The last rays of light fell down the hills, and darkness came like a tidal wave.

The lights of the mountain village are gradually extinguished, and in the spring ploughing season, the villagers have to sleep earlier than usual after a tiring day, and occasionally a few dog barks in the middle of the night.

Wangwangwws—

The night breeze blew the fence courtyard, and under the swaying cypress trees, Lu Liangsheng came out of the stove room with food, walked under the eaves and returned to the room, and soon, the dim light illuminated the window lattice.

"Master, it's time to eat. ”

In the warm yellow room, Lu Liangsheng put the meal full of rice and braised pork on the table, next to the pillow on the couch, the toad Taoist covered with bedding sat up, with a black towel around his face, climbed on the table and looked at the slowly rice and fat in front of him and smacked his lips, but he sat down and sighed dejectedly.

Seeing the apprentice, he hurriedly covered the black scarf and waved the other web.

"Turn aside, don't look. ”

The scholar smiled and sat down on the edge of the bed behind the toad.

"Master, two beards will grow, just two beards, don't you see that Lao Sun has two handfuls of beards on his mouth?"

Someone outside seemed to hear it, and the voice of a Taoist was heard.

"Lao Lu, don't make fun of this way, I can listen. ”

In the room, the toad Taoist looked at the food and wanted to eat but couldn't eat it, the two little short legs stretched out and straightened, the two webs wrapped around the chest, and the two cheeks were bulging and contracting.

"It doesn't grow on your mouth....."

Then, he let go of his webbing and pointed at his face with anger: "The teacher is a toad! Where does the toad have a beard? Let other demons see it, isn't it a joke for the old man?"

Lu Liangsheng tried his best to scrape the comforting words in his mind, thought about it, organized the words, and said: "Aren't the old pig and Qiyou demons? ”

"They?" As soon as he said that he would leave the customs in the afternoon and return to the village, the toad was even more angry: "It's the pig demon who laughs the most, and the tree demon, just touch the teacher if you have nothing to do...... I don't know what went wrong, but a pair of whiskers grew. ”

As he spoke, he also glanced at the fragrant braised pork, swallowed his saliva, and reached out to get the chopsticks.

Lu Liangsheng, who was sitting on the edge of the bed, had actually thought about this problem, and when he mentioned it now, he couldn't help frowning, staring at the black towel on the face of the toad Daoist, and suddenly patted his leg hard.

"Master, it may have something to do with the Fish Demon Demon Pill, and most of the whiskers are also fish whiskers!"

The scholar opened his mouth suddenly, frightened the originally webbed toad, unstable, and fell directly on the table, Lu Liangsheng got closer, and stretched out his hand to help him up: "Master, in fact, there are two fish whiskers, which are quite good-looking, showing majesty!"

Hearing the word 'majesty', the toad leaned against the edge of the bowl, rubbed his chin suspiciously, narrowed his eyes, touched the two whiskers at the corners of his mouth, and glanced at the apprentice next to him.

"Liangsheng, are you serious?"

Lu Liangsheng smiled and nodded: "It's true." ”

Over there, the toad Taoist took off the black scarf, took the bronze mirror, looked at it for a long time, the toad grinned and smiled and made a few expressions, it seemed that it was not bad, nodded with satisfaction with the bronze mirror, sat back on the side of the bowl with double flippers, took the chopsticks, and ate comfortably.

Da Da shaved a few mouthfuls of rice and swallowed it, rolled his long tongue, dragged the braised pork on the noodles and ate it into his mouth, chewed the fat aftertaste slowly, Yu Guang saw that the apprentice was still sitting there, and asked vaguely: "Liangsheng.... What else?"

The toad Daoist's mouth was stuffed with food, and his speech was vague, which made Lu Liangsheng next to him smile, and when he saw that the master was fine, he felt a lot more comfortable.

"It's okay...... Just take a look. ”

Watching the master eat is actually quite interesting, but after that, the scholar still told him about what happened in the past two months, and he didn't get married, and the toad Taoist knew about it, as for the mountain and sea beasts on his body were busy with marriage at the time, and he didn't say anything about dealing with the painted skin demon.

"As a teacher, I know that thing is weird, and the magic weapon to collect it in the future is to collect demons. ”

After eating, the toad lay down on the futon, scratched his belly, remembered the beginning of spring at this time, and sat up again: "By the way, are we going to leave Qixia Mountain, remember the agreement you made with the emperor last time?"

"Hmm. ”

Lu Liangsheng cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks and took them to the outside water tank to clean, he had promised Emperor Yang Jian of Sui earlier, so he naturally wanted to go over, an emperor can be so courteous, this hospitality is rare.

However, before going to Chang'an, there is one more thing to do, that is, last year, I promised the major sects to go to Luohe Town, not only to erect monuments, but also to pile up and carve stones one by one, so that it seems that I am going to repay the master's crimes, of course, these are definitely not enough, and there is still something that can be done, only to return the magic weapons that the master plundered to others.

Anyway, let's make up for it one by one. ’

When I returned to the house and talked to the master for a while, Hong Lian also came from the temple, and the two leaned against each other under the eaves, quietly watching a branch stretching into the corner of the eaves swaying in the wind.

"This time I went out, it may be a long time, and you will have to worry more about things at home. ”

The plain white dress squeezed the man's hand on his lap, leaned on his shoulder, looked at the branch that stretched down, and only hummed before speaking.

