Chapter Forty-Six: The Taoist Leader in Action
There is something new on Queen Street in Hal City today, attracting everyone to watch.
Today's events are even fresher than the day when the Ba Wangfu posted a notice a few days ago declaring that Prince Shun rebelled, because in addition to the same eye-catching notice on the notice wall, there were also six old and young Taoist priests wearing black robes and black high hats lined up below the notice.
The Taoist priests all stood with their heads held high, and the two old Taoists standing in the middle would hear about them even if someone had never had the pleasure of meeting them, because the two of them were one tall and one tall, and there was no doubt that they were the second and third chiefs of the lonely mountain that were famous in this world. The little Taoist priests standing beside them were undoubtedly their disciples.
The onlookers were all amazed to see this scene, this is a rare scene in a century. However, when they saw the huge notice behind the Taoist priests, people's eyes invariably moved from the Taoist priest's body to the content of the notice:
A bounty was offered to capture the Li Cat Demon
All the residents of Har City also told the people of each town and Zhuangba that recently, the old ghost named Li Mao Ghost in my Lonely Mountain Three Realms Hall has been transformed into a Li Cat Demon after three hundred years, and he looks like a green-skinned man with a cat's head, and after the tracking of my Lonely Mountain Dao people, it is confirmed that this demon has fled to Har City to make trouble, and a reward is specially offered to capture it.
Li Cat Demon's previous life, Li Cat Ghost, has historical records as follows:
Li Maogui, male, born in the spring of the twelfth year of King Hui, birthplace: Li family in Taohuazhuang.
The spring of that year came, the horse's head flowers on the lonely mountain bloomed and fragrant, and the land of Pakistan was full of joy and everyone was happy. But in the peach blossom village, Li Yougui's family was depressed and worried, it turned out that the Li family originally had ten green-skinned cats in the peach garden, recently, a little male cat died unknown, and then a husband cat fell ill, and other cats became weird regardless of the appearance of the male and female. Li Yougui felt that something was wrong, and there was a ghost at home, so he hurried to Gushan to report the case.
So, my Gushan Dao Realm sent two Taoist masters to form a ghost hunting vanguard with one apprentice, each with a flag and a ghost hunting rope bag, and rushed down the mountain to Lijiazhuang to capture the cat ghost. And the Li family cat, whether it is dead or alive, is buried in the deep soil with a warrant, and Li Yougui listened to the Taoist chief's suggestion to change his name to Li Youdao, and since then there has been no haunting incident in the Li family.
To my surprise in the Lonely Mountain Dao Realm, after three hundred years of sitting, the invisible Li Mao Ghost has become a tangible Li Mao Demon. The history of its transformation still needs to be further investigated.
This Li Cat Demon has a head like a cat, but the body is like a human, and the skin is green, and there are signs that Li Cat Demon escaped from the lonely mountain by paddling across the river more than ten days ago, and then used witchcraft to transform a cat into a kitten demon as an apprentice in a wilderness.
Citizens of Pakistan, the Li Cat Demon is a monster with sinister intentions and great harm, and this demon will die if he does not get rid of my heavenly country. Anyone who finds the trace of the cat demon should immediately report it to the Taoist stationed here, and the person who assists the Taoist in capturing the cat demon will receive a bounty of 500.
The new events on the queen's street were quickly discovered by the ears and eyes sent by Hu Zheng to monitor the movements of the people of Har City, and the ears and eyes rushed to the martial arts hall to report to Hu Zheng as soon as possible.
Hu Zheng first felt very strange, these lonely mountain road chiefs have been in the name of the so-called ghost watching for many years, in fact, they are relieving and retiring on the mountain, why did they suddenly do such an abnormal thing today?
After pondering it carefully, Hu Zheng understood, it turned out that these Taoist priests were insinuating the Outer Heaven Archmage under the pretense of catching the green-skinned cat demon, and they were undoubtedly instructed to come to Har City to spread rumors, and sooner or later they would pose a serious threat to their reputation and that of the archmage.
Thinking of this, Hu Zheng ordered the ears and eyes to continue to closely monitor the words and deeds of the Taoist leaders and report them at any time, and then find Ah Ling, who was his apprentice and lover, to discuss countermeasures.
After listening to Hu Zheng's description, Ah Ling had a flash of inspiration in her mind, and said in an excited tone: "Could the person who instructed the Taoist elders to spread rumors and make trouble be Prince Shun?" It is possible that he did not flee to the old world after being injured, but hid in the lonely mountain!"
Hu Zheng nodded and said, "I have already thought of this possibility!" If so, he was clever but was mistaken by cleverness. We should go to Gushan to find him right away and ask him to hand over King Ba's treasure. ”
Ah Ling thought for a while and said, "It's not good for the two of us to go out in person, the tree is big, and it's not easy to break into a ghost place like Lonely Mountain." In addition, it would not be easy for the Taoist leaders to instigate the people to come to the martial arts hall to make trouble. It's best to let Zhao Li take the five of them, and we can just give them a search warrant for the Ba Wangfu, and the six of them will not have a problem dealing with Prince Shun. What's more, Prince Shun has already been hit by the apprentice of the archmage, and a poisonous arrow has no combat effectiveness. ”
Hu Zheng nodded in agreement, "Okay, this is also an opportunity to test the ability and loyalty of the six of them." ”
Song Ren and the six of them took two carriages to the Lonely Mountain to search, and the hall master appointed Zhao Li as the leader of the six, and for the first time, each of them was given a genuine sword that only the guards of the Ba Wangfu were qualified to wear.
