Moonlight paints the humble thatched hut silver, and the aroma of honeysuckle floats in the courtyard, making the air smell sweet. In the courtyard is a vegetable garden on one side and a grape trellis on the other. The hut shone a little light through the dense leaves of the creeper. The creeping tiger has already captured all the walls of the thatched hut, and recently it is tentatively extending its green wrist to the window. Heavy shadows cast on the desk in front of the window in the moonlight, swaying on the scholar’s face and the book in his hand.
On a hot summer night, a slight breeze is doubly gratifying. At this time, the wind sent a soft voice from outside the bamboo fence full of melons and morning glory: “Mei girl, you are going to provoke again. Is that nerd?” Another grinning voice muttered a low “um”. The scholar pressed his hand against the window sill and looked longingly, but only the shadows of flowers all over the ground came into his eyes.
The scholar picked up the book again, but couldn’t refocus his energy on those words, because there would always be some strange situations when he was holding the book, disturbing his mind.
Liu Mei was lying on the windowsill, looking at the scholar face to face for a long time. Seeing his seriousness in reading, she couldn’t help but think of making trouble. She jumped onto the grape trellis, folded a bunch of green grapes and threw them at the man under the window. “Crack,” the grapes rolled along the book and onto the table. When the scholar pinched it between his fingers, it had turned into a bunch of ripe grapes. Liu Mei laughed when she saw the scholar holding the grapes and looking around in panic.
A few minutes later, the scholar who ate the grapes that disturbed his reading picked up the book again, and Liu Mei picked up a leaf and held it in her pure white hands, and gently blew it under the oil lamp. The fire finally made a “wave” sound, and the light was extinguished by this reckless bug. The scholar lit the lamp, and after the light came on again, Liu Mei cooked up again according to the law. After the lights went on and off a few times, the people in the window seemed to be tired. The house sank in the dark and no movement. Liu Mei stuck out her tongue: “That makes me angry.” She smiled and lifted her skirt to cover it to the door, thinking about it. See what the scholar is doing in the dark room. She just got to the door and the door opened, and the scholar stood in front of the door and opened the picture scroll in his hand for her to admire.
The woman painted on the scroll is graceful and charming. The two deep dimples on her face are filled with endless smiles. She is standing in the courtyard with flower branches in her hands. It is the portrait of Liu Mei. Liu Mei stared at the scholar with a charming smile. No matter how good the painting skills are, how can she record all her beauty on paper.
The scholar stretched out his hand to Liu Mei, and the two walked into the thatched hut together.
Unconsciously, the summer goes to the autumn solstice, and the autumn comes to the winter. It has been more than half a year for Liu Mei to accompany the scholar Xu Yuye every night. Since having this girl, the originally lonely hut has always been filled with warmth and laughter.
This night was the beginning of the heavy snow, the moonlight was bright, the moonlight reflected the snow-colored snow and the moonlight, illuminating the sky and the earth with bright colors. Liu Mei lit a pot of charcoal fire and placed it in the room. I don’t know what method she used, but the room was so warm and sweaty. Xu Yu opened the window and read to the snow and the moonlight. It was so interesting that he wanted to leave the book and sing a few poems to the moon and paint a picture.
“Tea.” Liu Mei brought the tea set and put it in his hand.
“Meier still knows my heart the most.” The scholar tossed the book and served tea and laughed. Liu Mei rubbed paper and ink on the table and looked at him with a smile. The scholar took a few sips of tea and started to paint the beautiful scenery in front of him with a pen.
“Are you getting married?” Liu Mei asked suddenly, sitting next to him, playing with a red paper card in her hand.
The scholar shook his hand, and a drop of ink fainted in the bright moon on the paper: “You know.”
“Don’t you want me to know?” Liu Mei put the paper card with the woman’s birthday written on it back on the table.
“That’s not true.” The scholar smiled, “It is only natural for a man to marry a woman, sooner or later.”
Liu Mei sighed lightly: “Yes… sooner or later…”
The two were silent for a while, and then Liu Meicai said again: “My sister has already asked me to go back to Kunlun Mountain to practice. I didn’t know when to say goodbye to you. Now it seems that I should go too.” /
“What, you’re leaving!” The scholar stood up suddenly, his expression panicked, “Why, why…”
“There’s no reason, I just think it’s time to go.” Liu Mei still said with a smile.
: “I thought you wouldn’t care.”
Liu Mei frowned, tilted her head and asked, “What about her? Does she not care?”
“She’s just…Meier, only you are my confidante.” The scholar was afraid that she would disappear and hugged her tightly, “Meier, I have only you in my heart, only you. You! Do you want me to peel my heart out and show you! She, she is just…”
“She is your wife, your life partner, and the mother of your future children.” Liu Mei put away her smile for the first time, and said to him with a serious look, “You marry her, you should be good To her, how could she have the heart to let her husband be shared!”
“But, you, you are not human!” The scholar blurted out in a hurry.
Liu Mei stared at him, and after a while, Liu Mei Yanran smiled and said, “It’s good if you know, what kind of an outlier I am, goodbye, Xu Lang, goodbye…” She gently kissed the scholar’s forehead , Without waiting for him to say anything, the figure has dissipated like a mist, the scholar shouted, and her shadow rushed away, but only hugged the empty space. “Mei’er, come back, don’t leave… Do you really not understand my intention…” The scholar ran into the courtyard and called out mournfully, leaving a series of footprints on the flawless snow.
Liu Mei stood on the privet tree in the courtyard and looked at him. After a while, she murmured, “You don’t understand…you don’t understand…” This time she flew into the air without further ado. back.
The woman threw the clothes in her arms onto the bed, and said angrily to the man lying down: “That dead kid is howling again, go and see!”
The man listened carefully, and sure enough, there was a faint cry of a baby. He said lazily: “Mostly he is hungry, so he won’t cry if you go to feed him.”
“Hey, hey, I’ve fed him several times a day! I have to change his diaper, wash his clothes… it’s endless! You said that you have nothing to do with such a scourge at home!” The woman was furious , sitting on the edge of the bed.
The man sighed and said, “It’s my cousin’s child anyway. After the two of them died, you didn’t allow his uncle to carry them, so they had to stay.”
“Let them take it, do they really want children? They are for that little property, why are they cheap.”
“Now that we have brought him back, we must raise him properly. If something happens, he will be gossiped by the neighbors.”
“What gossip? What gossip is there to talk about! Are those three dilapidated houses and two acres of wasteland enough to raise a child? How much do we have to pay? There are so many children who died, why would you tell me three things? Four!” The woman became angry, and finally went out the door angrily.
A small baby was tightly wrapped in a quilt and placed on the bed, Zheng Shengsi cried exhaustedly, his face flushed red. It was late autumn, and although the child was wrapped in this way, it avoided the cold, but it was more convenient for mosquitoes to bite. The odor of the diapers that had not been changed for a long time attracted flies to buzz around, and the water rice had not stained teeth for most of the day, no wonder He cried so hard. The woman was upset by his crying, walked over and slapped him heavily, the child choked in pain, and then cried even more. The woman cursed a few loudly, but reluctantly went to the kitchen to get him some food.
The woman walked in the door angrily carrying half a bowl of cold rice. She was glad that the child finally stopped, but she was surprised to see a gorgeous woman sitting on the edge of the bed, holding the child in her arms and coaxing her, holding the child in her hands. A strange bead, put in the child’s mouth for him to suck. Seeing the woman come in, he looked up and smiled at her. The woman’s ugly smile made the woman lose her mind for a moment, but she immediately pulled her face down, rushed up to her and shouted, “Who are you? What are you doing at my house?”
The woman smiled and shook her head at the baby: “It’s alright, little guy, don’t be so greedy, it’s just fine if you’re not hungry, you can’t eat too much of this thing.” She took the bead back and put it in her mouth, The baby immediately cried out in protest. “Okay, little guy, okay, alas, don’t cry, eat full, sleep …” She stood up and patted, patiently coaxing. The woman was furious when she saw her ignoring her, but looking at her luxurious clothes and delicate figure, she suddenly thought of something, threw down the bowl, turned around and ran out. After a while, the woman pulled the man and rushed in again. The man also held a big wolf dog in his hand. When the wolf dog saw the woman, it screamed viciously.
The woman had just put the baby to sleep and was awakened by the barking of the dog, crying again.
The woman appeared unhappy, pursed her lips and glared at the wolf dog. The big dog, which was like a small calf, stopped barking abruptly, whimpered a few times, and tucked its tail into the man’s crotch to get out the door. No matter how you pull it, you can’t pull it. The woman coaxed the baby a few more words before she asked with a smile, “What’s the matter?”
“You, who are you? What are you doing in our house!” The man shouted courageously across the threshold, ready to turn around and escape at any time.
The woman smiled extremely beautifully: “My name is Liu Mei, don’t you recognize me? I’m just here to see this child, you don’t need to pay attention to me.” She, who is close to your cousin, that vixen, I saw her through the window, have I seen her?”
Liu Mei opened the child’s quilt and wanted to change him into the small clothes she brought, but she saw that the child’s face and back were covered with rashes soaked from the wet clothes, a scary scarlet appearance. Her smile turned cold, and her eyes were full of sadness. After a while, she pointed her finger at the child’s skin and sighed, “Do you want this child to die? He lost his parents at a young age, so don’t you feel sorry for him at all?”
“Isn’t it enough that we can take care of him? You still have to make us think that she is an ancestor’s offering!” Although the woman was also afraid, she did not show weakness at all.
Liu Mei held the child and swayed gently, pacing back and forth in the room in thought, before saying after a long time: “Forget it, this child will not survive long after staying here with you, so let me take him away. Stop.”
“You take him away?” Hearing that the man who could push this burdensome man was about to agree happily, the woman took the lead and shouted: “A boy is worth ten taels of silver, take it away if you say it! Kids keep the money!”
Liu Meiqiao’s face sank and no longer smiled, and she said coldly, “Can you stop me if I want to take him away?” Her smiling face gave the woman the courage to be cheap, but now her frosty face It made the other party shudder and wince and stop talking. Liu Mei gently took off the child’s original clothes, dressed him new, and walked out of the door with her arms in her arms. When he walked outside the threshold, he suddenly turned his head and smiled and said, “For the sake of taking care of him for a few days, I will give you something in return.”
