The view of the breeze in the south of the city, hidden in the valley and dense forest, has always been not full of incense.

A few years ago, I don't know which good thing the guy rumored that Qingfeng Guan Qiu Zi was successful, and the endless flow of cars and horses outside the city crushed the vegetable garden outside the door into the ground, and almost broke the threshold in front of the Sanqing Palace. The Taoist leaders who had nothing to do in the temple looked at the futon in the main hall with strange faces, and a pair of young people knelt there, babbling to the Sanqing Patriarch every day to ask for experience in how to have children.

It's quiet when no one comes, and it's annoying when it's crowded.

After this toss, the Taoist masters of Qingfeng Temple can be regarded as experiencing the true meaning of Taoism of quiet and inaction.

"I've only heard that Qingfeng sends Mingyue, not to send children." Jiang Li jumped out of the carriage and saw that the gate of the Taoist temple was half-covered, but there was not even a Taoist or a Taoist servant who was on duty, probably because it was too deserted, and even these façade efforts were saved. He stood at the bottom of the steps, looking up at the black-on-gold plaque at the door because of the age, the ebony texture was faintly visible under the mottled lacquer, thinking about the anecdote of the coachman along the road talking about this Qingfeng view, and couldn't help laughing, "Those Sanqing Daozun, I'm afraid that they haven't even touched a woman, how can they know what to have a child." ”

The driver who drove the car was a simple middle-aged uncle, and he smiled while busy tying his horse, "Childe, you will enter the temple after a while, you can't talk nonsense like this." There are gods in the first three feet! ”

Jiang Li waved his hand and responded differently, looking at the front, Li Xinglin helped Cao get off the car, and hurriedly trotted all the way to meet him. Looking back at the carriage behind him, but there was no movement, he couldn't help but wonder, "Aren't these two people together?" ”

"Hey! Formation masters just like to hide behind. Cao Ru pouted, the disciple of the Sword Pavilion has always been a sword in his hand, I have it in the world, and I don't look down on the Taoist friend who hides behind with cold guns and arrows, but has a good reputation for strategizing. She was about to say a few more words, but remembered that these two people had also come to protect her family, so she couldn't help but smile playfully, and explained with a serious face, "This Qingfeng Temple is built against the mountain, and someone needs to guard this only entrance and exit to prevent someone from escaping." ”

While he was talking. But I heard a voice full of energy coming from the courtyard, "It turned out to be the lord of Li City, and the trail was late to greet him, and it was rude." ”

Smelling the loud voice, most people thought it was a tall and majestic image, but with a slight burst of footsteps, what jumped out of the door was a Taoist wearing a blue and gray Taoist robe with a thin body, and his beard was gray, but there was an indescribable cunning in those triangular eyes.

I saw him settle down, sweep the dust, and sing the blessing of immeasurable longevity, so he waved his hand and saluted, "The day before yesterday, Xiaodao had a whim, and he started to sign a lot, and the Tao had purple qi coming from the east, and it turned out that it should be on the city lord of Li." ”

Li Xinglin laughed, arched his hand and saluted back, "I always come to Guanli at the end of the year and the beginning of the year, but this time it is the nephew of the insider who can listen to the interpretation of the Guanli is the most effective, so I will accompany and disturb Xu Shenxian again." ”

That Taoist priest was the presiding officer of Qingfeng Temple, Daoist Xu Mi, and when he heard this, he first dared not call himself an immortal, and then he smiled when he saw it, "This little boy has an extraordinary bearing at a glance, and his life is ......."

Xu Mi led a few people to the view as he spoke, and just saw Jiang Li walking out from behind Li Xinglin, and couldn't help but be stunned.

Li Xinglin stopped in surprise and turned around, "Immortal Xu, but there is something wrong with my nephew's life." ”

Xu Mi laughed, then stopped and glanced at Jiang Li's face a few times, just waved his hand and said, "The little boy's life is excellent, I'm afraid that my Qingfeng view is too small, and the little way can't be explained." ”

Jiang Li smiled, his face was calm, and he didn't bother to talk about anything with that old man, and said in his heart, these charlatans, if they didn't rely on these tricks, where would they get money?

The Taoist temple is not big, enter the gate and walk in not long after, you can see the main hall of blue bricks and gray tiles, the eaves and corners bathed in the sun can vaguely see the grand scene of the past, and the vermilion lacquer on the carved beams and paintings is mottled but shows the vicissitudes of time.

It was not the first time Li Xinglin had come, and he walked to the hall with Cao Ru and Xu Mi. Jiang Li followed not far behind, walking leisurely with his hands on his back. Looking at the wings on both sides, most of the doors were locked, and only the doors of the three or four rooms near the main hall were hidden, as if they were inhabited.

Xu Mi waited on the steps in front of the main hall, squinting at the sun and looking at the little boy with his head stretched out from afar, looking sneakily around in broad daylight, he couldn't help coughing slightly, and saw Jiang Li turn around, so he explained, "It was the living room of the old Taoist and a few Taoists, and it was full of people in the early years, but then it was deserted, and some of the ones that couldn't keep it were empty." ”

Jiang Li jumped a few steps, stood on the steps and bowed his head to Xu Mi, and responded with a smile, but he didn't feel any embarrassment at all. I saw two Taoists hurriedly walking out of the hall, and made a mockery to Xu Mi, so he went to the corner of the wall and picked up a bucket and hoeed to the vegetable field outside the courtyard.

