Chapter 135: Ascend to Silkworm Mountain
Wu Zhiyuan saw Dao Gu enter the cave, and hurriedly followed a few steps into it, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly turned around and walked outside the cave entrance.
"You want to escape?" Dao Gu asked coldly in the cave.
"Do you think I'm running away?" Wu Zhiyuan sat against the stone wall at the entrance of the cave, lazily not answering rhetorical questions.
"Then why don't you come in?" Dao Gu didn't understand Wu Zhiyuan's intentions.
"Lonely men and widows are in the same room, it's like this pile of dry wood meets a fire, isn't it?" Wu Zhiyuan saw that Dao Gu piled up branches and prepared to make a fire, so he took advantage of the topic to play the Tao.
There was a pile of dry branches in the cave, as if it had been prepared, and there were ashes from the burned branches next to it, and this Dao Gu seemed to be very familiar with this cave, so Wu Zhiyuan guessed that she must have stayed here for one night when she came down from Silkworm Mountain.
Dao Gu's face was slightly red when she heard Wu Zhiyuan's words, and she also felt that the other party's words were reasonable, so she let Wu Zhiyuan sit outside the cave.
"I knew a woman before, and we both lived in a cave together, and it was the same now." Wu Zhiyuan remembered the situation when he and Moon Shadow Fuxian were under the cliff in the north of Haiyang County, and Wu Zhiyuan took the initiative to live outside the cave that night and gave the cave to Moon Shadow Fuxian. This situation and this scene are no different from before, coincidentally, the appearance of this Dao Gu is also similar to the Moon Shadow Fuxian, Wu Zhiyuan doesn't know if this is a deliberate arrangement of fate, or God is deliberately playing tricks on him.
The Dao Gu squatted beside the fire, picked up a branch to light the fire, and didn't say a word, as if she hadn't heard Wu Zhiyuan's words at all, Wu Zhiyuan looked back at the cave, only to see that under the beating firelight, Dao Gu's face became more and more beautiful, her cheeks and anger, and her beautiful eyes and jade lips were exactly the same as the Moon Shadow Fuxian.
"I didn't mean to." The two were silent for a long time, and Wu Zhiyuan was the first to speak, he knew that if he wanted this Daoist aunt to speak, he must first eliminate the misunderstanding between him and the Taoist priest who was teased before.
"It was just a misunderstanding, I thought he was a thief who broke into the house in the middle of the night." Wu Zhiyuan saw that Dao Gu was unmoved, so he continued to explain.
"I know that the Taoist is not a bad person, but this is also what I learned about Lu Dao later, I went to Dong Mansion later, and then I found out that Dong Mansion harbored ghosts." A moment later, Wu Zhiyuan explained again.
"Whether intentionally or not, you snatched my master's sword and took off his Taoist robe, this is a fact, today we have a total of three Taoist masters in the temple down the mountain to arrest you, you should be glad to be caught by me, if it falls into the hands of my two senior brothers, you will inevitably suffer from flesh and skin." Dao Gu looked up at Wu Zhiyuan and said.
When Wu Zhiyuan heard this, he knew that Daoist Daoist believed what he said, but his master's order was difficult to disobey, and he still had to escort himself to the Qixia faction in the end, so he couldn't help but sigh.
"My master has been in retreat for three years, and he just came out of the customs a few days ago, I didn't expect to be teased by you, I don't think he is a person who will repay him, so as long as you follow me to Silkworm Mountain to apologize to my master and return the sword robe, he shouldn't embarrass you." Seeing Wu Zhiyuan, Dao Gu sighed, thinking that he was afraid that the master would deal with him harshly, so his words were quite comforting.
"You don't think he's the one to be revenged? Hearing this, you don't seem to know much about your master? Wu Zhiyuan seized the loophole in Daogu's words and hurriedly asked.
"You don't need to ask more about the rest, just keep it for the Silkworm Immortal Temple." Dao Gu seemed to be very taboo Wu Zhiyuan to inquire about herself, and hurriedly cut off the topic.
