Seeing that the old Taoist priest asked him about the intention of these people, Hou Liangzhu said: "Since you know that we are here for business, what are you talking about?" Ask less and don't care, when you encounter a question, answer well, and cooperate with the investigation is your duty ‰ remember the URL of this site:. ”

The old Taoist priest said: "Of course, the poor Taoist is a monk who will not take care of the affairs of the common family, and the affairs of the official family are not something that my master and apprentice can manage. ”

Liu Qiao asked with a smile: "Your small Taoist temple is only a few palms big, but we are hundreds of people, can you provide food or drink?" ”

The old Taoist priest said: "The incense is not prosperous and there is no production, and it is very difficult to solve the food and clothing of my master and apprentice, not to mention the food and drink of hundreds of people, but there is a piece of dry land of dozens of acres behind the temple, which cannot grow rice, but there is a lot of grass that can be fed to horses." ”

Liu Qiao discussed with Hou Liangzhu and said: "Then please ask the noble disciples to take the soldiers to the grass to feed the horses, let's take a look here, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking and other things, you just need to answer our questions well." ”

The old Taoist priest said: "This is very good, if you have anything to say, you can ask, and the poor Taoist also wants to know what this poor country can do to attract hundreds of officials to come, but I don't know how long you will live here?" ”

Liu Qiao thought for a while and said: "If you are willing to cooperate, it may be good in a few days, if I can't complete the task, I won't be able to go back to the errand, and then I will have to become a monk in this Taoist temple and worship you as a teacher to inherit your mantle." Of course, if you are willing to cooperate and make meritorious contributions, you don't have to worry about eating and drinking in this Taoist temple in the future. ”

The old Taoist priest was stunned for a while, and it took a while to understand that Liu Qiao was joking, so he also smiled and said: "Meritorious service or reward depends on fate, poor Dao doesn't know if there is this fate to get the reward of the official, so I have to thank the official first." Although the view is remote, but it is very spiritual, the general people do not know, if the official is really related to the view of the poor road can take the teacher to accept the apprentice, it is okay to pass the position of the master directly to you, now let the poor road as much as the landlord should take you to everywhere to see, what do you have to say, although you ask the poor road must know everything. ”

Although this temple is small, it is still built facing south, and the three of them came to the well in the west of the courtyard, and looked at the water in the well and the traces of friction on the side of the well because of the perennial lifting of water, Liu Qiao secretly thought that this place would not be the eye of the earth. I looked at a stone platform not far from the well, this stone platform was a whole stone that was a little tilted, and a small stone was cushioned with some oblique below, and the large surface on the top may have been polished at the beginning, and it has been very smooth for a long time, and the master is here to do things like washing clothes and vegetables□ Qiao was not at ease and squatted down again to look at the gap between the big and small stones, there was nothing below, only a frog was also squatting there, staring at himself with bulging eyes.

The terrain to the west of the stone platform is low, planting some eggplants, peppers, winter melons and other vegetables, and then there is a grass shed by the wall, it is estimated that the thatched house is close to the vegetable field to facilitate fertilization□ Qiao turned to look at a row of low houses on the east side of the opposite side and asked: "What is the Yishun house used for?" ”

The old Taoist priest followed Liu Qiao around, thinking about what this person was doing here with soldiers and horses, but it was not easy to ask, so he had to follow behind, and when he saw Liu Qiao asking about his house, the old Taoist priest said: "That row is a place to pile up sundries and firewood and grass, here is next to the mountain, in summer and autumn, I will go up the mountain to collect firewood, and in winter and when I have no time, I will take it out and burn it." The one with a bigger head is the stove room, where our master and apprentice cook rice and boil water, and this Taoist temple is similar to the layman, and firewood, rice, oil, salt, vinegar, sauce and tea are all indispensable. ”

Liu Qiao nodded lightly, thinking that these houses with firewood might be a little strange, and when the time came, he said that the soldiers needed straw mats to sleep on every night, so that they could see if there were any strange things in that row of houses↓ Thinking so, he heard the old Taoist priest say: "I heard that you have brought hundreds of people, you can take out the firewood and grass to sleep on at night, the humidity in the south is heavy, don't let the moisture invade the body, old and sick." ”

Liu Qiao couldn't help but smile dumbly when he saw the old Taoist priest so sincere, and said a little embarrassedly: "Then it's troublesome to watch the master, now let's go to the main hall to have a look." ”

When the three of them came to the main hall, Liu Qiao looked up and saw that the whole hall was no more than two feet high, and the door panels were all in their original color, and there were no worn-out paint marks, which showed that they had not been painted. Entering the door to see Zhang Tianshi's clay statue is more shabby, directly made of mud tires Zhang Tianshi sat there, not to mention that the gold is painted dots have not done enough, and those golden Buddha Guanyin statue is far away, no wonder there is no incense here and the Taoist priest needs to farm and eat by himself. Looking at both sides of the main hall, I saw a door at one end, and each built a long ear room outside, thinking that it was a place for the master and apprentice to rest.

