"Hey, Wang Laodao, where do you want to go?" The tall man was dressed in a gorgeous costume, wearing a jade crown, and his appearance was handsome, I don't know which mansion it was, holding a wooden stick with the thickness of a tea bowl and suddenly stopping the Taoist.

"Hey, isn't Your Excellency a guest of the Lu Mansion, why are you looking for the old man so late?" The Taoist looked at the man with a puzzled expression, feeling that there was a strong or faint murderous aura hidden in that house.

"Wang Laodao, how to calculate the thirty taels of silver you pit me last time, you gave me the Three Qing Faxiang, but it is useless at all? How can there be such an easy way to earn thirty taels of silver in the world, if you don't give me an explanation today, then you don't want to go home." The doorman stepped on the mahogany table, put the stick on his shoulder, and stared at the Taoist, as if the Taoist dared to say a word and would be beaten violently.

"That's not right!" the Taoist quickly calculated, he was convinced of his Taoist skills, and he had never made a mistake.

"Your lady can throw the Fa Xiang to the ground once, angering the immortals!" the Taoist looked shocked.

"Well...... How do I know? I see that you are an unscrupulous god who swaggers and deceives, and today I will see that I will not kill you to eliminate harm for the people! lest I deceive the girl who has lost her foot in the future!"

"You are a rough man, how dare you do it, you ......" The Taoist was defenseless and was hit with a stick, and his stomach suddenly turned over the river and the sea, the doorman loves to practice fist and foot kung fu on weekdays, and the Taoist knows some strange skills but can't stop this real tiredness, the corners of his mouth are overflowing with blood, and he glared at the doorman angrily.

"Bastard, you dare to stare at me, haven't you had enough!" The doorman swung his stick and beat him several times in succession, and the Taoist was also bruised in his dodge, and the Taoist was furious, and he wanted to cast a spell when he felt out the spell.

"Phew!" a gust of wind whistled, and the two of them stopped.

"Huang Zhen, what are you doing here!" A big black horse with a red mane is as tall as an ordinary person, and there is a man sitting on the saddle of the jade bead, the man's instrument is lofty, his face is flying, his eyes are phoenix, his eyebrows are lying silkworms, the bridge of his nose is like a wonderful bamboo, a pair of eyes are cold and proud, the man is wearing a white fox brocade fur, and he is wearing a golden crown of eight-toothed treasure Jiao, seeing that the man with a sassy posture is only a weak crown, the man opens his mouth slightly to speak.

"Second son, it's just some private matters, nothing. As soon as the doorman saw the heroic brocade-clothed boy, he instantly restrained his arrogance and became submissive.

"I'm still wandering the streets so late, and I don't want to go home quickly. ”

"Yes, yes, Huang Zhen will go back immediately. ”

Huang Zhen respectfully clasped his fists and saluted, not daring to say a word, and disappeared into the snowy black.

Now only Lu Jingyuan and that person are left, Lu Jingyuan glanced at the person under the horse with an expression of expression, he is still a little familiar with this person, this middle-aged old Taoist came to Yangzhou two years ago, and heard others say that he is a master of the Tao in Bailong Mountain, Xichuan, Yanguo, and operates a business of tending to auspiciousness, avoiding murder, catching demons and eliminating ghosts in Yangzhou.

Outsiders have different reputations about him, some say that he is an unscrupulous god, and some worship him as a living immortal.

Lu Jingyuan looked at the Taoist for a long time without moving, and suddenly spoke.

"I heard that the fortune teller of the king has always been extremely accurate, since you and I have a fate to meet tonight, I hope that the Taoist will help me calculate a hexagram and see where my fate goes, okay?"

"Childe wants to tell fortunes?" Wang Yin glanced at Lu Jingyuan with deep eyes, the latter was still that breezy appearance, completely without the previous customers or nervous or worried looks, it seemed that he didn't believe in these things.

"That's right, fate. ”

Lu Jingyuan pinched the three sticks of incense with both hands, and inserted them solemnly into the Xuanwu furnace in the upper left corner of the wooden case.

Wang Yin sat straight on the wooden stool, took out a dark red bamboo tube full of bamboo sticks from the drawer, and shook it with both hands.

Wang Yin said: "Please draw a bamboo stick." ”

Lu Jingyuan slowly pulled out a stick, looked down, and his eyebrows tightened, "What does the Taoist mean by this?" The bamboo skewer he was holding in his palm had no handwriting.

