This may be a typical psychological rebound phenomenon after passing through the adaptation period, just like a person who feels that he has adapted to a new environment, and will also have a period of inexplicable irritability. And Mei Zhenyi knew that Sun Simiao would leave soon, and he would say goodbye to the most important life mentor in this world, and he felt a little lost in his heart.

Hearing this, Mei Yi persuaded: "The young master learned the way of cultivation with Sun Zhenren, such a state of mind is not a good thing. ”

Mei Zhenyi nodded: "You're right, I understand, it'll be fine." ”

Zhang Guo explained with a smile on the side: "Mei Yi, don't be too surprised, the dignified young master wants to borrow money from the house slave, it's strange if he is not depressed." ”

......

Shi Taiyi and the Green Snow Shrine have started construction, and the purchase of materials and the help of the craftsman are entrusted to his uncle Liu Zhi, so naturally there is no need to worry about it. Mei Zhenyi has been in a bit uncomfortable recently, and often goes out alone to walk in the mountains. He is also a little successful in practicing martial arts now, and the ghosts and gods are not injured in his own family's territory, so Zhang Guo also went by the little master.

"Money, what a good thing! With it, it can make stone doctors, but unfortunately it's not my own. Alas, what is there in this world that is really my own? Name, identity? What kind of person am I?" In Miaomen Mountain, Mei Zhenyi practiced swords alone, and then found a hot spring to take a bath, lying on the grass and looking at the sky and sighing to herself.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, and the sound of poetry came from the wind—

Don't be tired of chasing laughter and talking, and it's sad to think about chaos.

Idle to count from the beginning, I can see that there are a few people in Qingping.

This voice Mei Zhenyi is very familiar, and it is exactly the same as the singing voice that he heard when he met a Taoist priest on the road on Peach Blossom Road that day. As soon as he stood up, he bounced up from the ground, clenched his fists in the direction where the voice came from, and said, "Where is the master here, you might as well show up and see it." ”

Listening to a cough, a gray-clothed Taoist appeared on the hillside in the distance, with a simple and clear appearance, and a wine gourd hanging from his waist, which was the Taoist priest he met on the Taohua Road that day. He fluttered like he was walking with the wind, but his speed was extremely fast, and he was already standing in front of Mei Zhenyi in the blink of an eye, twisting his beard and saying, "You kid, you are young, how can you feel so emotional?"

Mei Zhenyi was slightly taken aback but not too surprised when she saw him appear, and shook her head and said, "Dao Chief, everyone has their own situation, you don't understand." ”

The man looked at him with interest in his eyes, and asked, "When ordinary people see me coming with the wind, they either panic or bow to the ground, why do you just shake your head at me and sigh?"

Mei Zhenyi said: "Dao Chang is not a monster, why should I panic? You are not my father, why should I bow down? Say hello when you meet and say hello to your seniors, I also know the rules of cultivation." ”

The man: "Interesting, interesting, the more I look at you, the more interesting I am, I heard that you are Sun Simiao's disciple, and he trained you very well." ”

Mei Zhenyi sighed: "So you know me?"

Daoren: "Yes, I know you, the eldest young master of Jingwu Villa." Don't you know me, too?"

Mei Zhenyi: "I'm sorry, I don't know the Taoist, and I haven't asked for a name yet." ”

The Taoist smiled faintly: "Don't you really know me? My surname is Zhongli, I call myself Mr. Donghua, and some laypeople call me Donghua Shangxian, haven't you already told Shopkeeper Ji my name in Wanjia Hotel?"

Damn, it won't be Zhong Liquan, one of the Eight Immortals, the legendary master of Lu Dongbin! The Taoist priest Lu Dongbin has been driven away by his own book and name, but looking at the Taoist in front of him, he is by no means an idle person, and even the master Sun Simiao has said that this person has great magical powers.

Mei Zhenyi was really taken aback at this time, and arched his hand and said: "I just said it casually, I didn't expect it to be really Mr. name, may I ask what the seniors are doing here?" At the same time, he sighed secretly in his heart, it turned out that Ming Chongyan pretended to be the name of Donghua Shangxian to deceive Lu Chunyang, and it was not completely blind, there was really a Mr. Donghua in the world.

Mr. Donghua said with a smile: "You casually said my real name, and you and I met here again, it seems that it is really fate! I came to collect medicine, but I happened to see you sighing in the mountains at a young age, I heard that this mountain is your family's property, I wonder if I can collect medicine in the mountains?"

Mei Zhenyi waved his hand: "The land of mountains and wilderness is natural, and my family occupies it as an industry, and it should also be convenient for others." If you are collecting medicine for your own use or saving people, instead of looting the products of this mountain, then pick it. ”

Mr. Donghua squinted and nodded: "Okay, well, since a person like me has received a favor from you, I want to repay you, what do you want me to do for you?"

