A pheasant ate a clean meal under the wind and clouds of the two, and the sky gradually darkened at this time, and the second dog did not plan to go back, so he was not in a hurry, and chatted with the old Taoist priest about interesting things while drinking a little wine.

Ergou found out at a very young age that the old Taoist priest was not an ordinary person, whether it was his knowledge or a feeling he gave him was not an ordinary person, at least Ergou felt that no one in the entire Qingshan Village could compare to him, but the day was too lazy, and the biggest work all day was cooking.

At night, the sky turned cold, and the two dogs and the old Taoist priest slept on a wooden bed alone, lying on the bed, and saw a hole the size of a bowl on the roof, and through the moonlight, you could vaguely see the stars in the night sky.

"Old Taoist, why do you have holes in this roof again, didn't you just make up for it two days ago?" Ergou asked a little strangely, because the father and son were going to go into the mountains to hunt two days ago, so when they came to visit the old Taoist, they filled up the leaking tiles on the roof.

"Hey, stinky boy, if you don't talk about this, I forgot," the old Taoist priest lying on the bed suddenly slapped his thigh, as if he remembered something, and said in a fuss.

Ergou didn't speak, and he was already surprised by the old Taoist's startled appearance, waiting for his next step.

"I told you that you must not tell anyone else," the old Taoist priest said in a low voice, as if he was afraid of being heard by others.

"Okay, you say, you say, I promise I won't tell anyone," Ergou assured him a little helplessly

"Don't tell anyone," the old Taoist priest whispered again.

Ergou nodded heavily, and the old Taoist priest leaned over to Ergou and whispered next to his ear, "On the night after you came here two days ago, an egg-sized, bead with fire, fell from the sky, and just fell on it, before smashing a hole on it. ”

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he looked palpitating.

"The beads with the fire, so strange, where, take them out and I'll see them. Ergou listened and became curious for a while, turned over and turned on the fuel lamp and said.

"Where? yes, I put it there?" said the old Taoist priest, a little confused, as if he had forgotten where he had put it.

Looking at the old Taoist priest touching his head and not knowing his brain, Ergou sighed softly in his heart, the old Taoist priest has never changed like this since he remembered, but his memory was still relatively good before, not as bad as it is now.

He is a lonely man, Ergou has known him for more than ten years, and he doesn't know what his name is, and he doesn't say anything when asked, only that he is a Taoist priest, and even his father and other people in the village don't know what his name is, only that he lived in the temple when he was very young, and if there are locusts and rats in the village, or if someone dies in any family, he will be invited to go down the mountain to practice and spend his soul.

It's just that since he got involved with the Ergou family, gradually fewer villagers in the village asked him to do things, and he would rather spend a lot of money to invite Taoist priests from the county town than ask him to do things again, which also cut off his livelihood.

Ergou vaguely remembered that he was disobedient when he was a child, and the old Taoist priest scared him, saying that he was a bandit in the mountains and forests before, killed many people, had many enemies, and the government was also wanted by the government everywhere.

When he was a child, Ergou didn't feel scared every time he heard him say this, and he wanted to continue listening, but now that he thinks about it, the old Taoist priest may have been a great figure before.

"Oh, I remembered, and then I put him in the dark cabinet," the old Taoist priest thought for a long time, spoke, and hurriedly got up, and walked through the oil light like a dark cabinet.

"I said you stinky Taoist, slow down, slow down, and don't be afraid of falling," Ergou hurriedly stepped forward to support him, muttering in his heart, he is really getting smaller and smaller.

"Eh, why is it gone, I obviously put it in here," the old Taoist priest rummaged in the secret cabinet for a long time, turning out all the clothes inside, and he couldn't see what he was looking for.

"Isn't this it?" Ergou then remembered that he had taken the fur coat before, and the crimson beads that rolled out of it took out of his arms and handed them to the old Taoist priest.

"Yes, yes, that's it, that's it, Ergou, let me tell you, in my experience, this thing is definitely a treasure!" the old Taoist priest took the beads and looked at them carefully under the oil lamp.

"What baby, isn't it just a broken stone, and this thing can smash such a big hole in the roof?" said Ergou disapprovingly, and his hand compared to the hole in the roof.

"Don't you know, this thing can carry fire when it falls, it is the size of a fist, I put it in the water tank, I wanted to extinguish the fire, but it turned out to be smaller, and finally it became like this," the old Taoist priest exaggerated, looking at the beads.

No wonder there is less water in the water tank, is what the old Taoist priest said true? Ergou secretly thought about the water tank that made him feel strange before.

"You bring this bead, when you have the opportunity to go to the county seat, ask if you can sell it at a good price, if you sell it at a good price, you can buy two pots of good wine for Lao Dao, I will come back" The old Taoist priest put the beads in Ergou's hand and fantasized.

"What good price can you buy for this broken bead," Ergou disagreed, but still put the beads in his arms, for so many years, for the old Taoist, the only requirement is to drink, as long as there is a little wine to drink, he is happy to have no food to eat, and his parents are worried about his body, never bring him wine.

"Hehe, that's not necessarily, maybe if you sell it, you can add a county daughter-in-law," the old Taoist priest muttered as he lay on the bed.

"Is it so valuable?" Although Ergou himself didn't believe it, no girl in Qingshan Village was willing to marry him, and he was very familiar with taking a daughter-in-law in the county town for a bride price of ten taels of silver, saying that, he still believed in the vision of the old Taoist, and subconsciously squeezed the beads into the deepest part of his arms.

The mountains and forests at night are always exceptionally cold, the breeze rustles through the leaves, the crickets in the ground chirp, the two dogs leaned towards the old Taoist priest, and the two were back to back, huddled together, warming each other.

