Selling Huali Village is one of the 100 villages in Zuzhou, unlike those famous villages, the hometown of ancient sages and sages; It is also different from other villages, the acres of Yushu Qionghua. There are only orange blossoms and oranges in the village, and every household has an orange grove, and when the oranges are harvested, all households are busy picking them, so that they can exchange money for the winter. However, except for Qin Xian and the others, not all of them are like this.

Under the orange tree at the head of the village, an old man sat on the grinding plate, his feet were full of hemp paper, the old man kept brushing the paste on each piece of paper, and then rolled it up, and with his calloused hands, the paper tube was carefully glued to the bamboo bone that had been tied a long time ago, and a paper man was tied, although there were no eyebrows, but it was much larger than usual.

In just half a day's work, the grinding edge is already full, and there are more than a dozen large and small. The old man only cared about the paper figure, and at some point there was a young Taoist in a green robe standing beside him, staring at the old man for a while, taking out the booklet on his waist and opening it, and said: "Yin merit cannot be accumulated day by day, and seventy-one is troublesome." Seeing that the old man turned a deaf ear, he continued: "The separation of yin and yang, blessings and disasters are not mutually reinforcing, it is really difficult to comply, the old man should not be pierced anymore, just live a stable life, don't think about anything else." ”

The old man stopped what he was doing, raised his head and looked at the young Taoist with cloudy and red eyes, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time, and said hoarsely: "Little master, do you know what is the most painful thing to fight ghosts?" ”

The young Taoist was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Dao Yun magic weapons are all available, but if you want to say that you can get it, it is a willow branch, 'one willow and one inch', and it will be destroyed in ten blows." ”

The old man's eyes were shining, he thanked him, and quickly got up, Xu sat for too long, got up and staggered and almost fell down the stone mill, fortunately he was supported by the young Taoist, and helped the old man down the stone mill, and the young Taoist asked: "The old man is going to pick willow branches?" ”

The old man bowed slightly, and the young man said: "But there are countless strange flowers and plants in this ancestral continent, but there is no willow, where do you go to pick them?" ”

The old man muttered, "Yes...... Some ...... quit the young Taoist and staggered towards the Dingshan behind the wild orange grove.

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Qin Xian and the two played all the way, passing by Qin Xian's orange grove, there was a woman picking oranges in the forest, thin and weak, no powder, although the corners of the mouth with a smile, but it was difficult to hide the corners of the eyes, making people feel pity, behind a wooden cart full of oranges, it was even more hard to make people feel hard.

Mo Qijia said: "Aunt Hong is harvesting oranges, let's help?" ”

Qin Xian glanced at it, didn't answer, turned around and left.

At this time, a voice came from behind him: "Xian'er, there is food in the house, remember to eat." Qin Xian's figure paused, then she quickened her steps again, and disappeared into the forest in a blink of an eye.

Aunt Hong is Qin Xian's mother. When Qin Xian was four years old and took a merchant ship with her mother to Zuzhou to sell Huali Village, when she first arrived, the villages heard that the mother and son were not buying, but to settle here, and the villages did not accept them for some reason, and the orphans and widows had to build a simple grass hut to live under the orange mountain. Rao is like this but he can't do it, he is often driven away by the villagers, Qin's mother is okay, Qin Xian is still young, she can't afford to toss, she is seriously ill in winter, and she finally picked up her life, and now she is weak, so she fights with a strength that is not afraid of death.

Later, Qin's mother went to Lizi Village to kneel for a night, and on the second day, the old man in Huali Village found Qin's mother, and found a house at the end of the village for him.

Later, Qin's mother ran around with Deng Po next door to learn from the matchmaker, after Deng Po left, Qin's mother gradually became the most famous matchmaker nearby, everyone called "matchmaker", but after years of running to various villages, Qin Xian neglected to take care of her, although she earned a little money over the years, and also placed a few acres of orange groves, but Qin Xian was idle all day long, and she had nothing to say, every time she thought of this, Qin's mother frowned.

Mo Qijia sometimes doesn't understand why Qin Xian has such an attitude towards her mother, in her own opinion, Aunt Hong is kind and gentle, and she is good to Qin Xian, if she is her mother, she will wake up laughing even if she is dreaming, but she can't say this to Qin Xian. Then he had to divert Qin Xian's attention, and said, "Where do we go first?" ”

Qin Xian said: "Go to Guzi Village." ”

Here, the young Taoist stuffed the book back into his waist, and while helping the old man put the scattered paper figures together, he said helplessly: "It's been a few days since I came here and there has been no 'rice' in the book, and if I go back like this, I should be blamed by the master, and I need to find 'fragrant rice' as soon as possible." After packing up the paper man, he was about to leave, but he saw Qin Xian and the old man staggering past and walking this way.

Mo Qijia pointed to the young Taoist on the edge of the grinding plate and shouted, "Look, it's that Taoist. There was no need for Mo Qijia to remind him, Qin Xian also saw it, so he angrily stepped forward. Without waiting for Qin Xian to speak, the young Taoist took the lead in hugging and saluting, and said, "Little brother, you and I are destined, and we have met again." ”

"Who is related to you, and says, Did you cast evil spells on me?" Qin Xian said.

"Why did the little brother say this? Besides, there will be no evil law in the trail. "The young Taoist is innocent.

