lady's clothes."

Jian Su laughed it off.

Huaqiao said seriously: "Miss, people's hearts are unpredictable, you must not have the intention to harm others, and you must not have the intention to guard against others. Since there are people who are motivated by sex, there must be people who are motivated by wealth."

Jian Su said with a casual smile, "Oh? That young man is still a money fanatic? Then do I have something to chat with you?"

Hua Qiao rolled her eyes and said: "Look at his slender arms and legs, shivering from the cold. When I pass by him in the future, I'm afraid that a gust of wind will blow him away."

Jian Su suppressed her smile, "Then take it easy."

Hua Qiao is a martial arts prodigy born with amazing physical strength, but the Jian family neither has a martial arts master as a family enshrined, nor does it have suitable martial arts cheats for her to learn, so in this matter, Jian Su's great-grandfather, for this little girl , I feel a little guilty. It is always said that Huaqiao, it would be great if he could go to the Crow Mountain of the Chijin Dynasty to try his luck since he was a child, but it is a pity that he did not enter our house until he was ten years old, and it was too late to learn martial arts. For a top sect like Jie Shan, I believe she might have a great achievement.

There was only one chair in the room, Jian Su asked Hua Qiao to sit, and sat on the edge of the bed with her hands propped on the edge of the bed, and asked with a smile: "Don't smudge, go to the county town to find an inn earlier, and then buy a house."

The whole person seemed to be stuffed with chairs and asked tentatively: "Miss, are you really not allowed to live in the Taoist temple? I asked, Miaozhu Liu Fang has a room, and he doesn't live there often. I will rent it from him."

Jian Su looked at the pitiful girl, and felt a little soft-hearted. Before Jian Su could say anything, Hua Qiao laughed and said: "Miss, I have actually negotiated the price with Liu Fang, and I will just take the house over there." Get it right!"

As expected of Senior Brother Chai, he really taught us a great trick!

Jane Su said helplessly: "Okay."

They say they are masters and servants, but in fact they love sisters.

Huaqiao smiled brightly and said, "Miss, can we chat for a while?"

Jane nodded.

Hua Qiao took out a book from the pile of books on the table, she doesn't like to read books, but there are treasures hidden in this Taoist book.

Jian Su looked at the graceful and gentle movements, and couldn't help but joked: "Meet your lover again? Doesn't seeing each other every day feel like three autumns?"

Hua Qiao grinned, "I'm not good enough for him, Miss... To be honest, I'm not good enough either."

Jane Su nodded and said, "That's for sure."

Hua Qiao took out two "pages" from the book, which she carefully cut out from two Shanshui Mansion newspapers.

The Jane's family is not the kind of family that is rich and powerful in the capital, so every expensive Shanshui mansion newspaper will be carefully preserved. This is a two-page mansion newspaper collected with great difficulty after asking the lady for help. As for what "Love man", of course, is my lady's joke, just because there is the same pure martial artist on the mansion newspaper.

But it is another world.

His name is Cao Ci.

On one page of the residence newspaper, it was written how he defeated the enemy in a place called Fuyaozhou in Haoran Tianxia. On the second page of the Di Bao, it was written that he won the contest between the green and the white of the Chinese Confucian Temple.

Winning again!

This has something to do with Ruzhou's heyday of martial arts, the gossip about Cao Ci will only spread on the mountain, and in other states, maybe only the top of the mountain will hear about this person.

But this kind of character who is far away in the sky, in terms of Huaqiao, is really a character far away in the sky.

From Huaqiao's point of view, Cao Ci, who is in awe-inspiring world, is unattainable and unattainable, and is not too different from the city lord and landlord of the twelfth floor of the fifth city of Baiyujing.

It may be due to preconceptions that she has a bad impression of another Cao Ci's peers, to be precise, it is very bad.

Losing again and again, how could he still have the face to pester Cao Ci endlessly? If he sees such a shameless bastard, heh, anyway, don't even think about calling him Master Chen!

Hua Qiao began to mutter again: "Miss, can you imagine that Cao Ci is only in his early forties now, and he is already the master of the peak of martial arts."

"I regard him as the second master of Master Lin, isn't that too much?"

"It was said in the Dibao that Cao Ci has never lost a match so far, and he will never lose to anyone in the future."

Hearing this, Jian Su smiled and asked: "Doesn't he have a master, and there is no competition between them. Since there is a competition, there must be a winner or loser, right?"

Hua Qiao's eyes widened, she looked bewildered, she shook her head, and said sullenly, "How do I know the situation of their master and apprentice teaching boxing, anyway, the whole world said that Cao Ci never lost."

Jian Su smiled and said: "I heard that there is another person of the same age named Chen who lost several times in Wenquan, but Cao Ci's face was swollen from the most recent spar?"

Hua Qiao said angrily: "Damn! This kind of person doesn't talk about martial arts at all, so he deserves to be a martial arts master?!"

Jian Su joked: "If one day you see that official Chen Yin, would you dare to scold him face to face?"

