"Why are you here again?"

It was still a rainy day, Song Youben was sitting on the first floor making tea and reading books to kill time, looking at the maid who walked in and saluted him, and asked helplessly.

"My wife said that Mr. must have seen that Miss Jiang was not a person that night, but Mr. was kind-hearted or had scruples, so he didn't make a move." The maid gave another salute, "The slave and maid came specially to ask Mr. to take a shot, and return Changjing to a peaceful place." ”

"I didn't say that."

"Please also ask the gentleman to help."

"Please come back."

"How much money does the gentleman want? My wife can be satisfied. ”

"Please be smart."

"In recent days, my wife has not thought about tea and dinner, and she is getting thinner and thinner, and Mr. has written here a shop sign to exorcise evil spirits and subdue demons to go to worries, can you just watch Miss Jiang do the trouble of my wife that night?"

"I misunderstood, in the next I just drive away evil spirits and subdue demons, catching rats to worry is my cat's ability, and the worries I go to are only rat worries." Song You looked at the entangled maid and shook his head secretly, not only did he not like her many disturbances, but he really had no choice, so he had to say after thinking about it, "But to solve Madame's worries, there is indeed a way to do it." ”

"How? Please give me advice! ”

"I heard that there is a little ghost in the north, two feet tall, with an ugly face, called an ugly-faced ghost, who is born to hurt people. Catch the ugly-faced ghost, take its heart and liver, supplemented by one or two of the nine-leaf heavy building, two coins of the cicada chrysalis on the winter solstice, and fry it into the snow of the next year, which can solve this suffering. ”

"Sir, don't prevaricate the slave with something you can't do." The maid said, "Although the slave and maid are stupid, they also know that the heavy building has seven leaves and one flower, where does the winter solstice come from the cicada chrysalis, and how can the snow be the next year?" What's more, where do we go to find the Northland ghosts? ”

"I know a lot of things."

Song You said respectfully.

No wonder she can be a henchman.

"But I don't know what I do, the summer dry is the nine-leaf heavy building, the winter solstice digging three feet into the ground, you can also see the cold cicadas, the snow on Chinese New Year's Eve, the landing has been the next year." The Taoist said to her, "When the north is the hottest, when yin and yang are handed over, people who are destined to walk at night with mirrors can see ugly-faced ghosts. ”

"This can break the Evening River Demon Method?"

"It can make people less jealous."

“……”

The maid pursed her lips and fell silent for a moment, and after a while, she bowed down, said her farewell, and went out to return to the carriage.

The rain was beating the tarpaulin, and there was the sound of tuk-tuk.

"Alas......"

Song You shook his head and sighed, picked up the tea again, raised the book in his hand, glanced at the ink in the book, and then looked at the rain outside.

It's time for the rain to stop, right?

This is the right time to sleep.

"Tosh!"

The coachman shouted outside the door, and the carriage faded away.

……

The rain has stopped and the weather is dry.

Amid the sound of the chariot, the carriage came slowly.

The vast Changjing city wall slowly appeared in front of you.

The chariot was driven by a round-faced servant, and a young warrior walked beside the carriage on horseback with a sword, when suddenly the curtain was raised, revealing the face of a weak middle-aged literati.

The servant immediately turned around and reported: "Master, you have arrived in Changjing." ”

"It's finally ......"

Cui Nanxi squinted his eyes and looked at the city wall in front of him, feeling emotion in his heart.

A few years ago, he was demoted out of Beijing, although he was wronged, but he was also disheartened for a while, he just wanted to resign from the official position, and he was in love with the landscape, who knew that he would encounter such a wonderful thing later-walking with the immortals, sleeping on the top of the mountain, sleeping on the top of the mountain for a whole year, when he left, he had to give the elixir, and since then the weather has been cold, and he has never been sick.

Fortunately, everything was fine with my wife and children when I returned home.

I heard that the old mother at home learned the bad news, although she was so angry that she cried for a few nights and fell seriously ill, she survived, but she learned the news that she had come back alive, and she was surprised to get sick again.

In any case, I finally returned to Beijing.

Although the officials had not yet arranged any official position for him, and although he knew why the Son of Heaven had summoned him back, he was still full of confidence, and in a trance, he seemed to have returned to his original spirit.

"Ahem......"

There was a coughing sound behind him.

Cui Nanxi hurriedly put down the curtain and turned around to take care of it.

After a long journey, I have been in good health after eating the elixir, there is no problem, it is much easier than when I went from Changjing to Pingzhou, but my wife is weak, but she has suffered a lot of crimes.

The carriage slowly descended and passed through the scroll.

Come to the city gate and enter the city smoothly.

The Changjing public office is nervous, and many officials have to rent a house to live, but Cui Nanxi was personally recalled by the Son of Heaven, so naturally there is a place to settle down.

