Chapter 117: Great Elder
Set sail at dawn, the road was smooth, and arrived at the port of Liuzhou at the end of the hour.
Tang Lu'er walked out of the cabin, took a breath of salty sea breeze, looked at the lively port at any time, and then looked for it on the dock. It's just that there are a lot of people coming and going on the dock, and there are many aliens wearing colorful clothes walking through it, and it is simply dazzling at a glance, Tang Lu'er turned his head and asked Meng San: "Look at grandma?" ”
"I guess I didn't come, she said she would go to Jinyuan to find us." Meng San smiled, then turned to Shangguan Yu and said, "You're going to leave right away?" ”
Shangguan Yu glanced at the bustling scene on the shore, and while beckoning an entourage, he said, "I'll send you to Jinyuan first." ”
The trip was in a hurry, he didn't put on any posture when he came and went, and at the moment he only let the two entourages go ashore first and squeak, so that the few people on the shore didn't make a noise, just clear the passage and come out, and after explaining, he led Meng San and Tang Lu'er off the boat and went to the dock.
It's just that Tang Lu'er just went ashore, and before she could get to the end of the carriage, there was a sudden commotion in front of her, she subconsciously raised her eyes to look there, and saw a sloppy, gray-haired old man, screaming in his mouth and rushing over to this side, and a middle-aged man chasing him behind him was a middle-aged man, and he saw that the two were a few steps away. The people around scattered to both sides, and the old man fled dizzily, and he didn't look at the road, and when he saw that he was about to crash into Tang Lu'er, he was tripped and fell to the ground by Shangguan Yu's entourage who raised his foot slightly from a distance.
"Ouch, ouch, fell to death, fell to death of my old bones, fell to death, ouch, ouch, ouch......" The old man groaned long and short when he fell to the ground, and his cry was quite miserable.
"Old thing, I'll let you run!" After the big man caught up, he didn't care about so many onlookers, he raised his foot and kicked the old man a few times, and a middle-aged woman was squeezed out of the crowd. ”
"Old thing, let me see you next time, see if I don't beat you up!" The big man dropped a sentence viciously, spat on the ground again, and then walked away with the woman.
It turned out to be a theft incident, after the big man left, the crowd of onlookers was about to disperse, but the old man suddenly crawled forward here, and then stretched out his hand, hugged the entourage who had just tripped him and cried at the throat: "Ouch, ouch, I hurt the old man to death, I can't get up, my waist is broken, my leg is broken, ouch, it's all your fault, you have to pay, ouch......"
The crowd gathered again, and the attendant was shocked and embarrassed, and wanted to kick the old man away, but he didn't expect the other party to hug so tightly. He subconsciously wanted to draw the knife, but when he saw so many people around, he quickly held back again, and then asked his companion to come up and pull the old man away for him.
"The day is clear, the reason is not there, the king law does not exist, pity me for an old bone, let others bully me on the street, and it doesn't matter if someone looks at it!" The old man was pulled and didn't let go, shouting miserably in his mouth, but a pair of thief eyes glanced at Shangguan Yu a few times, and then saw a pretty little girl standing next to the man, and the other party was also looking at him, and with a somewhat curious expression on his face, he immediately shouted to Tang Lu'er: "Little lady, kind little lady......"
"Send him away." Shangguan Yu interrupted him coldly, and ordered a sentence to the side, that is, he led Tang Lu'er into the carriage.
After the carriage walked away, the old man let go of the entourage's calves, picked up a few copper plates thrown by the other party one by one, and wiped the dirty clothes stingily, and then got up like no one, but then said to the entourage: "It's only so much money, enough for the old man to drink a few sips, and then take some more and pay some more." ”
"You—" The attendant looked at the old man with an obscene look on his face, and hated to punch him down.
"Okay, the master is gone, and he won't catch up yet." One of the people next to him persuaded him and pulled him away.
After the crowd dispersed, the old man took the copper coin in his hand, and disappeared into the noisy crowd, and a small bustle ended.
"That old man ...... just now," Tang Lu'er pondered in the carriage for a while, then said to Meng San and Shangguan Yu, "I always think he is very strange." ”
Meng San smiled, didn't answer Tang Lu'er's words, but asked, "What's weird?" ”
Tang Lu'er was about to speak, but at this moment, the carriage suddenly slowed down, and then he heard a thief's voice say: "Ouch, why did you drive and hit my old man again!" ”
Tang Lu'er was surprised, that is, he lifted the curtain of the car and looked out, but it was not the old man just now, I don't know how he followed, their carriage has traveled a long way, and this street is already close to the palace, so there are few pedestrians on the road.
At this time, the old man was salivating and said to the guard on horseback in front of him, "It's really not that the enemies don't get together, this is a long time, why don't you run into a few of you again, you can't let go of my old man." ”
"Presumptuous!" The guard pulled the reins, glanced at the carriage with some concern, and then turned over and dismounted to catch the old man, the other party's repeated provocations were obviously ill-intentioned, if it wasn't for the dock just now, the prince didn't want to attract attention, he would have taken the old man.
It's just that the guard saw that he was about to arrest the old man, but the old man's body flashed, and he avoided it.
"Hey, hey, little sugar man, twist, can't catch it, can't touch it......"
