Chapter 326: The best kindness is like water, and kindness carries everything
It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival.
Pedestrians on the road want to die.
May I ask where the restaurant is?
The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.
After listening to the old Taoist priest's words, Jin An had some subtle insights into his state of mind.
The old Taoist priest came one day earlier than Jin An. According to what the old Taoist priest said, every time a person, horse, monkey, etc. made of clay is given a breath of fairy air by this old man with a broken crown, he can live for one day and turn back into clay after nightfall.
pinch people.
This Hezhuang is not some ghost village.
Instead, a great immortal was making human beings out of clay.
Perseverance day after day.
Create a prison for yourself.
Jin An noticed that the old man who made the man out of clay had only four fingers on each hand, and a total of eight fingers on both hands. He looked surprised.
It turns out that this great immortal is the reincarnated shepherd boy of the Toad Fairy.
Just when Jin An's eyes showed a thoughtful look, the old Taoist priest said another more shocking news: "Little brother, last night I saw an ancient corpse wrapped in gold jade clothes, got on this boat, and followed the boat.
I don’t know where I went when I went around the village river.”
Jin An looked surprised when he heard this.
The old Taoist priest continued to wink at Jin An and said: "That's why I didn't leave the river village in a hurry, because I have been thinking about how to get on the boat."
"According to my secret observation, there are quite a few people entering Hezhuang this time. It is estimated that they have discovered the secret of Hezhuang and want to board the boat of the Great Toad Immortal."
"The boat is narrow and can't hold many people. If there is no chance tonight, we will have to wait for the opportunity tomorrow. I just don't know where the Toad Immortal and the boat are going."
When the old Taoist priest said this, he glanced at Jin An curiously: "Little brother, you and the ancient corpse wearing gold jade clothing arrived at Hezhuang two days ago. Did you encounter the ancient corpse wearing gold jade clothing on your way here?
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Jin An snorted and prevaricated vaguely.
Jin An would not believe anything the old Taoist priest said. As soon as the former finished speaking, Jin An saw someone jumping out of a house in the dark night and rushing to the river bank.
The man probably came prepared and knew that people could board the ship. The moment the man boarded the ship, there was another move in the darkness. He was afraid that if he was one step behind, his fate would be taken away. The two people in front of him and behind him
We boarded the ship almost at the same time.
"Little brother, these two people in the Calamity Palace are full of black energy. This is definitely because they will encounter unexpected events recently. Look at them both with high nose bones and evil eyes. They are not kind people, nor are they wanted criminals.
You are a gangster who often kills people and seizes treasures. I’m not scolding you, little brother. Don’t get me wrong. You don’t call it killing people and seizing treasures, but you call good deeds rewarded... In short, these two people have fierce faces, and the Palace of Calamity is obscured by black energy.
, it seems that the boat in the river does not welcome these two people very much."
The old Taoist priest just finished speaking.
The two people on the boat suddenly exclaimed, and the boat under their feet seemed to have turned into a mud boat. It fell into the water twice, and the two people drowned in the river on the spot, with no bones left.
If the water in this river is formed by the rainwater from the sky, then no one can escape the disaster of falling into the water.
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Jin An looked at the old Taoist priest speechlessly.
He was convinced.
The old Taoist priest has definitely opened his mouth.
"Old Taoist, please tell me honestly, how many times have you opened your mouth? In Taoist temples and temples, I don't think the magical instruments that have been opened twice are as powerful as your mouth. Others are talking about gold, but you are just saying gold.
Whoever wants to die can die."
"Since your words, Old Tao, are so effective, why don't you, Old Tao, point out a clear way to make a fortune for me? In the southeast, northwest, where is my tailwind?"
The old Taoist priest was confused by Jin An's words: "Little brother, don't you have a great and beautiful career when you get rich? Why do you have to sacrifice the near for the distant?"
Jin An's brow muscles twitched: "Go, go, go."
The old Taoist priest was interested and continued to ask Jin An: "Little brother, what did you write in the letter you wrote to the beautiful girl that day? Why did the beautiful girl not only not get angry after reading it, but also coaxed you to marry a Ye Niang outside?
Are you so happy to give you the Kunwu knife?"
The old Taoist priest has been holding this matter in his mind for several days.
I've been feeling itchy all the time.
