Since that time I went to Raozhou City to catch the market, I saw the first spring snow not long ago, and soon it was the end of the year.

This time I went home for the New Year, and the family was reunited, which was naturally very different from the last time I was in Luofu Mountain. The New Year is approaching, and Xingyan took Qiong Wei Xueyi and her father early to buy New Year's goods in Raozhou City. In these New Year's goods, in addition to all kinds of New Year's cakes and snacks that Qiong Wei likes to eat, those peach wood charms and Tusu wine used to ward off evil spirits during the New Year are naturally bought. When buying the peach wood talisman for exorcism, Xingyan accidentally saw the faint ghost king ring between his fingers, and suddenly realized that it was only half a month before and after he went home, but it seemed to be far away from those days of fighting and killing gods and ghosts.

Putting aside distractions and waiting for the New Year at home, the day before the end of the year and Chinese New Year's Eve, the Taoist Temple on the mountain sent another Taoist boy to send a pair of ghost exorcism peach charms made by the head of the horseshoe of the Shangqing Palace to the home of the master of the Four Seas Hall. In fact, there is no need for Dao Tong to explain, as soon as he saw the crooked and familiar handwriting on the peach board, he knew that it must be the handwriting of the old Tao.

At the end of the year, the whole family is busy. Xue Yi Qiongwei helped Xingyan Niang clean the house together, and Xingyan went to the village under the mountain to help those neighbors paint peach wood talismans. The father who said that he was busy taking out the portraits of the ancestors and ancestors that he treasured at home, hanging them in the main hall one by one, arranging the incense burners, and lighting the good sandalwood incense that he was usually reluctant to use.

When it was nightfall, the family and Qiong Wei Xueyi gathered around the table to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and drink Tusu wine. At this time, the wine table in the middle of the mountain is steaming, and there is a stove burning next to them, although it is not cold in the horseshoe mountain, but this is a habit over the years, as if lighting this stove is like the New Year. Of course, this stove is not exactly a decoration, and now Xue Yi Qiongwei still has the Tusu wine that Xingyan Niang wants to drink, and it is hot on that stove. It is said that women are not very good at drinking cold wine.

After the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the Xingyan family began to worship their ancestors. Speaking of this Chinese New Year's Eve ritual of bowing to the ancestors, unlike other families in the village, the Xingyan family has to worship all the ancestral portraits that leave images, and also worship the statues of the saints of Kong. This rule was set by his father in the year when Xingyan studied in the Ji family's private school, and now, there is another portrait of Lao Tzu, the head of the Sanqing Sect, next to the Confucian saint, naturally this is because Xingyan went to the Shangqing Palace to become the Taoist master.

When he bowed down to his ancestors and ancestors, Xue Yi Qiongwei also knelt down with him. It stands to reason that these two fairy-god-like characters are not members of the Zhang family, but when the Zhang couple saw them kneeling together, they naturally just smiled and did not hinder them. For the two of them, although their son did not say it explicitly, after counting the past events over the years, it can be seen that the lifelong events of their precious son do not seem to have to worry about their parents.

After worshipping the ancestors, the next step is to set off firecrackers to drive away the beasts that disturb the people. Qiong Wei had been looking forward to this kind of activity a few days ago, and now when the cannonballs drilled into the sky and the bamboo whips exploded everywhere, Qiong Wei jumped and laughed excitedly, helping the firecrackers drive away the monster that didn't exist.

After setting off the firecrackers, the little sister who was still unsatisfied with the New Year will watch the New Year with everyone, ready to see the arrival of the first day of the new year with their own eyes. It's just that she had been making trouble all night before, drank some wine, and couldn't help but be sleepy first, so she was taken back to the room by Sister Xue Yi in a daze, stripped and went to sleep. When she fell asleep, Xue Yi came back again and accompanied the Zhang family around the red clay stove to talk and chat.

Looking at the fairy-like and picturesque and unearthly woman in front of her, Xingyan Niang mentioned the fairy who came back to her home to give a moon cake gift box - Lingyi came back to her home to give gifts, and Xingyan had heard her father and mother say it before; Since he was idle, he went to fetch a copper basin of clear water, and floated the white jade lotus in the water, hoping to see the side of Lingyi - but although this method had been tried and tested in the past, this time it was unexpectedly invalid; although the jade lotus in the clear water bloomed layer by layer, as expected, but in the heart of the rippling lotus, it was only a dim shadow, and there was no image of the dragon girl.

