Mount Tankani, the lair of Hurricane Plaguer Faisal.

At the mouth of a smaller cave on the top of the mountain, Faisal walked to the entrance of the cave with a few guards and stopped and saluted the cave, shouting, "Messenger of Uza, have you rested?" ”

During this period, Islam had not yet been revived, and the Arabs mainly believed in primitive religions, believing in animism and the immortality of the soul, and polytheistic beliefs such as nature, animals and plants, ancestors, elves, and idolatry prevailed. Among them, the three goddesses of Rat, Uza, and Meuna are particularly worshipped. Islam was not revived until the seventh century by Muhammad, a member of the Quraish tribe of Mecca in the Arabian Peninsula.

An ethereal voice came from inside the cave: "Leader Faisal, Poor Dao has long said that Poor Dao is not your Persian god Uza!" The common surname of the poor road is Cao, you can call the poor road Cao Daochang, and the poor road also gave himself a Western name, called Cao Charlie, you can also call the poor road Cao Charlie, okay, you come in! ”

"Charlie Cao? Why does this seem so strange? Faisal muttered in a low voice, turned his head and ordered the guards behind him to stay outside the cave, and he walked into the cave alone with the hilt of his sword in hand.

This is really a good place to practice, the cave is very clean and tidy, there is a stone table in the middle, and there are two stone benches, there is a purple clay pot on the stone table, a few small cups, a middle-aged man who is close to forty years old has a metal hairpin on his head, and he is wearing a wide robe, and the whole person sits on the futon against the cave wall, and he also holds a dust whisk in his left hand.

The middle-aged man's appearance and clothes were all dressed like a Taoist priest from the East, as if he had heard someone walk in. The Taoist priest slowly opened his eyes, and the light in his eyes flashed.

When Faisal came in, he gave the Taoist priest an Arabic visitation courtesy: "Daoist Cao! ”

"You may be seated, Chief Faisal!" Cao Daochang got up, stretched out his right hand, and made a gesture of please. Faisal thanked them and the two sat down on the stone bench.

Daoist Cao asked, "I wonder what advice the leader of Faisal has for his late night visit?" ”

"Don't dare, I'm here to ask the Taoist for advice!" Faisal hurriedly saluted, then talked about the caravan, explained the situation, and finally asked: "I want to wait for the two caravans to come tomorrow morning to intercept them and intercept their goods, I don't know if this action is risky." I also ask the Taoist chief to ask the gods for me! ”

Charlie Cao made a joke and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable! Robbing merchants, killing people and stealing goods is always an evil way, not a righteous way. The leader set up a checkpoint here and collected the money for buying the road from the passing merchants, as if it was a government faction, why should he still kill people and sell goods? As far as the poor road knows. The leader has always cherished feathers. Why did you break the rules you set this time? ”

Faisal looked embarrassed, he couldn't say that it was because the caravan was too large and too valuable, and he was greedy, right? Seeing that Charlie Cao didn't look at him, he rolled his eyes and said, "The Taoist chief doesn't know, I have a grudge against the steward of the caravan, I will kill that person and then hurry up, please help me!" ”

"Hey. When is the time for retribution? Poor Dao didn't know anything about the caravan, even if he had to ask the gods to send down for guidance. There was no rhetoric, and he asked the leader to explain the situation of the caravan in detail, so that the poor road could explain it clearly to the gods, right? Besides, asking the gods to send down guidance and need sacrifices and other things, I wonder if the leader can be prepared? Charlie Cao said unhurriedly.

Faisal hurriedly said, "Yes, Dao Chief, I'm all ready!" After saying that, he turned his head and shouted outside the cave, "Carry it in!" ”

After the words fell, I saw several big men walking in outside the cave, the one in front of him carrying a bull's head, and a whole sheep that had been killed and washed, and a big white pig that had been killed, and finally a big man carrying a small box on the stone table.

"Dao Chief, you see, I have prepared these sacrifices, in addition, I know that it takes divine power for the Dao Leader to communicate with the gods, in order to reward the Dao Chief, I have prepared ten pounds of gold here, and please don't be too little, if things go well at this time, I will be rewarded!" Faisal finished and opened the small box containing the gold.

