(Inscription: Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty summoned Jia Yi to talk at night without asking the common people and asking ghosts and gods.) However, Confucius "does not speak, strange forces are confused", "worship ghosts and gods and stay away". The sages of ancient and modern times did not deny the existence of ghosts and gods, but they were unwilling to pay more attention to them, and adopted the attitude of knowing ghosts and gods without using them. I think it's a proposition: the existence of the human self is not given by ghosts and gods, and the fear of everything in this world is ultimately the fear of ourselves. The common people are already small, so why should they kneel down to thank the ghosts and gods? It's a pity that Bai Zhongliu in this article is not a sage, and he doesn't even want to be a layman. )

Bai Zhongliu obviously didn't want to resist this kind of blow, picked up the broken tree from the ground, and waved the ** vertical gravel for a while, knocking down the stumps and leaves on the ground. At this time, I heard three more gunshots, and Xiao Xiao came to my side at some point, and shot at the seams. Bai Zhongliu yelled, and then threw the tree in his hand over. Xiao Xiao rolled out of the way, but I was smashed in by the canopy, and I twisted a few thick branches to get out. At this time, I heard Xiaoxiao shouting in the distance: "Stone be careful, he has a gun!"

It turned out that this white middle stream was not stupid, he picked up another pistol that fell on the ground. Shot at me, the first bullet grazed my ear, and I rolled backwards, I didn't want to be the muzzle. Bai Zhongliu's marksmanship is not very good, I'm afraid I've never played with guns, and the pistol is not so easy to use. He didn't know where the other five shots were off, and when he fired again, there were only seven bullets in my gun.

Bai Zhongliu saw that the bullet was finished. Throw down the gun and turn around and run up the hill. He also saw that the two of us were not easy to deal with, and he chose to flee to other places, and he was still very fast, but not as fast as before. We can't let him escape, and if this kind of person is arrested, it will be troublesome. Since he had already shot and resisted arrest, there was no need for mercy. The little two of us chased after me. After the vicious fight just now, I realized that he was not as difficult to deal with as he imagined.

In front of the Erlang Temple near the top of the mountain, he and Xiaoxiao fought together. When it comes to martial arts, I'm far from being as small as Xiaoxiao. One of the most powerful kung fu moves I've ever learned is "wall-breaking punches". However, this kind of boxing method is used to hit the wall, not to hit people, you need to use your mind to guide the fist intent to penetrate the target of the strike, and it is impossible for people to stand there and not move, so that you can move your mind. Watching Xiaoxiao fight with him and the danger was full of dangers, I had to take a risk. I shouted, "Just hold him for a second." ”

Xiaoxiao and he don't dare to fight hard, if you use the method of grappling to control him, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold it, you must do so, you will only get hurt. I only have a momentary chance to do this. Xiaoxiao is an absolutely obedient child, and as soon as my words fell, he leaned into Bai Zhongliu's armpit, stretched out his hands and twisted his left arm. At the moment when Bai Zhongliu wanted to break free and didn't fight back, his figure was fixed in front of my eyes. I stepped on the ground and took off. One punch went out, and a wall-breaking punch hit him firmly in the chest.

My punch could pierce a foot-thick brick wall, but it didn't pierce Bai Zhongliu's chest. It feels like hitting a mille-feuille cowhide. There was a deafening noise, and I bounced back and fell a butt. And white in the middle and grabbed him by the arm. The dirt and little ones flew out together. They fell to the ground. Xiaoxiao jumped up, but Bai Zhongliu never got up again.

At this time, my yin eyes saw a strange scene. There was a hazy phantus, like an irregular transparent mass, flew out of Bai Zhongliu's body, and quickly flew into the Erlang Temple. My Earth Breaking Wall Fist is not an ordinary martial art, it is a boxing method that uses mental power, plus my golden dragon lock jade pillar body, so the power is very unique. This punch knocked that monster's yin spirit out of the white body!

"Stone. He's dead, come and see!" Little shouted.

Lying on the ground, Bai Zhongliu was dead. Although my punch didn't pierce his body, it shook his whole body, breaking his bones and bleeding like a puddle of mud. I can't believe that such a difficult Bai Zhongliu actually let me punch me to death so easily. I think it was when I punched him in the body, the monster also left his body, and ordinary people who had lost their supernatural powers were more vulnerable than ants in front of the wall-breaking fist. I killed again, and I don't know if this person is guilty or innocent, because he is not the one who really did it to me.

