Zhao Ta stepped forward, looked at the iron chain and cover on the vermilion door, and said, "Can you open it?" ”

Zhang Miaojie said: "There are only furnishings left and right, and you can do it." ”

Zhao Qi looked at Hong Qi when he heard this, Hong Qi was nervous, he was only thirteen or fourteen teenagers, that day the old lieutenant in the Qi Palace's mansion said that he had gone to the demon by mistake, which made him quite impressed, even if there were fists and feet in his body at this moment, he couldn't help sweating slightly.

Hong Qi stepped forward and carefully tore open the iron chain, which was either immobile for a long time, but it was a little rusty together, and then he opened the cover and put these things aside, and then reached out and pushed the door.

When the door of the palace opened, there was no imaginary scene of gusting wind and black smoke, just a musty and corrupt breath gushing out, similar to the taste of those palaces in the imperial city that were uncared for, and the long-sleepy warehouses of ordinary people.

Zhao Ta let go of this breath, looked inside carefully, and saw that the hall was not pitch black, because there was a palace door, but it could be seen.

Just from the outside, you can see that the inside is a tattered mess, and I don't know how many years it has not been cleaned, and there are piles of things on the ground, and there are even broken pickaxes and shovels.

Zhao Ta looked at Hong Qi with a strange expression: "The old lady did a good thing." ”

Hong Qi stretched out his hand and scratched his head and said: "After leaving the house that day, Grandpa Tai talked to his subordinates again, saying that he thought that the Taoist people of the year must have been unaccustomed to him, and they joined forces to tease him, but the stone tablet that was opened in the flood was always inthorough. ”

Zhao Ta was silent, walked into the hall with his hands down, and sure enough, he saw the inclined turtle seat, and planted the stone tablet on the side, and the stele was faintly chiseled with four big characters that were opened in the face of floods.

Go further, but it is a broken stone slab, in the middle of the stone slab is a black earth cellar, Zhao Ta wanted to get closer to watch, and the little female crown behind shouted: "Zhao Ta, don't look at it, be careful to fall, I have heard about the things in this palace, the cellar is very deep, and if you fall down, you may fall to your death." ”

Zhao Ta didn't have the intention to explore the cellar, but after verifying this, his heart suddenly brightened, he glanced at the bottom, the black pitch was indeed bottomless, so he hooked a broken stone slab with his foot and kicked it down, only to hear the stone slab hitting the cellar wall, the sound of ups and downs all the way continued, and finally there was the echo sound of falling bottom.

He thought for a moment, then turned around and walked out, asking as he walked, "Daoist Miaojie, have you heard about the things in this palace?" ”

Zhang Miaojie said: "Naturally, I have heard that my father-in-law asked me to take care of this palace, how can I not know the old things of decades ago." ”

Zhao Ta walked out of the Demon Palace, and instructed Hong Qi to fix the chain seal as it was, and then said: "Miaojie Daoist, you are the lineage of the Heavenly Master, since you know this old thing, then Xiao Wang took the liberty to ask, was there really a demon released that day?" ”

Zhang Miaojie blinked when she heard this, and said to Si Ai Ai: "Where do I know this, I don't know, I really don't know." ”

"Are there really demons in the world?" Zhao Ta asked a different question, this was something he desperately wanted to know, about what kind of world this was, and his plans for the future.

"I don't know, I don't know, I've never seen it." The little female crown didn't know anything.

Zhao Ta thought about it, and already had half of the answer in his heart, and then he said: "Miaojie Dao Chief, is there really a spell in the world?" ”

Zhang Miaojie was stunned when she heard this, and then smiled playfully: "Zhao Ta, you are so interesting." ”

Zhao Tan was puzzled: "What's interesting?" ”

Zhang Miaojie said: "Didn't you say that you came to Longhu Mountain to pray for blessings? I saw that after you burned the pillar incense, you didn't go to the Tianzun Palace, but instead met the demon lord and spells. ”

Zhao Ta was speechless, and only after a while did he say: "Is there or not?" ”

Zhang Miaojie said: "My father-in-law once told me the answer to this question, so I can answer you this." ”

Zhao Ta was shocked: "Zhang Tianshi is not a prophet? ”

Zhang Miaojie said: "That's not it, you are not the first to ask this kind of question, there are always curious people who want to ask the truth, the bigger the official, the more curious, why do you say this?" ”

Zhao Tan thought for a moment: "I can only reply that I don't know, but what did the Heavenly Master say, is there a magic technique?" ”

The little girl said: "My father-in-law said that there was before, there may be now, but there will be no in the future." ”

There were, there may be, there will be, there will be none.

