Chapter 3: Trickery

"Lu Liangshengβ€”"

At the end of the line of sight, the pitch-black colors extended infinitely, and when the old man's voice sounded, there was a faint croaking of frogs.

"Master..... Master......"

Some panicked tones exited, Lu Liangsheng looked around left and right, the darkness that extended out, gradually had the outline of the courtyard, the dim dark yellow lights lit up in the room in the nearby courtyard, there was a noise of rustling, people were building, the figures were cutting heads to ears on the paper window, and some were lying on it as if they wanted to break the paper window and peep into the outer courtyard.

The atmosphere was eerie.

"Master!" Lu Liangsheng shouted again, suddenly subconsciously dodged, took a step to the side, the soil came out of the green of beans, and then, breaking through the soil, visible to the naked eye, rose rapidly, became thick and tall, in the blink of an eye, it became a towering ancient tree, the night wind blew, the branches were luxuriant, and it shook gently.

The air flowed, the stone table and stone bench appeared, Lu Liangsheng rubbed his eyes, and when he opened it, the old man with white hair was sitting there, wearing the gray robe of the day.

"Master..... this is in a dream, right?" Lu Liangsheng asked carefully.

The old man looked at him carefully, for a moment, and nodded: "This is a dream, it can also be true, it only depends on the deeds of one person." He took the black gourd around his waist and poured it down to the stone table, and the wine glass appeared out of thin air, catching the wine flowing down.

"Liangsheng, you come and taste it. As he spoke, he picked up the glass and raised it.

Lu Liangsheng hesitated, but still walked over and took it from the old man's hand, the wine in the cup swayed, crystal clear, and had a strong fragrance.

He used to drink a little wine, someone in the village married a wife, set up a banquet to invite the whole village to eat, and the wine would be a little bit, but the current wine is exceptionally mellow.

The entrance is a little prickly, and the rest is all the sweetness of the aftertaste, and there is a crispy and numb feeling crawling over the limbs.

"It washes away mortal dirt. ”

Lu Liangsheng pinched the wine glass and raised his gaze: "Huh?"

"You don't have to understand so much, just do what I say. The old man was expressionless, his wide sleeves slid to the sides, stood up and walked over to the young man, and reached out to caress the top of his head.

"I practiced for the teacher all my life, and I was kind to others, but I was seriously injured by a sneak attack, I thought that the lonely old forest, I didn't think that I would be associated with you at the end, so I sent you a creation, how far you can go, it all depends on yourself. ”

"That Literacy ....."

The old man withdrew his hand, still expressionless: "You already know." ”

"Will?"

Lu Liangsheng touched his forehead, he didn't feel anything at all, and when he was half-convinced, the old man over there turned his back to him, and raised his head to look at the night sky.

"Now for the teacher to pass you a set of mantras, if there is a bright moon in the sky at night, you will face it, according to the mantra, if you don't understand, you can go to Qixia Mountain Grottoes to find me. ”

Qixia Mountain is the mountain where Lu Liangsheng often collects firewood.

There are only a few dozen words, some of which are dry and difficult to understand, and even if Liangsheng has a talent for words and paintings, it took him almost half an hour to memorize them.

"Okay, everything is done, those two books sent to you are for the master to get from his hands, they are all some small tricks, pick up some exercises, remember well, don't talk about it with others. ”

After that, the sleeves of the old man's robe flicked.

The dim light swayed, everything around him slowly disappeared, the darkness came like a tide, and Lu Liangsheng felt embraced by the black.

The raindrops slid over the thatched tips and fell to the dirt on the eaves, the inaudible sound, the soft sound of 'popping', on the thatched wooden bed, the boy shouted in his dream: "Master-"

I opened my eyes, smacked, and sat up from the bed.

In the field of vision, the sunlight shone down through the thick rain clouds, the incense burning in the window had already burned out, the incense ash was stained with water stains and sprinkled all over the ground, the fresh morning breeze mixed with water vapor blew into the window lattice, and the slightly cool cold made Lu Liangsheng sober up.

