Chapter 106: The Wizard of the Sea of Clouds
It took a lot of time to go out of Chang'an and then to Zhongnan Mountain. By this time, it was getting late. Xuanyun Temple set up a mourning hall to build a water and land dojo, and invited male guests to burn incense.
Xue Shao took a stick of incense on his head, signed the name of "Fenyin Xue Shao" on the gift list, and added 18,000 incense money to Xuanyun Temple, which was regarded as the cost of the funeral and thanks.
It's one thing to be able to be wealthy, Xue Shao's handsome appearance and noble background, coupled with this extravagant spending, really amazed the Taoist aunts of Xuanyun Temple. But whenever Xue Shao went in and out, a hot gaze would fall on his body, as if he was going to swallow him alive.
Chromophobia, too, the Taoist aunts who live in seclusion also understand loneliness!
With Xue Shao taking the lead, Di Renjie and Li Xianyuan, the two court officials, came to give Zhang Miao incense and sign the gift.
The Taoist aunts secretly discussed, isn't this deceased a lowly prostitute, how could there be a noble son of the Xue family in Fenyin to give her a beautiful funeral, and there are also court officials who come to the funeral?
Xuanyunguan has purchased vegetarian food, and guests are invited to enjoy it in the thatched hall at the back view, but no "accommodation" is provided. It is dark and the road is difficult to walk, I am afraid that it is not so convenient to go down the mountain, and I am afraid that the city gate has been closed when I arrive in Chang'an. Li Xianyuan had already made arrangements and set up a few marching tents next to Xuanyun Temple, so that he could spend the night. Di Renjie, the Dali Cheng Rili, had no chance to stay here, so he left and left. Before leaving, he told Xue Shao again that he had to be more careful.
Xue Shao came to settle down, ate some vegetarian food hastily, and settled down in the tent on the mountain behind the Taoist temple, preparing to go down the mountain after dawn tomorrow.
Because of Di Renjie's verbal vigilance, the moon slave moved the tent closer to Xue Shao. Waiting for Xue Shao to rest, she sat cross-legged with her sword and held her breath, her eyes and ears listened to all directions, paying close attention to everything around her.
Li Xianyuan came to Xue Shao with a Tang Hu, and the moon slave suddenly floated out like a ghost and stopped in front of him.
"Moon slave girl, people are scary and scared to death!" Li Xianyuan almost scared him half to death.
"You're a god, are you afraid of ghosts?" The moon slave pouted disdainfully, "What's the matter with coming to Childe so late?" ”
Li Xianyuan smiled and raised the Tang Hu in his hand, "The best sheep cheese made in Xuanyun Temple, do you want to eat it?" ”
Yue Nu's face did not change, and he suddenly stretched out his hand and snatched the entire Tang Hu, and this kung fu that was similar to the claw of the ghost ghost scared Li Xianyuan again.
After testing it with a slender silver needle to confirm that it was non-toxic, the moon slave handed Tang Hu back to Li Xianyuan.
"You're very careful." Li Xianyuan smiled hesitantly, and took Tang Hu into Xue Shao's tent.
Xue Shaozheng was lying with his hands on his arms and closed his eyes to recuperate, and then sat up, "Brother Li, is there something?" ”
"Feta cheese! The best sheep cheese brewed by the Xuanyun Guan Tantra! Li Xianyuan smiled and took out two cups, each filled with sticky white drinks, and handed one to Xue Shao.
Sheep cheese is a drink made of sheep's milk, which has been very popular among the Shi people since the Western Jin Dynasty, and it is a high-end and elegant drink, and it is not cheap. Nowadays, tea has begun to become popular and popular, but it has not yet replaced the high status of feta cheese.
"This Xuanyun Temple is very hospitable." Xue Shao picked up a cup and tasted it shallowly, what is delicious, isn't it just something like yogurt? Girls like it!
Li Xianyuan took a sip, took a deep breath and sighed with pleasure, "Excellent!" Exceptional! The world's food, but the cheese! ”
Xue Shao sneered, rare and strange. If you take a sip of Coke, you won't be able to claim to be an immortal?
