After the previous temptation, I knew that this Jiang Xuerou had no way to confront me and Qin Bukong head-on, so I was relieved to go on the road with him, at least I was not the one who would suffer. And Jiang Xuerou feels that she is also a person who has just come down the mountain, and many of them seem to understand the world.

So after we jumped on the passenger boat from Wuchang to Luzhou, I started talking to him. I asked him why he had such a name for such a good man. He told me that this was actually his layman's name, and after being caught by Qin Bukong and me at that time, he was afraid that his master would be involved, so he didn't dare to say his legal name. And he also explained to me the origin of this common name, but after listening to it, it made me laugh for a long time.

It turned out that Jiang Xuerou's father stubbornly believed that his baby must be a daughter since his mother was pregnant. When the mother was about to give birth, the couple began to think of a name for the child, and they were not satisfied with it for a long time. At that time, the new trend of thought was sweeping China, and my father thought that it must be an elegant, but not the name of the old word "Shuzhen fragrant", and it happened that night that the family opened meat and ate a meal of meat, and his father picked up a piece and put it in his mouth and chewed it, and he was directly spicy out of two lines of old tears. When I took it out of my mouth, it turned out to be a piece of ginger.

So his father looked at Jiang on the chopsticks and sighed, Brother Jiang, Brother Jiang, you learn meat quite similarly, admire and admire!

He must have been a reader, I guess.

However, because his surname was Jiang, and he thought that he would give birth to a daughter, and this incident gave him a springing inspiration, so he named Jiang Xuerou (meat).

I only remember that after listening to this paragraph, I lay on the railing by the deck, my mouth wide open against the fierce river wind, and I laughed so hard that my stomach hurt. I patted Jiang Xuerou on the shoulder and said, you have a good father.

Jiang Xuerou said that the world has not been good in recent years, and many Taoists dare not say that they are Taoists. Fortunately, our Taoist temple is on the mountain, and there are relatively few people on weekdays, so thank God that no one has come to make trouble over the years, let alone any incense. That's right, if you don't have to bother, you can concentrate on learning the Dao, and you will be able to benefit sentient beings in the future.

He told me that he specialized in Feng Shui, not only to apply Feng Shui to rivers, mountains and rivers, but also to see the whole human body as a Yin and Yang Feng Shui layout, and he could use some magic means to balance the layout of Yin and Yang in the human body. For example, if someone is haunted by evil spirits, although he is not very good at exorcizing evil spirits and fighting ghosts, he can quickly drive out the ghosts and causes that are eroding the human body, just like we exorcise evil spirits from the possessed person.

Jiang Xuerou told me that although she has officially become a monk, she is still young. Since childhood, he has been yearning for these Xuanmen cultures, so when he was fourteen years old, his parents died one after another, and he had no support, so he planned to get close to Taoism and become a monk. And there is only such a Taoist temple in the local area, which is far away from the town on weekdays, the road is inconvenient, and few people will burn incense. But because I liked these since I was a child, I heard that there were people in this Taoist temple who once "became immortals" there, and there was also a small dragon, and I felt that there was a lot of aura here, so I went to worship the mountain gate.

The journey is boring, and what is missing is a companion to chat. So I heard Jiang Xuerou say this, and I became interested all of a sudden, and I asked if there was a dragon? Is this true or false? After all, I've never seen a dragon, so I'm curious.

Jiang Xuerou said proudly, yes, it's just that it was many years ago. Under the wall of the Taoist temple's patio, there is an old well, which is dry all the year round, but when an old Taoist was meditating at night, he suddenly saw a burst of red light, and when he went out to look, he found that the red light came from the bottom of the well. But the well had been dry for many years, so the old Taoist took a closer look, only to find that on the silt at the bottom of the well, there was a small dragon coiled, and the whole body was glowing red.

