Chapter 22: The Old Way of the Wooden Sword

Early in the morning, Yang Ye was called by Cuiyun and Lotus Flower, ready to go to the Ten Thousand Buddhas Temple. It's strange to say, there was no one in the entire Water Township Pavilion suddenly, and he asked Lao Zhang, who was sleeping in the man's room outside, and even he explained that there were two people who slept with him here yesterday, and no one was seen when he got up in the morning.

Yang Ye didn't think much about it, guessing that it was also the means of the Tsing Yi Building, so the group went out of the city in a carriage just like when they came. Along the way, pedestrians bustled into the city, and asked Lao Zhang to know that the annual lantern riddle meeting in Hangzhou will start in these two days. When Lotus heard this, she said that it was a pity, if she didn't have something serious to do, she really wanted to play for two days. Cuiyun is still as plain as ever, and Yang Ye is too lazy to tease her anymore, anyway, there is a lotus flower in this car to relieve boredom.

"You bull-nosed old man, what kind of thing are you?! I don't know if Lao Tzu is the official of the Hangzhou Mansion, and you dare to play tricks on my head! I gave you 30 taels of money to buy wine, and you still want to deceive me. Yang Ye's carriage suddenly stopped, and when he heard a quarrel outside, he asked, "Lao Zhang, what's going on?"

Lao Zhang is also helpless, usually if there is something on the road, it is a big deal to detour, but now there are many pedestrians who have just entered the city, and there is something that this carriage really can't go around, so he said: "Childe, there is an official who seems to have a little quarrel with an old man, just in the middle of this road, so it will be difficult to move around for a while." ”

When Yang Ye heard this, he lifted the curtain and went out, just in time to see a man in official uniforms with five big and three thick, grabbing an old Taoist priest in tattered clothes and a wooden sword hanging with a straw rope around his waist. The people around also saw that it was an official, so no one watched and dared to say anything, but the old Taoist priest shouted loudly: "Why do you say that the poor Taoist is teasing you? You yourself see that I have the ability, ask me to calculate a hexagram, I will accept your money, it is reasonable." ”

The man in official uniform was shouted by the old Taoist, and he seemed to be even more angry, and said: "You stinky Taoist priest, I thought you were funny to tease the birds there, and I thought you should have some skills, but you deceived me into buying wine and drinking for thirty taels, and in the end you counted something for me! If you don't return the thirty taels to me today, I will lock you up in a prison cell!"

Yang Ye listened to the conversation between the two, and finally understood what was going on, and his feelings were like a swaggering and deceitful charlatan, who accidentally kicked on the iron plate. Although Yang Ye has done some good things, he is not a bad person, especially looking at the sloppy old man who hung a wooden sword, he really can't have a good impression at all. Even if the other party is a woman, perhaps in a hurry, Yang Ye has come out of the siege now.

The man in the official uniform was still pulling the old Taoist priest, but for some reason, the old Taoist priest suddenly broke free, ran over, and threw himself on the side of Yang Ye's carriage, shouting: "Son! Before Yang Ye could say anything, the man wanted to come over and catch this old man, and at this moment, a money bag was thrown out of the carriage and into the hand of the man in official clothes, only to hear Na Cuiyun say: "This is fifty taels, get out of the way." ”

The man weighed it, opened the money bag and looked at it, it was really a genuine fifty taels, so he glared at the old Taoist priest and walked away. But this wooden sword old way, after seeing that there was nothing wrong, he actually sat on the carriage with his ass, sat side by side with the coachman Lao Zhang, and said with a smile: "The girl has a good heart, much stronger than this son, and the old way has nothing to repay, otherwise it will be a hexagram for you to touch your bones?"

Cuiyun sat in the carriage and ignored him, and the coachman Lao Zhang, under Yang Ye's signal, also started the carriage, not caring about what this wooden sword old man was. Yang Ye became interested in this unrelated Taoist priest, perhaps because he talked about lotus flowers along the way, and now such an old Taoist priest can also talk a few words, so he said jokingly: "Since the Taoist chief is so capable, why was he caught by someone who was abducted and deceived just now, why don't you touch my bones for me and do the math." As he spoke, Yang Ye also stretched out his hand to the wooden sword old dao.