The woman had just shot a greedy look in her eyes when she suddenly let out a miserable cry-I saw a long ox tail sticking out from her hips, swaying lively. “You vixen! No, fox fairy… fox fairy…you come back…you have a lot of…” In the wailing sound of the couple, Liu Meilian walked lightly, walked to the courtyard and disappeared…
The autumn night was cold, and Dao Quan, who was lying between the branches, tried his best to shrink his neck. He hoped that the battle would start sooner, and end sooner, so that he could leave this place. He peeked at his two brothers: Daozhen was standing in the shadow behind the rockery, and he couldn’t see his expression from this angle, but he could see his body standing straight and motionless in the cold wind; Daozhi was posted on the house Looking around in the passageway of the back wall, it seems that he did not take the cold to heart. The location they chose was good, but they put me in this ghostly place that didn’t block the wind. Daozhen muttered in his heart, complaining to the two brothers.
The courtyard is very quiet. In the night without stars and moon, the mountains, trees, ponds, pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard are as unreal as silhouettes. Only the color coming out of the lit window can bring a warm feeling. warm. Two figures were displayed on the window paper. The man was gesturing and saying something. The woman’s body was shaking with laughter, and she gestured to hit him with the handkerchief in her hand. After a while, the lights were turned off, and the entire courtyard fell into darkness.
Daoquan was thinking wildly. He didn’t know what this person and monster were doing inside, but he saw Daozhen come out from behind the rockery and walked towards the house. Doshi also took out the peach wood sword on his back and walked forward. When Daoquan saw that he had fallen, he hurriedly jumped from the tree to the yard. He didn’t know when his clothes were caught by the branches, and he fell to the ground in a dog-eaten posture, making a loud bang and a bang. Painfully, in the otherwise silent night, such a voice is estimated to be audible from miles away.
Daozhen and Daozhi looked at each other and immediately changed their original cautious movements. They both jumped to the front of the main room, each raised their swords and stared at the door. When Daoquan slapped the dust on his body and got up from the ground, he saw A group of black shadows broke through the door and fought with his two brothers. Daoquan also drew out his sword, opened his hands and circled around the two men and one demon who were fighting in a ball, but could not find any room to start, so he could only keep reminding: “Senior brother be careful!” “Second brother is here Behind you.” “Hit, hit, work harder.” “Hurry up, hurry up, he’s dying.”
With Daoquan’s shouts, the battle was slowly coming to an end. Although Daozhen and Daozhi had wounds all over their bodies, they still subdued each other with all their strength. The man covered with spells rolled on the ground, and finally howled to reveal his true form—a hedgehog the size of a rabbit.
Daozhi stepped forward and gave it a stern kick: “Beasts, only a few years of Taoism dare to come out and hurt people, now I see where they are running.” The shoes were smashed to the ground.
At this time, the courtyard was already brightly lit, and the housekeepers who came to check after hearing the sound surrounded the courtyard. Even the young lady who was lingering with the monster just now was disheveled and stood at the door of the house with her hair disheveled. She didn’t seem to understand what was going on. She stared blankly into the yard until there were two daring girls. He stepped forward and helped her into the house.
Daozhi kicked the hedgehog on the ground to the outside of the staff, and said with a laugh, “I disturbed the good dream outside the staff at midnight. You see, this is what captivated your daughter.”
Seeing the monster rolling over, the member and the servants around him dispersed, fleeing far away to the other side before stopping. Member Wai wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, “Three Taoist priests, what are you doing? Why are you back? This monster…what are you doing here at my house? Who asked you to come here! Is there no Wang Fa?” Not only did he not care much about the monster’s capture, but instead shouted at the three Taoist priests.
Daozhi sneered and said: “Why, do you think that if you drive us away during the day, we can get rid of our determination to get rid of demons and demons? But it’s very strange, member, your daughter has been fascinated by monsters for a day and a half. It’s not that you don’t know why, instead of treating her, why do you want to drive away the Taoist priests who came to our door to exterminate the demon? Are you wholeheartedly trying to recruit this monster to be a quick son-in-law?”
Daoquan drew the monster with his sword and said nonchalantly, “Tsk tsk, then the member is really insightful, look at the choice of this son-in-law… But how did I hear that your young lady is going to get married next month? Are you going to marry a field member in Linxian? How many sons-in-law did you choose?”
The faces outside the member became ugly, and the servants around him also stared at the three Taoist priests with weapons, and their eyes were full of eagerness.
“Hahaha, you know that you are afraid of monsters, but you are not afraid of us Taoist priests who can eliminate monsters!” Daozhen laughed loudly, and suddenly slashed at the small tree beside him with his sword. The peach wood sword in his hand was actually unharmed. He stared at everyone coldly, and kept fiddling with the sword in his hand, as if asking, “Who dares to come forward.” The servants were all frightened by him, and looked outside hesitantly.
“Many, many thanks to several Taoist priests for saving the little girl. Come, come, please have a meal in the hall. Xiaoke also has a thank you gift, please, please.” After thinking about it, the member changed his mind, and his face was full of expressions. Full of smiles, he actually invited them.
Daozhi waved his hand: “There is no need for wine and food, but if you have any gifts, please bring them. We will not refuse anyone who comes.”
“Come here, go to the account room and get one hundred taels of silver for the three priests.”
“Slow!” Daozhi interrupted the member outside and asked with a smile: “One hundred taels of silver, I heard right? Outside member, as far as I know, the only dowry gift from the Tian family to Lingyuan is a Zhuangzi, Two shops plus 2,000 taels of silver, let alone how much business you get from them every year after the two married? Is such an important marriage worth 100 taels of silver in your eyes? Which of the brothers accidentally said it and let the family outside the field hear it, and they know that you don’t take this marriage seriously, how chilling, don’t you think?”
The outsider’s face sank. The Taoist priest’s implication was obvious. If he didn’t give them a price they were satisfied with, the story that his daughter was bewitched by monsters would spread to outsiders. The most serious consequence would be Yes, it will reach the ears of future in-laws.
My family’s business depends on the strong support of the Tian family, which is why I have this marriage with a family age difference of more than 20 years. If the other party knows that such a scandal has happened to his daughter, the marriage will still fall through. Secondly, isn’t it about to make a big mess in their own business. Originally, when his daughter was just beginning to be entangled by monsters, he thought it was her daughter’s deliberate trick to resist her reluctant marriage, not wanting to marry a field worker who was twenty years older than her. Besides, he didn’t take it to heart at all. Who knows that day by day, her daughter’s bewilderment will gradually become crazy, no matter how she looks like she is acting by herself, and at night, she will close the door early and stay in the bedroom alone, outside. People called to hear the voices of men and women teasing each other from inside. Originally, all the fascinating things about monsters were regarded as village talk, but who would have thought that he would talk about himself when his daughter was about to get married.
The staff sent a maid and a woman to accompany her daughter at night, but as soon as the night fell, these people fell asleep. When they woke up the next morning, they would find each other’s heads tied together and thrown into the flowers in the courtyard middle. After being frightened several times and attacked by the wind, frost, rain and dew in the cold night, most of the girls and women fell ill, and the few who were healthy had already been beaten down mentally, and would never step into the young lady’s house at night. .
It was only then that the staff members were really worried about their daughter.
It’s just that at this time his daughter was deeply bewildered, and the monster was familiar with the way, and it was impossible to drive away. The anxious members secretly invited monks and Taoists to come and chase them several times. I don’t know whether the monsters are highly skilled or the experts who have invited have their own appearances. Anyway, not only did the repeated practice have no effect, but the monsters became more and more arrogant. Also in and out of the boudoir. And after so much tossing, rumors began to spread that the young lady was haunted by monsters. In order to save the marriage, the member outside hurriedly started to block the news again, and regardless of whether her daughter was fascinated by monsters, she was ready to marry her first.
Who knew that a few days ago, three Taoist priests suddenly came to the door and threatened to hear that there were monsters in the house, and they came specially to exterminate the monsters. At this time, the most unheard of outsiders was this. Not only did they accuse a few Taoist priests of not abiding by the rules, they had ruined their daughter’s reputation by talking nonsense in order to cheat money, but they also instructed the family members to show their weapons and unleashed evil dogs, and drove them all out. . I thought it would be the end of the matter, but I didn’t expect them to come to the door by themselves, and they really had the ability to catch this monster.
“What exactly do you want?” The staff member asked with a sullen face.
Daozhi smiled and said, “The Taoist temple of Pindao has been in disrepair for a long time. I heard that you have always been kind and generous. Why don’t you give Pindao a thousand taels of silver and let us go back and build the Sanqing Hall?”
“One thousand taels!” Hearing his lion’s mouth, the staff jumped up like a needle.
“Or two thousand taels?” Daozhi “bargained” with him with a smile.
When the staff saw that they were unwilling to rest, they roared viciously in their hearts: “You are extorting! I, I will take you to see the officials and say that there are monsters here, who saw it! If you get a hedgehog, you will say it is a monster. , I think you are crazy about money! I want to see if you dare to openly cheat like this when you go to the lobby of the government!”
“Hahahaha…” Daozhen looked up to the sky and laughed, suddenly stretched out his peach wood sword and pointed at the hedgehog, and the hedgehog immediately turned into a man and lay dying on the ground. Frightened many of the family members cried out in shock.
“Outside the staff, since we can subdue him, we can naturally let him go freely. It’s not good for you to cross the river like this.” Daozhi went forward to negotiate again with a smile. “Do you think we should keep him and just walk away? Maybe this hedgehog monster will not take anger on your family after this disaster tonight, but will realize that it is wrong for him to entangle the young lady. , maybe he will go in a few days. But even if he goes, the monsters in the world know that you are good and good, and you are not allowed to come to your door. It is not necessarily that a tiger will come to you today, and a carp will come tomorrow. , and then came a sparrow… Hahahaha, I just don’t know if you have so many daughters, otherwise it would be good to hire a son-in-law all at once.”
The complexion of the members outside turned from red to black, from black to white, from white to blue, from green to yellow, and all five colors appeared at once, extremely colorful. Listen to this Taoist priest’s words, if you don’t do it today Threatened by them, they will let the monster go at this time. They have Taoism to protect themselves. Of course, they are not afraid that this defeated general will take revenge. They are bound to become the object of this monster’s anger. It is conceivable that the monster’s revenge method will be hundreds of times more powerful than the bewildering daughter, and the last few words of the Taoist priest seem to vaguely indicate that his family will be prosperous in the following days. Since the reporter Xiaomen’s small households have monsters who will come here, it is not known, but these few Taoist priests with high mana will definitely “invite” some monsters to come to their homes from time to time, but what are these monsters living in? When will you go? It’s hard to tell what to do before leaving.
He was stunned for a long time, and finally said: “I really can’t get a thousand taels of silver, how about five hundred taels?”
“The member is really a master in the business field. He is really good at haggling the price, but it’s too stingy to cut the price from 2,000 taels to 500 taels all at once?”
