On the third day of the first month of March, Cheng Jun arrived in Beijing.

The more you go to the capital, the more prosperous it is in the red dust. As soon as you enter the city gate, you will see that the city is full of lights, there are many incense cases on the street, and the golden body is respected on it, and the yellow paper spirit runes are hung all around, and the city is full of incense smoke.

Cheng Jun was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that today, the third day of the third month of March, is the birthday of Xuantian God, and it is also the birthday of Daozu Boye. In the North National Daomen, this is the first-class festival, Shengtian is the base camp of Zixiao Palace, and it has always been respected by the Daomen, and the festival of the Daomen is the festival of the country.

It seems that on this day, there is a grand ceremony of worshipping the heavens in Chengtianguan, not under the annual winter solstice ceremony. The emperor and the hundred officials must arrive, it seems that Zixiao Palace will also send the next real person to preside, if it is a big year of 100 and 10, the palace master of Zixiao Palace will also come down to preside over it in person.

Cheng Jun walked along the central Vermilion Bird Street, went to Chengtianguan, and separated by two streets, he saw layers of guards, a large number of soldiers and Taoist children wearing Taoist uniforms blocked the street tightly. Because Cheng Jun was dressed as a Taoist priest, the martial law soldiers did not dare to act aggressively, and said: "Little Daoist, this side has been sealed, you can go somewhere else." ”

Cheng Jun looked along Suzaku Street, and saw that he could see the palace gate from afar, and knew that this was the avenue that the emperor's palace car and jade chariot were going to cross, and it would not be closed before the end of the ceremony. Now there will be no result when I go to Chengtianguan, so I can only take a detour.

Bypassing two streets, there is a special place in the east of the city for the reception of monks. It's just because the Jingshi Imperial City has a relatively strict management, and you can't enter it until you have to pass on the Daomen or build the foundation master or above, and Cheng Jun came to Jiuyan Mountain this time. Naturally, it will enter as Jiuyan Mountain.

His status is extremely high, not only did he enter smoothly, but he also had a little Taoist boy to lead the way. The little Taoist boy said: "Today's seniors must be more stable." The palace master real person came to the palace gate today. presided over the ceremony, and returned to the palace at midnight. If there is anything bad, let his old man see it. I am afraid that I will be condemned. ”

Cheng Jun said in his heart: It turns out that Zhang Qinglu also came down, and it was really unfortunate that he came, and said: "I see, thank you for reminding me." It seems that you can't go up to Zixiao Palace today?"

Xiao Daotong nodded and said, "Yes, I can't go up today." Tomorrow will be difficult too. It is better to come back in two days, or stay in the city for two days, this part of the city has a special place to receive your predecessors. ”

Cheng Jun nodded and entered the block. Sure enough, the streets inside are much wider than the outside, and the shops on both sides are no different from the shops outside at first glance, except that the signboards are full of characters such as "talismans", "pills", "magic weapons" and so on. It's just that every room is boarded, and it doesn't open the door, and the street is very depressed.

That Dao Tong said: "This year is the 9,900th birthday of Dao Ancestor. It has to be a big ceremony. The palace master is a real person, from February 28 to the fifth day of the fifth month of May, except for the special trading places approved by the Taoist Palace under the name of the guards in various places. All the markets will be closed for rectification, and supplies will be redeployed until May. ”

The corners of Cheng Jun's mouth twitched, and he said secretly: What is Zhang Qinglu playing? Did you go straight to wartime?

Thanks to the strong control of the Dao Sect, for monks, especially high-level monks, there is not much demand for trading, and two months is nothing, if the mortal world does this, it must cause a big mess.

Since there was nothing to shop on the street, he had to go and rest first. According to the guidance of the Taoist boy, Cheng Jun entered one of the Taoist residences, and fortunately the room was very relaxed, so he chose a secluded attic to live in.

As soon as I moved into the room, someone knocked on the door and said, "Have you rested?"