The hall master's appointment of Zhao Li as the leader was early in Song Ren's expectations, through the observation of the past few days, Song Ren found that Zhao Li's swordsmanship was very ordinary, he was chosen by the hall master undoubtedly because of kinship, and Hall Master Hu undoubtedly wanted to control the other five disciples through Zhao Li.
Song Ren and Zhao Li respectively drove a carriage from Harcheng to Gushan, sitting in Zhao Li's carriage were Sun Xiu and He Min, and Liu Jin and Chen Ying were sitting in Song Ren's carriage.
After a few days of careful observation, Song Ren found that the relationship between Zhao Li and He Min was not ordinary, Zhao Li was tall, handsome and eloquent, while He Min had a simple personality, and the two often talked and laughed together. And Liu Jin and Chen Ying behind him have a good relationship, Liu Jin is not good at words, but swordsmanship is the highest among the six, Chen Ying's personality is also more introverted, but swordsmanship is also the best among the three girls, although the two are together, although they don't talk much, they are very tacit.
If you analyze according to the matching idea of the hall master, four of the six people have already formed pairs, and only Song Ren and Sun Xiu have not yet landed. In Song Ren's opinion, Sun Xiu has a bold and cheerful personality, speaks and does things quickly and decisively, and looks good, making her an excellent girl. However, Song Ren has Princess Zhen'er in his heart that he will not really be paired with other girls to marry and have children, and Song Ren has two hearts for the hall master, so it is impossible to act according to his will. However, in order to fulfill the trust of Professor Mei after arriving in the outer world, he must obtain as much support as possible from his peers.
The road from the city of Hal to Gushan is a major traffic artery, the road surface is smooth and spacious, and the weather is also cloudy and lukewarm.
Zhao Li was driving the carriage in front while laughing with the two girls behind him, Song Ren was not willing to be lonely in the back, he turned around while driving the carriage and said: "Hey, Liu Jin, Chen Ying, do you two think that Prince Shun will hide on the lonely mountain?" ”
Liu Jin smiled honestly and said, "I hope he is here, so that we can get the Tongtian Treasure and go to the old world to play." ”
Chen Ying said with a smile: "If I were the prince of Shun, I wouldn't hide in the lonely mountain, there are so many ghosts and it's terrible, how good it would be to take the Tongtian treasure to the old world." ”
Song Ren lost no time in saying: "I agree with Chen Ying's thoughts, I have been thinking about a question, Prince Shun has always been fine, why did he go to the Ba Wangfu to make any rebellion as soon as the archmage came?" Isn't this self-inflicted? If he really wants to rebel, why not do it sooner? What do you two think? ”
Liu Jin stretched his neck forward and lowered his voice: "Song Ren, don't say this kind of thing in front of Zhao Li, it's not good to reach the ears of the hall master." We can't control the affairs of the Ba Wangfu, following the hall master and the archmage, we can not only learn martial arts but also go to the outer world to open our eyes and play, why not? ”
Chen Ying continued: "Song Ren, Liu Jin and I are different from you, your family has a farm in the countryside, and you can do farm work, it is not easy for us to find a good job in the city, even if we can't go to the outer world, learn martial arts with the hall master, it will be a good job to be a guard in the Ba Wangfu in the future." ”
Uncle Mi was staying in the dock room with a heavy heart, and was very surprised to see six young children with swords appear at the door. When he heard that the disciples from the Martial Arts Hall were going to go to the Lonely Mountain to search, Uncle Mi was very reluctant to send them across the river to find trouble with the Daoists. But the boy who was helpless showed the search warrant of the Ba Wangfu, and Uncle Mi had to row a boat to send people across the river.
The fat Dao Leader and the Dwarf Dao Master who stayed in the Three Realms Hall were also uneasy, since Professor Mei assigned this important task of driving away the Hu Hall Master and the Outer Heaven Demon to the Lonely Mountain Dao people, they had been worried that the Hu Hall Master would come to find trouble.
Hearing the sound of the iron door knocker being violently knocked on, the fat Taoist hurriedly ordered the little apprentice to open the door.
Seeing a group of young children walking in from a distance with bright swords in their hands, the fat and short leaders couldn't help but tremble.
The fat Taoist plucked up twelve points of courage and pointed at the comer and asked, "You, what are you doing here?"
Zhao Li, who was the leader, didn't talk nonsense, he stuffed the search warrant into the fat Dao Chief's hand and said: "Dao Chief, someone reported that there were rebels hiding in the Three Realms Hall, and the Ba Wangfu sent us to search. ”
When the two Taoist leaders heard that they were not here to catch themselves, they breathed a sigh of relief, and their words became sharp, "You can search as you like, and if you want someone to lead the way, just give orders." The chief said with a happy face.
He knew in his heart that there were no ghosts left on this lonely mountain at this moment, except for their master and apprentice.