“It’s obviously one thousand taels, when did it become two thousand taels?”
“Okay, let’s deal with each other for the first time. One thousand taels are only one thousand taels. The staff members will take out the silver taels and beat some of our annoying Taoist priests on the road.” Daozhi raised his hand and saluted.
The member looked at him for a moment with fire in his eyes, then gritted his teeth and said, “Bring money to the priests.”
One thousand taels of silver is not light in weight, nor is it small in size. When the outsiders endured the pain and made people lift the small box out, they were still cursing in their hearts: How do you guys carry this box on the road? It’s good to be robbed by robbers on the road. He deliberately prepared silver notes for them, and the Taoist priests did not seem to want to ask for easy-to-carry silver notes. I saw Daozhi stepped forward and did not know what method he had used. Seeing that the box full of silver shrunk in his hands, until it became It was the size of a fingernail, and he took it and gently threw it in his sleeve. After bowing to the staff and saying goodbye, several Taoist priests walked away talking and laughing.
Walking in the wilderness, the morning light gradually revealed behind the thin mist. The three Taoist priests walked in the field with the morning dew. Although they didn’t sleep all night, the three of them were all in good spirits, holding the big ingots of silver in their hands and watching each other.
“This is two silver coins in the past, hahahaha, I have never seen so much silver in my life…” Daoquan laughed wildly without any scruples, hugging the silver tightly in his arms, wishing he could swallow it The look that goes in the stomach.
“Look at your unpromising appearance, it’s like you’ve never seen silver in your life!” Dao Zhi grabbed the silver from his arms and kicked Dao Quan gently, “Learn from your second senior brother, never Don’t take these external things in your eyes.”
Dao Zhen interrupted him coldly and said, “I don’t put money in my eyes, just put that kind of thing in my pocket. You’d better not forget the share that should be given to me, or I won’t In front of the master to help you tell lies.”
“Look at what you said, when did I forget you!” Daozhi said, took out about two hundred taels of silver and handed it over. Then he took another piece of silver (that’s fifty taels) and handed it to Daoquan, “I gave it to you, take it.”
“Why do I only have so much!” Daoquan protested in dissatisfaction.
“You still have the face to ask?” Daozhi slapped him **** the head, “Tell me yourself, what did you do for today’s affairs? What did you help? Not only did you not follow what I said If you did it, you even disturbed the beast in advance. When my second senior brother and I were busy fighting monsters, you were still watching the fun! I gave you this just to see that when you came out for the first time, I didn’t want you to go back empty-handed. What? You don’t want to be too young, right? It’s just…”
“No no no, senior brother, how can I think it’s too little.” Daoquan hurriedly put the silver in his pocket.
“Remember, you two, don’t miss out on your tongue, Master, or be careful with your tongue!” Dao Zhiyou added viciously, “I don’t worry about Daozhen, it’s just that you don’t have the door open. .” Saying this gave Daoquan another slap on the back of his head.
“Senior brother, don’t worry, I will never reveal a word, hehe, hey, as long as there are good things like this in the future, you can just think of your little brother.”
“You are sensible. Go, go back!”
Daoquan has been quietly looking at the two brothers all the way. He is the latest to start, and this is the first time that the master has allowed him to go out with the two brothers to do errands. The ability of the two senior brothers to slay demons in Jinan House opened his eyes. The snake spirit has caused countless people to be killed. It once ate several Taoist monks and monks who went to subdue it, but under the hands of the two senior brothers, it was not easy to slaughter. Daoquan, who watched the battle from beginning to end, greatly admired the two brothers. He originally thought that his Taoism was already good, but he didn’t expect that it was not worth mentioning in front of real monsters. But the two brothers are so powerful.
Usually in his opinion, Daozhi is a bit frivolous, and spends much less time on cultivation than on mundane things. His favorite thing is to manage the money in and out of Taoist temples, and he often shuts himself in the house. The door settles accounts and counts money until midnight, and enjoys it. The second senior brother usually only practiced swordsmanship, and he was taciturn. He seldom paid attention to Daoquan, the new little senior brother. But when it came time to get down to business, the senior brother was calm and capable, the second senior brother was decisive and heroic, and the snake spirit didn’t even survive a hundred rounds in their hands.
Daoquan admired the performance of the two brothers in eliminating demons, but what impressed him even more was the adaptability of the brothers.
After hearing about the monsters in the small town, and taking the initiative to come to the door but was told that there were no monsters, Daoquan thought that the brothers were planning to go back. Unexpectedly, the eldest brother not only did not believe the lies of the family, but instead subdued the monster in one fell swoop, and also obtained such a large amount of money by catching the master’s braid. As for the usual few words, the second senior brother, who seemed so serious, did not expect that he would cooperate with the senior senior brother so well at the critical moment. It seems that following the two senior brothers, the future has a bright future. Daoquan thought happily while touching the silver in his arms.
Daoquan was originally the second son of a poor scholar. His parents were not good at farming, managing production, and doing business, but they gave birth to seven or eight children in a row. Just relying on the income from his father’s usual teaching and his mother’s day and night spinning was not enough for the family to make ends meet, so Daoquan Primary School At a young age, he had to find a way to fill his stomach.
Dig some wild vegetables, do some odd jobs, steal some things, beg a few mouthfuls of food, in short, in order to cope with the hunger that followed him from childhood to defecation, he exhausted all the methods he could think of, so that he remembered it himself They all forget when and why they left their home. In my memory, he started wandering around when he was eight or nine years old, until he was seventeen or eighteen. The children who are wandering alone have naturally suffered and experienced all the hardships. Who knew that times would turn, he passed out at the door of a Taoist temple because of hunger and cold the year before, but was rescued by a Taoist priest in the Taoist temple. There are only three Taoist priests in that Taoist temple, one old and two young, but they seem to be living a very comfortable life with delicious food and spicy food.
The old Taoist priest of that Taoist temple is a bit old-fashioned. He insisted that he had no connection with the Taoist sect and refused to accept him, but he saw that it would be a good career to do it, and he insisted on staying in the Taoist temple and refused to leave. Fortunately, he learned some words from his father and read a few books when he was a child. In addition, he has been in the world for so many years. He is relatively clever, and he has learned a lot of tricks. He is also very diligent. After running, he kept busy, and actually coaxed the old disciple Daozhi into joy. From time to time, he said good things for him in front of his master, and he talked about his poor background and homelessness. He was once.
The old Taoist had a good heart. He was moved by the big apprentice for a long time, but he actually accepted him as a closed apprentice. It’s just that he despises the qualifications of this little apprentice very much. On the contrary, the elder brother was very willing to teach him and urged him to practice from time to time. Therefore, while Senior Brother Ran sneered at him from time to time, he liked to make fun of himself, but Daoquan was very grateful to Senior Brother. The second senior brother is really not easy to get along with. He usually looks down on him, a junior brother with bad talent, and doesn’t say anything to him, let alone give him one or two pointers.
Daoquan saw that Daozhen is usually ignorant of the senior brothers, and he automatically regarded this situation as an open and secret struggle between the two senior brothers. In his mind, what is for the master’s unique skills, for the future throne of the master, for the master’s unique magic weapon… All kinds of assumptions have been designed in his conception. Since there is a conflict between the two senior brothers, his closed disciple naturally stands firmly on the side of the senior brother. Therefore, he is not cold or cold to the second brother, and draws a clear line with him. Unexpectedly, when he went out this time, he saw a completely different situation from what he thought. Not only did the two brothers not fight, but they had a good relationship. The second senior brother almost obeyed the words of the senior brother, and the two cooperated perfectly, but they were confused by Daoquan.
“Old third,” the three Taoist priests rushed for a few days, seeing their Taoist temple in front of them, Daozhi suddenly greeted Daoquan, “Bring that gourd.” Daoquan immediately took the one from his waist. The gourd containing the hedgehog monster was handed over. Daozhi took the gourd in his hand and said, “What should I do with this guy? If I bring it back to Guanli, the master will immediately know that the three of us are secretly doing good things outside.”
“If you kill such a harmful beast, do you still need to think hard?” Daozhen’s cold words made Daoquan shudder next to him.
Daozhi seemed to be unbearable and said: “Although this wicked beast is hateful, but it hasn’t reached the point of death, just killing him like this and his years of practice will be ruined. It’s a pity. Alas, there is no way. It’s better for him to die than for the three of us to be taught by the master.” He turned the gourd upside down and slapped it on the bottom, and a huge hedgehog rolled from it to the ground. As soon as he landed, he kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: “Several immortals, please spare the little one, please do your best to spare the little one, I will never dare again…” This gourd was not specially made for catching monsters. , but Daozhi picked it from the wall of someone else’s courtyard. The monster inside can still hear the movement outside. He heard all the words of the Taoist priests discussing to kill this hedgehog monster, so as soon as he came out He desperately begged for mercy, hoping that the other party could give him a way out.
Daozhi was unmoved at all, thinking Daozhen said: “Second Junior Brother has quick hands and feet, it’s up to you to do it.”
The hedgehog hugged Daozhi’s leg and begged: “Xianchang, you are merciful, my family still has a mother and children to support, what will happen if you kill me and our family… Ou **** ho **** ho …”
“You’ve got a wife and a big family, and you go out to seduce women from a good family, **** it!” Daozhen said, showing his peach wood sword.
“Daoist, Taoist… **** ho **** ho… I’ve worked so hard to cultivate until today is not easy… **** ho ho… forgive me… I really don’t dare…” Seeing that death was imminent, he burst into tears. Daozhen didn’t know how many monsters he had killed, how could he soften his hand for such a plea, and stab his sword into his heart.
“Wait a minute!” Daoquan blurted out.
“Why? Do you want to plead for this evil person? You have leftovers. If you leave him and are discovered by the master, the three of us will not be able to eat and go.” Daozhi slapped him on the back of the head fiercely. palm.
Daoquan said with a smile: “How can I do it? I don’t think it’s not worth the second senior brother to do such a trivial matter, I think I will do it for me.”
“Hehehe, so you’re making up your mind.” Daozhi laughed.
“Yeah, the two brothers have already beheaded snake spirits when they went out this time. The poor junior brother hasn’t opened yet. Do you want me to…” He rubbed his hands together and looked anxious. Can’t wait.
“This kind of thing is also worth grabbing. If you have the ability to cultivate yourself, you won’t be able to kill any monsters in the future. Remember to keep his inner elixir and eat it, it will be good for you.” He really doesn’t look down on the unpromising junior brother.
Daozhi smiled and patted Daoquan’s head: “Okay, he’s yours!” After that, he left.
Daoquan stared at the huddled, shaking hedgehog on the ground, gestured with his sword on his head, and said coldly, “Now I know I’m afraid? Why did you do bad things in the first place!”
