Chapter 139 fairy
Inverted horse pass, this year especially spring cold, although not to freeze to kill the young exaggerated point, but still pass near the village of some widows and orphans easily survived the winter, did not carry through the road is said to be the old people is a ghost gate inverted spring cold. Only such a silent death, shock can not make any waves, anyway, did not die in the military chaos, old age in the home bed, who would like to take care of, only some veterans, only by the government to scribble to place the afterlife, is the end of the old man, compared to the side of the sun has been considered a great fortune. Two riders came to the inverted horse pass, a little rest before leaving the pass, through the Lantern Festival aftermath, the pass market is quite lively, the children are staring at the old crows playing chess and other tricks, dusty Xu Fengnian chewing a big cake, leading the horse to walk, see the children in the pile of a familiar little fat pier, walked over to take the foot gently kicked the little fat ass, the child is looking at the energy, the head did not turn to shoot off kicking him in the buttocks! The thing, the matter is not three, the little chubby pier angrily turned his head, was about to swear, saw a horse with a sword of the handsome gentleman, froze, and easily recognized that it was the first time to send him a meat buns of the warrior, rushed to get up, in accordance with the etiquette of Mr. private school teachings, rusty bow, Xu Fengyen laughed and asked: “Right Song, did not play with you guys? ”
The little fat pier looked around, hehehe smile said: “Just now also in it, the pine with his mother came to the market to buy some edges satin, this moment has to be his mother to carry the ear dragged away. Sir, do you want me to help you call out for Songzi?”
Xu Feng Nian shook his head and said, “No need, I have to leave the gate right away, just tell Right Pine when you see him.”
Then Xu Feng saw this fatty gulping and staring at the big half of the meat pie in his hand, Xu Feng Nian laughed, “If you don’t mind being bitten by me, take it.”
The little fatty smiled coyly and shook his head vigorously, out of the corner of his eye, he glimpsed two knives of different lengths around this gentleman’s waist, and became more and more greedy. Xu Fengyen handed the kid meat patties, the latter tore into the meat patties while saying vaguely, “Your Excellency, I heard my father say that it’s hard to get out of the pass now, it seems like there are a lot of generals at the big gourd mouth outside of the Inverted Horse Pass, and there aren’t a lot of people entering the pass around the New Year’s Eve.”
Xu Fenian smiled, “I have some relationship with the officials who arrive at the gate, so I am not afraid.”
The little chubby dun laughed nervously, “I told you, you must be a big man, Song Zi in private school often say you, others do not believe, I help Song Zi, with Song Zi said that you are a great warrior in the jianghu.”
Xu Fenian rubbed the little fatty’s head and turned to leave. Behind the back of the little fat man immediately with the side playmates bragged about how familiar he is with the son of a horse with a sword, previously together in the private school of most of the children do not believe that he and Zhao Yousong, and now see with their own eyes the fat man got a half a cake reward, this friendship can not be false, the little fat man’s “status in the jianghu” suddenly rose several floors so high.
Beiliang border army school martial arts parade, nearly twenty years, always follow a year a small school three years a parade of the old rules, just last year’s parade was delayed to this year for no apparent reason, also set in the spring season from no precedent, two bad rules in a row, coupled with the scale of the parade is particularly large, so that many of the border generals have felt an unusual atmosphere. A small border pass inverted horse pass, the temple is small, but many bodhisattvas, the deputy lieutenant of Zhou Xian, with the Hundred Pieces of the arch lieutenant of Han Tao, want to go out of the customs from here smoothly into the customs, especially if the goods are worth money, need to be careful to play this pair of rivals. At this time inverted horse pass snake Zhou Xian and Han Tao are standing respectfully in the wall, the atmosphere do not dare to breathe, not to mention the two only into the stream of goods of the snake, is a dragon are given to honestly coiled lying down, because they stand beside the two can really determine the life and death of the great Bodhisattva, Youzhou Vice General Shi Qian high and Youzhou Bu Bu Bu Bu Bu Li Gui Weng, are from the third grade officers. Han Tao and Zhou Xian this pair of old enemies at this moment also have no mutual tripping mind, only have to pinch the nose cooperation, thinking about how to deal with this trip to the past, they do not have the money to know the inside, only to get the news that there is an important person from the inverted horse pass out of the customs.
