Chapter 67: Welcoming Immortals
As the two papier-mΓ’chΓ© red dragon balls were put down, green smoke also rose from the incense burner, rising into the sky, gathering but not dispersing.
Soon it became smoky, and a mountain of immortals appeared in the sky like a mirage, with misty clouds and pavilions.
There is a gold and silver platform on the highest peak of the mountains, on which there are two Taoist priests with crane hair and childish faces, and a group of fairies standing beside them.
The seated Taoist priest was playing a qin song, and his voice was tactful and melodious, which was the fairy song that came before.
The old Taoist priest who was standing stepped on an auspicious cloud from the gold and silver platform and flew up, and there were two boys on the cloud.
"Immortal Chief!"
All the villagers knelt on the ground, Lan Hua pulled Lu Li, but Lu Li shook his head, Lan Hua recited a mantra, and the three of them hid their whereabouts together.
Lu Li watched with his spiritual vision, the strength of this old Taoist priest was not as good as Cui Maozhu, according to Lan Hua, he should not be able to find them.
He wanted to see if this Yingzhou Immortal Sect was good or bad, and then decide on a way to communicate.
Sure enough, this Taoist priest didn't glance in the direction of Lu Li and the three of them from beginning to end, he took the cloud to four or five zhang above the villagers, and recited the Taoist slogan: "Saving people is immeasurable!" β
"Immortal Chief, ask Immortal Elder for medicine!"
The villagers kowtowed like crazy, even pregnant women and children.
Lu Li frowned, but saw a fairy child take a step forward, shook off the dust, and scattered a handful of red beans towards the crowd.
Lu Li thought that the villagers would rush up, but he didn't expect that they didn't fight, but went to pick up beans one by one in the order of queuing.
In the end, each villager was given a bean, and his face was beaming.
Another fairy child stepped forward, and a childish voice shouted: "Today's immortal medicine has been distributed, and the immortal venerable will come again in the future." β
After saying that, with a flick of the dust, the auspicious clouds carried them away, and the villagers kowtowed again to thank them, and when they got up again, they each threw down the items in their hands and took the medicine.
Two blushes appeared on everyone's faces, and in a moment they all laughed and danced.
Lu Li pulled the old man, but the old man didn't talk to him anymore, but laughed and said, "Neiren, are you back?" The military disaster has passed, you see, the second child of our family is still alive, and they are all so big! β
There was a place next to the old man's finger, but there was no figure at all.
"This ......"
Rao is Lan Hua is well-informed, and he has never seen this kind of scene.
"It should be some kind of hallucinogenic drug, the people of Yingzhou Immortal Mountain are playing tricks, I don't know what they are doing!"
Lu Li judged.
"So, I think we should go and have a look at other villages."
Lanhua suggested.
Lu Li nodded, and the three of them sat on the Liujia Giant again, and searched for four villages successively, and by the time they reached the fifth village, they had already made up for the Liuding God several times, and the time was almost night.
As seen along the way, the situation in each village is similar, and the ceremonies to welcome the immortals are held one after another.
In this fifth village, before the "fairy medicine" landed, the villagers rushed up to grab it, but the head of the robbery broke and the blood flowed, and a five or six-year-old girl was knocked to the ground and lay on the ground crying.
Seeing that the person next to him was about to step on her, Lu Li hurriedly went over, picked up the little girl and asked, "What are you robbing?" β
The little girl cried and said, "Immortal ...... Say, if we eat the elixir, we will, we will ...... Never have to worry about it! β
Qing Shui Liuli squatted down and hugged the little girl, tears wet her clothes, she didn't wipe it, and asked, "Where are your parents?" β
As she was talking, a middle-aged woman walked quickly, saw the little girl, and shouted, "Mi'er! β
When the little girl saw her, she broke free from Qing Shui Liuli's arms and threw herself into the arms of the middle-aged woman, the woman raised her hand to fight, but finally didn't fight, and said distressedly: "Mi'er, my mother didn't grab the elixir, let's go home!" β
Mi'er cried twice and said, "Without the elixir, what should Aya and her brother do?" β
The woman sighed, and Mi'er said again: "Ah Niang, these immortal masters helped me up just now!" β
The woman looked up and saw that it was a new face, and she wanted to ignore it, but when she saw that they were wearing Taoist robes, she hesitated.