"Old Taoist, have you slept?" The second dog tossed and turned, always feeling that something was blocked in his heart, and he couldn't sleep.

"Slept..."

"You can still talk when you sleep!"

"Dream talk..."

After the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he pretended to make a snoring sound, which was very funny.

"Have you ever heard of immortals?" Ergou knew that the old Taoist priest was teasing him, so he simply went straight to the point and asked.

"You can say this, I will tell you quietly, you must not tell anyone," the old Taoist priest became interested, and said mysteriously and secretly.

"I've seen immortals too," the old Taoist priest whispered after Ergou's habitual assurance.

"What do they look like? Can they fly, call the wind and rain, and live forever?" Ergou also became interested and asked.

"It's the same as us, flying can fly, and it's not so exaggerated to call the wind and rain, as for whether it's immortal, I don't know," the old Taoist priest really said seriously as if he knew.

"Is it true that the Immortal Sect of Qingshan Village recruits disciples?" Ergou asked again.

"Of course it's true!, why do you want to enter the Immortal Gate and become an Immortal?" the old Taoist priest asked in a faint voice.

"Yes, of course, who doesn't want to be an immortal," Ergou said with a beautiful vision.

"Then you can buy me a few more pots of good wine..."Before the old Taoist priest finished speaking, there was a snoring sound, and it seemed that he was really asleep.

"Cut, you want to fool me again, it's not that you don't give you wine, you don't look at your age and body, you always think about drinking all day long,"

The second dog muttered, quite bitter, turned sideways, pulled the quilt at the old Taoist, curled up and fell asleep.

The next day, when the sky was getting brighter, Ergou woke up, saw that the old Taoist priest was still asleep, and it was inconvenient to disturb, so he got up cautiously and walked to the kitchen to make a meal.

"Dao Chief, Dao Chief!" The old Taoist priest had not woken up, and the second dog had not yet served the food to the pot, and there was a noisy sound outside the temple gate.

Ergou frowned, put down the torch in his hand, and walked towards the main hall, and then the crack of the gate, Ergou saw that there were nearly twenty or thirty people outside the temple, these people have men, there are women, at first glance, these people are all villagers of Qingshan Village, some people are carrying a wooden stick on their shoulders, one by one menacing, noisy, Ergou did not hear what they were saying.

Frightened, Ergou ran to the room where the old Taoist priest was sleeping, "Old Taoist, stinky Taoist priest wake up, wake up, wake up, find the door, find the door." ”

Ergou shouted in a low voice, while shaking the sleeping old Taoist priest Zhengxiang, after constantly shaking the old Taoist priest still looked unwilling to wake up, there was no way, Ergou had to pinch his nose, cover his mouth, so that he could not breathe, sure enough, it was still so effective, the old Taoist priest woke up from a burst of coughing.

"Something's coming to the door!" said in a daze after coughing for a while.

"Villagers, the villagers have come to the door, are you sneaking down the mountain to steal their things again? I see that they are menacing one by one, and some of them are still holding sticks!" The second dog was very anxious, and he was about to slip away through the back door when he picked up the old Taoist priest.

"What else should I do," the old Taoist priest listened to Ergou's words, and suddenly calmed down, patted Ergou, and made a fairy wind bone.

"You are hiding in the back, don't come out, look at me," the old Taoist priest commanded, and walked towards the main hall with a step, ignoring Ye Fan behind him.

"What are they doing here?" Ergou whispered, pointing to the outside of the main hall.

"Hey, hey, it's a good thing!" the old Taoist priest showed a treacherous look, and the second dog saw his appearance, so he put his mind at ease, whenever the old Taoist priest showed this expression, there was always someone who would be cheated by him.

The old Taoist priest walked to the main hall without hurry, tidied up his clothes and hair as he walked, picked up a whisk in his hand, and an old Taoist priest who seemed to be a fairy wind Taoist appeared in the main hall.

"Wait for Hugh to be noisy, come in quickly!" the old Taoist priest's voice suddenly raised and shouted outside the main hall.

As soon as his words fell, the noise outside the gate suddenly stopped. The two dogs hiding behind the stone statue never thought that the old Taoist priest had spoken so well.

The door was slowly pushed open, making a creaking sound, and then there was a plop, and the gate couldn't bear the torment of the years after all, and finally fell in response to the sound and exited.

A group of dozens of people, you squeeze me, I squeeze you, from outside the gate rushed in, not caring about the collapsed gate at all, but stepping on it one by one to walk, these people are the so-called big families in Qingshan Village, relatively rich people in the village.

What are these people doing here? The two dogs hid behind the stone statue to see clearly, and now they saw clearly that those people were not holding sticks but picking flat poles, and there were people carrying wine jars, some picking wild meat, and carrying rice, all kinds of things, these things are nothing in Qingshan Village, but to bring them up the mountain from Qingshan Village, it takes a lot of effort, and it takes a lot of effort to climb from Qingshan Village to the temple at the end of the mountain empty-handed, and it takes half a day to climb fast, and now it is only from early morning, it is conceivable that these people may be rushing to the mountain in the middle of the night.

From their faces, it is not difficult to see that they are not here to find fault, their faces are full of smiles, Ergou saw that even Ye Daring, who usually dominates the village, is also among them, his face is full of smiles, he is at the forefront of the popular group, and the surrounding villagers are still quite afraid of him and dare not get too close to him.

Looking at the appearance of these people and bringing things up the mountain, it is not like they are here to crusade against the old Taoist, but more like they are here to curry favor with the old Taoist.