Xishan is actually not a mountain, but an island, located in the middle of Taihu Lake, slightly to the south. The island www.biquge.info is densely covered with hills and strange rocks, and the so-called "Forest House Cave" is not far from the east coast of the island, because there is lush vegetation on it, and there is a ring cave under it, and it is named - later generations simply called it Forest House Mountain, and Wei Wencheng's "Forest House View" was built on the top of this small hill.

Xi shan...... The island is not small in scale, and it is almost a hundred miles around the island. This island includes the entire Taihu Lake, all belong to the jurisdiction of Wu County, the first county of Wu County, it is said that there were no residents, and the fishermen around Taihu Lake occasionally set up a shack on the island to live temporarily, and so on until the Central Plains was in turmoil, "Yongjia Nandu", Hulala suddenly poured into Jiangdong hundreds of thousands of households, and most of them were well-dressed people, so they began to enclose the land as soon as they stopped. Taihu Lake and its two large islands, Dongshan Island, which was later connected to the eastern shore and became a peninsula, could not have survived alone.

So at first, many scholars saw that the island was beautiful, so they built manors and other businesses, and later there were more and more residents, and gradually formed several small villages. Among them, there is a big village in the north of Linwuguan, so it is named "Beizhuang", the owner of the village is surnamed Lu, and he claims that his ancestors are the descendants of Lu and Lu Xun, the prime minister of Eastern Wu, in the "four surnames of Wuzhong" (Gu Lu Zhu Zhang).

Half of the villagers of Beizhuang are half farming, and half of them make a living by fishing on Taihu Lake. However, in recent times, not only have there been fewer and fewer fish, but fishermen have often gone missing. According to them, it is a monster in the lake, and from time to time there are strong winds and waves, and if you go down to the lake to catch too many fish, the lake monster will be angry, even if there is no wind or waves, it will still cause your boat to capsize, and once a person falls into the water, no matter how familiar with the nature of the water, it will still sink to the bottom.

In order to solve this problem, the owner of Lu Zhuang wanted to invite the mage to come over to subdue the demon and exorcise the evil spirit, but he did not find the forest house at first, but sent people to Wu County, and invited a few monks to come over with a lot of money - this year, the north and south dynasties all worship Buddhism, and the status of Taoism is much lower than that of Buddhism, and the owner of Lu Zhuang is not exempt from vulgarity.

Those monks set up an altar in Ludang Bay on the northeast shore of the island, and recited scriptures on the altar to eliminate demons. Theoretically, it is necessary to chant the sutra for seven days and seven nights, and then the monster will be infected by the Dharma, and either return to repentance and no longer be a disaster, or simply retreat far away - this is what the monk said, and as for where the lake demon can retreat, then no one knows. But who would have thought that after just reciting the scriptures for two days, suddenly dark clouds were covered in broad daylight, torrential rain poured, and then the waves on the lake were turbulent, and a big wave was set off angrily, which directly swept away the monks and a few villagers who were sent to serve by the lord of Lu Zhuang.

Originally, the owner of Lu Zhuang was also supposed to accompany the monk by the altar, but fortunately, there was something at home that day, and he left temporarily, but he didn't want to escape because of this.

The owner of Lu Zhuang was frightened, and the more he thought about it, the more he was afraid, so he hurriedly sent someone to Wu County, invited the senior monks, and even submitted a letter to the county order and the county guard, asking for a master to eliminate the demon. It's just that there is a lesson from the past, no monk dares to come to the West Mountain, they all say that this must be done in the previous life, so it is difficult to suffer in this life, the monster from the sky comes to collect debts, and the injustice is not finished, unless the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas go to the lower realm, otherwise this monster can not be surrendered - you wait and close your eyes and repent, and slowly boil it, if you really can't survive, it is better to come to my temple to become a monk......

The county and county magistrates had no choice, so they wrote to remind the owner of Lu Zhuang, saying that since the Shi family can't solve the problem, why don't you plead with the Taoist family for help?

