Chapter 285: A Box of Rouge

Chen Ping'an came to a lake platform, looked around, the clear water lake, the water waves are vast, the clouds and mist are rising, there are more than 100 attics hanging on the lake, there are paths between the attics to connect with each other, and each has three or two small boats to enjoy the scenery of the lake.

On all sides of the high platform, there are slim girls in green skirts, most of whom are in their prime, and their posture is brilliant, and they are pointing out the direction for the guests.

When Chen Ping'an bought the jade plate, the other party suggested that the building was three stories high, and it could be shared with several people, which was more affordable, but Chen Ping'an thought about it and refused politely.

Swallowing treasure whale ferry is not strange, cultivators, like to go alone, is also common sense, but if it is not easy to make money in the mountains and fields, accustomed to careful planning, or willing to live with strangers on the same floor, maybe you can wrap up the relationship, on the avenue, multiple friends, even if it is a nodding friend who meets in Pingshui, it is still not a bad thing, maybe when it will come to run, it will be a big opportunity.

After being pointed out by the maid in the green dress of Bishui Lake, Chen Ping'an walked down the platform in the center of the lake and walked slowly along a path on the lake, on both sides or overhead, from time to time there were immortal masters stepping on swords or walking against the wind. Not long after Chen Ping'an walked out, there was a "beauty" behind him carrying a skirt, stepping on small steps, running all the way, playful and coquettish.

Chen Ping'an is a person who is not afraid of trouble, from serving as a hard-working apprentice in Longyao, to escorting Li Baohua and Li Huai to the Great Sui Academy, no matter how big or small, Chen Ping'an worries and takes care of them. But Chen Ping'an is not afraid of this kind of trouble, but he is very afraid of another kind of illusory trouble, such as this Yin and Yang family warlock named Lu Tai, although Chen Ping'an has no discomfort intuitively, and he is not as depressed and gloomy as he faced Fu Nanhua and Cui Yun at the beginning, but when he is not sure whether one thing is good or bad, Chen Ping'an is used to making sure that one thing is "not bad" first.

On the inverted hanging mountain, how many dreams do you dream of stepping into the threshold of the Liu family in the Ape Ravage Mansion?

And after Chen Ping'an heard the saying "Jingjian Pavilion next to the Ape Ravage Mansion", he roughly determined the weight of the Liu family in Caijiaozhou, and the first thing he did was to draw a clear line with Liu Youzhou, who had a good impression. Maybe deep down, Chen Ping'an still prefers the kind of solitude and loneliness of Lizhu Dongtian, which has long been unforgettable.

The disciple of the Lu family of the Middle Earth Divine Continent, who claimed to be Lu Tai, walked side by side with Chen Ping'an, turned his head to look at Chen Ping'an's side face, and said with a smile: "Angry?

Chen Ping'an stopped and turned his head to look at this strange guy, "What are you trying to do with me? Your auspicious hexagram has nothing to do with me......

Lu Tai smiled and said: "Why not, I used the Gu Yu money you gave me to calculate the hexagram, your relationship is big, you are the ...... in this game of chance."

This time it was Chen Ping'an's turn to interrupt him, "Gu Yu's money is not given, it is borrowed." ”

Lu Tai furrowed her slender and charming eyebrows like a woman, thought about it with her heart, and asked softly: "Always talking about money hurts feelings, why don't we do a small deal, I will exchange a favorite magic weapon with you for more Gu Yu money?"

Chen Ping'an shook his head and said, "Then let's owe it first." ”

Lu Tai said aggrievedly: "Why are you so afraid of me? Treat me like a beast of prey? Do you think, on the road of cultivation, what a beautiful thing it is to fall in love at first sight, travel hand in hand, and see all over the mountains and rivers?"

Chen Ping'an's head is big.

It turned out that there were really things in the world that didn't make sense, and he didn't know how to explain them.

