The golden black fell in the west, and the jade rabbit rose in the east.

In the Xuangui Hall, Liu Ji closed the door, took out a pot of inferior wine from his waist, sipped two sips, tasted it, and was satisfied, found a broken recliner again, and lay down.

Sleeping on the recliner, Liu Ji only felt that his bones were crisp, and he couldn't help but be proud, if it weren't for his foresight, he would have worshiped under the door of Xuangui Hall two years ago, and now he doesn't know where he starved to death, where he can have spare money to buy wine like now.

When he was slightly drunk, Liu Ji suddenly heard the sound of "banging" slamming the door in his ears, and scolded in his heart, I don't know that the rammer was late to listen to the scriptures, and came to disturb his purity again.

Although Liu Ji was unhappy in his heart, his duty was to get up, open a crack in the door, and look outside, only to see a big man outside the door who was eight feet tall, with a straight nose and a wide mouth, wearing a blue robe, and thin fast boots under his feet.

When the big man saw that the door had opened a crack, he couldn't help but say, squeezed hard, squeezed into the door, and asked: "Where is Patriarch Sun, I have 100,000 urgent things to report to his old man." ”

Seeing that he was rude, Liu Ji said angrily: "What are you, dare to break into the Xuangui Hall!"

The big man looked around at no one, and said in a low voice: "The villain Gao Huan is also a disciple of our Xuangui Hall, there is indeed an urgent matter here, and I hope that the senior brother will say it." ”

Liu Ji frowned and said, "In that case, you are waiting here, and I will go to Tongyu..."

After speaking, he turned around and walked towards the courtyard, and after walking less than three steps, Liu Ji suddenly turned around and said strangely: "No, you came last time, and you were clearly a disciple of Patriarch Lu, why did you ask to see Patriarch Sun." ”

Gao Huan saw that he knew himself, stepped in front of Liu Ji in one step, couldn't help but say, grabbed Liu Ji's left hand, and stuffed a hard cloth bag.

Liu Ji saw Gao Huan rushing over, and thought that he was going to make a move, and was about to shout for help, but suddenly felt that there was an extra cloth bag in his hand, and quickly shut up and opened the cloth bag, but it was a bag of scattered silver taels, and there were seven or eight taels of it. ”

Liu Ji led Gao Huan, bypassed the main hall, walked into the backyard along the path next to the hall, and saw that under the peach blossom tree, a lone lamp was lit in the quiet room, and a low chanting sound came out.

Liu Ji pointed to the light and said, "That's Patriarch Sun's quiet room, you go to see yourself, I'll go back first." ”

Gao Huan thanked him, resigned from Liu Ji, came to the door, and knocked lightly.

The chanting in the room was interrupted, and someone said, "Who, just come in, I don't have so many rules." ”

Gao Huan stretched out his hand to push the door, stepped into the house, the place in the house was narrow, only a lone lamp was dim, under the lamp a cloud bed, there was a young Taoist priest lying on the side, wearing an apricot yellow Taoist robe, holding a Taoist scripture and reciting, opposite the cloud bed were two blue-clothed Taoist priests, both in their thirties, sitting cross-legged on the futon, listening to the scriptures.

Gao Huan took two steps, pounced, knelt down in front of the cloud bed, and cried: "The villain is brave, begging Patriarch Sun to save thousands of lives in my village!"

The young Taoist priest was a little surprised and asked, "Who are you and why have you come here?"

Gao Huan saw him ask, burst into tears, and said sadly: "This matter is a long story, the villain is the Gaojiazhai family fifty miles northwest of Qingyang Mansion, last year, the owner of the village, Gao Taigong, led thousands of people up and down in my village, and worshiped under our Xuangui Hall. Unexpectedly, after the death of Gao Taigong, Tianlongmen took the opportunity to send the Niutouzhai branch altar to preach in my village, and asked the people in my village to switch to Tianlongmen. ”

Hearing this, the young Taoist priest patted the edge of the bed, sneered slightly, and said, "If I remember correctly, Gaojiazhai is a branch of Lu Jianshan's sub-altar, why did you come to me?"