The old Taoist immediately knelt down and worshiped the dragon, and the red dragon actually plunged into the mud and disappeared without a trace. And from that time on, the well began to come out of the water. I heard that the red dragon drilled through the blocked well, and the water of the lake in front of the mountain gate poured in, and from then on, the small lake became half blue-green and half red, and the red is said to be the color of the dragon. The whole lake looks like a yin and yang tai chi, which is very magical.

Listening to him say this, I yearn for it. Although I have been in this industry for many years, I have been working for a living most of my life, and I have heard many rumors, but I have never had the opportunity to meet them. Thinking that this time I could see these wonders with Jiang Xuerou going up the mountain to visit his master, I was very excited, and since Jiang Xuerou and I were both from Sichuan, on this passenger ship in a foreign land, there was a feeling of old acquaintance, and we chatted very closely.

On the third day of the boat trip, we temporarily docked in a small county town after entering the border of Sichuan, and Jiang Xuerou said to me, let's get off the boat here, and after half a day's journey, we will be able to reach my mountain view. It was close to evening that day, and it was probably unrealistic to hurry again, so we decided to stay overnight in the county town and leave early the next morning.

This county seat is called Yunyang County, which is an important wharf of the eastern Sichuan waterway. The people here are fierce, but they are simple and kind. There is the famous Zhang Fei Temple, and the rock city, which is known as the pillar of eastern Sichuan, which was a solid fortress for the Sichuan people to resist the Mongol army in the late Song Dynasty, and its role is comparable to that of Diaoyu City. Although it is a small county town, it is a famous historical and cultural city, and it is also an important document of the Shu and Han cultures of the Three Kingdoms.

That night, Jiang Xuerou and I found a guest house in the county town to stay, and we both lived in the same room. Aside from fleas that pop up from time to time, there is not much difference between them and normal days. That night, after eating for two days and putting on the humble food, we decided to fight the tooth sacrifice, so we found a restaurant directly operated by the supply and marketing cooperatives that looked good, ordered a few dishes that we both liked to eat, and chatted happily while eating.

Since we had to travel the next day, we went to bed early that night. The next morning, I habitually got up early, but after getting up, I found that Jiang Xuerou's bed was empty. I thought he was going to the toilet, so I got up and got dressed, but when I was getting dressed, I suddenly found that Jiang Xuerou's luggage was gone, not only that, but even the bag I put next to the bed was rummaged through, and things were spilled all over the ground.

I was shocked all of a sudden, and before I had time to react to what was going on, I began to count the things in my bag, in fact, everything was still there, except for the incense and candles I used to summon soldiers and horses, and all the incense and candles I used to do it were broken, except for one thing missing, which was my Luban ruler.

If it was just an ordinary Luban ruler, I would have done it, but this Luban ruler was given to me by the master. In a sense, the master is now immortal, and it is one of the relics of the master. It not only carries my thoughts about my master, but also my inheritance of the art of playing talismans. If I really lose this Luban ruler, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

So at this time, I completely understood that Jiang Xuerou, a stinky boy, pretended to be innocent and harmless with me along the way, and actually secretly planned to escape in the middle of the night! Not only that, but they stole my stuff! I don't know him here, where should I go to find him?

When the six gods were gone, I packed up my things in a frustrated manner, and then quickly washed my face so that I could come to my senses. I touched Jiang Xuerou's bed, the temperature was cold and cold, according to the current season, he should have secretly left not long after I fell asleep. I've been walking for six or seven hours, and I don't know how far I've been left behind, and I'm not a local, so it's very difficult to find this guy at the moment.

He apparently knew that I knew how to play war, so he broke my incense candle and deny me any chance to find him. I originally wanted to go to the street immediately to inquire about the palace where he was, but at this moment, I suddenly found out that this guy had never mentioned to me from beginning to end, what was the name of his palace view!

This is a big setback for me. It also reminded me that you should never take some seemingly innocent people lightly, otherwise you will only suffer yourself. I began to quickly recall everything Jiang Xuerou had told me in my head, and because this person's scheming made me feel that it had suddenly become very deep, the stories he had told might not be true. But even so, I decided to try my luck and ask the locals on the street.

