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If a felon's refuge and ordination in the process of absconding, he can be exempted from punishment, just like Lu Dalu Ti in Shuibo Liang Mountain, but the temple or Taoist temple that houses him and the prisoner's refuge master have to bear joint and several guarantor liability for the prisoner's apprentice, if the prisoner does evil again, the master and even the entire temple will be implicated, under normal circumstances, even if the realm is high, few really dare to take the risk of accepting a felon's apprentice, Chu Zhenren is willing to take such a risk to save Zhang Guan, it can be said that Zhang Guan has the grace of recreation, But Zhang Guan, who was born in a gangster, was more or less grateful to Chu Zhenren, but he was more interested in Chu Zhenren's method of getting in and out of prison: with a burst of fairy mist, people actually passed through the wall, this kind of magical spell was really handsome in the eyes of a market gangster like Zhang Guan, so he worshipped Zhang Guan in the cell for this fashionable spell that stealing things can be picked without twisting the door and picking the lock.

After going up the mountain, Chu Zhenren found that this Zhang Guan had an extraordinary memory, and said that he could not forget the Tao Te Ching after reading it twice, so he gave Zhang Guan a Taoist name called Dongwen, which means insight into the wonder of words? With the legal name, Zhang Guan is officially entered the Tao, and Zhang Guan, a common man, has since become Zhang Dongwen, a disciple of the Three Qing Dynasty.

Half a year after going up the mountain, Zhang Dongwen found that the days of Lao Dao did not seem to be as novel and exciting as he imagined when he was apprenticing...... But helplessly, he is a death row prisoner, and being vulgar means being beheaded, and he can only stay up in the mountains, and he can only stay up in the mountains for five years unconsciously. The reason why he is said to be a ghost apprentice is entirely because this child has red hair, red eyebrows and red eyes, and he has a fight with the evil ghosts described in the scriptures. According to Chu Zhenren's words, this child was redeemed by him for two taels of silver from the hands of an entertainer, the child's hometown is in a place called Persia, and he was abducted when he came to the Central Plains with his father to do business. Because he heard that before he was abducted, people called his father "Mr. Chen", so the brothers called him "Chen Dongwu".

Since going up the mountain, the first official task given to Zhang Dongwen by Chu Zhenren is to teach this child to speak and write, but later even Chu Zhenren regretted giving this task to Zhang Dongwen, and learned to speak with him......

During the study of Taoism, what made Zhang Dongwen the most envious and jealous was the senior brother Shidong Immortal, as the name suggests, it is an insight into the immortal law, listen to the name and know that this person has won the true biography of Chu Zhenren, in Zhang Dongwen's impression, the senior brother is an omnipotent and omnipotent person, as long as the master will be, he will, since going up the mountain, Chu Zhenren has taught Zhang Dongwen all kinds of immortal Taoism, but he just does not teach the "wall piercing technique" that made Zhang Dongwen once dream of wanting to wear, the initial excuse was that the practice is still shallow, not enough to learn, Later, Zhang Dongwen's foundation was laid, and he was able to practice formal spells, Chu Zhencai told the truth, in his opinion, although Zhang Dongwen said that he had been on the mountain for many years, his motivation for learning the law was not pure, and his mental skills were not correct. Helpless, Zhang Dongwen could only stammer with his elder brother Shidong Immortal, and expressed his desire to learn the technique of piercing through the wall, although this Shidong Immortal was full of promises every time, but he never really taught.

According to Chu Zhenren, Zhang Dongwen has two calamities in his life, robbery and life, the first calamity is a life lawsuit at the age of eighteen, and the master can resolve it, and at the age of thirty-eight, that is, Zhang Dongwen is the second calamity after Zhang Dongwen went up the mountain for twenty years, but this calamity needs to be resolved by Zhang Dongwen himself, for this reason, Zhang Dongwen has been obsessed, although he has been learning the Tao for 20 years, but because the master does not teach the psychological shadow of the wall piercing technique, Zhang Dongwen faintly feels that the master has hidden a lot of things from him, and he has become more and more lacking in his own ability.

