The next person in the bronze carriage is a family that the old man Tang is also very curious about, obviously there is a jade plate of the Five Spirits Sect, but he is neither an official in the court, nor a businessman in the world. The family that could have enjoyed the glory and wealth of the world has settled in the mountains and made a living by farming and hunting. Old man Tang presided over the first election all the way this time, and he didn't know how many people he had been to, but only this one made him very curious.

The carriage drove between the mountain roads, ignoring the rugged bumps of the mountain roads, and came all the way, with high mountains and dense forests on both sides, and the terrain gradually became dangerous. Just as the old man realized that he was about to arrive, an old man in coarse cloth who looked to be about his age stood up on a lying cow stone on the side of the road, and he bowed to his carriage, so the carriage approached.

"Dare to ask," the old man in coarse cloth asked respectfully, "Your Excellency is the immortal master who came to preside over the selection of the first class for my Lu family?" ”

"Oh?" Old Man Tang asked, "How did you know the identity of the old man?" ”

"Yikes! Sure enough, it's an immortal master! The coarsely clothed old man bowed his head when he heard this, and said in his mouth, "Lu Heiling, the owner of Lujiazhuang, has seen the immortal master, and since the day of the first election is approaching, the younger generation will come here every day to wait for the immortal master, and sure enough, I was welcomed, and I also asked the immortal master to come with me, and the Zhuangzi is waiting for the immortal master." ”

After speaking, he held up a jade plaque high and presented it to Old Man Tang.

Old Man Tang inspected the jade plaque, nodded and said, "You have a heart, yes, lead the way." ”

On the way, Old Man Tang saw that although the owner of Lu Zhuang was not young, he still walked lightly and vigorously, and he did not lose to the young man, so he said his question: "Master Lu Zhuang, the old man has something unclear, and he has to ask Lord Lu Zhuang for advice or two." ”

"Don't dare to ask for advice, immortal master, please speak."

"Since your Lu family has my sect's Jiaxuan jade plate, why do you want to live in seclusion in the mountains, the old man came all the way to Jiaxuan, and the people who hold the jade plate are either rich or noble, or the power is inclined to the government and the opposition or the rich is rival the country, only your Lu family is hidden, but why?" Old Man Tang asked.

"Oh, this question, the immortal master doesn't know, my Lu family is not a hidden world, but just a stable life here, and it is also the ancestors of our Lu family who have found a feng shui treasure for us descendants to thrive. I think my ancestors were also big officials in the court back then, but I feel that being an official is too tiring, and there are too many ways in the officialdom that ponder people and harm people, and the ancestors of my Lu family don't like that, besides, the descendants of the Lu family always have some incompetent generals, such a Lu family being a big official is not a good thing for the court and the Lu family, and sooner or later it will cause trouble, even if it is fine, it will leave an infamy for the children and grandchildren. So the ancestor of the Lu family resigned and brought the whole clan here, and since then the Lu family has been engaged in farming, mulberry, fishing and hunting. Immortal Master, don't say that the Lu family has failed this jade card, thanks to this jade card, I have to ensure that my Lu family has always been prosperous and endless, and it is also a loss of this jade card, so that our Lu family has always been in good weather and worry-free! ”

"I see, I see!" Old Man Tang was convinced, "The ancestor of your family is really a master, an expert!" ”

After a few more turns on the mountain road, the carriage and the owner of the village came to a valley, and the village was on the flat part of the valley.

"Immortal Master, how about using some wine and rice first when you get to Zhuangzi all the way?" Lord Lu Zhuang asked respectfully.

"That's not necessary, the old man still has a lot of places to go, and he can't stay here for a long time, since he has arrived, let's get down to business first!"

"Okay, then do as the immortal master says." As he spoke, the owner of the village called a few young people who were waiting outside the Zhuangzi and ordered, "Go, let everyone in the Zhuangzi go to the ancestral hall, and say that the immortal master has arrived." The young men took the order and ran away.

Old man Tang looked at this Zhuangzi while walking, the houses were all built of green bricks, the courtyard wall was built with blue stones, and the road in the Zhuangzi was also paved with stones, which seemed to have been carefully swept by people, and it looked unusually neat.

In the yard, you can hear the crowing of chickens through the wall, there are lazy black dogs lying in front of the door, and there are raccoon cats on the roof that sneakily try to catch birds. The fruit trees in a courtyard are full of fruits, hanging out of the wall, a seven or eight-year-old child is beating those fruits with a stick, and two children are screaming while picking up the fallen fruits from the ground and carrying them into his arms, the owner of Lu Zhuang laughed and scolded when he saw it: "Why don't you go to the ancestral hall soon, let your father beat your ass if you go late!" The children immediately threw their sticks and ran away.

What a paradise! Old Man Tang sighed.

In the middle of the Zhuangzi is the ancestral hall of the Lu family, which is already full of people, and with the words of "come and come", they split a road to let the bronze carriage pass through the crowd and come to the door of the ancestral hall, where the table has been prepared.

