[4] Visiting friends

There is a teahouse in the city, recently hit the capital to a drama troupe called Quanfutang, because the play is many and fresh, the character of the corner, the skill frame is also pleased, every day the play, can always attract a lot of guests to the teahouse, the scene is very lively. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoWe passed by that day and saw a lot of people, so Bai Lan wanted to go in and have a cup of tea. I looked at it as a teahouse, and there was no sign of snake soup hanging at the door, so I went with the fun.

Unfortunately, it was the Legend of the White Snake that was played. Those characters performed well, but because this scene was unfair to the snake spirit, I had already seen it, and I remembered that there was nothing to do, but I went to Tianzhu Mountain to find my old friend Lu Bing to catch up. I wanted to say that I would settle the bill after drinking the bowl of Longjing before the rain, but Bai Lan said that she couldn't leave for the past two days, so let me say hello on her behalf, and I agreed.

When I came out of the teahouse, the play I did on stage was to return the umbrella. How much does an oil-paper umbrella cost? If you give it away, you can really make a fuss.

Old friend Lu Bing is a famous sword immortal, when I met her three hundred years ago, although she was still young, she had already achieved something in her cultivation. Lu Bing is a very tall person, living in the Xuanguang Cave of Tianzhu Mountain, and has not asked about the world for many years, and rarely makes other immortal friends. It's been more than 300 years since we parted, and I don't know how she has cultivated now. This person's cultivation is different from ours snakes, because it is a human body, his merits are better than ours, and his cultivation can be said to be twice the result with half the effort, maybe Lu Bing's merits have already been completed, and the day has soared. But I also expected that such a thing might happen, before entering the meditation, I made an appointment with her first, if I came to her Xuanguang Cave after the determination, and saw Tianyu Hongying and Riguan Baihong, I knew that she had achieved success and soared. What a good thing this should be, thinking of this, as if she must have cultivated to the appearance of a true immortal, I couldn't help but rejoice for her.

Tianzhu Mountain is not too far from Hangzhou City, I put the sword light and flew away, walking and singing on the clouds, and it will be there in less than half an hour. The Xuanguang Cave was still found, and there was neither the sky full of red Ying to greet him, nor could he see the white rainbow crossing the golden wheel. I brushed away the wisteria hanging from the rocky cliff and shouted for a long time, but no one opened the door. I thought, didn't even the waiter go out? Or are they all meditating and don't have time to pay attention to me? I sat in the thatched pavilion outside the Xuanguang Cave and waited for a long time, feeling bored, and said let's go, but I couldn't bear to see my old friends for three hundred years, so I came for nothing and went back. At dusk, when I saw a few wisps of smoke rising from the valley, I wanted to go down for a walk, but I was sitting here idle anyway, so I might as well see if I could accumulate some good deeds. This Lu Bing's practice is passed down by a very capable side door scattered immortal, which is very different from the Tao on the righteous path, and there are some strange rules that outsiders can't understand, for example, if you want to take your attendant to retreat together, Lu Bing has to occasionally sit down and check the situation inside and outside the cave or even within a radius of hundreds of miles. Therefore, I think that if you wait here for four or five days, you should always be able to see her.

The place where the smoke rises from the mountain is a township, and the scenery of an ordinary farmhouse is very simple. Because it was evening, many families in the village brought out low tables and small stools to gather outside the house to eat, while dogs and cats gathered around and waited to be fed. The children of a family refused to eat quietly, and they were about to roll to the ground to catch ducklings to play after only taking two bites of rice, and were immediately grabbed and whipped by adults, and beat him until he cried and grabbed the ground, causing the neighbor to hold the dishes and chopsticks in his hands while kicking on the earthen wall to plead for the child.

It's a peaceful place. I sat on the hillside north of the town, and I didn't have my hands idle, fiddling with a wisteria cut from the front of the Xuanguang Cave, and looking at the place where everyone was living a dull and happy life, and whether they should be able to find me—and that was not a good thing!

There is a big banyan tree near the township archway, gathered a group of villagers, there are old and young, and there is a person sitting in the middle, as if he is saying something, and everyone is attracted to it. I turned the wisteria into a small basket, picked two wild herbs and put them in the basket, and turned them into a small village girl and squeezed into the crowd. I heard the man tell me two rural anecdotes, one was that there was a boar in a neighboring town that was strangely large, and the other was that there was a poor and talented yard on the other side of the mountain with a jujube tree growing in front of it, and the dates on it were all in pairs. Although these stories are simple, they are vivid and vivid when they come out of the man's mouth, and when someone interrupts or asks a question, he can pick up the stubble smoothly, so that everyone can listen to it with relish, regardless of whether the matter is true or false. After the man finished speaking, everyone was still unsatisfied and didn't let him go. The man was in a hurry, saying that he had gone out to do groceries in the past few days, and now he had to hurry to pay the account to the boss. But everyone just wouldn't give way, the man couldn't do anything, slapped his thigh, and said another strange news. The content is that on the way back, he passed by the town on the other side of the mountain, and happened to meet the local gentry who sent immortals to the gods in the river, and the scene was very lively. They set up three altars along the river, full of fresh fruits and three animals, and on the altar in the middle sat three beautiful virgins who were only twelve or thirteen years old, saying that they were to repay the fairy for recovering the bronze bull essence that was eating people in the water.

