Chapter 7 Cattle Ranching
Shen smiled and said, "Senior nephew, this wooden house is the most located in this valley. Facing the water and facing the sun, and being in the place where the spiritual qi of the earth is swirling and nourishing, it is sympathetic to your form and qi, which is very beneficial to meditation and practice. These paddy fields are also the most fertile, with twice as many harvests as the average field, not to mention the barren land in the mountains. How is it? Uncle Shi is good to you, right?"
Lu Zheng saluted and said, "Thank you Uncle for taking care of you." Immediately I pushed the door and walked into the wooden house, and saw that the room was not large, almost the size of the Quzhi Pavilion in the Sun and Moon House, and it was empty on all sides, only a straw mat was laid in the corner of the wall, and a futon was placed on the straw mat, and in the other corner there was a large wooden box with a pot on it, and other than that, there was nothing.
Shen Xuan saw that Lu was suspicious, and said with a smile: "Senior nephew, the conditions here are indeed simple, naturally not as good as your home." But this is also part of the cultivation, although it is a little harder at the moment, but as long as you get through and go to the Nine Heavens, life will naturally be different. What's more, you are a disciple personally ordered by the master, and your uncle personally sent you here, tsk, how can those wild boys compare. ”
Lu Zheng saw that he was quite flattering when he spoke, but he kept the etiquette taught by Li Yi, and was just silent about this kind of flattery. Shen Xuan saw that Lu Zheng was lukewarm and reserved to himself, and he was even more sure that Lu Zheng was from a certain cultivation family, so he smiled and leaned over to Lu Zheng's side and lowered his voice: "Senior nephew, Senior Uncle asked you something." ”
Lu Zheng took a step back and saluted, "Uncle Shi just ask." ”
Shen Xuan was very satisfied with Lu Zheng's respectful attitude, and said, "What Uncle Shi wants to ask is." Which family do you belong to in the cultivation world?"
Lu Zheng shook his head and said, "Uncle Hui, I am not from some cultivation family. ”
Shen Xu's 'oh' sound: "Is that Ling Zun and my Heavenly Sect head old acquaintance?"
Lu Zhengdao: "Don't dare to hide it from my uncle, I don't even know who my parents are?"
Shen Xuan frowned, his face changed slightly, and he was surprised in his heart, then why did this kid have to personally assign his senior brother to be his master, and the senior uncle personally sent him to the sky, could it be that he is extremely talented and has excellent roots? Or is it just a coincidence, in fact, this kid has little background. Thinking of this, I was slightly annoyed. I secretly wondered if the courtesy just now was pasted into the mud. When he was thinking in his heart, he overheard Lu Zhengdao: "It was Mr. Le in the Sun Moon Mansion who sent me to Tianzong!"
Shen Xu heard the words "Sun Moon Lu" and "Mr. Le", and his ears seemed to be pricked by a needle, and he stood up. From ears to cheeks, it was hot. His voice trembled a little with excitement. Said: "Senior nephew, you, what you just said about the Sun Moon Lu?
How can you not know the two saints of the sun and the moon in the sun and the moon. That is a character among the top ten supernatural masters, but a character in the Three Realms of Heaven, ranking especially in front of the head of the family, with a great reputation and thunder. On weekdays, he only hears of his name, where has he seen the real body, for him, it is a first-class person of the gods.
Lu Zheng saw that a pair of eyes on his fat face were round and indescribably funny, and he sighed secretly in his heart, but his face was silent, his eyes were wide open, pretending to be innocent, and he nodded: "That's right, I was poisoned before, and it was Mr. Le who spent a lot of effort to cure me." ”
When Shen Xuan heard this, his eyes widened a little rounder, and he couldn't help but say, "Or did it take the boss's strength to cure you?"
"Well, at that time, it was on the Yuantai, and the head and several Shi Bozu and Shi Uncle Zu were all present, and when Uncle Shi asked Shizu, he knew that I didn't lie to you. Lu Zheng said as he said in his heart, this kind of person should be scared first, so as not to be idle with him for no reason in the future, but delay his learning of supernatural powers.