Although Taoism does not eat incense, based on the Chinese traditional habit of worshipping the gods when encountered, and not falling into vain, the forest house view is not only in the jurisdiction, but also under the banner of Maoshan Tao Hongjing, and quite a view of property, local officials never dare to ignore it, and from time to time will send people to offer offerings. Since this incense is there, then the two chiefs have a letter to inform them, and the owner of Lu Zhuang can repent and send someone to bring gifts worth thousands of dollars to invite, Xu, Duan, and Dai Sandao naturally can't pretend to be deaf and dumb. The three of them gathered together to discuss, saying that there is really a demon in this Taihu Lake?

The disciples were all overjoyed, believing that this was a great opportunity to see the Master's subtle Dao and at the same time increase the prestige of the Buddha's view. But the Taoist priest was a little drumming in his heart - you said that the ordinary monster who rolls two small boats is not difficult to pick up, but it can change the weather, and then a big wave sweeps away several monks, I am afraid that the origin is not small, and the mana is profound, so we must not take it lightly.

After discussing for a long time, I finally notified someone from Beizhuang and said okay, our senior brother will next on this matter, but we will not go to Ludang Bay, and after divination, we must set up an altar to eliminate demons in the old man's rock.

The other party was confused on the spot, saying that Ludang Bay is in the north of the island, and the old man's rock is in the south of the island, isn't this the opposite of the other? Duan Sique glared: "This is a big demon, the whole lake belongs to it, what is the difference between the south of the island and the north of the island?!"

The key is that the terrain of Ludang Bay is too low, but the terrain of the old man's rock is high, and he pondered, can you sweep Ludang Bay in a wave, can you still drive the water uphill and cover the old man's rock...... This, if you don't finish the whole work, you can also keep your whole body out, so that you won't be swept to the bottom of the lake to feed the fish and shrimp.

So he asked the owner of Lu Zhuang to contribute to build an altar on the old man's rock, and the three brothers and sisters took a few disciples, put on gossip robes, held all kinds of magic weapons, and went to step on the gang and step on the bucket, chanting spells to exorcise demons. This kind of excitement, Wei Wencheng must want to make up, but it is a pity that he was taken care of by Dai Meng, saying that your Taoism is still shallow, and you are afraid of danger here, so it is better to stay in the temple and continue to practice.

Wei Wencheng's joy was extinguished by a scoop of cold water, so he had to reluctantly and pout. But just two days later, at noon that day, he was reading until he was dizzy, and he ran to the courtyard to bask in the sun for a while, when suddenly the sky suddenly darkened. When I looked up, I saw thick clouds covering the sky and the sun, and it seemed that it was going to rain soon.

Originally, it was not surprising that it rained twice in three days this season, but Wei Wencheng instinctively realized: Oh, the monster has come out! I don't know if my three masters can successfully get rid of the demon, will it be the opposite?

He thought he knew more than his senior brothers, didn't Master Xu still catch a carp spirit from the lake? Presumably, the matter of subduing demons was not difficult with his Taoist skills—and this time it was not just him, Duan and Dai also followed? But the carp spirit has lost his inner pill, even if he wants to take revenge, he is powerless, and he can't afford to set off such a big storm, so I don't know if the monster who came this time has anything to do with this carp essence?

It can't be a rescue soldier invited by the carp spirit, right?

was conjecturing, the pouring rain was coming down, Wei Wencheng just jumped under the corridor to hide, and not long after, he suddenly heard a commotion in front of the temple, and then the door was knocked open, and he saw several senior brothers carrying Dai Meng running in in a panic. There were also a few villagers behind him, shouting repeatedly: "How good is this, how is it good?" I heard a senior brother halberd scolding: "Killing for you, evil the Dragon King, harming my teacher, there is still a face to come?!"

Wei Wencheng braved the rain to drive the villagers. Several villagers didn't take this little Taoist priest seriously, and planned to rush into the temple to take refuge, but they didn't expect that one of them collided with Wei Wencheng head-on, and he flew directly, rolling out several feet away. The rest of the people were all dumbfounded, so they were all pushed out of the door by Wei Wencheng, and then closed the door and latched.

When I turned around and looked for my senior brother again, I saw that they put Dai Meng into the bedroom with all hands and feet, placed him on the mat, pinched the people among the people, and poured ginger soup into a mess. Wei Wencheng knew that something was wrong, and asked repeatedly, what is going on?

