In the midsummer dusk, the sky is full of fluttering sounds, either swallows or bats, and there are many mosquitoes, which seems to be lively and full of life.

The sun was setting on the horizon, and the clouds were burned red.

At sunset, there is a calm mountain village.

On Yin Yang Mountain, at the entrance of the Taoist temple, the Taoist brought a reclining chair, sat here, blowing the mountain breeze, feeling the coolness and vitality of the evening, looking at the scenery in the distance, and letting time pass.

There was also a cat sitting on the ground beside him, sitting well-behaved and upright, with his tail wagging from side to side.

There is a faint sound of chickens and dogs barking in the village below the mountain, and when it reaches the mountain, it has echoed through the mountain, with a vague echo, which makes people feel calm.

The Taoist didn't think anything at this time.

Don't think about the road when you came, don't think about the road ahead, and don't think about the Taoist buried behind the Taoist temple, just use your eyes to close the scenery and quietly distract.

The mountain breeze blew comfortably, and the ancient pines rustled.

At this time, the Taoist people were also extremely comfortable.

In the past, when he was in Guanzhong, every summer, when the weather was good and there was a sunset and sunset, he would sit here with Lao Dao, sometimes whispering and chatting about some inconsequential words, sometimes not saying anything, just quietly enjoying the supreme freedom brought by indulgence. The starling sometimes stops on the ancient pine at the door, sometimes flies in the sky, and sometimes stands on the armrest of the old chaise longue.

After you leave, there will only be Lao Dao and Starling, right?

In a trance, Song You really heard the sound of birds flapping their wings, and also saw a bird spreading its wings across the sky, with dusk as the background, only a black shadow could be seen in the dim darkness, but when I looked closely, I found that it was not a starling, but a swallow.

Until it gets dark.

"Sir."

The swallow's voice sounded overhead: "Do you want us to go and cut the rice down the mountain?" ”

"Rice ...... under the mountain"

The Taoist gradually retracted, thought for a while, and said, "It's still not necessary. Since they are just passing by, there is no need to let them know, and wait until they actually come back in seven years before going to cut. ”

"Won't that grain go to waste?" The cat's worried voice came from the side again.

"No, after a few days, they will find that there is still no one to cut the rice, and they will cut it themselves." Song You said calmly, "We are only here for a few days, and in these few days, we will still trouble Sanhua Niangniang and Yanzi to go out for me to find the demons and evil spirits that are haunting nearby, you can try to turn into a human form and go to the village below the mountain to ask, and we will set off in a few days." ”

"Where are you going?" The cat asked.

"Yunzhou."

"Yunzhou!"

"Not far."

"We only haven't been to Yunzhou!"

"Sanhua Niangniang is really smart." Song You paused for a moment, and then said lightly, "But it is not entirely correct to say that we have not been to Yunzhou. ”

"Meow?"

"Sanhua Niangniang will know when she goes."

"Yunzhou ......"

"I heard that the scenery of Yunzhou is very good, the weather is good, especially the sunshine is good, you can see a very beautiful sunset, and many places are like spring ...... all year round."

The Taoist said while looking at the sky.

At this time, there was only a glimmer of light left in the sky.

It didn't take long for the world to fully enter the night.

On the dim Yin Yang Mountain, the Taoist still did not return to the house, but continued to sit at the door, telling the story of the old Taoist journey with the two little monsters in the dark.

Naturally, it was said in a very general way.

Most of them were also heard by him from elsewhere.

Just said that when she was young, she had a straightforward and irritable temperament, loved to convince people with her strength, practiced the Five Elements Spiritual Method, learned the Five Elements Spells, and fought invincible opponents all over the world, which was enough to make the cat yearn for it.

……

The villages below the mountains are a little hotter than the mountains.

The hot night makes many people unable to sleep, bored, so they have to gather together with a fan, while fanning the wind, both to get rid of the stuffiness and mosquitoes, while chatting, in the increasingly dark environment no one can see each other's faces clearly, can only judge by the sound who is talking, and where to sit, but also very atmosphere.

Summer nights, as long as it doesn't rain, almost every day is like this.

It's boring to say it's boring, it's fun to say it's funny.

There's really not much other way to be entertained.

It's just that there's a new topic tonight -

At noon today, someone was working in the mountains, tired and straightened up to wipe his sweat, and there was a person sitting on the ridge to rest, and casually looked, just to see the clouds and mist on the Yin and Yang Mountain dispersed, and behind the clouds and mist was faintly revealed a corner of a Taoist temple, which was quite simple and mysterious.