Lu Li saw that this woman's red lips and teeth were quite beautiful, but she lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to her eyes, she didn't dare to raise her head, and she didn't know how to interject for a while.
It had to be Lan Hua, who stepped forward and said: "We are a descendant of Zhengyi, and I have a lot of connections with the immortals of the Immortal Mountain, and I am the old acquaintance of the immortal chief who gave medicine today, and I came to the precious land to ask the immortals to ask, and asked Mrs. to take them in for one night, and I will leave tomorrow." β
After that, he took out a talisman from his pocket and said, "A little silver tael, it can be regarded as a coil for us." β
It was obviously just a yellow talisman, but the woman's eyes seemed to really see the silver, and she waved her hand and said, "The immortal chief is polite, a country woman, how dare you call Mrs." We have lived in Xingshu Village for a long time, and we don't need these gold and silver things, so come with me. β
After that, she looked at the villagers who were laughing and dancing in front of her with some envy, gritted her teeth, took her child, and beckoned the three of them to go to her house.
"Wait until evening, and then we'll go to the incense burners everywhere to see what's famous."
Lan Hua followed first, Lu Li nodded, and Qing Shui Liuli followed.
Shimizu Liuli was very curious about this ancient village of Dongsheng Shenzhou, looking left and right.
Lu Li and Lu Li grew up watching costume TV series, the poor in Baiyun Temple have no TV, and they practice penance in the mountains, Lan Hua walked dozens of miles of mountain roads to watch TV in the back cottage when he was a child, and he was beaten a lot for this. The two of them only thought that the village was similar to what was shown on TV, except that the bricks and tiles were not so bright, only black, white and red.
The village was not very big, and after a while the woman came to a courtyard, the door was not locked, and as soon as they entered, perhaps they heard footsteps, and a middle-aged man and two little boys came up from the courtyard, and all three of them were injured in their right legs, and their legs and feet were lame, and they limped over, and the man asked, "Lady, have you grabbed the elixir?" β
But when he saw the woman's expression, he sighed, sat down on the threshold slowly, and said worriedly: "Without the elixir, how can I live this life!" β
After a while, he felt that the woman's mood was heavy, so he reluctantly smiled and comforted: "Don't worry, lady, Shengshi will come back soon." β
The woman forced the corners of her mouth to agree, and the little girl ran over and took the man's hand and said, "Aye, an outsider is here!" β
The woman also said, "Love, these three immortal masters are the old acquaintances of the immortal sect and have come to spend the night." β
Only then did the man confess his guilt, and slowly stood up to greet the three of them, Lan Hua said what he meant again, and the man led everyone to the house to sit down, and it was still difficult to hide the sadness on his face between the words.
Lu Li noticed that this house was relatively dilapidated, with a total of three rooms, and the living room was enshrined with the immortal tablet.
After sitting down, Lan Hua tried several times and asked about the immortal medicine and the origin of the village, the man only knew that Xingshu Village was named because of the apricot tree at the head of the village, they had fled and came, this place was at the foot of Xianshan, and they didn't know anything else.
After a while, the woman brought twelve dishes one after another, including chicken and fish, and a very rich table.
There is no male or female dignity in this family, and the five of them and Lu Li and the three of them eat around the table of the Eight Immortals. The two boys gobbled up without stopping, but they looked numb and didn't say a word from beginning to end. The male and female hosts just sighed, only the little girl was very lively, pulling Lu Li and Qing Shui Liuli to ask questions.
She heard Qing Shui Liuli say that there was a carriage outside that could run by herself, and she couldn't help but envy: "If there is also one in Xingshu Village, my father and brother can go wherever they want!" β
The woman symbolically tapped her head and reminded, "Eat! β
Lu Li looked at this family so harmonious, and thought that there was still a group of people laughing and dancing in the village, and felt that these villages were really strange everywhere, what was this Yingzhou Immortal Sect for?