"It's not you, who else is the bull's nose, after the front foot curses Lao Tzu, everything is not going well today, and you dare to say that it has nothing to do with you?" Qin Xian grabbed the young Taoist by the collar with one hand. Although the young Taoist is older, Qin Xian is taller than her age, so that she is now slender, and now she is a bit condescending to ask viciously in such a posture, and the young Taoist is not annoyed, but just chuckled: "It seems that the little brother didn't listen to what the poor Taoist said." ”

Qin Xian raised her fist and wanted to fight, but the young Taoist hurriedly spread his hands and said, "I don't know how to fight, little brother, don't be impulsive!" Qin Xian ignored it, and when the fist was about to fall on the young Taoist's cheek, he was hugged by Mo Qijia from behind, and listened to him say: "Brother Qin, slow down, aren't we just looking for some strange things, see if there is a foreign Taoist, it should be resisted." ”

Qin Xian thought about it for a while and felt that Mo Qijia was reasonable, outsiders must have some rare things that they had never seen, but they could take the opportunity to extort a sum of money, Qin Xian praised Mo Qijia and said: "I found that you are surprisingly smart today, and you have a lot of enlightenment." ”

Mo Qijia scratched his head and said, "Where is it, it can't be compared with Brother Qin." ”

Qin Xian let go of the hand that grabbed the young Taoist, patted his chest, and helped him straighten his clothes. With a malicious smile, he summoned Mo Qijia to join him in his hand on the young Taoist.

The young Taoist was full of disbelief, someone robbed the Taoist priest, the sky is pitiful, the world and the hearts of the people are not ancient!

After fumbling for a long time, except for the books on his waist, there was nothing on this Taoist, Qin Xian suppressed her anger and said, "What about things? ”

The young Taoist came back to his senses and said, "What is it?" ”

"You don't have anything with you but that broken book?"

"I have sent cultivators to abstain from wealth and lust and to cultivate grains, so they have no long things." Young but proud.

"The rumored Taoist priest doesn't have any magic weapons?" Mo Qijia asked.

"No ......"

Qin Xian and the two of them added fists and feet to the young Taoist, and the young Taoist hugged his head with both hands around his ears, protected his face, and said vigorously: "Don't slap your face...... Don't slap ...... face", the two of them were tired, sitting on the grinding plate for a short rest, Qin Xian panted, looked at the Taoist who was not at all like the previous dusty posture at this moment, covered in dust, and said, "Tell you to curse the master." ”

The young Taoist sat up cross-legged, his expression still calm, and he picked up a short rope from the ground and tied up his long scattered hair. Then his eyes were closed, his body trembled slightly, and he opened his eyes after a while, and said with a smile on his face: "Little brother wants to find some strange treasures?" ”

Qin Xian squinted and said, "Why do you have it again?" ”

"Poor road no." The young Taoist shook his head.

Qin Xian thought that the young Taoist was playing with herself, so she had to get up and "serve", but she heard the Taoist and said, "No...... But Poor Dao knows who has it, and I can help the little brother find it. Seeing Qin Xian put down the fist that he had raised again, the young Taoist breathed a sigh of relief.

Qin Xian said: "Let's listen to it, dare to tell Lao Tzu, call you the corpse of the ancestral continent." ”

The young Taoist said: "You also know that in recent days, there have suddenly been many strangers in the villages of Zuzhou, and there are many nobles among them, and there are naturally not a few exotic treasures on their bodies. ”

Qin Xian didn't smile at it: "Huh...... Dao Chang is so scheming, Xiao Qi, call me! Mo Qijia said yes, and hit with a gesture, and the young Taoist hugged his head and shouted: "What does this mean? Without waiting for Qin Xian to speak, Mo Qijia preemptively said: "You have a bad idea, although those nobles of the big clan have countless treasures, but each of them is accompanied by several masters, it is impossible for me to succeed with the two of us, and we are not ......."

"Xiao Qi, that's enough", Qin Xian interrupted Mo Qijia, and subconsciously touched his buttocks, and said to the young Taoist: "I heard it, you said you should fight or not!" ”

"No, no, it's not the same as it used to be." Young and humane.

"What's the difference?" Mo Qijia asked.

The young Taoist held his chin with one hand and pointed to the clear sky with the other: "The sky is different!" ”

Qin Xian and Mo Qijia both looked up and saw nothing, and the young Taoist continued: "There are more people coming to Zuzhou this year than in previous years, right?" ”

Qin Xian said impatiently, "What do you want to say?" ”

Seeing that Qin Xian was in a hurry, the young Taoist hurriedly sat down and said: "Because this year, Daqing Academy is going to 'move the saint into the temple', Daqing Academy knows, right?" ”

Qin Xian and the others shook their heads, Mo Qijia didn't stand anymore, he sat cross-legged next to the young Taoist, looking forward to it, he liked to listen to stories the most.

"Okay, in short, something big happens, and doing this will ban this heaven and earth, all the Dao methods are false, and the cultivators have also fallen into the realm and become ordinary people, so the masters you are talking about are actually the same as you, even if they are martial arts masters, they are just stronger than you, so do you understand?" The young Taoist explained.

Qin Xian was thoughtful, and then asked, "Is it today?" ”

The young Taoist said, "No. ”

Qin Xian: "I ......".

……

After another cordial "greeting", Qin Xian said: "Stinky Taoist, I'm going to use it today, is there a way?" ”

The young Taoist looked embarrassed, Qin Xian got up and said to Mo Qijia when he saw this: "Forget it, take him with you, this guy has a little eyesight, and it is okay to help us palm our eyes." ”

"Okay." Mo Qijia answered.

The young Taoist had mixed feelings in his heart, he thought that he could earn more merit on this trip to Zuzhou, but he didn't want to not only not build an inch, but now he had to help the ruffian, so he couldn't help but wail in his heart: "A few years of cultivation have been ruined in one fell swoop, the three clears are immeasurable, I can't do this calamity!" ”

As if thinking of something, my eyes suddenly brightened.