Huaqiao's anger dissipated immediately, and she said listlessly, "Of course...don't dare."

The person surnamed Chen, besides being a young martial arts master, is also one of the ten young people in several worlds, Chen Shishi? Seems to be an official, Chen Yinguan?

Heh, flashy and flashy, look at our Cao Ci, isn't it just Cao Ci? Have a nickname or a title?

Just the name Cao Ci is enough.

Thinking of this, Hua Qiao's mood improved.

The night was heavy, and there was nothing to do, Chai Yu was carrying a money bag, which was filled with the Nine Emperors money selected from the treasury.

Unlocking the knot of the bag, Chai Yu opened his five fingers, and nine coins popped out from inside. They are all kinds of Tongbao as carved mother coins, all of which have excellent meanings. A period of peace when the country is strong and the people are safe. Among them, there is another bag hidden in the sleeve of Chai Yudao's robe, which contains several coins carved in snow-white ivory, but there is no need to mobilize the crowd like this, just check around the Taoist temple tonight, just in case.

There is this treasure, which lies in the family tradition.

In fact, Chai Yu's ancestral home is not Nanshan Kingdom, but a vassal state bordering the Chijin Dynasty. There, the imperial court has an official title called Qian Fashilang, who manages the coin minting of Mingquan Bureau and Baoyuan Bureau in one country. There are both the Ministry of Industry and the Household Department, usually the right servants of the two departments concurrently, and occasionally a doctor serves as the chief officer of Qian Fatang, which is usually a precursor to being promoted and reused by the imperial court. Occasionally there are big houses in the local area, and there are also coin minting bureaus, which are convenient for collecting materials and casting locally, and the officials sent by the two ministries supervise the casting. Relatively speaking, the Ministry of Industry’s minister of money and law has greater authority, and the copper coins cast by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce pass through a country or even several surrounding countries. In Chai Yu’s hometown, whenever the imperial court changes yuan, the royal officials who are proficient in casting will use ivory Carved money samples are engraved and submitted to the Ministry of Industry for appraisal. After that, the ancestor coins are imitated and cast, and then the mother coins are cast with the ancestor coins. As for the ancestral coins, especially the "copper coins" carved from ivory, each piece will be carefully recorded and numbered by the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court, and transferred to the imperial treasury, where it will be kept tightly sealed and must not be leaked. And Chai Yuzhi has all these treasures, which are related to his ancestors serving as ministers and servants of the Ministry of Industry. In addition, the family has several banned books, which are secret and precious, and they must never let outsiders know. For example, there is a book of rites. The official chapter is devoted to taboo content such as measuring the depth of the geodesic veins in Tugui and how to build a royal city in the middle of the earth.

Therefore, Chai Yu's family has a profound family background, and almost all the Taoist officials of the family are born with a keen intuition for gold, iron and earth veins.

Both Ma Zhong and Tu Yao found it interesting, and Chai Yu didn't stop them, watching from afar as the two country boys kept throwing money on the ground and picking it up again.

Behind the small Taoist temple, near the vegetable garden, there is a dry well.

Chai Yu had already put away nine pieces of mother money, and took out a talisman from his sleeve. The two teenagers were startled. Just now, the Taoist priest just blew lightly, and the yellow paper talisman instantly ignited, as if holding a lamp. Lanterns illuminated the entire vegetable garden brightly.

Chai Yu stood beside the mouth of the well, raised his arm and raised the talisman, then looked down, it wasn't too deep, but there was some snow at the bottom of the well.

Twist the talisman with two fingers, recite the mantra silently, and finally throw it at the bottom of the well. A talisman is nailed into the snow at the bottom of the well as quickly as an arrow. During this time, the fire suddenly bursts out, like a slender fire dragon hanging from the well.

There is no difference.

Just to be careful, Chai Yu waited until the talisman at the bottom of the well was burned out, walked around the mouth of the well, took out a long golden rope from his sleeve, and then took out a pocket copper coin sword, which was no longer than a foot, and tied it At the section of the long golden rope, he planned to fall the sword into the well.

If there are really evil things hiding in it, encountering this sword is like seeing a scorching sun suddenly for ghosts in the tomb.

I dare not say that this copper coin sword can kill demons and eliminate evil on the spot, but it is certainly not difficult to force them out of the well.

Chai Yu made up his mind, before leaving the Taoist temple, he would give each of those teenagers a copper coin of relatively ordinary material and shape.

But if they know the goods, they can find a fairy family ferry or a large county mansion Taoist temple, and resell it, which is also a considerable windfall.

Tu Yao secretly glanced at Ma Zhong.

Ma Zhong was a little more absent-minded.

In the Drum Tower of the Taoist temple, Chen Cong was lying there, watching the fire from the well in the vegetable garden.

Lingjing Temple in Changshe County and Naxu County are both Taoist temples in small counties, so according to the etiquette system, they are not qualified to hang the big bells and drums. The late "Zhi Da Jing", the resident Taoists of all generations since the establishment of the Lingjing Temple, have only heard of it. Or who is willing to travel long distances, go to those great Taoist temples, and then brag about it when they come back. Hong Miao, the former master of the temple, once said that those giant temples built by royal decree, the morning bell and evening drum are so loud that they can be heard dozens of miles away.

