Chapter 4, The Monk

In less than two hours, Liu San'er felt that a long time had passed, and as soon as he came out of Yichun Building, he went straight to the direction of Tonggu Building, and he didn't want to stay for a moment. On the way, no one put the cloth bag containing the book into the storage bag, and the remaining silver taels were bargained, which should be enough to go back and forth to the girder door.

Although Zhangjiaji is the closest to Da Zhoumen, the price is not high, and the upper room of an inn like Tonggulou only needs one or two taels of silver a day, and a large table of meals is only two or three taels. But if you eat it simply, even if you have meat for two or three days, you won't be able to spend a tael or two. If you live casually, the ordinary single room is one or two for five days, and the chase shop is one or two for half a month. The twenty taels that Liu San'er gave to the shopkeeper of Tonggulou are the threshold for giving Yichun Lou a waist card, and it is natural to get a piece for free, and it is naturally not a loss to buy the rest of the wine by himself. Now I still have two hundred and thirty taels of silver on my body, and after deducting the cost of hiring a carriage for the whole journey, I will try to live in an ordinary single room in the future, and there will be a little surplus if I have meat to eat. This time, because I couldn't help but be curious, I went to Yichun Building to carry an indescribable disaster, so it would be better to find a carriage and leave as soon as possible at dawn tomorrow morning.

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There were still not many guests eating in the front hall of Tonggu Building, but Liu San'er was a little puzzled, or shocked, when he entered the door and looked at it slightly.

The striking young man and woman were still there, still eating unhurriedly, still whispering and laughing, but they were finally finished. A few men with eyes on the young woman were still there, and the plates on the table had fallen to the old height. Even the other guests in the hall were exactly the same as when Liu San'er went out, and there were a lot of dishes on the table. This is a bit weird! Since entering the second layer of Qi training, his memory has reached the point of unforgettable like other monks, and he can repeat it word for word after reading a thick book, let alone a room full of sparse people. Since memory can't be wrong, it's that these people are unusual.

A meal has not been eaten for more than an hour, if it is just one person like this, but forget it, but it is really incredible that everyone in the front hall is like this.

"There must be a demon when it is abnormal," Liu San'er said in his heart.

Looking at the shopkeeper again, his face was obviously not good, and seeing that Liu San'er was a guest staying in the hotel, he hurriedly gave a few glances and signaled to hurry up to the back.

Liu San'er saw it in his eyes, pretending to be casual and wandering through the front hall, and then walked to his room with a smoke.

At this time, I only heard a man in the front hall say loudly: "Shopkeeper, another five catties of beef, three bowls of pasta!"

The shopkeeper's trilled voice replied: "Guest officer, you and all of you here have already eaten all the ingredients in the small shop for five days..."

"Haha, the uncle is willing, and it's not that he doesn't give money, what so much nonsense!" the man laughed in response.

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Liu San'er didn't hear the words after that, and he didn't bother to listen to them. After entering the house, he quickly closed the door before leaning against the wall and exhaling a long breath. Before he could move, he felt someone coming outside, and his heart immediately tightened.

"Guest, it's me!" Listening to the voice, it was the one who took the advantage of running the hall.

"!" Liu San'er scolded in his heart, and said angrily: "If you have something, just say it!"

"That's the guest officer, the kitchen is too busy to make a table of meals you asked for before, and the kitchen hasn't made it yet, see if you have something simple, I'll be staring at it and hurry up and make it for you!"

As soon as he was nervous, he forgot to be hungry, Liu San'er remembered that he hadn't eaten dinner yet, although he didn't have much appetite at the moment, but he maintained the eating habits of ordinary people, he was uncomfortable if he didn't eat a meal, and two meals in the morning and evening were indispensable, even if it was to eat some pine nuts, so he ordered: "Just make two bowls of noodles!"

"Okay, wait a minute!" Seeing that Liu San'er was not embarrassed, the runner immediately fled as if he had been amnestied.

There are people in the front hall, and there are probably not many people who can eat on time in Tonggu Building. Thinking through the joints, Liu San'er couldn't help but smile bitterly, and was about to move, when someone came again. The footsteps are familiar, and it is the head of the Zhao family. But now that the unitary time has passed, I am not afraid that he will be entangled again.

When the head of the Zhao family arrived at the door, he still knocked on the door first, and then said without waiting for an answer: "Brother Tai, in the next Zhao family head Zhao Wuliang, you didn't wait for you, now I see you are back, I am here to invite you again, in fact, there is nothing to do, I just want to invite Brother Tai to my place as a witness, I am willing to give a hundred taels of silver as a reward!"