Mei Zhenyi: "Don't dare, you have repaid the mother and son of the Ji family, but people have been tossed enough." Since I've seen it with my own eyes, I don't dare to ask you to repay it anymore, so you can just collect medicine. ”

He didn't take much of the Donghua Immortal's stubble, on the one hand, his impression of this Taoist person was not very good, and he already had a cultivation master, Sun Simiao, and knew what the path of cultivation was all about; on the other hand, he was not in a good mood now, and he felt that he was not interested in anything, so he was not interested in dealing with this master too much at this time.

His attitude aroused Mr. Donghua's interest, watching Mei Zhenyi laugh, and the laughter alarmed the birds in the nearby mountains and forests to flapping their wings and flying away. Mei Zhenyi asked strangely: "Senior, what's so funny?"

Mr. Donghua: "I passed by Wanjia Hotel yesterday and saw two inscriptions on the left and right sides of the door, with four sentences on the book: 'Here is the taste of the mountains, and the immortals are also wandering.' The wine goes with the immortals, and the wine comes by itself. "There are a lot of people stopping in front of the door to comment, and there are guys who are introducing the allusions, that's your idea, right?"

Mei Zhenyi: "It's really my idea, the Ji family is an honest businessman, and they haven't done anything bad, their family is in trouble, since I have encountered it, I just can help as much as I can." ”

Mr. Donghua said with a smile: "Isn't this it, you helped the Ji family, and you are still in my name, which means that I have not harmed them, you and I are in this fate, why should you blame me in your tone? It is because of this that I will come to you, I must repay you, think carefully, what do you want, don't miss the opportunity." ”

Mei Zhenyi shook his head: "I'm in a bad mood now, I really can't remember what I want in this world, and when I think of the opportunity to meet the Taoist chief in the future, let's talk about it then, I won't delay you to collect medicine today." ”

Mr. Donghua frowned: "You kid, why do you talk like this, you look old-fashioned at a young age! No, no, I just heard you sigh that the money in the world is good, is there a lack of money? It's okay, I'll give you this." As he spoke, he bent down and picked up a fist-sized stone, a little index finger of his right hand, and the gray stone turned golden in the blink of an eye, and he handed this piece of "gold" to Mei Zhenyi's hand.

Damn, turning stones into alchemy! The legendary method of bluffing people in the Eight Gates of the Eight Gates of the rivers and lakes has been seen today, and it is seen that the Taoist priest's method has become not a trick, but a spell such as a trick. Mei Zhenyi swept the piece of gold, plopped, and threw it into the hot spring next to it.

This time, Mr. Donghua was taken aback: "Boy, if you don't want it, why did you throw this piece of gold into the water?"

Mei Zhenyi asked rhetorically: "Do you want it yourself?" The mountain is full of stones, and I will pick another piece and return it to you." If I still want that piece, can I get it out into the water?"

Mr. Donghua looked at him, his expression was as if he had seen something very strange, and nodded: "Okay, you can fish it up for me." ”

Mei Zhenyi jumped into the water without saying a word, copied it, and picked up the stone she had just lost. How could he find the stone just now so easily in the waterhole? This is also related to his cultivation, at this time, although Mei Zhenyi's body has not yet recovered the realm of the Five Qi Dynasty, but it has already cultivated into the kind of "divine consciousness" that is unique to cultivators, and the stone was thrown into the water and was not seen, but it was always in his divine sense, so he fished it back out of the water.

He jumped ashore from the water and handed the piece of "gold" back to Mr. Donghua, who was stunned and did not speak for a long time. I saw that the golden thing just now had turned into an ordinary gray stone at this moment.

"How can you break my spell with only a slight wisp of divine sense, and you haven't even used any mana?"

Mei Zhenyi shrugged her shoulders and replied: "I don't know what kind of spell my predecessors used, I guess it's charming and eye-catching, but I know very well in my heart that it is a stone, and when you hold it in your hand, it is not gold at all, it is much lighter than iron." ”

The ancients usually used three methods to inspect gold, either to burn it, or to bite it with a tooth to measure the hardness, or to measure the density. Gold is much denser than stone, and a fist-sized piece of gold can barely be held by an ordinary person with one hand. Although the stone became golden and resembled gold, it was still the weight of the stone when he checked it, as a person with modern physics knowledge, Mei Zhenyi certainly understood that this was a trick.

Mr. Donghua squinted his eyes and said, "What you said is simple, but what you see in your eyes has been fascinated by my spells, and your consciousness is clear but has not been lost, which is not simple." How many people in the world can be as indifferent as you in this situation, and throw them away? I just heard you sigh about money, so I used a little trick to lure you into the delusional realm of desire, but I didn't want to be broken by you in a blink of an eye, boy, I can't understand you a little. ”

Mei Zhenyi sighed, as if talking to herself: "What kind of delusion is a stone? The world in front of me is a huge delusion for me, and I can't even figure out who I am. He was telling the truth, he was there troubled before Mr. Donghua appeared, and he couldn't understand what the relationship between "me" and the inexplicable identity of "Mei Zhenyi" was?

