Chapter 341 Luoxue’s Determination
Zhenxuan Mountain may not be big or small, but it has its own world.
This place is composed of four strange peaks, each with its own characteristics.
One of the mountains is covered with white snow all year round, and the wind is biting, just like the middle of winter. On the top of the mountain are ice lotuses that have not melted for thousands of years, crystal clear and emitting a faint cold light.
It is the forbidden area of Zhenxuan Mountain, and the tomb of Daozu is located here.
The other one is like spring all year round, with blooming flowers, green grass and auspicious clouds. It is the main peak.
On weekdays, disciples practice and receive pilgrims here.
On the third mountain peak, the summer is hot and the red sun shines. The whole mountain seems to be burned by fire, extremely hot, and the rocks take on the color of lava.
When the disciples undergo trials, they will practice here.
And Qi Tianjun, the current head of Zhenxuan Mountain, lives here.
There is also a forbidden area here called Phoenix Blood Pond.
The remaining mountain is full of autumn.
The mountains are golden all over, fallen leaves are flying, and fruits are hanging on the branches. The fragrance is fragrant, attracting all kinds of animals and birds to come for food.
The elders and deacons of the sect live here to cultivate themselves.
“Without the support of powerful formations, it would be impossible to have such a marvelous view. This Zhenxuan Mountain is worthy of being the orthodoxy of the Taoist sect. I had underestimated it before.”
Yelu Miaomiao couldn't help but sigh when she saw the charming scenery.
At this time, the three of them were in Qiushi Mountain.
The mountain trails are covered with fallen leaves and the trees are colorful. Walking among them is like being in a picture scroll.
Jiang Shouzhong couldn't help but feel envious.
I thought that in the future I would have four hills and live with my beloved woman, that would be one of the great joys in the world.
It's a pity that this is someone else's territory.
Otherwise, it would be quite romantic to take off your clothes and have a wild play with the two girls next to you.
“Brother Xiao Jiang, where do you think Sister Ran will go?”
Qu Hongling suddenly asked.
Jiang Shouzhong exhaled, picked up a golden fallen leaf, shook his head and said:
"I don't know. Maybe she was delayed by something and will come here in two days. Or maybe she went back to the capital. Or maybe...she didn't want to see me and hid."
< br>The human mind is complex.
When you suddenly want to find someone, you want to appear in front of them immediately.
But as time went by and the distance got closer, I began to hesitate again and was afraid of meeting the other person.
Jiang Shouzhong couldn't guess Ran Qingchen's thoughts, but that was just the way he was.
When I came to Zhenxuan Mountain, I was both looking forward to it and afraid at the same time.
When I heard that Ran Qingchen was not here, I was disappointed but also felt a little relaxed.
Love in the world is always so contradictory.
"Husband, why don't we sneak into the forbidden area and lift the coffin of Daozu without waiting for Feng Yichen."
Yelü Miaomiao said, "Get the Daomen River Map back. , let’s run away and go find Ran Qingchen. As long as Senior Dugu is here, I don’t believe that these stinky Taoist priests from Zhenxuan Mountain can stop us.”
Jiang Shouzhong flicked the girl's head, and scolded with a smile:
"Your bad idea will harm us, and Master Luoxue is the deputy mountain master of Wanshou Mountain. Since he agreed to wait for three days, once Breaking the promise will also damage her reputation.
Besides, the most important thing is to get Daozu’s approval and pass the test. Even if we lift the coffin in advance, it will be useless.”< br>
Yelü Miaomiao pouted her rosy little mouth and said:
“If you fail to pass the test this time and get back the Daomen River Map, I will ask the Queen Mother to directly send troops to attack here first. I I don’t believe that a mere Jianghu sect dares to challenge the army.”
Jiang Shouzhong felt ashamed.
He didn't think this girl was joking. If he really pissed off the little princess, the consequences would be serious.
Whether they send troops or not is another matter, Yelu Miaomiao will definitely fight.
The man suddenly felt a little proud.
Being able to subdue such an arrogant and arrogant prairie pearl, he is quite powerful.
Of course, most of the credit goes to the second brother.
My second brother is invincible in the world!
Not to be outdone, Qu Hongling waved her pink fist and said: "When the time comes, I will also bring the demon clan to come to Zhenxuan Mountain to settle accounts. It is originally Brother Xiao Jiang's thing, why should they decide? !”
Jiang Shouzhong touched the girl’s little head and said with a smile: “Okay, okay, with you two female bosses, I will be so excited that I want to rebel.”
"Okay. When you get the Daomen River Map back, you come back to Yanrong with me, and I will ask the Queen Mother to make you a general."
Yelu Miaomiao immediately started drawing the cake with great interest.
Qu Hongling took Jiang Shouzhong's arm, "No, Brother Jiang wants to follow me back to the Monster Clan."
"Go back to the Monster Clan?"