Zhou Ziru, the son of the deputy lieutenant of the Folding Charge, has the status of the border army, and was also able to stand on the wall and wait, but from the two powerful ministers of Youzhou is very far away, this once almost let the fish and dragon gang instant destruction of the border generals, carefully glanced at the Shiqian Gao bright armor, as well as Li Gui Weng’s body of the embroidered peacock pattern of the official uniform patch, eyes reverence in mixed with the heat. Shiqian Gao is a spring and autumn veteran general, old and strong, originally this time the most hopeful trend to be replaced as Youzhou General, the results were only fruit Yi Lieutenant Huangfu Scale first, inverted the horse from top to bottom of the side of the trepidation to a large extent because of this reason, afraid of being hot-tempered Shiqian Gao as a punching bag. On the contrary, Li Guiweng has been with the rumors of that to anyone as peaceful, climbing the city wall intentionally walked behind Shi Qiangao, took the time to talk to Zhou Xian Zhou Ziru father and son warm pleasantries. Zhou Ziru do not know why, carefully perceived that the character of the very different stone general Li Fuhui actually have a few nervous, this time the choice of gourd mouth on the Northern Liang parade, Northern Liang has long been in Chu Lushan, infantry commander Yan Wenluan and cavalry commander Yuan Zuozong had arrived at the pass, the Northern Liang new nobility of the Gu Dazu, does not belong to the ranks of the border army of Liangzhou generals and the two vice-generals, but also in the first three or four of the first month of the North to the north of the line, and even the Northern Liang! The strategic ambassador Li Gongde is no exception, it can be said that the big names of the northern Liang, almost all have arrived in the Lantern Festival around the mouth of the gourd, Zhou Ziru can not guess who can make Shi Li two people are so cautious treatment, the roots are not solid Youzhou General Huangfu scale than their rank half a rank, but should not have this majesty. Inverted Horse Pass Shi Qian Gao and Li Gui Weng are naturally waiting for His Highness the Prince.
Xu Fengyen can actually enter the inverted horse pass earlier, only to be stopped by a cloud traveler Taoist, deadbeat to give him a character reading fortune-telling palm reading, swore that the counting is not allowed not only do not want to money, but also the silver money. Xu Fengnian did not move to look at Xu Yanbing, the latter unprecedentedly did not immediately give an answer. Xu Fengyen is a little playful, can let Xu Yanbing can not eat the depths, either this scruffy Taoist is really no internal force, or is good at disguising the realm of heavenly image of the high, or directly is the land immortal. What a great prize! Xu Fengyen smiled and went to sit in front of the roadside stall with the old Taoist who was born with thieving eyes, and opened the door and joked, “Old real person, with your face, it’s hard to make people believe that you’re a Taoist master.”
The old Taoist sighed: “Like the name, are given by parents, what a law oh. Poverty is also really hungry and cold, had no choice but to set up a stall to do this to people fortune-telling dangerous camp, heaven’s secret can not be leaked na, can not earn money to starve to death, the poor road this is to take life for life, how are all the bitter life.”
Xu Fengyen was about to open his mouth, the Taoist seemed to penetrate the heart, already lamented: “Heaven’s opportunity to leak one, can rotate unceasingly, this one, in the view of the poor Taoist is itself, so the son of a brother, don’t ask the poor Taoist why he can tell fortunes, but can’t calculate his own destiny.”
Xu Fengyen laughed, “The old Taoist, not to mention other things, is quite good at observing words and colors.”
The old Taoist who called himself Sifang glared, “Where is the observation of words and colors, it is clearly the calculation of your mind. Timing is the right place, timing is the right time, counting heaven, counting earth, counting hearts, the poor Taoist is different from those immortals from the Taoist ancestral court, not counting heaven and earth but only counting hearts.”
Xu Fengyen was surprised and said with a smile, “Then I have to take the opportunity to ask the old real person about it. Buddha can’t be said, Tao can’t be taught, so how can a mortal man become a Buddha and attain the Tao?”