The hedgehog kowtowed again and again and said, “Master Dao, spare your life, I was also fascinated for a while, when I heard that the girl was discussing with his lover, in order to prevent her father from marrying her to someone she didn’t want to go to, he would pretend to be Zuo was fascinated by monsters and asked the family to take the initiative to break off the marriage. I think she will pretend to be like this anyway. I will help her to make a fake… Daoist, I was dazzled by beauty for a while, and I promise not to dare in the future. Now, please forgive me this time… It’s not easy for me to practice for so many years… You humans can’t be sentenced to death for the crime of rape, don’t kill me… uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…”
Daoquan looked at him and frowned. He was moved by the hedgehog’s last words. Human beings ** women will never be sentenced to death. Why must this monster be sent to a dead end? After all, if there is no The woman’s father uses his daughter as a tool for wealth, and this will not happen. He bit his lip and kicked the hedgehog and said, “Get out of here, remember, don’t let my two senior brothers see you again in the future, or I won’t be able to eat and walk with you!”
The hedgehog didn’t expect to let him go so easily, so overjoyed, he got up and ran.
“Wait a minute,” Daoquan stopped him again, “hand over your inner elixir!”
The hedgehog was startled, and subconsciously shook his head again and again, handing over his inner alchemy would mean seven or eight out of ten. Of course, he was not willing to give up his years of hard work easily.
“Fate and inner elixir are the same.” Daoquan said impatiently, “Anyway, if you are dead, I can take the inner elixir myself.” He didn’t covet an inner elixir, he just remembered that Dao Zhen came. The words you said when you left. If he went back empty-handed, he would inevitably arouse the suspicions of the senior and second senior brothers. He didn’t want to cause trouble for himself because he temporarily relented and spared this monster. In addition, this monster ** woman, if he is released without restraint, who knows if he will act more recklessly in the future, even if he does not kill him, certain punishment is still necessary.
The hedgehog understood in Daoquan’s cold eyes that if he didn’t use the inner elixir to exchange his life, then what awaited him would be death and the loss of elixir. He spat out a shiny bead the size of a walnut and threw it on the ground. Then quickly disappeared into the grass.
This is the first time I saw something like the monster Neidan. After I picked it up and took a closer look, it was actually like a low-quality pearl with mottled texture, not so crystal clear. The difference is This inner alchemy is light and soft to the touch. “This kind of thing can increase cultivation?” Daoquan said to himself, weighing it in his hand. But instead of eating it, he put it into his sleeve and walked quickly to the Taoist temple.
Although Taoist Yiyun is a well-known man of Taoism, his Taoist temple is not large, only a main hall, two rows of wing rooms, and a small backyard where he lives alone. Daoquan neatly entered through the side door and ran to the backyard where Master lived. If their brothers and sisters went out to do errands, they should go to see Master first after returning, but Daoquan knew that at this time of day, Master would always be there. He meditated, so he wasn’t worried that he would upset the master for being late. Sure enough, when he hurried to the small courtyard where the master lived, he saw the two brothers were still kneeling in front of the master’s door. Clothes, the inner pill was stuffed to him.
Daozhi glanced back at him and said nothing.
The three apprentices and brothers spent more than half an hour, and the door of Daoist Yiyun finally opened. A Daoist in his forties with a graceful appearance walked out, glanced at the three apprentices and said, “Get up. Well. How are things going?”
“That snake demon has been beheaded by the disciple with a sword!” Daozhen said hurriedly.
Take the credit for Big Brother! Daoquan thought so, and secretly took a look at Daozhen’s back with his eyes.
“Killed?” Daoist Yiyun frowned.
“That evil beast has done a lot of evil, and the disciple has already killed it.” Daozhen said with a kowtow.
“Daozhi, I know that the second son has a good temperament to kill, so I asked you to go with me. Why don’t you stop him.”
Daozhi smiled bitterly and said, “Master, you know, the second junior brother’s hands and feet are more agile than mine.”
“Useless thing!” Daoist Yi Yun threw his sleeves at him, “Obviously wanted you to capture that evildoer, but you killed it yourself, and put me, the master, on top of it. Eyes!”
“Master, I know you have a good heart, and even the evil monsters are reluctant to kill them. You still have to let them go for a few years, but how many of the monsters you are really repenting of? It’s the ones you let go. You monsters, are you still doing evil in a few days, or do you want you to get rid of them again? In this case, it is not the best to get rid of them at the beginning!”
“How dare you talk back!”
“Master, I’m not talking back, but…”
“Enough, get me back to face the wall for three days!” Daoist Yiyun scolded angrily. Daozhen didn’t panic, bowed to the master, turned around and walked out.
Mianyun Daoist smiled bitterly: “This child is stubborn.”
Daozhi hurriedly saluted and said, “Master, the second junior brother is just jealous of evil. I really can’t see those monsters doing evil in the world. You calm down and don’t blame him.”
“Why am I angry with him?” Daoist Mianyun shook his head and sighed: “You three apprentices, Daoquan has just started, needless to say, among the two of you, your personality is easy-going, although a little lazy, but by virtue of With your talent, there will always be some achievements in the future…” Hearing Master’s evaluation of himself, Daozhi shrank his head, and secretly stuck his tongue out at Daoquan. Daoist Mianyun continued: “But Daozhen is different from you, his aptitude is not as good as yours, but his character is very firm, serious in everything, unwilling to admit defeat and unwilling to be sloppy, so he can’t help but go his own way, I am most worried about him If you are too persistent, you will fall into the devil’s block.”
Daozhi and Daoquan listened to his teaching, and Mianyun turned to Daoquan again: “Daoquan, you are the latest to enter the school. This time you are going out with your two senior brothers to do errands. What insights do you have?”
Daoquan stepped forward and saluted: “Master, reading ten thousand volumes of books is not as good as traveling ten thousand miles. This sentence is really a well-known saying. This time, this disciple went out with the senior and second senior brothers. With such an opportunity, I also ask Master to send more disciples to study with the brothers.”
“Go out to study, I think you are eager to go out and play.” Daoist Yiyun, who has always been serious, made a rare joke with his apprentices and waved them to step down.
Daozhi and Daoquan walked outside one after another, only to see that it was still early, and Daozhen did not go to any wall as instructed by the master, but took off his coat and practiced his sword in the courtyard. Seeing that Daozhi and Daoquan came out one after another, he sneered: “Every time I punish you and praise you.”
“So it’s a matter of personal character.” Daozhi leaned against the pillar and said with a half-smile.
“It’s an old rule, you have to invite us to eat it tonight.” Daozhen put away his sword, picked up his coat and left. The relationship between him and Daozhi was always awkward. Sometimes they had a tacit understanding, and sometimes they seemed to be incompatible. Daoquan really couldn’t understand it.
“Don’t worry, here is the inner elixir of the hedgehog, do you want to give it to the third child?” Daozhi took out the inner elixir and asked.
“Give it to the third one, it’s rare for him to have such a good heart, and he will catch up with Master soon.” Daozhi threw the inner alchemy to Daoquan: “It’s yours, it’s good for you to eat it, but don’t be like the second child, you’ll be addicted to eating this thing.”
It turns out that the brothers know everything. Daoquan pouted, until the two of them sneaked to the nearby villages and towns to eat and drink, but deliberately did not bring themselves, presumably because they secretly released the hedgehog, they wanted to punish themselves a little. Inner alchemy, you can increase your cultivation base by eating it… He looked at the inner alchemy in his hand and began to think.
Dao sat cross-legged in his room, and with a little panic, shoved the inner pill into his mouth.
As soon as the Neidan entered it, it felt as if a fire had entered his mouth. He didn’t have time to think about it, he swallowed it directly, and then meditated on his luck. The fire fell all the way down his throat and entered his belly. It turned into a flame and rushed to the internal organs, and Daoquan carefully guided it to integrate with his own practice. Although the hedgehog did not have much advanced Daoxing, it was of great help to Daoquan, whose Daoxing was shallower than that. When Daoquan opened his eyes, a day and a night had passed. He looked at the morning light outside the window, unable to hide his excitement, pushed the door open and rushed into the courtyard.
Daozhi and Daozhi have finished their routine cleaning work every morning. They are dancing swords in each corner of the yard. Daoquan happily goes over and shouts: “Senior Brother, Second Senior Brother, this inner alchemy is really useful, my The cultivation base has really grown a lot.”
Daozhi tapped his head with the hilt of his sword: “What are you shouting? Are you afraid that Master won’t hear you?”
Daoquan nods again and again and falls into fantasy: “If I often eat this kind of inner alchemy in the future…”
“You want to do good things!” Daozhi hit him again, “It’s not that simple. This inner alchemy is so useful to you because the monster’s cultivation is higher than you, and you can often Do you want to eat the inner elixir from monsters with higher Taoism than you? Besides, do you know how monsters practice? Do you think they all rely on Taoism to practice? After eating monster inner elixir, you are not afraid of yourself. Become a half-human monster.”
Daoquan smiled embarrassingly, but Daozhen said on the side: “As long as you can keep up with your own cultivation and absorb it all, it doesn’t matter.”
“The origin of the monster’s inner alchemy is always unknown, and none of them have a solid foundation from their own practice.”
It is not the first time that Daozhi and Daozhen have been involved in this aspect of politics. They each have their own opinions. , but thinks that he is more convinced of the second brother’s theory on this matter.
When the three brothers were arguing here, Daoist Yiyun walked out from behind. He disrupted his daily routine when he was supposed to have an early morning class. The three brothers knew at a glance that it must be Something happened, so he quickly stopped his debate and stepped forward to salute.
Zhang Yiyun felt quite satisfied when he saw that the three apprentices were practicing diligently. He nodded and said, “You three have been practicing diligently recently, so I can feel more at ease when I go out.”
The three of them glanced at each other, and Daozhi stepped forward and asked, “Master, are you going to go out to conquer demons again?”
Zhang Yiyun’s Taoism is profound, and people often ask him for help from thousands of miles away. In recent years, his three apprentices have gradually grown up, and Zhang Yiyun has also assigned some easier things to them to do, but when the situation is serious, or Even if there was an old friend who couldn’t get away from it, he still had to go there in person. He was noncommittal about Daozhi’s question, nodded and said, “I may be there for a longer time this time. You guys are good to practice, you are not allowed to go out and cause trouble, don’t you know!”