Shen Xuan heard this, where did he still have any doubts, and hurriedly said: "How could Uncle Shi not believe what you said, what kind of relationship do we have." ...... Oops, I have long seen that my nephew is noble and has an extraordinary background, but I didn't expect it to be such a great background, and my uncle was almost startled by you, haha. ”
He smiled haha, and felt in his heart that his courtesy just now was really prescient, and he secretly regretted that it seemed that those words just now were not a bit of a lesson, would it make Lu Zheng feel that he didn't care enough about him, and it seemed that he could be more tactful. I was about to coax a few words, when I suddenly heard someone outside the wooden house: "Can you be cautious?"
Shen Xuan heard this and said, "Senior nephew, your master is here." Immediately, he replied: "Is it senior brother? I'll take Lu Zheng's nephew out." While shouting, he went up and pushed the door open, and said, "Senior nephew, let's go out." ”
Lu Zheng saw that his uncle actually held the door for himself, where was he willing to go out, he cautiously pushed for a long time, and saw that Lu Zheng insisted on the same, and kept saying good words, saying that Lu Zheng respected the teacher, and he was worthy of being a character who came out of the Sun Moon Lu.
Lu Zheng ignored such gossip, and when he walked out of the wooden house, he saw a slender figure, wearing a white cloud robe, wearing an immortal crown, standing under a willow tree with his back to him. Shen Xulian on the side glanced at Lu Zheng and nodded violently, meaning that this was his senior brother, Lu Zheng's master.
Although they had never met, and as soon as they met, they gave themselves a back of the head, but the title of master and apprentice had been decided, and Lu Zheng did not dare to be sloppy, so he immediately stepped forward and bowed down and said: "Disciple Lu Zheng, dare to ask the master in front of him, is the master a real person?"
"I'm Po Xu, are you Lu Zheng?" With a question, the man turned around and met Lu Zheng's gaze. Lu Zheng only felt that his eyes were extremely bright, and when he looked at him, it seemed that two divine lights swept over, Lu Zheng glanced at it, and quickly lowered his head, only to feel that his master's sword eyebrows were high, his eyes were like electricity, and there was a thin cinnabar mole in the center of his eyebrows.
Lu Zheng replied loudly: "Master Qiyu is the disciple Lu Zheng. ”
The real person nodded slightly, and said, "Well, there is a degree of advance and retreat, and there is a moderation in response, which is not bad." But this 'master' didn't hurry to speak, although the head of the family has ordered me to be your teacher of the Fa, but if you can't pass the test of Xishan Linggu, it means that you and I don't have a master-apprentice relationship, and everything is not to be discussed. You know what?"
Lu Zhengdao: "Dare to ask the real person, what does the test of Xishan Linggu refer to?" He heard that the real person who broke the void did not let him call him Shizun, so he immediately changed his name to the other party's real person. Among the Taoist gates, you need to be successful in cultivation before you can be called a real person.
The real person who broke the void turned his head to look at Shen Xuan on the side, and Shen Xuan hurriedly said: "Senior brother is coming quickly, junior brother hasn't had time to explain the rules of Xishan Spirit Valley to Lu Zheng!"
Breaking the void is humane: "Since this is the case, then you can explain it to him in detail in a moment." He said to Lu Zheng: "I hope that within a year, you will be able to get out of this day, and then you and I will have a chance to meet." The relationship between master and apprentice. "Finished. The bento flew away immediately, without a word of nonsense.
Shen Xuyou hurriedly shouted: "Senior brother, go slowly!" Seeing that the real person who broke the void flew away, he turned to Lu Zheng and said: "Senior nephew, although my senior brother has a big temper. Somewhat impersonal. But the supernatural power is the highest among the imaginary characters. His Heavenly Secret had already been cultivated to the sixth layer of Jade Sky Heaven. It's not like I'm still rolling in the first god sky. You can worship him as a teacher, and the future is limitless, don't forget my uncle when the time comes!"
Lu Zheng smiled: "Uncle Shi said that he was joking. I don't know what the real person just said about the test of this Xishan Spirit Valley?"
Shen smiled and said, "Did you see a cow on the road just now?"
Lu Zhengdao: "Is it the cows that those teenagers are holding in their hands?"
Shen nodded and said, "Yes, yes, it's those cows, can you see that there is something special about those cows?"
Lu Zheng thought for a while and said, "I didn't see anything else, but I just thought that some of these cows only had a white tail, and some had a white body, leaving a black head, which was very interesting." ”
Shen Xuan smiled mysteriously and said, "Senior nephew, do you think these cows are born like this? Let me tell you, those cows were originally all black, and they were all pitch black, and they didn't even have a single white hair. Now you see that some of the tails are white, some of the buttocks are white, and some of the whole bodies are white, all of which have been raised by those registered disciples after several years of hard work! This is the test of the Xishan Linggu -- herding cattle!"
