Fairy Sword Inquiry 1

Chapter 50
The flying birds are lingering in the wind, and the sky is not disturbed by the frost;

The clouds gather in the poor house, and the haze is formed by the mountains.

—— Guan Pingchao
Hearing that the prefect, who had only met him once, actually called himself "not a thing in the pool", Xingyan was also quite surprised and excited at the moment.Fortunately, he has heard many such rumors these days, and he is not in danger of being overjoyed and losing his composure.Xingyan just expressed his modesty appropriately.

At this time, just above the sky in front of the Horseshoe Mountain, a few flying birds flew by not far away.Yao Taishou seemed to have a sense, pointing to the mountain bird gliding past with outspread wings, he warned Xingyan:

"When a man lives in the world, he should follow the example of Kunpeng and fly high. He has great ambitions and must not be mixed in the market for a long time. If he is stuck in the mud for a long time, he is talented and intelligent, and he will inevitably change his face afterward."

Seeing the young man beside him contemplating, seeming to realize something, the eunuch was also quite pleased, and further said:
"A young person must be disciplined. At my age, leaving a name is more important than making a profit. When you are young, you must uphold the ambition of the sky, cherish the feathers, and soar above the blue clouds in the future, worrying about what is missing and what is going on. No good? Don’t be attached to the mere yellow and white things in front of you.”

Hearing the eunuch's heartfelt words regardless of status, Xingyan was also greatly moved.Thinking of his own behavior just now before the three Puritan gold and silver, the young man felt very ashamed.

Hearing the advice from the eunuch, Xing Yan now also regrets that he was greedy for that bag of gold and silver based on the impression he had just heard, and almost agreed to the seemingly noble and unfeeling request of the San Puritans.

However, while he was thanking the eunuch, his heart moved, and he asked cautiously: "I want to teach the eunuch to know that, in fact, the boy just heard the words of the Sanqing Mountain, and this Horseshoe Mountain is indeed a wonderful place. The whole country loves Taoist teachings, and my boy often has a heart of admiration for Taoism. Therefore, this mountain farm in my family also intends to donate to that Taoist school to build a palace and establish a religion. I don’t know what adults think? Please give me some advice.”

Hearing the young man's question, the eunuch also admired the young man's knowledge, so the eunuch Yao thought for a while and said:

"Mount Horseshoe rises from the plains, stands tall among the sky and mountains, and is by no means an ordinary mountain. How to deal with it is up to fate. The sacred mountain has a spirit, and it will choose its own people. Maybe I don't need to bother with my heart." , Yao Taishou just woke up and seemed to understand, and said yes, then took the left and right servants and floated down the mountain.Watching Yao Taishou and his party gradually go away, the young man who is now letting the mountain wind blow on his face has a rare dignified face, as if he is deep in thought.After standing there for a long time, I just went down the mountain and returned to the thatched hut halfway up the mountain.However, what even the prefect Yao didn't expect was that the matter of "selecting a man from the holy mountain" finally fell on Xingyan.Moreover, to the boy's surprise, this happened so quickly.

Let’s say that on the morning of the second day of the eunuch’s visit, he woke up and went to the chicken coop on the west side of the stone flat in front of the house, opened the bamboo door of the hen coop, and let the chickens out for food.

When he straightened up, he saw several people walking down the mountain, all dressed as Taoist priests.These Taoists are walking towards their house along the winding mountain road.

"Huh? Could it be those Taoist priests from Sanqing Mountain again?" Xingyan hesitated.

Seeing people visiting, he didn't rush back to the house, he just stood by the hedge on the stone ping and watched these people come up the mountain.In the middle of the road, the person who was walking in the front among the pedestrians was already looking up and greeting him loudly: "Brother Xingyan, how have you been lately?"

"Huh?" Xing Yan's hearing is good, although the distance is quite far, the words can be heard clearly.He thought to himself: "It's weird, why does this voice sound so familiar?" Not to mention any doubts, the pedestrians down the mountain are also quite quick on their feet, and in a short while, they have come to the young man. "Well?"

When these three or four Taoists approached, Xingyan greeted the leader and sized him up carefully—the more he looked, the more he felt that this Taoist priest looked so familiar.

"Dare to ask who you are?" "Ha! Little brother of the Zhang family, if you forget about old age and don't care about it, could it be that little brother also forgot the girl Juying who was a few months ago?" "You are Uncle Cheng?!" It can be said to "awaken the dreamer with a single word". Hearing what this Taoist said, Xingyan suddenly realized: It turns out that this Taoist who looks like a fairy in front of me is not the one who was in Daoxianglou a few months ago. But who else would the Uncle Cheng I met in the middle of the night be? "Hmm! Wake up, he is the uncle of the poor Taoist priest, one of the 'Four Sons of the Shangqing' in the Shangqing Palace on Luofu Mountain—Ling Chengzi!" An old man with a very bright smile turned from behind Uncle Cheng, but It is the old Taoist Qinghe in Raozhou City! "Uh!"

