Few people know when it was built, and few people know who built it. Even the people of Xiangcheng, who are not far from Dusk Mountain, don't know when they first knew that there was a Taoist temple on Dusk Mountain. Some people say it was eight years ago, some say it was ten years ago, and some people say that there was already a house like this in the mountains, and I don't know what dynasty left it over, and it was not newly built at all.

But since there is a group of Taoists on Dusk Mountain, more and more people come to Dusk Mountain to play. The Taoists in this temple do not know how to practice, but their means of doing business are first-class. A bowl of white rice costs 20 yuan, meat dishes are 50 yuan, vegetarian dishes are 30 yuan, there is only one kind of wine, 500 yuan a pot, and the price is clearly marked.

The Great Sui is rich, and there is not much money for a bucket of japonica rice. No matter how clean and delicious the white rice in the Taoist temple on the mountain is, it is definitely not worth 20 yuan, and 50 yuan can buy a large piece of pork, and I don't know how many meat dishes can be cooked. But the Taoists in the Taoist temple also made it clear that these meat, eggs and fresh vegetables were all transported from Xiangcheng, and they had to be moved to the middle of the mountain, and the manpower and material resources spent were not a few, so it was understandable to sell these money.

Most of the people who can live in the Taoist temple are the families of high-ranking officials and nobles, not the son and young master of the family or the young lady and wife of the family, so naturally they don't care about the trivial matters of dozens of texts and hundreds of texts, and there is no other semicolon for this family to open the door to do business on the twilight mountain, and it is difficult for Taoists to make a fortune or not.

The name Taoist temple is appropriate for the occasion.

It's called the Twilight Mountain View.

There are thirty-six Taoists, seventy-two Taoists, and eleven miscellaneous servants in the Dusk Mountain Temple, which is not large in scale, but in good order.

The old Taoist with a goatee who looks quite fairy and has a fairy wind is out of the dust, and he is the master of the twilight mountain view. But outsiders rarely know that the master in this twilight mountain view is not out of the dust, but a master who rarely shows up. Even the Taoist children and miscellaneous servants in the Taoist temple rarely see this master. Of course, the thirty-six disciples who came out of the dust still knew what kind of demeanor this master had.

His name is Xiang Qingniu.

He's busy every day.

He came from a mysterious and astonishing background.

He has an inextricable relationship with Xiao Zhenren, who is a one-man in Qingle Mountain, and also has an unusual relationship with a certain big man in the palace in the capital. It is said that he also has an extremely mysterious identity and a somewhat scary senior brother, who wandered away ten years ago and disappeared. In Xiang Qingniu's own words, his senior brother didn't know which mountain he was in to get rid of demons when he fell into the way of goblins, and now he is doing a village in a certain cave.

Xiang Qingniu is his name, not a road number.

Even the dusty man doesn't know whether this young fat man, who is his uncle, has a Tao number. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that one year he saw Xiang Qingzheng pull off Xiao Zhenren's beard in Qingle Mountain, he really couldn't believe that this guy who had no other advantages except greed for money was actually a person from the Daomen. And it's still very ...... in the Dao Gate Awesome-awesome kind of people.

Xiao Zhenren is the leader of the Daomen, and the Qingle Mountain One Qi Temple is the holy land of the Daomen. Although the name of Wudang Mountain Sanqingguan has become more and more famous in recent years, it can't be compared with the Yiqi Concept with Xiao Zhenren in charge after all. In the words of Xiang Qingniu, the explanation is that Daomen is one gas and three clears, Qingle Mountain is one gas view, and Wudang Mountain is three clear views, so one gas view is the top three three clear views. I don't know if this explanation is given, Dao Ancestor has the idea of knowing whether he will use thunder to kill this fat man.

Xiang Qingniu is very busy, every day is very busy.

However, the things he has to be busy with are simple, just two things, except for sleeping.

If you eat too much, count the money, and if you are too tired to count, eat something. Every time I go to the small courtyard where Xiang Qingniu lives alone, as long as this young uncle is not sleeping, he must be eating, and if he is not eating, then he must be counting money.

Xiang Qingniu once said that people who are greedy for money and don't know how much wealth they have will be dissipated sooner or later.

