In the backyard of the storytelling building, a richly dressed woman who looked very luxurious and bright stood in front of the backyard door, pointed to some men and women who were about seventeen, eighteen or nineteen years old, and shouted: "Rabbit cubs, don't be funny here, cheer me up and go out to entertain distinguished guests." ”

"If you hadn't caught up with the good time, according to your current idle appearance, at the beginning, you would have to be eaten by the monsters in the lake, or starve to death! Let me tell you, Sun Gongzi can say, all the guests who came today are distinguished guests, you are diligent and careful, if you are lazy, don't blame the old lady..."

The woman raised her right hand, which was pinching her waist, and fanned the air.

In the backyard, the teenagers are talking under the tree about the out-of-town lady they saw in the restaurant last time, the long one is called a Peugeot, the place that should be convex is convex, and the place that should be warped is warped.

The girls sat on chairs in the courtyard, knocking melon seeds, and blushed after hearing the teenagers' words.

"Phew, shameless".

This is probably the most leisurely time before the evening of these men and women, until the women shouted violently, and after the boys and girls saw the women one by one, they immediately left the melon seeds in their hands, and went to the front of the courtyard to occupy them side by side, without saying a word, bowing their heads and listening to the reprimand, just like a mouse seeing a cat, but there was no fear in their eyes, but there was some stupid smile hidden in their eyes.

Xu Yu, the shopkeeper, probably likes to pretend to be a strict person the most, and on weekdays, he always has to put on a very strict image, but in fact, Xu Yu has never beaten these teenagers and girls.

These teenagers and girls don't know why this peugeot-looking woman always says to them that the old lady, the old lady.

They didn't know that Xu Yu, whose husband died by the lake many years ago, regarded these teenagers and girls who worked as buddies in the restaurant as their family members from the bottom of their hearts.

"Hmph, it's not okay, it's just to understand the old lady's heart, don't think that the old lady is soft-hearted and shouldn't take it seriously, I understand it, hurry up and cheer me up, get out and greet the guests!"

The woman is a typical knife-mouthed tofu heart, and when she saw this group of rabbit cubs bowing their heads silently and pitifully, she didn't say anything anymore, and waved her big hand to let these guys in the restaurant hurry out to entertain.

After the group of restaurant guys went out, Xu Yu sighed, this time his voice was much softer, and said under the tree.

"Book bag, don't be idle, go to your father's, we'll start when the guests arrive, you have to talk to your father today, you have to sell enough strength to speak, not only those dignitaries, in addition to those upstairs, maybe there will be other immortal masters coming to listen to the book tonight, and Aunt Xu will go to the side door to wait for a while, you have to hurry." ”

A young man who was slightly older than the guys in the restaurant just now leaned under the tree and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Aunt Xu, I'll go to my father right away, there will be no mistakes." ”

After the woman left, the young man under the tree yawned, the children just now were really nonsense, and they were convex and backward, it was really vulgar, and they described such a beautiful girl as the woman in the flower shop, and they had to be taught to be knowledgeable, otherwise they would be vulgar.

The young man twisted his neck, stood up, and looked at the sky, the sun had set, and he had to go to his father.

In the twilight, different from the lively scene at the front door and the boiling of people, at the back side door of the storytelling building, the proprietress Xu Yu and the young man in a splendid white robe stood by the door.

The two men who came just now were really strange, the burly man with a stubble on his face and a short man with a rat head, especially the short man, actually carried a large knife that did not match his stature, and the knife was taller than the short man!

Xu Yu retracted his thoughts, how could the world of cultivators be like mortals.

You have to know what the people who come here to Nanzhen are most interested in? Of course, it's immortals!

Who doesn't want to go to the place where the immortals kill the demons and demons to have a look, especially the storyteller of this storytelling building, or the person who saw the immortals to eliminate demons and demons with his own eyes, so he runs this storytelling restaurant, which one is not full of immortals!