"Maybe she also wants to go to her father's palace and celebrate the New Year with them. ”

Looking at his slightly disappointed face reflected in the basin, he thought so.

In the fireside night talk in the mountain village on a winter night, the window gradually turned white unconsciously, and Zhang Xingyan's second New Year, which became the master of the Shangqing Palace, came quietly.

According to the country rules, early in the morning on the first day of the new year, the male members of the family should go to the fields to worship the land. Originally, Qiong Wei was also scheduled to go with her, but when Xingyan and her father set off, she was still asleep on the bed, so she had to be carried by Xue Yi with a basket of sacrifices, and the three of them went to the Zhang family's fields outside Raozhou City together. When he got down the mountain, he found that the weather was very cold, and the snow that had melted before was frozen in the mud, and the road under his feet became extremely hard.

When he arrived at his own land, Lao Zhangtou laid out the offerings on the ridge of the field, laid out the futon, and then knelt down and prayed in turn with Xingyan, praying for a good harvest in the field in the New Year. After the worship, he poured the wine in the cup on the ground, and Xingyan and his father went to the field to hoe for a while according to the rules of the countryside. Of course, at this time, it was freezing cold, and this was just a signal of diligence, not really to hoe and farm. While the father and son were hoeing the ground, Xue Yi put away the pork, wine, and some tofu and fruits for worship, and when they were done hoeing, she returned with them with the basket.

This time, I came back from the awakening, mainly to celebrate the New Year with my parents. As soon as the New Year passed, and after more than ten days, he felt that he should go back to the mountain to return to his life, so he quit his father and mother, and still went to the direction of Luofu Mountain in the south with Qiong Wei Xueyi and the three of them. Leaving home, I naturally said goodbye to my family, omitting many of these gossips, and Xing said that a few people traveled all the way south, around the end of February, and set foot in Luofu again.

At this time, along the way, there are already grass warblers flying, mixed peanut trees, and there is a good spring color everywhere.

Re-entering Deluofu, the three of them followed the familiar mountain road towards the depths of the cave. Along the way, I also met some disciples who came down the mountain sporadically. After the last Jiayuan Hui tried to capture the demon, the three people of Sihaitang had already been heard by everyone, and now that they saw Xingyan them, even if they were older, those junior disciples all saluted sincerely, calling them "Hall Master Uncle", avoiding the side, and letting Xingyan go first. And some of them are well-informed, and they have learned from the news from the horseshoe courtyard that Hall Master Zhang has completed the task of the master and retrieved the water spirit, so they are even more full of congratulations.

It's just that, in this respect, Xingyan found a trace of weirdness. It turned out that when those disciples saluted him, they couldn't help but glance at the little girl next to them, with a strange expression in their eyes. At first, Xingyan thought that it was just because the little girl was delicate and cute, which attracted those male disciples to look at it twice, but later he saw more, especially when he saw that they looked at Qiong Wei more than Xueyi, and Xingyan felt that something was wrong: "It's strange, didn't this little girl wash her face in the morning?...... That's not right. ”

Xingyan glanced at Qiong Wei's face, but saw that she was pink and tender, like Shi Zhu powder, which was no different from usual. However, these are all small sections, and I didn't have time to take care of them for a while, so I climbed all the way, half walked and half floated, and it didn't take long to come to the Qing Palace on the top of the flying clouds covered by the clouds and fog.

When he arrived in the Shangqing Palace, after a little courtesy, he was invited by the disciples to enter the "Chengxin Hall", the place of discussion in Feiyunding. After entering the door, Xingyan saw the smiling Lingxu head again. Not long after, the Lingtingzi of the Chongde Hall of Zhu Mingfeng, the Qingmingzi of the Hongfa Hall of Qixia Peak, and the Lingzhenzi of the Ziyun Hall of Yuxiufeng also rushed together after receiving the message from Feiyunding. When he saw the return of the Lord of the Four Seas Hall, these prestigious Shangqing Dao Venerables congratulated him together.

At this time, with the inside information told by Qinghe Lao Dao before, Xingyan looked at the Lingxu head with a peaceful smile in front of him, and his perception was very different, and his heart was already full of reverence.

