Chapter 44: The Legend of the Water Ghost

The Taoist priest's words made the little carpenter really a little surprised, he couldn't understand what the other party was doing at all, and he was really a little stunned when he received such an invitation.

Seeing that Daoist Mo was very sincere, the little carpenter did not veto it categorically, but asked, "Worship you as a teacher?" What to learn? ”

The Taoist priest smiled and said: "If it is a Taoist priest next to him, he will naturally teach you alchemy and medicine, taking food and health, sacrificing to ghosts and gods, praying for forbidden spells, or ancestral stoves, valley roads, Hou gods, looking at qi, guiding, and smelting methods, but my vein is different, I come from the distant South China Sea, go to the wrong door, and pay attention to 'entering the Tao with a sword, joining the Tao with a sword, and martyrdom with a sword', so if you worship me as a teacher, I will teach you to practice the sword, and the means of subduing demons and eliminating demons, as well as the principles of being a man." ”

This Taoist priest doesn't seem to be a serious person, but he has a fight with the practitioners on the rivers and lakes.

The little carpenter was a little hesitant and asked, "South China Sea?" Which South China Sea? ”

The Taoist priest smiled: "Naturally, it is the sea in the south. ”

The little carpenter heard Qu Menghu's experience with him, knew a little, and asked, "Is it Nanyang?" What is Singapore, and places like Annam, Burma, Siam, Malaya, the Philippines, Borneo, etc.? ”

The Taoist priest shook his head and said no, it was the South China Sea.

When the little carpenter heard this, he felt that this Taoist priest was a little foolish, so he had already made a judgment in his heart, and said to him: "I also have a master, although he unfortunately passed away and left me, but as the so-called one day as a teacher, a lifetime as a father, since I have already worshiped his disciples, and then go to other people's doors, my master's spirit in heaven will not be happy." ”

When the Taoist priest heard this, he was a little regretful, but he still fought for it, but the little carpenter finally refused.

He categorically refused, so anxious that the obsessive orange cat next to him jumped wildly, "meow, meow", and kept calling.

When the Taoist priest saw it, he squatted down, looked at it seriously, laughed, and said that your qualifications are not good......

This Taoist chief surnamed Mo was free and easy, he saw that the little carpenter had just entered the door of cultivation, so even if he was rejected, he was not annoyed, but communicated with the little carpenter and gave him some guidance.

After the little carpenter was broken, he didn't grit his teeth and sit down with the Taoist priest.

Unexpectedly, after chatting, he found that the other party was quite capable.

In particular, his understanding of cultivation is actually very deep, many routes of qi, as well as turns, he feels vague and elusive, and when he is slightly touched by the Taoist priest, there is a feeling of clearing the clouds, which is very intuitive and natural.

The more we talked, the more the little carpenter regretted it, and felt that he had just refused a little too arbitrarily.

This Taoist priest has real skills.

However, his face was a little thin-skinned, and he didn't mention it again, and the Taoist priest didn't mention it again, and after ordering his practice, he chatted with him about some things he had seen and heard from the north of the South Seas, which made the little carpenter quite eye-opening.

Although the Taoist priests are divided into two factions, one is called Quanzhen, and the other is Zhengyi, only the Taoist priest can wear a vegetarian crown and cannot get married, while Zhengyi can get married and eat meat, but the world has many misunderstandings, thinking that Taoist priests and monks are general, and they have rules and precepts to observe.

The two specialty merchants respected Daoist Mo quite much at first, but later they were in awe, thinking that this Taoist priest was about a charlatan.

However, Daoist Mo didn't care, he still went his own way, and after eating, he went to sleep, completely ignoring foreign objects.

With such a person joining the fleet, the little carpenter did not dare to take out the Luban Sutra to study again, for fear of being seen, and became ill-intentioned.

However, a few days ago, he had already memorized the cultivation methods in "Ten Thousand Laws Returning to the Sect", so he did not delay his practice.

Life on the water is quite boring, and the addition of Daoist Mo is just a stone in the heart of the calm lake, probably because the little carpenter did not worship him as a teacher, so in addition to the first day of the two chatting more, in the later time, the little carpenter was embarrassed to look for him, and the Taoist priest did not talk to him more about practice, but when they met, they nodded, which was regarded as friendship.

On the contrary, it was the fat cat and tiger skin, just like a spring, and he went to the feet of Mo Daoist to sway when he had nothing to do, trying his best to please him, and he was so flattering that he couldn't do it.

Hey, little brute......

The little carpenter first learned to practice, and he just needed a quiet space, and the fat cat went to pester the Taoist priest, and the Taoist priest didn't bother him much, so he was happy, but he was a little happy in his heart.

When the boat travels out of the tributary and reaches the river, there are more boats around, and sometimes you can see a small Western ferry emitting black smoke.

It was much faster than a boat with wooden oars, and it traveled on the water like a galloping horse.

The little carpenter knew that this was much closer to his destination.

One day, the ship stopped in a small town, and the bow of the boat went ashore with people, one was to replenish supplies, and the other was to sell goods, and the time was a little longer.

