There are many large mountains south of Pingzhou.

In the early winter, the grass and trees wither, the world withered and yellowed, and the sound of mule bells was heard on the mountain roads, and pedestrians in thick clothes walked.

The Taoist also wore thick clothes and carried bamboo canes, walking on the top of the mountain, stopping from time to time to look into the distance.

A cat followed closely.

A swallow stops to rest.

A group had just come off the back of the white crane.

"Now that we've been to all five mountains, where are we going after that? Back to Yizhou Meow? The cat asked as she walked.

"There's no hurry."

"There's no hurry!"

"Nature."

"Wait until next fall?"

"Summer and autumn communication is enough."

The Taoist said while looking at the open scenery.

Now that the five paths to heaven have been reorganized, Jin Lingguan has been killed, and Zhou Leigong has been persuaded that the power directly belonging to the Heavenly Emperor no longer exists. Among the ancient gods, the Huoyang Emperor was seriously injured and retreated, which almost showed his attitude, the ancient god of Tianzhong fell, the Void Emperor symbolically made a force, and the Taoist did not kill him, and the two sides had a tacit understanding. By reorganizing the path to heaven, half of the power of the god of virtue in the heavenly palace has been gone, and the four saints of the four directions are left.

It is time to depose them.

This is what it should be a tough battle.

"It doesn't work!"

The three-flowered cat ran to the front and looked back at him.

"Let's go down the mountain."

The Taoist changed directions, walked through the dense forest, and walked down the mountain to the path that he normally walked.

Cats are used to this.

A man and a cat suddenly crossed the road from the mountains and forests.

"Oops!"

On the road, a middle-aged merchant leading a mule was shocked, and hurriedly took two steps in the opposite direction to him, making a defensive gesture, showing a frightened look, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief when he saw that it was a famous Taoist.

"Is the gentleman a man or a demon?"

"Nature is human."

The Taoist stood up straight and saluted him: "It's rude to be scared, please forgive me." ”

"Why did the gentleman come out of the woods so abruptly? There was no other movement. I thought it was a mountain bandit or a monster wild dog, and I was shocked. The merchant accused, shocked.

“……”

The Taoist smiled at him, turned his head to look, pointed to a temple faintly revealing from the mountains in front of him and asked, "Is that a temple?" ”

"Temple, of course." The merchant was a little angry but replied, "Sir wants to spend the night there?" ”

"Is there a temple dedicated to Lei Gong?"

"It's a Lei Gong Temple."

"Oh?"

Song You was a little surprised, and smiled: "Specialized Lei Gong Temple? ”

"Exactly." The merchant replied, "There are many mountains in Pingzhou, and there are many fairies, gods and demons, and now the world is not peaceful, there are demons and ghosts in various places, this mountain road is uninhabited for dozens of miles, so it is natural to build a Lei Gong Temple to suppress the demons in the mountains." ”

"I see."

The Taoist nodded, but it was reasonable.

"It's not far in front of you to draw the south, right?" Song You chatted casually with the businessman.

"Twenty or thirty miles away."

"It's not far off."

"Sir, too, go to the south to paint?"

"Almost."

"If you go faster, you can get there before dark."

"Just go with the flow."

"Then I'll have to go first. At night, the ghosts on this mountain road cry and howl, but they are not alive. The merchant said, looking at this Taoist who always felt a little unusual, and the beautiful cat beside him who always looked up at him and looked at him with an expression like a talker, and said, "If Mr. can't walk to Nanhua today, just find a place to spend the night in front of Lei Gong Temple, or on the road, this is close to Lei Gong Temple, that temple is very effective, if there are demons and ghosts who dare to make trouble in this vicinity, they will be killed by Lei Gong." ”

"Thank you."

The Taoist smiled slightly, kept his pace, and watched the merchant and the mule go farther and farther.

About a quarter of an hour later.

There is a temple next to the mountain road.

Sure enough, it is a Lei Gong Temple, and even the doors on both sides of the temple gate are a little familiar:

So bold to dare to come to me;

Turn back and don't hurt anyone!

Looking inside, there is a row of Lei Gong statues.

In recent years, the newly repaired temple, the beams and pillars are still relatively bright, and the statues of the gods are also new.

The Taoist stepped in, and the light dimmed.

There is an extra handful of incense in his hand, and there are two more people around him.

The incense is divided into three parts, one person and three burns.

The Taoist stood in front of the altar with incense, looked at the statue of Lei Gong for a long time, and then shook the incense.

“……”

Silently, the incense burned.

A wisp of green smoke wafted from his hand.

