It's cool and autumn!

At night, everything is silent. There was silence outside the residence, not even the cries of insects, birds and beasts.

Liu Qingshan was wearing a Yin Yang Taixu Taoist robe, wearing a purple gold crown, and a drama mask, sitting cross-legged on the Taishi chair to meditate and cultivate, and occasionally there were bursts of snoring one after another.

After a while, the oil lamp in the temple went out, and Dao Tong walked in quietly and re-lit the oil lamp.

The snoring stopped abruptly.

"Qingfeng, is he still kneeling outside?" In the empty room, a mature male voice sounded, asking Dao Tong.

"Yes, he is waiting for the master. Qingfeng nodded and replied.

Liu Qingshan picked up the wide sleeves of his coat, looked at the Roman watch in his hand, and sighed: "It's going to rain soon, let him kneel until the rain stops, help him into the guest room to rest, I will go to see him." ”

The breeze turned and left.

Liu Qingshan continued to practice as if he were not moving, and the snoring sound slowly sounded again.

After a while, the sound of ticking rain sounded. The raindrops fall on the leaves, the sound echoes, and the magnificent music begins.

Qingfeng returned to the room, opened the window sash, looked at Yu Qian, who was kneeling in the courtyard of the Taoist temple, and shook his head unconsciously.

"Why bother, ask for trouble. ”

Qingfeng knows that the autumn rain is continuous, and when this rain will fall, I am afraid that only Liu Qingshan knows in his heart.

Lying in bed, he also fell asleep.

It was only at noon that the rain gradually stopped. Qingfeng helped Yu Qian, who had been kneeling for a day and night, to the guest room to change into dry clothes, and brought it back to the subject.

"It's been a day and night, you should agree to my request, right?" Yu Qian put aside the breeze that was holding himself, and said respectfully to Liu Qingshan, but his words couldn't stop being weak.

Liu Qingshan held his forehead and said helplessly: "What request do you have?

Yu Qian was dumbfounded, in his mind, he had regarded Liu Qingshan as a demigod-like figure, and it stands to reason that he should have mastered everything he knew and thought, but in reality, it didn't seem to be the case?

"Lin Wan'er and I are childhood sweethearts, and we are happy with each other. However, I was bent on starting a business first and then starting a family, and because of the poverty of my family, the marriage was delayed again and again...... Xu Hou, the eldest of the Xu family, saw Wan'er's beauty on the street and arrested her in Xu's mansion, and it has been four or five days now. And the officials protect each other, even if I sue the county order, the county order has not been accepted. If you help me rescue Lin Wan'er, I will be grateful for your kindness, and in the future, the Taoist chief will be sent, and Qian will definitely be a cow and a horse to return to the chief. Yu Qian recalled.

"In the past two years, you have been admitted to the Jinshi, and you are already half of the officialdom, and what you say has your own authority. What can I do, and how can I help you?" asked Liu Qingshan with a smile.

"How many Jinshi are there in Jiangsu and Zhejiang?" Yu Qian expounded on this desperate fact, and continued: "Now I have not been assigned an official position, and although I have Fengyin, I am not much better than the ordinary people. And you are a protector of the country, once followed our emperor to raise troops and fight against the enemy, the position is extremely respected, and the torrent retreats bravely, and your words are thousands of times better than mine. ”

"What you said is not bad at all, if I make a statement, I will definitely make the Xu family retreat and release Lin Wan'er. Liu Qingshan nodded in agreement.

"Then what are you waiting for?" Yu stood up weakly, cheering up his spirits, wanting Liu Qingshan to take the lead for him.

Shaking his head, he said, "Although I can help you, I don't want to help you, I won't help you." ”

"Why?" asked Yu Qian reluctantly.

"How poor are you?" Liu Qingshan sneered, "If it weren't for the help of your neighbors, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to save up for the entrance examination in Beijing! It's been three years since you were admitted to the Jinshi, and you don't know how to do things, and your family is still destitute." Can a man like you marry a wife? deserve to be single for the rest of his life!"

Liu Qingshan took off half of the mask, drank saliva, and continued: "I never believe in any love between the two, the Xu family is well-off, Xu Hou is also very good to Lin Wan'er, and after a long time, Lin Wan'er will change her mind one day, when Xu Hou Lin Wan'er is in love with a concubine, why should I do that thin love thing that breaks up a good marriage?"

"You just think I'm poor!" Yu Qian said angrily.

Nodding his head, he affirmed: "That's right! Even if you say that thirty years of Hedong and thirty years of Hexi don't bully young people into poverty, it's useless, you can't bring Lin Wan'er true happiness at all." ”

"Officials protect each other, I thought that the protector mage could get out of the mud without staining, but I didn't expect you to be the same as them. I'm mistaken about you!" Yu Qian walked away angrily.

Looking at Yu Qian, who threw his sleeves away, Qingfeng unconsciously shook his head and smiled.

Liu Qingshan also saw it in his eyes, "Qingfeng, why are you shaking your head?"

