One afternoon five days later.

The East City of Chang'an City, a bustling commercial street. There are two cities in the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the West Market is the gathering place of many foreign Hu merchants, which is the concentration area of Datang International Trade, and the East Market is the shopping and entertainment area for the residents of Chang'an City, with more than 100 shops and workshops.

There are many kinds of business in the East Market, such as pen shops, wine shops, iron shops, and meat shops, and it is not difficult to meet rare pipa masters performing on stage, and rare huqin trading in the Western Regions. Since ancient times, "Japan and China are the city", the east market in the afternoon is even more crowded, lively and extraordinary, and there is a grand scene in Chang'an City.

Xia Fanxing walked in a row of Hu Fu rows, and the Taoist robe on his body immediately attracted the attention of many people. Although there are many famous sects in Chang'an City, I am not too surprised to see a cultivator. But the monk's outings can still bring a few comments to passers-by.

In fact, a large part of the reason is due to the envoy of the Anda Festival, the "child" of the concubine, who brought the clothes of the Hu people into the palace and presented them to the concubine after getting close to the concubine, which attracted the imitation of wearing Hu clothes in Chang'an City.

Xia Fanxing wondered if he should pay some money to buy a beard costume and change the robe on his body. Behind him, this pair of big beauties who used to be timid in the past found a Tang clothing store.

The woman who followed him, wearing a women's robe, was following Xia Fanxing with small steps, she often looked back a few times crampedly, if there was a man in front of her, whether it was a handsome boy who came to visit the business house or a worker carrying goods, her face would show a look of extreme disgust. Then he unconsciously grabbed Xia Fanxing's arm in front of him, and when he came back to his senses, he shook his hand hatefully.

But she had been following closely behind Xia Fanxing, and if any man stared at her face without stopping, she would stare back fiercely, and no one would dare to look at her again.

This row of Hufu firms has already run out, and although Xia Fanxing has a lot of silver in his pocket, he really doesn't agree with the aesthetics of the Hu people. The disciple of the Yin Sha Sect behind him was busy enough to beware of men, let alone shopping, and the two of them were still empty-handed. He had felt his arm being grabbed and thrown away many times. I was helpless and funny in my heart, and I walked to the fork in the road and turned around and said, "Senior sister, this trip has been completed, where are you going to go next?"

The woman glared and said, "I, how do I know! Didn't Master tell you yesterday, you just lead the way. ”

"Then let's go find a Tang costume shop first and change out of this Taoist robe, otherwise it will be too eye-catching. ”

"Well, then go find a shop without men. ”

"Okay, okay. By the way, do you want me to buy you a mask to wear? The man here in the province is staring at your face. ”

"Good idea. You lead the way, go shopping for women's clothes first. ”

It is said that the woman behind Xia Fanxing is Shang Meng, the third senior sister of the fifth generation disciple of the Yin Sha Sect who met that afternoon. According to what Hua Rongyu said, don't get too close to Ji Yanliu, so that other sect disciples will no longer be so repulsive to men. So I don't know what Hua Rongyu thinks, let alone how she persuaded Shang Meng, how to get the sect master Shen Yang Sanren, and arranged for him to take Shang Meng out to play.

In the past three days, they have visited a lot of grass markets inside and outside Chang'an City, and yesterday they even sneaked into the palace city to visit the famous Xuanwu Gate. In the past few days, Shang Meng has lost his initial rejection and disgust with him, but he still feels uncomfortable with any other man in the city.

Xia Fanxing didn't feel anything, he went out to eat and drink with the beautiful girl every day, although he was not very happy, but he was at ease! The two returned to the sect in the evening, and the disciples' reactions to the two of them gradually faded, maybe Hua Rongyu or Elder Li had done a lot of work for them in this regard, and the female disciples of the Yin Sha Sect no longer had the same disgust with him as they did at the beginning, which seemed to be really good news for Hua Rongyu. After returning to the bedroom, he dived into meditation and practiced the "Water God Technique", and the day before yesterday he had completed the consolidation of a water hole, and there was no side reaction in the secret realm.

