The two tiger cubs have opened their eyes, although they drink rice soup every day, they are still skinny and skinny, and listless, which makes people feel distressed, Xie Mingzhou can't help it, so he asked Yizhen to hunt pheasants and hares to simmer meat stew soup to feed the tiger, and after a few days of conditioning, the two tiger cubs gradually grew stronger.

Although it was a trip all the way, and the doctrine of true knowledge and recognition of herbs, but after five or six days, or out of Shennongjia, to Fang County, this Fang County has been the emperor's exile since ancient times, and it is the first foothold of the smuggler after leaving Sichuan, it was originally very prosperous, but after the destruction of the peasant army, the Tatars also fought in this area when they pursued Li Zicheng, which seemed very dilapidated.

However, there are still a lot of people who come and go, all of them come here to buy Shennongjia Mountain specialties, Xie Mingzhou is just out to travel, and he can't always wander in the deep mountains and old forests, so he took Yizhen and went to Fang County to find an inn to rest.

The two walked around the city for a while, and the market was still lively, especially the place where medicinal materials were bought and sold, there were more merchants, Xie Mingzhou also stepped forward, bought a lot of good medicinal materials, and bought some mountain goods such as dried mushrooms and ganoderma lucidum.

was about to go back to the inn, but suddenly heard someone say that there was a hot spring outside the city, Xie Mingzhou was bored, and hurriedly went to find someone to ask where the hot spring was, and went to the hot spring when he left the city.

Walk ten miles, see a few pools from afar, steaming inside, approached with a hand to try, but do not feel hot, just slightly hot, at this time it is late, there are not many people bathing, the two took off their clothes and pants, jumped into the pool and soaked slowly, enjoy this soft and comfortable feeling.

Xie Mingzhou is also nearly thirty years old this year, but except for a little stubble, his appearance and skin are no different from those young people in their twenties, and they look as big as Yizhen.

He was closing his eyes to recuperate, and suddenly he felt that someone was coming, and he squinted his eyes to see that it was not that group of salt sellers, who else?

The group of people also found Xie Mingzhou's master and apprentice, but they didn't come over to be verbose, took off their clothes and pants not far away, whispered for a while, and took a bath by themselves. Xie Mingzhou didn't care about them, and after more than an hour, seeing that it was getting late, he put on his clothes and went back to the city, and the group of people also came out of the soup pool and followed behind from a distance.

As soon as he walked into the door of the inn, a man came out of the group of people behind him, walked two steps hurriedly to Xie Mingzhou's side, arched his hand, and said, "This Taoist, my master invites you to go to the house to talk." ”

Although he said that he was invited, there was no respect in his mouth, and Xie Mingzhou was not annoyed, but said softly: "If you want to see me, come to my room, I live in the backyard C room." He didn't look back, but went straight to the backyard room.

After entering the room, he called Xiao Er to make a pot of tea, and after a few sips, he noticed that the palm of the hall had brought two people and was walking towards him, Xie Mingzhou said secretly: "It's not arrogant." ”

The palm of the hall walked to the door, just about to reach out and knock on the door, but the door opened by itself, the head of the hall was flustered, and immediately came back to his senses, walked into the room and hugged his fists and said: "Pai qin, the fishy handle?"

It means to ask: Brother, is it a fake Taoist priest? This time it is Xie Mingzhou's turn to make a flute, and he can't understand it, how can he reply?

When the palm heard that Xie Mingzhou didn't understand, he knew that he was not from the rivers and lakes, and he said: "I am not from the rivers and lakes, but I am dressed as a Taoist priest, but I am hiding from that tartar?"

Xie Mingzhou said: "I am a Taoist priest, do you want me not to wear this robe? ”

Zhangtangzi smiled and said, "It turned out to be a true Taoist, but I don't know which treasure temple I grew up in?"

Xie Mingzhou said: "There is nothing bad to say, I originally became a monk and practiced in the Chongyan Qin Zhenguan since I was a child, and the first master is the abbot of the original temple, and this is my apprentice." ”

Mr. Shoujing, the abbot of Tongchuan Chongyan Qinzhenguan, turned out to be some famous in Sichuan, and when the palm heard it, he really smiled: "It turned out to be Mr. Shoujing's senior brother, and he will be courteous." With that, he clasped his fists and gave a salute.

Xie Mingzhou saw that the other party was polite, and it was not good to take that style again, so he stood up and said with his hand: "Laymen don't need to be polite, dare to ask the name of the honorable person? When I was in Chongqing before, I heard that you were going to Wudang to grab some books, what is going on?"

The palm's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he pointed at Xie Mingzhou and said, "How did the Taoist know about this? Could it be that you were there that day?"

Xie Mingzhou said: "How can I be on the sidelines? As long as I want to know, the snakes, insects, rats and ants in this city are all in my ears and eyes, let alone your group of people?"

Zhangtangzi obviously didn't believe it: "It's not that I don't believe in the Taoist, it's really a matter of great importance, if the opponent knows in advance and sets a trap to lure my brother to the bait, then I will not be afraid of the death and injury of my brother, leaving the father, the elders, wives and children at home without a whereabouts, then it is regrettable." ”

Xie Mingzhou heard him tell him truthfully, and he didn't want to hear him talk nonsense, so he said to him: "You discussed this matter in the Chongqing mansion that day, and I already knew about it in the inn, so I didn't have any interest, but that Wudang was also a big name back then, so I thought of borrowing it to take a look, but I didn't mean to rob it." ”

After a pause, he said: "I didn't come to Wudang this time with you, but I was ready to come a long time ago, but I just happened to run into it." ”

Zhang Tangzi still didn't believe it: "Our courtyard in Chongqing is on the edge of the city gate, there is no inn near the left, the meaning of the Taoist chief, you can hear us talk even if you are half a part of the city?"

"Don't say it's half a mile away, it's two hundred miles away, and I can know what you're saying. Xie Mingzhou was also a little angry, it seemed that he didn't have some skills, and thought that I was a Taoist priest in the countryside who could only do water and land dojos.

He glanced at the two people waiting outside the door, and said to the palm of the hall: "You can call your two attendants, now go to the courtyard in the south of your city, one of them say a word, and come back to see that I am right, remember, tell them not to say it now, and say whatever they want when they get to the courtyard." ”

The two people outside the door also heard their words, so they glanced at the palm of the hall, saw him nod slightly, turned around and ran out of the inn, and went to the south of the city.

Xie Mingzhou released his thoughts and followed the two to the courtyard in the south of the city, the two pushed open the courtyard door, and one of them said: "I think this Taoist priest is a thief." ”

Another person said, "Maybe it's an immortal." When they had said this, they turned and ran again into the inn.

In the inn, Xie Mingzhou said to the palm: "One of the two of them said that I was a thief, and the other said that I was an immortal, and he didn't say anything else, and he was about to arrive at the inn." ”

After a while, the two of them entered the house, and the head of the hall hurriedly asked, "What did you two say?"

Without waiting for the two to answer, he asked again: "Is one of them talking about thieves and the other saying immortals?" ”

The two of them were so frightened that they couldn't speak, three of them, you look at me, I look at you, and they were there for a while.