Later, after solemnly greeting the seniors in the door, Xingyan told them what happened along the way. It was not until this time, looking back and carefully examining the things of this year's travels, that Xingyan suddenly realized that he had encountered so many unbelievable things after a year of training in the mountains; And when he was telling, Xingyan also found that these well-informed Shangqing seniors in front of him were also very attentive to what they heard, smiling from time to time, and even sometimes asking questions, asking what happened later.

It's all the way to the story, and when it comes to finding the water spirit recently, it mentions the Taoist Lan Cheng who was killed by the dryad. Originally, Xingyan was not sure whether he was a disciple of Shangqing, but when he mentioned it as soon as he mentioned that Lan Cheng was killed, the spiritual court leader who could originally listen to him suddenly mourned, and said that Lan Cheng was his disciple, who had always been diligent and introverted, and he was sent down the mountain to find the water spirit almost a year ago—he didn't think about it, but he was killed like this!

Hearing that Lan Cheng was killed, several elders next to him also grieved together. Seeing this, Xingyan hurriedly told them about Lan Cheng's later encounters, hoping to make them less sad.

"Hmm. ”

After listening to the awakening words, Lingxu opened his mouth and said: "Debao Cao, changing his auspicious name, and practicing in the ghost king's ring, it is not a fairy fate for him. ”

Hearing Lingxu say this, Xingyan summoned Lan Caihe from the Ghost King Ring and met with several elders. Xingyan couldn't have imagined that after a few months, the Dao ghost who was originally dim in light and shadow had now become full of energy, just like when he was born; if it weren't for Xingyan's pre-explanation, and seeing him float out of the small ring, even if his master Lingtingzi had almost not recognized that he and himself were already different paths.

Later, when Lan Caihe took out the dazzling sword flower basket, Lingxuzi took a closer look at it, and then told Xingyan that the seven-leaf and three-flower sword grass he gave to Lan Caihe was a rare fairy strange treasure, because its leaves are arranged according to the sun, moon and week, and the flowers are generated according to the three days of heaven, earth and man;

Speaking of which, most of the people present at the moment are people who look down on life and death, and when the sadness of hearing the bad news for the first time has passed, and when they hear the words of the master, all of them have a gloomy face, and they congratulate this ghost spirit disciple.

Immediately, Lingxu taught Lan Caihe a set of Dao methods suitable for soul cultivation, and instructed him to return to the door of Zhang Xingyan in Sihai Hall from now on, and live in his magic weapon Ghost King Ring to practice. Seeing the seniors taking care of him like this, Lan Cheng in his previous life and Lan Caihe now naturally resigned himself and thanked him - although he really couldn't remember anything about his life.

Of course, at this time, Xingyan did not summon the ghost servant who claimed to be the evil spirit and ghost king by the way, and introduced him to the division commanders. After all, this ghost king's temper is too hot, and he had previously threatened that if the elders of the master's sect did not let him join the Sihai Hall, it would be better to kill them one by one and let his own master be the head of the sect - for such a vicious ghost who behaves in a perverse and lawless manner, Xingyan feels that it is better to introduce it slowly in the future.

The gossip was omitted, and then the heads of the Shangqing Palace went to watch the Tai Chi flowing water in the center of Feifei Genting Square, and asked Xue Yi to force out the water spirit essence "Water Heart" left by Su Shuiruo - when the blue water droplets flew out of Xue Yi's heart and infiltrated into the flowing water Taiji of the Yin and Yang combination, Xingyan only felt that the clouds were flying in all directions, as if suddenly a majestic water vapor was surging towards the top of the flying clouds from all directions;

It seems that the famous "Water Pole Four Elephant Gathering Spirit Array" in Shangqing is operating normally again at this moment.

When all these things were over, the head of Lingxu immediately invited everyone to return to the inner hall of Guanzhong, and instructed Daotong to arrange a banquet and accompany him in person to receive the wind and wash the dust for the master of Zhang Hall. Now in the eyes of these Shangqing Su Seniors, it is very natural and reasonable for the young hall master to sit with them.

Next, in the middle of this banquet, when the Daoist Master of the Dharma Hall Qingming had given a glass of wine, he looked at the two female disciples of the Four Seas Hall who were accompanying the young man, and then pulled the wine jug again, and said drunkly: "Come! I will give another glass to the hall master!"

"Huh?"