Time is like an arrow, and twenty years are fleeting; When Zhang Dongwen was thirty-eight years old, Chu Zhenren suddenly called Zhang Dongwen to the house, saying that his time had come and he could already learn the technique of piercing through the wall, but at this time, Zhang Dongwen's playfulness was gone, and it was replaced by a compassionate heart that devoted himself to the Tao, so he told Chu Zhenren that the Dao Immortal Technique was enough, and it was no longer important whether he learned the technique of piercing the wall or not. Hearing what the apprentice said, Chu Zhenren was relieved and also revealed the truth, in fact, there was no so-called wall-piercing technique at all, that thing was actually the Five Elements Earth Escape Technique that Zhang Dongwen had already mastered.

The Five Elements Escape Technique is one of the most basic spells in the Taoist arts, among which the Earth Escape Technique is a kind of spell used for the feet, and the Earth Escape Technique is a fairy method that uses the aura of the earth to travel quickly underground. One "escape" is fifty miles, and two "escapes" are a hundred miles away, and people who have just learned the Fa and practiced shallowly will be exhausted when they get one and two escapes, but with the improvement of their cultivation, the higher they cultivate, the farther they go. This kind of spell is generally used for long-distance travel, from Ying Tianfu to Shuntianfu also only takes one day's process, when the king of Shang wanted Jiang Ziya, Jiang Ziya threw himself into the river and fled with the water escape technique, the speed is similar to the ground escape technique, according to legend, after Jiang Shang threw himself into the river, the merchant soldiers caught up with the bridgehead so well, the grandfather had already escaped from the city.

Because the speed is extremely fast, it is difficult to accurately grasp the location of the escape, just like the cannonball fired by a cannon, the so-called aiming, at most, is to grasp a general direction and angle, it is difficult to accurately grasp the landing point, but in Chu Zhenren's view, although the earth escape technique is difficult to accurately control on the surface, but if it can be done without distractions, it is not completely impossible, as long as you grasp the operation of the true qi in the body and the pulse of the spell, the earth escape technique can be completely regarded as the so-called wall piercing technique, shortening the fifty-mile escape to fifty feet or even five feet, It is certainly difficult to fight flies with a cannon, but it is not impossible as long as you are skilled and have the right strength.

Speaking of this, Zhang Dongwen also understands why the senior brother promised to teach the wall-piercing technique but didn't teach it once, in Zhang Dongwen's eyes, the senior brother is a typical person who says one thing and does one thing in his hands, in addition to patting his feet around the master every day, he is calling people like cattle to the little Taoist boy who has just gone up the mountain, and the silver two of the Taoist temple are not once or twice, how can this kind of person be able to do what the master said without distractions? Piercing through the wall, it's clear that he won't be able to......

Being able to pass on this experience to Zhang Dongwen shows that Chu Zhenren is still quite confident in this tainted apprentice. After teaching the experience, Chu Zhenren made an appointment with Zhang Dongwen for three months, saying that he wanted to go out to travel, and the time was limited to three months, hoping that when he returned from the tour, he could see that Zhang Dongwen would be able to penetrate the wall, since then, Zhang Dongwen practiced hard every day, but he was never able to control the mana of the earth escape technique within the small range of "piercing the wall" like the master did back then, even if he tried his best to control the true qi, it would be impossible for this thing to penetrate the wall at all......

Three months of time is fleeting, as the agreed deadline approaches, Zhang Dongwen has changed from hard practice spells to hard practice, I hope that the master can find ways to make the old man happy after he comes back, and he will not be angry because he can't learn spells, however, Zhang Dongwen, who has been practicing sycophancy for a long time, is not the master who returned from the cloud tour, but the bad news that the master was infected with the disease on the way to the cloud travel.

The person who announced the news was none other than the senior brother Shidong Immortal, who said that the master was infected with wind and cold when he was traveling, and because of his old age and physical weakness, he was immortal and fell into a foreign land, and because the weather was hot and inconvenient to mourn, the master's golden body had been buried on the spot.