"That's all!" Xu Mi sighed abruptly, swept the dust in his hand, and didn't know if it was because of habit, or if he really wanted to use this dust to sweep away the melancholy in his heart, "There is also an old Taoist disciple in the side hall, and there are four Taoist priests in total." On weekdays, I grow some fruits and vegetables by myself, which is strong enough and enough to make a living. ”

"What are you doing so carefully, I'm not checking the household registration." Jiang Li jumped up the steps in three or two steps, stretched out his legs to cross the threshold that almost rotted at the feet of the believers, and when he turned around, he saw that Xu Mi was still standing in place, and hurriedly urged, "Hurry up, old Taoist, wait for the sign." ”

"It's better to be detailed, maybe the little boy saw that he was old and poor, and he felt pity, and he added some more sesame oil money when he turned around." Xu Mi said sincerely, the triangular eyes narrowed with a smile, but he saw Jiang Lizheng stepping on the threshold with one foot, and couldn't help but be stunned, thinking that although this threshold looked beautiful, it was only more than ten years ago that it was infested with insects and ants, and the inside had already been eroded to a thousand holes, and it was not easy to survive until now. Although there are no such exquisiteness in the Taoist temple, it is always unlucky to step on the threshold. ”

But he saw the little boy jumping up like a burning buttocks, looking at the deep concave footprints on the threshold, and said with a frightened face, "Is this the manifestation of the Daozun of the Son?!" ”

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The layout in the side hall is very simple, just a brass incense burner, a red lacquer table, and a few futons for Taoist priests to repair. Nothing else, making the already tall and spacious room seem extremely empty.

Curling green smoke rose and drifted from the hole tube of the incense burner, permeating the entire side hall. Through the indistinct smoke, Jiang Li pointed to the table near the door, turned back and asked, "Where is the lot?" ”

On the other side of the main hall, Li Xinglin and Cao had already finished paying homage to the incense and adding sesame oil, and were kneeling on the futon at the moment, silently praying to the statue of the patriarch of the Sanqing Dynasty. The Taoist chief Xu Mi stood beside him, holding the dust in his hand, and shaking the bell with the other hand, and there were words in his mouth between the bells, and his voice was low and frustrating, and he didn't know which scripture he was reciting.

The little Taoist priest who accompanied him in the side hall was Mu Tan, a disciple of Daoist Xu Mi, who was not tall, but he had clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and there was always a natural smile between his lips and red teeth and white teeth, which was easy to make people feel close at a glance. Hearing Jiang Li's question, he nodded and replied, "It is here, when there were many people, you could line up all the way from here to the open space in front of the main hall." ”

Probably because he didn't see respect in Jiang Li's tone, or because the young Taoist Mu Tan didn't have a pure and inactive Taoist heart, nor did he have a good man who didn't mention the consciousness of Yong back then, he was just worried that his Taoist temple would be looked down upon, and he wanted to talk about the grand occasion of the crowd back then.

Just seeing that the little boy looked around like a monkey, and from time to time he had to touch it, and at this moment, he dragged a stool and sat in front of the signing table, beckoning to himself excitedly, Mu Tan couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and quickly stepped forward to snatch the lottery holder from Jiang Li's hand, and said in a low voice, "I haven't burned incense and prayed in front of the statue of the patriarch, but I can't shake the sign." ”

"Yes, yes, let's go to the main hall and bow a few times." Jiang Li nodded again and again, got up and walked towards the outside of the hall with Mu Tan, pointing to the front as he walked, "That wing room is the residence of Xu Daochang?" ”

Mu Tan looked along Jiang Li's fingers, and saw that Jiang Li was pointing to the first room in the north of the east row of wings, which happened to be shaded by a cluster of trees, and between the lush branches and leaves, he could vaguely see a simple and elegant window open on the side wall, but it was facing the gate of the side hall. Mu Tan shook his head and said, "It's too close to the side hall here, the master and his old man feel shallow, and the people who add lights and refuels this night have all passed in front of the door, so how can they sleep steadily." ”

"There was a fire worker before, except for those trivial chores, he liked to get up in the middle of the night to refine the pill and sleep during the day, so he lived there. It's been a few days, and I haven't been able to come back. Mu Tan introduced as he walked, and there was a slight complaint between his words, "My temper is very strange, I can't speak clearly, I don't come to my homework in the morning and evening, and I can't say a few words throughout the year." Guanli is also a master, and his old man can occasionally chat with him. ”

"Oh, alchemy!"

Jiang Li stopped suddenly, the faint fire in his eyes startled the little Taoist, he didn't have to guess what this boy was thinking about, and hurriedly shook his head and persuaded, "Childe, don't use that brain, this pill can't be eaten indiscriminately." Last time, I secretly knocked a few pills of the fire worker man's pill, vomiting and diarrhea for several days, and everyone was vain. When I came to the door, I didn't say that I hadn't detoxified yet, and I had to take a few more pills. But I didn't dare to eat it anymore. ”

Jiang Li saw that the little Taoist priest's face that was accustomed to smiling showed a rare expression of fear, and he couldn't help laughing, thinking that this guy was even bolder than himself, although the pill was good, how could he eat it indiscriminately.