"The master is notoriously helpful for not helping money, he actually wants to impress the master with sincerity, I am just laughing at his naivety. ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Liu Qingshan interrupted with a red face: "I'm just acting in Taoist righteousness, and where did I collect the money?"

Another petite girl, about twelve or thirteen years old, jumped into the Taoist temple one by one, like a fluttering butterfly, and smiled at Liu Qingshan: "Master, the three hundred taels of silver buried in the backyard are not yours?"

"Ahem!" Liu Qingshan pretended to cough, and said seriously: "Mingyue! Do you know how much three hundred taels of silver is? Xu Hou can spend so much money to get through my relationship in this regard, which is enough to show that Xu Hou is sincerely in love with Lin Wan'er, and we should bless the two of them!"

"Hahahaha. Qingfeng and Mingyue hugged their stomachs and laughed, laughing at Liu Qingshan's pale explanation.

After laughing for a while, Mingyue said solemnly: "I see that Yu Qian has a red light on his head, and he will definitely be a supreme minister in the future, and the master will break up his good marriage, he is afraid that he will hate the master to death! ”

Liu Qingshan said meaningfully: "Yu Qian is not the only one who hates his master? The one who is in the capital at this time is afraid that he has already looked at me at this time! A few days ago, I watched the sky at night, and the crape myrtle star was dim, and he was already out of the main position, and he was afraid that he would not be able to hold out for a few days. But he didn't know if I was going to see him for the last time, and he was afraid that he would already hate me to death, haha. ”

"Master, why are you crying?" Mingyue said timidly.

【Capital】

In the Forbidden City, an old man in his sixties was lying in a yellow tent, his breath was dying, and Zhu Gaochi knelt under the bed, sobbing quietly.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad, even if Zhu Gaochi is about to inherit the supreme position, he will inevitably sigh that life is impermanent, why can't people live forever?

The autumn wind blew open the lonely palace gate, and a palace man cautiously paced in.

"Is Master Changsu here?" asked Zhu Gaochi.

"Prince Qiqi, according to the envoy's report, Master Changsu ...... A few days ago, I traveled all over the world, but I was not in Qiantang County. ”

Zhu Gaochi suddenly noticed that the old man had unconsciously let go of the hand holding him, and when he looked down, the old man was already on the sickbed, and passed away abruptly, and the tears in the old man's eyes slid down the corners of his eyes, wetting the bedding.

At noon the next day, Xu Hou and his subordinates came to the outside of Xingju Guan to pay homage to Liu Qingshan.

Daoist Liu Qingshan sent his disciple Qingfeng to Xingju Guan to greet Xu Houji's subordinates.

Qingfeng led Xu Hou to enter the Xingju Temple, and Xu Hou's subordinates followed with several burdens, which were filled with vegetables, meat, eggs and other necessities. Subjectively, Liu Qingshan sat upright, motionless like a mountain.

Xu Hou is of medium stature, with an ordinary appearance, and his figure is indeed slightly fat, but he is richly dressed, showing the posture of a rich son. He walked quickly to Daoist Liu Qingshan's side, knelt down respectfully, and said, "Xiao Ke can meet the Protector Master." ”

Daoist Liu Qingshan nodded, and when he saw the gift in the hand of the little man behind Xu Hou, he was even more satisfied, and nodded again. stood up, smiled, and said busily: "You don't have to be formal, you don't have to be formal, you are an outsider, you don't want fame and fortune, and you can't accept the gift of a virtuous nephew." ”

Hearing Liu Qingshan's words of "not admiring fame and fortune", Qingfeng's face changed, and he couldn't tell how wonderful it was, but there was no laughter.

Looking at Qingfeng's performance, Daoist Liu Qingshan shook his head unconsciously, with this concentration, how can he cultivate immortals and attain the Dao? For a while, Daoist Liu Qingshan's thoughts were fluttering, "Qingfeng's words...... Do you want to drive him out of the Taoist temple and prevent him from exposing himself and embarrassing himself?"

Xu Hou sat aside and asked Daoist Liu Qingshan: "I don't know, did Yu Qian come to disturb Daoist?"

Daoist Liu Qingshan retracted his thoughts, nodded, and comforted Xu Hou: "The virtuous nephew and the Wan'er girl are a match made in heaven, although I am an outsider, but I also understand the truth of adult beauty, naturally I will not listen to Yu Qian'er's words and do things to break up the mandarin ducks." ”

"Thank you for your justice. Xu Hou expressed his gratitude.

chatted a few words, and although Xu Hou did not have fame, he was good at words and quoting scriptures, and the two sides also talked happily.

Xu Hou saw that the time had come, and suddenly pretended to be a gesture, his eyes were full of sadness, and he was silent.

Liu Qingshan's heart moved, knowing that this was Xu Hou's request for something, so he pretended to ask: "Why is the virtuous nephew worried?"

sighed and said: "Although Wan'er is in the Xu Mansion, she is concerned about Yu Qian. Every time my words bump into my family, the two sides can't get off the stage. ”

Liu Qingshan thought for a moment, but he smiled and replied: "What's so difficult about this? The human heart is the best thing, I have a spell, but Miss Bao Wan'er is desperate to follow the virtuous nephew." ”

Xu Hou was overjoyed, replied with both hands, and said: "Is there really such a mysterious spell in the world? If it can be done, I will definitely bring a great gift to worship Sanqing." ”

"It's easy to say, it's just that this spell requires the cooperation of your nephew. ”

"How do I cooperate?"

