In a small town more than ten miles away from Chang'an, the imperial capital, Fang Xie and the big dog squatted on the branches of the roadside every day when they had nothing to do. Look at the majestic imperial capital city in the distance and tell some endless nonsense jokes. They squatted on the trees to watch the scenery, and every now and then the Shen tilting fan looked at the two of them as scenery.

A little girl with a pink carving pointed to the big dog and asked Shen Xie Fan: "Auntie, who are those two, why are you squatting on the branches?" ”

Shen Tianfan gently pinched the delicate face of the little girl and told her seriously: "Those are two birdmen." ”

The little girl obviously didn't know what a birdman was, so she asked where the wings were hidden. Shen Tianfan smiled and said that those two are birdmen who can fly without wings, which is very powerful. The little girl asked her aunt if you can fly, Shen Tianfan thought about it and said yes, and then disappeared without a trace.

The little girl was startled, and she screamed and turned around and ran.

Fang Xie looked at the Shen tilting fan that quietly peeked out from behind a big tree, looked at the back of the little girl who fled in the wilderness, pursed his lips and smiled. He suddenly realized that this woman herself had not seen through it at all. When they were together before, he thought that he knew the character of Shen Tianfan, but after three and a half years, he thought that Shen Tianfan had not changed at all. But now, in a trance, he felt that none of the Shen Tilt fans he saw were real Shen Tilt fans.

Perhaps, they are all real Shen tilting fans.

"How many sides do you have?"

He muttered.

The big dog thought that Fang Xie was talking about him, but after thinking about it carefully, he replied uncertainly: "Two-sided? ”

Fang Xie smiled dumbly, and then asked, "Which two sides?" ”

When he asked, the big dog didn't know if the answer he thought was correct, so he cautiously asked, "Front and back?" ”

Fang Xie laughed, his face was free.

The big dog scratched his messy hair embarrassedly, and suddenly pointed to the south of the official road with a sharp look in his eyes and said in a deep voice: "It seems that a big man is coming." ”

Hundreds of rides

The robe is tied, and the high crown is emanated.

Three or two red carriages were in the center and came slowly.

Fang Xie narrowed his eyes and couldn't help but sigh in a low voice It was really a big man.

Standing under a big tree, Shen Tilting Fan jumped to Fang Jie's side, and sat down on the branch of the tree at all, pointing to the mighty team of people and horses, and said: "A group of stinky Taoist priests are not worried, but there are two old Taoist priests in the carriage who are very frightening, one with a high cultivation can scare people to death, and the other is bottomless at all." ”

She turned her head to look at Fang Xie and said, "Of course, you might be more interested in the other person. ”

At this time, Fang Xie found several familiar figures in the team of hundreds of people. So he was a little distracted, looking at those people and having the illusion of being in a different world. Beside a carriage were not Taoists, nor were they court officials who led them.

A strong man over two meters tall, and a thin man with a pair of cymbals hanging from his waist. A middle-aged man with a copper rod tied to his back, and an assassin dressed in black who also covers his mouth and nose in broad daylight.

Kirin, Horizontal Stick, Iron Slave, Night Stalker.

There should have been a Shen Tilt Fan in that team, but now the Sinking Fan was sitting next to Fang Jie. She held the branch with both hands, her feet bouncing in mid-air. This kind of heavy tilting fan makes people suddenly wake up, and her age is actually far from being as mature as it feels.

"Shouldn't I go down and say hello?"

The big dog said with a smile.

"The Iron Slave still owes me a drink."

Shen Tianfan frowned: "Aren't you not drinking?" ”

The big dog said seriously: "I haven't seen you for three and a half years, it's worth having a drink." ”

Fang Xie rubbed his nose, maybe his squatting legs were a little sore, so he also sat down on the branch. He looked at the group of hundreds, stared at one of the carriages, and suddenly smiled to himself.

"It's really a piece of crap, and it's a genius."

He asked Shen Tianfan: "If you were the person behind me, would you think it would be better to bring that fake one back?" What did you do in the first place, stealing a random person is more fierce than me...... And now that he is a closed disciple of Xiao Zhenren, won't he be even more vigorous in the future? ”

"You can go down and stop the carriage."

