Chapter 190: Cup Bow Snake Shadow [6]
It's the middle of the night, and there's still half a day left until tomorrow night.
Zhao Rang stared at the painting on the letterhead for a moment again, and then said to himself:
"I just don't know where the place in the painting is."
The part of the painting that he cares about the most is the river.
It stands to reason that there are only streams on the mountain, and there will be no such open water. This is the way of nature, and no one can go against it, especially for a Dao Gate like Baihe Mountain that respects the laws of the Great Dao. If such a river is forcibly carved out in the mountains, wouldn't it subvert the truth recorded in the Taoist collection?
So Zhao Rangming knew that the place in the painting should be in the mountains, but reason told him that it was impossible.
The contradictory reality made him a little irritable...... Not to mention that he had already seen from the expression of the little junior sister, she didn't know that there was such a place in the mountains.
"Is it possible that your understanding was wrong from the start?"
Qingqing asked.
Zhao Rang pondered for a moment and said:
"Of course!"
Qingqing didn't expect Zhao Rang to admit his mistake so easily.
"Maybe it's the meaningless letterhead of the clothes, or maybe there's something else in the painting, it's not an invitation at all."
Zhao Rang continued.
But when the original cognition was denied, he was still at a loss, and now he began to be irritable even with Qingqing.
"I need to get out."
Zhao Rang folded the letterhead again and placed it in an envelope.
"Where are you going?"
Qingqing's tone obviously disagreed with Zhao Rang leaving the room at this moment.
The people in the Investigation Division rarely fight alone, and they have always planned and then acted. The best way to do this is to squat in this room, do nothing, go anywhere, and respond to all changes.
"I'll go find the junior brother of the white crane."
"Do you want to see if this substitute master knows the place in the painting?"
Zhao Rang did not answer.
Since he decided to go, it won't be just one thing.
However, this time Zhao made himself a little entangled, because there was still a poisoned person in the house.
Although he had asked the shadows left by the white crane to find the antidote, Zhao Rang didn't think they could find it.
The person who poisoned him must be a person from Baihe Mountain, and he is extremely familiar with every grass and tree on the mountain. If this person chooses to poison, he is sure that this poison is unique in the mountains, and no one can solve it, otherwise what is the point of poisoning?
Thinking about it like this, Zhao Rang seemed to gradually understand this person's train of thought.
He seemed to be using all means to force Zhao Rang to leave this room.
If Bai Hezi didn't leave those fifteen people as shadows, and Zhao Rang saw that her senior sister was poisoned and fell in front of her, then she would definitely set off immediately to find the acting master or the senior uncle who was sitting on the Nine Heavens to seek an antidote.
But this logic is still a little unreasonable, and in the end, it still landed on the letterhead in Zhao Rang's hand.
What exactly does this strange painting represent, Zhao Rang can't be sure at the moment...... He didn't know enough about the affairs of the Daomen, and it was the first time for Baihe Mountain to come up, and he basically relied on his previous experience to speculate and conjecture, so he had to seek a person who was extremely proficient in the affairs of the Daomen and the stories in the mountains.
Thinking about it, there is only one such person in Baihe Mountain - the nerdy junior brother of Baihezi, who is now the acting head of Baihe Mountain.
"I remember where the head of Baihe Mountain lived...... Yaeten, right? It's the mountain under the Luzu Palace. ”
Zhao Rang looked at the little junior sister and asked.
The little sister shook her head and said:
"The head teacher lives there, but the acting head teacher is not there."
Zhao Rang asked rhetorically:
"And where does he live? I don't want to live with my disciples! ”
The little junior sister nodded and said:
"He just lives with his disciples."
Zhao Rang didn't hold back, and laughed out loud.
The little junior sister thought that Zhao Rang was laughing at the substitute teacher, but she said a little angrily:
"The substitute teacher is extremely easy-going! There is no difference in identity in the eyes! As long as he is on the mountain, even if he is not a disciple, he is just a pilgrim and a believer who goes up the mountain to worship, or a handyman in the back mountain, as long as he wants to ask about the Dharma and cultivate, he will seriously preach and solve his doubts. Although his own cultivation is not high, in the entire Baihe Mountain, no one can surpass him in the study of Daozang! ”
"It's not good to teach, Uncle Shizu...... Uncle Shi shouldn't be able to do it, at most it's the same as him! ”
The little junior sister's attitude of such maintenance made Zhao Rang a little surprised.
He originally thought that the acting head of the sect had an indecisive personality and was weak in handling things, and if he didn't rely on the support of his seniority and the senior brother who sat in the position of head of the sect in the mountains, he should not be treated very well, but he didn't expect him to have such a high prestige among these ordinary disciples!
"Okay, don't get excited...... I don't mean anything else! ”
Everyone can hear that the little junior sister is angry, and no matter how Zhao Rang explains, it is useless.
The girl's temper always comes as she says, and it doesn't work for them to fix the dead at all, and the best thing to do is to follow everything and not give them a chance to lose their temper.
"I didn't expect the substitute head to be so approachable."
Zhao Rang seemed to be emotional, but in fact, he praised it quietly.