The last time Daoist Yiyun went out, the daughter of a farmer near the village who often delivered vegetables to Guanzhong was snatched by a big family to be a concubine. Daoquan went to the family to make a scene and forced the girl out. Afterwards, because Daoist Yiyun also had contacts with many high-ranking officials in the court, the big family did not dare to fight against him, and the matter was settled, but The two brothers were severely punished after the incident. This time, Zhang Yiyun said this before going out. Naturally, it was specifically for the two of them. The three apprentices bowed together and said, “Yes.”
As soon as Daoist Yiyun went out, his life in the Taoist temple was very idle. The daily routine things, such as cleaning, practicing martial arts, greeting the master, etc., all began to follow the three brothers’ respective activities. The character is “reduced”, such as Daozhen. After Zhang Yiyun went out, he used the excuse to devote himself to cultivation, and put aside all the daily chores, including the laundry and cooking that the brothers and sisters had taken turns to do. Every day is not meditating or practicing martial arts. Daozhi also took his lazy personality to the extreme, claiming that it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t sweep the ground for a few days, that there is dirt on the ground and he doesn’t stumble, and it doesn’t matter that his clothes are dirty, it’s not that you can’t wear it without washing, in short, everything can be done. , Only people take food as their heaven, and they can’t be sloppy when it comes to eating, so they run out every day to eat and drink, and they always come back drunk. Daoquan’s ranking was the lowest, and the two senior brothers who didn’t do anything naturally pushed them all on him, but no one was checking and urging him anyway, so the place would have been swept like a ghost, and the clothes would have been rubbed a few times at will. Zuo washes, as for the meal, six of the ten meals are eaten with the senior brother. Instead, there are excuses and too many not to practice, and I am happy to be at ease. The days without the master at home are all the three senior brothers Bei. Like a leisurely vacation, comfortable and comfortable.
Daoquan didn’t know how to drink alcohol. He went out with his senior brother every day, but he couldn’t avoid being poured a few drinks by Daozhi. On this day, he followed Daozhi to the restaurant in the town for a big meal, and was poured ten cups by Daozhi. He finally couldn’t stand it anymore and fell down in a slump. Daozhi muttered, venting his dissatisfaction with this little junior brother who couldn’t drink enough, but the other party was already asleep and couldn’t hear at all. Daozhi couldn’t help but regret, knowing that he had to carry him back to Guanming, it would be better to give him a few drinks less.
Daozhi asked the store for a few pots of cold water to pour down, but Daoquan still didn’t seem to be awake, so Daozhi had to take it upon himself, carried him back to the view, and threw him on the bed.
When Daoquan woke up, it was nearly a thousand nights. He pressed his head that seemed to be splitting, and sat up from the bed with a moan. It took him a long time to figure out that he was sleeping on his own. In the bedroom, he rolled off the bed with his hands on his head and climbed to the table to take a sip of water, but he didn’t want the kettle on the table to be empty — he cut corners in his work these days, and couldn’t do all the work of cleaning the floor. Very thorough, but even his own house is not ready to go into the water.
“Ah…” Daoquan sighed, and staggered to open the door, trying to find a drink in the water tank in front of the kitchen.
The yard is dark, the sky seems to be a little hazy, and I can’t even see a single star. Daoquan’s eyesight has grown after several years of practice, and he is extremely familiar with this small Taoist temple, so I am confused about this orientation. Touching the direction of the kitchen, I wished I could immediately hold the large vat in my arms and drink the cold water in it to moisten my tongue and throat that seemed to be on fire.
Daoquan staggered towards the kitchen, but there seemed to be a figure swaying in front of the kitchen door: “Oh, it must be the senior brother who is also drunk, looking for water to drink here.” Thinking of the person who got himself drunk Now he is also suffering the same pain as himself, and Daoquan felt a lot better in his heart, but he did not dare to follow closely, for fear of being scolded because he did not draw water on time and boiled water for his brother. , so he hid behind a tree and wanted to wait for the other party to come out before entering. Unexpectedly, when he was leaning against the tree waiting, he saw the shadow flashing in front of him in his drunken eyes.
“Teacher, senior brother…” Daoquan sighed as soon as he said one sentence, because where is his senior brother, but a beautiful young woman, “You, you…” Daoquan slammed it hard The heavy head pointed at the other party and didn’t know what to say.
The young woman was dressed in a palace attire, with a beautiful face, like a beam of moonlight suddenly rising in the darkness. She lightly moved her lotus steps towards Daoquan and asked delicately, “Little Daoist, what’s the matter with you?”
Daoquan shook his head quickly, thinking about what was wrong, and then quickly said: “Who are you? What are you doing in our temple? Why are you asking me instead?”
The woman came to the front of the road, twisted her arm lightly with her hand and said, “I have driven a lot of roads, can’t I just rest here with you? You are such a thoughtless nerd!”
Daoquan was overwhelmed by her coquettish anger, took a few steps back before and after the scent of her body, and then stammered: “You, if you want to find a place to rest, but, You can stay in my room for one night, don’t disturb my brothers, they won’t allow strangers to come to the temple.”
The woman showed a look of joy, and nodded quickly and said, “Okay, then I will trouble the little Daoist.” Then she stepped forward and hugged Daoquan’s arm affectionately. Daoquan had never been this close to a woman before, his mind was so turbulent that he couldn’t restrain himself, and he almost fled to a place farther away from her: “Don’t move your hands and feet… I, I don’t mean that… … just kindly took you in for one night, nothing else…” He said that, but the saliva he couldn’t stop swallowing revealed his true intentions.
The woman threw a wink at him: “I’m going to bring people into your room and say these sane words?”
“I, I kindly took you in for one night, don’t think about it.” Daoquan emphasized again.
“Okay, you are a kind little Taoist priest, this is the head office.” The woman covered her mouth and laughed “chichi”, seeing Daoquan feeling dizzy again.
Daoquan swayed and took a drunken step to lead the way, while repeatedly telling the woman to be quiet and not to be moved by his two senior brothers, while talking to the woman without a word: “I live in In the wing over there… My senior brother lives here, and my second senior brother lives there… Their ears are very smart. If they know that I take you in, not only will you be kicked out, but I will also I won’t be able to eat and walk around…” He rambled on his own, but he didn’t see that when he turned to lead the way for the woman, the woman’s originally gentle eyes suddenly became cold as ice, revealing endless Murder.
She clenched her fingers several times, and several times she couldn’t help but shoot, but after listening to Daoquan’s instructions, she thought that her current situation was not conducive to fighting with three Taoist priests at the same time, so she decided to walk first The room in front of him is said to be his senior brother’s wing. After reaching the west wing where this little Taoist lives alone, he will start.
Daoquan was chattering, walking unsteadily, with the pungent smell of alcohol on his body and retching from time to time, obviously a man who had lost his mind in front of beauty drunk. The woman looked at his back with disdain, and didn’t take this lustful Taoist in the slightest, and started from him to seek justice for her grievances for so many years. The woman drew in her mind the torture she was about to inflict on Dao’s body, and narrowed her eyes slightly.
Daoquan walked to the door of the wing room, turned around and said, “That’s right, it’s here. Let’s go in, enter the room, sleep, let’s…” He reached out to push the door, and suddenly shouted, “Second Senior Brother, there are monsters. !” He slammed open the door and rolled directly into the house.
The female monster was stunned for a moment. A Taoist priest had jumped over the head of Daoquan who had rolled into the room, and stabbed her with a long sword. The female monster jumped back and stepped back. Together.
At this moment, Dao Quancai wiped his sweat and got up from the ground. He was in a cold sweat, and his clothes were stuck to his body. After such a fright, he woke up most of the time. As soon as he saw this woman just now, he immediately realized that she was a monster, and after the other party used seduction to him, he became even more determined that the other party was not good, but he felt that his mana was not as good as the other party’s, not to mention that he was drunk, it was definitely not the other party’s The opponent, so he simply pretended to be confused and led the opponent to the residence of the senior brother. He thought that the senior brother might be intoxicated, and it might not be safe to lead this monster, so he described the second senior brother’s private room as his residence, and led the monster here.
“Thanks to my cleverness, I took a small life…” Daoquan muttered with sweat. He walked outside the door to fight, and when he saw that the second senior brother had firmly gained the upper hand, he let out a long sigh of relief. Knowing that with a little bit of cleverness and cleverness, his little life was saved.
While fighting with the banshee, Daozhen angrily scolded each other: “What kind of evildoer are you, dare to come to our view to seek trouble!”
At this time, the female monster is no longer the charming and charming look just now, her eyes are red, her hands have turned into sharp claws, and the fangs in her mouth are white and cold. The tail showed her true face, and Daoquan said to himself when he saw his current appearance: “It turns out to be a vixen.”
The female fox heard Daozhen’s question, and smiled coldly: “Who cares about your broken Taoism, or Zhang Yiyun’s stinky nose trapped me here and tortured me for so many years! Since I can get out today, I will Compensate for the lives of your fellow Taoists!”
What! Daoquan was shocked when he heard her words, she was a monster from Master Guan!
In Zhang Yiyun’s room and pill room, there are many gourds hanging on the walls, all of which are monsters trapped by Zhang Yiyun! Daoquan heard from the senior brother that when the master deals with monsters, he will decide according to the depth of the evil deeds of the other party. If he does too much evil, he will directly kill them, and if the evil deeds are too shallow, he will take them prisoner and wait until a certain amount of time has passed. During this period, if the imprisoned monster really felt remorse, Zhang Yiyun thought that the punishment for him was enough, and he would let him go and let them return to the mountains and forests to continue their cultivation career. But the fox girl in front of her didn’t seem to have the slightest remorse, and her face was fierce. She seemed to have a strong hatred for her master and her brothers and sisters. The most important master was not in the watch at all. How did she come out? Daozhen and Daoquan thought at the same time that someone broke into the master’s residence and released this fox girl.
“Go to Senior Brother! Come and see in Master’s room!” Daozhen shouted to Daoquan, and even more aggressive attacks rushed to Fox Girl.
For so many years, Zhang Yiyun has subdued demons and eliminated demons, and there are dozens of all kinds of monsters trapped. If they are all released… If they are all released, if so many monsters swarm up, then we really want to He was shaking all over thinking about it. He knew Daoquan’s cultivation, and it would be useless if he went by himself. Daozhen also understood this, so he asked him to call his senior brother Daozhi. While thinking about where Daozhi lived, Daoquan was running wildly, and he was also muttering in his heart, the fight here was earth-shattering, and the senior brother didn’t move at all.
Daoquan is young and weak, and he has experienced few things. It is inevitable that he will be panicked when things are approaching. He almost rushes to Daozhi’s room, shaking the door and shouting: “Elder brother, senior brother, hurry up. Get up, something big has happened! Senior brother…” He shouted for a long time, but there was no movement at the door. He was anxious, so he simply adopted the method he used in front of Daozhen’s door just now. Doji’s door slammed open. He rushed into the room, but found that the room was empty, and there was no sign of Daozhi, the elder brother. Where did the elder brother go so late?
