Volume 2 The Dragon of the Northland Chapter 15 Tricks and Marriages
Guo Hong's expression did not move, and asked, "Senior, what conditions do you have?" β
Zhong Liquan laughed and said: "It's a pleasure to talk to smart people, as long as you say that Lu Yu and Li Susu are not a good match when you do it tomorrow, let Li Taishou not recruit him as a son-in-law." β
Guo Hong said: "I'm afraid of ......"
"What are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid that Senior Brother Lu will beat me!"
"He can't beat you."
It was seen by this bad old man.
Guo Hong still shook his head and said: "Haven't you heard such a sentence before: I would rather demolish a temple than a marriage." Bad people will be punished by heaven for their marriages. β
Zhong Liquan sat cross-legged on the battlement, took out the wine gourd and took a sip: "Say, what reward do you want?" β
Guo Hong also sat on the battlements next to him, looked at the view of Dongting Lake in the moonlight, and asked, "Can the seniors tell me why they want to destroy Senior Brother Lu's marriage?" β
"He lingers in the mortal world, he doesn't want to go to Penglai with the old way, and he still wants to be admitted to the sergeant and become an official, how can this work?"
Guo Hong nodded: "Taoist priests can also marry wives, what does being an official have to do with Li Susu?" β
"It's okay to marry a wife, but it can't be Li Susu! Lu Yu's father has been demoted, and he wants to be admitted to the middle school of the scholar and the middle school is impossible for anyone to be in high school, but marrying Li Susu is different, Li Yuan is a assassin, so he is afraid that he will help him dredge it up when the time comes. β
It is difficult for the Jinshi court in the Tang Dynasty to pass the test if there are no connections.
Guo Hong laughed and said: "Li Taishou is only a fourth-grade official, and he can only be regarded as a middle-level official in the court, and he is sent to a place, even if he wants his son-in-law to go to high school, I am afraid it will be difficult to dredge the joints." Besides, the predecessors blindly pressed Senior Brother Lu, and his wish could not be achieved, so how could he enter the mountain to learn the Tao with peace of mind? β
Zhong Liquan was thoughtful.
Guo Hong continued to work harder, and said: "It's better to be sparse than blocked, if I am a senior, I will help Senior Brother Lu fulfill his wish, and then the idea makes him feel bored, and then he can see through the red dust, so that he can have no worries." β
"Then what do you mean to promote his marriage with Li Susu? Do you want to help him become an officer? β
Guo Hong gave a thumbs up.
Zhong Liquan had a sad face and said, "But isn't the layout all abandoned in the past few days?" And it's too sorry for the white peony. β
Guo Hong asked, "Why is that?" β
Zhong Liquan said: "A certain family has made a mechanism in the soup bath, and I haven't figured out how to get it, but it happened that your kid shouted Senior Brother Lu, so he improvised and dodged and knocked down the wooden wall, prompting Lu Yu, a stupid boy, to meet White Peony, and at night, it was a reminder from a certain family to let White Peony take him in." β
Guo Hong remembered Lu Yu's appearance when he mentioned the white peony, and felt that it didn't seem to be unmoved.
"Then I'll go back and ask, let's let Senior Brother Lu choose by himself, by the way, did the seniors tell Bai Peony about this?"
"I just left a handwritten letter, and I didn't show up, and Xiao Nizi thought it was a fox fairy. If you want to promote the matter of Lu Yu and Li Susu, it is simple, just like this......"
After a long time, Guo Hong smiled and said, "Remember, then ask the Great Immortal to pass on my immortal method." β
Zhong Liquan shook his head and said, "You didn't help, why did you teach you?" β
"Now the seniors are going to promote Senior Brother Lu's marriage, and what the juniors are doing is helping!"
Although you are a senior, and your martial arts are high, but
If you say yes, don't think about it!
"This Wuxiang Gong is a kung fu that a certain family secretly learned in Shaolin back then, do you really want to learn it? If someone sees that he is heeling, I am afraid that I will not break with you! β
No phase?
Guo Hong was stunned and asked, "Wuxianggong is Buddhist kung fu?" β
"Yes, Master Xuanzang brought back the true transmission of yoga from Tianzhu, which is known as Xianggong, and the sect he founded is also called Xiangzong and Faxiangzong. Decades ago, there was a master who carried forward the Xianggong and founded the Wuxianggong ......" Zhong Liquan shook the pu fan.
Fa Xiangzong has really heard of it.
"Wait, wait, yoga?! Is it yoga with or without phase? β
Guo Hong was taken aback.
"Of course, there is phase gong is also called phase yoga, and no phase gong is called phase yoga. You can change your body, but you can shrink your bones without phase work, and you are so tall, even if you pretend to be Lu Yu, it's no problem. β
Guo Hong: In history, there is really no merit!
Well, I was deceived by Jin Yong.