Seeing that the gold in the box exuded a brilliant and dazzling golden light, Charlie Cao's eyes narrowed, and he nodded with a slight smile on his face: "Okay, Poor Dao will spend some mana to help you communicate with the gods for a year this time, but you first tell me about the situation of that caravan!" ”

"Yes, Dao Chief!" Faisal immediately agreed, and told Qin Dong's caravan about the situation.

After listening to Faisal's narration, Charlie Cao asked again: "What are the movements of the other cottages?" ”

Faisal recounted: "Before evening, the caravan had already passed the territory of the five large cottages, and at this time it was camping on an open meadow outside my territory, but there was no movement in the other cottages, but the five cottages that the caravan had passed through had sent sentry to keep an eye on the caravan, and nothing unusual had happened except for this incident!" ”

Charlie Cao nodded, got up and said, "Then Poor Dao will ask the gods for the leader, the leader can stay, and the others will withdraw!" ”

Faisal immediately waved to the people who came in and told them all to retreat, and then Charlie Cao changed into a clean robe under the service of a Taoist boy and began to practice with a wooden sword in his hand.

Faisal saw this situation, and immediately prostrated on the ground respectfully, Charlie Cao had words in his mouth, his hands and feet did not stop, he kept playing in front of the altar, and when he burned the yellow paper, his mouth still breathed fire from time to time, although Faisal had seen the scene of this practice more than once, but he was still trembling with fright, this kind of ability to breathe fire in his mouth, he thought that in addition to the possession of the gods, I am afraid that mortals could not do it at all.

"Taishang Laojun is as anxious as a law, pardon!" After Cao Cha thought about this, his body was like a shaking sieve, his face was pale, the two sides turned white, and the sweat on his forehead was like rain, Faisal saw this scene and knew that Charlie Cao had communicated with the gods, and now the gods had possessed Charlie Cao.

I saw that Charlie Cao, who was rolling his eyes, spoke, but his voice seemed to be like a different person: "Tomorrow you will be safe if you don't get thirty miles away!" ”

Just this sentence, after finishing speaking, Charlie Cao's body stopped shaking. His eyes no longer rolled away, and his face gradually returned to normal, but the sweat on his body did not stop. Still sweating.

This sentence was spoken in Chinese, but Faisal did not understand what it meant, so he asked, "Daoist, what does this god mean?" Please explain it to me! ”

Charlie Cao took the handkerchief handed over by the little boy and wiped his sweat and said casually: "It means that there is no special situation tomorrow, and you can make your wishes come true by staying at home with peace of mind, but you can't get out of your territory!" ”

Faisal was overjoyed after hearing this explanation, and bowed to Charlie Cao again. After thanking him many times, he said goodbye and left.

As soon as Faisal left, Charlie Cao glanced at the little boy: "Go and see if they go far!" ”

The little boy made a mockery to Charlie Cao, turned around and walked quickly to the entrance of the cave, looked outside, and saw that Faisal and the others had indeed gone far away and disappeared, and then turned back to Charlie Cao and reported: "Master." They're gone! ”

When Charlie Cao heard this, he threw himself on the stone table and grabbed a handful of gold coins with both hands, his eyes were already straight, and saliva was still flowing from the corners of his mouth. Muttered: "Gold." This is all my gold, these Westerners are so easy to deceive, the West is really a blessed land, there is no better place than here, there is gold everywhere, it is ridiculous that those so-called decent defenders guard the one acre and three points of land in the East, eat bran vegetables every day, but they don't know that there are mountains outside the mountain. They still think that the West is a barren and barren land, but they don't know that it is rich and oily! ”

The little boy serving Charlie Cao also walked to the stone table with a greedy face, staring at the yellow gold coins in the small box and salivating. Then he said: "Master, now we have made a fortune, so much gold is enough for our master and apprentice to eat for several years!" ”

The little boy's voice sounded in his ears and woke up Charlie Cao, and he reacted and stretched out his hand to hit the top of the little boy's head and scolded: "You bastard boy is really useless, you are satisfied with such a little gold?" Although we have made several deals, it doesn't add up to a lot, do you know what the master's ambition is? The master's ambition is to pass on the Taoism in this west, and when those fellow Taoists fight to the death in the east on that one-third of an acre of land, your master has already carried forward the Taoism in the west, and at that time you think about how majestic it should be, huh? Money is not the purpose of the master's visit, but the preaching needs money to pave the way, we need to build Taoist temples, we need to sponsor orphans and widows, and we want them to become believers in Taoism! ”

