The carriage was moving on the road of Wangjiazhou, as the three of them were in no hurry. I walked all the way to play, and walked for a month to the foot of Mount Emei in Jiazhou.

Mount Emei, the terrain is steep, the scenery is beautiful, mainly composed of four peaks: Da'e Mountain, Er'e Mountain, San'e Mountain, and Si'e Mountain. It is known as the "Emei World Show". "Emei County Chronicles" cloud: "The clouds are condensed and green, and the makeup is far away, really like the head of the moth eyebrows, thin and long, beautiful and glamorous, so it is called Mount Emei." It is one of the 36 caves of Taoism in the Three Emperors Sutra, and it is also the location of the Emei faction, and later it became the four famous Buddhist mountains, and the ancient Buddhist temples are everywhere. (This can't help but remind me of a scenic spot in the author's hometown, saying that it is a temple of Guanyin, but it turns out that it is full of Taoist priests, and there are also Sanqing Temple... However, now the famous Leshan Giant Buddha has not yet been built, so in fact, there are still more Taoist priests on this mountain.

Zhang Nianxin and his entourage came to the foot of the mountain, only to see the green forest under the mountain, and the white clouds on the mountain as buns, which was really a good scene. What, do you say that as a famous Taoist mountain, do you have any immortal energy? Have you ever met an immortal? A fairy ghost, I saw that the stone steps from the foot of the mountain to the halfway waist of the mountain were full of people. The noises of quarrels, shouts, and mountain songs are deafening and endless, and they are really not lively.

Dugu Xinya couldn't help but ask with some doubts: "Sister, what festival is it today?"

Dugu Feng looked at it for a while, and saw that some of these people were even officials from Jiazhou. Some are people from other Taoist temples, for example, those who wear black striped robes and Zhuangzi scarves on the Zuoshan Road are from the Zhenyi Sect, and those who wear wide-bodied blue robes and Chunyuan scarves are from Longhu Mountain. So he joked to Zhang Nianxin: "Look at those groups of Taoist leaders, are there any Taoist friends of your father?" ”

Zhang Nianxin shook his head: "I heard my father say that Louguandao has not been out of the mountain for a long time, and he will definitely not send someone here." Let's go up and ask and see what makes so many people gathered. "I asked to know, it turned out that there was still a month of Luo Tian Jiao in Emei Mountain, because the procedure of Luo Tian Jiao is very complicated to burn incense, open the altar, invite water, raise flags, proclaim the list, defile, invite the saint, summon, shun the star, on the table, drop the flag, send the saint and so on. It lasted for a long time, 7749 days, and a large group of pious old pilgrims and other people from the Taoist temple on the mountain came here early to prepare for the participation, so they blocked the mountain road to death.

Looking at this impassable mountain road, Dugu Xinya pursed her lips and said in disappointment: "How can we go with so many people, can we just go back like this?"

Dugu Feng poked her forehead with her finger: "You are really stupid, we went to Shuanglong Temple, and they went to Emei Jinding." It's a different way, and you can't just go another way. ”

Dugu Xinya patted her brain and was funny: "It's not that I'm stupid, it's stupid, it's all to blame, it's all to blame, it's all to blame her..."

The trio bypassed the main road leading to the Golden Dome and turned onto a small mountain road. Aside from the bustling crowd, the ears of the three of them became quiet, only the sound of the mountain apes and the sound of the wind moving, very lonely. The small road is steeper and more difficult to walk than the big road, Dugu Feng and Dugu Xinya, the two eldest ladies, walked for half an hour, they were drenched in sweat, panting, and even their figures were pulled apart by Zhang Nianxin.