It's just that it didn't take long for the Taoist temple to disappear again.

It's like a mirage.

That temple is familiar to many people.

Why a lot of people?

Because since more than ten years ago, the Taoist temple has rarely appeared, sometimes visible, sometimes invisible, some people can find it when they go up the mountain, and some people come down and say that there is no Taoist temple on the mountain at all, which is really exactly the same as those immortal caves in the story and legend. And since a few years ago, no one has been able to find it at all. Many of the young people present who became families were only in their teens and twenties, and many women were married a few years ago or ten years ago, and some had only heard that there was a Taoist temple on the mountain, and the Taoist chief in the Taoist temple was very remarkable, just like a fairy, and according to local traditions, every year the grain was harvested and left in the corner of the field, and no one collected it after a while, but he had never seen the Taoist temple, and he had never seen the Taoist in the Taoist temple.

Not to mention that there are many children and teenagers around.

For them, that Taoist temple is like the legendary Heavenly Palace, only in legends.

Now that someone has seen it, it is naturally surprising.

Under the surprise, there are also doubts.

It's just that there is more than one person who saw this scene, both of them swore an oath, patted their chests to promise that they were not lying, and they could corroborate each other, and after the two finished speaking, another old man stood up and said that at noon, it seemed that a young Taoist walked from outside the village and went up the mountain along the path.

"If only the immortals in the Taoist temple on the mountain had returned!" An old man dragged his voice and said, "Now the world is getting more and more chaotic, let's be better here, I heard that in other places, even if you walk at night in the early morning and evening, you may encounter demons and ghosts, if the gods on the mountain come back, how can these things be rampant!" ”

"I don't know if it's ......"

"The Immortal Dao Elder didn't come back, and after two days, we'll see if the grain in the field has been cut!"

"yes......"

"Is there really a Taoist temple on the mountain?"

"Could it be that the old men can't lie to you?"

"Is the Guanzhong Daoist really that powerful?"

"Hey, that's not a lie......"

The old people under the mountain also began to talk to the descendants about the skills of the mountain leaders, and coincidentally, most of them were also multi-line Taoists.

In the next few days, the news that the demons and evil things beside Jinyang Road had been eliminated came one after another, and it became a topic of conversation among the people in the village when they were resting in the evening, which was shorter and more interesting than the ordinary chatting with parents.

At the same time, the harmful demons and evil things in the nearby villages have also been eliminated one after another - some have been burned to ashes inexplicably, people only see a fire and the screams from the fire from a distance, and when they have the courage to walk over, they find that the demons and evil things have been burned to death, some are thunderbolts in the clear sky, kill the demons, some are silver light falling from the sky, it is simply a fairy method, cut off the heads of the demons, and some are out of nowhere a tiger and a group of big wolves, and they will become the spirit of the monster to go.

Without exception, when people arrived, the evil had been eliminated.

The villagers once thought that the mountain chief had returned, and wanted to go up the mountain to find and offer incense to meet him.

However, the Yin Yang Mountain is still empty, only the ancient pine leans over, the grass is like silk, the mountain wind blows day and night, and there is no sign of the existence of the Taoist temple at all.

No one harvested the grain in the fields.

……

A few days later.

There is a deep pit in front of the Taoist temple in the mountain, there is a ravine connected to the stream, the water is drawn, it becomes a small pond, and it is re-integrated into the stream through another ravine, forming living water, Sanhua Niangniang caught a lot of small fish and shrimp from the stream and river under the mountain, and even according to the guidance of the Taoist, pulled out the water and weeds, and threw them all into the pond.

The Taoist had already packed his bags, put his horse back on, and walked out of the Taoist temple with the horse.

"Is Sanhua Niangniang okay?"

"Sanhua Niangniang is fine."

"Let's go, then."

The Taoist still held a bamboo cane and took two steps.

"Squeak! Boom! ”

The door of the Taoist temple behind him closed automatically.

"When we come back next time, will this little lake be full of fish?"

"Mostly."

Taoists like the description of Sanhua Niangniang very much-

Overgrown with fish, overgrown with rabbits.

There is a feeling of planting and harvesting.

And this little pond too.

The cats call it Little Lake.

It's really full of different ideas.

The Taoist looked around left and right, and then looked back at this Taoist temple, and naturally felt a little reluctant in his heart, but he didn't have too much nostalgia, and he came back to see it by the way, and soon moved forward again.

Just wait seven years and come back.

Once again, the clouds obscured the mountain.

The Taoist took the three-flowered cat and the horse, jingling down the mountain path, along the stream, and there was a swallow flying in the sky.

