Chapter 22 Gaojiazhai
After hearing Bai Cheng's words, Lu Jianshan slammed the tea bowl angrily, his face was pale, and his hands trembled.
Cui Boyuan stood aside, covered in cold sweat, his eyes secretly staring at Lu Jianshan, for fear that he would see through the flaws and be ready to kneel down and beg for mercy at any time.
Bai Cheng saw that Lu Jianshan was angry, but he knew that he had been arrested, so he pretended to ask: "Does Master know who this person is?"
Lu Jianshan said hatefully: "If my guess is correct, it should be Lu Yuanlong, the master of Tianlongmen, who has many conflicts with my hall because of his preaching, and he doesn't want to use such a method this time!"
Bai Cheng pretended to be happy and said: "I'm afraid that there is nowhere to find it, but now that I know the roots, I will ask for someone." ”
Lu Jianshan's face sank like water and said: "Lu Yuanlong, although his character is poor, he has some real skills under his hands, and it is not easy for him to come back, he needs to think in the long run, but he knows that Xiao Wan is a person from my Xuangui Hall, so he doesn't dare to come nonsense." ”
Several people were talking in the house, and suddenly there was a knock on the door, Cui Boyuan opened the door, only to see five or six men standing outside the door, although these people were tall, they were wearing ragged clothes, and two of them had blue noses and swollen faces, and their heads were bleeding.
Cui Boyuan saw that these people were unfamiliar, and was about to ask, but one of the tall men pushed him away, rushed into the house, knelt down in front of Lu Jianshan, hugged his head and cried.
Lu Jianshan frowned and asked, "Who are you, why did you come to me and cry?"
Seeing Lu Jianshan's questioning, this person stopped crying and told the truth one by one.
It turned out that there was a Gaojia village fifty miles northwest of Qingyang Mansion, and these people were the hunters in the village. At the beginning of last year, Xuanguitang sent people to Gaojiazhai to preach, and said that Gaojiazhai master Gao Taigong was moved, and later, Gao Taigong personally came to Xuanguitang, worshiped under Lu Jianshan, and set up a branch altar when he went back, and Gao Taigong himself became the altar master.
Since Gao Taigong became the master of this altar, he was full of energy all day long, running around, but at the end of last year, because of overwork and occasional cold, he changed several famous doctors, and finally failed to do anything, and returned to the west.
When Gao Taigong died, Gao Jiazhai was busy with the funeral, so he broke off contact with Xuanguitang.
There is a bull head village in the north of Gaojiazhai forty miles, the surname of the village is Niu, the double name is Botong, is the altar master of Tianlongmen a sub-altar, get the news that Gao Taigong died, then take advantage of the weakness to enter, send people to Gaojiazhai to preach, to Gaojiazhai within three days to change respect the ancestor of Tianlongmen, to Niu Botong as the altar master, if you do it, there is a large amount of property given, otherwise the two families will meet each other.
Gaojiazhai is only a few thousand people up and down the whole village, most of them make a living from farming, but Niutou Village is the first big village within a radius of 100 miles, occupies an iron mine, more than 10,000 people in the village are young blacksmiths, not only strong and strong, but also good at building weapons.
Several people in charge of Gaojiazhai discussed it once, and then did not wait for three days, and arranged for someone to come to the door overnight, expressing their willingness to change the court.
On the second day, Niutouzhai sent a messenger to open an incense hall in Gaojiazhai, and within a day, the whole village had been converted.
Despite this, these benevolent brothers in front of them have not converted, not to say how religious these people are, just because these people are poor, there is no tile to cover their bodies, there is no place to stand on the bottom, and they barely make a living by hunting on weekdays.
Until Gao Taigong was the master of the Xuangui Hall, he saw that these people were idle, so he asked them to be the messengers of the preaching, all of them arranged positions, and gave some money and food every month.
The good times did not last long, after the death of Gao Taigong, these people were beaten back to their original form, not only went out to preach and no one paid attention, but even eating became a problem, so a few people were crossed, and they went to find trouble with the preacher in Niutou Village, but the preacher was strong in martial arts, not to mention, even the guards under his command were also quite strong, and beat a few people and drove them out of the village.
Several people were driven out of the stockade and had nowhere to run, so after summing up, they decided to come to Xuanguitang for help.
A few people came to the Xuangui Hall to explain the situation to the disciples of the front hall, and the disciples of the front hall checked that Gao Taigong was worshipping under Lu Jianshan's door, so he asked these people to ask Lu Jianshan.
Lu Jianshan listened to these people's intentions, and was furious in his heart: "This Tianlongmen is really hateful, a few of you get up first, for the teacher is about to find trouble in Tianlongmen, but recently several capable disciples under the sect have been sent out, but there is no one to draw out for a while, you might as well stay in the door for a while, and when the teacher picks up the manpower, he will avenge you." ”
Bai Cheng heard it on the side, and these people who came to speak the words "Tianlongmen" left and right, and couldn't help but move in his heart, and secretly stepped on the iron shoes and found nowhere to go, so it didn't take any effort to get there, and immediately interjected: "Why bother with your senior brothers, someone can solve this matter now." ”
Lu Jianshan was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and asked, "Who are you talking about?"
Bai Cheng smiled slightly: "Second Brother Cui has always been loyal to his master, and this matter is related to Tianlongmen, if you send Second Brother Cui to go, you will be able to do your best to solve this matter." ”
Lu Jianshan sighed, but did not answer.