Zhao Ta closed his eyes slightly when he heard this, thought for a moment and then took a deep breath and said, "I understand." ”

"You understand?" Zhang Miaojie said curiously: "I haven't figured it out for several years, how do you understand, Zhao Ta?" Let's hear about it. ”

Hong Qi next to him was also confused: "Lord Wang, was my grandfather teased by those Taoist priests back then, I always feel that the words on the stele were chiseled out in advance, and it is not too difficult." ”

Zhao Ta said: "The words of the Heavenly Master are actually only listened to the last four words. ”

"The last four words?" Zhang Miaojie said: "Isn't that ...... Not in the future? ”

"It just won't be!" Zhao Ta smiled, his heart seemed to be a big stone falling to the ground, since there is no in the future, then there is no more, he doesn't have to worry about these things anymore.

I went back to the Taoist room, had a fast meal in the evening, and went to the Sanqing Hall to offer incense and said nothing all night.

The next day is a day of sightseeing, many scenery in the palace is finished, then go to the mountain, only to see this big mountain:

The root is at the corner of the ground, and the top is connected to the heart of heaven. From a distance, you can see the chaotic clouds, and you can see the bright moon up close. What comes out is the clouds, and what is contained is the fog. Rugged and dangerous. Thousands of peaks compete for the show, thousands of ravines compete for the stream, the waterfall flies obliquely, and the vine falls upside down. When the tiger roars, the wind gives birth to the valley mouth, and when the ape cries, the moon falls on the mountainside. Just like the green daisy dyed into thousands of pieces of jade, the blue gauze shrouds thousands of piles of smoke.

In this way, another day passed, and on the third day, Zhao Ta said goodbye, and the host really led the Taoist priests to send out of the palace gate, and only the little female crown was sent to the bottom of the mountain.

Zhao Ta said: "Thank you Miaojie Xiaodao for your appearance, please stay." ”

The little girl said: "Zhao Ta, will you come to Longhu Mountain in the future?" ”

Zhao Ta said with a smile: "Busy with official business, this time it is not easy, it is really difficult to say in the future, but if Miaojie Xiaodao has something to meet, you can come to Tokyo Qi Wangfu, at that time, Xiaowangfu should be full of splendor." ”

The little female crown smiled, her eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, and said, "Zhao Ta, let's go." With that, she turned around and headed back to the mountain.

Zhao Ta also turned around, the people and horses were already ready, and the commander of the Dragon Guard Army asked: "Little Xianggong, do you want to go back to Beijing the same way?" ”

Zhao Ta shook his head and slouched on his horse.

The commander of the army was puzzled, and said: "Little Xianggong, then go to Hongzhou to take a look?" ”

Zhao Ta said: "Don't go to Hongzhou, go to Jiangzhou!" ”

The military commander was stunned: "Little Xianggong, ...... when passing through Hongzhou?"

Zhao Ta said: "Go around from afar, it's hard to come out once, and there's nothing to do, why don't you walk more." ”

The military commander hurriedly bowed his head and said yes, and Zhao Ta said again: "On that day in Xinzhou, Yang Shicheng led Hongzhou officials to come, and merged Xinzhou officials out of the city to greet them, but did not see other subordinate officials, do you know who is doing this Jiangzhou prefect now?" ”

The military commander thought for a while and said: "If the little minister asks me elsewhere, where do I know, but how can I not know that this Jiangzhou is the ninth son of the old husband of the dynasty, Cai Dezhang, the ninth son of Cai Jiu. ”