Volume 1 Seven Grades of Taoist Priests Chapter 164 Laba Porridge (I)
In the blink of an eye, it is already the eighth day of the lunar month, the day of drinking Laba porridge.
The so-called Laba Festival, originated from Buddhism, is to celebrate the Buddha's enlightenment of the festival, later Buddhism and Taoism converged, Taoism also retained this festival, but Buddhism and Taoism after the opposite, Taoism no longer follow the Buddha's enlightenment of the saying, but use the Taishang Hu saying.
Every Laba, Dazhen Mansion will boil Laba porridge, invite relatives and friends to Dazhenfu to drink porridge, spend the festival together, and it is also a party at the end of the year. However, even if they are relatives and friends, not everyone can be invited, they must be a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest or above, or a descendant of the Zhang family, or someone specially invited by the Dazhen Mansion.
As for the Laba porridge of the Dazhenfu, it is naturally not an ordinary Laba porridge, originally the materials of the Laba porridge were red dates, lotus seeds, cishi, dried longan, red beans and the like, but the Dazhenfu added many rare medicinal materials to it, including the very cherished Zhuguo.
Zhu Guo, a hundred years of flowering, a hundred years of fruit, the thing of the sun, if an ordinary person takes it, it will immediately be burned by the rich fire contained in it and die, but if it can resist the fire in it, you can use the medicinal power of Zhu Guo to increase the realm of cultivation.
There are very few Zhu Guo in the world, only in the Yunjin Mountain and Kunlun Cave of Zhengyi, there are a few Zhu Guo trees that are more than 1,000 years old, and when idlers have no chance to see them, even if they are lucky enough to get one, they dare not take it rashly. However, the Zhu Guo added to Laba porridge has been processed in advance, removing part of the blazing fire, and other medicinal materials have neutralized it, which can be described as a great supplement. Therefore, being able to go to Dazhenren Mansion to drink Laba porridge is not only a light on the face, but also a great benefit to one's own cultivation.
Tangtaiqiong, Zhang Yuyue, and Zhang Yuelu all received invitations, Tangtaiqiong is a three-grade Youyi Taoist, Zhang Yuyue is a descendant of the Zhang family, and Zhang Yuelu is named by the Heavenly Master. So the three of them went to Dazhen's Mansion to drink laba porridge.
Only Zhang Jiqi and Qi Xuansu were left in the house.
Qi Xuansu doesn't matter, he is a small seven-grade Taoist, and his surname is not Zhang, it is reasonable that he is not qualified to participate in this kind of event, but he doesn't know how to deal with himself, surrounded by high-grade Taoists, he is a low-grade Taoist priest who is not in the stream, maybe he is not a high-grade Taoist priest who is responsible for entertaining guests, and it is embarrassing to think about it.
However, Zhang Yuqi didn't receive the invitation, so he couldn't say anything. Although he is not a three-grade Youyi Taoist, he is also among the high-grade Taoists, and his surname is Zhang, and more importantly, his wife and daughter all went to the meeting, and he was the only one left in the family of three, which was also embarrassing.
It's just that Zhang Jiqi looked free, as if he had long been accustomed to it, not only did he not have the slightest feeling of loss and dissatisfaction, but he also had the interest to go out to play chess and drink with an old friend who also failed to drink Laba porridge. From this point of view, it has not been a year or two since Zhang Yuqi did not receive an invitation. Thinking of Zhang Yuqi having been stuck in the position of the Taoist priest of the Four Grades Sacrifice, Qi Xuansu couldn't help but have a guess, this Uncle Zhang was afraid that he had some contradictions with his family.
After Zhang Yuelu left, Qi Xuansu thought that there was nothing to do, and when he saw that Taiqiong and Zhang Yuyue were not there, he wandered around Yunjin Mountain alone. Of course, there are some existences similar to forbidden places on Yunjin Mountain, but they are all clearly marked and guarded by special personnel, so Qi Xuansu is not afraid of entering the forbidden land by mistake.
Unconsciously, Qi Xuansu came to a cliff.
There is a Taoist temple here, built near the cliff, you can look at the sea of clouds outside the mountain in the Taoist temple, it is an excellent place to view. However, because of the Xuan Sheng, the mountain peak collapsed, and the Taoist temple also slid into the abyss below, leaving only half of the extremely abrupt cliff and some ruins and a bell tower that narrowly escaped the catastrophe.
Qi Xuansu climbed the bell tower and looked at the vast sea of clouds.
In fact, he is not so interested in the sea of clouds, or not so interested, what really interests him is the majestic power that creates such a scene, in a fit of anger, the mountains and rivers are displaced, the land is reshaped, and the so-called immortal power of moving mountains and seas is nothing more than that.
I don't know when he will be so powerful.
With such great power, even the Great True People's Mansion has to bow his head, and Qingping will no longer be a mountain pressing on his back, it can move mountains or destroy mountains, it all depends on his mind. Of course, Qi Xuansu is not the one who will take revenge, it was Qi Niang who saved his life, he has always kept it in mind, but he never equated Qi Niang and Qingping Society, and when there was really that day, he asked Qi Niang to be the leader of Qingping Society, which must be a very interesting thing.
Just as Qi Xuansu was daydreaming here, he only heard a slight footstep behind him.
Qi Xuansu turned around and saw a woman appear at the staircase on the first floor, as if she was planning to go upstairs.
From Qi Xuansu's point of view, this woman is very beautiful, with a three-point charm in the corners of her eyes, and between walking, she seems to be a weak willow supporting the wind, which is extremely good-looking.
