Liaozhai Great Sage

Chapter 705
"I already know what I should know. Thank you for your clarification. It's not too early now, so I won't disturb your rest. Let me leave."

Li Xiuyuan didn't choose to stay at the bottom of the lake for a long time, and turned around and left immediately after asking the question.

The real dragon at the bottom of the lake was anxious; "Are you leaving now? Didn't you say you want to help me out of trouble?"

"Help you out of trouble? Well, did I say this? Yangzijiang King, you are watching from the sidelines, did you hear what I just said to help this dragon out of trouble?" Li Xiuyuan said.

"Not really." Yang Zijiang said kingly.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Look, I didn't open my mouth to promise, so let's discuss the matter of getting out of trouble next time. You dragon has resentment in your heart. If you let it out rashly, it will cause great harm if no one restrains you. After all, you are no longer a dragon, you have fallen into the mortal world, stained with vulgarity

, coupled with the fact that the resentment is flat, who knows what will be done after coming out. "

"It's not fair. I have answered the doubts in your heart for you. It is simply too unrighteous for you to leave like this. You are still a cultivator. Don't you have the virtues that a cultivator should have?" Zhenlong said hurriedly.

"There seems to be some truth in what you said, but if you wanted to eat me before, this matter should be considered even. What do you think?" Li Xiuyuan said.

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Li Xiuyuan waved his hand, and drifted away along the passage at the bottom of the lake: "Don't worry too much, you will naturally get out of trouble when you should get out of trouble, and I will naturally consider letting you out after I have dealt with my secular world, anyway, you It has been suppressed for so long, and there will be no more time

There are relationships. "

He's not going to let the dragon out now.

Because he felt that the involvement must be huge, otherwise how could a dragon protecting the country be artificially suppressed at the bottom of the lake.

When he left Longyin Lake, he had already seen that most of the fire in the south of the city had been extinguished, only puffs of thick smoke came out, and the fire was no longer visible.

The heavy rain continued to pour down, and the fire was barely quelled.

"Let's go back. The capital city is really chaotic. It looks prosperous, but it's actually full of dangers." Li Xiuyuan walked by the lake, looking at the distance and couldn't help feeling emotional.

"Ok?"

Suddenly.

His eyes moved slightly, as if he had noticed something, and looked at an attic somewhere in the heavy rain.

But the place he looked at was empty.

"Is it an illusion?"

Li Xiuyuan frowned and continued to leave.

But behind the window of the attic, a bewitching and stunning woman was a little startled: "Is this person still a mortal? He can detect my existence from such a far away place, which is even stronger than the perception of the gods in the sky." Be great."

"Your practice is not perfect, you haven't shed your demon body, and when you have evil thoughts in your heart, the evil spirit will naturally come out. Now that he has the divine power of Dongyue Shenjun and the divine power of Hell Lord Yan, it is not easy to perceive your evil thoughts and demonic energy. Fortunately, he is not a domineering and vicious person, and he is not afraid of ghosts and ghosts.
It's not that you can't tolerate it, otherwise he will track you down and you will be doomed today. "

It was a dignified and beautiful woman who spoke, and she exuded a different kind of charm in her gestures, which made people unable to let go.

Moreover, the appearance of these two women is exactly the same, except for the slight difference in temperament, it is impossible to tell who is who.

"Sister, he killed such a difficult opponent as the ghost foreman so quickly, what does he want to do next? Fight with the national teacher, or pour disaster on us." The strange woman asked.

"As long as we are still in the capital, this catastrophe is unavoidable, unless we leave the capital, so it's better to make plans early. By the way, what evil thoughts did you have just now that he noticed?"

"It's nothing, I just want to know, if we let this saint move his heart and fall in love with us, wouldn't it be very interesting?"

"It's really interesting, but it's a dangerous idea. But it's a best-of-both-worlds solution."

"Boom~!"

They had just finished speaking when suddenly a ray of thunder appeared in the heavy rain, followed by the sound of thunder, and a ray of thunder fell from the sky and hit the roof of the attic.

In an instant, the top floor of the attic was torn apart, a puff of smoke came out, and a fire erupted.

"Hehe, is the God of Thunder in the sky still watching? But it's still a long way from being struck by lightning." A delicate laugh sounded, and there was nothing in the attic, only a few wisps of evil spirit left.

"Escape?"

In the dark clouds, the figure of a thunder god flashed past.

He followed Li Xiuyuan's order to ensure that the heavy rain would fall, but he only temporarily felt the breath of a big monster before sending down the divine thunder.