"Really?" Liu San'er's heart moved, and he turned around and opened the door. There are 100 taels to be taken for a witness here, and the helper of a stall owner in Yichun Building is paid 150 taels, when is Cai Guo's silver so easy to earn, or is it just for him to run into it? The stall owner's work is not able to do it nine times out of ten, but the head of the Zhao family can still be considered, after all, an extra hundred taels of silver, he will be much more moisturized on the way to deliver the letter.

The head of the Zhao family is an old man of sixty or seventy years old, he looks old under the light, a little hunchbacked, but he is very energetic, and when he saw Liu San'er looking over, he smiled and said: "Brother Tai, in Xia Zhao Wuliang, please take a step to speak!"

"Wang Lin!" Liu San responded with the identity he had already thought of, and invited Zhao Wuliang in.

The two sat down separately, and Zhao Wuliang said bluntly: "There is a reason for taking the liberty to disturb this time, and I ask Brother Wang to forgive me! That's the case, in the old age, but the boy was born weak and sickly, several famous Lang Zhong asserted that the boy may not live to the age of the weak crown, and in recent years, he has also made some friends with his family wealth, so he recently asked an immortal master for help!"

"Immortal Master?" Liu San'er frowned. It stands to reason that he is also an immortal master in the eyes of ordinary people, but he is not good at curing diseases, and his cultivation is low. But there is no loose cultivation near Dazhou Mountain, and the old man and those senior brothers have no time, where did a fellow Taoist come from?

Zhao Wuliang saw Liu San'er's expression, and he was very useful, and immediately explained.

It turned out that Zhao Wuliang recently accidentally got the address of a monk's cave from a friend, and he prepared enough gifts to be cheeky to ask someone to help his son treat his illness, but he didn't expect the other party to agree, but said that he had to find a spiritual aura near the fairy mountain to treat, and the two sides talked about the price of treatment, and finally agreed on 10,000 taels of silver, but at least thirty people were needed to witness the healing process. Cai Guo also said that Dazhou Mountain is a fairy mountain with aura, so Zhao Wuliang went to Zhangjiaji and lived in Tonggulou.

The two sides agreed that the date was today, and 10,000 taels of silver would not be difficult for the Zhao family, so they had already been prepared, but the thirty witnesses were a little difficult. The monk demanded that the witnesses should not be from the Zhao family with the same surname, not from a poor family, and that the thirty people should not know each other, otherwise they would not be able to give several times the price. If you want to spend money to find 30 farmers and craftsmen who are begging for a living, it is natural to grab a lot of them, but it is really difficult to find 30 people with some status and status who are not short of money to catch up with them to be witnesses. Fortunately, Zhao Wuliang was eager to save his son and willing to spend money, and finally got together thirty-five people half a month ago, and went to Zhangjiaji together. But few of these thirty-five people were friends he had made before, most of them were friends who were found by friends and friends, and this was done by promising great benefits, but fortunately, these people were not pretending, and they were not afraid of dealing with them inappropriately. When they arrived in Zhangjiaji, these people did not live in Tonggulou with Zhao Wuliang, but each chose a place to stay, and only promised to appear before dark today, and the meeting would be held at the same time. But it was dark before, and thirteen of them didn't come, and they didn't find anything when they sent people to their foothold. As a result, only twenty-two of the thirty-five people remained, at least eight fewer than previously agreed. Zhao Wuliang had already considered the possible accidents, so he did not hesitate to spend more money to find five more people, but there was still a problem. In a hurry, he started the idea of the guests in the upper room of Tonggu Building, and quickly knocked on the door of one family to say good words, and finally found five more in Tonggu Building that seemed to meet the standards, and by the time of the unitary time, there were already twenty-seven people, and now with Liu San'er, there are still two missing, but several of Zhao Wuliang's own families have gone to other inns in Zhangjiaji, and it should not be a big problem to find two witnesses who meet the standards, and it doesn't matter if there are too many, anyway, the two sides agreed on at least thirty, as long as it is enough.

It is not uncommon for cultivators to treat ordinary people, and it is normal for them to come to the spirit stone to ask for some silver taels, but Liu San, who actually found more than 30 witnesses for a doctor, heard of it for the first time. But what if this condition was not proposed by the monk who was going to treat Zhao Wuliang's son, but by Zhao Wuliang? If this makes sense, Zhao Wuliang was worried that he had spent money, and that the monk would not make any effort or effort to do his son's illness, and that he would not be optimistic about his son's illness, and that with the witnesses, he would not be afraid that the other party would not admit it as a monk. Or Zhao Wuliang was afraid that the monk would kill people and destroy his body when he saw the money, and he would not treat his son at all.