Xingyan finally saw it clearly, it turned out that Uncle Cheng——uh!He should be called "Ling Chengzi" now, but most of the people who followed him were his old acquaintances: the Qinghe old Taoist in Raozhou Shanyuan, Shangqing Palace, and the two Taoist priests Jingchen and Jingming.There is only one Taoist who is about the same age as the old Taoist Qinghe, but he doesn't know him.

Although Xingyan was greatly puzzled by the fact that the Uncle Cheng who was a few months ago suddenly became the fairy head of the Shangqing Palace, the young man still followed the way of hospitality and hurriedly welcomed these guests into the house.

"Hehe, brother Xingyan, don't have to be confused." After sitting down, Ling Chengzi took the initiative to explain to Xingyan the reason why he became "Uncle Cheng" last time: "I have always been in contact with the people in Miss Juying's family. She The head of the family was worried about his daughter going on a long trip, so he asked the poor to take care of her all the way." "Oh, that's it!"

Afterwards, Daoist Lingcheng introduced the ignorant person to him.It turned out that this serious Taoist priest was none other than Taoist Master Qinghu, the apprentice of the Taoist priest Lingcheng, who was of the same seniority as the old Taoist Qinghe.

After exchanging a few words with these Taoists, Xingyan knew the general idea of ​​this matter.It turned out that the Shangqing Palace, far away in Luofu Mountain, was also well informed. Knowing that there were such strange mountains in Raozhou, they immediately entrusted Ling Chengzi, who was wandering outside, to contact the Lord of Horseshoe Mountain.Like the Sanqing Mountain Taoist priest yesterday, this Shangqing Palace also wanted to build a separate courtyard for the Shangqing Palace on the Horseshoe Mountain, the blessed place of the Taoist family.

"To tell you the truth, the last time I visited Horseshoe Mountain in your house, it was because I read the records in the scriptures because I was poor. I wanted to see if this mountain is the legendary blessed land of fairy mountains--I am ashamed to say it. , Pindao's magic power is shallow, but he didn't see much fairy spirit at that time."

At that time, Uncle Cheng did not forget to make a joke: "Speaking of which, I would like to thank you for your hospitality last time. As far as I know, the girl Juying last time had a good impression of you. !" Xingyan heard this, but didn't know how to answer, so he just smirked.

The guest and the host had a very happy conversation here, and were about to talk about the construction of the other courtyard in detail, but they heard a few clamors.When everyone looked up, they saw Xing Yanniang rushing in to welcome several priests.

Xingyan was ignorant, but saw that among the few Taoist priests who just came in, there were two women mixed in.The older Taoist nun was dressed in plain yellow black clothes with a dignified expression; while the young woman was very bright and beautiful, she was dressed in plain clothes like snow, standing there gracefully, among the crowd of people in Taoist robes and blue scarves, she really stood out. striking.

Seeing the slightly rustic boy in the room just staring at him, the bright girl snorted softly and turned her eyes away.

Hearing Ling Chengzi and the others exchanging greetings with the newly recruited Taoist priests, he woke up and realized that the newcomers came from two famous Taoist sects as famous as the Shangqing Palace: The Miaohua Palace in Weiyu Mountain, and the Tianshizong in Heming Mountain.The proud young woman just now is the disciple of Miaohua Palace; and the red-faced man who walked in wearing a bamboo hat and wearing straw sandals is actually the current head teacher of Shizong that day—— Zhang Sheng! "Huh? Is God really going to let me lose my fortune? Today, I saw so many great figures of Taoism who are usually only in legends!" Although I have been amazed these past few days, seeing so many masters come here at first glance, I wake up my heart Still shocked.However, amidst the excitement, Xingyan suddenly realized that his family was facing a huge problem: as the saying goes, "you can know the elegant meaning by listening to the stringed songs", with the lessons learned from yesterday's San Puritanism, needless to say, the world's three major All the important figures from the sect came to his home today to visit his little-known Zhang family hut, for no other reason than to build a Taoist temple on Horseshoe Mountain.

Before Xingyan's master who was crying secretly could open his mouth, he could already hear these Taoist masters arguing with each other.It turned out that the Miaohua Palace, which accepts too many female disciples, came this time with a middle school elder, Senior Aunt Yushan.And this icy and glamorous woman with frosty face is Zhuo Bihua, the direct descendant of the head of Miaohua Palace.

Hearing the greetings of Ling Chengzi and the others, this young Zhuo Bihua is actually a leader among the young disciples of Miaohua Palace.

Hearing these experts from outside the world arguing back and forth, they couldn't get their mouths open for a while, so they had to listen from the sidelines.Although the words of these Taoists were quite polite, Xing Yan could tell that in the words of these Taoist masters, they were bound to win the horseshoe mountain farm of their own family, and they would not give in.Whether it is Ling Chengzi from the Shangqing Palace, Zhang Tianshi from the Tianshizong, or the female Taoist Yushan from the Miaohua Palace, they all cited various reasons, explaining that their own sect should set up a mountain on this horseshoe mountain to promote the true Taoism. great wish.In words, they both hoped that the other two Taoist friends would give in to each other based on the fact that they belonged to the same line of Taoism.

(End of this chapter)