Turning a black cow into a white cow? Lu Zheng thought he had heard it wrong, and wondered: "Uncle Shi, can this black cow also be cultivated into a white cow?"
Shen Xuan shook his head and said proudly: "You don't understand this, this kind of cow is unique to my Tianzong Xishan Spirit Valley, huge in size, pitch black, infinite strength, its temperament is unruly, irritable and irritable, if it is not satisfactory, it will go crazy, run around and scream, and roar wantonly." But if you can tame it a little, the black color on its body will fade a little, starting with the tail, zuihou to the head, and gradually turning white. That's why you just saw that some of the cows have white tails, and some of the remaining cows have black heads. ”
Lu Zheng heard such a strange thing, and couldn't help but ask, "Uncle Shi, how much time does it take to tame such a cow?"
Shen Xu grinned and said: "This can vary from person to person, as little as a year, as much as a few years, and it can be seen that personal qualifications are different." Moreover, this cow has great strength and strong head horns, if it accidentally picks its stomach with its horns, it may not even be able to save its life!"
Just now, before leaving, he said to himself that he hoped to see him within a year, which means that he hoped that he would domesticate the cattle within a year. Lu Zheng was still thinking about why it took so long for a year just now, but now he felt that a year was very urgent, and he immediately thought of the fact that he had tamed Xiaobai, so he at least had some experience, so he would not be in a hurry. It's just that I don't know how disobedient this cow is, whether it can be tamed by taming Xiaobai, and I recalled for a while how I tamed Xiaobai.
Seeing that Lu Zheng was distracted, Shen Xuan thought that he was stunned, so he immediately stepped forward and patted him on the shoulder, and took the opportunity to sell it and said: "Haha, of course, you don't have to worry, isn't there still Uncle Shi here! Uncle Shi is here to be responsible for rescuing these registered disciples in this valley, so that they will not be injured by the cow." ”
Lu Zheng immediately thanked him repeatedly, and then listened to Shen Xu: "But don't worry, before herding cattle, Uncle Shi will also teach you two sets of kung fu, one is the method of exercising muscles and bones, which can make your body stronger, otherwise with your current strength, you can't hold the cow at all! haha, and the other is the meditation of pranayama and concentration, and this two sets of exercises are the basic of Tianzong's cultivation." ”
Lu Zhengxin said, these two sets of kung fu should be taught to every disciple before herding cattle, it must have a great relationship with herding cattle, and now listening to him, it seems that he is taking care of himself. After thinking about it, he asked, "Uncle Shi, what do you mean is that when I can domesticate the black cow into a white cow, and when I pass the test, I can officially go to learn the Heavenly Trick from a real person, right?"
Shen Xu nodded and said: "My nephew is really smart, but this cattle herding item may not be as simple as you think, and many people will not be able to domesticate cattle in their lifetime." Generally, it takes a year and a half to be able to whiten a tail, which is considered fast. How else can we call this Xishan Spiritual Valley inferior to the sky? How difficult it is for mortals to ascend to the heavens! It is the same in this Heavenly Sect, if you can't get out of the Xishan Spiritual Valley, you are just a registered disciple, and only when you go out of this valley can you be regarded as ascending to the heavens and turning into a dragon!"
At that moment, Lu Zheng asked Shen Xuan about some cattle herding tips, and Shen Xu had the intention to please this nephew with an extraordinary background, and he talked endlessly, but most of them were almost rhetoric, or he inquired about the things in the Sun and Moon Lu openly and secretly, and Lu Zheng only listened hard, so he finally asked about some situations.
Subsequently, Shen Xu pointed to the paddy fields and told Lu Zheng that in addition to cattle herding, another important thing is farming. This is not a test, but the registered disciples in the Xishan Linggu must grow their own food to feed themselves, and the disciples who have just entered the valley, the Xishan Linggu only provides rations for the first three months before the rice matures, and it is placed in a wooden box in the wooden house.
Lu Zheng is a little dumbfounded now, about cattle herding, he has also domesticated Xiaobai in the Sun Moon Mansion. This kind of rice, I grew up on the streets ......of Qinglong Temple since I was a child, but I have never seen it, how is this good?
PS: Lu Zheng has started his career as a cattle herder!