Chapter 881: Visitors from the Sea
Hearing someone talking in the woods beside the road, Li Hun and Guo Yan drew their swords almost simultaneously and stepped forward to protect Yang Guangma.
At this time, he saw a middle-aged Taoist priest with a fairy wind and a bone slowly walking out of the woods, and when he came out of the woods, he saw Li Hun and Guo Yan draw their swords and glared at him angrily, so he stood on the edge of the forest, and made a mockery at Yang Guangyuan on horseback, and asked: "May I ask this son, where is this going?" ”
An unidentified Taoist priest suddenly appeared in the middle of the uninhabited mountain, which immediately aroused Pei Yun's great vigilance, glanced at Yang Guang, and asked the Taoist priest on his behalf: "This Taoist chief doesn't know what to call him, which immortal mountain is he cultivating in?" ”
The Taoist priest knew that his sudden appearance had aroused a high degree of vigilance among Yang Guang and his party, so he didn't mind Pei Yun not answering the rhetorical question, and replied with a smile: "Although the poor Dao cultivates, he has not yet obtained a suitable Taoist name, and he is still using the name of a layman, called Pan Dan, this time he came from the East China Sea to visit an old friend in this mountain, and he did not admit that his old friend had not been visited, but he was lost in this mountain. If Meng Gongzi does not give up, can you promise the Taoist priest to walk with Gongzi? ”
"In this way, I don't know how long I have been wandering in this Yandang Mountain? As far as I know, although Yandang Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles, it is not a barren mountain that is inaccessible to people. Pei Yun questioned the Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest, who claimed to be called Pan Dan, took a few steps forward and replied with a wry smile: "Don't hide this gentleman, although the Taoist priest has met a lot of mountain people and passers-by in the mountains these days, when they hear the Taoist priest ask them about the whereabouts of that old friend, it is like seeing a tiger and a wolf, and they can't avoid it, how can they still point out the path to the mountain for the poor road." ”
Yang Guang couldn't help but be curious when he heard what he said, so he arched his hand at the Taoist priest on horseback and asked: "But I don't know what the name of this old friend who came from afar from the sea to visit is what kind of person he is?" Why did the mountain people panic so much when they heard his name? ”
"Can the son tell the poor Dao's name and origin first, if it is the same as the poor Dao, he also came from afar, I'm afraid I don't know my old friend."
Yang Guang turned over and dismounted, and replied with a smile: "Yang Ying, who was born late, was originally from Yueqing, eastern Zhejiang, and this time he is returning to his hometown to visit relatives. Dao Chief, even if he doesn't know the old friend of Dao Chang in his later life, he can still ask the villagers about his current whereabouts on behalf of Dao Chang, how about it, and will Dao Chang be willing to see the name of his old friend? ”
"It turned out to be Yang Gongzi, disrespectful and disrespectful. Yang Gongzi's ancient Taoism is very different from the people he has seen before. Then there is Lao Gongzi in the poor road, and the old friend who is here to visit is surnamed Qinglian, but I don't know if the son has ever heard of this person? Pan Dan calmly said the name of his old friend.
Including the maid Cersei, almost everyone present couldn't help but be taken aback when they heard that the old friend Pan Dan was looking for was the big leader of the "Wild Goose's Nest", and the first Guan Zizai - Gao Qinglian, couldn't help but be surprised, and their faces changed.
Only Pei Yun glanced at Yang Guang quietly, and asked Pan Dan in a deep voice: "Please tell the Taoist in detail, what is the identity and origin of this old friend you want to visit?" ”
Pan Dan seemed to realize something from the reactions of everyone present, hesitated slightly, shook his head and replied: "I only know that he is from Jiangnan, as for his identity, I really don't know." ”
"Since the Taoist chief claims to be friends with Gao Qinglian, why doesn't he even know his identity? As the Taoist said, then what did the Taoist come here to visit Gao Qinglian for? Pei Yun stared at Pan Dan with his eyes and asked.
"Anyway, today I finally met a few people who ran away without hearing the name Gao Qinglian." Pan Dan sighed lightly and said, "Poor Dao doesn't want to hide anything, so I'll just tell you the truth." Poor Dao is really in order to seek a Taoist view of cultivating the Tao, so he was entrusted by others, and came thousands of miles away to bring a letter to Gao Qinglian, if the son, or this gentleman knows Gao Qinglian's whereabouts, he hopes to tell the truth, and Poor Dao is grateful. ”
The more Yang Guang listened, the more interested he became, he stretched out his hand to push away Li Hun and Guo Yan who were blocking in front of him, walked up to Pan Dan, looked at him and asked, "In this way, Dao Chang and Gao Qinglian are not old friends, but entrusted by someone to bring him a letter, right?" ”
"Being in a foreign land, it is a last resort for poor people to do this." Pan Dan dodged Yang Guang's gaze and replied in a low voice.
"The Taoist chief claimed that he was begging people to build a Taoist temple for cultivating the Tao, so he came thousands of miles across the sea and brought a letter to Gao Qinglian, but he didn't know who the person he was asking for was? Do you know what is written in this letter he asked you to bring to Gao Qinglian? Yang Guang took another step forward, stared at Pan Dan with burning eyes, and asked.
"This ...... Poor Dao is just asking Gongzi about Gao Qinglian's whereabouts, if Gongzi knows, tell Poor Dao, if he doesn't know, he doesn't need to get to the bottom of it. Pan Dan suddenly became displeased, and responded very coldly, "Poor Dao Fang was resting in the woods, and I heard Gongzi and his subordinates talking about Chen Shubao, the queen of Nanchen, so I guessed that Gongzi was not an ordinary person. ”
"Haha, talking to someone about Chen Shubao is not an ordinary person? It's ridiculous for the Taoist to say this. Yang Guang looked up and laughed in disguise, "Since the Taoist chief refuses to tell the truth, and it is inconvenient to be reluctant to go down, please look at the Taoist chief, follow this mountain road to the west for a distance of about three or four miles, you can get out of Yandang Mountain, and then walk west for three or two days, it is Huiji City." As far as I know, three years ago, Gao Qinglian rebelled in Huiji City, and later committed suicide by jumping off a cliff in defeat. ”
"Childe, are you serious? Did Gao Qinglian die three years ago? Pan Dan was shocked, stared at Yang Guang and asked.
Yang Guang nodded and said, "The person who asked you to bring the letter to Gao Qinglian is inevitably too ill-informed." Gao Qinglian did commit suicide three years ago, but to this day, he still wants to ask the Taoist chief to carry a letter to Gao Qinglian, isn't this too ridiculous? ”
"No, no, he not only asked Poor Dao to carry the letter to Gao Qinglian, but also specified that he wanted to find Gao Qinglian in Yandang Mountain and hand over the letter to him with his own hands......" The news of Gao Qinglian's death obviously made Pan Dan lose his mind for a while, and muttered in his mouth.
"Daoist, where is the letter now?" Pei Yun saw that Pan Dan looked like he was not giving up, so he wanted to take the opportunity to ask him to show the letter he wanted to bring to Gao Qinglian to find out what was written in the letter.