The old Taoist priest was pleased, waved Yang Ye's hand away, and said: "That's just because poor people are not allowed to be men, if the woman asks me to touch it or something, it will definitely not be wrong." "Yang Ye has never seen anyone in the fireworks alley in the past two years, isn't this just a bull-nosed old Taoist who cheats money and sex, and he is just a charlatan dressed as a Taoist priest, and even the identity of a Taoist priest is fake.

Lao Zhang couldn't help laughing when he heard the words of this old Taoist, but the old Taoist priest didn't care, and said: "Let's put it this way, I see that you are going out of the city to the west, right, it just so happens that I am also going to the west, it is fate, the poor Dao will be wronged, go with you, do you have wine? ”

This old Taoist is also familiar, and Yang Ye, who was called a boy, also smiled, turned around and threw a pot of wine into the carriage to him, and the old Taoist priest who took the wine chatted with Lao Zhang who was driving the carriage while drinking. Later, after knowing that the coachman's surname was Zhang, he hurriedly said that he was also surnamed Zhang, and said that the two were so close that they almost didn't pull the coachman Lao Zhang to worship him.

It was a little more interesting to suddenly have such a ploppy Taoist along the way, and even Na Cuiyun was amused by his words several times. said that that day, in fact, he stole some rice from the village next door, and then put it in the palm of his hand to attract the bird, and then used his fingers to hold the bird's feet to make it seem to be unable to fly, and the result was seen by the official. Maybe the man is also a believer, seeing that this wooden sword is a bit mysterious, so he asked him if he has the ability to divinate the fortunes, how can this old man let go of such a good opportunity, so he asked for thirty taels to buy wine and drink, and the result was calculated for others: Spend a good full moon night, when the carp jumps over the dragon gate.

Originally, the man didn't know much about such a sentence, so he bought a good word for thirty taels and listened to it, but this old Taoist said that a county lord would take a fancy to the man in official uniform, so he would wait for the carp to jump over the dragon gate. was said by the old Taoist priest, that is worth it, that man is a little servant, not to mention, what kind of identity is the county lord, and he still takes a fancy to him? I suddenly felt that I had been deceived, so there was the scene that Yang Ye and his party encountered.

Yang Ye didn't give him face either, and after listening to him say this, he smiled and said: "You bull-nosed old man, you just see that people are honest, and you are not satisfied with deceiving thirty taels, so you want to continue to say something more fierce, and then deceive some silver taels." The old Taoist priest didn't refute it, anyway, he and this Yang Ye didn't deal with each other at all, and they demolished each other, he only had a little interest in Cuiyun in the car.

Cuiyun couldn't be interested in Yang Ye and the old Taoist priest's bickering, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he blurted out to Yang Ye lightly: "Childe, after the night in the Water Township Pavilion, I have always wanted to tell you something, I think Childe can teach me the melee sword." After saying that, Cuiyun folded his hands and bent down to lower his head.

Seeing this, Yang Ye smiled, and naturally understood that she still wanted to learn the close-quarters sword, so she leaned over and said, "Little things, as long as you kiss me, I will teach you." If you can follow me, then I will pass on all the supreme swordsmanship to you. As he spoke, Yang Ye restlessly touched Cuiyun's little face with his hand. Lotus watched from the side, thinking that her sister was going to be bullied again, and she covered her eyes with both hands and laughed.

But at this moment, the old Taoist priest who was sitting outside the carriage lifted the curtain of the carriage, stretched out his head and came in, and said: "Little girl Cuiyun, don't believe the words of this prodigal boy, he knows the supreme swordsmanship of a bullshit, he is a lowly, greedy for your body, you want to learn swordsmanship and tell me, I will teach you." After being touched by Yang Ye, Cuiyun's face was slightly red, and now he was even more embarrassed when the old man suddenly said this.

That lotus is a coke, and when he heard that Yang Ye was dismantled by this old Taoist priest again, he covered his mouth and laughed.