"Hey, didn't Brother Xue like sheep cheese the most in the past, what's wrong today?" Li Xianyuan saw that Xue Shao's cup didn't move much, and asked curiously.
"If you like it, the rest will be yours." Xue Shao was a little distracted, and yawned.
"Brother Xue, don't let down the good intentions of the Xuanyun Lord!" When Li Xianyuan said this, there was a sly smile on his face, and his expression was quite warm.
"Dare you know that female crown very well?" Xue Shao sneered, the female Taoist aunts of the Tang Dynasty are quite famous in history, and to put it mildly, some female crowns are "semi-prostitutes", such as the famous fish mysteries in history.
Before the emergence of Quanzhen Sect in the Song Dynasty, many Taoist priests were not monks, and there were no taboos such as abstaining from meat and food. The Li family of the Tang Dynasty Chongdao, the social status of female Taoist priests is not low, and they can rely on the cover of this layer of identity to escape marriage, avoid taxes, take refuge, or put aside the shackles of secular morality and establish a super-friendship relationship with many lay male guests. Nowadays, there are many female Taoist temples that are tacitly romantic places for everyone, but it is not possible to have money to be a chic place. has no knowledge or doorway, and the female crown doesn't care about people at all.
There are also many princesses in the Li Tang royal family, who are known as cultivators, and they travel back and forth to various Taoist temples all the year round, but they have secretly communicated with talented poets and poets, leaving many fragrant stories in history. For example, in history, Tang Xuanzong Li Longji's two sisters, Princess Jinxian and Princess Yuzhen, were both Taoist aunts who cultivated the Tao, and Princess Yuzhen also had many inexplicable relationships with Li Bai and Meng Haoran. Princess Taiping's title of "Taiping" is also derived from her "Tao name", but she has never left the palace, and her claim to be a monk was just an excuse to shirk the proposal of Tubo.
"Brother Xue, you made a mistake this time." Li Xianyuan smiled, "Xiao Sheng not only doesn't know the Xuanyun Sect Master, but he hasn't even seen it. Xiao Sheng knows what you mean, but Xuanyun Guan is really not the kind of fragrant place you imagined. This Xuanyun Temple Lord is extremely mysterious, and since the day the Xuanyun Temple was completed, almost no one from the outside world has seen her true face. According to the deacon crown in her view...... The viewer doesn't want to get cheesy! ”
Xue Shao smiled, "She really thinks of herself as an immortal?" ”
Li Xianyuan smiled disapprehantly: "Xiao Sheng heard some rumors that Lord Xuanguan is a young and beautiful female crown, and she is really worthy of the words 'alluring the country and the city', like a dust fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world." It is said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has heard of her name and has come up to visit her in person, but he has not been able to meet her. It is also said that she seems to really have some magical cultivation, or she can predict good fortune and misfortune through the sky, or she can ride a crane to wander among the sea of clouds! ”
"!" Xue Shao couldn't help but laugh, "There are many rumors, they are all made up by a tongue-chewing god like you!" ”
"Hehe, the rumors may be untrue, but this Xuanyun Viewer is really mysterious. Xiaosheng has always been itching in his heart and wants to see her very much. Li Xianyuan said with a smile.
"Then you're going to see you!" Xue Shao said with a smile, "With your ability, it's okay to climb the beam and climb the wall to dig holes, I have absolute confidence in you!" ”
Li Xianyuan stretched out his hand and touched his face, feeling a little hot, and said with a smile: "Xiaosheng is also a cultivator or a nine-rank life officer from the scientific examination, how can he do such a thing?" …… However, today, the master of Xuanyun Temple asked someone to send a piece of cherished feta cheese for the first time, which shows that she is quite fond of Xue Gongzi! ”
"Nonsense!" Xue Shao sneered, "Maybe that Xuanyun Guan Lord is even older than the Dao Gu who came to handle the funeral today, even if it suits your appetite." A gentleman will never win people's love, you just have to rest assured and be bold! ”
Li Xianyuan's expression was as ugly as eating a handful of flies, and he waved his hand again and again, "That's it, that's it!" Xiaosheng is not hungry to that extent! ”
At dawn, a touch of morning light appeared on the horizon, and Xue Shao and Yuenu, who had developed the habit of getting up early every day to exercise, woke up early and came out of the tent. After serving the wash, the moon slave said that he would go to the Taoist temple to prepare breakfast for the son, and he could go down the mountain later.