Xiang Qingniu looked like he was only fifteen years old, white and fat, but in fact he was nineteen years old, and his second senior brother left him when he was nine years old. If he took off that Dao robe and changed into ordinary clothes, who would have thought that he would have a very noble status in the Great Sui Dao Sect? I still remember that when I was in Qingle Mountain, Xiao Zhenren begged Xiang Qingniu to take a road name in a low voice, and Xiang Qingniu almost pulled out Xiao Zhenren's beard.

"I'll take the second senior brother's surname! And my name is Xiang Qingniu, so that when I hear the name, I know that I am his brother! ”

"It's junior brother."

Xiao Zhenren corrected.

"Is the junior brother not the younger brother?"

Xiang Qingniu grabbed Xiao Zhenren's beard again and asked viciously.

"Nature is, nature is...... Of course, the junior brother is also the younger brother, who said that it is not me who is in a hurry! ”

Xiao Zhenren was in pain, and after Xiang Qingniu let go, he couldn't help but sigh: "I have had a good relationship with your second senior brother since I was a child, and he really can't bear to leave you alone!" ”

Izumi still clearly remembers this conversation at the beginning, and he also deeply remembers in his heart that he would rather offend the master than offend the little uncle. Ten years ago, he was ordered by his master to travel all over the world to open the door to accept apprentices, and finally chose Dusk Mountain. Four years ago, Uncle Xiao came to the Dusk Mountain Temple, and since then he has lived a dark life.

It is said that shortly after he came down from Qingle Mountain, his uncle, who was only nine years old at the time, also said goodbye. Since then, there has been no news, and I don't know why it suddenly appeared in Twilight Mountain six years later. At that time, the dust did not dare to delay, and hurriedly sent someone to Qingle Mountain to deliver the letter. Xiao Zhenren sent several groups of people to invite Xiang Qingniu back, but he just stayed here and didn't leave.

Later, Xiao Zhenren sent a message: "It's okay not to go back to Qingle Mountain, but you are not allowed to run away again." ”

Xiang Qingniu pursed his lips and said to the disciple who passed on the message: "Go back and tell Old Man Xiao that six years ago, I traveled all over the Great Sui penniless and failed to find the second senior brother, thinking that he had gone away from a foreign land. The cultivators in the Great Sui can walk without money, but the disciples of the Great Sui Dao Ancestors are far less popular than those bald donkeys, so it is not good to have no money. When I have saved enough money, I will leave Dasui, and when I find the second senior brother, I will naturally not go anywhere. ”

Xiao Zhenren sighed gloomily after hearing this reply, and said an idiot.

Perhaps, this can also be the road number of Xiang Qingniu.

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When Xiang Qingniu woke up, it was already three poles in the morning, he rubbed his hazy sleepy eyes and rolled over and wanted to continue sleeping, but the voices of the Taoist people in the front yard reciting the Tao Te Ching were too loud, so he felt very irritable. Tao Te Ching, Chaos Sutra, Dao Zu said that these three books are compulsory lessons for Daomen disciples, except for Xiang Qingniu, of course.

Listening to the sound of the recitation in front of him, he got angry, then sat up and got out of bed, pulled on his two shoes and picked up the copper basin for washing his face, and walked out of the room with his bare shoulders revealing a white fat body, walked out of the small courtyard and strode to the front yard and back door, and then smashed the copper basin towards the dust who was sitting in the first seat.

Clang, crisp.

After this crisp sound, the sound of recitation in the room suddenly stopped. When he looked at it again, he didn't know when he flew to the back of the Daozu stone statue and hid.

The owner of the Dusk Mountain View showed his head tremblingly from behind the stone statue, and asked cautiously, "Uncle Shi, what are your orders?" ”

Xiang Qingniu said a word, and let people not sleep, turn their heads and leave, out of the dust, and after Xiang Qingniu's figure disappeared, he flashed out from behind the stone statue, tidied up his clothes, and said solemnly: "Reciting the Tao Te Ching is to let you understand the law of the natural avenue left by the Taoist ancestor, this ...... It's about sincerity, not about the pitch...... You listen to the spring breeze silently, but naturally, the spring grass is silent, and it is also natural, so ......"

"Master, we get it!"

All the disciples said in unison, and then began to recite silently in their hearts.