Daoquan didn’t have time to think about it, and rushed back to the courtyard. He heard that the fight between Daozhen and the fox girl was still coming. He looked around at a loss, not knowing what to do. After thinking about it, he ran to the backyard.
The small courtyard where Zhang Yiyun lives alone has only three houses. The courtyard is paved with stone and bricks, and various flowers and plants are planted in the interval. It is indescribably simple and concise. But Daoquan, who is Zhang Yiyun’s apprentice, knows that the master has deployed a lot of restrictions and formations here to prevent outsiders from entering at will. In the bedroom and the elixir room, Daoquan wondered if Daozhi, the elder brother who was most esteemed by the master, knew more about the way to enter the master’s room than he did. In short, he himself knew nothing about it, where Daoquan was in the courtyard. Circle, but did not dare to enter the house casually.
Several rooms were quiet, not as if someone or a monster was inside. Daoquan leaned over the crack of the window and looked into the room. Although there were stars and moons in the sky, there was only darkness in the room. Not even the outlines of the furniture in the house could be seen. Daoquan knew that this was the role of Master’s magic, and he relaxed a little. Everything seemed to be the same. Maybe it was just the fox girl who happened to escape. There was a slight noise in the middle.
“Who!” Daoquan didn’t have a sword, so he pulled out his dagger, slapped the master’s door hard, and then heard the sound of faint footsteps moving towards the door. He held the dagger. , ready to concentrate. In his heart, he thought that the person who pushed the door and came out must be a monster or an intruder with a sword drawn. Who knew that after the door was opened, it was Daozhi who appeared there. Drink: “Little Junior Brother? What are you doing?”
Daoquan was also stunned, and after a while, he said, “Senior brother, you scared me to death, what are you doing in the master’s room? Yes, a monster escaped, and the second senior brother was fighting with her. He asked me to fight. Come and see if there is anything abnormal in the master’s room, I came here by myself when you were not in the room, do you think something is wrong? The other monsters didn’t escape, right?”
Daozhi frowned even more after hearing this, “What? Did one run away? Let’s go and see!” After speaking, he walked out.
“In the master’s room…” Daoquan asked worriedly.
“It’s fine inside, you still don’t come with me!” Daoquan’s tone was very tough and impatient, so Daoquan didn’t dare to ask more questions. Although he looked back several times uneasy, he still followed.
When Daozhi and Daoquan arrived, Daozhen had already ended the battle. The fox’s original body was lying on the ground in a blur of flesh and blood. Daozhen was holding a crystal clear inner elixir in his hand and was standing beside him watching Looking at it thoughtfully – it seems that at this time he still forgot his inner alchemy hobby of not taking the monster.
“Second Senior Brother, are you alright?” Daoquan hurried over. Daozhen saved his life this time, made him feel much better about Daozhen, and couldn’t help but get closer.
Daozhen shook his head and asked, “What happened in Master’s room? How did this monster escape?”
Daozhi said, “I don’t know how she got out. I saw it in Master’s room, and everything was as usual inside.”
Daozhen was puzzled: “Did someone come to rescue her on purpose? Then why didn’t you come to rescue me when I saw that I was going to kill her?”
The fox demon was covered in scars, and Daoquan thought in his heart that Daozhen must have tortured her for a long time before taking her life. It turned out that the person who rescued her appeared. Daoquan has learned the hard-heartedness of this second senior brother, even if it is a monster, there is no need to be so vicious, right? However, Daoquan only dared to think about it in his heart, and he didn’t have the guts to say it.
Daozhi and Daoquan are frowning and thinking. After the master left, they would inevitably think a lot about it. Zhang Yiyun’s room can be entered by ordinary people. If someone went in deliberately to save this banshee, why would they see it again? Regardless of her being killed, if he could crack Zhang Yiyun’s spell, wouldn’t he dare to show up because he was afraid of the three little Taoist priests? Or did they think too much, and it was just that Zhang Yiyun’s restraint on this banshee failed and she escaped. How did she get out of Zhang Yiyun’s residence? Could it be that this fox girl who can’t even beat Daozhen has the ability to pass through the formation of Daoist Zhang Yiyun?
They were puzzled, and all kinds of speculations came into their minds. At this time, Daoquan remembered something and said: “When I saw her, she came out of our kitchen.”
The three brothers immediately rushed to the kitchen.
Everything in the kitchen was the same as before, only the lid of the water tank was lifted – Daoquan originally thought that the figure beside the water tank was the big brother Daoquan. In the corner of the stove, there was a gourd rolling among the firewood, and the purple mahogany lid was thrown aside. Daoquan grabbed one step and picked it up and handed it to the senior brother. Daozhi read it over and over several times, and then handed it to Daozhen.
This is indeed the gourd used by their master, Daoist Yiyun, to trap the monster. In addition to the incantation, there is also a small fox image on it, which means that it is a fox spirit. This kind of gourd was planted by himself in the Taoist temple. The three senior brothers took turns taking care of the vegetable field. Watching them grow and mature, they were very familiar with their nature. The carvings above are from the craftsmanship of Daoist Yiyun, and the three brothers are used to it every day, and they will never admit their mistakes.
How did this gourd get here? If the fox girl got out of trouble on her own when the spell failed, why did she bring the gourd here? If someone had let her go… three people, look at me, I look at you, no one said what was in their hearts, but they saw the same doubts as themselves in the eyes of the other party.
Daozhi walked to the water tank, chanted words in his mouth, drew a few spells and pointed at the water. The originally clear water tank seemed to have been put into a little ink, and it spread and spread like a cloud of mist in the water. Eventually the whole tank of water turned pitch black.
“Poisonous.” Daozhi squeezed these two words out of his teeth.
The fox girl was seen by Daoquan by the water tank because she was poisoning the water at the time. Although I dare not say that the three of them would definitely drink the poison, at least Daoquan was drunk and didn’t notice it. Go down, maybe you will scoop up a ladle and drink it.
“What a vicious fox demon!” Daozhen said bitterly, “If she runs away immediately, where do we go to catch her, she intends to harm others, but in the end she harms herself!”
Daoquan nodded when he heard it, and it really was the case.
“But who stole this gourd from the master’s room? And brought it here to release the fox demon? Is it an accomplice of the monster or someone else? How did she enter the master’s room without touching the magic? ?” Daozhi seemed to be talking to himself, but also as if he was interrogating the two juniors. The same question was actually swirling in Daozhen and Daoquan’s minds, but they looked at the tank of poisonous water, and no one said anything.
Since the incident of the escape of the monster, the life in Guanzhong suddenly became tense. Daozhi and Daoquan no longer always have something to run out of, and Daozhen no longer practices martial arts in addition to cultivation. They are like Daoist Yiyun. While watching, he lived a regular life, and from time to time he would go to the courtyard where Zhang Yiyun lived. He had to make sure that everything was normal before he could rest assured.
Now Daoquan is standing in Master’s yard, staring at the vines on the wall.
These vines will bloom and bear fruit soon, growing into small green and lovely gourds. The gourds grow up and can be used to imprison monsters after master’s treatment. The number of gourds produced every year is very large, and Daoquan does not know how many of them will be used by Master. Thinking of the ever-changing monsters being imprisoned in such a small gourd, what does it feel like? They must always be looking forward to freedom, right? Daoquan wandered in the yard in a frenzy.
Daoquan didn’t get all the trust of Zhang Yiyun because of the short time to get started, so he didn’t get taught how to enter the master’s residence and pill room at all. He didn’t know what it was like inside. The brother described that the wall inside was covered with gourds filled with various monsters, and Daoquan would have a very strange feeling in his heart, what kind of room was that, and what a mysterious existence the master who lived in it every day. Whenever Daoquan stood in this small courtyard, facing the few rooms that he was not qualified to enter, he would feel extremely unfamiliar with the master who should have been very familiar with him. What’s more, in such an extraordinary period, it is full of all kinds of fantasies about those houses.
At this moment, Master’s door opened, and Daozhen came out, nodded to him and said, “Everything is as usual!”
Daoquan was walking behind Daozhen, and suddenly heard Daozhen say to himself: “Except for me and the senior brother, no one should be able to enter the master’s room without touching any formation… If you come Humans have such great supernatural powers and ignore the various formation restrictions set by the master, why should he hide his head and show his tail and come out directly, the three of us are not enough for him to rub to death with one hand, could it be…” His voice became lower and lower. , Daoquan only heard the last three words he said was “Elder Brother…”
Daoquan jumped up like he was stuck with a needle: “Second Senior Brother, what are you talking about!”
Daozhen seemed to have just woken up and said what he said, and he seemed to be startled, and waved his hands hastily: “No, no, I didn’t say anything, I just said… maybe…” Always calm He was very embarrassed under Daoquan’s staring eyes, he muttered and didn’t know what to say, lowered his head and hurried away.
“Damn! He actually said the big brother… Said the big brother…” Daozhen’s doubts about Daozhi made Daoquan angry. He has always respected the big brother’s Daozhi more than the master, how can he bear to keep watching Daozhen, the “imaginary enemy” of the unpleasant senior brother, said so.
Daoquan angrily smashed a few punches on the tree, and immediately thought of Daozhi in front of him, and explained Daozhen’s nonsense to the senior brother one by one, but when he strode to the door of Daozhi But he hesitated again. He knew that although he had a strong relationship with the senior brother, and the second senior brother Daozhen seemed to be cold on the surface, in fact, the friendship between the senior senior brother and the second senior brother was far behind him. Yes, if he rushed in and said this so rashly, would Senior Brother think that he was sowing discord and telling lies, and… He looked at the door that Dao Zhi had just repaired, and remembered that night, he ran here to find it. Daozhi was not in the room when the elder brother rescued him, but when he was outside the master’s door, he walked out of the master’s room.
Could it be that Big Brother realized something happened before he encountered the demon girl, so he hurried to Master’s room to check? Then why didn’t he warn himself and the second senior brother, and after so many days, he didn’t say anything… Daoquan thought so, and stopped in front of Daozhi’s door. After his nose touched the door, It was only when I suddenly realized what I was thinking, I couldn’t help but scold myself for being a bastard, where did this idea go!
“Why are you sneaking around at my door, come in.” The door opened, and Dao Zhi pouted at him, “Is something wrong?”
“No, it’s fine.” Daoquan was full of guilt and stammered, “I just went to Master’s room with the second senior brother, and wanted to tell you that everything is as usual, but I heard nothing in your room. , did not come in.”
