【088】Emei Patriarch

After leaving the city, the sky is even higher and wider, and the floating clouds that have been held for a month shake off the horse's hooves and run wildly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Yuan Xiaoguan was afraid that the color change would attract the attention of others after the floating clouds ran hot, so he ran to the trail, and soon came to the remote suburbs. It was already early winter, and the surrounding forests were bare and bleak, and horses' hooves rustled on the fallen leaves in the forest. Passing through the woods is a field, flat on the ground, occasionally there will be a large bamboo forest, the bamboo leaves have been green and thick, carefully recognized, are people's homes. Although there are no crops in the fields, occasionally farmers collect the grain and grass and carry it home to be used as firewood or to repair the grass houses.

Slowing down the horse's hooves and trot for a while, the color of the floating clouds gradually recovered, and Yuan Xiaoguan rode to an old farmer carrying straw and asked, "Dare to ask the old man, where is the boundary here?"

"What are you talking about?" The old farmer's ears were a little bad, and after asking again and again, he learned that the name of this place was Yangjiaping, and he asked a lot more, but the old farmer couldn't answer. When asked if there was a place nearby that could be named, the old farmer pointed to a mountain in the distance and said, "That's Mount Emei." ”

"Mount Emei!" Yuan Xiaoguan was overjoyed, thinking that he could finally see the style of the martial arts faction.

After thanking the old farmer, he rode straight to the foot of the mountain. The road turned into a bluestone staircase at some point, and the more you walked to the foot of the mountain, the more people you saw, including farmers and businessmen, and more pilgrims who went up the mountain. There is a market town at the foot of the mountain, and along the road there are two rows of simple straw huts, and some mountain goods and incense wax are piled on the ground. Many tourists and pilgrims buy some supplies to climb the mountain here.

Yuan Xiaoguan came to Mount Emei purely to see what the Emei faction was like, of course, if he could, meet Zhou Zhiruo, the contemporary head of Xiuruo Zhilan, of course, it would be better.

I thought that it was not appropriate for people in the martial arts to visit the mountain, because I didn't know anything about the rules of the martial arts, so I didn't pay attention to the words and caused disputes when the time came, so I bought incense wax and other items to worship the Buddha in the market town, and pretended to be pilgrims and went up the mountain.

Walk through the market town to the bottom of the mountain, there is a big plaque on the mountain gate, and the book "Baoguo Temple" is three vigorous characters. Outside the temple, the cangnan is sanitation, and the cypress is covered, even in winter, it is a scene full of vitality.

Yuan Xiaoguan looked up from the mountain gate. I saw that many temples leaned on the mountain to build, although the temple temple was covered in the emerald green and thick daisies, it rose step by step, and the scale was grand. gave some money and handed over the floating clouds to the monks of Baoguo Temple to take care of them. By the way, I visited the temple, Maitreya Hall, Daxiong Hall, Seven Buddha Hall...... The Buddha statue in the hall is shining with golden light, and the atmosphere is magnificent. Every time I go to a Buddha statue, I pretend to bow down.

A fifteen-story bronze pagoda in Baoguo Temple is very exquisite. The tower is seven meters high, there are as many as 4,700 small Buddhas around the tower body, and there are more than 20,000 words in the full text of the Huayan Sutra, its smelting process and carving skills, has been built to the extremely beautiful realm.

Coming out of Baoguo Temple, Yuan Xiaoguan walked to the mountain.

All the way through Fuhu Temple, Liberation Slope, Guanyin Hall, Shenshui Temple, Zhongfeng Temple, Qingyin Pavilion...... The surrounding ancient woods and forests, the clear spring is murmuring, there is no hurdle in leisurely walking, there is no bard, and the scenery is very charming. Along the way, I have also seen some people chanting scriptures and practicing martial arts, but under closer inspection, they are all basic martial arts, and these people are all outer disciples of the Emei faction.

Qingyin Pavilion is followed by the White Dragon Cave, which is said to be the place where the White Lady in "The Legend of the White Snake" cultivated into an immortal. Here the Nanmu towers to the sky, the shade of the trees sandwiches the road, the plants are beautiful and handsome, the branches and leaves are covered with hand, such as holding the Buddha with both hands, it is said that in ancient times, a high monk recited a word according to the "Lotus Sutra", planted a tree, planted 69,777 plants in total, called Gudelin at the time.