"This spell is called 'Heart Control Mantra', and the virtuous nephew can raise his spirit, and when he does things with Wan'er girl, he recites the name of Wan'er girl, and feeds her with water to take the hair and dandruff essence blood of the virtuous nephew. During the practice, she was kept in the ashram, which was to be protected from the light, and she was not allowed to see others, and cast the spell for seven days in a row, and after seven days, Miss Wan'er would treat her nephew with all her heart and mind. ”

Mingyue held a big apple and walked around from behind the subject, glaring at Liu Qingshan angrily, bright and bright, quite cute.

Daoist Liu Qingshan only pretended not to know and sent the happy Xu Hou away.

Sending Xu Hou away, Mingyue hammered her small chest and said angrily: "I didn't know that you would have such an evil spell, master!"

Liu Qingshan was embarrassed and said, "Your master's mystical method is boundless, and there are many things you don't know." ”

Qingfeng shook a roll of his eyes at Mingyue, and mocked: "You only know what the master is doing today? He does things without distinguishing between good and evil, as long as the money is in place, he will do even evil things!"

"Nonsense!" Liu Qingshan slapped the incense table angrily and said angrily: "The white cat and the black cat are good cats if they can catch the mouse! How can a spell be distinguished by good and evil? As long as the goal can be achieved, this spell is a good spell, and vice versa. I do things with a fair heart and a clear conscience!"

Liu Qingshan rebuked Qingfeng: "Your performance today is too bad! The disdain for the teacher is all in the eyes of Xu Hougongzi, if I am regarded by Xu Hougongzi as an unlearned and unskilled person, a charlatan-like character, how can we mix in Qiantang County?"

Qingfeng "cut" and said, "Master, aren't you a liar? I feel that your guy doesn't seem to have any spells, and it's not even as much as Mingyue's, she will at least be angry, master, what will you do? Will you have 'Stockholm syndrome'? Forcing Lin Wan'er into a neurotic proves that you have magic power?"

Liu Qingshan slapped the table angrily and said angrily: "I can't teach you anymore! Traitor! You get out of here after a month! I don't want to see you again!"

"I didn't want to learn to deceive from you for a long time!"

The two sides were at a stalemate, but Mingyue suddenly said: "It's a pity that this spell of the master will not succeed! I see that there is a black gas coming out between Xu Houmeiyu, as if there is a dead color." I was thinking about how he ended his life at his age, and then I found out that his innate vitality was weak, and he cast such a spell for seven days in a row, I was afraid that his body would not be able to support it, and I was afraid that he would immediately go crazy and die on the bed!"

Daoist Liu Qingshan was terrified, took off the mask that he had not taken off for several days, revealing his old face, looking at the wrinkles on his face, Daoist Liu Qingshan was impressively seventy years old! This was already the age of dangling in front of the ghost gate in the Ming Dynasty.

Said: "The five ghosts messed with my mind, so that I couldn't find the dead breath between Xu Hou Meiyu. I am in calamity and need to retreat and cultivate, Qingfeng, you give me a trip and inform the Xu Mansion not to let Xu Hou perform this spell. In this way, even if Xu Hou still wants to die, he can't rely on my master. ”

Qingfeng agreed, nodded and left.

At this time, there were only Liu Qingshan and Mingyue in the Xingju Concept, but Mingyue suddenly underwent strange changes, the original height of one meter three seemed to have become much taller, and the eyes were evil, as if they were possessed by demons, not like a child.

Mingyue stretched out her slender fingers, stroked Liu Qingshan's old face, her face was bewitching, and she said affectionately: "Master, you have nourished me with your innate vitality over the years, and now you are one hundred and forty years old, and you are about to die." What will I do when you die? Who will feed me?"

Liu Qingshan waved his hand and reminded solemnly: "Demon fox, in front of the public, don't show your original form! Also, being a teacher will not die! When I rush through this disaster, I will have seventy years of life to rejuvenate!"

Mingyue burst into tears and laughed, "I forgot that you are the first person in the world, master, how could you be buried under the three disasters and five tribulations?"

Daoist Liu Qingshan nodded and said with satisfaction: "That's right, my retreat will take about a year and nine years, and Qingfeng has been with me for three years, it's time to teach him some real skills, and I will teach you this task." Teach him a month and drive him away!"

"Teach what? Demon Magic?"

He said angrily: "You dare! If you want to teach nature, you must teach us the Xuanmen Fa, the art of subduing demons and eliminating demons!"

Mingyue said faintly: "Since Liu Bowen cut the dragon vein, where are there still demons in the world?

"Who said that there are no demons and monsters in this world?" Don't you?" Liu Qingshan retorted and continued: "And it's because it's useless to teach him!