Wuxianggong is a drop of Buddhism, no wonder the small Wuxianggong of the Xiaoyao School should add a "small" word.
Well.
Yoga.
The correct way to open it is to cooperate with the disguise technique and become someone else?
There is a difference between phase work and non-phase work......
There is phase merit and phase, and there is no phase without phase, well, this is nonsense.
If there is a appearance, the appearance does not change, but only the body changes.
In addition to the skull, the flesh and cartilage on the face can be changed, and theoretically it can be changed into anyone's face shape.
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The next day, Guo Hong and the others arrived at the place, first asked Li Susu to sit on the ground in the middle of her courtyard, and then entered the altar that had been temporarily erected in the pavilion and began to practice the Fa.
He lit three incense sticks, offered sacrifices, pointed to the sky and the earth with a wooden sword, and was busy for a while, then suddenly got off the altar and came to Li Yuan, who was watching.
Li Yuan had a question on his face, and asked, "Why did the refiner interrupt the spell, I don't know what to learn?" β
Guo Hong said: "A certain family just found something wrong, so he came to discuss with Li Taishou, the soul of the little lady was taken away for many days, and she used magic to practice, you must find an unmarried man born within three days before and after the birthday of a certain family, and let him help, so that the yin and yang can be reconciled, and the soul can be at peace." β
Li Yuandao: "Why is this? β
Guo Hong said: "God is the spirit, the soul is the memory, the soul of the little lady was stolen, and then there was another encounter in the wood carving, she didn't know, if the soul is sent back now, it will make her mind confused, like suddenly stuffing a large amount of memory, if it is a terrible thing to say, it will be scared crazy!" β
He saw that Li Yuan was thoughtful, and said: "If a person only has a god and no soul, although he walks, sits and lies like an ordinary person, but he can't remember the past, he will have soul loss." If there is only a soul and no god, this person is a walking corpse, such a person only has memories, but cannot act on his own, and will soon die. Therefore, the first step for Taoists to cultivate the divine soul is to refine the gods. β
Li Yuan nodded: I don't understand.
He was stunned, and he was embarrassed to say it, so he hurriedly asked, "What is the refiner's birthday?" β
Guo Hong got Zhong Liquan's guidance last night and said: "A certain family was born on April 15, so now we need the help of a man born within three days before and after, so that we can work with a certain person, and there will be no mistakes in the practice, please Li Taishou make a decision." β
Li Yuan was embarrassed when he heard this, wouldn't it be detrimental to his reputation to let a man contact his daughter, and the servant could not consider it, he looked at the other three men present: Lu Yu, Lu Zhizhen, and Cao Shouzhen, and finally decided to ask Lu Yu first.
Lu Yu replied, "Uncle, I was born on April 14. β
Although he and Li Yuan are called each other's nephews, in fact, this uncle and his mother Li are cousins of the same clan, and the relationship is not very close, so they don't know his birthday.
Li Yuan looked at Lu Yu carefully at this time, nodded secretly and said, "Then you can help Zhongli refine the Fa." β
Lu Yu is the son of an official eunuch, his father Lu Rang was a Dali Siqing from the third grade, although there are still many protΓ©gΓ©s who have lost power, even if they can't turn over in the future, Lu Yu may also be promoted by these people to be admitted to the Jinshi.
For Li Susu, whose reputation is tainted, marrying Lu Yu can be regarded as a good parent.
Guo Hong returned to the pavilion and continued to pretend, and Lu Yu walked up to him and stood respectfully.
After another half an hour, Guo Hong burned the seal, prayed to God, and then called Lu Yu to him and said to him, "Close your eyes and think." β
After a while, waiting for Lu Yu to settle down, Zhong Guohong grabbed it in the air with one hand, and then threw it into his arms with a gesture, and said:
"Get up!"
Li Yuan was in the distance, and he saw Lu Yu standing up straight like a marionette, walking out of the pavilion with stiff steps, coming to Li Susu, who was sitting on the ground, and pressing a hand on her heart.
After a while, Li Susu suddenly opened his eyes, and in a trance, he seemed to see Zhong Liquan, Lu Yu and others rescuing him, hugged Lu Yu and shouted, "Cousin! β
She threw herself into her lover's arms and cried loudly, so intimate with him that she completely forgot to care about her father's eyes.
Li Yuan coughed, and saw that his daughter was still the same, so he had to shake his head and sigh, it seems that he doesn't have to think about it, and let this nephew prepare to propose marriage when he turns around.
At this point, the spell casting was over, Guo Hong hurriedly grabbed Li Yuan and begged for wine, saying that he had endured it for a long time.
In ancient times, there were really no drinks, and drinking alcohol could barely be replaced.
Guo Hong: I'm not a glutton, but a deep participant.
So the Assassin's Mansion held a banquet again, and it lasted for an hour.
