Xie Mingzhou didn't want Yizhen to lose face in front of everyone, so he threw a saber and told him to peel the white tiger's fur, but the mountain people were used to hunting and skinning, so they took the saber over, turned the white tiger over, and skinned it.

At this time, someone also found two tiger cubs in the hole, took them out, and saw that they had not opened their eyes, and they were about to be killed with a hoe.

Xie Mingzhou saw these two tiger cubs, but he couldn't help but think that he had lost his parents like this since he was a child, and he immediately felt pity, and he hurriedly stopped everyone: "There are two guards in my view, I took them to discipline them well, and they won't come out to hurt people." ”

Everyone asked, "I don't know which Taoist temple Gao Dao is practicing in, if it is close, I will also burn pillar incense in the future." ”

Xie Mingzhou hurriedly said: "No need, my Taoist temple is built on the peak, and ordinary people can't go up." The people had no choice but to give up. Yizhen asked the master for a new robe, replaced the tattered one, and just made a bag to hold the two tiger cubs.

Everyone saw that Xie Mingzhou had no bag or box on his body, but he came out with a knife for a while, and a Taoist robe for a while, and they didn't know where the white tiger skin was installed, and they all felt strange.

At this time, it was getting late, and the people from Dongjiazhai said: "Duocheng two Taoist leaders helped me wait for this henchman's trouble, and there is nothing to entertain you on weekdays, today there are these four dead tigers, just peel the skin and cook to eat, everyone might as well go to the village, open meat and eat meat, rest for one night, and then go tomorrow." "Everyone is happy when they hear it, today they killed the tiger, the tiger is over, everyone doesn't have to worry about going out, and now there is meat to eat, how can they refuse?

Xie Mingzhou went up to the village with everyone, since someone went to peel the skin and cook the meat, his appearance has not changed much over the years, there are more than a dozen people who have seen him, pushing and shoving and prostrating, he didn't say anything, called someone to prepare the room, and Yizhen and the two went to rest first.

When the two of them walked away, some people asked each other about the origin of these two Taoists, and the people in the village talked about them one by one, and everyone couldn't help but be frightened.

Xie Mingzhou glanced in the room, saw this situation, and said with a smile in his heart: "I am not the devil who kills people without blinking, but I just killed a few people who should have been killed, which caused everyone to be so afraid." ”

If you go to that unpeaceful place, and see the injustice every day, do you care about it or not? If you don't care, you feel that you don't want to go, and if you can manage it, you will inevitably have to kill more, which is not good for the Tao.

After calculation, it seems that the south is not very peaceful, and the land of Bashu is even worse, only to go to Hubei first, go to the north to see, I heard the master say that there is a Wudang Mountain in Hubei, which was also a big name, and it is just right to go and ask for advice.

Set the itinerary for tomorrow, Xie Mingzhou came back to his senses, and saw that Yi was really teasing the two tiger cubs, Xu was so hungry that he was sucking with his fingers, Xie Mingzhou then remembered that he had a headache, these two little guys hadn't opened their eyes yet, and they didn't know how to feed them alive?

Seeing that the mountain people were going to kill them before, he couldn't bear to save them for a while, but he didn't think that there would be such trouble, so he took a little rice out and asked Yizhen to cook some thick rice soup, and try to eat it first.

After a while, Yizhen brought a big bowl of rice soup over, which had already filtered the rice grains, and found a small bamboo stick that was scrubbed clean, first hugged one, stuffed one end of the bamboo stick into the mouth of the young tiger, and put one end into the bowl, the little tiger sucked it, and then sucked it up, and after a while, the big bowl of rice soup was drunk completely.

Yizhen had to boil the rice soup again, and then feed the other one, Xie Mingzhou saw the two tiger cubs eating rice soup, so he didn't have to worry about starving to death, and he was relieved. After finishing the two tiger cubs, it was already midnight, and the two cleaned up and meditated separately.

Before dawn on the second day, Xie Mingzhou was afraid that it would be verbose to meet people later, so he called Yizhen early to get up and hurry, out of the village, his mind swept over, and he couldn't help but sigh, the road under the mountain that he had walked before was now overgrown with trees and weeds.

Luzhou City, which is not far away, is even more distressing, the former prosperous Fucheng is now basically uninhabited, a dilapidated, and the roads outside the city are also covered by trees and weeds.

Yizhen asked at this time, "Master, shall we go to Luzhou to take a look first?"

Xie Mingzhou's heart was full of sadness, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but say angrily: "What else are you going to do?" After speaking, he ignored him, looked at the direction of the Yangtze River, and walked forward by himself.

The master and apprentice went down the Yangtze River, and arrived in Chongqing after a while, originally did not plan to enter the city, but after thinking about it, they were not familiar with this road, so it was better to delay in Chongqing for two days, inquire about the situation and then leave, and save time and trouble.

The last time I drifted down the river, I don't know how many days have passed, but this time I can find a boat here to sit on, and you can also enjoy the scenery along the way.

As soon as they arrived at the gate of the city, two soldiers dressed in gray and blue coats and carrying a single knife at their waists pointed their spears at the two of them and shouted, "Stop!" The other two soldiers immediately stepped forward and searched the two for a while, but there was nothing but two tiger cubs, not even copper coins.

The soldiers ran out of oil and water, and were about to find an excuse to find trouble, but they saw that the two of them twisted left and right, and in the blink of an eye, they had disappeared into the city, so they had to give up.

The two of them entered the city, only to see that it was still a depression, occasionally a few people walked, but also in a hurry, all of them shaved the tail of the money rat, as if they had entered a foreign country, Xie Mingzhou was not happy, so he went to find an inn to live first, the shopkeeper saw that it was two Taoists, although they did not shave their hair, they were not surprised, and arranged a quiet guest room for the two.

It turned out that the Qing court's shaving order was not aimed at the two sects of Buddhism and Taoism, saying: From the home, not from the monk. It means that as long as the monk and Taoist are the monks, they don't care about you, you want to have long hair, shave your head, and do whatever you want. Just because of the two doors of Buddhism and Taoism, as many hermits and masters, the monks are okay, they are bald, if they annoy the masters of the Daomen, the Qing army can not be able to resist, so the net is open, do not force.

The two looked at the guest room, and they were quite satisfied, and they were about to go out to find the shopkeeper's journey, and they felt that the store was very deserted, and they were afraid of entering the black store, so they couldn't help but put their minds out and scan it, only to find that there were only a few people living in the whole store.

He continued to glance around the city, but in the room next to the city gate, in a small courtyard, there were seven or eight people around, some old and some young arguing about something.

I only heard the old man in his fifties say: "Zhangtang, that Yunyang Wudang is not our territory, if you are not careful, you are afraid of hurting the foundation, it is not an ordinary trouble." ”

Xie Mingzhou became interested when he heard this, and he was about to visit this Wudang and listen to what they had to say.