Lord Yu was ordered to come to inspect the Taoist Temple of Shilou Mountain (Shilou Mountain is today's Louguan Platform).

Wailang Yu, a member of the Ministry of Works, is in charge of civil construction and repair, which is a fat shortage, and there is countless money in his hands. Although he is only a six-rank official, the project he is responsible for is enough for him to enter and exit in this small county town with pride.

There is only one mountain road to Louguantai, and Lord Yu has Taoist companions, Zhou Ziyu and they can't avoid these people no matter how they go, it is better to go together, and by the way, inquire about the purpose of Lord Yu's trip.

In the Qinling Mountains at the beginning of February, the cold wind is expected to be steep.

The mountain road is rugged, and there is still snow on the top of the mountain.

Zhang Jin likes to walk this mountain road the most, refuses to ride a horse, and walks up the mountain.

She has long heard of the Louguantai Mingxu Taoist Temple, and when the ancestor lives in Taibai Mountain in winter, he will also go to the Mingxu Temple, listen to the Taoist lecture on the Tao Te Ching, and practice the guidance technique or health boxing with the Taoist.

However, Shizu never mentioned that he was Sun Shengshou, and those Taoists only thought that Shizu was an ordinary mountain people.

Zhang Jin also asked the ancestor, why didn't he take himself to the Louguantai Taoist Temple, was it clear that girls were not allowed to enter?

Shizu shook his head and sighed with a smile: "It's not that you are an outsider if you wear a Dao crown and take a Tao Te Ching, Jin'er, you still want to be an immortal outside the world, carefree." Whether it is medical skills or mental skills, you will not be able to attain the Tao if you are dyed with interests. ”

Zhou Ziyu rode a horse, walked side by side with Lord Yu, and asked a few words intentionally or unintentionally: "It is still cold at this time, and Lord Yu has worked tirelessly to come to this remote place, it is really hard." ”

Lord Yu is also modest: "Where is it, the emperor's order must be done, how to say that it is hard work." ”

Zhou Ziyu pretended to be surprised and asked, "The emperor's order?" ”

Lord Yu reluctantly made a calm appearance: "The emperor has an order to build a large number of buildings on the viewing platform, build a Taoist temple, and a scripture platform." ”

There are a lot of Taoist Buddhist temples in Zhongnan Mountain, a room can be a temple and a Taoist temple, but there are few exchanges between Taoists, after all, Taoists or monks, are all mortal flesh, have seven emotions and six desires, even if they are monks, they have their own principles, and the Tao is not the same, yes, Zhou Ziyu has been cultivating in Zhongnan Mountain for two years, and he does not know the Taoist of Mingxuguan.

However, when Zhou Ziyu and Uncle Yuqing went to Li Yuan, they also heard that the Taoist of Ming Xuguan had repeatedly made prophecies among the people to build momentum for Li Yuan.

Zhou Ziyu said with a smile: "Mingxuguan is very famous in this area, I heard that the people ask men and women for peace, and they all come here to burn incense, which is very effective." ”

Lord Yu couldn't help but be proud: "After it is built, it will be more famous." I heard that Mr. Wang Yuanzhi will be invited to preside over the Taoist temple at that time. ”

Zhou Ziyu asked in surprise: "Mr. Wang Yuanzhi is in Luoyang, he is very old, and it is a great blessing that he can be invited by Ming Xuguan!" ”

Zhang Jin followed behind everyone from afar, and Luo Huai led the horse behind her.

She heard the conversation between Zhou Ziyu and Master Yu.

She is very supportive of the emperor's large-scale construction of the Taoist temple, after all, when the war is raging, those who flee for escape will always have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, so as not to be killed by jackals, insects and leopards in the wilderness.

I walked all the way and rested, and after walking for two hours, I finally went up to Mingxuguan.

Zhang Jin stood in the open space in front of the Ming Void and looked around, and the peaks between them were undulating and layered, compared to Taiping Peak, it was another open realm.