Shen Tianfan smiled and said, "She has always wanted to meet you. ”

Fang Xie took out a cigarette pouch from the deerskin pocket on his waist and lit it, took a puff and pouted: "She doesn't want to see me because I'm more handsome, I can guess how big the resentment that has been backlogged for three and a half years is with my ass." If that resentment can be turned into a murderous weapon, it can also wring me into a puddle of mud from thousands of miles away. ”

"What's her name?"

"Foam Cream"

"Nice, pretty, isn't it?"

"It's beautiful.

"Then I have to be more careful, I really see her in the future that she can't be a man with her tail between her legs. The person is a beautiful mess, he is still a fucking genius, and he was accepted as a disciple by the leader of the Great Sui Dao Sect, and ten years later, he is a nine-rank master who everyone is afraid of...... Do you want to let people live? ”

Shen Tianfan smiled, speechless.

The young man sitting on the branch with a cigarette pouch in his mouth and squinting his eyes looked weird...... Like a wicked.

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The officials of the Ministry of Rites who were in charge of greeting Xiao Zhenren in Qingle Mountain were waiting at the send-off kiosk thirty miles away from Nancheng early, and the rank of these officials was not high. The biggest official is just a foreigner from the fifth grade, but you must know that there are really few people in the world who can work for the officials of the Great Sui Rite Department to go out of the city for thirty miles to greet them.

When Emperor Murong Yan of Southern Yan personally came to the capital of the Great Sui Emperor to surrender his ministers, the officials of the Ministry of Rites were just waiting at the gate of Chang'an City.

In the words of an official of the Ministry of Rites, although Xiao Zhenren is not a big man who has reached the sky, this person is a kind of face of the current Great Sui, so the people of the Ministry of Rites have to deal with it carefully. The Mengyuan Empire had Buddhism, and there was the Great Snow Mountain Great Wheel Temple. So His Majesty the Emperor let the Great Sui have a Taoist sect, and there is Qingle Mountain to watch Xiao Zhenren. This is a flag erected by His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty himself, how dare the officials of the Ministry of Rites not hold it higher?

And this time, it was the Emperor of the Great Sui who personally issued an order and invited Xiao Zhenren to watch the martial arts exam. It is an invitation rather than a conscription, and even His Majesty's words and sentences are so rigorous, how dare the officials below take it seriously?

For Xiao Zhenren, the officials of the Ministry of Rites also really have some respect.

Your Majesty wants to set up a sect, but it is not something that can be established by appointing a random person. Although the allusion of the peach blossoms blooming and the peach ripening overnight in Qingle Mountain is not known to be true or false, it is a miracle that can deceive most of the people. If you are someone else, you really don't have this means.

In the morning, Fang Xie and the big dog watched the officials of the Ministry of Rites pass by, and they would watch them come back slowly next to a carriage, Fang Xie couldn't help but praise: "The leader of the Taoist Sect just wants to have such a shelf, and a few five or six grade officials are really not qualified to get into his carriage." ”

The big dog pursed his lips: "Do you know that even if the Great Khan of the Mengyuan Empire goes to the Great Wheel Temple, he will have to bow three times and knock all the way up?" King Dalun Ming refers to one person who can make him an emperor, and another finger can turn him back into an ordinary man. That is really status, Xiao Zhenren's frame is still a little worse than that of King Dalunming. The king of the big wheel travels, three thousand golden-bodied monks and soldiers escort him, and the four heavenly honors accompany him, scattering flowers for thousands of miles, and the people and officials along the way can kneel all over the grassland! ”

Shen Tianfan said disapprovingly: "That's because Buddhism has been established for a long time, if the Taoist Sect can persist for hundreds of years, then after a few hundred years, the Taoist Sect will be in charge of the sect and will be bowed down the street like the King of Dalun Ming." It can also casually refer to a person as the emperor, overriding the supremacy of any imperial power in the mundane world. ”

"Won't"

Fang Xie shook his head and said, "As long as the Great Sui does not fall, the Dao Sect will never have such a glorious day. Unless the Taoist Sect transfers the sect outside the Great Sui and goes to grab a piece of the country from the Buddhist Sect as its own foundation. ”

Shen tilted his fan for a moment, and then nodded: "Yes...... It's that I'm wrong, the emperor of the Great Sui is too strong, and he will never allow anyone in his empire to have more influence than himself. Like the Mengyuan Empire, the emperor also needs to be designated by the Great Wheel Ming King, and in the Great Sui, I am afraid that it will not appear even if it is too young. ”

"Imperial power is inseparable from divine power."