A moment later, Xia Fanxing and Shang Meng walked out of a clothing store wearing delicate round-necked robes and pale cyan cross-collared skirts, each wearing a mask with a cow's head and a horse's face. Xia Fanxing didn't expect that a girl like Shang Meng would actually take off this horse-faced mask just now. Maybe I think that the more hideous the face, the more people dare to look at it!

"Eh, there seems to be a Taoist priest performing magic in front of Senior Sister, let's go over and have a look?" The two walked in the Tang costume shop for a while, and Xia Fanxing heard the sound of drums and people's cheers coming from outside the fork in the road ahead. Listen closely, there is also the special sound of the Dao Talisman burning.

"No, there must be a lot of people there. I can't stand it, you men stink too much!" Shang Meng shook his head again and again, and was about to walk to the other side as soon as the horse face on his face turned, but was pulled by Xia Fanxing.

"Senior sister, I really want to see it..."Xia Fanxing deliberately lengthened his voice, and everyone felt a chill in their hearts when they heard it. In fact, he wants to see Fangshu, just to make Shang Meng reduce his rejection of men a little more. was entrusted with the matter of loyalty, since he stayed, he wanted to do as much as possible what Hua Rongyu instructed.

"You... Forget it, let's go, let's go. Shang Meng was simple-minded, and after listening to Xia Fanxing's coquettishness, he really thought how much he wanted to see it. The heart is also a cheap junior brother, so I still have to let him. He suppressed his discomfort and walked to the sound of the drum.

"Thank you, Senior Sister!" Xia Fanxing hurriedly followed, and said with a smile.

In front of it is a platform temporarily built by several Taoists, and there is a conspicuous plaque on the platform that reads "Lishan Hutian Taoist", which looks like a Taoist orthodox. There were many people in the audience who gathered around to watch. The Taoist at the head was dressed in a strange costume, the brim of his hat covered his eyebrows, a pair of long eyes were closed, and his mouth was full of words. He sat cross-legged on the ground, and a few younger brothers around him stood far or near behind him, and the ground was sprinkled with Dao talismans, and the spells in his mouth were spit out, and the Dao talismans on the ground began to burn.

Everyone in the audience was inevitably a little frightened when they saw it, but the Dao Fu Burning did not ignite anything around them. Immediately after, the Taoist sitting on the ground slowly rose, and a burst of white gas with the fragrance of medicine wafted from his body. In the shocked gaze of everyone, the Daoist who rose into the air stretched out a number of black arms from behind his back, which looked as hard as iron, and began to wave.

The next moment, the white qi around the Taoist gathered together, multiple arms gathered together, and many dark clouds gathered on the Daoist's head. In the platform under the sun, rain began to fall out of thin air. The audience was curious, stretched out their hands and touched it, it was really rain. But the rain poured down, but not a drop fell on the outside of the platform and splashed on others.

The Taoist who flew to the sky, the so-called "Taoist priest who called the sky", opened his eyes and smiled slightly. The audience immediately burst into applause and cheers, and the drums behind him increased their intensity, and those who were willing to give up the silver had already thrown the broken silver in their pockets into the storage bag by the stage.

Shang Meng gently pushed Xia Fanxing's arm and whispered: "There are still such people outside the sect, calling for wind and rain, and their deeds are definitely not low." ”

Xia Fanxing sneered, having seen a lot of the world, he naturally understood that the so-called Taoist magic in the market was just some strange tricks, and there were very few monks with real cultivation to engage in these things. As for this so-called "calling for wind and rain", he figured out how these mortals did it after a little thought.

"Senior sister, these so-called Jianghu magic techniques are all false. All of them were done with some unexpected elixirs or talismans. In fact, if you are not a member of the sect, the Qi Condensation Technique is not an easy thing to obtain. These so-called Taoist priests may not even have passed the condensation period. ”

Shang Meng, who lived in the Yin Sha Sect all the year round, was a little puzzled by this, and didn't answer for a while.