Since the first person in Nanxinguo, today's national teacher has come to leave Nanzhen in person, it has set off a boom in this Xinnan and Nanxin countries, and everyone has come to admire immortals, in addition to those dignitaries, even some cultivators have come here to listen to books and talk about immortals.

At the suggestion of Sun Gongzi beside him, the main entrance of the storytelling building was used to receive those ordinary people, and the side door made of precious incense wood was specially used to receive those cultivators.

Loose fragrant wood looks no different from ordinary wood to ordinary people, but loose fragrant wood exudes a unique fragrance that only practitioners can feel. Therefore, using this wood as a door can be regarded as the ingenuity of the bookstore.

Pulling back his hair that was blown away by the wind, Xu Yu said to Sun Gongzi: "I don't know if there will be other immortal masters here this time in addition to the two groups of immortal masters upstairs, and the place on the third floor is only enough to be changed into three or four independent rooms." ”

Sun Gongzi smiled slightly, "Sister Xu, don't worry, although the third floor of our restaurant is specially prepared for immortal masters, but I think that maybe some immortal masters will be different and like to play the world, maybe they will sit on the first floor at this moment." ”

The young man then smiled and said: "Sister Xu is still well-managed, the first floor sits the common people, the second floor sits the dignitaries, and the third floor sits the sect immortal masters." Looking at the three-story restaurant behind him, thinking that the storyteller who had been talking for more than ten years was still going to tell on the second floor, Sun Gongzi couldn't help but sigh.

"How Fish and Shrimp Swim with Dragons"

"No way", Xu Yu sighed: "Who let us talk about the book, it's about the immortals." ”

Sun Gongzi laughed at himself, "Yes, cultivators are like a giant mountain, the high mountains are up, and we are all looking up at the bottom of the mountain. But who wouldn't want to go up and see the scenery if they had the chance?"

Xu Yu has been in business for many years, and he is used to seeing the changes in human feelings, seeing that Sun Gongzi's interest is not high at this time, he comforted him: "Sun Gongzi don't worry, there are so many immortal masters this time, presumably Sun Gongzi can worship the immortal family and rise from then on." ”

"Borrow Sister Xu's auspicious words. ", This says how many sect immortal masters have come to the Shulou in the past ten years, but which one is looking at him, I hope someone can look at him differently this time, Sun Gongzi clenched his fists and sighed in his heart: "Even if it's an outer disciple."

Xu Yu sighed secretly, now Linan is different from the past, it is no longer that barren small village, and it has begun to deal with the outside world, and Nanxin and Xinnan can govern this place together, all of which are related to the Sun Gongzi in front of him.

The Sun family, as one of the top tycoons in Xinnan at the beginning, was divided into two factions at the same time that Xinnan was divided into two, each of which was attached to a country, but unlike those families who regarded each other as enemies after separation, the two Sun families still supported each other, which also made the Sun family more and more prestigious in Xinnan.

Sun Gongzi in white is the side concubine of the Sun family in Xinnan, although it is not a lineage, but it is indeed a descendant of the Sun family, after hearing the legend of the immortals in Nanzhen, it is actually thousands of miles from the capital of Xinnan to move to a small village, and also through his own connections to publicize everywhere, it can be said that from Nanzhen can have today's scene, Sun Gongzi has made great contributions.

The descendants of these eunuchs who were demoted and exiled at the beginning, and the ordinary people in Linan Town now, also feel that Sun Gongzi treats people well and gets along very well.

I remember once at the wine table, the storyteller in the restaurant, Tang Shu, once asked Sun Gongzi with the strength of wine, "What's the picture, let the Sun family in the capital not stay, don't enjoy a good life, come here to be busy?

Under the table, Xu Yu kicked Tang Shu, which pot is really not opened!

But Tang Shu was indeed drunk, and said in surprise: "Why are you kicking me?"

Xu Yu was not lightly angry, but Sun Gongzi next to him didn't care, waved his hand at Xu Yu and smiled, and then took a sip of wine, "Brother Tang, the Tang family was also a big family in Nanjing City, have you forgotten all those trivial things at home?"

