The strategy of conquering the national division begins with drawing Thangka

Chapter 11 The Old Hen

The Taoist said with sincere regret: "You can't kill mortals at will, it's really troublesome..."

"...???" Bai Zeqing couldn't help but slander in his heart: one word for mortals and one word for mortals, this magic stick is probably out of mind from practicing sorcery?

The master is right, in this world, most of the cultivators are liars.This Taoist was probably out for money from the beginning, and he pretended to be aloof with a wooden figurine.It must have been early in the morning that this thing was too valuable to her, and deliberately blackmailed her.

But where did she get the 3000 taels?But he did have the grace of saving her life, so the so-called repayment of favor is understandable.

The Taoist priest was also very distressed, and after a while he said, "Let's write the IOU." As he spoke, he tossed half a lump of black charcoal in the Taoist temple, and casually tore a piece of white cloth from the hem of Bai Zeqing's skirt.

"Hey!" Bai Zeqing's eyes widened, "3000 taels, my house is gone, where can I pay you back so much money!"

"Earn!" The Taoist looked at her with the eyes of a mentally retarded person, said, and threw the "paper and pen" in front of her. "Before paying off, I will be a Daoist first. Although my brain is not good..." He shook his head as he spoke, as if he was at a disadvantage.

Bai Zeqing took the lead: Who is out of his mind?

Bai Zeqing looked up to the sky and sighed, slowly picked up the "pen and paper" that weighed a thousand catties, and began to write the IOU without saying a word.

Smelly Taoist priest, do you have a heart?I'm only 13 years old!

After all, it was the grace of saving her life. She swallowed her sadness and heartache, and comforted herself: at least it proves that I am still very valuable.Maybe my dad never thought I was so valuable.

After she finished writing, the Taoist took it and read it, nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Very well, let's cook."

Bai Zeqing looked around, and this Taoist temple used good words for "houses with bare walls", it was dilapidated and messy again: "Let's not talk about whether I can cook, just, what to cook?"

The Taoist was puzzled: "Are you brainless?"

"..."

The sky is getting dark, and the moon and stars are rare.

The Taoist priests set up formations with stones in the backyard, with a focused and serious expression.

An ethereal smell of meat came from the front of the Po Tao Temple, interrupting the Taoist priest's thinking.

His throat rolled involuntarily, he immediately put away the stones, and turned around the clay statue covered with cobwebs with a strange expression, and saw that Bai Zeqing dug a hole in the ground of the front yard with some kind of equipment, and burned it inside. Holding a fat beggar chicken, she was cracking open a corner of the mud shell, and a burst of fragrance overflowed everywhere.

The Taoist swallowed again.

He took a deep breath, and for the sake of the beggar chicken, he put on a sly smile, and then he took a flickering step, floated to Bai Zeqing's side, and called out as gently as possible: "Hey!"

Bai Zeqing fell to the ground with an "ah", and was so frightened by the eerie sound that she almost lost her soul, and even the beggar chicken fell back into the hole.

Looking back at the Taoist priest's face, he let out a long sigh of relief, patted his chest, and said somewhat indiscriminately: "Please, people are scary, scaring to death, Taoist priest!"

"..."

The Taoist priest looked at the beggar-like appearance of the girl in front of him with patches of mud and black charcoal on the face, and he didn't know what to say for a while--this appearance is quite suitable for beggar chickens.

Facing the beggar chicken with scorched skin and thick flesh, the Taoist decided that it would be better to feast on it first.

He also ignored Bai Zeqing, and peeled the beggar chicken out by himself.

The Taoist priest shook the gourd around his waist as he entered the chicken leg, feeling a little regretful, "Unfortunately, there is no wine."

The beggar chicken was naturally delicious. Bai Zeqing hadn't eaten meat for several days, so he was so greedy that he regretted being frightened by the Taoist priest and lost the chicken.