Yelü Miaomiao He rolled his eyes and said sarcastically, "What's the use of living with a group of animals? All the beasts of your demon clan have to depend on us, Yan Rong. What kind of climate can a Heavenly Demon Sect achieve?"
This These words made Qu Hongling angry, and he immediately counterattacked:
"Go to Yan Rong and you will just be barbarians for a few days, not to mention that the one in power is Queen Mother Xiao, not you. How can I listen to you on how to fight a war?"
I saw the two women quarreling again. , Jiang Shouzhong quickly comforted, "Okay, stop arguing, I won't follow anyone, I just want to find Qingchen."
"Haha, it seems that the two of us together are not as good as Ran Qingchen."
Yelü Miaomiao twitched her lips.
Qu Hongling said dullly: "Brother Xiao Jiang really cares about Sister Ran the most."
Jiang Shouzhong was speechless when he heard the two women's strange annoyance.
Good guys, they were incompatible enemies just now, and now they have suddenly formed an alliance.
A woman’s thoughts are so difficult to guess.
Xiao Jiang couldn't help but feel dizzy thinking about other women in the future.
This harem is unplayable.
"My little brother is so lucky."
At this moment, a gentle and teasing voice suddenly came.
The three people who were talking and laughing were startled and looked along the sound.
I saw a middle-aged man in white clothes with an aristocratic temperament, sitting quietly in the forest clearing, holding a worn-out erhu in his arms.
The man has a pale face, and his manner reveals a bookish air, as if he is not stained by a trace of dust.
However, what is creepy is that this man's eyes are actually empty. There are only two shocking blood holes where the eyes should have been, forming a sharp and strange contrast with the elegant aura exuding around him.
Jiang Shouzhong frowned.
The three of them are considered top experts, but they didn't even notice this person's aura, which shows how high this person is.
"I wonder if you are..."
Jiang Shouzhong stepped forward to ask.
The fact that he can appear in Zhenxuan Mountain means that this person has a high status, maybe he is an elder.
The blind man did not answer, but played the erhu a few times, smiled and said: "Little brother, there is a question that has been bothering me for a long time. I want to ask you. What if this world is fake , are we real?"
Jiang Shouzhong was silent.
Qu Hongling's apricot eyes turned, and she asked with a smile behind her hands: "Who are you from Zhenxuan Mountain?"
The blind man asked with a smile: "Zhenxuan Mountain is the master? Does it have to be a real mountain? Does a real person have to be a real person? ”
Qu Hongling choked and didn't know how to answer.
"You must be sick." Yelu Miaomiao, who has a straightforward temper, snorted coldly, "You are just pretending to be a ghost, no matter what is real or fake, you are just a lunatic! Get out of here..."
The girl originally wanted to He said to get away, but then he thought that this was someone else's territory, so he took Jiang Shouzhong's arm and said, "Let's go, husband, let's ignore him."
Jiang Shouzhong was forcibly taken away by Yelu Miaomiao. The blind man didn't stop him. He put his bow on the strings and started playing. He sang:
"True and false, false and true, the world is all illusion, illusion. Everything is true. People travel in books, and ghosts travel in books. You and I are all guests in books..."
The voice is getting quieter and quieter.
Qu Hongling looked back.
Then the girl was surprised to find that the blind man was missing.
……
Jiang Shouzhong had little interest in sightseeing and soon got tired of it.
Seeing the sun setting, he simply let the two girls go play, while he himself was going to go back to his room to rest for a while.
While passing by Dugu Luoxue's courtyard, Jiang Shouzhong saw a servant walking out of the courtyard. He was curious and entered the small room in the courtyard. As a result, as soon as I stepped into the house, I smelled an alluring aroma.
Looking closely, I saw a plate of delicious food on the table in the room.
In the exquisite porcelain plate, pieces of golden and translucent suckling pork are neatly arranged, surrounded by green vegetable shreds, adding to the layering of color.
Not to mention the aroma, the appearance alone makes people drool.
"Master, is this dinner brought to you?"
Jiang Shouzhong asked curiously.
Dugu Luoxue sat quietly on a wooden chair aside, holding the "Land Strategy Theory" borrowed from the library in his hand, looking attentive.
Although the woman is wearing a sarong and her hair is only decorated with simple thorn hairpins, her elegant and refined appearance cannot be concealed. Under the hem of the skirt, the tips of embroidered shoes poke out, adding a bit of graceful beauty.
When she heard Jiang Shouzhong's words, she said "hmm" lightly.
“Aren’t you a vegetarian?”
Jiang Shouzhong sat at the table, picked up the chopsticks and couldn’t help but put a piece of it in his mouth. He found that the taste was amazing and he couldn’t help but whet his appetite.
Dugu Luoxue said: "They forcefully brought it to me, saying it was the master's apology. You can eat it."
An apology?
Jiang Shouzhong was stunned and suddenly realized.
