The sun had set, and the pilgrims were following the monks to the inn for the night.

The incense is slightly more elegant.

The fortune teller struggled to carry his package, stumbling three times at a time, and did not forget to turn his head to Jiang Lili and say: "You have to follow me closely, if you let the bald donkeys catch it, it will be over, I can't tell you where you want to go to the precept hall to listen to the white-bearded old bald donkey recite the scriptures all night!"

Jiang Lili quipped: "Aren't you also a bald donkey yourself?"

Speaking of this fortune teller, he gritted his teeth and was very annoyed, "Do you think I want to be a bald donkey? If it weren't for this bullshit monk who abducted me to this Shaobao Temple, where would I be a bald head? I don't know what means these bald donkeys used, and they couldn't even grow a single hair! Do you ever know how many young girls I used to envy when I used to have beautiful hair?"

Jiang Lili sighed, "You're still a monk?"

The fortune teller licked his lips and said, "Can you circle the point of what I said?"

After taking two more steps, the fortune teller suddenly looked triumphant, "Do you know, although I was born as a fisherman, I am a peerless genius! It's just a pity, I really don't think much of this monk with strict precepts, and nothing else, I can't even marry a daughter-in-law! His grandmother's can even ask for a Taoist companion who cultivates immortals with little appetite, so why can't I?"

"Are you married?"

The fortune teller laughed twice, "Isn't this in the midst of resistance, at the beginning of this year, I sneaked out when my host went to Cheng'an to teach the Fa, but unfortunately I was poor and white, and I really had no way to be a beggar for a while." ”

"It's called Hanako!" Jiang Lili corrected.

"Beggar!"

Jiang Lili raised his eyebrows, and the fortune teller immediately replied stupidly: "If you call Hanako, you can call Hanako, in fact, it's pretty much the same, right? Later, I thought that how could I please my daughter-in-law if I was called Hanako?

"You escaped, and those monks left it to you?"

"How can I leave it to me?" the fortune teller was apprehensive, "don't you know how many monks have come down to look for me these days, and sometimes they have almost been caught! When I was about to steal some entanglements and flee to the Southern Dynasty, I found that I did not have the ability to steal chickens and dogs, and I don't know how many beatings I received. Later, I heard an old master who was a storyteller say, "The most dangerous place is the safest place", didn't I come to this Shaobao Temple! Haha, they were very attentive and never thought that I was hiding here! I had all thought about it, and one day after I told my fortune and earned the passage money, I would flee to the twelve countries of the Southern Dynasties, and I would no longer be subject to the bird anger of these bird monks!"

Jiang Lili teased: "Then how much silver have you earned?"

The fortune teller didn't dare to speak, and finally whispered, "Didn't I say you were my first guest?" “

Jiang Lili laughed insolently.

It's just that this fortune teller is like a heartless master, who forgot about his "glorious deeds" without taking two steps, and turned his head and began to talk about his glorious deeds again, "You don't know, my cultivation talent is top-notch, the old host said that a person like me, if he is born in troubled times, he must be the master of Buddhahood! Not to mention this monk's ability, even if it is a martial artist, I can say three points about the means of refining qi!" Looking at Jiang Lili's disdainful face, the fortune teller frowned, "What's the matter, you don't believe it?"

After looking at Jiang Lili slightly, the fortune teller said confidently: "As long as I look at your appearance, I will know that you are a martial artist who refines intent!

Jiang Lili had never heard of the truth of this refining intent before, and he had only heard the word twice this time, so he asked, "What is refining intent?"

The fortune teller's eyes widened in surprise, "You don't even know this, you practice fart martial arts!"

Seeing that Jiang Lili's face sank, the fortune teller hurriedly snorted, "There are two kinds of martial arts, one is refining the body, and the other is refining the intent. As the name suggests, refining the body is to temper the body, just like the big devil, with his body, he can punch through a mountain peak! Refining the intention is to practice the artistic conception, just like the mountain Xie Xingzhi, just by looking at the eyes can kill the monks and warriors of the sixth mountain, if the momentum is released, the heaven and the earth will change color, and the gods and ghosts will cry together!