Izumi nodded with satisfaction, and said in his heart that they were all manufacturable materials.

Xiang Qingniu returned to his small courtyard and got into the quilt to continue sleeping, and accidentally dropped a copper coin when he went to bed, he immediately reached out and picked it up, put it on his mouth and blew it and put it away. On the side of his wooden bed, there were countless copper coins and silver tickets, and I don't know how many.

Of course, he himself knows it.

Looking at the pile of money, Xiang Qingniu muttered to himself: "Old man Xiao said that you can't go to the world without a thousand gold, and I don't know when you have to save a thousand gold." I'm only going to wait here for five years, and if I can't make up a lot of money in five years, I'll leave. The second senior brother shouldn't have brought much silver with him when he left, and I can go as far as he can. ”

After saying this, he shook his head again: "I am definitely not as far as the second senior brother." ”

After saying this, he felt that he was hungry, and he would definitely be hungry and unable to sleep. So he got up again shirtless, shaking his fat meat, and devoured all the cooked meat and snacks left over from last night on the table. patted his stomach with satisfaction, and the fat rippled away like water waves.

Of course, you have to sleep when you are full, and counting money is manual work, and you must wait until you are rested before doing it.

It didn't take long for the snoring to thunder.

An hour later, Chuchenzi cautiously appeared at his door, half of his body hid behind the door, and said softly: "Uncle Shi, are you still sleeping?" ”

Xiang Qingniu rolled over and continued to sleep.

"There is someone from the imperial capital, waiting in front, do you want to see it?"

"Old man Xiao found it again? Missing! ”

"Not this time...... It is a eunuch from the palace, with His Majesty's holy decree, although I still want to invite you to participate in this year's examination of the Martial Arts Academy, but this time it is not a ceremony, but an invigilation. ”

"The Emperor has sent someone?"

Xiang Qingniu sat up violently, rubbed his eyes and said, "The person sent by the emperor? That's still where you should go...... Old man Xiao can't listen to his words, and the emperor's words can't be ignored. ”

Out of the dust let out a sigh of relief, and his heart was finally a lot more steady. He always thought that Xiang Qingniu was a person who was not afraid of heaven and earth, but now it seems that he fortunately still has the least reverence for the emperor.

"The second senior brother said before that the words of the Great Sui Emperor must be listened to, and the emperors of other countries can be used as farts when they speak. Since it is the second senior brother, what he said must be reasonable, so I will go this time. As for being an invigilator of the Martial Arts Academy...... I think I'll be able to take care of the food, right? ”

Xiang Qingniu picked up his clothes and walked out, and said as he walked: "Then I'm going to go to the imperial capital now, Dusk Mountain Guan, you are in charge, you can lack anything, that is, if you miss the amount of silver every month, I will not finish with you...... In addition, I know exactly how much money I have in my house, and if I come back and find that there is one copper coin missing, I will pull out your beard and hang you on the beam of the front yard. ”

"Uncle Shi rest assured...... That one...... The chagrin ahead is still waiting for you. ”

"Let him go back first, I'll go to Chang'an by myself."

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After Xiang Qingniu went down the twilight mountain, he realized that he had forgotten to bring some dry food, and he was grumbling with hunger after walking for half a day. He had planned to go to a town not far from Dusk Mountain to find a way to get something to eat, but after doing his calculations, he found that he would definitely faint from hunger when he was a mile and a half away from the town.

At this moment, I suddenly heard a noise behind me. He looked back and saw that it was a string of about six or seven carriages. The people who drove the car were all strong men, and they were not good people at first glance. Especially the shriveled old man who was driving in the second carriage, even made him unconsciously feel resistant.

As he hesitated, he saw that the windows of the carriage were open, and many charming women were looking out, so he completely dismissed the idea of asking for some food. In his opinion, the old man with a big wine gourd was terrifying, but it was far less terrible than those goblin women.

Just when all was lost, he suddenly found that his luck had come.

It was about a hundred meters from the convoy, followed by a carriage.

The driver was a middle-aged man, and the horsewhip snapped. Next to the car sat a black-shirted young man, his eyes closed as if he was asleep.

That's not the point.

The point is that the driver is eating meat while throwing the whip.

Very fragrant meat.