"Cousin, after your master's immortal died, why didn't you stay in Longhu Mountain to continue cultivating, but go back to Chang'an? Is it because you are not having a good time on the side of Longhu Mountain? ”

Early the next morning, after breakfast, Li Zexuan planned to take this little cousin to Yunshan for a long time, and on the way, Ye Fashan asked out loud.

Because in his opinion, Longhu Mountain is currently the holy place of Taoist monks in the world, Li Zexuan has been cultivating for eight years, but he suddenly left there and returned to Chang'an, which makes it difficult for Ye Fashan, who is determined to use Taoism to save the common people.

When Li Zexuan heard this question, he subconsciously thought in his heart: "If the original Li Zexuan really stayed in Longhu Mountain to cultivate, then where would he have the opportunity to travel over?" I wonder it's already reported from Lord Yama! ”

Although he thought so in his heart, he couldn't say it, he smiled: "No, the head of Longhu Mountain and the little uncle are very good to me, the reason why I went back to Chang'an is because my father and my mother are now old, if I don't come back to do my filial piety under their knees, how different is it from a beast~?" ”

Ye Fashan looked a little unnatural and said, "Then how should my cousin's Taoist career continue in the future~?" ”

Li Zexuan turned around, looked at Ye Fashan's immature but pretended mature little face, and said:

"Fashan, I think you have a misunderstanding of the Tao, right? Who said that you can only cultivate the Tao in Taoist temples? As long as there is a Tao in the heart, where can we not practice? What is not the way? Why is it not called cultivation? Heaven has no relatives, and he is always with good people. The level of a practitioner depends on the depth of the use of the Tao, the Tao is not the private property of any immortal god and true saint, so why care where to cultivate the Tao~? ”

Ye Fashan was stunned for a moment, and after a while, he bowed to the side, hugged his hands in front of his abdomen, and bowed from the bottom to the top (but the nose), and said: "Cousin Gaojian, Fashan has been taught~!" ”

Li Zexuan's expression moved, Ye Fashan's gift is very particular, Taoism has three salutes and three knocks, treating mortals generally bowing their hands, holding their fists and bowing to them, and bowing to gods, immortals and real people, Ye Fashan just did the Taoist standard salute, which is generally a salute to the elders in the door, it can be seen that Ye Fashan really listened to what he said just now, Li Zexuan returned the salute and said:

"Fa Shan, everyone has their own way, cousin's way is the red dust road, in the long red dust, treat your family well, and help the people around you who can help within your ability~! Of course, my cousin also hopes that you can be a Hongchen Taoist priest in the future, instead of practicing in the deep mountains, sitting and watching the change of dynasty, instead of thinking about the people of the world~! ”

Ye Fashan made another gesture and said: "Cousin, rest assured, Fashan is determined to learn the advanced Taoism, walk the world, and save the world, and will never be a blind Taoist who can only blindly escape from the world and practice~!" ”

Li Zexuan nodded with a smile, and continued to walk towards Yunshan with Ye Fashan.

Well, just go, his cheap cousin doesn't know which tendon is wrong, the Hou Mansion clearly has a horse but doesn't ride, and he doesn't want to do it if he has a car, saying that he wants to see how the people live along the road, although Li Zexuan is unwilling in his heart, he can't tie this little kid to the horse~?

Although he had only been with Ye Fashan for one day, Li Zexuan already knew that his cousin couldn't pull back the eight horses if he was stubborn, so he simply accompanied this unlucky child away!

"Bang Bang Bang~!"

"Push hard! How can this soil be loose and crumbling? Han Xiaodong, didn't you kid eat~? ”

"Second Master Liu, I won't tell you, I really haven't eaten in the morning!"

"Hey, you bastard boy, you know that you are poor with Lao Tzu~! Du Teniang's hard work, seeing that the weather is getting colder and colder, if it freezes, we haven't fixed it yet, then it will delay the big event of the Hou Ye, you look at the engineering team of the four regiments, how fast is the progress of the people~? ”

Out of the city, after walking through a section of the official road, I came to the trail to Yunshan, and walked forward for about two or three miles, when I heard a huge impact of "bang bang bang" and the noise of some people.

Ye Fashan looked over there curiously, but was blocked by a small hillside, so he asked, "Cousin, what are you doing over there?" Why is it so lively? ”

Li Zexuan smiled and said, "It's the engineering team of the academy and the farmers who are building the road, let's turn this corner and see it~!" ”

"Build roads~?"

How could there be such a big movement in Ye Fa's benevolent heart to build the road?