I really want to know what Jin An wrote that day. Was it an acrostic love poem? It made the beautiful girl so happy.
Jin Anjian glared at the old Taoist priest: "Old Taoist, why do you talk so much? Since you have so many reasons, why not first think about how we should board the ship."
"Yesterday, you were the only one who saw with your own eyes how the ancient corpse dressed in gold and jade robes boarded the ship. Think carefully about the details. It will be dawn soon. As soon as it dawns, the old toad immortal will leave."
Facing Jin An's urging, the old Taoist priest twirled his beard and smiled calmly this time, and said slowly and confidently: "Hey, Taoist, I really have an idea."
"Little brother, there is a saying in the Taoist family, 'The best is like water, and virtue carries everything'."
"The two people who boarded the ship just now are not kind people. They do a lot of wicked things in daily life, and they will be wicked ghosts even when they die."
"We deserve to be honest and behave openly and aboveboard. As long as we don't have guilty consciences, even if we can't board the ship, the Toad Immortal is a righteous immortal who protects justice in the world. He is not an evil immortal. He will not kill innocent people indiscriminately. At most, we will be kicked off the ship.
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The old Taoist priest's words made sense, and Jin An nodded in approval.
Then here comes the problem.
How to verify whether the old Taoist priest's guess is true?
The old Taoist priest rubbed his hands and laughed, saying that it is not easy. Little brother, you are upright and slay demons. You have so many merits that you can bring an extra ship of people with you. What's more important is that little brother, you also formed a friendship with the toad fairy during the day.
As a result of a good relationship, the Toad Fairy also promised to repay you, little brother, a hundred and a thousand peaches. Even if the Toad Fairy does not return the peaches, he will not harm you, little brother.
"This is called unintentional planting of willow trees."
"Doing good without intention is truly good."
"Little brother, you have formed a good relationship with Little Toad Fairy, which means there is cause and effect. As a senior master, Toad Fairy must repay this cause and effect."
After hearing the bad idea from the old Taoist priest, Jin An felt so toothache that he wanted to punch the old Taoist priest, but he was also worried that the old Taoist priest's old arms and legs would not be able to withstand his punch, and he would lose arms and legs by then.
At this moment, Jin An was suddenly startled.
Avenue induction!
Yin Deyi!
"Sharp sword?"
When the old Taoist priest saw Jin An suddenly mentioning sharpening his sword, he asked his little brother what was wrong.
Jin An frowned, then said it was nothing.
Avenue induction!
Yin Deyi!
Yin Deyi!
Yin Deyi!
Yin Deyi!
When he sensed a large number of Dao Senses approaching, Jin An could no longer calm down this time. Did he encounter some trouble or danger while sharpening his sword?
Jin An, who was eager to save his disciple, no longer hesitated this time. He walked out of his hiding place and strode straight towards the boat suspended on the river.
"Little brother, please wait for me." Seeing that Jin An's expression suddenly changed, the old Taoist priest also hurriedly caught up with him.
Boom, Jin An jumped onto the boat.
Alas, the old Taoist priest also got on the boat.
A magical thing happened. This time the boat successfully carried two people and no one fell into the water.
The old Taoist priest really said that the best is as good as water, and the virtues carry all things.
Jin An, who was just carrying a peach tree to board the ship, blocked the ship completely. The old Taoist priest's body was submerged by the peach tree crown, and a small head popped out from the green crown and pink peaches, looking at Jin An pitifully.
"Senior, I have a disciple named Jiejian. He is separated from me in the Cave Heaven Paradise. I wonder if senior can give me a ride?"
Jin An saluted the old man on the boat and described in detail the facial features of sharpening a sword.
If the Great Immortal Toad really has a cause and effect with him, then he does not seek other wealth and honor, he just wants to use this cause and effect to find the whereabouts of the sharp sword as soon as possible and find everyone in the Five Zang Taoist Temple.
It was only then that Jin An discovered that the toad immortal's body below the sternum was gone. Under the torn and blood-stained Taoist robes, half of his body was floating.
At this time, the old Taoist priest with a head popping up in the canopy of lush branches turned his head with difficulty and saluted the old man at the helm.
The old man with disheveled hair sitting at the stern of the boat did not speak, and he did not know whether the dead body was conscious or whether he could understand Jin An's words. As turbid waves rolled under the river, he lifted the boat and started to swim upstream.
