Yuezhou, under Tianzhu Mountain.

It is worthy of being a famous spot in the fairy mountain -

Ten years ago, Yuezhou was still a barren country, only demons and ghosts, no people, when the imperial court first immigrated north, Song You and Sanhua Niangniang, Yanzi also came with them, and then Yuezhou began to have people. Until now, Yuezhou is far from returning to its peak, sitting on the crane and flying all the way, the population below is far less than the Central Plains states, but there are already many people in this Tianzhu Mountain.

There are even two tea stalls, a wonton shop and a slurry water stall at the foot of the mountain, and some local villagers have converted their houses into thatched shops for tourists to stay.

There are still many people who go up the mountain today.

It's probably because of the New Year.

At this time, the Taoist was sitting in the tea stall at the foot of the mountain, with three bowls of tea next to him, steaming.

The cat turned into a girl, took the water bladder, went to the slurry water stall to buy slurry water, and was bargaining for the stall owner, hoping to give ten cents to make the stall owner fill his water bladder.

The swallow also turned into a teenager, but on the other side to buy wontons.

The Taoist sat still, waiting for food.

"The guest officer is really stingy......"

After all, the owner of the slurry water stall was persuaded by this girl, or it may be that when he saw Song You wearing a Taoist robe, he regarded the girl as a Taoist boy of a poor Taoist person, and he was shy in his pocket, so he was so entangled, so he agreed without saying a word and took the girl's water bladder.

Then he saw him holding a water bladder in one hand, and scooping water with a wooden spoon in the other, and the water was poured into the mouth of the sac, as if pulling a thread, and not a drop was spilled.

"Gooo......"

Until the entire water bladder is fully filled.

Not a drop of slurry was wasted.

The girl looked serious and couldn't take her eyes off it.

Everyone else thought that she was shocked by the stall owner's methods, but in fact she was observing whether the stall owner was full.

"Pick it up, little guest officer." The stall owner handed the water bladder to the girl and asked her, "The little guest is from the northwest?" ”

"It's not."

"Then why do you like to eat slurry water?"

"My Taoist priest loves to drink!"

"The Venerable Master is from the Northwest?"

"No, he likes to eat sour."

"I see. The villain also thought that several guest officials had also moved from Longzhou in recent years. The stall owner smiled and said to her, "I will charge you ten cents." ”

"Give ......"

The tender white little hands, ten coppers, polished to copper yellow and shiny, put them in the palm of the stall owner's hand.

"You count!"

"Not a lot!"

Of course, there are a lot, not more.

Sanhua Niangniang was satisfied and returned with slurry.

Almost at the same time, the boy also brought three bowls of wontons to the table.

Three bowls of ravioli, three bowls of tea, steaming.

In this steep early spring, at the foot of the mountain with thick fog and heavy humidity, it is also a pleasant thing to eat such a hot breakfast.

"Suck ......"

"There are so many people here." Sanhua Niangniang took a bite of the wonton and said to the Taoist people around her, "When we came the first two times, there was no one here. ”

"More people is a good thing."

"It doesn't feel like this before."

"yes......"

The Taoist turned his head to look around.

Someone with a strong northwest accent should have migrated from Longzhou and other regions after the northwest climate changed from wet to drought, and this matter can barely be regarded as related to him, and it is the changes he has brought about.

It's just that with his current mentality, he doesn't feel anything about it anymore.

It's more about the accents of the southern states.

It's very mixed.

I don't know when we will be able to merge, or if it will always be like this.

"When you finish eating this bowl of wontons and drinking this bowl of porridge tea, you won't be a swallow again." Sanhua Niangniang lowered her voice and whispered to Yanzi.

As for porridge tea, it is her unique name for this kind of tea that has been added to the side of the official road and has added a lot of ingredients, resulting in a very good stomach.

"Isn't Sanhua Niangniang not going to be a cat anymore?" Swallow replied weakly.

"You can turn into a pot-bellied cat!"

