Chapter 3, The Taoist and the Mister
At this point,
On a mountain ten miles away from Baiju Town, Yao Zhenyi walked on this rugged mountain road with a bamboo basket on his back, at a glance, the road was surrounded by forests, wild grass and rocks, and this muddy and uneven mountain road gave people an ethereal feeling of winding paths leading to secluded places, but there was no Zen room here, and the flowers and trees were quite deep.
"Whoa-"
Soon, the boy came to the side of a stream formed by the impact of a waterfall, and under the crystal clear stream there were those small pebbles, not treasures, but some more pleasing stones, the stones were colorful, and in this stream they were more and more smooth and round by the current.
Then Yao Zhenyi bent down and squatted down to wash his face, the stream water was not only cool but also a little chilly, he picked up a little water with both hands and patted his face vigorously, and then wiped his face with his clothes, then got up and stretched out his hand to block his face and looked at the sky through the gap between his fingers, only to see that the sun at this time was a little hot, and the young man was already soaked with sweat behind him. I thought to myself, it's already noon, no wonder it's so hot, it seems that I have to hurry up and pick the herbs.
Thinking of this, the boy stopped and walked deeper into the mountains on straw sandals across the stream.
"Dragon Grass!?"
As soon as he was halfway through, Yao Zhenyi saw that not far ahead, a dragon grass with thin branches and large leaves was growing in a crack in a pile of rocks, which was gently swaying with the wind at this time, as if beckoning to the young man.
Yao Zhenyi swallowed his saliva, good guy! That's Long Yan Cao, it can be exchanged for a lot of money!
Although the young man was greedy for the dragon herb, he still remembered what the shopkeeper Sun said about this herb, "The shopkeeper Sun said that there are generally poisonous insects around this dragon grass, I don't know where it is......"
After Yao Zhenyi muttered to himself, he suddenly ran, but instead of running to the pile of rocks, he ran to a tree and hid, only showing his head to look over there, and then he made a "squeak" sound in his mouth, and he took a stone in his hand and threw it in the direction of the dragon grass, and the sound of the stone hitting the pile of stones sounded.
......
However, the answer to the young man was only the silence around him, Yao Zhenyi was a little puzzled, could it be that the shopkeeper Sun lied to himself?
After a while, Yao Zhenyi walked forward suspiciously, who knew that as soon as he stepped forward, he saw an incredible scene, and his pupils shrank even more after seeing the situation clearly.
“!!!”
I saw that there was a pool of blood behind the pile of rocks, and there was a poisonous insect about two meters long, with a triangular head, and extremely bright red scales all over the body, and there was a round hole-like hole in the head of the poisonous insect, as if it was instantly pierced through the head by some kind of sharp weapon and died, and the scarlet tongue was exposed, obviously the dead could not die anymore, but the tragic death of the poisonous insect, and the body that exuded a foul smell made the young man a little sick to his stomach, and his heart palpitated.
Seeing this scene, Yao Zhenyi looked left and right vigilantly, and when he found that there was still silence around him, he was a little puzzled, except for himself, there was no one else here?
Although Yao Zhenyi was a little puzzled by how this poisonous insect died, he couldn't think of a reason, he shook his head, since he couldn't figure it out, he didn't think about it...
So he stopped paying attention to the dead poisonous insect, turned around and squatted down, took out a small hoe from the bamboo basket behind him, and dug up the "dragon grass......
......
At the same time, just as the boy began to dig up the dragon grass in the mountains.
In the town of Hakuko,
Even in the middle of the day, there are still a lot of people coming and going.
And in one of the many stalls, there sat a young Taoist priest wearing a pale Taoist robe and a purple golden lotus crown on his head.
At this time, the young Taoist priest's right hand was holding the slender jade hand stretched out by a newly married young woman sitting opposite him, looking at it intently, laughing while looking at it, which was very strange.
It is also strange to say, everyone in the world knows that the crown worn by the Taoist priest of the unified vein of the world is the yellow crown, the five old crowns, and the five mountain crowns, but I haven't seen any Taoist priest wear this purple golden lotus crown.
I saw that the jade hand held by the young Taoist priest actually appeared in the palm of his hand, and what appeared in the picture was all the situation that happened in the mountains of the young Yao Zhenyi.
The strangest thing was that the newlywed young woman sitting opposite was unaware of it, as if she couldn't see the picture. The woman thought to herself, what did this young Taoist see after looking at palmistry for so long? Then again, he is really good-looking, but this smile is really a bit infiltrating, could he be a fool?!
So she called twice: "Dao Chief, Dao Chief!"
The young Taoist priest coughed and said with a smile: "The muscles are like jade skin, the eyebrows are like beautiful willows, the waist is light and the eyes are full of spring water, and the husband and wife must have sex like a fish in water......
“......” When the young woman heard this, her face immediately turned red, and her heart beat faster and immediately withdrew her hand, and then gave the young Taoist priest a roll of the eyes. I thought to myself, what nonsense is this man talking about! I saw the young woman throw a flattering look, and when I looked down again, it was a bulging bag. The young Taoist priest glanced at it without a trace, the great murderer!
After a while, when the young woman finished counting the money, the young Taoist priest reached out to receive the money, the hand suddenly stretched out a finger and slashed twice in his palm, this move frightened the young Taoist priest quickly took the silver and sat upright, silently reciting in his heart, "Ani Buddha Ani Buddha Ani Buddha Ami Buddha ......Amita!