When the little junior sister heard Zhao Rang say this, her face calmed down a little, walked to the window, beckoned to Zhao Rang, motioned for him to come over, and said:
"Do you see that over there?"
The distant mountains are like daisies, and in the night, Zhao Rang can only see the general outline clearly, but he is afraid that he can see too far away, and it is not the place where the little junior sister is pointing, so he asked:
"Is it the vague mountain?"
The little sister replied:
"yes, and you look down the ridge."
Zhao Rang's gaze moved down, and he saw that there were still sporadic lights under the mountain at this moment.
"Is that the place where the lights are on?"
The little junior sister nodded and said:
"That's right, it's the Daozang Pavilion of Baihe Mountain, and the acting head of the sect stays in it almost all day, and if it's okay, he will stay until late at night before leaving. The place where he lived was the disciple's residence closest to the Daozang Pavilion. ”
"Then he must live in the largest and best courtyard in this disciple's residence, and it must be in the middle!"
The little junior sister denied it:
"The acting master knows that he goes out early and returns late every day, and he is worried about affecting the rest of his disciples, so he lives on the very edge. The courtyard is also the most ordinary, no different from the disciples who live. ”
After that, the little junior sister looked back at the house, gestured and said:
"It's only about half the size of this house, and so is the yard."
Zhao Rang asked curiously:
"Have you been?"
The little sister replied:
"That's right! Before the head of the sect went down the mountain, the acting head of the sect would take an hour out of the day to return to the house to answer questions and solve doubts for the disciples, if someone asked a complex question, or did not understand it once, he would take the trouble to continue to speak. Every day before that time, as long as the disciples in the mountains are fine, they will basically go to the lectures, and the people in line can line up from the small courtyard to the door of the Daozang Pavilion! ”
Following the direction of the little junior sister's guidance, Zhao Rang began to walk towards the Daozang Pavilion at the foot of the distant mountain.
It was dark at night, so he took off one of the lanterns hanging at the door, and carried it in his hand to illuminate it.
When it was hung in the doorway, the light emitted by the lantern was warm, but now it is a miserable white.
The old man often said that if the lantern is hung on a double and not on the list, if the fire changes color, it is a great omen.
Zhao Rang was not superstitious, but at this moment, when he saw that the fire of the lantern had indeed changed, and then remembered that there was only one lantern left at the door of the house, he couldn't help but muttered in his heart.
Where the Daozang Pavilion is located, if you take the main road, you have to climb over two hills.
After all, it is the residence of the male disciples of the Dry Dao, and there is a difference between men and women, and it is reasonable that there is an uninhabited mountain between it and Kun Dao.
But Zhao Rang was not ready to follow the road step by step, which would be too much of a delay.
When the five people came before, they came out of the forest in the mountains, and Zhao Rang knew that there should be a path in the mountains and forests. Even if you don't, as long as you get the right direction, it will be much closer than taking the main road.
As for the rugged nature of the mountains and forests, Zhao Rang didn't have to think about it at all, he immediately raised his luck, moved his footwork, and shuttled quickly between the dead mountain forests, and after a while, he came out from the other end and stood on the top of the peak where the Daozang Pavilion was located.
Looking down from above, the dotted lights become brighter.
Baiheshan's requirements for disciples are still relatively casual, in addition to the fixed morning and evening classes must be attended, as long as the other time is done to do the work, you can arrange it freely, so there are many people who see Zhou Gong during the day, and there are also many people who turn into night wandering gods at night.
Taoism pays the most attention to the word "enlightenment".
There are levels of "understanding", but no one can say for sure when "enlightenment" comes to fruition. Maybe it's halfway through the next sentence, maybe it's ten years from now, maybe it won't be in this life.
If these disciples feel that they have the signs of "enlightenment", they will definitely do their best to realize it. If you can go all the way and achieve soaring cultivation, then what is the little time you have lost now? After ranking in the immortal class, it is the same as the sun and the moon, and the heaven and earth live together!
From the top of the mountain, there is a neatly built stone staircase, and it seems that those disciples who study the Daozang also need to climb to the top of the mountain to realize the immensity.
"It would be nice to meet a disciple who hasn't slept yet, and he can show me the way."
Zhao Rang thought so in his heart, but until he descended from the top of the mountain to the Daozang Pavilion, he had never met a person.
"Stop!"
Discerning the direction, Zhao Rang was about to continue walking towards the courtyard where his disciples lived, when he was suddenly stopped by someone from behind.
Zhao was shocked!
In front of the door of the Dozo Pavilion is a large open space paved with stone slabs.
He had clearly probed carefully just now, but there was no one on all sides!
How could there be a cold one coming out of the back?
If he hadn't stopped as he spoke, but had directly drawn his sword, he would have become a corpse lying on the ground at this moment.
The head didn't dare to hold it up, so Zhao Rang turned around honestly and said:
"Senior, don't make a move, I've already stood down!"
Unexpectedly, Zhao Rang turned around and took a look, and found that the person who opened his mouth was not a high-ranking celebrity at all, but a little boy!
"Hahaha, I was scared! Call me senior! ”
"Such a big person, call me senior, don't be ashamed!"
The little boy said, and smacked his hand on his face a few times.