Outside, Li Jinhua shouted at two hens, and her sister ran over with Chai He humming a little song she learned nowhere, and everything became real again.

The figure on the bed hurriedly got off the ground, put on his shoes and turned out the two books from under the bed, looked at the handwriting on them, and subconsciously murmured.

""Nanshui Collection" ...... "Qinghuai Supplementing Dream" ......"

The slight voice stopped abruptly, Lu Liangsheng's eyes widened, pinched his cheeks, pinched the two books casually, and stood in place in amazement: "I ..... really know how to read......"

"Liangsheng! ”

Li Jinhua's voice came from the stove, in the house, the young man who hid the book again hurriedly went out, as in the past, after breakfast, he went down to work with his father, and in the afternoon, he had his own time, found the book and quietly turned a few pages, and now after he could understand it, every word and column on it was chewed repeatedly in his mouth.

"There are people in Nanshui who are clumsy in ......., and the neighbors leave a thing, and the lazy people in the village snatch it, and they can't afford to pick it up...... Not two moments, three inches of earthwork, facing the southwest, the name of the mountain stone technique. ”

Lu Liangsheng frowned and looked at the sky outside: "Isn't it the right time?"

Put away the book, quietly went out, ran to the southwest outside the village, at this time there were still farmers busy in the field, saw the young man smiled and said hello, bent down to continue to busy.

Liangsheng found a slightly hidden position, dug a pile of soil, and sat cross-legged opposite according to the method in the book, pinched his fingers, and silently recited the mantra, these are the side skills recorded in the two books, ordinary people can't practice any effect, and people with advanced Taoism disdain to use them.

But for teenagers who don't even count as beginners, it's a novelty.

In the two days, they were quite diligent, and at night, if the moon came out, according to what the master said, they ran outside in the middle of the night, worshiped the bright moon, and recited the mantra, only to feel the pouring down of the forest white, shining on the whole body, and the cool cold flowed slowly in the body like flowing water.

Sometimes when I went up the mountain, I would run to the boulder and tell my doubts, and when I slept, I would get the guidance of the old man, and for four days in a row, my body became lighter, and my thinking in my mind changed rapidly.

Reading those two books, I don't feel bored.

On the fifth day, as soon as the morning dawned, Lu Liangsheng was called up by Lu Laoshi, originally thought that he was working in the field, but he saw that the men in the village were gathered together, some of them had donkey carts at home, loaded with a lot of things, Lu Liangsheng's own millet and millet grains, a few beast skins, more than 20 baskets, and several large stacks of firewood were also in one of the donkey cart bodies.

"Hurry up and eat, and come with us into the city. Lu Laoshi stuffed a few pieces of steamed buns from his wife and stuffed one for his son, "You have to go a long way and eat well." ”

Not long after, Lu Xiaoxian and Li Jinhua came out of the house to see each other off, and told the good students who had never been far away, don't make trouble for everyone along the way, don't run around and so on.

"Your father promised to buy you a pen, remember, don't touch other people's things when you get to the city, the things of the people in the city are expensive, and if they are broken, our family can't afford to pay for them. ”

After some advice, the time was almost up, and the men who took the lead shouted, and Lu Liangsheng followed his father behind the donkey cart and set off towards the nearest town outside the village.

In these years, it is still a group of people who are relatively safe, if they meet a bad person, they can still have a care, most of the people in the mountains are fierce, and there are sickles and firewood knives hidden under the board of the donkey cart.

The speed of a group of more than a dozen people is not slow, and they are still resting in the mountains at noon, and it has arrived in the afternoon, which is only five miles away from Fushui County.

When it was almost dusk, people from other villages had gathered in the market outside the city, and many good things were placed on the roadside, and the merchants who received the goods came and went.

One night, Lu Liangsheng's things were all processed, and the next morning, Lu Laoshi took him into the city to find a shop to sell pen and ink.