"Our mission is complete, what should we do next?" asked me.

Yes, if the task assigned by Director Gu is now completed. We lured Bai Zhongliu here, and after a fight, we killed him, and his body was at his feet. But the monster attached to his body has not been eliminated and escaped into the Erlang Temple. The task of the task force is complete, but the responsibility as a cultivator is not completed, and I should continue to track down the monster to make sure it doesn't mess with it again.

I already knew that Xiao Xiao knew about cultivators, so I didn't hide anything from him anymore, pointing to Bai Zhongliu's corpse and asking, "Xiaoxiao, you also know that it wasn't this person who was working with us, but this person was controlled by something. Now that the person is dead, that thing has run away, we should get rid of that thing, and it will be peaceful here. ”

Xiaoxiao nodded: "Actually, I can see it, but it's out of my power to deal with this kind of thing...... Are you sure?"

"I'm sure I'll give it a try too. Little I'm going to meditate here, you have to take good care of my body. ”

Xiaoxiao: "Yes, but we must close the team before dawn, and it won't take too long." Be careful. ”

The Yin God traveled cautiously and flew into the Erlang Temple. This temple looks a little weird, originally a place like Sanjiangkou should have a dragon king temple, right, how to get a Erlang god? The small temple looks a little dilapidated, except for the sign of the county-level cultural relics protection unit at the door, it is still new. On top of the shrine stands the idol of Jiro, staring at three eyes and holding a three-pointed two-edged sword. The appearance is not mighty but weird. The temple has incense, but it is not very lively, and most of the time it is deserted.

As soon as I entered the temple, I saw "it", and it was the god Erlang at the moment, because it was attached to the statue of the god Erlang. I don't know what the hell it is, or what it looks like. It is possessed by Bai Zhongliu, and it is Bai Zhongliu. Possessed on the statue of Erlang God is the God of Erlang, and when I see it, the topographical image is the God of Erlang. If you change to a person who has yin eyes but doesn't understand the Tao, I'm afraid that he will think that he has seen the manifestation of Erlang God.

What I saw was a living Erlang god, not just a clay statue, because it overlapped with the Erlang statue, just like Liu Yiyi in the Zhaoting Mountain Temple. This monster obviously didn't expect my Earth Yin God to chase after me, and stared at me with three eyes on his face in a panic.

I hung in the air and said coldly, "Do you think you can escape by living in the statue? You are really very clever to attach yourself to a person and get rid of the place where the original god is located, but you have disturbed a mountain village. Killed a man. As a cultivator, I can't spare you, unless you give me a reason not to kill you, otherwise I will break your primordial spirit sustenance. ”

I finally understand now why Fa Yuan would come out to meddle when he saw Liu Yiyi's statue of the mountain god, and he was probably worried about this kind of thing. And the Wind Gentleman didn't tell Liu Yiyi that she had another way to leave Zhaoting Mountain, and the Wind Gentleman didn't even teach Liu Yiyi how to "give up", and Yiyi wouldn't be possessed like the monster in front of him. It seems that the Wind Gentleman does not want this to happen either.

The feminine creature knelt down at me with weak legs: "This real person is slow." If you want to kill me, you have to make it clear what my crime is? I still don't understand why you want to kill me?" (Xu Gongzi's note: I saw Erlang God kneel down for you. Feeling cool?)

"You don't understand! Isn't that enough of what you did to the man outside the door? At least you killed a human being. ”

"You killed the man, why do you say I killed him?"

"Would I have killed him if you hadn't controlled what he did? ”

"Wronged me, I just attached myself to him and left this temple. I didn't control him to do anything, he did everything himself, what he wanted...... I'm just a white-sided dolphin in the middle of the river, and I'm just going to the mountain village to be the emperor of the soil?"