The two walked forward silently, Chen Ping'an couldn't say why, Lu Tai looked left and right, and said to himself: " This secret realm was once a part of the small cave of hanging flowers, occupied by a female fairy who likes to collect the spring water of the world, but unfortunately she finally failed to ascend, not only died, but also was counterattacked by the heavens, and the entire hanging flower cave was shattered, and most of them dissipated between heaven and earth, this blue water lake is a more famous one, because the three hundred miles of lake water are one of the famous springs collected by the female fairy, as long as you can catch the subtle water veins where the essence of the spring water is located, it is most suitable for making tea. ”

Chen Ping'an didn't say a word, after walking out of the four or five miles of the road, he saw the three-storey Yuyin Mountain Building, the platform is surrounded by the corridor under the eaves, surrounded by white jade railings, and a small ferry, there are two small boats docked, not far from the Yuyin Mountain Building, there is a large piece of lotus, there is a lotus picking girl rocking the boat and shuttling among them, humming a folk song, soft and glutinous moving.

Chen Ping'an stopped and reminded: "I've arrived." ”

Lu Tai nodded.

Chen Ping'an saw him pretending to be stupid, so he had to ask bluntly: "I won't invite you in and sit today, I'll go to you if I have time, what building do you live in?"

Lu Tai stretched out his hand and pointed to Yuyin Mountain Tower.

Chen Ping'an smiled bitterly: "Lu Gongzi, don't be joking. ”

Lu Tai raised his hands and held a large handful of small summer money, "Just now on the side of Huxintai, I was forced to make a living, thinking that we had such a good relationship, and would always give me a place to stay, so I sold my residence to an extremely rich immortal." ”

Chen Ping'an's face was a little ugly.

Lu Tai hurriedly said: "Don't worry, I will never disturb your practice, you can borrow me a boat, I will sleep on it every day, there is no important matter, I promise never to enter the Yuyin Mountain Building, I brought some food for myself, you don't have to worry about me, life is in the world, my generation of monks, where is not a reverse journey, you must not feel guilty, enduring hardships is also a kind of ...... of practice"

Chen Ping'an's face darkened.

How can there be such a dead-faced kraft candy character in the world?

Lu Tai suddenly smiled, "Okay, okay, I'll be honest with you, in addition to calculating this trip to Tongyezhou, it is the signing of the 'feudal marquis', in fact, I also calculated that this opportunity is not in the treasure, but the five words of 'going to the balcony to view the Tao', walking with you, through your state of mind, no matter good or bad, you can sharpen my Dao heart, which is called borrowing the stone of other mountains to attack the jade ......"

Speaking of this, Lu Tai smiled and changed his words: "It's wrong, it's wrong, it's borrowing the jade of other mountains to attack stones!"

Chen Ping'an didn't care about Lu Tai's wording, but when Lu Tai said the word "Guandao", Chen Ping'an was both worried and relieved.

Rest assured that Lu Tai is most likely not talking nonsense, so it is not a conspiracy against him Chen Ping'an, the worry is that he is looking for the Taoist temple and the old Taoist, and there is an additional Lu Tai with an unknown background.

Lu Tai hesitated for a moment, seemed to have made a big decision, gritted his teeth and said: "If you are so wary of me everywhere, it will definitely affect my opportunity to 'Guandao Sealing Marquis', I can seriously help you calculate the hexagram once, as long as you don't involve too powerful big people, I can calculate it accurately, but if it involves the immortals of the Upper Five Realms, I will have a lot of hardship, compared to sleeping on a boat, I will suffer a thousand times more! Chen Ping'an, the opportunity is rare, don't miss it!"

Lu Tai seemed to be afraid that Chen Ping'an would not believe it, so he stared at Chen Ping'an, "I don't lie to you!"

Chen Ping'an sighed, waved his hand, rejected Lu Tai's proposal, and just said: "You can live in Yuyin Mountain Tower, but after that, you and I will practice separately, and the well water will not interfere with the river water." ”

Lu Tai looked strange, looked at Chen Ping'an's back, was stunned for a while, and suddenly came back to his senses, his face was a little relieved, and he quickly followed.