Just as the boat was about to leave the shore, another cry from a young woman came from the shore. She waved towards the boat and ran towards it, calling the boatman, wait, wait, there is another person here.
But the old man on the boat, whose Taoist crown was broken and his Taoist robe was torn and stained with blood in the cold wind, turned a deaf ear to the woman's voice on the river bank. The speed of the boat became faster and faster, sailing upstream in the rolling river, carrying the people on the boat.
An old man and a young man pierced the darkness and disappeared into the vast night.
The woman on the shore was left alone and sulking.
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The boat was sailing upstream in the river, seemingly at a slow speed, but the ruins of the war and the collapsed majestic palaces all around were like mountains, retreating as fast as a fleeting glimpse of light.
"Little brother, the girl on the shore just now is not simple." The old Taoist priest suddenly said.
He continued: "Old Taoist, I saw a meritorious instrument in that girl. Her virtue can carry things. The girl should be able to board the ship like us. It seems that she will have to wait for tomorrow's ship."
Although the Great Toad Immortal has died in the battle.
What is at the helm now is the remains of obsession.
But instead of having a gloomy and gloomy air, the boat is divinely bright, as if it carries not one dead person but two living people, but a golden sun.
The sun breaks through the night.
Drive away the darkness and walk.
This is virtue.
The heavy rain above the head was still falling. The more the boat went upstream and the deeper it went into the ruins, the rain above the head began to fall heavier and heavier.
But the generous sun on the boat opened up the world and blocked the heavy rain.
Like a golden sun moving forward in the river.
"Little brother, you said that the rain here has not dried up for thousands of years, and has not been submerged for thousands of years. Is it possible that the rain in this cave has flowed downwards and flowed into the Yinyi River in the outside world?
Hundreds of rivers return to the sea? With so much water flowing in the Yinyi River every year, is it possible that it is the rainwater from this blessed land?" said the old Taoist priest.
He adjusted the branches around his neck and found a comfortable position for himself. He used a peach tree branch as a pillow on the back of his head and enjoyed himself.
Along the way, the boat passed through strange areas, and strange noises continued all around, but in the end they were all melted away by the boat like spring snow.
Once you get on the boat, you can't get off.
Jin An could only believe that the Great Toad Fairy could lead him to find the sharp sword.
Jin An even saw the dead man who had been dragging the golden dragon coffin. It had only been two days, but he didn't expect that he had traveled so far while dragging the golden dragon coffin.
Everywhere he passed was turned into gold.
The old Taoist priest didn't think anything of it when he heard Jin An's description during the day, but now he saw with his own eyes the miracle of turning stones into gold and the Kingdom of Gold. He was so shocked that he was speechless.
When he saw that the gold everywhere was turned into ordinary stones by the rain, he showed regret again.
After passing a corner, the boat and the dead man dragging the golden dragon coffin separated to the left and right, and soon the golden light of the Golden Kingdom was no longer visible.
The boat continued to swim upstream. Suddenly, bang, the boat made a trembling sound as it docked. The old Taoist priest, whose sight had been blocked by peach branches, said happily: "Have we found a sharp sword?"
Jin An shook his head: "We haven't found the sword yet, but it's almost dawn, and we have to go ashore and walk on our own."
When the old Taoist priest heard this, he looked up at the dark clouds above his head. Sure enough, the dark clouds that were originally dark began to turn slightly white.
When their feet felt solid again, Jin An and the old Taoist priest were about to turn around to thank the boat and the old man behind them, but they found that there was no one behind them.
The place where the Toad Fairy asked them to go ashore happened to be a temple with an ever-burning lantern. The two planned to go into the temple and wait for daybreak to continue their journey in search of sharp swords.
"Although we haven't found the sharp sword yet, our seniors have pointed out the way forward for us. As long as we continue to pursue the path forward, we will definitely find the lost sharp sword." Jin An led the old Taoist priest into the temple.
The old Taoist priest suddenly exclaimed.
I went to see the old Taoist priest wearing a pair of cloth shoes. After leaving the boat and landing on the shore, the shoes turned into two balls of dry mud.
As soon as the old Taoist priest took a few steps, the two lumps of muddy shoes dried up and turned into mud powder, and the old Taoist priest became a barefooted Taoist.
Jin An was startled: "Where are your original shoes, Old Dao?"