"The lord of the kingdom has been becoming more and more disobedient lately."

In the Nine Heavens Cloud Terrace, Liang Tao's eagle-eyed face emerged, slightly angry: "What did you do in Xingluo County?" If we can't just control the work of suppressing bandits, how can we entrust them with important tasks in the future? ”

Liang Shuo replied respectfully: "Grandfather, it's not that the grandson is lazy. That Huaiying Pavilion has been courteous repeatedly, and Wei Xiuwen was once the old department of the Luo family, so it is difficult for grandchildren to intervene in such collusion. What's more, the immortal has become more and more stagnant recently, and after each summoning, it takes a long time to condense the pure qi and consolidate the true form. ”

Liang Tao said: "That immortal general is just an eagle dog at your hand in the end, and occasionally throw a few pieces of meat as a reward." Even if there is no immortal general to cheer you on, you should contact other pavilions more often, so as to lure and coerce them, and make a situation where it is difficult to advance without you, so that others can come to you. ”

"I'm afraid this matter has also been disturbed by the Huaiying Pavilion." Liang Shuoyan said: "Zhang Duanjing has a student named Zhao Xiao, who is scheming and has a close relationship with the local county government, and even makes all the pavilions accompany him. ”

"Zhao Xiao? Unheard of. Liang Tao snorted coldly: "Since such characters are bad, then look for an opportunity to kill them." ”

"Grandfather, please listen to your grandson." Liang Shuo hurriedly explained: "Grandson has recently noticed that this Zhao Xiao and Luo Xixian have a mutual dislike, and instead of killing him, he might as well be a little wooed and cultivated, maybe he can serve my Yongjia Liang clan in the future, so as to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle and shake the future inheritance of Huaiying Pavilion." ”

Liang Tao said: "This person can get into your eyes, it must be quite desirable." Well, you can just do it. ”

Liang Shuo nodded yes, and then asked, "Grandfather just said that the lord of the country, could it be that there has been another change in the court?" ”

"The Red Cloud Rebellion Party was cast into a divine sword in Panlong Mountain, which was greatly exaggerated by Xin Taicheng, making that white-faced child uneasy." Liang Tao sneered: "Zhang Duanjing also wanted to volunteer to go to Xingluo County, so that he could completely control the work of suppressing bandits, but I rejected it." ”

Liang Shuo muttered: "The lord of the country has been too partial to the Huaiying Pavilion over the years, and completely ignores that my Chongxuan Pavilion is the cornerstone of Huaxu Country. ”

"The white-faced child is a few years older, and it is inevitable that he will think that he can plan big things." Liang Tao's tone was not good: "In addition, Zhu Ziwen has long been in contact with Zhang Duanjing, and she must be thinking about how to bring down Chongxuan Pavilion every day, so that they can control the government." ”

Liang Shuo said: "Grandfather, please forgive my grandson for saying bluntly, the lord of the country is so attentive, in addition to Mrs. Zhu Zi's secret promotion and Huaiying Pavilion's repeated courtesy, I am afraid it is also related to the slight decline of Chongxuan Pavilion." In addition to our Yongjia Liang family over the years, the other three can be called successors.

When his grandson came to Xingluo County, he felt that there was no one to use, and most of the children in the clan were empty talkers. If my Chongxuan Pavilion is full of talents, and the protégés are all over the government and the opposition, how can other pavilions be praised? At that time, the lord of the country will also be able to understand that without my Chongxuan Pavilion, the country will not be a country! ”

"How could I not know?" Liang Tao also had a little helplessness on his face: "The children and grandchildren of those three families are really hopeless." Previously, the DPRK and China were in an uproar because of the empty salary of 20,000 soldiers and horses, and I could only ask a few families to kick out the culprit, which barely saved the situation. Now I still have to clean up the situation in Dongshengdu, and I can't spare myself to go to Xingluo County, you have to do things well and beautifully over there. ”

"So my grandson thinks that in addition to sweeping away the incompetent, we must also bring in capable talents." Liang Shuo said: "In the past, the monks of other pavilions wanted to enter my Chongxuan Pavilion, and they still needed the first recommendation of each family, so it seems to set up a threshold, so that the Chongxuan Pavilion can select the best of the best and select good talents, but the pavilions are not willing to give up the talented junior children.