"Can you tell me your road number, then?" Wu Zhiyuan looked at Dao Gu and asked sincerely.
"My Dao name is Qingyuan." Dao Gu hesitated for a moment and spoke.
Wu Zhiyuan couldn't help laughing when he heard the call of "Qingyuan", and he laughed out loud with a "poof".
"What are you laughing at?" Qing Yuan looked up and asked with a puzzled face.
"Qingyuan, isn't Qingyuan just a pea? How do you come up with such a road number? Wu Zhiyuan almost laughed, held back his laughter and turned to look at Qing Yuan and replied.
"My Dao name was given by the Master, and I don't know the meaning of the Dao, nor do I understand its literal meaning." Qing Yuan replied coldly.
"I see, I still want to ask ......" Wu Zhiyuan was just about to ask Qing Yuan how long it had been since he joined the Qixia Sect of cultivation, but was interrupted by Qing Yuan.
"Don't ask, save your tongue and talk about the silkworm immortal view." Qing Yuan said coldly.
Seeing Qing Yuan's indifferent and resolute attitude, Wu Zhiyuan knew that Lu Dao would not ask more about her tonight, so he closed his mouth and leaned against the wall and fell asleep. The autumn night was cold, and Wu Zhiyuan was awakened by freezing several times, but he never stepped into the cave to keep warm, and finally survived outside the cave until dawn.
After dawn, Qingyuan continued to take Wu Zhiyuan on the road, Wu Zhiyuan walked in front before, and the speed of the two was relatively slow, this time Qingyuan walked in front, tied Wu Zhiyuan's hands behind him in front of him, and stretched out a long rope to pull him.
The two set off early in the morning and came to the peak of Silkworm Mountain before noon, and the silkworm fairy view of the Qixia faction is located on the top of this silkworm mountain. Wu Zhiyuan raised his head and looked into the distance, and was immediately shocked by the magnificent momentum of this Taoist temple, the inner hall of this Taoist temple is magnificent, and the scenery is also extremely elegant, invisibly revealing a fairy spirit. Wu Zhiyuan thought of the Taoist temple of the Maoshan faction, and secretly thought in his heart that it must be more majestic than this silkworm immortal view.
As soon as Qingyuan took Wu Zhiyuan into the mountain gate, a disciple had already gone to report it, and after a while, the Taoist priest came back and guided Qingyuan to take Wu Zhiyuan to the Lingzhi Palace.
Wu Zhiyuan came to the door of a side hall under the traction of Qing Yuan, and Qing Yuan saluted respectfully: "Master, I have already brought the person you are looking for." ”
"Let him in." A person's voice sounded inside, and Wu Zhiyuan could tell from this voice that the person who spoke was the Taoist priest he met in Dong's house that night.
Qing Yuan didn't untie the hemp rope for Wu Zhiyuan, but just motioned for him to enter the hall with his eyes.
Wu Zhiyuan hesitated for a moment and stretched out his bound hands to push open the door of the hall and walked in, as soon as he entered the door, he found that there was a tea table of eight immortals in the north of the main hall, there was a Taishi chair on both sides of the coffee table, there were two people sitting on the chair, and the person sitting on the right was wearing a gray sermon robe, Wu Zhiyuan recognized at a glance that this person was the Taoist priest he met in Dong Mansion some time ago, and then looked to the left, Wu Zhiyuan was not only surprised!
The person sitting on the left side was wearing a gray cloth shirt, with a few patches on his clothes, but the whole dress was both fitting and neat, at this time, the person was holding the teacup and skimming the tea foam floating in the tea with the lid of the cup, and he inadvertently raised his eyes to see Wu Zhiyuan, and he was also stunned.
"Zhiyuan, why are you?" The person sitting on the left side was Zhang Zefang, and when he saw Wu Zhiyuan standing under the stage, he stood up suddenly.
"Master, I'm ......" Wu Zhiyuan was speechless for a while, the scene he didn't want to see was finally seen today, he thought that he would leave Qixia County as soon as possible after finishing his work, and the grievances with this Qixia Taoist priest would be over, but he didn't expect that it would be difficult to escape after the worst.