Xue Shao felt that the air on the mountain was very good in the early morning, and the content of negative oxygen ions must be extremely high, which was very suitable for morning exercise. Especially the sea of clouds in the mountain behind the Taoist temple that I saw yesterday, the scenery in the morning should be good.
So Xue Shao trotted all the way there.
The back mountain of the Xuanyun Temple, the cliff towers over the sea of clouds, and there is a great chance that the mountain will be at the top of the mountain to see the majestic and steep. A round of red sun just broke through the sky, and the glow was strange, decorating this strange rocky mountain scenery like an extraterritorial fairyland.
"It's really worth the trip!" Xue Shao felt a sense of relaxation and joy, which was a little more unexpected than deliberately climbing the mountain to enjoy the sunrise, "Li Xianyuan is also quite discerning, and he has found a yin house for Zhang Miao here." ”
Seeing the clouds in front of him, Xue Shao was about to go forward to let himself in this fairyland have a good appreciation and feeling, the morning breeze moved, and the clouds turned up, and he saw a snow-white figure at the tip of a strange rock protruding from the cliff in front of him, sitting cross-legged as if floating in the fairy clouds and golden glow.
In the haze, I can't see it really, and I can vaguely see the back with his hair hanging high and his clothes fluttering, and the dust is lightly dusted and draped in clouds and clouds, and he really looks like a Da Luo Jin Immortal who has descended in the nine heavens.
There are many Taoist temples on Zhongnan Mountain, and it is not uncommon for Taoist priests to practice here in the early morning. Xue Shao saw that the man was sitting cross-legged on a strange rock suspended in the air, in case he stepped forward without authorization to scare him and frightened people to fall, it would definitely not be a fairy scene soaring in the daytime, but a meat pie that no one knew.
Therefore, Xue Shao just stopped and looked at it twice, raised his steps and turned around to leave.
After walking less than three steps, a long chant from a female voice suddenly came from behind me - "I have no roots, and the end of the world is floating by itself." Fallen into the autumn wind, I didn't see the flower burial man! ”
The sound of Lang Lang came leisurely, and the words were as clear as beads.
"Female crown?" Xue Shao couldn't help but be stunned and stopped to look back, only to see that the figure who was sitting on the top of the mountain had already gotten up and walked towards him slowly and calmly from the smoke and mist.
Xue Shao watched the female crown approach, and his eyes lit up. Looking at her face about 20 years old, although the plain face is also very simple and simple, but the facial features are quite exquisite, the skin is like the white porcelain of the Yue kiln, 'its clean as ice and its temperature is like jade', and she wears a dusty white gossip robe, her body is tall and curvy, and her clothes flutter in the dust, she really looks like a fairy in the heavenly court who does not eat people and fireworks, and has just walked down from the queen mother's peach banquet!
The female crown walked to a distance of about six steps in front of Xue Shao and stopped, raised her head slightly, and gave Xue Shao a Taoist hand salute, "The layman is above, Xuanmen Yuke Xuanyunzi, this is polite." ”
Influenced by Buddhism, Taoism in the Tang Dynasty is also known as layman, for example, Li Bai, who believes in Taoism, calls himself "Qinglian layman". Yuke is another elegant name for a cultivator.
Xuanyunzi, Xuanyunguan...... Xue Shao smiled back with a slight smile: "It turned out to be the Lord of Xuanyun Temple, fortunately." Xue Shao, a lay disciple, returned the gift to the fairy girl. ”
Xuan Yunzi slowly raised his head, stared at Xue Shao, and smiled slightly.
Xue Shao's heart reflexively thought of one word - flattery!
Quiet as a golden immortal, moving like a fairy elegant, but when you laugh, it is a natural and charming soul-hooking appearance! …… In other words, if another Tang man met her in such an environment, it was really possible to think of her as a thousand-year-old fox fairy who had cultivated the Tao!.
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