Chapter 34 is helpless

Zhou Sheng calmed down for a long time before he found that Cheng Sheng was in bed, and he said in surprise: "I wasn't drunk last night, why is it so chaotic?" The family lit the lamp to shine on him, and it was very clear that he was born. Zhou Sheng used to have a lot of mustaches, and he brushed it with his hands, but he felt that there were not a few sparse ones. took the mirror and looked at it himself, and said in surprise: "Chengsheng is here, where have I been?" and then suddenly understood that Zhilu Dao Chengsheng was using illusion to lure him into seclusion. He wanted to go to the inner room, but his brother forbade him to go any further because of his unusual appearance. Zhou Sheng also had no way to introduce himself. So he ordered his servants to prepare horses, and he was going to find life.

After a few days, I entered Laoshan. His horse ran so fast that the servants could not catch up. He stopped under the tree to rest, and saw a lot of people dressed as Taoist priests coming and going. One of the Taoist priests inside looked at Zhou Sheng, and Zhou Sheng asked him about Chengsheng. The Taoist priest smiled and said, "I've heard his name, it seems to be in the Shangqing Palace." With that, he walked away.

Zhou Sheng saw him leave, saw him an arrow away, talked to another person, and left without saying a few words. The person who was talking to the Taoist priest slowly approached, and it turned out to be a scholar in the literary club together. When he saw Zhou Sheng, he was very shocked and said: "I haven't seen you for several years, I thought you were learning the Tao in a famous mountain, but now you are still playing in the world!" Zhou Sheng said the strangeness of this matter.

The scholar was surprised and said, "I met him just now, and I thought it was you." He hadn't had much time since he left, and maybe hadn't gone far. ”

Zhou Sheng was very surprised, and said, "What a strange, why don't I know my own face when I see it on the other side?" At this time, the servant found him, and he hurriedly rode after Chengsheng, but found no trace. Seeing the vastness, it was difficult for him to decide whether to move forward or go back. I thought I was homeless, so I decided to pursue my life completely. But the mountain road was so dangerous that he could no longer ride a horse, so he gave the horse to the servant and went back to himself. Seeing a little boy sitting alone from a distance, Zhou Sheng approached him to ask him about his mileage and told him why he came. Xiao Tong himself said that he was a disciple of Chengsheng, took him with a burden and dry food, and guided him to walk together. In the evening, when the stars came out, they ate and slept in the open air to rest, and walked a long way in a bumpy way. It took three days to arrive, but it was not the so-called Shangqing Palace in the world. It was the middle of October, and I saw mountain flowers falling all over the road, not like early winter.

The little boy went in to inform the guests that they were coming, and Cheng Sheng came out immediately, and only then did he realize that it was his own appearance. Cheng Sheng took his hand and went in, set up the wine and food and talked to him. Seeing birds of rare colors, docile and not afraid of people, the sound is like a sheng reed and other musical instruments, flying from time to time to stop on the seat and chirping, Zhou Sheng felt very strange in his heart. It's just that earthly thoughts are urgent, and he has no intention of staying here. There were two futons on the ground, and Cheng Sheng pulled him to sit down with him. After arriving at the second watch, listening to the silence of all the voices, Zhou Sheng suddenly seemed to be the time to take a nap in the blink of an eye, and felt that his body and Cheng Sheng had switched places. Suspicious, he rubbed his chin to himself, only to feel that the beard he had been thinking about for a long time was there as it had been before. It was already dawn, and he wanted to go back.

Cheng Sheng insisted on keeping him, and after three days, he said, "Please sleep down and rest, and send you off tomorrow morning." Zhou Shengcai closed his eyes and only heard Cheng Sheng call him and said, "The packing is ready." Zhou Sheng then got up and walked with him.