"You ...... Is it a mentor-apprentice relationship? The Taoist priest on the right also stood up, looked at Wu Zhiyuan with a stunned expression, and then turned his head to look at Zhang Zefang.
"Brother Yu, I'm really sorry, this is my apprentice who was accepted a few days ago, and I have no way to discipline you, so I'm causing you trouble." Zhang Zefang hurriedly apologized to the Taoist priest, Zhang Zefang is also a Taoist priest, but the two belong to different Taoist sects, so their respective Taoist rules are completely different, compared with the Taoist priest, Zhang Zefang is more casual in terms of dressing up or words and deeds, and at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Maoshan faction did not deliberately force these details. The Maoshan faction takes it as its mission to catch ghosts and eliminate demons for the benefit of the people, and the irrelevant red tape here is harmful to the practice of Maoshan Taoism.
"Ha Lu Ha ......" The Taoist priest was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed loudly and said loudly, "It's really a big flood that washed the Dragon King Temple, and the family doesn't know the family anymore." As he spoke, he stepped forward and untied the hemp rope between Wu Zhiyuan's wrists.
"Actually, it wasn't a big deal, I originally had the heart to go down the mountain to find this little Taoist friend by myself, but at that time, I made an appointment with Brother Zhang that you would come today, so I didn't have time to separate, so I sent my apprentice down the mountain to invite, but I didn't expect my apprentice who just received it didn't understand the reason for this, and tied you back as a bad person, which is really rude." The Taoist priest helped Wu Zhiyuan to sit down on the seat of the lower head, and ordered the Taoist boy to make tea.
Wu Zhiyuan heard that there was a sentence in this Taoist priest's words that seemed to refer to Qingyuan, that Daogu Qingyuan had really just entered the Qixia Sect not long ago, and the Moon Shadow Fuxian also fell off the cliff and fell into the White Wolf Valley a few days ago, and then the body was missing, it was too much of a coincidence between the two.
Just when Wu Zhiyuan was pondering, he only heard Zhang Zefang smile and said: "Where, since it is a misunderstanding, then everyone will be happy." Zhiyuan, can you explain to the Qingxu Daoist what is going on? As he spoke, Zhang Zefang turned to Wu Zhiyuan and asked.
Wu Zhiyuan said "yes" when he heard this, and then briefly explained the grievances between Dong Qian and Wujia Village, and then started from the two brothers of the Wu family's ancestors, and then came to Qixia County, met the mysterious old woman, and later found the traces of the Qingxu Taoist priest and quietly followed him, and how he thought about the Qingxu Taoist priest, etc., without concealing them one by one.
By the time Wu Zhiyuan finished talking about all the things that had happened in the past two days, it had already passed the time when there was a stick of incense, and Zhang Zefang and Qingxu were stunned and amazed.
"Three years have passed, I didn't expect Sun Xiangu to still be alive in the world, counting, she should be eighty-five years old." Qingxu sighed, Wu Zhiyuan had guessed that the Sun Xiangu he was talking about was the mysterious old woman.
"Qingxu Daoist, that mysterious old grandmother's nickname is Sun Xiangu?" Wu Zhiyuan wanted to know more about the mysterious old woman, after all, she knew more about Dong Zhai.
"Yes, this old woman has never been married in her life, and legend has it that she can go on a bad journey, summon yin spirits, and is especially proficient in the art of divination." Qingxu nodded slightly, with a slight hint of admiration in his tone.
"Yes, she has helped many good people to avoid the disaster of blood and light, and she has been famous for decades, and no one knows about it, but she didn't expect to disappear from the rivers and lakes later, and no one can find her trace, it turned out to be a seclusion in Qixia County." Zhang Zefang also said with a sigh.
"But, how can you be sure that I'm talking about the Sun Immortal Gu in your mouth? What's more, the mysterious grandmother I am talking about has passed away, and I saw with my own eyes that there is a coffin in her house. Wu Zhiyuan questioned.