Great Sui Guoshi

"The length of a fish scale in water."

'Boom~~'

There was a sound of water, and Yang Jian, Yang Su, and Wen Wu on the shore immediately heard the sound of splashing water waves. They followed the scholar's line of sight to look at the undulating water surface, and at some point a circle of water waves rolled up. The rising ripples rolled and pushed away.

Among the tumbling water splashes, one can vaguely see the round and long body protruding from the water surface, twisting and turning, revealing the dense green scales, and sinking into the lake in an instant.

hiss--

The group of people on the river bank were full of breathless voices, the national teacher actually lured Jiaolong to the city?This is just a rumor.

Just by taking a peek, his body was probably as thick as a big boat, and many officials who followed Yang Jian bowed their hands and congratulated loudly.

The emperor's gray beard and hair opened his eyes wide with laughter, and the national teacher even invited Jiaolong. Who would dare to say that I am not in the right position in the future?

Back then, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty was persecuted for the Zen position, so he was inevitably criticized by others. Now that Lu Liangsheng has invited all the dragons, who dares to say that he has no dragon spirit?

The red-faced old man walked back and forth in the Hibiscus Pond for a while, and talked to Lu Liangsheng. When it got dark, he returned to the palace in a royal chariot excitedly. He even said that he would come here for a stroll in the morning. It looks like a dragon.

It was already dark when the emperor was sent away, Gao Ying, Wu Jianzhang, Han Qinhu and other civil and military personnel also left one after another, Lu Liangsheng let out a sigh of relief.

huh~~

"Being a national teacher...how does it feel like a magic stick to fool people..."

Turning around, he was about to call the Taoist and the others, only to realize that the group of people had already run up the stone steps of Zishan Temple with their burdens.

"Well... where is Master?"

The scholar murmured, in the blackness, a short figure rushed out of the reeds, Taoist Toad got out holding an egg, and ran from his feet to the front, the next moment, a few wild ducks with black backs and hard feathers quacked Spreading its wings, it rushed out of the reed, frantically chased after the toad, and headed towards the temple.

woohoo-

In the night, the lake water slapped on the shore, and the lake reflected in the moonlight occasionally turned up waves, rolling its long body, and excitedly tossed and splashed at the bottom of the lake. The black shadow nodded towards the scholar, and the prodigal son sank back into the water.

The night wind blows and the reeds sway.

Lu Liangsheng clasped his hands together, then regained his composure, and hurriedly chased after Master, disappearing into the night.

Chapter 436 Longevity Temple

The clouds drifted away at night, revealing a clear moon, and there were many torches on the city wall. In the swaying firelight, the soldiers who patrolled past looked from time to time to the side of the lake in the city, the temple that suddenly appeared that afternoon.

"It's really evil, a temple suddenly appeared..."

"No, it looks like the stone steps are quite long. I'm afraid that half of the mountain has been moved here. Who made it? Ask the boss, the boss told us not to talk too much."

"Hmph, you don't know that, I'm well informed, I asked secretly from the captain, don't tell anyone else..."

"Stop talking nonsense, talk quickly."

"I heard that it was a national teacher we worshiped in the Sui Dynasty to protect the peace of the world. In the afternoon, I heard that someone saw a dragon, and the water flooded to the river bank. It almost smashed the water gate under our city wall. .”

"Oh, so powerful?!"

"Of course...don't stop, talk while walking, don't think we are lazy on patrolling the wall section."

.......

The moonlight shone coldly across the city, reflecting the silver light of the lake inside the city wall.

wow~~

The sound of the water splashes on the shore, and the hazy moonlight illuminates the towering white rock patterned mountain gate, and on the straight bluestone steps, the birch branches are weeping and swaying in the wind.

At the end of the empty white rock floor tiles, Lu Liangsheng stood in front of the pool with his hands behind his back, looking at the stone tablet standing in the pool and the lacquer red seal characters carved on it.

On the side, Taoist Ha sat on a wild duck egg, smeared himself with medicinal wine, and slapped the back of his head a few times.

"Liangsheng, what are you looking at, I can't catch my back for my teacher, so help me wipe it off."

