Chapter 239: Missed Opportunity
Chu Poyu listened more and more dazed, because he used to think so. Once, when my parents were alive, every fifteenth day of the new year, every New Year's holiday, they would burn incense and pray for blessings, asking the gods for blessings, isn't this because the gods can know everything in heaven and earth?
Donghua Shangxian smiled faintly again, no longer gave any explanation, and immediately turned around and walked leisurely out of the city gate. It's just that Chu Poyu had just caught up with Donghua Shangxian's footsteps, and a tender green shadow suddenly jumped out of the middle of the road.
It turned out to be Qing'er, she pouted, blocking the way forward, her face was a little playful, a little displeased, "Master, where have you been?" I've been looking for the old man for a long time, didn't you say that you were in the yard of that house, why did you run away from the city? ”
Donghua Shangxian leaned over and squatted down, flicked Qing'er's bun, and said with a smile, "Yo, Qing'er, your temper has been getting longer and longer recently, and you dare to teach the master a lesson, if you make the teacher unhappy, be careful to give you little shoes to wear." ”
Qing'er disagreed, and made a grimace, "Cut, I'm not afraid of small shoes, my feet are not big, and I wear small shoes, hum!" ”
Donghua Shangxian laughed and pinched Qing'er's face, "That's it, I'm afraid of you as a teacher." ”
Chu Poyu stood aside, looking at the scene in front of him with a deep master-apprentice relationship, at this time, a black shadow dangled from his left side, and it was directly hugged him, it should be said that it crashed directly into his arms.
It turned out to be Ah Jiu, "Brother Chu, you are finally back, I have been waiting for a long time, I thought something happened to you, and I haven't seen you come back to Yuefu for many days." ”
Chu Poyu held on to the thin figure. was spared from the two of them falling down at the same time, "Okay, Ah Jiu, I haven't seen you for a few days." How did you become like a child, you almost knocked me over? ”
Ah Jiu let go of his hand, scratched his head with a smile and said, "I'm so happy, you don't know how scared I have been in the past few days when you and Qingfeng have been out, and I have nightmares almost every day." I always dream that you have an accident, so when I saw you just now, I will do this. Brother Chu. Don't mind. ”
"No, how can you mind, it's our bad and you're worried. Something did happen halfway through. So had to stay outside for a few days. Chu Poyu patted Ah Jiu's shoulder, and when he looked up at Donghua Shangxian, he realized that there was still his shadow around, even the little girl who had just appeared was gone!
Chu Poyu looked around and looked, and Ah Jiu also ran around looking for it, but neither of them found it. Only the long queue at the gate of the city was no longer long, the number of pedestrians gradually increased, and the sky became much brighter.
"It's really a fairy. It's really gone without a trace. Chu Poyu muttered in a low voice, he had planned to take advantage of the cold illness to take advantage of the cold illness to end for a while. Just took the opportunity to ask again what Donghua Shangxian had only said half of what Donghua Shangxian had said before.
Obviously, he has already missed the opportunity, and if he wants to wait for the next time, he doesn't know when it will be, and whether there is still such an opportunity is still a question. Sighing in his heart, Chu Poyu took Ah Jiu to a big tree on the side of the road.
Chu Poyu looked around and made sure that there was no one around, so he asked in a low voice, "Ah Jiu, didn't you say that you wanted to go to Qingyun Temple to practice a few days ago, how could you meet Donghua Shangxian?" ”
When Ah Jiu heard this, he lowered his head and said in a depressed manner, "Alas, Qingyun Guan is boring, I really don't want to stay anymore." So I tried to go to Penglai Immortal Mountain again, a few days ago I finally met them, I thought I could ask Donghua Shangxian to take me to Penglai Pavilion to practice. Now it's good, they actually came to say goodbye without saying goodbye, it seems that there is no hope, alas! I want to see them again, but I don't know what year or month it is. ”
Chu Poyu remembered Donghua Shangxian's words, although he didn't say it to Ah Jiuming, he still comforted him, "Don't worry, if you are a master and apprentice, you will meet again sooner or later, and it is not without a chance to go to Penglai Pavilion, don't be too discouraged." ”
Ah Jiu knew that it was comforting, but he still fantasized about it, his eyes lit up, and he naively sought confirmation, "Really? Brother Chu, are you telling the truth? Do I really still have a chance? Did Donghua Shangxian tell you something? ”
Chu Poyu smiled and moved his gaze to the city gate, "It's not true, it's just that you have been able to meet them several times, that is the fate in the dark, I just made a bold guess, there should be hope, you just wait a little longer, don't be disheartened because of this." ”
Ah Jiu nodded heavily, and he was also an easily satisfied child Then, Chu Poyu asked him about Qingyunguan, and under what kind of circumstances he met Donghua Shangxian, he wanted to speak several times and stopped, and then he said in a hurry.
Six days ago, Ah Jiu had been in Qingyun Guanyi for three days, but for some reason, he always felt in a trance every day, and he couldn't calm down to cultivate immortals at all. And the other Taoist priests in the temple didn't treat him very well, so he felt looked down upon, and because he was teased by them when he was taking a bath, he simply packed up and left.
After leaving Qingyunguan, he went directly to the direction of Penglai Immortal Mountain, and he was also lost in the mountains overnight. But after waking up the next day, I saw Qing'er, and naturally Donghua Shangxian.
Ah Jiu narrowed his eyes and picked his fingers, "I heard Qing'er say in private that Donghua Shangxian had just come back from Jiuhua Mountain for the sake of killing people everywhere in the Wandering Cloud Sect, so he took the initiative to speak and told him everything he saw and heard. Who knew that when we first returned to Linzi City, the plague broke out inside and outside the city, and many people died overnight. ”
When Ah Jiu said this, he couldn't help but shudder, remembering that his parents and family were also in the famine back then, some of them starved to death, and some of them were tortured to death by the spreading plague.
Subsequently, when he heard Chu Poyu say that the epidemic had been temporarily controlled, Ah Jiu's timid nerves eased a little. Since returning to Linzi City, when he knew that there was a contagious and deadly cold disease, he never dared to get too close to the crowd.
Therefore, he was happy to obey the arrangement of Donghua Shangxian, and accompanied Qing'er in the mountains for the past few days, until this morning, after Qing'er woke up, he clamored to go to Linzi to find the master, and he had to come back with him.
Chu Poyu asked a few more words, but Ah Jiu had almost no understanding of Penglai Immortal Mountain and Donghua Shangxian, so he didn't bother to ask any more. Subsequently, the two entered the city together and returned to Yuefu.
When he knocked on the door, it was Qingfeng who came out to open the door to greet him, and as soon as Qingfeng saw Ah Jiu, he carried him directly in, "Monkey, I heard that you are lazy again, and you haven't practiced well in Qingyunguan." (To be continued.) )