"Uh, girl, what's wrong?" Li Xi asked.

The girl was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and she had a delicate face like a pink carving, and her eyebrows were picturesque, and she looked so pleasing that people knew at a glance that she was from a big family, but she had a naughty and lovely taste, and she was like a pestering little girl in the family, and she did not have the kind of arrogance that people had to look up to.

At this time, the girl finally couldn't help laughing when she heard this, but she quickly covered her little mouth and laughed wildly, which made Li Xi even more ignorant.

After a long time, the girl stopped laughing, and while stirring the soup bowl in front of her with a spoon, she looked at Li Xi with flashing starry eyes, and said: "Grandpa Zhang was pulled over by me to eat, at first he didn't like to eat, but after eating a few times, as long as he saw someone come in, he would pull people to let people taste it......"

Li Xi laughed when she heard this, but at this time, the old Taoist priest she called Grandpa Zhang spoke: "The old man has eaten this thing a few times, even if he is half a Xingzhou person, he naturally wants to help his fellow villagers cheer for business!" ”

The girl smiled like a flower when she heard this, and reached out to help the old man touch his beard, looking sweet and patting, and the old Taoist priest also had a very useful smile, which made Li Xi want to laugh.

After a while, the shopkeeper came over with a bowl of fried donkey strip soup.

Li Xi sniffed it and praised: "It smells so good." Then he waved his hand at Gao Sheng and Geng Xin, "You also find a table to sit down, and one bowl per person should be a taste." ”

As he spoke, Li Xi took a spoon and took a sip of the soup to drink, not to mention, it was cold inside and outside in the winter, and he took a sip of this hot soup, which was fragrant and hot, and felt very comfortable, so he cocked his thumb and praised, "It tastes good!" ”

The girl had been paying attention to Li Xi's movements, and when she heard him say this, she immediately laughed.

When she smiled, her slender and charming eyes narrowed up, bent into a beautiful crescent moon shape, and her shoulders subconsciously shrank, giving people a very soft and lovely feeling.

At this time, the old man surnamed Zhang looked at Li Xi and asked, "Little brother is so good-looking, well, the image of great wealth and nobility, well, I don't know if the little brother is married now?" ”

Li Xi was stunned when he heard this, put a tablespoon of soup into his mouth, and then shook his head, "Uh, it's not ...... yet."

The old man's eyebrows shook when he heard this, and he said: "Well, the little old man has a marriage that I want to tell you, but the woman is born beautifully, and her family background is good, and her surname is good, I don't know if the little brother is interested?" ”

Before he finished speaking, the girl next to him was already blushing all of a sudden, and couldn't help but pouted and pulled the hem of the old man's shirt, and said angrily: "Grandpa Zhang, what nonsense do you want to say again, Xiaoguozi won't pour you wine in the future!" ”

Li Xi made the two of them a little stunned by this singing and harmony, turned their heads to look at this, and then looked at that, not knowing how to answer - it's really strange and weird, where is there a stranger who wants to tell someone a matchmaker after meeting for the first time and chatting for the first time?

At this time, he seemed to sense something, and the expression on his face suddenly became much more cautious.

After hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Listen to the accent, the old man from Jinyang?" ”

Turning his head, he saw that Li Xi's face was gone, and the shyness on the girl's face retreated, but she glanced at the old man surnamed Zhang without resentment, but at this time, the old man waved his hand and said, "No, the little old man is from Hengzhou." ”

Li Xi thought for a moment when he heard this, then stared at the old man up and down for a moment, and then asked tentatively: "It is rumored that His Majesty has invited an old immortal with the Taoist name Mr. Tongxuan from Hengzhou, and he has specially added him as Doctor Yinqing Guanglu......

"Scared! Wow! The old man surnamed Zhang smiled when he heard this, made a surprised look, pointed at Li Xi and said to the girl: "What your grandfather said is right, his mind is really fast!" ”

As soon as Li Xi heard this, he immediately knew that he had guessed correctly. It's just that I didn't expect that I just came out to buy two snacks, and I happened to meet Zhang Guo's old fairy.