Although Chongxuan Pavilion holds the rich legacy of Tianxia, it is actually empty and has nowhere to play. If you can allocate a few rare treasures, elixirs, and fairy scriptures from the library, so as to introduce various talents, the atmosphere of Chongxuan Hall may be a new one. ”

"It's a good idea, but don't forget one thing." Liang Tao stared and said: "There is a difference between inside and outside! ”

"Yes." Liang Shuo bowed his head and replied.

When the light and shadow on the Sigui mirror dissipated, Liang Shuo fell on the couch with disgust, and rang the golden bell with his fingers in the air, and Jiang Ru walked into the palace.

"Childe seems to be displeased?" Jiang Ru served the incense burner: "Do you want the concubine to solve one or two?" ”

"You're so looking forward to taking my Yuanyang to cultivate?" Liang Shuo asked.

Jiang Ru lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, and she was flattering in her show: "The son's words are looking down on the concubine." ”

Liang Shuo got up and stared at Jiang Ru, reached out to lift her chin, the other party blinked his watery eyes, and his cherry lips spit out a warm breath: "Childe......"

"If I asked you to apologize to Zhao Xiao, would you go?"

Jiang Ruyi just got up, and was doused by Liang Shuo with a basin of cold water, she showed a panicked look: "What does Childe mean by this?" Could it be that the concubine made a mistake and made the son angry? ”

Liang Shuo said: "You didn't do anything wrong. It's just that I need a reason to pull Zhao Xiao under the door of my Chongxuan Pavilion. ”

Jiang Ru was puzzled: "Childe, this Zhao Huang has repeatedly stolen the limelight from you, why do you still value him so much?" ”

"You really don't understand?" Liang Shuo smiled faintly: "One, I really need people who can do things for the Liang family, not a group of incompetent people who waste money. Secondly, Zhao Xiao and Luo Xixian are both backward talents in the Huaiying Pavilion, and over time, I am afraid that the future will become a big disaster for my Chongxuan Pavilion. It is necessary to leave a gap between them early, and while dividing the Huaiying Pavilion, he also takes advantage of the situation to bring Zhao Xiao under his command. ”

Jiang Ru asked, "The last time Zhao Huang came, he seemed to be aware of the son's discord. If the concubine goes again this time, I'm afraid it will be difficult to see success. ”

"What if Zhao Xiao can see through it alone?" Liang Shuo said: "You go here today, not only to apologize to Zhao Huang for disturbing the altar, but also to convey the goodwill of Chongxuan Pavilion on my behalf, but also to make friends with Luo Xixian." ”

Jiang Rujiao's body trembled slightly, and asked, "Childe, is this a concubine who wants to separate Zhao Luo and the two with beauty?" ”

Liang Shuo smiled: "If the two of them are lustful, then they will be tempted by lust." ”

Jiang Ru couldn't believe it, and forcibly held back her anger: "Childe, does the concubine really want to do such a thing?" ”

"You don't have to, I'll find another way." Liang Shuo tilted his face: "But Chongxuan Pavilion doesn't raise idlers, it just so happens that the son of the Wang family has long wanted to make friends with your sisters, I will repair a book, and you will move to the Wang family later." ”

Jiang Ru had long heard of the Wang family's son's cruelty to concubines, and if he took refuge in such scum and scum, the Jiang family would be eaten up and wiped clean by him within a few years. But thinking that the whole family has groveled over the years, flattered and lost sincerity to the Liang family, and the two aunts wanted to make a double cultivation furnace for Liang Tao, but they were treated like this now?