To tell the truth, with Zhang Dongwen's understanding of the master, it is difficult to believe that the master is feathered due to illness, first, the master has the true qi immortal law to protect the body, even if he throws it into the ice cave, it is fine, it is impossible to contract any vulgar diseases such as wind and cold, and secondly, Chu Zhenren is a generation of grandmasters, and his cultivation is very high, and the immortal body will become a golden body after feathering, how can there be a reason to be buried like ordinary people? But if you don't believe it, I don't know where the master's specific feather is, and secondly, I don't know if there is any catastrophe that the master can't escape, and I can only think that I can understand that when I am confused, I can temporarily watch one or two, but I didn't expect that when the Taoist temple was in a mess because of the news of the ancestor's feathering, the senior brother Shidong Immortal disappeared mysteriously, and then there was a group of Taoist priests from Shuntianfu who came to the door to receive the Taoist temple with Chu Zhenren's decree and the documents of the government, saying that Chu Zhen had handed over the Taoist temple to Zhang Zhenren of Shuntian Mansion before his death. A group of disciples led by Zhang Dongwen were soon sent out of the Taoist temple by the new abbot with five taels of silver each.

After leaving the ancient stone temple, most of the young Taoist disciples chose to return to the vulgar or go to other Taoist temples to apprentice to do chores, but these two roads for Zhang Dongwen did not work, first, he could not return the vulgar with his own murder case, and other Taoist temples must not be willing to accept apprentices like him who carried human life lawsuits, and secondly, there was a senior brother who dragged the oil bottle, with red hair and red eyes, in addition to having a good kung fu, the heart and Taoism were very poor, such people were afraid that other Taoist temples would not accept it, in order to make a living, Zhang Dongwen can only take his junior brother and sister to travel around, he wanted to make a living by treating people or doing things, but the common people prefer to find Langzhong rather than find a Taoist priest, and there are not many people who need to do things when they encounter evil ways and crooked ways, and even if they do, they don't believe that there is a Taoist priest like him who doesn't even have a base camp.

Before he first went up the mountain, cheating was Zhang Dongwen's best way to make money, as an unarmed gangster, what did he rely on to eat and drink spicy food all day long? From the gambling table to the dinner table, where is the word "cheating" missing? At this moment, the Taoist robe is in his hand, and he is still worried about not being able to cheat the money? After some research with Chen Dongtian, the two figured out a set of tricks to cheat money by relying on Taoism: when Chen Dongtian was mixed with the artist, he used a bloodthirsty bat that Master Shi had trained as a performance prop, as long as the blood was smeared on the wooden board in the dark space, this kind of bat would continue to hit the wooden board like a moth to a fire. On the basis of the trick of the master, the two of them refined it, and the specific steps were to first find a large family, and let Zhang Dongwen knock on the door of the house in the name of turning the fate during the day, and then threatened that there was evil in the family to exorcise evil spirits; If the big family believes it, then put the law to cheat some silver taels, if people don't believe it, then by the first-class Chen Dongwu night into the mansion, the chicken blood secretly smeared on the door of the owner's bedroom, and then release the bat to hit the door, the owner of the house heard the sound of banging on the door, no one opened the door and there was blood on the door, and the ordinary people were scared to pee, and they were bound to hire Zhang Dongwen to come to practice, to be honest, using this kind of deception, the brothers have been serious for a few years down the mountain to cheat money, and the starting price of each ritual is at least fifty taels of silver, a month ago, The senior brother came to the Huangfu to cheat and was refused, so he calculated that Chen Dongwu Chen would go to the door of Huang Yuanli's bedroom at night to touch the chicken blood, but this Chen Dongwu never returned, during which Zhang Dongwen also went to the Huangfu to inquire, but from top to bottom, he said that he had never seen a red-haired Taoist priest at all, because of his weak heart as a thief, Zhang Dongwen was embarrassed to tell the truth, and after waiting for a month without success, he could only think about going to the official mansion to shout grievances. After inquiring and learning that the county magistrate Qu Xianheng had a special habit of beating the plaintiff and the defendant together, and even the son of the elder of the pavilion dared to beat him, Zhang Dongwen's first reaction was to bribe the official Wang Shun.