The white-sided dolphin? That's a national first-class protected animal, how could it come here and become a Erlang god? It seems that there is a story in this, so I won't kill it in a hurry first. Hear what it has to say. This thing is very strange, it is neither a ghost like Liu Yiyi, nor a demon like Han Ziying, what is it? Where did it come from? I have to ask clearly. I fell to the ground and still said coldly: "If you want me to spare your life, give me a reason to spare you, and you tell me honestly where you came from and why you attached yourself to that person." ”

The wraith is honest now, and it told me its story honestly. It has no name, since it claims to be the white-sided dolphin in the river, let's call it Xiaobai.

Three hundred years ago, Xiaobai was born as a white-sided dolphin in the Yangtze River, and the area where it lived was the section of the Qingyi River that flows into the Yangtze River. It often runs up the river to play in the Qingyi River. When it was a child, it happened to encounter the long tide of the Qingyi River once in 60 years, and saw with his own eyes that there was an aquatic tribe in the water, and the climate turned into a dragon. Suddenly, I realized that I began to practice on my own. It has practiced in the river for three hundred years, and the Yuan Shen has gradually become full, but it has not yet fully learned to change its form. If it goes on like this, it may one day have its own achievements, but its good fortune came to an end ten years ago.

It was trapped in the Qingyi River, and the fishing fleet was trapped, breaking eleven large nets in a row, overturning three fishing boats, and still being caught by the fishermen after being scarred. The dying Xiaobai died shortly after he came ashore. But finally it has practice, and after death, it condenses the original god and does not disperse, and lives in the Erlang Temple by the river. This is very similar to Liu Yiyi's experience, in fact, the ghost cultivation method that Feng Junzi came up with is to get this kind of thing that the folk have had, and Qi is not his originality. Xiaobai continued to practice, hoping to reunite his body one day.

But this Erlang Temple, the incense is light, Xiaobai does not have a master such as the Wind Gentleman to help it, and it is very helpless to be trapped here. Later, there was a person who went to the mountain temple to burn incense, Xiaobai Xian, this person is very talented, his divine sense is empty and unknown, susceptible to wind evil, outsiders are very good to send the furnace. Xiaobai also wanted to borrow his human body to practice, so he attached himself to this person. As a reward, it is actually part of the combined cultivation, this person has the magic power of Xiaobai's three hundred years of cultivation. This person is Bai Zhongliu.

Bai Zhongliu himself didn't understand what was going on, Xiao Bai never borrowed him to do anything, nor did he interfere in the life of the world, it just borrowed his body to practice, and all this Bai Zhongliu was unconscious. But the problem is bad, the bad is in the white, and he suddenly has the magical ability of the more ordinary people** began to swell, and he actually performed a farce of becoming the emperor. Xiaobai did not interfere in line with the principle of ignoring them.

After listening to this legend, I was also very emotional, but I didn't expect Xiaobai's experience to be simple, so I really have no reason to kill it. After thinking about it, I asked, "Then who shot me just now? Is it you or Bai Zhongliu?"

Xiaobai: "What is the shooting?"

"Shooting is not a thing, it is an action, holding a gun in your hand and shooting bullets out. "I made movements with my hands as I did it.

"Is that the gun you're talking about? I don't even know what it is. What you did just now was Bai Zhongliu himself, and I just borrowed his mouth to say a word. ...... You are also a master in the cultivation world, and I will know when I see you out of your mind. ...... Then you should understand that it is impossible for a feminine object like me to completely control a person. ”

In fact, I also understand that I can't do such complex reactions and actions in another person's body. In this way, Bai Zhongliu's death is not unjust. I still didn't understand something, and asked it again: "If it's him, why is it so difficult to fight, is your mana so strong for three hundred years?"

Xiaobai: "Not exactly. If this person is a practitioner by the standards of your practitioners, he has first-class qualifications, but his understanding and temperament are too poor, so it is impossible for him to practice on his own. But if you have my three hundred years of mana and supernatural power, it is quite powerful. He just won't use it, otherwise it's even harder to deal with. ”

Damn, it turns out that this Bai Zhongliu's qualifications are better than mine, but it's a pity that he doesn't have the opportunity to become a cultivator. I said to Xiaobai again, "What are you going to do? Or are you going to live in this desolate Erlang Temple? Anyway, I won't allow you to attach to ordinary people anymore, and you have seen it?"