Dugu Xinya wiped the Han Zhu on her head, went to the stone wall on the side, and said breathlessly: "Sister Feng, we, let's rest first." ”

Dugu Feng laughed: "On weekdays, I only know how to eat and drink, and my four bodies are not diligent, so I get tired after walking these few steps." Hurry up and keep walking. ”

looked at Dugufeng, who was faltering, Xinya pouted, and said unhappily: "You are embarrassed to say me, you yourself can't walk steadily." ”

"Alas," Dugu Feng took her hand and said helplessly: "Let's go, I didn't joke with you, Wanning Temple is still two hours away from here." If you don't hurry, you won't be able to get there when it's dark. ”

At this time, Dugu Feng in the distance saw that they hadn't followed yet, so he followed.

"Ahh With that, he took out a gourd and drank it to his mouth.

A sweetness came from the gourd, Dugu Feng, and his brows suddenly wrinkled, "What is in your gourd?" snatched the gourd and took a sip, then he was stunned at Dugu Xinya and was angry: "Okay, you dead girl, you are so bold, you dare to drink." ”

Dugu Xinya raised her hand and was about to grab the gourd, and said: "Sister, you give it back to me, give it back to me." ”

Dugufeng lifted the wine gourd and didn't let her touch it. Serious: "No, you're only six years old, and you're not afraid of damaging your body when you drink at this time, tell me where this wine comes from." ”

Dugu Xinya saw that she couldn't get it, so she had to retract her hand, tears were about to flow down, and she pursed her mouth and said: "This is not wine, when we went to pick lychees that day, we picked a lot of them and you didn't eat them. ”

Dugu Feng said coldly: "Fruit wine is not wine, you must have drunk a lot on the way, I will confiscate this pot, and I will settle accounts with you when I go back to the inn tomorrow." ”

When Dugu Xinya heard this, the tears that rolled in her eyes flowed down in an uproar. However, before Dugufeng could persuade him, a brown-haired monkey pounced on Dugufeng with a fruity fragrance, and Dugufeng was startled. "Ahh Dugu Xinya's face turned white with fright, and she shouted to Zhang Nianxin who came over: "Sister Zhang, come and save Sister Feng, she fell from here." ”

When Zhang Nianxin heard this, he hurried over, looked towards the place pointed by Dugu Xinya, and saw that this small ridge was only two zhang high, so he sighed and asked, "Hey, it's not high." What's the matter, why did she suddenly fall down. ”

Dugu Xinya lowered her head and said guiltily: "Blame me, I have to bring some wine to drink, but it attracted a monkey to grab the wine, and Sister Feng was accidentally pushed down by the monkey." ”

Zhang Nianxin patted his forehead and said helplessly: "The apes of Mount Emei often hurt people and have a good reputation. Then he told Dugu Xinya: "I'll go down to find her first, you stay here and don't move." With that, he jumped down from the side. As soon as he landed, he saw Dugu Feng lying on the ground, closing his eyes and frowning, hissing and moaning. Zhang Nianxin stepped forward and saw a small red spot on the left side of her forehead. Zhang Nianxin took out a piece of blue forehead from her arms and wrapped it for her. Asked with concern, "How are you, are you okay?"

Dugufeng raised his hand with difficulty and said weakly: "Feet, my feet." Zhang Nianxin took off her shoes and socks and looked down, and couldn't help but gasp in fright, only to see that her ankles were bloody and red, obviously dislocated.

"What, what's wrong?" Dugufeng's back was also stumped, and he couldn't look up to see his situation clearly.

Zhang Nianxin raised her foot with one hand, blindfolded her with one hand and said, "That, it's nothing, it will hurt a little later, you can bear with it..."

"Ahh Zhang Nianxin was afraid that she would bite her tongue, so she had to put her arm against her mouth in pain, but she didn't know that she was directly bitten by Dugu Feng and bled out. After a while, Zhang Nian's heart was straightened, Dugu Feng suddenly felt a lot more comfortable on his legs, sat up with the stone wall, and said, "What happened just now?"

Zhang Nianxin apologized: "I'm sorry Miss Dugu, if you don't break it quickly, your feet will be useless." How's it going, are you feeling better now?"