"I'm looking at this stele, and I'm thinking...it can't be called Zishan Temple in the future."

Lu Liangsheng withdrew his gaze, picked up his master, put him on the stone pillar of the pool fence, and sat down. He touched the pimple on the back of the toad with his fingertips. There was no trace of injury on it. The Taoist narrowed his eyes comfortably and shook his head a few times.

"Master, you are not injured, besides, your demon core has recovered, and you can't beat a few wild ducks?"

On the stone pillar, Taoist Toad changed to a prone position, waved his webbing as a signal, and asked his apprentice to hold his shoulders, "Didn't I tell you before, the demon pill is a demon pill, and the demon pill has been repaired, but the mana has not been accumulated yet." How can I say that when I was at the peak, those ascetics surrounded by a sea of ​​people, just throwing the purple gold gourd in the teacher's hand, a large number of people fell down... Don't you think that being a teacher is just a matter of life? So let's hang out here for dinner?"

Lu Liangsheng stopped his fingertips, and subconsciously replied, "Isn't it?" Daoist Toad who was lying on the stone pillar suddenly turned his face and stared at him, the scholar quickly turned his eyes away, and continued to pinch his small shoulders.

"Cough cough~~"

Taoist Toad coughed dryly twice, then turned back, "Liangsheng, continue to talk about what name you want to change."

"I didn't think about it." Lu Liangsheng pondered for a while, and he was very inspired to name others, and he said it logically, but when it was his turn to something closely related to him, he couldn't think of a better name.

"Let's think about it when the time comes. To be officially appointed as the national teacher, and to reach the emperor's world and know the future land, we still need an altar. Do this first tomorrow, and think about it while doing it."

Saying that, he bent down and picked up the wild duck egg on the ground, put it in the palm of his hand, lifted the master up and put it on his shoulder, and walked back to the attic with lights over there. Now he is officially going to settle down here, which is considered half a family up.

Inside the building, the lights were brightly lit, and the flames of the lampposts embedded in the wall spread to the inside, and the room with alchemy was filled with blue smoke.

The Taoist squatting next to the big bronze stove threw several sheets of talisman papers under the stove one after another, lit a big fire, and boiled the food in the stove. When he heard footsteps coming in, he raised his blackened face and looked at Lu Liangsheng.

"Scholar Lu, don't stand there, hurry up and start the fire, I have to cook."

The scholar turned the master to the side table, put the duck egg in his hand on it, rolled up his sleeves, and said, "Where are I looking forward to?" He said, carefully looking at the bronze stove covered with magic patterns.

"This stove... seems to be used by Holy Fire Mingzun to make alchemy."

"They went upstairs to choose a room..."

The Taoist didn't care about that, he threw away the talisman paper in his hand, picked up the bronze statue, stepped on a bronze statue, and stirred it vigorously with his feet, the white air wafted out, and there was a burst of rice fragrance.

"What about the stove, it's hard to catch someone who can cook so much rice at one time, it's not for nothing, we have too many people. By the way, old Lu..."

While stirring, the Taoist tilted his head and asked, "Why did you call that old dragon here? If this guy suddenly goes crazy and harms the people in the waters outside, it would be a great crime. You have to show your prestige and let go of it." It’s enough to watch this big temple, and you haven’t seen how shocked those civil and military officials are.”

"You said that you are an old Jiao, and your spiritual intelligence is higher than ordinary people."

Lu Liangsheng picked up a piece of talisman and threw it into the fire. The wobbly fire light shone on his face, and he continued in a soft voice.

"...Actually, I have also thought about it. Being the national teacher of a country is different from our usual tours and slaying demons along the way. To take on the important task, one step counts as ten steps.

Sometimes the Weishui and Jing Rivers will flood the low-lying villages and fertile fields on both sides of the river due to the surge of the Yellow River. Attracting this old dragon can somewhat resolve some disasters. With him patrolling the river section, there may be fewer people who fall into the water and drown Some counted as adding merit to himself.