When the pilgrims arrived at the White Dragon Cave, they could no longer go up the mountain. Because after the White Dragon Cave is the martial arts academy of the Emei faction, all of them are female disciples of the inner door, and there is a plaque at the entrance of the cave that reads "Male guests stop", and there are two Emei female disciples guarding it.

Yuan Xiaoguan boldly stepped forward and asked, "May I ask if the head of your sect Zhou is on the mountain?"

Who knows, but in exchange for a sentence: "Where did the little monk come from, are you also dissatisfied with us to get the title of "the first in the world" and come to challenge?"

The first in the world? Yuan Xiaoguan didn't touch his head for a while, but after thinking about it carefully, he suddenly realized. It turned out that the lion slaughter conference had been held at this time, and at the time of the lion slaughter conference, Zhou Zhiruo, the head of Emei, won the title of "the first in the world of martial arts" with the martial arts on the Jiuyin True Scripture because of Zhang Wuji. This title has brought endless trouble to the Emei faction, and many people think that the title of the Emei faction was picked up, and they want to challenge Zhou Zhiruo and take this title into their pockets.

"No, no, I'm just here to worship the Buddha. After thinking clearly about the cause and effect of the incident, Yuan Xiaoguan hurriedly denied it.

The female disciple pointed to the sign at the entrance of the White Dragon Cave and said, "If you enter the incense, you will enter the incense, and ask us what the head of the house is doing?" We are not on the mountain, there are all nunnery behind us, and male guests are not allowed to enter, so go quickly!"

Yuan Xiaoguan was helpless, and he didn't dare to break through, so he could only return in a huff. Go to Baoguo Temple to retrieve the floating clouds, ride the floating clouds and go shopping for half a day, sightseeing all the way, people and horses are very happy, and only rush back at sunset.

Seeing the east gate of Chengdu City from afar, Yuan Xiaoguan patted Fuyun's neck: "Man, we're almost there, I'll give you a hot bath in person when we go in a while." At this moment, I suddenly saw the smoke and dust in front of me, dozens of horsemen rushed over, and from a distance, the reflection of the setting sun flashed in the hands of those people from time to time, and it seemed that they were all holding their blades.

"Are these people coming at me?" Yuan Xiaoguan was a little worried, "Did they encounter robbers?"

He was so shocked that he simply ran to the side, and when he turned his head, he saw that the group of people was following closely, shouting incessantly, "Don't run......!"

"Sure enough, it's coming for me! Could it be Murong Fu's people?" Yuan Xiaoguan was shocked, and hurriedly sped up his horse, "Guy, run, it's up to you this time!"

As soon as Fuyun heard this, he shook off the horse's hooves and ran, and in a short time he threw the group of people away. Yuan Xiaoguan wanted to go around and enter the city from the south gate to ask for help, but there was a flat river around Chengdu Mansion, and the dust raised by the horses' hooves could be seen from a distance. Yuan Xiaoguan was helpless, so he could only run away.

After running for a while, seeing that no one was catching up, Yuan Xiaoguan slowed down and let Fuyun walk leisurely, while he thought carefully on the horse.

"If Murong Fu or someone else finds out my identity, then I can't go back, otherwise the Tianya Dart Game will definitely be over. But if he didn't go, would Murong Fu let go of the Tianya Dart Game? What should Lian'er and Ye Jishi do? His package was still in the Dart Bureau, and it contained the Twelve Stars and precious martial arts cheats, which he also had to get back!

"Don't scare yourself yet, I'm careful that my identity hasn't been revealed along the way, Murong Fu shouldn't be so easy to find me, and if Murong Fu finds out my identity, he will definitely either do it himself or send a master, and he will definitely not send the group of bandit-like people just now. But if it weren't for Murong Fu, who would it be?" carefully recalled the enemies along the way, "Li Shengchao? impossible, he doesn't have so much courage and courage. It is also impossible for the Dragon Slayer Gang and the Qingcheng Faction, although Xie Tianchuan was killed, but none of them were alive at that time, and no one knew that I killed them. Then there is only one person most likely - Hu Gui!

The more Yuan Xiaoguan thought about it, the more he felt that it might be Hu Gui. If Hu Gui contacted the Shimen Diancang faction and asked the Diancang master to help him take revenge, it would be more troublesome. But from the analysis of the scene just seen, the person who came did not look like a master of Diancang. If it is Hu Gui and the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce, it will be much easier. According to the information provided by Gesang, the Yizhou Chamber of Commerce was formed by the union of businessmen from Bashu and Shu, and at first it was doing business normally, but then somehow it gradually became a survival by collecting protection money from foreign businessmen. In the end, whether it is foreign or local, as long as it is a businessman, they must be given a cut, otherwise there is no way to gain a foothold in Bashu, and it has gradually become a gang organization where a group of ruffians and hooligans gather together. Yuan Xiaoguan is not afraid of this kind of indiscriminate organization, but it is also very troublesome to solve.