Li Susu and Lu Yu found an excuse to hide in the garden, and He Qiong, Wang Dudu, and Hongdou wanted to take a peek.
Lu Yu and the others hugged their ears and sideburns, and they didn't dare to act too much.
Even so, in the Tang Dynasty, it was enough for non-Qing not to marry, and non-monarch not to marry.
After another night, on the morning of the third day, Li Yuan began to interrogate the maid Xiaomercury in the study.
Guo Hong and others were invited to come over and watch.
This little maid had been locked up for more than a day, looking haggard, tied up like a dumpling and thrown in front of the hall, and her long hair was scattered and fell to the ground.
I only heard her crying: "Fu Jun, Xiao Mercury has no intention of harming the little lady, if there is a falsehood, please let the Buddha punish him, and go to the hell of tongue pulling out after death!" β
She must have heard the servant inform her of the situation, and came up to beg for mercy.
"After you arrived in Yuezhou, you had a close relationship with a young monk from a nearby temple, what happened?" Li Yuan asked with a frosty face.
Xiao Mercury was stunned for a moment, and replied: "The slave is guilty, the monk is a monk I met when I went to the temple with the little lady to drop incense, called Shi Chengye, and after talking, I knew that it was the cousin of the same clan of the servant, so I moved around a little later, but there was nothing deviant, please Mingjian!"
"So his common surname is Chen?" Li Yuan asked.
Xiao Mercury nodded, her real surname is Chen, and she is the granddaughter of Chen Hongzhi, a eunuch of the Xianzong Dynasty.
After Emperor Dazhong (Tang Xuanzong) succeeded to the throne, he began to investigate the murderer of his father, Emperor Xianzong, and found that the main messenger was Wang Shoucheng.
Wang Shoucheng united with Liang Shouqian, Wei Yuan and others to launch a palace rebellion, and Chen Hongzhi was ordered to poison Xianzong.
The Wang and Liang families were quite well-connected among the eunuchs, so the emperor first took Chen Hongzhi's descendants and found an excuse to kill his eldest son, and the female dependents were confiscated into the palace.
Xiao Mercury was only 11 years old at the time, and because of her young age, she was sent to the West Market for sale, and Li Yuan saw that she was reading and learning etiquette, so he bought it back as the personal maid of her eldest daughter Li Susu.
The emperor continued to take action and drove several of Chen Hongzhi's adopted sons out of the palace, including Chen Chengye's adoptive father.
Chen Chengye has been purified, not a normal man, so he became a monk to make a living.
Many monks in the Tang Dynasty did not have a legal name, so they used their real name as their surname, and Chen Chengye changed his name to Shi Chengye.
Although both of them are adopted sons and daughters, they are a family after passing through in ancient times, so they are also of the same clan.
Li Yuan listened to Xiao Mercury's answer, and asked Guo Hongdao again: "Li doesn't understand the Taoist law, so let's ask the refiner to ask." β
Guo Hong nodded and asked Xiao Mercury, "How did you come up with the idea of enshrined this wood carving?" β
Xiao Mercury said: "It was Shi Chengye who wanted the servant to worship, he said that this statue can ward off evil spirits, and he can also seek a good marriage in the future, and the servant believed him in a moment of confusion." β
Guo Hong said: "What happened? β
"After some time, Shi Chengye said that he wanted the maid to go to the temple to pray for blessings, and then asked a master to consecrate the wood carving to be effective."
"Then why did you let the master pray for blessings instead of you?"
Xiao Mercury glanced at Li Susu and cried: "Shi Chengye said that those who pray for blessings will get great benefits, the little lady treats me like a sister, and I have never been married, Xiao Mercury wants her to achieve marriage as soon as possible, how can I know that things are like this......
Guo Hong waved the pu fan twice, and gently patted the big belly with his other hand, today's belly is more bulging than before, and the initial practice of Wuxianggong has an effect.
He thought for a moment and asked, "Then when Su Su Xiao Niang had an accident, why didn't you inform Li Taishou of this matter?" β
"Shi Chengye said, this is the manifestation of the Buddha, so that the little lady has become unusual, and soon her wishful husband will come to the rescue, and then the maid saw that Lu Sanlang really came, so he never had any suspicions, and has been helping the little lady and Lu Sanlang matchmaking."
Guo Hong laughed, he imitated Zhong Liquan for a few days, and became more and more into the play, and said to Li Yuan: "This crooked fight is indeed a marriage." However, if it weren't for a certain family and several teachers and nephews from Wangwu and Hengshan, I wouldn't be able to save people by relying on my apprentices, and in the end, the little lady would still have to die on it! β
Li Yuan clasped his palms together and said: "Amitabha, everything stresses the fate of the law, I think this seems to have been arranged in the dark, maybe the Buddha came to the rescue with your hands, and it has become a good story." You must know that Su Su's mother was sick for two years and passed away the year before last, in order to take care of her two younger brothers, her marriage has been delayed, and it has become a heart disease of Li, and she always feels indebted to her......"