In the end, Chen Ping'an lived on the first floor, and Lu Tai chose the third floor, invisibly separating a second floor.

Lu Tai lay comfortably on the bed on the third floor, his face was full of lazy satisfaction, and he smiled, haha, men and women don't kiss each other.

Take things as they come.

Chen Ping'an no longer cares about the misty son of the Yin and Yang family, except for the long sword on his back and the sword raising gourd on his waist, in fact, he has no external objects, he is alone, very relaxed, and the fly in the ointment is, of course, that there is an inexplicable Lu Tai.

Chen Ping'an sat at the table by the window, took out a stack of books from the fifteenth square inch, the immortal book "Mountains and Seas", two books introducing the respective Yayan of the Middle Earth Shenzhou and Tongyezhou, as well as a few landscape travel notes obtained by Caiyi Kingdom, neatly placed on the table, and then took out some precious bamboo slips from the Tianqing Shenshan in Zhuhai Cave, and planned to engrave the words casually while reading the book.

Every morning, I practice Shaking Mountain Boxing, in the afternoon I practice "Swordsmanship", and in the evening I read books and learn the Yayan of the two continents.

It's very strange, it's obviously just a broken secret realm, Bishui Lake still has a strange scene of the sun and moon rising and setting on the lake, and it has the same distinction between day and night, I don't know if it's the superior obstacle of the immortals, or the unique rules after the broken heaven and blessed land?

Chen Ping'an practiced boxing and walked on the pile, and it surrounded the corridor of Yuyin Mountain Tower.

The cool breeze is blowing, the fragrance of lotus flowers is coming slowly, and in the faintly audible ballad of the lotus picking girl, the young man in white punches leisurely.

In the afternoon, Chen Ping'an practiced swords only on the spacious first floor, and did not go to the corridor outside the building, still holding the sword in a virtual manner.

Because carrying the long sword "sword qi" can temper the soul, which is a practice in itself, Chen Ping'an will not take off the long sword even if he sleeps at night, and chooses to sleep sideways.

Raising the sword is hanging high in front of the bed, and now he no longer drinks often, so he doesn't always have to hang around his waist, and the two little ancestors of the first and fifteenth years have the same heart, travel thousands of miles all the way, get along day and night, more and more heart-to-heart, and communicate more and more smoothly, it seems that the wisdom of the two natal flying swords is becoming more and more mature.

After Chen Ping'an fell asleep, he handed them over to help take care of the home. The first year of junior high did not agree, but he did not refuse, and the more tame fifteen happily "nodded" in the sword raiser.

During the evening reading, Chen Ping'an will also temporarily take out the "Danshu True Writings" from the square inch, after entering the fourth realm of martial arts, he found that he could draw two more kinds of talismans, a kind of "Mountains and Rivers Sword Talisman", the mountain is the mountain of the three mountains, but what is the three mountains, the book does not introduce in detail, the explanation of the river word of this talisman is also very general and vague, only saying that there was a god who sat in the river, and was in charge of "cutting evil and destroying evil", and liked to "devour ten thousand ghosts".

The sword talisman is a kind of talisman, as for the second kind of "rain talisman", it can be "the world is obscure, and the heavy rain is flooded", this talisman is one of the altar talismans, and it is mostly good at the high martial arts of the Daomen, and Chen Ping'an is not very interested.

Compared with the Yang Qi Lantern Talisman, the Dust Purifying Talisman and the Pagoda Town Demon Talisman, the rank of these two talismans is slightly higher, Chen Ping'an is particularly interested in the sword talisman, so he wrote one on the most ordinary yellow paper talisman, a little reluctantly, after Chen Ping'an entered the martial arts refining qi realm, the soul was settled, and it became more and more vigorous, and he could often hear the dripping sound of the three souls passing by the heart lake.