However, doubts are doubts, he still bowed his head in a muffled voice, quickened his pace, and after a while, the two of them bypassed the mountain, and there were a lot of people who were pressed by the black, some who hammered the earth with a big hammer, some who shoveled soil and filled the pit, and some who pushed the cart to dump sand and gravel, and some people dumped mud on the smooth road, but the mud turned out to be blue-gray, which made Ye Fashan surprised:

"Cousin, what's that sloppy slurry thing in the car~?"

Li Zexuan looked in the direction of his finger and replied: "That thing is cement, and at first it can be shaped into various shapes at will like mud, but it will solidify after a while, and once it solidifies, it will be as solid as a rock, even if it rains, it will remain in its original state~!" ”

"Oh~? Is there such a thing in the world? Why has Fashan never heard of it? ”

Ye Fashan couldn't help but sigh now that the imperial capital was really different, and small places such as Nanyang really couldn't be compared.

Li Zexuan said with a smile: "This thing has only been born for half a year, and it has not yet reached Nanyang, cousin, it is normal that you haven't seen it~!" ”

During the conversation, the two of them had already approached the road construction site, and an old man with white hair but strong spirits walked in front of them, it was Liu Erye, "Yo, Master Hou, are you here?" Why didn't you ride a horse today? And this one is..."

Li Zexuan responded with a smile: "It's not that I want to exercise my foot strength, so I didn't ride a horse!" By the way, Second Master Liu, this is my cousin, who just arrived in Chang'an yesterday, and I want to go to the academy today~! ”

Ye Fashan saw that Li Zexuan didn't have a little Hou Ye when he talked to the old man in front of him, and there was no condescending arrogance in his words, but he still had some respect, and he was surprised in his heart, but his face was silent, and he bowed to Liu Erye, and said: "Fashan has seen Liu Erye!" ”

Second Master Liu was a little "flattered" and said: "Eh, Xiao Langjun is polite!" Since you are a relative of the Hou family, it should be the little old man who greets you! ”

Li Zexuan said with a smile: "Where did the second master say, you are an elder!" By the way, Second Master Liu, this road looks like it's almost finished, right? ”

Second Master Liu wiped his sweat and said, "Hey! Master Hou, it's almost over, it's almost over! There are still more than three miles of road surface left to repair, and it only takes about ten days to repair them all! It's just a shame to say that we, the crops, are not very good at cultivating this kind of cement road, which has dragged Gong Yuanchang and them back. ”

When Li Zexuan divided the "Construction Corps", he set up five regiment commanders, namely Hu Hanyun, Liu Erye, Cao Shaofu, Gong Minyong, and Ni Taifeng. Later, in order to repair the cement road, and the project on the side of the academy was largely completed, Li Zexuan dismantled two "construction corps", a total of nearly 5,000 people, to come to repair the road, one is Liu Erye's second regiment, and Gong Minyong's fourth regiment.

Because Liu Erye's prestige in this area is still very high, so later, several Zhuangzi who came up to help build the road were also assigned to his command and under his management, so that Liu Erye's second regiment now nominally has more than 3,000 people!

However, these farmers who came to help had not experienced the "big project" of Yanhuang Academy, so they naturally lacked experience, which led to the fact that although there were many people in the second regiment, the overall progress did not have much gap with the fourth regiment.

Li Zexuan smiled: "It's okay, don't be in a hurry!" Don't let the folks get too tired! By the way, Second Master Liu, I asked my father-in-law to inform everyone about going into the mountains to collect medicine, do you all know about it? ”

Li Zexuan initially wanted to give the labor money to help, but the farmers were reluctant to ask for it, and later exchanged the wages for a bucket of rice.

You know, the value of this bucket of rice is much lower than the wages of the construction site!

In the face of such a group of kind-hearted dealers, what else can he complain about?

Second Master Liu grinned when he heard Li Zexuan's question: "Master Hou, we all know it!" In the afternoon, it is said that each Zhuangzi will organize some young people to act as a guard, even if they encounter wild beasts and wolves, they are not afraid, and then each family will draw one person into the mountains to collect medicine! Hey, it's a pity that my old Liu can't be idle now, otherwise I would also go into the mountains to fight wild beasts, so that the melon babies in the village can see their second master's archery skills~! ”

Li Zexuan couldn't help but smile and said, "Haha! Others are not old with the sword, but Second Master Liu is not old with a magic arrow! Ha ha~! ”

Second Master Liu said proudly: "That's ~!" I thought that the people in the village were hungry and wanted to go to the west of Yunshan to hunt, and I also went to Lao Liu at that time, and met a big white-fronted tiger with hanging eyes, Lao Liu and I ......"

