Chapter 16: Searching for Immortal Traces in the Land Temple
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At a meal, others ate happily, and I was uncomfortable. After dinner, Ah Shu wanted to take me to the garden for a walk to help digestion, as soon as he said that he would visit the garden, Shang Dongyu would mention that he would put some wine and tea in the garden, and enjoy the night view while the moonlight was dim.
The night is as cool as water. The sound of frogs and insects chirps, as if returning to Yunrong Mountain. It's really strange, even though this place is not far from Yunrong Mountain, I miss that quiet little bamboo house so much.
Shang Dongyu was telling interesting stories about his classmates in the school.
"Two years ago, a senior official of the imperial court came to our school and brought two glazed unicorns burned in the official kiln. One is on the teaching desk, and the other is in the teacher's room. There is a classmate Li, who is usually the most lazy, and that day he was obsessed with a small bow and crossbow, and always used his classmates' buns as targets. Everyone was afraid that he wouldn't be able to shoot accurately, so they avoided him. As a result, while chasing others and shooting arrows, he didn't pay attention, and the small and short feather arrow flew out and poked directly at the unicorn.
When the teacher found out, his beard was crooked, saying that if he didn't find an identical unicorn to compensate, he would drop out of school. In fact, Li's classmates are rich and powerful, and although it takes a bit of trouble to get a glass unicorn, it's not that it can't be done, but he just wants his father to come forward. But his father is a strict old pedant, and he values his homework the most, if his father knows that he is playing in the school, he will definitely use family methods to beat him so that he can't get off the ground for three days.
Li didn't dare to tell his father, he hid in his courtyard for three days, and I don't know who gave him an idea, so he secretly went to the academy in the middle of the night and stole the unicorn in the teacher's room and put it on the bookcase in the classroom.
The next day, the teacher asked him in front of everyone, 'Where did this unicorn come from?' and he said, 'My father brought it back.' The teacher tapped the table with a ruler, "Nonsense! This is clearly the one in my room!" He said quite calmly, "Have you lost the unicorn in the teacher's room?" As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a person coming out of the back hall, and his legs immediately weakened. Guess who that person is?"
"Who?"
"It's his father!haha......"
"Hahaha......"
Shang Wan asked Ah Shu: "Ah Shu, you also tell us about your past, you see, we don't know anything except that your name is Ah Shu." ”
Shang Dongyu: "That's right, let's talk about it, say something interesting." ”
I held Ah Shu's hand under the table, afraid that he would be sad. Ah Shu said: "I may disappoint you, and I don't know my past." When he said it, there was a smile in his eyes, without a trace of sadness. He's always like this, and he doesn't seem to care about his past or background.
Shang Dongyu said apologetically: "It's me who is abrupt, but how can a person not know his past?
Shu: "Maybe it's because I hurt my head and have lost my memory, but I don't know why." ”
Shang Dongyu: "My father knows an old imperial doctor, who specializes in treating head diseases, and I will send someone to invite him tomorrow so that he can take a look." ”
Shu: "Then I'll trouble you." ”
I couldn't speak, and I sat there bored, scratching my head, breaking my fingers, and falling asleep on the stone table.
The next day I slept very deeply, and in a daze, I felt my name called again, raised my heavy eyelids, only to close them again, and opened my mouth, "Let me sleep a little longer." ”
Ah Shu: "It's been three poles a day, the maid called you a few times and didn't see you up, did you play again after you came back last night, and made trouble until midnight?"
I still closed my eyes and said, "No, I don't even know how I got back, and I don't even have a dream at night." ”
"Come on, Dongyu is waiting for us at the door, I'm going to Foyun Temple to offer incense today, have you forgotten?" Ah Shu dragged me up from the bed and asked me to lean on him. "What's wrong with you, aren't you sick again?"
"What?"
"Your face is very bad, a little blue, and you haven't noticed that your voice seems to be a little hoarse?"
"Huh?" I opened my eyes suddenly, "huh?" I got out of bed and came to the copper basin to see my face in the reflection of the clear water inside. It is indeed a little blue, and the lips are whiter, and his face is sickly like a patient who has not seen the sun for many years.
"Didn't those pills work? How do you feel? Does it matter?"
"I don't know, it's rare for goblins to get sick, and it's unbelievable that if I've been sick for a while, I'm not getting better but getting worse every day. ”
"Don't you know what's going on?" Ah Shu frowned.
I shook my head, sat on the ground and silently used my mana to check the situation around me, and sure enough, the meridians were blocked, and the blood seemed to be a lot thicker. But why don't I feel it at all?
"It's better for you to go to Dream Immortal Island to find your master. A Shujian said.
"But Master doesn't know when he will wake up, and I don't know where Youmengxian Island is. ”
"You can recognize other gods, goblins, ask them and they may know. ”
"No, I've never been down the mountain, and the people I know are all guests from Yunrong Mountain, and I don't know where they live. After saying these words, his throat ached slightly, and he picked up the tea on the table and sipped it gently.
"Ah Shu, Ah Shang, are you all right? Don't you dare to come back before dinner. Shang Dongyu's voice came from outside the door.
Asuramen went out, and I heard him talking to Shang Dongyu in the house.