"'Calling for wind and rain', it is actually not very difficult to achieve such an effect. In my opinion, these talismans are real, but they certainly didn't draw them themselves. Or they were bought through some channels. It is not difficult for them to use a certain technique to urge it to burn and exert its effect. As long as he made some mechanisms around the Flying Dao man, why would it be difficult for him to rise into the air like this? Only the arms on his body and the dark clouds in the air, this thing was not particularly easy to get out. So in fact, whether it is an arm or a dark cloud, they are just a trick.

"They may have a real Taoist priest or alchemist behind them, and they have made some kind of elixir or array plate that can create illusions for them, and they can do what I just said by placing a array plate or urging the pill here. The rain is real, as long as you see the right time to urge an ordinary pill, called the Imperial Water Pill, we have a lot of Yexin Sect, and it is actually very simple to make such an effect. All in all, it's just a trick to cheat people out of money!"

The last sentence was transmitted to the voice, and Shang Meng was still a little unconvinced when he heard it: "The words can't be said too absolutely... I think they still have some real skills. ”

Xia Fanxing smiled and passed over: "If Senior Sister doesn't believe it, you can stand in front of me." I'll do a little spell to send the aura to the platform, and when that Flying Daoist starts coughing. You help me hide my breath so that no one can find out. ”

Shang Meng hesitated for a moment, and then came back: "Then, it's okay! I don't believe that the magic tricks outside this sect are all deceptions." ”

She slowly walked up to Xia Fanxing, and the eyes in the mask nervously swept around many times, but fortunately she was wearing this thing on her face, and no one looked at her at all. After a while, Shang Meng felt a faint aura behind him slowly transferring. But not only did the surrounding mortals have no reaction to this, but also the few Taoists who are still "doing" on the stage are also unaware. The Heavenly Daoist was reciting words in his mouth at this time, and the drum behind him was beating louder and louder. But this person felt an itch in his throat and was very uncomfortable.

But before he finished reciting this formula, he panicked in his heart. I tried to control myself, but I coughed lightly. The oppression of Xia Fanxing's spiritual power disappeared with it. After this cough, the Taoist priest unconsciously blushed, but fortunately, the audience did not notice these details, and he hurriedly recited the mantra and continued according to the pre-rehearsal. But he really didn't have any level, and he didn't even notice that someone was doing something underneath, and he just thought there was something wrong with his throat. I didn't pay much attention to it, and barely managed to finish the next performance.

Shang Meng was embarrassed in her heart, and turned her head to look at Xia Fanxing, but saw that he was clapping and cheering like a group of audience, wearing a bull's head mask, and nodding to her proudly.

"Summer... Xia Fanxing, these are charlatans, let's go and debunk him!" Shang Meng lowered his head and thought for a while, and passed in a deep voice.

Xia Fanxing looked surprised and replied, "Senior sister, there are so many men here, you ......"

"Don't be afraid, man... What's there to be afraid of? These scammers cheat people out of money, so you don't get angry?" Shang Meng's voice was a little excited.

Xia Fanxing thought about it for a while, and said in her heart that this cheap senior sister is really simple and kind. This made him involuntarily think of the innocent girl who was only sixteen years old, Han Ningxue.

After being silent for a moment, he replied seriously: "Of course, these people are borrowing a trick gimmick to attract people's attention, and they are charlatans. Senior sister is certainly right to think like this. But the performance is just a matter of fun for the audience, and it is a skill to make these spectators find it interesting, and to make them cheer for it or pay for it. These ordinary spectators don't know that this is not a real Taoist technique, so let them be stupid. These so-called 'Taoists' still want to earn such a little money, and it must not be easy to live, and it is not easy to come out and build such a Taoist platform. Why bother to expose people, make the audience unhappy, and make these performers have no way to live?"