I heard from His Majesty back then that to build Daxing in Chang'an, we had to dig deep ditches and connect several big rivers to make the north-south waterways unimpeded. Whether it was transporting soldiers or delivering food relief to local areas in times of disaster, it would be much faster. When it is really implemented, the role of the old Jiao will be great! "

Speaking of this, Lu Liangsheng touched a little ashes, and drew the Yellow River flowing eastward on the floor, "Look, grandson, with the Yellow River as the back, connecting the north and south rivers, isn't it forming a big dragon?"

Sun Yingxian jumped off the bronze statue, put down his spoon, came over and squatted aside, and carefully looked at the topography of the river drawn by the scholar. He had a good grasp of geomantic omen, and immediately saw something.

Standing up from the ground in fright: "Do you want to make a 'water' dragon vein?"

"Why not?" The scholar wiped off the ashes, patted the black ash off his fingertips and stood up: "However, this kind of thing is just a matter of thinking first, but at your majesty's current age, I'm afraid I can't wait for him to implement it, so I can only do it first." It is the most real thing to lay a solid foundation for the prosperity of Kyushu and make the people prosperous and hopeful."

With the lights flickering, Lao Sun looked at the scholar who was turning around to choose vegetables, and at the blurred water channel on the ground, and twirled his mustache vigorously.

"Old mother Yuer's... this damn thing is trying to get a living dragon vein, so there will be no limit to life."

Longevity without boundaries?

Lu Liangsheng's eyes lit up as he was squatting on the side holding the vegetables. It's a good name. Who wouldn't want it to live forever.

Immediately, he shook his head again and smiled: "It's only the first day of becoming a national teacher, what do you want to live forever, I don't know how many years it will take to take that step."

The scholar was thinking over there, Taoist Toad ran over the lamp post on the table, put the duck eggs in his arms by the fire, raised his toad face and gave a feed to the Taoist.

"Little Taoist, come on, help the old man cook this egg, remember to stir it evenly, put more oil to fry until golden, by the way, if there are any green onions, remember to put more, and also, put less salt, old man I've been eating lightly recently."

However, the busy Taoist, before he could finish speaking, kicked the duck egg with his moving foot, rolled to the stove and broke the foot of the furnace.

"My mother!! The old man's eggs!!"

The exasperated yelling stopped suddenly, Lu Liangsheng looked back, and the Taoist who was looking down over there was about to retaliate, when he saw a fluffy light yellow duckling coming out from the broken eggshell, wobbling Flapping the young wings, he blinked and looked at Taoist Toad.

Taoist: "..."

Lu Liangsheng: "..."

Chirp~~

The little yellow duck swayed on its flippers and ran to the stunned Toad Taoist, put away its feet, huddled up on the ground, and rubbed affectionately on its white belly.

Chapter 437 The Night Has Ripples

"Uhhhh-"

Looking at the duckling huddled under its belly, the light yellow fluff still stained with sticky egg white, Hama Dao's human skin tightened in an instant, he jumped up with his flippers on his feet, and ran away.

The duckling shrunk on the ground tilted its head with a 'chirp', stood up and stepped on the clean floor with its two slender feet, then leaned towards the toad, huddled to the side, closed its small eyes, and shrank back to the ground .

"Hey, old toad, this is treating you like a mother."

It was rare to see Taoist Toad being so disgusted, Sun Yingxian grinned and raised his mouth with a spoon: "Hurry up and eat, no matter how small it is, it's still meat."

Looking at the little yellow ducks that just hatched beside the master, Lu Liangsheng also smiled. No wonder those wild ducks are so fierce, they have been chasing the master and they are about to hatch little things.

That's fine, there is a cute little thing pestering the master, maybe the old man will become more and more kind, the master was fierce in the past, no matter the monk Zhenhai wanted to eat him to repair his injuries when he said that he should be accepted as a disciple, at least now In these years, it has rarely been revealed, which shows that Master was not a heinous person from the beginning.

Looking at the green vegetables in his hand, the corner of his mouth is still smiling, sometimes thinking about it, if the woman he loves, or his relatives are killed, maybe... he will go crazy.