"I'm sorry, Dongyu, we can't go, Ah Shang's illness is serious again. ”
"What's the matter? Isn't it already well? Did you get cold in the garden last night? I'll go find the doctor. ”
"No, it's just that I can't use my strength, so it's okay. It's just that Foyun Temple is too far away to go. ”
"Don't be careless, Mizuko, go get a doctor"
"The sun is high, you hurry up, don't delay the incense for the old lady. "I think it was Ah Shu who stopped Ruizi.
Shang Dongyu said: "Originally, I wanted everyone to go together and go to the green after the incense, but it seems that this time it will not work." Yesterday, I sent a message to my uncle and aunt, saying that I was going to see them today. If I don't go, I'll have to wait for them in vain. Ah Shang is unexpectedly uncomfortable, so she will be raised. Ah Shang, when you are well, let's go again, you don't know, the scenery of the mountain behind Foyun Temple is beautiful. ”
I opened the door and nodded to Dongyu.
Shang Dongyu went to Foyun Temple alone, and Shang Wan received news in the morning that there was an accident in the branch in the town next to the city, so he rushed over early in the morning to deal with it.
I thought about it and thought about it, and I thought about the land. They manage the ground of the human world, and they should know some traces of immortals. Master told me that there is an immortal neighbor in Yunrong Mountain, and he has eight friendships, and I have seen that fairy, the immortal name is Ling Yan, and I plan to inquire with the land about her residence.
There are four land temples in Qicheng, the one in the south city is deserted, and the one in the east and north is far away from the Shang Mansion, so Ah Shu and I went to the west city.
The people of this place live on the soil, so they believe in the land very much, the land temple is well repaired, and the people who come to offer incense on the fifteenth day of the first month are also endless. Although there are people who come to Shangxiang on weekdays, there are not many of them. Today is not the first day of the new year, nor is it the fifteenth, but this land temple is still very lively.
Following the traces of people, it turned out that there was an old way in the temple, claiming to be able to measure good luck and evil, judge people's fortunes, and resolve no wrongdoing, and avoid evil. Lao Dao has been in this temple for a few days, and his reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and he seems to really have some magical powers.
I was afraid of people like Taoist priests and monks, and I didn't dare to dangle in front of them, so I pulled Ah Shu and hurried away, but Ah Shu said that I would ask this Taoist chief to calculate his life experience for him, so that I could enter the temple myself.
I think he didn't really care about his past in his heart, so he went to the temple first.
The incense candles in front of the statue of the land seem to be not extinguished every year, and the smoke and clouds in the hall are swirling, the fragrance is overwhelming, and even the air is hot. The peak of its incense seems to surpass Guanyin Rulai and Sanqing Holy Ancestor.
Most of the people who came to the land temple gathered at the Taoist chief outside the hall, but the hall was deserted, and there were only two Taoist children, one was wiping the incense case, and the other was sprinkling and sweeping the ground. There is a Taoist boy living in the land temple, which is rare, and he is the apprentice of the Taoist outside the hall.
I looked up at the statue of the land that was high above, and I was surprised by his height, isn't the land very short? Oh, maybe the people here don't know the face of the immortals, but the gods must be dignified and majestic.
I silently recited the mantra in my heart, and struck a demon consciousness into the earth statue, and immediately I felt a tremor, and a voice sounded in my head:
"Who dare to offend the immortal family?"
The owner of this voice deliberately wanted to deter me, so that I was afraid and did not dare to make a mistake, so he deliberately increased the mana in the transmission, which shocked me with headaches and tinnitus.
"I am a disciple of the immortal seat on Yunrong Mountain and Yunjiang, and I have come to see me today because of my private request, and I have no intention of offending, if there is anything to offend, please forgive me for the sake of my youth and ignorance. ”
"It turned out to be a disciple of the Immortals, I don't know why you want to ask me in this little immortal, but you didn't go to ask your master?"
"Master ordered me to go down the mountain to practice, so I didn't dare to bother Master lightly. ”
"So you come to bother me? No matter what, as a piece of land, you naturally have to do the responsibility of the land, what do you say? ”
"Since coming down the mountain, my body has been abnormal, not only my voice is hoarse, but also I am becoming more and more emaciated, and the meridians in my body are also blocked. But I can't think of a reason, may I ask the Immortal Chief, do you know what is going on?"
"This is strange," after a pause, he said: "Maybe I have become an immortal and have a narrow vision, and I don't know why, I'm afraid you're going to go through this in vain." ”
"I also want to ask you where the immortal mansion of Fairy Ling Yan is, she has some friendship with my master, I want to ask her.
"Fairy Lingyan has a cold temperament and rarely goes out of the house, and I only know that she lives on a steep cliff on the top of a snow-capped mountain in the northwest. The precipice was cut by an axe, and stood in the midst of the sea of clouds, three hundred zhang high and three hundred zhang wide. Under the snow-capped mountain is an abyss, and there is a rolling black stream in the abyss, called the Black Water River, which is said to flow into the world from the demon world. The black water is not only cold and piercing, but also full of demonic energy, as long as a person with a weaker heart touches it, his heart will increase greatly and fall into the demonic path. Little girl, I advise you not to go there, your cultivation is still shallow, be careful that you can't cultivate the immortal path but enter the demon path. ”
"Thanks for the reminder, I'll be careful, I'm sorry to excuse you, I ......"
"The demon is bold! dare to go to the Xianjia Mansion to offend!" A loud shout cut off my communication with the land, and I looked back, isn't this the fortune teller outside the hall. Ah Shu was being clamped down by his two little apprentices, one left and one right, and was struggling to break free.