Therefore, Chen Ping'an could already see that the divine sense of this sword talisman was insufficient, but how powerful it was, because there was still a land platform living upstairs, so he didn't look for a chance to confirm it.

After ten years, I occasionally heard slight footsteps on the second floor, but not many times, and Lu Tai did not go downstairs once to disturb Chen Ping'an.

Chen Ping'an was slightly reassured.

A fate that ran to oneself for no reason, it is not a bad fate, and there is no need to deliberately pursue good karma.

That night, Chen Ping'an had just finished writing the second sword talisman, and he was still not satisfied.

Just like the porcelain blank, if you look closely, you can see the difference between the two embryos that seem to be the same.

Could it be that we really have to find the ruins of an ancient battlefield and find those battlefield heroes and souls to fight continuously, so that the fourth realm of martial arts can be consummated?

Chen Ping'an frowned and pondered, suddenly turned his head, and saw Lu Tai walking down the stairs, then stopped and reached out and knocked on the wall, like a guest knocking on the door, and then he sat on the steps with a smile, still not entering the first floor.

Chen Ping'an just wanted to pick up the book of "Mountains and Seas" to cover the sword talisman, Lu Tai couldn't help but smile: "What are you doing in Tibet, it's just a lost ancient talisman, and the rank is not high, it's just that it is better to return to the purity of the basics, I accidentally glanced at it, my heart and liver trembled with pain, and it still hurts." ”

Chen Ping'an asked, "What's the solution?"

Lu Tai pointed to the sword talisman on the table, "This talisman is very old, it is estimated that the entire Lu family, a guy as young as me, can't find a second one who can recognize its roots." The reason why I feel distressed, one, you are a pure martial artist, it is really embarrassing to write such a terrible pure ancient talisman......"

Chen Ping'an couldn't help but interject: "It's unreasonable for a martial artist to draw a talisman, right?"

Lu Tai tugged at the corners of his mouth, "Oh? Is that so, it seems that the records of my Lu family's collection are wrong, otherwise I am short-sighted." ”

But Lu Tai didn't want to go deep on this topic, and continued: "Second, you draw talismans, more by that pen, not how deep your study and understanding of the talismans are, well, maybe you see the right scenery, but the route you take to that scenery is crooked, so the talismans you draw can be used, but they are useless." Third, the rune paper is in good condition, but it has made a hammer deal for you, and it is even more tyrannical. At this point, you can't say that it is a side-by-side way, but a crooked way, if you show it to the masters of the Taoist Fu Sect, they will want to hammer you to death with one punch. ”

Chen Ping'an frowned, chewed on the words of the landing platform, first distinguished the true from the false, and then determined the good from the bad. However, Lu Tai is too mysterious, and it is difficult for Chen Ping'an to draw conclusions.

Lu Taixiao asked: "Can you pick up that talisman, I will take a closer look at the material, I glanced at it before, and I am not sure." ”

Chen Ping'an hesitated for a moment, but still picked up the sword talisman, but only gave the back of the Lutai talisman.

Lu Tai smiled slightly, disapproving Chen Ping'an's caution, and after looking at it for a while, he nodded and said: "Sure enough, it is a precious material for the rejuvenation talisman, and it can be reused by drawing talismans on it." A successful talisman is very important in terms of quality and power, and whether the talisman paper is good or bad. The really good talismans in the world, except for those who are extremely power-hungry, most of them can be reused, what about you, according to the humorous saying of an ancestor of the talisman faction, called Zhu Yan Ci Mirror Hua Ci Tree, well, in the final analysis, it is 'can't be kept', Chen Ping'an, is it a pity for you to say it yourself? ”

Chen Ping'an glanced at Lu Tai, and then at the sword talisman that was placed on the table again.

Lu Tai was a little curious, holding his cheeks with both hands, looking at the young man at the table who was a little annoyed, and asked with a smile: "The person who gave you these precious talismans didn't say it? The leader who taught you to draw talismans didn't tell you that if you want to be a half-hung talisman master, you must be able to save it?"

