Chapter 125 The Sound of Books

With a red-robed shadowy creature, Xu Fengyen even if not to say day and night, but also had to choose those remote and wild paths to the north, but this is not too far from the original intention, accustomed to the desert coarse sand and wind, this pain does not hurt, so that Xu Fengyen ate a pill of peace of mind, made up his mind to bring the Dan baby the key is that the shadowy creature is actually an anti-tracking master, to eliminate the residual scent of those who are not even expected by Xu Fengyen! Extremely skillful insider, with such an amulet or even a life-saving talisman, Xu Fengyen’s heart is much more at ease. Look at its two faces and four arms, it is not so repulsive, in the middle of the occasional stop to rest, but also can play with it some childish tricks that ordinary people seem to be very childish. Xu Fengyen walked in the endless Gobi beach, according to the geographic record depicted in ancient times here was a three miles wide through the sky river, this is simply let the descendants jaw-dropping, Xu Fengyen stood on a piece of withered wood exposed to the hot sun, muttering to himself: ”According to you and me feet, and then walk up to the northwest a little more half a decade, will be to the treasure bottle state, I want to see the person is there, in the The reason why I took my life to fight to the death in Luoyang is because if I go late, everything will be in vain, that old man is really hard to serve. But put yourself in his shoes and think about it, it’s not good to blame him, this is the big man who has enjoyed the taste of being a great man in the position, why should he risk the great danger of not being able to protect his late life, but also can’t fetch too much benefit, go to talk to me about things with a young man who has a hairless mouth ……”

Speaking here, Xu Fengyen subconsciously touched his chin, he let out a cry and cursed, “So it’s already all scruffy.”

Take Huang Tong flying sword to scrape off some solid hard green scum, take this opportunity to weigh the current home base, step into the beginning of the vajra realm undoubtedly, twelve flying swords, Chaolu golden wisp tooa three swords have become the climate, but also carried a pair of spring thunder spring and autumn, plus three small wooden horse cattle, in terms of hand weapons, even Xu Fengyen himself feels intimidating. This line of work, can let those who have never touched a famous weapon in their lives, the warrior warrior woman live to die of gluttony. Knife recipe knot green silk a style has become a roadblock, Xu Fengyen stagnation, but also can always boil patience not to turn the page, the good thing is that there are open Shu Fu shaking and immortal strokes top and other strokes over and over again, more and more rotten in the heart familiar with the hand, boredom, but also call on the Yin Dan baby over the hot hand, all the way to run all the way to fight, extremely powerful. Xu Fengyen such as wild horses out of the groove running away for nearly a month, several times meditation, from the cold sweat back to God, repeatedly asked himself, the Yellow River fell that a big gamble, go back and do it again, even if it still occupies all the time, place and people, but really still have the courage to go to attack and kill Luoyang?

“Where is the Princess Tomb?”

“What is the size of the thought, respectively?”

“Woman half face makeup, half face is beautiful again, but also the same as a female ghost, the taste of the seed cool can be imagined ……”

Xu Fengyen is because he knows that the Yin will not answer, but more like to ramble, the closer the Baobao state, the sky is wide, the detained traveling alone, the more they feel their own smallness and loneliness, have disappeared in the field of vision from time to time of the Yin accompanied by this way to go is not too tedious. This trip to the North Mang line, at first trailing the fish and dragon gang, after bringing a small drag bottle Tao Manwu, and then later and Lu Shen, now piggybacking on the Yin Dan baby, it is the most relaxed, its own strength is not bad, and Xu Fengyen does not need to be responsible for the life and death of it. There is a big river at the border of Baobao state, called the weak water, it is said that the water is weak and does not float on the reed hair, Xu Fengyen finally reached the weak water, scooped up the water to wash his face, his heart is relaxed and happy, he can feel a little bit of the atmosphere of the shadowy creatures, turn his head to look at it is doomed to be useless, Xu Fengyen converged his qi, walking along the river, want to cross the river to cross the river, and then saw a ferry, there are parchment rafts close to the other bank, obviously the weak water of weak water is purely nonsensical, which makes Xu Fengyen greatly disappointed! Xu Feng Nian, approaching the ferry, there is a pair of shabbily dressed grandparents and grandchildren, the old man is wearing a tattered Taoist robe, back embroidered yin and yang fish, take a green bamboo pole as a walking stick, with Xu Feng Nian the same as the back of the book box, the child is so tanned that the whole face seems to be only a pair of small eyes, looking at people when the drip drip drip drip turn, does not seem to be a simple nature of the children, grandparents and grandchildren two people are waiting for rafts to cross the river, the child squatting on the edge of the ferry, idle, pouting buttocks to throw stones into the river. Xu Fengyen was sure that the old Taoist priest did not have any martial arts in his body, so he quietly looked out across the river.