Seeing that Lu Jianshan was noncommittal, Bai Cheng knew that he was not very satisfied with Cui Boyuan, and then said: "If the master is worried that Second Brother Cui is no match for people from Niutou Village, the villain is willing to go with Second Brother Cui. ”
Lu Jianshan remembered that day Baicheng and the blue-faced man had a vicious fight, and indeed there were some martial arts, and secretly thought that the two of you were alone, although it would not be helpful to go, but with your protection, it would not be a bad thing, so he thought about it in his heart, and said in his mouth: "Since the two of you go together, then it's okay, so let's do it, if the two of you can take back Gaojiazhai, let Cui Boyuan be the altar master, and you be the deputy altar master, wouldn't it be a hundred times stronger than you being a businessman." ”
Bai Cheng saw that Lu Jianshan was open-mouthed, but he also pretended to be overjoyed, and pulled Cui Boyuan to bow down and thank him.
Seeing that the matter was decided, Bai Cheng suddenly showed hesitation and said, "There is something that I don't know whether to talk about or not." ”
Lu Jianshan frowned and asked, "But what's the matter?"
Bai Cheng said with a bitter face: "I heard these brothers just now say that there are many people in Niutouzhai, only the two of us go together, I'm afraid it's not combative, if the master can give me the jade pendant that emits fire beasts, or the rune paper that Uncle Sun emits fireballs, and me, I will definitely be able to do this." ”
Lu Jianshan said angrily: "The jade pendant is for you, and you can't use it, but it is a rune paper, I can give you two, but you have to use it carefully." ”
The matter was decided, and Lu Jianshan carefully explained the situation of Tianlongmen and how to use the rune paper, but because the two of them still had some use, for fear that they would lose their lives because of ignorance, they let the two go to the account room and pay one hundred taels of silver, and then let the two leave.
Bai Cheng and Cui Boyuan took a few hunters out of the Xuangui Hall, returned to the alley of Cui's house, and came to the entrance of the alley, Bai Cheng asked those people to stay outside the alley and not to go in.
The two pushed the door into the courtyard, the old Cui couple was boiling water to cook, seeing the two of them come back, they beckoned the two to sit down and drink tea first, Bai Cheng was not polite, begged for a cup of tea, sat down and told the story of this morning, only said that Lu Daochang read Cui Boyuan's hard work, and deliberately promoted him to be an altar master, let Bai Cheng accompany him, and also be a deputy altar master, but he hid the fact that the previous altar master was dead and several messengers were beaten.
When the Cui couple heard it, they were surprised and delighted, they often saw these altar owners in the city, when they went out, they were either riding horses, or sitting in a sedan chair, hugging before and after, majestic, it was a good position of the first class, Cui Boyuan from the helper of the carpentry shop, actually jumped to become the altar owner, put in the era where Baicheng is located, just like a security guard in a small company, suddenly became the top of a large group company, such a good thing, I dare not dream of it.
Several people chatted in the courtyard for a while, and Bai Cheng said that there was still an urgent matter in the altar over there, and asked Cui Boyuan to go to cook, so he hurriedly packed his luggage and went out.
Before leaving, Bai Cheng seemed to remember something, and suddenly turned around and said, yesterday Master Zu gave Lu Daochang a dream again, saying that Xiao Wan is the star in the sky, and the sun star does not want to see it, so Xiao Wan can't see the daylight, so she has to stay in the house during the day, even at night, she can only go to the courtyard and can't go out.
Xiao Wan on the side was dumbfounded when she heard it, and protested repeatedly, but no one paid attention.
The two went out and walked all the way to the market, and on the way, these beaten brothers also introduced themselves, and these people were also surnamed Gao, all of them were brothers of the same generation, called Gao Ge, Gao Huan, Gao Yuan, Gao Feng, Gao Zheng and Gao Yang.
Bai Cheng heard these domineering names, and secretly said in his heart that your fate is not good, if you were born in my time, with these names, you can also go to fantasy novels to be the protagonists, and said at the moment, I and Second Brother Cui can't remember these names, so let's sort them by age, call them Gao Lao to Gao Lao Liu, and a few people nodded in response.
When Bai Cheng asked Lu Jianshan for a job, Cui Boyuan had something to say, but it was not easy to open his mouth in front of Lu Jianshan before, and then because of the presence of several hunters, some things were not good to say, and when he returned home, he saw that his parents were happy, and it was inconvenient to open his mouth, at this time, seeing Bai Cheng and the Gao family brothers chatting more and more, he couldn't help it, and stretched out his hand to pull Bai Cheng aside and said: "Eleven Lang, this Gaojiazhai office, brother, how can you ask for it, listen to those few people, Niutouzhai thousands of heroes, is one person and one punch, you and I can't help it." ”
Seeing that Cui Boyuan was in a hurry, Bai Cheng asked with a smile: "Second brother is also worried, why don't we go to the master and resign from this altar master?"
When Cui Boyuan heard this, his face showed hesitation, and he said: "I have already promised the master, if I refuse it again, I am afraid that the master will not like it in his heart." ”
Bai Cheng no longer teased him, and said: "Second brother don't worry, the younger brother has already made up his mind, as long as the second brother listens to the younger brother, I promise to let the second brother sit firmly on this altar master." ”
Cui Boyuan was overjoyed and said: "You and my brother join forces, we will be invincible!"