“I can do anything in the room myself, and I can’t do somersaults!” He was in a bad mood, and he was angry with Daoquan. Daoquan knew his temper, but he followed behind him with a wry smile and entered the door. Daozhi sat down and sighed, and suddenly asked: “The third child, the more I think about this, the more wrong I am… How I think about it, it doesn’t seem like an outsider broke in to do it, you say, am I being too careless… …but… alas…”
“Senior brother…” Daoquan looked at the frowning Daozhi, and suddenly understood in his heart that it was not only the second senior brother who was suspicious of the first senior brother, but the second senior brother was also full of doubts about the second senior brother. No wonder these few days , no matter who they go to check in the master’s room, they will ask them to go with them. First, they don’t know how to enter the master’s room. Second, they were drunk that night. Third, the fox girl attacked for the first time. The goal is himself, and adding the three items together proves his innocence. Among the three brothers and sisters, he is the only one who is absolutely suspicious.
It was only then that Daoquan realized that in the past few days, Daozhi and Daozhen had already taken various precautions against each other, and their performance in front of him was not necessarily to show himself that they were the same as himself. is innocent.
“But there is always a reason for doing things alone, right?” Daozhi continued to say to himself, “The second child will never hit the monster imprisoned by the master for the sake of inner alchemy?”
When these words entered his ears, Daoquan’s mind immediately flashed the picture of Daozhen holding the fox demon neidan in his hand, and the fox demon’s scarred corpse at his feet, and he couldn’t help shivering. At this time, another scene came to mind: when he rushed into Daozhen’s room in order to ask for help, Daozhen who flew out to rescue him was neatly dressed, holding a long sword, and even the scabbard was well hung around his waist. Does my brother have the habit of going to sleep with his arms fully dressed, or…he knew that there would be fights at night, so he was fully equipped and waiting?
Daoquan opened his mouth when he thought about it, but didn’t say anything. Now that the matter has come, the two brothers have had a heart attack. If he talks about this and that, doesn’t he add fuel to the fire? In fact, he goes deep inside. There is also a reason that he is unwilling to admit – in this matter, he also has doubts about the behavior of the big brother Daozhi, so he is unwilling to speak more. But the big brother is right, there is always a reason for people to do things, right? Why would the senior or second senior do such a thing? Master is so kind to both of them, and they are well aware of Master’s temperament and rules. Is it possible that they will really touch Master’s evil scales for the sake of a monster’s inner alchemy? It’s impossible at all, it must be because this incident was too sudden, and the senior and second senior brothers were nervous all day, and they infected themselves with paranoia! There must be someone outside who broke in and released the monster, but how did this person get in…
This period of time has been very chaotic. Daoquan is always observing around nervously in addition to his practice and daily work every day. He seems to think that there may be mysterious masters who intrude in every corner. At that time, out of confidence in the master, he didn’t believe that anyone could enter Daoist Yiyun’s room without touching the formation, so he inevitably turned his suspicions to the two senior brothers. What was the senior brother doing that night? Why did he appear in the master’s room? Even before that… did he mean to get himself drunk? Why did the second brother dress neatly when he went out to save himself? Could it be that he did not know the prophet and knew that there would be a struggle or not?
Thinking about it like this, Daoquan didn’t know if he was going crazy.
The thing that Daoquan is most looking forward to now is that Daoist Master Yiyun will come back as soon as possible. He has an inexplicable confidence in Master, and feels that as long as he returns, everything will be solved. With this thought in mind, before I knew it, I would ask the two brothers again and again when the master would come back. On this day, he followed Daozhi again, talking about where the master went and why he didn’t come back. Daozhi couldn’t help but looked at him with a half-smile and asked, “Third, do you think that when the master comes back, everything will be resolved. right?”
Daoquan nodded his head as a matter of course, but was slapped by Daozhi: “You idiot! I’ve been with Master for a few years, and I still don’t understand Master’s character at all! Before Master comes back, if you can’t Figure out the matter, and when the master arrives home, the unfortunate days for me and my second child will come – but you will be fine, after all, you are innocent, and you will be punished for ten days and a half months at most. .”
“What!” This is completely different from what Daoquan thought. He originally thought that if Master was here, life would be restored to its original calm, but it didn’t get more. Maybe he didn’t understand Master’s temper well, anyway. It was only at this time that he realized that when the master returned, it would never be as small as he hoped, but he would continue to investigate the matter in the end. As a result, how will things end? Thinking of this, Daoquan’s heart palpitated for a while, and when he saw that the senior brother was speechless, then the peaceful life that he had hoped for could not be realized no matter what.
Daoquan asked in a little panic: “Eldest brother, that, that…”
Daozhi sighed and asked, “What do you say?”
Daoquan shook his head: “Senior brother, what’s the use of you asking me, but you and the second senior brother hurry up and come up with a way!”
Daozhi looked at him and asked, “The third child, do you doubt me or the second child more in this matter?”
Daoquan was taken aback by his question, and then he said impatiently: “Senior brother, didn’t you just release a fox demon? What’s the big deal, even if it’s one of you and the second senior brother? Not to mention it’s not necessarily you. Let’s hurry up and find a way to deal with Master.”
Daozhi didn’t expect him to say such a thing, so he slapped him on the head with a wry smile: “So it turns out that you were thinking about it there these past few days, but you were actually thinking about this kind of thing. .”
In fact, Daoquan has been thinking wildly these days, and he can’t tell what he is thinking, but after listening to Daozhi’s words, he suddenly understood his true intention: he did not want his peaceful life to be disrupted, and he thought about it the most. , It’s not that the senior brother or the second senior brother is more suspicious, but how to fool the master and let life return to the original track. So Daozhi said that to him, and he didn’t deny it with a bitter face.
“You are getting more and more courageous, and you are actually thinking about how to fool Master. When Master comes back, I will sue you and see if you will be punished!”
“Senior brother, didn’t I just say this in front of you? I know you wouldn’t tell Master.” Daoquan sat down and held his chin, frowned and said, “Senior brother, seriously, I At first I really thought it was you who did it. You drank so much that day, and that fox girl looks so beautiful, maybe… Ai, ai, you just think about it, don’t stare and make your fists, I really Just thinking about it…” He dodged left and right to avoid Daozhi’s fist, “but then I thought, the second brother has more goals than you, he knew in advance that something would happen and he would wait in the room dressed neatly. , and in such an emergency situation, he can still take care of the inner alchemy of the monster… The most important thing is that he didn’t ask what happened in the master’s room when he saw us, as if he already knew everything. It’s the same…” He carefully glanced at Daozhi’s face as he spoke, and saw a hint of approval in his eyes, he continued, “But I thought about it, if it was the second senior brother who did it, his character would definitely change immediately. How could it be delayed until she poisoned our water tank and then attacked me? I thought about it, but I couldn’t figure it out, so I thought it might be better to let it pass and treat it like that. It didn’t go well either.”
“You really…” Daozhi laughed, “But I really can’t do it for me to lie to Master. I still try my best to understand things. If I really don’t understand, Master will report truthfully to the old man when he comes back. Please, Master, handle it.”
“Alas…” Daoquan actually felt that his idea was a good one, but it was still up to the big brother to decide.
“Second, come in.” Daozhi suddenly said loudly to the door.
When Daoquan turned around, he saw Daozhen came in from the door. Daozhen sat down calmly and said, “I don’t want to eavesdrop on the door, but I don’t want to come in at that time.” He glanced at Daoquan, and Daoquan immediately understood that he must be talking about himself. The second senior brother arrived outside the door at some point, because he was still describing his doubts about him, so he didn’t come in. Daoquan’s face suddenly turned red to the root of his stomach, and he shrank behind Daozhi and did not dare to look at Daozhen.
Daozhen said to Daozhi and Daoquan very seriously: “The reason why I dressed neatly that night was because I didn’t sleep at all. When Daoquan came to call the door, I had just entered the door and came back from outside, as for why I went out. , that’s a little bit of my personal business, and it has nothing to do with this matter.” After he said this, he looked at Daozhi, although he didn’t ask, but his meaning was very clear.
Daozhi immediately met his gaze and said: “I was going to the master’s room to find something – this is what the master allowed me to use, so you don’t have to worry, I will explain to the master myself at that time, I just At that time, I accidentally discovered that there was only one gourd missing on the wall.”
Everyone has things they don’t want to be known by others, and the senior and second seniors are no exception. It’s just their reasons… Daoquan shook his head, as to why the two seniors were willing to explain things to each other and to him. Satisfied, he muttered: “So I still thought, let’s figure out some way to deal with the master’s test.”
“You’re very courageous, you dare to fool Master!” The two brothers scolded him in unison, and Daozhi slapped him on the head.
Without waiting for Daoist Yiyun to return, things had already changed. One night, Daozhi and Daoquan came to visit Master’s small courtyard as they were used to in the past few days. Daoquan was still standing in the courtyard, watching Daozhi from the bedroom to the Dan room to inspect one by one. He looked up at the stars in the sky, took a few deep breaths, the master was coming back soon, and there was no clue about the matter. Thinking of this, he was at a loss, wondering if the two senior brothers had come up with any good solutions.
“Ah…” There was an exclamation from Daozhi from the room. Daoquan rushed into the room before he could think about it, but was shot out by the formation arranged by the master. After he lay down in the yard in a daze, Haven’t figured out what happened yet. At this time, a white light rushed out of the house and shot straight into the sky. After a brief pause above, it quickly disappeared into the night sky in the distance. Daozhi Tingjian rushed out of the room and stomped his feet as he watched the disappearing white light. Daoquan got up from the ground and saw that Daozhi’s arm was dripping with blood, and before he could scream, a wind sounded with a figure and fell in front of him again.
“What’s the matter, I saw a demon rushing out…Senior brother, you are injured!” Daozhen stepped forward in surprise to deal with the wound for Daozhi.
“The fox demon was released as soon as I entered the door.” After Daozhi’s wound was sprinkled with wound medicine, the pain from the medicine forced his teeth to crack, and he sucked in the cold air and said, “She shot Sneak attack, I was unprepared and said…”
Daoquan looked at Master’s room, it was pitch dark inside, and he couldn’t see anything from the outside. He couldn’t help but said to himself, “Why is it a fox demon again? Did Master catch a lot of foxes?”
His words made Daozhi and Daozhen’s eyes jump. Why is it a fox demon again? Daoquan didn’t know, but the two of them knew clearly that Daoist Yiyun trapped a lot of monsters. If it was a coincidence that two fox monsters were released twice, it would be too coincidental. And who could break into Daoist Yiyun’s room twice in a row? Especially tonight, under the circumstance that the three of them were on guard, another monster was released.