Thinking about it, going back is a must, the question is how to go back. Blatantly it is definitely not okay, you can only sneak back after dark. But after dark, the city gate was closed, and if he wanted to go back, he could only climb over the city wall, thinking about the height of the city wall, and then looking at his level 55 basic light skills, Yuan Xiaoguan felt that it was enough.

Either way, if you want to dive back, you can only settle down in the floating clouds. He remembered that there was a village not far away, so he rode to the village. At this time, the sun was gradually setting, and as soon as Yuan Xiaoguan arrived at the entrance of the village, he heard the barking of dogs one after another. A few children were playing at the entrance of the village, looking at Yuan Xiaoguan curiously, and they were immediately hugged home by their own adults in a panic. Then there was the sound of the door closing and locking.

Yuan Xiaoguan walked to a mud house without a barking dog, and shouted through the bamboo fence: "Is there anyone? I went out of the city to play, I missed the time to enter the city, and I want to spend the night here, please ask the master's family to do it!"

After a while, the wooden door "creaked" open, and an old woman walked out of the door slowly with a cane, the mother-in-law had all white hair, was wearing a green coat, covered with a dark red cloak, and her back was slightly rickety. The face is crisscrossed with wrinkles, but these wrinkles are not obvious, but the marks between the eyebrows and the corners of the mouth are a little deep, and it seems that she is full of worries, and she looks sad all day long, and her eyes are not cloudy and dull like other old women, but they are unusually bright.

The mother-in-law raised her eyes and glanced at Yuan Xiaoguan, then slowly walked to the bamboo fence and opened the firewood, and said, "Come in." The voice was low, but very pure, and did not have the hoarse and trembling voice of ordinary old people. As he spoke, he turned around and walked into the house, and said as he went: "Close the door, tie the horse yourself, the old woman and the son are alone in the house, and you can take care of yourself, little one." ”

Yuan Xiaoguan hurriedly said: "The kid knows, thank you mother-in-law!" As he spoke, he walked into the yard, tied the floating cloud to the stake of the fence, and said in his ear: "I'm sorry man, I can't take a hot bath today, I must make up for it another day!"

Walking into the earthen house, there is a hall inside the door, empty except for a wooden table in the center, and stools around it, all of which look new. There was a small room at the east end of the hall with a curtain hanging at the door, which was supposed to be a bedroom. To the west is a semi-open kitchen, with a one-man high bamboo screen enclosing a small space, inside which is a small mud brick stove, blackened by smoke, with a water tank and pan in the corner.

Yuan Xiaoguan was looking at the situation in the house, but saw that the old woman had already lit the oil lamp and put it on the table, and then walked to the kitchen, bowed down to add firewood to the stove, there was washed rice on the stove, and a piece of sweet potato, and the water in the pot had begun to bubble with crabs, and it was about to open. It looks like the old woman is cooking dinner.

Yuan Xiaoguan couldn't bear to let an old man do these jobs, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said, "I'll help you!"

The old woman said, "Well, don't you want to give the horse a hot bath?" Add more water to the pot, and when the water boils, scoop it out for you to wash." After speaking, he handed a black burning stick to Yuan Xiaoguan's hand.

Yuan Xiaoguan said in his heart that the old woman's ear power was good, and she hurriedly said: "The water that is finally boiled, there is no need to wash the horse." ”

The mother-in-law did not speak, turned around and walked away, carried a wooden stool to the door of the hall, sat on the stool and stared blankly at the sky outside, took a pot of wine in her hand, and occasionally took a sip, with a faint expression on her face, as if she was smiling but not smiling.

Yuan Xiaoguan saw that this old woman's appearance and language were not like ordinary rural old women, so he subconsciously used to investigate. Just seeing the first line of the exploration results, his head was clouded, and the huge surprise made his brain crash instantly, and he stood on the ground in a daze.

The first line of the probe results is: "Name: Guo Xiang, Age: 72 (1), Jianghu Status: Emei Sect Founding Patriarch ......"

Note (1): In order to create the era of the great rivers and lakes in the game, the age of the main characters in the novel has changed.