Although it cost more than 100 taels of silver to bribe Yang Shun and almost pasted the coffin, Zhang Dongwen couldn't say that he was distressed at this time; There is a way that the wool comes out of the sheep, so that you can see the methods of my Zhang people, and you are afraid that you will not be able to cheat a hundred taels of silver? Bribing Yang Shun to win the first battle, Zhang Dongwen was in a rare good mood, and Zhang Dongwen was still quite confident in the bitter plan he racked his brains to come up with. In the mouths of the common people, this Qu Xianheng Qu master does not seem to have any other notoriety except for his love of beating people, and he can even be said to be a clean official.

The reputation of Qu Xianheng Qingguan originated from a "abacus case" in three years, when there was a county town to say goodbye to the old and return to the hometown of Wang Ge Lao, Mrs. Liu is the emperor's royal pen personally sealed a product of the order of the lady, because Wang Ge Lao to the Dongchang palm seal eunuch Xu Gonggong has recommended the merit, this Liu was also given half a Luan by the emperor. Wang Ge Lao has a son named Wang Zhi, who relied on the power of his parents to run rampant in the township, hired scoundrels to forcibly buy almost all the pawnshops in the county, and then started a monopoly operation by himself, using the abacus of lack of pearls to collect interest and lend money, squeezing out the blood and sweat of the merchants; But for this Wang Zhi's evil deeds, the common people can only dare to be angry but dare not speak, even if there are foreign businessmen to the yamen to complain, the incumbent county magistrate can only be kind words to appease and finally fail.

A few years later, Qu Xianheng took office, and within a few days of his arrival, a foreign merchant shouted injustice outside the yamen to sue Wang Zhi. When the news came out, the people thought that there was another corrupt official, but they didn't expect that after the merchant was beaten, it was Wang Zhi's turn to be beaten, at first this Wang Zhi didn't put a seven-grade county in his eyes at all, thinking that Qu Xianheng was just a new official who took office with three fires to make a show, and the court was quite arrogant, but when he really got on the board, he found out that this guy was playing for real, and he couldn't bear it after carrying five or six boards, and he recruited all the evil deeds of these years without trial. Afterwards, this Qu Xianheng seized all the pawnshops under Wang Zhi's name with a decree, and sent 600 li to expedite the file to the criminal department, wanting to strike while the iron was hot to behead this Wang Zhi to correct the law, and finally although this Wang Zhi was not asked, but the economic order of the county returned to normal, although the grass was not eradicated, but it was also a good thing for the people, and the court did not seem to be troublesome because Qu Xianheng beat the old family of the pavilion.

For ordinary officials, it is indeed very risky to use Zhang Dongwen's method of burning jade to sue well-known big families, but for Qu Xianheng, a perverted county lord who does not hesitate, it is the best strategy, he even dares to beat the son of the elder of the pavilion, is it possible that he will favor a squire?

Fiddling with the wishful thinking that had been planned for many days, Zhang Dongwen returned to the inn all the way, but he almost fainted on the spot when he pushed the door, only to see the junior brother who disappeared a month ago was sitting by the stove to roast the fire.

"I said, senior brother, you're too unrighteous, aren't you? I won't keep a single tael of silver, and if you don't come again, I'll really have to go out and rob my house to make ends meet!" "Beside the stove, junior brother Chen Dongwu pouted a hundred impatiently.

"You...... You...... You ......" Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhang Dongwen felt that his throat was sweet, and a mouthful of blood seemed to be surging in his chest, and it could spurt out at any time, "You bastard, where have you been running for more than a month?" You...... Do you want to me off and swallow the money alone? ”

"One...... One month? Hearing Zhang Dongwen say this, Chen Dongwu looked wronged, "I'm ...... I...... Ay? It seems to be ...... At last...... Ay? Oops, I can't remember......"