Friends he had made in Changjing had already received his letters, and when he arrived at his residence, several friends had already come to greet him. These people are probably Cui Nanxi's biggest gain in Changjing for a few years, they are all pure gentlemen's friends, literati friends, neither because he was demoted and cut off, nor because he has not seen each other for a few years.

"Haha, Brother Cui!"

"Brother Cui is back!"

Someone from afar was walking towards him.

Cui Nanxi also got out of the car immediately, and bowed his hand again and again, with a sighing expression: "Brother Zhao, Brother Zheng, Brother Liu, I haven't seen you for a long time, it's rare that you still remember me." ”

"Where's the word!" An official said, "Brother Cui, hurry up and clean up, I will wait for the money to book a table of wine and food in Yunchun Building, let's have a good afternoon today, so as to catch the wind and wash the dust for Brother Cui, it just so happens that we also want to hear about Brother Cui's experience of meeting immortals in Pingzhou, haha, the whole Changjing is very curious about this." ”

"Yes! Hurry up! ”

"Brother Cui, hurry up! Need help? ”

“……”

Cui Nanxi sighed again in his heart.

Put down the bags, settle the wife, the carriage was from the government, and asked Hong Xiu's servants to rush to return it to the post station, and Cui Nanxi went to Yunchun Tower for a banquet.

There are a lot of literati in Changjing who yearn for immortal immortality, especially those talented nobles, yearning for immortal immortality is as elegant as drinking tea and listening to the piano for them, not to mention that the wonderful things in the mountain for a night and the next year seem to be more immortal than immortality and flying away, these old friends are curious about his experience on Yunding Mountain in Pingzhou, and their hearts are like a cat scratching.

Cui Nanxi talked while eating and drinking.

When everyone heard this, they were all envious.

"Brother Cui has this experience, I don't know how many literati in Changjing to envy, this trip is not in vain, this life is not in vain......"

"Pity the fairy in the poem, I don't have such an experience as Brother Cui in my life!"

"Brother Cui is also well-informed and knowledgeable, so he can meet immortals, and if he changes to others, I am afraid that there is no such blessing at all. No matter what, if you can get the favor of the immortals, Brother Cui's trip is destined to be extraordinary. ”

"Reasonable, reasonable......"

A few people, you say a word to me.

Cui Nanxi listened, but shook his head:

"A few people still don't want to torture Cui. Cui is self-aware, this time he has to meet immortals, he is nourished by the immortal spirit, and he has the guidance of the immortals and the gift of pills, but Cui is lucky, but Cui is cheesy, and he doesn't know the other side of the immortals, which is really ridiculous and ashamed. ”

"Brother Cui once said that the immortal turned into a mortal and wandered the world, you say, will the immortal come to Changjing?"

"Do you think everyone has Brother Cui's immortal fate?"

"Haha......"

A few people raised their glasses and staggered each other.

Cui Nanxi talked about the scenery of Pingzhou, those pears that are so cheap that they can't be sold in the ground, and the Jingdao crabs that are extremely fresh every autumn are only eaten by princes and nobles in Changjing, but they are only food for poor people by Jingdao Lake in Pingzhou. The starlight is reflected in the water, and the mountain has four seasons. He also talked about the poverty of Shizu County, the difficulties of the people, how he regretted that he had not done more for the people before Yunding Mountain......

A few friends also talked about Changjing.

said that the demons were so rampant that they attacked the officials of the imperial court, which made Cui Nanxi shocked and angry. said that the lord of the City God Temple finally began to take care of things, and he was quite diligent, catching a lot of demons and ghosts, and also made Cui Nanxi praise two sentences. In the end, it was found that it was a bamboo demon that had been lurking for many years in Changjing, and the national teacher made a sound, and the imperial court eradicated all the Hunan concubine bamboos in the city before the bamboo demon was removed, and Cui Nanxi was also amazed.

"It's a pity that there are so many bamboos in Changjing, and I'm afraid it will take next year to grow again. However, the bamboo demon has been lurking in Changjing for many years, and the people behind it must have been planning for a long time. ”

"Who's to say it isn't."

Everyone agreed.

A banquet, while eating and drinking while reminiscing, and invited a musician to play, ate for almost two hours, from noon to afternoon, then supported each other, but fell back to Cui Nanxi's residence.

But they saw a carriage parked at the door, waiting for a eunuch, staring at them coldly.

“！”

Several people instantly sobered up a little.

Although everyone is a person who is not a big official in Changjing and it is difficult to be degraded, and his reputation is outside, there is no need to please the eunuch, nor do he need to be afraid of the eunuch, but seeing him waiting here, I think of Cui Nanxi being personally recalled to Changjing by His Majesty, and I roughly know what he means by coming, I am afraid of delaying the future of my friend, so I dare not slack off, so I just hurriedly stood up straight and bowed my hand:

"I don't know what happened to you?"