After listening to the explanation, Liu San'er really planned to be the witness. Not for the hundred taels of silver, but for the sake of meeting the monk, and if there was anything wrong, I would report it to the old man in time. But since they are both cultivators, the other party must be able to easily sense the existence of the same way, and Liu San's cultivation of the "Yin Fu Sutra" has the qi collection method, which can make the early stage of the same level of qi training and the middle stage of the higher level of qi training not easy to do, and the mana can be maintained all day long, and he has been doing it since he entered Zhangjiaji. The method that can make him not feel in the later stage of Qi cultivation can only last for half an hour, and it can only be used once a day. The Yin Fu Sutra is just an ordinary Taoist book, so there will be no exercises that cannot be felt during the Qi training period and cannot be felt during the foundation building period.

Liu San'er guessed that the monk was at most at the late stage of Qi cultivation, and as long as he ran the Qi Suppression Method with all his strength, he should not be sensed by the other party. The method can last for half an hour, he stays there for two moments and leaves, the head of the Zhao family is eager to save his son, and he will not force himself to stay in the future. If the monk has any problems, he should hurry back to the mountain and report to the old man, if it is only better to pass by, it is not his business. Now that he had paid attention, he didn't think about it anymore, pretended to think for a while, and reluctantly said, "Okay, I did this witness, I don't know when the immortal master will arrive?"

"Thank you, Brother Wang!" Zhao Wuliang saw Liu San'er make a decision, immediately got up and thanked him, and said: "The immortal master will arrive tonight, Brother Wang, let's go to the next room to drink tea first, the best peak tea, and by the way, you can also meet some friends..."

As he spoke, Zhao Wuliang took out a hundred taels of silver and put it on the table at hand with a smile.

Liu San'er was also not polite, took the silver away, and went out first as if nothing happened, while Zhao Wuliang closed the door after him. As soon as I arrived at the door, I saw the runner hurrying over with two bowls of pasta, and hurriedly sent away.

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The No. 6 room is more than twice as large as the No. 11 Tianzi, and it will not look crowded if there are twenty or thirty people sitting in the living room, not to mention that there are three inner rooms. The furniture furnishings are not comparable to Tianzi No. 11, all the mahogany products, noble and elegant, how can a room get a few thousand taels, for his son to see a doctor, Zhao Wuliang spent a lot of money. Directly in front of the living room is a delicate futon on the main seat, with two rows of seats on each side of the main seat, each row can seat eight people, and there is a spare space behind the two rows of seats on both sides, and there are five or six on one side.

There was still half an hour left, the futon was still empty, and there were already thirty-one people sitting on the seats, all of them dressed noblely, and no matter how they talked, they also met the conditions that Zhao Wuliang and the monk talked about. Most of the thirty people except Liu San'er are middle-aged men, one is old, and one is a young man. This man and woman are the two people Liu San'er saw in the front hall of Tonggu Building before, the two of them changed their casual eating, and sat motionless in the middle of the front row on both sides, as if they had changed people.

Liu San'er sat in the back row of the seat on the left side near the door, sitting still like everyone else, trying not to attract attention. The old man sat at his right hand and kept his eyes closed. The left-hand spot is vacant, and no one should be sitting on it. Before he was sure if he wanted to start running the Qi Gathering Method that could prevent the Qi Cultivation Cultivator from inducing in the late stage of Qi cultivation, he looked at the sky outside the house, the time was almost up, and he was ready at any time.

From the moment I entered the door, there was no one in the room who spoke, and there was good tea on the table, and no one drank it, and the atmosphere was a little too solemn. It may be the reason why you can see the immortal master immediately, none of the men in this room actually cast a different look at the slender green gauze woman, but Zhao Wuliang stood at the door from time to time and looked back a few times.

Zhao Wuliang's son and his inner man were all in the inner room, and the family was sent out to sentry, just waiting for the immortal master to come. Seeing that the ion time was getting closer and closer, Zhao Wuliang finally stopped looking back at the green gauze woman, and began to pace back and forth anxiously, muttering in a low voice: "The poisonous oath has been made, I won't stop coming!"

"I see..."Because Liu San was close, after hearing this, he could understand why Zhao Wuliang was sure that the monk would come.

Suddenly, Zhao Wuliang's eyes lit up, and he immediately knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice towards the door: "Welcome to the Immortal Master!"

Before everyone could react, a black-robed person wrapped around his whole body had quickly walked through the door, walked to the futon on the main seat and sat down, and the breath of a late-stage Qi cultivator was immediately released.

Everyone suddenly felt nervous, and then hurriedly got up and knelt down, shouting together: "Welcome to the immortal master!"

"Amitabha, the poor monk is almost late, you don't have to be polite, let's all sit back!" When everyone looked up, the person sitting on the futon on the main seat had become a bald monk in his fifties wearing beige clothes, and there was still any black robe.