Chapter 44: Qi Zhenren

In the city, there are only a few Taoist priests left in the evening view who are carefully cleaning in several halls.

Li Zi, who was hesitating at the door to go in, looked at this Taoist temple that had been built less than 20 years ago, and obviously had been thinking about it all day before making up his mind to come here, but he didn't want to go in at this time.

Lao Bai, who was following beside him, said impatiently: "I said, boy, can you get in?" The old man has been standing here with you for almost half an hour, you are not tired, and the old man is annoying. ”

Li Zi scratched his head embarrassedly, and asked cautiously, "Why did the old gentleman follow me here?

"What kind of feast can those sorghum sorghum have together? Besides, why don't you kid go?"

"That's the land of fireworks, how can I go if I'm a Taoist priest?"

"Can't you?" or don't dare?" said Lao Bai with a smile as he looked at Li Zi and laughed.

Li Zi looked at Lao Bai with a flushed face, and bowed his head and said nothing.

"Slap", the crisp sound outside the empty view, Lao Bai also slapped Li Zi very cooperatively, looked at Li Zi with satisfaction and said: "Yes, it's a little grown, but boy, you can't get in, if you don't want to go in, just stick your head over, and the old man will make a loud slap again,"

When Li Zi heard this, he immediately raised his head, walked decisively to the door, and without taking a few steps, he looked back at Lao Bai, and when he saw Lao Bai's ill-intentioned gaze, he hurriedly walked up and knocked on the door of the Demon Temple.

As soon as there was a sound, the door opened directly, and out walked a Taoist priest who looked smaller than a plum.

The Taoist priest glanced at the plum, then looked at the old white behind the plum, saluted, and said: "This Taoist friend, is there an urgent matter in the temple so late?" and then looked at the old white and said: "Today's view has been closed, this ...... doom" The little Taoist priest who seemed to not know how to call Lao Bai paused, looked at Lao Bai again, looked like a beggar, and then said: "This incense master, there is no guest room in this view, if the incense master wants to stay overnight, he can only deign to the firewood room." ”

Before Li Zi could speak, Lao Bai over there directly blew his beard and glared and said, "Why does the old man look so much like a beggar?"

When the little Taoist priest saw Lao Bai's appearance, he muttered in his heart, isn't this a beggar who was homeless in the past and wanted to come to Guanli to spend the night, and I didn't call you a beggar?

As soon as Li Zi saw Lao Bai's appearance, he hurriedly said to the little Taoist: "This Taoist friend, the old gentleman is the elder of Xiaodao, and Xiaodao came here today because he was invited by the Taoist chief in Guanzhong yesterday to visit Guanzhong. ”

The little Taoist priest looked at Li Zi suspiciously, he had never seen it when he came to visit so late, coupled with the dress of Li Zi, the elder of the Taoist, up and down all revealed the strange, yesterday I heard that the senior brother went out, and was ordered by the master to invite a Taoist friend from Wudang Mountain to come to Guanzhong to discuss the Tao, but why didn't he come during the day, but came to the door at night? Could it be that the Taoist priests of Wudang Mountain are all unusual? It's just that the master will still meet guests so late?

The little Taoist priest who was frowning was hesitating whether to let the little Taoist priest and his, uh, his elder enter the door, but the senior brother walked out.

Facing Li Zi's slight luggage, he said: "Daoyou is here, please come in, the master has been waiting in the room for a long time." ”

Seeing the young Taoist priest who came to invite him yesterday, Li Zi smiled and nodded, and walked in, Lao Bai also followed behind Li Zi, but when he passed by the little Taoist priest, his eyes glared at him like nothing, and a snort suddenly came out of his nose, as if telling the little Taoist priest, "The old man is not a beggar!"

The little Taoist priest helplessly threw an apologetic look like Lao Bai, and when Lao Bai walked away satisfied, he asked the senior brother in a low voice: "Senior brother, this person is the distinguished guest that the master said yesterday? Is it really the Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain? It's just that how could there be a guest who came to the door so late?"

Zhaofu smiled and said: "Don't talk about you, I don't really believe that this Taoist will be a Taoist priest of Wudang Mountain, when I saw him yesterday, he was still munching on a rock sugar gourd, I don't know how the master would invite such a young man, and he is not like a Taoist priest to talk about Taoism." ”

When the little Taoist priest heard the rock sugar gourd, his eyes suddenly lit up, he licked his lips, and whispered: "Rock sugar gourd? This Taoist friend is not a child anymore, how can he still eat these things? I used to be able to give it to me when I was young, but now I am not allowed to eat it!"

Zhaofu suddenly laughed dumbly, touched his junior brother's head, looked at Li Zi's back, and felt that except for the peach rune wood sword behind him and the Wudang Taoist robe he was wearing, this Taoist priest looked like an ordinary person, not like a Taoist priest at all.

"Little Daoyou, please come in. ”

Before he walked into the hall, there was a sound that although he listened to the full of energy, but he could vaguely hear a trace of old breath, Li Zi looked back behind him, but he didn't see Lao Bai, and he didn't know where he went, so he walked into the hall alone.

He did not wear a Taoist crown on his head, just a simple hairpin, and he was not wearing a Taoist robe, but a white obscene robe, like an old Taoist priest who had just woken up from a dream sitting on a futon in the center of the main hall, looking at the plums who came in with a smile.

Li Zi, who had just walked into the temple gate, looked at the elderly Taoist priest, and when he didn't know how to say hello, the old Taoist priest said first: "Old Taoist Qi meditate, but I have waited for a while for the friendship of the Tao, and finally waited." ”

It turned out that when the palace was built, he came from Nanshan to Suizhou City Qi Jingsi, Li Zi did not dare to slack off when he heard the words, and respectfully greeted him: "Boy Wudang Mountain Plum, I have seen Qi Zhenren." ”

Qi Jingsi smiled and said, "Little Daoist friends don't need to be polite, please take a seat." ”

Hearing Qi Zhenren's words, Li Zi got up and sat on the futon, bowing his head slightly.

Qi Jingsi saw Li Zi sit down, and said with a smile: "Yesterday, Lao Dao sent an apprentice to invite Xiao Daoyou, and Xiao Daoyou had something to say that he was coming today, so why did Xiao Daoyou come so late to come to the door?"

Li Zi didn't hide it, and replied honestly: "Originally, the kid should have come in the morning today, but the real person invited the kid to come and talk about the Tao, but the kid has never learned the Tao and doesn't know how to say it, so he doesn't dare to come here." ”

"Then why is it so late, and the little Taoist dares to come again?"

The kid thought about whether he should come or not, but he didn't know why he thought about it for a day, if he waited until tomorrow, the kid was afraid that he wouldn't dare to come again, so it was so late that he came to disturb the purity of the real person. ”

Qi Jingsi laughed when he heard this, and Zhaofu who saw it outside the door was shocked, and thought suspiciously, the master has never been smiling, how could he laugh like this today?

And Qi Jingsi, who had laughed twice, suppressed his smile and said, "Little Daoyou, how is your master?"

A plain greeting really made Li Zi's originally lowered head instantly raise and look at Qi Jingsi in surprise.

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