A few old-fashioned teenagers, anyway, are like listening to heavenly scriptures.

All the other serious Taoist temples pay attention to the red tape. When it comes to Lingjing Temple, every year when pigs are killed, they have to let the pianke go down to help pull the pig's tail, and then carry two pieces of meat back to the mountain to eat meat. , If you don’t make do with it, you can’t get by?

Just when Chai Yu sacrificed the copper coin sword, the sound of drums in the Taoist temple happened.

Chen Cong was taken aback, but he didn't bother to turn around. It must be Chang Bo who came to work.

Chai Yu was stunned for a moment, and then smiled. After all, he was a Taoist official and a "taoist priest" who had just arrived, so he had to pay attention to a rule, so he put the pocket copper coin sword in his sleeve.

Glancing at the dry well, Chai Yu turned around and gave a slap to the Drum Tower.

I was originally suspicious, if it got to the ears of my junior sister, I would probably be laughed at.

Nothing happened overnight.

Jian Su, the newly appointed temple master, turned on the lamp to read a few accounting books of Lingjing Temple, and it didn't take much time to chat with the maid Huaqiao almost all night in the boudoir.

Chai Yu lives in a very simple guest room, and he doesn't feel sleepy, except for the breathing of his homework at night, the next door is the residence of those teenagers, except for the noisy snoring, there is nothing... unbearable.

After finally waiting for the morning bell to ring, Chai Yu opened the door, only to see Chang Bo, the pianist who cleaned the courtyard, began to beat a lot of ice picks hanging on the eaves with his broom, and they shattered all over the floor.

Seeing this, Chai Yu felt helpless, so he just used a broom? You can use a bamboo pole to hit the ice pick.

But Chai Yu still didn't say anything, instead he took the initiative to say hello to the old man.

Uncle Chang hurriedly stopped what he was doing, and called Immortal Chai respectfully.

Chai Yu glanced at the main hall of the Taoist temple, and asked tentatively: "Chang Dianke, can I go into the main hall to have a look?"

Chang Bo was overjoyed when he heard it, and grinned and said, "Don't talk about going to see it. If the Taoist priest sees something he likes, he can move it away, as long as he doesn't let me see it. Almost all the valuables in the Taoist temple are in the It is stored in the main hall, and every piece has been reported to the county government in detail. The officials and masters of the household and workshops will come here to check every year as usual, and if there is any need for repairs The place needs to be reported, it’s just a trivial matter for the officials and lords to use their pens. It’s not good that it hasn’t been replaced for many years, and it’s better to accidentally lose it. It seems that the year before last, the master of the workshop visited our Taoist temple in person. After reading it, I thought it was strange, is your spiritual view so strong, it is safe everywhere, the housekeeper listened, and didn't seem to say anything."

It was obvious that the other party was reminding the view of the Spiritual Realm that you should pay close attention to the places that can be cultivated or not, and don't be dumb, there is milk for crying children.

In this way, the county government workshop will have oil and water.

As for the house, you can also share a little profit, even if the money is not much, but it is a good thing to invite your colleagues in the house to have a drink and a meal, and to connect with each other.

Chai Yu was speechless for a moment.

It's really nothing out of the ordinary.

Isn't the local folk customs a bit simple?

Chai Yu felt relieved after thinking about it again, this Chang Geng used to be a genuine scholar, no wonder.

It seems that it is very good for this old man to be a Taoist spectator.

Maybe he can really give his junior sister a hand and help with the general affairs of the Taoist temple?

There is just one thing, even if Chai Yu is an outsider, he can't vomit because he is uncomfortable. After hesitating for a while, Chai Yu asked: "Chang Dianke, it seems that he is not particularly proficient in the way of playing bells and drums?"

Uncle Chang said with a look of embarrassment: "Old Master Hong has taught it several times. I am too old to remember and learn."

Chai Yu was speechless for a moment. As for whether the old man can't learn it, or find it troublesome, God knows.

Then Chai Yu simply didn't even bother to ask "Do you know what the content of Zhongwen" cooperated with the morning bell and evening drum.

Chai Yu had no choice but to ask another simple question, "Chang Bo, there are Dao Nao, Lin and Lang in the Taoist temple, right?"

Uncle Chang was at a loss, "What did the Taoist master say? We have cymbals, heels, and copper chime, but we don't need them at ordinary times. The old temple master Hong has left, and now they are laying in the utility room to eat ashes."

Chai Yu had no choice but to patiently explain: "The Fazhong is Lin on the left and Lang on the right. The body of the clock is often engraved with cloud patterns of spells. Generally speaking, all county Taoist temples should have them. Maybe the material is relatively ordinary."

The old man let out a hey, "The Taoist priest just said that it is the kind of big bell with a long handle. Yes, why not, old temple master Hong shook, muttering words, it sounds very nice."