Chen Ping'an sighed heavily.

Lu Tai gloated and said: "The pure martial arts of the seven, eight and nine realms can probably write a good talisman, just with a breath of true qi, in one go, but it is a pity that the martial artist at this level, step by step to the top of the mountain, has already been as hard as iron, who will run to draw a talisman? You are lucky, with such a rare talisman paper and talisman pen, in order to finally draw a good talisman, otherwise each painting is equivalent to burning a large stack of silver tickets, well, you are slightly better, only equal to burning half a stack of silver tickets." ”

Chen Ping'an glared fiercely at the guy who sprinkled salt on his wound.

Lu Tai smiled and said: "Chen Ping'an, you are really interesting, martial arts draw talismans, as well as sword cultivation and flying swords, the most excessive thing is that you have to study diligently every day?

Chen Ping'an ignored his cynicism, put away the sword talisman, and began to flip through the book "Mountains and Seas".

Lu Tai quietly got up and returned to the residence on the third floor.

After that, Lu Tai began to leave Yuyin Mountain Tower, or take a boat tour of Bishui Lake, or go to visit the treasure house that every treasure swallowing whale will have, the reason why the treasure swallowing whale has this name is that it will swallow the wrecked ship that sank on the bottom of the sea in the long years, and the ferry boat that can cross continents is often worthy of the "treasure boat" saying, so the belly of an adult treasure swallowing whale must be strange, and there are countless treasures.

It is even possible to hide the golden body relics left in the world after the immortal soldiers were dissolved.

In the afternoon of one day, Lu Tai began to take out a set of almost cumbersome tea sets from the square inch, extracted the essence of the spring water of Bishui Lake with secret techniques, and began to brew tea in the corridor on the first floor.

The aroma of tea is pleasant.

Chen Ping'an didn't ask for a cup of tea to drink, but just practiced swordsmanship in the house.

Later, Lu Tai would make tea every day, drink tea alone and enjoy the scenery, often sitting for an afternoon.

One day near noon, Chen Ping'an was about to finish his practice of boxing, and saw Lu Tai rowing a small boat from a distance.

Tie up the boat, Lu Tai jumped on the corridor, stood in place, when Chen Ping'an practiced boxing and passed by, he raised his hand high, and several boxes of rouge gouache were stacked in his palm, which should be showing off his harvest today to Chen Ping'an. Not far from the lake center platform of Bishui Lake, there are several buildings that are the sales nest of ferries specializing in goods, Chen Ping'an has only been to it once, he feels too black-hearted, he picks up a few similar items, and finds that the price is more exaggerated than the upside-down hanging mountain, so he completely lost the mind to buy things.

Lu Tai totoed a little, jumped back slightly, sat on the white jade railing, opened one of the boxes of rouge, took out a small bronze mirror, began to purse his lips, and then raised a finger to wipe his long eyebrows with his fingers, the movements were gentle and delicate.

Chen Ping'an just continued to practice boxing along the corridor, from beginning to end, without squinting.

When Chen Ping'an passed by again, Lu Tai, who was sitting on the railing and carefully thrushing, moved the small bronze mirror slightly, and asked with a smile, "Is it good-looking?"

Chen Ping'an didn't go to see Lu Tai of Rouge Fandel, nor did he talk to him.

Then every time Chen Ping'an walked by on the pile, Lu Tai had to ask a different question.

"Chen Ping'an, do you think the blush is a little brighter?"

"Shouldn't the eyebrows here be drawn a little more thinly?"

"Using the fine hairpin of Hua Lu Zhai and the rouge picked out of the box, it will really be more symmetrical and natural, do you think?"

Chen Ping'an just walked silently, and according to the original plan, he didn't stop practicing boxing until the hour.