Xiaobai: "I know it's wrong. In fact, I envy the cultivators in the world who have the Tao passed down from generation to generation and the guidance of their teachers. ...... After 300 years of cultivation and these two years of cultivation in the human world, I have finally achieved something, so I want to ask for something superior. ”

"What's the matter? I haven't figured out what to do with you!"

Xiaobai: "You don't have to deal with me, I don't embarrass you." In the past two years of cultivating in the human world, I finally got a little gain, that is, I can go out of my mind and reincarnate as a human being. If I am fortunate enough to be reborn on earth, I will forget everything I have now, and I want you to ask you to take me as a disciple if you are fated, I want to be a practitioner and I don't want to be alone like I am now. ”

"This- I can think about it, but how do I find you?"

Xiaobai: "If you have a fate, you don't have to deliberately look for me. What is the name of the master?"

"You remember, my name is Ishino, and I use the method of Buddhism to leave this name in your divine consciousness, even if you are reincarnated and reborn, you can remember this name. ”

......

"The stone mission is complete, can we close the team, what about this corpse?"

"Bury it on the spot, and someone else will take care of it in the future. We don't have to take it away. Anyway, he also became the soil emperor for a year, and he was not wronged after passing the addiction of the three palaces and six courts. ...... Little I'd like to discuss something with you. ”

Xiao Xiao looked at me and smiled: "I know what is the secret matter about you being a cultivator, right? I'll keep it secret for you. My grandfather used to be a practitioner, and he said a lot of the rules in your land. ”

"Little one, your grandfather is a cultivator, why aren't you?"

Xiao Xiao smiled bitterly: "Grandpa said that I am not suitable for learning Taoism, only for learning martial arts." ”

......

Bai Zhongliu died, to be precise, he was missing, and how the farce of Xiaobai Village ended has nothing to do with me. I handed over a report to Director Gu, reporting everything in detail, but omitting the part where I met the monster Yin Spirit. I told Han Ziying the story of this white-sided dolphin, and Ziying was also embarrassed. She interceded for Xiaobai, hoping that I could really accept this disciple. I studied Dan Dao, and if I really want to take him as an apprentice, I'm afraid it will have to wait until more than ten years later, so I don't have to worry about it now.

I also told the Wind Gentleman about this, and the Wind Gentleman widened his eyes and listened very attentively. After listening to it, he sighed: "Such an interesting thing." Why don't you call me? If I'm there, maybe I can come up with something else. ”

"How can I tell you? There's another Einsatzgruppen by my side, aren't you afraid of revealing your identity?"

Wind Gentleman: "Then forget it." The next time you encounter something strange by yourself, please let me know. ”

As far as I know, the Wind Gentleman later went to that Erlang Temple. But when he arrived, Xiaobai was gone.

Time passed quietly like flowing water, and the thing that made me most anxious was whether Dan Xiasheng could refine that furnace of Nine Revolutions Purple Gold Pill as scheduled. How many pills can be made into a furnace? But it's useless to be in a hurry about this kind of thing. Liu Fei'er, who has a fateful relationship with her, has no idea about this, and her life gradually returns to a carefree track.

Saying that she is carefree, in fact, she is still a little worried, and what she is worried about is her relationship with me. She is indeed in love, and after avoiding everyone, we spend more and more time before and after the moon. She was willing to accept my feelings, but we were old and who we were. It's really embarrassing, and it's something that needs to be changed gradually.

It's another year of spring flowers. It's the day of the annual spring outing again. With last year's big fuss, Qi Yunguan taught me a lesson, this year's school does not agree to students going far no matter what, our class went to Zhaoting Mountain this year's spring outing. When the whole class went up to Zhaoting Mountain, Feng Junzi and I thought it was a little funny, and we actually ran to this mountain for a spring outing. The former mountain god of this mountain is the "girlfriend" of the wind gentleman, and the current mountain god is my "sister". In a sense, this mountain is our home. What's even more laughable is that when we enter the mountain temple, we have to honestly pay for a ticket, and a ticket costs three yuan.