There were also two green smoke floating around him.

The Taoist looked respectful and bowed three times-

These three sticks of incense should have been three months ago.

It's no wonder it's late.

If you want to blame, blame Sanhua Niangniang.

It is really the white crane of the Sanhua Niangniang who flies too high, often into the clouds, can't see clearly, and flies too fast, dazzling, too late to see, from the barren mountain to the temple all the way to the boundless mountain, all the way to fly to the side of the road did not see any palace temple, the boundless mountain sat in March, and flew back to Pingzhou, but only now in the mountains below to see a temple.

Thinking so in his heart, the Taoist inserted incense into the clay square.

Turn your head and look at both sides.

The swallow boy on the left also looked respectful, offering incense to this Lei Gong.

The girl in the three-color dress on the right had a serious face, and she also bowed to Zhou Leigong three times after following his appearance, then inserted the incense into the mud, twisted her head a little bit, and looked at the next movements of the Taoist with her residual vision, ready to continue learning.

Seeing that her Taoist priest had no other movements, and feeling the gaze of her Taoist priest, she turned her head and looked at the Taoist.

Naturally, girls don't know what people are thinking.

The Taoist doesn't know the cat's mind.

"Let's go."

"Let's go!"

The Taoist picked up the bamboo cane, turned around and walked out.

"Canopy ......"

The girl instantly turned into a cat and followed behind.

The boy also turned into a swallow and fluttered out of the temple.

There are still twenty miles ahead, and you will go to Nanhua.

"Sanhua Niangniang, do you still remember how to get to the inn in Nanhua?"

"Sanhua Niangniang doesn't remember."

"Isn't Sanhua Niangniang a super-memorable?"

"Does the Taoist priest remember?"

"I don't remember."

"You're not smart."

“……”

The group quickly disappeared between the mountain roads, leaving only nine sticks of incense on the altar in the temple, burning slowly.

Suddenly, the idol in the temple opened his eyes, his face was full of majesty, and then he inhaled it suddenly, and the nine incense sticks instantly released a bright red luster, from top to bottom, it was burned all over the place in an instant, and the smoke was like a line, all of which floated into the statue in the center of the shrine.

……

The Taoist followed his memory into the city, walked according to his memory, searched for it a few times, asked a few times, and finally came to the door of an inn.

It gets dark early in winter, and the inn is closed, but you can still see the light coming through the crack in the door, and the faint sound of talking inside.

The Taoist carries a lantern and illuminates the signboard.

"Jingfu Inn."

A cat's head peeked out of the blanket and whispered it out for him.

The Taoist looked down at her.

"Brush!"

The cat's head retracted in an instant.

The Taoist took two more steps to the side with a lantern to illuminate the sign hanging on the side of the shop.

"Fairy soup cake."

The cat's head poked out again, reading for him.

As soon as the Taoist lowered her head, she shrank back again.

“……”

Song You shook his head and continued to look up.

This is a rectangular shop sign, the four words of fairy soup cake from top to bottom, but I don't know if the whole store selling soup cake in Nanhua later replaced the store sign of soup cake with "fairy soup cake", just a fairy soup cake store sign is no longer competitive, so Jingfu Inn hung a shorter store sign on it, which read:

"Authentic!"

The cat's voice is small and sonorous.

The Taoist looked down, but saw that she was shrunk in the blanket and did not poke her head out.

It should be that the cat's eyesight is keen, and when the lantern is placed underneath, it has already seen what words are written on it, and at this time, it noticed the movement of the Taoist, so he read it.

"Smack......

The Taoist patted her lightly, stepped forward, and knocked on the door.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

"Who?"

Soon there was a voice inside.

"Stay in the hotel."

The Taoist replied.

“……”

There were some whispers in it, and I couldn't hear it clearly, only faintly hearing small mutters such as "it's so late" and "never", but there were also footsteps, and I gradually approached the door.

The light at the doorway also became noticeably brighter.

"Squeak......

A somewhat sour sound of the door opening.

The door to the inn was opened.

There was a middle-aged man standing inside, who was about the same age as the shopkeeper in his memory, holding an oil lamp, looking at the Taoist with some vigilance, and then behind him.

"Sir, alone?"

"Yes."

"Why did you come to the hotel so late?"

"I came from the north, arrived before dark, stepped on the city when the gate was closed, and looked for the inn for a while." The Taoist helplessly said truthfully, "It's getting dark too fast this day." ”

"Who's to say it isn't? It's winter! The shopkeeper relieved himself and moved out of the way, "Sir, come in." ”

"Thank you."