"However, there are no peerless demons like Xie Xingzhi in this world, and there are only a few martial artists who have learned Xie Xingzhi's refining intentions, and there are as many martial artists who have learned Xie Xingzhi's refining intent as a carp crossing the river, how many martial artists can there be who may climb the Eight or Nine Mountains? Even the refining martial artists in the seventh mountain are only a few! Although the refining spirit is bold, it is also dangerous, and if you are not careful, the Dao heart will be broken, and the light will be lost, and the heavy will go mad. So, don't you learn the way of refining your mind that ascends to the sky in one step, it's better to refine your body step by step!"

Jiang Lili listened a little intrigued, why didn't she pay attention to hearing the fortune teller's point, so she replied stiffly, "It's your business!"

The fortune teller was not annoyed, and laughed, "You said that you are a person who still doesn't listen to persuasion, it's really... “

"What is it?" Jiang Lili sneered, "I would like to hear it, how many years later, after your talented character broke into some empty fame, and then was mentioned that you picked up other people's leftover chicken bones on the road to gnaw on this matter, do you refute it? or acquiesce?"

The fortune teller made a bitter face, "Didn't we say we wouldn't mention it?"

"Who promised?"

The fortune teller opened his mouth, but he couldn't even say a word.

The place where the fortune teller lived was a cave, and the outside of the cave was covered by weeds, and ordinary people really couldn't tell that there was a cave hidden under the weeds.

"Don't look at this cave is shabby, but this is a good place, not at all as humid as other caves, even warm in winter and cool in summer, much more comfortable than that summer resort!"

Walking into this cave, Jiang Lili was also half surprised, he thought that the fortune teller was giving him face, but he didn't expect what he said to be true.

At this time, the fortune teller took off the Taoist robe on his body, and his figure looked thin, but he was not old. After washing his face with water from the bottom of a stream deep in the cave, he came out and changed his appearance.

"Hehe, hee-hee, this is a skill I finally learned from a pedestrian!"

Jiang Lili stood in front of him an old fortune teller, clearly a young man with a thin face.

This young man is about fifteen years old, with a sturdy body, and he doesn't feel cold when he stands shirtless in this cave, "My name is Cheng Ru, what is your name?"

Jiang Lili raised her eyebrows, "Jiang Lili!"

"How does this name look so good?"

"You were in charge?"

Cheng Ru naturally knew that his ability to scold was only half of Jiang Lili at most, so he didn't want to quarrel with Jiang Lili, so he changed the topic and said: "By the way, have you had dinner? You wait, I'll go to the mountain stream to catch a fish and come back, keep a big flavor!"

Jiang Lili sneered: "If you have this ability, you still pick up chicken bones and gnaw them?"

Cheng Ru staggered, turned around and said viciously, you will hurt you!

Jiang Lili pursed his lips, looked left and right at the entrance of the cave, felt a little curious, and walked to the depths of the cave.

Originally, there was some twilight outside, and now the cave was even darker, and when I was scolding Chengru in my heart, why didn't I light a few candles in the cave, I suddenly saw a wave of light in front of me.

Hearing the sound of gurgling water again, he walked cautiously over, only to see a few glowing swimming fish swimming under his feet out of thin air in front of him, Jiang Lili was stunned, stretched out his hand, and touched a coolness.

It turned out that the fish was swimming in this underground stream, but the environment was dark, and the water of the stream was slightly turbid, and it was integrated with the ground, and if it was not deliberately observed, it would not have been possible to find a river in front of it.

Squatting on the river's edge and watching these swimming fish for a long time, when he was about to get up and leave, he suddenly heard some movement in front of him, not like the sound of the river flowing. After thinking about it for a while, I finally felt that it was better not to take risks, after all, the black and slimy hand could not see the five fingers, and if one was careless and fell into the river, it would be miserable.

But the moment he turned around, he heard a buzzing sound again, and after being stunned for a moment, he felt as if something was flying towards him from behind. Jiang Lili was slightly solemn, and in the blink of an eye, the wooden knife on his back fell into his hand, and he swung it out in the direction of the voice, and he heard a terrible scream.