The Wind Gentleman stood in front of the Green Snow Statue for a long time, looking at her a little stupidly. He didn't go to see the green snow, but he ran here to see the statue of the green snow. I stabbed him and asked quietly, "Wind Gentleman, you said last time that if Green Snow doesn't come to you, you won't go to the Divine Wood Forest...... Why bother with this! Go see her. ”

Feng Junzi: "I'm afraid you're selfish when you say this, right? I won't be able to get a thousand years of spiritual blood if I don't see her." ”

"I do have selfish intentions, but it's also for your own good. You obviously want to see her, otherwise you wouldn't have seen the mountain god statue like that just now. ”

Wind Gentleman: "Don't worry, I'll do it. Some time ago, the living Buddha of Guangjiao Temple went out to travel again, and just came back two days ago. ...... You inform Han Ziying to prepare a table of vegetarian food tomorrow, and I will invite Shang Yunfei in the Gentleman's Residence. You don't have to accompany you, I guess you have something tomorrow, you see that Teacher Liu is coming to you. ”

After the wind gentleman finished speaking, he walked aside, and Liu Fei'er walked over and took the corner of my clothes. I understood it and walked with her to the spring of the Snow Creek Spring in the backyard of the mountain temple. Seeing that there were no people around her, Liu Fei'er said a little shyly: "Shiye, are you free tomorrow?"

"Of course I'm free, tomorrow is Sunday. Is there anything wrong with you?"

Liu Fei'er did have something to do with me, it turned out that his father was going to celebrate his 60th birthday tomorrow. Speaking of which, some people may find it strange: Didn't Liu Fei'er's father already celebrate his 60th birthday in mid-April last year? Why is he still 60 this year? This requires an introduction to the unique customs of Wucheng. Sixty Jiazi full life. There have been two local ones, the first time was at the age of fifty-nine, and the second time was at the age of sixty. I don't know how this ancient custom came about, according to the old ladies on the street, it is said that it was to confuse Lord Yama.

Of course, this custom reached the era of reform and opening up. There is a brand new exhibition. There are many leading cadres who like to give birthday to their relatives and elders, not to mention the big birthday, it is better to do it twice, even if it is better to do it ten times, so that they can receive more gift money. Those who don't have this kind of relatives can't wait to recognize a few more godfathers. Mr. Liu, his father didn't do birthday to receive gift money, and the old man didn't even want to hold a birthday banquet. But Liu Fei'er insisted on holding a birthday banquet for his father this time, and it was not in Qingquan Town, but in Zhiwei Building. One of her intentions was to introduce me to her father, no matter what the future would be. Let the old man be mentally prepared to know that there is such a person as me. Unexpectedly, on the same night, Zhiweilou set up two tables for an important banquet at the same time, one table was a gentleman of the wind, and the other table was Liu Fei'er's father's birthday. Han Ziying has to think about it.

Sister Ziying was really bothered, and after I told her, she immediately thought of a question - what kind of birthday gift should I give?

Liu Fei'er asked me to celebrate her father's birthday, apparently wanting me to make a good impression on his father. She didn't ask me to give me any gifts, but I couldn't go empty-handed. This gift is as simple as it is complex. Because I am a person with intentions, my intention is to be the son-in-law of the old man in the future. Therefore, the gift must be expensive but not vulgar. The Liu family is not a family that lacks money. It's not that people are uninformed, it's a thousand-year-old family that I haven't seen any good things? I want to impress the old man, it's too difficult!

Thinking about it, the next morning, Ziying took me to a place, and she said that maybe it was the only place where she could find the right thing. The place we went to was actually the Xuanhua Zhai of the Xuanhua Layman.

The face of Xuanhuazhai is not big, but the place to go inside is not small. Its business scope is stationery, calligraphy and painting mounting, etc. Both large and small businesses are done. From a five-cent brush to priceless antiques, as long as customers come to the door to announce flowers, the monks always greet them humbly. I like this kind of businessman very much, because he treats people consistently, and he doesn't look at the expensive and the lowly. When we arrived at Xuanhua Zhai, a bearded Xuanhua monk was sitting behind the counter reading the newspaper, and we came to surprise him.

"Shi Zhenren Han-Han Daoyou, why did you two come to my small shop?"

Han Ziying replied with a smile: "Xuanhua, can't we come to buy things?"

"Distinguished guests, please come in, please come in, what are you two looking for?"

I also arched my hand at him and said, "I want to give a birthday gift to an elder, this elder is a child of a scholarly family, this gift is really not good, Xuanhua Jushi, what is there to recommend here?"