After the old man Tang got out of the car, the owner of the village took the people of the whole village to greet the old man Tang. Then it was a routine, the old man Tang took out the book, dipped the jade plate of the owner of Lu Zhuang in the ink and printed it on one page of the book, and then returned it to the owner of the Lu village.

"The jade plate is correct, Master Lu Zhuang will let the descendants of the Lu family under the age of sixteen come out and let the old man take a look." Old man Tang said.

"Okay, okay, please wait." Saying that, the owner of Lu Zhuang gave a few words to the person next to him. The man took a few people to get busy, and after a while, more than 50 children stood in front of the ancestral hall. He was ready to call the nearest child to test the child's qualifications.

But before he could speak, he heard the owner of the Lu Village hurriedly but angrily roar: "What about the fourth? What about the fourth! The old man stopped to see what was going on.

I saw a burly and stout man in his forties walking quickly from the crowd in front of the owner of Lu Zhuang, probably the fourth son of the owner of Lu Zhuang, and the two were quite similar between their eyebrows and eyes. When the owner of Lu Zhuang saw his fourth child approaching, he slapped him on the back of the head without waiting for the other party to speak, and scolded: "Where is your sixth child? ”

The fourth child who was beaten touched his head and looked at the pile of children, and pointed with his fingers to find his sixth child who had not found him for a long time, and was about to click again when he was slapped on the back of his head again, only to hear the owner of Lu Zhuang scold: "What are you still stunned for?" Don't go find it yet! When is it? ”

"Hey, yes!" The fourth child who was slapped twice was about to leave.

"Fourth uncle, I know where the sixth brother has gone." A small kid in the crowd said to the fourth.

"Where's that bunny?" Lord Lu Zhuang asked without waiting for the fourth child to speak.

"He went up to the mountain to see his set, and I saw him go up the mountain in the morning, without a bow or a fork, so I must have gone to see him go to see him go down the set." The little kid said.

"Don't go find it yet!" Lord Lu Zhuang spewed spit and scolded the fourth child, seeing the fourth child turn around and run up the mountain, when the owner of Lu Zhuang turned his face again, he was already full of deferential smiles, and said to the old man Tang: "Immortal Master, the sixth child of my fourth family is not here, that child is naughty, how about starting when he comes?" ”

Old Man Tang looked at Lord Lu and nodded, somehow, at this time, he felt that this Master Lu Zhuang was a little unreliable.

When the fourth child was about to leave, suddenly the group of children shouted again, "The sixth brother is back!" ”

The people present immediately turned their heads to look, and sure enough, they saw a stout and mighty young man beside Zhuangzi carrying a large black long burden and entering Zhuangzi, seeing so many people looking at him, the child obviously slowed down and hesitated a little.

I don't know which child gloated and shouted "Ha! The sixth brother is going to be beaten again! Immediately several children burst into laughter.

The fourth child also saw his son, and immediately became angry, and scolded his son who was still rubbing by the Zhuangzi: "Why don't you get over here quickly, see how to clean you up when you turn around!" ”

As soon as he finished scolding, he heard the owner of Lu Zhuang also scold: "What are you scolding him for, he usually doesn't teach, but now he is playing prestige, hurry up and let him change his clothes, and come over and kowtow to the immortal master in a while." ”

Beaten and scolded again, the fourth child felt very shameless, so he ran over and grabbed his son, who wanted to turn around and run away, twisted his ears and trotted through the crowd to the sound of people's laughter.

When the child walked by, Old Man Tang noticed that there was a black burden on the child's back, which turned out to be a big black-maned wild boar that had lost his breath.

What a teenager! Old Man Tang praised, and then said to the owner of Lu Zhuang: "Since the child has come, we will start here first, and then come over when the child is ready." ”

"Yes, yes, all at the command of the immortal master." Lord Lu Zhuang said again and again.

"Come, kid." Old Man Tang pointed to a little boy closest to him and said, "Come to the old man's side." ”

The kid hesitated a little bit and didn't dare to come over, and the old man Tang was about to encourage him for a word or two, when he heard the owner of the Lu Zhuang say on the side: "Come here, come and kowtow to the immortal master, you will have your own benefits!" ”

This made the old man Tang a little unhappy, thinking that the old man would preside over the first election for your family, would he still bring his own gifts to coax your children to be happy? Just thinking about it, I saw that the kid didn't know whether he wanted benefits or was bold, walked up to the old man Tang, and suddenly knelt down.

Old Man Tang saw that a little boy with a tiger head and a tiger brain was staring at him with a pair of curious eyes, which made people feel good, so he no longer cared, and as soon as he stretched out his right hand, a jade ruyi appeared out of nothing in his hand, handed it to the child, and said softly: "Take it." ”

The child was at a loss again, so he turned his face to look at the owner of Lu Zhuang.