Every time a few teenagers can take the opportunity to sleep back into the cage. Among them, Ma Zhong and Tu Yao are even more powerful, and they have already practiced a unique skill that can doze off with their eyes open.

Chai Yu rubbed the center of his brows, but said nothing.

This old Chang Dianke was indeed a scholar when he was young, but he certainly didn't study hard. It is very likely that he never thought about taking the Taoist examination? Do you have self-knowledge and dare not even think about it?

Chang Bo glanced over at Tongpu's house, it was rare for the door to open so early, Lin Min and the others looked very energetic, they were all carefully tidied up, Tu Yao even specially changed into a brand new Taoist robe.

As for Chen Cong, the junior of his own family, he was still the same, sleepy-eyed, his eyes rolled around, and he saw that the courtyard had been cleaned, and he walked towards him quickly, and was about to take the broom with a smile.

The master of the temple, Jian Su, walked out of the door, glanced at the resident Taoist who opened his Taoist temple, nodded slightly, walked into the main hall first, and began to burn incense.

Except for Chai Yu and Huaqiao, the rest of them,

As for Miaozhu Liu Fang, he didn't go up the mountain, and almost didn't sacrifice those horses as ancestors. The old man didn't sleep much all night, either because they were afraid that they would lose money if they ran away, or they were worried about being stolen.

Hearing the bell of the Taoist temple on the mountain, the old man went to sleep in peace, fell asleep, and the king of heaven, I don't want to wake him up, he must sleep well today.

Jian Su started her first Taoist morning class.

Although it was just some teenagers, but fortunately, the content of these lessons was something she had already mastered by heart. It used to be listening, but now it was just replaced by preaching.

In addition, before coming to the Taoist Temple, she still did some lesson preparation, and she also consulted a family priest who belonged to the family of the Daoist Temple, but Jian Su was still a little nervous at first.

It’s just that the group of teenagers didn’t talk about whether they were listening to the class or “watching the class”, and that pianist Chang Geng who was sitting in the corner had already started pecking at the chicken. This made Jian Su quietly heave a sigh of relief. , getting better and better, after all, she got the Taoist certificate at the age of fourteen, and coming here to give lectures is actually similar to a country's number one scholar teaching a village boy.

Chai Yu and Hua Qiao, who were standing by the door, were also relieved.

After one day's morning class, it is fasting.

Chang Bo has already gone to the kitchen to prepare breakfast.

Government-run Taoist temples in various places, except for religious rituals such as fasting and sacrificial rituals, must be vegetarian on the 15th day of the lunar new year. In addition to not eating meat, there are also five meat and four spicy taboos. In addition, it depends on the rules set by each Taoist temple. They are all strictly vegetarian, absolutely not eating meat and drinking alcohol, and marriage is strictly prohibited. But Taoist temples built by ordinary government are not included in this list, as is the case with Spiritual Realm Temples. Furthermore, sometimes, whether Taoist temples at all levels directly under the government of a country can eat meat or not depends on the personal preference of the emperor or the real person protecting the country.

There was a big round table that could seat about ten people. As a result, on the dining table were steamed buns, white porridge, several plates of winter pickles, and a large jar of chopped peppers and garlic.

The teenagers held their breath and concentrated, waiting for the order from the new temple master before they could move their chopsticks.

Jian Su smiled and said: "Chang Dianke, Taoist sects are very particular. Today is exactly the fifteenth day, and this garlic is among the four spices. Let's remove it."

Chang Geng quickly apologized, rubbed his hands, and took the jar of chopped pepper and garlic away.

Chai Yu was a little helpless, did Hong Miao never care or teach?

The gazes of the teenagers followed the jar of chopped peppers and garlic.

I just rely on it for dinner, without this thing, what should I do with the already meager food?

Hua Qiao was a little curious, is this thing really so delicious? If you don't rinse your mouth after eating, wouldn't it smell like garlic when you talk to others?

"Let's eat. As for chatting at the dinner table, we can all be more casual."

Jian Su picked up the bowl with a smile and took a sip of the porridge, took the lead in moving the chopsticks to pick up some winter pickles, and chewed carefully, hey, the taste was quite good.

Because of Jian Guanzhu's presence, the young people's eating habits are very gentle.

When Jian Su put down his chopsticks, several teenagers were still eating steamed buns and porridge. Hua Qiao has figured out the way, especially that Chen Cong, who seems to eat slowly, but actually eats a lot!

Hearing that Chai Xianchang and the big lady were going to the county to buy something, Lin Bing volunteered to help lead the way.

It turned out that Guanzhu Jian did not go down the mountain with them, and the young man suddenly died, and he began to fall ill after leaving the Taoist temple.

Jian Su began to wander around the Taoist temple. Outside the main hall, there are guest rooms, a dining hall, a kitchen, and a storage room for stacking farm tools and sundries. In fact, there are only a few houses.

Tu Yao and Ma Zhong were very attentive and led the temple master to "go door to door".

Only Chen Cong squatted under the eaves with his hands in his sleeves basking in the warm sun, yawning lazily.