However, Qi Xuansu has been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years, and under the words and deeds of Qi Niang, he knows some face-to-face techniques, which belong to the basic content of "Ziwei Doushu" and "Congenital Divine Calculation". It's not a big traitor, but it's not a good person.
To put it simply, this doesn't look like a good person.
Qi Xuansu immediately became vigilant and slowly retreated.
The rivers and lakes have gone a lot, and the heart will not be clean, Qi Xuansu is always not afraid to speculate on others with the greatest malice, not long ago he just offended Taiqiong and Zhang Yuyue, these two women are not good stubble, he has been secretly guarding, thinking about it, Tangtaiqiong will not directly take his life in Yunjin Mountain, but will use some other means.
In fact, whether it is rivers and lakes or temples, many methods are the same, there is no difference between superior and inferior, and the three indiscriminate methods on the rivers and lakes can also be used in other places.
So what will be the means?
The moment Qi Xuansu saw this woman, three words jumped out of his mind, "Immortal Jump", which is a very common method in the rivers and lakes, using beautiful women as bait to set up a scam to defraud money. However, Qi Xuansu quickly vetoed the "immortal jump" and changed it to another five words: "rape out of the woman's population".
The so-called "rape of women" is an ancient law. As long as a woman shows her face and does not want to identify a man as having an affair with her, saying that whoever is who is who, she does not need any evidence, and then she can make the man ruined. Gainology attaches great importance to women's honor, and after a woman identifies an adulterer, she is also ruined, and even pays a greater price than a man, so few women will make false accusations.
After all, Confucianism was once orthodox in the world, and Taoism was inevitably tainted with Confucian habits, although there was no explicit rule, but it also regarded "rape of women" as an unwritten rule.
However, in this way, there is a problem involved, after the rise of psychology, the atmosphere of the world has changed greatly, and the Taoist no longer attaches as much importance to women's honors as in the past, but it still continues to follow the rules of "raping the female population", and some people see that the cost has become smaller, profitable, and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, so they make false accusations.
If you really want to encounter this kind of thing, as long as the two of them have been in the same room, whether it is true or not, it is difficult to argue, even if it is a high-grade Taoist, it is inevitable that the head will be broken and bleeding, and the skin will be peeled off if you don't die. Even if the chest is cut open to prove the heart, so what, at most, the onlookers disperse, but the reputation has been ruined, and the dissected chest cannot be restored to its original state.
Only real powerful people can suppress this kind of thing, Qi Xuansu, a small seven-grade Taoist priest, where can he dare to test the "law".
As the saying goes, the heart of defense is indispensable, and it is better to believe it than to believe it. It's just normal times, but now is the time when Qi Xuansu's vigilance is the heaviest, and he believes that Taiqiong can use this kind of subordinate means.
Qi Xuansu looked around, but found that there was only one way up and down the bell tower, which had been occupied by the woman who had climbed the tower at this time, and the other side was a cliff, looking down from above, the wall of the bell tower and the rock wall of the cliff were almost straight lines, not even a side protrusion, and there was an abyss below.
Qi Xuansu suddenly fell into a dilemma.
The woman ascended the stairs unhurriedly, and every step seemed to be stepping on Qi Xuansu's heart.
The woman's figure climbed step by step, and when the woman's upper half of the height was above the ground on the second floor of the bell tower, Qi Xuansu had already retreated to the edge of the bell tower, leaning his back against the railing.
The woman finally climbed the bell tower and took a look at Qi Xuansu, she raised a smile, and just said the word "childe", the expression on her face suddenly froze.
I saw Qi Xuansu fall backwards and fall into the abyss below.
For a moment, the woman was stunned in place.
Of course, Qi Xuansu didn't want to kill himself, in the process of falling, he had already pulled out the "Qingyuan" on his waist, and then adjusted his body shape, and stabbed into the cliff below the bell tower, with a strong physique comparable to that of a martial artist, he stopped the trend of falling.
Then Qi Xuansu's five fingers were like hooks, piercing into the cliff, fixing his body and pulling out the "Qingyuan" at the same time.
This thought is not ingenious, it is really unexpected, and then Qi Xuansu relied on his arms and ten fingers, like a gecko swimming against the wall, and climbed out along the cliff wall in such a thrilling way.
It was only then that the woman reacted, walked quickly to the railing, leaned out, and looked down.
I saw the white mist, and I didn't see Qi Xuansu's figure.
The woman stomped her foot fiercely: "Who is it?" Am I that terrible? ”
In this way, the woman didn't know what to do, and the means of preparing in advance were all useless.
After a while, I heard the sound of footsteps climbing the stairs.
After a while, three more people went upstairs, and the leader was Zhang Yuyue, but she didn't go to Dazhenren Mansion to drink Laba porridge, after all, it was the daughter of the Zhang family, and she really didn't care much about Laba porridge that others thought was precious.
The other two Shenhua are introverted, obviously not mediocre hands, they are the helpers that Zhang Yuyue temporarily found from the Dazhen Mansion, and they are guaranteed to be able to capture Qi Xuansu.
Zhang Yuyue looked around, saw no trace of Qi Xuansu, frowned and asked, "What about people?" ”
The woman pouted in the direction of the railing: "Before I saw my face, I jumped straight down, which was really an eye-opener." ”
Zhang Yuyue walked quickly to the railing, and looked at the railing, only to see the clouds and mist, and Qi Xuansu had already escaped without a trace.
Zhang Yuyue hated it in her heart, and slapped the railing fiercely: "What a cunning boy!" Sure enough, it's not a good stubble! ”