After Chen Pingan carried the basket and went ashore, he walked towards Qingniu Bei. I don't know if it was an illusion, but the young man felt that the water level in the stream seemed to have dropped a bit.
When he approached the blue stone cliff, he suddenly stopped because he clearly saw many people standing there, and each person's face was almost slender. The reason for this was not because of the bright stars, but because of the green bull's back.
On it, stood a snow-white elk, its whole body crystal clear, glowing with wisps of white light, like water plants swaying with the water in a stream.
The white deer lowered its head, while a little girl wearing a red cotton-padded jacket stood on tiptoes and reached out to stroke its antlers.
Outside are two young men and women wearing Taoist robes. I don’t know if it’s because of the white deer’s light. The skin of the man and woman is better than snow, crystal clear. For example, if the people in the small town are made of mud, they are natives.
, then these two foreign Taoists are firing exquisite porcelain, and they are really very different.
The style of the men's and women's Taoist robes is somewhat similar to that of Mr. Lu who runs a fortune-telling stall, and there are many differences in details. The Taoist crown is the most different. Mr. Lu has a lotus crown, while the Taoist crowns on the heads of these two people are shaped like fish tails.
The straw-shoe boy stared blankly, feeling that the man and woman standing next to the white deer were like figures walking out of a fairy statue, as if they would soar away in the next moment, reaching for the stars and the moon at their fingertips.
The other two stood a little further away. One of them, Chen Pingan, was the daughter of Master Ruan, the swordsmith. The girl in green did not carry a package full of food this time. She held a small embroidered handkerchief in one hand, with only a few exquisite and cute pieces on it.
of cakes, the girl lowered her head, looking very hesitant, not knowing which food to start with. The person next to her was about thirty years old, carrying a long sword on his back, and a strange ornament hanging on his waist.
When Chen Pingan saw them, almost everyone also noticed the sudden appearance of the straw-shoe boy. The young Taoist nun was a little surprised, so she bent down and rubbed the head of the little girl in the red cotton jacket, while pointing in the direction of Chen Pingan and whispering
, the little girl pricked up her ears and listened to the fairy sister's question. She opened her eyes wide and looked intently. After vaguely recognizing Chen Ping'an's appearance, she started pouring beans through the bamboo tube. She should be giving them to the owner of the white deer.
A fairy sister explained the origin of Chen Ping'an's identity.
At this moment, Chen Pingan also recognized the eight or nine-year-old little girl. The first time they met was when he went to the Long Kiln to bake porcelain. He had met a little girl with braids in Clay Vase Lane. She was very old.
She was small, but she ran very fast. She held a paper kite in her hand, and her two slender legs were like thin bamboo poles, but she ran like the wind. Chen Pingan was particularly impressed by this. Later, he saw the little girl intermittently several times.
She was lying at the mouth of the iron-locked well, secretly throwing stones into it. Chen Pingan accidentally caught her naughty behavior. The little girl was so frightened that she ran away. After running for ten steps, she remembered that the candied haws fell on the mouth of the well. She couldn't stand it anymore.
I was so greedy that I ran back to the iron lock well again. I went back and forth too hastily. As a result, I fell to the ground with a snap. I stood up and grabbed the candied haws. Then I suddenly stopped, opened my mouth and stretched out my hand.
After pulling out the shaky tooth and putting it in her pocket, she continued running without crying or fussing.
That scene made Chen Pingan sweat all over his head. The last time he saw her was in the ruined place where the statues were overgrown with grass. It was one evening last autumn. Chen Pingan left Long Kiln and returned to the town. He wandered around and saw
She was busy catching crickets, rolling, jumping and swooping around in the grass. When she saw Chen Pingan, she obviously recognized Chen Pingan, and another gust of breeze flew away.
Later, Chen Pingan heard from Gu Can that although this young lady who was dirty all day long looked like an unruly girl, she was actually from the Li family on Fulu Street, and she was not a servant. But she was not.
I know why, she just likes to wander around alone, and her family doesn't care. When Gu Can finally talked about her, he was full of pride and contempt, saying that she was stupid despite how fast she ran. One time, the two of them
We happened to catch fish together in the stream. The idiot was busy all afternoon and only caught a crab and not a single slate fish. Moreover, the reason why she was able to catch the big crab was because of the crab's claws.
He clamped her fingers hard. When Gu Can said this in Chen Ping'an's house, he laughed so hard that he rolled over on the small wooden bed and held his stomach. He said that she was so stupid. She even deliberately raised her hand to show off to him, as if she was grabbing
It seemed that a crab was so amazing, but the key was that she was obviously about to cry from the crab's claws.