Gao Huan listened to the young Taoist priest's words with a slight dissatisfaction, gritted his teeth and knocked his head on the ground three times in a row, and when he got up again, his forehead was blurred with flesh and blood, and he said bitterly: "The villain came here, just because the two altar masters asked for too much in my village, and said that if they were not satisfied, they would leave my village, and then Tianlongmen would retaliate, there were few people in my village, it was really difficult to resist, and the principals in the village were worried about this, so they jointly wrote a letter, asking me to come to the door to ask Sun Zushi to make a move, and drive these two away, and I would like to worship under Sun Zushi." ”

The young Taoist priest snorted coldly and said, "Lu Jianshan is greedy and greedy, and even his subordinates are doing the same, you bring the letter, and I'll take a look." ”

Gao Huan hurriedly took out the letter from his arms and presented it to the young Taoist priest.

The young Taoist priest took the letter, flipped through it, and said with a deep sigh: "You go to rest with Qingsong first, and make a decision tomorrow morning." ”

Gao Huan wanted to say more, but was taken out of the quiet room by a blue-clothed Taoist priest and went to a side room to rest.

After arranging Gao Huan, the blue-clothed Taoist priest returned to the quiet room.

On the cloud bed, Sun Daohai was groaning with the letter paper in his hand, and when he saw him come in, he asked, "Qingsong, what do you think about this matter?"

Qingsong Daoren thought for a while and said: "In the humble opinion of the apprentice, the person who sent the letter just now does not seem to be lying, but I am afraid that there is another mystery in it. ”

Sun Daohai asked another blue-clothed Taoist priest: "What do you say about Qingshi?"

Qingshi Daoist got up and said: "What Senior Brother Qingsong said is reasonable, in the eyes of the apprentice, this matter must be a plan by Uncle Lu to kill two birds with one stone, to provoke the master and Tianlongmen to merge." ”

Sun Daohai said in a stunned voice: "How can I not know what the two of you said? I am asking you two how to decide!"

The two blue-clothed Taoist priests glanced at each other, and said in unison: "Although it is a chestnut in the fire, it is necessary to do it." ”

Sun Daohai laughed, Huo Ran stood up: "It's too late for me to come to Qingyang Mansion, and when I get here, the various sub-altars have been established, I thought that I was trapped in the hall and had no chance to show my fists and feet, I didn't want Lu Jianshan to make such a move, and wanted to borrow a knife to kill people, he really thought that Lu Yuanlong would dare to kill me? Qingsong and Qingshi, you two go to prepare, tomorrow morning, I will show my senior brother Ming, go to Gaojiazhai, with this letter in hand, I can't say anything about Lu Jianshan." ”

In the early morning, the sun shone on Gao Huan's face through the window lattice, Gao Huan turned his head to avoid it in his sleep, and wanted to sleep for a while, when he suddenly felt that someone was pushing him, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was the blue-clothed Taoist priest who arranged the residence last night, and hurriedly got up and saluted.

The blue-clothed Taoist priest waved his hand, signaling that he didn't have to salute, and said: "This morning, the family master has reported this matter to the hall master, and he has had another dispute with Lu Shibo, and now the matter has been decided, let's set off and go to Gaojiazhai." ”

Gao Huan was overjoyed when he heard this, and wanted to salute, but the blue-clothed Taoist priest stretched out his hand to stop him, and pulled him straight to Sun Daohai's residence.

After a while, Sun Daohai took Gao Huan, Qingsong, and Qingshi to leave Xuanguitang, take a carriage, and go in the direction of Gaojiazhai.

When a few people set off, two merchants not far from Xuanguitang were wandering around, seeing Gao Huan and a few others going out, they glanced at each other, and then left here, changed into a fast horse outside the city gate, and galloped in the direction of Gaojiazhai.

In Gaojiazhai, in the mountain temple.

In front of the burning ruins of the two Taoist priests, they were silent for a long time, these two people were tall and one short, both were dressed in bright yellow robes, and there was an old man standing behind him, who was Sun Dianshan, the head of Gaojiazhai.