Seeing that this extremely square Qingming Dao Leader was so polite, Xingyan was a little uncomfortable. Just as he was hesitating, the Qingming son drank "aggressively" and said loudly: "Hall Master Zhang! With your Taoism, you are still afraid that I will not be able to get drunk by Qingming? This cup is actually Qingming's extraordinary concentration!"

"Concentration?"

This time Xingyan was even more confused, I don't know why Qingming suddenly mentioned concentration, and he was muttering back in his mouth, saying that concentration is a necessity for people in my generation, but Qingming interrupted it. This profound Dao Elder raised his neck, put half a glass of wine into his stomach, and then said with a thunderous spirit: "Don't be ashamed of Hall Master Zhang! I see that the female disciples in your hall are so outstanding, they can be said to be one in a million, but now they are still frowning and have a delicate face, so you must be aware that you have not committed any offence against them so far——"

"Ahem!"

Hearing Qingming say this, Xingyan suddenly blushed, and stammered: "Actually, this, you said Xue Yi, Qiong Wei...... They are my disciples in the hall, and I am only a fellow sister, so I don't usually think about other things......"

"Good!"

Hearing this, the other elders in the banquet immediately raised their glasses in admiration. However, the head of Lingxu smiled at this time and said: "Wake up, it is naturally very good for you to have this concentration and determination. However, the so-called 'can sing and cry true celebrities, ruthless may not be good Taoists', the harmony of yin and yang is the way of heaven and earth, I go to the Qing Daomen, and it is not very forbidden for disciples to marry, this ...... Haha!"

Speaking of this, Lingxu saw that the young hall master was red-eared and at a loss, so he stopped joking and stopped teasing him. However, at this time, the head of the Qingming Daoist who mentioned the stubble suddenly slapped the wine glass in his hand on the case, his eyes widened, and he shouted loudly: "Wow! Originally, the old Taoist thought that that the inferior man had a lot of potential! Now compared with Hall Master Zhang, it is really like a cloud!"

“......”

Seeing Qingming's sudden attack, Xingyan was at a loss.

However, after Qingming became angry, he briefly mentioned this matter during the banquet. At this time, Xingyan realized why those disciples and disciples only looked at Qiong Wei when they entered the mountain before. It turned out that this matter was all on the Qingming head disciple Hua Piaochen.

Hua Piaochen, a rare good friend and friend, an outstanding young disciple of the Shangqing Palace, talented and proficient in Taoism, was originally pinned on by Qingming and other elders. Who knows, since Xingyan left the Thousand Bird Cliff with Xue Yiqiongwei and went down the mountain to search for the water spirit, the whole person has become depressed, and he has been unable to give up all day long. Seeing him become like this, the people in the door naturally wanted to ask more, but no matter who asked, Hua Piaochen refused to say anything.

Seeing this, several Shangqing elders wondered if he was also possessed by demons like Tian Renbao. So several elders went out together to exorcise and summon spirits for him, but in the end it was to no avail.

In the end, this strange thing was found out by Du Ziyun, a disciple of the Purple Cloud Hall who was close to him. Du Zixing saw that the person in love was in a trance all day long, and he became perfunctory to himself, so he realized that this Senior Brother Hua should be empathetic and suffering from lovesickness with the most sensitive intuition of his daughter's family!

Coming to such a conclusion, Du Zixuan was naturally very painful, but she was a little unwilling. Because, looking at the entire Shangqing Palace, among the female disciples, apart from the two girls on the Thousand Bird Cliff, who else can compare to her Du Zixing? What's more, the two female disciples under the seat of the master of the Thousand Bird Cliff Zhang Hall have now followed him down the mountain-

"Yikes!"

Thinking about it like this, Du Ziyun even thought that the person he liked was obsessed with a certain female disciple of the Sihai Hall!

"It must be Miss Kou!"

Unlike Yu Xiufeng, who is a female disciple in the first hall, there are only two female disciples in this Thousand Bird Cliff, and Du Zixuan can easily guess which girl makes her sweetheart so obsessed. Thinking about this, the whole thing suddenly became clear: it must be drifting dust to go to Chidoriga Cliff every day, and I don't feel like it on weekdays, but when I was really separated from Miss Xueyi, I suddenly found that I was trapped by love and deeply trapped in it!