After passing through the village, walking two miles, I got on the main road, passed Lingquan County, walked for half a day, and then stepped on a small road that can only be passed by one person. The path winds and turns, with fields on one side and dirt on the other, leading to an official road covered by thousand-year-old cypresses.

The cypress is the ancient cypress, and the road is the ancient road.

It is Jinyang Road, Cuiyun Corridor.

The Taoist stopped.

Behind him, the horses and cats also stopped, and the sound of the shaking bells also stopped.

Immediately, the Taoist turned his head and looked-

Sure enough, I couldn't see the familiar mountain, and I couldn't see the Taoist temple.

“……”

The Taoist smiled and stepped forward.

The eyes suddenly darkened, the scalp that was burned by the sun also felt a burst of shade, the lush ancient cypress covered the sun, and in front of it was a potholed stone slab road, the ancient road was full of spots left by the sunlight through the branches and leaves of the ancient cypress, light and dark.

Thirteen years ago, he also went to Jinyang Road from here.

It's just that after going to Jinyang Road at that time, the Taoist walked to the right-hand side, but now he has to go to the left-hand side.

However, Jinyang Road is an ancient road built by the Yu Dynasty in order to open up Yizhou to the Guanzhong Plain, and it cannot lead to Yunzhou, so it is not far away, and the lush ancient cypress gradually disappears, and the beautiful and legendary ancient road of Jinyang Road also comes to an end at the feet of the Taoist, and then embarks on another ancient road connected to Jinyang Road, a trade route that is also legendary-

Five Feet Road.

Yidu is an important node of the ancient tea horse road, Yunzhou also has a pivotal position in the tea and horse market, there are also many tea merchants and horse merchants, in order to facilitate the transportation from Yizhou to Yunzhou, there is a special business route connecting Yizhou and Yunzhou, which is the five-foot road.

As the name suggests, the five-foot road is about five feet wide.

It was also built by the Yu Dynasty, but it was much narrower than Jinyang Road, and there were not so many ancient cypresses along the way.

However, there are many mountains from Yizhou to Yunzhou, and many times the road has to be drilled into the mountain, which is difficult, and it is not easy to build such a standardized five-foot road. In addition, most of the merchants who walked in it used southwestern horses that were good at climbing the slopes to transport goods, and such a relatively narrow official road was enough to meet the demand, and it was much easier to walk than the original mountain road.

The Taoist followed this road and headed west.

It's a road that hasn't been walked again.

There are often merchants and pedestrians on the road, because the road is narrow, the two sides are staggered and pass closer, and each other can see each other's faces clearly, but the fate of this life is about that.

The scenery along the way is not bad, and there are often mountains.

I can feel that the altitude is rising slightly, and I can also feel that the temperature is getting cooler day by day, and the grass and trees in the mountains around me are getting lighter and deeper yellow day by day.

"Sir, it's autumn."

"yes."

"There are still about 400 miles in Yundu, and the weather in Yundu seems to be much warmer than this, as if it is still in spring and summer."

This five-foot road leads directly from Yidu to Yundu, there are almost no forks in the middle that can be confused, and there are often mountain springs, except for the occasional Taoist who is interested in coming, and has to go mountaineering, the swallow's ability to explore the road and find the stream is almost useless on this road, so he often flies to the distance to check, and tells him about the situation ahead.

"Sure enough, the four seasons are like spring."

"Is the gentleman planning to spend the winter in Yundu?"

"It's okay to use the clouds. However, I heard that the scenery is better in Numa, so it is best to spend the winter in Numa. Song You had already thought about it, "After this winter, I will go to the south of Yunzhou." ”

"Got it."

Swallow made a note of Numa.

I'm going to fly over tomorrow to have a look.

There are also a lot of demons along the way.

As long as you don't take a nap in the middle and oversleep in the middle, you don't miss the itinerary because of anything else, there will hardly be a night when you can't reach the destination and sleep in the wilderness, and the Taoist does whatever you want, often can't find a place to live when it's dark, sleeps in the mountains, and is disturbed by monsters.

Or simply stay in a hotel owned by a demon.

Fortunately, Sanhua Niangniang is alert, and Yanzi is also alert, often he is in his sleep, and he doesn't know that the demon has been removed.

In the autumn of the third year of Da'an, the Taoist finally arrived in Yundu.

At this time, Yundu was only a small city in the southwest, although it was also the seat of a state, but in terms of economy and culture, it was completely incomparable with Yidu.

But the weather was really nice.

……

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