Seeing that Liu Qiao's interest shifted from the main hall to the ear rooms on both sides, the old Taoist priest said: "If the official is interested, you can take a look, the two rooms on the east side are eating places, and inside are the bedrooms of the apprentices." Because here is the stove room, so my apprentice lives here, although he is a mute, but cooking is also good, the official is interested, you can try his craft. ”

Liu Qiao went out from the small door on the side of the hall and entered the east ear room, only to see that this room was divided into two, there was an old table and two benches against the wall outside± the outside was black, it was estimated that it was not the color of the paint but the dust and greasy, there were several half-finger-wide seams on the table, and a chopstick holder on the table contained several pairs of chopsticks, and it was estimated that the chopsticks would often fall to the ground from the gap in the table. There is a bed against the wall inside, looking at a few wooden planks of different lengths sticking out of the head of the bed, it is estimated that this bed is built up by several wooden boards, there are a few pairs of straw sandals stained with mud on the ground, and a pair of cloth shoes that are stained with ash but not deformed, it is estimated that the apprentice's master shoes are not willing to wear them.

Liu Qiao took a closer look here, and by the way handed a look to Hou Liangzhu next to him, Hou Liangzhu nodded lightly to show that he understood and looked carefully up and down, left and right, after a while, the two looked at each other and smiled bitterly, it is estimated that they did not find any valuable clues□ Qiao said to the old Taoist: "Guigao disciple led our soldiers to the grass to feed the horses, it seems that he has to delay cooking for you, it is already noon, why don't you go out with us to eat something in a while?" ”

The old Taoist priest shook his head and said: "The people here are different from you, they all sleep late and get up late to drag the time to live, not to tell you that we just finished breakfast not long ago, the apprentice will come back for a while, and then talk about the cooking matter, the official looked at the east and then looked at the west, there is a poor sleeping room and a place to drink tea, because there are a few big trees planted outside, it is not sunbathed in the morning, and it is very cold in the afternoon, and then a gust of mountain wind blows in the evening, which is very lively." ”

Liu Qiao said: "I really envy you when I hear you say this, so let's go through it now." ”

The three of them walked through the main hall again and came to the west ear room, only to see that this is also the layout of the two rooms, and the bedroom is in the inside, and the outside is the place where ♀ the day lives, and there is also a large table in the window of the room, on which there is a small teapot and two cups, and there are several books piled up next to it, all of which are talking about the knowledge of drawing symbols, which looks like a Taoist deceptive technical instruction book± next to the child is a large chair, the middle part of the chair has been polished, it is estimated that the old Taoist priest is also a person who has no good habits, Likes to sit in a chair and sit and sway.

The inner room is the old Taoist's bedroom, which is much better than the simplicity of the apprentice's bedroom in the east, and it is not that the old Taoist's bed is a high-end product that paints gold and phoenix, his bed is the same as his apprentice's bed, it is made of wooden planks, but there are two more boxes in the room, which gives people the idea of wanting to open it and find out. Hou Liangzhu looked at Liu Qiao, as if asking him if he needed to find an excuse to open the box, Liu Qiao shook his head and went out. Seeing that the old Taoist priest didn't come out, Liu Qiao whispered to Hou Liangzhu: "Tell me the truth, brother, we are not looking for any gold and silver treasures, but looking for a hole where the eyes of the earth are hidden, just work on the ground, and look at the poor appearance they are wearing, and the dilapidated appearance of this Taoist temple does not look like there are gold and silver treasures." ”

Hou Liangzhu nodded understandingly, and went out to see the vegetable field by the wall, the vegetable field was covered with some rubble, it is estimated that the owner spent some effort to tidy up the vegetable field, a gust of wind blew and made people smell a smell of urine, it is estimated that the old Taoist priest did not go to the thatched house in front of him at night to urinate urgently, but stood on the side of the vegetable field to solve it, and it can be regarded as the fertilizer water did not flow into the outsider's field.

At this time, the old Taoist priest came out and said: "Poor Dao knows that the official master is going to live in Yiguan for a while, and you still have to sleep in the soldiers living outside, so I cleaned up the room first, and the poor Dao side is cleaner than the apprentice's side, and the two officials can sleep in the poor Dao room, and the poor Dao moved over to squeeze the apprentice." ”

Liu Qiao thought that he would take the opportunity to check the rows of firewood and grass in the evening, so he said: "How can we occupy the magpie's nest when we are guests from afar?" It's okay to stay in the east. In addition, at night the soldiers had to carry firewood and grass to sleep, and it was convenient for us to be restrained if we were close. ”

The old Taoist priest heard that it made sense, so he didn't continue, at this time, there were soldiers to invite dinner, Liu Qiao and Hou Liangzhu temporarily said goodbye and left, and came to the small river to take a look, only to see that the soldiers had already made the meal, some people were carrying packages and preparing to send food to the brothers who were herding horses on the mountain□ Qiao and Hou Liangzhu each chose a stone to sit down to eat, Hou Liangzhu said while eating: "Brother Liu, let's pull your fifty people to sleep in the hall tonight, I estimate that it should be no problem to sleep more than fifty people in the hall and in the firewood and grass room." My men were divided into two parts, one part set up tents in the meadows on the mountain to guard the other, and some people were stationed by the mountain loop river. ”

Liu Qiao nodded and said: "The old Taoist priest's footsteps are vain, there is no threat, his apprentice seems to be not weak, you and I are definitely not afraid during the day, he will be black in the middle of the night, and fifty brocade guards will be safer to escort them." ”

After eating, Hou Liangzhu announced that 200 people would go up the mountain to camp to watch the horses, and 300 people would camp by the river in case of emergency. After the order, the two came to the Taoist temple again, at this time the apprentice had already come back and was cooking in the stove room, looking at Liu Qiao, they didn't react when they came in, but there seemed to be a little more indescribable taste in their eyes.