The routine of my questioning was roughly, whether there was any Taoist palace in this area, and there used to be a dragon in a well, but I asked for a long time, but no one knew. In that era of lack of faith, everyone's mind was full of religious blood, and few people would really care about places like temples and Taoist temples.

It was noon, and I inquired all morning to no avail, but people are hungry, so I need to eat. When I was ordering food, I asked the guy who ordered the meal without any hope, saying where is there a Taoist temple near here, where has there been a dragon? The guy said, there don't seem to be any Taoist temples in the local area, not even many temples, I don't know this comrade, are you talking about the mountains or the city?

As soon as I heard that, yes, I should have inquired about the Taoist temple on the mountain, so I quickly added that it was on the mountain, and I heard that there was a lake at the entrance of the palace, half red, half green. The guy said with a sigh of excitement, comrade, that place is far away, and you have to travel for half a day! I said that I have good physical strength and am not afraid of going far. He also said that there are few locals in that place, so what are you going to do? I said I was sick and wanted to go to the mountains to be quiet. He also said that even if you leave now, I'm afraid you will only have to rush to the foot of the mountain! I said comrade, if you beat me around the bush again, I'll beat you up, do you believe it or not?

So the guy told me that in the east of the city, it is called Yunsheng Palace.

After gobbling up the food, I began to rush towards the Yunsheng Palace, and on the way I encountered some horse-drawn carts and ox carts, as well as the foreign tractor, which kindly gave me a while, which saved me a lot of time wasted on the road. And when I got to the foot of the mountain, I looked at the high mountain, and I thought that I would climb up, but I was afraid that it would be night. But I didn't hesitate and went straight up the mountain. The mountain road is difficult to walk, and there are not many houses on the road, so it is not easy for me to even ask for directions. Fortunately, most of the roads up the mountain have been trodden by people, and in fact it is not difficult to find.

At about eight o'clock in the evening, it was already completely dark, and I arrived at the gate of the Yunsheng Palace. A dilapidated door was closed, and I pushed it and found that it had been bolted from the inside. So I started banging the door, because my things had been stolen, and the person who stole them claimed to be local people, so I was more justified at the moment. After about ten minutes, an old Taoist priest wearing a long shirt and a beard and chest opened the door, and the reason why I knew that the other person was a Taoist priest was because of the bun he wore on his head.

The old Taoist asked me, "This compassion came at night, and I don't know what happened?" I said loudly, I'm looking for Jiang Xuerou, this thief deceived my trust and stole my things! This master, please forgive me for being rude, if I don't see this thief today, I will never go down the mountain!

The old man was stunned for a moment, then nodded to me and motioned for me to go into the courtyard. This is a very small Taoist temple, the courtyard door is the patio, when I went up the mountain it was already dark, so I couldn't see the lake wonder of half red and half green, to be in the courtyard, I saw a well under the wall, presumably the legend of the dragon well, is here.

The old Taoist asked me to stay in the patio for a while, and then he left to knock on the door of a side room, and asked as he knocked on the door, "Rabbit cub, have you stolen people's things!" Theft is a big ring, you come out for me!

His tone was stern and tinged with a kind of majesty. Soon, the door of the wing room opened, and a thin figure came out, it was Jiang Xuerou who said goodbye, I was very angry when I saw him, and I was about to rush up to catch him, but I was stopped in front of the old Taoist. The old Taoist politely said to me, this compassion has something to say, if it is the fault of the apprentice, I will punish myself as a master, and please calm down for a while, let me ask for an understanding.

His words were not fast, just like Jiang Xuerou, and he seemed a little pedantic. I saw him pull Jiang Xuerou to him and scolded, you say, did you take someone's things? How did the teacher teach you, how could you do such a thing, Matsuko!