"When you leave, take Qi You with you, although she is vague, but the Tao is still there, in case something happens, maybe it can play a big role. ”

"Then are you at ease?" Lu Liangsheng accentuated his tone and emphasized: "Qi Youchang is extremely beautiful, and you trust me." ”

Hong Lian hesitated, leaned back on her shoulder, and smiled.

"Red mercy letter childe. ”

In the window lattice behind him, the toad Taoist who was flipping through the recipe in the room poked out half of his face from the side of the booklet, and thought he was talking about something serious, but he actually said this?

It's better to look at two more dishes..... Well, this dish is good, the southern sauce seeps into the tender sheep, and it is steamed for two hours, and the taste is to the bone.....

The lights shook slightly, the men and women under the eaves said a lot, the dogs in the village barked quietly, sent away the red pity, Lu Liangsheng returned to the house, on the bed, the toad Taoist covered the futon and fell asleep, picked up the small book that had not been closed on the side and put it on the table, then blew the lamp, lay down in wide clothes, thought about the future, and slowly fell asleep.

Soon, Lu Liangsheng was going to travel far north, and the news that he was going to Chang'an to become an official spread, and the old and young in the village also knew it before, the sky was shining in the east and rising into the clouds, and the villagers who fetched water, washed, and washed rice in the morning gathered together to chat about their daily routines as usual.

"I heard that Liangsheng is leaving, do you know?"

"When the time comes, you will know, and when the time comes, you will make him a few more cakes to eat on the way. ”

“...... This will be to be an official, listening to people outside, that Chang'an is very big, enter from the east gate, and walk a day before coming out of the west gate. ”

"Ouch, it's so much bigger than Fushui County?"

"Alas, if I have the chance, I really want to go out and see the outside world. ”

"That is, the king is half blind....."

"That half-blind disciple is a good student, there is a place to live over there, who are we going to live in? I heard that the street side is not allowed to sleep. ”

When the parents talked about this, a woman rubbing her clothes cried out, wiped the water stains on the back of her hand, and stood up.

"Isn't that a good life? ”

The women and men who were busy around raised their eyes, and on the way to the fence courtyard, Lu Liangsheng, who was dressed in a green shirt and white robe, led the old donkey and carried two bookshelves out slowly, followed by Lu Laoshi and his wife.

Seeing someone in the village looking over, he nodded at them with a smile, this time he went out, in fact, he didn't want to do it, so the time of leaving was also known to the family.

"Dad, mother, don't send it, it's not the first time you've been far away. ”

Walking through the entrance of the village, Lu Liangsheng turned around and waved goodbye to his parents and Xiaoxian, the latter three of them have also experienced it a few times, but they don't feel too sad, they just tell them to be careful outside, and when they are homesick after finishing their work, they will come back to see.

In the midst of his mother's babbling words, the scholar led the donkey and walked away, quietly turned his back on the father and daughter next to him, and wiped the corners of his eyes.

The sun pours into the mountains and forests, and the crisp birds chirp in the forest.

On the mountain road in the past, the Taoist yawned, sleepily sat on the roadside stone basking in the morning sun, this time he was going to follow, the fat pig squatted on the ground, eating cakes, and there was a nail rake with a wooden body and iron head on his shoulder.

On the back of the neighing old donkey, between the shaking bookshelves, the toad changed into a beautiful dress, pushed open the small door, subconsciously patted the rope tied around his waist, and waved the frog flipper.

"Liangsheng, you can go on your way!"

The scholar in front of the donkey's head held the reins and turned his face slightly, nodded with a smile, and beckoned the Taoist and pig demons on the side of the road to get up.

Son~~

The old donkey raised his neck, shook his mane, followed the footsteps of his master, hissed excitedly, shook the copper bell under his neck, and jingled and wandered among the mountain roads.

The sound of jingling bells echoed, and in the distance in the Honglian Temple, a woman in a white dress stood under the old pine.

What I want to say, I have already said it in the past two days, Lu Liangsheng walked to the side of the road, looked at the waving red pity, raised his sleeves and said goodbye.

"Let's go!"

He whispered softly and turned to leave, however, not long after passing the Honglian Temple, in the middle of the mountain road ahead, there were eight big men wearing short hexagrams and open chests lined up, and each of them had a burden on their shoulders, like a wall blocking there.

"Uncle Pan, ...... you guys?"

"Your mother is worried that you will go to Chang'an, and when you become an official, you don't have a confidant, so let the eight of us go with you. ”

Lu Pan shook his chest muscles twice, and waved his hand to snap: "Don't worry, with our eight uncles supporting you in the scene, even if the emperor bullies you, you will also lift his Jinluan Palace!"

Then, the voice quieted.

“..... Liangsheng, in fact, there are eight uncles, and they haven't seen anything in the world, so they want to go and see it, and if you bring everything out, you won't tell us to go back, right?

This..... Lu Liangsheng did have some difficulties, he was originally on the road simply, but there were eight more people at once, and his journey would definitely be much slower.

Looking at the eight uncles looking at him expectantly, he really wanted to refuse to let them go back, and he was a little embarrassed, not to mention that when the other party arrived in Chang'an, he really wanted to be an official, and he really needed a group of trustworthy people under his hands.

"That's okay, Uncle Pan, but you must listen to me on the way. ”

"Don't talk about the road, even if you get to Chang'an, the emperor's words are not good!"

Hearing these words, everyone laughed along, echoing through the mountains and fields, attracting passers-by and traders to turn their eyes.

The sun was shining, and a group of more than 10 people laughed loudly, lively and lively all the way to the north.