Great Sui Guoshi

Immediately remembered the monkey monster at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain.

After eating, it was already dark outside, and the scholar went back to the house facing the cold wind, blew on the fire book, lit the oil lamp and put it on the corner of the table, fetched the bookshelf, and dug out a pile of monkey hairs that had been stored for a long time.

After studying and enlightening my wisdom, I have a great thirst for knowledge. When I was in the Five Elements Mountain, I chatted with the monkey head. The other party also told the story of how he got into trouble and was suppressed below.

'If you want to know if the ground is round, you can ask him! '

The cold wind squeezed through the window, and the lights flickered, shining on Lu Liangsheng, who was holding a monkey hair between his fingertips. He let out a breath, and the hair fluttered to the ground in front of him. The monkey with the feet was carrying a stick and waved the fog away.

"Why did you call my grandson out now?"

The messy monkey head looked around, "Is there no woman?"

Before he finished speaking, with a bang, he turned into monkey hair and lay on the ground again.

Lu Liangsheng rubbed the space between his eyebrows, picked it up, and blew it out with a new one.

Chapter 4 The Former Emperor

The monkey hair fluttered and fell to the ground, and the smoke rose. A fluffy monkey rushed out of the fog, threw the stick, jumped onto the corner post of the bed, and scratched its face and cheek with its legs up.

"To make a long story short, why are you looking for my old grandson?"

When the monkey finished speaking, Lu Liangsheng poured a glass of water and came back, sat on the edge of the bed, and handed it to him.

"I ran into an incident today. I heard people say that the earth is round. Did you know that the Great Sage rode the world?"

Ask this monkey head about this, because the other party once said that you can turn over an unimaginable distance with a single tendon, and naturally it is no problem to ride the clouds and ride the fog.

The monkey head took the bowl, as if it hadn't been drunk for a long time, took a sip, then drank it all in one breath, and threw the bowl to Lu Liangsheng casually.

"I don't know, I don't know, my old grandson turned over and arrived in the blink of an eye. Who has the time to see whether this place is round or square, and if you stand on it, it won't fall. It's useless to ask these..."

When Lu Liangsheng went to pour water, the words behind him suddenly stopped, and when he turned his head, there was only a monkey hair lying quietly on the corner post of the bed.

'It lasted so short...'

The door creaked open, the cold wind came in with a figure, the oil lamp standing by the table shook slightly, Hong Lian walked over with lotus steps, watched Lu Liangsheng pull out a hair and threw it on the ground.

"Young master, where did you come from?"

Her answer was a shrill voice from a cloud of rising smoke.

"It's my grandson's hair!"

A monkey who was more than three feet tall was carrying a stick and jumped onto the post at the end of the bed. When he saw the slim woman beside him, he was stunned.

"Hey, it's not the one I saw last time."

Lu Liangsheng knew who he was talking about, but there was no need to explain this right now, and continued what he said just now.

"The man mentioned that the earth is round, and I think that since it is round, it must go straight from this end..."

In the room, Hong Lian listened to the young master's speech, and felt that the little monkey was quite interesting, so she sat on the edge of the bed curiously. After all, this was the first time she saw the young master talking to a monkey.

Lu Liangsheng handed the bowl containing clear water to Monkey Head again, and said:

"...I will return to the original point from the other end, and then I remembered that the great sage has supernatural powers and can easily do such a thing, so I asked this question."

Hearing the nice compliment, the monkey head raised its chin slightly while holding the bowl.

"It's easy to say, my old grandson does have the ability to reach heaven and earth... At the beginning, he flew to the sky from the palm of the Buddha..."

Speaking of this, the monkey's face and eyes suddenly widened, and it bared its teeth and let out a low growl of 'ho ho', as if its emotions were suppressed to the extreme, and roared "ah—" and smashed the bowl to the ground.

The door creaked softly, and the pig just poked his head in and said, "What happened..." In the middle of the sentence, he saw the monkey at the end of the bed, closed the door with a bang, and heard the sound of going upstairs. Voice.

Lu Liangsheng and Hong Lian watched with some doubts as the pig demon ran away without saying a word, then turned their gazes back, and the monkey at the end of the bed turned into a hair and landed there.

I had to call him out again, and as soon as the monkey's head fell to the ground, Chi Chi Chi roared non-stop, jumped up and down, and beat the stick in his hand.

Lu Liangsheng and Hong Lian looked at each other, walked closer and squatted down: "Why is the Great Sage angry?"

"The old man deceived me!" The monkey swung the stick and hit it on his palm, walked two steps back to look at the scholar, and pointed to the west: "According to what you said, my old grandson would have flown out of his palm long ago. It just went around in a circle and came back again!"

Lu Liangsheng had heard some stories about monkeys in the past, so he naturally understood this paragraph. Now that he mentions it, it really supports the statement that the ground may be round.

After all, the scholar has a strong thirst for knowledge, and the monkey is even more angry. One person and one monkey discuss and scold on the ground like that, so that Li Jinhua and his wife, who are already lying down, think that the monkey on the mountain has run into the yard, and come out to look for it.