They are not going the same way as before. Zhou Sheng only felt that it didn't take long for his hometown to be in sight. Sung Sheng sat on the side of the road and waited, letting him go back by himself. Zhou Sheng forced him to be, so he went to the front of the house alone. No one answered when he knocked on the door, and he thought about going over the wall to get in, but he felt that his body was floating like a leaf, and he jumped over. After climbing over several walls, I arrived at the bedroom, and saw the lights and candles inside, and my wife had not yet fallen asleep, chattering with people. He licked open the window and peeked, only to see his wife drinking with a small servant in a cup, and the two looked very obscene. His anger burned like a fire in his heart, and he was going to catch them, but he was afraid that he would not be able to conquer alone. So he quietly pulled the deadbolt out of the door, ran to tell Chengsheng, and asked him for help. Cheng Sheng followed him generously all the way to the inner room. Zhou Sheng held a stone and pounded on the door, and the people inside were very flustered. He thrashed more urgently, and the people inside closed the door more tightly. Cheng Sheng fiddled with his sword, and the door opened with a bang. Zhou Sheng then ran in, and the servant rushed out of the door. Cheng Sheng was outside the door and struck him with a sword, breaking his arm in the shoulder. Zhou Sheng grabbed his wife and tortured him when he heard the news, only to realize that she had fornicated with a servant when he was in prison in the past. Zhou Sheng borrowed a sword from Cheng Sheng and cut off her head, and hung her intestines on a tree quite far away. So he followed Cheng Sheng out and found his way back to Laoshan.

Suddenly, Zhou Sheng woke up, saw that he was still in bed, and said in surprise: "This strange dream is so hideous, it's really scary!"

Cheng Sheng smiled and said, "When you dream, you think it's true, but really you think it's a dream." ”

Zhou Sheng asked him in astonishment, Cheng Sheng took out his sword to show him, only to see that the blood splashed was still there. Zhou Sheng was frightened and was about to die, and he suspected that Chengsheng was using illusion.

Cheng Sheng knew what he meant, so he quickly packed his bags and sent him back, and slowly arrived in front of the village gate, and then said: "The night before, the place where I waited for you here by the sword is not here? If you don't come by the evening, I'll leave myself. When Zhou Sheng arrived at home, he saw that the courtyard was deserted, as if there was no one living there. I turned around and went to my brother's house.

When the younger brother saw his brother, his eyes fell into tears, and he said, "After my brother left, the robbers killed my sister-in-law in the night and dug out all the intestines. Until now, the government has not captured the robbers. Zhou Sheng woke up as if from a dream, so he told him the truth and warned him not to pursue it to the government. The younger brother was stunned for a long time. Zhou Sheng asked his son, and the younger brother asked the old woman to carry him over.

At this time, Zhou Sheng had no choice but to follow Chengsheng to become a monk, so Zhou Sheng sighed and said: "This infant child is related to our inheritance, brother, you look at him well." Brother, I want to die. So he got up and went out. The younger brother chased after him with tears in his eyes, and he smiled and walked away. When he arrived in the wilderness, he saw Cheng Sheng, so he walked with him, Zhou Sheng turned back from afar and said: "Patience is the most painful." As soon as the younger brother wanted to speak, Cheng Sheng raised his wide sleeves and shook them, and they couldn't see. The younger brother stood in amazement for a long time before he came back crying.

Zhou Sheng's younger brother was honest and clumsy, and was not good at managing his family's production, and after a few years, the family became poorer; Zhou Sheng's son grew up slowly, and the family could not hire a teacher, so the younger brother taught him to read by himself. One day, when he arrived at the study in the morning, he saw a letter on the table, and the seal was very firm, with the words "Brother Qi" written on it. When he looked closely, it was his brother's handwriting. When I opened it, there was nothing inside, but I saw a fingernail, more than two fingers long, and I felt very strange in my heart. He put his nails on the inkstone and went out to ask his family where the letter came from, but no one knew how it came from. When he came back, he was surprised to see that the inkstone was shining and had turned into gold. Copper and iron were tested with this fingernail and turned into gold. As a result, the family became very wealthy. He gave more than a thousand taels of silver to his son, and it was rumored that the two of them had a little alchemy, and so on.