After picking the vegetables and handing them to the old grandson, Lu Liangsheng walked out of the alchemy room and went upstairs to invite Shang Lu Pan and others to have dinner. This attic is only one of the three buildings in Zishan Temple, and the furnishings are luxurious. The eyes of the eight candidates are all dazzled. See nephew I came up to call them, and then I chose a few temporarily.

After dinner, Lu Liangsheng came outside. Now that the temple here has a new name, the original three characters of Zishan Temple can no longer be kept. He jumped up, touched the water with his toes, and pulled out the Moon Obscure Sword to engrave the words on it. The handwriting is cut off.

As for re-engraving, it will not be done until the day of the great sacrifice. She put the sword back into its sheath and was about to leave when a series of footsteps outside could be heard vaguely in her ears.

With a flash of his figure, he has come to the mountain gate below.

'Why did soldiers come over. '

Outside, a 'Fire Dragon' stretched straight over, and more than a hundred soldiers holding torches were divided into two rows. The weapons at their waists collided with each other as they ran, and they came running in unison with the sound of booming footsteps.

In the room illuminated by the fire, the first person was the leader, with shiny armor, sharp facial features, and a majestic short beard.

He let out a 'wow', and seeing the figure standing at the mountain gate in a green shirt and white robe with one hand behind his back, he hurriedly turned over and jumped off the horse, dragging his cloak, with a look of joy on his face, he stepped forward quickly and arched his hands.

"Mr. Lu, do you still remember me?"

As a practitioner, his eyesight is excellent, and he can still see things in the dark, not to mention that there is a burning torch illuminating the young man's face. Lu Liangsheng walked down the stone steps, looked at him, and saw the sword on his waist. Just remembered who it was.

"Li Yuan!"

"Sir, still remember!" That person was indeed Li Yuan, who hadn't seen him for many years, his appearance and figure were quite different from that of the boy back then, just as he was about to worship again, Lu Liangsheng, who was far away on the stone steps, came in front of him in the blink of an eye, and stretched out his hand to support him.

"Looking at the appearance, I almost didn't recognize it."

Lu Liangsheng smiled and pointed to the xuanhua scabbard on his waist and the dharma sword decorated with a tiger head, "I'll recognize it first."

Haha!

Li Yuan on the opposite side had a free and easy personality. He laughed loudly when he heard this joke. He was still thinking about how to talk to Mr. Lu on the way here, but now Mr. Lu talked more easily, without any airs of immortality.

Maybe this is the world's best...he thought.

"By the way, night has fallen, why did you suddenly bring troops over?"

"Mr. Hui, it was His Majesty who asked me to come here. He said that the master's magic power is profound, so naturally he is not afraid of the younger generation. It is inevitable that some people who don't know will come to visit and disturb the master's cultivation."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then Lu Liangsheng asked why he brought the troops here, and the latter also replied respectfully, then turned around and waved his hands to the team behind, and more than two hundred soldiers held torches and split into two roads, walking along the Wanshou Temple Gate Line up on both sides and stand straight against the handle of the knife.

All of a sudden, the temple, which is lonely and doesn't even have the sound of insects, shows a grandeur, and the more it looks, the more it looks like the place of the national teacher.

Li Yuan turned his head and arched his hands: "Yuan and these two hundred soldiers are here to wait for the master's orders."

"Actually, it's not necessary."

Scanning the soldiers on duty over there, Lu Liangsheng probably understood Yang Jian's intention, to ask these soldiers to help build a high platform for sacrifice...

But when he saw Li Yuan's gaze, he didn't want to embarrass him, he paused, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty is a soldier who is afraid that I will say that he is a waste of people's energy? Forget it, since you are here, it is better to work hard." No, in this way... just help me transport some stone materials from outside the city."

Li Yuan patted his thigh.

"Just listen to Mr.'s words, I have already prepared it!"

To build an altar, a lot of stone materials are obviously needed. As soon as Lu Liangsheng's words fell, there were dozens of ox carts and donkey carts. The soldiers shouted and drove them down, and slowly pulled them over. He swiftly moved down large and small stones, and saw that the stones were smooth and covered with dust, presumably they were taken from other buildings.

"Sir, what's the next order?" Li Yuan asked.