The child turned his head to look at the scholarly Xu Fengyen, did not dare to make a move, buckled his feet on the straw shoes, his thumbs had already stubbornly drilled out of the shoes, and begged the old Taoist priest pitifully, “Master, give me a new pair of shoes?”

The old Taoist priest glared: “You’re the only one who has changed his shoes after walking 300 miles, and you want to change them? I told you to stop jumping around, but you didn’t listen!”

The child complained, “I made up the shoes.”

The old Taoist is about the presence of outsiders, not good to sternly reprimand, only to take the theory to put off the child, “the sky will be a great task in the people also, must first labor their muscles and bones, and starve their body skin.”

The old man did not say okay, a said to starve its skin, the child immediately stomach rumbling, the old Taoist made a back to Xu Fengyin waterfront independent posture, pretending not to know. Familiar with the old man’s temperament of the child can only white eyes to starve. Sheepskin raft back to this side of the ferry, the old Taoist carefully asked the price, the Northern Mang Taoism this twenty years of incense flourishing, for Taoist priests, very respectful, even with a little fear, but the raft man see in front of this half of the record in the court ultimatum record of the Zhu talisman Taoist priests, also dare to collect money, but the price is pressed, and not by the head of the calculation, the old Taoist reached up in the sleeve weigh the money capsule, enough money to cross the river, such as a weight off, and then to the Xu Fengyen made a wink, and then said to the raft Han said a trio of peers, is to give Xu Fengyen a favor, the Han know, but also not good to poke through the windowpaper, when it is to get by, sell a face to the Taoist. When boarding the raft, Xu Fengyen nodded his head towards the old Taoist, and the old man gently shook his cuffs, signaling that Xu Fengyen did not need to be concerned about this small matter. Weak water water is far less than the Yellow River raging, the river is quiet and clear, the child is naughty, lying on the side of the sheepskin raft, reaching out to fish for water, and then screamed, leaned back violently, crashed into the old Taoist man, almost gave into the river, the man looked at each other angrily, the sale of the trip would not have earned a few cents of silver, if someone crashed into the river, adding this much annoyance, how could he be happy, the child trembled and pointed his finger at the river surface, and stammered: “There are water ghosts!”

The old Taoist smacked him noisy nuisance, loudly lectured: “The son does not say strange force confuses God!”

The old man is full of Confucian classics, if not wearing a Taoist robe, it really is a countryside teaching lectures pedantic old scholar. After the child’s shock, his face reddened, “It’s really a water ghost, wearing a big red dress, or a female ghost!”

Out of the corner of his eye, Xu Fengnian glimpsed a red robe swimming like a red carp near the raft, and in a flash, it stuck to the bottom of the sheepskin raft. The old Taoist priest obviously did not believe the child’s oath of faith and angrily shouted, “Shut up!”

The child was so angry that he kicked the raft, fortunately the man holding the raft didn’t see it, otherwise he would probably have to raise the price. To the shore, Xu Fengyen took the lead to take out the broken silver thrown to the man, the old Taoist froze, will smile, but also did not make a fuss, the dark child is estimated to be scared by the red-robed female ghosts soft legs, took the lead to jump off the raft, fell a dog’s poop, to see a burst of helplessness of the old Taoist. Three people walked on the simple ferry, the same is the South Dynasty people, the old Taoist also have a kind of foreign country meets the same hometown celebration, arching his hand hit a small bow, “Poverty Yan Yang Guan Supervisory Institute of the Jiuwei Taoist, common name Luo Pingyang. Your Excellency can call me by my common name.”