The last time, Lu Tai didn't ask Chen Ping'an, but just put the small bronze mirror, hairpin and a few rouge boxes on the railing beside him, and turned his head to look at the large lotus leaf, with exquisite makeup and misty eyes.

Chen Ping'an was about to walk back to the main entrance on the first floor, but Lu Tai did not retract his gaze and spoke again, "Do you think a man like me is very ...... Ridiculous? Even a little disgusting in the bottom of my heart?"

Chen Ping'an stopped, turned around and walked towards the landing platform, about five or six steps away from the landing platform, he faced the lake with his back to the corridor, and also sat on the railing.

Lu Tai, who didn't get an answer, was not annoyed, smiled to himself, picked out a box of rouge, felt that the color was not good, and the name was not true, so he would not use it again in the future, so he would throw it into Bishui Lake casually.

Chen Ping'an suddenly asked, "How much does this box of rouge sell?"

Lu Tai was stunned for a moment, then turned around and sat down, facing the lake together, and said with a smile: "It's not too expensive, one small summer money per box, new this year, it is very famous, and many famous fairies in the Middle Earth Divine Continent love to use it, alas, most of it is a trick of those merchants who are covered with lard, and I deceived them in partnership." ”

Chen Ping'an sighed with emotion: "A small summer money, that is, a hundred snowflakes, 100,000 taels of silver, I think ......"

After a pause, Chen Ping'an, who was blowing in the breeze, said softly: "It's hard to buy a good idea, you buy it, it may not be expensive, but some people may be dumbfounded when they hear the price, and they won't believe that there is such a good rouge gouache in the world." ”

Lu Tai was a little puzzled, "Huh?"

After a moment of silence, Chen Ping'an, who was dressed in a snow-white robe, folded his hands on his knees, and told Lu Tai the story of the sissy man in his hometown Longyao.

Chen Ping'an didn't say it seriously, his tone was not serious, his expression was not serious, and he told the men around him about the pitiful life of a dead person.

He beside him, with a ribbon around his waist, is full of energy, he is a man among the gods, and he is even more stunning than a real woman in the world.

And the man in his hometown is just a little thinner, and even has a beard, and he doesn't look as good as a woman in the market, even if he cleans himself up every morning, but when it is time to finish work, his nails will be full of sludge, so the man twists his orchid fingers, and there will be no touching place.

And he doesn't know what Feixia makeup and peach blossom makeup are, and he can't distinguish all kinds of rouge gouache for lips, cheeks, and thrushes.

Chen Ping'an finally looked into the distance, a little sad, "In the end, I still think he is a very strange person, obviously a man, why do you like to dress up like a woman." But that day, before he stabbed himself to death with a porcelain piece and covered it with a futon, he begged me for something, and I didn't agree, and to this day, I still regret it. If I had known he would do that, I would have agreed to it. ”

He talked to me a lot that day, and finally smiled and said that he was going to never look like a woman again, so he hoped that I could help him keep the box of rouge so that he wouldn't be able to bear it again. ”

"Where would I have promised such a thing then, and I won't agree after I die, he persuaded me twice, and then he stopped persuading. ”

"When he died, no one saw the box of rouge, and no one cared. ”

Chen Ping'an turned his head and looked at Lu Tai, who was like a beauty in a captivating city, with a smile, "What did you do with such an expensive rouge?"

Lu Tai tilted his head, and the delicate pearl hairpin tilted and said with a smile: "Otherwise, I will give it to you? When I return to my hometown in the future, you take this box of rouge to that guy's grave, and tell him that there is such a good rouge gouache in the world, and I want him to cast a good baby in the next life, be a girl's family, and wipe it on his face, a few catties and a few catties, and you don't have to worry about money anymore......"

Chen Ping'an turned his head, looked into the distance, and shook his head gently, "I can't even find his grave, how can I show him this, how can I tell him this." ”

The young man in white with beautiful and clean eyebrows and eyes hugged the back of his head with both hands and said nothing.