After all, the owner of the Lu Zhuang has seen some of the world, and he doesn't care about how the jade Ruyi appeared in the hands of the immortal master, and only cares about looking at the jade Ruyi, only to see that the jade is warm and smooth, soft and white, and it is a piece of flawless jade; Look at the carving again, a knife and a stroke, exquisite, really a priceless treasure. When he was lamenting the generosity of the immortal master, he suddenly saw his grandson looking at a loss, and the owner of Lu Zhuang was suddenly a little annoyed, and said hurriedly: "Don't take it quickly!" ”

When the child heard this, he immediately understood, and was so happy that he stretched out his hand to take the jade ruyi, and then bowed to the old man of the soup again, then got up and ran back, and while running back, he held the jade ruyi and shouted to a woman: "Mother, the immortal master gave it, look at it, look at it!" ”

He actually took the jade Ruyi as a benefit given to him by the immortal master and showed it to his mother.

Suddenly, the old man Tang was dumbfounded, and before he could understand it, he saw the remaining group of children hugging their legs, hugging their legs, kowtowing, and stretching out their little hands to the old man Tang's mouth and shouting, "Immortal Master, I want it too, I want it too!" ”

The owner of Lu Zhuang originally saw that the bear child ran away with the baby jade Ruyi, and when he was in a hurry, he saw a group of children surrounding the immortal master, so he also felt a little embarrassed, how could there be such a thing to ask the immortal master, it is not a proper system! Then he came and slapped and kicked the group of children back, coaxing and scaring them to calm down. Turning around, he respectfully said to Old Man Tang: "Immortal Master, you are too polite, this gift is too valuable, don't spoil the children!" ”

Hearing this, the Dao heart was calm, and the old man Tang who had no waves in the ancient well couldn't wait to spray a mouthful of old blood on the ground. What kind of people are in this family!

I had no choice but to be cheeky and explain to the owner of the Lu village that the jade Ruyi was not a gift, but a magic weapon to test the qualifications of the children and grandchildren of the Lu family this time.

Why do you say that you are cheeky, because the old man Tang found that the more he explained, the more people looked at him with the eyes of stingy ghosts. yes, what an immortal! The things that were sent out have to be taken back, the more I explain, the more empty my heart becomes, a monk who is a Jindan Dacheng, almost omnipotent in heaven and earth, and the emperor has to bow his head when he sees it, and now he is being pointed at by a group of rough people in the mountains and fields with rolling his eyes, it is really the first time, and it is the first time, sixty years later, if anyone fools the old man to go on a trip, the old man will turn his face with whom!

A stout woman walked up to the old man Tang with an unhappy face, and put the jade ruyi in her hand on the old man's case, and when she went back, she saw the child crying, so the woman raised her hand and patted the child's ass a few times before the child stopped his voice.

The old man sat there with a disgraced face, wondering in his heart where was the child's buttocks, it was clearly beating the old man's face!

Lord Lu Zhuang saw that the immortal master looked a little embarrassed, so he relieved the siege and said: "Immortal master, the people of the mountains and wilderness, I have never seen the world, I don't know this, please don't blame the immortal master." ”

Old Man Tang had to nod.

The rest of the children saw that the beautiful Ruyi was not given to themselves, but just to let themselves shake it, so they had no enthusiasm, and stood there listlessly waiting to touch the Ruyi.

In this way, these children have held Ruyi one by one, none of them can make the jade Ruyi change, in the blink of an eye, the children standing in the field ran away, just when the old man Tang sighed and finally ended, I saw that the owner of the Lu Zhuang was first stunned, and then he was furious, and the old man almost ran to the fourth child is a slap on the back of the head of the fourth child, and scolded: "Where is your sixth child?" Could it be that you are going up the mountain again? ”

The fourth child was also beaten stupid, first slammed for a moment, and then stomped into the crowd, with a burst of screams, I saw the fourth child twist his sixth ear and pulled him out of the crowd.

"What did you do?" Lord Lu asked angrily.

"I went up the mountain without eating in the morning, and I'm hungry now!" The kid called Lao Liu was still chewing on something.

"Eat! Eat! Just know how to eat! Just like your dad! Master Lu scolded again.

Hearing this, the fourth child depressedly added a lot of force to his hand, and he twisted his son to scream.

"Go and let him kowtow to the immortal master, alas!" Lord Lu Zhuang was so angry that one of the father and son kicked him in the ass.

"Kowtow to the Immortal Master." The child finally knelt in front of Old Man Tang and said reluctantly.

This kid is really tall, and his knees are actually a head taller than the old man Tang sitting on the chair. Old man Tang sat on the chair, was filling his cigarette pouch with tobacco, ready to smoke a cigarette to relieve the boredom in his chest, looked at the child, and said in his heart that it was the last one anyway, and the old man hurriedly left this place after it was over. pointed to the jade ruyi on the case with a cigarette pouch, and motioned for the child to pick it up, and the old man Tang didn't even bother to say anything at this time.

The child also lazily stretched out a hand to grab the jade Ruyi.

As soon as he held the jade Ruyi in his hand, he suddenly changed and protruded!

That jade Ruyi suddenly shined as boldly as a star!

The entire Lujiazhuang was shrouded in a thick yellow light, not only Lujiazhuang, but also the valley where Lujiazhuang was located, and half of the valley was reflected in the yellow light.

In the light, everyone was stunned.

The owner of the Lu Zhuang was so close that he could barely open his eyes because of the yellow light.

Old Man Tang muttered to himself, "It's the best choice, it's the best choice!" ”