The senior brothers gossiped and described a rough outcome. The three Taoist priests ascended the altar and cast spells in shifts, and the disciples all gathered around the altar, waiting for the summons. At first, the wind and waves on Taihu Lake were calm, and there was no trace of monsters, but at noon today, suddenly it was dark, and then heavy rain poured down. Hearing the sound of the cloud board on the altar, Xu Huanpu pointed at the sky with a peachwood sword in his hand, and shouted: "What kind of monster is it, you haven't shown up yet?!"

With a "whew", a huge claw suddenly stretched out from the black cloud, the color was blue and gray, covered with scales, and grabbed straight down towards the altar. Three hurriedly burned the talisman paper and chanted the incantation, but the claw was unconscious, and he grabbed it right. Zhu Daotong was frightened, and suddenly saw Dai Meng fall down from the altar, and only shouted: "Run!"

The disciples hurriedly picked up Dai Meng and fled. The target of their escape is, of course, the forest house view, although there is no master in the view, after all, there are Sanqing statues, there are the ancestors' relics, and all kinds of talismans and town objects set up by the masters over the years, I believe that the monsters dare not easily disturb - even if you don't believe it, what? The island is so big, where can you escape? Do you dare to go down to the lake?

As a result, the dark clouds and dense rain seemed to have spirituality, and they chased after them, and as soon as they chased them, they chased into the forest house. But it's strange to say that the big claw never appeared again, and all the servants were able to escape.

Out of the three masters, only one came back, Xu and Duan Erdao did not see anyone in life, and did not see the corpse in death, although several Taoist servants were named servants, they were all older than Wei Wencheng, the senior brothers were in their thirties, and the youngest was also twenty-five or sixteen, but all of them were shallow, with almost no mana, and in a hurry, no one knew what to do—several were so frightened that they burst into tears, and even those below were also in tears......

Just now called out to the villagers, saying "Kill for you, evil the dragon king" Yunyun, just a casual nonsense when in a critical situation - because looking at that claw is so terrifying, it must be the first time to think of it is a dragon - what the specific nature of that monster is, no one can say clearly, just know that it is extremely powerful, and the three teachers in their own family can't lower it. Now the only hope falls on Dai Meng.

Finally, Dai Meng breathed a sigh of relief, woke up quietly, and all the Taoist servants gathered around him, asking nonsense. Dai Meng said weakly: "This demon is unusual, it is not a fish or a shrimp, it is expected to be a dragon species...... "We really can't deal with this thing, your other two masters have been taken away by the demon claws, and it is estimated that there will be more than one luck." Now I can only stay in the view, and I believe that the monster can't break through the gate.

However, it is not a long-term solution after all, you must know that the small head of Lin Wuguan depends on the donor's almsgiving, and the big head depends on the tenants to pay the rent, you have not dared to open the door to go out, those tenants will inevitably herd sheep, who is willing to take the initiative to send the rented grain to the door? Dai Meng said, for the sake of today's plan, the only way to do this is to send people to sneak out of the view and go to Maoshan to ask for help.

All the disciples looked at each other, and they all said that we were afraid that as soon as we went out of the gate, we would be harmed by monsters, how could we get to Maoshan Mountain? Dai Meng can't say it, I'm afraid that after a long time, the two senior brothers Xu and Duan will never be fortunate - go and come back quickly, maybe the monster doesn't eat meat every day, and there is a possibility of saving half of their lives.

He asked his disciples to rummage through the bookshelves and find two things: one was a stack of talismans, and the other was a jade plaque. Dai Meng said, these talismans are carried on the body, you can hide your figure, I believe that the monster can't see that you are a Taoist priest - why should he have trouble with every inhabitant of the island? As for the jade plate, it was originally passed down by the master, and if you go to Maoshan with the jade card, someone will know about it, and Dai Daoist doesn't even have the strength to write a letter at this moment.

The disciples retreated, and when they came down, they discussed who to send out to watch. As expected, everyone looked forward to it - "Wencheng, the time has come for you to repay your teacher's kindness!"