The Taoist walked into the inn with a brocade bag and a blanket on the other, and looked around.

The entrance is the lobby of the inn.

It has been renovated, and it seems that the benches, floors and beams are newer than remembered, but the general layout is still about the same. At this time, it seemed that it was completely dark, but in fact, it was not too late, and there was a table of guests sitting and eating in the lobby, and an oil lamp was placed on a high place.

The shopkeeper closed the door and blew out the light in his hand.

"There are still small shopkeepers, small rooms and shops, what room does Mr. want to live in?"

"I want a room."

Song You paused and thought for a moment: "I like the left side, if the left room is still empty, it would be better." ”

"Sir doesn't know, there are two rooms in the shop, one on the left and one on the left, the one on the left is where the gods once lived, and many people who come to stay in the shop like to live in that room, saying that they want to touch the fairy spirit of the gods." The shop is not strange, maybe it is normal to think that the Taoist has a strange preference, or maybe he thinks that this Taoist has also heard about it, and wants to live in the same room with the immortals in a more euphemistic way, and then pointed to the table in the lobby and said to the Taoist, "Mr. Today is unfortunate, this fairy room has been preempted by this table of guests." ”

Song You turned his head when he heard this, and looked at the guests at this table again.

A total of four people are not dressed ordinarily, and at this time, each person in front of them has a bowl, which is the famous soup cake in Nanhua County.

"Then let's stay in the room on the right."

"How many days?"

"Only for one night."

"Okay......"

The shopkeeper quickly opened a room for the Taoist.

"What do you want to eat, sir?" The soup cake of the small shop is the most famous, and even the gods have eaten it and said that it is good, so it is named the fairy soup cake, and the soup cake shop in the entire Nanhua County has changed its name because of the small shop. There is no customer who goes to the small shop and does not eat. The shopkeeper paused and grinned, "It's most comfortable to eat a steaming bowl of soup cakes in this weather." ”

"Then let's have two bowls, and serve them after putting things down."

"Two bowls?"

"Yes......"

"Okay!"

The shopkeeper didn't say anything, and promised cheerfully.

The Taoist went upstairs with an oil lamp.

The so-called slight room, placed in the dwelling, originally referred to the house used to stack rice grain, and later mainly used to refer to the less important house far away from the inner room, if placed in the inn, it is used to refer to the more ordinary room, as opposed to the head room, the official room.

I lived in a small room more than ten years ago.

It's a pity that I couldn't stay in the same room.

“……”

The Taoist couldn't help but shake his head and smile when he thought about it.

I didn't expect that the soup cake that I praised many years ago has become famous, and it is said that the newly appointed county keeper and governor will come to eat it specially, and even the room where I used to live has become a fairy room, but when I want to revisit the old place more thoroughly, I can't live in it.

It's also kind of wonderful.

Putting down the brocade bag and letting the cat run out, the Taoist told her that she would go down to serve soup cakes and tell her not to run around in the room, so she went downstairs again.

The wooden staircase, I don't know if it has been repaired or not, and it creaks when you walk.

I faintly heard voices talking below.

"Everyone in the entire Nanhua County knows the immortal, and the Li Daguan in the city at that time was under the persuasion and punishment of the immortals, so he abandoned the evil and followed the good, and there is now Li Dashan. Later, I heard that this immortal also has many immortal deeds elsewhere, and he is a very amazing immortal, so the new county of Pingzhou has to go around here when he takes office. This is not deceiving. ”

It's the shop that's talking to the customer.

"Immortal appearance? The villain can't remember clearly, at that time the villain was still small, the shop was run by the father and mother, only to hear the father say that the fairy is a Taoist, young and extraordinary, with a flower cat and a jujube red horse, the three-flower cat is very clever, the jujube red horse is even more extraordinary, even the reins do not need, I am afraid that there is also spirituality. There are legends of this god in many other places, and they all have a flower cat and a red horse, and some places have other colors of cats and horses, most of which will also change. ”

The shopkeeper spoke seriously and skillfully, and I don't know how many times I told it.

The customers in the store listened for the first time, listening attentively, asking curiously from time to time, and their eyes were full of yearning.

Until the Taoist walked down.

"Sir, don't be in a hurry, wait a little longer, the insider is cooking soup cakes for Mr., and that side has to be ripped off." The shopkeeper turned his head and smiled and said to the Taoist, "If you feel that it is cold outside, you can go back to the room, and wait for the villain to bring it to Mr." ”

"It doesn't matter."

The Taoist also smiled.

The shopkeeper's hospitality is in the same vein as his father's.

(End of chapter)