The handsome young Taoist glanced at the white deer and smiled at the young Taoist nun: "Senior Sister He, I want you to be careful and don't pamper it too much. It only lasts for less than ten days, and it's just a deception.
You don’t want to hinder its freedom, but you just don’t listen. Now you’ve been bumped into by ordinary people, what should you do?”
After listening to the little girl's introduction, the charming Taoist nun smiled and said, "Let nature take its course."
The young Taoist frowned and looked up again. After a quick glance, he looked at it carefully for a moment. He really couldn't see anything extraordinary about the straw-shoe boy carrying a basket on his back. The sect they were in, Kanxiangqi and Xunlongdianxue
Although his ability is not unparalleled in any continent, he is still quite good at it. Since this Taoist priest can come here to retrieve the most important thing on behalf of the sect, he is also responsible for bringing back the mountain-tightening treasure safely.
He would have to present it to Shang Zong in the future. Of course, he was definitely not a thing in the pond, so when he didn't see that there were too many strange things about the young man, he gave up the idea of recruiting him into the mountain gate. The young Taoist was good at fortune-telling.
I don’t think I will see the wrong person.
The sect the two of them belong to is one of the three Taoist sects in East Aquarius Continent, and is the first sect of the Taoism in the continent, which is extremely noble. This time he and Senior Sister He went out together, and as a reward, each of them had a sect.
The sect has a precious quota for recruiting true disciples, and this disciple will be accepted as a disciple by each of them at the same time. Therefore, he does not want to squander it casually and must treat it with caution.
Everyone in the sect knew that Senior Sister He was re-cultivating her mind, so her simple words of letting nature take its course were most likely the idea of accepting a disciple.
He and He Xiaoliang are known as the golden boys and girls of East Aquarius Continent, the proud daughters of Taoism in Yizhou, and they are the kings of the world. When meeting them, they must be treated with courtesy, and the etiquette is not important at all.
Lose to the true king of the great country.
Because they are the cultivation geniuses within a continent who are most likely to reach the upper five realms.
When the young Taoist nun took the little girl's hand and walked down the back of the green ox together, with the psychic white deer following behind, it was not only the young Taoist who was his fellow disciple who was surprised, but also the military giant with a tiger charm on his waist and a long sword on his back.
He also showed surprise.
When he saw the young Taoist nun walking slowly, Chen Ping'an felt a little dizzy. The young man really didn't want to deal with these gods from other places.
Because Chen Ping'an knew that their simple love, hate, joy and anger would determine their own life, death, honor and disgrace.
Moreover, Chen Ping'an knew that his luck had never been very good, so he was even more afraid of provoking them.
However, Chen Pingan did not run away because of this. On the contrary, he symbolically walked a certain distance forward. In this way, he looked decent in the eyes of others.
The white deer quickened its pace slightly, trotted over, walked around the straw-shoe boy, and finally lowered its head and took the initiative to rub against the poor boy.
The white deer returned to its owner, she touched its back gently, and the next moment it turned into a horse.
Refers to a deer as a horse.
The young Taoist nun looked at Chen Pingan, sighed slightly, said something with a smile, and then looked down at the little girl wearing a red cotton-padded jacket.
The little girl explained it into the small town dialect and said timidly: "Sister He said, 'You are a person who cherishes blessings. It's a pity that you and I are not close friends and can't be Taoist friends.'"
The young man was speechless because he didn't know what to say without being rude.
Carrying a basket on his back, wearing straw sandals and rolled up trouser legs, the young man looked particularly funny.
The Taoist nun asked with a smile: "You also know the magical uses of these stones? Chen Ping'an, don't worry, I'm just asking casually."
The little girl copied the explanation, speaking quickly and with a clear voice.
Chen Ping'an hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "A Taoist priest reminded me that I can often come to the creek to pick up stones and catch fish."
Even though Chen Ping'an had a crush on this young female crown, he was careful not to reveal even Daochang Lu's surname. Moreover, the person who really revealed the secret and revealed the valuable value of snake gallstones was Ning Yao.
The Taoist nun smiled and said, "Do you also know our Uncle Lu?"
Chen Pingan was stunned.
The Taoist nun smiled knowingly and roughly explained: "Strictly speaking, Junior Uncle Lu is not from the same sect as us. It's just that Master Lu visited our sect many years ago and became friends with one of our uncles. We stayed with him for several years.
We know him well, so we naturally got used to addressing him as 'junior uncle'."
Chen Pingan grinned, completely losing his guard.
The straw-shoe boy was deeply grateful to Director Lu and would never forget it in his life.
He remembered something, bent down and put down the basket, picked up one of the stones that he had fallen in love with at first sight. It was as big as an egg, green and clear as ice, very different from other snake gallstones, and handed it to the young Taoist nun with an orchid temperament, and asked:
"Taoist Master, if I see Taoist Master Lu in the future, can you help me give this stone to him?"