Tang Shu, who had drunk too much, patted his head and shook his head, "You said this, after staying in this place for so many years, it is fortunate to be able to eat and eat well, dress warmly and sleep well, how can you have the time to think about those trivial things at home." ”

Sun Gongzi took another sip of wine, "But I can't, the Sun family is still there, and the good resources of the family are all for those descendants, and I don't have to worry about eating and drinking as a side lineage, but do you want me to eat like this for the rest of my life and wait for death?"

Then the wine was strong, Sun Gongzi said bluntly: "A few years ago, the family invited an immortal master to teach the eldest grandson of the lineage, and every year the worship money alone accounted for half of the Sun family's expenses, to cultivate that so-called good seedling, but am I really inferior to him? What am I worse than him? I also keep the blood of the Sun family, why is he not me?"

Xu Yu will always remember Sun Gongzi's expression that night, lonely, unwilling, and a kind of powerlessness.

Just when Xu Yu was stunned, an old man and a young man walked towards the side door in the distance, the old man was wearing a brown brocade robe, looking kind and kind, and a charming woman next to him followed closely.

Sun Gongzi took a few steps ahead of Xu Yu, stepped forward to greet him, and bowed down to the old man and said, "Congratulations to the immortal master, the hospitality is not considerate, I hope to forgive me." ”

Xu Yu also hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his head and said: "Welcome to the immortal master, for fear that everyone will disturb the immortal master, the reception is not good, and I hope that the immortal master will forgive the sins." ”

Brushing his beard, the woman in front of him bowed her head was in good shape, and the old man smiled, "Presumably you are the shopkeeper of this restaurant, not bad, with this loose incense wood, it can be regarded as a heart." ”

Xu Yu still didn't look up, and said in a low voice: "Thank you Immortal Master for your understanding." ”

The old man smiled: "Okay, if you keep your head down like this, I won't listen to the book anymore?"

Xu Yu raised his head at this time, "Listen, I'll lead you upstairs to listen to the book." After making a gesture of please, Xu Yu took the old and the young and slowly went upstairs.

In the corridor, the charming woman looked at the plump figure of the woman in front of her, smiling playfully.

From beginning to end, neither the kind old man nor the charming woman glanced at the white-robed young man who had been bending over.

The sun was about to set, and in the afterglow, no one could see the expression of the bent young man.

On the path in the front yard outside the restaurant, a young man named Shubaoer followed a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties to the restaurant side by side. The man's face was tired, his lips opening and closing and squirming, but there was not the slightest sound coming out.

Tang Shubao put his hands behind his head, and kicked the stones along the way, "Dad, I didn't say you, the story of this immortal has been told for more than ten years, why are you still so nervous, don't memorize the words." ”

The man smiled dumbly, shook his head, and stepped on the stone, "I heard that there are people sitting on the third floor this time, so I can't be sloppy." ”

Tang Shubao shrugged disappreciatively, alas, it was boring.

As the father and son walked into the restaurant, the restaurant immediately resounded with cheers, and Mr. Tang raised his sleeves and arched his hand, which can be regarded as greeting all the villagers, fathers, and guests.

His son was different, Tang Shubao rolled his eyes, looked around, and waved hello to his good friend.

"Oops"

A Tang bookbag, who was not paying attention and had just turned around, bumped into a person head-on, almost knocking the person to the ground.

The man stabilized his body, protected the plate of peanuts on his chest, and complained: "Brother Tang, you always look at it, don't make a mess for the little brother, you can't serve the dishes this busy, you always pity me." ”

"Oops, little accident. Tang Shubao put his arms around Xiao Zhao's neck and asked, "Is Miss Qi from the second floor here today?"

"Hey, Brother Tang, it's not that you don't know what day it is today, these brothers are too busy to straighten their waists, how can they help you see Miss Qi." ”

"That's okay, hard work", Tang Shu picked up a peanut from the plate and threw it into his mouth, "The blacksmith on the front street is listening to the book again?"

