Chapter 12 Qinggui
In the past two days, the old man asked himself again about the results of his investigation.
Li Qing did not dare to say the results of the last investigation. After that night, she had a fear of that temple.
But now there is no way to avoid it. No matter how scared I am, I still have to go and give an explanation to my great-grandfather.
“Qing’er, what’s wrong with you?”
The person who asked the question was a young man in his twenties, with big eyes, high cheekbones, and a diagonal knife mark on his cheek, which brought with it a sinister intent.
But the young man looked at Li Qing with gentle eyes and did not dare to speak too loudly.
His name is Zou Hu. There are not many literate people in Shiyuan County, so tiger, leopard, jackal, and wolf are often the names of men. But he is different because he studied under Granny Zou. With the poison technique, he actually killed a tiger.
Then he fed the tiger's body to his insects.
Zou Hu likes his junior sister Li Qing, not only because her junior sister Li Qing is young and beautiful, but also because of the Li family behind her. If she can join the Li family, she will not have to worry about a lifetime of good clothing and food, and He is a cultivator, no one dares to look down on him even if he is a wife.
"My grandpa asked me to go to the ruined temple on the hillside to find out the details of the Taoist priest from China. Brother Hu, I don't dare to go alone. Can you call some more people and we can go together?"
"Yes, what's not possible?"
Looking at junior sister Qing'er, her eyes were as gentle as water waves. Zou Hu slapped his chest loudly. It had been a long time since his junior sister had looked at him like this since she grew up. Zou Hu felt that he was like a centipede in heat now. Even if he met a cow at this time, , dare to take a bite.
He seemed to have forgotten what happened to the centipede that bit the cow.
Early morning.
Led by two people, a man and a woman, more than ten people went to the ruined temple on the slope.
There is smoke coming from a distance, and dozens of people are firing. As long as you get closer, you can naturally smell the aroma of the food.
Getting closer, you can hear the sound of reading:
"The Supreme Master said: There is no way for misfortunes and blessings, but people call for it. The rewards of good and evil follow them like a shadow."< br>
If Mr. Wang Yue had not promoted Mandarin in the local area, these people who came here might not understand what the sound of reading meant, but now they can understand it more or less.
Some people subconsciously stopped and looked at their eldest brother Zou Hu.
"What are you looking at? We are not here to do bad things. Besides, you people, do you often do bad things? Now pretend to be good with me."
Zou Huyi He slapped a person on the head. After hearing the words, everyone realized that it was indeed the case and continued to move forward.
Arrived in front of the temple, Li Qing noticed that the temple in front of him was still the same as it was a month ago, dilapidated and old, with only a few repairs and wipes.
"Obviously there is so much money to buy rice and noodles to open a county school. Even if he didn't use the money, with his magic, he would have been able to repair this place long ago, right?"
With such doubts, Li Qing walked into the temple first.
Then, she saw this picture:
In the wide courtyard, a young Taoist with a very handsome appearance stood tall, surrounded by a group of children.
The Taoist's hand was originally empty, but he took out his right hand from his left sleeve, and the next moment he pulled out a plate of sweet cakes.
This scene made the children around him shout with excitement.
The young Taoist's palm held the secret and swept over the plate of sweet cakes. The next moment, the plate full of sweet cakes turned into a large group of white pigeons, flying all over the courtyard.
“Ahhhhh...”
The children who were surrounding the Taoist were screaming strangely, running around the courtyard in excitement to catch those white pigeons, those pigeons It's not like flying high. Once caught by those children, it will turn into sweet cakes again, and they will stuff them into their mouths, and eat them extremely sweetly.
While these little fat guys were lured away by the sweet cakes, Lu Cheng sat back on his rattan lounge chair and lightly kicked the rattan chair with his foot. The rattan chair turned into a pile of fat in the next moment. The fat pig, weighing several hundred kilograms, scurried away to the corner of the yard with the Taoist hunchback.
At this time, a fair and chubby girl fell to the ground because she ran too fast. She felt a little pain and lay on the ground whimpering.
Lu Cheng, who was about to hide, sighed slightly when he saw this, then the big fat pig turned his head and trotted to the side of the little chubby girl.
The girl was picked up by Lu Cheng and made to sit on the back of a pig and spin around the yard.
Soon, this made the little girl laugh. The other children, who had no pigeons to catch at this time, gathered around the fat pig, especially envious of the one who could sit on the pig's back. little girl on the bed.
"Immortal Blessings. I wonder why all the Taoist friends came to my small temple?"
Li Qing looked at the little boy sitting on the back of the pig who was "quacking" happily. The girl, thinking of her childhood, was momentarily distracted.
However, it was at this time that such a voice came from behind.
Li Qing, Zou Hu and others suddenly turned around, only to see that the young Taoist who was still in the crowd just now had already arrived behind them and others.