Dugu Feng stroked his forehead and wiped his forehead, and said, "It's better." ”

Zhang Nianxin picked up the gourd next to him and wondered: "What kind of wine is in this gourd, as far as I know, monkeys don't seem to like drinking bars." I picked it up and smelled it twice, and was surprised: "There is actually a smell of lychee, how much Xinya's little girl likes to eat lychees." ”

At this time, Dugufeng wanted to stand up against the wall, but Zhang Nianxin put away the wine gourd and hurriedly stopped and said, "Your legs can't walk yet, I'll be you." With that, he put on her shoes, stood in front of her and carefully helped her to his back. Then, she looked at the small hill and suddenly became worried, "This, how can I go up?" The slope is less than three zhang high, and she can go up with a few steps, but she can't go up at all with Dugufeng, a wounded person on her back. At this time, several figures appeared above, and the leader shouted down: "Miss, Miss Zhang, are you okay?"

Zhang Nianxin looked at it fixedly and wondered, "Why are you?"

"Oh, it's my sister who doesn't worry about Xinya, and I'm here to follow you. ”

Dugu Feng climbed on Zhang Nianxin's shoulder and looked up, and said in an inaudible voice: "Fang Wancai? ”

Zhang Nianxin sneered: "Hmph, I beat you up for a bad idea for your cousin." ”

Dugu Feng: "What bad idea?"

"You don't care about this," Zhang Nianxin shouted at him, "Do you have a rope?" Miss Dugu is injured and can't climb the hillside. ”

Fang Wancai shook his head embarrassedly.

Zhang Nianxin was furious: "What's the use of Mrs. Fang asking you to come over and follow, forget it, you take Xinya back to the inn first, and then quickly find someone to help, I'll look nearby to see if there is any other way." ”

Fang Wancai had to nod awkwardly and went down with Dugu Xinya.

Then Zhang Nianxin turned around with Dugu Feng on his back, and said complainingly: "Alas, look at you, you have to join in the fun on the day of Luo Tiandajiao, and come to Wannian Temple to pick some camellia." As a result, it's good, my leg is also injured, and it seems that I can't go, so I'll take care of the injury first. ”

Dugu Feng shook his head and was firm: "No, I still have to go today." ”

Zhang Nianxin was a little impatient: "How can I go? Let me go behind your back, I'm also a girl, can you be considerate of me." ”

Dugu Feng was silent.

"Why, does this Wannian Temple have any special significance to you, you just want to go. ”

"Actually—" Dugu Feng paused for a moment and said, "It's my first time here." ”

"Ah, for the first time? I don't know what's going on in your mind. ”

The so-called unpredictable weather suddenly dropped on Zhang Nianxin's forehead with a raindrop the size of a bean. In an instant, a light rain began to fall in the sky. "It's bad, it's raining, let's find a place to shelter from the rain. ”

Zhang Nianxin carried Dugu Feng around for a moment and came to a river, only to see an old man in a gray robe, sitting against the rain with his back to them facing the water, washing his sword and sharpening his edge......

At this time, Zhang Nianxin stepped forward and asked, "No matter how heavy the rain is in the old man's house, you are not afraid of drenching from the disease." ”

The old man turned his head and glanced at it and said, "You two young offspring don't have to worry about me, I am physically strong." ”

As soon as he turned his head, Zhang Nianxin was taken aback by his appearance, only to see that his temples were white, his facial features were distorted, his eyes were almost bursting out, and his whole face seemed to be run over with a hammer, which was very scary. However, although Zhang Nianxin was a little afraid in her heart, Dugufeng herself was injured, and the clothes she wore in summer were very thin, and she was a little unable to hold on to the rain when she was drenched, and she fell asleep on her. So Zhang Nianchen had no choice but to ask him: "Old man, there is no place to shelter from the rain here." ”

The old man continued to sharpen his sword, and said as he sharpened it: "Yes, Shuanglong Temple, it's not far from here, thirteen miles away." ”

Zhang Nianxin was really angry by his words, and was angry: "What nonsense are you talking about this old man? The mountain road is not far from more than ten miles, and my sister is still injured, waiting to find a place to shelter from the rain." ”

As soon as she heard Zhang Nianxin say that the person she was carrying on her back was injured, the old man turned around and slowly said two words with an expressionless face: "Follow me." "Then he walked forward. Although Zhang Nianxin had some doubts, he still followed him, and soon came to a mountain wall. At this time, I saw that the old man waved his hand is a palm, and this ordinary palm fell on the stone wall, and a dull sound came, and the stone wall immediately split into two halves. A spacious and bright cave suddenly appeared in front of Zhang Nianxin's eyes, stunned her, and stammered, "You, who are you?"