"This ...... How can this be the case, that is, it is impossible to predict fate, and God refuses to reveal it. Wang Yin stared at the stick, his lips were a little dry, he had been telling hexagrams for many years, and it was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Lu Jingyuan asked, "Why is it unpredictable?"

"The secret of heaven must not be revealed, the leaker may be destroyed, this is the will of heaven, and forcibly telling fortunes against the sky will trigger the constitution of heaven and cause disaster. Wang Yin's chest began to ache a little, divination fortune telling is against the sky, against the will of heaven, but the more extraordinary the fate of the person who asks for the lottery, the more powerful the heavenly backlash suffered by the fortune teller.

"It's strange that there is such a hexagram? Since this is the case, then Lu Jingyuan knows that there is a long way to go. Lu Jingyuan pondered for a moment, took out a piece of silver with a huge pattern and put it on the table, got up suddenly, shook the snow on the brocade cloak, and saluted Wang Yin for the first time.

Wang Yin suddenly said, "Has there been any vision on Gongzi's body recently?"

Lu Jingyuan stood still, and couldn't help but think of all the things that happened in the ancient temple, the unfamiliar dream, and finally slowly spoke: "There is no vision." ”

Wang Yin wanted to talk and rest, closed his eyes and calmed down, and when Lu Jingyuan rode away, he looked at the bamboo stick again, there was a faint stream of light like fireflies flickering, and a handwriting appeared on the bamboo stick, the word was too hot, he was burned by the bamboo stick, so he quickly let go.

The bamboo skewers fell into the snow, scalding a scorching scar, and wisps of green smoke flew away.

He looked up at the sky, and saw through the clouds that the stars in the east were leaking out, and the stars of the heavy cloud waterfall were shining, and the two stars of one red and one purple above the cloud waterfall were particularly eye-catching.

Wang Yin said excitedly at this moment: "I have been waiting for two years, and I have finally arrived! It is these two stars! It is these two stars!"

"Lord Guan, did you order me to come to Yangzhou to practice the Dharma and do good deeds that day just to wait for this day to come? Can you tell my disciples what I need to do, or who am I looking for?" Wang Yin held his breath and raised his hand reverently, the white hair in his ears swayed in the wind.

Someone came from thousands of miles away, Wang Yin's eyes lit up for a while after hearing this, and then he quickly packed up his belongings and hurriedly disappeared into the snowy night.

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When Lu Jingyuan rode back to the Lu Mansion, it was already the middle of the day, there were a few people waiting for him outside the mansion, the servant led the horse back to the stable, and four or five maidservants followed behind him, waiting for the son to take a bath and change clothes, and Lu Jingyuan returned to the pavilion and ordered them to all retreat without waiting.

Stepping into the threshold with one foot, this long-empty living room is clean and tidy, and there is not a trace of dust to touch, and there is a screen that is half a body taller than ordinary people within ten steps from the pavilion door, which is carved and cut inch by inch by a whole piece of chicken blood jade, which is integrated and worth a thousand gold.

Behind the screen, there are more than ten rows of bookcases on the left and right sides, the number of books on display is like an ocean, there are the unique secret books of martial arts collected and purchased from all over the world, there are the bamboo silk classics of the hundreds of schools, there are the different sayings of the four seas of Kyushu, there are piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, Qimen Dunjia......

Lu Jingyuan held a book with slow footwork, and slowly flipped through it, concentrating. The candles are lit up in the room, as if you are in a golden canal that flows and rises.

Soon there was a sound of footsteps floating outside the door, the wooden door was gently pushed open, and the man was wearing a dark blue gold jacket and an ankle-length cloud brocade skirt, holding a glass lamp, and his face was red and symmetrical.

The woman had a pair of sparkling peach blossom eyes, a slender and delicate nose bridge under her eyes, and a thin red lip at the bottom at the end, with a snow-white complexion, and a very pretty and lovely appearance.

At this time, there was only one woman who could freely enter and leave the attic where Lu Jingyuan lived, except for his mother, and that was a woman named Ziling.

"What are you doing in the middle of the night?" Lu Jingyuan didn't look back at him, but his expression was slightly furrowed.

Ziling saw that the lights were still on in the second son's pavilion, and thought that the second son must not have gone to bed yet, so he came over with the lantern to take a look. Thinking that the second son might have something to order the slave maid. The confidant maid with a very good face bent her knees and side arms to give a blessing, and stood in front of him in such a dignified manner.