Looking closer, this person is even more handsome and handsome, with sharp eyebrows and starry eyes. Looking at that face, and then looking at his senior brother Zou Hu next to him, Li Qing’s pretty face gradually fades away from his cheeks. While they were observing Lu Cheng, Lu Cheng was also observing them.
That’s it for people like Zou Hu. The descendants of the Southern Barbarians have not been civilized and are still wild and untamed.
That woman, on the other hand, had long black hair mixed with some burgundy that hung down to her waist. She had a round, pretty face, a fair face, and a bit of cute baby fat. Her bright eyes were covered with long eyelashes, and her lips were thin and soft. She was petite, wearing a short dress and short skirt, her arms were as white as lotus roots, and her jade legs were as snowy as lotus. Even Lu Cheng couldn't help but take a second look at her.
"You demon from China, why are you here using magic to confuse people's hearts?"
Zou Hu has a rough appearance, but his mind is delicate. In addition, he understands his junior sister, Just by looking at the looks on the two of them, I knew something was wrong.
If we don’t stop him, I’m afraid my junior sister will no longer want her ugly senior brother.
He immediately shouted in an extremely unkind tone.
"Brother, what are you doing? Before we came, Grandpa told us to observe etiquette and be careful. How could you shout at the Taoist Master like this?"
Before Lu Cheng could say anything, the young and beautiful Miao The Xinjiang woman already said this and stood between the two of them.
Immediately afterwards, she did not wait for her senior brother, who was turning blue and white to say anything, and turned to Lu Cheng and said softly:
"My little girl Li Qing, I have met Lu Daoguan."
Lu Cheng has been living here for more than a month. Of course, Li Qing knew this information clearly before he came.
"It doesn't matter. I came here under the orders of my mentor to protect the local magistrate of Han Zhihan. I will stay here for a few years and then leave without any other thoughts."
Lu Cheng He is dedicated to cultivating Taoism and has no interest in conflict with local cultivating forces, so his words are gentle and polite.
"Before I come here, I, the younger generation, have been asked by the old master that our four families, Li, Tu, Zou, and You, are willing to donate two hundred households' land deeds to support the Taoist priest."
Li Qing did not. Thinking of how gentle Lu Cheng was, I felt a little regretful for letting senior brother and the others follow these fools.
If you just come here alone, you might be able to get closer to the handsome Taoist priest in front of you.
"That's not necessary. The poor Taoist has quite a few possessions, and the local property and land are of no use to me."
The more Lu Cheng tried to shirk, the more Li Qing felt that the Taoist in front of him was really extremely noble, and he was different from the noble Taoist in front of him. The men I have seen in the past are all different. They are not burdened by the external things of the world at all.
“Perhaps, this is the attitude that practitioners should have. The authentic Xuanmen monks in Middle-earth are dedicated to the Taoism, unlike us who are from the outside world and only want to cultivate magic so that we can enjoy all the wealth in the world. ”
Under Lu Cheng’s refusal, the land deeds for the two hundred households brought by Li Qing were not given out. My affection for this Lu Dao official greatly increased, and I returned to resume my life.
In the next few days, the young and beautiful Miao girl Li Qing came to visit several times, but she came alone. At first, Lu Cheng received her several times, but later she seemed to be unable to stand the little girl's enthusiasm. Fire and willow waist, closed the door and thanked guests on the grounds of seclusion.
It was still the light placed in the middle, holding up the darkness.
The four actual leaders of Shiyuan County, Li Jiuyou, Tu Hong, You Pozi, and Zou Shepo, gathered together to discuss what happened during the day.
"It seems that they really look down on our poor and remote country and don't want the land given away for free."
"Then what should we do, don't give it away?"
"Send it, why not send it? I will send it tomorrow These land deeds are placed at the door of that ruined temple. We will give them to him whether he takes them or not. If he does not leave and takes our money, he will no longer be in our way. If he leaves in two years, will he have the land deeds? Those lands are not all ours yet.”
Li Jiuyou sneered and made a decision.
"Okay, let's talk about the divine sacrifice next. There are more and more people in the county, and the power consumed by my god to protect this place is increasing, and the required sacrifices are also increasing. We need to add at least four pairs of boys and girls this year."
The rather beautiful middle-aged woman among the four said this.
"...Double the amount?"
Tu Hong frowned slightly when he heard this.
"That's fine. How can we make the villagers obedient without blood as a warning? Four pairs, four pairs. In addition, the altar should be more grand."
After the four people discussed it, At that moment, Mrs. You, a silver-haired woman holding a staff, suddenly spoke:
"Do you want to avoid those children who are taken in by Chixin Temple? That Master Lu seems to like children quite a lot?"
"...No need. Through this matter, let the junior know who is in charge locally. That's fine." Li Jiuyou thought for a while and said.
“You won’t anger him because of this, right?”
"So what if he was angered? During the Black Festival, besides the four of us, there were more than a dozen comrades present. Even if he was angry, could he fight us with his broken sword? Only after this incident, he You are standing with us.”
(End of this chapter)