But the old man changed his seriousness just now, and laughed: "Haha, I'm sorry, the mountain has been closed for several years, and the entrance of this cave is definitely not very clean, don't dislike it." Zhang Nianxin hurriedly carried Dugufeng in, found a stone bed and gently helped her sit down.

The old man threw his sword to the ground and said, "I'll go and collect some firewood, and you can wait a minute." After speaking, he disappeared like a smoke, and the brisk pace couldn't help but make Zhang Nianxin a little suspicious that he was disabled.

After the strange old man walked away, Zhang Nianxin wiped the sweat from his forehead casually. Then gently helped Dugufeng sit up, it was summer at this time, Dugufeng's clothes were very cool, and he could even faintly see the white clothes when he was drenched in water. At this time, Dugu Feng also slowly woke up, and saw that there were mountains and rocks all around, and said weakly: "Where are we?"

"Ah, a cave sheltered from the rain. Saying that, Zhang Nianxin carefully uncovered the forehead that was wet by the rain, only to see that the wound below was even a little yellow, and said in distress: "If this is not cured quickly, it will leave a scar on the face." ”

Dugu Feng smiled bitterly and said, "It's a blessing that my leg wasn't broken." ”

Seeing that Dugufeng was no longer in trouble, Zhang Nianxin looked around, only to see that there was only a stone bed, two stone chairs, a stone table, and a hanging jar for making a fire in this cave, which was very simple, but strangely there was almost no trace of debris and dust. She couldn't help but be surprised: "It's strange, this cave is sealed, how did that old Taoist priest make this place spotless." ”

Dugu Feng touched the wound that was a little painful, and said, "Who are you talking about?"

"Ah, nothing, a strange Taoist priest who brought us here. At this time, the strange old Taoist priest ran from the entrance of the cave in a hurry, holding two big trees in his hands, and said, "Okay, okay, I've got the firewood, and I pulled out two saplings because it was too troublesome to collect firewood." As soon as he saw his terrifying appearance, words and deeds, Dugufeng was frightened on the spot and grabbed Zhang

Nianxin's hand asked in a panic: "He, he, who is he?"

Zhang Nianxin held her hand and comforted: "He is the one who led us to this cave to take shelter from the rain, don't be afraid." ”

The Taoist priest laughed: "Alas, don't look at my old way, my face is crooked now, and when I was young, I was also a talent with a face like a crown of jade. So saying, he picked up a tree, and cut it into a pile of wood chips with a scratch of nothing.

Dugu Feng was shocked on the spot, and said with some fear: "Why is this old man so powerful." ”

Zhang Nianxin laughed: "I'm afraid you don't know, this cave originally had a large rock, and it was all about his punch to open this place." ”

When Dugu Feng heard this, he was even more shocked, he even forgot the pain, and asked: "Open the mountain with bare hands? ”

Zhang Nianxin shook his head: "I don't know, maybe he is some strange people in the mountains that we don't know." Seeing that although he looked ugly, he really had no malice, Dugu Feng withdrew his hand.

After the old man had chopped the wood, he made a fire, and then took a few rotten roots and leaves from the branches and threw them into the jar and boiled them.

Zhang Nianxin couldn't help but wonder: "Old man, what are you doing here?"

The old man replied, "What are you doing? ”

This answer made Zhang Nianxin even more puzzled: "That's just some dead leaves, rotten roots, what's the use of boiling?"

The old man laughed: "Hehe, you don't understand this." After that, he no longer replied and hummed to himself.