The old Taoist and Xu Fengnian sat opposite each other across the stall, twirling his whiskers and laughing: “The poor Taoist does not say that the false and real cloudy words of reasoning, only to say that some of their own walked through the road to realize the reasoning, how? This gentleman, line of small things not to be petty, when the big things can be more atmospheric, think can be quiet to listen to the poor road to tell.”
Xu Fengyen nodded and said, “Good.”
Turning to Xu Yan Bing, he said, “Go buy a drawer of Xiao Long Buns.”
The old Taoist nodded gratefully, not knowing whether he was glad for the drawer of buns that could fill his stomach, or he was glad that the male son in front of him had finally entered the jar. Waiting until Xu Yan Bing silently turned around, the old Taoist priest corrected the lapel, slowly said: “Cultivation is like climbing a mountain, walking a hundred miles half ninety, the more you walk, the more difficult. That Longhu Mountain only want to climb to the top, as if each AZ not out of a ascension of a real person on the face of the ancestors, this can not talk about right or wrong, but Wudang Mountain will not repair such a road. I do not know when, the world cultivation is only focusing on the word of longevity, which is the same as the official hope ‘a product’ two words how different? Let’s cultivate like reading, like a gentleman to read those beautiful novels, in the end it is not that see each other, see that beautiful novels, in the end it is not that see each other, good luck love each other, red makeup to the white head, bad luck hate each other away, and then talk about a little bit more revealing, but also from under the bed to the bed of that shit. If it is further to say, people in this life is even worse, but also nothing more than the word life and death, so think, also too uninteresting. Do you think so?”
Xu Fengyen nodded with a smile and said, “I think so.”
The old Taoist continued: “In the poor Taoist view, this person na, reincarnation in the world to walk through, the essence is to walk with the two words, walk through the mountains walk through the water walk through the rivers and lakes walk through the east, west, south, north and south, to where it is not important to see along the way interesting people uninteresting things, suffer or enjoy the blessings of the life of a hundred years only. Met the good scenery, you can stop to look at a look at a look, have the energy, and then go. Do not want to move your feet, then do not move it, the tender land of heroes? Hey, that’s not eating the grapes of the guy in the shouting acid it. Why don’t you say that you are only envious of lovebirds and not of immortality? Poverty Road this life traveling around, has been a number of years, seeking immortality people envy that the mountain one day in the world has been a thousand years, poor Road is like in the rolling dust in the feet on the ground to walk around, not afraid of the day on the road to suddenly die, if it is for longevity and fear of death, how to get the real longevity? Poor Taoist this life, into the Taoist temple large and small, there must be more than six hundred, to go to the temple with the monks to teach Buddhist doctrine, but also no less than three hundred.”
Seeing Xu Fenian silent, the old Taoist coughed, cheeky whisper reminded: “Gongzi this moment should be echoed a sentence, only reasonable.”
Xu Fenian laughed, “I’m busy calculating how old the old real person is nowadays in order to finish walking through those 600 Taoist temples and 300 temples.”
The old Taoist shook his head and sighed, “The poor Taoist has long forgotten, he only remembers marrying three women.”
Xu Fenian couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth. Xu Yan Bing at this time to carry back a drawer of buns, placed on the stall, the old Taoist priest picked up a steaming bun, blowing hard a few breaths, a mouthful of gulp swallowed, full of intoxication, lifting the sleeve wiped the corners of the mouth grease stains, laughed: “Spring freezing sinews and bones in the fall freezing meat, that is, the young man’s vitality and blood is not afraid of the spring cold, the days are also extraordinarily difficult to get through it ah.”
Xu Fengnian asked with a smile, “Can the old Taoist figure out who I’m going to see?”
The old Taoist was about to go and grab the second meat bun, and said carelessly, “Painting the gray old crone.”
Xu Yan Bing’s breath condensed.
The old Taoist remained impassive and laughed softly, “Walking in the jianghu, more skill is not a problem, so the poor Taoist knows a little bit about everything, and knows that this matter is just relying on this great age, not much of a skill.”
Xu Fenian calmly said, “I know who the old real person is. Only the real person does not show his face to show his face to show his face, the old real person seems to be out of order ah, what, want to give your Northern Mang empress revenge, take my head to pay off the debt Xu Huainan and the fifth raccoon’s head?”