Copper bull essence in the water? Could it be that the water beast has become a harmful spirit? I thought it was strange, so I asked the man, how do you want to send the fairy maid? The man replied that he would hold a feast by the river for three days and three nights, and entertain the gods and his generals, and on the fourth day the gods would come and summon the virgin into the water. Someone asked, "Didn't this man drown when he fell into the water?" The man replied, how could the person who the gods wanted, and the person who took it himself, kill the person? Everyone thinks this is reasonable.

[5] Turtle essence

Although people are more virtuous than us snakes, ordinary people are immersed in the seven emotions and six desires, and are burdened by the appearance of the world of flowers, and spend their fortune in places where they are not useful, such as accumulating wealth, seeking blessings, and lustful, and they can't escape a greedy word. It doesn't matter if people's greed makes people stupid, and the worst thing is that they never feel that they are greedy. In this way, once you meet those characters who pretend to be decent on the outside, but are actually greedy in the bottom of their hearts, they will naturally not be able to distinguish the truth from the fake, and they will thank them if they are deceived; On the contrary, I met those characters who were upright, unhappy to climb, and had no intention of following the customs, but they had to point fingers behind others' backs, although nothing happened.

Think about it, which of the gods is not refreshed and full of merit, and who is rare to be a maidservant and a maidservant with the naked eye? If the immortals rely on their servants to act, and they are as lazy and sleepy as mortals, who is willing to work hard to cultivate immortal enlightenment? Mortals always use their own desires to guess the freedom of the gods. However, this guy's means are also quite high, and he doesn't count people, but he also has to put on a pomp and circumstance, so that the villagers can worship blood food for three days, and he is really a careful plan. No matter if he asks someone to go, whether it is for food or to cultivate evil skills, the food and clothing for these three days can be regarded as a sure profit.

I made up my mind to go over and see what was going on. If what the townsfolk said was a made-up story, it would be fine; If there is such a thing, we must not let the false gods deceive the world and fulfill their selfish desires.

After crossing Tianzhu Mountain, I found a deep pool near the river, and a pool of black gas was faintly shrouded in the water surface. I stood in the clouds with all my eyes, and I couldn't see what was hidden under the water; If you want to lower the clouds and get closer, there will be a thick smell of fish. I looked like it was a water tribe, but I wasn't sure if it was him. The altar that the villager said was by the river two or three miles away from here, so I had to first remove the traces and ambush near the altar, and wait for the "immortals" to appear before making a decision.

In the tabernacle next to the altar, five women came out, and they happily gathered around three beautiful maidens and sat down on the altar in the center. The girls sat on it shyly in the afterglow of the setting sun, their cheeks were red, their eyes were shining, and they were not at all uneasy about their situation. As the sun darkened, people lit lanterns and torches to illuminate the surroundings as bright as day. A few figures came out of the crowd, led the people to worship heaven and earth, prayed, and then stood in front of the altar, silent, and looked at the sky. Looking at that scene, it seems that he is waiting for the gods to descend to earth.

Starry Plains. I lay on the haystack on the ridge and looked in the direction of Tianzhu Mountain from time to time, so as not to miss some movement in Xuanguang Cave. After touching a cup of tea, I suddenly heard the sound of a rushing water two miles away, and then the sound of silk and bamboo music came from far and near, and a three-zhang wide Tongyun slowly floated from the upper reaches of the river, and there seemed to be a white-faced scholar standing on the head of the cloud. I sat up and looked: I saw him wearing a jade wat in his hand, an official hat, and a chic wide-sleeved fairy robe. It's just that this person's limbs are short, and the sleeve robe is rolled in the wind, almost covering most of his people. I saw him familiarly, so I disappeared into the clouds and looked at him twice. Where is he a god? It is clearly the turtle spirit in the Mengshan ravine in Naxihe County! It's been three or four hundred years. Back then, he rarely changed his human form, and every time he turned into a human form, on his small black face, there was always a pair of black bulging eyes that were so black that he couldn't see the whites of his eyes, with a collapsed nose embedded underneath, and two pouting lips and thin lips; Now he has changed his body and turned into a white-faced posterior, which is really a makeover, but there is a black mouth left in his facial features that can't be changed, and he is covered up with a jade wat. If it weren't for his wide-sleeved gold silk robe, or the one he stole three hundred years ago and hid in a cave in the ravine, together with the jade wat from the upper right corner to the bottom, there was a faint crack in the shape of a "A" - I'm afraid I would not have recognized him.

This turtle spirit originally lived in the water hole behind Mengshan, how did he come here to become a monster? I didn't think about it, and when he instructed his little ghosts to turn into yin wind to eat the three animal offerings, I simply released the Seven Treasures Round Box, put it on his head, and put it in the box. I thought that everything was over, and I didn't watch out for those little devils, and suddenly I found that there was no master to control them, and I immediately showed my original form, overthrew the altar and made trouble! Some people catch people when they see them, and they gnaw when they open their mouths; Some of them pounce on the human body and want to devour their souls. The poor people were happily preparing to welcome the gods, but in a blink of an eye, they turned into a cry of heaven and earth shuttling between the green monsters, running for their lives, and becoming a mess. I knew that I was acting too recklessly, so I had to open the forbidden law to trap the imp and carefully clean up the mess.

Tossed until dawn the next day, and finally forced the last imp out of the human body. The crowd knelt on the ground and thanked me so much that I was ashamed. I really couldn't afford it, and I couldn't stop them, so I had to "poof" and kneel down, snorting their heads until they stopped, and the mutual etiquette was over.

There was no movement on the side of Xuanguang Cave. In order to deal with the aftermath, I spent another three days in the town and then returned to Tianmen Mountain.