“Senior brother, was the fox demon released when you entered? Why didn’t she escape earlier, but waited until you entered?” Daozhen’s tone was arrogant.
“I don’t know.” Daozhi’s answer was not emotional either.
Daoquan looked at this, looked at that, full of worry.
From that night, Daoquan was most worried about Master’s return, but this day will come after all. A few days after the second fox spirit was released, Zhang Yiyun returned to the temple. Daoquan’s heart kept beating, but he couldn’t do anything. He just knelt side by side with the two brothers, and Daozhi told Daoist Yiyun the whole thing.
Daoist Yiyun’s face was covered with a layer of frost, and his face was ugly from the time he entered the door. Daoquan originally wanted to persuade the two brothers not to add fuel to his anger, but Daozhi said: “Master didn’t see everything as soon as he entered the room, do you think you can hide it?” He pushed him back.
Yiyun Daoist’s eyes turned from Daozhi to Daozhen, and then from Daozhen to Daozhi. Even Dao, who was kneeling on the ground without raising his head, could feel it. He was analyzing, whether this kind of thing could be done by these two apprentices of? Which is their word? Daozhi or Daozhen? Maybe Daozhi released the fox demon after entering the house, and then got injured, pretending that the fox demon had been released after entering the door, and he was attacked, maybe Daozhen followed behind, while Daozhi was checking in the pill room, slipped into the bedroom, Before Doji entered the door, he released the monster, and then slipped out while the chaos was chaotic, pretending to have heard the sound. If it is said that there are as many doubts as the two of them, but honestly, Daozhi is more suspicious. But because of his emotions, he would rather everything was done by the second senior brother Daozhen.
While he was thinking about it, Daoist Yiyun suddenly said, “Young third, come in with me.”
“Ah?” Daoquan raised his head blankly, seeing that Daoist Yiyun had turned and walked into the room, Daozhi winked at him, Daoquan regained his senses and quickly followed.
Entering Master’s bedroom for the first time, although I tried my best to look respectful in front of Master, I couldn’t help but stare around. Daoist Yiyun’s bedroom is as simple as his pill room. Except for a cloud bed, a few puddles, a table, a Yaoqin, and a fragrant incense, there are only those hanging on the four walls. Big and small gourds. Seeing these gourds and thinking that there was a monster trapped in each one, he couldn’t help shivering. Can he really sleep in such a room? Master really has a profound way of doing things, and it is absolutely impossible for him to fall asleep if he changes himself.
“The third child,” seeing Daoquan kneeling in front of him respectfully, Daoist Yiyun looked at him for a long time before asking, “What do you think about this matter?”
“I, I…” Daoquan rarely speaks face-to-face with his master. His Daoist techniques are all passed down by Daozhi, and he usually follows the routine greetings of the two senior brothers, so he is very nervous at this time. After stammering for a while, he said, “I think it must have been done by outsiders. Master, senior and second senior don’t know it! Please look into it!”
Daoist Yiyun stared at him for a moment and nodded: “Young San, you are the latest to start, and you have never been very close to me, but you have a strong relationship with your two brothers, and you are a soft-hearted child. I know you’ll try to excuse them, but have you ever thought, if one of them did it, where did he put you and his other brother? Did he think about you? Your situation is the same as my master? To be clear, is he really like you, treating you as brothers?”
“Master…” Daoquan whispered in pain.
Daoist Yiyun looked at him gently and said, “Old third, I also encountered a trouble when I went out this time. There is a monster with high morality because I have killed and injured too many monsters in recent years. I raised a challenge, if I don’t answer him, wouldn’t it destroy the prestige of our Taoist sect and grow the ambition of those evildoers, so I have already accepted this challenge. Ten days later, he will come here to compete with me. Now, you said that at such a moment, if there is another traitor among them, what should I do?”
Daoquan opened his mouth wide, unable to utter a word.
Zhang Yiyun’s mana is very deep. Daoquan has seen several people who came to “seek advice” in the past few years and were beaten and fled by him. This time, even he himself was so solemn. It can be seen that the strength of this monster is indeed extraordinary. , If at this critical moment, there are other things that distract Master, Daoquan dare not think about the consequences. “Then, Master, I’ll go… I’ll go…” He wanted to promise Master and do something, but he realized that he didn’t know what to say and what to do, and with his own ability, What can I do to help Master?
Daoist Yiyun looked at him with a frustrated look, and said with a smile, “I really have something for you to do.”
“Master, as long as you tell me, I will do my best!” Daoquan patted his chest and assured.
“It’s not that difficult, just show me the two of them. I won’t tell them what I’m going to fight with others, and I won’t pursue it any more. In this way, there are really some of them. If a person does those things, they will think that I have secret investigations, become more and more panic, and will inevitably reveal some flaws, you stare at them, and if anyone sees something wrong, come and tell me immediately.”
Daoquan didn’t expect Master to let him do this, nor did he expect Master to trust him so much, he looked at Daoist Yiyun with mixed feelings for a while, but couldn’t say anything, and after a while he said, “Master , Daoquan must do what you ordered, but I believe that this must not be done by the senior and second senior brothers.”
Daoist Yiyun nodded, closing his eyes and saying no more.
When Daoquan saw that Master was no longer talking to him, he respectfully bowed to him, and then withdrew, Yiyun raised his voice and said, “You three go back and rest, I think Be quiet.”
Daozhi and Daozhen looked at each other, rubbed their numb knees and stood up. Daoquan saw that they didn’t ask him, opened their mouths, but said nothing.
The next day Daoquan lived in tension and hesitation. The two brothers obviously knew what Master wanted Daoquan to do, but they didn’t say anything, but when they spoke to Daoquan, the words inside and outside increased. Some of the content that was clear for himself made Daoquan feel uncomfortable. Although he did this under the orders of his teacher, the object of surveillance was his senior brother whom he had always regarded as his elder brother. When Daoquan faced their gazes. , it is inevitable to often give birth to the feeling of guilty conscience. Several times he wanted to take the initiative to tell his brothers that he was under the command of the teacher to monitor them, but he couldn’t say what he said. What was the meaning of these words, showing that he was more trusted by the master than them? Or a hypocritical expression of his goodwill while monitoring them? Daoquan was afraid that the brothers would think crooked, so he couldn’t speak.
“Master, let’s eat.” Daoquan said after setting the meal, Master always eats alone, and Daozhen likes to be alone these days, so there are only the two brothers at the dinner table.
Daozhi grabbed the steamed bun and took a bite, then asked vaguely, “Did Master say when will the challenger come?”
Daoquan was startled when he heard this, and dropped his chopsticks on the table.
“Master doesn’t allow you to tell us right?” Daozhi still eats and drinks, and doesn’t care about Daoquan’s gaffe, “This is his character, his old man is careful in everything, even his own apprentice… alas , blame me for not being able to figure things out and convince him of my innocence.”
Daoquan picked up the chopsticks, wiped the oil stains on the front of his clothes, and asked, “Then, how did you know that, Senior Brother?”
“I have been with Master for more than 20 years. His old friend I know is close to ten. Master accepts the challenge from his friend, and this time the friend that Master visited My apprentice is also a good friend of mine. He flew a pigeon to me and asked me if I could use him to help us, so I didn’t know.” He Chong Daoquan said with a smile, “I think Master will challenge this challenge. He must have scruples about this matter, otherwise he will not let go of this matter without asking, just don’t know when the other party will come? Master must need us disciples to do for him, but we have made him not trust us at this time. , I can’t share my worries for Master, **** it!” He took a big bite of the steamed bun in his hand with great emotion.
Daoquan’s mind suddenly flashed, and he blurted out, “Elder Brother, could it be the one who challenged Master? He used this method to distract Master from fighting. “
Daozhi shook his head after pondering: “It is unlikely that an opponent who can make Master pay so much attention to it must not be inferior in Taoism. Such a master would definitely disdain to use such lewd methods.”
Daoquan pouted and thought: What is the relationship between Daoxing and character, whoever stipulates that Daoxing is high will not use despicable means, but he did not distinguish with Daozhi, and changed the subject and said: “Then… we can What can I do for Master?”
“Master didn’t tell me, why do we need to be busy.” Daozhi said to himself, “In the past, Master would always… alas…”
Daoquan knows that when someone came to provoke him in the past, Master would definitely ask the senior brother to help him do something every time, but this time… No wonder the senior brother was in such a dull mood. The wine was placed in front of Daozhi, hoping to make him feel better.
“Good boy, dare to go out to get wine behind Master’s back, bring it, and confiscate it!” Daozhi grabbed it, and he didn’t forget to dab a finger on Daoquan’s forehead, and his mood really improved.
When Daoquan came to Daozhen’s room to clean up the tableware, he found that he didn’t move the food at all: “Second Senior Brother, is the food today not to your taste? Then I…”
Daozhen has been sitting under the window and staring out the window, always ignoring his nagging, until Daoquan went out and asked: “You and the senior brother both know, just hide it from me, right?”
“Humph.” Daozhen sat and said, “I’ve been by Master’s side for almost ten years. I still don’t know his habits? If he practices and meditates without leaving home after returning from outside, then it will take less than half a month. There must be strong opponents to challenge.”
Daoquan couldn’t help but roll his eyes~IndoMTL.com~ One has been with Master for twenty years and the other has been with Master for ten years, yet Master let himself monitor the brothers? Isn’t it hard for yourself? When he was muttering in his heart, Daozhen said again: “I know you will definitely tell the senior brother, but you won’t tell me. As expected, you and the senior brother are good brothers…” Hearing Daozhen say this, hearing that. This usually cold senior brother had a rare grumbling voice. Thinking of how many times others had rescued him, when he knew that he was going to let go of the hedgehog demon, he turned to the tolerance when he left without saying a word, and Daoquan felt in his heart for a while. Unable to bear it, he stammered and explained, “Second Senior Brother, I didn’t tell Senior Brother, he knew about it – he, he has been with Master for almost twenty years.”
When Daozhen heard this, he shook his head and smiled bitterly, but said nothing.
Daoquan knew that he didn’t believe in him, so he blurted out, “Second Senior Brother, Master asked me to monitor you and Senior Senior Brother. He said that if he let go of the matter on the surface and didn’t pursue this matter, the traitor would definitely think that He is investigating secretly, and maybe he will show his tricks in front of me. Second Senior Brother, I really can’t believe that you did it, so I didn’t say anything to Master, but now that Master is the enemy, it happens to us again. Suspicion, how to help him is the most important thing.”
Daozhen closed his eyes for a long time, and suddenly asked: “Do you still have the wine you asked for the big brother? I want to drink it too!”