The boy always adheres to one purpose, to be lazy if he can.

At the end of the day, except for a different viewer, to this tired and lazy boy, there seemed to be no difference.

Compared with the excitement of the other teenagers, Chen Cong was curious about a few things that he couldn't say.

For example, will there be a toilet and urinal in the house of the new temple master? People usually have three urgencies, and the master Jian also uses the public toilet in the Taoist temple? And in the future, Guanzhu Jian's intimate clothes are hanging on the bamboo poles to dry in the yard, and they are blown to and fro in the wind. Will it damage the majesty of the Guanzhu? The young man thought about it, and felt that it was very possible that Master Jian would let the black charcoal maidservant rent a house outside the Taoist temple, or in the village or county town, so that many troubles could be solved at the same time. If I had known this, Just ask Uncle Chang, if you have any spare money, first rent an empty house in Miaozhu Liu Fang's village, and then resell it to Guanzhu Jian. After a year, you only earn a few coins from her, don't you feel guilty? It's a pity that a penny is hard for a hero, and such a source of wealth is lost in vain.

Dinner is still a veritable vegetarian meal, but before Guanzhu Jian picked up the chopsticks, he said with a smile, as long as it is not the fasting day on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, meat and spicy food are not taboo.

Chen Cong hesitated to speak, but was stared at by Chang Bo, who seemed to be a prophet. The young man finally held back, otherwise he would almost blurt out, Jian Guanzhu, is it something that our Taoist temples avoid meat and meat? It's a matter of whether you can afford meat or not!

Except for the Sixth Five-Year Day, there is no need to hold morning and evening classes. The Taoist temple goes to the evening class every day. First, incense and candles are burned, and then the so-called scriptures are recited. Among them, as the first step of the Taoist evening altar, the content is actually fixed. However, the old Guanzhu Hong was replaced by the young Guanzhu Jian, with the same rhyme that seemed to be singing and reading. Lin and the others were in high spirits, at least on the surface, and Chen Cong was still drowsy. As for the following The scriptures are also selected from the Taoist classics appointed by the imperial court. Year after year, a hundred years, rituals in ten directions, inspiring inspiration, sending out a peaceful mind, resolving grievances, rescuing suffering and eradicating sins, ascending to heaven and getting the way from the lost... ...It seems that the Taoist rituals are such old rules that have been passed down day by day.

When the evening class was over, Ma Zhong and the others found Chai Xianzhang outside the door, and asked him where he came from, and whether there was that kind of fairy magic that soars through the clouds and rides the fog. Do you practice Taoism in the mountains?

Chen Cong went to Chang Bo's house, and when the evening drum sounded, he had to go to bed. Today is different, after all, the master of Lingjing Temple has changed. In the past, the old master Hong never cared about these things, and he didn't sleep at night. Once the gate of the Taoist temple is closed, the back door will not be locked. You can just slip out and wander around. Just catch up on sleep in the morning class. It’s the best when you return to the cage. The premise is not to snore, otherwise you will have to wait for a month’s cleaning Toilet bar.

The old man continued to look at the old book, which didn't have a title on the cover.

Chen Cong remembered that many years ago, whenever he wanted to read it, Uncle Chang would hand him the book, and he would explain a few words when he was in a good mood, but it seems that it started from the beginning of spring last year, or it might be the end of winter the year before last? After that, he was not allowed to read this book. Uncle Chang’s reason was that your kid’s memory is not bad, so it would be meaningless to read it again.

In fact, it's not just about this book. I remember that when I was a child, Uncle Chang was still very talkative, willing to chat with him about everything, but the later he became, the less he liked to talk.

This made the boy a little sad, as if he grew up day by day, and Chang Bo was getting older day by day.

Chen Cong did remember the contents of the book, the first one seems to be about Taoist rites and music, what is the king who encourages the music, what is the change of customs, the world is peaceful, the good and the good are happy, and he said that the bell is the head of golden music , the Brahma Palace and Immortal Palace must be used to reveal the sincerity of the audience, and to sing the songs of ghosts and gods... For these, young people are ignorant. The so-called knowing is just knowing, and Chen Cong is not very interested. What I find interesting is that at the end of a certain section in the book, there is often a sentence like "but Mozi is not it", "but Mozi is not what to do", anyway, they have similar meanings, but they all have the word "Mozi" .

In the early years, I asked Chang Bo, and only then did I know that "Mozi" was a person.

The young man asked curiously: "Uncle Chang, does the old master who wrote this text have any enmity with that man named Mozi?"

So tit-for-tat that you have to write an article to "swear", and if you meet face-to-face, you can't roll up your sleeves and fight?

When the young man was talking, Chang Bo stretched out his hand to twist the wick, shook his head and said, "There is no enmity, on the contrary, they are still good friends."

Chen Cong asked suspiciously, "How do you know this?"

The old man smiled and said, "From other books."

Chen Cong said helplessly, "Uncle Chang, you read the most miscellaneous books."

The old man began to chew on words, "I can't talk about 'most', it's relatively more."