After listening to the little girl's explanation, she thought for a moment, took the stone, and said slowly: "Before coming here, I happened to meet my junior uncle who was leaving. He was going to Nanjian Country to attend an important ceremony of an orthodox sect.
It’s hard to say when we will meet next, but whenever you see Uncle Lu, I will definitely help you forward it to him."
Chen Ping'an listened to the little girl's words, smiled brightly, and bent down to thank this young Taoist nun who had a great impression.
The young man has always believed in his own intuition about whether strangers are good or bad.
Just like Fu Nanhua Cai Jin Jian, but also like Taoist Lu and Miss Ning.
Chen Pingan took out another snake gallstone and handed it to her again.
Among the younger generation of Dongbaopingzhou, this Taoist female crown, known as "the number one in opportunity", did not refuse, she accepted it with a smile, and did not forget to thank her.
The little girl in the red cotton jacket twisted the corners of her clothes with her hands and whispered: "I want a piece too."
Chen Pingan turned around with a smile and went to pick a stone from the basket for the little girl.
The little girl ran to him and said cautiously: "I want a bigger piece, okay?"
Chen Pingan smiled and said: "As long as you can move it, I will give you the biggest one. But it is not close to the town and home. And I think the big ones in the basket are not as good as the small ones."
She thought for a while, then put her hands on the edge of the basket, "Okay, then I will choose something small and good-looking."
Chen Pingan picked out a small pink stone for her. It was moist and cute. The little girl held it in her hand and was very satisfied.
She suddenly tilted her head, grinned, pointed behind her teeth, and then smiled at Chen Pingan, her face full of pride.
I guess she was showing off that her teeth have grown straight again.
Chen Ping'an said happily: "Next time we will catch crickets together."
The little girl's eyes lit up, but soon turned gloomy, and she nodded with a forced smile.
Chen Pingan picked up the basket, said goodbye to the young Taoist nun, waved to the little girl, and trotted back to the town alone.
She is also a fairy, but the gold content of this young woman's crown is far from comparable to that of Cai Jin's slips from Yunxia Mountain. It is almost as good as the gold essence of the fairy family to worldly gold.
She took the little girl and the white deer back to Qing Niu Bei. The young Taoist looked away from the back of the straw-shoe boy, closed the coffin and concluded: "A small fate means a bad fortune, so naturally it should not be used in a big way."
There are so many Taoist sects in Dongbaopingzhou that a pair of "golden boys and girls" are selected every thirty years. He and his senior sister He Xiaoliang are the natural Taoist couples of this year, but something surprising happened.
, the golden boy's qualifications are no less than before, but the beautiful girl's opportunity is so good that it is simply ridiculous. When she was born, there was a white deer, one of the auspicious things, who took the initiative to walk out of the mountains and swamps and came to recognize her.
Lord, after setting foot on the path of spiritual practice, it seemed that there were no setbacks and the journey was smooth. Some people even threatened that she would not encounter the first bottleneck until she reached the upper five realms.
Regarding her junior brother's contempt for the straw-shoe boy, she did not comment and laughed it off.
At this time, a short boy walked from the deep pool under the covered bridge to the puddle under the back of the green bull. He only held a piece of snake gallstone in his hand, and it shined brightly in the night like the white deer before.
The dull boy was holding a stone, standing on a stone above the water, like an immortal standing tall, holding a miniature full moon.
The two big green and red fish raised by the young Taoist did not enter the water, but only swam slowly on the stream.
If Chen Pingan sees this young man, he will know that he is the grandson of Granny Ma in Xinghua Lane.
The boy has been demented since he was a child and was rejected by his parents at an early age. Grandma Ma took care of her grandson by herself. The boy was very unsociable and often climbed to the roof alone to look at the clouds.
Growing up, the boy named Ma, who followed Granny Ma, was bullied until the end, feeling that stepping on him would make his shoes dirty. This poor kid seemed to have only smiled at Zhigui, the maid in Mubo Alley.
That's why Granny Ma particularly hated the maid, thinking that she was just a shameless vixen, and she must have taken the initiative to seduce her precious grandson.
The young female crown walked to the man with the sword on his back and asked: "About Ma Kuxuan, is there really no room for maneuver?"
The man said in an indifferent tone: "Your junior master, if you really want to accept this kid as a founding disciple, why don't you do it yourself? No matter how famous his name is, what does it matter? He has never fought with me, so why should you give it to him?
?If he is not convinced, come to Zhenwu Mountain to find me. If he wins, let him take the child away."