Cheng Jun frowned, but then found that the people outside were just cultivators in the middle stage of foundation building, one was not a shopkeeper, and the other was not a threat, so he opened the door and saw a Taoist priest with a smile on his face, and said, "This Taoist friend is invited." In the lower Luzhou Daomen, the disciple Ma Jun was passed on again. ”...,

Cheng Jun returned the salute and asked, "What is the matter with Ma Daoyou?"

Ma Jun smiled and said: "That's the case, presumably Daoist friends are also here to do business, and they will temporarily rest here when they encounter celebrations." We have more than a dozen Taoist friends up and down, and everyone has nothing to do, so it is better to go down and hold a tea party. Everyone can exchange monastic experience, and they can also communicate with each other, which is convenient for each other. ”

Cheng Jun heard that there was no exchange in the back, and then he knew that the main thing was to hold a small trade fair, the shops outside were stopped, and the monks at the bottom could bear it, and some couldn't help it, and there were many scattered cultivators who specialized in business for a living and cut off their financial routes, so the private trade fair was inevitably popular, after all, this is the place of the Daomen, and it is tacit to say that the "tea party" is a tacit thing.

Cheng Jun didn't care about this small gathering of foundation building monks, and was just about to refuse, when he saw a person from the opposite room, his face was full of gloom, and he asked Ma Jun, "How are you over there?"

Ma Jun said: "This fellow Daoist hasn't answered me yet." Why, the Taoist friends over there refuse to come? Forget it, there is no shortage of one or two. ”

The man shook his head and said, "That man is a madman, ignore him." I told him to attend the tea party, and he said, "The northern kingdom is really in chaos, and the edict of Zixiao Palace is like a fart, and it seems that it is still undergoverned. If it is in Yanyun, let alone within a radius of thousands of miles from the palace, it is a poor and remote country, and no one dares to violate the law and discipline like this. Then he ignored me. ”

Ma Jun's face sank, and he said, "Bed bugs come out of the melon seeds, and everyone has them." Ignore him. Fellow Daoist, what do you think?"

Cheng Jun shook his head and smiled: "I'm not going either." ”

Ma Jun looked a little displeased, he said that it was okay to have one or two less, but one or two of them refuted his face, and his face couldn't come down, so he waved his hand and said, "Come on, let's come for nothing." The two went downstairs together.

Cheng Jun didn't care, meditated on the bed, and after a while, he heard a few slight bangs outside, as if the lights were bursting, he was slightly stunned, and then remembered that maybe it was the sound of fireworks.

Sure enough, when I opened the window, I saw that the sun had sunk, but the world had not entered the dark night, and my own neighborhood was just that, the secular city outside was full of fireworks and fireworks, and the ground was full of bright lights. In the midst of thousands of lights, a purple pillar of light penetrated the heavens and the earth, which was spectacular. Cheng Jun could see that it was the direction of Chengtianguan, and it seemed to be a miracle descended from Zixiao Palace.

He watched for a moment, though lively. But after all, it is just an ordinary scenery in the city, the colors are beautiful and chaotic, and the voices of people are distant and indistinct. After watching it for a long time, I only felt dazzled and was about to close the door. Just listen to the person below: "Come, have a drink." ”

Cheng Jun looked down and saw that the hall downstairs was also brightly lit, and someone shouted: "Ma Daoyou have another drink, you drink their wine, don't you drink mine, don't you give me face? If you don't drink my wine, the friendship will be over." ”

and he heard the commotion. Cheng Jun was stunned at first, then laughed, and said secretly: Where did this group of living treasures come out? I just talked about the tea party, but now I have drunk wine? What is the difference between this persuasion of wine and mortals?

After thinking about it, Cheng Jun said to himself: "Noisy." "Just close the windows. I heard the window next to me squeak open, and one person said: "This Taoist friend still looks like a Taoist priest, why don't you come over and talk about it?"