The old man sang some untuned songs in his mouth, and his body swayed from side to side, and several times he came down, but he even escaped the guard's hand. The guard's face changed, and the guard next to him was also shocked when he saw it, and he was about to step forward to help, but at this moment, Shangguan Yu stretched out a hand from the carriage, and his slender fingers were holding three copper coins.
Three copper coins flew out, two missed, and one hit the old man's knee as scheduled.
"Your Excellency will not reveal your identity again, and you will not be polite." Shangguan Yu lifted the curtain, and looked coldly at the old man sitting on the ground, holding his knees, his voice was flat, his tone was gentle, and there was no anger on his face, as if he was just talking casually. However, the old man really put away his smiling face, rubbed his knees, stood up and hugged Shangguan Yu and said with a smile: "The prince is really a dragon and a phoenix, these three copper coins are really well thrown." ”
At this moment, the temperament of the old man seemed to have changed completely, although his body was still sloppy, but his face did not have the air of a scoundrel just now, but revealed an indifference after the vicissitudes of life.
Tang Lu'er was stunned for a moment, but he didn't know that the other party would immediately break the work, but in an instant, the old man put on the face of a scoundrel and said: "It's just that three copper coins are really not enough to eat a full belly, why don't you give a few more?" ”
Shangguan Yu didn't speak again, and was about to put down the curtain of the car, when the old man immediately shouted: "Hey, hey, what's the matter, I said Xiaowei, I've seen enough of the play, why don't you help me say a celebration." ”
Tang Lu'er was stunned, Meng San was thoughtful, Shangguan Yu glanced at Tang Lu'er, and then looked at the old man and asked, "Your Excellency plans to keep going around the bend like this?" ”
The old man ignored him, but took two steps forward, and the guard next to him was about to stop him, but Shangguan Yu waved his hand, and then got out of the car himself.
"Xiaowei?" The old man was really a little strange now, his gaze crossed Shangguan Yu, looked at Tang Lu'er in the carriage and said, "What's the matter, could it be that I recognized the wrong person?" No, I'm not old and stupid! ”
Tang Lu'er poked her head out slightly, just at the dock, she found that when the other party escaped, there were a few steps that seemed to be walking with the wind, but there were many people at that time, and she didn't see it very clearly, until just now, when the old man was hiding from the guard, she was finally sure that she was not wrong.
It seems that she is related to Bai Wei again, but for some reason, she sighed in her heart.
After entering the Jin Garden, the old man revealed that he was the great elder of Bai Pengcheng and the enlightenment teacher of Bai Mei.
"Lost soul!" Mo Lao walked around Tang Lu'er, a little incredulous, "Five years ago, I quietly went to see you a few times, and you don't remember?" ”
Tang Lu'er shook her head helplessly, but Meng San said: "Although the Plum Hall Lord has mentioned you to me, but, heh, it's not that I doubt Elder Mo's words, it's just that I haven't seen the elder's true face before, so I also ask the elder to take out the token of the Plum Hall Lord, so that I can rest assured." ”
"Tokens? What token? Mo Lao's eyebrows fluttered, "You little baby, you want to frame me!" Bai Mei never gave me any tokens, how did she know that her daughter would not even remember her own mother. ”
Shangguan Yu said lightly on the side, "The old gentleman came all the way here, what do you mean?" ”
"It's not that Baimei asked me to help take care of her little girl, it just so happened that I was also idle and panicked, and half a year ago I heard that the little girl didn't die, so I rushed over." Mo Lao sat down on the chair, and continued, "You don't know how much I have suffered along the way, pity my old bones, I drove down thousands of miles, and almost lost my life on the road, what a loss, a big loss!" ”
"The old gentleman really has no tokens?" Shangguan Yu asked again.
Mo Lao thought about it, touched it on his body for a while, and then took out a black gold finger sleeve and threw it to Meng Sandao: "Fortunately, this is not lost, you see, the prince may not recognize it, Xiaowei can't remember it, you should recognize it." The pattern on it will not be unfamiliar to the people of the Meng family. ”
"Yes, it's just ......" Meng San smiled with the finger cover, only looked at Mo Lao, and didn't finish the following words.
"Grandma's, I'm glad I'm prepared, and here's." Old Mo blew his beard, and then took out half a jade pendant from his body and threw it to Meng Sandao, "It's still the jade pendant that Bai Mei brought on her back then, you recognize it." ”
Meng San took it and said in a daze: "Why is it only half a piece?" "This jade pendant is a pair, and Tang Lu'er also has a piece, but it was placed in the Meng family and not brought out."
"Ahem, that, after walking such a long way, you have to need silver to stay." Mo Lao said with a look of indignation on his face, "The thieves on this road are simply stubble, and the silver was robbed in a few moments, fortunately, this jade pendant was hidden tightly, but later he was hungry and panicked, so he had to knock half of it and take it to the pawnshop to exchange for some travel expenses." ”
Meng San was speechless, he had heard the Lord of the Plum Hall say that her enlightenment teacher, the Great Elder of White Moon City, had only specialized in astral arts in his life, and he had no attainments in martial arts.
He originally thought that the Great Elder must be an old man with immortal wind bones, but he didn't want to be such a sloppy old man.
It's just, is he really fake?