"The concubine obeys the order." Jiang Ru didn't dare to disobey Liang Shuo after all, he was banned by him early, and if he didn't comply, he would have to suffer the pain of ten thousand arrows piercing his heart.

"In addition to the necessary elixirs, spiritual materials, and magic weapons, you also bring that volume of "Golden Water Shape Method" by the way." Liang Shuo Zhizhu was in his hand: "I saw Zhao Huang performing spells, mostly with the lord of the golden elephant, and this method is expected to be in harmony with him." ”

"Yes."

……

Zhao Xiao tied his sleeves and rolled up his pants, held a shovel, and covered the corpse with dirt.

Looking up, hundreds of corpses were placed in the pits, some of them had no heads, some of them had lost their hands and feet, most of them had been eaten by wild dogs and crows, men, women and children, and the situation was miserable.

Zhao Huang has seen a similar situation more than once in the market towns and villages around Yuyang County.

After the ravages of thieves and demons, these market towns and villages can be called ten rooms and nine empty. Zhao Xiao led hundreds of soldiers, in addition to destroying the sporadic spirits and monsters, the main job was actually to bury the corpses and clean up the ruins.

At first, Zhao Xiao picked up the shovel, and those soldiers were startled, where had they seen the monk Immortal Chief personally doing hard work? Later, Zhao Huang took the initiative to explain that he fled with his grandfather in the past, and he had seen many similar tragic situations. At that time, his grandfather carried a handy shovel with a pestle, and when he encountered starving people on the roadside and corpses in the countryside, he would bury them by the way.

When Zhao Huang and the soldiers buried the body safely, Zhao Huang opened the altar in front of the burial mound to practice the law and pull out the dead soul.

“…… There is no end to the six degrees, and the luck is returned by the air. Ten thousand ghosts Luo Tianbu, the group of murderers actually vomited. Trillion people are in a disaster, and the accumulation of corpses is sad. Wonderful in French, the reason is not fading. When the time comes, the contract will fly in the nine days. Peace with the period, rest assured that there is no flying ......"

In front of the wild barren mound, hundreds of soldiers stood silently and silently, watching Zhao Huang lightly recite the scriptures of the dead soul, and the smoke of the incense burner rose upward, as if sending the resentful ghosts and ghosts wandering here to the peaceful heaven, away from this suffering world.

After the ritual was over, the soldiers rested for a while, and Zhao Xiao found a wooden board, wrote down the words "the resting place of the people of Huangyang Township", and inserted it in front of the burial mound.

"This soul ritual is your family heirloom?" Lingxiao asked.

"That's right." Zhao Xiao sighed secretly: "Our ancestor of the Zhao family is the praise official of the Tianxia Dynasty, and his main responsibility is to assist in the court sacrifice. I have also seen all kinds of scripture and calligraphy books of Zhai Jiao rituals since I was a child. Not to mention the effect, at least prolong life, eliminate disasters and collect blessings, exorcise evil spirits, and pull out the dead soul, all kinds of arrangements are well known. ”

"The ritual is used in the body and mind of the person who practices the Fa, and it is not arranged in a delicate and cumbersome manner." Lingxiao said.

"That's what my grandfather said, too." Zhao Xiao looked up at the sky: "But even if I have studied this way since I was a child, I still can't help but be confused now, where have all those tempered souls gone?" The so-called soul returns to heaven and soul returns to earth, and there are countless scriptures that exhaust rhetoric to describe the wonderful and extraordinary realm of heaven. But when I look at the world again, all I see is a withered and broken body, and I myself am still trapped here, how can I let my soul return to the peaceful heaven? ”

"You haven't proven the Immortal Dao, and there are some things I said that you can't understand." Ling Xiao said, "But what you are doing now is not meaningless. Even if you don't mention the time before and after death, the doubts in your heart at the moment are exactly the key to enlightenment. ”

"Enlightenment? Does that count? Zhao Xiao's nose was sour: "Bury a few corpses, recite a few crooked scriptures, I really don't know what this has to do with the avenue?" ”

"If you don't practice it, it will be difficult to comprehend." Ling Xiao said.