Liu Erye began to explain the heroic deeds of the year to the two, Li Zexuan was also happy to rest beside him, and Ye Fashan frowned deeper the more he listened.

Half a quarter of an hour later, they said goodbye to Liu Erye, walked on the wide and flat cement road, and continued to march towards Yunshan, Ye Fashan suddenly said:

"Cousin, the farmers went into the mountains to collect medicine, so why did they use swords against wild beasts in the mountains? Everything in the world has spirituality, wild beasts are also living beings, that piece of mountains and forests is their territory, the farmers occupy the magpie's nest, why do they have to rob their homes and kill them all~? Cousin, as a member of the Daomen, not only did you not stop it, but why did you faintly encourage it? ”

When it comes to killing, many people may think of the compassion of "sweeping the floor and hurting the lives of ants, cherishing moths and gauze lamps", but some Taoist priests do eat meat, and Taoist teachings do not support killing, but it is not prohibited!

Li Zexuan was inexplicably stunned, he didn't expect Ye Fashan to ask such a question, after thinking about it, he said in a deep tone:

"Fashan, what you said is actually right, all bloody things have spirituality, that is, there is Taoism, there is a difference between early and late understanding, and there is also a difference between fast and slow cultivation levels! Wild beasts are living creatures, and it stands to reason that they should not be killed lightly.

But sometimes killing is to protect life, cutting karma is not killing people, when the beast wants to attack people, how do you deal with yourself? Kill? Or use your Dao to influence him? Is it wrong that the people are just mortals, they only have to eat and clothe themselves, take care of the old and the young in the family, and everything they do is to survive? ”

Li Zexuan remembered that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in his previous life, Taoist believers held a gun in one hand and incense in the other, killing the little devil here, and worshiping God here.

"Killing for nursing?"

Ye Fashan muttered in a low voice and fell into deep thought.

When the sun was about to climb overhead, the two of them finally went up to Yunshan, stepped into the mountain gate, and saw the tall and majestic Yanhuang Academy building, even if Ye Fashan was mentally prepared, but his heart was still greatly impacted, the little face that likes to pretend to be old on weekdays is full of surprise and shock at the moment!

"How? Fa Shan? Cousin, this academy is not bad, right? ”

Li Zexuan finally showed a rare look of shock when he saw this kid, and said a little proudly.

"Goo-dong!"

"Well, that's good!"

Ye Fashan swallowed his saliva and said loudly.

Isn't that good? This can be called a fairy palace!

Li Zexuan laughed and said, "Haha! Walk! My cousin will take you into the academy for a walk~! ”

After that, he took Ye Fashan into the academy.

After visiting the Red Building, the auditorium, the sports field, the canteen, the student dormitory, the laboratory building, etc., the two returned to the Guanghua Building and came to the place where the telescopes were placed in the atrium on the fourth floor.

But I didn't expect to meet Li Chunfeng here.

"Heh, Daochang Li is also there~?"

Li Zexuan stepped forward and said with a smile.

"Master Hou!"

Li Chunfeng was concentrating on tinkering with the telescope before, and after hearing the voice, he hurriedly turned around, and when he saw that it was Li Zexuan, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Don't blame Master Hou, in recent days, some stars have been discovered in the poor road, so use this telescope more frequently!" ”

Li Zexuan waved his hand and said, "It's okay!" Isn't this stuff made for people? The Taoist is just a good one! Oh, now that the light is so strong, isn't the Dao Chief afraid of dazzling eyes if he still uses this? ”

Li Chunfeng shook his head and said: "It will definitely not be used at this time, it can still be used when the sun has just risen, oh, who is this little friend?" ”

At this time, he noticed Ye Fashan behind Li Zexuan.

Li Zexuan introduced: "This is my cousin Ye Fashan, a member of the Nanyang Ye family, who has been cultivating for more than eight years~!" Fa Shan, this is Li Chunfeng, who is now serving in the Taishi Bureau, with profound Taoism and noble character~! ”

Ye Fashan stepped forward and hugged his fists and saluted: "Fashan has seen the Taoist!" ”

Li Chunfeng returned the salute and said in surprise: "Nanyang Ye family? But the Ye's family in Baizhou back then~? Who are Ye Jingneng you? ”

Ye Fashan replied: "It is the Ye clan of Baizhou back then, and the person that the Taoist chief said is the ancestor of Fashan!" ”

Li Chunfeng muttered, "Uncle? You are actually a descendant of Ye Senior! What a coincidence! ”

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(End of chapter)