Zhang Guo, later generations prefer to call him Zhang Guolao, and Tie Guan Li, Han Zhongli, Lu Dongbin, etc. were called the Eight Immortals by later generations. Before he crossed over, Li Xi would only think that the so-called Zhang Guo Lao was just a fairy figure, until he came to Chang'an City some time ago after the crossing, and then he knew that there was really a person named Zhang Guo in history, and at the moment he was already a famous old fairy in the world.

Some time ago, he was invited to Chang'an City by Emperor Xuanzong, and was crowned as the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, Emperor Xuanzong favored him so much, he would invite him to preach in Xingqing Palace every once in a while, which can be called the two major religious leaders who are enough to be called Sima Chengzhen today, and the people call them old immortals.

At that moment, Li Xi hurriedly got up to salute, but Zhang Guo beckoned and whispered: "Don't, don't, sit down, if you make a salute, the shops here will be afraid, and if you come to eat in the future, it will be a good trouble!" ”

Li Xi thought about it when he heard this, but he didn't insist on saluting, so he went back and sat down, looked at Zhang Guolao, and then at the girl, and asked, "Listen to the meaning of the old fairy's words, do you know me?" ”

Zhang Guolao smiled when he heard this, but he didn't answer, but asked: "Little brother, you are not from Xingzhou, and you have never eaten this fried donkey strip before, why did you find this here to buy this?" ”

"Uh......"

Li Xi is really difficult to answer this question.

Buying these things is naturally to give to Song Jing, but firstly, Song Jing's identity is special, and secondly, when people invite him to come over to the house, it is just a private invitation, if he says it casually in front of others, it seems that he is not cautious enough.

Li Xi showed a wry smile at Zhang Guolao and said, "Can you not say it later?" ”

Zhang Guolao smiled when he heard this, "Then you won't say it." ”

In this way, Li Xi's questions were not answered, and Li Xi's questions were not easy to answer, and the scene seemed to be a little stiff for a while, Zhang Guo lowered his head and slowly ate the fried donkey soup, and stopped talking, Li Xi also lowered his head to eat.

At this time, it was the girl, when she was eating, she kept looking up at Li Xi secretly, and several times Li Xi raised her head, as soon as the two of them met, the girl quickly dodged, her face was flushed, and there was a wise smile hanging on the corner of her eyebrows, which looked very smart and cute.

Li Xi asked her, "Girl, I heard you call Old Immortal Zhang Grandpa Zhang, could it be that you also cultivated with him?" ”

When the girl heard this, she looked up at her, first pursed her lips, and then said: "No, Grandpa Zhang said that my surname is too noisy, and he won't accept me for anything, besides, I don't want to be a Taoist priest, I have to burn the stove and alchemy all day long, I must be annoyed!" ”

Li Xi turned his head to look at Zhang Guolao in astonishment when he heard this, and thought to himself that he didn't know where she came up with this idea, could it be that when he became a Taoist priest, he must burn lead and smelt mercury? Or, is Zhang Guo always deliberately opening his mouth to scare the little girl?

At this time, after the girl finished speaking, she stared at Li Xi's face again, and when Li Xi turned her head again, she dodged it again, and after a while, she turned her head again, only to find that Li Xi had been staring at herself all along, so the eyes of the two happened to collide together.

This time, the girl didn't want to dodge anymore, so she looked at Li Xi with a red face for a while, and asked, "Hey, everyone says that you are very good at writing poetry, can you write chapters, right?" It is said that you can become a poem in three steps? ”

"Uh...... So, you know who I am? Li Xi didn't answer the rhetorical question.

Listening to Zhang Guolao's comment just now, Li Xi knew that this old and young man must already know who they are, and now they are just wearing regular clothes and going out to shop for things, and the two of them can recognize themselves at first sight, which shows that they must have seen themselves before and know what they look like.

After thinking about it carefully, after I came to Chang'an, although I have always been relatively low-key, there are many occasions with more people, such as Li Shizhi's family banquet and other public banquets, I have participated in a few times, so if I can't keep it, some people know me, but I don't know others. This girl knew at a glance that she should be from a good background, and she might have participated in a similar banquet party, so it was very likely that she had seen herself at a certain banquet.

