Chapter Eighty-Five: A Visit from the Deceased
The famous philosopher Liu Er Mazi once said that only the starry sky and death are fair, and everyone is under their shadow, without exception.
And the interesting part is that in this vast world, you never know who is looking up at the stars at the same time as you, and how many of these people looking up at the stars have a wonderful connection with you because of the connection of earthly threads.
Buddhists call this connection cause and effect.
Taoists call this connection the number of fate.
And we ordinary people, for this kind of connection, there is a lofty induction, all called - coincidence.
"White Yujing in the sky, five cities on the twelfth floor." At this moment, far away in Chang'an, in the depths of the Ninefold Palace, a man called Erlang stood in front of the railing made of agarwood, also looking at the stars in the sky, muttering to himself and falling into deep thought.
On the low table behind him, there was a stack of fine white paper, exuding the fragrance of pen and ink, and the content on it was full of all the information about a certain guy known as Qingdu Shanshuilang, including his confidential conversation with Princess Rencheng about the official family would definitely send troops to Tibet, including several poems he made, and even Lu Zhe's expression and tone at that time were described in detail.
In another part of Chang'an City, in an extremely luxurious high-rise building, the noble son named Cui Yuanli was drunk and leaned on the Hu Collapse, and there was also a stack of white paper in his hand, the content was similar to the previous one, the noble son held the ** with red lips and white teeth in one hand, waiting for him to bring the wine in the jade cup to his mouth, and looked at Chang'an City under the brilliant starry sky outside the window with interest.
"Guan Zhong's technique? A word to mess up a country, interesting, interesting. The noble prince said, and then turned over and pressed the demon boy under him.
Putting aside how unbearable the noble son and his ** follow-up were, at this moment, thousands of miles away in Qiantang, Chang'an, a man with a soft face looked at the small bag of refined salt on the desk, and under the starlight, the man's smile became meaningful.
Under the same brilliant starlight, the fat man with a somewhat similar face to the feminine man in front of him looked at a big pit outside Chenzhou City, and his expression was extremely pious.
And dozens of miles away from this fat man, an old man dressed as a Taoist priest and with fairy wind bones, dressed in starlight, looked at the majestic mountains of Zuohua Mountain in front of him, and made up his mind in his heart.
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Lu Zhe didn't know that his butterfly flapped its wings gently, bringing a not a small wind to Datang, at this moment, he looked at the sky full of stars, thinking about the huge workload of tomorrow, and soon fell asleep.
What he didn't know was that after this night, Chang'an City sent a team of elite horsemen to Chenzhou quickly.
followed by the generals of the Cui family and the Pei family.
The Mu family firm in the south of the Yangtze River began to build a lot of workshops in remote places in various states, recruited many craftsmen and slaves, and promised heavy money, but they were not allowed to enter or leave.
And a story called "Journey to the West" has also spread at a very fast speed in various states.
In the caravan of the Mu clan to Wuzhuangguan, there was also a burly fat man.
And the old man in the Taoist costume of the fairy wind bones finally passed through a dense forest before dawn, when the morning light was faint, and came to the entrance of a mountain village called Wuzhuang Temple.
The first to discover this old Taoist priest was the eldest daughter of the Shadow Family, named Shadow Pheasant. In Lu Zhe's few memories, the people of the Ying family have always been elusive, and this big sister called Shadow Pheasant is the oldest person in their generation, one year older than Duan Ergou, but since she was thirteen years old, she has rarely seen her, and she is not in the village, I heard that she went outside the mountain, and will only appear in the village on New Year's Day or Mid-Autumn Festival.
And this spring ploughing season, the shadow pheasant is also in the village, was assigned to the animal husbandry group, so there is some contact with Lu Zhe, Lu Zhe has a good impression of her, although the shadow pheasant does not talk much, but often shows a warm smile, among the people who come to eat every day, she is the earliest one, and naturally she is also the earliest one to work, but she is the last to go every day, always help the people in the village to do things, and even helped Lu Zhe wash the dishes. And she is the only one who is willing to help Lu Zhe clean up the dung of those cows.
What a good young lady, it's just a pity that the name is not good. Lu Zhe has secretly complained more than once about the style of the Shadow Family's names, all of which are very simple animal names, the shadow heron, the shadow crane, the shadow snake are all fine, and a girl is called a pheasant, Lu Zhe always feels a little weird.
Whether in ancient times or in later generations, pheasants are not friendly to women. The most famous is Liu Bang's wife, who raised countless noodles, treated people as pigs, and was called the poisonous woman Lu Pheasant (the brothers who treat people as pigs can Baidu it themselves, which is slightly disgusting), and in later generations, it is difficult for you to imagine that parents named their daughters chickens......