Mr. Donghua's eyes narrowed even more, and he shook his head and said, "No, no, it's not like this, you must have already noticed it and seen through it, otherwise even if you don't fall for your cultivation, you won't be able to break my spell at all." ”

Speaking of which, who is this Mr. Donghua? This person has the surname Zhongli, the right to the name, and the self-named Mr. Donghua, who attained enlightenment in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the world also calls him Han Zhongli. He said that Mei Zhenyi had already noticed that he had seen through it, and he really guessed correctly! Before crossing over, Mei Zhenyi had heard a lot of legends about Lu Dongbin, and he even performed social operas in the countryside during the New Year's holidays, such as Lu Dongbin's three plays of white peony, Lu Dongbin's play of Guanyin, and so on, among which there was a play "Zhongli Ten Tests of Lu Dongbin."

It is said that before Han Zhongli accepted Lu Dongbin as an apprentice, in order to test his mind, he tried him ten times in a row in various ways, one of which was to demonstrate the alchemy of turning stones into gold in person, and see that Lu Dongbin was not moved by those gold? These are the legends that Mei Zhenyi has heard for a long time, and before meeting today, the Taoist reported his surname and name, and picked a stone to compare with his fingers, he instinctively remembered this play, and Mr. Donghua was seen through by him before casting the spell.

Mei Zhenyi was also a little puzzled, isn't the folk legend that Zhongli tried Lu Dongbin ten times? Now that Lu Dongbin has been driven away by him, how did Mr. Donghua come here to try himself? Could it be that because of what he did when he traveled to the Tang Dynasty, he has changed some of the trends of history? His mind turned, but he didn't think very clearly, and when he heard the question, he replied thoughtfully: "Thank you, senior, you let me understand a question." ”

"Oh, what do you understand?" asked Mr. Donghua rhetorically, the interest in his tone growing stronger.

Mei Zhenyi: "The spell cast by the predecessors in the Wanjia Hotel, the wine from the well is probably not the real wine, it is just a change of color and taste to confuse the mouth, and the well water is still well water." ”

Mr. Donghua smiled: "You kid is so perceptive! Not bad at all, this is the case, the pot of wine I poured into the well three years ago is the spiritual guide for casting spells. But people here go to Wanjia Hotel to drink Lao Chunhuang, which is nothing more than a desire for lust and taste, and I am not a liar. ...... Since you are so clever, then I ask you again, if what I just counted was real gold, do you want it or not?"

Mei Zhenyi shook her head: "Don't, why should I take something that you don't even want yourself?"

Mr. Donghua: "What do you mean by that?"

Mei Zhenyi: "If you have that ability, why do you have to ask Wanjia Hotel for three years of fine wine for nothing? Can't you just buy it with gold? Why do I need something that you don't use yourself." He was not in a very good mood today, and he also saw through that the Taoist in front of him was deliberately tempting, and he simply did not get into the trap.

Mr. Donghua glared, and asked with some displeasure: "I'm a true immortal, why do you talk to me like this? What I just said is hypothetical, if a little stone becomes real gold, do you want it?"

Mei Zhenyi thought for a while: "If I had to choose, would I want your finger?"

His answer also comes from a classic legend, it is said that an old farmer unintentionally did the fairy a favor, the fairy took a stone into gold and gave it to him, the old farmer did not want it, the fairy asked him what he wanted? The old farmer said that he wanted the fairy's finger. As a result, the fairy sighed and left, and said a sentence before leaving, which was exactly the same as what Mr. Donghua once said to the old mother of the Ji family, that is, "The desires of the world are insatiable!"

Mei Zhenyi did it on purpose, just to see if the "Donghua Immortal" in front of him would also say to himself, "The desires of the world are insatiable!" and then brushed his sleeves away. If that's the case, then this person is not a god, because he let himself be a mortal. Unexpectedly, Mr. Donghua not only did not get angry, but smiled very happily, twisted his beard and smiled: "Hahahaha, you want to learn my immortal method, your understanding is not bad, but it is not so simple to worship under my door." ”

Why did he smile so happily? The same thing depends on who says it and who listens to it, Zhong Liquan came to Mei Zhenyi today, and he has been secretly observing him for more than three months. In fact, Zhong Liquan came to Wuzhou in October last year, and he was also shocked by the changes in the clouds in Wuzhou when Mei Zhenyi woke up, and investigated what was the place where the divine was born?