The young Taoist smiled and said: "It's just to let our little uncle make one more trip, why bother?"
There is a needle hidden in the cotton.
The man with the sword hanging on his back narrowed his eyes, "Oh?"
The young female crown was a little frustrated. She glanced at her fellow disciple. The young Taoist laughed and stopped tit-for-tat with the man. She looked up and said, "The moonlight is really beautiful today."
She was a little helpless.
As long as it involves the junior uncle of his sect, not to mention her and his junior brother, I am afraid that all the young Taoist priests in the continent will be honored.
On the other side of the covered bridge, at the foot of the steps, stood a barefoot monk with a square face and a look of perseverance.
The ascetic monk did not look up at the golden plaque, but looked at the ground where the incense sticks had been placed before. He clasped his hands together, lowered his head and said compassionately: "Amitabha."
The short boy went ashore and came to the back of Qingniu. He looked at the two young Taoists who were in high spirits, and then at the stern man carrying the sword. Finally, he stared at the latter who was about to hang the tiger charm, and gritted his teeth and said: "
I don’t want to learn anything about the path to immortality, but can you teach me how to kill someone?!”
The man smiled proudly and said: "I, a military swordsman, have been the most lethal in the world since ancient times!"
The young Taoist returned the favor and said with a smile, "Oh?"
The young female crown shook her head, knowing that the overall situation was decided, she felt guilty that she had failed her junior uncle's trust.
For a moment, there was a tense situation on the back of the green bull by the stream, and the atmosphere was solemn.
The little girl in the red cotton-padded jacket of the Li family hurriedly hid behind the fairy sister.
The girl in green had just finished eating the last piece of pastry and was in a very bad mood. She said angrily: "If you have the ability, call my father!"
The man who had a long relationship with the girl and her father no longer had a straight face and said with a smile: "How to fight?"
The young Taoist joked: "Ruan Xiu, this is a bit bullying. Your father is the next saint to succeed Mr. Qi. He is like the master of this world."
The girl in green curled her lips and said nothing.
The monk walked slowly and climbed onto the back of the green ox.
The young female crown said: "Your Buddhist Leiyin Pagoda, our Taoist Celestial Master's Seal, plus a small sword tomb from the military strategist, and of course the Confucian Mountain Jade Tablet. These are the four overwhelming treasures left by the four earliest saints.
Things, let’s not talk about the intrigues within the Confucianists themselves, just talk about the three parties of us, each taking it back this time, although it is justified, but if we really don’t say hello to Mr. Qi, wouldn’t it be inappropriate?”
The monk said nothing.
The young Taoist said worriedly: "It's a bit unhuman, but it's hard to disobey the orders from above. Senior sister, you'd better not add any unnecessary unnecessary extravagance."
The military man sneered, "I'm not here to get close to anyone."
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Over in the town, Chen Pingan returned to the alley where Liu Xianyang's home was located, and saw Mr. Qi standing at the door.
The young man ran quickly, and before he could ask questions, Qi Jingchun handed him two private seals and said with a smile: "Chen Ping'an, I didn't give it to you for free. I have something to ask for. If there is any difficulty in Cliff Academy in the future, I hope you can
Help as much as you can. Of course, you don’t need to deliberately inquire about the academy."
The young man only said one word, "Okay!"
Qi Jingchun nodded and said earnestly: "Remember what I said to you before, 'A gentleman will not save you.' Those are my words from the bottom of my heart, and I am not trying to test people's hearts."
The young man grinned and said, "Sir, I can't guarantee this."
Qi Jingchun hesitated to speak, but finally said nothing and was about to leave.
He originally wanted to say that if Cliff Academy is really in big trouble in the future, Chen Pingan, you don't need to feel guilty if you feel regretful. Just pretend that you haven't seen or heard about it, so there is no need to deliberately do it.
But Qi Jingchun didn't know why, deep down in his heart, he wanted to be lucky, and even he couldn't figure it out.
After thinking about it, the mountain master of Cliff Academy could only come up with one answer. It was because the young man in front of him had a surname of Chen and Ping An. He seemed to be different from everyone else.
The task you entrust to him is extremely difficult. Even if you know that the young man will not be able to do it with all his strength in the end, you can really be sure of one thing. As long as he agrees, he will definitely do it and do it with great strength.
If not, I am still willing to grit my teeth and use all my strength.
This is something that makes people feel at ease.
This was something that Qi Jingchun had been seeking for many years but could not get. This scholar who took the initiative to be demoted to this place originally felt that the world was a foreign land.
Just when Qi Jingchun was about to turn around, the young man who was still carrying a basket quickly bowed and saluted with great difficulty.
In the alley, the Confucian sage returned the boy's courtesy politely.