Xuanhua Jushi: "The most in my store is the four treasures of the study, the four treasures of the study around Wucheng are famous all over the world, I have collected a lot of fine stones, real people can pick a good one." ”

Ziying waved her hand and said: "The treasures of the Wucheng scholarly family will be missing the four treasures of the local study room since ancient times? No matter how good the things in your store are, they can't be put on the table in front of others, and they are still vassal and elegant." ”

Han Ziying's tone was very big, and Xuanhua asked a little unexpectedly: "Wucheng scholarly family, the Mei family is impossible, do you want to celebrate the birthday of the Liu family?"

I nodded: "You guessed right, it's the old man of the Liu family." ”

Xuanhua beckoned to the two of us: "Then there is nothing you want here, close the door, come with me to the back, I have some hidden goods, you can pick one." ”

Xuanhua Zhai walked back, there were several rooms, Xuanhua Jushi raised his voice and alarmed Qixin, and walked out of the back room, and when he saw me, Han Ziying said hello lightly, but looking at her eyes, he was still very happy to see us. After asking what we were going to do, the four of us went to a storeroom together. When I entered this storeroom, I almost thought it was a theft from the cultural relics store, and Xuanhua really collected a lot of good things.

There are a few calligraphy and paintings in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but Xuanhua suggested that I don't send these, because they are flashy, it is a waste of money, and it can't get into Mr. Liu's eyes. There are also a few pieces of porcelain from the Song and Yuan dynasties, but Qixin said that these are not good. Antiques are real antiques, but if they are placed hundreds of years ago, they are just ordinary mundane things, that is, hundreds of years of time, so that these porcelain have become valuable things, if you give these ancient porcelain, it is expensive and ancient, and you don't know the taste. In the end, Han Ziying picked out a very special thing for me, and washed it with a mutton fat jade pen.

This pen wash is about eight inches long, about five inches wide at the widest point, and looks like a gourd on the plane, with two large and small pools. The surrounding pond edge is not carved dragon and phoenix, but very quaint lotus leaf Shu roll shape, the curve is smooth and exquisite, just by this process you know that it is not a vulgar thing. Its material is Hetian white jade, which is commonly known as mutton fat jade. The real sheep fat jade is not pure white, but fat white, milky white with a slight green and yellow moisturization, warm and pure. Jade, especially jade with age, feels very important, holding it in the hand has a pure and peaceful atmosphere, coming from the fingertips, indicating that its former owner is also a gentleman. (Xu Gongzi's note: Gu Yu can indeed feel the difference in this characteristic, and the value is not only in the craftsmanship and material.) )

"Okay, that's it, Xuanhua, I'll buy this one. ”

"Shi Zhenren has a good eye, this is indeed very suitable. But I haven't been able to date this piece of jade, I don't know when it is. ”

Ziying said: "The most important thing is that I don't care about the age of fate. How much did we buy?"

When it came to the price, Xuanhua Jushi was a little embarrassed: "Originally, the things in my store, if Shi Zhenren likes it, just take it." However, this shop is also the property of the Jungnam faction, and there are some things that I can't call the shots. In this way, I will give Shi Zhenren a fraction of the price I received, even if it is the whole price of 50,000 yuan I sent. ”

My hands were almost not so expensive! 50,000 yuan could buy an ordinary commercial house in Wucheng at that time. Han Ziying turned around and asked, "Shi Ye, we don't have so much money in our hands right now. Do you want to make an advance in the working capital of Zhiwei Building?"

I'm not good at managing money, and I don't like to manage money. In fact, my money is earned by others, and most of it is managed by Ziying for me. After the Chinese New Year, I gave my parents 10,000 yuan, and I gave my parents another 10,000 last month, and now I have the savings in hand, the dividends of Zhiwei Building, and the money I earn in the green snow tea room are only about 30,000 yuan, and I really can't afford to buy this pen wash. But Zhiweilou's money is not equal to my money, and I am afraid it is not appropriate to use Zhiweilou's working capital to buy birthday gifts.

Before I could answer, Qixin said with a rare smile: "Senior brother, let me guarantee Shi Zhenren, let them take the money for this thing first, and then pay later." Birthday celebrations cannot be delayed. ”