At Lu Li's signal, the three of them didn't eat, and they didn't even drink water.
Finally in the evening, Lu Li and Lan Hua were arranged in a guest room, and Shimizu Ruri lived with the woman. As soon as he left the family's sight, Lu Li said, "Dao Chief, there is something wrong with this family. β
Lan Hua was tired for a day, and his spiritual power was consumed a lot, and his thinking didn't keep up, so he asked, "What's wrong?" β
"There is only one laborer in the family, and the income is not too much, why do you have twelve dishes in one meal, and you don't feel distressed at all?"
Lan Hua made up for himself and Lu Li, thought about it and said, "Maybe they have a lot of money, maybe they are hospitable, maybe there are plenty of products here......"
Halfway through, Lan Hua has also woken up, there are no furnishings in the family's house, obviously no family background, and no matter how hospitable they are, they will feel distressed, there are only some villages in this place, not even a town, where do they get the property?
Lu Li immediately decided: "Don't wait for the family to fall asleep, let's go check the incense burner first!" β
Lan Hua pointed to Qing Shui Liuli's room, where the lights were still on, and the sound of Xiao Yu'er talking to her kept coming out.
"She didn't make up for the six Ding gods, and now she will startle the snake when she goes in. Leave her alone for now, she can protect herself. β
Lu Li and Lan Hua climbed out of the courtyard wall one after another, and went straight to the incense burner altar outside the village, and in the distance, they saw that at the incense burner, the dragon and lion made of paper were still there, the gongs and drums were all placed on the ground, and the villagers who were laughing and dancing had already gone home.
They were about to go over, but they heard a burst of melodious fairy music coming from the incense burner again.
Lu Li pulled Lan Hua, the two hid in the corner, and saw the smoke on the side of the incense burner again, the fairy mountain reappeared in the air, and an auspicious cloud carried the old Tao and the boy out of it.
The old man glanced at the village and said, "This village is not yet ripe, go and take over the next village!" β
Then Dao Tong shook off the dust, and the auspicious clouds flew back to the fairy mountain, the smoke was closed, and the fairy mountain was disappearing.
"Pretending to be a ghost!"
With Lao Dao's words, Lu Li could already determine that the immortal medicine issued by Yingzhou Immortal Sect to the villagers must have an impure purpose.
Since Lu Li was completely sure that the Yingzhou Immortal Sect was not a good type, he no longer waited, he summoned the Confucian holy book and read: "If you want to be poor, go to the next level!" β
A stone staircase slowly emerged from Lu Li's feet, rising towards the misty place of the fairy clouds.
The speed at which the stone steps appeared was extremely fast, but before he could touch the immortal mountain, the old path on the auspicious clouds suddenly turned back.
Immediately afterwards, the two fairy children jumped down from the clouds together, turning into two cranes bigger than humans in the air, but the target was not Lu Li and the others, but the small courtyard where Qing Shui Liuli was.
Lu Li understood that it was because Lanhua's Six Ding Gods covered the two of them, Lao Dao couldn't see them, and he changed all his life, and the only outsiders he saw were Qing Shui Liuli.
He turned to Lan Hua and said, "Lan Daoyou, you go to protect the little unlucky guy, I'll go up to this immortal mountain to have a look!" β
"I don't have the surname Blue!"
Lan Hua didn't have time to ask the little unlucky guy what was going on, and quickly turned around and ran wildly in the direction where the crane landed.
Lu Li read again: "With Xie Gong's clogs on his feet, he climbs the green cloud ladder!" β
He put on a pair of shoes made of aura on his feet, and followed the stone steps to the auspicious clouds in one step, facing the old way directly.
At such a close distance, Lao Dao finally found him, he was startled, and said inwardly: "Who are you, dare to break into my immortal gate!" β
What answered him was a sword and a sentence: "I want to see what kind of immortal they ushered in by beating gongs and drums!" β