“……”

The Taoist turned a deaf ear to their whispers, only paying attention to the voices of the visitors at the table next to them.

"Although Yuezhou has just flourished, and the business is easy to do, I am afraid that it will not be able to do it for many years, so I still make plans as early as possible, so as not to suffer another disaster."

"Who's to say it's not......"

"Alas......"

"Alas......"

Both sighed.

The Taoist turned his head and saw that they were two short and thin businessmen, and their accents seemed to be from the Yuzhou area.

"Today, I went to Tianzhu Mountain, and I can be regarded as a good fortune, and I hope it will be smoother in the future."

"If you make enough money early, let's go back to our hometown."

While eating wontons and drinking tea, the Taoist listened to himself secretly, and he couldn't help it, so he turned around and asked curiously: "Dare to ask the two, isn't the war in the north already pacified, I heard that the rebellion of demons and monsters in Yuezhou has also been well restricted, why are you so worried, and what kind of disaster are you worried about?" ”

When the two businessmen heard this, they immediately fell silent.

Seeing that he was a Taoist, his heart relaxed slightly, and then he looked at each other, revealing doubts.

"Sir, this is ......"

"I didn't know what was going on here when I just arrived in Yuezhou, but I felt that this place was just thriving, and it should be a thriving place. The Taoist saluted, "Please rest assured, there is absolutely no other meaning." ”

"Mr. said with a smile, this place is located in the middle of Yuezhou, no matter where Mr. came from, he must have been walking for a few days, how can there be a statement that he has just arrived in Yuezhou, it should be just here."

One of them corrected with a smile.

"What the gentleman said is not bad. If you just talk about Yuezhou, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is also highly productive, and it is indeed thriving. However, this is not the case with Dayan. The other person lowered his voice and said, "Now this world is becoming more and more uneasy, don't you hear that a few years ago, King Wenhan of Yizhou rebelled, and then Zhaozhou Zhizhou rebelled with the local military town, and the king of Liuwang in the north of Yangzhou also rebelled two years ago, I heard that now the imperial court is more and more suspicious of the suppression of the Zhenbei army, that Chen is worthy of the general, that is, the brother of the protector of the country, is quite dissatisfied with this, and it is a well-known thing in the north." ”

This one didn't go into details.

But Song You already understood.

Yuezhou Hezhou itself is the northern border town to connect the hinterland of Dayan, decades ago, the Saibei people attacked Hezhou to no avail, and then turned from Yuezhou to the south, which turned Yuezhou into a dead land. What they were worried about was that the Zhenbei Army, like the King of Wenhan west of Yizhou, the Zhizhou of Zhaozhou and the King of Liuwang in the north of Yangzhou, rebelled, and then moved south from Yuezhou, bringing war.

Even if the Zhenbei Army lost Chen Ziyi, its cohesion was greatly reduced, and it was cut again and again, divided into several pieces, and suppressed several times, and its strength was still not comparable to the previous ones.

The times are unstable, and there are rebellions everywhere.

In this era, communication is inconvenient, information has always been blocked, if a rumor is known to passers-by, either someone is deliberately proclaiming, or it is really a stormy time.

Either way, it's not good news.

The Taoist couldn't help but shake his head, feeling inexplicable.

It has only been ten years since the last time I left Changjing and the last time I came to Yuezhou, and Dayan is about to come with wind and rain.

Shinto is a humane appendage after all.

The affairs of the human world are much more difficult and complicated than the affairs of the Heavenly Palace.

After thanking the two merchants, she turned around to see that the bowl in front of her Sanhua Niangniang was almost empty, leaving only two wild vegetable leaves, the only remaining wonton and oily soup, and she was scooping a spoonful of wonton soup with a small wooden spoon and carefully putting it into her mouth.

Put it in his mouth, squint his eyes, tilt his head slightly, and quickly slam his mouth a few times, as if he was enjoying it very much.

The bone broth is indeed fragrant.