"Taoist leader" Bai Zeqing blinked, and said without words, "As a Taoist boy, can I ask, what is the name of our Taoist temple?" As he spoke, his hand reached out to the other chicken leg.

"Not much." He took another big bite of the chicken leg, and seemed to be in a good mood, so he did not stop Bai Zeqing from tearing off the other chicken leg mercifully.

Without hesitation, Bai Zeqing gnawed a bite of the chicken leg into his mouth, and was moved to the point of tears. He didn't even think about the Taoist priest's return, so he asked casually, "Why?"

After finishing speaking, I came back to my senses, this Taoist priest, don't know what this Taoist temple is called?Hungry and confused?It shouldn't be, no matter how hungry and confused this kind of thing is, it's me first, right?
Bai Zeqing finished chewing the chicken leg in his mouth and took another bite before asking, "I don't know? You don't know what your Taoist temple is called? Why?"

"Who said this is my Taoist temple?" The Taoist priest had already finished the chicken leg in two or three strokes, and stroked his clean jaw with his free hand, as if he was stroking his beard, and then pulled off the chicken butt and gnawed it stand up.

"..."

It's true that I never said that Bai Zeqing is messed up - isn't it your Taoist temple?Then why did we come here after crossing mountains and mountains?This night is so gloomy and terrifying!Isn't it nice to live in Yuanzhou City?Afraid of her being caught back?The sea arrest document didn't come out so soon, did it?This Taoist wouldn't be as penniless as she was, would he?But living in a ruined temple in Yuanzhou City is better than here, right?

There were 1 question marks in her mind, and she was struggling, but she still felt uncomfortable, so she removed the chicken wings and vacated half of her mouth while munching, and asked, "Then why are we here?"

"Get rid of trouble."

After finishing speaking, the Taoist priest suddenly stopped, as if remembering something very important, and asked, "Where did the chicken come from?"

"What is evil?"

The two asked questions almost at the same time.

Both of them looked at the beggar chicken, which was probably only a skeleton—naturally, most of it was filial piety into the belly of the Taoist priest.

Bai Zeqing blinked, pointed blankly to the half-fallen wall, the bamboo forest that looked particularly gloomy at this moment, and said, "There is a bamboo cage..."

"I'll go, the old hen guarding the formation tonight?" The Taoist stood up abruptly, took two steps towards the bamboo forest, then turned back, pointed at Bai Zeqing in the air, and was speechless for a while.

No need to think about it, Bai Zeqing also knew that he probably caused trouble.Could it be that this chicken has been with this Taoist priest for many years... a pet?
"If you don't ask yourself, you are a thief! What kind of dignity! What kind of dignity!" The Taoist paced back and forth in the courtyard.

This is probably the time when Taoist priests spoke the most and loudest.Naturally, Bai Zeqing didn't dare to speak at this time.But I still retorted sullenly in my heart: You asked me to cook. This broken Taoist temple has been searched inside and out. There is no rice, no noodles, no sweet potatoes, and there are barren mountains and wild mountains outside. What can I eat if I don’t eat chicken?
Of course she would not admit that when she was about to go to the bamboo forest to see if she might be lucky enough to meet half a bamboo shoot emerging, and then saw the old hen in the bamboo cage, a hundred ways to eat chicken had already appeared in her mind, but unfortunately the conditions Not enough, she had to make beggar's chicken.

Both were silent.The air is still filled with the undissipated aroma of beggar chicken.

After a while, the Taoist priest finally made up his mind and said, "There is no other way, you can watch tonight."

guard what?Vigil?This Taoist temple still needs a vigil?Ghosts don't steal, do they?ghost?Forehead!
Bai Zeqing shuddered and shook his head vigorously, trying to get rid of the strange thoughts that just surfaced, and then decided to fight against this meaningless thing, so he said weakly: "I can't keep watch at night, I'm afraid..."

The Taoist showed his caring eyes for the mentally handicapped again.

"Night watch? Good idea!"

　Or silently ask for a collection and then go away~~ I will work hard!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)