The night was getting darker, and in the still-lit room, Hong Lian propped his chin and almost dozed off. He fiddled with the wick to make the fire brighter, and watched Lu Liangsheng take out another monkey hair and throw it on the ground. In one breath, the skirt turned around, got into the wall scroll, and went to swing.

After a long time, the light of the fire gradually weakened, and Lu Liangsheng just felt a little tired. Looking at the blue sky seeping through the paper window, he unknowingly discussed with the monkey all night, from the theory of the circle of the earth to the magic of cultivating Taoism, one by one. Read it over and over again, and benefited a lot.

After a long yawn, Lu Liangsheng tidied up the monkey hair piled up on the ground, lay down on the bed, and fell asleep in less than half a moment.

The cold wind ran under the eaves, the cypress trees in the courtyard rustled with the rustling of snow falling on their branches, the window lattices with faint lights shivered for a while, and the picture scroll on the wall, the slim figure floated out and fell softly to the ground.

"I don't know how to undress and blow the lamp, I'm afraid I won't be able to get out of bed tomorrow."

Quietly took off the clothes of Lu Liangsheng who was on the couch, slightly parted his red lips, and blew out the oil lamp. In the blue sky outside the window, Hong Lian's mouth curled up, and suddenly he leaned over his sleeping face and kissed him lightly. Showing a beautiful pear dimple, shyly drilled back into the painting.

......

Standing on the snow-covered broken log with light yellow chicken feet, the big red rooster opened its throat high-pitched towards the eastern sky with a pale belly.

Oh oh oh... oh oh--

The golden light broke through the clouds, pushed away the darkness along the white foothills, and enveloped the distant mountain villages.

In the quiet village all night, cocks crowed and dogs barked, and there were human voices. The gradually bustling Dongri mountain village went down the river, and another mountain village next to the river was also bustling.

Lujia Village does not accept business travelers and passers-by to stay overnight. After the prosperity of the Honglian Temple, the number of people coming and going has become more intensive, and some people who are far away cannot go back. I came up with an idea to go door-to-door to build one or two more rooms for those who stayed overnight.

The price is not expensive. Most business travelers would rather travel a mile or two to stay here. After all, ghosts and ghosts are afraid to come in the Qixia Mountain area. If you are lucky, you can also see the mysterious scene of subduing demons and eliminating demons. Stay here There are even more people.

As the sky brightened, the business travelers and passers-by staying in Beicun also got up, had breakfast at the master's house, and then went on their way.

Amidst the noise of horses croaking and donkeys neighing, three figures dressed in green forest also came out of the house, stretched their waists comfortably, raised their heads and let out a breath of white air.

"It's so fucking comfortable!"

The companion next to him came out of the host's house, took a bite of a big white pancake in his hand, squatted on the threshold, and watched the business travelers gathering in the village to leave.

"I thought it was just a poor mountain valley, but I didn't expect it to be so lively."

Another person came from behind, snatched half a pancake from his hand, broke off a bit and stuffed it into his mouth.

"That's why I said that Mr. Lu may really have come down from the stars in the sky, but I don't know where to meet him. Now that the snow is stopping, His Majesty can't come early. If you don't see Mr. Lu, it's really hard to do business. "

Cough!

The stretched man suddenly coughed twice at him, and pointed his eyes in one direction. The honest man didn't know what he meant, he hurriedly got up from the ground, and saw a handsome young man in a moire collar robe with a sword hanging from his waist, smiling. He walked over, half a step behind him, followed by an old man with a dignified face.

The three hurriedly put down the things in their hands, stood upright, and arched their hands together.

"Meet Your Majesty..."

"Don't pray here!"

The young man raised his hand, pressed their etiquette, looked around, pulled the three of them into the next room, and stretched out his hand to warm the small stove.

laughed:

"After the heavy snow stopped, master and I rushed over overnight. By the way, did you guys come here first and see Mr. Lu, and send me a greeting card?"

The master he was talking about was the old man who followed behind, closing the door as soon as he entered the house.

Sit on the other side and pick up what the young man said.

"...Stop by and see if that Mr. Lu is worthy of His Majesty's personal invitation."

Chapter 4

The door closes on its own without any wind, shutting it to let the morning light shine through the crack of the door.

The old man was dressed in an apricot-yellow robe and a sleeveless black-collared single-shirt, with gray hair at the temples, and a solemn face, walking step by step. After the sentence ".....take a look, Mr. Lu, is that Mr. Lu?" His Majesty deserves to invite him personally." In the words, he waved his sleeves towards a stool.

There was a soft squeak.

The round stool was pulled back a little, and the three green forest men over there saw the old man sitting down, quickly lowered their faces, and all called out in a low voice: "Master Chen."

The old man’s surname is Chen, his name is Fu, he is the uncle of the former emperor, and is also the master of His Majesty today. news, but no matter how it was assisted, the Chen Dynasty still collapsed.