It's just that I didn't expect that the big monster's Taoism was very high, and he disappeared in an instant.

And with the precedent of Ghost Swallowing Thunder God being slain by evil spirits, this Thunder God was not so reckless to forcefully pursue the breath of the evil spirits, but instead hid in the clouds and continued to keep the heavy rain continuing to fall.

Two days passed in a blink of an eye.

Although the fire in the capital was serious and many houses were burned, fortunately, the fire was extinguished in time, and the heavy rain stopped the fire from spreading, so it did not cause many casualties.

During these two days, Li Xiuyuan stayed behind closed doors.

In addition to seeing friends.

And today, he received a book from a young servant, which is a Taoist collection.

Li Xiuyuan knew in his heart that this was sent by real Guo Zhen.

I opened it and saw that all kinds of monsters were recorded on it, such as water ghosts in the countryside, fox monsters in the forest, spirit monsters that lingered in the mansion, and so on.

But when Li Xiuyuan turned to the middle page, he saw that this page was creased.

The crease is new, leaving a faint mark.

On the upper page was a picture: a twisted centipede with numerous slender legs.

There is a line of annotations on the side: Centipede is the five poisons, also known as Tianlong Ruocheng, who has the power of dragons. Although it is an insect, it has the power of dragons. It can be big or small.

There is another picture at the back, which shows a rooster pecking at a huge centipede.

"Centipede. Tianlong?" Li Xiuyuan fell into deep thought as he looked at the few short lines.

"Young Master Li, are you still reading? Drink a cup of tea and take a break."

Just as he was thinking, a soft voice sounded, and he saw a graceful woman bringing tea up, her face was slightly flushed, with a bit of shyness of a young girl.

"Miss Qiurong?" Li Xiuyuan came back to his senses, hurriedly stood up and saluted.

"Miss Qiurong, you're being polite. How can I bother you with serving tea and water?"

"Mr. Li has saved the little girl's life twice. Shouldn't you not drink a cup of tea? Please don't refuse Mr. Li. Compared with Mr. Li's life-saving grace, this trivial matter cannot be compared with Mr. Li's life-saving grace." Qiu Rong His eyes shrank a little, and he said with shame.

She looked at the room beside her, but saw Xiao Xie's figure swaying at the door.

He wanted to come out, but he didn't dare to go out, for fear that the sun outside would hurt the ghost's body.

"Miss Qiurong has already said this, so I can no longer refuse, so I would like to thank Miss Qiurong." Li Xiuyuan smiled, but at such a distance, he took a sip of tea.

There is no such thing as a particularly good tea making technique, and there is no such thing as a good tea. The taste is still ordinary, but it is better than others.

"Mr. Li, what kind of book are you reading? This seems to be a miscellaneous book about ghosts and ghosts. I didn't expect Mr. Li to like to read such books." Qiurong glanced at it, and couldn't help covering her mouth with a smile: "I thought Mr. Li was mostly Read the Four Books and Five Classics, books on governing the country and the people."

Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said: "There are so many scholars in the world, and there are many talents in Jiguo Anbang. What's the impact if I am missing? And I am not very interested in governing the country and Anbang."

"Why is that?" Qiu Rong was a little surprised.

All scholars have great ambitions to serve the imperial court and govern the country, but this Mr. Li in front of him actually uttered such outrageous words.

"If you are not in your position, you will not seek your own politics. Governing the country and the country are the affairs of the imperial court and the current officials. Why should I worry about it? If I can report back to Yangzhou smoothly this time, I will do my job well." Governor of Yangzhou, it is enough to take care of that state, I don't bother to think about other things
. "Li Xiuyuan said.

How can the Great Song Dynasty be governed in this state?
He can only continue to linger on, constantly consuming the national fortune, and wait until the day when the dynasty changes.

He doesn't want to go against the general trend and save the sky, but just wants to realize his idea of ​​co-government between man and god in his lifetime.

"Brother Li, don't you care about outside the bodyguard bureau? There is a large group of scholars blocking the door of your house, saying that they want to worship you as a teacher and learn the finishing touch skills of Zhang Sengyou in the legend? Some people have already offered ten thousand gold Begging to buy your paintings, tsk tsk, [-] gold, I'm so excited to hear that, why don't you give me a painting and let me sell it for some wine money?"

At this time, a familiar voice sounded, but Zhang Bangchang and Qian Jun slipped to the door with nothing to do.