I thought this place was really weird, so it would be better to go first.

But at this time, the surroundings suddenly lit up with a subtle fluorescence, and it became brighter and brighter, and when I looked up, it was like being under the stars in the sky, so unamorous! But if I looked closely, the edge of the cave wall was full of dense insects.

With a stirring in his heart, Jiang Lili suppressed his breath, and the bright light slowly hidden.

Just as he was breathing a sigh of relief and secretly saying a good sigh, a swimming fish jumped out of the water, causing a noise in the water.

The light on the edge of the wall suddenly brightened, and a shrill scream was heard, and a tumbling buzz sounded around the figure, as if in the middle of a busy city. In another moment, I saw that the fluorescent sky was overwhelming, like a surging tide towards the river!

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The middle-aged literati were dressed in cyan robes, with a simple body, no pendant headdress, and not even the favorite sachet of scholars and literati pinned to their waists.

Su Su and the middle-aged man who looked like a literati looked at each other, and only after a while did they come back to their senses and shouted Hello, uncle!

The middle-aged literati smiled slightly: "What's your name, why are you here?"

Su Su was about to answer when he suddenly remembered that Lao Zhang's iron brand was stolen from someone else, and this matter could not be said outside, so he choked up in his throat for a while, and he didn't speak for a long time.

The scholar smiled and said, "Since you don't want to say it, don't say it, it's okay." ”

Su Sucai breathed a sigh of relief and was grateful.

This middle-aged literati has a natural sense of kindness, and even a person like Su Su who is afraid of life let down his guard in his heart and asked, "That, are you... ”

The middle-aged literati was about to answer, when suddenly the door opened, and Zhang Jiuling walked out as usual. When I was about to take Su Su's hand and go down, I saw the middle-aged literati, and after being stunned for a while, his eyes did not change, "Old decay Zhang Jiuling, who has no fixed residence, is an old bachelor who wanders around, this is my granddaughter Su Su, I don't know the name of Xiucai?"

Xiucai is an honorific title for scholars, implying a famous talent.

The middle-aged literati smiled and saluted, "Xiucai doesn't dare to be, in Xia Yao Qinghe, he is just a scholar." ”

Zhang Jiuling changed color slightly, it was only for a moment, others couldn't see the traces, nodded and then took Su Su's hand and walked down the stairs, and after two or three steps of staggering with Yao Qinghe, Yao Qinghe suddenly asked: "Since the old gentleman is a dashing person who travels all over the world, he must have been to a lot of places." “

Zhang Jiuling stood firm and turned around, "I've been to a lot of places, it's only summer this year, and the old man has already traveled from Yangzhou to Pingsha, I'm afraid there are still a lot of roads to go next!"

Yao Qinghe said with a smile: "In this case, the old gentleman has to pay attention to his body, if the bones of the body are broken, it will be really broken." ”

Zhang Jiuling said with a smile: "The old man has almost traveled all over the country in his life, and I still know these truths, thank you Xiucai for reminding me." ”

Yao Qinghe still smiled, smiling purely, "It's just like that, the old gentleman himself understands." In that case, the juniors will go up first. ”

Zhang Jiuling bowed slightly, took Su Su's hand and walked down, unhurried.

Yao Qinghe stood in place for half a pillar of incense for a while, and then pushed the door and entered the sixth layer of the Buddha Light Pagoda.

The old monk still sat cross-legged in place, still opening his eyes slightly, "How can the countryman have time to come to this temple today?"

Yao Qinghe sat down on the futon after dressing up, and said with a smile: "It's been peaceful for a long time, there are always some people who don't want to be peaceful, you also know our emperor's temperament, and I can only go around, so I can know what is not peaceful." ”

The old monk sighed, "Hongchen disputes, where will there be real peace?"

"What the gentleman said is very true. ”

"But don't put the name of Mr. on the head of the poor monk, the most annoying thing in the poor monk's life is the scholar. ”

Yao Qinghe just smiled, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, his hand stopped in mid-air, stunned.

The old monk said, "Tea." ”