Fang Xie smiled and said, "Because the emperor wants to count on the gods to deceive the common people for him." But unless the emperor is a waste...... Otherwise, theocracy will never be allowed to override the imperial power. ”

The big dog suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly: "Sometimes the emperor is not wasted, and he may also face the miserable situation of destroying the country. ”

This is not in tune with the previous conversation, and I don't know why he made it.

Fang Xie glanced at him thoughtfully.

The brigade on the official road is getting closer and closer, and the pomp and circumstance seem to be getting bigger and bigger.

When the big red carriage at the front reached the edge of the town, the curtain was raised, and a middle-aged Taoist with sword eyebrows and a high nose could be seen sitting cross-legged inside. Unlike the costumes of other Taoists, this Taoist wears a bright red brocade robe embroidered with intricate patterns with gold threads. He sat upright in the carriage, his eyes closed, and his hands pinched the Dharma seal and placed it on his knees. It looks very imposing, especially the little vermilion on his forehead is the most eye-catching.

I don't know if it was on point, or if it was born that way.

From a distance, it was as if a third eye had been opened on his forehead. The vermilion mark, which was about the same size as the peach pit, was like a vertical red eye, and the color was too bright and brighter than the red robe on his body, so it was particularly eye-catching.

Although it was a little far away, Fang Xie suddenly felt a feeling of depression in his heart after taking a closer look.

"Don't look."

Shen Tianfan lowered his voice and reminded: "The mark on the old Taoist's forehead is a little weird, even I almost lost my mind the last time I saw him." ”

Fang Xie frowned slightly and asked, "He is the outrageous old Taoist you said with high cultivation?" He doesn't look very old. ”

Shen Tianfan nodded and said, "This red-robed priest is called Crane Daoren, and he is in charge of punishment in the Dao Sect. Although the cultivation is terrifying, in my opinion, even if you can't beat him, you may be able to escape...... Because I could see how tall he was, and the old man in the second carriage behind him was really scary, because ...... I can't tell how tall he is. ”

The person who can make Shen Tianfan feel scared may be really terrifying.

At this moment, the procession outside the town suddenly stopped. Many people in the town gathered around to watch, most of them whispering. For the Taoist sect, the people actually don't know much about it. Emperor Tianyou of the Great Sui Dynasty strongly promoted Taoism, because Qingle Mountain is in the south of the Yangtze River, so there are not a few Taoist believers among the people in Jiangnan. In Hebei, Gyeonggi and other places, the people are still a little unfamiliar with Taoism, and even reject it.

It's not easy to get a group of people who have never believed in one thing to believe.

Seeing that there were many people around, a disciple wearing a dark cyan robe walked in front of everyone and began to preach morality. When someone asked a question, he answered with a smile.

"There are no gods living in the sky, because the heavens themselves are the greatest gods."

The man smiled kindly and said, "All things in time are given by heaven. Man's destiny is also determined by heaven. And the reason why His Majesty, the emperor of the Great Sui, is called the Son of Heaven is because His Majesty is really a child of Heaven. His Majesty's words represent the will of God. Why can't Your Majesty's words be violated? Because the will of heaven cannot be violated. ”

Hearing this, Fang Xie couldn't help but smile and said in a low voice: "These Taoists are conscientious, and they must have preached for His Majesty the Great Sui Emperor along the way. ”

The people listened attentively, and from time to time someone asked questions. But at this time, a running bull suddenly rushed out of the woods, and I don't know what it was frightened and rushed directly towards the crowd, and the owner of the cow chased all the way behind, constantly shouting for people to get away.

Seeing that the bull was about to crash into the crowd, the red-robed priest who had been sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed suddenly opened his eyes, slowly raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the bull.

One finger.

Subsidence.

The official road, which was as hard as blue bricks, suddenly collapsed into a big pit, and the running bull didn't have time to stop his footsteps and fell into it violently. There was a wail, and the cow didn't know how many bones had been broken. It struggled at the bottom of the pit, but it couldn't stand up like a net.

"W-!"

Fang Jie, who was sitting on the tree branch, suddenly widened his eyes, and then said very badly: "This is too much!" ”