Xu Fengyen returned the bow with a respectful arch, “Greetings, Supervisor Luo. I am Xu Qi.”

Taoism and Buddhism are similar, there is also a jungle, especially the North Mang Daode Sect is very powerful, gradually power over the three religions, in general, as a Taoist temple only a few big figures, non-merit and virtue can not be served, but also requires proficiency in the jiaojiao rituals and plucking ghosts, but Xu Fengyen look at the Taoist attire, but he also knows that probably an unknown small temple’s supervisor, that the Yan Yang Guan there are not even 10 Taoist is hard to say, so the light of the name of the supervisor, is not as good as in the big road temple. Supervisor, not as good as the big road view in the head of the guest Taoist to get enough oil. Xu Fengyen at this time negative book back spring and autumn, clothing can not be said to be embroidered, but clean and crisp, the root of the skin and is elegant and handsome, on the temperament, Luo Taoist and compared to it there is a difference between the clouds and mud, and it is no wonder that the old Taoist priests have the intention to make friends. According to the logic of the ferry near the liquor store, as expected, the child jumped: “Master, there is hope that the son!”

Wang Zi is a bundle of straw poles commonly used in small liquor stores, the head of which is hung in front of the store to attract customers. The old Taoist priest was shy, if there were no outsiders, and he and his disciples knew each other well, he did not need to puff up his face, just two bowls of water would be enough to deal with the situation, the money for the river crossing was paid by the young man, if he sat down at the restaurant, he really did not have the face to let a strange scholar spend money, but if he paid for it himself, I’m afraid that if a few bowls of wine came down, he wouldn’t be able to go to Daodeon Sect to participate in the water and land Taoist ceremony. Xu Fengyen still knew about this, and immediately said: “After walking for half a day, it must be about a hundred miles, and there is no village in front of us, so I’m really starving, so if Supervisor Luo doesn’t mind, why don’t you have a seat with me? It just so happens that Xu Mou also believes in the doctrine of Huang Lao, but unfortunately most of it is half-understood, and I also hope that Supervisor Luo can help to solve the confusion.”

The old Taoist priest laughed, “Mr. Xu has a heart for the Tao, good good good.”

Walking slowly along the way, the child sneakily sized up this man’s silly money rich son, the old Taoist rewarded him with a chestnut, before he said to Xu Fengyen, “The roots of the world are in Taoism, but the poor Taoist’s shallow knowledge, I dare not boast of it, the only thing is that I know a thing or two about the Ziwu Liuzhi and the Eight Methods of the Spirit Turtle, and the way of refining qi and cultivating dan can only be described as a slight understanding.”

Xu Fengyen nodded, a line of three people seated at the greasy table outside the restaurant, asked for a bottle of wine and a few pounds of cooked beef, in the Liyang Dynasty many counties restaurants are not allowed to sell beef, and unauthorized slaughter of pigs and cattle is a violation of the law, in the Northern Mang there are no such scruples. The child devoured the food, even if there is a master face, but also can not care. The old Taoist heart or heartache of this a lot of problems of the young disciple, to Xu Fengyen apologetic smile, their own to be relatively reserved a lot of small mouth discretionary wine, tore a piece of beef into the mouth, full of wine and meat flavor, finally open the old Taoist face intoxicated, Xu Fengyen took off the bookcase after holding a bowl of slow drink, the child looked up and slurred: “Master how come you have no interest in today’s poems and songs? ”

The old Taoist priest laughed and scolded: “Do you think poetry is your gluttony, there is always no end?”

Xu Fengnian smiled.

The old Taoist monk hesitated for a moment, and pulled out a thin book made of poorly stapled paper from the bookcase, “This is the manuscript of the poor Taoist’s poems, if Mr. Xu doesn’t mind that it’s dirtying his eyes, he can take it and look at it for a few moments. It is said to be a poetry manuscript, but in fact, there are many small songs, not avoiding slang, so naturally, there is no talk of style.”