"Isn't it, this person is really, doing money-making business, but doing this is too much... It's too picky", Xiao Zhao said angrily.

This restaurant is not the usual time to tell stories, even the location on the first floor is worth a lot, the man who runs the blacksmith shop in the town sits at the single table by the door and window every time he comes, although it is not the best, but it is enough for five taels of silver!

This man is good, every time he comes, he only orders a pot of soju, a plate of peanuts, and a dish that costs only a few pennies, or even a few pennies, which makes the guys in the restaurant very strange, but then the men are like this every time, and the guys are not surprised, just be a good man.

"What do you know, this is called artistic conception, when you understand it, you can also open a shop", Tang Shubao laughed and clapped his hands, "I went up with my father." ”

In the restaurant, Tang Shu slowly walked up to the second floor, the man shook his sleeves, bent down slightly, smiled and saluted the guests on the second floor, and then walked up to the storytelling table in the middle.

"I said Mr. Tang Shu, the sun has set, let's start quickly"

Listening to the prestige, it was the Linan Town who was sitting on the left side of the letter of the Nanguo Wu County Order, Tang Shu leaned over and said to the table: "Wu County Order is not in a hurry, I will start now." ”

"Don't listen to him, Tang Shu, when should you talk about it, I have never seen such a big official county order, what's the matter, Wu County Order has something to do? If you are in a hurry, don't listen to it!", on the right table, Huang Song, who is also a county order of a small town, sneered.

Wu Wu slapped the table and shouted angrily at Huang Song: "You puppet, on today's storytelling day, I don't care about you in general, don't kick the old man's nose in the face." ”

The atmosphere was a little tense for a while, and Tang Shu and the rest of the guests on the second floor were all looking at their noses and noses, and they didn't dare to mix.

Fortunately, at this time, Sun Gongzi came to the second floor, pulled out a chair, sat on an empty table, and said to Tang Shu: "Everyone is here, Brother Tang can start." ”

Tang Shu nodded.

Huang Song and Wu Wu, who were just about to get up to respond, arched their hands to Sun Gongzi at the same time, and after seeing the man nodding, the two of them glanced at each other angrily, and sat down separately.

Sitting on a yellow chair on the storyteller, Tang Shu stretched his hands out of his sleeves, picked up the shocking wood on the stage, and raised his hand to pat it.

Bang!

The force is so strong and the sound is so crisp that it doesn't feel like this thin middle-aged man can shoot it.

The restaurant began to quiet down, and people stretched their heads and necks to look upstairs. Outside the restaurant, the people of the small town who were reluctant to spend money to come in also gathered around, and the children listened under the wall on the neck of their elders.

On the second floor, the dignitaries looked at Mr. Tang, who was telling the story, even if someone had heard it many times, they were still full of anticipation.

After Xu Yu heard the voice of the startling wood, he said softly to a few rooms: "Immortal masters, start telling stories. ”

There are no guys on the third floor, because Xu Yu is the guy here.

Tang Shu exhaled, cleared his throat, and said loudly: "Thank you for listening to the book, today, let's talk about the story of the immortals who descended from the south and killed the demons." ”

"Presumably everyone here should know the origin of my departure from Nanzhen, these in the past, I will not explain them to you one by one today, today, I will focus on it, and carefully tell you about the process of the immortal demon extermination!"

"That day was also such an evening, but at that time the heavy rain was pouring, not afraid of everyone's jokes, at that time my son and I were really hungry at home chest against the back, and finally decided to go to the rebirth lake to try our luck, thinking that the heavy rain was pouring, lucky, if you can't meet the monster, maybe you can catch two fish, and then survive for a few days. If you are unlucky, the father and son will be buried in the demon belly together, and it can be regarded as a family of three."

Speaking of this, Tang Shu's voice was a lot sad, and the Tang bookbag on the side was not as lazy as usual, but turned his head to look out the window, although he was young at the time, but the woman who coaxed himself to sleep and fed himself fish soup to drink, he couldn't forget it.