The little carpenter couldn't stay any longer, so he got off the boat, walked around the dock, and slowed down, and the fat orange cat got ashore, and was also very excited, and even forgot his dislike of the little carpenter, and ran around him, and the whole child was much more energetic.

In the past few days, it has always gone to talk to the Taoist priest, but although the Taoist priest loves to tease it, he doesn't say much.

This made the fat cat and tiger skin disheartened, and he lost the interest of being a licking dog.

In a small tea shop near the wharf, full of people, a group of people talking inside, quite lively, the little carpenter saw it, so he walked over, asked for a big bowl of tea, sat next to it, and listened to the men who were sailing the boat to set up a dragon gate array.

He sat down for a while, listened to a few words, and realized that the reason why this place was so lively was because of one thing.

Thirty miles in front of the waterway, there is a turbulent bay mouth called Tiger Leaping Stream, where the cliffs on both sides of the bank are steep, which is a dangerous road into the Shu land.

It's quite difficult to sail there, not to mention the people who need to pull the fiber, and there are always some evil things that come out.

Let's not talk about the past, but in recent days, there is an evil haunt - legend has it that the guy is a water ghost who needs to eat people's hearts to cultivate, and he specially squatted to guard the boat that crossed the tiger jumping stream, and when the water was turbulent, he either jumped in, or directly overturned the boat......

In short, all kinds of means were available, and in this month, five or six ships were hit, and countless people died.

This matter made a big fuss, and when it came to the official's house, the military leaders who carried the guns naturally didn't believe it, and then the matter became bigger, affecting the boats, and the materials were stranded, so they sent soldiers to guard.

As a result, the soldiers could not hold it, but were dragged into the water and eaten.

Someone saw with their own eyes that the thing was drenched and scaly, and it didn't look like a fish.

Now the official family has no recruitment, it is said that I went to invite the master on Qingcheng Mountain, but there is no news, which makes people panic, many people are afraid, so they park the boat here, and the brave people have passed, some have been recruited, and some are safe and sound, in short, they all have to rely on luck.

Of course, the little carpenter listened for a while, and some people said that it was not a monster, but just a big fish.

Some people say it's the crocodile of the south.

There are also people who say what about the water dragon king, river Jiao and the like, there are all kinds of theories, and many people are still red-faced.

The little carpenter listened to it for a long time, until he saw the bow of the boat bringing people back, and then he left.

When he returned to the boat, he felt that the atmosphere in the boat was a little solemn, and when he walked over to take a look, he realized that Mao Chuantou and the others were also talking about the monster that jumped over the stream.

Mao Pingli was born in Paijiao, and he begged for a living on the water all the year round, so he was naturally no stranger to such evil things such as water ghosts and mountain demons, but he got more information than the tea shed on the dock, and he knew how terrible the monster was, so he discussed it with a few disciples.

The little carpenter subconsciously went to look for the figure of the Taoist priest, but saw that he had been sleeping all the time.

After some discussion, the master of the art was bold, so he decided to move on, if he really ran into that guy, another soldier would come to block it, and the water would cover it.

The platoon teacher inherited the Tang Dynasty mage Chen Silong, and what he did was to get rid of the water demon.

If that beast really dared to come out, they would have to use this guy to establish the prestige of the Qiancheng Pai Sect, so that the people in the rivers and lakes would know that in this land of Xiangxi, there are still heroes like him Mao Pingli.

Of course, Mao Chuantou had such thoughts, but he also thought a lot, and he also found a little carpenter to explain the situation clearly and did not hide it.

If the little carpenter is afraid, he can get off the boat now, take the overland, and go to Chongqing.

Or, the head of the boat will ask a familiar boatman to wait for the matter of Tiger Leaping Stream to be dealt with properly, and then help send him over.

After all, this matter is very dangerous, and it can even kill you.

When the little carpenter heard this, he was not only not afraid, but a little curious.

If it were in the past, he might not be like this, and the reason why he is like this is because his state of mind has changed.

He is no longer a young eagle who stays on the edge of the cliff, waiting to be fed, and does not dare to fly.

After Master's death, he had to spread his wings and strive to be the eagle that soared in the sky, instead of continuing to shrink behind others.

After all, Qu Menghu's appearance gave him a lot of ideas.

After asking the little carpenter, Mao Chuantou asked the disciple to ask the sleeping Mo Daoist, but after the Taoist chief heard this, he yawned and said that it was okay, he had a sword, which one did not open his eyes, so he went over with a sword, nothing great.

Hearing the disciples who came back and forth say this, everyone couldn't help but laugh.

Bragging, is this?

The Taoist priest didn't look like a powerful character.

asked these two people, and the other two mountain goods merchants were in a hurry because their lives were on the ship, so they did not delay any longer and set off on the road immediately.

When the people on the dock saw it, they couldn't help but sigh, saying that these people were really dead.

That monster is fierce, wait, it is estimated that no one in these two boats will survive.

Hey, what's the rush to death?