The young man smiled and said, "Come on, I must engrave a seal in the future, and the seal will read 'Changbo has seen it', or more written, 'Changbo has seen it', how about it?"

The old man said: "It is better to change the word 'kan' into the word 'read'. When you are young, you need to read books. When you are old, you can choose books to read."

"The ancients said that the meaning of reading a hundred times is self-evident, which has a profound meaning."

"In the past, people who wrote books were preaching, and those who read them took it seriously. As time went on, books became easier to access and more and more truths were contained in the books, so they became worthless."

Chen Cong didn't like to hear these things, so he just asked a question that he cared about most in a low voice, "Will Guanzhu Jian really drive us away?"

Chang Bo shook his head and said, "No."

"Why?"

"At first glance, that Guanzhu Jian is a rich man from a big family."

"What is the reason for this? Are rich people necessarily kind-hearted?"

The old man smiled and shook his head and said: "That's not the reason, what I mean is that Guanzhu Jian doesn't care about petty gains. The children of rich families who are really wealthy, their way of calculating gains and losses is different from those of us resident Taoists. To put it simply, she didn't like us and felt upset, so she drove us out of the Taoist temple. It's okay for the two of us to say that we have no one to rely on and nowhere to complain, so we can only admit it, but how many are Lin Bing and Ma Zhong? In the end, making a fuss will only delay her clean life. In this way, Guanzhu Jian can save some money, or arrange her own manpower in the Taoist temple, but for her, every inch of time is an inch Jin, you don't have to take it seriously, but she, Jian Guanzhu, thinks it's a very real and most valuable truth, especially when she is in worldly affairs. By the way, Jian Guanzhu is a kind of loss-making business, so you understand?"

Chen Cong smiled brightly and said: "It's about money, I understand!"

The old man said with a smile: "Virtue!"

Dianke Chang Bo, inside and outside the Taoist temple, is indeed a good-natured man who is easy to talk and has no temper, but if he is "kind-hearted, kind-eyed and amiable", it is really only the young Chen Cong who faces his own juniors.

Chen Cong habitually lay down on the table, and said: "Chang Bo, that's what I said, and the reasoning is so reasonable, but it's not surprising that there are many polite people when you reach out and don't hit people with smiling faces. Accurate? Do we want it? Well, it means filial piety, meaning, expressing?"

Uncle Chang snorted, "I don't have that spare money."

Chen Cong raised his head and wiped his chin back and forth on the table, "Gift giving is really a skill!"

The old man smiled and said, "I'm usually not very bright, but now I'm not enough brains? Don't you like to engrave seals? I touched a lot of different stones in the river. How much is it out of my heart?"

The boy's eyes lit up, he gave a thumbs up, and sincerely praised: "Uncle Chang, it's okay."

The old man smiled. Being praised so much by the stinky brat, my mood... is actually not bad.

It's better than being told by this kid, "I can't beat Cui Chan, and I can't beat Ma Zhan".

The old man can guess the inevitable bastard words.

The young man thought about it, and whispered, "What do you write in the seal?"

"I think that Chai Xianzhang seems to be a couple with our temple master? Otherwise, he came to Yingchuan County from the capital city. I don't like it. Although it is riding a horse, it is bumping all the way. Yes, don’t you have to rub your butt off? But if it’s that Chai Xian who has an unrequited love, it’s not appropriate, I don’t want to flatter the horse’s hoof.”

"Write that calling the wind and calling the rain, riding the clouds and driving the fog? Isn't it too tacky?"

"Otherwise, write about giving birth to a precious child early? Guanzhu Jian will always have a Taoist partner in the future, and if he has a Taoist partner, he will have children..."

When the boy said this, he laughed to himself.

The old man gave the young man a sideways look, and Chen Cong rolled his eyes, "Just kidding, it seems that you are nervous, and you are the only one who can say the truth when it comes to important events. Uncle Chang, it's really not me. This junior said you, your habit of being more strict with others than yourself, can't you change it?"

The old man smiled and said, "If I can take care of you alone, I should burn incense."

The young man clasped his fists and said with a playful smile, "It's easy to talk about it."

Chang Bo reminded: "Have you thought about the printed text?"

Chen Cong began to talk to himself: "Jian Guanzhu is now our preacher. It is said in the book that Degao is a teacher, he is a model, and it is also said in the book that there is a rhythm to advance and retreat. It is a rule, quiet and sacred." Move and be king, the book also said that it is simple and the world can't compete with it for beauty. Yes, it is simple, but it doesn't mean that it doesn't add merit... Well, Jian Guanzhu's name is good, quite good!"

Chang Bo said with a smile: "The content is good or bad, but do you think it is appropriate for you, a resident Taoist, to give a seal to the new abbot Taoist priest?"