Not long ago, Zhong Liquan went to Wanjia Hotel to settle the cause and effect for three years, and made a joke, but he did not leave immediately, and still stayed in the mountains and forests on the other side of Jingting Lake. Mei Zhenyi went to Wanjia Hotel to drink and heard about it, treated the old mother of the Ji family, and also instructed Ji Shancheng how to face the predicament in front of him, and came up with a very ingenious idea. What's even more coincidental is that Mei Zhenyi casually called out the name of "Donghua", all of which Zhong Liquan noticed and was very interested in this young child.

Later, when Mei Zhenyi left, Zhong Liquan watched on the ten-mile peach blossom road, and found that the child had strange roots at a glance. Mei Zhenyi used to be very weak, but after the careful care of Sun Simiao, the world's first divine doctor, he has now returned to normal, and he is equivalent to rebuilding the most perfect foundation in the worst situation, and he can't say how strong he is yet, but he can't find a flaw. Zhong Liquan was even more interested, and deliberately sang a poem to tempt, and found that this kid had a foundation in cultivation.

Later, during this time, Zhong Liquan investigated Mei Zhenyi's situation, and today he saw him sighing alone in the mountains, so he showed up to meet him and did some testing in person. After a try, I found that this child not only has good qualifications, but also has the best temperament and understanding in the world, so how can he not be tempted. Like Sun Simiao, he also had the idea of accepting apprentices when he saw Mei Zhenyi. A good seedling, in the eyes of different masters, is a good seedling.

In fact, this is somewhat of a misunderstanding, because Mei Zhenyi has taken advantage of the pre-modern experience, and has seen through Mr. Donghua's tentative intentions and what he wants to do, so he naturally seems to have a first-class temperament and understanding, and there has been some such misunderstanding between him and Sun Simiao. But is all this really just a misunderstanding?

People like Zhong Liquan act inscrutablely, and are moody in the eyes of mortals, but they are not traceless, they just follow the law of fate. Mei Zhenyi inadvertently broke the name of Donghua in Wanjia Hotel, claiming to be entrusted by Donghua Shangxian, and the fate is already there, so don't blame the real Mr. Donghua will come to the door, whether it is a curse or a blessing depends on who he is. Mei Zhenyi said that he wanted Zhong Liquan's finger that could "turn stones into gold" was the meaning of learning the law, and when it came to Zhong Liquan's heart, how could he be unhappy?

Seeing Mr. Donghua laughing, Mei Zhenyi shook his head and said, "The seniors misunderstood, I mean that if I compare counterfeit gold with your finger, I would rather choose a finger." But I don't really want that finger, as you said, it's just an analogy. ...... I already have the Dharma Master Sun Simiao Sun Zhenren, the Master's knowledge is as vast as the abyss, and what I have learned is still far behind, so I don't need to be greedy at this time, and I don't dare to worship him without permission, so Mr. is too worried. ...... Don't you want to collect medicine, don't delay the time of your predecessors, you go and collect medicine. ”

Mr. Donghua was choked back with half of his laughter. Depressed, really a little depressed! He had already opened his mouth to say that he wanted to accept the apprentice, but the other party not only did not bow down in front of him and ask him to come to the test, but instead came to such a lukewarm sentence. Although depressed but unable to get angry, although Mei Zhenyi is not very enthusiastic, she has always been very respectful and has not offended at all.

Alas, things in the world are so wonderful, how many people are willing to bow down in front of him and ask for marriage, but unfortunately Zhong Liquan can't look down on it, and when he meets someone who can look at it, the other party doesn't take the initiative.

Hearing Mei Zhenyi say this, Zhong Liquan didn't leave, and said with a sinking face: "You kid, are you smart or stupid? You are Sun Simiao's disciple, you want to respect the teacher, I can't say anything about you." But today you sighed that you don't know who you are, didn't your master pass on your mind to solve your doubts?...... Boy, I know why you are troubled, is there a Mr. Cheng who is looking for you in the Chang'an Hou Mansion? Come on, I will help you settle this matter, and I will repay you. ”

After speaking, he didn't ask Mei Zhenyi if he agreed, and waved the big sleeves of his robe, Mei Zhenyi only felt that there was an invisible force wrapped in all directions, and his figure floated up, and this force oppressed him so much that he couldn't speak, and the light and shadow in front of him were distorted and he couldn't see things clearly. Zhong Liquan flew out of Miaomen Mountain with Mei Zhenyi with the power of his incarnation and took him all the way to the north of Wuzhou City.

After landing and receiving the spell, Mei Zhenyi saw the surrounding scene clearly, he was very familiar with it, it was just across the road from the gate of Jingwu Villa, but the Jingwu Villa in front of him was unrecognizable, only a broken wall was left, and wisps of green smoke were still rising from the ruins. It is supposed to have experienced a terrible fire not long ago, and there is not a single person in sight.