Dugu Feng was surprised: "This old Taoist priest, his words and deeds are really weird. ”

"Okay," Zhang Nianxin was afraid that Dugufeng would catch a cold, so he took out a coat from the package and put it on her, and said with some reproach: "You, you have to go to the Wannian Temple." As a result, it suddenly became like this, if it weren't for the help of this strange man, you don't know what you would have been hurt. ”

Dugu Feng's face was a little pale, his brows were frowning, he covered his mouth with Juanpa, coughed lightly, and said softly: "Ahem, in fact, I didn't come to Wannian Temple to pick camellia, but—to help you." The undried raindrops knocked off her eyelashes, the cold rain soaked her white gauze clothes, Dugu Feng shrunk in the wide coat and trembled, her eyebrows were full of sickness and sadness, and her words were warm and delicate, such a strange sick posture really had an indescribable sense of beauty, and Zhang Nianxin, a woman who saw it, was also slightly distracted.

For a long time, she wondered, "For me?" Zhang Nianxin was confused by this sudden statement.

"That's right," Dugu Feng nodded, "After a while, I will also leave Shu, Master Wutong of Wannian Temple is a famous Buddhist master in Bashu." I used to have some friendship with him, and I want to ask him to help you improve your martial arts before leaving. Hearing Dugu Feng say the three words of Wannian Temple, the strange Taoist priest suddenly opened his eyes, and the mountain song in his mouth stopped.

Zhang Nianxin laughed when he heard it, learned from Dugu Feng to teach Xinya, pointed to her forehead and said: "You, you say Xinya is stupid every day, and you are as stupid as she is, I am not a martial arts idiot, martial arts are enough to save my life, what's the use of learning so much." Why are you so energetic? You almost broke your leg. ”

When Dugu Feng heard this, he also laughed: "Haha, yes, it's indeed a little stupid." However, in Zhang Nianxin's opinion, this smile was as false and unreal as the smile she pretended in front of her after Xue Qing left.

At this time, the strange Taoist priest suddenly appeared behind Zhang Nianxin, and laughed strangely: "Hehe, you said that you have learned martial arts, and you were dragged by this girl to go to Wutong that old bald donkey to learn martial arts?"

Although Zhang Nianxin was a little surprised that he called Master Wutong a bald donkey, he still nodded.

After hearing this, the Taoist priest stared at her body for a long time and said informally, "Haha, that's good, you take off your clothes, the bodies of martial arts practitioners and ordinary people are much stronger, you let me see." ”

As soon as Zhang Nianxin heard his nonsense, he took out the horizontal knife with a swish, stood in front of him, raised his eyebrows coldly, and said angrily: "What do you want to do for this old disrespectful guy." Dugufeng was also frightened, lifted his coat and hid behind her.

When the old man saw their appearance, he waved his hand and said: "Don't mind, I am eighty years old, and I won't be able to move the lower half of my body for a few years, no matter how beautiful your face and chest are, that is, with pink skeletons." I just want to see if this girl Zhang has the foundation to practice martial arts. ”

For this strange old way, Zhang Nianxin didn't believe a word. In broad daylight, he wanted to pick off the girl's clothes and said that he had no evil intentions, and it was impossible for anyone to believe it. Zhang Nianxin didn't answer, and secretly thought about how to get out in his heart.

Seeing that she was unmoved, her eyes were full of hostility, and the old Taoist said, "Alas, it's really troublesome, and I have to do it myself, if you are a man, you won't have that to take care of." After that, the left hand of the withered bamboo was towards Zhang Nianxin, and the old man shot extremely fast, and before she could react, the tenacious horizontal knife was cut in half by him. Then, taking advantage of this moment, he grabbed Zhang Nianxin and rushed out. Zhang Nianxin wanted to struggle, but found that no matter how he struggled, he still couldn't exert any strength.

Zhang Nianxin had to cry out in horror: "What are you going to do?"

"Hehe, you can't do it here, let's change places"

"Come on, there's a demon. ”