It's just that...... Are the rumors out there that strong?

Cao Zijian is only a seven-step poem, which is already known as "the world has a total of ten buckets, and Cao Zijian monopolizes eight buckets".

Facing Li Xi's blazing gaze, the girl playfully shook her eyes and turned her head away, saying, "I won't tell you!" ”

So, two more questions stuck the conversation.

Li Xi didn't answer the girl's question, and the girl didn't want to say Li Xi's question.

And what makes Li Xi a little depressed is that looking at the appearance of the old and the young, it seems that they know themselves very well, but they only know that this old man is Zhang Guolao, and he doesn't know anything about why they know him, and why they are so coincidental, they happened to meet him here, and who this girl is.

Of course, unlike being more cautious in the face of Zhang Guolao, in the face of a girl, especially a girl who smiles like a flower, no matter who she is, she will have a little more patience.

Besides, he didn't want to let the atmosphere cool down again.

It is said that Zhang Guo is very favored by Emperor Xuanzong, although Li Xi has never been very interested in those things of Buddhism and Taoism in history, and he is even more disgusted with Buddhism and Taoism, but in the face of an old Taoist priest who has a lot of power to speak in front of Emperor Xuanzong, and an old immortal of the eight immortals in later generations, he is still willing to make friends from the bottom of his heart.

What's more, the words that Monk Mo Yan said in the restaurant before he left are still vivid in his ears, and the tone in which he spoke at that time seemed to be explaining what was going on, and he didn't say a few words in total, mentioning that Mr. Zhang Guo was old, but it accounted for most of them.

And he also said that he will have a relationship with this Zhang Guolao in the future, and even listen to the meaning of his words, he seems to be in order to win something for himself, and Zhang Guolao made an appointment to fight chess, and finally after thirty-six days of hard fighting, exhausted his mind, he barely won half a move, now that he has met, how can he live up to his hard work?

So Li Xi smiled and said to the girl: "If you don't say it, you won't say it, but don't listen to others brag about it, in fact, I don't know how to write any poems, just occasionally get a few words, I didn't expect it to be so famous, if you listen to this and come to test me, then ten out of ten will be disappointed." ”

Listening to Li Xi's humor, the girl smiled like a crescent moon in her eyes, and said, "I don't believe it, but you just don't want to." If you are willing, just let us talk for a while, and you will definitely have good poems. ”

Then he looked at Li Xi with a look of adoration, his starry eyes flashing, "Hey, can you make a poem now?" I'm very happy to see you become a poem in three steps! ”

Li Xi shrugged when he heard this, thinking to himself where to compose poetry now, he doesn't know what poetry is at all, usually even if there are a few so-called masterpieces, most of them are chasing ducks to the shelves, and when he is forced to be helpless, he just steals a few poems, if he really writes poems this time, it will be a shame.

At that moment, he was about to open his mouth to refuse, but when he turned his head, he happened to see Zhang Guolao squinting his eyes and smiling, so when the words came to his mouth, he temporarily changed his words and said, "That's it, then I want to think about it...... Well, there you have it! ”

Li Xi made a gesture of turning into a poem in three steps, not to mention the girl's eyes that attracted him, even Zhang Guolao couldn't help but turn his head to look over, obviously curious that Li Xi could really become a poem in three steps.

At this time, Li Xi took a chopstick from the side, knocked it on the mouth of the bowl, and shouted while knocking: "His eldest uncle and his second uncle are all his uncles, the high tables and low benches are all wood, taking a step back is equivalent to not leaving, saying and singing a sentence is pure nonsense......"

The first three sentences are the folk songs of northern Shaanxi that I heard before, and I don't know if the current Tang Dynasty already exists, and the latter sentence is temporarily added by Li Xi, which can be regarded as responding to the current situation.

Anyway, I remember the tone in the front, and it's not difficult to go along with the back.

These few sentences are clearly nonsense, and let Li Xi sing them in northern Shaanxi dialect, but there is a sense of desolation, but it is just ...... As he himself said, it was pure nonsense.

