The Spring Festival Ceremony is the most solemn ceremony held by the Yamen in the city in a year.

After a cold winter, the people are eagerly looking forward to the arrival of a warm spring, and then everything will recover.

In spring, all things sprout, the heaven and the earth are emerald, so the corresponding color on the attribute is green, and the officials should wear green clothes to participate in the Spring Festival.

The color blue was very important to the imperial court because the other thing it corresponded to was the sky, the blue sky.

The emperor was ordered by the heavens, so he also regarded the ceremonies he participated in in in cyan clothes as a more important ceremony than other ceremonies.

In addition, there is the beginning of summer for Zhu, the beginning of autumn for white, and the beginning of winter for black.

Among them, the corresponding direction of spring is east, so that when the morning sun rises, the county guard Wu Hanlin personally takes the officials in the city out of the east gate of the city to pay homage.

This ceremony is very spectacular, the hundred officials not only have to wear green clothes but also wear blue headscarves, that is, green bandanas, so when Wang Qilin stood on a high place and looked around, he saw a large green head behind him.

The parents and officials of Uehara Prefecture are all green!

The ceremony lasted for two hours, and Wu Hanlin and Taiba sacrificed to the sky and Huangquan to pray for God's blessing this year, and also blessed the undead in the county with peace of mind.

By the time the ceremony was over, the sun had risen to its old high, and Wang Qilin took off his cyan turban and hummed a little song behind his back and returned to the post house.

Go back and catch up on sleep!

When he arrived at the door of the post house, he scratched his head, as if something was wrong, but he pondered carefully, and there was nothing wrong with it in the past two days.

A few days before and after the Chinese New Year are the most peaceful.

Because there are firecrackers rumbling everywhere in the land of Jiuzhou, the demons and monsters can't stand the shock of this sound, and will honestly retreat and hide in the deep mountains and old forests.

When Wang Qilin entered the door, Yang Dayan raised a crow to show him: "Seventh Master, Xu Ye has given you a flying book to greet the New Year." ”

There was a letter tied to the claws of the crow, and when I opened it, I saw that it was indeed Xu Da's handwriting.

Xu Da gave a detailed account of what happened on his return trip, and they had encountered a few ghosts, but they all let him clean up.

In the letter, Xu Da proudly told him that Shibei should be impressed for three days, and he would definitely surprise Wang Qilin next time he returned to the post house.

Wang Qilin pondered that this was a letter written drunk, otherwise the big guys were so familiar, did he still need to brag?

No.

He asked Chen Weiyue to reply to a letter, blowing it even more awesomely, and then tied up the crow and released it.

But the raven did not fly away, but swirled around the doorway.

Wang Qilin waved his hand and said, "Get out of the calf, hurry back to find your master, what are you staying here for? ”

The crow was still fluttering outside, and Yang said with big eyes: "Seventh Master, is it too tired? ”

Eight Meow smiled crookedly when he saw the crow, it quietly walked out of the door to ambush the crow, and suddenly it stood up and pointed to the door and opened its mouth wide:? (?˙o˙?)?

Seeing it like this, Wang Qilin walked out and asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

Eight Meow waved his claws and shouted, "Mom!"

It doesn't usually make such a call, except when it's very surprised.

Wang Qilin looked at it and pointed to the location, nothing, it was-

Wait, nothing?

Wang Qilin also shouted: "Mom!"

Yang said with a big smile and said, "Why did the seventh master learn to meow?"

Wang Qilin shouted: "I'm going to learn a fart! What about the statue outside this door? Where is the three-legged golden toad and the glutton?"

These two statues were left by Qian Xiao, and it is said that they were carved by a famous teacher and then opened to light, Shen San is particularly interested in these two things, and usually sits on the three-legged golden toad to practice.

During this period, Qian Xiao also sent a letter to Wang Qilin, saying that he hoped to ask him to help send the two statues to Pingyang Mansion, but Wang Qilin pretended not to receive these letters and intercepted the two statues.

But why are these two statues gone?

When Wang Qilin walked back just now, he felt that something was wrong at the door, and he thought that there was something wrong with what he did, but it turned out that the statue outside the door was gone!

It's also funny to say, these two statues are very big, and they didn't even attract people's attention after they disappeared, or the crow and the black cat noticed something wrong first, which is a bit weird.

Wang Qilin asked Yang Dayan, "When was the last time you saw these two statues?"

Yang Dayan was a little dazed: "The seventh master forgives the sins, the humble office is used to having two statues here on weekdays, and it is a normal thing to do it, I never thought that they would be lost, so I didn't pay special attention to them, which also caused the humble office to not find out that they were missing for the first time!"

Wang Qilin waved his hand and said, "It's not a problem that you didn't find out that they were lost, and I didn't find out about the seventh master!

Xie Toad heard that Wang Qilin had called him and walked out, he stood at the door and asked, "Seventh Master, what's the matter?"

Yang Dayan came on crutches and was about to speak, Wang Qilin shook his head and said, "Call all the big guys out." ”

The personnel who remained at the post house ran out, and then stared at each other with wide eyes.

Chen Weiyue flew out of the gatehouse, he looked at it and asked curiously, "It's gone?"

Shen Yi touched his head and said, "Amitabha, Ah Fei, what are you talking about without a head or a brain?"

Chen Weiyue didn't bother to respond, just stretched out her fingers and pointed to both sides of the door.

The big guy looked blankly, and then gradually reacted: "What do I do, what about the two stone carvings at the door?"

"Yes, yes, a gluttonous and a three-legged golden toad, why is it gone?"

"Did you run away? hehe. ”

Xie Toad patted his head and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Seventh Master, the old Taoist priest drank too much, and he didn't notice it for a while—this is impossible, it's broken!"

He instructed a few wrestlers: "You go to the door of the big family separately to see if there are any stone carvings missing?" Remember, most people have stone lions in front of their homes, and some stone lions have young lions under their feet, so you should pay special attention to whether the little lion is lost!"

The wrestlers clenched their fists: "Wow!"

Wang Qilin asked, "Dao Ye, what's going on?"

Xie Toad frowned and said, "It's hard to say now, there are several answers, and the most common reason is that they went out to play." ”

Wang Qilin had a question mark on his face.

Xie Toad smiled bitterly: "Seventh Master, you also know that during the Chinese New Year, sneaky people don't dare to stay in people's places of residence, and they have fled to the wilderness, so let's listen to the heavenly prison can take a holiday and rest." ”

"In the same way, the spirit beasts guarding outside the door have worked hard for a year, and they also know that the master's house will be safer in the past two days, so they will give themselves a vacation and go out to play. ”

Wang Qilin couldn't help but laugh: "Dao Ye, why are you leaving here to pull calves for me?

Xie Toad said: "How is this impossible? I will wait for the information collected by the big guy, this kind of thing does exist, do you know why I asked you to take off the peach talisman in advance yesterday?"

Wang Qilin shook his head, at that time, Xie Toad was in a hurry to collect some objects, and he didn't answer after giving him instructions.

Xie Toad said: "Change the peach charm on the first day of the new year, right? But on the first day of the new year, the mansion is safe, and the door god on the peach charm is ......."

"The door gods will also go out to play?" Wang Qilin interrupted him dumbfounded.

Xie Toad shook his head and said: "Oh, that's not it, the door god is the most conscientious, and he will not leave his post without permission at any time, but in the first year of junior high school, he will change to a new peach talisman, and the door god on the old peach talisman will lose his divinity after completing their work." ”

"So I have to put away the old peach charm in the Chinese New Year's Eve, the old peach charm at this time still has divinity, and it can ward off evil in the future when collected, and the old peach charm collected again and again at the beginning of the new year is waste, well, this is the wool of the immortals." ”

Wang Qilin was stunned and asked, "But what does this matter have to do with the loss of our stone carvings?"

Xie Toad smiled and said: "Immeasurable Tianzun, it doesn't matter, the old Taoist priest just suddenly remembered this thing, and then told you about it, so that you can increase your experience." ”

Wang Qilin stretched out his middle finger at him.

Xie Toad waved his hand and said, "No thanks, it's what I should do to teach you the experience of the rivers and lakes." ”

The wrestlers who had left came back one after another, and then shook their heads at Xie Toad.

Xie Toad also shook his head: "Seventh Master, something happened, Tao Tao and the three-legged golden toad didn't go out to play and didn't come back in time, they should have been hidden by ghosts, we bumped into ghost treasures!"

He continued: "The old Taoist priest asked the big guy to see the statue of the housekeeper at the door of other people's homes, if Tao Tao and the three-legged golden toad went out to play and didn't come back, then there should be other people who have encountered the same situation as our post house. ”

Wang Qilin already understood the reason: "So you asked the big guy to go out of his way to check the lion cub under the lioness's feet, because the lion cub is extraordinarily playful, right?"

Xie Toad nodded: "Yes, the reason why the old Taoist priest made this guess is because you should have noticed that the two idols disappeared quietly, and so many of us walked around from the door, but we didn't even notice that they were gone." ”

"Is this normal?"

The big guys shook their heads together.

Xie Toad said: "Yes, this is not normal, so the old Taoist priest guessed that they went to play by themselves, in order not to be found by the master's family that they were lazy, they used a trick to cover their eyes." ”

"This trick is just to avoid being discovered by the owner's family, so they can only hide from people's eyes, but not from the eyes of spirit beasts. ”

Chen Weiyue coughed unhappily.

Xie Toad sighed and said, "Ah Fei, you are not human anymore. ”

Chen Weiyue scolded and left.

Wang Qilin squatted down to study the traces left by the gluttony and the three-legged golden toad.

The two idols have a pedestal, and the pedestal is still intact, with no signs of being pried away or cut.

This scene reminded him of the scene in the Xiaoyi Temple, when the filial piety lion ran out, but there was a base on the god seat, and the base was smooth, exactly like what he saw now.

He looked back at Xie Toad, Xie Toad nodded and said, "Lao Dao understands what you mean, so Lao Dao first guessed that they were going out to play." But that doesn't seem to be the case now, otherwise the other idols would have returned, so how could they be the only two of them who hadn't returned?"

Shen Yi said: "Amitabha, maybe the two of them are the most playful?"

Xie Toad and Wang Qilin looked at him with relief, this fool finally returned to normal.

Recently, Shen Yi has become very smart, which makes them both very worried.

The gaze of the two made Shen Yi's heart empty, and Shen Yi said again: "It's also possible that they got lost when they went out to play." ”

Xie Toad and Wang Qilin looked at him with even more relief.

Stupid to new heights.

Xie Toad said: "You might as well guess that the two of them were detained by ghosts when they were playing." ”

When he said this answer, Xie Toad's expression was a little heavy.

Actually, this may exist.

Wang Qilin said: "Didn't you say that this is a ghost hidden treasure?"

Xie Toad sighed lightly: "There are too many possibilities, and the old Taoist priest can't say for sure." ”

Some time ago, he always overturned, so now his driving skills are much smoother, and he will no longer make rash decisions.

"But no matter what the truth is, as long as this matter is related to ghosts, we are in trouble," he said. ”

Wang Qilin understood what he meant.

The three-legged golden toad is a legendary artifact, and Tao Tao is one of the nine sons of the true dragon, even if they are just statues, but since they can be chosen by Qian Xiao to guard the post house, they naturally have some magical powers.

Demons should be afraid of them.

If the ghosts are not afraid of them and clean them up, then the ghosts are terrible.

Xie Toad said: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Seventh Master, you go back to make up for sleep first, we are busy tonight, the two of them should be lost in the night, then to find their traces, it should also be carried out at night, I am afraid we will have to stay up late tonight." ”

Wang Qilin sighed: "It started on the first day of the Lunar New Year, is it over?

The big guy dispersed, Xie Toad chased Wang Qilin into the inner room, Wang Qilin asked, "Did you have something to say just now?"

Xie Toad said in a low voice: "Yes, Seventh Master, have you ever thought of another possibility?"

"It's not that the gluttony and the three-legged golden toad were hidden by the ghost or what's going on, but they knew that they would be in big trouble when they arrived at the post house, and they ran away in fear!"

Wang Qilin really didn't expect this, he was stunned and said, "Are you serious?

This speculation made his heart flash: "We have provoked some ghosts in the ghost market, and they have come to take revenge?"

Xie Toad didn't answer.

His eyes looked into the distance and said slowly: "About forty years ago, when I was not old, I was wandering the rivers and lakes, and then I found that something strange happened in a village, the statues of gods and Buddhas worshiped by the people in the village were gone, and the ancestral tablets were all broken. ”

A few days later, the natural disaster came, and the whole village encountered a mudslide, except for the old Taoist priest who rescued a few children, other animal houses, all disappeared without a trace!"

As he said this, his mood gradually sank.

Wang Qilin guessed that what happened to him back then may not have been a simple mudslide, and there were more serious things happening, which made Xie Toad haunted to this day.

Sure enough, after Xie Toad finished talking about this matter, he muttered: "But that village is self-inflicted and can't live, I listen to the Heavenly Prison to drive away evil spirits and punish demons, and bless the common people, Seventh Master, you are even more dedicated to the people, God will not do this to us." ”

Wang Qilin said: "Don't think too much about it, make up for sleep, you should find the answer at night." ”

He didn't fall asleep directly, but after going back, he took out the blood jade and began to rub it violently, and came to take a complete medicine.

Energetic and energetic.

The true qi is surging in the eight veins of the Qi meridian, and the dantian is like hanging on the turbo pressurization, and the true qi impacts the meridians, widening, hardening, and opening up the meridians!

He took a deep breath, the air in front of him seemed to be emptied, he exhaled again, and two white gases flew out like small snakes.

Although there was no breakthrough in cultivation, the spirit of the whole person has risen to a higher level.

He felt like a volcano was buried in his heart, he felt like lava was flowing in his veins, and he felt like the hair in his squeaky socket was hard.

Now he just wants to ask who wants to plow the land, and then go and plow ten acres and eight acres!

Slowly opening his eyes, he said softly: "Chalcedony is a good thing, and mountain ghosts are also good things." ”

Deep in the mountains in the distance, Gui'er, who was covering her ears to resist the rumble of firecrackers, sneezed violently.

In the evening, the image of Kinnara had been refined.

The scroll becomes a small cardboard box.

Wang Qilin took out the carton, and suddenly there was a chanting.

He couldn't understand what he was singing, but he felt physically and mentally happy in his ears, and the whole person was subconsciously happy.

Who is singing.

Warms up the loneliness.

As the song sounded, the carton burned, and in the slow flames, a reclining villain revealed his true body.

He was dressed in crimson and had a ribbon on his shoulder, but unfortunately he had a horse's head and a horn on top of his head......

Wang Qilin couldn't help but exclaim when he saw it: "The unicorn has become a sperm?"

The name unicorn was so easy to understand, Kinara's beautiful and cheerful singing voice disappeared suddenly, and he slowly opened his two horse eyes to look at Wang Qilin and asked gloomily: "Who is the child, dare to speak filthy words to my Zhendra?"

Wang Qilin said gently: "Hello, great god, I am your master. ”

Kinara's body flipped over, and stood up like a gust of wind, and the ribbons on his body were hunting and fluttering without wind: "Ah, the little caterpillar dares to desecrate my musical heavenly clan? For the sake of you releasing the true dhara to be free, the true dhara is not as knowledgeable as you, spare your dog's life!"

Saying this majestically, he turned his head and was about to fly away.

Wang Qilin stopped him and said, "You can't go, I'll let you out to help you cultivate......

Kinnara said disdainfully: "The true Dhara will not help anyone to cultivate, and this coming to the mortal world is a calamity arranged by the Bodhisattva. ”

Wang Qilin said: "Yes, the Bodhisattva let you go through all the tribulations, how can you not understand the Bodhisattva's painstaking efforts, why did you leave me?"

Kinara shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about! What does it have to do with you that the true Dhara wants to go through the tribulations?"

"Hundred causes must have results, and your calamity is me!" Wang Qilin said earnestly, "How can your understanding be so poor? Is it a coincidence that I released you from confinement? Don't you understand? Our encounter is the fate arranged by the Bodhisattva!"

Kinnara stared at him in surprise, his eyes blinking, confused.

Wang Qilin summed up a little experience from the bodies of Gandapo and Asura, the eight heavenly dragons are huge, but they are not true gods or even the Dharma bodies of the gods, they are only transformed by a little aura, so their supernatural powers are limited, and their brains are also limited.

To put it simply, they're kind of stupid.

Wang Qilin encouraged his three-inch tongue to persuade Jinnaro, Jinnaro didn't want to stay, he finally got free and was looking forward to the vast world, so he was naturally unwilling to stay for Wang Qilin to be a swordsman.

The main reason is that Wang Qilin is an ordinary man, and he doesn't look down on it.

In the end, he still cared about this, and said: "Alas, don't say it, what you said is reasonable, but the true Dhara is a member of the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon, how can you be the envoy of an ordinary man? ”

Wang Qilin said helplessly: "Bow first and then soldier, since you don't eat the courtesy, then I can only forcibly keep you." ”

Jinnaro laughed: "Show your true colors, do you have any skills!"

Wang Qilin opened his mouth and said sharply: "Sword out!"

The little Asura pounced out violently.

Kinara's eyes widened when he saw the little Asura wearing a hood and full of armor appear.

After the little Asura flew out, he tilted his head to look at him and shouted, "You have chickens on your head, why are you blocking my path?"

Kinnara said angrily: "Asura, you don't want to talk nonsense, the true dhara is not a chicken on his head......"

"Okay, that chicken grows on the head, why are you blocking my way?" said the little asura.

Kinnara was angry and shouted, "Asura, if you talk nonsense, the true Dhara will make you pay the price of blood!"

As soon as he heard this, Xiao Asura put on a superhuman posture and flew up, arrived instantly, and smashed out with a punch.

Kinnara sang loudly, spitting smoke out of his mouth, and the whole person hid in the smoke and was elusive, and the figure of the little Asura stirred the smoke up and down, but it just didn't catch Kinara.

This little Asura exploded angrily, lifted the hood violently, slapped his palms, opened his mouth and roared: "Roar!"

The air waves were blowing, and the white mist spit out by Kinnara was like fireworks blown by a blower, and suddenly disappeared without a trace.

Kinnara hurried out.

Little Asura is faster!

His figure flickered and chased after the top of Kinara's head, stretched out his little hand and pressed Kinnaro's shoulders and pushed him onto the bed at once, and smashed his fist on his head: "Do you have a chicken on your head?

Jinnaro was smashed and shouted, Wang Qilin went up to dissuade him: "Don't fight, don't fight, we are all our own people, brothers are outside the wall to resist their insults!"

The little Asura was furious and said, "If he wants to say that he will pay the price of blood, then I will make him pay the price of blood!"

When Hachimeow saw it, he ran over and blinked curiously, pointing at the two of them and opening their mouths to let out a call: "Meow." ”

Wang Qilin said to it solemnly: "How can you say that, Bameow, we are our own people, this Zhendra has already agreed to be my swordsman, so it must be my own people." ”

Eight Meow was puzzled: "Meow?"

Wang Qilin said sharply: "Don't talk nonsense, why do you want to kill him? We are our own people! Our own people can fight and make trouble, but how can we kill each other? How can we do such things that make relatives and enemies happy?"

Eight Meow shrank his head back: I just screamed in the tower, how do you understand so much information?

Wang Qilin pretended to stop the little Asura and said, "You can't kill him, we are our own people, and Gandapo, why did you still draw out your sword? Do you want to kill him?"

Ganda Po sat on the sword and flew over, and said in amazement: "You didn't let us ...... just now"

"I didn't let you hack him to death. Wang Qilin interrupted him and said, "Zhendra, you can say something, they say that you are not their own person, and they want to kill you!"

Kinnara shouted, "My own people, don't stop fighting! I'm also a swordsman, don't cut me!"