Zhao Xiao stood in front of the grave for a long time, silent, until a soldier called: "Zhao Fu, we have already started a gang, do you want to come together?" ”

"Hmm." Zhao Xiao responded, carried the newly made bamboo basket, and came to the temporary camp, where a soldier took the initiative to hand over the hot soup, which contained torn and soaked soft dough. Dozens of other soldiers gathered together and chatted with Zhao Xiao while eating.

The soldiers got along with Zhao Xiao for a while, and knew that this "immortal chief" had no shelf, and dozens of old men gathered together to talk and laugh.

"Zhao Fu, I used to hear the old man say that if there is a corpse somewhere, the locals can't be easily buried in the ground after they die, and they will be burned down. But all the way you went all the way, you took us to bury the body, why is that? A soldier asked.

"We're eating! How boring you say! Others complained.

Zhao Xiao swallowed a piece of bread and said, "If you can't find the reason for the resurrection of the corpse, and there is no sorcerer monk who practices the method to pull out the dead soul, burning the corpse is indeed an emergency method. However, this law is difficult to implement for other reasons, and it takes a lot of firewood to completely burn the corpses. Think about it, if you don't even have enough firewood to cook on weekdays, will you still use it to burn corpses? ”

A soldier chimed in: "That is, when I was a child, I had to go to the forest to collect branches and use them as firewood, and it would be nice to have hot food at home every day." The dead in the countryside have no money to buy a coffin, and the corpse is rolled up with a bamboo mat and buried hastily, and there will not even be a monument. ”

As soon as these words came out, some soldiers talked about their experiences when they were children, this said that they stole the chickens of the Zhuangtou family, and the other said that they could not afford to raise children at home.

Zhao Xiao listened and was embarrassed to continue. In fact, for evil monks who are proficient in manipulating the corpses and souls, even if the corpse is burned by fire, the ashes can still be used to hook yin and summon ghosts, and even be used as medicine. The vicious methods of the evil cultivators and demons are far beyond the imagination of these ordinary soldiers, if they say it in public, everyone will not eat this meal.

In order to prevent the corpse from being driven by evil magic, it is best to set up an altar to practice the Dharma like Zhao Huang Fangcai, dissipate the turbid qi, pull out the souls of the deceased, or install spiritual objects in the tomb. If there is a local ritual god, it is usually also responsible for guarding the underworld and distinguishing between yin and yang.

Zhao Huang has been inspecting and inspecting the territory of Yuyang County these days, and he has not encountered the demon who can drive the walking corpse, so he simply buries the corpse and practices the law to save the soul everywhere he goes, which is equivalent to cutting off the demon's "reinforcements".

"By the way, Zhao Fu, you said before that you fled with your grandfather when you were a child." A soldier asked curiously: "We thought that monks like you should be pampered, why do you have to flee everywhere?" ”

"What's so strange about that?" Zhao Xiao said: "My ancestral home is in Xuanwu County, and the Xiong Kingdom once captured that area, so my grandfather could only take me to flee. ”

A soldier said: "I know, at that time, there was a bear country that was almost about to fight Dongshengdu, and we almost couldn't bear it." Later, it was the immortal master of Chongxuan Pavilion who took action and repelled the bear country. ”

Some old soldiers secretly kicked and signaled not to boast about Chongxuan Pavilion in front of Zhao Xiao.

"It's fine." Zhao Xiao said with a smile: "Monks like us, even if we don't say it, we still yearn for Chongxuan Pavilion in our hearts." It's like you look forward to having wine and meat every day, and worrying about food and clothing. ”

"It's better to hold a considerate mother-in-law!" One soldier added one more sentence, which immediately caused laughter in the audience.