With his singing, the shop suddenly quieted down, there were people eating, some chatting, the boss was still busy beckoning guests to serve things, Gao Sheng was still paying attention to Li Xi's side while eating, as if he was always on guard against all those who might endanger Li Xi...... At this point, everyone fell silent.

After the four ballads were sung, more than a dozen people in the entire shop were suddenly petrified.

After a long time, the hall burst into laughter.

reacted, the girl laughed straight and repeatedly, and several times she tilted her body to Zhang Guolao's arm, pulling the old man's arm and patting it on it, looking like that, she couldn't wait to stomp her feet and roll.

On the contrary, it was Zhang Guolao, whose eyes narrowed slightly at this time, and showed an imperceptible smile when he looked at Li Xi.

The girl laughed and pulled Zhang Guolao's sleeve and said, "Grandpa Zhang, he is liar, saying that he wants to compose a poem, but the result is ......" As she spoke, she couldn't stop laughing, and simply let go of her hand to cover her only son.

Zhang Guoruo glanced at Li Xi meaningfully, and said, "Girl, he is changing his way to make you happy!" It made the girl suddenly shy.

Her face was already red with laughter, and now she covered it with her hands, and peeked out her eyes through her fingers, her slender and charming eyes were full of shy smiles, but she was not too embarrassed to continue to laugh out like that.

At this time, Zhang Guo said: "Call me, although the little brother's cross song is not elegant enough, but when I think about it, it is really a poem within a poem, smack it carefully, it is endlessly interesting!" ”

Li Xi smiled, turned his head to look over there, Geng Xin covered his mouth and couldn't stop laughing, needless to say, it is rare that even Gao Sheng, a guy who has not been smiling since he came to his side, actually showed a rare little face, and said: "The old fairy has won the award, as you said, this cross song, it should be regarded as to make this girl happy, the ancients are hard to buy a smile, why should I regret a few words of singing today?" ”

So the girl laughed again.

Li Xi winked at her, then lowered his head to eat.

The girl bit her lip and looked at him, and she didn't eat anything, only a shy smile on her red face. It's just that she is ashamed, but she stares at Li Xi boldly, and occasionally Li Xi raises her head and smiles at her, she is not in a hurry to avoid it as she was just now, so she blushes and stares at him.

In the midst of the chatter and laughter of the diners in the store, Li Xi gave this bowl of fried donkey strip soup to his stomach, not to mention anything else, at least he suddenly felt that his body seemed to be much warmer.

Turning his head to see that Zhang Guolao's bowl was gone, Li Xi took out a handkerchief to wipe his mouth, and asked with a smile: "Late life has the courage to ask for advice, old immortal, do you know a great monk with the law name Mo Yan?" ”

Zhang Guolao was picking up the bowl to drink soup at this time, and after putting down the bowl, the old man also took out a handkerchief that looked a little old, wiped his mouth, looked at Li Xi with a smile, and said, "I finally asked, it's hard for you to hold back for so long." ”

Li Xi perked up when he heard this, and said, "So, do you know him?" ”

Zhang Guolao nodded and smiled when he heard this, "Don't you know, Xiao Lao'er is half a move away from chess, and he lost to him!" ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh, but before Li Xi's words could be spoken, he had already asked Li Xi with a smile, "I have lived in Hengshan for many years, although I dare not say how much magic power I have, in the end, I still know a little bit about the method of heaven and earth, since I have lost to the old monk, then, Li Xi, are you willing to worship me as a teacher?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Li Xi was stunned on the spot, and the girl also looked surprised and inexplicable.

When there are two great immortals called today, and unlike Sima Chengzhen's sect and the sect that accepts disciples, Zhang Guo, who is known as Mr. Tongxuan, has always been a celibate cultivator, not to mention accepting disciples like Princess Yuzhen like Sima Chengzhen, he doesn't even have a Taoist child, he is just alone.

Today, he suddenly took the initiative to accept Li Xi as a disciple, how could this not be surprising?

I didn't have time to think about it, but after going through the words of Monk Mo Yan when he was leaving, Li Xi understood that this was about the purpose of their chess fight?

So at that moment, Li Xi suddenly got up, knelt down in front of the table, and said, "Disciple Li Xi, meet the master!" ”

(To be continued)