Fleeing from Tianzhi in the capital city, he searched for the young emperor's mother and son all the way, and finally found them in Qixia Mountain. He took the young emperor and Concubine Zhang to the southwest to settle down. In the past few years, he taught Chen Jing everything he had learned, hoping to achieve great ambitions. Restoration of the Chen Dynasty.

However, the Sui Kingdom is powerful, and several cities in the south will inevitably end up being slowly plotted. This time, I came here to find out if there is an opportunity to take advantage of the old ministry, and secondly, to see if Mr. Lu, whom His Majesty often mentioned If you are really a genius, you will turn the tide.

If it's just deceiving the world, the old man doesn't mind getting rid of it.

......

The room was quiet for a while, the young man over there was the young emperor Chen Jing, who had experienced some things in the southwest and had a few small fights with the Sui Dynasty, and his momentum had changed a lot.

Looking at the old man beside him, he put the sword on the corner of the table.

"Master, Mr. Lu is not as human as you think. I have known it since I was a child."

He didn't want to get too entangled with Master on this matter. After speaking, he changed the subject and looked at the three subordinates standing there. They were all his confidants and guards with high martial arts skills when he was active in the Southwest.

"Sit down and talk."

"Yes!"

The three of them looked at the old man with his eyes closed and stroking his gray beard, and carefully found a stool in the room, or sat down beside the bed.

The guard with a loyal face raised his hand.

"Your Majesty, the three of us came here. We are not familiar with the terrain of Qixia Mountain, and we were delayed for a while on the road due to the heavy snow. We arrived yesterday, and we did not see that Mr. Lu."

The old man stroked his beard and his beard, his eyes slightly opened, revealing a gleam of light.

"What if you are not familiar with the terrain, if you get lost, you are lost!"

These words made the faces of the three guards turn red, and they didn't dare to show their anger. On the other side of the square table, Chen Jing persuaded the old man a few words, and then smiled at the three of them: "Mr. It’s not uncommon to see the water, I remember that the last time I came here, I was also in this village, and I waited for a long time with my mother and concubine, but in the end I didn’t see each other.”

Leading an old donkey?

Hearing this description, the three of them immediately recalled the image of the woodcutter in the deep mountains and snowy land yesterday, and immediately told about the encounter with the woodcutter yesterday, especially the scene where he disappeared without a trace.

"...When we got outside the forest, in the blink of an eye, he disappeared under our noses. We could only hear the voice echoing in another mountain. But he looks young, and he is not dressed as a scholar."

Listening to the three people describing what happened yesterday, the appearance of the woodcutter, Chen Jing has also been practicing spells in the past few years, and his memory is quite good. Naturally, he remembers the appearance, behavior and conversation of that Mr. Lu. There was a smile on the face.

"The one you met was that Mr. Lu. As for running to another mountain suddenly, it was just caused by magic."

"It's just a small trick!"

The old man opened his eyes and said something, and Chen Jing just smiled helplessly. It was still early, and it was impossible for them to stay in the house. After discussing for a while, they decided to visit Qixia Mountain first and look around Lujia Village.

Naturally, the three guards did not dare to object, so they tidied up casually, and escorted Chen Jing and Chen Fu out of the North Village. The snow had melted a lot overnight, and at this time, pilgrims, pedestrians, and vendors who were temporarily staying on the mountain road sprung up like mushrooms. Congested roads.

Chen Fu walked to the side of the road, stroked his chin and beard, and nodded slightly.

"Providing a Dharma circle to raise the water and soil, and then raising the people with fish and crabs, building temples to attract pilgrims, and making the people rich here are some means of governing the people."

Looking back at Chen Jing, he pointed to the mountainside with incense rising in the distance.

"Jing'er, follow me as a teacher to take a look there."

A piece of snow-white mixed with a little yellow and rotten, a few people walked up the mountainside along the road paved with small stones specially opened by the villagers, watching the pilgrims gathering around the temple gate scrambling to burn the first stick of incense in the morning, smelling the diffuse sandalwood fragrance , mixed with a trace of ghosts and spirits, Chen Fu just snorted.

"But err."

The red walls and black tiles of the temple look majestic, but the altar inside does not have the gods and Bodhisattvas you recognize, but a lifelike clay sculpture of a woman. there is something.

Naturally, he understood what that Mr. Lu was going to do.

As soon as the old man spoke, the pilgrims who came around to offer incense, and the businessmen who were doing the "invitation to incense" here turned to look at him, frowned, and their faces were full of anger.

"What the old man said is the truth, how can a woman enjoy this incense!"

Chen Fu was not afraid, and wanted to continue talking, so Chen Jing dragged him away, walked down the mountain, and walked down the stone steps all the way, before opening his mouth and saying:

"Master, what you believe in is something that the nearby villagers did voluntarily, so why scold them."

The old man was inherently stubborn, so he turned his head to look at the Honglian Temple that was gradually hidden behind the tree, turned around, and swept his wide sleeves behind his back.

"That's also a lie!"

Chen Jing disagreed, but the person in front of him was his master, so he didn't want to disobey him, so he had to put the talk aside first, and a few people wandered around, looking at the mountains, rivers and fields, and before they knew it, it was almost noon.