She sniffed in the wind, as if she had smelled a very special smell, and turned her head to ask the Taoist priests: "May I ask the Taoist, are there hundreds of years of trees around here?" ”

One of them, a little Taoist named Qingniu, replied to her: "Just go north from here, within ten miles, there are two cypress trees, both of which are hugged by two people, and there are a few sandalwood trees, which are also hugged by more than one person." ”

Zhang Jin looked happy, thanked the Taoist, and turned to Zhou Ziyu: "I want to go and see." ”

Zhou Ziyu said goodbye to Lord Yu: "Lord Yu, Zhou will take a step first, and there will be a period later." ”

Master Yu smiled with a smile on his face: "Master Zhou, see you later." After just a while, Master Yu changed his very intimate tone to greet Zhou Ziyu.

Zhou Ziyu and Zhang Jin walked out for more than a mile, and when they saw that there was no movement behind them, they asked, "Jin'er, do you know that Shizu is around here?" ”

Zhang Jin shook his head: "I don't know, but if there is a tree king here, you can find the traces of the ancestor." She smiled and said, "Even if I don't find the ancestor and find the tree king, when I see the ancestor, the ancestor will praise me." ”

"The Tree King is so powerful?"

"Yes, the medicinal materials that the ancestor is looking for, the king of trees, the king of grass, and the king of flowers, must be found. If the tree king on each mountain can't be found, those medicinal herbs won't be able to play a greater role. ”

"Ah, I see, it's like we fight, the soldier must find the commander before he has the backbone."

"Yes, many people are sick and have taken a dose of medicine, and the next time they get sick again, they go to find the same medicinal herbs, but they can't eat well, just because the person who prescribes the medicine is the general who prescribes the medicine."

"Jin'er, if you don't say it, I thought those imperial doctors were just memorizing more medical books and learning more from their predecessors to learn about their healing experience."

Zhang Jin smiled when he ate and said: "Brother Yu, you will make me happy, I think that the book of war and the book of medicine have one thing in common, they both have to have generals and backbones, otherwise, no matter how good the medicinal materials are, they will not be able to exert their medicinal properties." ”

Zhou Ziyu laughed: "Jin'er, if you go to war, you will also be a great general." ”

Zhang Jin laughed when he thought about it: "Brother Yu, if I go to war, I will definitely lose, I will be dizzy when I ride a horse, if I can win the war, the enemy will definitely not be killed by me or die of laughter." ”

Luo Huai and Luo Jiu and Luo Shi followed behind, also laughing.

After walking for a while, the road became more and more difficult to walk, Zhou Ziyu asked Luo Huai and them to lead the horse and wait on the mountain road, and he took Zhang Jin to continue walking.

When the two of them walked to the edge of the cliff, they found that the little Taoist was really accurate, from Mingxuguan to the edge of the cliff, there were indeed only more than nine miles.

Zhou Ziyu asked Zhang Jin to stop, leaned down by himself, grasped the raised stone on the ground with one hand, and looked down.

The cypress tree, which was thick with two people hugging together, grew in the crevice of the stone on the cliff.

Zhou Ziyu took out a knife from his boots, reached out and cut a piece of bark on the branch of the cypress tree, turned around and handed it to Zhang Jin.

Zhang Jin took the bark and sniffed under his nose: "Brother Yu, this is the King of Cypress!" ”

She folded her hands excitedly, closed her eyes and prayed: "King of the Tree, I want to take some branches and roots as medicine, please be merciful, and join me as the Holy Hand of the Apricot Forest to remove the suffering of people." ”

"Brother Yu, I still have to pick the roots of the tree, and the branch closest to the trunk."

"Okay, Jin'er, you wait here, I'll go down."

This kind of thing, naturally, is what he does.

Zhou Ziyu observed carefully, first stretched out a foot and stepped on the head of the cypress tree, and stepped on it hard, which was very firm. Only then did he put down his other foot and stepped on it hard, but the trunk did not move.

Zhou Ziyu smiled at Zhang Jin: "Jin'er, I'll come up right away." ”

Zhang Jin was a little worried, when Zhuqing Zhufeng went to Taiping Peak to pick pine needles, he would tie a rope around his waist, Brother Yu would go down with bare hands like this, okay?

As soon as her thoughts fell, she heard a pop, and then looked at the cliff, Zhou Ziyu's figure was gone.