Shang Meng retreated to his side, quietly thinking about what he had just said. His eyes looked through the mask and quietly looked at this man who was a few years younger than himself... Man. His words gave this Yin Sha Sect disciple who had almost never been out of the sect a completely different feeling.

"Although you are a man, you are right, my generation of monks, living in the sect all the year round, does not understand the hardships of ordinary life in the outside world, and the talk of righteousness and chivalry, in fact, is empty words. The performance here actually has its necessity, if they can get pleasure from it, why bother us to meddle with it! Senior Brother Xia, let's go. ”

Shang Meng said sincerely, and took off the mask on his face with his other hand. The shocking face made the people around him suddenly turn their eyes on. Xia Fanxing looked at her and smiled. Shang Meng no longer cared about the eyes of others, and he didn't wait for him to follow, so he turned his head and left.

"Is this what Master Hua Xian intended?She doesn't seem to hate life in the outside world so much, and she doesn't hate men so much......" Xia Fanxing thought, also took off her mask, and hurriedly followed: "Where does Senior Sister want to play next?......

On the night of the Yin Sha Sect, Shang Meng did not have an evening class today, and unexpectedly invited Xia Fanxing to her cave mansion. Xia Fanxing was naturally flattered, and at the same time felt magical and gratified by her change.

The last time I came here, I just watched two beautiful women come and go in bed, but I didn't notice that the woman's residence was so clean and chic. In fact, every disciple of the Yin Sha Sect has put a lot of thought into taking care of his residence.

As long as they are regular disciples, some people share a room, and some people live in one room. The most common flowers in their caves are their favorite flowers. I heard Hua Rongyu say that their sect also has a flower art class that must be learned, so almost every disciple has his own favorite flowers and trees. The third senior sister Shang Mengdong, several halls in the mansion are just right to hang a lot of orchids. It has a faint fragrance. Most of the buildings in the cave are made of wood, with dark brown tones and soft candle flames hanging everywhere, which is very quiet and very emotional.

"When the emperor of the dynasty indulged in women's sex, he used his wife and brother Yang Guozhong as his appearance to confuse the holy hearing?" "Because of An Lushan's sacrifice to the heavens, Xia Fanxing and the entire Tu Feng Sect disciples have a lot of understanding of the political affairs of the dynasty. He now knew much more about the situation of the Tang Dynasty than many disciples of the Yin Sha Sect in Chang'an City. The two were chatting about this in the guest room, and Shang Meng felt incredulous that the son of heaven was obsessed with Yang Guifei's beauty.

"Then Yang Guifei, is she as beautiful as me? How did she do this?" Shang Meng asked very seriously, Xia Fanxing saw her appearance and felt that it was really very cute.

"This... The aesthetics are different. They mortals seem to like fat women, so ......"

"What, where does the fat look good? Then the emperor has a problem with his brain, right?" Shang Meng laughed.

"By the way, do you know that Wu Meiniang? When did the emperor come? It seems that she claimed to be the queen of heaven, but how could she be seized by a man again? It's a pity. "The feminist ideology of the Yin Sha Sect is very serious, and there are many emperors in the Tang Dynasty, and the disciples are afraid that they only know about the first generation of female emperor Wu Zetian.

"Empress Wu is... Well, it seems to be the last emperor, right? I heard that after her death, the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil for a while, and then the new emperor seemed to have been poisoned by some princess mother and daughter? But Emperor Xuanzong later killed that princess, what is the name of the year after ascending the throne... Anyway, it seemed to be pretty good at first. ”

"But isn't he messing around now? Our disciples have all heard some elders from the sect say that it seems that someone from the north is going to raise an army?"

Fanyang An Lushan... As a disciple of the Tu Feng Sect, Xia Fanxing naturally did not have the opportunity to say anything more about this matter. Shang Meng didn't delve into this. The two chatted about the Tang Dynasty for a while. Although Xia Fanxing doesn't know much about these mundane affairs, he also supports his little knowledge to talk to Shang Meng happily. Until a familiar voice sounded outside the cave, it seemed to be Ji Yanliu.