Until the young woman left, she didn't forget to turn her head and give the young Taoist priest a flattering look, but I really couldn't see that the person was very handsome and timid, and I couldn't help but complain a little about the incomprehensible style of the young Taoist priest......
The young Taoist priest looked at the graceful back of the young woman who was gradually moving away, as if he knew what she was thinking, and said with a smile, "Poor Dao is very handsome, but his courage is not small...... Then a small rainbow light that no one could see flew from the sky, and it flew directly into the sleeve of the young Taoist, and the young Taoist priest was not surprised, but rolled up the sleeve robe, stretched out his hands and crossed his fingers, hugged the back of his head with his palm, leaned back on the stool, looked ahead and muttered with a smile: "The breeze does not rise, the waves are shocking, I have no idea, and I am rewarded by God." I am righteous and awe-inspiring, ghosts are frightened, I am full of affection, and heaven and earth should be in my heart. I have a lofty ambition in my chest, so the water is windy, and the sky is high and the earth is wide for me to swim ......"
It's just that when the young Taoist priest looked down and saw a few lonely pieces of scattered silver on the stall, his originally comfortable expression disappeared instantly, his face drooped, and he smiled bitterly: "The breeze is hidden in the sleeves, it is difficult to buy three catties of wine, and I am sad, sad, sad, sad......"
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In the mountains ten miles away from the town, a young man in a Tsing Yi cloth shirt carrying a bamboo basket and wearing straw sandals is walking on the way down the mountain.
The herb that Shopkeeper Sun asked for has already been picked, and with that Longyan grass, it is considered a lot of harvest today! Thinking of this, Yao Zhenyi became happy, and quickened his pace and walked in the direction of the lower mountain......
Soon, Yao Zhenyi returned to the town after a while, but this time he didn't see Liang Zhongnian sitting here, and said in his heart, presumably Brother Liang went to buy wine and drink again...... Yao Zhenyi shook his head helplessly, then stopped thinking about it, and stepped into the town gate and walked forward.
It's just that the place he is going to now is not the Sun family pharmacy in the town, but another place.
southeast of the town,
The road here is lined with bluestone tiles to form a single road, and on both sides are dozens of peach trees, and not far behind the oblique peach trees are the many houses made of mud and stone with green tiled roofs. It's spring, and it's the season when the peach blossoms are in full bloom, and some of them fall on the ground around the four sides when they're full.
At this time, if someone looks at the past, those peach trees full of peach blossoms, the road paved with bluestone tiles, and the surrounding houses really look like the paradise in the book. As the saying goes, last year, in this door, the peach blossoms on the human face were red.
At the end of this bluestone brick-paved and peach blossom road is a private school academy, at this time, there is a sound of immature reading in the academy, "If you learn without thinking, you will be reckless, and if you think without learning, you will die." ”
Yao Zhenyi was lying outside the window of the academy, quietly showing his head and looking inside, and the young man saw that many Mengtong were sitting in front of him, holding books in both hands on the desk in front of him, looking at the sages in the books and reading aloud, and his eyes couldn't help but flash a trace of envy.
In the middle of the seats of the Mengtongs, there was a middle-aged Confucian with gray temples, who walked forward with his hands behind his back and listened, and nodded his head lightly in appreciation when he heard a certain passage.
Just when Yao Zhen was listening attentively to those Mengtong reading, he suddenly found that the middle-aged Confucian scholar turned his head, and the young man quickly lowered his head in panic, and then quietly stretched out his head to look forward, the middle-aged Confucian was smiling at himself, his eyes were gentle and without any blame.
Yao Zhenyi hurriedly left the window as if he had done something bad, turned around and sat on the ground, and then put his head on his knees with his hands on his knees, he didn't go to the window again to watch the Meng Tong reading, just squatting on the ground and quietly listening to the sound of reading inside. I thought to myself, if yes, if only I could study in it...... But......
The young man who listened to the sound of reading and thought about his heart fell asleep unconsciously, and in his dream he seemed to have encountered something happy, and the corners of his mouth inadvertently rose quietly.
After a long time, when the sound of reading inside stopped, followed by the laughter and thanksgiving of the Mengtongs.
"Goodbye, Mr. Su!"
After school, the Mengtong children said goodbye to the middle-aged Confucian scholar with small bookcases on their backs, and then jumped out of the academy. After everyone left, only the middle-aged Confucian was still standing at the door, but when he saw the young man squatting on the ground at the window next to the entrance of the academy, he smiled gently and did not make a sound to wake up the young man, and then turned around and walked towards the house.
"Well...... Sue, Mr. Su?!"
The boy finally woke up from his dream, and as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw the middle-aged Confucian standing in front of him at some point, and he was a little overwhelmed. Then he seemed to feel some warmth on his body, and he actually covered a shawl at some point, and the clever young man immediately thought that it was covered by Mr. Su when he was asleep, and a warm current surged through his heart.
And the middle-aged Confucian scholar, that is, Mr. Su in Yao Zhenyi's mouth, saw the young man's overwhelmed expression, and smiled gently: "Don't worry, if you're tired, sleep more." ”
Hearing this, Yao Zhenyi hurriedly got up and said ashamedly: "Mr. Su, I was rude...... Don't peek inside ......"
The middle-aged Confucian reached out and touched the young man's head, which was almost the height of his chest, and he was really getting taller and taller, and said with a smile: "It is natural for Mr. to teach students, isn't it?"
"Yes!" the boy nodded heavily, and then smiled happily.
Seeing this scene, Mr. Su also smiled gently at the young man. Mr. treats people like a spring breeze forever, like a drizzle of moisturizing things silently.