Chen Cong nodded, "That's right, the meaning is too big. It's similar to the message from the elders to the younger generation. It's really inappropriate. Straightforward, gentle and honest, simple and clean, and beautiful. It's actually good, but it seems It’s too slippery and disrespectful, I’m afraid it’s appropriate to be replaced by Chai Xianchang? Yes, isn’t there a sentence in the book that the beginning is simple, and the end must be great? Haha, this reminds me of horses. Looking at a novel that they didn't hide well, I saw a fierce general from the Wanjun, you can look at it, red robes and red hair, riding alone on a red horse, double hanging slips of water on his waist..."

"Stop stop."

Uncle Chang felt a headache when he heard it. He bent his fingers and tapped on the table lightly, "It's actually quite simple, just engrave the word 'Jane'. The seal of the book on the Lord's side."

Chen Cong said helplessly: "Uncle Chang, simplicity is really simple, thank you for thinking it out!"

The old man said with a smile: "It will not be easy to teach you to write the 'Jane' character in ancient seal script. Take care. Before the sun shines for three poles, there are double poles. Taoists should cherish the time. They hide their thoughts."

Chen Cong looked up, Chang Bo raised his finger, and wrote a word in the air, with the bottom "door" low and "sun" high.

Chen Cong asked doubtfully, "Can it work?"

Chang Bo said, "It's up to you if you want to."

Speaking of this, the old man laughed to himself and shook his head, Chen Cong curiously asked what he was laughing at, Chang Bo just shook his head, and the young man became more curious and asked why.

Chang Bo said: "Do you think the phrase 'I will do what I want'?"

This is the first time the boy has heard of this saying, which means staying away from officialdom and walking in the countryside? It seems that it is not bad to use it on Guanzhu Jian? From the capital to Changshe County.

Chang Bo held back his laugh, "I advise you not to give it away. Let's change the content, just engrave the word 'Jane' in the ancient seal script."

Otherwise, Jian Guanzhu will really be kicked out of the house.

Chen Cong asked, "Why?"

Chang Bo laughed and said, "Because the original meaning is the sad self-report of an abandoned woman in the countryside."

Chen Cong sat up straight at once, stared and said, "Uncle Chang, you just want us to pack up and get out together! The weather outside is so cold that people will freeze to death! I can say that you are so... ..."

Speaking of which, the young man lay down on the table again, and continued: "Actually, Uncle Chang's body is quite good, and he is healthy and healthy. I remember it very clearly. I asked you your age the year before last, and you said it was sixty-two. I asked you last year. It became sixty-one, this year, it can't be sixty, the more you live, the younger you are, very good! Haha!"

The old man nodded with a smile.

"I will do what I want." This seal, if you have a chance in the future, you can give it to Wenhai Zhoumi who went from Haoran to Wilderness as a gift in return.

"Chang Bo, why don't you engrave the seal?"

"Worried about making a fool of yourself, showing cowardice? Was it thrown into the trash can?"

Chen Cong grinned, in fact, he was afraid that it would be self-defeating, which would be unsightly.

Chang Bo said: "The most important thing in giving gifts is sincerity. I will catch the knife on my behalf to figure out what's going on. Sooner or later, I will show my feet."

Then he started to make sense again, the young man waved his hand, "Okay, okay, I'll engrave, I can engrave. My handwriting is not bad. Compared with Chang Bo, the gap is at most within a few millimeters!"

The old man scolded with a smile, "The brat doesn't make drafts when he brags."

Some so-called calligraphers and masters conceal their characters.

But Haoran Embroidered Tiger is a well-deserved cover-up.

In Haoran Tianxia, ​​it was known to all the world that Cui Chan, the head disciple of the lineage of literary sages, looked down on calligraphers the most, openly claiming that calligraphers are the most petty, worse than that painter.

Therefore, among the hundreds of schools of thought, there should not be a place for calligraphers.

One scolds two.

Those painters on the mountain who are known as the masters of Danqing, or those who are waiting for edicts from various countries, feel that it is more than enough than the top and more than the bottom.

But those qi practitioners who specialize in calligraphy feel aggrieved.

So much to the extent that Confucian scholars and literati with a little knowledge in Zhongtu Shenzhou began to feel that being called a calligrapher was indeed an unpleasant term, or even a curse.

Since text is used to convey the truth, then as the carrier of text, how can you, Cui Chan, regard it as a trivial skill? !

As a result, Cui Chan said directly, do you think you are a saint of ritual?

There was also a lawsuit against the Confucian Temple for this reason. Of course, the old scholar who is a sage of literature came forward to make the paste, replacing the nonsense student, and I will apologize to everyone.

But it's said, it's just said that as soon as the old scholar walked out of the Confucian Temple and arrived at the Gongde Forest, he patted the head student on the shoulder vigorously, and said well, but his words were not rough.

Many years later, it was "supposed" that it was a closed-door discussion of the Confucian Temple. The old scholar was really furious this time. He patted his chest and said, I never felt that my students were really wrong, because I am Wensheng, I am never once, my student, I have never said or done wrong!

The dignified literary sage, in front of the leaders of the Confucian temple, the academy, offering wine, Siye, and all the academies, uttered the Three Character Classic.