Cheng Jun was stunned, the man had already closed the window, and threw down a sentence: "I'm next door to you." ”

Cheng Jun couldn't help but shake his head. But he still opened the door and went out, and as soon as he knocked on the door, the door opened without wind, and a person inside said, "Please come in." ”

When I stepped through the door, I saw a table in the middle, and there was a pot or two cups on the table. The pot is made of a whole piece of white jade, which is crystal warm and moist, and it is the best in jade. A person sat at the table, and at a glance, he was dressed in dazzling white, and his clothes were spotless, as white as fresh snow. If you look closely, you are only in your twenties, with a pair of peach blossom eyes, red lips and white teeth, she is indeed handsome and graceful, wearing a high star crown, and a big pearl has fallen. ...,

To Cheng Jun's slight surprise, although he restrained himself well, Cheng Jun could still see that this was a monk who turned qi into refinement.

Seeing Cheng Jun come in, the man raised a cup from afar, and the overflowing amber wine flowed gently, but there was no outflow at all, and said with a smile: "This fellow Daoist, please come and have a drink." "I said I did it first.

Cheng Jun smiled and said, "Thank you." As soon as he took it, he felt the aroma of the wine coming to his face, knowing that it was a fairy wine made of spiritual fruits, which was not inferior to the elixir, and said: "There is a gift of labor." As he spoke, he drank it all and said, "It's really rare to have such a good wine." It's just that we're drinking here, and it's not a little similar to the group of Taoists below. ”

The man's face sank, and he said, "You have to be willing to be obscene, and you are on a par with those things, but don't pull me." If you say one more such thing, let me out. ”

Cheng Jun smiled, didn't take it to heart, then picked up the jade pot and filled the two cups, and said, "Okay." That's when I said it wrong. In Xia Cheng Jun, I don't know if he said the wrong thing just now, and now he is still worthy of asking the name of the Taoist friend?" He didn't say that he had discovered that person was a real soul person, and he was still commensurate with his fellow Daoists, and he was just surprised in his heart: This person was dressed up, but he looked like a person from Yanyun's side, listening to what he said to the Taoist who went to trade with the Nala people just now, it was also the voice of the Shangqing Palace, could this person be a guest from the Shangqing Palace?

The man smiled and said, "My surname is Lin, and I can't say my name." He picked up the wine glass in front of him, drank it all, and said in a low voice: "Don't say, don't say, say that heroes are shocked and killed." ”

Cheng Jun's hand shook, and he almost detained the wine on the table, so he had to say, "It turned out to be Lin Daoyou." Disrespectful and disrespectful. I took a sip and wondered how to leave.

I heard that Lin Daoyou asked: "Cheng Daoyou, I don't think you are dressed like the descendants of the Dao Palace, you are a sword cultivator, right?"

Cheng Jun has never made a mistake in dressing up, he came out as a watchman, it must be the most standard Taoist dress, and he came out of the Sword Pavilion of Jiuyan Mountain, and he was dressed up as a sword cultivator, and he heard people ask, he is now here openly, there is nothing unseemly, and he smiled at the moment: "It's ...... below"

As he was talking, he heard an exclamation from downstairs, and a loud voice shouted: "Ma Daoyou, where did you get such a good thing? Are you willing to make a move? I want a thousand spirit stones." Immediately, someone said, "I want 1,100 spirit stones." Before the words fell, everyone below raised the price violently, and there was chaos.

Brother Nalin frowned and said, "What the hell is it? It's also worth making a fuss about, these Northern Monks don't know anything. That being said, I couldn't help but glance at the window.

Seeing him like this, Cheng Jun suddenly smiled and said: "Fellow Daoist, these people suddenly make trouble, there must be a reason, I have the heart to go down and take a look, Fellow Daoist is sitting here widely." ”

Brother Lin frowned and said, "Fellow Daoists can't hold their breath too? This is a practice of qi kung fu that is not at home, it's just that if you want to see it, let's go down and take a look." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )