“...... Sweet buns with sugar hearts, almond cakes in the pot, don't you come to see and taste them?!"

"Cookcakes, big, round cookcakes!"

"Sugar Gourd ......"

"Night pot, a beautiful lace night pot, you can also plant flowers and plants if you don't need it, and it is chic!"

.....

It's early summer, after the last rain of late spring, the guy carrying the teapot comes and goes between the guests, the open window looks at the bustling street, the bustling pedestrians walk across the wet ground, and occasionally there are people who are busy all morning, stop to look at the steaming steamer, spend two or three dollars to buy a piece of fragrant almond cake, wrap it in oilcloth paper, and share it with the family.

Children holding windmills chased and played, and ran under a sign with the words "Calligraphy and Painting Changdao".

"Hee-hee, how about playing with the windmills? ”

"If you don't give, you won't give!!"

Bumped into the crowd, grinned and stuck out his tongue, and ran away again.

In the bustling long street, this stall has been surrounded by many literati and elegant guests, looking at a beautiful painting hanging in the most conspicuous position, admiring, and some pointing at the handwriting and picture scrolls on the hanging shelves around them, and commenting.

"The ink dragon hooks the roll, the iron tree pear blossom...... This word is written in seconds. ”

"The painting is simply beautiful, when did this Ning'an City have such a scholar?"

"It's a pity to set up a stall to sell calligraphy and paintings. ”

One person close to the stall folded a paper fan and arched his hand at the scholar who was waving pen and ink at the long table opposite.

"This brother, the painting I wanted, can you finish it?"

Behind the long table, the pen and ink in the scholar's hand also happened to stop, the picture scroll is a green ink landscape, the mountains and forests are in pieces, on the river, the lonely boat welcomes the rising sun, if you look carefully, the boatman on the boat is strutted, the face is still pleasant, the distant mountains and forests, you can see the monkey shadow climbing.

"Wonderful ......"

The man looked down and took a closer look, and blew on the ink that had not dried.

Lu Liangsheng wiped his hands with a smile, and put the brush on the side of the water dish to clean: "Are you still satisfied?"

"Satisfied!

The scholar rolled up the picture, took out the money bag neatly, counted one hundred and twenty wen, and put it on the table.

"Brother, the money is here, I'll take it and frame it first!"

"Twenty more. ”

Lu Liangsheng casually took exactly twenty copper coins and handed them back to the scholar, seeing that the other party was surprised, he smiled.

"What I said before is what the price is, and the excess will not be charged. ”

Since Shunyuan County, Lu Liangsheng still thinks that it is better to have fewer incidents, and now he has arrived in Chaoning Prefecture, which is not far from Qishan, and he has set up a stall to mix a little wine and food money, so he can hurry up.

After collecting today's 100 essays, he arched his hand to the onlookers: "I don't paint today, so don't leave it at that." ”

After saying this, ignoring the guests who wanted to buy calligraphy and paintings, he dismantled the flags, tables and chairs, and hangers, and put them behind the donkey cart, and led the old donkey out of the street, and when he arrived in the streets and alleys with few people, while there was no one around, the donkey carts, tables and chairs turned into stars and dissipated.

"Master, what do you want to eat later?"

After tidying up again, Lu Liangsheng pulled the reins, led the old donkey out again, and looked back at the compartment of the bookshelf.

"Steamed carp, or braised donkey meat?"

Ahh

The old donkey's eyes widened, and he hummed a long note in panic, which made the passers-by around look curious, and thought that this was a mad scholar talking to the donkey.

In the cubicle, the toad man put away the small map, rolled it up and put it back on his back, took a booklet again, flipped through it, and the round head of the small webbed swiped over the lines, and muttered for a moment.

"I just ate it yesterday, so today I changed the taste and bought some goose meat. ”

"Good. ”

Lu Liangsheng asked for two geese in the past, which were killed and roasted, and asked the vendor to wrap them in lotus leaves, and tied a rope to carry it in his hand.

"It's time to go to Qishan. ”

The surroundings are still bustling and noisy, and all kinds of shouting and bargaining voices are full.

"The six texts that are said to be good, how can they change their hexagrams. ”

"Over there, don't put your hands on it if you don't buy it!"

"Take a look, take a look, good fabric. ”

The scholar in the green gauze robe, leading the old donkey to squeeze the crowd of people coming and going, walked through this market.

.......

After leaving Ning'an City, he walked along the direction of Qishan Mountain that he inquired about in the city, and walked on the road in the mountains.

Under the bookshelf where the donkey's buttocks are placed, the compartment is open, and the toad Taoist stretches out his two small short legs, hanging outside, leaning on a stack of books behind him, holding a goose wing, and looking at the mountain scenery outside this forest with great enjoyment.

"It's familiar....."

The undulating mountains in his eyes couldn't help but sigh, and then, he lowered his head and continued to gnaw on his wings.

The scholar who walked slowly in front of the donkey's head looked back, did not speak, and now he was almost to the Qishan that the master said, but the closer he got to it, the more careful he became, and from time to time he compared whether the surrounding mountains were consistent with the map.

Soon, out of the boundary of Chaoningzhou to the west, and walked for another day, the surrounding mountains became steeper and steeper, and the green foothills gradually decreased, and I was used to seeing the mountains and rivers in the south, and when I saw the land in the northwest of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, I couldn't help but feel desolate.

"Master, this should be the Qishan range, right? Why is your cave in such a desolate corner?"

Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey up the ridge, and the brown and yellow stretched in front of him, like a brown earth dragon stretching to the end of the world, and the occasional mountain edge was just far away like a big tomb.

"You really don't remember the wrong location?"

The toad Taoist jumped off the bookshelf, walked to the apprentice with his frog flippers in his hands, and stood under a small tree, his eyes sweeping around solemnly.

"How can a teacher forget where his cave is located?"

Hong Lian floated over, sat on a nearby branch, covered his mouth and chuckled: "Then how did we get to Shunyuan and carry a long way?"

“.......”

The toad glanced at her, snorted, and turned away with his hands...... As long as the old man returns to the cave and resumes his cultivation, see if you are a little female ghost who dares to be so presumptuous!

Crawl back into the cubicle and flip it: "It's not here, let's go ahead and see." ”

The range of Qishan is very large, and it is normal not to find it for a while, Lu Liangsheng will not complain, he rested for a while, put the second book of "Mountains and Seas Atlas" back on the shelf, and continued to hurry, whether there is still this book behind, he doesn't want to worry too much, anyway, if there is a fate, it is still encountered, and it is not beautiful to force it.

In the afternoon, the sky tilts to the top of the mountain, and as far as the eye can see, the surrounding rolling ridges are covered with a layer of glow.

"If the mountain is higher and greener, it will really look like Qixia Mountain. ”

When Lu Liangsheng looked at this piece of remnant red and muttered, the toad Taoist who was standing on the head of the donkey and looking at it with a web on his forehead was stunned for a moment, and the frog's mouth opened and laughed.

"The old man has seen it!

Lu Liangsheng pointed in the direction of the round webbed head, and in the middle of the intersection and merging of the two 'earth dragons', there was a single peak, which looked like a withered tree on the brown and yellow slopes from a distance.

"Get over!

In the excited urging of the toad Daoist, Lu Liangsheng led the old donkey to carefully avoid the sharp soil and rock, went down to the foot of the mountain, and passed in the direction of the lone front, a withered old forest was strangely twisted, a few large rocks mottled sand grains stood quietly, and the towering mountain in front of him became majestic as he approached, and there were also many green embellishments on it.

Walking to the foot of the mountain, the toad Daoist jumped off the donkey's head excitedly, and his flippers stepped on the ground and ran towards a place where he could go up the mountain.

"Haha...... The old man replied ......"

Syllable!

Tripped by a stone under his feet, the big horn fell to the ground, and the long tongue was ejected and put on his mouth, when Lu Liangsheng hurried over, the toad Taoist got up carelessly, dragged the long tongue behind him, and continued to run forward.

"Hahaha!!"

"The old man is back—"

In a moment, the short figure disappeared at the entrance of the mountain road.

Lu Liangsheng withdrew his hand with a smile, led the old donkey and followed the master, winding up the mountain road overgrown with weeds, listening to the excited laughter of the toad Daoist echoing in the mountains from a distance.

After a moment, the laughter suddenly stopped.

The scholar frowned, sped up, and pushed aside the branches hidden by a mountain wall, and the mountain path above became open, like a small high platform.

"Master?"

On the other side of the field of vision, the toad stood with his back to him, his long tongue dragged crookedly on the ground, looking at the other side with a dull expression.

Clusters of weeds grew on the flat ground, stretching past the mountain wall, and the high stone gate climbed up the moss, slanting to one side, revealing a dark hole.

"Sure enough...... Stolen. ”

The toad sat down.