I dragged them and apologized and admitted their mistakes. It was their bad luck to have such an unprincipled and unprincipled gentleman like me who couldn’t write good articles after eating cold pork head meat!

Whenever they make a mistake once, as a gentleman, I will ask them to apologize in person!

That time, a young man in Confucian shirt with a hosta on his head sat silently on the steps.

After the meeting ended, the old scholar sat down next to him.

The young man asked with a smile, sir, lost the fight?

The old scholar shook his sleeves, turned his head and spit on the ground. He seemed to feel that something was wrong, so he quickly stretched his neck and looked around. Feeling guilty, he stretched out a leg and twisted it with the toe of his shoe.

That's the one thing I can't say!

After a moment of silence, the old scholar sighed, in fact, no one wins or loses in a quarrel, or it is always lost.

The youth nodded.

The old scholar patted the first disciple's arm, stood up, laughed and said, go to Gongdelin, make a cup of... wolfberry tea. Cui Chan, this wolfberry tea is really as good as you say? How did you find out that Mr. Xiping's eyes were not right?

Cui Chan smiled and said anyway, that's what the medicine book said, Mr. Xiping is greedy, right?

The old scholar laughed loudly and said that it must be, wolfberry tea can't be drunk, where can you find a student like you?

Chen Cong gave a few feeds and shook his palm, "Uncle Chang, what are you thinking?"

Chang Bo smiled and said: "It's nothing, I'm thinking about old things that are not worth mentioning."

In fact, the old man did leave some treasures at the bottom of the box for the young man. Among them were two seals, which were engraved with "Heavenly dry things dry, be careful of fire candles" and "Lingze".

Cui Chan once went to Luopo Mountain in the past, and he also stopped by Linlu Academy in Piyun Mountain. Of course, the tiger Wei Bo must take the initiative to rush to the academy to meet the national teacher.

Cui Chan once told Wei Bo one thing, in the future, when you need Wei Shanjun, you should use the word "Lingze", but if someone persuades you to use something else, listen to it, but the only thing that can't be the neighbor next door is to persuade you. You, you just listen to the persuasion and change, and don't use the word "Lingze". As for why, what, and who, just wait patiently. When the truth comes out, you, Wei Bo, will naturally know the answer.

Wei Bo was like falling into the clouds at that time, but his heart was inevitably shaken. In the dark, he always felt that this was an extremely important event for him.

Cui Guoshi, is this a prophet? Or is it the result of Da Dao's deduction?

Cui Guoshi, who seemed to have guessed Wei Bo's thoughts completely, had a slightly sarcastic look on his face, and said with a smile, he had to admit that sometimes luck is better than brains.

What can Wei Shanjun say, just take it as a good word. Anyway, being called bad-witted by Xiuhu is really not a bad thing.

Chen Cong said softly: "Uncle Chang, you said that your birthday is the fifth day of May, and I haven't celebrated your birthday before. In fact, I have saved some money over the years. I will go to the county seat and treat you to a good drink." ?”

Chang Bo smiled and said, "No, I don't like drinking. I appreciate it."

The boy hummed, but was obviously a little disappointed.

The old man said: "Talk to you a little more about the truth in the book?"

Chen Cong shook his head, "Sleepy."

But Chang Bo said to himself: "In ancient five-character poems, the third character is mostly used as Guan Gu. In seven ancient waka lines, about the fifth character is Guan Gu. Then the key to human beings lies in their determination when they are young."

"Looking at people is like flipping through a book. Reading a book is reading a person. When you grow up, you will leave this Taoist temple and travel far away to study."

"In ancient times, those who made great achievements and whose names lasted through the ages not only had outstanding talents, but also had outstanding ambitions. The gentlemen of Tian Xingjian strive for self-improvement, and the Taoists, scholars, and sages in ancient times all started from young people with aspirations. I learned a few principles from the book , It doesn’t take much, you have to go far away, leave your hometown, and travel thousands of miles to verify whether these principles are right or wrong, or to correct, improve, or even overthrow these principles that were taken for granted when you were young..."

When the old man said this, the young man murmured softly when he heard this: "Uncle Chang, but I don't want to travel far at all, you are getting old."

It is said in the book that if parents are not traveling far, they must travel well.

But the world is big, he only has one family member like Uncle Chang, even if he can achieve the so-called traveling well in the book, but he has to walk such a long way, and when he comes back, Uncle Chang still cooks and rings the bell every day in the Taoist temple Playing drums and cleaning Taoist temples?

In fact, the young man has long forgotten that between the senior brother and the junior junior brother, the real separation between them is not in the future, but in the past, in fact, when they first met.

At that time, the old man knelt down, touched the child's head which was "pieced together" by a piece of natal porcelain, smiled warmly, and said with a smile: "Hello, I have forgotten to introduce myself these years. Actually, my name is not Chang Geng, nor is it yours. What Chang Bo. This is the end of this protection. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand these things, and you don’t need to remember today. Don’t be afraid, because my real name is Cui Chan, and I am your elder brother.”

Just because Cui Chan came from after the patriarchs of the Three Religions scattered.