It's just that just when Du Zixin thought that he knew all the inside information and went to question his sweetheart, he was told by his lover with a sad look that the woman he dreamed of was not the girl Kou, but the little Qiongwei who looked only eleven or twelve years old!

"Ahem......"

Although all the elders were extremely secretive about this matter because of Qiong Wei's presence, the four seas hall master who was wise still knew the ins and outs of the whole matter from just a few words. In addition to being embarrassed, he couldn't help but look back at the source of the turmoil beside him, wanting to see if she had such a upside-down appearance - who knew that when he turned his head, he saw the little girl unfolding a bright smile, grinning, and said earnestly: "I'll pour wine for my brother - brother, is that brother Hua sick? When are we going to take a look, let Sister Xue Yi grab a few medicines!"

After returning to the mission of going down the mountain, he will be idle in the future. After listening to the advice of the seniors, Xingyan didn't take Qiong Wei to see the sick Qingming first disciple. Thinking about it, maybe it's just a temporary infatuation, and it's good to be cold for a while slowly - after all, how can a half-sized girl like Qiong Wei who has not yet grown up really be fascinated?

And now, Qiong Wei has completely forgotten about this incident and stays on the Thousand Bird Cliff every day. Under the eaves of the stone house of the millennium cliff Sihaitang, I don't know when a pair of swallows have flown in, and they are building a nest in the mud under the eaves. Seeing the nest of the spring swallow, she felt very novel, so she paid full attention to this matter all day long, and forgot about other matters for a while—when the nest was not yet built, Qiong Wei always paid attention to the progress of the nest, and when the nest was built, she began to observe how the swallow couple hatched their children and fed the bird's nest. Qiong Wei has now found a pattern, watches it regularly every day, and gives each nest of milk swallows a nice name, although her Xingyan brother can't tell which one is the nest of swallows.

When more than a year of hard work was over and he returned to Chidori Cliff, he felt that such a dull day was also very precious and rare. Idly living in the middle of the Chidoriga Cliff, he had never paid more attention to the peaceful world in front of him than he did now.

At this time, it is the spring of March, the flowers in Luofu Mountain are like brocade, the trees are verdant, and there is a vibrant scene everywhere. Looking at the mountains and fields outside from the sleeve cloud pavilion in front of the stone flat of the thousand bird cliffs, I saw that the trees were verdant everywhere like smoke, the mountains were green, and the mountains and forests like the green waves and blue seas were dotted with pieces of splendid flower forests, shining in the bright spring light, as if a brilliant rainbow in the sky fell to the ground, turning into pieces of gorgeous and colorful brocade. The green and bright spring light is overwhelming, and it also dyes the endless waterfall on the opposite mountain into a white jade Ruyi with flowing treasure light.

Such a vast spring light is everywhere.

Smoked by the lush grass and flowers all over the mountain, Xingyan felt that the air around him was also full of strange vitality. In the originally empty and transparent air, it seems that countless invisible elves are dancing all the time, dancing in the empty light with the melodious spring bird singing in the mountains and wilderness - because, if it weren't for their butterfly-like dancing, how could there be bursts of grass and flowers on this silent and windless thousand bird cliff, constantly fanning into their mouths, noses, and hearts?

As the so-called spring is like wine, the Luofu Mountain Field in March is brewing and steaming into a jar of fine wine, mellow and rich, and wants to get people drunk.

In the fragrance of birds and flowers, I don't know how time passes, and before I know it, it is the end of April. Towards the evening of this day, Xue Yiqiongwei was cooking in the stone house, and Xingyan read the scriptures in the sleeve cloud pavilion. Occasionally, when I get tired of reading, when I close the volume and take a break, there will be a burst of rain and sift it on this thousand bird cliff. When the spring rain is misty, the rain clouds in the distance have become as faint as the distant mountains.

"Don't let the spring and autumn days go, the most difficult wind and rain old people come. ”

Seeing the clouds and rain coming suddenly, Xingyan couldn't help but chant a sentence. It's just that although the meaning of the sentence is good, but since Hua Piaochen fell into a love trap, this Thousand Bird Cliff has been inaccessible, how can there be any old people coming?

It's just that I don't know if there is a cause in the dark, just after dinner on this day, just when I was waking up and looking at the sunset mountain scenery after the clouds disappeared and the rain disappeared, I suddenly saw a purple cloud in the sky, and there was a sound of ringing sound!

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