"Cui Gong is busy, he just went out to socialize when he returned to Beijing, I'm afraid that his ass didn't hit the bench, right?"

"I haven't seen my friends for several years, so please forgive me."

"Your Majesty heard that Duke Cui returned to Beijing and summoned Duke Cui to the palace for talks, and our family has been waiting here for a long time." The eunuch glanced at Cui Nanxi, "Gong Cui just drank wine, changed his clothes, and freshened up, but don't make Your Majesty and the national teacher wait too long." ”

"Yes......"

Cui Nanxi hurriedly stepped into the threshold, and was tripped up, and several people hurriedly followed in.

"Brother Cui is really extraordinary, he just entered Changjing, and he was summoned to the palace to face the saint, I am afraid that he will have to be reused."

"Brother Zhao, don't tease me."

Cui Nanxi only shook his head, knowing it.

Immortal immortality is not only the pursuit of these people, but also the pursuit of the emperor, but the cultivators in the world, no matter how great they are, even if they are as high as the national teacher, they are far away from immortals and immortality. One night on the mountain and one year down the mountain is unimaginable to mortals, and His Majesty must have heard these rumors before calling himself back to Beijing.

After the change was completed, he entered the palace with the eunuch.

Cui Nanxi also thought about it in his heart-

The matter of his encounter with immortals in Yunding Mountain will inevitably spread to Changjing, whether it is a saint in the palace or a national teacher in the court, he will definitely call himself back to Beijing to ask whether it is true or false. So after he returned from Yunding Mountain, he did not immediately write to the imperial court, and he wanted to use his lifelong knowledge to take the lead in compiling a great book describing everything in the world, but waited for this day, and the convincing request in person was naturally higher.

When you arrive at Miyagi Exit, get off and walk.

Walk through half of the palace and arrive at the Qingming Palace.

The Qingming Hall was usually the place where the emperor met with his ministers alone, which also shows that the summons were not so formal.

All is as expected.

After the report, Cui Nanxi entered the Qingming Palace, and saw that Emperor Dayan was wearing a black and gold dress, half-sitting on a long couch, eating fruits, and the national teacher next to him was wearing an ordinary Taoist robe, standing aside, in addition to a burly and tall man, I don't know what they were talking about before, seeing him come in, the three of them all looked at him.

Cui Nanxi hurriedly saluted: "Wechen has seen Your Majesty and the national teacher. ”

"No courtesy."

The emperor raised his hand, looked at him and asked, "Why does Cui Qing have some alcohol on him?" ”

"Wechen has been away from Beijing for a few years, and a few friends have been separated for a long time, miss each other, on the way to the post station when they sent a letter, when they arrived they were already waiting for Wechen, set up a banquet for Wechen to catch the wind. I didn't know that His Majesty summoned him, so Weichen went to drink a few glasses and asked for forgiveness. ”

"Haha, what's the matter? Cui Qing has been away from Beijing for so long, and it is really commendable that he can maintain such a deep friendship with his friends. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Pingzhou and his party, but Cui Qing is suffering."

"Back to Your Majesty, Weichen went to Pingzhou, although the mountains are high and the road is far away, but he has also gained a lot, and he doesn't feel bitter."

"Oh? What has Cui Qing gained? ”

"One side of the water and soil to support one side of the people, this trip to Weichen not only saw the mountains and rivers of Pingzhou, but also saw the people of Pingzhou." Cui Nanxi replied honestly, "Shizu County is very poor, the people are poor, Weichen saw the difficulty of the people's life, but also saw in them the tenacious and unyielding character of yearning for beauty, it is these qualities that have created the prosperity and strength of my Dayan." However, Weichen also gradually realized that not only the people in the prosperous Changjing City are my people, but also the people in remote places are my people, and if you want to take Dayan to the next level, you must take care of every inch of land, and every person is. ”

"Good! You can say that again! ”

Hearing this, the emperor sat up and glanced at the national teacher beside him: "It seems that it is right to let Cui Qing go on this trip." ”

The national teacher took a deep breath, a little helpless, but still agreed: "Lord Cui is already knowledgeable and talented, Your Majesty is really wise to let Lord Cui go to Pingzhou." The harvest of Lord Cui's trip will inevitably benefit Dayan and all the people. ”

Cui Nanxi didn't know that the emperor would care about himself as a small sesame official, he was offended by the prime minister and demoted at that time, whether this trip was a blessing or a curse, it was not the emperor's decision.

However, I had to give it up:

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for cultivating ......"

"No need to be polite." The emperor said, "I also heard that Cui Qing once traveled to Yunding Mountain in Pingzhou, met immortals, slept all night, and when he went down the mountain, he found that a year had passed, I don't know if it is true or not?" ”

"Nature is true."

"Can Cui Qing tell me the details one by one?"

"Yes."

Cui Nanxi thought about it and began to tell.

Finally got to the point.