One of the Taoist priests suddenly asked, "Master Sun, you can describe the shape of that Ugin dagger again." ”

Sun Dianshan smiled bitterly and said: "Little Lao'er has said many times, that dagger is more than a foot long, with blades on both sides, and the whole body is black, but there is a faint golden light wandering away, this dagger is so rare that the villain is unforgettable." ”

The Taoist priest frowned and said, "In that case, you go down first, and then report when you have the news of the Xuangui Hall." ”

Sun Dianshan hurriedly bowed and retreated.

Waiting for Sun Dianshan to withdraw from the temple gate, the Taoist priest said softly: "Senior brother, the soul lamp of the door master has been extinguished, and now the blade with him has fallen into the Xuangui Hall again, it seems that nine times out of ten it has suffered an accident." ”

Another Taoist priest sighed: "Lord Lu and Lu Yuanlong of Xuangui Hall are from the same Lu clan in Jiangnan, and now they are really in the same room?"

The Taoist priest from before sneered and said, "The Jiangnan Lu clan has controlled the Five Bucket Rice Dao for many years, and it has shocked the eighty-one prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, if it is not the same Lu clan's disciples, who would dare to take the life of the sect master?"

"Alas, this time, Huang Tiandao demarcated the area in the four countries of Jiangdong, so that the various branches of my Dao Sect competed for the position of Dao Master in it, and I made a lot of killings in vain, and I don't know if this move is right or wrong..."

"Senior brother, the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism will fight sooner or later, if my Dao Sect does not unify its strength as soon as possible, I am afraid that it will be vulnerable at that time, and besides, this time you and I have taken advantage of the Lord of the Lu Sect and have been assigned to compete for the position of the Lord of the Dao in this Qingyang Mansion. In addition to us, we don't care about it here, but the Xuangui Hall, the Nine Immortals Temple, and the Xiaguang Courtyard are three, of which the Nine Immortals View is lonely, and the Xiaguang Temple is all women's streams, only the Xuangui Hall can be called a strong opponent, and the four Daomen in the Hongze Mansion in the east are all strong opponents, compared with it, we don't know how much easier. ”

"Having said that, it's just that now that Lord Lumen is dead, you and I are only afraid that it will be difficult to fight again..."

"Senior brother's words are wrong, now the enemy is clear and I am secret, if you and I can take advantage of the Gaojiazhai matter to abolish the Xuanguitang alone, we can move back to the situation, and then delay, when the time comes, we only need to carefully investigate the death of the Lumen master, seize the evidence, and report that with the rule of "fighting but not dying" in the Tao, Xuanguitang is only afraid that he will be expelled from Qingyang Mansion. ”

"In that case, you might as well try..."

Gaojiazhai is built by the mountain, there are many mountains in the village, the ancestors of Gaojiazhai have built several beacon towers on these mountains according to local conditions, send people to guard day and night, if you see a large group of bandits, you will warn in vain.

At this time, Bai Cheng stood on one of the beacon towers, this beacon tower is delicate, looking down, not only can you have a bird's eye view of Gaojiazhai, but also can see the situation in the mountain temple clearly.

"Uncle Sun is coming, have you already told the two elders of Tianlongmen, Zhang Ming and Zhao Liang, about coming?"

"It's been a long time. ”

"These two have already started to set up?"

"Half an hour ago, it began. ”

"No one in the village knows their origins, right?"

"The people in Gaojiazhai who know their identities are all credible people in Dianshan. ”

"How long will it take for Uncle Sun of Xuanguitang to be here?"

"Hurry up and report it, there is still an hour, and we will go to Gaojiazhai, and the Duke of Dianshan and several other directors are ready to greet them. ”

"Master Cui Tan, they're already gone?"

"I set off early in the morning, but in order to prevent encountering Patriarch Sun, I took a long detour, and I was afraid that there would be two hours before I could return to the city. ”

After helping the hat, Bai Cheng turned around and looked at the old servant in Tsing Yi beside him, and said with a smile: "Old Sun does things, not a drop of water leaks, and I also ask the old gentleman to bring a word, Ma Mou will definitely come to the door to thank him one day." ”