Women in the Tang Dynasty generally began to discuss marriage at the age of fifteen, and those who were not married at the age of eighteen were already considered old girls.
Guo Hong wanted to boast about himself, and he didn't want to be given the credit to the Buddha by the other party.
He hurriedly retorted: "That golem harms people's lives, if this is the Buddha's arrangement, then this Buddha is not a good person, after all, this mud blue Po golem has killed a lot of people, how can we talk about compassion?" On that day, the wood carving cracked, and the ghosts that came out of it were so huge that after a few hosts, the people in front of them had already died, and the graves were all barren and grassy! β
Li Yuan was also secretly frightened when he heard this, and glanced at the Buddhist shrine enshrined in the corner of his study, feeling a little gloomy more and more, and his heart of worshiping Buddha was shaken for the first time.
Guo Hong saw Li Yuan's expression and knew that he had successfully suppressed him, so he continued: "The top priority now is to catch Shi Chengye and figure out the ins and outs of this matter!" β
Li Yuan nodded, he glanced at the little mercury in the hall, and instructed the servant: "Drag this out and beat her to death, and throw the body to the mass grave!" β
Xiao Mercury listened to the ground, and the corners of his forehead were bloody, and he cried: "The prince of the house spares his life!" β
The servant came over and lifted her off the ground, grabbed her hair and dragged her out, Xiao Mercury saw that Li Yuan's face was sinking like water, and she didn't respond to a few screams, she was also a smart person, so she hurriedly struggled and turned her head to Li Susu and shouted: "Little lady spare your life!" For the sake of the servant who has served for so many years......"
Li Susu couldn't bear to see her miserable situation, so she hurriedly got up and called the servant, and said to Li Yuanwanfu: "Father, Xiao Mercury was also deceived by others, originally out of kindness, and in the end, the cousin came to the rescue, and asked her to spare this experience." β
Li Yuan is lazy by nature, and in the past few years, the family has relied on Li Susu to take care of it, and he has never refuted her once in internal affairs, but at this time, he remembered that his daughter made a fool of herself in front of people after coming to Yuezhou, and the streets and alleys discussed gossip, it can be said that she has suffered a lot of humiliation, and listened to "Zhong Liquan" said that if it were not for a coincidence, even her life would be lost, and she naturally hated the people involved in it.
He roared repeatedly: "Fork out, fork out!" β
The servants looked at Li Susu in embarrassment, but still dragged the little mercury out, and the girl's miserable cry was heard outside.
Li Susu saw that his father did not allow it, and he was so anxious that he didn't know what to do, so he glanced at Lu Yulian.
Lu Yu was also a little embarrassed, he and Li Susu did not discuss their relationship, and now his identity was only Li Yuan's distant nephew, and it was really not appropriate to intervene in the family law in the house, so he hurriedly glanced at Guo Hong
Guo Hong shook his fan and said: "Li Taishou, Shi Chengye is a monk from a nearby temple, even if he is a wild monk who crosses privately, he can't be secretly disposed of, otherwise it will be very troublesome to be caught in the future." Therefore, Xiao Mercury still needs to confront him face to face to convict, if the witness is killed now, what if the thief monk does not admit his guilt? β
Li Yuan listened to it and felt a pang in his heart, now that Buddhism is open, and because the previous dynasty had just been persecuted, he was very sensitive, and he really couldn't dispose of Shi Chengye at will.
He hurriedly called the servant to bring back Xiao Mercury, and said to her: "Cheap maid, now give you a chance to live, and when the time comes, you will identify the prisoner, if something goes wrong, you will not be spared!" β
Xiao Mercury kowtowed and said: "Thank you for the grace of the prince not to kill, Xiao Mercury hates to death and releases Chengye, and he will not let him go!" β
Li Yuandao: "The death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime is inescapable, give me a fork and hang it under the tree in the back garden to dry until I catch Shi Chengye and put it down!" β
The servant answered and put the mercury out.
Li Susu still wanted to persuade her father, Lu Yu shook his head lightly at her, at this time Li Yuan was angry, it was better not to be too disobedient.
After Li Yuan finished disposing of it, he said to everyone: "Let everyone laugh." β
They gossiped for a while, Li Yuan still had official business to go to the front office, and the others dispersed.
Lu Yu accompanied Li Susu to the back garden in a hurry, only to see a few servants guarding the side, Xiao Mercury tied his hands together, hanging under a big willow tree by the pool, his green silk and his dress were flying in the wind, and his body was swinging around.
"Lu Lang, now that my father is not here, you go and help me untie her, if she hangs for a day, her blood is not smooth, and I am afraid that my hands will be wasted."