"Dare to ask the elders, where does the so-called come from?" The sixteen-year-old Shadow Pheasant stood in front of the old man, his muscles tensed, and his hand reached for his waist, where there was a dagger that was strong enough to cut gold and jade.
"You're a member of the Shadow Family? Yes, yes, please ask the little lady to inform the ghost Sanye as soon as she said that the old man was visiting. The old man stroked his silver beard, and a simple sentence seemed to have a calming power.
Although the Shadow Pheasant didn't understand why the old man knew that she was from the Shadow Family, she paused for a moment, but still bowed honestly, and turned around and went back to the village.
The main reason why the shadow pheasant obediently returned to the village was the old man's words, because few people knew the name of the ghost elder, and almost all of the people who knew this name were elders at the level of the elder, and the shadow pheasant also happened to hear it, and when he heard the person who came to report the name of the ghost seye, the shadow pheasant could be sure that this person had a lot of roots with the ghost elder.
What Shadow Pheasant didn't know was that the sect masters of the Ghost Sect in the past dynasties would be called Ghost Sanye.
There is a medicine called ghost clover, also known as ghost needle grass, clear heat and detoxify, can cure a variety of stubborn diseases, but if it is not used properly, it is a poisonous weed.
"Wait a minute, elder." With doubts that the old man could pass through the mountain protection array, the shadow pheasant went to the ghost elder's house to inform him, and after a while, the ghost elder, who was like an old ghost in the deep mountains, rarely changed into an extremely cumbersome dress and began to walk towards the entrance of the village.
Hey? The villagers who got up early, including Lu Zhe, looked at the appearance of the ghost elder and expressed a certain degree of shock. Not to mention Lu Zhe, even the older Deng Ghost Clan's Iron Three and others had never seen the costume of the Ghost Elder.
What was even more surprising was that after a while, Elder Ming and Elder Deng, who heard the report of the shadow pheasant, also changed into dresses and walked towards the entrance of the village together.
At this time, the curiosity of the villagers was completely aroused.
Although the ghost elder has accumulated a lot of power in the village, he still can't stop the curiosity of the villagers, not to mention that Elder Ming and Elder Deng are also dispatched, it seems that something important must have happened, so, invariably, everyone in the cafeteria put down their chopsticks, and only dared to follow the three elders from a distance, looking at their group.
"I haven't seen you for many years, but the ghost brother is still the same." The old man who was looking at the plum blossom seal on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village, saw the arrival of the ghost elder from a distance, and hurriedly made a joke and said loudly.
"Sun Simiao, what are you doing!" The ghost elder also returned a salute, and then spoke coldly.
"I've seen Brother Ming, Brother Deng." Lao Dao did not reply, but saluted to the two elders who came from behind.
"I've seen Brother Sun." The two elders also hurriedly returned the salute, and their attitude was quite respectful.
"I didn't want to disturb everyone's hidden pleasures, but when Poor Dao encountered a tricky matter, I had to take the liberty to come and disturb it, but Poor Dao was not." Sun Simiao's bearing was excellent, and he said with a smile.
"Where, where, Brother Sun is a distinguished guest, we are fortunate to meet today, and we invite the village to talk." Unexpectedly, it was Elder Ming, who had always been silent, and everyone expressed a certain degree of shock in their hearts about the identity of this Daoist.
What was even more shocking was Lu Zhe standing in the distance, the voice of the ghost elder was low and cold, extremely recognizable. Even if the sound is not high, it has enough penetrating power.
As soon as Sun Simiao's three words came out, Lu Zhe's was like being struck by lightning, and he looked at the tall old man with a clear face blankly.
I rub, it turned out to be the king of medicine, Sun Shichang himself, is it that the Miaoying real person who people admired thousands of years later, according to legend, Sun Simiao, who lived for 141 years, also has a connection with the mountain gate. Lu Zhe thought blankly, as if he understood something.
"I'm stunned, why don't you hurry up and get a few things to eat, and treat this person well, lest someone say that my Wuzhuang Guan people are rude." Seeing Lu Zhe staring at Sun Simiao blankly, the ghost elder felt embarrassed, and when he walked in front of Lu Zhe, his fingers were on a certain part of Lu Zhe's body without a trace, and then a sharp pain came, and Lu Zhe suddenly realized that he couldn't move.
I rubbed it, the points really existed, Lu Zhe found that his whole body was stiff, and he couldn't even make an expression, so he could only maintain that dull expression.
Lao Bai's sunflower point acupuncture hand is not from the ghost elder's lineage. Lu Zhe stood in place in a daze, a sour and itchy taste spread all over his body, and he couldn't cry or laugh.