6. Visiting friends
When the fox demon heard this, his body trembled, and he took out a furoshiki from his arms, spread it on the ground, wrapped the fox fur coat in it, and carried it on his back. Follow Chen Qingtang to the courtyard.
Lao Dao put his hands behind his back, looked up at the moon, and asked in a low voice, "What's your name?"
The fox demon timidly replied: "Qiyu Daoist, the little woman's name is Qu Feiyan. ”
Chen Qingtang then asked, "Are you from Rouge Forest?"
Qu Feiyan was taken aback and asked, "How can the Dao Elder know?"
Chen Qingtang stretched out his hand in front of Qu Feiyan and said, "Give me the human skull you turned into." ”
Qu Feiyan didn't dare to disobey the old way, and obediently handed over the skull.
Chen Qingtang glanced at it and asked, "What is the relationship between Hua Baisha and you?"
"She ......" Qu Feiyan hesitated for a moment and said, "She is our big leader." ”
"I see. Chen Qingtang nodded and continued to ask, "Was your mother really shot by hunters?"
"It's hard to put it into words......" Qu Feiyan's face was tired.
Chen Qingtang saw that she didn't want to say more, so he changed the topic: "Poor Dao helped you get back your mother's body, but it fulfilled your wish." Do you want to come to the world to make trouble in the future?"
Qu Feiyan heard this, shook his head like a rattle, and said with palpitations: "It's not for my mother, I don't want to touch humans, it's really cunning." The three roast chickens, which I thought were placed next to the young couple's bed, and one chicken leg was missing, must be their own food, and eating a little should not be in the way, but who knows, after only one bite, they fell in love with their way. ”
After hearing this, the old man smiled wryly: "That is, that couple is too cunning." ”
Qu Feiyan's eyes widened suddenly, and he said in surprise: "Dao Chief, look, this firefly is spitting on you. ”
"Go, go, go. Chen Qingtang waved his sleeves and drove away the fireflies that were making a noise on the side.
"......" Qu Feiyan looked confused.
"There is a certain amount of resentment hidden in this skull, and if you keep it around for a long time, you will inevitably go astray. The poor road is confiscated and will not be returned to you. As compensation, a book is given to you. Chen Qingtang took out a copy of the Tao Te Ching from his arms, and Zhengse said: "This book is the only book left by the Taoist ancestor in the world, and it is only 5,000 words in the world. Take it back and study it hard, and you will eventually become an immortal one day. ”
Qu Feiyan took the "Tao Te Ching" with both hands, bowed deeply to Chen Qingtang, and said sincerely: "Thank you for your guidance." ”
Chen Qingtang let Qu Feiyan go. In the early morning of the second day, the Lin family and his wife invited Lao Dao to have breakfast. After that, Chen Qingtang got up to say goodbye, and before leaving, Lin Yiming gave him two taels of silver. Chen Qingtang happily accepted it. Leaving the county office, Lao Dao rode a little donkey, went out of Wangshu County, and went straight to the fifteen-mile floating fish town in the east of the city.
The private school was in a dilapidated state, with most of the varnish on the door and overgrown weeds on the walls. The ground was full of fallen leaves, debris.
Chen Qingtang sighed, tied the donkey to the big tree by the roadside, tidied up his clothes, and stepped forward to pat the door knocker.
After a while, the door opened, and a fat woman in her fifties stood in front of her, looked Lao Dao up and down, and asked angrily, "Lao Dao, do you want food?"
Chen Qingtang typed the first episode and asked, "Dare to ask this sister-in-law, this is Zhang Fuling's residence?"
"Zhang Fuling is my dead ghost, what are you looking for him? He is dying, and he can't teach his students anymore?" said the woman, and she closed the door of the house.
"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, don't close the door. Chen Qingtang pressed the door of the house and said with a smiling face: "I am the same junior brother of Brother Poria, and I have come to visit my senior brother this time. Poor people came out in a hurry, I didn't bring any gifts for my sister-in-law, it was very rude, there are two taels of silver here, give it to my sister-in-law, how about buying a piece of silk?"
When the woman saw Yinliang, she smiled happily, let Chen Qingtang into the courtyard, and shouted at the side room: "Zhang Fuling, Zhang Fuling, someone has come to see you." ”
There was silence in the wings, and no one responded.
"Presumably he fell asleep again. I'll take you to him. As she spoke, the woman introduced Chen Qingtang into the wing, and as soon as she entered the room, a foul smell came, and she saw a middle-aged man in his fifties lying on the earthen kang, skinny as wood, with a face like ashes, and a terminally ill appearance. His body was covered with a tattered thin quilt, and half a bowl of rice porridge was contained in a porcelain bowl beside him, and flies and insects were flying.
"Senior brother, is it you?" Chen Qingtang burst into tears and cried bitterly.
Zhang Fuling heard the sound, opened her eyes, saw Chen Qingtang at a glance, struggled to sit up, grabbed his arm, and cried: "Senior brother, junior brother, is it really you? I thought I would never see you until I died." ”
"Senior brother, aren't I here?" Chen Qingtang hugged Zhang Lingling, and the two hugged each other and cried.