Tsing Yi out of the fairy mountain, the auspicious dragon into the purple clouds.

This is a pair of vertical couplets on the Longyuan Pavilion, the legend is made by Lu Dongbin, and there are rumors that Lu Dongbin's last appearance is in this Longyuan Mountain. Longyuan Mountain is surrounded by two mountains into a semi-circular shape, and the Longyuan River at the bottom of the mountain meanders and flows with the mountains to form a circle, which looks like a fairy mountain outside the world. Now this place has long been developed into a tourist attraction, a number of buildings, a stone staircase, all reveal some ancient style, and this legendary immortal seems to have become the spokesperson here, located in the mountainside of the main hall Chunyang Palace is extremely prosperous, political and business leaders, businessmen, infatuated men and women are here incense believers.

Li Che made a special trip to do this, if a person can think of burning incense to the gods, it will either be great joy or great sorrow. It is not difficult to tell from his expression and demeanor that he belongs to the latter category, and it can be seen that he has been carefully dressed in a lean dress, but his expression is full of exhaustion and confusion, and the stone steps are long, as if endless. He is very thin, and can even be described as weak, the glasses on the bridge of his nose seem to be able to crush him, but just like his straight nose, his eyes are full of determination, and he is a little gasping after walking dozens of steps, leaning on the guardrail stone pillar next to him and lighting a cigarette, inhaling deeply into his lungs and exhaling a long breath, which seems to make him much easier, taking a deep puff of cigarette again, slowly raising his head and exhaling into the air, and then a long exhale. At this time, he seemed to have made some decision, stepped on the cigarette butt, and continued his stone staircase path, this time without stopping, until he climbed to the Dragon Yuan Pavilion.

Longyuan Pavilion is the former station of the Pure Yang Palace, compared with the magnificent atmosphere of the Pure Yang Palace, the Longyuan Pavilion is more like a very ordinary attic, but the history of the Dragon Yuan is longer than the Pure Yang Palace, which is also the reason why the scenic spot has been revised several times but has always retained this attic, the Longyuan Pavilion is not open to the public, and several Taoists are responsible for the daily health and maintenance.

Li Che came to the Dragon Yuan Pavilion and paced to admire the monuments left by the sages, it sat there like a centuries-old man overlooking the common people, there was not the slightest smell of fireworks here, there was only the taste of antiquity and mystery.

Li Che came early in the morning, now it is only about seven o'clock, there is not a single Taoist priest, let alone tourists and pilgrims, only the branches of birds and golden sunshine to accompany this ancient attic, he walked up the stone steps in front of the attic and looked at the blue sky, smelled the smell of golden sunshine, listened to the birds on the branches, and suddenly felt that the depression in his heart was swept away, and the sorrow between his eyebrows seemed to have dissipated a little.

Turned around and looked at the cracked window lattice of Longyuan Pavilion, the color of the red paint had already been faded by the wind and sun, Li Che climbed on the door of the attic and looked inside, the cleaning inside was spotless, but unfortunately the sight was blocked by a screen and could not see more, he actually pushed open the door and walked inside, the jade screen at the door on the dragon flying phoenix dance a few rows of big characters, it is a poem made by Lu Dongbin:

"Occasionally, the Qingdi came out of Penglai, and the sword halberd was all over the nine walls. I don't know anyone at the moment, so I don't want to bury it. ”

Turning into the back of the screen is an incense case, there is an incense burner with animal foot dragon pattern on it, burning a stick of incense, green smoke curling incense in the air, a stone statue is molded behind the incense case, big ears and shoulders, the eyes of the wind are facing the sky, the eyebrows are into the sideburns, the neck is trimmed and the cheeks are exposed, the figure is majestic, the nose bridge is straight, the face is white and yellow, the body is wearing a blue robe, embroidered with the Tai Chi auspicious map, the left hand is holding the dust, the right hand is knotted with the blessing seal, carrying the sword, sitting upright, the spirit card on the incense case is written with seven big characters "Chunyang Emperor Lu Dongbin".

Placing a futon on the ground, Li Che stepped forward to kneel and bow, kowtowed three times, and saw that there was no sound moving left and right, so he was about to spit out the things in his heart to the statue of Emperor Chunyang, but he was about to say but heard footsteps approaching in front of him, so he quickly stood up and hid behind the screen. Coming in at the door was a middle-aged Taoist priest, holding his hair in a bun, wearing a Taoist robe, and carrying a bucket that seemed to be cleaning. The middle-aged Taoist priest did not come to the incense case, but carried the bucket to the top of the attic, obviously preparing to clean it carefully from top to bottom, Li Che took a long breath, bowed deeply to the statue and said, "Say goodbye first." "Turn around and want to leave.

Push the door and prepare to go out, but collided with a person head-on, and hit a Taoist priest head-on, the Taoist priest was unsteady by his collision, and the bucket he was carrying was thrown to the ground, and the person retreated a few meters away, obviously startled by the visitor. Also taken aback was Li Che, who had sneaked into the place where the tourists stopped, and collided with the Taoist priest in charge, most of the water in the Taoist bucket was sprinkled on Li Che's pants, Li Che was embarrassed when he saw this, and stood in place dumbfounded.

The Taoist priest was also a middle-aged Taoist priest, and when he saw the person clearly, he asked, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

Li Che hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a tourist." ”

The Taoist priest said, "Don't you know that tourists are not allowed to visit here?" and then pointed to the sign at the door.

Li Che blushed and said, "I'm really sorry, I didn't notice, I'll leave immediately." "Say goodbye and go away.

The Taoist priest stretched out his hand to stop him, "Little brother, the poor Dao sees that you are sad, but there is something difficult to solve?"

Li Che was shocked and said, "The Taoist is wise and wise, and the younger generation is indeed worried. ”

The chief raised his hand and pointed to the main entrance of the Longyuan Pavilion and said, "Little brother, let's talk about it inside." ”

The Taoist chief led Li Che into the wing room on the right, the wing room was very simple, only a bed and futon, a table, and four stools, the Taoist chief invited Li Che to sit down, and said: "Little brother, drink some tea!"

Li Che looked around and couldn't see any tea sets, so he said, "No need, thank you." ”

At this time, there was a sound of knocking on the door, and after three rings, a little Taoist boy pushed the door in, holding a tea tray, and suddenly the whole room was full of tea.

The little Taoist boy said, "Master, please ask for tea." ”

The middle-aged Taoist priest nodded, and the little Taoist boy divided the tea with the two of them, and then withdrew.

There were only two people left in the room, and the Taoist priest said: "The tea is the tea picked by himself on the mountain, and the water is the spring water on the mountain, little brother, please!"

Li Che smelled the fragrance of tea early, and said without waiting for the tea: "You know that it is good tea when you smell the taste." ”

The Taoist priest didn't speak anymore, just tasted tea, and Li Che knew that this Taoist priest was waiting for him to speak.

So he told the Taoist priest everything he had encountered in the past few days from beginning to end.

(End of Chapter 1)