The old Taoist laughed, “Do you really know who the poor Taoist is?”
Xu Fenian frowned, “I am indeed confused, I heard that Li Dangxin of the Two Zen Monasteries is in the Daode Sect, and has yanked down the Floating Mountain to crush the sword-bearing Kirin Realist.”
The old Taoist laughed, flicked his fingers on his left shoulder, and a charming young Taoist, about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, carrying a long sword, “floated” out of his right hand and bowed to Xu Fengnian.
The old Taoist changed hands and snapped his fingers, the left side of the “floating” out of another elderly Taoist, immortal style, holding a duster, twirling his beard and smiling.
This unicorn real person, clearly has been toppled bodhisattva after crossing the river killed in the Yellow River.
The old man, who had been sitting on a stool, clapped his hands, and in front of him “ran out” a young Taoist priest, the same child who had appeared beside Xu Huainan, the king of the North Court. The old Taoist held a bun in one hand and stroked the little Taoist boy’s head with the other, “Xu Fenian, this is the second time we’ve met.”
The scene over here was treacherous, but the passersby on the street were oblivious.
The old Taoist swallowed the bun, stroked his palm and laughed, “The three Northern Mang State Masters, chopped by Li Dangxin, Tuo Bao Bodhisattva, and One Cut Willow respectively, are just dead but not dead, and not enough for outsiders to know. Chopping three corpses and pulling out nine insects, the sages are unknown, the world clouds have, such as falling into the clouds, do not know why, the poor road traveling around, I thought it was a past life, this life and the next life of the sentiment of the reasoning of the desire. These three Taoist Kirin real people, is me and not me, I am they are conclusive. They are very busy, poor Tao is very idle, idle enough to cloud travel North Mang Liyang for three katas, idle enough to see with my own eyes the three marrying women slowly going from a wonderful age to an old crone, idle enough to meet with all the four Lv Zu.”
Xu Fengnian as if he did not know what to say, so he reached out for a bun to “suppress the shock”, but did not want to be around the knee playing boy master of state slap off, the back of the hand came a hot pain, Xu Fengnian stunned, hastily waved his hand, signaling the already killing aura filled Xu Yanbing still do not shoot.
The old Taoist knocked the head of the little Qilin real person, bending down to pick up the bun and hand it to His Highness the son of the world, “Reading to see the deer, the book gained a few points, the deer lost a few points. Asking the question to the green mountain, there is no matter outside the Tao, there is a matter in the green mountain. Poor Taoist number Sifang Taoist, real name Yuan Qingshan, cultivation has been three times, ascension is imminent, today we meet, there is indeed one thing to ask.”
Xu Fengyen stretched out his left hand to receive the bun, not seeing the slightest tremor.
Yuan Qingshan said with a straight face, “For a certain unrecorded disciple of the Daode Sect, poor Taoist is asking for a copper coin from His Highness, the son of the world.”
Xu Fengyen held the bun and did not move.
The old Taoist smiled and said, “Your Highness has tasted the bun, then it is not too late to reply.”
Xu Fengnian hesitated for a moment before following the old Taoist’s example and swallowing the bun in one bite, slapping the copper coin on the stall with a snap.
The old Taoist twisted that copper coin and snapped his fingers, the copper coin flew as far away as ten million miles. Standing up, the three Qilin Masters “merged” into the body of Daoist Yuan, and the scruffy old Taoist left behind four golden words before leaving.
“Your Highness will benefit from going to Wudang Mountain more often.”
“Xu Longxiang was originally destined to die, before the poor Taoist ascended, he would leave him a ray of life, but only a ray.”
“Zhen Wu was originally a heavenly being, why did he come to the world with so much trouble? Underestimating Wang Xianzhi who will rank in the immortal class in the future and not lose to Zhenwu, you will die.”
“After Li Yu axe dispersed his own merits and blessings to help people ascend, he then chopped up all the angling immortals in the clouds, so no one in the world could ascend anymore. It’s wonderful for human beings to do human things. Poor Taoist Yuan Qingshan is not as good as Wudang Li Yuaxe by much!”