The little boy looked at Charlie Cao with a dignified appearance and felt a strong disdain in his heart: "Snort, it sounds better than singing, obviously I came to the West to eat when I couldn't get along in the Great Wei Kingdom (Northern Wei Dynasty), and what ambitions do I have, I'm sorry!" ”

The little boy's expression fell into Charlie Cao's eyes, and Charlie Cao stared at him and said, "Boy, are you saying bad things about the master in your heart again?" ”

The little boy was startled, took a few steps back and said, "No, no." Master, how dare the apprentice, if there was no master, the apprentice would have starved to death, and it was too late for the apprentice to be grateful to the master for the rest of his life, how could he secretly say bad things about the master! ”

"Hmph, even if you kid still have a little conscience, it's not in vain that I took you in at the beginning!" Charlie Cao snorted twice, and sighed in a changed tone: "Boy, it's not easy for the master, you look at those defenders who forced our master and apprentice to have no foothold in the Great Wei Kingdom, and our master and apprentice had to risk death to come to this area that no one in my generation has ever set foot in, I thought that my master and apprentice were dead, but I didn't think that the sky would never stop my master and apprentice, let us be like a fish in water here, this is a great opportunity, my master and apprentice must seize this opportunity to carry forward my Daomen here, and it is not in vain for me to come to this world to walk on a journey!" ”

The little boy looked at Charlie Cao's expression, and saw that he didn't seem to be pretending, and asked in disbelief: "Master, do you really want to pass on the Taoist system here?" Not kidding? ”

Charlie Cao's face turned pale: "What, haven't you passed by your master and I?" I sue you, this time the old way I came for real! It's just that to carry forward my Daomen here, the road is still very difficult, and my generation still has a long way to go! ”

The little boy's eyes rolled for a while and then he said, "Master, the apprentice thinks that it's okay for our master and apprentice to eat here, but it is extremely difficult to pass on the Taoist system here!" ”

As soon as Charlie Cao heard this, his face immediately changed, and he said in a stern tone: "What did you kid say?" You repeat? ”

"Master, don't be angry, don't be angry, do you listen to the apprentice?" The boy hurriedly hid to the side, lest he be beaten again.

Charlie Cao was so angry that his beard trembled, and he pointed to the little boy and said, "Okay, you say, if you don't say that you are ugly, Lao Dao will never spare you today!" ”

Seeing Charlie Cao like this, the little boy smiled and walked over and sat on the stone bench, "Master, I believe you have also discovered in the past year that this West is not without sects, Christianity is very popular here, many ethnic groups believe in Christianity, if we want to preach here, we will inevitably be suppressed by the local church, you should know that the emperors of many countries here are Christian, and our mission here is tantamount to grabbing food with the local sects, can they watch our master and apprentice compete with them for jobs?" Our master and apprentice are weak, who is their opponent? It's okay to cheat some money to fill your stomach with a little trouble, but as for preaching, master, it's not a futile blow to you, I think it's better to forget it, right? ”

This time, Charlie Cao rarely got angry, he frowned and thought for a while and nodded: "What you kid said is not unreasonable, if our master and apprentice preach again, they will inevitably be suppressed by the local church, and they will even resort to extreme measures to kill or burn us as so-called infidels." Since ancient times, if the sect wants to gain a foothold and spread rapidly and carry forward, it must be supported by the emperor or the government, and if you want to get the support of these people, you must please them. ”

The little boy muttered in a low voice, "What is quite unfavorable, very unfavorable, very unfavorable, those Christians only need to mutter a few words in front of their emperor, say a few bad things about us, and we master and apprentice will be finished!" ”

Charlie Cao's eyes lit up, and he patted his thigh and said: "Yes, why didn't Lao Dao think that Christianity has the support of the emperor and the local government, why can't we have the support of the emperor and the government?" ”

"The problem is that we don't!"

Charlie Cao smiled slightly: "No? We can have it, we don't have it now, it doesn't mean we won't have it in the future, since we don't have it now, then why don't we start from now on and make an emperor ourselves? The icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow, if you and I master and apprentice are ranked as national teachers with the merits of the dragon, please ask the emperor to list my Daomen as the state religion, isn't it a matter of one sentence? ”

When the little boy heard this, he had to give Charlie Cao a thumbs up: "Master, Gao, you are really tall, this method has made you come up with it!" ”

"Hahaha......". (To be continued......)