"What a mess! You entered the Yellow Mansion at night, and it was a month to go, and you didn't see anyone dead or a corpse, but you were in a hurry to kill me, do you know? ”

"Huangfu ......" Chen Dongwu nodded slightly, "By the way, I remembered!" I'm going to Huangfu! ”

"And after that?" Zhang Dongwen hurriedly asked, "What have you been doing for more than a month?" ”

"I ......" Chen Dongwu frowned and thought, "Senior brother, I really can't remember, I remember that I saw Huang Yuanli take two family members down a tunnel, I think it must be the place where his Huang family hides money, so I want to follow, what kind of trick can I really do if I can take some treasures out by the way?" As a result, as soon as I arrived at the entrance of the tunnel, I felt an evil wind blowing from inside, and I didn't know anything after that...... But brother, you said I was gone for a month...... Seriously? I...... I feel like this is what happened yesterday......"

"Evil winds?" Zhang Dongwen frowned, stepped forward to open Chen Dongwu's eyelids and looked at it, and then checked Chen Dongwu's pulse, there was no sign of being invaded by demons, from the pulse it was even healthier than before the disappearance, and from the pulse, it looked like eating two century-old mountain ginseng, "Where did the evil wind come from?" You're not going to fool around with me behind my back, are you? ”

"Senior brother, the conscience of heaven and earth!" Chen Dongwu's eyes widened, "I swear to the sky, I really can't remember, when I woke up today, I found myself lying in front of the land temple at the city gate, and it felt like yesterday!" Ay...... By the way, I've really been gone for a month? ”

"Nonsense! If you don't believe me, ask the shopkeeper downstairs! "Zhang Dongwen is also a hundred and is not angry.

"Forget it, don't mention that, count our brothers unlucky, senior brother, how can you say that I haven't come back for a month, you have to pick me up, have a good meal?" Chen Dongwu covered his stomach as he spoke, "Hurry up and get some silver, I'm starving to death......"

"Silver!" Hearing Chen Dongwu mention "silver", Zhang Dongwen's eyes were black and almost shocked, and he slapped his head on the door and beat his chest vigorously, "Oh, my silver......!" "To tell the truth, although there are not a few cheats, but the two brothers usually eat and drink spicy food, and they squander, bribing Yang Shun with more than 100 taels of silver can be said to be all of Zhang Dongwen's belongings, then Yang Shun has been honest under Qu Xianheng for three years, and the eyes of the two taels of silver a month are green, even if the junior brother has come back and doesn't have to go to the yamen to shout grievances, is it possible that he can still return the silver to you?

"Senior brother, don't tell me that you spent all your money!" Seeing that Zhang Dongwen's expression was wrong, Chen Dongwu also frowned.

"It's not all for you!" Zhang Dongwen glared at him viciously, "If you don't come again, I'll go to the yamen to shout grievances, I want to sue the big households in this county, can you do it without spending money!?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing Zhang Dongwen say this, Chen Dongwu was also a little dumbfounded, "That's ...... How? Senior brother, I just heard from the shopkeeper that there is an old man in this county, and his family background is quite thick, why don't we go to his house for a walk? ”

"Old man's fart!" Zhang Dongwen said viciously, "Tonight, I want to meet this Huang Yuanli in person, I don't believe that there is really any evil trend in his family!" "To be honest, hearing Chen Dongwu say that there was an evil wind that blew him unconscious, Zhang Dongwen was also a little puzzled at first, feeling that this Huangfu did seem to be some ghosts. But after the double diagnosis of "eye physiognomy" and the pulse to determine that Chen Dongwu was unharmed, Zhang Dongwen could only be more puzzled, theoretically speaking, the evil wind that can blow people into delirium is nothing more than the rotten gas spewed out when the evil ghost cheats the corpse and the miasma spewed out when the animal is born into sperm, confused by these two evil gases, although the surface symptoms are also delirious, but the light vitality is seriously injured and the life is whimpering, and it will never be like Chen Dongwu The five organs are harmonious and the pulse is stable and full of red light and refreshed like playing chicken blood, and at this moment Chen Dongwu can still be in good shape when he is hit by the evil qi, Could it be that your Huang family's mansion really has three Qing nether realms and cast the world's immortal law? Driven by curiosity and revenge, Zhang Dongwen resolutely decided to visit the Huang Mansion at night, of course, it would be better if he could steal some gold and silver treasures by the way, at least offset the one hundred taels of silver bribed by Yang Shun......