As the deputy mountain master of Wanshou Mountain, it is really shameful for the master to not receive him when he personally visits the mountain. He should apologize.
Just sending a roast suckling pig as an apology, isn’t it a bit too magical?
Don’t the other party know that the wife is a vegetarian?
“Isn’t this poisonous?”
Jiang Shouzhong became alert.
Dugu Luoxue smiled and shook his head slightly: "That's not true, but every meal given to me in the future should be meat."
"Why?"
Jiang Shouzhong didn't know why.
Dugu Luoxue smiled and said: "Originally they didn't plan to let you go up the mountain, but because of me, they had no choice but to accept you. So in order to disgust me, they forced me to eat meat and break the precept. Of course, this is I was just guessing.”
At the last sentence, the woman blinked.
Such a rare little daughter's charming and naive demeanor made Jiang Shouzhong so distracted that even the meat in his mouth no longer tasted good.
“Ahem.”
Dugu Luoxue put her fist to her lips and coughed twice.
Jiang Shouzhong came back to his senses, scratched his head and smiled, then frowned and asked, "If you wanted a vegetarian dish, wouldn't they make it for you?"
Dugu Luoxue smiled and nodded: "It should be."
Jiang Shouzhong was speechless.
The leader of Zhenxuan Mountain is like a child, so childish.
Dugu Luoxue closed the page of the book, her eyes showing some worry.
Actually, there were some things she didn’t say clearly.
For masters at their level, some things cannot be stated directly, and they can only hint or test them in other ways.
Qi Tianjun knew that she was a vegetarian, but he insisted on giving her a meat dish.
The meaning lies in the word "breaking the precept".
If you want to fill your stomach, break the precept. If you don't break the precepts, you will only starve. Food is the most important thing for the people, and immortals are no exception. Living without grains is ultimately harmful to the body.
Of course, Qi Tianjun’s purpose is not just to eat.
He was just using another way to persuade Dugu Luoxue.
If you want to repair your Taoist heart and reach the top of the Taoist road, you can only break and then stand up, and be reborn in Nirvana.
If you just persist, the situation will only get worse and worse.
Just like a broken vase, no matter how you repair it, there will eventually be cracks and it will just fill up with water again.
So when Qi Tianjun sent the roasted suckling pig, Dugu Luoxue understood that the other party had seen that her heart was broken and gave her two paths to choose.
Stick to the status quo?
Or... break and then stand?
Dugu Luoxue has been confused about this choice. Along the way with Jiang Shouzhong, there were many times when she planned to fall, but in the end she endured it.
Jiang Shouzhong cursed and was quite angry at the actions of the little family in Zhenxuan Mountain.
But thinking that it is someone else’s territory after all, I can only endure it.
After hesitating for a moment, he said tentatively: "Master, why don't you eat something? You can't be hungry these days. Bigu Pill is not very good to begin with."
Dugu Luoxue opened her mouth. Pink lips, but said nothing.
Jiang Shouzhong picked up a piece of meat, put it in front of him, handed it to Dugu Luoxue's mouth, and said with a smile:
"In fact, it is not good to eat vegetarian food all the time. A combination of meat and vegetables is nutritious. It should be said Not to mention, the chefs at Zhenxuan Mountain are really good. I guess even the chefs in the imperial kitchen can’t compare to this.
This roasted suckling pork has firm meat, attractive color, and crispy but not burnt skin. The meat is tender but not greasy. If you don’t believe it, you’ll never want to be a vegetarian again.”
Mixed with honey, spices and the unique fragrance of suckling pig itself, it lingers in the woman's breath.
In normal times, there is no temptation for Dugu Luoxue.
She doesn't like eating meat, not because she doesn't like killing like the monk, but because she simply doesn't like the taste of meat.
She thinks life is light.
It should be lighter.
But at this moment, she swallowed her fluid inexplicably.
This is not the temptation of delicious food, but besides the smell of meat, there is also the smell of a man who is too close.
She remembered that on the carriage, she smelled the smell of Jiang Shouzhong's clothes, and she had a small depravity. This makes her afraid of getting close to him.
Looking at the handsome, knife-like cheeks of the man in front of her, and the piece of meat sandwiched between the chopsticks, the woman was struggling in her heart.
Broken?
Still not broken?
The irony is that the apprentice put this piece of meat to her mouth himself.
Could this be the will of God?
Dugu Luoxue felt hesitant and asked out of nowhere: "Jiang Mo, do you really want Master to break the precepts?"
Jiang Shouzhong was stunned.
Seeing the broken sadness in the woman's eyes, his heart suddenly tightened.
Just when she was about to speak, the woman opened her red lips slightly and bit the piece of meat completely in her mouth. At the same time, a tear silently slid down her beautiful cheek.
However, the woman's pupils seemed a bit blurred and charming.
"Then... break it."
(End of this chapter)