I still remember the first day when the woman disappeared, he asked his father, where is his mother? Knowing from the villagers that the woman may never come back, he cried and asked his father, why can you only write, not fish?

He doesn't remember the days when he couldn't wait for the woman to come back, he only remembered that it was raining very much, very much, and his father said that he was going to the lake to fish for him, and asked him to wait at home, and he grabbed his father's pants and cried to go together, and finally his father couldn't resist him, and agreed, and the father and son walked in the wind and rain to the lake that was regarded as a nightmare.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and by the time it reached the shore, the muddy twists and turns along the way had exhausted the weak scholar and a young child, and they were not going to fish.

At that time, Tang Shubao clearly remembered that his father hugged him, howled and cried, and was about to commit suicide by throwing himself into the lake, now thinking about it, he really didn't have a little fear, and thought at that time, maybe if he entered the lake, he would be able to see his mother.

"Just when my father and son were cornered, in the pouring rain, suddenly there was a loud noise, something smashed from the sky to the opposite shore, and then a golden light fell from the sky and fell on the lake!"

"At that time, I was holding the dog, the black light was blinding, and the rain was so heavy that I couldn't see clearly, but there was a golden light on the surface of the lake, and the night reflected was as bright as day. ”

"The heavy rain is like a pillar, but when the rain falling from the sky falls on the immortals, it automatically converges into a stream of water, circling around the immortals, which is really a fairy method, when the immortals step on the lake and shout to the opposite shore. ”

"Unrepentant!"

Taking advantage of the retreat of the rain curtain, I looked at the opposite shore, where something had fallen from the sky before, someone stood up, and there was a stream of black gas all over his body, which seemed to be shrouded in golden light. ”

"When the immortal saw the demon sit up, he stepped on the lake and walked towards the opposite bank, and with each step, the lake behind him set off a huge wave, and the surrounding road rain mixed with the huge waves, turning into nine water dragons, roaring and roaring behind the immortal!"

Just as the immortal was about to step out of the lake to get rid of the demon, he saw a gust of wind in the lake, it was a giant snake in the water as high as a restaurant! Its vertical eyes were the size of a lantern, and the letter it spat out was longer than a boat. That's it! It made me feel like I'm in hell for so many years away from the people of Nancun, and that's it! Separated our relatives. ”

"The demon beast did not measure its own strength, and sought its own death, opening its bloody mouth and rushing towards the immortal, although I was on the opposite bank, I could also feel the wind generated by the body of the demon beast, almost swept me and the child into the lake. However, the immortal did not even look back, and when the golden light flashed, the evil animal turned into ashes and fell into the lake. ”

In fact, Tang Shu has not told others, there is another version of this story, once when the story was said to be this paragraph, there seemed to be a voice in his heart, and that voice did not belong to him.

He said that the serpent was shaken out by the waves of water, and did not come out to die.

Tang Shu thought about it, and it seemed to be quite in line with the scene of that day, but it was only because he was tired of storytelling, and for the sake of storytelling effect, he still said it as he had understood before.

When Tang Shu talked about this immortal demon extermination, he was obviously excited, and his words were full of hatred, but he was happy, as if he had killed the snake demon,

Tang Shu laughed and said: "That snake demon is dead, it's been twenty years, it's been twenty years, that immortal is really a demon to help the world, and he deserves to be an immortal." I am willing to keep telling this story to the immortals, the people here don't have to starve, the people here don't need to be frightened, they can live a good life, it's all because of the immortals, you say, the immortals are doing well!"

Except for the third floor, the storytelling restaurant resounded with a roaring applause.

Outside the building, the child clapped his little hands on the neck of the elder, the child didn't know the situation before leaving Nanzhen, he only knew that the immortal was very powerful and defeated the snake demon.

On a single table by the window on the first floor, a middle-aged man stuffed a peanut into his mouth, poured it full of wine, and after a glass, spit out a mouthful of wine.

"Twenty years!"