"Now that you're in the house, come here. ”

Ziling put the glass lamp in the free corner, she first looked around, her eyes gathered, quickly approached the bronze incense burner next to the bookcase, and looked down, sure enough, the aromatherapy had burned out, and the familiar spoon hook, uncover the stove cover, and add it gently, all the steps were smooth, and even the noise was well controlled, and then Lianbu walked behind his master, not to disturb him.

"Recently, everything has been fine in the Fuzhong, has something happened in the Fuzhong, is there anything rare in Yangzhou City?" Lu Jingyuan's words were very calm, and the movements in his hands did not stop.

"Back to the second son, everything is fine, and the same is true in the house...... Oh, by the way, a few days ago, Miss Sun and Sun Fu was proposed to be married, and the family that proposed seemed to have a lot of face in the capital, and it was a famous family, which was still making a fuss in Yangzhou City, saying that Sun Fu was going to be powerful and ascending to heaven, and there was also the young son of Zheng Mansion who forcibly married a young lady who occupied a large family, and almost met each other. ”

"The master and the fourth lady wrote from the capital saying that there is no need to worry, and I know this. Ziling slowly recounted that a number of matters happened when the master was not there, without adding oil or vinegar, only as a book in Chinese words to listen to the master.

"Sun Mansion? is that Sun Mansion where the ancestor suddenly smoked and then became a big family in Yangzhou?"

"Yes, exactly. Ziling covered her lips and smiled softly.

"That rice bucket in Zheng Hou's Mansion can't do anything else, but it's very good at robbing women. ”

"Who made him strong? ”

"Then how are you doing?" Lu Jingyuan glanced at her.

"All is well with the slave and maid. ”

"I heard that the second prince encountered thieves in the ancient temple of Wuyi outside the city, and the strength of that group of thieves is extraordinary, and Chen Xiu was also seriously injured, how did you get out of danger, what happened during this period?"

"It's a long story, we met the gang of thieves who kidnapped Yu Shangshu's daughter, and then the gang of thieves recruited the martial madman Ximen Xun, I was defeated by Chen Xiu to Ximen Xun, and at the last moment was rescued by a fairy surnamed Lu from Penglai Island, and beat away Ximen Xun, so that we could save our lives. ”

Ziling exclaimed, "Penglai Island?"

"That's right, it's Penglai Island. ”

Ziling raised her hand to cover her mouth, and said with a shocked expression: "It's really strange that the monks of Penglai Island actually appeared here. ”

"Maybe Yangzhou is really a good place? Aren't all good places often attract immortals?" Seeing Ziling's little expression, Lu Jingyuan teased her slightly.

"By the way, the group of people who kidnapped Xiao Qianjin has a Taoist monk named Bai Yu, and their strength is not low. Lu Jingyuan's face froze.

"White Feather...... Taoist monk, childe, I think this is not an ordinary kidnapping case. "The more Ziling thinks about it, the more she feels that something is wrong, there are Taoist monks among the thieves, and the kidnapping of a scholar and daughter has even moved out of Taoism, I am afraid that there is a bigger conspiracy involved.

"That gang of thieves also recruited Ximen Xun, which is even more intriguing, you must know that the martial madman of the Crazy Sword Sect is not something that ordinary people can invite. ”

"What do you mean, there is someone behind them?" Lu Jingyuan also noticed a hint at this moment.

"Well, it's just who, it's hard to guess right now. ”

"However, I guess this is just the beginning, and there will be more things to come, and everything will be clear then. ”

"Whew!" Outside the dark window, a strong wind suddenly howled, and the master and servant raised their heads at the same time, and a grain of rain fell to the ground first, and the rain poured down in an instant.

......

At this time, a personable Taoist monk from the Zhenghou Mansion in Yangzhou was standing in the verandah in the front yard, staring at the pouring rain with deep eyes, and suddenly a servant quietly approached and spoke behind him.

"Bai Gongzi, Yu Shangshu's youngest daughter was sent back to Shangshu Mansion by Chen Xiu, and Lu Jingyuan also returned to the Lu family's mansion safe and sound. ”

Bai Yu's pupils shrank sharply, his eyebrows widened, and he grinned at the dark rain curtain reflecting the faint light.

"This time, the actions explained by Marquis Zheng were foolproof, but because of those stupid martial artists, they all lost their previous achievements, but fortunately, Lu Jingyuan carried this black cauldron. ”

"Lu Jingyuan, Lu Jingyuan, in the future, you will become a thorn in the side of Zheng Fu. ”

"Lu Jingyuan, the battle between my Bai Yu and you has just begun, the story is still very long, you have to live well, don't die in the middle of the road carelessly, this long story has to be written slowly by you and me. ”