Xu Fengyen was surprised, “Then you have to read it carefully, having good poems to drink is one of the most beautiful things in life.”

Xu Fengyen wiped his hands, and then took the poem, slowly turn the page, at first glance a few are actually like a talented man thinking of a beautiful woman, but some small songs and phrases, that is, Xu Fengyen read, but also find it interesting, such as spring spring warblers and swallows, everything is green green rhyme, stopping and stopping everyone. Xu Fengyen at first could drink a few mouthfuls of wine and eat a few pieces of meat, read half of the poem, there are some out of the spirit: the liver and intestines of the iron between the furnace, the rich and powerful three more butterflies on the pillow, the two words of fame and fortune in the wine in the snake. The old man has nothing to rely on, the sharp wind is particularly cold, the thin snow is particularly heavy, blowing shake overwhelmed my cottage. At the end of the poem, as the poem says, it is really “the people are in danger, the readers let out a long sigh”. Poetry by the passage of time and successively ordered into, roughly, is the Luo Pingyang’s situation of the heart of the road, from a talented man in front of the moon and flowers gradually into middle-aged disillusioned helpless, and then to the old and open-minded feelings.

Xu Fengyen closed the poem and sighed, “How good it would be if my second sister were to read this manuscript.”

The old Taoist monk was confused, and had no confidence, so he was slightly sarcastic.

Xu Fengyen silently handed back the manuscript, no longer speak, put aside four or five years ago, this manuscript would not let him bid several thousand taels of silver?

The life of the talented nine micro Taoist estimates that the walls have been accustomed to nature, take back the manuscript, do not feel disheartened, the sky dropped a full meal without spending money to eat is very contented.

Xu Fenian asked, “Does Supervisor Luo know that Monk Longshu of the Two Ch’an Monasteries has gone to the Daode Sect?”

The old Taoist shook his head and said, “I have not heard of it.”

The old man then laughed at himself and said, “There is a custom of arguing between Buddha and Taoism over there in Liyang Dynasty, if in North Mang, Taoist priests and monks are not talking about the same thing.”

Taoist patted his thigh, chagrined: “Do not stir up the Taoist Sect’s water and land dojo, a wasted trip, the poor Taoist can be a great sin.”

The child bristled and said, “Originally it was a sin!”

The old Taoist priest made a gesture to hit, the child shrunk his neck.

Wine and rice, learned that Xu Fengyen also want to go to the northwest of Baobao State, there will be a meal on the way, the three of them set off together, walking until twilight, still deserted without a place to land, only the sky as a quilt and the ground as a bed.

Set up a campfire, the child walked sleepy, early to sleep.

The old Taoist priest did not forget to say, “A foolish child does not know about glory and blight.”

After that, Xu Fengyen asked a few superficial questions about Taoism, and did not dare to ask deep questions for fear of embarrassing this Luo Supervisor.

The Taoist priest Luo Pingyang hesitated and made up his mind before he suddenly asked Xu Fengnian: “I don’t know if I should say one thing?”

Xu Fenian smiled, “Supervisor Luo, feel free to say it.”

The Taoist monk clenched his teeth and said in a low voice, “When I was young, I used to follow a real person to learn the method of Qi Observation, looking at your face, it seems that someone close to you has gone to your family, either by the name of Song or Li. If it is possible, poor Taoist advises that it would be best for you to return to your hometown.”

Xu Fenian was stagnant and did not say anything.

The old Taoist let out a sigh, “The poor Taoist can’t actually count the accuracy, if in case he says something bad luck, Mr. Xu should not be blamed.”

Xu Fengnian nodded.

The old Taoist watched this rather gentle natured male facing the bonfire, his mouth slightly trembling, the old Taoist could not bear to look at it any longer, silent for a long time, looking into the distance, murmuring, “Wind waves dangerous me, I waves wind amok, mountain ghosts put on a derisive laugh. The wind and waves are far from me, I am far from the wind and waves, the stars are full of sky people sleep also.”

People also sleep.