Song You was about to be surprised that she ate so quickly, and even wanted to pretend to boast about her for a few words, but when he lowered his head slightly, he found that there were more wontons in his bowl than when he first served it.

“…… What does Sanhua Niangniang mean? ”

"What's that?"

"Sanhua Niangniang's wontons are finished?"

"There's one left in the bowl!"

"What's going on in my bowl?"

"What?"

Sanhua Niangniang held the spoon and stared at him stunned, with a small face expressionless, very serious, and her eyes were clear and firm, not like lying.

"A bowl of wontons is enough for me to eat, why should Sanhua Niangniang be like this."

"What's that?"

Sanhua Niangniang looked left and right, and said solemnly: "Hurry up and eat, you have climbed the mountain after eating well." ”

"He ...... left and right"

The Taoist said, shaking his head.

"Salt to be added?"

The girl leaned over and stared at him with concern.

“……”

The Taoist quickened his pace.

After eating, pay and go up the mountain.

Yuezhou itself can not be called warm, fortunately the weather has been good recently, and the bottom of the mountain can only be called slightly cold, but when it comes to the mountain, the cold is obviously aggravated. Fortunately, when the stomach is swollen and there is food in the belly, the body will naturally warm up, and there is no fear of severe cold when you walk.

Walking slowly up the hill, I'm in a good mood.

There are many companions on the mountain.

"That's a lot of people." It didn't take long for Sanhua Niangniang to turn back into a cat, her stomach was not bulging, and she walked with the Taoist with small steps, which also proved from the side that she really didn't eat much, and sighed again while walking, "There are so many people, it's not convenient at all." ”

"Sanhua Niangniang, don't smell it, it's cow dung."

"Oh......"

The cat suddenly ran back.

In the afternoon of the same day, the group reached the top of the mountain.

There are really a lot of tourists in the New Year.

Obviously, most of them were not immigrants who moved north, but local officials, merchants who came to do business, or literati and tourists who came to visit.

Some people even built simple wooden houses on the mountain to collect money for these tourists to live temporarily.

As for the stone pillar-like Tianzhu Mountain in front, there are also many tourists on the mountain path, like ants climbing up around Tianzhu Mountain, and the palace on the top of the mountain also has cigarette smoke floating into the clouds.

"What do you ......?"

The Taoist grabbed a person who had just come down from Tianzhu Mountain, and politely asked, "There are already people in the palace on this mountain?" ”

"If there is a palace, there are people." The tourist replied, thought for a moment, and then looked at Song You, "Sir must have been here before, right?" In the past, there was no one in the whole Yuezhou, and naturally there was no one in the palace on this Tianzhu Mountain, but now there are people in Yuezhou, and naturally this place cannot be empty. ”

"Who is it?"

"It's an old gentleman and three young gentlemen, who take care of the palace above and entertain pilgrims."

"Thank you."

"Two sentences, why worry about it."

The tourist waved his hand and left.

The remaining three-flowered cat followed the Taoist's feet, sat and licked the hair on his arm, and waited until there was no one around, then whispered to the Taoist: "There was no one last time, where did these Taoists come from?" Whoever came here first to occupy it is whose own? ”

"Tianzhu Mountain is so famous, how can it be so simple, it is more likely to be determined by the official ancestral hall."

"Oh ...... that"

Sanhua Niangniang suddenly showed a look of disappointment.

It turns out that not only being a god and sitting on the temple platform needs the official seal, but also being a Taoist priest in the temple and helping to clean the temple, but also needs the official seal.

She thought it was first-come, first-served. In that case, counting years ago, when there was no one here, they would have been here, climbed that mountain, entered the palace on the mountain, and cooked porridge in the palace on the mountain to eat, and the palace on the mountain should be theirs.

"Let's go."

It was getting late and late, and there were fewer and fewer people climbing to the top of Tianzhu Mountain, and the Taoist also took the cat and the boy to the mountain.

(End of chapter)