Li Xiuyuan said: "At present, the fire in the capital city has just subsided, and the south of the city is in chaos. These people still have the heart to come to worship teachers, and they don't know how to avoid taboos. Just because of this, I can't accept them as disciples. As for why I don't care about those people, it's not me. I don't want to worry about it, but my Escort Bureau has no manpower, and all the manpower that should be sent out to help with disaster relief."

"Brother Li is right. Huh, is this girl your wife?" Zhang Bangchang was taken aback when he saw Qiu Rong, but then subconsciously called out with a salute.

Qiu Rong blushed with shame, turned around and trotted away.

"I'm a guest. I'm just staying at the mansion temporarily when I encounter difficulties." Li Xiuyuan said: "Please sit down, both of you. There are no servants at the manor to entertain you. I hope you don't mind."

"Hey, why do we mind what brother Li said?" Zhang Bangchang said with a smile, but then he glanced at Qiu Rong who left and said, "That woman is really a guest staying at the house temporarily? I don't think so, That woman's gaze has been on you, Brother Li, probably because she has feelings for Brother Li, and I think she will become a wife sooner or later."

"The words of the matchmaker are ordered by the parents, this is not a joke." Li Xiuyuan said.

"I really didn't expect Brother Li to be so pedantic." Qian Jun smiled: "I thought Brother Li didn't care about these worldly etiquettes."

"It's just a casual talk, it's easier for people to listen to. In fact, I don't care about any secular etiquette. I just want to integrate into the world but I have to follow it. There is no way." Li Xiuyuan said helplessly.

"Haha, it makes sense, it makes sense." The two laughed loudly.

After laughing.

But Zhang Bangchang said in a low voice: "Actually, I came here this time to ask for something."

"Oh, tell me, I don't know how I can help you." Li Xiuyuan said.

Zhang Bangchang smiled sarcastically and said, "Naturally, like those people outside the door, they are envious of Brother Li's superb painting skills, and want to study with humility."

"Brother Qian also wants to learn?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

"Think about it day and night." Qian Jun blushed, a little embarrassed.

Before, Li Xiuyuan scolded those outside the door who were asking for paintings and apprenticeships, but now he is asking for such things, he is really ashamed.

Li Xiuyuan smiled, it seems that the means he showed made people jealous, especially scholars, even Zhang Bangchang and Qian Jun who had no pursuit of fame and wealth could not help but be moved.

But this is also understandable.

Scholars are also human beings, if they don't covet fame and fortune, they will naturally like other things.

"Actually, it's not impossible to teach you this painting skill, it's just that it's very difficult to achieve the finishing touch." Li Xiuyuan put away his smile and said seriously.

"What's the problem?" Zhang Bangchang asked.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Do you two know talent?"

Qian Jun shook his head.

As for Zhang Bangchang, who likes to record the stories of ghosts and ghosts, he knows something, he said: "Its color is like colorful brocade, and its shape is like clouds. It is hidden in the body and hair on the top of the head. It may be a golden pheasant or a phoenix bird, to name a few. , this is talent."

"That's what it means. Talent is the most direct manifestation of a scholar's accumulation of knowledge. It's just that ghosts and gods can see this talent, but ordinary people can't see it." Li Xiuyuan moved a hand, and an ink pen appeared in his hand.

This ink pen exudes multicolored light, which is so dazzling that even ordinary people can see it.

"Your talents can only be condensed into ink pens. Only when you reach this level can you achieve the ability to draw. If you can't achieve this level, you can't achieve it. To achieve this level, talent, talent, and hard work are indispensable." Li Xiu Yuan said: "I also got a chance and took advantage of it to have such an ink pen. It's just because I didn't get it right, so I'm ashamed to show off my painting skills in front of others."

"If it wasn't for riding a tiger that day and seeking justice for Gao Fan, I would not have shown such a skill that is not accepted by the world."

"Then, according to Brother Li, if we want to reach this point, is there any hope in this life?" Qian Jun looked at the radiant ink brush, his heart trembled, knowing that he was not very important, so he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "So what if we have reached this point? It's not just painting a few landscape paintings, benefiting the country, benefiting the people, or benefiting ourselves? Both are Jinshi, and they will be officials in the future, governing one side, benefiting the people of one side, Is this not as important as a painting? Why waste a lifetime on it?"

The two fell into deep thought when they heard the words, and then they stood up and bowed in awe.

"Brother Li's words are like a slap in the face, I will be taught."

"If the two of you take office one day, I will definitely send you a painting. I hope you two will not forget your original intention." Li Xiuyuan said.

(End of this chapter)